Chapter 38 Luoguo Daring Warriors
Luo Cheng's eldest son Luo Ren was sent to Ying State, and Luo Cheng's younger brother Luo Zhongshu was sent to Xu State.
These two people were the most skilled in military strategies in the royal office, so Luo Chengcai let them lead the Luo soldiers to garrison Luoyi.
I didn't expect that I would be sent to the front line of the resistance against Huaiyi so soon.
Luo Ren sat in the car, looking at the army outside, and said in a deep voice: "Second Uncle, you are the most brave and skilled general of the Luo family. What do you think of the situation in Huaiyi?"
Luo Zhongshu was a very heroic middle-aged man with a rough and dark face, and one could tell at first glance that he had been through a lot.
He leaned against the carriage, his figure looking a little lazy, but there seemed to be a force flowing in his body, like a tiger ready to bite people at any time.
Hearing Luo Ren's question, he said lazily: "How can I see it?
Wu Yue has been suppressed and beaten by Huaiyi for many years, and their fighting ability is not weak.
Whether it is defending a city or attacking a city, it is nothing more than a pile of human lives.
But this time, we have the most elite soldiers of the Luo Kingdom. The 3,000 brave warriors who are of Luo family descent alone are an invincible force.
With these good men around, I am not afraid even if the Huaiyi people have 100,000 soldiers!
This time, they will be made to swear blood on both countries!"
"Yes, is there any army in the world that is stronger than the warriors of Luoguo?"
Most of the brave warriors of Luo State were descendants of small clans from branches of the Luo family. They grew up in Luo State Public School together with children of royal families, listening to the stories of King Su every day, and the royal family provided them with food, clothing and other necessities.
This is the standard for a death warrior!
Luo Zhongshu's face was full of pride, but he heard Luo Ren say faintly: "The brave warriors are the elite in the world, and the Luoguo army is full of good men, but I don't know how many of them can return to Luoguo this time?
Second uncle."
Luo Ren said this because he really wanted to know how many people in the Luo family would die this time.
He is the future master of Luo State. After this war, will he have the face to go back and see his people?
Luo Ren's words stunned Luo Zhongshu in the car. He was a general who only knew how to fight.
His brother asked him to lead troops to support Ying and Xu states. Even though he knew it was full of difficulties and dangers, he still led his troops without hesitation.
But when Luo Ren said this, he suddenly felt a chill all over his body.
It is unknown how many members of the royal family are in the army, and all those who dare to fight are descendants of royal families from small clans.
If all these people died at the hands of Huaiyi, even if his clansmen would not blame him, what would happen to the foundation of Luo State?
The building collapsed!
It will take at least twenty years of recuperation and recovery, and only when a new batch of brave warriors grow up in the public school can Luo State recover its vitality.
Brother!
Thinking of this, he could not help but recall the words his brother had told him when he came: "My brother Zhongshu has the courage to resist ten thousand men.
This time when you go to the State of Xu, you will definitely achieve great success. If you really make great achievements, your brother will confer the high title of marquis on you.
I plan to establish Ying State in the lands of Ying and Xu States and let you be the king. This will bring honor to our ancestors.
After arriving in Xu State, take good care of yourself and the people of Luo State.
The safety of the royal family depends on you. You must stop the Huaiyi in Xu State.
As long as this goal can be achieved, no matter what the cost, brother will not blame you. "
Luo Zhongshu couldn't help but repeat this sentence, no matter what the cost!
Even if all the Luo family members failed to come back?
"Aren, if all the sons of the Luo family are killed by the Huaiyi people, I will not live alone. Remember to bring my body back to Luo State. I don't want to be buried in the land of the southern barbarians."
After saying this, he closed his eyes and said no more.
Luo Ren had closed his eyes early and just uttered a faint "hmm".
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When the Huaiyi tribe moved north, Ying and Xu supported each other, and Ying was relatively stable.
However, the State of Xu failed to respond in time and had already lost half of its territory. Even the most critical city of Xu fell into the hands of the Huaiyi army.
Without Xu, the entire city of Xu would be unable to support itself.
The Huaiyi army could cut off the food supply to all the cities, while the Huaiyi could continue to detour northward from Xuyi.
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On the walls of Xuyi, the Huaiyi people fired dense rain of arrows, which was the main way to defend the city. Luo Zhongshu personally led the elite troops of the Luo family to charge and kill.
Although it caused heavy casualties, it still failed to break through the Huaiyi people's defense line.
As the horn sounded, all the soldiers slowly retreated. Raging fires were burning in and on the city walls, and corpses were lying everywhere.
Luo Zhongshu's face looked a little ugly. The number of Huaiyi in the city was not large, nor was they strong, but such a Huaiyi army was able to capture Xuyi.
This siege tested the armies of the Hanyang countries and found that they were really weak.
Luo Zhongshu, knowing that these people were unreliable, immediately sent the elite troops he brought from Luo State to the battlefield.
The situation is critical now, and we must recapture Xu before the Huaiyi army arrives.
At dawn, Luo Zhongshu, in the name of being in charge of military and state affairs, once again mobilized all the troops in the entire Xu State to launch an attack, and tens of thousands of troops launched a fierce attack on Xu City.
Xuyi was not a very big city. The armies of the princes were divided into different echelons and attacked alternately without stopping for a moment.
Under the cover of archers, certain results were achieved.
However, the Huaiyi people were in a dominant position and the princes' armies suffered heavy casualties. Even if the casualties of the slave soldiers were not counted, there were still several hundred soldiers who were completely killed.
These are all Chinese people, some are even descendants of nobles with surnames.
"General Zhong Shu, retreat, the casualties are too great!"
When the casualties had grown to nearly two thousand, the Hanyang nobles could no longer hold on and asked Luo Zhongshu to withdraw his troops and stop fighting.
Luo Zhongshu was even more heartbroken. In just such a short period of time, hundreds of Luo family members died at the city gate.
He did not order the troops to withdraw, but instead gathered all the remaining elite troops of the Luo family.
Luo Zhongshu stood on the chariot, his armor stained with blood, his blade rolled up, his bronze helmet taken off, his hair already loose, fluttering in the wind.
His eyes swept over the soldiers in front of him, all of whose bodies were covered in blood. Without saying a word, he got off the chariot and walked in front of the soldiers. He knew many of the people here.
Every year, Luo Renhe would personally deliver food and cloth to these soldiers on behalf of the office. Their children were all in the public school in Luo State.
The royal family of Luo State was probably the poorest among all the royal families in the Xia Dynasty because a large amount of wealth was given to the people at the bottom of the royal family.
"Cao Boyun, you have followed me for so many years.
In these years, we fought against Wei State and Dongyi, and you were very brave.
How come you don't even dare to fight for your life when you're here?"
Unexpectedly, Cao Boyun cried and said, "General, I have followed you in all these years, and I have always been the first to fight. When have I ever been afraid of death?
Even if all the water in Luo River were drained away, we would still not be able to repay even a little bit of the kindness the government has shown us.
But there are too many brothers coming out this time. If they all die here, who will protect the lord?
I have never seen the emperor in the royal capital.
I only know how to give us food and clothes. When there was a famine, it was my lord who would rather starve himself than let me have enough to eat.
"I will not submit to the blood of the people of Luo and the death of the emperor!"
As he spoke, almost all the soldiers knelt on the ground and shed tears, with a look of sorrow on their faces. It was obvious that they all had the same idea.
Luo Zhongshu raised the whip in his hand, but put it down again, with tears in his eyes.
The Luo State enforced the clan system most strictly, but the relationship between the royal families was much stronger than that in other vassal states.
"This general knows what you said, and so does my lord.
But the lord still sent us here, why?
Because our ancestor is the King of Vegetarians!
Although you no longer worship your ancestors, their blood remains in your bodies.
This blood is the reason why you are fighting now.
As descendants of King Su, this is our fate.
The destiny of Bang Zhou must last forever, the destiny of Bang Zhou must be like the sun in the sky!
More than two hundred years ago, the destiny of the Shang Dynasty came to an end, and the gods of the Shang Dynasty also fell to the ground.
The black bird was sent by heaven to descend and give birth to the Shang Dynasty.
It has been sung for 600 years in the Shang Dynasty. Is there anyone still worshipping it now?
The mandate of Heaven is everlasting and mysterious.
In being not obvious, the virtue of the King is pure.
This is a poem praising our ancestor King Su. If the Zhou Dynasty fell, and the Zhou people hid like the Shang people, who would know the greatness of King Su? "
The sound of weeping gradually disappeared. If King Su was the god of all Zhou people, then his descendants were fanatical believers.
“If we don’t fight hard today, and wait until we die and see King Su, won’t we be ashamed?
If that day comes, I will regret not being able to protect the reputation of the Su Wang's descendants today.
After death, not being able to face the ancestors and gods, isn't this the most painful thing?"
All the soldiers of Luo State were eager to fight.
"King Su said that the Nine Provinces were the lands bestowed by heaven for the Chinese people to live on, and that the barbarians in all directions were thieves who stole the land.
Now these thieves want to usurp the throne and challenge Bang Zhou, which has inherited the Mandate of Heaven.
If we can defeat them, I'm sure King Su in heaven will be proud of us, his descendants."
"Kill the barbarians! Kill the barbarians!"
All the soldiers were waving their weapons, their voices filled with anger, wishing they could fight to the death with those Huaiyi people immediately.
Luo Zhongshu sang the Holy Poem of the Su King, and all the soldiers followed suit.
"The spirit of the Su Wang is in the sky, so glorious and bright.
The character of the King of Su is so pure, we should inherit it.
Follow the path of the Suwang Destiny, and your descendants will practice it forever.
Our descendants will practice it forever! "
Yes, we are the descendants of the Su King. The path of destiny must be practiced forever, starting with us.
Under the daylight, three thousand men of the Luo family held sharp blades in their hands, and their murderous aura was so overwhelming that the princes' troops were so shocked that they dared not even speak.
Luo Zhongshu put on the bronze helmet and shouted, "If we cannot capture Xuyi today, I will not be able to face my ancestors and will commit suicide here. All the Luo clan members who are willing to fight, follow me!"
[Your family's political reputation has increased]
[Your family tradition has changed, and the probability of loyal ministers appearing has increased]
[Your luck points begin to increase significantly]
The world has changed unpredictably
Ji Zhao was looking at this scene in a daze, his eyes were dark and becoming increasingly deep and bottomless. He raised his head to look at the sky, where there was a group of extremely oppressive black clouds that even made him feel cold and gloomy. Now it seemed to have dissipated a little.
"The bond between you and Bang Zhou?"
He looked down at the Heroic Spirit Card in his hand and murmured, "Hall of Valor, where the heroes go to rest."
His figure gradually faded and disappeared, leaving only a few words that seemed to be there and not there, "Pass the level... become a god... a heroic spirit."
Following Luo Zhong's several campaigns in the south and the north, the brave warriors used by the Luo royal family to suppress the four directions rushed towards Xuyi like tigers.
The princes' army used all their archers to provide cover, and these 3,000 elite soldiers attacked in batches. The effect of the first batch of 300 people entering the battlefield was completely different.
The wall was not very high to begin with, and it was easily breached with just a few charges.
The Huaiyi people were instantly horrified, not understanding how the Zhou army suddenly became so elite.
The reserve troops were quickly called in, and almost all of their means were directed at these soldiers with obviously different equipment.
There were corpses everywhere on the top of Xuyi City, most of them were Huaiyi people. The soldiers who were still alive were rolling on the ground wailing, and none of the dead soldiers had an intact body left.
This horrific scene stimulated everyone's psychology. The psychological pressure brought by seeing their comrades die in front of them was something that ordinary people could not understand.
Another round of exchange of bows and arrows began, with countless arrows hitting each other in the sky. After the attack without regard for casualties, the Huaiyi people's arrow reserves were obviously insufficient. Compared with the previous rain of arrows, there were only sporadic arrows now.
This made Luo Zhongshu feel a little relieved. At least the casualties of Luoguo's soldiers would be slightly less. Relying on the protection of shields, the elite troops quickly reached the front.
The Huaiyi people could still deal with ordinary long ladders, but the siege ladders specially prepared for siege were simply not something this small force could handle.
"The Black Armored Army is here again!"
The Huaiyi people on the top of the city wall shouted loudly, with a hint of fear in their voices. Some of them couldn't even hold the weapons in their hands steadily.
The brave warriors of Luo State climbed up the ladders covered with wooden boards and, after suffering some casualties, rushed to the city wall and started hand-to-hand combat in teams of five.
Luo Zhongshu led the charge. He wore thick armor and even a bronze mask on his face. His martial arts skills were extremely high and no one could match him.
Dozens of Huaiyi people surrounded him, but he easily killed three of them and they fled in all directions.
More and more brave warriors rushed up the city wall through the torn hole, and the two sides were completely engaged in a melee.
As the melee broke out, the Huaiyi people no longer had time to care about the soldiers under the city. The princes' army took advantage of this opportunity and directly broke through the gate of Xuyi according to Luo Zhongshu's previous arrangement!
These princes' armies cannot fight tough battles, but they can still bully the minority by relying on their large numbers.
Led by the general, densely packed soldiers rushed into the city gate, stepping on blood and corpses. The shield soldiers led the way and completely wiped out the still struggling Huaiyi people.
The remaining Huaiyi people hid in the streets and tried to resist, but were caught and killed one after another.
After several hours of fierce fighting, Xuyi was finally captured thanks to the bravery of the Luo State warriors.
Looking at the young faces lying dead, including his nephews and nephews, Luo Zhongshu knelt on the top of the city wall with red eyes, looking towards the south.
Those Huaiyi people were coming along the Ying River like a tide.
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Don't laugh at me sleeping drunk on the battlefield. How many men have ever returned from the battles in history? - Wang Han, "Liangzhou Ci"
Thanks to the leader who opened his eyes to see the world for the second time for the reward~
Thank you for the reward from Tyrant Chaos~
There was a reward from the leader before it was put on the shelves. Is this a prelude to take-off?
(End of this chapter)
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