"Uh...ah..."
Suddenly, Fan Jinchang felt a sharp pain in his heart, and every time he breathed, his heart was in excruciating pain.
He felt dizzy and his breathing became increasingly difficult.
Fan Jinchang stared at Chen Yong with difficulty, eyes wide open, stretched out his hand towards him and grasped the air weakly.
“Help.....help me...ah....”
No...he doesn't want to die yet!
He hadn't even managed to kill Chen Yong, and hadn't even adopted a child. How could he just die like this?
"Well....."
Suddenly, there was a sharp pain in his heart, and Fan Jinchang's body stiffened with pain.
After three breaths, his head tilted and fell heavily to the ground, and he completely stopped breathing.
Chen Yong glanced at Fan Jinchang, whose eyes were almost popping out of his head in pain, and swung his sword to hit him in the neck again.
No matter whether he is really dead or faking his death, he wants to make sure that this person is dead completely.
Fan Jinchang, who had just died, had blood spurting out of his neck as high as a person. His body twitched a few times and a gurgling sound came from his throat.
The personal guards looked at Fan Jinchang, who was covered in blood and had no breath left, and their hands holding the swords were shaking.
Just when they were hesitating whether to rush up together and try again.
Suddenly, they heard the sound of a sword clanging, and before they could look up, they felt a sharp pain in their neck.
Then they saw their companions around them, all with their eyes wide open, covering their bleeding necks.
"Bang, bang, bang..."
An entire row of personal soldiers fell down one after another, their bodies twitching, and in the blink of an eye, they were all dead.
Chen Yong held the bloody sword in his hand and looked up at the official road.
The soldiers who were preparing to escape rushed over and saw people lying on the ground from afar, then turned around and ran back.
A killer is blocking the official road, who would dare to run over?
The noisy official road lasted for half an hour.
All the soldiers under Fan Jinchang were incorporated into the army by Ji Guangda.
After the battle, only less than 40,000 of Fan Jinchang's 50,000 soldiers were left.
"Ah~~" Ji Guangda sighed and looked at Shen Yong with regret.
"What a pity! Many soldiers were trampled to death. We lost at least 5,000 soldiers."
Chen Yong glanced at the corpses in the ditches on both sides of the official road and frowned.
"Rest here for half an hour and bury all the bodies."
If so many corpses piled together are not dealt with, it will easily lead to a plague.
It was just noon, so we could start cooking.
Ji Guangda nodded and immediately gave the order.
After watching the soldiers busy themselves, Ji Guangda came to Shen Yong and pointed at the skinny soldiers with a frown.
"Your Highness, how come these soldiers in the capital are so thin?"
"Even if the drought in the capital is severe, the national treasury is there to support it. There's no way they're going to let the soldiers live like this, with no fighting capacity at all."
"Has Emperor Tianwu gone mad? He doesn't even want to support his soldiers anymore?"
When he recruited the soldiers brought by Fan Jinchang, he could hardly believe his eyes.
Each of them looked like a refugee, with a sallow and skinny face and chapped lips.
It was already winter, but these soldiers were still wearing autumn clothes and didn't even have thin cotton jackets. They were shivering with cold.
These soldiers don't look like they are going to quell a rebellion, but rather like refugees fleeing.
He really couldn't understand why Emperor Tianwu would train the soldiers in the capital to be like this.
Half a year ago, the Northwest Army was similar to these soldiers, but that was because the Northwest Army was on the border and had no food or water.
The troops in the capital have been stationed near the capital all the time, so how could they have no food or water?
The drought first started in the northwest, so the drought in Beijing should not be so severe.
Ji Guangda was completely puzzled. He really couldn't figure out what Emperor Tianwu was trying to do by doing this.
This is clearly a sign of wanting to destroy the country.
Even if Chen Yong hadn't existed, someone else would have come to destroy the Great Celestial Empire.
With such a weak military force, it would be strange if neighboring countries did not take the opportunity to take action.
Fortunately, the one who rebelled now was Chen Yong, a member of the Great Celestial Empire, so the soldiers were able to survive.
Chen Yong pulled the corner of his lips and glanced at Ji Guangda, who was looking troubled.
"No matter what the reason is, Emperor Tianwu's actions have made things convenient for me."
Why!!!?
Why else? He emptied the capital.
Emperor Tianwu wanted to raise an army, but he had nothing to support it with.
The food and fodder shipped from the south is probably only enough to feed the troops defending the city.
If we want to feed more than 100,000 troops in the capital, it is probably still a bit far from enough.
He also suspected that Emperor Tianwu deliberately assigned the weaker members of the army to Fan Jinchang.
It is impossible that all the troops in the capital are so weak. The drought in the south has no significant impact, and all the taxes that should be paid are paid, which is barely enough for the troops in the capital to survive.
Emperor Tianwu probably thought that he couldn't cause any trouble alone, so he just sent some soldiers to scare him.
The number of people is enough to intimidate people, as for the quality, Emperor Tianwu didn't take it seriously at all.
Of course, the heavily armed soldiers must be kept in the capital.
Thinking of the empty palace, Chen Yong lost interest in moving in.
Unfortunately, he had only lived in the palace for a few days before he had to go to war.
"That's true." Ji Guangda nodded. "The capital's army is weak, and the Golden Armor Army will fight faster."
"However, the capital's army is still quite powerful, so we need to be more careful."
“If the capital’s troops weren’t as withered and miserable as these soldiers, it would still take some effort to fight them.”
He couldn't believe that Emperor Tianwu would make all the troops in the capital so weak.
Unless Emperor Tianwu goes crazy and his reign is really over, he will not treat all the troops in the capital harshly.
When he followed the general to the capital before, he was extremely envious of the heroic and high-spirited army of the capital.
At that time, the Northwest Army looked very rustic and dirty, and was not as mighty and domineering as the Beijing Army.
Of course, the Beijing Army also considered itself superior and looked down upon the Northwest Army, the Southern Army and the like.
Now looking at these soldiers from the capital who are treated like refugees, Ji Guangda can only sigh.
Thirty years in the east, thirty years in the west.
"When we arrive in Menglan City, the gods will give me some new weapons."
Shen Yong stood with his hands behind his back, looking at the busy soldiers, and said calmly,
“By then, no matter how powerful the capital’s army is, they won’t be able to resist.”
Just take a few boxes of grenades and blow them up. That would scare them to death.
"What weapon?!" Ji Guangda's eyes lit up and he looked at Shen Yong excitedly.
The weapons bestowed by the gods must be extraordinary. These crossbows and arrows alone are rare enough.
The crossbowmen attacked with all their might, and the capital's army could not withstand it.
Of course, the walls of the capital are quite high, so it is somewhat difficult to attack them.
With better weapons, the soldiers would suffer less losses.
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