Chapter 844 The Young God of Slaughter!
Gu Jiao and Black Wind King returned to the military camp.
In fact, the Black Wind Cavalry had already learned of the destruction of the North Gate. The entire army was ready to go. The soldiers and their warhorses were all clad in armor, each holding a spear or sword, standing fearlessly on the windswept training ground.
Gu Jiao didn't ask who was in charge; perhaps there was no need to ask.
They are not fighting for the uniform itself, but because once they put it on, they must fight for honor, for their country, and for the common people!
As long as they have a breath left, no one can trample the rivers and mountains of Great Yan!
To be honest, Mu Qingchen was also shocked when he saw this scene. He had been with the army for more than a month and always thought that he knew these soldiers of the Great Yan well enough. But it turned out that his understanding was still too superficial.
What kind of sentiment would lead someone to sacrifice themselves to this extent?
Sitting atop Black Wind King's horse, Gu Jiao gazed at the imposing Black Wind Iron Cavalry and solemnly declared, "Very good! Vanguard and Assault Battalions, follow me into battle! The Garrison Battalion, too, be ready to engage at any moment!"
Mu Qingchen's heart skipped a beat. Were they planning to fight even the garrison battalion?
Upon hearing this, Zhou Ren and Zhang Shiyong were filled with excitement; they finally had a chance to go to the battlefield!
But the next second, their arms, which were waving in mid-air, froze.
They are not afraid of death.
But if even they have to fight back, it means the situation has deteriorated to an immeasurable degree.
This battle... may be the battle for the survival of the Black Wind Riders!
Gu Jiao glanced at the reserve force: "I hope we won't need you."
If they are to be used, it means that the entire vanguard and assault battalions have been wiped out.
In that dream filled with the smoke of war, the Liang Kingdom and the Black Wind Cavalry did indeed fight a fierce battle. The Black Wind Cavalry, which had been reduced to less than 20,000 men by the civil war, was besieged by the Liang Kingdom's army in the Mangshan Mountains.
……completely annihilated.
Gu Jiao gripped the reins tightly and spurred her horse along the deserted street.
Can she change the fate of the Black Wind Riders this time?
Mu Qingchen urged his horse to catch up with her: "Every gate in Quyang City has three doors, but one of them is broken."
Gu Jiao said, "No, all three are broken."
The innermost gate was blown off; another gate and a hidden door were also destroyed by the rebels, who destroyed the corresponding slots.
"All three gates are broken... No wonder they couldn't be defended..." Mu Qingchen frowned, then, as if remembering something, he said, "Snowfield Heavenly Silkworm Silk!"
Gu Jiao said calmly, "No, Chu Feipeng has gloves that can deal with Snowfield Heavenly Silkworm Silk."
Mu Qingchen gave her a deep look: "You seem to know a lot about the Liang Kingdom."
"I guess so." Gu Jiao didn't explain anything, but her ears twitched as she looked towards the north gate. "We need to hurry! They're almost here!"
She clenched her flanks, and Black Wind King, sensing her command, leaped forward and galloped away at top speed!
Mu Qingchen was about to follow when a commoner mustered his courage and opened the door, asking, "Young Master Mu, is it time for war?"
Mu Qingchen tightened the reins, and to avoid blocking the army behind him, he quickly spurred his horse to the side and said to the commoner who had once heard him preach: "Yes, the Great Liang army is invading, and the North Gate has been destroyed by the remnants of the Nangong family. Now, Lord Xiao will lead the Black Wind Cavalry to meet the enemy outside the North Gate."
As he spoke, he glanced at the people nearby who were craning their necks to look at him, and said with a pursed lip, "Everyone, hurry back and don't come out unless necessary."
The people said worriedly, "Naquyang City..."
Mu Qingchen looked at the young man leading the army away and said solemnly, "You must trust Lord Xiao. He will definitely defend Quyang City!"
"Sigh, he's still just a child..."
An old man, leaning on his cane, sighed.
Everyone fell silent.
yes.
The young leader of the Black Wind Camp was said to be a teenager.
They're so young and they're already on the battlefield fighting the enemy.
It's laughable that they even suspected him of being a traitor. But what traitor in the world would risk his life to defend the lives of a city's people with his own flesh and blood when life and death are at stake?
...
When tens of thousands of Liang Kingdom troops arrived outside the North Gate, the Black Wind Cavalry were already lined up in neat formation to welcome them.
The two sides were ten zhang apart, which was exactly within the effective shooting range of the archers.
Both sides have their shields and archers in position, and a great battle is about to begin!
Gu Jiao took the lead, riding her horse at the very front of the Black Wind Cavalry.
She wore her own battle armor, and the Black Wind King also wore a black helmet and black iron armor.
A man and his horse stood under the vast sky, before the mighty army, as insignificant as a drop in the ocean. Yet this warhorse, now sixteen, and the boy, also sixteen, led all the Black Wind Riders to fearlessly block the Liang army.
"Boy, you're Xiao Liulang, the commander of the Black Wind Cavalry? I've heard you're quite formidable!"
Before the Liang Kingdom's camp, a burly Liang general, wielding a spiked hammer, rode forward a few steps.
He looked down at Gu Jiao with his nose in the air, "Do you dare to fight me?"
One-on-one?
This is indeed one way for two armies to go to war.
Mu Qingchen rode up to Gu Jiao's side: "His name is Pan Long. He is a fierce general under Chu Feipeng. I once accompanied my maternal grandfather on a mission to Liang Kingdom and saw him once in the main hall. He is extremely tyrannical and cruel. Prisoners of war who fall into his hands usually do not have a good ending."
This is a euphemism; Pan Long was notorious in the army for torturing prisoners of war, and it was not uncommon for him to burn, kill, loot, and abuse innocent women after the war.
His subordinates also operated in the same manner, but this man was indeed brave and therefore earned some respect.
Li Jin clasped his hands and said, "Commander, let me go and meet him!"
Gu Jiao looked in Pan Long's direction: "Okay."
Li Jin's weapon was a spear. He held the spear in one hand and a shield in the other, and rode his horse toward Pan Long.
Seeing this, Pan Long frowned in displeasure and raised his spiked hammer: "I'm going to beat up that kid! Not some random shrimp or crab general! Get out of my way!"
He spurred his horse toward Li Jin, and the moment he finished speaking, he raised the spiked mace in his hand and swung it fiercely toward Li Jin's head!
Whether it was too late or something else, Li Jin didn't have a shield and thrust his spear straight at Pan Long's heart!
The two horses whizzed past each other.
The entire battlefield fell silent, save for the whistling wind and the thunderous hoofbeats of passing horses.
Li Jin's horse circled around once before stopping in time.
The Liang army all stared at Pan Long's back as he stood on his horse. The next second, Pan Long swayed and fell into a pool of blood, his eyes glazed over.
Li Jin looked towards the direction of the Liang army and said arrogantly, "Heh, so you Liang generals can't even beat the shrimp soldiers and crab generals of our Black Wind Cavalry!"
The Black Wind Riders erupted in high-pitched cheers!
The faces of the Liang army turned extremely ugly.
The original plan was to give the Black Wind Riders a taste of their power, but they were wiped out right at the start!
"Is there anyone else who wants to duel?" Li Jin asked coldly.
"Young man, don't be so arrogant!"
A veteran general in his fifties charged toward Li Jin, wielding a precious sword.
His strength was clearly superior to Pan Long's. When the blade slashed down, Li Jin clearly felt a powerful pressure. Li Jin frowned and raised the shield in his hand.
With a clang, the blade struck the shield heavily, and half of Li Jin's arm went numb!
Mu Qingchen continued to introduce Gu Jiao: "General Cheng of Liang Kingdom participated in the campaign against Yan Kingdom and fought against the Xuanyuan family. He is one of the few generals who could last more than a hundred moves against Xuanyuan Li. Li Jin has little chance of winning against him."
Li Jin is not yet thirty years old, making him a very young general, with at least a twenty-year gap in experience compared to General Cheng.
This is actually a bit like bullying.
But Li Jin was far more tenacious than anyone had imagined. General Cheng slashed at his shield again and again, and his arm was already bruised and blue, but he still showed no sign of yielding or retreating.
Finally, he seized an opportunity.
He suddenly stabbed at General Cheng's thigh!
A flash of cold light appeared in the Liang army's camp!
Gu Jiao's eyes turned cold. She suddenly picked up the longbow on the horse's back, drew an arrow, nocked it, and shot it towards that cold light!
"Who goes there!"
General Cheng blocked Li Jin's attack with a single slash, then turned to look to the side and saw that beside the two of them, an arrow had pinned a dagger firmly to the ground!
The arrows were fired from the Black Wind Riders' side, and as for the dagger... well, that goes without saying.
General Cheng, his face ashen, demanded of his own side, "Who did this?!"
Gu Jiao gripped her longbow and said calmly, "I thought this would be a fair duel, but I didn't expect you Liang people to be so shameless. In that case, there's no need for a duel. Li Jin, return to the ranks!"
"yes!"
Li Jin sheathed his spear and rode his Black Wind Cavalry back to his own camp.
That was close.
Just now, Li Jin seemed to have caught the Liang general's weakness, but in reality, the Liang general deliberately lured him into a trap. It was fortunate that the Liang side didn't realize this either, thinking that their old general was about to lose, and took the opportunity to launch a sneak attack on Li Jin.
And she just happened to find an excuse to end their fight.
The general who had launched the sneak attack came out; it was Song Kai. He snorted coldly and said, "Uncle Cheng, why waste words with them? Let's fight!"
Now that things have come to this, there's really no face left to continue fighting alone.
General Cheng gave the order to charge.
Gu Jiaoqi shouted, "Black Wind Cavalry, fight with all your might!"
The archers from both sides launched the first wave of attacks, and under their cover, the first cavalry units of each side began to charge into battle.
The Liang army had an absolute advantage in numbers, and they were fighting a war of attrition, determined to wear down the Black Wind Cavalry.
Furthermore, their cavalry was quite strong, and many royal assassins were among them.
These assassins do not fight ordinary Black Wind Riders; they specialize in reaping the heads of generals.
In the blink of an eye, three Black Wind Camp lieutenants fell!
"ah--"
One of the assassins targeted Cheng Fugui and kicked him off his horse!
Just then, a warhorse couldn't stop its galloping momentum in time, and Cheng Fugui's brow twitched. He quickly rolled away to avoid it.
Meanwhile, Li Jin was also targeted by two assassins. The two attacked him from both sides, and Li Jin's thigh was quickly injured.
The assassin swung his sword toward Li Jin's head.
Gu Jiao deflected his longsword with her spear. At the same time, Black Wind King raised his horse's hooves and stomped hard on the chest of the assassin!
Caught off guard, the assassin was kicked away and fell onto the hoof of another Black Wind Rider. He raised his sword to slash at the hoof.
Gu Jiao shot a red-tasseled spear, piercing his heart without mercy!
Gu Jiao spurred her horse, drew her red-tasseled spear, turned around, and fired another shot, piercing straight through the head of a suicide soldier, splattering brain matter all over Cheng Fugui's face.
Cheng Fugui was completely stunned!
The Liang Kingdom's assassins around them felt an incredibly terrifying aura; those who had never known fear suddenly felt a chill run down their spines.
They instinctively looked in the direction of the dangerous aura and saw a young man dressed in red robes and black armor staring calmly at them.
It was this tranquility that made people feel a strange danger, as if endless killing was as commonplace as breathing in the eyes of the boy.
From the moment the boy set his sights on them, they were no longer Liang's assassins, but merely prey chosen by the god of death.
One by one, the assassins fell, but the boy's eyes remained calm.
Several generals in the Liang army camp who were witnessing this scene frowned in unison.
A general in his early thirties, holding a silver spear, muttered, "What's going on? That kid... how can he be so powerful? Is he really only nineteen?"
Beside him, a young swordsman crossed his arms and said, "It's fake. He's not even nineteen yet. According to those who have seen him, he's at most sixteen or seventeen."
The silver-spear general asked, "Then how does he manage to kill without blinking an eye?"
He was truly ruthless in killing, showing no emotion whatsoever. He killed half of the twenty assassins in the blink of an eye!
This boy's strength is terrifying!
As the silver-spear general was speaking, his eyes suddenly widened: "Huh? He's gone! Is he dead?"
The young swordsman narrowed his eyes slightly: "Dead?"
The silver-spear general's pupils constricted: "Not good! He's charging this way!"
Gu Jiao said, "Left Wing Army, provide cover!"
"Yes!" Tong Zhong immediately adjusted the battle formation to cover Gu Jiao as she fought her way out.
Mu Qingchen then covered Gu Jiao's right flank.
By the time the Liang generals noticed something amiss, Gu Jiao had already arrived at their front lines.
"Stop him!" the silver-spear general shouted.
A line of soldiers, each wielding a longsword, swarmed towards Gu Jiao.
Gu Jiao tightened her grip on the reins: "Boss!"
Black Wind King mustered all his strength and leaped high over everyone's heads!
Everyone was stunned.
They had never seen such agile and swift horse; it was simply terrifying!
Black Wind King rode ahead of everyone else, fearlessly smashing through all the soldiers blocking his way.
The young swordsman turned around and stared intently: "Oh no! He's heading towards my godfather!"
As Gu Jiao rode on horseback, she seemed to merge with the power of the Black Wind King, charging forward bravely and invincibly through the Liang Kingdom's army!
In that dream about his own fate, Jingkong died at the hands of Chu Feipeng.
Chu Feipeng wiped out the last Black Wind Cavalry of the Great Yan.
If she had killed Chu Feipeng, the tragedy of Jingkong and the Black Wind Riders wouldn't have happened, right? And today's battle would have ended, wouldn't it?
"Stop him! Don't let him get near the General!"
The Liang Kingdom's military forces are becoming increasingly concentrated.
Black Wind King's gallop became more difficult.
Hang in there, boss!
It's almost there!
She saw the man inside the carriage!
She braced herself against the saddle with one hand, used the momentum to leap into the air, and thrust her spear towards the carriage!
(End of this chapter)
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