Chapter 167: The Empty City
This time, all the 10,000 people and horses brought out in the Yu Sheng were cavalry. In order to deal with the possible battles later, Sha Shaoyuan equipped the soldiers on the expedition this time with much more equipment than before.
In addition to the normal long halberds of war horses and sabres on the waist, an unknown soldier was also given a bow and crossbow, and a hundred crossbow arrows. Simple siege equipment was dismantled and carried on the back of the horses behind. Each soldier was equipped with 15 days of rations, and all the war horses were good horses.
Moreover, all of these ten thousand soldiers were experienced in battle, with excellent experience in siege cities and land, and had excellent experience in killing and fighting. In the face of any situation, there would be no riots.
These ten thousand soldiers can be said to be the most elite ten thousand people in the Dongwang Mansion. Needless to say, Yu Sheng and Sha Shaoyuan, the commander of the army, have rich experience on the battlefield, Yu Sheng has the cultivation of a martial artist, which can compete with thousands of people. Sha Shaoyuan also has the cultivation level of a warrior, and it is no problem to fight a hundred people.
The iron-armored army rode their horses and slowly entered the enclave city wall.
The city wall is extremely high, and the corridor passing through the city wall is also extremely long. I walked in front of the rest of my life. The secret orders I issued before, and the soldiers behind me slowly entered. If there is any change, they will immediately guard the city gate.
The corridor is pitch black and long, not far ahead, you can see the bright moonlight falling on the ground. You can ride your horse slowly, walking forward, and your spirits are tense.
Huang Yuchen followed him, with the fighting energy flowing all over his body. The two Li-character marks had long been carved, forming a formation hidden on both palms. If he encountered any formation fluctuations, he would crack it as soon as possible.
The corridor was very long, and I walked in front of the rest of my life. It took about a stick of incense to leave the corridor and officially enter the enclave's sphere of influence.
After leaving the corridor, the moonlight shone, and a large military camp tent appeared in the distance. Yu Sheng stopped the horses, frowned slightly, and looked forward, but saw that there was no light in the military camp ahead, and no figure flashed, as if there was no one.
Seeing this, Yu Sheng's mood spread, and he immediately turned around and looked at the city wall behind him.
The city wall of guarding the bridge is extremely high. If you want to go up the city wall, you need to pass several steps, each of which is about ten feet, turning back to each other. Fifty feet is a stage. There are usually platforms for storing weapons and sergeants to trim, and then the steps continue and extend upwards. Generally speaking, if you go up this hundred feet of city wall, at least two buffering platforms are required. In order to ensure efficiency, the platforms are staggered. On the city wall, there can be thousands of troops hidden.
But at this moment, the Yu Sheng was at the foot of the city wall and looked upwards, but there was no trace of soldiers on the city, nor any bonfires.
At this moment, although it was late at night, there must be many soldiers in the garrison wall. They usually light bonfires. If they encounter enemy situations, they will use the bonfire to ignite the wolf smoke. When the camp in the distance sees it, they will immediately come forward to support it. However, the walls of the enclave are extremely quiet and very strange.
Yu Sheng frowned and looked at Sha Shaoyuan behind him. Sha Shaoyuan's face was as deep as water at this moment, and his brows were furious.
"Send the order." Yu Sheng whispered: "A thousand soldiers immediately get off their horses, put on the city wall, check the city wall, if anyone has any abnormal movement, kill them immediately, and all the soldiers quickly pass through the corridor and garrison by the city wall."
"Yes!" Cui Chi, who was standing beside him, responded immediately and immediately issued the order of the rest of his life quickly.
The order was issued, and the movements of the soldiers behind were significantly accelerated. Soon, ten thousand soldiers had already entered the enclave area and formed a fan-shaped formation, arranged at the entrance of the corridor. The thousand soldiers at the end dismounted, pulled out their long swords, and headed straight for the city wall.
"There are two enclave soldiers who opened the door just now, bring them here." Yu Sheng saw that the situation in front of him had been opened and he was no longer afraid of the enemy's sneak attack, so he turned around and asked Cui Chi behind him.
When Cui Chi heard this, he looked around and then whispered to a soldier beside him.
Soon, two enclave soldiers who opened the door were taken to Yu Shengma and knelt on one knee.
Through the moonlight, Yu Sheng carefully observed the two soldiers and found that
These two people were weak in breath and lacked blood. They were obviously the wounded. They frowned and had already guessed something in their hearts.
"Ask you, where have the soldiers guarding the city gate gone?" Yu Sheng lowered his head, looked at the two kneeling in front of him, and asked loudly.
The two of them lowered their heads, hesitated and couldn't speak.
"Don't you understand? My general asked you where the soldiers guarding the city were?" Cui Chi was riding on the side of the war horse. Seeing that the two of them were not talking, he hesitated and couldn't help but feel angry and repeated the question of Yu Sheng loudly.
When the two men heard this, they raised their heads slightly and opened their mouths, but they couldn't speak, and could only hear silly.
Seeing this, Cui Chi was furious and immediately got off the horse. With a "wow" sound, he pulled out his long knife and directly placed it on the neck of an enclave sergeant, shouting loudly: "If you ask, can't you hear it?"
The two of them immediately showed horror, their hands swung repeatedly, and they waved violently in the air. They seemed to be extremely horrified, their mouths moved around, but they still couldn't make a sound, so they could only shout loudly.
"Damn!" Cui Chi frowned and was about to slash him with one knife.
"Put their mouths open." Yu Sheng thought to stop Cui Chi.
When Cui Chi heard this, he withdrew his sword, stepped forward, pinched a man's chin, let him open his mouth, and looked closely and was surprised.
The man only had half a tongue left in his mouth. No wonder he kept shouting but couldn't speak. Seeing this, Cui Chi let go of the man, pulled the other man over, and pinched his chin. This man, like the man just now, had no tongue in his mouth.
Looking at the incision on the tongue, it was obviously cut by someone with a sharp weapon. The wound was bright red and it was obvious that it had not been injured for too long.
Seeing this, Cui Chi was immediately shocked and looked up at Yu Sheng. Just as he was about to report, he saw Yu Sheng frowning and ordered loudly: "All soldiers obey orders! Make a defensive formation and push forward a hundred feet!"
With a command, the fan-shaped defensive formation that had originally gathered around him immediately spread forward and pushed forward a hundred feet before stopping.
All these soldiers were cavalrymen, and most of them came out to carry offensive weapons and did not bring big shields for defense. Yu Sheng saw the words of the two enclave soldiers, and instantly understood that if there were indeed enemies, the cavalry must charge forward to have power.
Cui Chi still held the enclave sergeant who was holding in his hand on the ground. The two enclave sergeants knelt on the ground with their knees, buried their heads tightly, and burst into tears.
This shrill cry came far away in the quiet night.
"Okay, stop crying." Yu Sheng looked at the two enclave soldiers kneeling on their knees below, frowned, and said, "You are useless to me. Since you are abandoned soldiers, you will be useless to behead you. You can go."
As soon as Yu Sheng finished speaking, the two enclave soldiers received such great kindness from heaven. They immediately kowtowed like pounding garlic. After kowtowing Yu Sheng a few times, they helped each other up and staggered along the city wall.
"I order two soldiers with cultivation to follow them and see where they go." Yu Sheng saw the two soldiers helping him and whispered to Cui Chi beside him.
When Cui Chi heard this, he nodded slightly and immediately ordered.
Two black shadows flashed out of the square formation, appearing and looming, following two enclave soldiers, slowly disappearing into the distance.
At this time, a thousand soldiers who had sent to the city wall to check came down one after another, and the news of the reward did not surprise Yu Sheng.
The enclave guards the bridge and the city walls are empty, it is an empty city. If you guess correctly, the huge military camp in front of you is now empty and has disappeared.
Seeing this, Yu Sheng frowned. Sha Shaoyuan immediately stepped forward and whispered in Yu Sheng's ear: "Lord Yu, things are strange. The enemy gave up the dangerous place and refused to defend it. All the soldiers were missing. This must be a plan to lure the enemy into depth. The plan of the people in the enclave is to let us enter their hinterland.
, and then slowly eat us away.”
Yu Sheng nodded slightly and returned softly: "I guessed that these soldiers should be hiding on the way to Wufeng City, waiting for ambush, but they will not fight with all their might, they will only harass and delay our time to Wufeng City. In this way, the side of City Lord Ye is afraid that there will be dangers."
Sha Shaoyuan frowned and his eyes were stunning. The enemy's strategy was very obvious. He gave up the natural danger of the city wall and let the Dongwangfu army march straight in, using the depth of the enclave to drag the army to death.
But how did they customize this plan? If they don’t know why they should remove the defense and lead the Eastern Prince’s Army into the city. If they know, who told them what the benefits would be to consume the power of the Eastern Prince’s Army?
"General Sha." Yu Sheng looked at Sha Shaoyuan and said in a deep voice: "Leave you six thousand soldiers, can you defend this city wall?"
"Master Yu, what are you going to do?" Sha Shaoyuan was stunned when he heard Yu Sheng's words and immediately asked: "Yucheng mainly entered the hinterland of the enclave? Do you still have to take the soldiers to die even though he knew there was a trap in front of him?"
Yu Sheng's eyes were cold, his eyes glanced at Sha Shaoyuan, and he said softly: "I'll ask you, I'll give you six thousand soldiers, can you guard this city wall?"
In an instant, Sha Shaoyuan suddenly felt a cold all over his body. He felt a strong murderous aura on Yu Sheng. In the years he had been in the army, he had never seen Yu Sheng emit such a strong murderous intent. He couldn't help but look shocked and said, "Swear to hold on to the death!"
"Okay!" Yu Sheng responded and shouted: "First to Fourth Brigades, follow me, and the rest of the people will follow General Sha's orders and stay at the city walls without any mistakes!"
After saying that, he rode forward, separated the formation in front, and headed straight for the distance.
Seeing this, Huang Yuchen immediately rode his horse to follow.
Yu Sheng ordered the order, and 10,000 soldiers were divided into two groups, of which 4,000 troops followed Yu Sheng and headed straight to the camp ahead. The remaining 6,000 soldiers remained in place, gathered their formations, and formed a reduced cavalry formation.
Yu Sheng led the team forward, leaving Sha Shaoyuan and Cui Chi behind. The two looked at each other, Sha Shaoyuan looked helpless, and Cui Chi was stunned on the spot.
In Cui Chi's opinion, bringing only 4,000 people into the hinterland of the enclave was like a mud cow entering the sea. The sudden order from Yu Sheng really shocked him.
"General Sha...this..." Cui Chi was shocked when he saw the sand and dust rushing past the cavalry in the distance.
"What's this?" Sha Shaoyuan glared at Cui Chi and ordered loudly: "The 567th Brigade will dismount on the ground, collect all the long-range weapons, and immediately stomp on the city wall. The rest of the troops will form front and rear formations to defend on the spot!"
When the military order was issued, the phalanx changed immediately. Three thousand people dismounted on the ground, stepped forward quickly, removed the crossbow on the back of the comrades' horses, and quickly stepped onto the city wall. The 8th battalion soldiers also dismounted, gathered the three thousand empty horses and gathered in the corridor. The nine and ten battalions immediately changed their formations, forming two rows of front and back, with long spears in front, forming a cavalry to let go and prepare for the momentum.
All the soldiers who went on this expedition were experienced in many battles, attacking the city, raiding for a long distance, charging immediately, dismounting to form a formation, and being extremely skillful.
The formation changed rapidly, but there was no slight confusion. In a moment, the formation was reorganized, and the eighth pair of men was re-mounted, ranking nine. After the top ten pairs, the third defensive formation was formed. The other three thousand men had already stepped onto the city wall, lit the bonfire, placed the crossbow, and the preparation was completed, and they could resist foreign enemies at any time.
"Send a scout quickly and pass the news back here. Let the little prince decide the rest!" Sha Shaoyuan gave an order to Cui Chi.
The thick black gate of the enclave wall was slowly opened again.
Chapter completed!