Start Being a Vassal King Today - Chapter 163

[Chapter 163]

“As long as you kill the king of Yan, you will be rewarded with ten thousand taels of silver, and charge me!”

In front of a slightly higher mound.

Gao Man looked at the soldiers of the royal family who were surrounded by private soldiers of the rich family, and was slightly proud.

In his opinion, he has won this battle.

King Yan only has a thousand troops, but this time he has led more than 12,000 elite private soldiers of the wealthy family.

Most of these private soldiers are children of wealthy families with high fighting spirit.

Ten times stronger than the enemy, King Yan is doomed this time.

Now, he just needs to wait for his soldiers to kill the palace soldiers one by one.

Gao Man’s words floated over the battlefield.

The morale of the private soldiers of the Hao clan was high, and amidst the shouts of killing, the soldiers of the Hao clan with shields and long knives in front rushed towards the spears.

They blocked the stabbing spears with their shields, and the soldiers behind them passed under the spear shafts with short bodies, and chopped off the spearmen’s legs with their knives.

It’s just that in this posture, they can’t use all their strength, and the knife can’t kill the spearman on the plate armor.

Seeing this, they bent down and tried to rush into the formation and throw the spearmen down.

But at this moment, suddenly the second row of spearmen stabbed them with their spears.

Immediately, hundreds of Hao clan soldiers fell down screaming.

However, the Hao clan soldiers behind continued to pounce on them.

They stepped on the corpses of their companions, trying to continue to break the formation, and the two sides fell into a stalemate between offense and defense.

The borders of the defense line kept piling up corpses, more and more.

“Hold on!”

Lu Chang commanded in the middle of the circular formation.

In half an hour, a mountain of corpses more than one meter high piled up outside the circular formation.

The solid armor of the royal soldiers gave them a great advantage in the battle.

The soldiers of the Hao family kept falling in a pool of blood, but their weapons could not effectively pierce the plate armor of the soldiers of the palace.

But fighting is physical work.

There are too many Hao clan soldiers, and the physical strength of the royal soldiers is constantly being exhausted, and their movements gradually become sluggish.

Seeing that the swords did not do much harm to the soldiers of the palace, some soldiers of the Hao clan stepped on the corpse mountain and jumped into the middle of the soldiers of the palace, throwing the soldiers of the palace on the ground and wrestling.

As more and more Hao clan soldiers did this, the edges of the circular formation fell into chaos.

On the mound, Gao Man’s heart changed from complacency to worry, and from worry to complacency.

Seeing the heavy casualties of the soldiers of the Hao family in a short period of time, he was shocked by the fighting power of the soldiers of King Yan.

But as the saying goes, more ants kill elephants, and over time, they start to gain the upper hand.

“Go, go, go, the first one to rush into the formation will be rewarded with a thousand taels of silver.” Gao Man shouted.

The soldiers and generals of the Hao family continued to pass on this sentence.

Seeing that their own side was expected to break through the formation, the soldiers of the Hao clan were even more morale high, and they ran towards the circular formation of soldiers of the palace one by one.

Under the squeeze of many powerful soldiers, a gap appeared in the circular formation.

The soldiers of the Hao family rushed in and started fighting with the soldiers of the royal family in the formation.

Gao Man was overjoyed when he saw this scene, “King Yan died here today.”

But at this moment, there was a rumble of horseshoes.

The soldiers of the Hao family looked for their reputation, and saw silver armored cavalry rushing towards them with their sabers raised in the smoke.

Seeing this, they were taken aback.

Gao Man was even more frightened.

These silver armored cavalry did not come from the official road in the east, but came from behind them.

The silver armored cavalry rushed into the powerful soldiers like a tiger into a pack of wolves.

As the war horse galloped, it knocked away the noble soldiers one by one.

The saber was raised and lowered, blood spattered, and screams were everywhere.

“I was fooled, I fell into the trap of King Yan.” Gao Man suddenly realized.

These cavalry will not appear for no reason, there is only one explanation, that is, King Yan has prepared in advance.

The appearance of thousands of cavalry completely plunged the Hao clan soldiers into chaos.

Morale seemed to collapse in an instant.

But what frightened him even more was that when the cavalry arrived, he heard another cry of killing.

Many palace soldiers poured out from the direction the cavalry came from.

“Young Master Gao, retreat, or we will be surrounded.” A general of a wealthy family said anxiously, clutching his wound.

Gao Manzao was frightened out of his wits, he said three withdrawal words, and galloped towards his Wubao.

The royal cavalry did not let go of the disbanded soldiers of the Hao family. They pursued them with their horses and chopped down the soldiers of the Hao family one by one.

The soldiers of the Hao family were miserable, panicked and had no formation, and ran all over the mountains and plains.

“Your Highness, you are finally here.” On the official road, Lu Chang looked at the three people who came on horseback, and sat down on the ground.

After the circular formation was broken, he fought with Hao clan soldiers for a while.

Seeing Chen Hu, these Hao clan soldiers rushed towards Chen Hu like a cat seeing a fish.

He and Chen Hu could only fight desperately.

“Thank you for your hard work, and you will be rewarded when you go back.” Zhao Xu looked at Chen Hu and Lu Chang with a smile.

The two of them were covered in blood, and they had already fought personally, which shows that they were already very critical at that time.

“If it were the Yanguan Forbidden Army, the entire army might be wiped out this time.” Mo Yu was once again amazed at the combat power of the royal family’s troops.

Although Lu Chang and the others were in a panic, most of the soldiers seemed to be just too tired, resting while sitting or lying down, with few casualties.

Chang Wei is slightly proud.

In his opinion, it all depends on the wiseness of King Yan, who said that soldiers should eat well.

Only by eating well can we withstand intense training and improve the quality of individual soldiers.

As the quality of individual soldiers improves, so does the overall combat power.

Although he had never heard the few words that King Yan said, but following what King Yan said, the soldiers of the palace were indeed as fierce as tigers.

However, remembering that the battle was not over yet, he said: “Your Highness, we should take advantage of the victory and pursue the attack, and annihilate the Shanggu noble family in one fell swoop.”

Zhao Xu narrowed his eyes.

Now that the Shanggu nobles are raising their troops to rebel, he naturally doesn’t need to have any scruples anymore.

It is inevitable that the night will be long and the dreams will be many, and the Shanggu Hao family will be wiped out in one fell swoop.

So he said: “Chang Wei, you lead the army to attack the four counties south of Shanggu County, and those who participate in the rebellion will be killed.”

“Yes, Your Highness.” Chang Wei took the order.

“Mo Yu, you lead the army to attack the four counties in the north. Those who participate in the rebellion will also be killed.”

“Yes, Your Highness.” Mo Yu said loudly.

Zhao Xu nodded, and said to Lu Chang and Chen Hu: “You gather the soldiers and follow me to Shanggu City.”

Today, he will officially take over Shanggu County.

Gaojiawu Fort.

Gao Yuan is anxiously waiting for the return of his eldest son.

Waiting with him are many rich officials.

For them, the success of the ambush is a matter of the future of Upper Valley County.

“My lord, the young master is back.” At this moment, the Gao family’s disciple on Wubao suddenly pointed to the country road.

Gao Yuan was overjoyed and hurriedly asked someone to open the gate of Wubao City.

Not long after, Gao Man and a group of remnant soldiers rushed into Wubao.

Seeing this, Gao Yuan’s face suddenly changed.

“Father, the ambush failed, King Yan’s army is marching here.” Gao Man dismounted and said sadly.

“What!” When Gao Yuan learned that the ambush had failed, he was drenched in cold sweat.

“It’s over, it’s over, King Yan will not let us go.” The officials trembled slightly when they heard this.

At this moment, fear filled his heart.

(end of this chapter)