In order to cope with possible dangers, the bodyguards sent by Jin Feng were all veterans. Many of them had participated in the battle at Damanang Slope, and others had experienced at least several bandit suppressions.
The Forbidden Army is also the elite guarding the imperial city.
Neither side gave in, and the battle became intense the moment it broke out.
Blood spurted out and flowed along the cracks in the stone slabs to the drainage ditches on both sides of the road.
In the first battle between the two sides, more than a dozen Imperial Guards were killed.
There were no casualties among the bodyguards.
In fact, the quality and average age of the individual soldiers of the Forbidden Army are more advantageous than that of the bodyguards. After all, they are all good soldiers selected from various places, and most of the bodyguards are retired veterans.
If it were a competition in the ring, the bodyguard might not be a match for the imperial army at all.
It's a pity that this is not a competition in the ring, but a battle of life and death.
What is tested at this time is not only the physical fitness of both parties, but more importantly, teamwork and the psychological quality of the soldiers!
After all, the Imperial Guards lacked actual combat experience. Although they all wore armor, many of the Imperial Guards did not put down their face armor, leaving their necks and cheeks exposed.
The spearmen of the escort specially pick these places to stab!
Although the bodyguards did not have armor, the pot lids held by the bodyguards in the front row were several inches thick and stronger than many military shields, and could not be cut through by the Imperial Guards' sabers.
Judge high or low!
"Put down the visor!"
The captain of the Forbidden Army quickly discovered the problem and roared at the top of his lungs.
But then he discovered that many of the Imperial Guards did not have face shields.
It’s not that the logistics officers corrupted their visors, but that wearing them would add a lot of weight, and they were not used at all, and inspections were not strict, so many Imperial Guardsmen removed their visors and put them away.
Now that it's been used, more than two-thirds of the Imperial Guard soldiers don't have face armor.
The fight is getting fierce, so you can't let the other party wait for a while, and you can go home and get the mask first, right?
The captain of the Forbidden Army cursed in his mind and ordered the soldiers with visors to push forward.
Many soldiers without face armor suddenly felt lucky that they were not wearing face armor...
It was difficult for bamboo poles to penetrate the armor, and the attack of the bodyguards was finally temporarily contained.
"Cut off their bamboo poles!"
The captain of the Forbidden Army ordered a counterattack.
"Spearmen, stab their legs for me!"
The escort battalion commander also changed his strategy.
The armor of the Imperial Guard is half armor, and the legs are unprotected.
"Send the shield to the front!"
When the Forbidden Army went out, they also carried shields, but they were just small shields that could only protect half of their bodies.
The captain immediately ordered the shields to be gathered together and sent to the front row of the forbidden soldiers to protect their legs.
At this time, the escorts had large shields, and the imperial guards had armors and small shields. No one could do anything to the other, and the two sides actually faced off in the long street.
The captain of the Forbidden Army finally breathed a sigh of relief.
The order he received was not to destroy the bodyguards, but to prevent them from supporting the Ninth Princess.
The confrontation can be considered as completing his order.
After all, the capital city is the territory of the Forbidden Army. He has already sent people to ask for help from his superiors. When the reinforcements come with shields and oil jars to block the other end of the long street, the bodyguard will definitely die!
The commander of the imperial army is not in a hurry, but the commander of the escort division and battalion is.
Just when he was about to order the escort to attack, he suddenly heard a bamboo whistle.
The sound of the bamboo whistle was very penetrating, and many escorts had strange expressions on their faces.
They have all received code training and understood that the bamboo whistle means "beware of flash bombs."
However, chambers of commerce and bodyguards are subject to interrogation when entering the city. Flash bombs cannot be brought into the city at all. Where did the flash bombs come from?
Although the escorts couldn't figure it out, they immediately covered their eyes when they heard the secret signal.
Even the escorts in the front row, who were carrying their shields, lowered their heads and buried their faces in their elbows.
"What are they doing?"
Just when the captain of the Forbidden Army was puzzled, a gong sound suddenly came from above his head.
The Imperial Guards and the people watching the excitement all subconsciously raised their heads and looked into the sky.
But they didn't see anything, their eyes turned white, and then they went blind...
"No, it's the flash thunder from Zhenyuan Escort Agency!"
The captain of the Forbidden Army changed his face wildly: "How did they bring Flash Thunder into the city?"
Not to mention that the commander of the Imperial Guards couldn't figure it out, the commander of the escort battalion couldn't figure it out either.
Tie Zhui and Luo Lan were not around, so he was the head of the Beijing Escort Bureau. If there was a flash bomb, how could he not know about it?
"Old Cao, I'll meet you sir, and I'll leave this place to you!"
The sound of eagles echoed in the night sky.
The escort battalion commander and the eagle were once comrades in arms, and they recognized the eagle's voice immediately.
But when I looked around, I couldn't see the figure of the eagle at all.
"Eagle, is that you?"
The battalion commander shouted loudly.
"Who cares about you besides me?"
The eagle smiled and shouted: "I can only help you this time, you boy, move faster!"
The escort battalion commander finally heard the direction of the sound clearly this time and looked up into the air.
When Eagle threw the flash bomb, he opened a crack in the curtain that blocked the firelight.
Although Eagle quickly closed the curtain again, the battalion commander still saw it.
Although the hot air balloon is black, if you look carefully, you can still vaguely see its outline.
"Oh my god, what is this?"
The escort battalion commander looked at a huge black fog floating in the air, and his jaw almost dropped to the ground in shock.
He and Yingying were the first batch of veterans to join the Zhenyuan Escort Bureau. Later, Yingying was transferred and he never saw him again.
The battalion commander even went to ask Zhang Liang if the eagle was dead.
Zhang Liang told him that the eagle was not dead, but had just gone on a secret mission.
At that time, the battalion commander also suspected that Zhang Liang was lying.
Now he knows that Zhang Liang did not lie to him and that the eagle really went on a secret mission.
"battalion commander……"
An escort saw Cao Dong distracted and quickly patted him on the shoulder: "What should we do now?"
"Brothers of the Forbidden Army, now I give you one last chance. I will count to dozens and put down your weapons. I will spare your lives. After ten counts, those who have not put down their weapons will not be spared!"
Cao Dong shouted coldly.
War is always cruel.
For example, the current captain of the Forbidden Army does not want to fight with the bodyguard, but his whole family is in the hands of others, and he dare not not fight.
The other Imperial Guards also had to fight under the orders of the captain.
There were also bandits who were exterminated by the bodyguards. In fact, there were also many poor people who had no choice but to go up the mountain and become bandits.
But the world is like this, and pity for bandits is no reason to plunder and kill other people.
Jin Feng cannot take care of everyone, he can only safeguard his own interests, and then stand at the macro level to safeguard the interests of the vast majority of the people.
However, Jin Feng also tried his best to avoid indiscriminate killing, and used bodyguards to suppress bandits. The target was always the large-scale bandits who came to collect the New Year's grain from the people. He turned a blind eye to those bandits who were just forced to the mountains to escape heavy taxes.
In the feudal era with low productivity, everyone had their own sufferings.
But when it comes to life and death, the escort will never show mercy.
When encountering danger, the first goal is to protect one's own life, which is also Jin Feng's requirement for all escorts.
So just now the bodyguards were showing no mercy, and all the bamboos were moving towards the fatal position of the imperial army.
But now the Forbidden Army has lost its ability to resist, and the battalion commander does not want to kill them all.
After all, the capital city is the territory of the Forbidden Army. If they kill all the hundreds of Forbidden Army on the opposite side, even if the Ninth Princess and the Fish-Dragon Talisman are there, they will fight to the death with the Forbidden Army.