Twenty-five miles north of Andu County, there is a fortress called Tianma Fort.
Since it is a fortress, there will naturally be garrison troops.
Logically speaking, since there are living people in every village, Tianma Fort, which has a large amount of military supplies and is guarded by soldiers, should survive.
But the fact is that the entire Tianma Castle is desolate, with no trace of living people at all.
The door was half-open, and the school grounds were overgrown with grass inside, with many zombies wandering inside.
Most of these zombies are wearing armor and are obviously the garrison soldiers here.
Within the fortress, there is a warehouse to the west, which contains a large amount of food. However, due to poor protection, much of this food has begun to rot.
To the east is the barracks, which unfortunately has become extremely dilapidated. There are traces of fighting in many places, and there are weapons everywhere in the fortress.
At this time, the cavalry appeared here, holding a banner with the word "Ming".
I saw the leader with disheveled hair and a beard. This man was the leader of this army, his name was Zhu Xiaoyong.
When zombies broke out, Zhu Jinzhang was able to survive and establish his power by gathering the strength of his clan.
After the survival problem was solved, Zhu Jinzhang's ambition became bigger, and he began to think of becoming a king on his own.
And the people he can rely on and trust are mostly people in his clan, such as Zhu Gui and Zhu Xiaoyong.
Going south from Liaoping Mansion, they encountered zombies many times, but relied on their strong maneuverability to directly avoid fighting with zombies.
At this moment they stopped, and the noise they made also attracted them, forcing them to fight now.
"Prince Ming is right, there is indeed a fortress ahead, and we want to capture Andu County... We should occupy Tianma Fortress first!" Zhu Xiaoyong said with a smile.
Immediately afterwards, he ordered his subordinates: "Divide into five teams. Two teams will guard the north and south directions to prevent more monsters from attacking. The rest will attack around the fortress and clear out all nearby monsters!"
Preventing the influx of zombies and then closing the door and beating the dogs is the most effective way to clear out the zombies.
The key and difficulty of the problem is to prevent the "reinforcements" of other zombies, which often requires the help of geographical location.
For example, to clean up a city, you must first occupy the city gate, and in the wild, you must make clever use of river bridges.
The fact that Tianma Fort can be set up as a fortress proves that the location is indeed advantageous. There is a river to the east and mountains to the west. As long as two sections of the official road are guarded, it will be enough.
"As you command!"
The most important thing is that they have horses, so they can escape if the situation goes bad.
Soon, the team of nearly 400 people was divided into five teams, each received a mission and took action.
According to Zhu Xiaoyong's method, more than two hundred "cavalry" armed with weapons, circled Tianma Fort and attacked.
They don't need to fight the zombies head-on. They can destroy some zombies by just hitting them, not to mention the stampede from behind and the finishing blows from the knights on horseback.
This is the only method they can use. These people are not real cavalry and cannot perform difficult movements at all.
Maybe they are a little less efficient by doing this, but the advantage is that it is safe enough, and it is nothing more than the horses running around them running a few more laps.
The royal army's troops killed zombies swiftly and swiftly, basically beheading them.
However, Zhu Xiaoyong's men left a pile of rotten meat on the spot, and blood, water, flesh and foam flew everywhere on the horse's hooves.
"Did you see that the monsters in the fort are also moving out one after another... It seems that this place will be cleaned up in a short time!" Zhu Xiaoyong said to the left and right.
The subordinates immediately flattered them: "As soon as big brother takes action, these monsters will die!"
Zhu Xiaoyong ignored this man and shouted loudly: "My sons, hurry up and kill all the monsters. Let's go into the fort to rest and eat!"
His shout directly attracted several zombies, causing the soldiers beside Zhu Xiaoyong to block the front.
Zhu Xiaoyong himself was not good at cutting off stubble. At this moment, he also drew his sword out of its sheath and laughed: "His grandma's, just let me chop a few of them!"
Being able to lead an army of several hundred people proves Zhu Xiaoyong's ability, otherwise the people below would not obey him.
After all, Ming Wang Zhu Jinzhang does not have the status of Zhao Yanxun, and he does not have Zhao Yanxun's system plug-in.
This person can pull together a team to accomplish something in the last days, and his abilities, skills, and strategies are first-rate. Zhu Xiaoyong, who can be entrusted with important tasks by him, is naturally not an ordinary person.
Seven or eight zombies rushed over, but Zhu Xiaoyong was braver than the personal guards, but he was the first to rush forward with a knife.
The horses struck forward, knocking the zombies to the ground, and then Zhu Xiaoyong chopped them down with a knife.
The zombie's head fell in response, and Zhu Xiaoyong completed the first kill. It was a perfect strike before and after.
And his soldiers were naturally the best among the soldiers. More than a dozen of them attacked repeatedly and killed all the zombies.
From the time Zhu Xiaoyong gave the order to take action, it only took less than twenty minutes before there were no more zombies coming out of Tianma Castle.
Based on the zombie corpses on the ground, it can be roughly estimated that they killed more than 300 zombies, which is actually an exaggeration.
After all, Tianma Castle is much smaller than the county town, but there are still so many zombies.
"Let our people put on armor and clear the fort first, and then let the others withdraw!"
Their armors are all made of bamboo and wood, which is the same idea as that of Prince Yong's Palace.
Why not put them on before fighting? Because their production technology is poor, resulting in poor flexibility, and they are not qualified cavalry.
If you really want to fight on horseback with these armors on the ship, the risk is higher than if you don't wear them at all.
Only when fighting on foot would they think of using this armor, which was a no-brainer.
A total of forty or fifty people, all dismounted at this moment, they will be the vanguard to enter the fort.
One characteristic of these people is that they are much stronger than others, with big shoulders and round waists.
Putting on their armor, these men entered the fort with their swords in hand.
Cavalry is difficult to train, but infantry fighting is much easier. At this moment, these soldiers entered the fort and maintained a wedge-shaped military formation.
These people entered Zhuangzi and made a lot of noise inside, hoping to attract zombies.
But they wandered around inside for a while, and no zombies appeared, so they concluded that the place had been emptied.
"Brother, you can go in!"
Looking at his cronies, Zhu Xiaoyong said calmly: "From now on, call me Zhu Qianhu. King Ming said...the army must look like the army!"
"yes!"
At this time, Zhu Xiaoyong had already stepped forward on horseback and entered the fort through the doorway.
At this time, someone excitedly shouted: "Sir, this is a warehouse, there is a lot of food!"
Zhu Xiaoyong moved forward quickly. What they lacked most was food. All the villages and towns they encountered along the way had been looted by them.
The existing food was only enough for them to eat for ten days. Although it didn't sound like a lot, it was enough for them to escape back to Liaoping.
"Let's take a look!" Zhu Xiaoyong said with a smile.