Zhu Kui led five hundred brothers from the common people camp to sail overnight and entered the Lujiang County area. He ran non-stop for a day and arrived at the county seat of Shu County. He found that a large number of Yellow Turban troops were attacking the city. He immediately made a decision and five hundred knights attacked on both sides.
The momentum was like a rainbow, and the Yellow Turbans, who had killed forty times their own number, were in chaos.
Dai Feng, the commander of the Yellow Turban Canal, screamed at the top of his lungs, hoping that with the numerical advantage of the peasant soldiers, the sea would drown Zhu Kui and the other five hundred knights.
But soon Dai Feng, the farmer-born Qu Shuai, realized that quantity was not everything. When these cavalrymen rushed to 200 steps away from the square formation, they took out crossbows one by one in their hands. They were two inches in size and could fire two consecutive rounds.
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Arrows swept across, and the left and right wings began to wail, and the formation was broken. After two rounds, the cavalry replaced their spears, rushed into the crowd, brandished and stabbed anyone they saw.
These are naturally the result of Zhu Kui and his civilian soldiers training day and night for a year. The same movements of shooting and thrusting are as instinctive as inertia.
Mounted archery is originally a difficult action and represents the highest battlefield strike technology in the cold weapon era. Generally speaking, the training of a qualified archer takes three months, while the training of a knight who can mount archery takes one year.
It can be seen how precious knights who can gallop in the mainland of the Central Plains are.
However, mounted archery does have its strong points. When it reaches a large scale, it is indeed invincible. The Mongolian people are known as a nation on horseback. The tribesmen grew up on horses, and everyone can ride and shoot since they were young.
, and became proficient and superb, so Genghis Khan used his herdsmen to sweep across the Eurasian continent and establish the largest empire in the Cold War Period. This was the only empire on which the sun never set in later generations - Britain.
As for the Manchu Eight Banners, who were also from the grassland people outside the Great Wall, they were not as capable of riding and shooting as the Mongols. Although they were proficient in riding horses, the Eight Banners of the Manchu Qing Dynasty were more familiar with charging battle formations, rushing to kill, rather than taking roundabout shots.
The Mongols were defeated at the hands of Zhu Yuanzhang, who was the first in history to attach great importance to firearms. He combined with the tactics of hot weapons to defeat the Mongolian cavalry and archery.
However, Zhu Kui cannot train today's mounted archers, but he can embody part of the power of mounted archers from another direction, that is, using a crossbow. The crossbow can be used with one hand, it is easy to aim, and it can be trained quickly and takes shape.
Easy, in the future, although the crossbow machine will be strengthened, its distance and power will be even more powerful.
The layers of yellow turban thieves were poorly equipped and had not been trained rigorously. They did not know how to fight the cavalry with an infantry phalanx. They could not withstand the cavalry that Zhu Kui had trained for a long time. How could they be their opponents? The weapons in the hands of these farmers were stolen by the cavalry.
The spear fell apart at a touch.
"Don't be afraid, everyone, we have more people than them, surround him." The centurion of the ant thief shouted loudly to boost morale. On the other hand, he slowly backed away. If he could be promoted to a centurion, he would naturally have more knowledge.
He had a more intuitive understanding than others of how fierce these strong men on horseback were in front of him. He had robbed a lot of money during this period, but he didn't want to die like this.
Zhu Kui asked for his entire income last year from Lu Xian and Zhang Hong. All his belongings were used to build these 500 cavalry equipment, including leather armor, breastplates, bronze helmets, spears, and small crossbows.
Majestic.
As for his war horses, Zhang Hong and the others sold them at a low price, and there were also war horses that he had confiscated from Yan Baihu two years ago. He secretly kept them for himself, took care of them for two years, and even gave birth to some cubs. But the south is the south after all, although
There is plenty of water and grass, and they are fed enough fodder every day and every night, but they can still only reach the level of ordinary war horses.
This made Zhu Kui think that in order to increase the number of horses in the south and produce good horses, it seemed that he needed to find a Bole.
After the ant thieves were hit by three rounds of crossbows and arrows, and then seeing the opponent's soldiers' shiny armor and appearance, these peasant soldiers were a little timid at first.
"Dry tongue." Gan Ning smashed the centurion's head with a dark iron sword and dispersed the group of Yellow Turban thieves. He turned to look at the situation, went to Zhu Kui to discuss it, and proposed to attack the Yellow Turban headquarters directly.
Once the formation is complete, this group of rabble is basically a group of meat on the chopping board, and they can attack in any way...
As several centurions were killed, the left wing attacked by Zhu Kui completely collapsed, and soon Wang Cheng also defeated the right wing.
Dai Feng was shocked and turned pale. He couldn't imagine how powerful this team of cavalry was. He quickly offered money to withdraw his troops and wanted to escape so that he could fight again later.
In Shu County, the prefect Lu Kang, who had been paying attention to the battle below the city, suddenly discovered that the yellow scarf thieves attacking the city began to jump off the ladder, shouting and fled towards the rear of the battlefield. He was surprised, but he thought it was...
Under strict defense, the Yellow Turban thieves retreated after seeing the difficulty of attacking the city.
However, when he saw unknown cavalry attacking the bandits on the left and right from a distance, he was overjoyed. The cavalry was so sharp that he had never seen it in his life. After a while, the ants and thieves in the city dropped their weapons and fled in panic.
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Seeing that the time had come, Lu Kang said loudly to a young general wearing armor ten steps away: "Captain Chen, the ant thieves have retreated. Please quickly lead two thousand county soldiers out of the city to pursue them."
The army was defeated like a mountain. The morale of the Yellow Turban Army increased quickly and they disappeared quickly. Dai Feng took the lead and fled on horseback.
"Those who surrender will not be killed!"
The overall situation has been decided, Zhu Kui shouted loudly, and the soldiers responded in time. A large number of defeated soldiers fell to the ground, and the infantrymen of Lujiang County and County who came behind were controlled one by one with a knife on their neck, and slowly marched towards the county town.
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Although Dai Feng also rode a horse, he escaped with his infantry. Soon Zhu Kui's cavalry chased him and slowly surrounded these people.
"Xu" Zhu Kui pulled the horse's tail and looked at Dai Feng. Such a mediocre general, 20,000 horses were easily broken by 500 cavalry.
"I don't know what to call this handsome Qu?"
Dai Feng was shocked and confused. He didn't know what the young man in front of him wanted. He had to lower his head under the eaves and replied: "I am Dai Feng, who are you?"
"Hahaha." Zhu Kui laughed three times and said, "How can an unknown person know my name? I'll give you a chance to fight with me. If you win, I'll let you go."
"The young man is arrogant, I should seize the opportunity to capture him so that he can escape." Dai Feng thought in his mind and quickly replied: "I will fight you." As soon as he finished speaking, he flattered him and rushed forward, obviously trying to catch him by surprise.
He captured Zhu Kui in one fell swoop, completely disregarding any trust in a duel and not giving Zhu Kui time to prepare.
How could Zhu Kui be so unprepared for General Ant Thief across from him? He was so disdainful when he saw these unfaithful people. He swung a square halberd away from the long knife and rubbed the handle of the halberd to dazzle the opponent.
The eye was stabbed quickly, and the halberd head came out of the body. Dai Feng, who was hit by the halberd, looked at Zhu Kui in disbelief. He didn't believe that he couldn't even catch a round and was killed by this young boy.
He whined and his neck tilted.
Zhu Kui waved his hand and threw Dai Feng's body off the horse.
After killing Dai Feng in one round, he laughed loudly: "Come here, the dead man is already dead, collect his body."
At this time, Lieutenant Chen of Nalujiang led the county soldiers to come closer and shouted from a distance: "Who is leading the army in front?"
Zhu Kui looked back and saw a young Han military officer dressed as a military colonel. He knew that he must be a captain or a school captain in Lujiang County. He did not dare to neglect him. He patted his horse and stepped forward. He introduced himself and said: "Zhu Kui, Moling, is the leader of the fifth army."
Hundreds of people, fighting against the Yellow Turbans in the north, were passing through here and saw Yellow Turban soldiers rebelling against your county, so they came to help."
"It turned out that he was a warrior who went north to join the righteous cause. He was disrespectful and disrespectful."
"Chen Wu, the captain of a certain Lujiang Prefecture, will come with me back to the city and have a good rest." Chen Wu returned the greeting with his hand in hand. He was seven feet seven inches tall and was only twenty years old, but he was a great young man.
"You're welcome, Captain Chen, please..."
Downstairs, Chen Wu took the lead. With a spear still stained with blood dangling in his hand, he spurred his horse and shouted to the people upstairs: "Master Taishou, here are Zhu Kui, the martyr from Moling in the next life, and the five hundred warriors who went north to fight against the Yellow Turbans."
On the top of the city, Lu Kang looked down at the city. The young man next to Chen Wu was younger than Chen Wu. He was wearing shiny bronze armor and looked like a young general. He immediately had a good impression of him and started talking about it.
Two sentences: "Zhu Kui?" Lu Kang thought for a while: "My eldest brother has a friend also named Zhu Kui. He is from the Moling area, and he is very famous. He is the thief boy who killed the giant bandit Yan Baihu two years ago.
, his name is Storyteller, and he is one of the outstanding young people in Jiangdong.”….
Then he shouted to the bottom: "But the storyteller is here."
"It's the boy who has met Grand Administrator Lu." Zhu Kui raised his head and replied. In fact, although Zhu Kui has a good relationship with the Lu family and is considered a close friend of Lu Xian, Lu Xian's younger brother, Lu Kang, the Grand Administrator of Lujiang, has never been
I have never seen it before. Although Lu Xian is the head of the Lu family now, the second brother Lu Kang is the prefect, and he feels that he is looming above him.
However, Lu Kang rarely interfered with family affairs. The two brothers were very harmonious. As the head of a county, he was busy with affairs. What he cared about was his highest official position, not how much the Lu family could earn. Money was not important to Lu Kang.
It's a floating cloud.
After a while, the county gate opened wide, and Lu Kang personally led all the officials and squires out of the city to greet him.
"Eldest brother once said that among the four young men who sought out thieves in Moling, the storyteller ranked first. Today I would like to thank you young man for your help." Lu Kang thanked him with a cupped hand. In fact, without Zhu Kui, although Lujiang would not have been broken,
It is necessary to lose eight hundred to yourself.
Zhu Kui looked at the man in front of him who was dressed in the imperial robes of a prefect. His appearance was quite similar to that of Lu Guang, and he said politely: "Prefect Lu, you are so polite. This time Wu Baierlang and I are going north to beg for thieves, so we can't miss it when we meet him."
"Then follow me back to the governor's mansion and hold a celebration banquet to thank Zhu Langjun and all the soldiers."
"Officer, these five hundred knights are also included in the merit book." Lu Kang knew how to win people's hearts. No wonder he took the position of governor of a county at the age of thirty.
In the governor's house, Zhu Kui, Zhou Tai, Gan Ning, and Wang Cheng were sitting on the right. His five hundred men were stationed outside the city, but Shu Shu'er was also left in the camp with him.
"Young Master, your five hundred cavalry troops are really well-equipped. They have one man and one horse, complete armor and weapons, and they cost a lot of money." A man with a beardless face, about forty years old, asked at the banquet.
"Brother Shouye, if you are envious, you can also fund the construction." Another handsome man with fair complexion said with a smile.
"Who are these two?" Zhu Kui asked.
"The head of the Lu family, Lu Ge, is Lu Shouye; the former prefect of Danyang, Zhou Shang, is now the head of the Zhou family." Lu Kang pointed at the two of them and introduced.