Chapter 349 Wu Xiangwei
Wang Xiao was very disappointed with the fighting power of the Huben Army.
The palace doors on three sides have been closed, otherwise the palace guards would have fled long ago.
At this time, there was no way to retreat, and they were rewarded with a heavy reward, so they sacrificed their lives. However, they were still overwhelmed by the Shenshu Camp's offensive.
Wang Xiao exhausted all his options and could only stand in front of Huangji Gate and watch Xu Qiaogong fight with his horse from a distance.
To him, this feeling was like... a game. After using up his mage skills and running out of mana, he could only watch the opponent show off his skills as a warrior.
Extremely unhappy.
But, this is not a game.
The joking self-deprecation could not completely eliminate the feeling in Wang Xiao's heart.
Seeing those soldiers falling one by one into the sea of corpses, he tried hard not to close his eyes.
Of course, I will want to escape, but in this life, living in this era, we will eventually face more battlefields. There is no way to escape.
No matter how you describe the matter of war, it is an understatement. The so-called "one general's success results in the death of thousands of bones" is shocking at first, but the cruelty on the battlefield cannot be described in any words.
For the first time, I saw war with my own eyes. Seeing such large-scale killings was not as natural as imagined for most people.
Therefore, Wang Xiao regarded it as his first lesson in learning how to fight.
He stood there quietly, watching his people die one by one.
Three hundred people died, four hundred people, five hundred people...
Each of them is a living person who will eventually become a corpse or disabled by the blade.
Wang Xiao also has intolerance in his heart, and what he has to do now is to get rid of this 'intolerance'.
Killing was reflected in his pupils, and a desperate and painful cry was heard in his ears. His compassion was also cut away bit by bit.
"Don't think about good and evil, right and wrong. Be cold-blooded and ruthless..." The young man murmured, looking at the struggling Tiger Guards on the field, and thought to himself: "You are just my chess pieces, numbers."
"If you want to learn to fight, you must first learn not to treat people as human beings."
He closed his eyes...
On the field, nearly half of the Tiger Guards suffered casualties. Finally, the entire formation collapsed!
Like a dam being washed away by a flood, soldiers scattered one after another. Some insisted on fighting, some were divided and surrounded by the Shenshu camp, some threw down their weapons and shouted for mercy, and some even rushed towards the closed three roads.
Palace gate...
"Open the door! Defeated, already defeated!"
"Why haven't reinforcements arrived yet?!"
"Open the palace gate..."
Wang Xiao opened his eyes, with only fierceness in his eyes, and shouted: "Fire the arrow!"
Arrows rained down from the palace wall behind him, shooting down the Huben guards who fled here to the ground.
Screams rang out, and a soldier hissed for mercy: "Prince-in-law, retreat, we can't beat you..."
"I don't want to die..."
The look on everyone's face was extremely pitiful.
Wang Xiao narrowed his eyes and shook his head.
His voice was hoarse, but he still shouted loudly: "You have no retreat, you can only fight to the end! If you lose, I will die here with you!"
He obviously had no intention of opening the Huangji Gate, so the fleeing soldiers had no choice but to roar, cry, and desperately pick up their weapons and head toward the Shenshu Camp.
"Ah! Kill..."
Xu Qiaogong frowned.
He was a little annoyed that the enemy soldiers were inspired to such desperate ferocity.
He knocked the long knife in his hand heavily on the ground and shouted loudly: "Listen, Tiger and Ben guards, you are outnumbered and don't want to die. If you surrender to the prince, you will achieve unparalleled achievements!"
"Whoever captures Wang Xiao's head will be promoted to a noble rank in the future!"
The morale of the Shenshu camp was greatly boosted, and they all shouted in unison: "Surrendering the prince will be an unparalleled achievement!"
"Kill Wang Xiao, get promoted to a higher position..."
Wang Xiao: "..."
He looked back at the few Tiger Guard generals around him.
A group of people looked at each other a few times, their eyes a little hollow.
"Your consort is loyal to you and serves your country. We will protect your consort." A young general in gold armor who was as strong as an ox responded.
Wang Xiao smiled and said to himself: "Really? But I am not very loyal to the king and serve the country."
Although he said something nice, like "die here with all the soldiers," he actually had people prepare a hanging basket on the Huangji Gate, ready to run away at all times.
No matter how you think about it now, it looks very bad. Maybe you should run away?
Sure enough, many soldiers of the Huben Guard stopped what they were doing.
Then, soldiers roared and came towards us.
Wang Xiao was startled and shouted: "Hurry!"
Put down the hanging basket quickly!
The next moment, a creaking sound was heard, and the Huangji Gate was slowly opened.
Row after row of black-armored soldiers rushed out from behind Wang Xiao.
"Form up." Someone shouted an order and said loudly: "Wu Xiangwei was ordered by His Majesty to suppress the rebellion, and he still didn't just surrender?!"
Wang Xiao was slightly surprised.
Unexpectedly, my father-in-law actually had a hidden agenda and was willing to be sent out to save him. Is this a sudden act of kindness or something else?
He turned around and saw a general with black armor and red tassels stepping out majestically, looking very fierce.
Then, Wu Xiang's guards filed out and lined up one by one. The two hundred people in front were holding blunderbuss, and they all put them on their shoulders and operated them.
There was a slight panic in the Shenshu camp, and someone shouted in panic: "It's over, we really were ambushed..."
The black-armored general raised his hand high and shouted slowly: "Aim."
"put!"
There was a "bang" sound, and blood flowers exploded on the soldiers of the Shenshu Camp in front!
"ah!"
A scream...
Wang Xiao looked around, slightly surprised.
Most of the blunderbuss in this era were made with match ropes to light the fire. At this time, the blunderbuss in the hands of Wu Xiangwei's two hundred men were different from the matchlock blunderbuss. They were actually made from flint hair.
Wang Xiao also asked Xiao Chaihe about this matter. He learned that during the late emperor's time, an official in Nanjing had modified a flint-haired bird gun. The gun in his second brother Wang Zhu's hand was a percussion type gun brought from overseas.
Flintlock gun.
Wang Xiao fumbled around but couldn't understand, so he had to find a craftsman to slowly explore. Guns are very interesting to shoot, but the process of exploring and making them is boring and long for a layman like him.
The bird gun used by Wu Xiangwei was much longer than Wang Zhu's. It must be the flint-haired bird gun of the Chu Dynasty. Wang Xiao was very interested and looked at it for a while.
But I saw that the two hundred shooters over there fired a shot and then stopped to reload. It was quite complicated to load both projectiles and gunpowder. There were more than a thousand soldiers heading towards the Shenshu Camp to kill...
After a while, the black-armored general was in command, and he had time to salute Wang Xiao and said: "The last general, Wu Xiang Weidu, is in command, Luo Ze, I have met the consort."
"Luo Dutong is really my savior." Wang Xiao returned the greeting first and then said thoughtfully: "Wu Xiangwei? Why have I never heard of it before?"
Luo Ze cupped his hands and shouted in a loud voice: "Wu Xiangwei is His Majesty's new personal guard."
A proud look.
Wang smiled and said "Oh" and thought to himself: It must be what Emperor Yanguang used when he escaped...
Luo Ze laughed twice, looking very bold, and said: "Speaking of the fact that Wu Xiang Wei was made, it was the money obtained by the consort, hahaha."
Wang Xiao suddenly said: "General Luo of the Wen family was able to train such an elite army in such a short period of time. He is really a talented general."
Luo Ze laughed out loud at his praise and didn't even dare to say it.
Wang Xiao curled his lips inwardly.
The Wen family had so much money, but it was all spent by the prodigal father-in-law in a flash, so they only built so few people...
Chapter completed!