Chapter 868 Trample!

When you truly want to cry,

You'll actually find that,

You have no tears.

Because the rendering and impact of this emotion have exceeded the range of basic reactions that your body can make;

To the point that,

Anything superfluous is a burden and a blasphemy.

Right in front of you,

You watch them charging into the formation for you;

You see the arrows shot out from the Qian army formation. Those Yan region lads, originally agile and extremely experienced in battle formations, could have predicted the effective range of the enemy's arrows;

Originally, they could have maneuvered, coordinated, drawn their bows and shot arrows, using their proud equestrian archery skills to kite them;

They could have watched the fearful expressions of the Qian people with amusement, circled them on horseback, with condescension and contempt from above.

Tian Wujing once said in front of the Sword Saint: he looked down on the so-called Jianghu (martial world).

Perhaps,

In the eyes of Prince Jingnan, these soldiers under his command, trained by his own hands, were mighty warriors in the army. If they were not confined to military camps and scattered into the Jianghu, they would surely be heroes and champions.

However,

At this moment, they did not choose to avoid, but instead, faced the arrows of the Qian people and continued to charge forward.

Their superb horsemanship, no less than that of the barbarians and wildlings, was only reflected in lying on their backs or riding on one side, in this way, minimizing the possibility of being hit by arrows.

But even so,

The Qian people's arrows were still not to be trifled with;

From time to time, Jingnan Army knights were shot and fell from their horses. In this situation, you simply could not avoid it, because your comrades behind you could not rein in their horses for you, and could only continue forward, trampling over your body;

This was a destiny that everyone was well aware of.

No pity, no sentimentality,

No ridiculous shouts of brotherhood.

There were also warhorses that succumbed to the barrage of arrows, collapsing, along with the knights on their backs, falling heavily.

They had to race against time,

Before the Qian army surrounded them, to break through all obstacles, they could only choose the most direct method.

Finally,

After paying a certain price in casualties,

The Yan army finally closed the distance with the Qian people's formation.

At this time,

An inevitable commotion appeared in the Qian army formation.

The terror of a tall horse charging towards you, facing this impending impact and bone-shattering, was difficult for even the most experienced veterans to take lightly.

And the Jingnan Army soldiers charging in the front row, almost at the same time, slashed their swords at the rumps of their warhorses.

For knights, warhorses were their companions day and night. Many people were closer to their warhorses than to their own wives;

But at this moment, they slashed without hesitation;

Of course, there was no guilt either;

Because they had already decided to embark on the road with their good brothers.

The frenzied warhorses were almost squeezed out of the last bit of their potential at this moment. The knights made their last manipulation, clamping their legs tightly against the horse's belly and pulling the reins sharply.

The warhorses leaped up, their bodies swinging sideways;

At high speed, both man and horse, like a boulder thrown out, overturned the Qian people's shields, scattered the Qian people's formation, and collapsed the Qian people's spears, smashing the outermost and most solid defense of this Qian army formation into a riddled mess in a desperate... no, a completely reckless way!

Immediately afterward,

The comrades in the rear spurred their horses to leap over, jumping towards the back rows.

Many knights and horses were pierced and hung up by the Qian people's long weapons, but what followed was the weight of both man and horse bringing them down together.

The fearless collisions brought about gaps on the outermost and innermost parts of the Qian army formation, allowing the knights in the rear to cut in and engage in close combat with the Qian people.

Cavalry were the nemesis of infantry. Any infantry square, no matter how much it boasted about restraining cavalry, was nothing more than reducing the exaggerated exchange ratio by a little bit.

If it weren't too costly, forcibly ramming in this way would actually be the most direct and effective method.

And right now,

Was the time to disregard the cost.

"Kill!"

"Kill!"

The slaughter proceeded quickly, and life became incredibly cheap at this moment.

Your vision was already difficult to focus, because there was fighting everywhere, and death was being played out everywhere.

In the end, it could only be said that this imperial guard had not been established for long. Although it had experienced the campaign to quell the rebellion of the southwestern natives, the native rebels were incomparable to these fearless Yan army iron cavalry;

It could only be said that their numbers were not too many, because their role was to serve as both a bottom line and a supervision of the Northern Qiang cavalry. Even Li Xundao did not expect that the Yan people would choose to break through from the west, and even less did he expect that the Yan people's breakthrough would be presented in this way.

The most important factor was that,

The general commanding this army was unfortunately standing too far forward in the central army command. When a Yan army knight charged over on horseback, although he was stabbed to death in mid-air by the guards in front of him, the warhorse and man that fell down still slammed heavily into this general.

The unlucky general dodged the impact sideways, but a horse saber, under the effect of inertia, flew and pierced into his neck, precisely in an area that armor could not defend.

Perhaps this damn heaven, this time, really opened a side for Prince Pingxi, no longer deliberately targeting him, but giving him some preferential treatment in terms of luck;

But this kind of luck was built on the self-sacrifice of a large number of Jingnan Army knights, it was accidental, but more like a certainty.

In short,

The Qian army collapsed.

They had already done better than ordinary Qian troops. Even the elite infantry of the Chu Kingdom would probably find it difficult to do much better than them in the face of such a charge.

The formation was scattered, the army collapsed, and they began to flee.

The Yan army did not pursue the fleeing enemies. First, there was no need to, and second, it seemed that they did not have the strength to support it.

On the ground,

It was full of the corpses of Yan and Qian soldiers, and there were still many people who were not dead, but most of them had suffered severe damage to their bones and internal organs. They were not dead, but could only wait to die.

This time, Prince Pingxi did not lead the charge again, and did not even join the battle.

At this moment,

He came over holding the Black Dragon Flag.

"Send the brothers on their way!"

"Yes!"

There was no time for mourning, no time for farewells, and even less time for any sentimentality.

Brothers who could no longer ride horses could only be sent away by their comrades.

There was nothing to be ashamed of,

Because they had stirred up the capital of the Qian people,

If they were captured alive by the Qian people, heaven knows what kind of torture and humiliation they would suffer;

Chen Yuan was lying in a pool of blood,

In the previous round of collision with the Northern Qiang cavalry, he lost an arm.

The rapid gallop of a warhorse could bring greater aggressiveness to a knight. You didn't even need to wave your horse saber, just clench it and you could inflict terrible damage on the enemy, but at the same time, it was the same for you, this effect was, after all, mutual.

And right now,

Chen Yuan's chest had been pierced by two spears. His whole person was lying down, but not completely lying down. The rear shafts of the spears propped his back and the ground apart by a distance, like being skewered here like a toothpick.

Zheng Fan came to Chen Yuan's side;

In fact, he had no real feelings for Chen Yuan. This person had even persuaded Chen Yang to enthrone himself.

Was he a loyal and virtuous general?

According to strict moral standards, he wasn't, really wasn't.

But just like Li Fusheng and Xu Wenzu had also instigated the Marquis of Zhenbei to rebel and become emperor, this did not affect their current determination to be wholeheartedly for Great Yan.

Some things, wanting to do them and not doing them, were completely different.

Moreover,

What did this have to do with him, Prince Pingxi?

"Your Highness..."

Chen Yuan grinned, smiling, but blood foam kept gushing out.

Zheng Fan picked up Wu Ya and stabbed it directly into his chest.

Wu Ya was a treasured saber, cutting iron like mud, not to mention that Chen Yuan's armor was already tattered.

The saber,

Pierced into the body.

At this time, there was no need for too many words, and there was nothing to say.

Say that I didn't see Your Highness put on the dragon robe?

Say that I really didn't expect to die here?

Say that if I had known...

It's meaningless,

It's pointless to say it.

Chen Yuan suddenly stiffened his body, clutching the blade of Wu Ya with one hand, turning the blade.

"Your Highness... take care!"

Immediately afterward,

His stiff body softened, and he died.

Zheng Fan pulled out Wu Ya,

Looked at Chen Yuan,

And said;

"Take care."

Immediately after,

Zheng Fan looked around,

When they left the village,

Ten thousand iron cavalry,

Now, less than two thousand people could still sit on horseback, and all of them were injured, covered in blood, and many of them were destined not to last long.

They had crushed the Northern Qiang cavalry, and also crushed a Qian Kingdom imperial guard;

No,

Not crushed,

Trampled!

It was these two thousand people, and no one knew how many would be left in the next transfer.

Zheng Fan pursed his lips,

And shouted;

"This Prince will remember, will always remember that here, eight thousand brothers died for this Prince."

Saying that,

Zheng Fan raised his voice and raised his saber,

"This Prince will not let them die in a foreign land,

This Prince will turn this place,

Into the territory of my Great Yan!

They are tired,

Let them rest here first,

In the future,

We will come back to see them!"

He, Zheng Fan,

In this life, he pursued living freely and unrestrainedly,

Being cautious when he should be cautious, not involving causality when he shouldn't, he enjoyed his own freedom, regardless of the floods outside;

Even when facing the Empress Dowagers of Jin and Zhao, he would just touch their hands, eat some tofu, just for show.

Nothing else,

Just afraid of trouble.

Unfortunately,

His Great Yan Prince Pingxi had always wanted to live as he pleased;

Originally, in this world, he only owed a few favors, those he truly kept in his heart could be counted on one hand. In this aspect, he was stingy to the extreme.

But unexpectedly,

Today,

Here,

He owed eight thousand favors, eight thousand debts, in one breath!

I, Zheng Fan, have never claimed to be a good person, a hero, but instead admit to being insidious, cunning, greedy, and excessive;

But I truly believe in one thing,

That is:

Debts,

Must be repaid!

……

The Qian army's encirclement came.

It could be said that the Qian army had tried their best to march and tighten the encirclement.

But,

They were still too late.

The Yan army, guarding their royal flag, escaped the encirclement;

If,

This could be called an escape.

Li Xundao stood on this battlefield, the blood had not yet congealed, and on the battlefield, there were still many wounded and sick Northern Qiang and Qian people wailing and being treated.

As for the Yan people themselves,

Basically, no survivors or wounded were left behind.

What kind of determination was this, what kind of belief was this.

Li Xundao stood here, his heart filled with horror.

He knew,

That the troops led by Prince Pingxi this time into Qian were not his direct line Jin Dong Army.

But even so,

This army that was not his direct line was actually willing to help him break through in such a tragic way, at all costs.

As a prime minister of a country,

His perspective on problems was different from others.

Here,

What he saw was the terrifying prestige of that Yan Kingdom Prince Pingxi among the Yan army.

The Yan army already loved this Prince Pingxi as much as they loved the former Prince Jingnan and Prince Zhenbei.

In addition to the military merits of this time's overthrow of the capital,

His personal prestige would climb to the extreme.

Prince Jingnan was gone, but a new Prince Jingnan was not rising, but already was.

This was the veritable Grand Marshal of all the armies of the Yan Kingdom,

Li Xundao would not naively think that the new Yan Emperor, who had the style of his father, would do anything foolish that would hurt his own people and please the enemy at this time;

What's more, people had already sent the crown prince over long ago.

Li Xundao somewhat blankly lifted his hair,

When the emperor learned that the late Yan Emperor had passed away, the Yan Kingdom Prince Zhenbei had died of illness, and the Yan Kingdom Prince Jingnan had gone far away,

He had sighed:

I can finally catch my breath.

No,

Your Majesty,

You probably have to continue holding this breath.

Li Xundao's almost immortal face rarely showed a distortion:

"Order the entire army to pursue, pursue to the death, and also order all counties, prefectures, and counties along the way to capture and kill the Yan traitor Zheng Fan, and never allow him to escape back to Yan Kingdom!"

"Yes!"

"Yes!"

There was one more sentence,

That Li Xundao didn't say;

He used to be one of the Qi Refiners with the highest cultivation level in the Great Qian Kingdom after Zang Fuzi, otherwise he would not have been able to make the grand gesture of inviting Zheng Fan to climb the mountain;

Although his cultivation level had been abolished now, it had only transformed the heavenly principles he had originally comprehended into what he saw, heard, and felt at the moment;

He had a premonition,

That if that Prince Pingxi were allowed to return to the Yan Kingdom safely this time,

Then in the future,

Great Qian,

Would face an extremely terrifying existence.

……

"Greetings, Your Majesty, may Your Majesty live ten thousand years, live ten thousand years, live ten thousand times ten thousand years!"

"Greetings, Your Majesty, may Your Majesty live ten thousand years, live ten thousand years, live ten thousand times ten thousand years!"

"Heh, are you kneeling here to beg for my mercy?"

The Emperor sat above, looking at Fuwang Zhao Yuannian, the Empress Dowager of Fuwang, and all the relatives of Fuwang's mansion kneeling below.

They did not follow Prince Pingxi to break through,

Because there were too many female relatives in this team, and if they followed... no, they couldn't follow at all.

When the Qian army entered the original Yan army's village,

The Fuwang family was all dressed in formal attire, set up incense tables, and waited.

In this situation, even the most rampant soldiers or generals did not dare to kill members of the royal family without authorization.

Therefore,

They were brought into the military camp and brought before the Emperor.

And at this time,

The Emperor's face was ashen.

Zhao Yuannian's body trembled slightly, but he still opened his mouth and said:

"Replying to Your Majesty, we know that our sins are deep, and although Your Majesty is benevolent, we still dare not expect Your Majesty's forgiveness."

"Zhao Yuannian, do you also know that your sins are deep?"

"Yes, this guilty subject knows, but before Your Majesty punishes my Fuwang Mansion, please allow Yuannian to relay a message from someone to you first."

"Zheng Fan?"

"Yes."

"What does he want to say to me, does he want me to stop chasing him? Or does he want me to negotiate peace? Or, is he delusional, wanting me to cede land and pay silver?"

Zhao Yuannian shook his head,

Looked directly at the Emperor,

And said:

"Prince Pingxi said:

Please Your Majesty treat the Fuwang Mansion family well,

This Prince,

Will use the Crown Prince, Empress, and all the princes to exchange!"

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