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Chapter 814 The Battle of Anfu Temple (4)

The lookout, perched atop the tallest tower of the Anfu Temple, looked ashen-faced.

Because he saw the black military flag fluttering in the distance and the cavalry rolling in beneath it.

With his extensive experience, he knew at a glance that there were at least three thousand cavalry.

These few thousand cavalrymen were already making it difficult for them to advance, and they were just barely holding on when enemy reinforcements arrived first.

Zhu Zhe felt, of course, that he was doomed.

His military career was about to end, and his life was about to conclude in this small temple.

It wasn't that he didn't try hard enough, but that the enemy was too powerful.

He has been holding off the enemy here for a full day and night.

With Linghu Ye's thousand guards among the opposing attacking force, Zhu Zhe felt that the fact that he could hold out for a day and a night with such a group of men and inflict considerable casualties on the enemy was enough for him to brag about in the underworld.

"Bring all the brothers outside into the temple!" Zhu Zhe wiped the blood off his spear, his expression calming down.

Since the outcome cannot be changed, let's accept it calmly!
If you can drag a few more down with you before you fall, you'll have even more reason to brag.

Shrink the defensive perimeter as much as possible and make the military formation even thicker. If you want Zhu's life, you'll have to trade more people for it.

surrender?

nonexistent!

We've all been through the war in the Northeast. The fighting has gotten this bad; it's really gotten to the point where even if we surrender, we'll still get our heads chopped off.

Because that's what everyone has always done.

Cheers came from outside; clearly, they had also discovered that reinforcements had arrived.

Zhu Zhe sat down cross-legged, took a deep breath, and silently began to circulate his inner energy, trying to adjust himself to his best condition so that he could cut down more people more efficiently later.

His joints cracked as the true energy rising from his dantian rapidly circulated throughout his body. He seemed to hear a few crisp cracking sounds in his mind. Zhu Zhe opened his eyes in astonishment. The shackles that had bound him for so long had melted away in an instant during this unintentional circulation of his true energy, just like ice and snow meeting the June sun.

I never imagined that I would advance to the eighth rank of Xuan Yuan at this time.

Zhu Zhe was stunned for a moment, then suddenly burst into laughter.

Not bad, now I can chop down a few more people.

Zhu Zhe was laughing loudly when he suddenly heard the sentry on top of the tower also laughing loudly and even gesturing wildly.

"Reinforcements! Our reinforcements have arrived!" the sentry shouted. "They're all cavalry, at least two thousand!"

Zhu Zhe leaped up, climbing to the top of the tower like a nimble snake. In the distance, a torrent of cavalry was rushing towards Anfu Temple, and the large banner with the character "Su" fluttered straight in the wind.

"It's Su Qi!"

Zhu Zhe instantly understood why.

The messenger he sent out must have encountered Zhan Zhao and Su Qi's troops, who were heading to Shilin, on their way. Upon hearing this news, Zhan Zhao immediately abandoned his mission to Shilin and went to their aid. This means that the reinforcements were definitely not just 2,000 cavalrymen; there should also have been a considerable number of infantrymen following behind.

"I owe this a huge favor!" Zhu Zhe couldn't contain his joy. "I'm afraid I'll have to repay it for the rest of my life!"

This was a life-saving grace, and Zhu Zhe, being a fellow soldier, naturally understood that Zhan Zhao had directly disobeyed the earlier orders from the Central Army Headquarters to come and rescue him. It all depended on how one interpreted the situation.

If things go wrong, Zhan Zhao might be implicated. The cavalry coming from the southeast changed direction and charged directly at the cavalry coming from the west.

The two cavalry forces collided with a deafening roar.

Chang Wei did not expect that it would be such a coincidence. Just when he led two thousand cavalry reinforcements to support Linghu Yong overnight, he would encounter the enemy's reinforcements arriving at the same time.

Su Qi did not expect that,
But both Chang Wei and Su Qi realized that to win this battle, they had to defeat the reinforcements first.

The two groups of soldiers at Anfu Temple were exhausted after a long and fierce battle.

Chang Wei did not take the approaching enemy seriously.

In fact, the cavalrymen from the north have always looked down on the cavalrymen from the south.

They often mocked the southern cavalry as a bunch of infantry on horseback.

Of course, they did have the right to mock, just as the southern navy mocked the northerners as a bunch of landlubbers who couldn't even stand up straight once they boarded the ship.

But there are always exceptions.

Just like the group that Su Qi led.

This group of people all came from the Demonic Cult, and were professional rebels within the cult.

With the surrender of Jiang Qian, Ke Wuji and others, Li Dachui reorganized the scattered Demonic Sect. After nearly two years of reorganization by Fang Xiaomao and others, those who were good at farming went home, and those who were good at technology went to factories. Only those professional rebels were reorganized into an army. Obviously, you can't just leave these guys alone and put them in charge.

After these hot-tempered guys, who were all quite skilled in martial arts, were brainwashed by military discipline and the long-standing ideals of the Demonic Cult, their combat power increased exponentially.

In Li Dachui's words, these guys now have the potential to be fanatics.

Because they saw that Li Dachui had successfully cultivated the Qi of Heaven and Earth, they firmly believed that the cause that the Demonic Sect had inherited for many years would definitely be realized in Li Dachui's hands. Therefore, it was obvious that those who opposed Li Dachui were the mortal enemies of the Divine Sect and had to be eliminated as soon as possible.

And what fanatics fear least is death.

Some even believe that death is the best way to elevate their lives.

Therefore, these cavalrymen could not be considered standard cavalry units. They had different weapons and different armor, and some did not even like to wear armor.

However, their horsemanship was excellent without exception.

After all, in the past, people mostly went through a cycle of rebellion, defeat, and escape. Those who were not good at riding had mostly been chased down by government soldiers, beheaded, and given a reward.

Of course, the weapons were even more varied.

Su Qi, for example, used a nine-toothed rake.

With one stroke of the rake, nine bloody pits can be dug out of a person's body.

Some people see a stick, but when they thrust it, a section of the stick suddenly pops out, revealing a sharp spearhead. Some people, while fighting, suddenly duck and a crossbow bolt shoots out from behind them. Some people pass by their opponents and open their mouths to find tubes with needles whistling out. Some people even pull out quicklime from their pockets and throw it at their opponents' faces during the fight.

So the two reinforcements were roughly equal in number, but when they clashed, it was Chang Wei's cavalry, trained in the standard way according to the Guanwai model, that was at a disadvantage.

Seeing that things were not going well, Linghu Yong, who was watching the battle, immediately began to organize his troops to prepare to go to the rescue. As soon as he made this move, Zhu Zhe, who had been keeping a close eye on the battlefield, also organized his troops to slowly advance towards the battlefield, intending to coordinate with Su Qi, who was coming to the rescue.

For Zhu Zhe, infantry-cavalry coordination was routine.

(End of this chapter)