The Counterattack of the Villains

One mile away, one hundred Qingqi from Fengzi Camp, led by Ning Emei, moved forward at a normal speed in the pouring rain.

Just when they passed a bush, something happened suddenly. Two thorny vines suddenly popped out from the bush, pierced the rain curtain, and flew towards Fengziying Qingqi.

Being in a heavy rainstorm, both hearing and perception were severely suppressed, so even Ning Emei did not notice the sudden appearance of the rattan.

The vine was like a spiritual snake, wrapping around the necks of the two Fengzi camp cavalrymen and pulling them into the bushes.

"Uh ah ah..."

The spikes on the rattan pierced the cavalryman's neck, and the cavalryman's face quickly turned black. The severe pain made these tough men scream in agony.

Obviously, the rattan is full of poison, which will not only kill people, but also cause people to experience extreme pain before death.

Ning Emei's expression changed drastically. He never dreamed that someone would dare to attack Beiliang's army just outside Beiliang.

He shouted angrily: "Feng Ziying, form a formation to fight against the enemy and tear them into pieces."

The remaining ninety-eight cavalrymen of Fengzi Camp immediately formed small groups into small cavalry formations. They drew their northern swords from their waists and rushed towards the woods beside the road.

The hoofs of the horses crushed the accumulated water, the momentum of Fengziying was like a rainbow, and the murderous aura soared into the sky.

However, before they could rush into the woods, they saw a tall and mysterious man wearing strange red armor rushing out of the woods.

"Kill..." The knight who was the first to charge raised his Northern Liangdao and shouted, slashing hard at the man in red armor.

The man in red armor just raised his arms above his head, and then slammed into the horse of the leading knight.

"Qiang"

"Peng"

"Xilulu..."

Beiliang's sword struck the red-armored man's arm, making a crisp sound without even leaving a mark on the red armor.

However, the war horse that was hit by the man in red armor suddenly rolled over on its side with the horse and the man, flying straight for more than ten meters. The cavalryman was immediately thrown to pieces with broken muscles and bones.

This small cavalry formation consists of three cavalry, one in front and two in back, forming a triangle formation.

After the man in red armor knocked over the first horse, he stretched his arms forward, and two thorns and vines shot out from his palms, forcing the two horsemen away.

The two cavalrymen saw the coming of the rattan and slashed it with their swords. As a result, the famously sharp Beiliang Dao failed to cut off the rattan and instead became entangled in the blade.

The man in red armor grabbed the cane and suddenly pulled it back. The two knights suddenly couldn't hold the knife, and the handle of the knife slipped from their palms, grinding their palms until they were dripping with blood.

After taking away the weapons of the two cavalrymen, the cane wrapped around the two cavalrymen on the left and right.

Thanks to the excellent riding skills of the Fengziying cavalry, when they saw this situation, they immediately leaned back and lay flat on the horse, avoiding the entanglement of the cane.

Two riders ran past the man in red armor, followed closely by Ning Emei, who had already reacted.

The man took advantage of the horse's power, and the divination-shaped iron halberd, which weighed dozens of kilograms, cut through the rain curtain with a terrifying sound of breaking through the air, and smashed heavily towards the head of the red-armored man.

However, the man in red armor did not dodge. Instead, he raised his hands and grabbed the head of the iron halberd.

"Qiang"

The water splashed everywhere, and the man in red armor was pushed back by the violent impact by a full two feet. His hands, which were struck by the head of the halberd, were not injured at all.

I saw the man in red armor leaning forward, his left leg suddenly kicked back, and then he stopped firmly, then he hugged the halberd head and raised it with all his strength.

Ning Emei felt an overwhelming force coming from the iron halberd, and he was lifted off the horse's back and thrown into the air.

Although Ning Emei was frightened, he turned over in mid-air and landed firmly on the ground.

"Drink..."

With a loud shout, Ning Emei burst out with anger and forcibly pulled out the Bu-shaped iron halberd from the hand of the red-armored man.

Then he twisted his waist, used his waist strength to drive his arms, turned the divination iron halberd in a circle, and hit the red-armored man's head fiercely.

"Qiang"

The man in red armor raised his hand and immediately staggered to the side and ran a few steps, but Ning Emei's heart sank.

Although this halberd shook the red-armored man, it still failed to cause damage to it. What kind of monster is this?

"Qiang Qiang Qiang..."

After Ning Emei was restrained for a moment, Fengziying Qingqi rushed up one after another.

Beiliang's sword slashed at the red-armored man, but it only made a crisp sound and failed to cause any damage to the red-armored man.

After one strike, the originally extremely sharp blade either became dull or curled.

Naturally, the red-armored man would not fight back when being slashed. The vines in his palms were like poisonous snakes spitting messages, extending and contracting rapidly.

Either entangled with ropes or whipped with soft braids, dozens of riders were knocked off their horses in a matter of seconds.

The ones who were knocked off their horses were lucky, but suffered moderate injuries at most, and the ones who were less lucky only suffered broken muscles and fractures.

After all, although Fengziying is not as heavily armored as Tiefutu, the light armor on its body still has a certain degree of defense.

The sharp thorns on the rattan are just wooden thorns after all, and cannot penetrate the light armor of the Fengziying cavalry.

However, once the cane is wrapped around the neck, or the hands and legs are injured, the person will be poisoned immediately, and will die in less than a moment.

Relying on his strong martial arts skills, Ning Emei could often hit the red-armored man with the divination iron halberd, but other than causing him to stagger a few steps and sway left and right, it did not cause any harm.

This made Ning Emei and the Fengziying cavalrymen secretly despair. How should they deal with such an opponent who could not break through their defenses at all?

However, despite their despair, none of the Fengziying cavalrymen retreated.

They rushed forward one after another, risking their lives to rush towards the red-armored man, desperately stabbing the knives in their hands at various parts of its body, intending to find the weakness of the red-armored man.

But this was obviously in vain. The armor and stomach on the red-armored man protected him from head to toe, and there was no way to find any flaws.

Suddenly, Ning Emei, the Fengziying cavalry and their horses, including the man in red armor, all stood still in place for an instant.

Someone was holding the knife high with a ferocious expression, his mouth wide open, and he was roaring wildly, about to kill it, but suddenly it froze, and even the expression on his face remained the same.

Someone was whipped away by the cane of the man in red armor and was flying off the horse, but his whole body was stagnant in mid-air.

Even the downpour of rain was frozen in mid-air and could no longer fall.

The entire world seemed to have been pressed on the pause button, completely stagnant.

Ning Emei and the other cavalrymen were horrified. They could not move their bodies or even control their eyelids to blink, but their consciousness was still awake.

They had no idea what was happening and how this miraculous sight appeared.

It wasn't until a petite figure fell from the sky that they finally understood who caused this scene.

The moment Loli arrived at the scene, all the raindrops began to merge rapidly, and in an instant, they turned into long swords composed of raindrops all over the sky.

As Loli's sword pointed at the wooden armor in Fu Jiang's red armor, the water sword in the sky immediately surged towards the wooden armor.

This is the Twenty-Three Swords of Heaven and Earth. The biggest difference between it and the Twenty-Three Swords of Destroying Heaven and Earth is that the sword energy it explodes is controllable and does not require the soul to leave the body.

After countless water swords hit the wooden armor without falling, there was not a drop of rain in the area up, down, left, right, and within more than twenty feet in all directions.

"Wow"

Everything that had been stagnant suddenly resumed operation, and the wooden armor was instantly scattered on the ground. Blood and water mixed with the water flow transformed from the water swords, spreading around the stomach of the armor.

The people in the armor's stomach had disappeared without a trace, but they were beaten into powder and turned into blood by the countless water swords.

The cavalryman who originally raised his sword and prepared to chop it down finally lowered his sword, only to miss it.

The cavalryman who was whipped away by the cane did not fall to the ground. Luo Li raised her palm to face him and gently put him down.

"Hua Hua Hua..."

The heavy rain from the sky fell again, but it still couldn't get within three feet of Loli.

For a moment, there was no other sound in this area except the sound of rain. All the Fengzi Camp cavalry were silent and just looked at Loli in awe.

That petite body contained incomparable terrifying power. That kind of power should not be controlled by mortals at all.

Many people shuddered as they recalled the feeling of being unable to move and having to be manipulated.

Fortunately, the beautiful young woman in front of him was one of our own, otherwise their entire army would have been wiped out in an instant.

Unlike the servants of the Northern Liang Palace, they were soldiers. They stayed in the military camp on weekdays and had no chance to come into contact with Loli, so naturally they didn't understand her.

Therefore, everyone only has awe in their hearts towards her, but no feeling of intimacy.

Ning Emei took the initiative to walk up to Loli, cupped her fists and saluted, and said respectfully: "Thank you, Mrs. Zheng, for your help."

Although he has always looked down on Xu Fengnian, he still admires Zheng Zha and Luo Li very much. Especially after what happened today, this admiration has been sublimated into reverence.

Luo Li nodded to him and said softly: "General Ning, you don't have to be polite. Let's treat our brothers first."

As she spoke, she put her hand into the cloth bag at her waist, and when she took it out, she had a porcelain bottle in her hand, "This is the holy medicine Wuchang Dan for healing. It is said to be able to steal lives from the hands of Wuchang Suo Ming. It only takes one pill."

Save the dying man and give it to the seriously injured brother."

Ning Emei clasped her fists in gratitude and said, "Thank you, madam, for surviving."

After saying that, he took the porcelain vase, turned around and ordered his subordinates hurriedly: "Quickly, move the seriously injured brother over, and be careful to keep out the rain."

In ancient battlefields, not many soldiers actually died on the spot. Instead, those who were seriously injured but did not receive effective treatment accounted for the majority of the death rate.

Sometimes, even if it is only a minor injury, because there is no effective way to prevent wound infection, the minor injury becomes serious, and eventually the patient loses his life.

Seeing this, Loli flew into the air again and returned to the front line.

…

After half a stick of incense, Ning Emei rushed to the team with the wooden armor.

As Luo Li returned, Xu Fengnian naturally knew what happened next, and Ning Emei did not say any more.

He put the wooden armor next to him, knelt down on one knee and said: "Because General Mo was temporarily unaware, he was attacked by the red-armored men, causing heavy casualties to Fengzi Camp."

"The last general has come here to take charge of his crime. I only ask the Crown Prince to spare the remaining soldiers of Fengzi Camp."

Xu Fengnian stared at Ning Emei in front of him and asked: "What are the specific casualties in Fengzi Camp?"

Luo Li did not calculate the casualty rate at that time, but only told Xu Fengnian that the casualties were quite high, so he asked this question.

Ning Emei lowered his head and said sadly: "Seven people were killed, 12 were seriously injured, and 23 were slightly injured. Fortunately, Mrs. Zheng's elixir treated us, and the seriously injured soldiers are not in danger."

Xu Fengnian looked up at the sky, took a deep breath, and said in a deep voice: "According to the military rules of Beiliang, if the battle fails and the generals are incompetent, what is the punishment?"

Ning Emei said: "The least is whipping, the most severe is beheading."

Xu Fengnian asked again in a solemn voice: "When the red-armored men attack, are there any people in Fengzi camp who are afraid of fighting and retreat?"

Ning Emei raised his lowered head, looked at Xu Fengnian and said decisively: "Without taking a step back, there are only the Fengzi camp who died in the battle, and there are no Beiliang soldiers who escaped."

Xu Fengnian said loudly: "Okay, nearly half of the soldiers were killed and wounded and they fought bravely without retreating. They can be called brave men. In this battle, Fengziying has meritorious service and no guilt. Get up."

In a real ancient battlefield, when the casualty rate of a team exceeds 10%, it is basically time to collapse. If it does not collapse, it can be called a capable division.

Those who have suffered more than 20% casualties and have not yet collapsed can be called an elite division.

And like Fengziying, there are only a few armies in the whole world that have suffered nearly half of their casualties and still haven't collapsed.

It can even be said that the only army in the world that has the belief that it will never retreat even if it fights to the death of every soldier. Before the appearance of the Hualong Army, the only army in the world was the Beiliang Army.

Ning Emei stood up and looked at Xu Fengnian with complex eyes.

He suddenly realized that he seemed to have never really understood the prince of Northern Liang, who was known as the most dandy in the world.

"Ning Emei takes the place of Feng Ziying and thanks the crown prince."

Xu Fengnian's saying "With merit there is no guilt" is not just an empty talk. Since one has merit, one should naturally be rewarded.

Those who have made merit must be rewarded, and those who have made mistakes must be punished. Reward and punishment must be clear. This is the iron law of the Northern Liang Army.

Xu Fengnian sighed and said warmly to Ning Emei: "Take the soldiers back to Beiliang. Now it seems that going eastward will be a dead end."

The theory of a dead end is aimed at the soldiers of Ning Emei and Fengziying. After all, they are soldiers and not martial arts masters.

When the number of people is not large enough, there is no advantage against martial arts masters, and they are just targets to be slaughtered.

When Ning Emei heard Xu Fengnian's words, his face changed and he said excitedly: "Why are the Beiliang cavalry ever afraid of death?"

Xu Fengnian asked loudly: "Do the fallen soldiers want to go home? Do the injured brothers want to be healed?"

Ning Emei was speechless and lowered her head slightly, but she felt really aggrieved.

Seeing this, Xu Fengnian's voice became gentle again, "You take them back to Beiliang and then rush back. I will slow down and wait for you."

After hearing this, Ning Emei's frustration disappeared. He straightened his body, made a fist with his right hand and knocked on his left chest. This was the military salute of the Beiliang Army.

When Xu Fengnian saw this, he returned the salute from the Northern Liang army.

Ning Emei mounted his horse and left. Xu Fengnian ordered Shu Sha to carry the wooden armor onto the second carriage, and then the team set off again.

When Xu Fengnian returned to the carriage, Li Chungang glanced at him sideways and said: "It's a good way to win people's hearts. It's hard to say who is named Ning. I'm afraid the remaining soldiers will be willing to fight and die for you in the future."

Xu Fengnian didn't mind Li Chungang's words, but said calmly: "Fengziying is not so easy to be bribed, and I don't want them to die in battle."

Luo Li looked at Li Chungang with disdain and said, "Old man, I obviously care about the lives of soldiers, but how come you have turned me into trying to win people's hearts?"

Jiang Ni echoed mercilessly: "That's right, people with unclean hearts see everything as unclean."

Li Chungang didn't know whether to laugh or cry. Naturally, he would not care about the two girls. He just said to Xu Fengnian: "You are the prince, and it is only natural that they die for you."

Xu Fengnian's eyes narrowed and he said in a deep voice: "The reason why I agreed to take over Beiliang is to subvert this natural principle."

Li Chungang looked at Xu Fengnian with some surprise. This boy's thoughts seemed completely different from those of ordinary family members.

I just don’t know how far he can go.