The entire Gaimou City was in a state of darkness. The nine thousand dragon cavalry charged into the city at lightning speed. Their horses galloped across the city, and their momentum was majestic. The long spears on their horses were like poisonous dragons coming out of their caves. They attacked and received the spears cleanly. Even the horses did not pause for a moment. Every time they attacked, a fresh life was taken away. They were like ferocious tigers descending from the mountains. They were in a large scale and organized charge of the city. They were unstoppable.
Behind them were the people who rushed over, sending all the soldiers who escaped to hell or giving them a stab. The dragon cavalry galloped forward in groups, like a comb combing through the streets and alleys of Gaimu City, leaving countless corpses behind every time.
Amid the sound of drums and drums, the Dragon Cavalry Army swept through Gaimou City like a hot knife through butter, setting off a bloody storm. The city was littered with fire by fleeing soldiers, trying to stop the Dragon Cavalry Army from pursuing.
Amidst the thick smoke, the city soldiers could be seen everywhere. They fought like trapped beasts, trying to fight to the death with the dragon cavalry. Unfortunately, when a bolt or a charge passed, everything would disappear.
The weapons in the hands of these soldiers could not effectively harm the heavily armored Dragon Cavalry, let alone kill them. Coupled with the sharp javelins and cold crossbows of the Dragon Cavalry, their skillful cooperation was simply invincible.
For a moment, the city was in flames, and corpses were everywhere. The blood flowing out of the streets and alleys gathered in the ditches that were usually used for drainage, and there was no sign of it flowing out.
Li Zhi was at the forefront of the charge. The Severed Blood Battle Halberd in his hand swept across the area. Every time it swept across, it would send a piece of broken limbs flying. His thin body contained boundless power. He was simply a humanoid beast. Wherever he went, blood rained down.
Guihai Yidao and the other Eastern Palace guards beside Li Zhi secretly stuck out their tongues. They were all shocked. Although they often saw the Crown Prince practicing martial arts in the Eastern Palace, the Crown Prince's skillful killing methods did not seem like it was his first time killing someone.
The guards vaguely remembered that when the Crown Prince was five years old, he went to Jiangnan to play and suddenly encountered a rebellion. The Crown Prince was only four years old, but he helped Zhang Shigui put down the rebellion. Presumably, he was very familiar with the battlefield.
However, this thought only flashed through his mind. This was a battlefield, and the guards still had to protect His Highness.
Li Zhi was now completely immersed in the mesmerizing music of the clash of swords and halberds.
He no longer knew how to think in advance, estimate, or measure his own strength and the strength of others. Although Li Zhi was thin and had well-proportioned muscles, he hid extremely terrifying explosive power and endurance. Anyone who saw him would praise him. As expected of a pig's trotter. In the battle, Li Zhi actually experienced crazy happiness and intoxication, and his head began to heat up. Everything that was fluctuating and flashing in front of his eyes, Li Zhi only had one reaction, which was to slash the Halberd of Severed Blood at lightning speed. If Guihai Yidao ran forward at this time, he might not be able to avoid the outcome of being crushed.
Countless Goguryeon soldiers gathered in the southern part of Gaimu City collapsed to the ground.
Li Zhi was like a drunkard. Amidst the shouts and the cold blade light, his passion shone. He killed whoever he met and never listened to the cries of the dead.
On his back was Li Shiming's beloved horse, Saluzi, and a rare Ferghana horse. Li Zhi named it Dark Lightning. Dark Lightning's entire body was black, and its four hooves were purple. It moved like a bolt of lightning on the not-so-spacious street, but it was extremely agile. When Li Zhi urged it to move forward, Dark Lightning neighed continuously, feeling as if it was celebrating a festival.
It was dawn, and the morning sun dyed the horizon red, just like the massacre in Gaimu City. The blood on the ground dyed the entire city red.
However, the battle continued, because there were still some soldiers in Gaimu City who would rather die than live or be captured. Not all of them were cowards.
The Dragon Cavalry that had caught up with them were all fighting according to the military habits that Li Zhi had trained them for the past six months.
All of the Goguryeon soldiers who wanted to break through the encirclement and refused to kneel and surrender formed a large circle, defending themselves like a pack of wild boars surrounded by a pack of wolves.
The Dragon Riders skillfully completed the encirclement, compressing their encirclement tightly, like a python wrapping around a buffalo.
The weapons clashed again, the flails rattled, the lances stabbed, the arrows shot, and the sabers slashed.
The Goguryeon soldiers guarding Gaimu City were like a forest, being stabbed down one after another.
These trapped Goguryeon soldiers were not like their comrades, kneeling down and kowtowing to the Dragon Riders, ignoring the contemptuous gazes from above and begging for a way out. These remaining Goguryeon soldiers howled in despair at the Dragon Riders, but they refused to put down their swords. In the end, they could only die silently, solemnly, and bravely. Compared to their comrades who were kneeling on the ground, their figures were too thin.
Anyone could start a war, including cowards, but to end a war, the winner had to agree. From the time Baekje captured more than 40 cities in Silla, and the time when Quanasomun rebelled and seized power, this war was destined. However, from the looks of it, Quanasomun was destined to be unable to end this massacre on his own.
The lovely dividing line.
Li Zhi kicked the corpse beside his feet and looked left and right. Guihai Yidao had an arrow stuck in his right arm, but he was using his unskilled left hand to hack at it with all his might. The Dragon Riders who had caught up with them were all standing behind Li Zhi. Their eyes were bloodshot from killing, and they were panting loudly. From time to time, they would suddenly roar. War was the best way to stimulate a man's spirit, and blood and slaughter were the most maddening. Some of the Dragon Riders did not even notice the blood flowing from the corners of their mouths.
Li Zhi pushed up the iron mask on his face and took off his helmet. The light yellow brocade feathers on the helmet were dyed red by blood and solidified. When he touched it, blood would fall down. He wiped the sweat on his forehead with his blood-stained sleeve and looked up at the red sun shining on the dark yellow land. It was so bright that Li Zhi could not open his eyes.
Poor Lu Dinghe's bones by the river, still a dream of spring boudoir.
I wonder if the wives of these Goguryeon soldiers will also be this red when they see the sun?
However, the glory of a nation was forged on the flesh and blood of another or more nations. This was not right or wrong, let alone justice. For those who needed war, war was justice. The winner was king and the loser was a bandit. If he won, it would naturally be righteous. If he lost, it would not be his turn to speak. He could only be like a corpse under his feet, and his merits and demerits would be judged by others.
Sigh, this was war. What they had to protect was the peace of the empire and the interests of their own families. However, how many people had ever thought about the scene of the new ghosts being annoyed and the old ghosts crying?
Perhaps, those high-ranking officials and nobles wouldn't think about it. Even the common people wouldn't think about it. They only needed to live a peaceful life. These bloody battles were just for their leisure time.
The truly pitiful ones were the soldiers who had gone through a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood. No one knew if they could still live tomorrow. Everyone had to carry their heads to live.
Guihai Yidao, who was beside him, had not left Li Zhi's back for the entire night. The image of the crown prince waving his halberd in front of him seemed to be carved in blood, firmly engraved in Guihai Yidao's mind.
At this moment, when he looked at the face from the side, which looked a little feminine because he had taken off his helmet, he still couldn't believe it. Was this the God of War who had killed in the dark?
In the dark night, he was like a flag, an ancient ferocious beast. He was so fierce that it was a mess.
Jiang Ke and the other lieutenants 'eyes were red and bloodshot. The blood in their eyes had been too congested and had not dissipated until now.
Jiang Ke and the lieutenant knelt down. Jiang Ke said loudly,"General, when I made things difficult for you when you entered the camp, you didn't blame Jiang Ke, but Jiang Ke had to express his gratitude. After saying that, Jiang Ke and the other lieutenants behind him did not care about the armor on their bodies. They kowtowed three times and bowed five times, prostrating themselves on the ground.
Li Zhi didn't stop them. This wasn't just an apology, but also a surrender. Li Zhi had to accept this gift.
After the generals bowed, Li Zhi went forward to help them up one by one and said with a smile,"The past is like the wind. It's fine if I die, but you can't make things difficult for me in the future.”
" Hahaha!" Everyone burst into laughter.
Turning around to look at the dismounted Middle Dragon Cavalry, Li Zhi adjusted his expression and frowned as he asked Zhang Wendan, who was standing at the side,""Wendan, is the casualty number out yet?”
Zhang Wendan smiled." We just came out and injured over twenty people. Three of them are heavily injured, and the remaining seventeen are lightly injured. They can still fight, and there are no casualties. As for the number of soldiers we killed, we don't have an exact number, but if we count the remaining Goguryeon soldiers, we have wiped out about ten thousand Goguryeon soldiers in total. I'm sure that this is going to be heartbreaking for Chengesomun. These are all elite soldiers of Goguryeo.”
After hearing Zhang Wendan's report, Jiang Ke and the other lieutenants were all in disbelief. Killing one thousand enemies meant losing eight hundred of their own. Although Goguryeo's overall strength was much weaker than Great Tang's, this result was too much.
In fact, they didn't even think about it. Only lieutenants or halberds could wear iron armor. Generals wore Mingguang Kai, but Li Zhi actually gave every soldier of the Dragon Cavalry a set of iron armor. Although it couldn't compare to the best Mingguang Kai, it was almost the same. Coupled with the best crossbows, crossswords, lances, javelins, warhorses, and scientific high-intensity training, they could also eat meat. After all, there was a huge difference between soldiers who ate meat and those who didn't.
In addition, it was a sneak attack, and the enemy's highest-ranking general had been assassinated. They were leaderless. If they still killed 1,000 enemies and lost 800 of their own, then this army would have been trained in vain.
One had to know that Wuqi had used 50,000 Wei soldiers to defeat 500,000 Qin soldiers. Li Zhi was far inferior to Wuqi. However, the Dragon Knight Army had only been formed for six months, so there was still a lot of potential to be tapped.
"Counting the spoils of war, 40% of them belong to the soldiers. The heavily injured soldiers will be compensated according to the regulations, and the spoils of war will be tripled.”Li Zhi ordered expressionlessly.
In fact, even without Li Zhi's words, Zhang Wendan would have dealt with it according to the military rules that had already been formulated. Ignoring Zhang Wendan, Sun Qingyang went forward and asked,"General, what about these prisoners? Do you want to?" He made a throat-cutting gesture.
Li Zhi glanced at Sun Qingyang and angrily said,""Take him into custody. In the future, be it exchanging prisoners with Goguryeo or pulling him back to repair bridges and roads, all of this is money.”
Ignoring Sun Qingyang's aggrieved gaze, Li Zhi walked away hatefully after he finished speaking." Sigh, militarism and chauvinism have been taught badly. I forgot to tell him how important the slave trade is to the prosperity of a country and the strength of a nation. It seems that the World Party needs to take another course in the future, called 'On the Contribution of the Slave Trade to the Energy'. Yes, that's all."
Li Zhi, however, found it hard to imagine that because of this thought, he would be crowned as the " first slave leader " in human history and be worshipped by countless young people in the future.
The lovely dividing line.
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