Empire

"The enemy has retreated!"

"The enemy has retreated!"

Black smoke from the Qingyang City rose straight into the sky. Amid the cheers and shouts of the Qinghe Army soldiers, the imperial guards who were attacking the city retreated like a tide.

"Huh - I'm so tired."

Lieutenant General Liu Yidao held the blood-stained city wall with his hands, looking at the retreating Dynasty Guards, breathing heavily, his face full of fatigue.

Liu Yidao was originally a lieutenant general of the cavalry battalion, with seven or eight thousand rangers under his command, and the vast wilderness was their battlefield.

But now they are trapped in Qingyang Prefecture, and because of the lack of food, the war horses have been ordered to be killed as military rations.

Faced with wave after wave of fierce attacks from the guards, they, the rangers, had to climb the city wall and fight bloody battles with the guards who were attacking the city.

The Dynasty's guards were like silver spears and wax pencils, which looked good but were useless. They were called elite, but in fact their combat effectiveness was weak.

The guards were defeated in several battles with the Qinghe uprising army, and the fourth prince was also very angry.

Although the combat effectiveness of this guard was not very good, they had more than 60,000 people, It is also an armed force that cannot be ignored.

Although the Fourth Prince was somewhat disappointed, he knew very well in his heart that tens of thousands of Black Cavalry and sixty thousand Imperial Guards were the only troops he could control now.

If he wanted to seize the throne from his brother, the Crown Prince, and ascend to the throne, these Imperial Guards and Black Cavalry would be the forces he could rely on.

In order to improve the combat effectiveness of the Imperial Guards, the Fourth Prince issued an order for rotation of battles, asking the Imperial Guards to take turns attacking the city in order to achieve the purpose of training through fighting.

He did not expect these Imperial Guards to be able to truly capture Qingyang Prefecture. He needed the Qinghe Uprising Army in the city to act as a whetstone to hone this Imperial Guard.

The battlefield is the best training ground. Although training through fighting would cause huge casualties, the Fourth Prince had no other choice. A merciful man cannot command an army. In order to short-term, He had no choice but to do this in order to improve the fighting capacity of the Imperial Guards in the short term.

As long as 30,000 of the 60,000 Imperial Guards could survive on the battlefield, they would become a powerful force after having experienced the bloody battle.

Liu Yidao and his men didn't take these weak Imperial Guards seriously at all, because the attack of the Imperial Guards was just a way to send their heads flying.

But as time went on, they found that the situation was changing, and the strength of the weak Imperial Guards was rapidly increasing.

When the Imperial Guards first attacked the city, they would often scare the Imperial Guards away with a hail of arrows.

After one battle after another, the bodies of the Imperial Guards had filled the trenches outside the city, and the blood had dyed the moat red.

At the cost of huge casualties, the fighting capacity of the Imperial Guards was also increasing day by day. Now, let alone a hail of arrows... It was raining, and the soldiers of the Imperial Guard even rushed onto the city wall and engaged in a melee with the Qinghe Army.

Most of the soldiers of the Imperial Guard were collateral descendants of princes and nobles and collateral descendants of wealthy families in the Gyeonggi Province.

Because of their collateral origins and other reasons, they could not inherit the family industry and official positions, so they could only get by in the Imperial Guard. The high treatment and status of the Imperial Guard made them live comfortably.

But now they have no choice. Either they break through Qingyang Prefecture and make achievements, or they will be killed as deserters by those ferocious supervisors and become food for wild dogs.

Under great pressure, the Imperial Guards, who had no choice, also burst out with great combat effectiveness in order to survive, and began to fight desperately.

The combat effectiveness of the Imperial Guards was improving, and many ambitious Imperial Guards also wanted to take the opportunity to make achievements, so they also risked their lives and fought desperately.

Under such circumstances, the pressure on the Qinghe Army troops defending the city was increasing, and casualties also soared.

"Damn it, these dynasty bastards are like chicken blood, they don't care about their lives."Many exhausted Qinghe soldiers were covered in blood. They killed the guards who climbed up the city wall, but they were still frightened by the opponent's desperate fighting style.

"How many casualties have you suffered, brothers? Report the number!"

Liu Yidao, holding a bloody sword, stepped on the sticky blood and inspected his section of the wall, asking about the casualties.

"Sir, we still have fifty brothers in our centurion."

"We still have eighty brothers"

"We still have forty heads left."

The Qinghe Army responsible for guarding the city wall also suffered heavy casualties, so that the walls were littered with corpses of both sides.

"The 3,000th and 4,000th troops are changing guards!"

Seeing these wounded soldiers, Lieutenant General Liu Yidao's heart was bleeding.

These were the elite Ranger Battalion soldiers. Now without horses, many of them could only die on the city wall.

Following Liu Yidao's order, the wounded soldiers began to carry the wounded off the city wall. Teams of soldiers who came up to change guards began to clean up the broken walls and collect arrows.、

""Boom! Boom! Boom!"

When the Qinghe Army soldiers on the city wall were changing guard, the deafening sound of war drums rang out in the distance.

"kill!"

"kill!"

"Kill!"

A battalion of 5,000 guardsmen shouted and pressed forward again, the shouts of killing reaching the sky.

"Damn it, is it going to end?"

They had just repelled the attack of the Imperial Guards, but they didn't expect the next wave of Imperial Guards to launch a new round of attack.

Although they were cursing, Liu Yidao knew very well that they had no choice but to fight back.

""Everyone, take your positions!"

Liu Yidao shouted at the top of his lungs. There was a flurry of activity on the city wall. The newly arrived Qinghe Army soldiers quickly ran to their own sections of the city wall under the shouts of the officers.

The fighting soon began again. Under the pressure of the supervisory team, the guards rushed towards the city wall without regard for their lives.

The Qinghe Army guarding Qingyang Prefecture also fought to the death, with whistling arrows flying across the city.���Thunder, rocks, and wood rolled down, and in the noisy shouts and killings, fresh lives continued to disappear and turned into bleeding corpses.

Facing the imperial guards who were like a tide, Liu Yidao and his men kept fighting and fighting until they were exhausted.

The desperate imperial guards once rushed onto the city wall. Liu Yidao was like a firefighter, running around with his personal soldiers, constantly stabilizing the crumbling defense line.

Seeing the imperial guards on the ladders being smashed down, the miserable howls came one after another, and the soldiers of the supervisory team also twitched.

Qingyang Prefecture was like a black hole, constantly devouring the imperial guards. In just two days, they had killed more than 10,000 people.

But without the order of the fourth prince, no one dared to retreat lightly, and they could only bite the bullet and attack wave after wave.

The Qinghe Army in the city would send cavalry out of the city to counterattack at first, but as the war horses were killed and became military rations, they basically gave up the counterattack.

Because they sent a team of infantry out of the city to counterattack the day before, which gave the Black Cavalry light cavalry roaming not far away the opportunity to seize the opportunity and almost broke into the city.