The Rhapsody of Mounted Blade Players

Zhang Jiao was not ready to waste any more time and immediately told these strangers his thoughts. Zhang Jiao's request in this transaction is also very simple, that is, if the Yellow Turban Army loses in the battle between the Central Plains princes in the future, these strangers must find a way to protect his third brother Zhang Liang and a group of cronies. Overseas development, if these strangers can agree to his conditions, the hundreds of thousands of Yellow Turban elites can all be controlled by these strangers after his death. His third brother Zhang Liang only needs to be an apparent leader. .

After listening to Zhang Jiao's ideas and discussing with each other, those reincarnations felt that this deal could be done. After all, with their methods, it was not difficult to escort Zhang Liang out of the Central Plains safely. In this case, they might as well agree to Zhang Liang's request. With this condition, they can directly control the hundreds of thousands of elite Yellow Turbans, and they will have a great advantage when fighting against the princes.

After all, although the total strength of the princes from various places is stronger than that of the Yellow Turban Army, they are suspicious of each other and cannot send troops together. However, these hundreds of thousands of Yellow Turban Army are completely controlled by them, and they can use their arms and fingers to attack with all their strength. If you attack a certain prince and defeat them one by one, sooner or later you will be able to wipe out all the princes in the Central Plains.

After the two parties reached an agreement, they also made a contract as evidence.

Only three days later, Zhang Jue passed away peacefully. Zhang Liang almost seamlessly took over the position of leader of the Yellow Turban Army, but in fact, secretly, he had handed over most of the military power to those strangers.

At this time, the aliens in the Yellow Turban camp have completely gained the upper hand. After all, they can directly control and command hundreds of thousands of elite Yellow Turban troops to fight. They can find ways to maximize the combat power of these hundreds of thousands of troops and completely follow their instructions. attack with will and ideas.

In contrast, most of the foreigners who belong to the imperial camp are just subordinates of the princes at this time. Some even have a very unsatisfactory life because of their lack of strength. They are unable to influence the decisions of the armies under the princes and can only be passive. Follow the army's march to the east and fight in the west.

Speaking of which, there is a reason why the reincarnations in the imperial camp do so poorly. After all, they are all newcomers who have never experienced even a mission in the world. They have no extraordinary power at all. At most, they can only rely on their own strength. The foresight of the 'travelers' can gain some advantages for themselves, so naturally they cannot get along well with those reincarnations in the Yellow Turban Army camp.

At this time, on the side of the Qinglong Empire, Yarogerke, the king of the Kingdom of Wikiia, had already led an army of 300,000 to the territory of the Qinglong Empire.

Due to the limited force at hand, Li Rufeng chose to let the cities defend themselves after discovering the invasion of the Kingdom of Wikiya. And she herself began to assemble the mobile forces in her hands, preparing to rescue the towns that had been besieged by the enemy army.

The first city to be surrounded by the army of the Kingdom of Wikia was Albuk Fort. This was a small city with a population of only more than 10,000. Because it was located in the border area, it had always been built as a border military town. It has a solid and thick stone wall.

Therefore, Li Rufeng arranged 5,000 regular soldiers and 10,000 militiamen in this city to guard against the invasion of the Kingdom of Weixia.

Facts have proved that it is necessary to deploy heavy troops in this important border town. Otherwise, facing the hundreds of thousands of troops from the Kingdom of Wikia, the Albuk Fort may not be able to defend it for even one day.

The guard of Fort Ekbuk is Jiang You, who was Ye Tianlong’s former co-worker and one of the first real-world players to join his team. He followed Ye Tianlong through the difficult days when he started his business. It can be said that there is hard work without credit. Therefore, although he has no outstanding talents and his cultivation has only reached the middle stage of Anjin, he has still obtained the title of Viscount and is considered to be a high-ranking member of the Qinglong Empire.

Li Rufeng also knew that Jiang You's own abilities were not very good, so in addition to this general, he also sent Reyek and Diligang, two veterans who had served under Viscount Sol, to assist him. Reyek and Diligang are stronger, they have reached the late stage of dark strength, and are not far away from breaking through to the level of transformation strength.

In the biting cold wind, Jiang You wore a set of Mingguang armor specially tailored for him and came to the city wall. He looked at the seemingly endless enemy army outside the city with a worried expression. After all, the enemy army There are so many of them that his master, Li Rufeng, may not be able to assemble an army large enough to fight him in three or four days. And then wait until the other party leads his army to this remote border town. It will take an estimated week. It's in the past.

This means that he must lead at least more than 10,000 defenders in the city to resist the enemy's attack for a week before he can hope to wait for reinforcements.

If these more than 10,000 troops are regular soldiers, Jiang You would be very confident in defending the city. But the problem is that two-thirds of the defenders are newly recruited soldiers. These recruits are not only There is a lack of training and the equipment is far less sophisticated than regular soldiers.

Due to the rush of time, most of these militiamen are equipped with chest plate armor and iron armor that have been eliminated by the previous army. Some are even equipped with armor captured from the enemy. Most of them are sleeveless plate armor. Although for For the local forces in Calradia, this kind of armor is already considered to be the best armor, but Jiang You, who has experienced the world with Ye Tianlong, has no regard for it at all, and everyone in the group is urging them to build more. Armor came over to replace those old armors.

But the reply he got was that the arsenals in the Qinglong Empire were currently busy making weapons, armor and ammunition for Ye Tianlong's main army, and there was no time to make armors for the militiamen. Let Jiang You take the eliminated ones first. Old equipment makes do.

Not only the armor, but also the weapons, the militiamen also used flintlock rifles that had been eliminated by the previous army. With poor equipment and insufficient training, the combat effectiveness of these militiamen can only be imagined.

In Jiang You's view, most of these militiamen were just rookies who had just learned how to shoot, and could not be regarded as qualified soldiers at all.

But there is no other way. He has no other soldiers and horses available now, so he can only let these militiamen take over.

Just as Jiang You was observing the enemy's situation on the city wall, an enemy cavalry suddenly rode alone under the city wall, and then took out a letter, saying that it was from His Majesty the King who gave it to Jiang You, the defender, to persuade him to surrender. letter.

As the saying goes, the two armies were at war without killing the envoy. Jiang You obeyed the rules and let the envoy who came to deliver the letter go. Then he took the letter of persuasion to surrender and read it in his hand. He found that King Yarogerk In order to recruit him, he spent a lot of money. Not only did he promise that once he surrendered, he would be rewarded with a pile of gold, silver, treasures and beauties. If he surrendered early enough, it would allow the army of the Kingdom of Vecia to capture the enemy without losing a single soldier. If he goes to Albuk Castle, the other party will also upgrade his title to earl.

If it were anyone else, facing these favorable conditions offered by King Yarogerk, I'm afraid he would really be tempted.

But Jiang You was not moved at all. Although he had no outstanding talents, he was loyal to Ye Tianlong. Li Rufeng also understood this and let him serve as the guard of this important border town.

Soon, Jiang You wrote a reply and asked his Qingqi to leave the city and send them to the camp of the Wekia army.

When King Yarogork heard that the other party wrote him a reply so quickly, he thought that the other party was moved by the conditions he offered and could not wait to surrender!

But when he opened the letter and read it, he found that the other party completely rejected his kindness and said that if the city is alive and the people are alive, the city is dead and the people are dead, and he must hold on until the last moment.

Jiang You was so disrespectful that he immediately angered King Yarogerk. He immediately sent more than 20,000 troops to launch the first wave of exploratory attack on Albuk Fort.

Seeing the enemy starting to attack, Jiang You also became nervous. As soon as the enemy entered the range of his heavy artillery defending the city, he immediately ordered the artillery fire.

Since most of the artillery was taken away by the main army led by Ye Tianlong, there are only eight heavy artillery pieces in Albuk Fort. Each city wall can only be allocated two heavy artillery pieces, so it seems that the firepower is very weak, although Each cannon fired was able to kill at least a dozen enemy troops, but the two heavy cannons, with their slow rate of fire, could not hinder the enemy's advance at all.

In addition to the eight heavy artillery pieces, there are also twenty small-caliber rapid-fire artillery pieces in Albuk Castle, five of which can be allocated to each city wall. Unfortunately, the range of these small-caliber rapid-fire artillery is too close, only about 500 meters.

When the enemy army advanced to this distance, some of the opponent's heavy slingshots could already throw stone projectiles at the walls of Albuk Fort.

In order to increase the deterrence, the enemy would also wrap a lot of fire starters on those stone bullets, and ignite them when they were launched, so that these stone bullets would bombard the city wall like huge fireballs.

However, Jiang You had been through many battles with Ye Tianlong, so he was not frightened by this little trick at all. He had been calmly directing the defenders at the top of the city to fire artillery to kill the enemy.

Unfortunately, the number of artillery in the city was limited and it was impossible to completely suppress the large number of enemies. Soon the enemy troops were close to a distance of about 200 meters from the city wall.

At this distance, some of the sharpshooters in the Kingdom of Vecia can already use hard bows to shoot arrows onto the city wall.

In order to succeed in the sneak attack this time, King Yarogerk brought almost all the domestic marksmen over. At this time, the power of these skilled marksmen was revealed.

Jiang You saw with his own eyes that several militiamen not far away from him were hit directly in front of their faces by arrows shot from under the city wall, and they screamed and fell to death.

There were also many arrows shot at him, the city defender. However, firstly, the Mingguang Armor on Jiang You was extremely strong and could withstand the damage of these arrows. Secondly, he himself was not weak in skill, and he waved his hand. The long knife was able to deflect all the arrows aimed at his face.

"Sniper, take aim at those enemy sharpshooters and hit me hard!" Jiang You waved his knife to deflect the arrows that shot towards his face, while yelling at the equipment on the city wall. The sharpshooters who fired sniper rifles ordered.