Chapter 166: Counterattack

"If you kill the King of Yan, you will be rewarded with 10,000 taels of silver. Charge!"

In front of a slightly higher earthen mound.

Gao Man looked at the soldiers of the royal palace surrounded by the private soldiers of the wealthy families, feeling slightly proud.

In his opinion, he won this battle.

The King of Yan had only one thousand men, but he led more than 12,000 elite private soldiers of the wealthy families this time.

Most of these private soldiers were children of wealthy families, and they were very motivated.

Ten times more than the enemy, the King of Yan was doomed this time.

Now, he only needed to wait for his soldiers to kill the soldiers of the royal palace one by one.

Gao Man's words floated over the battlefield.

The morale of the private soldiers of the wealthy families was high. Amidst the shouts of killing, the soldiers of the wealthy families in front holding shields and long swords rushed towards the spears.

They used shields to block the stabbing spears, and the soldiers behind them crouched down to pass under the spear shafts and used knives to chop the legs of the spearmen.

However, in this posture, they could not fully exert their strength, and the knives could not kill the spearmen when they were chopped on the plate armor.

Seeing this, they bent down and tried to rush into the formation to throw the spearmen.

But at this moment, suddenly the second row of spearmen stabbed them with their spears.

Immediately, hundreds of noble soldiers fell down with screams.

But the noble soldiers behind continued to rush over.

They stepped on the bodies of their companions and tried to continue to break the formation. The two sides were in a stalemate between offense and defense.

The bodies on the border of the defense line continued to pile up, more and more.

"Hold on!"

Lu Chang commanded in the middle of the circular formation.

In half an hour, a mountain of corpses more than one meter high piled up outside the circular formation.

The strong armor of the royal soldiers gave them a great advantage in the battle.

The noble soldiers kept falling in a pool of blood, and their weapons could not effectively pierce the plate armor of the royal soldiers.

But fighting is physical work.

There were too many noble soldiers, and the physical strength of the royal soldiers was constantly consumed, and their movements gradually became sluggish.

Seeing that the swords and knives did not cause much damage to the soldiers of the palace, some soldiers of the noble families jumped directly into the middle of the soldiers of the palace, stepping on the pile of corpses and throwing them to the ground.

As more and more soldiers of the noble families did this, the edge of the circular formation fell into chaos.

On the mound, Gao Man's heart changed from pride to worry, and then from worry to pride.

Seeing that the soldiers of the noble families suffered heavy casualties in a short period of contact, he was shocked by the fighting power of the soldiers of the King of Yan.

But as the saying goes, many ants bite the elephant to death. As time went by, they began to gain an advantage.

"Go, go, the first one to rush into the formation will be rewarded with a thousand taels of silver." Gao Man shouted.

The leaders of the noble family soldiers kept passing this sentence on.

Seeing that there was hope for their side to break the formation, the morale of the noble family soldiers was even higher, and they ran one by one to rush towards the circular formation of the soldiers of the palace.

Under the pressure of many noble family soldiers, a gap appeared in the circular formation.

The soldiers of the noble family rushed in and fought with the soldiers of the palace in the formation.

Gao Man saw this scene and was overjoyed, "The King of Yan will die here today."

But at this moment, a rumbling sound of horse hooves suddenly sounded.

The noble soldiers looked in the direction of the sound, and saw silver-armored cavalrymen holding sabers rushing towards them in the smoke and dust.

Seeing this, they were shocked.

Gao Man was even more frightened.

These silver-armored cavalrymen did not come from the official road in the east, but from behind them.

The silver-armored cavalrymen rushed into the noble soldiers like a tiger into a pack of wolves.

As the war horses galloped, they knocked the noble soldiers away one by one.

The sabers rose and fell, blood splashed, and screams were heard everywhere.

"I've been fooled, I've fallen into the trap of the King of Yan." Gao Man suddenly realized.

These cavalrymen would not appear for no reason. There is only one explanation, that is, the King of Yan had prepared in advance.

The appearance of thousands of cavalrymen completely confused the noble soldiers.

Morale seemed to collapse in an instant.

But what frightened him even more was that he heard a burst of shouting and killing when the cavalry arrived.

Many royal soldiers came out from the direction of the cavalry.

"Mr. Gao, retreat, or we will be surrounded." A noble general said urgently while covering his wound.

Gao Man was so scared that he was out of his mind. He said the word "retreat" three times and rode his horse to his own fortress.

The royal cavalry did not let go of the scattered noble soldiers. They rode their horses to chase them and cut them down one by one.

The noble soldiers were miserable. They lost their formation in panic and ran all over the mountains and plains.

"Your Highness, you are finally here." On the official road, Lu Chang looked at the three people riding horses and sat on the ground.

After the circular formation was broken, he fought with the noble soldiers for a while.

These noble soldiers saw Chen Hu like a cat seeing a fish, and rushed over one by one without caring about their lives.

He and Chen Hu could only fight desperately.

"Thank you for your hard work. You will get rewards when you go back." Zhao Xu smiled and looked at Chen Hu and Lu Chang.

The two were covered in blood and had fought personally, which showed that they were in a very critical situation at that time.

"If it were the Yanguan Imperial Guards, they would have been wiped out this time." Mo Yu was once again amazed at the combat effectiveness of the royal guards.

Although Lu Chang and others were in a mess, most of the soldiers seemed to be just too tired, sitting or lying down to rest, and there were few casualties.

Chang Wei was slightly proud.

In his opinion, this was all due to the wisdom of the King of Yan, who said that the soldiers should eat well.

Only by eating well can they withstand high-intensity training and improve the quality of individual soldiers.

When the quality of individual soldiers improves, the overall combat effectiveness will also improve.

Although he had not heard of the words that the King of Yan said, he did what the King of Yan said, and the soldiers of the royal palace were indeed as fierce as tigers.

But remembering that the battle was not over yet, he said: "Your Highness, we should seize the opportunity to pursue and wipe out the Shanggu nobles in one fell swoop."

Zhao Xu narrowed his eyes.

Now that the Shanggu nobles were rebelling, he naturally didn't need to worry about anything.

In order to avoid more trouble, he had to wipe out the Shanggu nobles in one fell swoop.

So he said: "Chang Wei, you lead the troops to attack the four counties in the south of Shanggu County, and kill those who participated in the rebellion without mercy."

"Yes, Your Highness." Chang Wei accepted the order.

"Mo Yu, you lead the troops to attack the four counties in the north, and those who participated in the rebellion will also be killed without mercy."

"Yes, Your Highness." Mo Yu said loudly.

Zhao Xu nodded and said to Lu Chang and Chen Hu: "Gather the soldiers and follow me to Shanggu City."

Today, he will officially take over Shanggu County.

Gaojiawu Fort.

Gao Yuan is anxiously waiting for the return of his eldest son.

There are also many noble officials waiting with him.

For them, whether the ambush can succeed is related to the future of Shanggu County.

"My lord, the young master is back." At this moment, the Gao family members on Wubao suddenly pointed to the country road.

Gao Yuan was overjoyed and hurriedly asked people to open the gate of Wubao.

Soon, Gao Man and a group of remnants of soldiers rushed into Wubao.

Seeing this, Gao Yuan's face suddenly changed.

"Father, the ambush failed, and the army of King Yan is heading here." Gao Man dismounted and said sadly.

"What!" Gao Yuan was sweating profusely when he learned that the ambush failed.

"It's over, it's all over, King Yan will not let us go." The officials trembled slightly when they heard the words.

At this time, fear filled his heart.