Thief Emperor

Chapter 231 Destroy morale!

The pitch-black spear, like an ink dragon, wreaked havoc on the battlefield.

Li Yun held the gun in both hands and chopped down the spear like a hammer, hitting a rebel. The rebel held a long knife and blocked it with both hands, blocking Li Yun's blow. However, his hands were numb from the shock and the weapon in his hand was almost dropped.

Li Yun then came back to his senses and quickly glanced at the battlefield.

At this time, they were already five meters away from the city gate.

They rushed forward and fought all the way, and some of them were too excited.

Li Yun reached out and grabbed Zhang Hu who was about to rush forward. He took a breath and shouted, "Return to the city!"

Zhang Hu's eyes were already red at this time. If it were someone else, even Li Zheng and Liu Bo were here, they might not be able to hold him back. However, he respected Li Yun the most. After being pulled by Li Yun, he came to his senses, scared off a few rebels with a backhand knife, and then decisively followed Li Yun and rushed back to the city gate.

In this short five-meter road, they killed at least dozens of rebels. Now the timid ones dared not even look at them, let alone stop them. In a moment, Li Yun had led dozens of Yuezhou soldiers who had fought with him back to the city gate. Because Li Yun was walking at the back, no one dared to stop him. After Li Yun entered the city gate, he shouted, "Close the gate!"

The flimsy door was closed again and propped against the doorpost.

The rebels outside the city looked at each other, but no one dared to step forward and break down the door.

Those who just broke down the door died horribly. No one knows whether the government troops inside, who were like monsters, will rush out again?

After the city gate was closed, Li Yun inside also breathed a sigh of relief. After taking a few deep breaths, he turned his head to look at Zhang Hu and asked, "Huzi, are you seriously injured?"

Just now outside the city, Li Yun had already seen blood oozing from Zhang Hu's arm.

Zhang Hu didn't care at all and cursed: "I was stabbed by a little beast, but it's okay, it doesn't hurt at all!"

Li Yun smiled dumbly: "At this time, you can't feel the pain."

He closed his eyes and rested for a while, then opened his eyes and looked at the forty or fifty people who rushed out with him, half of whom were injured.

Four or five people died outside the city.

Li Yun took a breath and said in a deep voice: "You all, retreat and rest, and let fifty more people come up."

Hearing this, Yang Xi, the captain from the anti-theft team, looked at Li Yun and reminded him, "Boss, you should take a break too."

Li Yun shook his head.

"I'm fine. We'll go out and fight some more battles later."

He said in a deep voice: "Go tell the brothers that our reinforcements will arrive at dawn, and Dongyang will definitely be able to be defended. The difference lies in how many rebels we can leave behind and how much credit we can leave behind!"

"Fight this battle well, and we'll have meat the day after tomorrow!"

Yang Xi nodded, propped himself up, and went to convey Li Yun's order.

Zhang Hu sat next to Li Yun and did not move. Instead, he asked, "Second brother, will there be reinforcements at dawn?"

Li Yun smiled and said, "Not necessarily."

"According to the time, someone should come tomorrow evening, but only if Zhao Cheng doesn't have the courage to bet his entire fortune in Dongyang."

Li narrowed his eyes and said softly, "He must leave at dawn."

Zhao Cheng's troops had a total of two thousand people. This time outside Dongyang City, Li Yun estimated that there were about one thousand of them.

The two sides started fighting at midnight and have been fighting for an hour now. As of now, Dongyang City is still stable, and the casualties on both sides...

It's definitely more than two to one.

If one person dies here from Li Yun, at least three rebels will die.

Although this is a temporary loss, as the battle continues, Li Yun's disadvantage of insufficient numbers will become more and more obvious, but...

It's enough to hold on.

Unless Zhao Cheng sends all his men to Dongyang now and the two sides fight to the end in Dongyang, Li Yun will definitely be able to hold on with the current military strength.

After this battle, not to mention the loss of Zhao Cheng’s manpower, the morale of his subordinates will definitely drop to the freezing point!
This is Li Yun’s real purpose.

Zhang Hu seemed to understand, but he still looked at Li Yun and grinned, "Second brother, you are so impressive on the battlefield!"

"It's much more impressive than before when we attacked other people's villages."

Li Yun reached out and patted his shoulder, laughing: "After this battle, Second Brother will be even more powerful."

"Okay Tiger."

Li Yun looked at Zhang Hu, whose arm was already red, and said in a deep voice: "You are injured, go down and rest."

Zhang Hu raised his head, patted his chest with his right hand and said, "Brother, I'm fine. I can still fight with you for a few more times!"

Li Yun shouted: "Go and rest when I tell you to!"

Seeing his second brother getting angry, Zhang Hu shrank his neck and went down to rest obediently. After a while, the fifty people who were rotated in also came to the city gate. Li Yun stood up, put on his armor again, looked at the creaking city gate, and shouted: "Follow me, charge out!"

"Stand in formation tightly, no one is allowed to leave the formation, and if someone leaves the formation, others are not allowed to rescue them!"

After that, Li Yun clenched his spear and shouted again: "Open the door!"

The gatepost was moved away again. This time, the rebels outside the city learned their lesson. Except for two or three people who could not hold back and rushed into the city gate, everyone else retreated in a hurry.

These two or three people were hacked to death by the soldiers of Yuezhou Army. Li Yun raised his head to look into the distance, raised his gun and smiled: "Let's go, follow me to achieve merit!" The black gun once again charged into the formation.

This time, he still went about five meters out of the city, and when the rebels outside the city formed a siege, Li Yun began to retreat.

This time, the rebels learned their lesson and followed closely the retreat of Li Yun and others, preparing to follow Li Yun's retreat and rush into the city.

"How to do!"

A captain stood beside Li Yun and asked, "General, they want to go into the city with us."

Li Yun swept down a rebel with his gun and said with a smile: "Then let them go into the city with us."

As they were talking, a thin soldier of the Yuezhou Army, holding a knife in both hands, slashed fiercely and accurately at the seam of the leather armor between the waist and abdomen of a rebel. The knife penetrated the flesh at least two inches and almost cut open the belly. The rebel was definitely dead.

Li Yun then noticed the skinny guy and couldn't help but scold him, "How come you sneaked out of the city?"

It was Meng Qing.

Li Yun stepped forward, grabbed him by the back and dragged him into the formation.

"Didn't I tell you not to come out?"

Meng Qing wiped the blood off his face and looked up at Li Yun. His eyes were not filled with fear, but excitement: "Sima, I killed two!"

Li Yun was speechless. He led these people back to the city gate. At the same time, he also led twenty or thirty rebels into the city gate.

At this time, Li Yun, who had already retreated, stopped, looked back at the twenty or thirty rebels who had rushed into the city gate, and smiled grimly.

He threw away the spear in his hand, which he could not use, and replaced it with a two-handed sword. Holding it in his hand, he shouted, "Follow me, and charge again!"

At this time, Li Yun was no different from a killing god in the eyes of these rebels. When he turned around, these rebels didn't even have the courage to fight and were so scared that they took several steps back. When Li Yun led his men to rush forward, dozens of people were driven out of the city neatly.

The city gates were shut again.

With the closure of the city gate this time, Zhao Cheng's possibility of wiping out Li Yun was completely extinguished. Zhao Cheng outside the city closed his eyes and sighed.

“Such a person…”

He murmured, "It's too difficult to handle on a small battlefield like this."

After saying that, Zhao Cheng looked towards the city wall of Dongyang.

Because the battlefield below the city was messed up by Li Yun, the Yuezhou Army on the city wall did not suffer any losses. To this day, all sections of the city wall are still under the control of the Yuezhou Army.

"Withdraw the troops."

Zhao Cheng took a final look at Dongyang County, and slowly said to the limping Min Xiong: "There are people like Li Zhao in the government army, which means..."

"The fate of Wu Zhou has not yet ended."

Min Xiong was knocked down from the city wall by Li Yun. Because the city wall was low, he was not killed, but he was also knocked unconscious. Hearing this, he looked at the sky and said, "General, there is still an hour before dawn. Should we fight again?"

"It would be very demoralizing to go back like this..."

Min Xiong whispered, "That Li Zhao is not an iron man. He can't keep charging like this. If he charges one or two more times, he will die on the battlefield."

Zhao Cheng thought about it and finally nodded.

So the battle in Dongyang continued.

However, the morale of the rebels is far lower than before, especially after the large number of deaths, no one is willing to charge anymore.

When the sky in the east turned pale, Zhao Cheng ordered his troops to withdraw.

At this time, the rebels had suffered about 300 casualties and even more injuries. Li Yun's troops also lost about 100 men. In this era, this proportion of loss was already extremely tragic.

After all, neither side could be considered a particularly regular army, and considering the ratio of casualties, it was extremely rare that both sides were able to fight to the death.

At dawn, Li Yun, who was almost exhausted, climbed up the city wall and watched Zhao Cheng and others go away. He sat on the ground with a scorching gaze, "Send someone to notify Li Zheng immediately and tell him!"

"Tell him to take all the main forces and not come to Dongyang, but go straight to Wuzhou City and surround Wuzhou City!"

Deng Yang was also injured at this time. Hearing this, he first ordered his subordinates to pass on the message, and then he sat down next to Li Yun, grimacing in pain, and then he said, "General, are you okay?"

"Small injury."

Li Yun took a breath, not caring at all, and said carelessly: "It will be fine in a few days."

He was hit diagonally on the shoulder armor with a war hammer, and his right shoulder was now swollen.

Deng Yang nodded and asked, "General, you ordered the main force to directly encircle Wuzhou. Are you worried that Zhao Cheng and his men will escape?"

Li Yun smiled and said, "I don't know."

"But if I were Zhao Cheng..."

Mr. Li lay directly on the ground, looked up at the sky, and muttered to himself.

"I can run."

(End of this chapter)