Thief Emperor

Chapter 273 Quelling the Rebellion!

In his normal form, Li Yun was just an ordinary tough guy, who could kill someone with just a few punches, but...

Once he puts on full armor, he will directly transform into a war machine on a small-scale battlefield.

Li Yun, fully armored, walked out of the tent with a gun in hand. Many torches had been lit outside his camp. At a glance, there were at least three hundred people, or even more.

The leader was a man in his thirties. When he saw Li Yun in armor, he frowned and then shouted, "Is it Li Zhao, the acting governor of Wuzhou?"

Originally, Li Yun was not difficult to recognize, but he had never seen a governor wearing iron armor. After all, in his impression, governors were always gentle civil servants. How could he be wearing iron armor and holding a ten-foot-long spear in his hand?
Li Yun looked up at the man and smiled: "I am Li Zhao."

He looked at these people, pointed the spear in his hand forward, and said slowly: "You should be the local army of Wujun under the command of Wujun Sima, right? During the previous Wuzhou Rebellion, Li also met your Wujun Sima Tang. What's wrong? I haven't seen him for a while..."

"He changed his career to rebel?"

The middle-aged man who led the group was the captain of Wu Commandery. Hearing this, he looked at Li Yun and shouted, "We in Wu Commandery will certainly not rebel. Governor Li, you brought more than a thousand soldiers and horses and suddenly took away His Royal Highness the King of Chu from our Gusu City at night without saying a word. This is treason!"

"Not only that, we kindly sent people here to persuade you to return to Gusu. If there is any misunderstanding, please resolve it. But you just killed everyone who came to persuade us!"

The captain sneered and said, "No matter where we report this, Governor Li will have no reason to complain!"

Li Yun smiled and said, "What if it was His Royal Highness the King of Chu who transferred us here and took the initiative to leave the city with us?"

The captain gritted his teeth and said, "His Highness is in your hands and is being coerced by you, so naturally, Governor Li will do whatever you say. If it is really as Governor Li said, Governor Li will hand His Highness the King of Chu over to us now and ensure His Highness the King of Chu's safety!"

"If His Highness says the same thing at that time, I, the surnamed He, will kowtow and apologize to Governor Li in public!"

Li Yun sneered and said, "You think I'm a three-year-old child!"

He looked at the captain surnamed He and said in a deep voice: "Now that things have come to this, there is no need to say more. Let's see what's really going on. If you can really capture Li or kill him, then of course what you say is what's going to happen!"

"If not."

Li Yun covered himself with armor with his left hand, raised his gun and stepped forward, his voice cold: "So, you blocked the imperial envoy of the court, the second prince of the dynasty, and even intended to murder the governor of a state, all kinds of crimes!"

"Your family will be blessed!"

After that, he stopped talking and strode forward with his gun in hand.

Yang Xi was right next to him, but when he saw this he did not rush forward, but waved his hand implicitly.

After Li Yun strode forward, the captain surnamed He also had a gloomy face and waved his hand, saying, "Go!"

He already knew how powerful Li Yun was, so he didn't dare to be negligent. He prepared dozens of strong men in advance and they all rushed towards Li Yun.

Li Yun rushed forward for more than ten steps, but after dozens of strong men rushed out, he stopped and began to retreat.

At this moment, Yang Xi and more than 20 people were already behind Li Yun. Some of them were standing upright, while others were half squatting.

In the darkness, there were a few "bang bang bang" sounds from the mechanisms, and the twenty strong men immediately screamed, and at least seven or eight of them were shot to the ground.

Captain He's expression changed slightly: "Crossbow!"

Li Yun grinned, raised his gun and rushed forward, sweeping the spear across, knocking down two more people.

As the scale of "Li Yun Group" grows, among the twenty brigades under Li Yun's command, there is one brigade that has almost always been with him, and that is the brigade led by Yang Xi.

In a sense, this brigade is actually Li Yun's own guard.

In comparison, although the number of people in this brigade of 125 people is no different from that of other brigades, it is superior to other brigades in terms of personnel quality and equipment quality!
For example, the twenty crossbows that Li Yun got from Cui Shao were all equipped to this brigade.

After the crossbow shot an arrow, it was no longer of much use. After all, it took too long to reload the mechanism. The twenty men skillfully carried the crossbow on their backs, drew the long swords from their waists, followed Li Yun, and rushed forward.

At this time, the army under Li Yun's command had rarely suffered defeat, and both morale and morale were relatively high.

What's more, Li Yun is at the front.

As we all know, as long as General Li leads the charge, this battle will be impossible to lose!
After Li Yun swept down two people with his spear, he shot another one straight in the face. Then he saw the direction of Captain He clearly and rushed towards him without stopping.

Zhang Hu did not accompany Li Yun on this trip to Wujun, so the left and right wings of Li Yun were replaced by guards. Yang Xi naturally stood on Li Yun's left side, while on Li Yun's right side, a young man gritted his teeth and followed.

This young man was none other than Meng Qing.

When Li Yun first met Meng Qing, Meng Qing was still a teenager, and his height was only up to Li Yun's chest. But after following Li Yun, his food was improved, and he was growing taller. In the past year, he has grown rapidly. Now, he is taller than Li Yun's shoulders, and only half a head shorter than Li.

You know, Li Yun is a rare big man, and Meng Qing's height is not much different from that of a normal adult, and he is young, so he still has room to grow taller.

At this time, Meng Qing held a shield in one hand and a single sword in the other, and followed closely on Li Yun's right hand side, blocking the swords and enemies that were coming at him.

At the same time, the young man was quick-witted and took advantage of the opportunity to injure two people.

Although these local troops of Wujun who arrived overnight were numerous in number, the local troops of Jiangnan were rotten to begin with. Their formation was not fully arranged at the moment, and they encountered a fierce man like Li Yun who was good at charging into the formation. After only a moment of contact, the formation of these Wujun soldiers was in chaos!
Li Yun strode towards Captain He, holding his spear high, and smashed it directly on the top of his head with all his might!

Captain He was stunned.

There is such a way to use a gun?!

If you're fighting like this, why don't you use a long sword? A mace would be fine too!

Thinking so, he still swung his sword to block in panic. As soon as the weapons touched, Captain He knew something was wrong. He quickly retracted his sword, then moved sideways, taking advantage of the momentum to roll to the side and barely avoided the attack.

Even so, his hands were numb from the shock.

Captain He was shocked.

He had also been exposed to guns and sticks since he was a child, and considered himself to be quite good at martial arts. When he competed with others in fist and kick competitions, he usually won more than he lost.

When fighting with Li Yun at this time, he almost couldn't hold out for even one round!

This is not because he is too weak. If the two sides fight with fists and feet, he can really fight with Li Yun for ten or eight rounds. However, this is on the battlefield. Li Yun's style of fighting, which is to attack without defending, is most suitable for the battlefield!

While Captain He was still in a daze, Li Yun had already approached him and poked his chest with the butt of his gun. Captain He gritted his teeth and swung his knife at Li Yun's neck, thinking that even if he was injured, he could still kill Li Yun with this blow!

Li Yun withdrew his attack and knocked his knife away with the butt of his gun. Then he leaned sideways and hit Captain He hard, knocking him to the ground. Blood oozed from the corners of his nostrils and mouth, and he fainted!

Li Yun sneered: "Take it!"

Then he picked up his gun and continued to rush into the crowd.

The two sides fought for only an hour, and when it was dawn, all the Wujun soldiers were killed in battle or surrendered.

There were nearly four hundred Wujun soldiers in total, but they were defeated by Li Yun's guard alone!

When the battle was about to start, Li Yun took off his armor, glanced around, and then shouted to Yang Xi: "Check the battlefield, count the casualties, and more!"

He looked towards the woods not far away, where a number of horses were tied.

These Wujun soldiers were not cavalry at all, so even though they came on horseback, those horses were just vehicles for them, not war pets.

They could only dismount and fight on foot, so most of the hundreds of horses were still tied in the woods.

Even if these horses are not war horses, they are still a group of good things for Li Yun now. After all, it would cost a lot of money to buy them from the market!
"Take all those horses, lead them back to our own camp, and then take them back to Wuzhou!"

Yang Xianxi shouted and rushed towards the horses with dozens of young men.

However, most of them had never been in contact with horses, let alone riding them. Many of them were clumsy and were not injured by the Wujun soldiers. Instead, several of them were kicked and injured by the horses.

Li Yun, on the other hand, returned to his tent with his gun in hand.

In the big tent, His Royal Highness the King of Chu had not slept all night, and his eyes were already covered with big dark circles. When he saw Li Yun walking in, he had a complicated expression at first, but then he breathed a sigh of relief.

"Li the governor is truly a brave man!"

Li Yun threw the spear aside. The sound of the spear falling to the ground frightened the King of Chu.

After dropping his weapon, Li clasped his fists towards Wu Yuanyou and grinned.

"Your Highness, the chaos has been resolved."

"I will be able to take your Highness with me soon."

"Returning to Gusu City openly and honestly!"

(End of this chapter)