Thief Emperor

Chapter 781 Is it a human?
Oriental fish has white belly.

The sky was still dim, but the morning light of the sun could hardly be concealed.

At this time, Li Yun's troops had already marched all the way south from Taolin.

After walking about twenty or thirty miles, the sky became completely bright.

The normal marching distance for an army in this era was about fifty miles a day.

However, the journey of fifty miles must take into account logistics, supplies, and other factors. In the case of a forced march, these twenty or thirty miles will only take a little over an hour.

At this time, they had almost reached the designated location.

Before Li Yun had time to give orders and prepare an ambush formation, Meng Hai ran all the way to Li Yun and said in a deep voice: "Sir, our army has encountered the enemy in the east!"

Li Yun raised his head and looked to the east, then asked, "How many people?"

"It's hard to see them all at a glance, but there are at least several thousand of them. The people from Jiusi are currently estimating their exact number."

"Ascend."

Meng Hai whispered, "Should we retreat a bit? Leave some space for us to set up our formation?"

Li Yun thought for a while, shook his head slightly, and said calmly: "We are in a hurry to get here, and they are also in a hurry to get here, and they came so quickly, I guess they didn't sleep a wink last night."

At this point, Mr. Li smiled and said, "Our Jiangdong Army slept for at least half the night last night."

"Since they are a tired army, there is no point in giving them any buffer time. Pass the order on."

Li Yun said calmly: "All the battalions, immediately organize your formations, at least as a unit of the battalion of lieutenants, to stop the enemy in the east!"

"Firearms Battalion, and crossbowmen, don't rush forward, find your own positions."

"Let the people from the Firearms Battalion communicate well with the other battalions and coordinate with each other!"

Li Yun was not in a hurry and issued orders one after another.

When he first came to this world, Li Yun was truly a layman in leading troops, but by this time, he was no longer such a person.

After spending nearly ten years in the army, no matter how stupid you are, you should have learned how to lead troops in battle.

Not to mention, this army was originally led by Li Yun himself bit by bit.

Moreover, Li Yun has never left the set of military books left by General Su. If the notes are included, he has been reading them for nearly ten years. Such a long time, plus so much rich military practice.

He has completely mastered the book "Su Gong's Art of War".

It is certainly a long way to say that Li Yun is a military saint or a military genius now, but even with a conservative estimate, his ability to lead troops is not much different from that of Generals Su and Zhao.

Besides, at present, the total number of his own troops on the battlefield is only about 10,000 people, and he has to command a force of this size.

With ease.

As Li Yun issued his military orders one after another, a dozen or so captain battalions immediately took action. Several of the captain battalions were in the front, while the captain battalions in the rear immediately began to occupy advantageous terrain and create some advantageous terrain.

Compared with the well-organized Jiangdong Army, the Shuofang Army on the other side seemed a little panicked.

Less than half an hour into the battle, they had already launched several fierce attacks on Li Yun's Jiangdong Army positions. The intensity of the battle on the battlefield was extremely fierce.

Li Yun held a telescope in his hand and looked at the battlefield. After a while, he turned his head to look at Yang Xi who was not far away and asked, "Did you bring my flag?"

Yang Xi nodded quickly and said with a smile: "We will take the royal flag wherever we go!"

Li Yun said "hmm" and was about to speak when suddenly, a huge explosion was heard on the front line of the battlefield in the distance. Li Yun turned around suddenly and looked at the battlefield.

He was the one who arranged and commanded this battle. He knew very well the location where the explosion occurred. He did not deploy any firearms camp and had hardly arranged any firearms.

Li Yun raised the telescope and looked in this direction. Several Shuofang soldiers were holding strange-looking pottery jars with "fuses" connected to the outside of the jars. After lighting the fuses, these Shuofang soldiers immediately threw the jars out, and the jars exploded with a loud noise.

Mr. Li stared at this direction for a long time before slowly putting down his glasses.

Sure enough, there are still too many smart people in this world.

His gunpowder was invented a long time ago, but it has not been used on the battlefield for very long.

Just a few years.

But now, this thing has obviously been "copied" by someone.

In this era, Li Yun was indeed the first person to "militarize" gunpowder, but gunpowder itself was not a secret.

Because this thing was made by Taoists when they were refining elixirs, and the Taoists also wrote down the formula. Even if there was no Li Yun in this world, it would probably only take a hundred years for gunpowder to become a weapon, but the appearance of Li Yun brought it forward a little bit.

The source of the Shuofang Army's gunpowder was probably those Taoists.

Moreover, the Shuofang Army obviously wanted to prevent Jiangdong's thunder bombs, but they could not imitate the iron outer wall of the thunder bombs. Even if they could imitate it, the gunpowder ratio might not be correct and they would not be able to blow up the iron cans.

So, they used clay pots instead.

It can be considered a youth version of Thunder.

Li Yun used a telescope to look at the Shuofang Army's version of the Thunder Bomb. After looking at it for a long time, he put down the telescope and said to Meng Hai with a smile, "It must have taken the Shuofang Army more than a day or two to come up with this thing."

"If you don't take it out earlier, you won't take it out later. Take it out now."

Li Yun stopped talking here.

Meng Hai on the side said with a smile: "They are anxious."

Li Yun nodded slightly, pointed in this direction, and said with a smile: "There may be a big fish here, either Wei Yao or Wei Quanzhong."

At this point, he looked at Yang Xi and said, "Hang up my royal flag."

Yang Xi responded and shouted a few words to his subordinates in the guard camp. Soon, a tall flag was erected.

The huge Chinese character "李" flutters in the wind.

The flag was quite high, and several nearby captain camps saw it. Looking at the big flag, the fighting spirit of these captain camps rose a little bit.

Li Yun climbed onto his horse, put on his armor, and said in a deep voice, "Guardians, get on your horses!"

"Come with me and see if this big fish is old or young!"

Following his order, hundreds of cavalrymen in the guard camp mounted their horses almost at the same time, followed him, and ran towards the direction of the explosion of the pottery jar.

The two sides were originally separated by more than a mile. For the infantry, this was a relatively safe distance, but for the cavalry, this distance was too close!
Hundreds of riders arrived in the blink of an eye. Li Yun rode on his horse, took the ox-horn bow from the saddle, drew the bow and put an arrow on it. He pulled the bowstring to its full length as easily as pulling a rubber band, and then the arrow shot out like lightning, and a Shuofang soldier fell to the ground.

While running, Li Yun shot three arrows in a row, only one of which missed. When he got closer, he hung the ox horn bow on the saddle, picked up the spear in his hand, and using the momentum of his horse, the spear pierced through a Shuofang soldier almost without any hindrance!

At this time, hundreds of cavalrymen from his guard camp also rushed to the battlefield.

At the beginning, although Li Yun's guard battalion was equipped with horses, they did not know how to fight on horseback and could only dismount and fight on foot.

But now, after several selections and changes of talents, and after such a long time, the guard camp has almost become an elite cavalry!
Everyone is proficient in horse fighting!

Originally, a Duwei Battalion of the Jiangdong Army was fighting with a Shuofang Army on this battlefield. The two sides were fighting back and forth. After Li Yun's guard battalion joined the battlefield, after only two exchanges, the enemy was directly dispersed by Li Yun's guard battalion, and their formation was in chaos!
Li rode his horse in pursuit and fired another shot, killing a Shuofang soldier cleanly and neatly.

He drew back his spear and was about to look forward when he saw several riders charging out from the direction of the enemy.

These cavalrymen were all riding strong horses and were very brave. The leader was a man in his forties. He looked straight at Li Yun and shouted, "You thief, how dare you be so violent!"

The man ran towards Li Yun with a long sword, holding the sword with both hands, and slashed Li Yun's face accurately.

Li Yun didn't even use both hands to hold the spear. He just swung his arm upwards, making the spear round and smashing it directly towards the guard of his long sword!
The two sides exchanged weapons, sparks flying.

The big man only felt an incredible force coming, and the long sword in his hand almost slipped out of his hand. In panic, he quickly put away the sword. When he looked up at Li Yun again, Li Yun had already rode his horse close to him. With his right hand, he pulled him off the horse!
Mr. Li growled, picked him up with one hand, returned to the camp, and threw him to the ground like a dead dog!
The man fell so hard that he fainted.

Yang Xi and others were frightened to death and hurried to stop the remaining enemy troops.

However, at this time, the soldiers around Li Yun were already cheering loudly.

"The great king is mighty, the great king is mighty!"

"The great king is mighty!"

The cry was loud.

On the battlefield, the Jiangdong army's fighting spirit reached a new level.

At the same time, in the enemy camp, General Wei looked at the battlefield with a gloomy face. He held a telescope in his hand, staring at Li Yun, and then put it down.

The one who just went into battle was a brave general under his command, who had few rivals in the Shuofang army.

"This is Li Yun, this is Li Yun..."

Wei Quanzhong took a deep breath and muttered to himself.

"Still human?"

(End of this chapter)