Prince of Song Dynasty

Chapter 498 Heavy Armored Cavalry
Murong Yanzhao knew very well how powerful the private soldiers he personally trained for the Holy Church were, even compared to the elites in the Northwest Camp under his command, they were no different.But they were all killed by that young man. I heard that the powerful young man had only a hundred people around him at that time. In the end, the young man was only slightly injured, and the people around him were only dead. It's only half done.

As soon as this incident happened, he knew that the lifeline he had finally come up with was almost completely blocked.Even if he sneaks back to Kaifeng and kneels in front of His Majesty the Emperor according to the original idea and arrangement, he may not die, and most likely he will not spend the rest of his life in prison, but he and his family will definitely be under house arrest in Kaifeng In the city.

How can he be reconciled with such a result? To be precise, he can accept that he is under house arrest, but he absolutely cannot accept that his sons will be imprisoned for life.What's more, even if His Majesty the Emperor will spare him, but that powerful young man who blamed him for the assassination will let his family go?He absolutely believed that if he lost his military power and returned to Kaifeng, as long as that young man was willing, he could easily let his family die silently.

Therefore, in the end, he could only continue to stay in the Northwest camp, continue to serve as an elder of the outer sect of the Holy Church, and was continued to be used by the Holy Church, and then secretly desperately searched for a chance to keep his heart open.

In the General's Mansion in Qingzhou City, Murong Yanzhao stood in a small training ground in the middle courtyard, muttering to himself: "Since Ye Chen wants to come to Qingzhou from the northwest in person, there may be some things that can be discussed face-to-face."

Murong Yanzhao looked at the General's Mansion in the cold wind, thinking about what he had done and what he was going to do in the past few days, and what the Holy Church might do to him next, his face was full of determination.

A school lieutenant quickly ran over from the gate of the mansion, glanced at the more than 100 servants of the general's mansion who were kneeling on the ground beside him, he was shocked at first, and then came to Murong Yanzhao as if nothing had happened, and saluted respectfully , said something in a low voice.

This lieutenant is the one in charge of inspection at the East Gate of Gyeongju.

After the assassination incident outside Kaifeng City nearly a month ago, the inspectors at the four gates of Gyeongju were replaced by Murong Yanzhao's absolute confidants.It was to prevent people from the Huaxia Weifu from secretly sneaking into Qingzhou City to directly arrest or behead him.He originally thought that even his best subordinates would find it difficult to see the activities of those elite spies from Huaxia Weifu. In fact, how many people from Huaxia Weifu sneaked into Qingzhou City in advance these days, and they did not find a single person.But today I found a big fish, no!Not a big fish, but a king fish.

But then he found something strange about this matter. Although he believed in the combat power of his subordinates, he didn't have the slightest confidence that his subordinates could find Ye Chen's Xingzang.

However, the actual situation is that his subordinates did not find any spies or killers of Huaxia Weifu, but they found Ye Chen.And it's so easy, how is this possible?Or what is going on here?What does the other party want to express to themselves?
"The few supervisors who came from Kaifeng City ten days ago should have sent back something to Ye Chen, so he is testing my determination one step further. So these more than 100 people and those who will die on the street later Those people deserve to die." Murong Yanzhao thought to himself.

The cold wind from the northwest blew over General Murong's stern face, and there was a very strong smell of blood in the wind, and then there was the sound of mowing and weeding.

On the platform not far behind Murong Yanzhao, more than 100 people were gagged and knelt on the ground. Under the bright knife light, their heads were separated from their bodies, and blood poured into the thick snow.

These people are all from the general's mansion, including servants, guards, and family generals. They have different identities on the surface, but they may all have the identity of the Holy Church secretly. Doubt, and then he said a word, and he was killed.

Murong Yanzhao didn't change his face when he killed people like grass.

The killing behind him is still going on.

The head of the person who was suspected to be the dark son of the temple was cut off and the snow fell, and there was an endless sound of rubbing.

Amid the smell of blood, Murong Yanzhao said indifferently to the captain: "There may be bad people who will harm the imperial envoy. You pass on my command to ask Vice General Zhou to take his people to meet and escort the imperial envoy for me."

In recent days, Qingzhou City, an important town in the northwestern border of the Great Song Dynasty, actually has an unusual atmosphere on some levels other than ordinary people. When the imperial court wants to send the chief envoy of the Huaxia Weifu, the king of Xiangfu County Ye Chen to comfort the northwest frontier army After the news spread, the atmosphere became more and more intense. Even the black and white gangs in the city who were extremely ruthless during the day seemed to be a little afraid of the atmosphere of the past few days, and they couldn't be more obedient.

The reason for this is naturally related to the assassination in the valley outside Kaifeng City nearly a month ago. The ordinary people in Gyeongju City do not know about this incident, but some people with identities have their own news channels and have already known about it. A major event that shocked the world.

There is never a shortage of smart people in this world. There have been no major events in the Northwest in the past two years, but Ye Chen, who is the chief envoy of the Huaxia Weifu and the king of the county, unexpectedly came to the first place after he was assassinated. It was from the Northwest, and it was made clear that they came to comfort the Northwest Frontier Army.This can easily make many smart people with certain identities think whether the assassination in the valley outside Kaifeng City is related to General Murong of Qingzhou City.

However, the General's Mansion expressed silence on this. General Murong Yanzhao said he was recuperating from illness, and the two vermilion doors hadn't been opened for a long time these days.

Therefore, the gates of the General's Mansion were opened today, and the soldiers and civilians in the city knew that this meant that a certain event was about to happen. They were very surprised who deserved to be treated so seriously by General Murong Yanzhao?Some people thought of the young county king who was famous all over the world.

At the same time, a lieutenant named Zhou Chengju in the Northwest Camp was ordered to meet Ye Chen, the imperial envoy, with [-] heavy cavalry under his command.

Ye Chen came to Gyeongju Prefecture in the name of an imperial envoy. Since he hadn't thought about hiding his identity, after he came, he would naturally go to see Gyeongju's parent official—the magistrate.Therefore, they and their party went to the Yamen of the prefect of Gyeongju at a leisurely pace.

According to Huaxia Weifu's speculation, after they arrive in Qingzhou City, they will experience an assassination before meeting Murong Yanzhao—because if Murong Yanzhao is determined to follow the church to the dark, he must There will be an assassination jointly organized by Murong Yanzhao and Shengtang.If Murong Yanzhao was not as loyal to the Holy Church as the Huaxia Weifu's analysis these days said, he would also have to experience an assassination, but it was an assassination planted by the Holy Church on Murong Yanzhao.

However, until a general from the Northwest Battalion led his [-] heavy cavalry men towards Ye Chen, the expected assassination did not happen.

The so-called heavy cavalry refers to heavy cavalry, which is the most terrifying combat force in the field. As long as it starts to charge, no army can resist it head-on. However, there is no perfect thing in the world, and heavy cavalry also has its weaknesses.

Armored riding equipment is too heavy to run long distances, and affected by the armor, the flexibility in narrow areas is not as good as that of light cavalry. This is the most obvious weakness of heavy cavalry.

The biggest problem is that the maintenance cost of heavy cavalry is really astonishing.A heavy cavalry needs to be equipped with a large number of retinues and auxiliary soldiers, which is extremely expensive, and because of the extremely high requirements on the personal quality of individual soldiers, tactical cavalry training is extremely difficult.Therefore, in today's world, apart from Song State, which has a very small number of heavy cavalry to deal with the powerful light cavalry of the Khitan in the north and the Northwest Dangxiang people, there is no other country that is capable of organizing an institutionalized heavy cavalry.

To be precise, the Song Dynasty only had [-] heavy cavalry, of which [-] heavy cavalry were in the North Camp, facing Khitan directly.In addition, there are [-] heavy cavalry in the Northwest Camp to deal with the light cavalry of the party members.

Although heavy cavalry has weaknesses, it is called a heavy weapon on the battlefield for a reason. This kind of cavalry, which has been given the mission of charging and charging from the day of its birth, is the nightmare of countless enemies.

Since Gyeongju City is a half-military city, this was taken into consideration at the beginning of construction, so the streets are long, straight and wide enough for the heavy cavalry to barely open up and charge.

Therefore, it is reasonable for Murong Yanzhao to send the most powerful heavy cavalry to meet and protect Ye Chen and his party, and it also reflects the importance that Murong Yanzhao Imperial Envoy attaches.

When the [-] heavy cavalrymen appeared, the prefect of Gyeongju, who had also received the news, had brought [-] government soldiers to come to Ye Chen first, and saluted Ye Chen respectfully.

However, at this moment, when the five hundred heavy cavalry were a hundred feet away from Ye Chen and his party, Zhou Chengju, who led the team, suddenly ordered softly: "Attack."

The hooves of the horse moved gradually, and the heavy [-] cavalry stepped on the hard ground. Just like the past countless years, they charged again, and the ground began to tremble.

The whole city began to shake.

They came to greet and escort Ye Chen, but now they are charging towards Ye Chen and his party.

Charging means running over and killing all the targets that pass in front of you.

They came to kill Ye Chen, they were the assassins that Ye Chen had predicted long ago.

It's just that the five hundred heavy cavalry were sent by Murong Yanzhao?Or is the church playing tricks?

Although the assassination was within the expectations of Ye Chen and Huaxia Weifu, the location, timing, and method of the assassination were the same as the previous assassinations of Ye Chen by the Holy Church, without warning and violent .

However, no matter how violent and unexpected the assassination by the Holy Church was, since Ye Chen had already predicted it in advance, how could he be unprepared.Even though the assassination method was indeed very powerful, Ye Chen still had various preparations.

(End of this chapter)