Chapter 155: Breaking the City

Compared to the uneasiness of the Western Zhou Dynasty, Ji Yucang and Shen Ning were obviously not in a hurry at all.

Ji Yucang would go to the military camp in the suburbs every now and then, and Shen Ning was mostly responsible for the training.

Riding and shooting, flying over eaves and walls, using swords, spears, sticks, climbing walls and ladders, the soldiers were agile, arranging troops and arraying formations like flowing clouds and water, breaking arrays like fierce snakes out of caves, and their combat effectiveness was advancing by leaps and bounds.

Day after day, without interruption.

In a blink of an eye, it was September.

Xie Tinglan encountered a little obstacle when attacking the city. Mobei gathered almost all its troops to block outside the auxiliary capital. The battle between the two sides was fierce and long.

In the middle of the twelfth lunar month, a cavalry galloped thousands of miles, like a night walker, and rushed to the northern battlefield quickly. While Xie Tinglan was still formulating a better siege plan, the cavalry raided the northern palace and directly surrounded the Mobei Imperial City, which had almost become an empty city.

The emperor and ministers of Mobei were captured alive, and the soldiers defending the city of Fudu were in disarray, and the defeat happened almost overnight.

This battle was won quietly.

All the military exploits were led by Xie Tinglan and his troops. The royal family of Mobei was executed, the incompetent ministers, corrupt officials and treacherous villains in the court were all exterminated, leaving only a few loyal and brave men to do their part for their country and the people.

The iron cavalry that shuttled through Mobei took a short rest and soon left Mobei like a ghost, leaving only Xie Tinglan and his army stationed in Mobei to reorganize the remaining troops in Mobei.

At the end of November, the Western Zhou Dynasty sent another alliance document.

Ji Yucang ignored it, and Shen Ning led the Feifeng Army to officially start the expedition against the Western Zhou Dynasty on the grounds of "seeking justice for Princess Zhaohua".

The royal family of the Western Zhou Dynasty probably never dreamed that the Yong Kingdom only brought a mere 20,000 people to attack the Western Zhou Dynasty.

They could not imagine that among these 20,000 people, 10,000 were once the troops of Princess Nan Zhaohua.

After carefully selecting and replenishing 10,000 elite troops from Yong State, Ji Yucang equipped them with the best war horses and armor, the sharpest weapons, and built an invincible cavalry army from all aspects after a whole year of uninterrupted special training.

Now this cavalry is attacking the Western Zhou Dynasty, with the goal of conquering the Western Zhou Dynasty within a year, which is equal to the time it took to attack Mobei.

When King Wu of the Western Zhou Dynasty arrived at the border with his army, he laughed after hearing that the other side had only 20,000 troops: "Just 20,000 troops want to break through my Western Zhou border? Dream about their Spring and Autumn period!"

"Your Majesty, their 20,000 troops are all cavalry, no infantry."

King Wu's smile disappeared instantly: "Iron cavalry?"

"Yes."

"So what?" King Wu quickly snorted, "It's just a scare formation."

He ordered people to prepare for the battle, the border defense line was extended, and the most meticulous defense was set up in all the places where troops should be deployed, which could ensure that they would be met with arrows like rain and shot into hedgehogs if they attacked from any place.

However, they waited and waited, but there was no sign of their attack.

King Wu wandered on the tower during the day and discussed countermeasures with the generals in the tent at night, judging the possible attack direction and combat plan of the Feifeng Army, and making all countermeasures.

In the cold winter, the soldiers guarded the border day and night, the north wind was biting, and they shivered with cold.

On the 26th day of the twelfth lunar month, it snowed all night, making the entire border appear white. The tower, the tent, and the military camp were covered with snow.

The soldiers on duty had snow on their heads, and their faces were pale and their hands and feet were numb in the biting cold wind.

King Wu was most afraid of the cold on weekdays, so he hid in the big tent and roasted the fire.

"It's icy and snowy, and the soldiers are so cold that they can't even hold their weapons. They shouldn't attack at this time?"

However, the facts were unexpected, in this icy and snowy land.

A burst of shouting and killing suddenly broke the silence, startling the Western Zhou army as if awakened from a dream. They picked up their spears and arrows, but saw that the ladder under the tower had been quietly set up. Soldiers wearing snow-white armor and iron helmets climbed up the tower nimbly, and killed several people in a row with their swords in hand. The speed was so fast that people almost didn't have time to react.

After a while, the tower was opened from the inside, and the iron cavalry rushed in like a tide.

King Wu was startled in the tent: "What?"

"Their cavalry attacked the city!"

"How could it be? I didn't hear any movement."

"The snow was so thick that the sound of the cavalry attacking was much weaker. They were wearing white armor and all white, so..." The general's uneasy voice sounded, as if trying to explain the other party's cunning, "Prince, what should we do now?"

"Their war horses are also white? If they are not all white, how can we not find them?"

"No, no..." The general said tremblingly, "They sent a group of people to build ladders to attack the city first, and the cavalry fell behind... Those who attacked the city wall were all wearing white armor, and it was difficult to find them when crawling in the snow..."

What he didn't say was that the attackers were too agile, and the speed of climbing the wall and ladder was really difficult for them to deal with. By the time the people on the tower reacted, the bodies had been separated, and there was no time to notify the enemy.

King Wu's face was ashen, and he drew out the long sword hanging on the wall and rushed out.

It was white outside, and even without the night light, one could see clearly. In such bad weather, they actually let the city be breached?

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