Ruan Zhengyu nodded afterwards, thinking of the four elephant taming guards and the horse leisure guards he had established over the years, and he was full of confidence.
What types of arms are the Four Elephant Guards and the Four Horse Guards?
As the name suggests, the Four Elephant Guards are four troops dominated by war elephants. Each of these four troops command 200 war elephants. Once these elephants attack, they are like ancient tanks and are indestructible.
Ruan Zhengyu relied on this army to conquer the north and south, and he defeated small countries in all directions. As a result, he had not encountered an opponent for more than ten years.
The Ma Xian Four Guards are a rare cavalry unit in the south. Each unit has a total of 10,000 cavalry. It is also a rare impact force among the southern countries.
For the sake of the four horse guards and the four elephant taming guards, Ruan Zhengyu spent almost half of their military expenditure on these two troops.
These two troops were also Ruan Zhengyu's trump cards and could not be used easily. This time he wanted to gather all these two troops and go north to compete with Jia Ke, trying to defeat Jia Ke in one fell swoop, which made him frightened.
From now on I dare not look south.
Ruan Zhengyu made up his mind and immediately sent an order: "With the four guards of Shenwu, the six guards in front of the palace, the four elephant taming guards, and the four horses and horses as the central army, we will gather 150,000 soldiers from various places, and then we will meet at Thang Long Palace. I personally will lead the troops to the north.
, a showdown with the Northern Dynasties."
The ministers below all found it difficult to accept Ruan Zhengyu's order.
How much food and grass are needed to gather these hundreds of thousands of soldiers? Although Annan Elementary School is said to have three crops a year, the oppression of the people by the nobles exceeds that of the Celestial Empire.
If we collect so much food and grass now, the people may cause trouble.
But they looked at Ruan Zhengyu with firm eyes and did not dare to stop him.
So with Ruan Zhengyu's order, the entire Annan took action, and soon there were 200,000 to 300,000 troops gathered in Thanglong Mansion.
Among them, there are 40,000 Shenwu guards, 60,000 Six front guards, 60,000 Elephant tamers, and 4 Ma Xian guards, plus reinforcements from various places to attack 260,000 people.
The food and grass needed for these soldiers and horses were naturally raised from the homes of the princes and nobles, and they would not waste their own family wealth on Ruan Zhengyu.
As a result, the people of Annan began to complain. Ruan Zhengyu was deep in the palace and could not hear these. When he saw that the troops had been assembled, he did not delay and immediately led the troops northward.
Knowing that Ruan Zhengyu had just left the gate of Thang Long City, he saw a man on the roadside, wearing a hemp crown and a linen robe, waiting for him with an empty merchant gang in his hand.
Ruan Zhengyu took a closer look and saw that it was Ruan Tiande who had been driven out of the court by him.
When Ruan Zhengyu saw this situation, he knew that Ruan Tiande was here to make him unhappy.
So he ordered people to bring Ruan Tiande to his horse and asked: "If you don't retire in the city, why are you here on the roadside?"
When Ruan Tiande saw Ruan Zhengyu kneeling on the ground, he said with tears in his eyes: "I ask the king to cease the war immediately and surrender like the Central Plains, so as to protect the design of the Annan Kingdom and the mausoleum of our ancestors."
"Shut up. I made it very clear to you in the court. I didn't expect you to still dare to cause trouble here. Go back quickly and you can save yourself. Otherwise, don't blame me for being ruthless."
After Ruan Zhengyu said this, he ignored Ruan Tiande and continued to urge the army to advance.
Ruan Tiande watched Ruan Zhengyu leading his troops forward, and couldn't help crying: "Annan Kingdom has been destroyed, ancestors, please open your eyes and take a look."
Ruan Zhengyu, who had already walked a long way, became furious when he heard these words.
"Come here, put this lunatic in jail for me, and wait until I return victorious to deal with him."
Ruan Zhengyu gave orders, and several soldiers immediately came, tied up Ruan Tiande and sent him to a cell in the city.
After Ruan Zhengyu dealt with this matter, he was still dissatisfied, but he received reports that Jia Ke, King of Yan in the Northern Dynasty, had commanded nearly 300,000 troops and was stationed at the border, and might attack the border city at any time.
Therefore, Ruan Zhengyu did not dare to neglect and immediately mobilized the army to go to the border. When they arrived at the border, Jia Ke had been waiting here for a long time.
Jia Ke knew the terrain of the south very well. The rainforests here were dense and humid and hot. If these people were scattered into the dense forest and did not fight against him, they would really drink a pot of their own.
So Jia Ke commanded 300,000 troops, increasing his momentum but moving slowly. He wanted King Annan to gather his forces to confront him, and then defeat him in one fell swoop, thus sparing these people from fighting guerrilla warfare against him.
Ruan Zhengyu also agreed to Jia Ke's idea and came to the border with hundreds of thousands of people and horses, and then set up camp ten miles away from Jia Ke's camp.
Jia Ke was overjoyed when he received the news that King Annan and his troops were coming.
Early the next morning, Jia Ke took 50,000 troops to the outside of the Annan Kingdom camp to attack the enemy and take a position.
When King Ruan Zhengyu of Annan heard that Jia Ke had come to attack the enemy, he did not show any weakness and left the camp with all the civil and military personnel of the court and full guard of honor.
Jia Ke looked across from the front of the formation and saw the gate of Annan's camp opened. The first to come out were 10,000 cavalry. These cavalry came to the front of the formation and ran around to suppress the formation.
Jia Ke couldn't help but smile sarcastically when he saw these 10,000 cavalry showing off their power in front of the formation. These cavalry can be regarded as a force that cannot be ignored in the south, but compared to the northern prairie warriors brought by Jia Ke, these people are not
It's really not enough.
Immediately afterwards, tens of thousands of infantrymen poured out of the camp. Each of these infantrymen had strong bodies, but many of them were even bare-chested, and even their weapons were not very complete. As for the armor, only a few sitting on horses
Except for generals, almost no one wears armor.
Jia Ke snorted when he saw this. In ancient times, iron was the most important strategic material. Even the annual output of iron in the Central Plains was only 10 million kilograms. According to the current measurement method, it was only five or six.
Thousand tons, let alone Annan Kingdom.
But when Jia Ke saw the hundreds of elephants coming out at the end, he frowned, but Jia Ke immediately relaxed again.
If he had been charged by these elephant soldiers before, his army might have been scattered, but since Jia Ke got the weapon-making book from Jia Mu, he started to make those weapons according to the description in the book.
War weapons.
Among them are the Zhuge Liannu, the Divine Arm Crossbow, and the three-bow bed crossbow (Eight Ox Crossbow), the pinnacle of ancient weapons.
If the elephant soldiers on the opposite side dare to charge, they will immediately be turned into a sieve when faced with the powerful crossbow arrows such as the three-bow bed crossbow.
King Ruan Zhengyu of Annan was also in front of the formation, looking towards Jia Ke.
Upon seeing this, Ruan Zhengyu immediately felt uneasy. He saw that the troops directly opposite Jia Ke were all standing upright, like wooden stakes.
If this is just the case, it is just well-trained, and these people are all covered in armor, and they look like elite teachers at first glance.
Ruan Zhengyu turned around and looked at the soldiers beside him. Almost none of them had armor, and some even had no clothes.
This cast a shadow over Ruan Zhengyu's future.
Jia Ke saw that the Annan Kingdom had formed a large formation, so he urged his horse forward, arrived in front of the Annan Kingdom's formation and shouted loudly: "Jia Ke, the King of Yan of a certain family, asks the leader of your family to come and talk to you immediately."
Ruan Zhengyu didn't show any weakness when he heard Jia Ke's call, and wanted to move forward with his horse. Li Guangqing, who was next to him, quickly stopped him and said: "Your Majesty is a man of ten thousand gold, and you cannot touch dangerous places."
Ruan Zhengyu couldn't help but get furious after hearing this, "The enemy's general is calling for formation in front of him. If he is too timid to come out, he will not only make the other party laugh, but also weaken our momentum."
So Ruan Zhengyu ignored the dissuasion and came to the front of the battle with several generals.
This is because Ruan Zhengyu doesn't understand Jia Ke. If he were the Tatar Khan Alslen Khan, he would definitely not come out if Jia Ke yelled and cursed in front of him. But he knew how powerful Jia Ke was. Once he was caught by Jia Ke, he would
Lives are at risk.
Jia Ke was riding alone, carrying Fang Tian's painted halberd. When he saw a middle-aged man wearing a yellow robe coming out from the opposite side, followed by several generals wearing helmets and crowns, he knew that the Lord of Annan had already come out.
When Ruan Zhengyu was a hundred or two hundred steps away from Jia Ke, he stopped his horse, pointed his riding whip at Jia Ke and said, "Are you the King of Yan in the Northern Dynasty?"
"Yes, it's Jia."
"Our country and you are not invading each other. How can we bring a large army to invade our territory?"
After hearing this, Jia Ke smiled coldly, and then said: "You are the vassal king conferred by the Taizu of my dynasty, so naturally you must respect the Central Plains Kingdom. Why do you repeatedly send troops to invade?"
When Ruan Zhengyu heard Jia Ke's question, he lost his temper and said directly: "Since ancient times, the strong have been kings and the weak have been bandits. Now that our Da'an South Kingdom is strong and prosperous, your dynasty has declined, so naturally you are our prey."
After hearing this, Jia Ke, the leader of a small country, was so clueless that he didn't want to waste any more words with him, so he said: "That's it, we can see the difference on the battlefield."
After Jia Ke finished speaking, he turned around and wanted to return to his formation.
Unexpectedly, a general who followed Ruan Zhengyu dared to come to his formation when he saw Jia Ke riding alone, thinking that this was a God-given opportunity.
So he ignored Ruan Zhengyu and urged the green-maned beast on his crotch to go straight to Jia Ke.
Not long after Jia Ke returned to his horse, he heard the sound of horse hooves behind him. He turned around and saw a big man running behind him with an iron helmet on his head, wearing iron armor and holding a mace in his hand.
Jia Ke still doesn't know that the other party is here for a sneak attack. He wants to capture the thief first and capture the king first.
Jia Ke pretended not to know the details. When the opponent and his horse were connecting with each other, he suddenly pulled the fire dragon colt. This fire dragon colt was a BMW horse, fast and agile, and he immediately stepped aside.
General Annan, who was catching up, had just raised his mace when he saw the opponent's horse suddenly leaping to the side. At this moment, the two sides immediately started fighting each other.
Jia Ke didn't give the opponent any chance, Fang Tian's halberd fell from the sky, split Huashan with one force and went straight to the opponent's head.
The Annan general didn't even have a chance to react before he was chopped in half by Jia Ke with his shoulder strap on his back. Even the horse he was sitting on was chopped to death on the spot.
Jia Ke killed the general who made the sneak attack, turned around and smiled at King Annan: "This small barbarian country doesn't know etiquette, it only knows how to sneak attack. If you steal a chicken today, you will lose a lot of rice."
When Ruan Zhengyu saw his general heading straight for Jia Ke, he still had some hope that he would kill the opponent's general in one fell swoop. In this way, he would be able to conquer a huge empire by returning his troops to the north. Who knew that his general would only be able to conquer the enemy in one fell swoop?
He was killed by Jia Ke.
Jia Ke was now laughing and scolding in front of the battle. Ruan Zhengyu had been humiliated like this for so many years of fighting in the north and south. He immediately said to the general beside him: "Chen Tai, you took this man's life to vent my anger."
Chen Tai is also considered a warrior in Annan Kingdom, but he just saw Jia Ke kill a general similar to himself in one round. He is very worried now, but he cannot disrespect the king's order, so he can only bite the bullet.
Pat the horse forward.
When Jia Ke saw another general coming out from the other side, he wanted to pick up Fang Tian's painted halberd and go to fight again.
Unexpectedly, a young general ran out of his formation at this time. This person was none other than Xiao Yue.
Since Xiao Yue followed Jia Ke, he has been highly valued by Jia Ke. Now he is a general commanding 50,000 troops. However, he has not made any achievements following Jia Ke, so he always feels that he is inferior to others. This time going south, he feels
This is your chance to be rewarded for your meritorious service.
Xiao Yue came to Jia Ke's horse, raised his hands to Jia Ke and said: "My lord, how can I kill a chicken with a butcher's knife? If I don't bother my lord, it's enough for me to go in person."