Yinshan Record

Chapter 80 Iron Cavalry Under Dark Clouds
"I heard from the Taoist priest that he once fought against demons in the mountains?"

"Ashamed."

Lin Jiugong nodded: "He was also injured."

The military officer named Ning Tuizhi nodded.

"Your Excellency is truly virtuous. I wonder if Your Excellency still has any energy left..."

"I am ashamed, this humble Taoist needs to rest and recuperate."

"In that case, I've disturbed you, Daoist Master."

The military officer instructed the clerk beside him, "Go find an oxcart. The Taoist priest is injured; how can he walk?"

"Ah, no need, I'm fine."

Lin Jiugong offered some words of advice.

Find an oxcart; this oxcart certainly doesn't belong to the Imperial Censor, and it's most likely something they've seized from some commoner by trickery or force.

Ning Tuizhi turned to look at Su Che again.

"Is this young master from Yongzhou?"

Su Che nodded.

"I am also from Yongzhou."

The military officer glanced at Su Che and Song Qi behind him a few times.

“Fellow countrymen, just let me know if you need anything.”

"Easy to say, easy to say."

Su Che quickly responded with a few words.

The military officer exchanged pleasantries with a few hums and snorts, then left with his men.

After the military commander under the Imperial Censor had led his men away, he frowned and gave instructions to the clerk beside him.

"That guy surnamed Lin is only an eighth-rank official, even worse than me, and can't be relied on. Don't bother me next time you run into such a weakling."

"Yes."

"Be nice to that young master. When we get to Shanyin, tell the Imperial Guards to come and take care of him."

"how?"

"That young master is hard to fathom, but his servant is quite skilled and must come from some powerful sect. However, we should still have the Imperial Guards verify his abilities."

The military leader looked back at the Xuan Mountain shrouded in a dim, demonic aura.

Can the troubles in the mountains really be solved with weapons?

Love so and so.

Commander Ning spat a mouthful of phlegm on the ground and led his personal guards toward the back of the column.

After being questioned by the military officer and seeing the city walls of Shanyin in the distance, Su Che finally felt relieved.

To be honest, the well-dressed and disciplined Liang soldiers around them only gave the people a false sense of security.

Su Che knew in his heart that the biggest assets of Shanyin County were only two people.

One was Feng Buxing, who led the Wuyun Capital to guard this place, and the other was the hidden Imperial Censor Xingyou.

Even Shi Chibao, the chief of the Imperial Guards, was not saying that he, as the deputy chief of the Imperial Guards, had any complaints about his superiors, but he really couldn't handle the current situation.

The combined power of fifth-rank demons in Xuan Mountain is enough to establish a territory and form a small court.

In fact, that's exactly what they did.

What's more, there's also the treacherous Black Mountain Monster behind it all.

"Enemy attack!"

"Enemy attack!"

"A monster!"

A mournful bugle call suddenly rang out, causing another wave of chaos among the surrounding people.

A group of monsters appeared on the horizon at some unknown time. They carried crude weapons, some of which could hardly be called weapons, such as broken pieces of wood and pebbles. They had absolutely no fighting techniques and charged at the marching group like a pack of hungry wild beasts.

The people screamed in alarm, shouts rose and fell, fathers called for their daughters, mothers called for their sons, and the crowd was in complete chaos.

They could never have imagined that their seemingly foolish "neighbors," who once occupied the city alone, would now turn into man-eating beasts.

The bugle sounds mournfully, the armored cavalry clangs loudly.

A group of knights galloped out of Shanyin County like shooting stars.

The dark lion-man armor devoured the light, and the fiery red parasites behind the saddle surged like wildfire.

Draw the bow, nock the arrow, and startle the string.

A volley of arrows flew like javelins, like a gust of wind, like the howling of an impermanent wind, piercing into the fleeing demon soldiers.

The bowstrings snapped softly, piercing the flesh of the demon soldiers with wolf-tooth arrows; a single arrow could often pierce through several demons.

As they rode their warhorses, the heavy armor clanging as they slew. These fully armored warhorses were all exotic species imbued with the blood of dragons.

In order to obtain these warhorses, the Liang Dynasty would graze fine breeds on the shores of Dongting Lake every year, applying a secret medicine that could arouse dragons. Often, three or four mares would be lost in order to obtain one such dragon steed.

The dark clouds, like thunderbolts, cleaved the charging beast army to pieces. Spears, whips, and longswords—weapons—bloomed with blood amidst the demon soldiers.

The dark lion-man armor was like a block of solid ice, freezing the madness of the demons.

Su Che was momentarily mesmerized by what he saw.

Is this the power of a human warrior?
I wonder what the battle between Wei Huaiwen and the Prince of Zhongshan of Northern Wei was like at the foot of Zhongli City.

That must have been a battle so fierce that it would have dimmed the sun and stars, changed the color of the heavens and earth, and caused ghosts and gods to wail.

Like hot soup poured into ice and snow, the demon soldiers emerging from Xuan Mountain crumbled before the dark clouds of Daliang, and the Xuanjia knights slaughtered them all.

The parasites, enraged and drunk with demon blood, watched as the knights of Wuyundu, controlling their dragon steeds, slowly made their way towards the camp outside Shanyin City.

They had encountered similar situations several times before.

The monsters in Xuanshan have all gone mad.

Even the hungriest man-eating beasts in the mountains and forests wouldn't frantically search for living people like the monsters of today.

At any time, a group of monsters may emerge from Xuan Mountain, all with the same ragged equipment, the same low cultivation level, and the same relentless desire to capture and take away anyone they can.

The riders in Wuyundu were no longer clear about their purpose in doing this.

Even the most savage barbarian soldiers of the North would weigh the pros and cons when plundering slaves on the battlefield.

But the monsters in Xuanshan no longer value their own lives.

For an elderly man, a naive child, or any living person, they would even be willing to exchange the lives of seven or eight monsters.

If it weren't for the arrival of the three thousand armored soldiers led by Imperial Censor Yu Ze, the safety of Shanyin County might have been guaranteed by the forces of Wuyundu alone, but the safety of the villages and towns near Xuanshan would have been uncertain.

Feng Buxing stood with his hands behind his back on the city wall of Shanyin County. He was wearing a black lion-man heavy armor and had a four-foot-long sword on his back.

Judging from his appearance alone, this eunuch looks more like a veteran general who has fought on the battlefield for many years than a concubine from the imperial palace.

“Feng Da Dang, Wu Yundu truly lives up to his reputation as the Crown Prince’s personal guard. Please convey my gratitude to Lord Su.”

A middle-aged man dressed in brocade stood beside Feng Xingbu. He had an air of nobility between his brows, with sword-like eyebrows and bright eyes. He was six feet tall and wore a lake-blue brocade robe with gold patterns. A warm, red jade pendant hung at his waist.

It was none other than Yu Huaibing, the outstanding talent of the Yu family of Yingchuan, who served as the Vice Censor-in-Chief of the Censorate in Cizhou.

"You're too kind, Your Excellency."

Faced with Yu Ze's praise, Feng Buxing appeared very cautious.

Feng Buxing was an inner court official, while Yu Ze was an outer court official; in principle, the two were not related.

However, Yu Ze's identity has some special aspects.

The current Crown Prince's principal wife is from the Yu family of Yingchuan, and the Crown Prince has to address Yu Ze as his maternal uncle.

Wuyundu was originally an iron cavalry force trained by Lord Su for the Crown Prince.

Note: "Parasitic" refers to a common decoration used by cavalry during the Northern and Southern Dynasties. It resembled a peacock's tail feathers spread out at the rear of the saddle, and was very beautiful. Images of armored cavalry with exquisite parasitic decorations are frequently found on pictorial bricks unearthed from Southern Dynasties tombs.

Just as there were mottos in the Han Dynasty, referring to maternal relatives as "elder brother" and "younger brother" was already common in the Wei and Jin Dynasties. Historical records contain the famous line: "The elder brother has already brought chaos to the world; will the younger brother follow suit?" This was the Eastern Jin emperor's assessment of the brothers Yu Liang, relatives of the imperial family.

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