Chapter 126 - The Urban Army vs The Black Flag (1/2)
Chapter 126 – The Urban Army vs The Black Flag
Translated by Bloodfalcon, Edited by Krayto
“General, spare me. General, have mercy!” Said a private soldier cowering in fear while urinating himself.
The Urban army only numbered 3,000 troops. Liu Mang separated those 3,000 troops into two squadrons. 1,500 led by Liu Mang himself, 1,500 was led by Huang Zhong. Another 1,500 was from the Liu clan’s private soldiers and was led by Liu Kai.
Together, Huang Zhong and Liu Kai simultaneously attacked the South Gate and North Gate. The 1,500 troops led by Liu Mang, attacked the West Gate.
How can these private soldiers be a match for the Urban Army? They were defeated at the first encounter. What they were expert in doing were killing commoners, burning, plundering and raping. Even if they had strength, they only had strength for orgies, not battle.
Liu Mang's Urban Army is truly invincible right now. Everywhere they went private soldiers died and were swept aside. That resulted, many troops are screaming “We surrender!!!” But unfortunately, Liu Mang's order was to kill them all.
The private soldiers who beg to surrender had truly bad luck. The Urban Army would initiate the battle with “If you surrender, we will not kill you!” Yet, once they threw down their weapons, the Urban Army proceeded to kill them.
Those who were beheaded can be considered lucky. A Majority of them were cut in the middle section or their stomachs were slit open. Those who were sliced like that, did not die immediately, but was tormented for at least 10 minutes before they died. Inside half of Wancheng city, screams of pain and endless torment were present.
The Urban Army became an extension of Liu Mang’s will. Having been influenced by Liu Mang's anger and they just acted quickly without mercy.
Because of their concentration and speed, they had reached the front of the West Gate. Liu Mang's speed is the quickest out of Huang Zhong and Liu Kai and because North Gate and South Gate had a lot of soldiers, both of them were delayed in their advance.
“NEIGGGHHHH!” Suddenly Liu Mang's warhorse is neighing. On the ground there is an intermittent vibration. The Urban Army currently instantly stopped moving under Liu Mang's order, but after they felt this vibration, they quickly gather again around Liu Mang.
This kind of vibration can only be made by elite troops in large-scale movement.
Liu Mang then took up the telescope in his hand and sure enough, there was a battalion of elite soldiers, moving toward West Gate toward the Urban Army's direction.
They were all wearing black heavy armor and heavy weaponry. They could be compared to the Formation Breakers of Lu Bu’s army.
“What are these guys?!” Liu Mang's brow wrinkled. This heavy infantry soldiers is an elite unit. n.o.bles' private soldiers are all garbage, so those n.o.bles are unable to have these kind of elites. h.e.l.l, even Sun Ce's army will not have these kind of heavy infantry, they are focusing their power on naval battles, and they definitely will not have heavy infantry.
Liu Mang's deduction is right. Sun Ce’s army did not have this kind of heavy infantry. These heavy infantry came from the Zhou clan, from Shucheng County.
Presently they had 3,000 troops of the Black Flag! They are the Zhou clan's private property. Each Black Flag soldiers was trained from their childhood. Originally there were 5,000 orphans who were trained but in the end, they only 3,000 troops were left. The others died during training.
The Black Flag's body armor and weaponry was also built by the Zhou clan. Shucheng County's foremost natural resource is iron ore. The Zhou clan had been mining and refining lots of iron ore for a lot of years in order to make these 3,000 armors and weaponry.
These Black Flag originally was reserved by the Zhou clan to be used by Sun Ce to fight for hegemony and also in order to raise the Zhou clan's importance in Jiangdong. What a pity, right now they had not merged with Sun Ce’s army and must be deployed in order to retake this Wancheng city.
“d.a.m.n, those are heavy infantries!!!” Liu Mang had seen a heavy infantry squad before. But that is only the Formation Breaker. The Formation Breaker originally, before they even met Liu Mang only numbered 800 troops but their strength equaled to 8000 troops.
During their trip to Kaiyang, remnants of Lu Bu’s army met with Chen Deng. At that time, Liu Mang truly knew the horror of Formation Breaker bring. With only 700 troops they dared to challenge 15,000 of Chen Deng's troops in order to lure the enemy. Perhaps if Formation Breaker were still freshly equipped, they would have gobbled up those 8,000 troops completely.
Although Liu Mang does not know their strength, looking at their discipline and organized march, he knew that this heavy infantry would be terrifying if directly confronted.
“REPORT!!! In front, we have discovered Lu Bu’s army!” Zhou Cheng did not have telescope like Liu Mang. He can only rely on his scouts’ notification.
“Oh, finally we meet them?!” Zhou Cheng's eyes are flas.h.i.+ng dangerously. “How many of them?!” If we meet that Prince of Shu and his urban army, then it is very good. One blow and everything is done.
“They only have less than 1,500 troops!!!” the scout replied.
“1,500 troops?! Heh, did they divided their forces?!” Zhou Cheng really did not expect for Lu Bu's son-in-law to dare divide their forces. According to information that Zhou Cheng obtained about these enemy forces is, they only had at most 8,000 troops and that is including with Liu clan's private soldiers. Now the enemy in front only had 1,500 troops. They certainly divided their forces to attack North Gate and South Gate.
“Young master Zhou. We have to take the initiative now, we propose to split our forces to defend the other gates!” Hearing that the enemy in front only had 1,500 troops, the three clan heads did not want to think anymore, because all that they thought of now was to split their forces to defend the gates.
The South Gate and North Gate was already in the hands of He clan and Yu clan. If they were overtaken again by the Urban Army, then it is over. Their private soldiers were already at their limits. If they lost these private soldiers, even if Wancheng city was retaken again by Jiangdong, they will lose a big portion of power and influence.
“Heh, do not worry, just go and save your gate!” Head of Lin clan, Lin Feng, retorted coldly. Lin clan is responsible for West Gate. Now the West Gate is on Lin clan's hand, because there are these 3,000 heavy infantries.
Looking at those heavy infantries, Lin Feng just swallowed his saliva. With them as West Gate gates guardian, it can be said, it is truly impregnable.