At the turn of autumn and winter, Yanyun's Eighteen Cavalry, led by Lei Hong, were waiting in the camp.
Outside the camp, there were more than a dozen cavalrymen who were responsible for keeping watch and patrolling. When they discovered the situation in the distance, they quickly rushed back to report.
"Mr. Lei, a thousand-man troop is approaching our camp. Their uniforms are different from those of the officers and soldiers. They are already ten miles away!"
Lei Hong immediately led his brothers out of the camp with knives to understand the situation.
"A troop of a thousand people? It is impossible for the officers and soldiers to arrange a thousand people to patrol the official road in the middle of the night. The Sa family heard that there are bandits from the Tianri Sect causing chaos here, so everyone is on alert!"
Fifty Xuanwei and 300 bodyguards quickly gathered and formed a semicircle formation in front, ready to attack.
Lei Hong rode to the high ground and looked far away, frowning.
The Xuanwei are well-equipped and fully armored. If they encounter an ordinary army, they can easily defeat ten of them.
Although those bodyguards are veterans, they can calmly face the enemy and retreat in the face of thousands of soldiers.
But now there are more than a thousand workers and their families in this convoy. Once the enemy troops bring crossbows...
According to Liang Xiao's instructions, he must understand the local public security situation wherever he goes, just in case.
There is a fierce bandit in this area, who believe in an unknown cult called Tianri Sect, which is spreading everywhere. Anyone who does not join the cult will be exterminated.
The number of these fierce bandits is unknown, their combat effectiveness is close to that of regular officers and soldiers, and they appear and disappear. The court has repeatedly attacked them, but it is difficult to achieve results.
No matter what, don't let them get close to the camp!
The situation was critical, but Lei Hong was extremely calm and began to make calculations in his mind.
"To be able to avoid the sight of the local officers and soldiers and accurately attack the convoy, someone must have tipped them off to make a surprise attack at night and make a quick decision before the officers and soldiers arrived to support them. After ten miles, the enemy force will be exhausted, um..."
Everyone in the convoy was woken up one after another and panicked: "There are rebels outside?"
Most of these people were the first batch of sugar workers recruited by Liang Xiao from the refugee camp. They had experienced war and chaos and were loyal to Liang Xiao.
Liang Xiao wanted to expand the sugar industry in the south of the Yangtze River, so more than 200 families of workers volunteered to go to the south of the Yangtze River with their families to settle down and lay out the sugar industry.
When they heard that the rebels had appeared, the fear of war and chaos in the past surged into the hearts of the workers.
Fortunately, Xuanwei was well-trained and spoke out to reassure everyone and promised to ensure their safety, so they relaxed and hid in the tent.
The Xuan Guards looked at the tents that were gradually closing in, feeling quite worried.
These workers cannot afford to lose anything, but they have to protect them while fighting the enemy. It is easy for the enemy to find a breakthrough.
Once our own side is surrounded and the entire army is annihilated, these workers who are regarded as palace secrets by their masters will fall into the hands of the enemy, and their skills will be lost, with disastrous consequences.
Even if they can defend with the support of officers and soldiers, they will inevitably suffer heavy losses.
A haze of fear enveloped the workers, and even the escorts were nervous.
The fighting power of the Tianri Sect is extraordinary and comparable to that of the rebel army. They may not be their opponents one on one.
After all, they only have simple leather armor and wooden shields, and the enemy may have various armors and crossbows!
"This is an official road. The enemy can't fight here for a long time. It won't be a problem for us to wait for the officers and soldiers to come to our aid!"
The confident voices of the Xuanwei made everyone feel a little at ease.
Yanyun's eighteen cavalry, headed by Lei Hong, were waiting on the high ground.
It was not until dawn that they finally spotted a force approaching from the west.
Less than two miles away!
Lei Hong immediately rode back to the camp and found Captain Xuanwei: "Old Li, I'll leave it to you to make arrangements here. The Sa family and brothers will go capture the thief and capture the king!"
Captain Li was stunned and looked at the Eighteen Cavalry rushing to the west. He was shocked: "Mr. Lei?!"
"Leihong and the others ran away?"
The news quickly spread in the motorcade, and everyone couldn't help but be disappointed and whispered among themselves.
Leihong is the chief of the guard of Lanlinghou Mansion. He is very effective in frightening local gangsters in the capital, and he is majestic and majestic.
He actually ran away when he encountered a regular army?
Captain Li shouted loudly: "Mr. Lei is just leading the brothers to take the initiative, and he will be back later!"
"What? Taking the initiative? Is this, this, this, is this crazy?"
Everyone looked unbelieving, but now they had their families with them, and there were old people and children in the convoy, so they couldn't run away, so they could only choose to believe.
Nearly half of the soldiers in the western army were wearing leather armor and helmets, holding bows and arrows, and looked tired.
The two leaders grinned, and the tall leader raised his arms and shouted: "The leader has ordered us to capture this convoy, and we will reward you with five taels of silver for each person captured alive, and three taels of silver for each person you kill! Give it to me!"
As soon as the words fell, the whole army was inspired, swept away their fatigue, and rushed towards the east convoy.
Everyone in the motorcade in the distance had their hearts in their throats!
The enemy's morale seems to be boosted!
At this moment, a faint sound of horse hooves came from the northeast side of the army.
Everyone took a closer look and saw that it was Lei Hong who was leading the troops and was waiting for work.
The quality of the fine horses from the Western Regions provided by Wutumu exceeded the heavy war horses commonly used by the Zhou cavalry.
Yanyun's Eighteen Cavalrymen, including men and horses, only wore refined leather armor, and carried bows, arrows, swords, shields, and iron swords. There was no pressure on these horses to carry heavy loads, so they ran at full speed very fast.
"It's really a Tianri cult!"
Hearing the enemy cheering "Long live the leader", Yanyun's eighteen cavalrymen were frightened and angry. They drew their bows on their horses and fired one round, then drew back their bows and held their shields to guard against bows and arrows.
The Tianri Sect army obviously did not expect anyone to dare to take the initiative. Eighteen people in the front row were killed by arrows on the spot, and the teammates around them screamed.
"It's just a dozen cavalry, shoot them!"
The leader came to his senses, became furious, and immediately ordered the arrows to be fired.
Unexpectedly, Yanyun's eighteen cavalry were already roaring in, approaching the front of the formation.
Lei Hong was the first to swipe at him with his sword. The leader anxiously joined the fight and faced this powerful and heavy sword. He was knocked off his horse by Lei Hong on the spot, and was stabbed with a backhand. His head was missing!
The bandit army became more and more frightened.
Their leader was a well-known warrior in the sect... and was killed by the enemy in one round?
Another leader suffered from liver and gallbladder splitting, and quickly fled into the chaos on horseback.
Eighteen people broke into the enemy's formation, as if they were in an uninhabited area. They raised their swords and killed the enemy infantry in a mess.
The whole army only had ten captains and two leaders on horseback. Facing Leihong's surprise attack, they were helpless for a while.
Yanyun's Eighteen Cavalrymen were already waiting for work, but now their eyes were red with blood. In the blink of an eye, more than 300 people were cut down.
"There are only eighteen of them, kill them quickly!"
The leader who hid in the middle army was furious, but he couldn't restrain himself no matter what.
More and more soldiers scurried away, fearing that they would encounter these dozens of killing gods, and therefore accidentally gave Lei Hong a "broad road".
Leihong galloped on his horse, rushed to the front of the formation, and cut off the second leader's horse's head with one knife. When he fell to the ground, he looked around the audience and let out a roar.
The sound was like thunder, and the whole audience was shocked!
Thousands of people from the Tianri Sect were defeated. All of them just hated their parents for having two legs. The captains also turned their horses and left, not caring about the leader.
The thousand-man troop was unexpectedly dispersed by a surprise attack by Yan Yun's eighteen cavalry who were just waiting for work!
Dawn had arrived, and when Lei Hong lifted the leader back like a chicken, the whole place was shocked!
Lei Hong and others breathed a long sigh of relief and sighed with regret: "Send someone to report to the official quickly and leave this place first to avoid any more enemy raids!"
There were a thousand enemy troops, and they were scattered in all directions. They killed them until they were weak, and hundreds of them fled into the mountains and forests, and their swords were almost blunt.
But he was satisfied with such a result. At least the safety of the workers was guaranteed.
Captain Li walked up to Yanyun's Eighteenth Cavalry, who was covered in blood, and praised him: "First of all, sir, you are truly a god, invincible in the world..."
Hearing this, Lei Hong, who was originally tired but quite happy, blushed and waved his hands: "The Sa family has been studying recently. There is a saying that goes well, there are people outside the world, and there is a sky outside the world! There is still one person in this world, and the Sa family is only in his hands. It's true that I can barely go through ten rounds..."
"You are so humble!" Everyone expressed their disbelief with respect on their faces.
Lei Hong curled his lips and said, "The Sa family has no modesty!"
"Then tell me, who is so powerful?" Everyone couldn't help but gossip.
Lei Hong fell into silence.
You can't expose yourself as Lord Hou...
"Look, let me just say you are being humble! Too humble!" Captain Li laughed.
Lei Hong was no longer too lazy to explain, so he dismounted and took a rest, and informed the convoy to go to the southern town to report to the official at dawn.
In the Runan area, the Eighteen Cavalry led by Lei Hong defeated thousands of Tianri Sect rebels and beheaded hundreds. News is slowly spreading.
The news became more and more mysterious as it spread, and finally it was revealed that each of the eighteen riders was worth a thousand.
In Lanlinghou Mansion, Liang Xiao welcomed two foreign guests.
With extraordinary valor and sharp eyes, he looks like a well-trained elite soldier.
Looking at the two tall Roman soldiers in front of him, Liang Xiao asked doubtfully: "Captain Gu, are they subordinates of the Roman princess?"
