Chapter 10 of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms: A Surprise Attack on Renqiu

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Finally, they were about to leave the mountains, and everyone in the group was incredibly excited, unconsciously quickening their pace. Long Ling'er kept whispering in Ye Tianlong's ear that the first thing to do after descending the mountain was to take a good bath and then have a delicious meal. Ye Tianlong wholeheartedly agreed; after spending more than half a month traversing this desolate mountain area, these two things were indeed a great pleasure.

Ye Tianlong, Long Ling'er, and sixteen warriors led the vanguard. Just as the two were chatting happily, suddenly an arrow pierced the sky, flying towards Ye Tianlong's face.

"Are they thieves?!"

"Have we been ambushed?!"

His excitement instantly turned to shock. Ye Tianlong barely turned his head as the arrow, weakened by the impact, grazed past his ear and landed wearily at his feet.

Ye Tianlong looked up and saw a large group of people emerging from behind the hill ahead. They were all ragged men, forming a horseshoe shape as they surrounded them. Their weapons varied: hoes, sledgehammers, sickles, and even rusty broadswords.

"What are these things?!"

Ye Tianlong and the guards who had quickly formed ranks behind him were completely dumbfounded. What kind of thieves were these? The thieves who rushed closer all looked pale and sickly; some even had trembling hands holding their weapons, if their tools could even be called weapons.

Long Ling'er also shook her head; such enemies were utterly unappealing! She had originally intended to give them a hard time upon first meeting, but now she had lost all interest.

"Leave all your food and money, and we'll let you go!!" Several burly men who rushed towards Ye Tianlong shouted in unison. One of them held a hunting bow, apparently the owner of the arrow from earlier.

Before Ye Tianlong could reply, Long Ling'er blinked her crescent-shaped eyes and exclaimed in surprise, "You guys are kidding! You think you can rob people with these weapons? I think they're only fit for farming!"

"Nonsense!" roared the burly man wielding a hunting bow, "If you don't hand over your food and money, we'll kill you!"

Ye Tianlong laughed heartily, brandishing his heavy javelin and shouting, "See this? This is the real weapon for killing!"

A murmur of excitement rose from the crowd, and the burly man with the hunting bow raised his hand, silencing the crowd.

"Even if your weapons are better, you only have eighteen men. We have several hundred here!"

Ye Tianlong's heart skipped a beat. It seemed this burly man was their leader, and they didn't appear to be particularly ruthless. Why would people like this become bandits?

He quickly made up his mind and arrogantly said to the burly man, "In my opinion, we are more than enough to deal with you!"

This immediately angered even the burly man. "I've never seen anyone as arrogant as you! It seems you don't want to live!" As he spoke, four men jumped out from beside the burly man, brandishing their weapons and roaring as they charged at Ye Tianlong. The other burly men also began to shout and move forward.

Ye Tianlong laughed loudly, slamming his heavy javelin into the ground, his shield raised in front of him, and simultaneously, he kicked out with lightning speed. The four men didn't even have a chance to get close; almost as soon as they lunged, they were sent flying into the crowd.

"Raise shields and thrust spears!"

Ye Tianlong's voice boomed like thunder. The guards behind him responded with a shout, raising their shields and spreading their arms to the sides. The spear tips gleamed in the sunlight as they shot out from behind their shields, the intense fighting spirit causing the enemy to halt in their tracks.

Suddenly, screams erupted from outside the encirclement, followed by the deafening shouts of the Imperial Guard. The main force had arrived. Under Suo Chong's command, the Imperial Guard split into two groups, rapidly closing in on the group like a pincer movement.

Seeing a large number of fully armed soldiers charging towards them, the ragged bandits panicked and turned to flee.

Then Ye Tianlong roared, "Halt! Anyone who tries to escape will be killed!" His voice, like thunder, made everyone's ears ring.

The Imperial Guard immediately threw a volley of javelins, blocking their escape route and demonstrating their ranged attack capabilities. Seeing the Imperial Guard's overwhelming force, the leading man's face paled, and the others behind him trembled.

"We are the Fast army, here to wipe out bandits. Why are you robbing us here?"

Ye Tianlong looked at the burly man holding a hunting bow and said seriously, "What is your relationship with the bandit alliance?"

"Fast army?"

A light commotion arose in the crowd. The burly man's face lit up with joy, and he asked with a mixture of surprise and doubt, "Are you really the Fast army? Are you here to eliminate bandits in Qingzhou?"

Ye Tianlong nodded and said in a deep voice, "I am Ye Tianlong, the Eastern Governor of Fast! I have come to Qingzhou to suppress bandits on His Majesty's orders!"

Instantly, all the bandits knelt down and cried out in unison, "Lord Ye, please save us!"

The guards were all stunned. Ye Tianlong knew that his guess was correct; these people were not bandits. He said in a deep voice, "Who exactly are you people? How dare you gather here to rob! Don't you know this is illegal?"

The burly leader bowed down and said loudly, "Lord Ye, we are all farmers who were persecuted by thieves and forced to flee our homes. Because we had nothing to eat, we brought a group of people out to rob! I am the leader, so let me, Wang Guang, bear all the blame. Please forgive them, sir."

He paused, and said heavily, "If we hadn't been so desperate to survive, and couldn't bear to see the women, children, and elderly in our homes starve to death, we wouldn't...do this!" By the end, tears were welling up in his eyes, and the others were also sobbing, a heart-wrenching sight.

Long Ling'er had never seen so many burly men cry before, and she couldn't help but feel a pang of sorrow in her heart, her hatred for the thieves who had caused this situation growing even stronger. To be honest, she had never felt such hatred before, and for the bandit soldiers who were about to become her opponents, this would be a nightmare for the rest of their lives.

She gently tugged at Ye Tianlong's arm and whispered, "Brother, they're so pitiful!"

Ye Tianlong nodded; this group could only be considered starving people. He stepped forward and pulled Wang Guang up, ordering the soldiers to share some of their food with them. Amidst their constant expressions of gratitude, he said to Wang Guang, "Take us to your village to see!"

Following Wang Guang and the others to their dwelling, the situation was truly pitiful. Thousands of people lived in makeshift huts built of wood and straw; the entire village didn't even have a single decent house.

Hearing that Ye Tianlong and his men had come to eliminate the bandits, the villagers were all very excited and eagerly requested to join their ranks, but Ye Tianlong refused them all. He reasoned that sending these untrained civilians into battle would only hinder the Imperial Guard.

That evening, Ye Tianlong and his men had a detailed conversation with Wang Guang and some of the villagers, learning about the current situation in Qingzhou.

Since the rebellion broke out in Qingzhou, the bandit alliance that had been entrenched in the mountains near Renqiu City seized the opportunity to occupy the city and use it as a base to expand in all directions, carving out the southernmost territory of Qingzhou for themselves. If it weren't for the fact that Lady Huo, filled with resentment, led her elite troops to Esnia to deal with Ye Tianlong, resulting in their complete annihilation, the bandit alliance might have become even more powerful.

As their territory expanded, the bandits' ambitions grew ever larger. To acquire even more land, they needed more troops, so they forcibly conscripted soldiers on their own territories, causing immense suffering and resentment among the local populace. Wang Guang and his men had fled their homes to the mountains to escape the bandits' persecution.

After the bandit alliance's army marched into the Linhe region, the bandit leader Bali, a trusted lieutenant of Huo Niangzi and responsible for logistics within the alliance, remained in Renqiu City as its garrison commander.

The bandits had stockpiled a large amount of looted grain and valuables in Renqiu City, which currently housed a thousand bandit soldiers and four thousand newly recruited soldiers forcibly conscripted from various villages and towns and undergoing training.

Faced with this situation, Ye Tianlong and his group, after some discussion, finally devised a comprehensive plan.

That afternoon, shortly after a grain transport convoy left Renqiu, a young man and woman arrived at the city. Both men were dressed in loose-fitting civilian clothes. While the man possessed an extraordinary air, the young woman beside him was even more strikingly beautiful, attracting everyone's attention.

The bandit soldiers guarding the city gate were instantly captivated upon seeing the girl. They had never seen such a beautiful young woman; just a glance from her crescent-shaped eyes was enough to make their hearts pound.

"Halt! Who are you? Where did you come from?"

A minor leader stepped forward, blocking the girl's path, his eyes fixed intently on her pretty face.

The bandits who were a step behind quickly followed, grinning and surrounding the two men, their lecherous eyes fixed on the beautiful girl.

Seeing this, the passing citizens knew what these ruthless bandits intended to do, but aside from secretly admiring the beautiful girl, they dared not linger, fearing they would get into trouble and be implicated.

Facing seven or eight menacing-looking bandits, and hearing their malicious laughter, the man showed no fear whatsoever, nor did the beautiful young woman. On the contrary, a mischievous smile appeared on her delicate face. She pointed her fair, jade-like hand into the city and asked sweetly, "Brother, is this Renqiu City?" "

Huh?..."

Not seeing the scene he expected, the bandit leader was taken aback. Usually, when surrounded like this, any girl would turn pale and plead like a lamb in the jaws of a tiger, but this girl smiled calmly and remained composed.

Before the bandit leader could react, one of the bandit soldiers, captivated by the girl's beautiful face, leered and reached out to touch her hand, chuckling, "Miss, this is Renqiu City, it is..." Before

he could finish, the girl's expression turned serious, and she said, "That's good!"

With that, she pointed a finger and struck the bandit soldier squarely on the forehead. The bandit soldier collapsed to the ground without uttering a sound.

"What are you doing?" the other bandit soldiers shouted almost simultaneously, but before they could even use their weapons, the man standing to the side unleashed a lightning-fast punch. The sound of fists hitting flesh rang out like a machine gun; each bandit soldier who was struck screamed, flying several feet backward until they landed as lifeless corpses.

Amidst the panic and fear of the onlookers, the man withdrew his fist, ripped off his civilian clothes, revealing his military uniform underneath.

"I am Ye Tianlong, the Eastern Governor of Fast! Don't panic, everyone! We're here to eliminate these despicable thieves!"

Ye Tianlong said, drawing his Fiery Sword and easily slaying a thief leader who hadn't yet recovered from his shock. Long Ling'er, beside him, also tore off her civilian clothes and attacked the thieves guarding the city gate.

At this moment, a dozen burly men nearby shouted in unison, tearing off their outer garments to reveal Fast army uniforms. They were elite guards accompanying Ye Tianlong and Long Ling'er, drawing their weapons and charging at the thieves.

"The Fast army is here!"

"Ye Tianlong is here!"

Caught off guard, the thieves had no idea that the Fast army would suddenly appear before them, and could only instinctively shout. Panicked and disoriented, they were utterly incapable of fighting, and facing experts like Ye Tianlong and Long Ling'er, they were practically defenseless.

Led by Ye Tianlong and Long Ling'er, the dozen or so elite guards carefully selected by Jingchen fought with great vigor, like tigers among sheep, slaughtering with unrestrained ferocity. However, they didn't rush into the city; instead, they planned to occupy the city gate to allow the remaining guards outside to enter.

This was because these six hundred guards alone couldn't possibly breach the heavily fortified Renqiu city, guarded by thousands of bandits. Ye Tianlong and his men's only advantage was that the enemy didn't know they had arrived in Renqiu. Therefore, they devised this sneak attack plan.

Meanwhile, outside the city, upon receiving the signal, all the guards, led by Suo Chong, were rapidly approaching Renqiu.

The battle at the city gate and the bandits' screams spread like wildfire, creating ripples of chaos that, combined with the cries of the fleeing citizens, further exacerbated the chaos in Renqiu.

When the clever bandits finally thought to pull up the drawbridge, they discovered that Ye Tianlong and his men had cut the cables, making it impossible to raise. Meanwhile,

Bali, the garrison commander of Renqiu City, was playing with a kidnapped girl when he heard his guard's report. Startled, he jumped out of bed. Regaining his composure, he suddenly remembered the intelligence he had just received: Ye Tianlong and his men were gathering troops in the Linhe area, preparing to confront Huo Niangzi and her group. He roared

, "This is impossible! How could Ye Tianlong be here! With the Alliance Leader's 30,000 troops guarding Linhe, did they fly here?"

The guard who delivered the message said tremblingly, "Lord Bali, a fierce battle is taking place at the East Gate. They claim to be the army of Ye Tianlong, the Eastern Governor of Fast!"

Without hesitation, Bali said, "They're probably just those lowly commoners using Ye Tianlong's name. Our recent conscription efforts have met with considerable resistance; we really need to punish them properly." With that, he stormed out of his room.

By the time Bali led his men to the city gate, the battle was already raging fiercely. The shouts of battle could be heard clearly throughout half the city.

A large group of bandits, having heard the commotion, found only about twenty enemies and immediately launched an attack on Ye Tianlong and his men, attempting to regain control of the city gate. However, they were all repelled by Ye Tianlong and his troops. Fourteen guards formed a strong line, and Ye Tianlong and Long Ling'er were two terrifying killing machines.

Ye Tianlong wielded his Fiery Sword, creating mountains of swords before him. The scorching air made it impossible for the bandits to dodge; all their weapons became useless scrap metal before the Fiery Sword, at Ye Tianlong's mercy. His sword moved like a piercing fish, one strike after another, each blow a fatal one.

Long Ling'er was even more formidable. Although she was unarmed, any bandit who tried to approach her or take advantage of her died instantly upon contact. Her hands, as smooth and lustrous as jade, moved with effortless grace before her, and the charging bandits fell like flies drawn to a flame.

In the gap between them, a defensive network of fourteen warriors protected and filled the gap, forming an impenetrable barrier with shields and longswords. Ye Tianlong and his men's formation perfectly blocked the city gate, wide enough to accommodate two large carts opening side-by-side.

In the blink of an eye, hundreds of bandit soldiers' corpses piled up at the city gate, most of them the result of Ye Tianlong and Long Ling'er's efforts.

"It's Ye Tianlong!"

Bali exclaimed in surprise from his horse, recognizing Ye Tianlong's likeness from his portrait, as even the high-ranking leaders of the bandit alliance had seen his portrait.

"How could he be here?"

But Bali knew this wasn't the time to ponder this question. A large number of Fast soldiers were already pouring onto the drawbridge outside the city gate. He cursed his men as a bunch of idiots for not thinking to use archers from the city walls to control the drawbridge, instead engaging Ye Tianlong and his forces at the city gate, allowing Ye Tianlong's reinforcements to reach the gate smoothly.

Bali immediately ordered archers to form a line in front of his horse, preparing to unleash a rain of arrows to block the Fast army's advance. To keep Ye Tianlong and his men at the city gate, Bali disregarded the lives of the bandit soldiers already fighting Ye Tianlong and his forces.

He simultaneously ordered all the city's soldiers to be transferred here, knowing his own men were just a rabble, good for intimidating ordinary citizens but lacking real fighting power. Now, he could only rely on numerical superiority to fight Ye Tianlong and his group.

"Fire arrows forward!" Bali shouted when he noticed the bandits at the city gate beginning to retreat.

"What? There are our own comrades ahead!!"

The archers were shocked and filled with resentment when they heard Bali's indiscriminate order to shoot at everyone. In the short time the bandits hesitated, the well-organized and highly motivated Imperial Guards had taken over from Ye Tianlong and his men, launching a fierce attack on the bandits. In

just moments, the bandits were routed and retreated from the city gate, only to be met with a hail of arrows from their own side. It turned out that Bali had killed several hesitant archers before ordering them to obey and fire at the city gate.

The poor bandit soldiers were almost wiped out by the first wave of arrows, but the guards who charged out afterward were unharmed, for they all carried shields strong enough to withstand powerful bows. Before the second wave of arrows could be fired, Long Ling'er's sharp shout rang out from Fast's ranks: "Fire javelins! Fifty paces ahead!"

Instantly, the sound of heavy javelins piercing the air filled the air, flashing with cold light as a dense volley of javelins flew towards Baal and the archers fifty paces from the city gate. The guards who threw the javelins immediately drew their longswords, shield in one hand and sword in the other, charging forward with shouts.

Baal parried a javelin with all his might, but felt himself stagger; his mount had been struck by a javelin and collapsed. Regaining his balance, he looked at the archers in front of him, whose numbers were already heavy. Seeing the Fast army charging menacingly, the archers, already demoralized and lacking melee combat skills, scattered and fled. Bali couldn't stop them.

The Fast army quickly reached Bali, engaging his bandit soldiers in close combat. In this close battle, Bali realized the strength of his opponents; his men, who had followed him for years, couldn't withstand a single enemy's charge and could only retreat.

After retreating two blocks, two thousand bandit reinforcements finally arrived. Although these were newly recruited soldiers, Bali couldn't worry about that now. He immediately ordered them to join the battle and counterattack the Fast army.

At this moment, Wang Guang appeared in Ye Tianlong's ranks. He loudly called to the opposing soldiers, telling them that the Fast army had come to eliminate the bandits and asking them not to serve the bandits.

These soldiers, already harboring resentment towards Bali and his men, knew the bandits were doomed upon seeing the situation. The moment they made contact with the Imperial Guard, they turned against the bandits, attacking their rear. This immediately disrupted the bandits' formation, plunging them into complete chaos.

Simultaneously, soldiers forcibly conscripted by the bandits in the camp, persuaded by their relatives who had infiltrated the city beforehand, also began to attack the bandits, delivering the final blow.

The sounds of killing bandits filled the city. The once rampant bandits were now like stray dogs, abandoning their armor and weapons, fleeing Renqiu City.

Seeing the situation was dire, Bali, under the cover of a few trusted guards, hastily fled the battlefield. But he didn't get far before Long Ling'er, who had already noticed him, transformed into a whirlwind and pounced on him.

"Leave your head behind!"

In the blink of an eye, Long Ling'er had already killed several ruthless bandits blocking her path and charged towards Bali. Bali knew the beauty's strength; in the previous battle, none of his men had lasted a single exchange against her, all dying with a single blow. But now, if he could just get past her, he could escape. He was confident of that.

Bali roared, his eyes wide with fury, and thrust his spear fiercely at Long Ling'er. At the same time, he pushed off with his legs, propelling his warhorse forward with all his might. This thrust, combined with the horse's momentum, was practically unstoppable.

Unfortunately, Bali was judging by his own standards, while the beautiful dragon girl before him was far more powerful than he had imagined. Long Ling'er extended a small hand, swift as lightning, and seized the spear.

"Too weak!"

A powerful force surged along the metal spear, like a massive hammer striking Bali's chest. Bali felt a sudden darkness engulf him, and he and his horse fell backward, unable to rise again.

Seeing this scene, the remaining bandit soldiers were terrified, their last vestiges of resistance vanishing instantly; the difference in strength between the two sides was simply too great!

Those soldiers who had defected, seeing such a skilled warrior in Fast's army, felt both admiration and relief; fighting such a person meant certain death.

The battle ended quickly. In this capture of Renqiu City, Ye Tianlong's personal guard only suffered a few dozen casualties—a fact even Ye Tianlong himself found hard to believe.

After a brief cleanup, Fast's flag and Ye Tianlong's military flag were raised over Renqiu City. Ye Tianlong immediately released the Bluebird to inform Yu Fengwu and the others of the situation. Then, he began opening granaries to distribute food and issuing proclamations to reassure the people. With the assistance of Wang Guang and his men, everything proceeded smoothly.

Of the four thousand soldiers forcibly conscripted by the bandits, those who wanted to go home were all given severance pay by Ye Tianlong. Those who wished to stay were reorganized with those who had volunteered to fight the bandits.

After selection and reorganization, a force of two thousand men was formed. Ye Tianlong appointed Suo Chong as the commander of this force, with the soldiers electing their own officers. This unconventional move greatly excited the soldiers, further strengthening their resolve to serve Ye Tianlong.

As expected, Wang Guang was also elected as a centurion by the soldiers, and he and nineteen other centurions who had passed Suo Chong's assessment were appointed by Ye Tianlong.

The news that Renqiu City had been captured by Fast's army shocked the surrounding towns. Realizing that Renqiu City had so many troops and such strong defenses, yet Ye Tianlong had captured it in half a day, and that their own small force of a hundred or so men was no match for him, the bandit alliance scattered like birds and beasts, fleeing overnight to the Linhe region to join the main army.

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