Fu Song

Chapter 728 Different Concerns
What Xiao Cheng is concerned about is the entire confrontation between the Song and Liao countries.

Lu Wenhuan was actually more concerned about the battlefields of Jingxiang and Jianghuai, because Zhang Cheng was in charge of the northwest battlefield, and the sea attack was basically controlled by the chief assistant himself, while the western army was controlled by Xiao Ding, so he could only express his concern at most.

Gao Yingxiang only focused on his own Jianghuai theater, and now it has narrowed down to the Xuzhou area, which is the core.

For Zhang Ren, what he can focus on is his own defense zone that is three miles long and only a little over a mile wide.

At this moment, he was standing in a semi-circular stone castle without a roof, looking into the distance.

The attack has finally begun.

In the past few days, I felt a little uneasy sleeping, and I was really nervous deep in my heart, but I had to act as if nothing had happened, which would be the courage of the soldiers. I'm afraid I won't be able to sleep all night.

However, when the thunderous drums and shouts sounded, his heart suddenly calmed down.

As he expected, it was Liu Yu's troops who launched the attack first.

The cavalry took the lead, hundreds of horses galloped, and the smoke and dust that rolled up covered the sky and the sun, covering the infantry running behind. Since the appearance of the artillery, they have lined up in dense rows and pressed forward Then it changed, and if it continued like this, it would be to take the initiative to give the opponent a head.

The war horse is getting faster and faster, and it is getting bigger and bigger in Zhang Ren's eyes.

Almost at the time when Jiang Yong launched a countercharge, after a long battle, almost all the front-line officers of the Song Army issued the same order.

Jiang Yong watched helplessly as the ditch was filled up by the Qi army.

The moment the light above his head suddenly dimmed, Jiang Yong thrust the spear in his hand upwards, his wrist sank, and he sat down on the ground.

As long as you don't die, you can basically go up one level after the battle. If you have someone behind you, you can go up faster.

Jiang Yong let out a loud roar, and the divine arm bow in his hand collapsed, shooting out the already wound crossbow.

The Qi army finally began to retreat.

Leaping out of the trench, Jiang Yong rushed forward with a knife in hand.

"The ninth team and the tenth team clean up the battlefield and rescue the wounded! From the first to the eighth team, count the number of people, reorganize, and prepare to fight again!"

The dozens of war horses running ahead did not escape the catastrophe, and fell down and disappeared amidst the exclamation one after another.

That's the dirt used to fill the hole.

On the Song Army's position, the horn of Mingjin also sounded.

"As a dog's leg, one must have the self-consciousness of a dog's leg. The master has risked everything, and the dog's leg can still be hidden!" Zhang Ren sneered.

"On the first day, it was like this. It seems that Liu Yu has paid a lot of money this time!" Wu Zheng walked up and looked at the battle on the front line.

Hand cannons were thrown out one after another. Those with stronger arms could throw them more than a hundred steps, and they could barely explode before the ditch, and those with weaker arms could throw them more than eighty steps.

Unlike the shabby gunpowder weapons of the Qi army on the opposite side, the Song army is rich and powerful.

A war horse jumped over his head, carrying a long spear on his belly. As soon as he landed, he fell to the ground. The knight on the horse jumped down, and at the same time as the ax in his hand flew out, several long spears were already at the same time. inserted into his body.

Without the oak wood cannon, the only thing they can threaten the Song army is the magic arm bow, but this should not be underestimated.

When is the general promoted the fastest?Of course when there is war.

But there was no sound on the entire defense line. Standing on a high place, Zhang Ren glanced at his subordinates. It could be seen that many recruits were nervous, and some even trembled slightly, but everyone's eyes were still dead. Staring at the opposite side.

The dead people were pushed down the deep ditch by the Qi army behind without hesitation, and became part of the material for filling the ditch.

And this was summed up with blood in countless battles.

There was a scream in his ear, Jiang Yong turned his head and saw a soldier who hadn't had time to hide in the cave, with a fragment embedded in his face, blood had covered his face at this moment, and the soldier who fell on the ground He just kicked his legs and feet a few times, and then there was no movement.

Jiang Yong's father is Jiang Changyi, a magistrate in Yangzhou.And Jiang Yong, Jiang Changyi's second son, was an ordinary soldier in the Yangzhou camp last year.

Zhang Ren is very satisfied.

The Qi army rushing up sparsely was far from posing a threat to his position.

He took out a piece of dried meat from his arms, put it in his mouth and chewed it slowly.

Straw bags are really useless,
But the corpse is really used a lot.

Blood spurted out with a sound of porphyrin, Jiang Yong rushed past the Qi army in the blood, but he held a knife in both hands, and with a muffled groan, a force came to chop Huashan, and a Qi army on the opposite side held a spear, and the whole The person was already kneeling on the ground, and then kicked up, kicked the opponent over, and then continued to move forward. As for the guy lying on the ground, he would never have a chance to get up.

The supervisor team appeared in front of them, and with the sharp horizontal knife in their hands, they cut off the heads of those people without hesitation.

Just now, only one of his subordinates died, and at this moment, he was carried to the rear, but several were injured, all of them were injured by flying stones due to bad luck, which did not affect the battle at all.

After fighting all the way from Yongqiu back to Suihe, there were only a dozen people left in the Yangzhou camp, and Jiang Yong survived.

Live is luck, death is fate!
Jiang Yong felt that he had earned money by living for more than half a year.

After the crossbow arrows, there are hand cannons.

This time there was no barrier.

At a distance of two feet, no matter how good a war horse is, it will not be able to fly.

The throwing ax hit the helmet of a Song soldier, luckily, the back of the ax hit the target first, the soldier shook a few times, his mind was buzzing, but in the end there was no danger of his life.

The arrows buzzed non-stop, and the opposite side could also shoot.

When the Qi army retreated through the ditch filled with corpses, the Song army gave up the pursuit.

"Ready to fight, crossbow!" Jiang Yong roared.

On the Song army's position, crossbow arrows were fired.

And after such a big battle, recruits will slowly become veterans.

The artillery on the Song Army's side would always sound once in a while, unhurriedly, but each shot caused great damage to the opponent. At this time, the formation of the Qi Army seemed a bit dense.

This time, many people carried straw bags on their shoulders.

Where the horse fell just now, a ditch about two feet wide appeared, and this ditch was at most only a hundred steps away from his current position.

Three oak wood cannons!
He looked back, and sure enough, he heard the roar of artillery and the sound of crossbows piercing the air.

Jiang Yong didn't go, he was still lying on the wall of the ditch, staring at the other side with wide-eyed eyes.

I heard that they made a lot of iron cannons that are easy to explode,
This is a rush to the doctor.

It is impossible for the Qi army to have bronze cannons. The Liao army does not have many of these things.

That is a familiar smell.

That piece of ground looks flat and there is nothing unusual, but there is something mysterious about it.

"shoot!"

After that day, he no longer had the slightest fear of death.

"Attack, move forward, and retreat, die!" An officer brandished a bloody horizontal knife and shouted sharply.

On their three-mile-long battle line, they were fighting everywhere.

After two rounds of shooting, the cavalry in the back circled an arc and retreated, while the infantry in the back was approaching. As the shields spread apart suddenly, Jiang Yong saw the black muzzle of the oak wood cannon.

He saw the fleeing Qi army suddenly stop.

"Squat down, raise your shield, and enter the hole!" Jiang Yong roared.

"That kid Jiang Yong really has his own rules. Among the more than ten centurions on the front line, he is the most capable and talented!" Wu Zheng said, looking at the front line. "I really didn't expect that you would put him on the front line. This is one of the few people left in the Yangzhou camp."

Sure enough, the next moment, there was a war horse neighing, the horse stumbled, fell headlong, and disappeared in the smoke and dust.

But the retreating Qi army kept running backwards. This time, the supervisor team on the opposite side did not wave their horizontal knives.

But the Yangzhou camp was gone, so Jiang Yong took a bag of jerky and occasionally chewed a slice.

The horse team came rushing again.

For Song Jun, because of the existence of a person like Xiao Cheng, it really saved a lot of detours.

The horses in front fell down the ditch, and the cavalry in the back pulled the reins desperately. Some of the horses stood up, and some turned around on the spot, and their speed dropped sharply immediately.

A loose attacking formation came into being.

Jiang Yong stood up straight.

"Follow me!"

It's just that it's different from their unshielded, after Song Jun shot the crossbow in his hand, he sat down on the spot, kicked his feet, twisted his waist, rewound the string, and then waited for the crossbow above his head to shake. After the shot passed, they stood up again and raised the guy in their hands again.

Amidst the buzzing sound, the slowing horses and cavalry on the opposite side fell down one after another, some fell into the trench, and some fell on the spot.But the quality of these cavalry is really good. Swinging their saddles off their horses, they already picked up their bows and reflected back towards this side.

Zhang Ren took a breath, and in his first field battle as a recruit, all his comrades except himself died in battle.

Just looking at it just happened, Jiang Yong turned his head again.

There were bursts of smoke, and the flames suddenly appeared. The three oak cannons were no longer visible.

So many familiar brothers, friends, and comrades-in-arms all died there.

Has now become a captain.

That day, the water in Sui River was all red.

Better armor and sharper knives and guns gave the Song Army a stronger combat effectiveness.

The cavalry came first to find out the truth,

For him, he had already seen too many dead people by the Suishui River.

Zhang Ren stood steadily on that high point and watched the battle broke out on the front, and more than a dozen bronze cannons on both sides of him would sound from time to time.

Because it would greatly enhance their chances of survival.

In the sound of the explosion, a large number of cavalry fell down, but there were still a lot of fish that slipped through the net and rushed towards them.

All the soldiers had practiced these procedures thoroughly. With a roar from Jiang Yong, everyone squatted down with their shields raised above their heads, and then quickly hid in the hole on the wall behind them.

For the recruits, it was their luck to stay in the trenches and defend in the first battle instead of going out to fight the enemy.

Among the infantry, the shields formed some barriers to block what was behind.If the guess is correct, then the oak wood cannon behind it is a strong crossbow, but when the current strong crossbow is fired, it is tied with gunpowder packs.

The explosion kicked up countless soil and landed on him.

Next, if the enemy wants to come over, they have to fill up that trench, and this is a good opportunity for them to kill a large number of people.

Jiang Yong squatted down and picked up a spear from the ground. Several soldiers around him followed suit.

More than a hundred soldiers under him also shot the crossbow arrows in their hands immediately.

The spear stabbed head-on, Jiang Yong turned slightly sideways, and the spear pierced through his ribs with a whoosh. Before the spear could be withdrawn, he had already stretched out his arm to clamp the spear shaft, but he continued to move forward without stopping at all. The horizontal knife in his hand was raised, and with a light wave, it was already cut through the throat of the spear-wielding army.

On the front line, the fighting has become more and more intense.

Go forward, and go forward, and cut down every enemy that stands in your way.

Within the range covered by the artillery, there was basically no one who could stand anymore. Some people rolled on the ground and cried, and some were silent. However, the Qi army outside the range of the explosion suddenly turned around and ran back after being stunned for a moment. .

Wu Zheng raised his eyebrows. From a certain point of view, Zhang Ren was right.

The artillery in the rear is mainly to block the Qi army and let their follow-up army keep up intermittently.

That's what the old guy at home he grew up with made it.

The sound of the drums became more and more intensive, and more Qi troops rushed forward.

Such a distance, such a speed of horses, crossbows and artillery may not have a good effect, it is better to let them gallop for a while.

Zhang Ren in front of him is the most typical example.

Previously, Jiang Yong divided more than a hundred people under his command into three sections, and they took turns shooting in turn, but at this time, they were all shooting collectively, and the density of crossbow arrows became much denser all of a sudden.

"This is a chance for him, others want it!" Zhang Ren said coldly: "If he survives, he will be promoted, and if he dies, I will take his ashes back to Yangzhou. My childhood playmate, brother , where should I be if I am not on the front line at this moment?"

The soldiers came out of the hole again.

It was the military supplies sent from Yangzhou, and they were sent to the Yangzhou camp by name.

Because the group of people who escaped the fastest now have no heads.

The bronze cannon flew over the Song army's position together with the crossbow arrow powder package, and landed in the opposite Qi army.

From Zhang Ren's perspective, he could only see the disappearance of the war horse, because he was still a long way from the front line!
But for Jiang Yong, he saw all the process clearly.

Jiang Yong roared loudly as he walked back, and he stabbed a wailing Qi Jun who was lying on the ground with his intestines dripping all over the floor.

This guy can't be saved, so it's better to give him a good time, for him, it's a kind of relief.

Before the battle started, the commander made it very clear that the Qi soldiers were not allowed to kill the prisoners, but there were no restrictions on the Liao people.

Of course, Jiang Yong would never kill a Liao man whose intestines were dripping all over the floor, and letting him die would make him happier.

(End of this chapter)