Qian Song

Chapter 396 This is the Southern Army when Li Cun started his family (please ask for a monthly ticket!)
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On the evening of the first day of May.

The former army of the Beifu Army and the Nanfu Army led by Kong Lengzi and Sun He arrived on the south bank of the Han River.

At this time, although the Beifu Army and the Nanfu Army had been marching in a hurry and did not dare to delay for a moment, the Koryo Jing Army, which was closer and not slow to respond, still arrived at the north bank of the Han River first, and had already used antlers, horses, and bamboo Standing signs, wooden standing signs, fences, leather bamboo fences and other shelters have built up the recommended fortifications, and erected wooden curtains, cloth curtains, leather curtains and other shelters.

Seeing that they could not immediately cross the Han River, the former troops of the Beifu Army and the Nanfu Army could only rest and reorganize on the south bank of the Han River, and at the same time investigate the military situation of the Koryo Jing Army on the north bank of the Han River.

Although Kong Lengzi was reckless and stunned when he fought, his mind was really good. Otherwise, Li Cun would not have handed over the southern gate of the Daqian Dynasty to Kong Lengzi's guards for so many years.

Furthermore, it has been fifteen or sixteen years since Kong Lengzi made his debut. Not to mention that he followed Li Cun to fight for many years. Under Li Cun's request, Kong Lengzi has not stopped his further studies, and has always kept pace with the times with the army. It is no exaggeration to say that Kong Lengzi has been preparing for war at any time these years.

The dumb Kong Lengzi often said: "Use me in the first battle, use me to win!"

Such a fool will only despise the enemy strategically, but he will definitely pay attention to the enemy tactically.

This is what Li Cun taught him.

Therefore, Kong Lengzi, who personally led the rapid march of the Chinese army, was very worried about the former army who was in charge of rushing to cross the river. He sent more than a dozen groups of scouts to inquire about the marching situation of the former army and the river defense situation of the Beijing army in Koryo.

As a result, the scouts reported back one after another: "Korea's soldiers are very strong, and it is not easy to cross."

This made Kong Lengzi very disappointed.

Kong Lengzi originally wanted to fight all the way to Kaijing City, blast Kaijing City, capture King of Korea Wang Kai alive and present it to Li Cun.

But the reality does not allow Kong Lengzi to do so.

Suppressing the unwillingness in his heart, Kong Lengzi ordered the whole army to rest on the south bank of the Han River without waiting for Sun He to come up from behind, and then searched for boats and rafts nearby to prepare for crossing the river.

When Sun He led the rear army to the south bank of the Han River, Kong Lengzi and Sun He called a meeting with the leaders to discuss the issue of crossing the river.

At the meeting, someone suggested to rest for a day and wait for the follow-up troops and supplies to come up before fighting.

Kong Lianzi disagreed. He said: "Although there are many soldiers in Koryo, they are not to be feared. If you fight with them, you will not know the outcome. If you don't make false claims, take all the drums in the army and beat them to the Dandan, so as to observe the changes. .”

All the generals agreed.

That night, the battle drums of the Qianjun continued to ring all night long.

The Koryo Jing army on the north bank of the Han River was worried that the Qian army would use the pontoon bridges to attack, so they set fire to burn all the two pontoon bridges on the Han River.

At this time, on the south bank of the Han River, there were still many dignitaries and gentry of the Goryeo Dynasty, as well as many fleeing people, and there were even thousands of war horses, but they did not have time to cross the river.

Looking at the raging flames on the surface of the Han River, there was a lot of crying on both sides of the river, and the pain dried up the sky.

In addition, there were a lot of gold, silver, silk and silk carried by high-ranking officials and tyrants in Goryeo, but they did not have time to be transported to the north bank of the Han River. Only the gold, silver and silk that were discarded in the Han River beach amounted to millions of pieces.

At dawn the next day, what Kong Lengzi expected, the situation that the Koryo Jing army retreated did not happen.

There was no way, Kong Lengzi could only send people to find the way to cross the river while continuing to let people look for boats and rafts.

At noon, the Beifu Army and the Nanfu Army collected rafts tied together, enough to transport the baggage of the Beifu Army and the Nanfu Army across the Han River.

At the same time, the Beifu Army and Nanfu Army soldiers who explored the way found a section of the river in the lower reaches of the Han River that was not deep and not turbulent.

——In this section of the river, people can wade through it.

However, the Koryo Jing Army also knew that this section of the river was the weak point of the Han River, so they deployed a large number of defenders, and arranged a very systematic temporary fortification with a large number of blocking and concealing equipment.

After inspecting the place himself, Kong Lengzi said to Sun He, "I heard that your grandson is a good monkey cannon player?"

Sun He, who was as clever as a monkey, immediately understood what Kong Lengzi meant. He hesitated and said, "Otherwise, wait for the rear army and supplies to come up, and then fight across the river steadily?"

Kong Lianzi said: "Don't you know that soldiers are precious and fast? If I delay and tell the King of Korea to run away, won't it leave endless troubles for the officials?"

After a pause, Kong Lengzi said leisurely again: "In recent years, the world has known that my great northern soldiers are good at fighting, but they no longer know that my great southern soldiers are the mainstay who followed the official family and established my career. The officials gave me a chance to prove myself to the world, so how can I not win a few battles and let the world know about my existence?"

Sun He, who also wanted to do meritorious service and didn't want to be said that he was only used by Li Cun when he followed Li Cun, couldn't help but feel a little ready to move after listening to Kong Lianzi's words.

Just at this time, the 3000 troops left by Kong Lengzi and Sun He and the [-] Korean civilians led by Li Zhong brought a hundred light cannons "General Shenwei" red cannons and a lot of shells.

Seeing this, Sun He didn't hesitate anymore, and agreed with Kong Lengzi's style of play.

in fact--

Speaking of it, there is nothing too clever about Kong Lianzi's fighting style. It is nothing more than relying on the fact that this section of the Han River is only more than a mile wide. The range is more than two miles, and the temporary fortifications they built with shielding equipment and concealing equipment are completely within the range of the red cannons of the Qianjun Army, and their temporary fortifications, which are mainly constructed of wooden equipment, are simply unstoppable. The bombing of the dry army's red cannons.

Therefore, Kong Lengzi planned to use Li Cun's infantry and artillery coordination tactics to forcefully cross the river, and then set up a position on the north bank of the Han River, and then crossed the river in a big way, competing with the Koryo Jing army for control of the north bank of the Han River.

Kong Lengzi and Sun He recruited the generals, supervisors, and staff officers of the Beifu Army and the Nanfu Army. After completing the plan to forcibly cross the river, Kong Lengzi personally selected a thousand of the most elite musketeers and a thousand only Nanfu soldiers. He personally led the Dingli Spear Platooner, which is only available in the army, to forcefully cross the river.

At the beginning of the war, Sun He, who was awarded the command of the battle, personally commanded the artillery to deploy a hundred "Shenwei General" red cannons and artillery shells on the bank of the Han River, and ordered the artillery to adjust their angles to aim at the Koryo Jing Army, As well as the fortifications arranged by the Koryo Kyung military with shielding equipment and shielding equipment.

The Koryo Jing Army on the north bank of the Han River also saw that the dry army was going to forcefully cross the Han River in this section of the river. They hurriedly strengthened their temporary fortifications, deployed defensive formations, and called the Koryo Jing Army from other regions to quickly assemble to this section of the river.

The commander-in-chief of the Koryo Jing Army on the north bank of the Han River, that is, General Park Jae-sung of the God Tiger Guard of the Koryo Dynasty, personally gave instructions, telling the front-line Koryo Jing Army not to rush to shoot, and wait until the soldiers crossing the river are only 150 steps away from the bank. shoot again.

The reason why Park Jae-sung issued such an order must be because the effective range of the bows and arrows of the Goryeo Jing Army is only 150 steps, and Park Jae-sung, who was deeply influenced by Han culture, had read "Sun Tzu's Art of War" and knew "half Crossing and attacking" tactics of war.

It can be said that Park Jae-sung made the same empiricist error as Kim Bu-shi.

The clever Sun He saw that the long-range equipment of the Goryeo Jing Army mainly consisted of bows and arrows and trebuchets with a shorter range, after using binoculars, he really suppressed the pre-emptive bombardment and waited until the Musketeers and Dingli led by Kong Lengzi himself When the front army of the gun platoon was only two hundred steps away from the north bank of the Han River, they gave the order: "Three-stage, fire!"

Following Sun He's order, the [-] "Shenwei General" red cannons of the Gan army immediately bombarded the Koryo Jing Army on the north bank of the Han River in three waves, and the Koryo Jing Army used shielding equipment and cover equipment on the north bank of the Han River. Temporary fortifications built.

"Boom boom boom boom..."

"Boom boom boom boom..."

"Boom boom boom boom..."

"..."

The soldiers on the south bank ran and fired, and the soldiers of the Koryo Jing Army on the north bank responded with blood and flesh flying everywhere, and the corpses piled up like a mountain. .

The Koryo Jing army who was still preparing to shoot was not killed by the intensive artillery fire, but was instantly stunned by the artillery fire of the dry army. Some timid soldiers of the Koryo Jing army were scared out of their wits and turned around and ran away.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Kong Lengzi rushed to the north bank of the Han River with a thousand Ding Li spear platoons leading, followed by a thousand musketeers.

The Koryo Jing Army, who had been blown up by the Qianjun's [-] "Shenwei General" red-clothed cannons, their formations were in chaos, and almost all of their fortifications were lost, met the Qianjun soldiers who rushed to the north bank of the Han River. The head-on heavy blow of the javelin of the Ding Li gun platooner.

Each of the Ding Li gun platoon players held a rattan shield, one or two spears in their hands, and a hatchet or a short knife pinned to their waists.

Their javelins were extremely accurate, almost deadly.

It is actually quite normal for these thousand Dingli gun platoon players to have such a performance. After all, they are pioneers. The vanguard that Kong Lianzi personally led to land on the beach must also be the elite of the elite Ding Li gun platoon players.

However, killing the enemy with the Thousand Ding Li Gunmen was secondary. Their main task after crossing the river was actually to use the rattan badges in their hands to protect the Thousand Musketeers behind them.

——The thousand musketeers are the main force of the army crossing the river to kill the enemy.

Under the protection of a thousand tripod gun platooners, Kong Lengzi commanded a thousand musketeers to shoot at the soldiers of the Korean Jing army who had escaped the artillery bombardment of the Gan army and did not retreat.

This series of infantry and artillery coordinated tactics of the dry army, the Korean Jingjun has never heard of it, let alone seen it.

As a result, the Koryo Jing Army immediately lost all their positions in the northern part of the Han River.

However, don't think that the army can beat the natural danger of the Han River so easily.

This battle is far from simple.

Seeing that the Gan army had fought the Han River, Park Jae-sung was also shocked, but fortunately, he knew very well that this battle was related to the life and death of the Goryeo Dynasty, so he quickly restrained his mind and joined the reserve team, that is, Wuling Jingyong (that is, five thousand soldiers) cavalry).

At the same time, Park Jae-sung hurriedly sent someone to urge the other Goryeo Jingjun to march quickly, and told the messengers who went to urge the other Goryeo Jingjun to say that if the reinforcements of the other Goryeo Jingjun were not in time, the dry army would definitely fight the Han River completely. At that time, the Goryeo Dynasty will be in danger.

The rest of the Koryo Jing Army received Park Jae-sung's request for help, and immediately rushed to join the battle, let alone.

It is only said that when the five thousand soldiers of the Koryo Jing Army arrived on the battlefield, the second batch of cadres had not yet crossed the Han River.

Sun He on the south bank of the Han River saw the [-] warriors of the Koryo Jing Army attacking, so he hurriedly commanded the [-] "Shenwei General" red cannons of the Gan army to bomb the [-] warriors of the Koryo Jing Army.

But the [-]-strong Koryo general who commanded the Koryo Jing army was also a veteran. He knew that the red cannons of the Gan army were powerful, so when he rushed over, he put out a sparse formation.

In this way, the [-] "Shenwei General" red cannons of the Gan army were fully fired, and only a few hundred riders remained, and the rest of the Koryo Jing army's bravery reached the battlefield.

Without hesitation, Kong Lengzi personally led a thousand Ding Li gun platooners and a thousand musketeers to meet them, and took the lead in dealing a head-on blow to the Jingyong of the Koryo Jing Army.

——Dingli gun platooners and musketeers first used their javelins and musketeers to cause a certain number of casualties to the Jingyong of the Goryeo Jing Army, so that the number of Jingyong of the Goryeo Jing Army had already reached the level before the two armies officially fought Less than 4000 people.

Immediately afterwards, the two sides fought hand-to-hand, and the battle between them turned into the bloodiest hand-to-hand combat.

All the Dingli gun platoon players fought bravely. After the Jingyong of the Goryeo Jing army rushed over, they cut off the horse's legs as soon as they were short. Going up to kill, often the cooperation of two Dingli gun platooners can kill a Jingyong of the Korean Jingjun.

The Musketeers, who could no longer carry out long-range strikes, also raised their bayonets and bravely fought against the Jingyong of the Koryo Jing Army, buying time for the rest of the army to cross the river.

But to be honest, whether it is the bravery of the Dingli gun platooners or the recklessness of the musketeers, it is futile in the face of the bravery of the nearly 4000 Korean troops.

Cavalry has an absolute advantage against infantry.

And because the two sides are stalemate at this time, the key is that the reinforcements of the Qianjun can cross the river to join the battlefield immediately, and the [-] "General Shenwei" red cannons of the Qianjun have to stop firing.

The two sides can only engage in the most primitive hand-to-hand combat.

Sometimes, when the soldiers crossing the river couldn't stand it anymore, they would throw out a Thunderbolt that they had brought over with great difficulty, or directly blew the Thunderbolt to die with the bravery of the Koryo Jing Army. a little time.

Finally, with the unremitting efforts of the soldiers who crossed the river, the second batch of soldiers also crossed the Han River.

Before going ashore, the second group of dry soldiers shot at the bravery of the Koryo Jing army on the north bank in the Han River.

It has to be said that the soldiers of Kong Lengzi and Sun He have trained well. The soldiers of the Beifu Army and the Nanfu Army are very accurate in shooting whether they use muskets or crossbows.

This gave the Jingyong of the Koryo Jing Army on the north bank a very effective kill, and the Jingyong of the Koryo Jing Army on the north bank could not go down the Han River to fight the soldiers of the Beifu Army and the Nanfu Army in the Han River.

All of a sudden, the situation on the battlefield began to deflect in the direction of Qianjun again.

But seeing that the dry army could repel the courage of the Goryeo Jing army on the north bank of the Han River, another Goryeo Jing army came.

Seeing this scene, Sun He knew that this place has become a flesh and blood mill, and the fight is about who has the stronger willpower to fight.

Sun He didn't think about what would happen if the Goryeo Jing army won the battle, he just thought, if they lose this battle, their southern army will be ashamed among the dry army from now on, they might be broken and lead them It's a big deal for Li Cun, who is a big brother of these old brothers.

Therefore, Sun He became ruthless and ordered: "Except for the supply troops to stay behind to protect the artillery battalion and to support the rear army, all other soldiers will follow the general across the river to participate in the battle!"

Following Sun He's order, more than 2 soldiers of the Beifu Army and the Nanfu Army who were about to cross the river jumped into the Han River like dumplings and began to cross the river.

Sun He also checked his cloak and weapons before going into battle himself.

Before setting off, Sun He hesitated for a while, and then ordered the artillery battalion commander Wu Xianqing without looking back: "Wu Dayan, if the battle situation is not good for our army, I will order your army to cover the front line and strike, without distinguishing between the enemy and us!"

After finishing speaking, Sun He drew out the treasured sword in his waist without hesitation, and shouted loudly: "Use me in the first battle, use me to win! Everyone will follow this general to fight the enemy and make great achievements!!!"

As soon as the words fell, Sun He led his army to jump into the Han River, and then headed towards the north bank of the Han River...

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