Qian Song

Chapter 69 The Last Stand (Read More!)

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The tenth of the first lunar month.

Li Cun led the Huben army to advance into Runzhou.

When they arrived in Lucheng Town, Li Cun ordered the army to rest for a day and prepare to fight the Song army.

——The Wu Desi spy lurking in Zhenjiang City has found out for Li Cun that Tan Zhen is going to fight Li Cun in Danyang, the only way to Zhenjiang.

For Li Cun, this is definitely the best news.

You know, although Li Cun, who has initially mastered firearms, is sure to take down Zhenjiang and Jiangning Mansions, the cities that Li Cun has exhausted to attack must be riddled with holes. It's really hard to say how much defense power there is.

The point is, Li Cun only has such a small amount of firearms, which may be enough for Li Cun to fight a big battle. If they are gone, Li Cun will have no means to win the Western Army.

When Li Cun was worrying about how to win the next battle, he got the good news that Tan Zhen was going to fight him.

Li Cun couldn't help but think: "Isn't Tan Zhen sent by God to help me?!"

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At this time, Tan Zhen had dispatched troops to order his Song army to gather around Lianhu in Danyang.

This situation is very much in line with Li Cun's intention to wipe out all the roads before the Western Army went south in one fell swoop through a big battle.

So, after a day's rest in Lucheng Town, on the eleventh day of the first lunar month, the Huben Army came straight to Danyang, preparing to fight the Song Army led by Tan Zhen by the Lianhu Lake.

Tan Zhen's general Zhang Wei, the son of the famous general Zhang Wei, suggested to Tan Zhen: "The ant thief is coming fiercely. Our army should guard Jiaoshan, Beigushan, and Jinshan separately, and help each other. Look for opportunities to move."

Zhenjiang borders the Yangtze River in the north, and there are the famous three mountains of Zhenjiang on the south bank, namely Jiaoshan, Beigushan, and Jinshan.

So Zhang Hao's suggestion is actually very insightful.

However, Tan Zhen, who has never seen nearly 10 horses, saw so many Song troops gathered together, covering the sky and covering the sky, forming a huge corps rarely seen in the history of the Great Song War, and felt that they would definitely be able to crush any enemy; Sufficient, transportation is also fully guaranteed; this has fostered Tan Zhen's mood of underestimating the enemy, and he did not listen to Zhang Wei's opinions. Instead, he appointed his cronies Zhao Lingjuan as the commander of the capital, and ordered to fight the Huben army at Lianhu.

In all fairness, the strength of the Song Army at this time is actually stronger than that of the Huben Army.

——The Song Army has [-] soldiers and horses to fight, but the Huben Army has less than [-] soldiers and horses to fight. Whether it is an infantry army or a horse army, the Song Army is almost twice as large as the Huben Army.

Moreover, although Li Cun was ready to fight Tan Zhen and had a day's rest in Lucheng Town, the Huben army had traveled a long way and the soldiers were exhausted.

On the other hand, Song Jun waited for work with ease, and had obvious advantages.

Therefore, there is nothing wrong with Tan Zhen wanting to fight Li Cun.

However, many generals of the Song Army suggested to Tan Zhen to use the favorable terrain along the Lianhu Lake to launch an attack immediately while the Huben Army had not yet completed its assembly.

But Tan Zhen pretended to be serious and said: "All fighters win by combining justice and surprise. Today, our army is twice as powerful as ants and thieves, so there is no need to play such tricks." He denied this correct suggestion.

At this point, it is not too much to say that Tan Zhen is a stupid pig like Song Xianggong.

According to Tan Zhen's deployment, the Song army gathered on the shore of Lianhu Lake, posing in a majestic formation.

Lianhu Lake belongs to the eastern part of the Ningzhen hills and the hills in front of the mountain, and the southern part belongs to the western part of the Taihu Lake Plain. The land chosen by Tan Zhen is flat, easy to attack and difficult to defend.

But as long as it retreats tens of miles to the north or east, the Song army can fight against the mountains.

After seeing the terrain, Zhang Hao objected to setting up an formation beside Lianhu Lake, saying: "The soldiers move with advantage. The terrain is unfavorable now. How to fight? We should move to a higher place to set up formation to restrain the enemy's horse army from charging."

But most Song generals disagreed with Zhang Wei’s opinion, thinking that their horse army was more than that of the Huben army (the dozen or so Song armies plus the cavalry armed by the landlords could have almost [-] horse troops). They have the upper hand.

Zhang Hao's suggestion was rejected by Tan Zhen.

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When the Huben army came to Lianhu Lake, Li Cun saw that the Song army did not intend to launch an attack immediately when his foothold was not stable, so he felt lucky, and then quickly made full preparations.

When everything was ready, under Li Cun's personal command, the Huben army immediately took the initiative to attack the Song army.

At the beginning of the war, Li Cun ordered the [-]-horse army to bypass the Song army's camp and attack the "village village".

Some people may want to ask, Li Cun didn't leave [-] horses in Xiuzhou, how could there be [-] horses?
Speaking of this, I have to thank Zhu Xi, the boy who gave us money.

Among the more than 3000 horses that Li Cunzhu obtained from Zhu Jiajiao, most of them were first-class war horses, and there were even some Northland war horses among them.

In addition to the horses seized from the homes of other officials, gentry and nobles in Suzhou, and the more than 1000 war horses sent by Han Bie sent by Su Dong, Li Cun now has no fewer than [-] horses.

Even if the horses that are not suitable for war horses are excluded, Li Cun still has [-] war horses.

At the beginning, Li Cun trained five thousand cavalry, but because Li Cun didn't have so many horses, he only formed three thousand cavalry.

Now, excluding the [-] horses who stayed in Xiuzhou, Li Cun still has [-] horses, and these [-] horses are all riding real war horses.

As for the so-called "village village", it is actually a camp where peasant husbands live.

Most of these camps are close to the camps of the Song army, and the barriers are improvised with carts, and the defense power is extremely weak.

In fact, the Song army did not expect the "village village" to resist the attack of the Huben army, but after the small village was breached by the Huben army, the panicked peasants fled to the Song army's camp, disrupting the Song army's position.

This was unexpected by Song Jun.

The guard horse army followed the fleeing civilian husband, successfully passed through the shooting area of ​​the Song Army's bow and crossbow, and went straight to the front of the Song Army's camp.

As a result, the two sides launched a fierce battle of hand-to-hand combat.

——It has to be said that the guard horse army is poorly trained. Although they have taken advantage of Li Cun's command and seized the upper hand, they are not good at riding and shooting, so they can only shoot a crossbow randomly with the magic arm bow , and then they had no choice but to rush forward and fight in close quarters.

However, the Song Army was in command of the left-wing Ma Army and it was Zhang Wei again.

When Zhang Hao saw the guard horse army coming, he immediately led his commander's horse army to meet the guard horse army.

Although Zhang Wei is over 50 years old, he still takes the lead and personally leads the soldiers of the Song Army to fight.

With Zhang Hao's efforts, the Song army gradually stabilized its position, and the horse armies of both sides fought fiercely on the left flank of the Song army.

Soon, the guard horse army, which was not superior in number and strength, began to run out and retreat steadily. Niu Wei himself fell into a tight siege and was even shot in the eye by Liu Ya.

After Niu Wei was injured, he pulled out the arrow that was shot in the eye, grabbed the soil to cover the bloody wound, jumped on his horse and fought hard, and finally broke through the tight encirclement.

After breaking through, Niu Wei tore off his leggings, bandaged his eyes briefly, and reorganized the guard horse army to go into battle.

However, no matter how Niu Wei supervised the army to fight to the death, the guard horse army had been forced to retreat by the Song army horse army led by Zhang Wei.

At this time, the situation on the battlefield was very unfavorable to the Huben Army.

Seeing this, Li Cun waved his hand.

Soon, "rumble, rumble, rumble..." The sound of galloping war horses sounded.

Immediately afterwards, the rear of the Huben army was dusty!

The earth also shook!
There is no war drum, but this power is more shocking than the war drum. The rumbling sound is like hundreds of thunders erupting together!
Soon, someone in the Song army saw a horse army crossing the Huben army and rushing towards the battlefield...

The sudden appearance of this horse army is not many, only three hundred, but they are as fast as the wind, moving above the nine heavens;

Even people who don't know anything about soldiers know that this must be the most elite horse army of the Huben Army.

The key point is that this cavalry army has both horses and armor, and all the soldiers are holding Zhang Xu's long spears with cold light.

Heavy cavalry!

How could the Huben Army, a peasant army, have heavy armored cavalry, the strongest unit that can only appear on the Northwest battlefield?

This is a huge question lingering in the hearts of everyone on the Zhao Song side.

Only Zhu Xi, who was hiding in the distance on Danyang City to watch the battle, glanced resentfully at the commander-in-chief of the Huben Army, Li Wuyue, the commander-in-chief, and then sneaked down to escape from Danyang City.

After three hundred heavy armored cavalry rushed in along the gap opened by the guard horse army, the song army horse army, who had fought fiercely with the guard horse army before, was immediately rushed to pieces.

Then, the three hundred heavy armored cavalry rushed into the enemy army like three hundred heavy tanks. They charged wildly, and the Song army was not in a particularly tight formation, so they were immediately dispersed...

Seeing this, the Guangde Army, which was closer to the left wing, rushed to the right like a swarm. Chen Da wanted to kill a few people to restrain the soldiers of the Guangde Army, but before he could do it, someone shot him to death...

Coincidentally, a similar situation also occurred on the side of the Gaoyou Army—not long after the Guangde Army broke out, Zhao Ming was also killed by the soldiers of the Gaoyou Army, and all the soldiers of the Gaoyou Army ran out of the battlefield...

Seeing this, Li Cun, who was commanding the battle from a high place, decisively sent Niu Meng and Zhao Han'er to lead the Jinwu Front Army and Jinwu Middle Army to launch a general offensive, and at the same time ordered people to beat drums to cheer...

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(End of this chapter)