Chapter 18: Killing Array
Su Xun said with a smile: "In this case, you don't have to be sad, now the wind and rain are combined, it is not suitable for marching, it is rare to have a cool day in Guangnan, it is better to sleep well, raise your spirits, we go to Jincheng Station, or Quy Nhon shop to try our luck, planning is in the sky, but there is no need to worry too much." ”
Yun Zheng lay on the hammock with his hands behind his head, and listened to the raindrops hitting the tent without saying a word, and his heart was beating like the raindrops of this war drum. It's not exciting, but it's better for a long time.
Peng Jiu followed Yu Jing, which has completely stated his position, making this choice Yun Zheng thinks that he is helpless, even if he is as strong as Di Qing, he will inevitably die in his old age, and the strong civil official group will never be soft when dealing with military generals.
Wu Shengjun will become an outlier in the army, want to get assistance from other armies, from the moment he takes a stand, it becomes delusional, no matter how those generals grovel to civilian officials, but when they see Wu Shengjun, they will still treat him as a traitor, why is everyone kneeling, only you hold your waist?
It will be terrifying to go to the battlefield with such teammates, and you always feel that those people will abandon you, Yun Zheng sighed, from now on, Wu Shengjun will always be able to fight alone......
Yang Wenguang didn't care about the heavy rain in his face at all, and stood on the Kunlun Pass and let out a long howl, which finally tilted all the resentment in his chest clean, and the blood that had just been stained on the spear was quickly diluted by the heavy rain and flowed down the tip of the spear to the ground.
Three thousand military horses galloped in the heavy rain for a day, and arrived at Kunlun Pass at the moment when the sky was dark, but they used a clansman to deceive the city pass, which made Yang Wenguang and Ma Jinhu constantly fold their hands to thank God for the gift.
After Yang Wenguang entered the pass, he generously did not kill Nong Zhigao's greedy subordinates, and he didn't even take back the Jinsha, so he let that person leave Kunlun Pass......
When Di Qing arrived at Kunlun Pass. There is no longer an enemy in Kunlun Pass, Ma Jinhu is a border army, and his temperament is naturally exactly the same as Yun Zheng, who studied under the Western Xia people, and they all stubbornly think. A dead enemy is a good enemy.
In the wind and rain, in the military camp by the Shanglin Pond, Sun Yuangui had just written a poem, which was praised by everyone, but a messenger hurriedly reported that the privy envoy had captured Kunlun Pass overnight, and it was only dawn at this time......
Yu Jing was ecstatic, and strongly asked the generals to quickly advance into Kunlun Pass, and he deliberately put on armor and personally escorted a large amount of grain to Di Qing's army. This is definitely not the time to make a fuss.
After Nong Zhigao learned that Kunlun Pass had been lost, he shouted and personally led 50,000 troops to line up in Quy Nhon Pu, intending to break through the Song army's defense line here. So go back to Yongzhou.
The heavy rain came violently, and it went quickly, and the clouds and rain had stopped at dawn, and after the red sun came out, the earth was as hot as a steamer, and Yun Zheng took advantage of the small flood to quickly build three simple bridges on the river. When the soldiers and horses who had rested for a day and a night rushed out of Mashan, the scouts came to report the news that Kunlun Pass had been occupied by Di Qing.
Yun Zheng said to Zhou Tong with a smile: "God didn't help, let Di Qing take the lead, at this time Nong Zhigao should be competing with Di Qing for Quy Nhon Shop, as an ally, you must go and see." But we can't let go of the materials in Binyang City.
Zhou Tong, Wu Jie, you take 5,000 soldiers and horses to Binyang City, and I take 3,000 soldiers and horses to Quy Nhon Pu to participate in the battle, in short, we can't let others gossip about us. ”
Su Xun looked at Yun Zheng and said with a smile: "I won't go to Quy Ren's shop." I followed them to Binyang City, which seemed to be more important than Quy Nhon Pu, and I had sent someone to inform Cui Da that he should have been on his way to Penn with someone. ”
Yun Zheng arched his hand, and quickly took Liang Ji and Xiaolin to Quy Nhon Pu and Zhou Tong's army to raise the wind.
Before arriving at the battlefield, he had already heard the sound of fierce fighting, the neighing of war horses, and the screams of people constantly echoing in the valley.
The two armies have been fighting in a mess, the Song army wearing red clothes and felt hats is holding the defensive line, and the peasant army covered with bamboo pieces is holding a shuttle dart more than a zhang long, and is attacking without losing their lives, Nong Zhigao's cronies are indeed not comparable to those rabble of Huang Shimi.
Under a big flag with black letters on a red background, more than 300 cavalry were struggling to advance towards Nong Zhigao's main formation, Yun Zheng squinted his eyes and looked at it for a long time before he could see clearly that this should be the banner of the right hall class Zhiyu, but why did this guy think that he could break through the main formation of Nong Zhigao with long spears?
The spear forest was originally used to deal with cavalry, not to mention that these pike darts were three feet longer than spears, but Yun Zheng quickly understood Di Qing's plan, as long as Zhang Yu attacked in which direction, there would inevitably be crossbow arrows in that direction, and he planned to divide Nong Zhigao's army into two, so that he could not care about each other.
There are two such teams, one is Sun Jie, the deputy envoy of the Xijing Zuozang Treasury, which Yun Zheng is more familiar with, and the other is too far away to see clearly, but Sun Jie is obviously unable to bear it, Sun Jie is from Jingzhao, Yun Zheng is also an old acquaintance with Sun Jie when he was fighting in Jingzhao and Fu Bi, because Yun Zheng goes in and out of the place the most every day, which is the library of Xijing.
Yun Zheng looked left and right, and did not find Di Qing's flag, but saw Yu Jing's flag, and now this old gentleman is probably standing under the banner and looking at the battlefield anxiously.
Di Qing's killing had an effect, at least the soldiers of the Great Song Dynasty killed the enemy very hard, if people melted into the battlefield, if you didn't work hard, people would kill you.
At this moment, Yun Zheng understood the difficulty of Nong Zhigao, two of every three wingmen were holding bamboo short knives to be responsible for defense, and the wingmen holding shuttle darts were taller than the other two wingmen, and the shuttle darts in their hands were like poisonous snakes, constantly attacking and killing the Song army that rushed up.
Yun Zheng saw with his own eyes that Sun Jie's war horse was stabbed by four shuttle darts at the same time, and the war horse fell to the ground violently, Sun Jie's personal soldiers rushed over like crazy to protect their own general, and at the same time, the surrounding wingmen also seemed to know that Sun Jie was a general, shouting and screaming in the direction of Sun Jie's fall, it is estimated that it will not take much time for Sun Jie to be finished.
Yun Zheng looked at Di Qing's main formation, this guy didn't seem to have the intention of attacking, he was really a commander with a heart like stone, even if he saw Sun Jie die, he was unwilling to give up his tactics.
Yun Zheng smiled, gently bumped the big green horse, the big green horse neighed and rushed down to the place where Sun Jie was, countless cavalry followed Yun Zheng from the side of the hill to kill into the battlefield, Liang Ji roared angrily, the speed of the war horse under the crotch soared and soon surpassed Yun Zheng who was holding a spear, brandishing his huge two hammers to rush into the enemy formation.
The cavalry charge elements of the Wusheng army are very different from the cavalry charge of the Song army, and they must complete the three consecutive shots of crossbow arrows on the horse, and only after the gunpowder bullets are fired in a row will they pick up the spear for hand-to-hand combat, Liang Ji thinks that this is not suitable for him, so he entrusts these to his subordinates, and he only needs to rush into battle.
Dense crossbow arrows entered the battlefield flat, and the armor-piercing cone-like crossbow arrows quickly opened a huge gap for the cavalry charge, and the generals, shouting and supervising the soldiers, came to fill the gap, because they found that there was another, more powerful cavalry here.
It's just that after Wu Shengjun's crossbow arrows disappeared in a wave, another wave appeared, and the gap that the wingmen had just filled was torn out again, and at the same time, Liang Ji's war horse had already entered the battlefield, and countless swarthy gunpowder bullets flew in front of him, "Boom, boom, boom" The gunpowder bullets exploded as soon as they landed, and the flesh and blood flew in the tight military formation, and Yun Zheng's thousand cavalry took advantage of the chaotic moment of the military formation, sandwiching the spears under the ribs, and tearing Nong Zhigao's military formation lightly like a sharp blade.
Yun Zheng wanted to rush in with him, but the monkey and Han Niu were holding the reins of his war horse and didn't allow him to take another step at all, and he didn't let go until the two thousand armor soldiers led by Wu Jie followed.
Seeing that Yun Zheng was about to get angry, the monkey hurriedly pointed to Xiao Lin, who was wielding a big knife in the military formation to slash left and right, meaning that the guy's idea, Yun Zheng didn't have time to quarrel with them, so he ordered Wu Jie to lead a thousand foot soldiers to support the cavalry, and he took a thousand foot soldiers to break through to the place where Zhang Jie fell. The equipment of the Wusheng Army armor is definitely the first-class level of the Great Song Dynasty, and those sultry shuttle darts can't be pierced at all, and if they want to fight back, they have already been cut in two by the long knife of the armor soldier.
Yun Zheng put down his armor, was surrounded by foot soldiers and rushed forward, suddenly heard a sharp sound, Han Niu waved the iron shield and slammed it on Yun Zheng's side, only to hear the sound of "Du", a three-foot thumb-thick feather arrow was firmly nailed to the iron shield, and the sharp arrow had penetrated through the three-layer iron shield.
Yun Zheng turned his head to look over, only to see a strong man with a yellow turban on his head riding on a tall horse holding a huge bow in his hand, looking at Yun Zheng coldly, seeing that the sneak attack failed, he planned to take off the machete on the iron beam of the war horse and prepare for hand-to-hand combat.
"Gunpowder bullets, three shots!" Yun Zheng hurriedly roared, the monkey held three gunpowder bullets in his hand and threw them over after lighting the fuse, one was split into two pieces by the strong man's knife, and the black gunpowder was scattered everywhere, but the other two exploded around him, and the war horse under his crotch screamed, and he didn't know where to run.
The crossbow arrows of the Great Song Dynasty are actually the most suitable for close combat, as long as a military formation is formed, and the three rows of soldiers take turns to fire, the rain of arrows formed is not much worse than the simple gun array of later generations.
Entering the army to fight, time seems to be no longer important, everyone only knows that as the general continues to advance, shoot, fight, and wait until Yun Zheng suddenly finds that there is nothing in front of him, only then do he know that he has killed the enemy formation, Nong Zhigao's army was perfectly divided from the middle by the Wusheng army's 1,000 elite cavalry and 2,000 armor soldiers.
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