When Li Shimin entered Luoyang City, Yang Shanhui had also launched the battle of crossing the river, and the point of the river was not Shaanxi County, which confronted Liu Hongji, but Mengjindu on the other side of Heyang City.

In the evening, more than 1,600 warships and merchant ships attached to the north bank and had already sailed to Heyang, and now they were loaded with 60,000 Sui troops, 30,000 slave soldiers and tens of thousands of war horses sailing towards the opposite bank.

The Tang army also arranged 10,000 garrisons, 5,000 crossbowmen and 5,000 cavalry at the Mengjin Ferry, and the main general was Zhang Gongjin, a general under Li Shimin.

"Stop the Sui army and don't allow the enemy to go ashore."

On the south bank of the Yellow River, the fire soared into the sky, illuminating the night as if it were day.

When the warships of the Sui army slowly approached the shore, the Tang army on the shore fired arrows in unison, and a dense rain of arrows shot at the warships, which were mixed with countless rockets. But at night the river was so windy that the arrows were all fluttering, and few of them hit the ships.

The Sui army on the warship also launched a fierce counterattack, and the powerful crossbows were crazy. The spear-like cross arrows flew in the air, with a terrifying sound, piercing the shield of the Tang army, shooting through the armor of the Tang army, penetrating the human body, nailing it to the ground, and the soldiers who were not yet dead screamed and struggled, and the scene was very tragic.

"Puff puff!"

The crazy arrows kept harvesting the lives of the Tang army, causing the crossbowmen on the shore to fall in pieces.

The 5,000 crossbowmen of the Tang Army were like little girls stripped naked under the light of their own torches, lonely and nowhere to hide.

The sturdy shield did not help the Tang army escape the nightmare, those five-foot-long sharp arrows bombarded the shield fiercely with violent power, which could resist the shield of continuous fire of a single crossbow, but it was not able to block this terrifying sharp arrow, many shields were directly shattered, even if they didn't, the sharp arrows that pierced the shield were enough to kill the Tang army behind the shield.

Mengjindu was suddenly spread by the flames of war, and the cold arrow clusters shot like flying locusts over and over again to the south bank of the Yellow River, even if the Tang army had a shield to protect it, there were still cold arrow clusters from time to time to break through the shield defense, and the blood had gathered on the river bank, making the ground muddy.

"General, the Sui army's strong crossbow is too powerful, we can't stop it at all, let's withdraw!" A junior colonel rushed up and pleaded with Zhang Gongjin.

"Can't be withdrawn!" Zhang Gongjin's eyes were a little red, and he almost killed the junior colonel with one shot, who would have thought that the crossbow arrows of the Sui army were so terrifying, the battle attacked the camp, and it was also attacking the ferry of 10,000 soldiers and horses, how ridiculous, but the bloody facts were in front of him, and the other party didn't even get off the boat, but just completely suppressed the ferry with a strong bow and crossbow, so that Zhang Gongjin had no choice.

Several soldiers stepped forward with shields, but before they could even see what the warship looked like, they were pierced by a dozen huge arrows with shields.

"Damn it!" Zhang Gongjin's eyes were a little red, it was the first time in his career that he was beaten so aggrieved.

"Put my shield up and the archers fight back!" Zhang Gongjin once again tried to suppress his opponent with a bow and arrow.

Dozens of shields gathered in front of him, the archers once again full of bowstrings, adjusted the angle to the maximum, and shot the arrows in their hands, but unfortunately, the arrows that broke through the air lost their strength before they reached the range of the opponent, and fell weakly into the river, once again proving that they had no way to take the other party except to be beaten passively, although it was impossible for the warship to rush ashore, but the terrifying crossbow of the Sui army completely exploded the opponent in range and strength.

And for Zhang Gongjin, this is a tragic story, even if he has a handsome talent, but in the case of an attack distance that is not as good as the opponent, he can only look at the arrows shot by his own army in vain, falling weakly in front of the opponent, and the arrows that fall weakly seem to be silently mocking.

"Send some more people down and block the ferry for me!" Although angry, reason told Zhang Gongjin that the ferry could not be held.

"Bang Bang Bang~"

The shields were shattered one by one, the soldiers' bodies were pierced, and the enemy, both in terms of the power of the crossbow arrows and the use of these weapons, had obviously been rigorously trained, both in terms of accuracy and the spacing between each arrow, and the crossbow arrows in their hands were used to the extreme, and the defenders of the ferry were once again suppressed.

"General, if we continue to fight like this, the ferry crossing has not yet been broken, and our brother is afraid that he will be defeated!" The adjutant general looked at Zhang Gongjin helplessly, he suspected that the Sui army was deliberately slowing down the speed of breaking through the ferry, in order to consume their vital strength with endless huge arrows

Zhang Gongjin also understood this truth, and simply said: "Give up the ferry to the Sui army, retreat half a mile to arrange defenses, and let the cavalry prepare to break the enemy." ”

"Whoa!" Several lieutenants agreed, and began to retreat with men and horses with shields on their heads, and the ferry, which had been filled with the smell of blood, suddenly became empty.

Yang Shanhui watched the battle closely on a large ship, and he had already seen five thousand cavalry lined up outside the ferry, which was obviously preparing to launch an attack on the landing Sui army.

"Three thousand slaves first."

Yang Shanhui ordered, the main ship was lit with lanterns, and the two warships carrying the slave soldiers were the first to dock, and the three thousand slave soldiers with sabers and shields in their hands went ashore in the face of the arrows, and began to line up to attack the Tang army.

"Shoot the arrows!" Zhang Gongjin looked at the chaotic formation of the enemy army, and frowned slightly, it was not that the other party was so powerful, on the contrary, these troops looked weak and pitiful, and they couldn't even maintain the basic formation, so they screamed and launched an attack.

"Hum~"

A rain of arrows fell, and a large number of slave soldiers were killed by arrows like mowing grass.

"Archer, suppress!" In the rear, the warships slowly approached the shore and walked down the elite archers, and at this time they also launched an attack, and the crossbows began to rain arrows on the Tang army, so that the Tang army archer defenders could not kill the slave soldiers unscrupulously.

What's going on?

Zhang Gongjin dialed the cluster of arrows that were shot, and looked at the archers who appeared behind the opponent, these troops were more than a few grades stronger than the charging troops, and the military formation was strict, and more importantly, these people actually didn't care about the life and death of the soldiers in front, just poured arrow rain at the Tang army, and let the army in front fall down in pieces under the wanton blows of their own archers, a Tang army soldier shot an arrow, and before he could take another arrow, a crossbow arrow that broke through the air shot through his chest.

An enemy soldier took advantage of this gap to kill the Tang army's archers, Zhang Gongjin clearly felt that this soldier had a crazy fighting spirit, and almost threw himself into the dense gun forest.

Bring about one's own destruction?

Zhang Gongjin is a little confused, what's going on with Sui Jun?

"Quick, press down!" Regardless of this, Zhang Gongjin angrily commanded the soldiers to attack, although these Sui troops were disorderly, but they were all fearless of death, and after coming up, they all attacked the Tang soldiers without their lives.

"Quick, Mo Dao Hand kill!" Yang Shan saw that the slave soldiers had already attracted the cavalry of the Tang Army, and immediately commanded two thousand Mo swordsmen to kill them.

"The slave soldiers in front dare to retreat, and there is no mercy for killing." Yang Shanhui said fiercely.

"These are the Turks!" At this time, a partial general walked to Zhang Gongjin's side and said with a wry smile: "The real Sui army is in the rear, they haven't come up at all, the Sui army wants to rely on these slave soldiers to exhaust the sharp energy of our army, and when our army is exhausted, those elites will shoot, these thousands of people"

"Shhh Zhang Gongjin couldn't help but gasp: "Sui Jun is so ruthless!" ”

"Yang Tong engaged in the slave trade, he bought the population from all forces outside the territory, and then set these Turks, Western Regions, and Goguryeo people under his rule as slaves, these people either built roads, or were used as death squads, Yang Dong didn't care about the life and death of these people at all, Xue Wanjun took more than 80,000 Turks to die in one breath, this mere 3,000 people, it's really nothing."

Zhang Gongjin nodded, he used to think it was an exaggeration, but this time it was really an eye-opener.

"General, what should I do?"

The adjutant general asked, this kind of crazy army, this is the first time he has encountered it, these people have become so numb that they don't care about their own life or death, as for the death of the robe, it can't affect them at all.

Zhang Gongjin saw that the Sui army in the rear had landed, and resolutely ordered: "All the cavalry will attack, and this slave army will be killed first." ”

Five thousand cavalry suddenly launched, roaring and attacking the slave soldiers, in the miserable and desperate screams of the slave soldiers, the miserable blood flowers in this world looked extremely dazzling.

But by the time they killed the slave soldiers, the Modao Army had already killed the Tang cavalry.

The Modao army was wearing heavy armor, and was not afraid of the arrows of the Tang army, and everywhere it passed, the people and horses were broken, the sword was shining, and they were invincible, and the two thousand soldiers advanced like a wall, killing the corpses of the Tang army's cavalry and horses, and the blood flowed like a river.

In the shouting and killing of the mountains and tsunamis, the Sui army had landed one after another, pouring in like a torrent of steel, and sharp arrows flashing with icy cold rays swept the ground, tearing the air, with a chilling cold breath, ruthlessly harvesting the lives of the Tang army.

"General, withdraw."

All the generals shouted anxiously, although Zhang Gongjin was unwilling, but the two thousand heavy infantry killed his cavalry with heavy losses, and the whole army showed a rout, and more and more Sui troops had landed one after another. Knowing that the situation was impossible, if it was one step too late, I was afraid that the whole army would have to explain here, so I had no choice but to order: "The whole army retreats." ”

The two sides did not stagger too much, and the Tang army was able to quickly withdraw from the battlefield.

Since there was no main force of the Tang army to participate in the battle, the battle of Mengjindu was a very small battle, and its role was only to delay the landing of the Sui army for a little time, and it could not prevent the landing of this main army at all.

With Zhang Gongjin's retreat to the south, the Sui army began to land in a mighty way, and before Zhang Gongjin left, he asked people to light a beacon on the beacon tower a mile away, and transmitted the information that the main force of the Sui army appeared in Mengjindu to Luoyang......

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