Chapter 813: Martyrdom

It is a large pass, located between two mountains, and further on, it is the valley of the Fuliang River, until the riverside is a flat river.

Shen Jingfu is a civil servant and does not understand military affairs, but he has read the basic military books and tactics, and strongly advised Hong Zhenhou: "Master Hou, the Song army is new and aggressive, it is better for us to go back to the pass and defend it, and it is better to wear down its morale." ”

Hong Zhenhou disagreed: "What Taishou said is a common policy, but it is not suitable for today's Jiaozhi." It belongs to the unknown friend or foe. ”

"The Song army came thousands of miles away, and I heard that it was infected with the epidemic when I went over the South Ridge, how much morale can I have?"

"The important combat strength of our army is the elephant army, how does the elephant army defend the city? It needs to be used outside the gate to impact the enemy's formation. ”

"I heard that the cavalry of the Western Army is powerful, and the horses are two feet taller than my southern horse, if there are no elephants to compete with them, how can this battle be fought?"

Shen Jingfu arched his hand and said worriedly: "Master Hou, what the lower official wants to say is also this, since the Western Army is a cavalry army, then attacking the city is definitely not its strong point, we only need to be as the Taibao said, use elephant soldiers to defend the pass, the infantry army to defend the Lang, and snipe the enemy army layer by layer, whether it is ......?"

Hong Zhenhou said sharply: "Shen Taishou! You are a minister! Ben Hou allowed you to participate in the military, that is for the sake of your loyalty to the king, to give you face! ”

"Our army has not yet fought, and you are so afraid of the enemy like a tiger!"

"Guo Kui's pioneer Zhang Shiju is only 10,000 people, and he still travels long distances; And our army of 30,000 is waiting for work, and there are natural dangers to rely on! ”

"He has a cavalry army, I have an elephant army, except for your unusable tuding, what my subordinates have brought are all the Son of Heaven who guards the dragon!"

"If you don't dare to fight in the field with foreign enemies, then what's the use of the court leaving you and me?! Then how can I still proclaim the power of the four realms, and everything is successful?! ”

"You don't have to worry about the military, go back to the Lang to organize the people, transport the grain, and decide the pass, you don't need it!"

Shen Jingfu wanted to argue, but what Hong Zhenhou said was reasonable, and he was the emperor's uncle today, so he had to sigh: "The lower official is guilty, and the lower official will return to the army to mobilize the army." ”

In the middle of November of the ninth year of Xining, the two armies of Song and Yue fought a tragic war in the Duli Pass.

The war was initiated by the Jiaozhi side first.

Zhang Shiju's cavalry advanced too fast and broke away from Guo Kui's Chinese army, forming a lone army posture, and Hong Zhenhou was determined to seize this favorable opportunity and use the superior forces to annihilate them completely.

The battle began ten miles outside the Duli Pass.

As soon as the Song army came out of the valley, it encountered the impact of the elephant soldiers, and behind the elephant soldiers were 20,000 Jiaozhi elites.

"Array! Array! Zhang Shiju saw that the situation was not good: "What about the grenadiers? Hurry up and give Lao Tzu a step! Crossbowman! Where is the strong crossbow command?! ”

It can be said that at the beginning of the battle, the advantage was on Hong Zhenhou's side, and the Song army was blocked in the mountain pass, the road was narrow, and it fell into chaos for a while.

Wang Zhongzheng waved his hand: "The van unloads things!" Then push the car up to block the valley mouth, and the artillery team goes up the hill to organize the position! ”

After speaking, he shouted to the rear army: "All those who can go up the mountain will go up the mountain to Lao Tzu!" Grenadier! Crossbowman! Go up the slope! ”

An obese figure jumped out of the van with a tube in his arms and ran up the hill with his team.

After years of improvement, the barrel and chassis of the cannon have become much thinner, from the original 130 kilograms of cast iron pipes, step by step to 40 kilograms of steel pipes, and now a team of five people, 45 ammunition when the team acts, Guo Fatzi can run with the barrel.

The rest of the riders did the same, carrying boxes and various parts to the hillside.

The thunderbolt cannon is powerful, but it is too heavy, and now it can only be equipped on sea ships, and the terrain of Jiaozhi restricts the movement of the thunderbolt cannon, so Wang Zhongzheng and they can only carry the ambush cannon.

Guo Huaicai ran up a small slope, turned his head and saw that less than two miles ahead, the war elephants had already rushed over, and there was a small bamboo arrow tower on the back of the war elephants, and inside were cross-toe soldiers armed with bows and arrows and javelins.

"It's too late!" Guo Huai slammed the body of the prisoner's cannon to the ground: "It's here!" Load! ”

The team began to assemble the volcanner, Guo Huai half-knelt down, stretched out his right hand, and began to measure the distance with his left and right eyes respectively.

Wang Zhongzheng held the command knife in his left hand and the wheel gun in his right hand, and led a dozen people to run over: "Big baby, hurry up!" We're getting you in the way! ”

After Wang Zhongzheng's artillery squad jumped from the van, Zhang Shiju ordered the vanguard cavalry to dismount and push the van forward desperately, trying to pile up at the mouth of the valley to resist the impact of the war elephants.

But time is too late, the charge of the Jiaozhi people chokes the time just right, Li Yuechao has been fighting with the surrounding for decades, and Hong Zhenhou's tactical command is also above the level.

At the last moment, a van that had not yet been unloaded suddenly rushed out of the valley mouth, and the sergeant on the cart brandished his saber and kept stabbing at the buttocks of the galloping horse.

The carriage crashed into the overturned carriage before it closed, and then launched a counterattack towards the rushing herd!

Wang Zhongzheng took the wheel and put it on the edge of his helmet, a little stunned: "Who is that?!" It's bold, ouch, it's not good that the car is our ammunition! ”

The horse was not stupid, and after a short run of time, slowed down, and began to struggle to turn around, trying to escape the fate of being trampled by the elephant herd.

Then he saw the boy in the carriage jump down, cut the rigging with his saber with great speed, jumped on a bareback horse, and galloped back.

As he ran, he shouted, "Fire—fire—"

"Damn!" Wang Zhongzheng snatched the magic weapon from the hand of the sergeant beside him, stood up, and fired at the carriage in the distance.

There was a "pop" sound, and there was no movement on the other side of the carriage.

Seeing that the interception measures at Taniguchi had not yet been completed, the cavalry was still in chaos, and the elephant herd had already rushed to the high speed, Wang Zhongzheng turned his head and shouted: "Guo Baobao! You can't pull it out for a shit day?! ”

Guo Huai didn't pay any attention to him, jumped up from the ground, rushed to the newly assembled volcano, and began to shake the crank frantically.

The cross-fingered soldiers on the elephant herd began to fire arrows, and the long arrows whizzed over and stuck in Guo Long's side.

Wang Zhongzheng waved his hand: "Protect Guo Sima!" We can all burp, he can't die! ”

Five or six sergeants immediately pounced, half-kneeling in front of the cannon, forming a screen of human flesh.

The arrows of the Cochin were not weak, and soon the sergeant in front of the cannon had arrows inserted into his leather armor.

Wang Zhongzheng also half-knelt in front of the sergeant, ignoring the arrows flying around him, and raised his sword flatly: "A team!" Thirty degrees to the left in front, free aim, shoot! ”

The magic guns in the hands of the sergeants rang out, but five or six gunshots did not have much impact on the hundreds of war elephants rushing in.

Wang Zhongzheng remained motionless: "Second team! The guy on the far right! Shoot! ”

This time it had some effect, the war elephant was obviously shot, and there was even a black cochin sergeant on the elephant seat, who fell down with a javelin in his hand, and was trampled into flesh by the elephant herd behind him just after letting out a miserable scream.

But this result did not affect the situation at all, seeing that the elephant herd was about to cross the carriage, Wang Zhongzheng's face was pale: "Three teams, it's still that guy, shoot!" ”

At this moment, there was a muffled "bang" behind him, and a captive cannonball flew up from behind Wang Zhongzheng, swept high into the sky, followed closely, the trajectory became stable, and fell in the direction of the carriage just now.

Wang Zhongzheng kept praying in his heart: "You must hit, you must hit ......"

At this moment, there was another "bang" behind him, followed by another "bang".

"Damn!" At this moment, Wang Zhongzheng was ecstatic in his heart, and he couldn't wait to get up and turn around and hug Guo Huai and dance wildly for a while, how did this trick come out? !

Then two more sounds, two shells rose into the air again.

In a flash of thought, the first shell had already fallen, and with a "boom", it overturned a war elephant, and also blew up the one next to him, and the speed was obviously reduced.

Immediately after, the second one fell into the herd, bounced off the constellation of an elephant, and then exploded in mid-air, this time causing massive damage from the flying shrapnel, and the screams of the cochin sergeants and the wails of the war elephants reverberated in front of them.

Before the elephant soldiers in the rear had time to get lucky, the third shell finally fell into the compartment of the van just now!

"Boom—"

The explosion of the ambush shell caused a strong explosion of ammunition in the car, and Wang Zhongzheng saw that the elephants around the car were pushed off the ground by the huge air wave, and then fell to the ground and wailed and struggled.

Immediately after, in the flames of the explosion, countless white spike-like gas needles stretched out, and then an even more huge air wave shocked wave, instantly spreading to a range of tens of meters!

The explosion threw countless shells out of the carriage, and then exploded one after another around the carriage, forming a salute of gunsmoke, blood and shrapnel!