Chapter 960: The Brave is King

The sun had not yet shown the skyline, and the river bank was shrouded in a layer of mist, and the sky was already dark. Chen Fenglin held the telescope and looked at the river bank by the morning light, Mengyuan's camp is located not far from the north side of the ferry, the outermost part is a rammed earth wall half a zhang high, the gate of the village is facing the river, there is a corner tower on the wall, there is a high platform behind the wall, a trebuchet is laid on it, although the whole picture can not be seen clearly, but the head of the pole can be seen raised high.

"Target, enemy camp, flower bomb ready!" Chen Fenglin observed for a while, and then he could hear the neighing of horses from the people in the enemy village, as if he was about to assemble and exercise, and he decisively ordered to prepare to start the attack.

"Ready!" The rocket battalion directly under the army and the rocket company under the jurisdiction of the 1st Division were all equipped with a total of 24 six-link rocket launchers, and a single salvo was nearly 150 rockets, which could cover targets within a radius of several miles.

"Launch!" Hearing the sound of the reply, Chen Fenglin waved down the command flag heavily, and then one rocket after another rose into the air with a sharp whistling sound, dragging the tail flame and flying towards the enemy camp.

"Let's go!" The sound of the explosion of the rocket was the order to set off, and Liu Quan ordered to hide in the water behind the south of Qingzhou Island, and the boat carrying the landing soldiers set sail immediately.

In order to avoid the impact of Chushui, the landing fleet sailed out from the west side of Qingzhou Island, with six medium gunboats in front, and they were to take the lead in approaching the river bank, suppressing the enemy with artillery, destroying the enemy wall, and opening a gap for the landing force to surprise the attack. This will be followed by the first wave of landing forces, towed by small vehicles and boats, who will take on the task of seizing the ferry, establishing a bridgehead, and opening the way for the attack. Later there was a follow-up fleet of baggage ships and several Thousand Stone merchant ships, carrying two battalions, the second and third battalions of the 1st regiment, which would spread out to the flanks when they disembarked and set up a safe corridor to cover the retreat of the troops.

At the same time as the battle began, the three battalions of the 1st Division and the 2nd Regiment also set out from Yanziji Water Village, and they would be on standby in the waters of Qingzhou Island as a reserve, and they would also be engaged in the battle if the battle reached a stalemate, or if the enemy brigade came to reinforce them. and take on the task of receiving and sending forward, acting as a defender. In addition to the tasks of fire support and transporting landing soldiers, the naval forces were all engaged in the battle, and they also had to monitor the surrounding waters to prevent enemy warships from entering the river and attacking their rear.

"Cut the cable, go down the river, and grab the beach on the east side of the ferry!" After Tan Fei led the No. 1 Squadron of the Guard Battalion to set off as the first wave of landing troops, after entering the Chushui estuary, he was hit by an undercurrent, and the speed of the towing boat dropped sharply, and the landing boat they were on immediately lost the power to move forward, and the rear boat was dragged downstream by the river. This was a dangerous situation, and if they did not take decisive measures, not only would their ship lose its balance and roll over, but the boat towing them would also be dragged down, with the bow cocked and the stern sunk into the water, so he ordered to immediately disengage and change the landing site.

"Turn the rudder right and paddle with all your might!" Tan Fei, who was on the head boat, roughly judged the next direction, ordered the oars to row, and at the same time personally took the helm and adjusted the course, so as to cross this undercurrent and avoid being carried farther by the river.

"Keep up, idea formation, work harder!" While trying his best to control the direction of the boat, Tan Fei shouted loudly to the boat behind him, asking them to quickly come up and suppress the wake of his boat.

Because the Song army first took the Qiongzhou Strait as a danger and then the Yangtze River as a barrier, it could not bypass the landing operation if it wanted to fight out, and the various units of the forbidden army also regarded the landing operation as an important part of the training. However, when it comes to landing operations, the Marine Corps can be said to be a professional team, while the Forbidden Army can only be regarded as an amateur team. Tan Fei has served in the 1st Marine Brigade for many years and is in charge of training, so he has rich experience in landing operations.

After the ships were separated from the towing boats, the cables connecting them were also severed, and once they were dispersed under the action of the river, they could not concentrate after landing, and if they were attacked by a large force of the enemy at this time, they would be broken one by one, making it difficult for them to gain a foothold on the beachhead, and they would still be driven into the river. Therefore, Tan Fei, as the commander, not only had to ensure the smooth beaching of his warship, but also ensured that the entire team formed combat effectiveness.

"Gather the oars and get ready to grab the beach. Don't stay once you get ashore, assemble quickly and get ready for battle! Under the command of Tan Fei, the first team of guards rushed out of the undercurrent, and rushed to the river bank obliquely under the action of the current. Everyone grabbed the side of the boat with both hands and leaned back to strain themselves to counteract the strong impact of the boat crashing on the beach, so as not to be thrown out of the boat the moment they landed.

'Squeak ......' With a tooth-squeaking sound from the fierce friction between the bottom of the boat and the river beach, the four boats on which the guard battalion was carrying rushed ashore one after another.

"Quick, seize the embankment!" Tan Fei jumped onto the river bank without waiting for the boat to stop, he glanced at the river beach, the four boats of the headquarters were scattered on a beach less than fifty paces, all of them had abandoned the boat and went ashore, while the other troops were still fighting with the river. Because it was a dry season, the water receded, exposing a large beach and the embankment was still a hundred steps away from where they had landed. As long as the embankment is occupied and the foothold is obtained, it is possible to cover the follow-up troops to go ashore, further consolidate the beachhead, and block the counterattack of the enemy.

At the moment, the line of sight was blocked by the river embankment, and he could only see the smoke rising after the explosion of the rockets, which made Tan Fei unable to judge the situation in the enemy camp, but he knew that the enemy troops who were suddenly hit were definitely still in chaos, and the island must have found that they had successfully landed, and the rockets flying overhead had already thinned out, and he realized that in order to avoid accidental injury, the rockets would stop suppressing and firing at the enemy, so he must seize this short opportunity to quickly get a foothold at this moment.

The Guard Battalion, which was made up of seasoned veterans, had already assembled in the middle of the movement and attacked the embankment in small groups without further instructions. However, there was no fierce battle on the way, and when they reached the top of the embankment, they found only a destroyed watchtower, with several dead enemy corpses scattered around it.

......At the same time as the rockets stopped firing, the naval gunboats began to shoot, hoping to destroy the wall of the enemy camp and open the way for the landing force to develop in depth. Although the artillery fire was not as earth-shattering as the rockets, it was a clear and eye-catching hit, and they bombarded the wall with solid shells, like a siege cone, and every time the rammed earth wall was encountered, a large piece of rammed earth would fall with it.

"Keep attacking!" After Tan Fei climbed to the top of the embankment, he made a little observation, and found that the enemy camp was almost in ruins under the heavy bombardment of rockets, and there was not a single intact house in it. Under the bombardment of the ship's artillery, the gate of the enemy camp had long since disappeared, and the wall had collapsed to create a gap seven or eight zhang wide. After giving the signal to the warship to stop firing, he gave the order to continue the attack.

Braving the smoke and dust in the sky, Tan Fei led a squadron of 100 people from the guard battalion to rush into the enemy camp, and everywhere he saw the rubble, the stone thrower, which was regarded as the biggest threat, fell to the ground, the corpses of men and horses were lying sideways, and the barn was on fire, and the place where he passed was as if he had been struck by thunder. They did not stop, they searched and moved forward quickly, and when they found that the enemy who was seriously wounded and not killed, they would also make up for it without appreciation, and some tried to flee and quickly shot and killed, leaving no trouble.

"Commander, find the enemy brigade!" Seeing that he was about to pass through the village, the spearhead suddenly turned around and returned to report.

"Stop moving forward and be on the spot!" Tan Fei frowned and ordered, and then walked forward quickly to check the enemy's situation. He prostrated himself on a collapsed wall and looked out, only to see a group of about 3 to 400 enemy troops scattered in an open space outside the camp, looking at the camp from afar in disheveled clothes and with frightened faces, but they did not dare to come forward, apparently survivors who had escaped from the rocket attack.

"A flock of frightened birds, don't be afraid, destroy them!" Tan Fei sneered and said.

"Commander, isn't it prudent to wait for the follow-up troops to come up before launching an attack?" A team of commanders spoke.

"We are the Imperial Guard, Your Majesty's guards, but the elite of the elite, can't we destroy these remnants of them?" Tan Fei said disdainfully.

"Everything is in command of the horse!" The officers and men of the guard battalion were all arrogant and high-eyed masters in any unit, how could they make this 'newcomer' look down on them, and immediately saluted in unison.

"The Great Song Dynasty is mighty, Your Majesty is mighty. Kill, kill, kill! Tan Fei raised his gun and raised his arms and shouted.

"Kill, kill, kill!" The army responded with a loud voice, shouting for killing.

"Kill them first Liwei, let the Tartars know that my Great Song is not unpopular!" Tan Fei rolled up his sleeves, opened the bayonet and rushed out of the gap in the wall.

"Kill!" All the troops pushed their bayonets, shouted in unison and rushed out of the enemy village, lined up in two horizontal lines to raise their guns.

The two armies were no more than a hundred paces apart, and the enemy, who had not yet recovered from the bombardment, was in a panic, but when they found that the enemy was far inferior in number, they quickly turned from panic to anger. A few days ago, the Song soldiers continued to cross the river to harass, making the Jiangbei chickens and dogs restless, and finally surrounded a group, but they were killed out of the encirclement and fled to the mountain, but they went up the mountain for days to encircle and suppress, not only failed to capture and kill them, but killed dozens of people.

This incident already annoyed the Mengyuan soldiers, but today the Song army actually attacked the camp again, causing them to lose hundreds of brothers, but now they are also too deceitful, and more than 100 people actually dare to challenge. So, under the organization of the escaped officers, they quickly assembled and lined up, and dozens of soldiers with horses turned over and took the lead in attacking these Song soldiers who did not know whether they were alive or dead, and also wanted them to know that even a sick tiger was a tiger, and they would never tolerate being bullied repeatedly.

"Raise your gun, put it!" The distance between the two sides is very close, Tan Fei will not wait for the enemy cavalry to rush in front of him, and he believes in his own strength, although they have a cavalry spear with a short barrel in their hands, they are still confident that they can hit a fast-moving target at a distance of sixty paces.

'Bang, bang, bang...... With the sound of the password, the first row of soldiers began to shoot, they are all veterans with actual combat experience, they will not be nervous, nor will they be greedy to try to kill the enemy with one shot, but shoot at the war horse with a larger target, and the enemy riders who fall off the horse are not as good as dogs in their eyes. And they have their own tacit understanding, they all shoot at the target closest to them, so as to avoid the random firing of guns, and the result is that they all hit the same horse.

The distance was too close, and the Mengyuan cavalry desperately urged the horses in order to increase the speed and increase the impact in the shortest distance; Pick up your bow and arrows, and prepare to disrupt the enemy's formation when you enter the firing range, and then you can chase after you. However, the Song army fired first at a greater distance, and some of the horses that were shot immediately fell to the ground, some struggled forward and ran a few steps before falling headlong, and some of the wounded and undead horses were frightened and jumped around and lost control.

"Put!"

'Bang, bang, bang...... the front team finished firing, and the rear team immediately took two steps in succession, crossed the first team and opened fire on the remaining enemy horses, and after a series of explosions, the sound of horses' hooves hitting the ground suddenly disappeared, replaced by the screams of wounded riders. And the queue of the guard battalion still did not stop, loading ammunition on the march, and they reloaded quickly, just like the little emperor's usual trick.

After the ammunition is loaded, no one uses the pass to pestle the ammunition to press it into the bottom of the chamber, and if someone in the guard camp uses the pass when reloading, then it is a 'recruit egg'. The veterans do this by inertia on a pier on hard ground or on a rock. If you don't have the right cushion, you can't stop them, as long as you can do it on the toe of the 'iron toe'. It is precisely because this step is omitted that the reload is much faster.

'Click, click, click......' The military boots nailed with iron palms made a neat muffled sound on the gravel floor, but in the ears of the remaining Mengyuan soldiers, it was like a drum. They stepped over dead horses that had fallen to the ground, stabbed wounded enemy soldiers with bayonets, wounded horses that were still struggling, and left no living creatures in their passes. This was not a tyrannical killing, but a professional necessity, and their mission was to protect the Emperor, and an undead assassin could deliver a dying blow. Therefore, in the absence of a clear order, the enemy must die, and there must be no aftermath.

"Kill ......" may have felt that he could not escape the killers of these demon gods, or perhaps it was inspired by the blood, and after the cavalry was lost, the remaining enemy troops also launched an attack.

"Put!" Facing the enemy troops who met him, Tan Fei gave the order to shoot again, after two rounds of shooting, the two armies were so close that he knew that it was too late to reload the ammunition, so he did not wait for the smoke to dissipate, he took the lead in rushing into the enemy group with his spear, first swinging the spear away from the long knife that was slashing at him, and stabbed the bayonet into the throat of the enemy soldier with a slight advance, and then collected the gun and stabbed sideways into the chest of a Yuan soldier who was about to chop. The soldiers behind had already followed, and the two armies immediately scuffled together, and the sound of swords and guns clashing, the muffled sound of flesh, and the shouts of killing resounded through the sky......