Chapter 35: The Great War of Shuibo Liangshan
"Are these two thieves still alive? That's great! ”
"Is this alright?"
"Keep Gao Yu and Cai Jing, I will be of great use in the future!"
"What's your use?"
"Keep it a secret first, on such a cold day, what are you doing in Liangshanbo?"
"Yesterday, after Taiwei Su retired from the court, he told Lao Yu that Cai Jing's son-in-law Liang Zhongshu and the son of the Seven Road Jiedu and Gao Yu sent 250,000 troops, saying that they wanted to avenge the four thieves and pacify your Liangshanbo. Prepare yourselves. ”
"Two hundred and fifty thousand!"
"You wait!"
Uncle Zhang pulled Song An, who was about to leave, "The old man hasn't finished talking yet." ”
"Tell me quickly, I'm going to tell my father and them to get ready!"
"Listen, the old man came to report to you today, purely because you let the old man go last time, and the old man came to repay you. This does not mean that Lao Yu is disloyal to the Great Song Dynasty, let alone that Lao Yu colluded with you thieves! You understand, right? ”
"Understood, understood!"
"I don't owe anyone a favor in my life, I can't sleep in the middle of the night when I owe someone a family favor, since you let go of the old man last time, the old man hasn't slept a peaceful night! Well, now the old man can finally sleep peacefully! ”
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Song Jiang and Lu Junyi were sitting on the hot kang playing chess, and Song An ran in in a hurry and told his father that Liang Zhongshu and other eight-way jiedu envoys were going to lead an army of 250,000 to attack.
"Xiao An, is this news reliable?"
"Reliable! It was Master Li who sent someone to tell me. ”
Song An didn't come to report the letter to Uncle Zhang at night, so as not to blame his father.
"Outside Lu Yuan, let's quickly gather all the brothers to discuss the strategy of resisting the enemy!"
In the Hall of Loyalty, the brothers discussed for most of the day, and finally decided to ambush 10,000 soldiers at each of the four crossings into the mountain, and the rest were on standby to act cheaply. Dai Zong was ordered to lead the brothers in the newspaper battalion to disperse to the surrounding areas to closely monitor the movements of the officers and troops, and at the same time ordered the "parachute battalion" to fly into the air to observe the enemy's situation.
The "Parachute Battalion" was proposed and established by this council, consisting of brothers who could glide, and Song An served as the commander of the parachute battalion.
It's just that more than 20 leaders such as Hua Rong and Yanqing have their own errands, so they are not counted. As a result, there were only seventy people left in Song An's parachute battalion.
Song An decided to teach another group of minions to practice paragliding, and at the same time increase the flight distance of the original parachute camp to more than 100 miles.
The infantry army, the horse army, the firearms battalion, the bow and crossbow battalion, the strong crossbow battalion and other armies have completed their formations and are only waiting for the arrival of the officers and soldiers.
On the third day, the minions of the newspaper battalion came to report: 250,000 soldiers of the official army are coming to attack in eight ways!
Hearing this, Song Jiang was a little messy.
"There are only four roads into the mountain, what is the purpose of the officers and soldiers to divide them into eight roads?"
Lu Junyi and others also expressed their puzzlement.
Song An was also very confused.
In desperation, Song Jiang had no choice but to order the newspaper battalion and the parachute battalion to closely monitor the movements of the Eighth Route officers and troops in the sky and underground.
Actually, the reason why the eight-rank festival divides the adult soldiers into eight ways is as follows:
There are only two vacant seats in the imperial court, but they have eight seats for the lord, to whom? Not to anyone! Who wouldn't want it? But it's not enough points!
There must always be a boss in a war, but whoever is the boss will be rewarded for meritorious deeds in the future, and he will definitely have a greater reward.
You are the festival envoy and I am also the festival envoy, we are all festival envoys, why do you want Lao Tzu to listen to you?
In the end, they discussed for three days and three nights and made a decision: each of them sent 30,000 troops, and each fought for himself!
Gao Yanei, the son of Gao Yu, begged his grandfather to tell his grandmother from his father's subordinates and scraped together 10,000 people, and followed Liang Zhongshu's 30,000 butts.
But as soon as they reached the outside of the mountain, they merged into four paths again.
At the moment they are no longer close comrades-in-arms, but competitors!
Rush it, brothers, whoever rushes into Liangshanbo first and chops off Song Jiang's black dog head will be the first gong!
Regardless of the formation of troops, 250,000 troops rushed in all directions and flocked to the mountains.
The Liangshan army ambushed on both sides of the mountain road had already been waiting for it, and when they saw the officers and soldiers rushing over like headless flies, they hurriedly summoned all kinds of weapons!
For a time, earth-shattering thunder, bows and arrows, bows and crossbows, strong crossbows, and bed crossbows attacked the officers and soldiers one after another.
The officers and soldiers who rushed in front saw that the Liangshan army was waiting for the battle, and they immediately became a little timid, and wanted to retreat to find a good posture to set up a good formation and then insert it, but the people behind didn't care at all, and they arched forward with all their strength!
If you don't want to go forward, you can't go forward, and you are directly pushed up by the people behind!
Thinking that chopping off Song Jiang's black dog head can take the first credit, he suddenly came to his heart, let's go!
Previously, during the deliberations of the Zhongyi Hall, Song An and his father suggested that those who can use long-distance weapons such as earth-shaking thunder and bows and crossbows should try not to engage in short-range combat!
Liang Shanbo's arsenal has hoarded more than 30,000 new sky-shaking thunderbolts, three million long and short arrows, and they all greeted first!
The earth-shattering thunder was continuously thrown at the crowd of officials and soldiers through catapults, exploding in the crowd like firecrackers! Where the earth-shattering thunder fell, only the ghosts cried and the wolves howled, and the flesh flew sideways.
Although they were only a hundred meters away from the Liangshan army on the hillside on both sides of the road, they could not rush up at all due to the earth-shattering explosion and the thunderous arrows.
Song An's parachute battalion was not idle, seventy people were divided into four groups, and they flew into the sky with earth-shattering thunder on their backs, lighting the thunder to blast in places with many officers and soldiers, and so on!
The officers and soldiers charged for two hours, and with 10,000 casualties, they were finally about to engage with the defenders of Liangshan!
But the Liangshan army has long been ready, if you come, I'll run!
The shield blocked the rain of arrows shot by the officers and soldiers, and when they left, they left a row of earth-shattering thunder that lit the fuse, just waiting for the officers and soldiers to chase after them!
Rumble!
People turn on their backs, and blood splashes!
From the water outside Liangshanbo to the entire mountainous area, the four mountain roads are more than 30 miles deep, and the Liangshan army retreats while releasing earth-shaking thunder and arrows.
The officers and troops fell like a sea of mountains.
The army of Liangshan also fell from time to time.
The officers also had catapults and a large number of archers.
It's just that their casualty rate is only one-tenth of that of the officers and soldiers.
The 100,000-strong army fought bloodily at the front, and none of the 100,000 family members were idle, and they took on the task of logistics.
90,000 people followed the leopard Tang Long and the thunderbolt Ling Zhen to make the thunder and bows and arrows, and 10,000 people transported weapons, supplies and wounded to and from the position.
The army of Liangshan fought and retreated, and did not engage with the official army in short combat.
By the end of the afternoon, they had withdrawn to a distance of only about fifteen miles from the shore of Shuibo, and they were about to meet each other in a short manner!
Song An's nerves immediately tensed.
In most of the day's fighting, the Liangshan army had killed and wounded more than 30,000 officers and soldiers, and the mountain roads and ravines were full of their corpses, while the Liangshan side only suffered less than 3,000 casualties.
If the army is short-handed, the Liangshan army will definitely increase the casualties, not to mention, the most important more than 10,000 acres of greenhouse glass houses, hospitals, hotels, and coke, glass-making workshops are all along the water, in case the 200,000 troops of the official army pour in, these will definitely be wasted!
"Don't blow up those officers and soldiers anymore, capture the thief and capture the king first, and go and blow up the eight knots to make the old man!"
In ancient times, the generals who led the army were erected with the word "handsome" next to them, in order to boost morale and tell the soldiers that your boss is behind you to support you! Second, it is also to deter the soldiers, whoever dares to retreat, Lao Tzu will cut you!
In the Song Dynasty, especially in the Northern Song Dynasty, because the imperial court was relatively wealthy, the annual treasury income reached 1.6 billion yuan, so these marshals preferred to use gold to make a pair of armor, and wore it on their bodies like gold fighters.
Following the ranks of the officers and soldiers all the way back to observe, Song An found two old men in their fifties wearing gold armor standing under the banner of the handsome character in the rear.
The golden armor of these two old men looked shining against the sun of the western mountain.
The officers and soldiers raised their bows and crossbows one after another, and shot at Song An and fifteen others who flew above them with paragliders.
However, even if their best bow and crossbow shot at a straight high altitude, it could not reach a hundred meters in any case, but after falling, a few arrows injured their own people.
Song An's team of fifteen people carried a total of sixty earth-shattering thunderbolts, and threw them directly towards the two golden-armored old men!
After an explosion, Song An in the sky only heard a burst of shouts of "Lord Jiedu Envoy".
The brothers' tactics of "capturing the thief and capturing the king first" were also going well.
First, the gold armor worn by the adults is too eye-catching, and there is a strong sense of sight of bright and blind titanium alloy dog eyes.
Moreover, the people in the parachute camp were all in the sky, although the festival made the adults hide in all directions when they saw them flying, and they wanted to find a mouse hole to get into it immediately.
But no matter how they hide, the people in the sky can see it clearly from a high position, where to run?
Let's eat Lao Tzu's earth-shattering thunder!
As a burst of explosions sounded, the eight Jiedu envoys died one after another.
The festival was killed, and the banner fell......
First, the rear camp began to turn around and retreat, and the interrupted ones hurriedly followed. In this way, the people in front of you are gone, why did you run away and throw Lao Tzu here to die?