Chapter Seventy-Four: Attack and Defense

Blowing trumpets, beating drums, marching troops.

Jiang Lei's reaction was fast, but Song Jun's speed was as slow as a turtle. The giant camp led by Zhou Bin was freed from busy labor and was ranked at the forefront by Jiang Lei, followed by the box barracks of Rencheng, and finally the forbidden army with a total of five or six hundred people.

This fight is a siege battle, and he does not forget to leave heavy troops at the head of the golden sand beach to defend the lair.

Zhou Bin naturally knew that the giant camp he led was the cannon fodder of this battle, and even the three hundred soldiers above and below the giant camp seemed to know their fate and took action to procrastinate. Rencheng's box barracks are connected with the same fate, and they are also slowly climbing like a turtle.

"Alas, if this official army is all those soldiers, even if there are a thousand more people, it will not stand in the way!" At the pass, watching the Song army's slow movement like a turtle, Liu Tang said with regret.

Lu Qian laughed, "The soldiers are unbearable, and although the equipment of the forbidden army is strong, it is also unbearable. Of course, a real strong soldier cannot do without weapons and armor, but more important is this heart. Lu Qian patted his chest and said to Liu Tang. When he first crossed, when he remembered the establishment of the Song army in his mind, he scoffed at this army.

A crossbowman accounts for a seventy percent share of the army, and these crossbowmen do not practice long knives and big guns, in addition to bows and crossbows and arrows, when they go into battle, it is a waist knife, such an army itself lacks offensive courage, that is inherently defensive.

And an army that defines itself as a defensive army early on, an army that puts itself in a position to be beaten early on, is surprisingly strong.

"In this Zhao and Song Dynasty, the only military horses that can still fight are in the northwest." If it weren't for the poor armament of Liangshan, who could be shot into a sieve by the Song army's array like this, Lu Qian would dare to go to the golden beach to fight with five hundred capable minions.

As far as the will to fight is concerned, he believes that the officers and troops in Shandong in the Song Dynasty will not be much stronger than the Tuyong of the local prefectures and counties, and may even be weaker. And the outnumbered box soldiers are even more coercive. Lu Qian thought of the box soldiers he saw in Juye, was that really an army?

It's just that although the lethality of those soft bows of the Song army is limited, they are enough for the armorless Liang Shan. And the power of the Divine Arm Bow should not be underestimated.

When the Song army occupied the Broken Gold Pavilion, Lu Qian no longer dared to stay in a conspicuous position at the pass. Even if the Divine Arm Bow held by the Jeju Forbidden Army is the weakest version, the range can reach two hundred and forty steps [another version records, but it should be a weakened version, Shen Kuo has presided over the manufacture of weapons, and his record is more authentic], that is, three hundred and seventy meters away, Lu Qian can prevent being sniped.

From the Broken Golden Pavilion to the first pass, the mountains and rocks are rugged, the trees are luxuriant, if the Song army sends people to lurk under the pass, it will be difficult to detect, not afraid of 10,000, just in case, Lu Qian is very afraid of death. Even Liu Tang was so requested by him!

What should come is still coming. After grinding for half an hour, the giant camp still came to the pass, carrying a few simple long ladders.

Slowly advancing from a hundred paces away to seventy paces, Lu Qian did not order the archers to send arrows; When the giant camp was fifty paces away, Lu Qian still didn't give the order to fire arrows; The giant camp continued to move forward, but Zhou Bin's heart was beating drums.

He knew that Lu Qian's prestige had broken through for a while was obviously not the courageous and unwise person; Then it also means that the calm in front of him is just a prelude before the storm, and Lu Qian must be holding back his big move!

And when the storm struck, Zhou Bin could only think of misery. This taught him a very bad feeling, this time is so difficult, it is like knowing that he has a guillotine on his head that will fall at any time, not to mention how uncomfortable it is.

"Calm my breath, get up at the command, open the bow and shoot the arrow, the bow must be held steadily, and the arrow must be shot accurately."

Now the arrows on the pass can be said to gather half of the 'heavy arrows' of the entire Liangshan cottage, many arrows are more than a finger long, and the arrows are also from a conical or almost conical diamond, or a flat triangle, or even a sharp triangular shape.

"Shoot the arrows!" Zhou Bin ordered loudly, he couldn't ask his subordinates to come forward to die in vain, hundreds of soft bows were aimed at the pass, and arrows rained down for a while. It's just useless!

There is a wooden sign at the pass, and if you hold it on your head, you can't hurt any minions by throwing it, unless it's the most unlucky. Lu Qian quietly poked his head out and glanced out, Zhou Bin's brigade stopped at a distance of fifty paces, and there was probably a capital of troops in front of them, carrying a few simple long ladders rushing towards the pass.

Don't wonder why Lu Qian knew that Zhou Bin led the troops below, and the 'Zhou' banner in the Song army, and there was only one surnamed Zhou in several battalions, which clearly showed his identity. However, Lu Qian would not show mercy to his subordinates.

"Ready!" Lu Qian shouted, but he didn't tell the minions and archers at the entire pass, but to the drummers around him.

"Knock knock knock ......" A series of rapid drums sounded from the pass. The minion archer, who was still shrinking his head just now, instantly stood up straight, leaned on the battlements on the pass, bent his bow and arrows, and shot at the Song army that had already advanced thirty or twenty steps away from the pass.

Along with these precious archers were another group of minions, whose only role was to hold up a wooden plaque and hold up a layer of protection above the archers' heads.

With the protection of the battlements and the protection of the wooden sign overhead, the safety of the Liangshan minion archers is more than one notch higher than that of the other side.

Fifty archers flashed out of the concave surface of the battlements, and fired a sharp burst of arrows, all of which in the blink of an eye had fired two or three arrows.

The close distance greatly increased the accuracy of the archers, and the rudimentary defense of the soldiers also allowed them to be accurate when facing bows and arrows. The so-called leather armor and paper armor are also divided into good and bad, such as the box soldiers of the giant camp, the armor has not been changed for ten or eight years, or even more for a long time, and there is a problem with its preservation, that is, the original first-class armor has also become tattered. Moreover, only two or three percent of them can put on armor. Zhou Bin is not a great general, and he never thought of concentrating armor to attack. Therefore, if the arrows shot at the pass can hit, then there will be more blood. The thin small round shield could not protect too many people, and after a miserable scream, the soldiers of this capital threw down the long ladder and fled. At the same time, they left under the pass twenty or thirty wounded who had died or were wailing.

The battlefield was solemn, and only the cries of the wounded soldiers of the Song army lingered in front of the pass.

Zhou Bin closed his eyes in pain, his heart ached, and he lost thirty people in the first round of attack, which made him feel a little unacceptable, not to mention that there was a head inside, and he had a very good relationship with him. The latter was stuck in the eye with an arrow and died instantly.

The miserable appearance of the giant camp fell in Jiang Lei's eyes, but it was not angry. "The thief only has only two or three waves of arrows, and then he escapes in the wilderness, how can he be an official soldier? Tell Zhou Bin that Yu Ben will attack again. He didn't care that the Jeju soldiers themselves were only responsible for patrolling, dredging the canal and seizing the water. It was just dead, and it was a fart in his eyes. The little head of the barracks was no different from the weeds on the side of the road in his eyes.

In anger, he only vented his anger at the giant camp, but let Ren Chengying escape.

What else can Zhou Bin do? You can only attack again.

He dispatched sword and shield soldiers, and the battle of attacking the city was also the stage of sword and shield soldiers. Spearmen and Broadsword Axe Men also have to wait until the Sword and Shield Soldiers open up the situation and then climb up. Although none of these giant camps.

Repelling the first attack of the Song army, Lu Qian could clearly feel the mental relaxation of the minions, even the people around him, etc., no longer tightened their bodies.

Now the second offensive of the Song army came.

Lu Qian showed his head and glanced at it, feeling that it would not be difficult to repel this attack, and then the main force of the Song army, the forbidden army, might launch a third attack, otherwise the Song army would be too demoralized. And then there will be peace, and the day will pass.

Lu Qian thought so in his heart, and he didn't pay more and more attention to the giant camping right now. Compared with the box soldiers, he is more willing to test the combat effectiveness of the Jingdong Forbidden Army.

"Ah......h

"Gollum ......"

Rolling wood and stones, arrows and arrows, the second attack of the giant camp was more fierce than the first, and the defeat was more painful.

The topography of the pass is already condescending, and the lethality of rolling wood and stones is better than that of flat land. Then the arrows rained down, and the Song army's casualties would naturally be greater than last time.

However, the rain of arrows of the Song army also created two wounded men and a corpse for Liangshan, and the important thing is that Lu Qian lost three archers at once.