Chapter Eighty-Three: The Siege of Suzhou

But he said that Fang Xiang calmed down a little, seeing that today's momentum was not right, he had the idea of retiring from the army in his heart, and he didn't want another horse to fly out at this time, and shouted in his mouth: "I lost my sharp spirit today, if I don't get it back, how will I fight in the future?" Let's see if the stones can beat me! ”

At a glance, it was the flying leopard general Guo Shiguang who patted the horse and speared the white-faced general of the Liangshan Army, but the white-faced general restrained the horse, holding the reins in his left hand, holding the pear flower gun in his right hand and pointing at Guo Shiguang and said: "One comes, one goes!" Two come, two run! Do you know that I am not as powerful as Zhang Qingfeishi? ”

Guo Shiguang said proudly: "If you beat others, how can you beat me?" Grandpa has been guarding against you for a long time......"

Before the words fell, Zhang Qing raised his left hand, and a stone flew right in Guo Shiguang's lips, only hitting his upper lip thinly, knocking out a few teeth, turning over and falling off the horse, Zhang Qingce passed by and stabbed to death with a shot.

It turned out that Zhang Qing had handed over his left hand in the process of fighting, and his right hand took out a stone from the brocade bag, and then shot out the flying stone with a wave of his hand.

Guo Shiguang watched the battle for a long time, and discovered Zhang Qing's law early, and when he saw that he was holding the reins in his left hand and holding the spear in his right hand, he was not too careful in his heart.

How do you know that Zhang Qing's flying stone stunt can be launched with both left and right hands, and there are small brocade bags on the left and right sides of the body, long before holding the reins in his left hand, he secretly deducted a stone in his palm, and when Guo Shiguang rushed to within ten steps, he was very excited in his heart and thought that he could win with melee grappling, when suddenly a stone flew out, Guo Shiguang really hit the trick and lost his life.

"Wan Sheng! Wansheng! Wansheng! I'm Liangshan Army, mighty! ”

The morale of the Liangshan army is getting higher and higher, countless Liangshan cavalry are riding on horses, waving their blades and cheering loudly, a fanatical and arrogant sharp air that dominates the world soars into the sky, Rao is arrogance is like a square appearance was also shocked at this time, and his face became pale.

The soldiers of the other Fangla army, especially the ordinary soldiers of many farmers and cottage minions, were even more frightened and trembling one by one, their mouths were dry, they couldn't breathe, and suddenly many of their legs fell to the ground with weakness!

And Wu Fu, the Feitian general, Gou Zheng, the Feiyun general, Zhen Cheng, the Feishan general, and the Feishui general, who were also eight hussars, saw that the two brothers were stabbed to death by Zhang Qing, and the two brothers were seriously injured, and they couldn't help but be angry, and they almost burst into fire in their glasses.

The four of them glanced at each other, and secretly said in their hearts: "Since there is no way to go up and take this guy alone, then the four of them will go up together, and they will fight to the death to avenge their brother!" Didn't this guy want us to go up together before, and now it's no wonder that we're on it together! ”

In the blink of an eye, the four of them reached an agreement, and without waiting for the general to order, they had already flown out of the formation, two of them attacked the left and two attacked the right, and in an instant, they had already killed in front of Zhang Qing.

Zhang Qing couldn't help but sneer: "Come one, hit one, come two, hit a pair!" If you go up ten together, what can you do to me? ”

Before the words fell, Zhang Qing had handed the gun to his left hand, and at the same time held the reins and turned the horse's head and left, the stone in his right hand flew out at the same time, and the flying general Wu Fu, who rushed to the front, was quick to hide, and quickly came to a stirrup to hide and flashed over, which Zhang Qing's target was not him in the first place, only to hear the stone almost fly past his ears, and then there was a scream behind him, but it was the Feishan general Zhen Cheng who had been hit by the flying stone and fell directly to the horse.

"Water Po Grass ......"

The general of Feishui scolded angrily, but before he finished speaking, a flying stone hit him in front of the door, and he hurriedly dodged, but he was still hit on the neck, and the pain was so painful that he could no longer speak.

However, taking advantage of this gap, the Feitian General Wu Fu rushed to Zhang Qing's front and slashed at the head with a big knife in his hand, while the Feiyun General Gou Zhengze bent his bow and arrows in the back, aiming at Zhang Qing's mount with an arrow.

A good Zhang Qing, worthy of the original Song's Water Margin Liangshan Tianjiexing, the end of the quick response, quick eyes, quick hands, from a distance to see Gou Zheng bending the bow and arrows, hurriedly pulled the reins, crotch Beidi BMW immediately a horizontal row, translated more than a horse body, and then hid in a stirrup to avoid Wu Fu's big knife, and shouted loudly: "Go!" ”

I saw that his right hand waved violently, and the two stones came out of his hands almost in order, and the stone hit Wu Fu's wrist, only to break the bones and tendons, and the big knife could no longer be held, and fell to the ground with a bang.

At the same time, Gou Zheng shot an arrow into the air, and was about to draw another arrow from the quiver, when he saw a gray spot in front of him quickly become larger, and when he hurriedly went to hide, a stone hit his eyebrows early, and the pain made his eyes black, and he couldn't sit still anymore on the horse, screaming and turning over and falling off the horse.

Fang Lajun proposed to fight generals, eight horsemen against eight horsemen, but the Liangshan army only had a feather arrow Zhang Qing and one horse, and all eight people on the other side were defeated, killed or injured or fled, and no one could fight again in a moment.

The morale of the Liangshan army suddenly reached its peak, and there was a slight silence between heaven and earth, and suddenly a burst of cheers resounded through the heavens and the earth.

"Wan Sheng! Wansheng! Wansheng! ”

At this time, Po Han Wu had already led the army to the front of the formation and the whole army was completed, seeing this, he hurriedly ordered the order flag to be shaken, and the horn of the charge was sounded, and more than 4,000 Liangshan iron cavalry immediately roared and launched a charge, and the mountains and seas seemed to be swept in.

Although the number of Fang La's army was more than ten times that of Liangshan's army, most of them were untrained cottage minions and bankrupt peasants, and their morale was low, and they were already frightened.

Without giving an order, nearly 50,000 soldiers of the Southern Army let out a scream of sorrow like the sky was collapsing, and ran backwards and fled desperately.

Seeing this, Fang Xiang, Shi Bao, Si Xingfang, Xing Zheng and others are also struggling to save the situation and maintain order, even if they withdraw to the city, there must be a sequence, right?

But there is a saying that the defeat of the army is like a mountain, just like the serious stampede that happened in later generations, the crowd is frightened, and the panic spreads like an avalanche, how can it be reversed by manpower?

No matter how much their hearts were like blood, no matter how loud they shouted, and even slashed and killed dozens or hundreds of frightened routs, Fang Maung and the others could only watch as these routs pushed me, trampled on each other, and squeezed into a ball and fell into the moat of Suzhou City.

In the original historical time and space, when the Jin soldiers went south, Zhao Ji of Song Huizong sent the commander of the infantry army to lead the forbidden army of 20,000 to garrison the Yellow River pontoon bridge, and sent his henchman Liang Fangping to order 7,000 elite cavalry of the imperial battalion to garrison Junzhou on the north bank of the Yellow River, intending to cut off the river bridge and guard against the rush.

As a result, Allah did not come, just Guo Yaoshi, who first surrendered to the Song Dynasty and then to the Jin Dynasty, came with two thousand Changsheng troops (all Han people from the north of Liao) to kill, Liang Fangping fled in the wind, seven thousand cavalry rushed across the river to escape, Chang Sheng's army robbed and killed a little at the bridgehead, the Song soldiers trampled on each other, squeezed down the Yellow River and drowned thousands, while Chang Sheng's army was only three injured.

After the collapse of the cavalry, the 20,000 access control troops led by He Guan who had already become the construction team were also retreating, and the Chang Shengjun was in hot pursuit, so that night only dozens of scouts and scouts came to kill, and they had not officially handed over the fire, and the 20,000 gate control troops (construction team) were so frightened that they blew up the camp and turned into 20,000 pigs and wolves.

At this time, only part of the Changsheng army crossed the river, the news was transmitted back to Bianjing, the Manchu Dynasty civil and military immediately panicked, the initiator was already the emperor of Huizong Zhao Ji immediately in the name of "burning incense", Cai You and several servants, opened the city gate in the middle of the night and fled all the way to Bozhou, and then fled from Bozhou to Zhenjiang.

At this time, the Jin soldiers had just arrived at the bank of the Yellow River, because they could only find more than ten small boats, and the Jin soldiers could only cross the Yellow River in waves, and it took 6 days to transport the cavalry over.

Afterwards, the second prince, the commander of the Jin Bing East Route Army, sighed: "The Southern Dynasty can be said to be unmanned, if there are one or two thousand people guarding the river, how can our generation cross it!"

Because of this, Jin Cai saw the details of the Song Dynasty at once, and dared to venture out again and again to play a thousand miles of surprise attacks alone.

And the Song Dynasty really didn't disappoint them, and even played the trick of the Liujia Divine Soldiers, opening the city gate and letting the Jin soldiers enter the city; After the Jin soldiers captured a small section of the outer city wall and a city gate, they immediately collapsed, gave up resistance, and instead believed the Jin people's nonsense and began to negotiate peace.

Then there was the shame of Jingkang.

Back to the book, although the soldiers of the Fang La army are not equivalent to the corrupt Zhao and Song Dynasty Gate Forbidden Army, and the generals of the Fang La army are even more backbone, but in terms of the quality of the soldiers, it is actually not much better.

Just by more than 4,000 Liangshan iron cavalry to drive and frighten, nearly 50,000 square soldiers of the army rushed to the wolf, trampled on each other, trampled to death, squeezed into the moat more than three or four percent, and those who escaped into the city by luck were also panicked, and they could no longer have the slightest fighting spirit and fighting spirit.

The 5,000 forward cavalry of the Liangshan Army honestly and unceremoniously surrounded the city of Suzhou on all sides, set up camp, and sent people to lead hundreds of cavalry to patrol in turn every day, resting the soldiers and horses to recuperate, and waiting for the army led by General Lu and Lu Junyi to come.

After three days like this, the soldiers of the Fang La army were all unable to shrink, and this day was taking turns to patrol the sentry led by Ji Pang Wanchun, and there was no abnormality in the patrol for most of the day.

Pang Wanchun didn't want the soldiers to be tired, and the weather was hot, so he simply asked the soldiers to take off their armor and dismount near the south gate of Suzhou to find a shaded place to rest.

However, it was said that Fang Lajun's side, although surrounded by the Liangshan Army on all sides, was after all a water town in the south of the Yangtze River, and Suzhou was surrounded by waterports and rivers all around the city, and the main force of the Liangshan Water Army had not yet arrived, how could it really be surrounded to death?

Although the four gates of Suzhou City are closed, and the suspension bridge is hung high every day, it can still get in touch with the outside world through the water city, and someone has already driven a fast boat to Hangzhou to report for help, but he is not afraid of the siege of the Liangshan army.

Anyway, the city of Suzhou is strong, and there are heavy guards at the water gate, and it is vulnerable to attack, and the food in the city can be eaten for two or three years, and it can be consumed completely.

If you Liang Shanjun have the ability, you will spend a whole year on the outskirts of Suzhou City, will the imperial court and the Jurchen barbarians give you so much time?

When the Liangshan army ran out of food, the people were sleepy and the horses were lacking, the morale was low and even the epidemic was epidemic (the northerners were not adapted to the weather in the south of the Yangtze River, and they would definitely not adapt to the water and soil), coupled with the unstable situation in the north, once the Zhao and Song Dynasty courts or the Jurchen barbarians made a move, the Liangshan army could only obediently make peace with them and then retreat.

But having said that, Shi Bao and Si Xingfang in Suzhou City did not have a little bottom in their hearts.

One and the two can also see that the Liangshan army is not as good as the waste forbidden army of the Zhao and Song courts, but it is really well-trained, the order is prohibited, and the morale is extremely high The strong army in the world, I am afraid that compared with the Han Yulin and Tiger Ben army in history, the soldiers of the early Tang Dynasty and the Xuanjia army are not bad at all.

And on his side, it is a rabble!

The two really created too many miracles by the Liangshan army, not to mention the defeat of Bianliang City in the first battle, not to mention the easy destruction of the capital of the Western Xia and the annihilation of the main force of the Western thieves, not to mention the legend of the Liangshan army to destroy the country of Goryeo, just to say that the Liangshan army of more than 3,000 cavalry broke through the elite of 100,000 Liao and captured tens of thousands of soldiers and horses.

At the beginning, the two of them thought that Liang Shanjun was completely bragging, how could it be? But at this time, the two felt that maybe what Liang Shanjun said was true, and maybe Liang Shanjun really achieved a miracle that they didn't even dare to think about.

In the face of so many miracles and so many "impossible", how could Shi Bao and Si Xingfang dare to guarantee that Suzhou City would not be breached, and their Yongle Dynasty would survive the conquest of the Liangshan army?

Since the siege of the city, the two of them can be said to be worried, dreaming of sleeping at night, diligently trying to do something to boost morale, train soldiers, and rectify military discipline, just hoping to delay until the Liangshan army retreats.

But the mud can't support the wall, more than half of the soldiers of the Yongle Dynasty are hungry people, and a small half are the green forest robbers of the 64 villages in the south of the Yangtze River.

In fact, it's okay for the hungry people to form an army, although they are a little timid, after all, they are not loyal and honest, but these soldiers who were born as robbers in the green forest were so frightened that they cried wolf in front of the Liangshan Iron Cavalry, and after retreating to Suzhou City, they fell up in the nest.