The eighth day of the ninth month of the third year of the Grand View.

Xiangzhou, Huanshui.

The night was already shrouded in the Huanshui battle array. Countless flaming torches were stacked on the battlefield, and the firelight swayed, reflecting the large and small forts on the south bank of Huanshui.

The shouts of killing echoed in all directions in this night, crashing into these hastily built fortresses and splashing in all directions, adding countless murderous aura to this bloody night!

At this time, the Liao army and horses had already controlled several shoals that could be crossed, and the infantry of the Sijie Army of the brigade came from these shoals to flood the water, and immediately launched an attack on several fortresses near the shoals. The dead and wounded soldiers were also carried down like water.

The Xiangzhou regiment's ability to train the army to build fortresses cannot be compared with the regular army under Zhong Fu's command, and they do not have the "Step by Step for the Camp Map" drawn by Zhao Ji himself, and Zong Ze, who is responsible for building these camps, is also a capable layman. Therefore, there were no strict requirements for the depth of the trenches, the height and thickness of the camp walls, and the fences against the horse army.

Therefore, the defensive ability of these camps is not very strong, and there is no need for any large equipment, so just let the soldiers of the Sijie Army carry ladders and hold shields to rush up.

However, the fortress always seems to allow the Song people to get a combat power bonus. Even if these fortresses were really not very strong, there were still many casualties among the attacking soldiers of the Sijie Army and the soldiers of the Khitan Palace Division who covered the attack with bows and arrows.

And the main thing that caused them casualties was a crossbow machine with a very delicate design, very convenient to use, and a high degree of accuracy. Because low-cost materials are used to create the crossbow arm, the effective range of this crossbow machine is not very long. For armored targets, it is only effective within 50 steps, and if the opponent is wearing iron armor, then it must be able to shoot arrows at 30 steps to have a high probability of penetrating.

But it was this kind of effective range that could only be regarded as an ordinary weapon, and in this afternoon's battle, it caused terrible casualties to the attacking Liao soldiers. Because of the large number of cheap crossbows produced in large quantities, each camp was equipped with more than 600 of these Jiehe crossbows, oh, now called Tianjin crossbows.

If you fire at the specified distance, a single salvo can kill almost two hundred people! Moreover, the arrowheads used in this kind of strong crossbow are also made in Tianjin, and the arrows are very hard, and they are also made into a three-sided shape under the requirements of Wu Haogu, which is the shape of the so-called "three-edged thorn"! After being injected into the human body, a hole can be opened that is roughly square, which is difficult to stop bleeding and heal, and the stopping effect is also strong.

If you insert a few flat arrows into your body, as long as the penetration is not deep, the wound will automatically shrink and play a role in stopping bleeding. Therefore, the soldier can still maintain a certain combat effectiveness without pulling out the arrowhead. But stick a few arrows with three blades on your body, and that's enough! Because the wound cannot be squeezed to stop the bleeding, the three-sided blade will also cause new injuries in the process of human activity. Therefore, if you are shot by a three-edged arrow, it is best to return to seek medical treatment quickly, otherwise you will easily die of serious injuries!

With the blessing of a large number of Tianjin crossbows, in the daytime battle, the trenches in front of these small and sturdy camps became a sad place for countless Liao dead soldiers. I rushed many times, but I couldn't break through the camp.

However, when the battle lasted until the night, the Xiangzhou regimental training, which had been hard for an afternoon, finally could not support it. In the afternoon battle, their losses were not small! They have Tianjin crossbows, and the Liao people also have stubborn horn bows! Although in terms of lethality, the Tianjin crossbow exploded the stubborn sheep's horn bow, but in terms of rate of fire, it was too far behind. And the number of archers of the Liao people is even more! It's almost like the Xiangzhou regiment practiced shooting an arrow, and it had to be hit by ten Liao feather arrows.

If these Xiangzhou regiments are wearing iron armor, they are not afraid of anything. But they only have paper armor and leather helmets with limited defensive capabilities, so under the rain of arrows of the Liao people, the casualties are quite small.

And at dawn, the regimental training of the village was forced by the small local tyrants of Xiangzhou who led the team, and they did not dare to escape - the Xiangzhou regimental training army is the relationship between teachers and students, father and son, brothers, and hosts and guests, and they are still very controllable at the beginning of the rise. But at night, when the black light blinds you can't see clearly, your control naturally decreases.

One of the forts was finally breached by the Liao. Under the firelight, black Liao soldiers poured in like a torrent from a gap in the collapsed fortress wall. The Xiangzhou regimental training, which was originally based on the chest wall and released arrows, suddenly collapsed at this moment, and had no courage to fight hand-to-hand with the Liao soldiers who were as fierce as the evil gods......

At this time, a huge loophole in Zong Ze's arming appeared. Because he has no experience and has not received a serious military education. So instead of building a multi-layered defense system at a location where the enemy could break through, he distributed his forces evenly. That is, near the breakthrough (shoal) of the Liao army, there was only one fortress, and it was not particularly strengthened. The fortress was breached, and the entire Huanshui defense line completely collapsed.

So on this night, the newly formed Xiangzhou regiment training army suffered their first fiasco.

According to the memories of Yue He, who witnessed it, Han Xiaoxuan and Zong Ze, who were on the front line to supervise the battle that day, were quite panicked when they found that the defense line had been broken through, and hurriedly ordered a retreat, and the whole army fled to Xiangzhou City, with discarded weapons, armor and baggage everywhere along the way! There are also a lot of phase army exercises that simply deserted!

The regimental training army, which numbered as many as 20,000 when it went out, counted the number of people when it ran back to Xiangzhou, and there were less than 6,000 left! Han Xiaoxuan, who felt that he had lost the emperor's grace, even staged a good show of loyalty in front of the gentry officials in Xiangzhou, and finally decided not to die for the time being under the obstruction of a group of Han protégés, and then wrote a recital to Zhao Ji, saying that he would pack up the people and fight the thieves again......

And the result of the re-battle, of course, was another defeat!

However, failure is the mother of success, Han Xiaoxuan and Zong Ze are both masters who are not afraid of failure, and they also have enough capital to lose, so they will succeed one day!

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"Save the principles of heaven and destroy the demons! Preserve the principles of heaven and destroy the demons ......"

The urging slogan sounded in the ears of Xiao Yaomai, the commander of the Nanjing Provincial Capital, once again in the ears of the Great Liao Zhixi Wangfu and the commander of the Nanjing Daodu!

In the east of Yanjing City, on both sides of the Miao River, a major battle is also unfolding between the Song and Liao armies. However, it is different from the Song Shouliao attack in the Battle of Huanshui. This battle of the Miao River was a battle launched by the Song army to encircle the point and send reinforcements. The besieged point is the county seat of Miaoyin on the south bank of the Miao River.

Before the arrival of September, the Song army was very restrained in its actions around the city of Xijin, that is, digging trenches and building fortifications to surround the city of Xijinfu. Ignoring the actions of the Liao army in two ways and approaching the city of Xijin Mansion step by step.

However, as soon as September began, the style of the Song army suddenly changed drastically, and they began to make big moves around Xijin Mansion. Within a few days, he uprooted the strongholds of Tianzhuzhuang, Wangjingtai, Sunhouguan, and Luxian County in the east of Xijin Prefecture, and then on September 4, he besieged the county town of Miaoyin, which was garrisoned by Yelu Zhili's nephew, Yelu Zhili.

At this time, Yelu Kongli Gu and Xiao Yaomai can't sit idly by. had to mobilize more than 10,000 Xi troops and more than 10,000 Yutian Han family soldiers, supported by 2,000 cavalry from Wenzhong Wangfu, to save Miaoyin. As a result, when crossing the Miao River, he was attacked by the new army of four generals commanded by Zhao Zhongge, who had been waiting there for a long time.

Since the people of the six tribes of King Xi were mainly peasants, the Xi army was dominated by heavy infantry. And the soldiers of the Yutian Han family are mainly armored infantry. Moreover, Xiao Yaomai, who was attacked, immediately ordered the troops to line up along the river, so he did not give the Song army too many chances, but the two thousand Wenzhong Wangfu cavalry responsible for covering the Xi army and the Han family's infantry were defeated.

The rest of the battle was fought between the heavy infantry on both sides!

The three generals sent to the battlefield by Zhao Zhongge, the Tianjin New Army (that is, the original three of the four generals directly under the direct jurisdiction of the Hebei Xuanfu Division) were all newly formed troops. The officers are professional, and the training and equipment are the best, but after all, they have not been tempered by much war.

This is the first time that the two armies are really fighting in formation!

The battle between the two sides began in the daylight on the eighth day of the ninth month, and the soldiers of the Xi Wangfu and the Han family guarded a river bend. The only land access was blocked with horse-drawn carriages and deer. And Zhao Zhongge did not choose to attack by land, but ordered the troops to wade through the water to attack, attacking from the west, south, and north in turn. At the same time, dozens of ballistas were set up, constantly firing burst arrows, covering their own crossbowmen to fire arrows close to the enemy.

Throughout the day, the arrows and crossbows of both sides were densely intertwined in the air, as if they were not exhausted. It's a contest between a dense bow and a lethal crossbow bolt! At the same time, it is also a test of the physical strength of the shooters on both sides.

And when night fell, the soldiers of the Xi Wangfu and the Han family, who had been fighting hard for a day, had already suffered considerable casualties. The center of the bay position has become a concentration of dying wounded soldiers. There was wailing everywhere, and everywhere there was the smell of blood and charred flesh - burning the horrific wounds made by the three-edged arrow cluster with a red-hot iron was probably the only way to stop the bleeding!

However, the spear assault of the new army of the Song army, which was more terrifying than the three arrows, also began with the fall of night! The resistance of the water reduced the impact of some of the Song spearmen, but it was still difficult for the Liao army to block such an offensive under the bombardment of burst rockets. After just a few rounds of fighting, the front of the Liao army was full of corpses, and the blood flowed into the Miao River, staining a large section of the river red.

Listening to Song Jun's crazy shouts, he watched the jungle of armor glowing with cold light under the moonlight crushing towards him. All Xiao Xiaomai felt was fear! Judging from the reports of various units and battalions, their soldiers have been exhausted, and they have suffered heavy casualties, and they are on the verge of collapse. And the enemy's offensive won round after round.

This shows that the Song army did not suffer too many casualties in today's fierce battle, and they still have sufficient physical strength to support the battle.

Xiao Yaomai knew that the only thing he could do now was to retreat at night...... Let's run as much as you can!