Li Congke was grazed by a bamboo crossbow against his cheek, even if the texture of the hood was tough, a huge hole was torn open, and he himself was carried to the ground by the heavy force, and when he rolled twice on the hillside and then got up, his face was already covered with sticky blood.

His face was pale, he looked up, the crossbow arrows fell from the sky, fell into the army, penetrated the bodies of the soldiers, and caused a large number of killings.

He lifted his knife, leaned down, stared at the hillside, and wanted to shout loudly, leading the soldiers to continue to charge, but before the words could be spoken, he swallowed again, and he couldn't shout. Under such a blow, he suddenly felt that he had the heart to die, and he did not have the courage to die.

The Dongchuan soldiers on the hillside, after pushing down a round of rocks, shouted and rushed down, from Li Congke's point of view, he really felt that the soldiers on the other side were like divine soldiers descending from the sky, and they could not compete with them. Li Congke, who had killed for half his life, began to tremble with the hand holding the knife, how many years has this kind of situation been?

The miserable howls of the soldiers lingered in his ears, making his ears ring, Li Congke saw the soldiers being killed and injured by crossbow arrows, couldn't stop wailing, and staggered, and felt desperate, that is, he didn't even hear what the guards said, and in a trance, there was only one thought left in his mind: The Shu soldiers were so strong?

Standing in the center of the battlefield, the violent noise made people stand unsteady and dizzy, Li Congke didn't know what to do, his ears suddenly caught a burst of golden gongs, and then in front of him appeared in front of him the surprised face of the guards for the rest of their lives, and the other party shouted at him: "Marshal, the King of Qin has ordered the troops to be collected, quickly withdraw!" ”

Li Congke finally came back to his senses.

At the other end of the river bridge, Shi Jingjiao, who was struggling to rush into battle, was killing and rising, the Xichuan soldiers in front of him, few of them could stop him from two together, and in a blink of an eye, he broke through twenty or thirty steps, and heard the guards say that Shi Chonggui had followed, he had a big heart, and the horse lance in his hand became sharper and sharper, shouting again and again, like the god of war, killing the Xichuan soldiers in front of him with a horrified face.

At this moment, a thunderous roar exploded beside him, his eardrums shook, his head seemed to be slammed, and he was dizzy for a moment, his body trembled, and the movements of his hands slowed down by half a minute.

couldn't help but turn around, Shi Jingjiao's eyes shrank suddenly, and the thousands of crossbow arrows of various colors that appeared in the sky formed a huge net, and they were under the hood of the Protector Army. In an instant, Shi Jingjiao's eyes widened, and he saw that the huge net fell into his soldiers' army array, and the awe-inspiring military formation, which was still strictly organized, was like a wheat seedling that had been knocked down by hail in an instant, and half of it was poured, and the heart-rending howl hit his ears, as if it gave him a blow to the head.

"Ahh Shi Jingjiao's eyes were bloodshot, and he couldn't help but let out a terrible roar.

The boiling blood all over the body was cold by the ice and snow in an instant, and the high fighting spirit and invincible arrogance, thinking that the hope of breaking the formation and making meritorious contributions were about to break through the formation, disappeared completely in an instant.

He is like a gambler who gambles a lot, pressing all his net worth and life, thinking that he has the chance to win, but at the moment of opening, he realized that he was wrong, all his wealth was lost in an instant, and the hope of soaring to the sky was suddenly completely shattered!

Driven by the drums of war, the Nishikawa soldiers began to launch a counteroffensive.

"It's over!" This is all Shi Jingjiao's thoughts: his battle is over, his Protector Army is over, and he himself is finished. He felt that his whole body was numb, and he was not conscious, and suddenly there was a sharp pain in his waist, and it was a Nishikawa soldier who had stabbed his spear into the gap in his armor. He looked up in amazement, his eyes glazed out, as if he didn't know what was happening.

"Father!" Maybe Shi Jingjiao was stunned for too long, Shi Chonggui didn't know when he had rushed over, he grabbed Shi Jingjiao's bridle, looked anxious, and shouted at Shi Jingjiao, "The marshal has ordered the troops to be collected, go quickly!" ”

"Collected troops?" Shi Jingjiao looked at the Xichuan soldiers surging from all sides like a tide, and then looked at the unformed Protector Army military formation at the end of the river bridge, and the strength of his body did not know where to go, he muttered: "Defeated again?" ”

This time he failed, and he paid a heavy price.

Li Congjing stood outside the battle shed, looking at the river bridge and the battlefield in the back mountain, his face was like a lake, and he couldn't see the depth.

The Baoyi Army and the Protector Army began to retreat, and the Liangchuan Jiashi naturally did not let go of such an opportunity, and pursued and killed in the back. It's just that with Li Congjing's severe punishment of the two armies the day before yesterday, no one dared to throw away their armor this time.

Although the Baoyi Army and the Protector Army withdrew in disarray, they were not without warriors, and without the strong crossbows of the two rivers, the two armies each divided a section of soldiers, which were led by brave generals. On the side of the Baoyi Army, I don't know who the general who led the fight turned around and fought again, but on the side of the Protector Army, Shi Chonggui personally broke off and did not retreat.

Although the two Sichuan armor soldiers chased and killed ruthlessly, they did not chase too far, Li Congjing had asked the forbidden army to go to respond, the former did not have an advantage in strength after all, this time they only defeated the two armies of the protector and the protector, so naturally they would not rashly engage the main force of the forbidden army.

Li Congjing looked up at the sky, the sun was just right, it was far from noon, and today's battle did not last long, and it could even be said that it ended quickly. Seeing that some remnants of the Baoyi and Protectorate armies had retreated, he motioned to Meng Songbai to bring the war horse, beat the horse back to the Beishan military camp, and ordered: The three armies returned to the camp.

This means that there will be no more battles today.

Mo Li and the other staff members of the Qin Palace, all quietly followed away from the mountain one after another, Feng Dao, Su Fengji and other civil officials, there were many people who looked at each other, and they all saw the doubts in each other's eyes.

"Today's battle has been going on for less than an hour, and it's still early now, so there's no more fighting?" Some civil officials couldn't help but ask.

"Didn't you see, the Shu soldiers are strong, where can the army rush over?" Someone next to him answered him.

"It is true that the Shu soldiers are strong, but if the enemy is strong, I won't fight? Although he is not familiar with military affairs, he also knows that if the three armies fight, courage is the first, as long as the officers and men of our army dare to fight, what if the enemy is strong? My Tang Dynasty warriors, with the grace of the king, and the food of the king, fight for the country, do not avoid death, do not fear the enemy, go forward one after another, thousands of people can not break the enemy, ten thousand people can not break the enemy, ten thousand people can not break the enemy, then 100,000 people, even if the corpse pillows, never retreat, so for this, what enemy can not be defeated with one blow? The civil official who spoke before said again, his expression indignant, "At the beginning of the war, if there is a slight setback, you will not dare to fight again, how can you win with this kind of tactics?!" ”

"His Royal Highness the King of Qin has his own plans, what are you talking about doing so much!"

"Hmph, in the past, I heard that His Royal Highness the King of Qin had great military achievements, broke the beams, walked the Bohai Sea, and defeated the Khitan, and I admired it very much.

"Silence! Dare to say such things, you don't want to live anymore?! ”

"My generation of scholars, taught by the saints, loyal to the country, what a pity for this body!"

Su Fengji was chasing Feng Dao, and when he heard the conversation between the two of them, he stopped and saluted the righteous and awe-inspiring person, "Dare to ask the surname of the high." ”

Su Fengji didn't recognize this person, but this person recognized Su Fengji, a beautiful figure, and seeing that one of the "two Sus" was attracted to him, he couldn't help but raise his head with his chest, proudly and pretended to be bland, and said: "Don't dare to be, Hong Jixin, the head of a certain household." ”

Su Fengji sighed, raised his feet and left.

Su Fengji's behavior made Hong Jixin unclear why, he followed up to stop Su Fengji and asked, "What is Su Jun's judgment on what a certain party said?" ”

Stood still, looked at Hong Jixin's expectant and pretended indifferent look, and smiled faintly, "Do you want to hear it?" ”

"But it doesn't hurt to say it." Hong Jixin said that it was very generous.

"Shit." Su Fengji dropped a sentence lightly and turned away.

Hong Jixin: "You" was so angry that his face was red, he wanted to scold something but didn't scold, and when he thought about it, Su Fengji had already gone away.

Someone next to him persuaded him to dissipate his anger, saying that Su Fengji had always acted willfully, so he didn't have to care.

Hong Jixin was furious, "Such a villain insults the word Confucianism and bears the teachings of the saint!" Everyone, let's be optimistic, just now, if you dare to say it in front of you, you will also dare to say it in front of King Qin! ”

"Do you want to be a sheep-nosed male?" Someone else asked him. Sheep nose male, Wei Zheng.

"Why not?"

Li Congjing returned to the barracks and was convening the staff office to discuss the next tactics, when Shi Jingjiao and Li Congke rushed to the handsome tent one after another and came to ask for guilt. Although they no longer have official positions, after all, they still have weight, and they can't help but express their defeat and follow their respective temporary masters.

"The Shu soldiers are strong, losing this battle is not a crime of war, you don't have to mind." Li Congjing and Yan Yuese, "You have worked hard, and go down to rest first, and the commander will visit the wounded later." ”

Li Congjing saw that Li Congke's face was like ashes, sighing, it seemed that he had been hit hard, and Shi Jingjing was blind, his attitude was depressed, he used a lot of force in this battle, and he was even more injured, but the result was that the Protector Army was lost more than half, which was worse than the previous defeat in Beishan, and now it is a little sluggish.

At this time, in Jianzhou City, Wang Hui and Li Zhao met, and the two recounted their respective battle situations, so that the other party could understand.

Li Zhao was triumphant: "The world praises him Li Congjing as powerful, how about the battle today, he was drunk by you and me, and the soldiers were defeated, and now he is a turtle with a shrunken head, and he doesn't dare to fight!" After that, he laughed twice, and continued to dance with his eyebrows: "Brother, didn't you see that a certain round of strong crossbow salvo, the Protector Army fell by more than half, and Shi Jingjiao, who was fighting in the battle, saw that scene, if it wasn't for Li Congjing's timely collection of troops, he must have cut off his head!" It's a pity, haha, what a pity! ”

Wang Hui said with a smile: "With the help of a strong crossbow, Jianzhou City is solid, even if Li Congjing has thousands of troops and horses, he will never think of crossing the single-plank bridge in front of the city." His prestige as King Qin's invincible battle, this time I am afraid that he will be folded under this Jianzhou City! ”

The two laughed for a while, and their words were passionate, and they laughed at Li Congjing fiercely - to further boost morale, and then Wang Hui told Li Zhao not to underestimate the enemy, and to guard against Li Congjing's night attack on Yunyun.

Jianzhou is about 500 miles away from Chengdu, and the military situation of the day was whipped by a fast horse, and it was handed to Meng Zhixiang that night.

Reading the war report, Meng Zhixiang was very happy, and said to the left and right: "It is said that Li Congjing has conquered everything in the battle, dug roads in the mountains, and built bridges in the river, but this time he was stopped by a small Jianzhou City, and he only fought for one hour a day. ”

The night was as dark as ink, Wang Hui and Li Zhao played up the spirit of twelve, sent out many patrol teams, patrolled back and forth outside the city, and added many bright posts and secret posts to prevent Li Congjing's night attack, but at this time, Li Congjing did not plan to attack Jianzhou City at night.

In the Beishan military camp, the wind lantern was hanging high, everything in the camp was as usual, and Li Congjing, accompanied by Wei Dao and others, arrived at the baggage camp. Xie Yuwan and Zhu Xuan walked in front to lead the way, one was hunched back because of his height and thinness, and the other was shy and pot-bellied because of his fat waist and round body, and the shadows of the two looked funny together.

"Marshal, tomorrow before all these crossbows are going to be put into battle?" When Zhu Xuan asked this, he rubbed his hands vigorously, his expression was excited, his cheeks were flushed, and he seemed to want to do a big job.

Li Congjing was noncommittal, "How much did you bring this time?" ”

"It's all here!" Zhu Xuan's voice was a little excited, "The guy is too big, and on the way here, it's not easy to carry, but it's very tiring." It's not easy to walk when you pass through the Sword Gate, and it was all transported at sunset today. ”

"How much did you bring? You make it clear to the big handsome! Xie Yuwan poked Zhu Yu with his elbow, looking even more eager than Li Congjing.

Zhu Xuan said: "Xiaguan asked the military division today, didn't the Xichuan army drag out more than 400 Fuyuan crossbows, more than 300 wooden single crossbows, more than 200 bamboo pole crossbows, and more than 100 winch crossbows?" The number of our crossbows is not too much, you know, our things have been improved by the Armaments Research and Development Department, the power is better, and the name has changed, and it has not been too late to catch up with too many over the years, this time the Shu can be used, and that's all If you attack Wu in two years, the number will more than double! ”

Seeing that Zhu Xuan sold Guanzi, Li Congjing was not angry, since he had brought everything he could bring, he knew it.

Where did the strong crossbows of the Shu soldiers inside and outside Jianzhou City come from?

Although these two rivers have stepped up to make some hasses, the root is still left by Guo Chongtao's war in Shu.

Indeed, Guo Chongtao basically hollowed out all the crossbows in the treasury last time he went back to Shu, but after all, so many years have passed, and the white hair on Li Congjing's head is not white, how can he know nothing about it? How can you not do anything about it?

After so many years combined, if the Shu soldiers can't figure out the reality of the Shu soldiers, the habitual tactics, and the reliance on sharp weapons, then what is the significance of Li Congjing's establishment of these three institutions in the first place?

He often goes to the Martial Arts Academy, and often visits the Armaments Research and Development Department, if it is today, the Armaments Development Department still can't get half a score, what else does he Li Congjing have?

More than 400 volt crossbows, more than 300 wooden single crossbows, more than 200 bamboo pole crossbows, and 100 winch crossbows? Taken together, this number should be doubled.

Seeing the mountains and seas of ordnance in front of him, Li Congjing smiled, what is that?

Fighting a war is to fight weapons and equipment, and Li Congjing understands this concept better than anyone else.