Chapter 119: Chenzhou Attack and Defense (8)

I have to say that Wang Jun is indeed extraordinary. After receiving Zhang Gui's report, he gathered 70,000 bandit troops to the west of Chenzhou City within an hour and waited for them. Liu Sandao's 30,000 bandit army was a rabble. Of the 70,000 bandit troops on Wang Jun's side, 40,000 were also rabble, with incomplete armor and low combat effectiveness. But the 30,000 bandit army is not ordinary. Of the 30,000 bandits, 20,000 were rogue bandits recruited by Wang Jun near Bianliang. In order to enhance combat effectiveness, Wang Jun equipped the 20,000 bandit army with armor. Anyway, in the library of Bianliang Mansion, there are still a lot of armor left that Zong Ze painstakingly collected. Each bandit was equipped with weapons, and no longer used weapons such as simple wooden sticks and kitchen knives. As for the iron armor, although it was impossible to make one piece per person, only the 8,000 bandit army was equipped with iron armor, but the other bandit armies were also equipped with a leather armor. There are also 10,000 bandit troops who are the descendants of the drama Kou Qi Fang, and their combat power far exceeds that of the rabble.

It was precisely by relying on these 30,000 bandit troops that Wang Jun and Qi Fang actually held their positions under the attack from three sides. The first to kill under Chenzhou City was not Luo Yanqing, but the young general Yue Heng. Yue Heng led five hundred scout cavalry to follow Liu Sandao's ass and kill him. It's a pity that Wang Jun didn't give Yue Heng another chance to roll up the bead curtain, and with a wave of his hand, he sent a thousand Hu cavalry, directly beheading Liu Sandao's hundreds of defeated troops under the horse, and stopping the five hundred scouts.

As soon as the two sides were slaughtered, the remnants of Zhang Gui and Xiao Moyun's troops appeared from the northern horizon again. This time, Wang Junke did not send Hu Qi to kill Zhang Gui's defeated soldiers again. Jang Gyuke is a member of his clan. In Wang Jun's eyes, Liu Sandao is just a Kafeile who can be beaten and killed.

He ordered a thousand Hu cavalry to get out of the way of Changgui and stopped the charge of the hard labor army with a dense rain of arrows. Zhang Xian saw clearly at the head of the city, opened the city gate without hesitation, and led the remaining more than 1,000 cavalry to kill and directly capture the eastern flank of the bandit army.

The three units of the Protector Army, without any prior consultation, have strangely formed a flanking momentum. The cavalry is like a tiger, the war horse is like a dragon, and the offensive is like a tide. Even so, Wang Jun still survived. Qi Fang used 10,000 infantry to block Zhang Xian's surprise attack. The strong bow and crossbow were like a raging storm, and Zhang Xian couldn't get close. Zhang Xianzeng retreated by fraud and tried to lure Qi Fang to attack. But Qi Fang was like a turtle with its head retracted into its shell, resolutely refusing to attack.

In fact, Qi Fang didn't want to pursue. But he knew that although his army was outnumbered, half of it was a rabble. If you still dare to move the formation in such a situation of attacking from three sides, maybe the whole army will collapse inexplicably.

The three cavalry attacked on three sides and were not effective. Later, the three cavalry joined into one, but they still could not break through the infantry formation of the bandit army. Nearly 6,000 Hu cavalry also changed their previous style, and after fighting with Yue Heng Luo Yanqing for a while, they reined in their horses and retreated into the formation.

Seeing that he would not be able to break through the infantry formation of tens of thousands of people for a while and a half, Zhang Xian no longer reluctantly attacked. Anyway, now Zhang Xian has more than 8,000 cavalry, and the number of cavalry far exceeds that of Wang Jun's Hu cavalry. The initiative of the war has shifted to the Protectors.

Zhang Xian carefully watched Wang Jun's formation, and with a wave of his hand, the defenders in the city immediately killed out of the city and pushed out more than a dozen crossbows. When it comes to the method of using crossbows, is there an army in the world that can compare to the Song army?

Don't look at the extremely small number of crossbows, but the tens of thousands of bandit troops almost collapsed. A cart crossbow is a bed crossbow fixed to a cart with a range of 1,500 paces. The bandits did not have a weapon that could shoot at the bed crossbow. With the whizzing of the bed crossbow more than a zhang long, it broke through the big shield of the bandit army like tearing paper, and shot through several bandit troops like a meat skewer. It really caused a riot in the large array of the well-organized bandit army.

At this time, it showed the ability of Wang Jun. He immediately sent hundreds of Hui troops, first cutting down the panicked bandit army with a saber, and finally standing in front of the shield wall to act as the first row of guards, finally calming the hearts of tens of thousands of bandits.

Zhang Xian couldn't make a plan, and he had another plan. He ordered Luo Yanqing to go out into battle. Luo Yanqing galloped out, waving a pair of iron spears in his hand, and shouted at Wang Jun in the bandit formation, "Wang Diao'er, I heard that you are brave and brave, do you dare to fight with me Luo Yanqing?" You are the main general launched by the Hu people in Bianliang, and you must be the crown of the Hu people if you want to be brave. Luo is not talented, so he will fight alone with you. Do you dare to fight? ”

Wang Jun's face was gloomy, looking at Luo Yanqing, who was showing off his might in front of the battle, his eyes were spewing fire, and he almost burned Luo Yanqing to death with his gaze. As an official of the Secret Intelligence Division, Wang Jun knows all the slightly famous generals in the Protector Army.

Luo Yanqing was born in the Luo family in Xiangzhou, and once went to the northeast of Liaodi with the head of the family, Tian Mancang, to do business.

Luo Yanqing's martial arts are not too high, and he can't go for thirty rounds under the double sword Li Cheng. But Wang Jun also knows his own weight. Although he killed Li Cheng, it was an assassination. In a real duel, Wang Jun is not Li Cheng's opponent. Wang Jun thinks that he can't fight Zhang Xian, but he is still not very afraid of this Luo Yanqing.

But Wang Jun didn't plan to fight. Because Wang Jun knew that if he was victorious, if he was defeated, the morale of the army might collapse.

Luo Yanqing saw that Wang Jun was unwilling to fight, his eyes rolled, and he shouted arrogantly again, "Wang Diao'er, come out, I promise not to kill you!" ”

This sentence not only made the Protectors laugh, but even the bandits in the front row couldn't help laughing. The only one who can't stand it is Wang Jun. No matter how insidious Wang Jun's personality is, after all, he is also a strong-blooded general, how can he be teased like this by Luo Yanqing. Gritted his teeth and said, "Luo Yanqing insulted me too much!" Did he really think Lao Tzu was afraid of him? ”

was about to shoot the horse out of battle, but Qi Fang dragged the horse's head to death. Qi Fang said with a stern face, "General Wang, if you can't bear it, you will make a big plan!" It's not that I raise the morale of others and destroy my own prestige. Instead of being alone, General Wang should lead the remaining 6,000 Hu cavalry and Zhang Xian to fight to the death. ”

Wang Jun sneered, "Let's Hu Qi to fight, I don't know how General Qi is going to fight?" ”

Qi Fang knew that Wang Jun had misunderstood that he wanted to sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight, so he immediately sneered, "General Wang, don't think that Qi has a way out. I first followed Du Chong to attack Taikang, retreated, and then followed you to attack Chenzhou. To tell the truth, Qi has already become the person who must be killed by the people's protectors. The reason why Qi was willing to fight Zhang Xian was because our army had nearly 80,000 cavalry, and we were forced by more than 8,000 cavalry, which was really a bag. General Wang rest assured, as long as you dare to fight, Qi is willing to lead his 2,000 elites to fight side by side with you. ”

Don't say that Qi Fang feels guilty, Wang Jun also feels depressed. When he raised the army, he reduced the Protector Army to nothing, and as a result, he was forced to fight in a formation ten times the strength of others. If just now he was afraid that the Protector Army would take advantage of the chaos to defeat the army, and now he stabilized his position, if he still shrank the cavalry in the formation, he would have restrained himself. What's more, if this confrontation continues, it will definitely be the Protectors who will win. Now Wang Jun no longer dares to pin his hopes on Zong Bi. He was afraid that the Protectors would have other reinforcements to kill.

Qi Fang was right, and he and Zhang Xian decided to live and die again. If you win, you will break Chenzhou. If you lose, you will return to Bianjing. How can a manly man be a turtle with a shrunken head!

Wang Jun finally became arrogant and shouted, "The infantry get out of the way, and the cavalry all go out." We defeated Zhang Xian once 10 days ago, and we will defeat Zhang Xian again today. But today, I won't let Zhang Xian run away again. Fight! ”

Luo Yanqing saw that the bandit army suddenly let go of the passage hundreds of steps wide, and immediately understood what Wang Jun meant. Clapped the horse and ran back to Zhang Xian, and said loudly, "Vice Marshal Zhang, this kid Wang Diao'er is going to fight a decisive battle with us." ”

Zhang Xian's face did not show any relaxation. He looked at Luo Yanqing, Xiao Shan, and Yue Heng, who were full of fighting spirit, and said solemnly, "You must not despise Wang Jun. The combat strength of this person's Hu cavalry is not weak. In particular, it should be noted that he has more than 1,000 horsemen who make treasure swords, and the sabers in his hands are as sharp as clay. ”

Luo Yanqing's eyes lit up. "Deputy Marshal Zhang, do you mean that Wang Jun's cavalry actually has more than a thousand such swords?"

"Not more than a thousand, but two thousand. However, a few days ago, more than 200 were robbed by our army. But I was all assigned to the cavalry. Zhang Xian waved his hand, and a personal soldier stepped forward and handed Luo Yanqing a Damascus treasure knife.

Luo Yanqing took the knife in his hand, reached out and pulled off a few hairs, and blew them on the blade, and the hair was immediately broken into two. Xiao Shan shouted in a lost voice, "This is a treasure knife for blowing hair and breaking hair." With such a knife, there may not be a few mouths for generations. This Wang Jun actually has more than 2,000 handles? ”

Luo Yanqing muttered, "Vice Marshal Zhang, this Wang Diao'er's background is not simple. As far as Luo knows, this kind of treasure knife came from Persia. This kind of treasure knife is worth thousands of gold in our country, and it is not allowed to be owned by non-wealthy families, and it is not allowed to be used by non-generals, but in the west of Tianzhu, in the country of Islam, this kind of knife is only a common saber used by the cavalry. In the battle of Hengros in the Tang Dynasty, the invincible Tang army was defeated, although an important reason was the rebellion of the feudal army, which had something to do with this treasure sword. At that time, except for the Modao Army, the ordinary Tang Army could not fight the Muslim cavalry army at all, precisely because the weapons in their hands were not as good as the Hui Army. This Wang Diao'er was able to take out so many treasure knives in a short period of time, it seems that the rebellion of the Hui people was not a whim at all, they had already prepared. ”

Zhang Xian admired Luo Yanqing's insight, and immediately said, "What General Luo said is extremely true. The Hu people are afraid of power but not virtue. The Great Song took too much care of them, which instead nurtured their wolf ambitions. However, under the rule of our Protector Army, these Hu people don't want to be arrogant anymore. Shixian Taibai said it well. Hu no one, Han Daochang! ”

As more than 6,000 cavalry slowly came out of the battle, Zhang Xian also divided the 8,000 cavalry into three groups. Xiaoshan on the left flank, led 2,000 hard soldiers. Luo Yanqing, the right wing, also led 2,000 hard soldiers. Zhang Xian in the middle of the road, led an army of 4,000 cavalry. Zhang Xian's 4,000 cavalry army included both hard labor and scout troops, and there were also remnants of Zhang Lei.

With the sound of war drums, Zhang Xian led 4,000 cavalry troops to rush out first, straight through Wang Jun's battle flag. The cavalry on both wings stood still.

Wang Jun didn't expect that Zhang Xian hadn't learned a lesson, and he still wanted to have fewer enemies, so he immediately waved the big sword Shige Treasure Knife in his hand and shouted loudly, "Brothers, if you win today, you will live, and if you lose, you will die!" Kill! ”

More than 6,000 Hu cavalry actually poured out of the nest and directly got together with the 4,000 Protector Army. directly ignored the hard labor army on both wings. This made Luo Yanqing and Xiao Shan a little disappointed. However, the two did not attack immediately. Just now, Zhang Xian told them that they must wait for Hu Qi to be tired before attacking, and defeat tens of thousands of bandit troops in one fell swoop.