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Gao Xingzhou ordered the separation of the first and second regiments because there was a big lake in front of them, called Jinyang Lake. After the two regiments are separated, the singular group will pass through the left side of Jinyang Lake, and the plural group will pass through the right side of Jinyang Lake.

In the majestic rain, Zuo Lang of the Tang Army, a regiment of the Tang Army, who was walking on the left side, rode Han Congfu on a war horse, and the shore of Jinyang Lake could be faintly seen in front of him, and the army was advancing to the left front.

The rain became heavier and heavier, Han Congfu couldn't open his eyes, and the war horse under his crotch refused to go any further.

Han Congfu didn't dare to order his subordinates to stop advancing. Since Gao Xingzhou took power, the military discipline of the Tang army has become very strict, and in just a few days, hundreds of generals and soldiers at all levels have had their heads cut off for various violations of military discipline.

Therefore, Gao Dashuai did not give the order to stop, and the army must not stop.

Han Congfu was also a simple person, so he simply rolled off the saddle and walked quickly in the muddy water buried under his feet, and several personal soldiers around him also hurriedly dismounted and followed, closely guarding General Lang's side.

Unlike Zhang Jingda's practice of not caring about the equipment of the soldiers at the bottom, Gao Xingzhou paid great attention to the details of the war, especially the weapons in the hands of the soldiers on the front line. Now the first three rows were all sword players, the fourth to sixth rows were archers, and behind them were the rest of the jumble of spearmen.

In order to save costs, the Tang Army did not have many sword players, and all of them were concentrated by Gao Xingzhou in the first and second regiments at the forefront.

Soon after seeing Jinyang Lake, the soldiers of the first regiment were blocked by the first tributary of Jinyang Lake. The so-called tributary is actually a small river with a width of three to five meters, which is now more than ten meters wide because of the heavy rain. The opposite bank was densely packed with archers from the Jin and Khitan armies.

When Tang Jun appeared in the sight of the Jin army, the distance between the two sides was less than a hundred meters, and when he heard an order from the Jin army, a rain of arrows sprinkled over Hulala.

The Tang army was in chaos all of a sudden, everyone shouted and shouted, those with shields hurriedly raised their shields, squatted down to avoid arrows, and those without shields immediately ran around to see where there was a ditch to hide, and the screams of being wounded by bows and arrows also sounded one after another. Originally, a large number of Tang soldiers in front of him fell down one after another, and it was suddenly impossible to see whether they were shot dead or pretending to be dead.

Han Congfu was about ten rows at this time, and as soon as he heard the fight in front of him, he hurriedly raised the long knife in his right hand, dragged the shield in his left hand, and rushed forward quickly step by step in the mud, while starting to give instructions loudly.

"The archers return fire! Archers return fire! ”

"Drum beating, drum attack!"

"Straw boat, straw boat hand it over, hand it over!"

Seeing that Zuo Lang would rush forward bravely, the captains and captains at all levels also scolded and kicked like chickens, drove the Tang soldiers up again, and continued to rush forward.

Zuo Lang moved Han Congfu very quickly, and rushed to the edge of the river in a few breaths, at this time, the archers of the Jin army on the opposite side had finished sending two rounds of arrows, and the Khitan cavalry archers in the rear also began to shoot arrows.

Buzzing and a loud rain of dense arrows, piercing through the rain curtain in the air, swooped straight towards the Tang army.

Han Congfu immediately raised his shield and blocked the three feather arrows that were shot at him, and when he looked back, the sword and shield men in front of him had fallen by about a tenth, and the others seemed to be angry, and they were covered in mud and water and rushed to the river.

At the back of a regiment of 5,000 soldiers, the Tang Army Drum Corps, which had just received the order, began to beat a dense charge drum at this time, and the noise was endless, and the sound was loud, covering up the screams of the wounded Tang soldiers.

The archers on the Tang army's side also began to fight back, and two rounds of arrows rained over Hulala, and the Jin army archers and Khitan cavalry archers on the opposite side fell on the spot.

The straw boat was also handed over!

The so-called straw boat, which is designed to cope with these narrow river surges, is actually a door panel several meters long, with a lot of hay tied on the outside, and thrown into the water to float.

There was a thud and a thud, and more than a dozen straw boats were thrown down the river, and the sword and shield men in the front row also jumped into the river, holding the straw boats with their hands, only exposing their heads to the water, and then quickly crossed the ten-meter-wide river and rushed to the opposite bank.

More and more straw boats were handed up from the rear, and more and more were thrown into the river, and soon the hundred-meter-long river was full, and the Tang army scrambled to jump into the river and quickly crossed the river with the straw boats.

On the opposite shore, the archers of the Jin army had retreated, and a row of more than a dozen Khitan soldiers equipped with heavy cavalry did not dare to ride horses, standing on the ground on foot, waving broadswords in their hands, and killing the Tang troops who rushed ashore, and behind them were hundreds of Jin spearmen!

Pure hand-to-hand combat begins!

In this era, the physical fitness of the Khitan people is indeed far superior to that of the malnourished Tang army, those Tang troops with shields and long knives look human, gather together and shout and rush up, but the Khitan heavy cavalry waved the long saber in their hands, and swept a large piece to the ground, which is easier than mowing the grass, and the flesh and blood are splashed in an instant, and the stumps are scattered, so it is not desolate.

Han Congfu didn't care so much, he casually commanded those archers to get out of the way, and the countless spearmen behind jumped into the river one after another, and then swarmed up, rushing towards the enemy troops on the opposite bank!

The Khitan heavy cavalry dismounted to fight, and each knife had to be cut by itself, which consumed much more strength than riding on a horse! The Tang army, which rushed up like ants endlessly, finally exhausted the strength of these Khitan warriors, and with the consumption of twenty or thirty lives for one Khitan heavy cavalry, they quickly knocked down these Khitans in full armor, and collided with the large group of Jin spearmen behind!

In the era of cold weapons, as long as this kind of melee is fought, there is nothing to say, everyone has a lot of people, and they just use their lives to pile up!

Countless spears stabbed each other in the crowd, and it felt like something was in front of them, and if you pushed it forward, it felt as if it had been stabbed into the flesh. I don't know who I stabbed, anyway, in that direction. Then he couldn't stand anymore, and was pushed by the people behind him, stumbling all the way forward, either stabbing the next person or being stabbed by the spear that came out of nowhere.

More and more Tang spearmen crossed the river, and the Tang army on the other side of the river quickly outnumbered the Jin army, and even the archers began to cross the river.

These hundreds of praying mantis blocking the Jin army were submerged in a few minutes, and there was nowhere to escape!

The Tang Army's foot soldiers, who had penetrated the Jin army's position, fanatically shouted the slogan of victory and continued to charge forward. When a large open space appeared in front of them, they couldn't laugh!

Two hundred meters ahead, the dense Khitan cavalry was already lined up neatly and set up a charging formation!

The heavy rain was still falling, and the cavalry could not fight in the rain. But apparently, the Khitans also fought!

"Wow!"

At the sound of an order, a large group of Khitan cavalry broke through the dense rain curtain and rushed towards the Tang soldiers!

Maybe it's because the Khitans have high riding skills, or maybe they have already chosen this relatively dry terrain, when these hundreds of Khitan cavalry braved the heavy rain and rushed over, only a dozen of them fell by themselves, and the others all rushed into the dense Tang army foot pawn camp!

The cavalry charges, where can the foot soldiers stop!

In an instant, the dense Tang army infantry bombed the camp and fled in all directions, and the Khitan cavalry who rushed in front also fell and rolled one after another, but every Khitan cavalry would take the lives of three or five Tang soldiers before they fell.

In the storm, everyone has to devote seventy percent of their attention to fighting the weather, and then take out thirty percent of their attention to face the enemy in front of them! The battlefield was full of smoke and rain, and they couldn't see anything clearly, and the panicked Tang army infantry soldiers fled when they saw a cavalry rushing over, and those who couldn't escape stabbed when they saw a person on horseback, and the Khitan army was also simple, anyway, they cut down those who saw walking.

After the fight, there was a mess, many Khitan cavalry stumbled and fell off their horses, and when they became fighting on foot, the Tang army couldn't tell the difference, and they were cut off by these Khitan people on foot and didn't know what was going on, and there were also many Khitan soldiers who were still riding on horses, and they cut down when they saw them walking, and they also hacked to death many Khitan compatriots who insisted on fighting on the ground!

The scene of chaos continued to evolve in the heavy rain, and under the desperate impact of the 500 Khitan light cavalry, nearly 2,000 Tang soldiers who had just crossed the river were beaten and fled in all directions, turning into piles of broken corpses on the muddy fields.

Zuo Lang also crossed the river with Han Congfu, strode on the battlefield, holding a picked up spear in one hand, and waved his hand to fly two horsemen and rushed over to find cheap Khitans, seeing that the five hundred Khitan cavalry were almost exhausted, he hurriedly let the soldiers who did not cross the river continue to come.

It was almost twelve o'clock at noon, the 5,000 foot soldiers of the 1st Regiment of the Tang Army, under the leadership of Zuo Lang's general Han Congfu, paid the price of 3,000 people, wiped out more than 1,000 Jin troops and Khitan army coalition forces, and finally gained a firm foothold on a small plateau on the shore of Jinyang Lake.

The three regiments behind had also begun to cross the small river, rushed up one after another, crossed the position of the first regiment, and continued to search for the enemy.

The rain was much lighter and was about to stop.

Standing on the small hillside, Han Congfu's vision began to become clear, and the large dirt ground behind him was full of overlapping corpses, human corpses and horse corpses.

Han Congfu has seen a lot of corpses everywhere after the war, and what he is most concerned about now is where the enemy is in front of him.

Ahead, a mile away, is the wooden fence of the Khitan camp.

The blackened wooden fence was covered with water droplets, glistening in the sunlight after the rain.