Chapter Twenty-Nine: Textbook-Accurate War

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However, the army serves politics, and Yun Zheng is very clear about this.

Yelu Yixin has never come to the barracks since he met Wang Anshi and Wen Yanbo last time, but only sent some staff to negotiate, and the intention of delaying time is very obvious.

Therefore, after the activity of guarding filial piety for the emperor for nine days without moving swords, Lang Tan's left-wing army slowly pressed towards Guanshan on the right side of Tongtou Pass.

This is the protective barrier of the Eight Gates Golden Lock Array, if Guanshan is lost, the right wing portal of the Eight Gates Golden Lock Array will be opened, and the entire Eight Gates Golden Lock Array will be exposed under the nose of the Song Army, and then the Song Army can attack the Eight Gates Golden Lock Array from that direction.

The Song army on the left flank dealt with the Liao army on the right flank, and the Liao army on the left flank was not idle, and the famous Pi Room army appeared in front of the Song army for the first time.

The leather room army is the emperor's guard, each of them is a carefully selected person, eight feet tall, broad shoulders and round waist, and even has requirements in appearance.

Such people are actually not very suitable for being cavalrymen, because of their height and weight, the burden of war horses under their crotch is very heavy, which reduces the time for continuous combat.

However, this flaw was not much of a problem for the Leather Chamber Army, who thought that no army could hold out under the charge of the Leather Room Army until the war horse was exhausted.

Yun Zheng didn't believe much about this, and of course, Jiang Zhe didn't believe it either.

There have been too many cavalry formations charging like mountains and seas, and now even civilian officials like Wen Yanbo and Wang Anshi can maintain a calm state of mind when they see the terrifying scene of large-scale cavalry charge.

Seeing that the Song army's eight-bull crossbows and ballistas had already begun to move, Wang Anshi said loudly to Yun Zheng: "General, this battle must hurt Yelu Yixin, he must be allowed to return to the negotiation table, and he must be allowed to come to me with the geographical atlas of Yanyun's sixteen states and the list of households." ”

Yun Zheng glanced at Wang Anshi depressedly and did not answer, and continued to stare at the battlefield, but he looked at the direction of Langtan on the left, and did not have much interest in the Liao charge on the right.

If Jiang Zhe couldn't even hold on to a cavalry charge of this intensity, he would have been mixed in the Jingxi Army for so many years in vain.

However, Lang Tan on the left is facing a serious problem. The terrain of Guanshan is dangerous, it is the only high ground in front of Tongtou Pass, Yun Zheng needs Lang Tan to take Guanshan, and then put the artillery on it. This allowed to extend the range of the artillery as much as possible.

Seeing that the attack organized by Lang Tan did not achieve the desired effect, Yun Zheng was a little anxious, Guan Shan was too high and not suitable for artillery shooting, because its height had already exceeded the maximum upward firing angle of artillery. Moreover, the terrain near Guanshan is complicated, and there is no way for the heavy artillery to be transported there in a short time, so only after defeating the defenders of Guanshan, a special road is built to transport the artillery.

Yun Zheng was already very dissatisfied with the performance of the ballista, and with an elastic rope, the gunpowder bullet in the leather pocket could not be thrown on the top of the mountain at all, and he tried to catapult a few times just now, and the gunpowder bullet exploded after falling halfway up the mountain.

There were brave soldiers carrying gunpowder on their backs, braving flying rolling logs and stones and dense rain of arrows, trying to stick to the stone wall and open a wide enough road for the army, but they were shot by the Liao archers one by one in that not open gap.

Lang Tan personally carried a cannon and prepared to shoot at close range with the thick crossbow spears fired from the eight-bull crossbow, for which he had to remove anything superfluous from the cannon except the wheels.

He did it. The cannon couldn't reach the top of the hill, but it was able to avoid the surrounding obstacles and blow the small gap open.

The smoke of gunpowder was thick on Guanshan, and after Lang Tan had built a simple artillery position, he continued to use artillery to clear every obstacle in his path.

As a result, the fighting on Guanshan was in full swing, and the Liao people continued to support Guanshan from behind the mountain, no matter how many Liao people the Song army killed on the mountainside, after a while, more Liao troops would appear in that place.

Wen Yanbo and Wang Anshi's focus was not the same as Yun Zheng's, and the Liao cavalry under their feet were rushing over like a wall. The tense and exciting scene made them forget the point of this battle, and their eyes stared at the right without blinking.

There was a dense layer of triangular thorns on the ground, and when the cavalry arrived here, it was like the tide hitting an invisible wall, and the horses neighed and fell to the ground. Together with the cavalry, they landed in this open space a hundred paces away, and the sharp triangular thorns quickly pierced their bodies, and the screams of both the cavalry and the war horses almost drowned out the sound of the cavalry galloping.

The main point of cavalry combat is the indomitable momentum, no matter what kind of obstacles are in front of them, they have the determination to break through.

Yun Zheng just glanced at the battle situation on the right, and saw that the Liao people were still habitually charging arrogantly. And Jiang Zhe's ballista has begun to be powerful, and the battle situation on this side has been decided, so he has focused all his attention on the Guanshan Heights.

Since Chen Lin knew that the emperor had died, there was no smile on his face anymore, except for supervising the movements of the army, he no longer cared about anything, Yun Zheng, Wang Anshi, and Wen Yanbo all knew clearly that Chen Lin was actually dead at this time.

The people of the brigade were carrying earth to fill the trench at the foot of the mountain that had been broken through by Lang Tan, and the deep trench had been filled in all directions, and Lang Tan's men were passing through the trench, where there was no threat except for the stones dropped by the occasional trebuchet.

Yun Zheng's handsome flag is directly opposite the Guanshan camp, Yun Zheng does not move, Yelu Yixin on the city pass does not move, his flag is hung in the middle, but people don't know where, since the birth of Xiao Dahu and Hongzhou tragedy, there is no general of Liao who is willing to expose himself to Yun Zheng.

The fighting between the left and right sides was in full swing, but the position of the Chinese army was very quiet, Yun Zheng did not take the initiative to attack the city pass in front of him, and Yelu Yixin did not challenge.

This is a tentative attack and defense, and neither Yun Zheng nor Yelu Yixin will invest all their forces at this time.

The weather on the grassland is changing, and the grassland, which was originally clear and clear, becomes cloudy after a gust of wind blows.

Yun Zheng sighed and ordered the monkey: "Collect the troops!" ”

Lang Tan heard the sound of the golden gong to collect the troops, looked at his exhausted subordinates and said: "Withdraw to the bottom of the mountain, the artillery still has to keep firing to suppress the Liao army on the mountainside, we will come again tomorrow, Lao Tzu doesn't believe that he can't take this small mountain bag." ‘

Almost at the same time, the Pi Room Army, who were struggling in the rain of arrows, also received an order to return to the army, and fled back to the camp after leaving behind a large number of corpses.

"This rain is not coming at the right time!" Wen Yanbo sighed.

"It's very troublesome, this rain is very strange, I heard people say that there will be a kind of rain on the grassland called joke rain, today is considered to be insightful."

Yun Zheng looked at his subordinates who were cleaning the battlefield in the rain and said to Wen Yanbo regretfully.

"What's the joke rain?" Wang Anshi was very ashamed to ask.

"Joke rain and shout rain, which means that as long as you toss out a bit more movement, it will rain in this place."

"Nonsense! This is the Dragon King Realm. ”

Yun Zheng looked at Wen Yanbo, who was disdainful, and said with a smile: "You have been on the corpse of the brocade clothes and jade food in your life, where do you know these tricks hidden in the people."

Rain is not the domain of the dragon king, as long as a peasant woman can toss the rain in the kitchen, as long as a child can make a rainbow in the yard on a sunny day, I used to boil water in the kitchen when I was young, and after the water vapor fills the house, then open the door, after the cold wind blows in outside, it will create a small rain, as long as you put water in your mouth and spray in the direction of the sun, a small rainbow will appear. ”

Wang Anshi was impatient, Yun Zheng was always arguing with Wen Yanbo, so he interjected: "What's going on with the rain here? If the Liao people can really call for rain, it will be very unfavorable to our attack, after all, the gunpowder in our army is very easy to get damp. ”

Shi Yunzheng is always very patient with Wang An, pointing to the opposite side of Guanshan and saying: "There is a lake in the south of Guanshan, which is the lake we use as a water source, this lake is not big, but the water temperature is very high, and we don't feel cold when we wash our hands with lake water."

The temperature of the water is high, the amount of steaming is very large, so the grass and trees in this area of Guanshan are extremely vigorous, now it is the time when the earth qi rises, the water vapor after the lake water is steamed will be blown into this not big valley by the southerly wind, the valley is surrounded by mountains on both sides, and the opposite side is the tall Tongtouguan built by the mountain, so the water vapor resides here, after reaching a certain critical point, as long as there is a huge sound to shake those tiny water droplets, and then mix with some flying dust, this will make the water droplets bigger, and finally become visible raindrops to fall. ”

Wang Anshi shook his head directly and said: "I don't understand what you're talking about, but it doesn't look like you're joking, how can it rain The old man doesn't care, the old man only cares about whether there will continue to rain in tomorrow's battle?" ”

"No, looking at the rain today, the water droplets in the air have been almost released, and it will take a while to accumulate, so it won't rain tomorrow."

Listening to Yun Zheng's vow, Wang Anshi didn't ask anymore, and dragged Wen Yanbo to his camp to discuss how to obtain Yanyun's household registration is a big deal.

Returning to the camp, the generals were somewhat depressed, this was the first war that the Jingxi Army had fought since entering the grassland without immediate results.

Therefore, all the generals were a little resentful, and kept complaining during the time when the commander had not yet arrived, and even canceled Lang Tan, who presided over the battle. (To be continued.) )

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