Chapter 426: Rivals (Happy New Year, Everyone)
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Yishui originates in Taihang Mountain, flows through Yixian County in the east, and is divided into three streams: Yishui in the north, Yishui in the middle, and Yishui in the south. In the third stream, Yishui in the south is the most famous, and it was here that Prince Yan Dan was bidding farewell to Jing Ke.
Why did Prince Dan bid farewell to Jing Ke in Nanyishui, because this place is the border of Yan and has always been the division of Yan and Zhao.
Yan Zhao is bounded by Yishui in the south, and in order to guard against the powerful Zhao and Qi in the south, Yan built the Great Wall along the South Yishui, named the Great Wall of Yishui, to defend the Yanxia capital located in Yi County. When Zhang Yi said that King Yan was the king, he once said that Qin Xiajia Yunzhong and Jiuyuan, driving Zhao and attacking Yan, would be easy to water the Great Wall, and it was not the king.
At that time, Jing Ke assassinated Qin, and then left Yandi and entered Zhao, leaving the eternal swan song of Yishui, and after a thousand years, on both sides of the South Yishui, there were large armies, and the war was about to break out.
On the banks of the Yishui River, the voices of people are boiling.
On the south bank of Yishui, banners were everywhere, and the regiments of the Xia army drove all the way to the riverside.
Dou Jiande was stationed on the bank of the Ma River, looking at the Youzhou army on the other side of the river, and suddenly waved his hand and shouted: "Which general is willing to build a bridge and pave the way for me?" โ
"A certain wish!" The one who answered was Wang Fubao, the number one general of the Xia army.
Dou Jiande agreed.
Wang Fubao immediately led 10,000 soldiers of the former army to step forward, 5,000 people were deployed on the south bank, prepared bows and crossbows, and prepared to cross the river.
The soldiers were halfway through the river, driving wooden stakes and building pontoon bridges.
At this time, in late autumn in October, the north wind is sluggish, and the water is cold. Although the soldier drank a large bowl of shoddy liquor before entering the water, his face was still blue from the cold, and his lips were purple.
Despite the hard work of the soldiers, with the width of the Yishui River at seventy or eighty paces, the 5,000 bridge-laying army started together, and in an instant, six pontoon bridges were paved along the river surface to the center of the river.
The war drums sounded like a shower, and the soldiers and soldiers of Xia all raised their heads, only to see that on the bank of the river, the formation of the Youzhou army began to change.
When Wang Fubao saw the scene, he immediately shouted to the 5,000 soldiers on the south bank: "Crossbowmen are ready to cover the brothers crossing the river." โ
The crossbowmen of the Xia army were on the arrows one after another, and the 5,000 soldiers who paved the bridge were unsheltered and in the middle of the river, and were the most vulnerable to enemy arrows.
Unexpectedly, the Youzhou army erected the big shield, and the whole army retreated thirty steps back, vacating a tidal flat more than sixty steps long on the bank of the river, leaving the Xia army.
Even if the effective distance of the farthest arm crossbow is only a hundred steps, and the ordinary bow and arrow is only sixty or seventy steps, Li Chongjiu is definitely not Song Xianggong, and the intention of the Youzhou army to vacate the tidal flats is clear to Wang Fubao at a glance.
"It was a deliberate attempt to lure our army deeper, attack half-crossing, and annihilate on the river beach." Wang Fubao sneered, "I don't know the truth of fighting against the water, and the more you fight, the more courageous you become." โ
Wang Fubao is brave by nature, overcoming difficulties, and fighting countless hard battles, otherwise how to overwhelm Liu Heimin, Gao Yaxian and others, and become the first general under Dou Jiande.
At that moment, Wang Fubao shouted: "Brothers, King Xia is looking at you from behind, and wants to seal his wife and son, and the prince will speed up the bridge for me." โ
Encouraged by Wang Fubao, the Xia army's 5,000 bridge-laying soldiers accelerated their movements.
Zhang Xuansu on Dou Jiande's side said to Dou Jiande: "King Xia, the Youzhou army must be deceitful to give up the beach, and I implore King Xia to order General Zhang to withdraw his troops." โ
Dou Jiande said: "General Zhang is a general selected by me personally, and I believe in him. โ
Zhang Xuansu heard Dou Jiande say this, and immediately stepped back and said nothing.
The soldiers of the Xia army who launched the water suddenly accelerated, and the speed of construction, in the blink of an eye, the pontoon bridge was repaired across the center of the river, spanning two-thirds of the length of the river.
On the north bank of Yishui, Wang Mahan saw that the enemy's six pontoon bridges were making rapid progress, and the fastest pontoon bridge had almost reached the opposite bank.
So Wang Mahan shouted: "Crossbowmen prepare! โ
Wang Mahan's voice fell, the front army put down the big oar, the crossbowmen stood in three rows in front and back, and the arrows in the cold light were aimed at the Xia soldiers who were repairing the river.
Burst!
The bowstring collapsed, countless arrows flew away, and the soldiers of the Xia army who paved the bridge planted into the river with the whistling sound of arrows, and the bubbles on the water surface turned up, and a wisp of bright red quickly escaped to the surface of the water.
The arrows of the Youzhou army did not catch the Xia army off guard, and the shield-wielding foot soldiers quickly ran onto the pontoon bridge and guarded them with shields.
In order to resist the invasion of the Biansaifan people, the people of Yan Zhao have been able to ride shรจ since ancient times, and the arrow array of the Youzhou army is even more famous in the world.
Dou Jiande had already heard of the defeat of the Khitan White Wolf Water, so before sending troops, he specially built 3,000 large oars, giant shields, side cards, and 1,000 iron armor to strengthen the protection of the soldiers.
The arrows of the Youzhou army caused a certain commotion to the Xia army, but the throwing did not hinder it, and the Xia army paved the pontoon bridge across the river.
Finally, the pontoon bridge in the second column from the left hits the northern bank of the Yishui River.
Seeing the scene, the Xia army on the other side of the river bank cheered together, and the cheering war drums sounded loudly. Beside the dozens of bodies that fell into the river on the surface of the Yishui River, footsteps sounded on the pontoon.
The footsteps were calm and powerful, as if each force pulled out a thousand pounds, shaking the pontoon bridge together, and it turned out that the iron flow composed of the heavy infantry of the Xia army was going against the crowd, quickly crossing the river from the pontoon bridge.
This army of foot soldiers who crossed the river first, armed with iron spears, rifles, and large oars, all of the same color, and wearing heavy armor, obviously crossed the river for the army, and erected a strong position on the beachhead to meet the large army of the Xia army to cross the river.
The arrows of the Youzhou army shรจ more fiercely, after the crossbowman, the archers also began to exert their strength, and the archers of the Youzhou military army were all selected from the original seventy steps and one of the six arrows.
Holding a stone and five bucket bows, now the bows are full, looking up at the sky at forty-five degrees, with an order, countless arrows draw a parabola in the air, and cover the head of the Xia army.
The Xia army, which crossed the river in heavy armor, accidentally fell into the mud of the tidal flats, and was suddenly hit by the double blow of the archers and crossbowmen.
Wang Mahan couldn't help laughing when he saw this, and said: "These iron kings, when they get to the mud, won't they become mud kings!" โ
At that moment, Wang Mahan shouted, and the foot soldiers of the Youzhou army were unceremonious, and rushed forward with spears.
The fierce battle between the two armies on the river beach broke out, and the big shields of the soldiers on both sides suddenly pressed together, making a loud bang. The collision of steel and flesh echoed on the banks of the Yishui River, and the infantry of the two armies thumped in the air.
The heavy infantry of the Xia army was to carve out a landing ground on the bank of the river for Paoze, while the Youzhou army was to drive them into the water.
As Wang Fubao said, the Xia army fought extremely bravely, especially the heavily armed foot soldiers who rushed across the riverbank, all of them were veterans of a hundred battles in the Xia army, and they were ruthless, and the iron armor on their bodies was made of iron leaves.
Of course, the Youzhou army is also the elite of a hundred battles, and if it fights on flat ground, it is really difficult to say who wins and who loses between the two armies.
But what Wang Fubao didn't expect was that this Yishui River beach was very muddy, and the Xia army's heavy infantry soldiers only had twenty or thirty catties of iron armor on their bodies, plus more than ten catties of big shields and lances, and they were wearing impermeable leather boots on their feet, which made them almost stuck in the mud and became trapped dragons.
Puff puff, the foot soldiers of the Xia army fell down in the muddy water in pain, and stepped forward to the foot soldiers of the Youzhou Army in straw sandals, and a few shots were one.
Seeing that the hundreds of heavily armed foot soldiers of the Xia army crossing the river were about to be driven into the river, there was a burst of exclamations from the Xia soldiers on the south bank of the river.
Everyone said one after another, and General Wang had passed.
I saw Dou Jiande's general Wang Fubao holding an iron gun, crossing the river with a slur, and the left and right soldiers on the pontoon bridge couldn't help but make way for him.
"Who can stop me!"
I only heard Wang Fubao shouting, as if a god descended to earth and entered the Youzhou army.
The soldiers on both sides of the river, as if they saw the resurrection of Changshan Zhao Zilong, Wang Fubao had an iron gun in his hand, like a dragon shuttling on the bank of the river.
Where Wang Fubao's iron spear went, where the Youzhou army retreated urgently, and where the Xia army's critical situation was immediately reduced, it immediately turned the crisis into safety. One person and one shot seemed to be in a no-man's land.
Youzhou Army, Wang Ma Han here saw that the enemy general was mighty, and couldn't help but say angrily: "That Wang Ba Lamb, destroy Lao Tzu's plan, take my big axe." โ
As soon as Wang Mahan finished speaking, more than a dozen generals such as Chen Ke and Zhao Quanting on the side hurriedly stopped him and said: "Before the war, Shanggu Gong explained that the general is the master of an army, and he must not go into battle to kill the enemy, otherwise he will ask us for the crime." โ
When Wang Mahan saw this, he couldn't help but be furious, and said, "You all get out of the way, or I will split you." โ
The generals stepped forward and hugged Wang Mahan with all their might, and Wang Mahan stopped.
Seeing that Wang Fubao was so brave, the captain in the front of the Youzhou Army also took care of him, and the archers and crossbowmen in the back row were looking for Wang Fubao shรจ.
Wang Fubao was still fighting bloodily, his body was already covered with blood-soaked heavy armor, and more than a dozen arrows were inserted in the armor.
The soldiers of the Xia army on the pontoon bridge poured into the north bank one after another, brazenly took the spear of the dead robe, followed Wang Fubao, and launched round after round of assaults against the Youzhou army.
Under Wang Fubao's hard work, three pontoon bridges were repaired at the same time, and thousands of Xia soldiers gained a foothold on the other side of the river.
On the bank of the Yishui River, Dou Jiande had been watching the battle for a long time, and suddenly pulled out the long knife on his waist, stabbed into the sky and shouted: "Xia Jun, mighty!" โ
Nearly 100,000 Xia troops on the south bank of Yishui drew their swords to the sky and shouted in unison: "Mighty! โ
Immediately, all the soldiers slapped their swords against their shields, shouted in unison, and suddenly thundered, accompanied by war drums, cheering for the robes on the north bank.
On the high ground on the north bank of the river, Li Chongjiu couldn't help but change his face when he saw the cheering scene of the Xia army, and said to himself: "Dou Jiande's Xia army is really not as brave as the ordinary righteous army, although it may not be as brave and good at fighting, but the whole army has such a high fighting spirit, it is really a strong enemy. โ
ps: In the new year, happiness is here, I wish you all a happy new chun, take the lead, have money immediately, have an object immediately, have a good year of the horse, and have a happy family. (To be continued.) )