8-29 6 battles at Sand Lake

Wuchang City was under great pressure, and the enemy successfully climbed the 6th and set up a strong camp in the north of the city, apparently ready for a protracted war.

Jin Shengheng is not a member of the famous general, the camp is very orderly, a square village is surrounded by trenches, digging ditches and digging out the soil to build a wall, the periphery of the village is full of bamboo sticks, the trench is filled with water from the sand lake, the camp gate is blocked with deer firewood and bed crossbows, the camp is erected with a high watchtower, the lookout pole, the road leading to the temporary wharf by the river is mated with gravel, and it will not be muddy when it rains, looking at this rock-solid camp, Liu Ziguang dispelled the idea of stealing the camp at night, his death camp is too precious to take risks, The strong army was too weak to carry out such a difficult task.

Both sides decided to fight a tough battle face to face, and the battle was conducted according to the most formal procedures, and Jin Shengheng sent a messenger to deliver a war letter, agreeing to start fighting on an open field in the south of Shahunan, and he stated in the war book that in order to take care of the lack of military strength on the part of the imperial court, he would only bring 3,000 men and horses out of the battle at that time.

Jin Shengheng is very famous, he is a bright and upright general, he has always liked to fight with open swords and guns, and he is not as fond of scheming as Zuo Mengeng, so Liu Ziguang readily agreed to his appointment and took 3,000 men and horses to the open land in the south of Shahu Lake as promised.

Liu Ziguang brought three artillery pieces over, the remaining seven remained in the Yellow Crane Tower and the shipyard, he only brought three hundred soldiers from the death camp, and the remaining two thousand seven hundred people were newly recruited strong men, Huang Degong and his five hundred forbidden troops stayed in the city to guard, and the shipyard also left enough men and horses ordnance to prevent Zuo Mengeng's sneak attack.

Liu Ziguang divided the three thousand men and horses into three parts, left, middle and right, respectively, lined up in a phalanx, a distance of 200 steps, he rode a horse to stand in front of the middle army, the left and right armies have thousands of households and hundreds of households riding war horses to lead the team, the officers held the order flag in their hands, the soldiers lined up in a neat queue, holding extremely long spears in their hands, the soldiers in the forefront were all selected big men, wearing full armor and holding shields to protect the rear team, and the four corners of the battle array stood archers, constantly shooting arrows at the enemy, so that the teams of both sides always remained in the place of one arrow, This is called shooting at the corner.

Liu Ziguang's Chinese army array, there are three cannons filled with anti-personnel shotguns, and a number of rocket launchers are spared, and the opponent's Chinese army also hides similar catapults and other weapons of mass destruction, of course, according to the rules of war, these are not needed to be used at the beginning.

The so-called traditional type of combat is the same as in the commentary, the two sides send the general to go head-to-head, which side wins can wave the battle flag, the brigade of men and horses to cover the past, the two sides are together, the soldiers catch each other, the generals are on the horse to slash, the fight is a bravery, there is no skill at all.

The sun was still very hot, Liu Ziguang was wearing a set of Spanish-style cuirass, already sweating, the big pole on his head hung lifelessly, there was no wind in the sky, and Jin Shengheng's troops in the distance were already lined up, and suddenly a drum sounded, and a neatly dressed young general rushed out of the opponent's formation, brandishing a bright silver spear and shouting: "Who dares to fight with me?" ”

Liu Ziguang snorted, Zhong Shouyong patted the horse and rushed out, this Henan man wears many hats, is not only the senior leader of the South Factory but also the general of the Red Shirt Regiment, on blasting is a good hand, on the battle to kill the enemy is not to lose others, he galloped over, before waiting for the other party to report his surname, head-on is a knife, the young general raised his gun to meet each other, fought the three-way horse and left, Zhong Shouyong patted the horse and chased, the young general also skimmed the gun, but secretly pulled out the meteor hammer hidden in his arms, intending to come back to the horse a hammer.

Where can Zhong Shouyong tolerate him to make these little tricks, this side of the meteor hammer has just been taken out, the short gun over there has already shot, bang twice, the young general will be killed under the horse, the war horse galloped away, Zhong Shouyong caught up and dismounted to inspect, and calmly cut off the young general's head in front of the eyes of the two armies, and then held it high to demonstrate to Jin Shengheng's side.

Jin Shengheng was furious, and sent a tiger general out again, but no matter how powerful the tiger general was, he couldn't hold back the shooting of the firecracker, and was killed by Deputy General Zhong without a face, Liu Ziguang was thunderous here, but Jin Shengheng's 3,000 men and horses were silent, and the generals were now using hidden weapons, so they advised Jin Shengheng not to send people to fight alone, otherwise the morale was worried, and it was better to go out and have a good time.

Jin Shengheng disagrees with this approach, he thinks that there is no victory at the bottom, and it is not safe to rashly wave the army forward, so he patted the horse and went into battle in person, here Zhong Shouyong is loading the four short guns with bullets, over there Jin Shengheng has already opened his bow and set up an arrow, Zhong Shouyong was caught off guard, and was hit by an arrow in the shoulder, he was wearing a Spanish-style plate armor, which was much stronger than ordinary chain mail, but still did not block Jin Shengheng's domineering arrow, and he fell off the horse on the spot if he changed ordinary people, but Vice General Zhong was tall and big after all, After shaking the horse and leaving, Jin Shengheng did not chase, reined in the horse's reins, and waved a small red flag from behind, and suddenly the war drums sounded in unison, the horn was long, and three thousand men and horses shouted in unison, rushing towards the imperial army.

The momentum of the left army's attack was very sufficient, 3,000 people surging together like a mountain and a sea, Liu Ziguang's strong army on this side couldn't help but be afraid, but the commander did not order, they had to stand in place, as the left army gradually approached, the officers gave orders, the soldiers of the second and third rows of the left and right armies raised their guns together, and put the spears as long as one zhang and a half on the shoulders of the soldiers in the front row, and the whole large array became a huge hedgehog.

This is not the Central Plains tactics, but Anthony's creation of the Western Macedonian spear array, the officers of the Red Shirt Regiment have studied this content, although the strong men are mixed, but standing on the outer layer are soldiers with strong willpower and good physical fitness, standing tightly with their comrades, the spears in their hands stretched out far away, and their hearts also have a little sense of security.

Jin Shengheng's soldiers and horses were very depressed, they had never encountered this style of fighting, the opponent's spears were too long, and the battle formation was too dense, there was no way to speak, someone rolled under the spear formation, but they were faced with rows of iron shields, and they couldn't get into it at all, but were stabbed to death by the long knives stretched out in the gaps in the shields. The torrent seemed to hit the reef and was quickly separated, and Liu Ziguang's Chinese army did not line up in a Macedonian spear formation, but dodged a gap in the front row, revealing three cannons, the artillery raised the elevation angle, and fired three anti-personnel shotguns, the shells exploded over the left army with a whistle, killing and injuring a large number of soldiers, Jin Shengheng's war drums did not stop, the soldiers would not retreat, although they were killed and injured by a large number of terrible weapons, they still followed one after another, and the three hundred service battalions carried out three rounds of shooting, and threw dozens of grenades, The enemy army in front of it was disintegrated, and the left army rushed towards the two strong men phalanx on the left and right.

The strong men phalanx marched forward steadily under the officer's command, step by step, the overall forward movement of this thousand-man phalanx was more thrilling than the entire big charge of the left army, like a silent mountain peak moving, the strong men would not fight, but mechanically walked forward with spears, and the soldiers in the front row did not show their heads at all, hiding behind the huge rectangular shield and slowly pushing forward, allowing the enemy's bows and arrows to smash on the shield.

The spears of one zhang and five lengths can only be used for group combat, and they can't turn around alone, so the officers warned the soldiers never to leave the brigade, don't care about anything, just bury their heads forward, even if someone in the team is shot down by arrows, the vacancy is immediately replaced, pick up the spear and continue to move forward, the left and right two gradually crippled spear arrays advance towards the left army camp, the soldiers of the left army are like a group of hunting dogs around the hedgehog, so anxious that there is no place to put down, Liu Ziguang's left, center and right armies have maintained a formation without chaos, However, Jin Shengheng's 3,000 men and horses have all dispersed, forming a situation of fighting separately, Jin Shengheng is very anxious, he saw that Liu Ziguang's Chinese army kept ordering the left and right armies with colored flags, so he decided to personally lead a team of cavalry to attack and destroy the opponent's command system.

Jin Shengheng asked his soldiers to tie his hands with gauze and the handle of the long knife, so as not to slip because he thought it was stained with blood, and then he roared, and took dozens of elite soldiers to Liu Ziguang's Chinese army, followed by Jin Shengheng is a golden battle flag, embroidered with his surname, this flag is the symbol of Jin Shengheng, his soldiers are very familiar, seeing the general personally out of the horse, the left army all over the mountains cheered.

Liu Ziguang hasn't made a move yet, because he is the main general, the soul of the whole army, when fighting, the whole army is staring at his Chinese army, in case the Chinese army is in chaos, the three armies will be unstable, so he endured the ** who went into battle to kill the enemy and commanded with a clairvoyant mirror.

Suddenly, Jin Shengheng's cavalry burst in, and the fire guns of the death camp failed to stop them, a burst of fire guns hit, the figures on the war horses were gone, and the fire guns were still reloading, and the cavalry hidden in the stirrups had rushed to the front, waving their sabers and slashing, and the cavalry's condescending fast impact was not something that the infantry could stop, and the door of the Chinese army was wide open for a while.

Jin Shengheng was indeed mighty, and with a swing of the long knife, he knocked down several soldiers of the death battalion who came to stop him, Liu Ziguang roared when he saw this, snatched a big knife from the hands of his own soldiers around him, and slapped his horse to meet him.

Jin Shengheng's eyes were red, he recognized the red big sword, as long as he cut it down, the military spirit of the imperial army would be over, and the situation of the enemy's strength and weakness could be changed, so he rushed in desperately, and he didn't notice that there were few soldiers left behind him, only the flag bearer was still following closely.

The red-robed military general under the big curtain must be the other party's main general, Liu Ziguang, I heard that this person has the courage of ten thousand people, and has never met an opponent, Zuo Liangyu's eldest brother Zuo died in his hands, thinking of this, Jin Shengheng was even more energetic, and he shouted: "Liu Ziguang, take your life!" ”

Liu Ziguang also guessed that the general was Jin Shengheng, the fierce general of the left army, with the purpose of capturing the thief and capturing the king first, he also roared, waved his knife to meet him, the two staggered horses, steel knives collided together, and sparks shot everywhere.