Chapter 99: Calamity
And the only remaining black cloud cavalry led by Yu Yan didn't see the infantry formation in front of him, and without making any dodge movements, he rushed towards the banner of the Song Chinese army in a daze. When rushing close to a distance of about 200 paces, only a string sounded, and countless powerful arrows were shot head-on, and the healthy horses running at high speed immediately fell down, and some cavalrymen were shot in the head, chest, abdomen, and other vital points and died instantly, and the war horses were not dead, but they still charged forward with their corpses, but the iron lance fell to the ground.
When rushing close to a distance of about 100 paces, there was a string sound, this arrow rain was both accurate and accurate, almost all the black cloud cavalry were shot like hedgehogs, rushing to the forefront of the black cloud to command the people and horses of Yu Yan were shot no less than a hundred arrows, immediately pounced to the ground, the black cloud of the horse and tooth soldiers were also shot dead, the banner fell to the ground, but the last few horses still kept rushing forward, and finally even the people and horses fell on the spear shield wall of the Song army, and the huge Song people in front of the infantry smashed several foot soldiers back again and again.
There is a way to be a hero and a hero, just when the Song Dynasty will sigh for the only remaining cavalry in the south of the Yangtze River, suddenly a black cloud cavalry full of arrows in front of the battle jumped up from the back of the fallen horse, and threw a broken spear to the Song people with all his strength. Seeing that the world-famous Black Cloud Rider was indeed extremely powerful, Cao Bin secretly felt that it was also advisable for Cao Han to slaughter most of them first. He turned his head to look at the fireworks in Jinling in the west, and said to Wang Yu, who was watching the battle beside him: "I don't want to be brave with Pan Cao's two generals, but I can't suppress this group of soldiers." ”
Wang Yu smiled slightly: "These two people have courage and no strategy, kill first, burn Jinling later, the crime should be killed, although the general is not immune to the pond fish, but after that, among the military generals of the Manchu Dynasty, there is no one who can compare with the general!" He said this very quietly, only Cao Bin could hear it. Let go of the party Pan Cao recklessly, contrary to His Majesty's holy will will be severely punished, and although Cao Bin has the responsibility of negligence, but the punishment will be far less than two, the current three members of the Great Song Dynasty military are favored by the Zhao official family The generals Cao Bin, Pan Mei, and Cao Han are the leaders, Pan Mei and Cao Han fell out of favor, and Cao Bin has since sat firmly in the position of the head of the generals.
Cao Bin laughed, and immediately ordered the commander of the Xiaowu army to lead Dong Zunzhi to lead a thousand cavalry to continue to pursue and kill the Tang army, and at the same time led the army back to Jinling.
But when he walked to the city, Cao Bin gradually couldn't laugh, and Jinling, which was full of flowers in the past, was full of ruins and broken walls, with ten rooms and nine emptiness. Under the leadership of Lu Jiang, the Lingbo army did not count the casualties of the siege for half a day, and had already broken through the water gate and fled to the southeast. The most intense battle in the city at the moment was the siege battle at the Stone Town barracks.
Most of the Tiande soldiers led by Hu Ze were from the Jinling Zuojin clan, who had already lost their intention of escaping when they saw their homes destroyed and heard that their comrades were slaughtered. Although Pan Mei ordered people to demolish the houses, the Tiande army barracks built several tall earth mountains, removed the stone thrower and bed crossbow at the head of the city and placed them on it, aimed at the Tiande army barracks and continued bombardment, and at the same time ordered the military captains of Konghe and Hujie to lead the soldiers to attack the city regardless of the damage, but still could not break through the defense of the Tiande army, but caused heavy casualties among the soldiers, and the layers of corpses were almost as high as the wall of the barracks, while the Song army infantry stepped on the corpses of their comrades to attack upward, and fought hard with the defenders of the Tiande army.
Seeing this situation, Captain Kuang Si suggested to Cao Bin: "All are deployed, and the last general speculates that there must be no food in the thief's barracks, so it is better to take a siege strategy and wait for him to starve to death." ”
Cao Bin raised his eyebrows and said sharply: "The mishandling of Pan and Cao and the two of them provoked a military mutiny before, and now Ben will come in person, if the chaos cannot be quelled after a long time, how will Ben explain to the official family." "This Kuang Hei is his confidant, so he has a little less scruples when he speaks. Seeing that Jinling's loss was so miserable, even if it was just the disaster of the pond fish, it would inevitably greatly affect his status in His Majesty's heart, thinking of this, Cao Bin's expression was gloomy, and he said: "You quickly go and tell Pan Mei, if you can't take Stone City today, then replace it with someone else, and he can sit in the camp after that, and wait for His Majesty's will." ”
This military order was handed down, Pan Mei couldn't help but be angry, but it was unfavorable for herself and Cao Han to restrain her subordinates, provoking the Tang army to become chaotic, and the crime of burning Jinling was not small. He immediately ordered the elite to be selected from the 30,000 empty cranes and Hujie troops led by him to dare to die in the city, claiming that once the Tiande military camp was captured, the gold and silver and other things in the camp would be taken by themselves. At that time, the soldiers were strong, the army under his jurisdiction because of the defense of the city wall, and later was transferred to fight with the Tiande army, to not taste the sweetness of looting, this heavy reward under the brave man, soon recruited five thousand dare to die, Pan Mei personally led, all dressed in two layers of heavy armor, arrows could not penetrate, risking their own overwhelming bed crossbow arrows and stone bullets to rush towards the Tiande army camp.
When it was dark, Pan Mei sent a military envoy to report to Cao Bin, the Tiande army camp had been captured, the commander Hu Zezhan died in the chaos, the corpse had been chopped to the flesh and blood, the camp counted out the corpses of more than 20,000 German soldiers, and more than 1,000 soldiers jumped off the cliff from the mountain behind the barracks, and the corpses were scattered everywhere and could not be found.
Seeing that the whole city was pacified, Cao Bin breathed a sigh of relief, and listened to the soldiers in the camp complain that the army that fought against the Tang army gained very little, and it was not as good as those soldiers who looted in the city, seeing that it could not be disposed of, Cao Bin had to inform the troops privately through Kuang Si that they could collect military rations in Jinling privately, but after a day and a night, the Chinese army would post a notice to calm the people, and the whole army would return to the camp to rest. Seeing that all the ministries were deployed, they all shouted long live, but the people of Jinling suffered another catastrophe.
Heiyun swore to block to the death to buy precious time for Wu Yingying and others to escape, the sky gradually became gloomy, and the dozens of horsemen who entered the foothills of Jiang Mountain gradually got rid of the Song Guoyun cavalry who was pursuing by Ouroboros.
Although the war horse is easy to stumble on the mountain road at night, Wu Yingying and others did not dare to stop and rest, each of them lit torches, led the war horse to grope forward on the mountain road, and when he was hungry, he simply stuffed two handfuls of fried noodles into his mouth, took a bite of dried meat, and took a few sips when he was thirsty and encountered a mountain spring. The mountain road was slippery, in order to prevent them from falling into the mountain stream, dozens of people tied their waists with cloth belts and connected them into a string, Rao was so, and still fell to death three horses, and two horses broke their hooves, so they had to push down the mountain stream.
Huang Wen also used a strap to connect herself with Wu Yingying, and was ground out of the blood by the rough leather saddle, a pair of plain hands tightly pulled Wu Yingying's clothes, and followed the road in the dark, her feet were blistered with blood, and every step hurt so much, but she endured the pain and tried not to distract Wu Yingying from taking care of herself, so as to slow down the speed of the march.