Chapter 693: Zhu Shuai said that there was heavy rain in the second half of the night
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The fire is burning. Thick black smoke rose up, and under the blowing of the wind, it was like a rolling dark cloud pressing towards the Jiazhou army.
Fan Zhao's face changed dramatically in an instant. How can it be? Half of the reeds are still green, and the rain stopped the day before yesterday, and the reeds are full of puddles, and many places can still support boats, how can the Song army set fire?
But facts are facts and cannot be changed. If you want to explain? It's true that the figures of the Song army looming in the reeds before were fake.
"Ahem, ahem......"
"Ahem, ahem......"
The Jiazhou army chasing behind the Song army was completely annihilated in the billowing black smoke, the coughing sound was resounding, and the eyes were uncontrollable tears in the black smoke.
At the end of the reeds, 5,000 cavalry lined up neatly, and there were 8,000 foot armor behind them.
Zhu Biao calculated the direction of today's wind, and under the condition that the pressure on the Baoxian-Shuiyi front was so heavy, he allocated more than half of his combat strength to the battle of Changgang, the purpose of which was to defeat the threat of the coalition forces behind him in one fell swoop. At least knock them hard, so that the Jiazhou army and the Sizhou army will not be able to slow down for ten days and a half months.
Looking at it now, Zhu Biao's plan has been completed very smoothly.
Two quarters of an hour later, the fire in the reeds had subsided, even though the Song army had previously poured a large amount of vegetable oil on the reeds. But after all, the reeds at this time are swinging, and nearly half of the reeds are still green. It is not congenitally equipped with the conditions for burning, and when the yellow reeds and vegetable oil are exhausted, the fire weakens and is irreversible.
Dou Bing and Feng Enjiang stood in front of the cavalry formation, and when they saw that the light of the fire was dimming, their swords and guns were raised, and the appearance of the five thousand cavalry, which was originally just a simple formation, immediately changed. One by one, the spirit was condensed, the will was excited, and a plate of scattered sand cavalry columns instantly turned into an indestructible piece of steel.
"The whole army is ready to attack!"
Da da da, the sound of dense horse hooves rushing, five thousand war horses, even the sound of horse hooves can be clearly felt by people within a radius of ten miles. "Kill—" The elite of the eight thousand infantry armor also launched a heaven-shattering cry, following the strolling cavalry and rushing towards the Jiazhou army.
Even Zhang Nan brought up the three or four thousand defeated soldiers who had walked through the smoke and followed behind the infantry army. The momentum was high towards the Jiazhou army.
The good guy was chased for more than ten miles in one go, and it would be too much of a loss to panic if he didn't kill him back now.
The road was gray and dusty, and the fallen bodies of the Jiazhou army were found one after another in the thick smoke that only broke through and dispersed less than a hundred paces away.
Some people in the Song army were puzzled, why did the fire not reach the Jiazhou army? Could it be that smoke can also kill people?
But this stall. Dou Bing and Feng Enjiang won't stop to inspect those corpses. The two of them were directing the cavalry to gradually increase the speed of their horses, and sure enough, they entered a distance of less than a mile, at this time the smoke had almost dispersed, and the sight was almost restored, and the half-dead appearance of the Jiazhou army appeared in front of the cavalry.
"Kill—" Dou Bing raised his broadsword.
"Kill—" Feng Enjiang raised the spear in his hand.
The soldiers of the Jiazhou Army, whose throat was dry and could only burn and hurt, and whose eyes were red and swollen and couldn't open their eyes, faced the cavalry of the Song Army who rushed over. One by one, they fell to the ground like dead pigs, or crouched directly on the side of the road, most of them did not have a single weapon in their hands, and nine of the ten were empty-handed. So what is it to resist and resist the cavalry charge? Surrendering honestly is the wisest option.
The dazzling saber and the sharp spear easily reaped one life after another. When the 5,000 cavalry galloped over, the 8,000 infantry armor and Zhang Nanbu who came later saw only countless Jiazhou troops kneeling and begging.
The Jiazhou Army, which has fallen into complete chaos. The ability to fight back is completely lost. The resistance of individual soldiers is more subconscious, or a move made by the survival instinct of people. But in front of the five thousand cavalry of the Song army who opened the way. The effect of the resistance of a few people is simply negligible.
It's like cutting tofu with a hundred-pound axe, completely crushed without the slightest resistance. Dou Bing and Feng Enjiang's 5,000 cavalry soon reached the middle of the Jiazhou army, where they felt the resistance.
Unlike the nine empty-handed soldiers in the previous ten, although the Jiazhou sergeants who fled here can still see bare-handed people in sight, at least half of the ten have maintained their weapons, and there are some long soldiers like spears and broadswords.
The real test of the Song assault troops has come.
Dou Bing tightly clutched the big sword in his hand, and when he sent troops before the battle, Zhu Biao instructed him, forward, forward, and forward, the task of the cavalry is not to seek much success, but to penetrate all the enemy's defenses and organizations like a sharp arrow that moves forward bravely. did not give the Jiazhou army any respite, so that the entire pursuer was in panic and paralysis.
What Zhu Biao said was really good, the smoke had just cleared for a long time, and the Jiazhou Army had already reacted. If he really waited until he finished cooking the troops at the back and then rushed over, I am afraid that the Jiazhou army in this section would have already formed a military formation.
Splitting, slashing, slashing, sweeping, every blow must roll up a bloody rain, every step must step out of the mountain of corpses and sea of blood, the only thing that remains unchanged is indomitable.
The scattered Jiazhou army could not stop the charge of 5,000 cavalry. If in the past, a hundred-pound axe was used to cut tofu, then now it is a sword that sharpens iron like clay to really cut the mud.
Fan Zhao had already escaped, leading the remaining personal soldiers to meet the 20,000 Sizhou troops who followed up. It was really like grabbing a life-saving straw, asking the Sizhou army to come to the rescue immediately.
But the leader of the Sizhou army is not a wine bag and a rice bag, so he will not risk his own life to fill the pit. Not only did he not advance at the moment, but he immediately ordered his soldiers to open up the military column, just to set up the general flag high, just as a signal to attract the defeated soldiers in Jiazhou.
Therefore, when the five thousand cavalry came to the front of Fan Zhao in his desperate eyes, the officers and men of the Sizhou army breathed a sigh of relief. If he hadn't deployed the array on the spot just now, but plunged headlong into the chaotic army to reorganize the Jiazhou army, then the five thousand cavalry in front of him must have taught himself a bloody lesson.
"It's a pity." Dou Bing looked at the complete array of troops in front of him, and finally did not give the order to attack. He is not Zhu Biao. I really didn't have the confidence or confidence to lead 5,000 cavalry to break through the array laid by the 20,000 infantry army. So, this is the end of this battle. There are 5,000 cavalry staring at the side, the Sizhou army has more than enough self-preservation, but it is unable to rescue the broken Jiazhou army, when the 8,000 infantry and Zhang Nanbu are killed, the Sizhou army is even more nervous to the extreme, and now they even feel dangerous to protect themselves.
So, when the Song army disappeared west into the horizon with nearly 20,000 captives. The entire Sizhou army was relieved and exhaled in unison. Even if Fan Zhao scolded endlessly, no one mentioned the word 'chase' for half of the chasing soldiers.
The 20,000 Sizhou army quickly retreated to Changgang County, and Fan Zhao led two or three thousand remnants of the defeated generals to collect the defeated soldiers outside, but when it was dark, only 2,000 people were gathered. The total number of men and horses barely exceeded five thousand. In the middle of the night, he returned to the army village outside the north gate of Changgang County.
When he left Jiazhou, the 50,000 strong army chased Song Wei for two months, but nothing was achieved, but he was defeated, and Fan Zhao felt an indescribable frustration in his heart. By the third day after the war, the Jiazhou Army, with a total strength of less than 10,000 people, retreated 200 miles under the leadership of Fan Zhao and retreated directly from the Changgang front line to Fengle, the southernmost part of Liyang County.
Liyang was too guarded, and Bi Yuanzhi hurriedly sent someone to inquire about the reason. was pushed out of the military tent by Fan Zhaoli. What else is the reason? The loss is too great, and it can't withstand it in front and needs to be corrected. That's the biggest and clearest reason.
Fan Zhao's resignation made Xiahou Muyan feel very uncomfortable. On the day of the defeat, Fan Zhao went to the camp to make amends to Fan Zhao as soon as he returned to the camp with his troops. But it is obvious that the gap between the Jiazhou Army and the Sizhou Army before is deeply carved. The two armies are no longer inseparable from each other, even if they are all news to the imperial court, the rift in the bottom of their hearts has appeared. I can't get rid of it anymore.
Changgang did not have the remnants of Fan Zhao's Jiazhou army, although the Sizhou army still had 40,000 people. But it is obvious that in the short term, they can no longer put pressure on the Song army in Baoxian. Although this number is not small and is not under the Song army, the morale of the Sizhou army is unusually low.
The defeat that day, whether it was the shock of the products in the first night, or the hanging sheep beating the drum, the Song army played with them in their hands. The subsequent defeat of the Jiazhou Army was a large set of arrangements waiting for the Jiazhou Army to jump down.
The Sizhou army was not discouraged. And the sudden departure of the Jiazhou Army dealt a heavy blow to the already demoralized Sizhou Army.
The 20,000 Sizhou troops who experienced that battle that day were able to occupy almost half of the existing combat strength of the Sizhou army. And with half of the combat strength of the Sizhou army, they could only watch the Song army catch the Jiazhou army like ducks and chickens, and they were motionless.
The Jiazhou army is now withdrawn like this, it is clear that it does not trust the Sizhou army, which is like a newly injected additive, which makes the pressure and blow in the hearts of those 20,000 people instantly produce a fierce chemical reaction - he is a coward who abandons his comrades.
Of course, time is the best healing medicine for the soul. With the passage of time, the Sizhou army will gradually gather fighting spirit and morale, but now in a short period of time, Xiahou Muyan is 100 points of charm, and there is no way to make the Sizhou army 'shameful and brave'!
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Shuiyi Town.
The 400,000 troops were pressed from the northwest and southwest, and the pressure of the Song army during these days was extremely great.
But Zhu Biao didn't have the idea to alleviate this pressure, let alone personally lead the small boatman to fight from fifty miles south of the Binshui River Estuary to fifty miles north of the Binshui River Estuary. Because for the powerful imperial army, crossing the river hundreds of miles from north to south at the mouth of the Binshui River can also be done lightly.
Just the small Binshui River, just the small Canglan River, it is really not enough.
Therefore, Zhu Biao didn't spend that effort at all, so that the 200,000 troops of the imperial court and the more than 100,000 and 200,000 soldiers and horses of Huizhou gathered around Qianjiang City.
With Zhang Bangyan's large 'fine work', Zhu Biao knows the situation of the soldiers and horses on the side of the imperial court well. Running thousands of miles, there are no soldiers. Without a few days of rest and recuperation, the recovery of combat strength is not at its best.
After Cui Gonglai met with Wuwei General Shen Zhou, he basically regarded the Song army as a turtle in the urn, and both of them felt that it was good to wait for the soldiers to fully recover their spiritual bodies before raising troops. Raise troops to cross the river, and a wave of Zhu Biao's department.
Therefore, Zhu Biao knows that although he has been under a lot of pressure here in the past few days, there is no real danger.
"Tomorrow there will be rain. Heavy rain. ”
The sun in the sky is scorching, and the bricks of the city are hot. The guards who were draped all over their bodies had to be rotated every two quarters of an hour. Hundreds of cauldrons in the town are boiling water. The boiled water with salt and sucrose tasted a little strange when cooled, but it was a good way to replenish the salt of the soldiers' bodies. Although the soldiers and generals didn't know why Zhu Biao did this, Zhu Biao gave the order, and they listened.
And the Binshui River also had a flood that annihilated the land of the five counties, Zhu Biao didn't dare to let the soldiers drink raw water at this time period, if the army rushed to get sick at this juncture, then the sky would kill him. This article was strictly ordered before Zhu Biao led the army into the state. Always drink boiled water.
King Song looked at Zhu Biao's face in surprise, and then looked up at the sun on his head, wondering if Zhu Biao was faint from heat. On this sunny day, there will be rain tomorrow? Still raining heavily?
"The king doesn't believe it? Then we'll see. Zhu Biao smiled and didn't say much, but his strong self-confidence was like invisible words that penetrated into the 'ears' of everyone around him.
How Zhu Biao is not confident. In order to deal with the complex and dangerous situation in front of him, he directly filled up the item of Celestial Phenomena with precious points, and consumed as many as fifty points at once. And if it weren't for the fact that at the beginning of his entry into the Central Plains, he would have gotten a thick stack of astronomical and geographical books from the place where the Song Dynasty had collected books, and there were even many of the divine and humane books left by the Lingxiao Palace, of course, they were all copies, so that he had made good progress in the two sub-items of geography and astronomy. I'm afraid it will cost ten more precious points to fill up the celestial phenomena.
The full value of celestial phenomena makes Zhu Biao now like a meteorological satellite with the most cutting-edge technology, which can predict tomorrow's meteorological changes most and predict the meteorological changes of the day after tomorrow more accurately. And so it went down until the seventh day.
"The King. According to legend, the famous generals of ancient times knew astronomy and geography. I wish the commander great achievements, and there is no need to let more go just about the achievements. If only he could look at the sky and judge. That future achievement is by no means a mere celebrity. ”
When he returned to his dwelling, he immediately had melons and fruits from the cold town in the cool well. For the king of Song to relieve the heat. But King Song, who was sweating profusely, obviously didn't mean this, and a strategist beside him said knowingly.
"yes. Astronomy and geography are very vain, and the lone king has lived for thirty years, whether it is in Beijing or in Kaizhou, he has seen countless generals, but none of them can explain these two points.
There are a few people in the water division who can look at the sky, but they are all old farmers. When the ship goes out and goes to another place, it is immediately blind.
If Zhu Biao really has this ability, the world's geniuses are also unlimited, unlimited! ”
King Song knew that King Tang was a man, and he was a meritocrat and magnanimous. If Zhu Biao can really serve under King Tang, it will be impossible to add a new one to the Guogong Mansion above Wuhou in the future. "It's a pity, it's a pity......"
King Song lamented himself twice, the fourth brother sent him such a talent, but he failed to seize the opportunity. Otherwise, it would be nice to still have fun in the Qinlin Hall at this moment!
"Come, look for the book of God and humanity in the bookbox, and ask for the real one. Send it to Zhu Shuai—"
King Song thought of one of Zhu Biao's preferences, and said without hesitation. Anyway, there are only a few five real books in his hand, and they are all idle books involving miscellaneous studies, so it is not a pity to give them away.
The flowers bloom in two, one on each branch. After King Song returned, Zhu Biao also transferred to the Chinese army's big tent. Ordered someone to call Yin Dakai, the commander of the boat master, Zhu Biao gave such an order, and gave Yin Dakai a clear and clear schematic diagram.
Yin Dakai looked at Zhu Biao in disbelief, completely stunned. He couldn't understand why a wise and wise Zhu Biao would suddenly come up with such a bad move?
Serial boats? Isn't this looking for death!
How wide is the Canglan River? Go a little to the middle of the river, and you will be within the range of the thunderbolts and bed crossbows on the opposite bank.
Thunderbikes don't just throw stones, they can also throw fireballs, or more accurately, flints.
The stone was wrapped with a coarse cloth of hemp rope and poured with oil, and it was a fireball with a very strong arson ability.
And for the chain boat, it doesn't need much, ten or eight rolls on the boat, and then there is a wind, it will definitely destroy one qiē.
"I wish you all the best. There are many thunderbolts, bed crossbows, and long-range equipment on the other side, and our army's boats and ships are linked together, and once they are attacked by fire, they will be destroyed in one fell swoop. ”
"Hahaha, what if it's a day of heavy rain? Is there such a thing as a fire attack? ”
"You don't need to say much, just do what you are told. Two days later, Ben Shuai was useful. ”
Yin Dakai didn't know what to say, "No! With a command, he turned and left. It took two days to connect more than half of the large and medium-sized civilian ships with iron chains, which is not a small task that can be accomplished lightly. He needs to hurry up!
That night, there were still stars and moon in the night sky overhead. King Song fell asleep with a faint disappointment, and when he didn't see the ugly time of Lincheng, a strong wind suddenly rose in the sky, and then dark clouds covered the moon and stars, and then the raindrops the size of beans poured down.
On the water and on the shore, all the Song soldiers and scouts on duty at night were stunned. Oh my God, it's really raining?
They were told in the evening that those on duty in the second half of the night must bring a poncho or a coat. They were dizzy when they heard this order, why? The moon and stars outside are so good, where is it going to rain. But the order I got was - Zhu Shuai said that there was heavy rain in the second half of the night!
"Zhu Shuai is really a god." In the Zhou Jun Water Village opposite Shuiyi Town, Zhang Bangyan looked at the pouring rain, shocked, excited, and trembling.
PS: In the future, the court side in the text will be collectively referred to as the Zhou army.