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The tenth day of the first month.

Li Cun led the Tiger Ben army into Runzhou.

When he arrived in Lücheng, Li Cun ordered the army to rest for a day and prepare for a decisive battle with the Song army.

——The Wude Si secret agent lurking in Zhenjiang City has already found out for Li Cun, and Tan Zhi is ready to fight a decisive battle with Danyang, the only way for Li Cun to go to Zhenjiang.

For Li Cun, this is definitely the best news.

You must know that although Li Cun, who has already preliminarily mastered firearms, is sure to take Zhenjiang and Jiangning Mansion, the cities that Li Cun has attacked with all his strength must be riddled with holes, and it is really difficult to say how much defense it can play in the face of the upcoming Western Army.

The key is that Li Cun's firearms are just a little bit, which may be enough for Li Cun to fight a big battle, and if he loses it, Li Cun will have no means to defeat the Western Army.

Just when Li Cun was worried about how to win the next battle, he learned the good news that Tan Zhi was going to fight with him.

Li Cun couldn't even help but think, "Tan Zhenmo wasn't sent by God to help me?!" ”

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At this time, Tan Zhi had already dispatched troops and ordered his Song army to assemble in the Lianhu area of Danyang.

This situation was very much in line with Li Cun's intention to sweep away all the roads before the Western Army moved south in one fell swoop through a general battle.

Therefore, after resting for a day in Lucheng Town, on the eleventh day of the first lunar month, the Tiger Ben army went straight to Danyang, preparing to fight with the Song army led by Tan Zhi by Lian Lake.

Here, Tan Shu made two major mistakes.

First of all, Tan Zhen's intention in holding the battle was not to let the Tiger Army sweep the southeast, lest the southeast be occupied by the Tiger Army and become bigger and stronger.

Now, the Tiger Ben Army is coming to fight with heavy troops, and Tan Zhi's goal of containing the Tiger Ben Army has actually been achieved, so there is no need for the Song Army to fight a decisive battle with the Tiger Ben Army anymore, but should guard the danger and protect itself, with the purpose of thwarting the attack of the Tiger Ben Army and killing and injuring a large number of enemies.

Tan Zhi's subordinate general Zhang Wei, the son of the famous general Zhang Ji, suggested to Tan Zhi: "The ant thieves are fierce, and our army should be divided into Jiaoshan, Beigu Mountain, and Jinshan, and help each other with horns, looking for opportunities to move." ”

Zhenjiang is bordered by the Yangtze River in the north, and there are the famous Zhenjiang three mountains on the south bank, namely Jiaoshan, Beigu Mountain, Jinshan, and the water negative mountain, the terrain is very dangerous, especially suitable for holding on to and waiting for help.

So Zhang's suggestion is actually very insightful.

However, Tan Zhen, who had never seen nearly 100,000 horses, saw so many Song troops gathered and overwhelming, forming a huge corps rarely seen in the history of the Great Song War, and felt that they would definitely be able to crush any enemy; In addition, the logistics materials are sufficient, and the transportation is also fully guaranteed; It nurtured Tan Zhi's sentiment of despising the enemy, and he didn't listen to Zhang Wei's opinion, but appointed his confidant Zhao Lingqi as the commander of the capital, and ordered to fight against the Tiger Ben army in Lianhu.

The second major mistake Tan Shu made was to make up his mind to fight and lose the plane.

In all fairness, at this moment, the strength of the Song army is actually stronger than that of the Tiger Army.

- The Song army had 80,000 soldiers and horses, while the Tiger Army had less than 45,000 soldiers and horses.

Moreover, although Li Cun was ready to fight Tan Zhi and rested in Lücheng for a day, the Tiger Ben army came from a long distance, and the soldiers were tired.

On the other hand, the Song army waited for work at ease and had obvious advantages.

Many generals of the Song army suggested to Tan Zhi that they should take advantage of the favorable terrain along the coast of Lianhu Lake and take advantage of the fact that the Tiger Ben army had not yet completed its assembly to launch an attack immediately.

However, Tan Zhi pretended to be serious and rejected this correct suggestion.

At this point, it is not too much to say that Tan Zhi is a stupid pig-like Song Xianggong.

According to Tan Zhen's deployment, the Song army gathered on the shore of Lianhu Lake and put on a posture to fight a grand formation.

Lianhu Lake belongs to the eastern section of the hills of Ningzhen and the hill in front of the mountain, and the south belongs to the western part of the Taihu Lake Plain.

But as long as they retreated a few dozen miles to the north or east, the Song army could be in battle against the mountains.

After seeing the terrain, Zhang Wei objected to the formation next to Lian Lake, saying: "Soldiers move with advantage. The terrain is unfavorable today. How to fight? They should move to higher ground and set up formations to contain the enemy's horse army from charging. ”

However, most of the Song generals disagreed with Zhang Wei's opinion, believing that their horse army was more than that of the Tiger Army (these dozen Song troops plus the landlord's armed horse team could have almost 10,000 horse troops), and they had an advantage here.

Zhang's suggestion was then rejected.

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The Tiger Ben Army came to the Lian Lake, and then made full preparations.

When everything was ready, under the personal command of Li Cun, the Tiger Ben army took the initiative to attack the Song army.

At the beginning of the war, Li Cun ordered the 3,000 horse army to bypass the Song army camp and launch an attack on the "villagers' small village".

Some people may want to ask, if Li Cun didn't leave the 500 horse army in Xiuzhou, how could there be 3,000 horse army?

Speaking of this, I have to thank the fortune boy Zhu Mian.

Among the more than 3,000 horses that Li Zhuang Zhu Jiazhu obtained, most of them were first-class war horses, and there were even many war horses from the North.

Coupled with the horses seized from the homes of other officials and gentry in Suzhou, as well as more than 1,000 war horses sent by Han Bei, the Soviet Union, Li Cun now has no less than 8,000 horses.

Even if the horses that were not suitable for war horses were removed, Li Cun would have five thousand war horses.

At the beginning, Li Cun had trained 5,000 cavalry, but in the past, because Li Cun did not have so many war horses, he only formed a 3,000 horse army.

Now, excluding the 500 horse army left in Xiuzhou, Li Cun still has 4,500 horse army, and these 4,500 horse army are all real war horses.

As for the so-called "villagers' village", it is actually a camp where the people live.

Most of these camps were close to the Song army camps, and they were temporarily put together as barriers with carts, and their defense forces were extremely fragile.

In fact, the Song army did not expect the "villager villager's small village" to resist the attack of the Tiger Ben army, but after the small village was broken by the Tiger Ben army, the panicked people fled to the Song army camp and disrupted the Song army's position.

This was something that the Song army never expected.

The guards followed the fleeing minfu and successfully passed through the firing area of the Song army's bow and crossbow and rushed straight to the front of the Song army's camp.

As a result, the two sides launched a fierce battle of hand-to-hand combat.

It has to be said that the guards are poorly trained, although they occupy the advantage of Li Cun's command and seize the lead, but they are not good at riding and shooting, and can only rely on the divine arm bow they carry with them to shoot a crossbow indiscriminately, and then they can only rush up and fight in close combat.

However, it was Zhang Wei who commanded the left-wing horse army in command of the Song army.

Seeing the arrival of the Guards Horse Army, Zhang Wei immediately led the Horse Army under his command to meet the Guards Horse Army.

Although Zhang Wei was already in his fifties, he still took the lead and personally led the soldiers of the Song army to fight.

With Zhang Wei's efforts, the Song army slowly stabilized its position, and the horse armies on both sides launched a fierce battle on the left flank of the Song army.

Soon, the Guards Horse Army, which was not superior in numbers and strength, began to lose its strength and retreated, and Niu Wei himself was encircled, and was even shot in one eye by a stray arrow.

After Niu Wei was injured, he pulled out the arrow shot in the eye, grabbed the soil to paste the bloody wound, and fought on the prancing horse, and finally broke through the encirclement.

After breaking through, Niu Wei tore off his leggings and bandaged his eyes simply, and reorganized the pro-guard horse army into battle.

However, no matter how Niu Wei supervised the army to fight to the death, the Horse Army of the Guards had been forced to retreat by the Song Army led by Zhang Wei.

At this time, the situation on the battlefield was very unfavorable for the Tiger Army.

Seeing this, Li Cun waved his hand.

Soon, the sound of "rumbling rumbling" into the formation of war horses sounded.

Immediately after, the rear of the Tiger Ben Army was dusty!

And the earth shook!

There are no war drums, but this power is more terrifying than the war drums, and the rumbling sound is like hundreds of thunders erupting together!

Soon, someone in the Song army saw a horse army rushing past the Tiger Army and rushing to the battlefield......

This army of horses that suddenly appeared was not many, only three hundred, but it was as fast as the wind, moving above the nine heavens; Xu Rulin, the traveler has accumulated a lot of money; The momentum is like fire, born with thunder; Steady as a mountain, the heart is immovable.

Even those who don't know how to soldier know that this must be the most elite horse army of the Tiger Army.

The key is that this horse soldier is armoured, and all the soldiers are holding cold spears.

Heavy cavalry!

How could the peasant army of the Tiger Ben Army have the strongest type of troops such as heavy cavalry, which would only appear in the northwest battlefield?

This is a huge question that haunts the hearts of all people on Zhao Song's side.

Only Zhu Mian, who was hiding in the distance from Danyang City to watch the battle, glanced at the handsome banner of the Tiger Ben Army-Wuyue Metropolitan Governor Li with resentment, and then secretly went down to the city and fled from Danyang City.

After the three hundred heavy armored cavalry rushed in along the gap opened by the Guards Horse Army, the Song Army Horse Army, which had fought with the Guards Horse Army before, was immediately rushed to pieces.

Then, these 300 heavy armored cavalry rushed into the enemy army like 300 heavy tanks, they rampaged, savagely charged, and the Song army, which was not in a particularly tight formation, was immediately dispersed......

Seeing this, the Guangde army, which was relatively close to the left flank, rushed to the right like a swarm, Chen Da wanted to kill a few people to restrain the soldiers of the Guangde army, but before he could make a move, he didn't know who was poked to death by a shot......

Coincidentally, a similar situation occurred on the side of the Gaoyou Army - not long after the Guangde Army rebelled, Zhao Ming was also killed by the soldiers of the Gaoyou Army, and the soldiers of the Gaoyou Army all ran out of the battlefield......

Seeing this, Li Cun, who was standing on a high place and commanding this battle, really sent Niu Meng and Zhao Han'er to lead the Jinwu Front Army and the Jinwu Central Army to launch a general attack, and at the same time ordered people to beat drums and cheer......

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