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A meteor pierced the star-filled sky, which seemed to indicate the extraordinary of tonight.

Under the star-studded sky, the corresponding mighty, rolling, surging waves, and the shadows of hundreds of boats of all sizes appeared on the Yangtze River.

At this moment, these hundreds of ships are quietly gathering on the opposite shore.

Tonight was the first large-scale operation of the Western Army since it arrived in Yangzhou.

From the time they boarded the ship from the north shore, the officers and men of the vanguard army of the Western Army could not hold back the long-suppressed excitement in their hearts, and the officers and men in the boat kept whispering along the way.

It was not until this fleet, composed of ships of different sizes, was about to reach the south bank of the Yangtze River that the sound in the team gradually fell silent.

The slightly fishy river breeze swept across the hull of the boat, which made these officers and men of the Western Army who were afraid of water couldn't help but sit in the middle, and the soldiers of the Western Army who were riding a small sampan firmly grasped the boat gang.

Only the officers and men of the navy in the Lianghuai region did not care about the rushing river, and sweated hard to shake their oars in the countercurrent.

Not long after, the fleet marched to the riverside, and the majestic Jiaoshan Temple had already loomed in the eyes of a group of vanguard soldiers.

The faint sound of gurgling water could not help but lift the spirits of the officers and men of the vanguard army, and everyone began to do the final inspection of the landing on the ship, preparing for the big battle after disembarking.

As soon as the fleet approached the shore of the south of the Yangtze River, Han Shizhong kept staring at the opposite bank.

After a while, Han Shizhong suddenly lowered his voice and said to Wang Yuan on the big boat beside him: "Wang Xianggong, the last general feels that something is wrong. ”

Wang Yuan asked, "What's wrong?" ”

Han Shizhong replied: "Why didn't the person who answered the light guide our army to the shore? ”

Wang Yuan pondered for a while and said, "Xu is afraid of startling the snake?" ”

That makes sense.

But Han Shizhong's feeling is still very bad.

On the other side, Wang Yuan, who trusted Han Shizhong very much, also muttered in his heart: "Could it be that there is really a problem?" ”

After thinking about it, Wang Yuan ordered: "Pass the order, leave one person in the big ship and one person in the small boat, and use bows and crossbows to guard against ant thieves from seizing the ship, and respond to our retreat at any time." ”

Han Shizhong felt that Wang Yuan's arrangement was very secure, so he didn't say anything more.

After the flotilla docked, someone on the shore suddenly lit a fire and shook it, and then quickly extinguished it.

Seeing this, both Wang Yuan and Han Shizhong secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

- The person who answered came, and things should not change.

Under Wang Yuan's command, in addition to the more than 1,000 people who stayed behind, the remaining nearly 7,000 vanguard troops began to disembark in an orderly manner.

The person who responded immediately came forward: "Zhang Xianggong personally transferred my troops to other places, so that the heavenly army can land safely, I am Zhang Xianggong's account under the small school tension, Zhang Xianggong is my own family, specially lead the generals to occupy Jiaoshan Temple, this Jiaoshan Temple is the only dangerous place on the left and right, just choke the throat of this section of the river, and the heavenly army can cross the river with confidence." ”

Wang Yuan, Han Shizhong and others looked at the nearby terrain and felt that what Zhang Li said was true, so they did not doubt it, and followed Zhang Li along a winding and narrow path to Jiaoshan Temple.

Zhang Zhang led the way in front and introduced the situation in Jiaoshan Temple to Wang Yuan and others: "There is only one person in the temple today, but Zhang Xianggong intends to stay there, so there is no need to be afraid, and Zhang Xianggong's cronies have already controlled the key place, just wait for the heavenly army to arrive, Zhang Xianggong's cronies will riot......"

As Han Shizhong walked, he suddenly felt that there was a thick yin aura here, and he looked up at the terrain again and found that this was an excellent place for ambushes.

Han Shizhong suddenly felt that the situation was not good, and he was just about to persuade Wang Yuan to march cautiously.

But it was too late.

The tension that led the way in front of him, suddenly dodged, and the person disappeared.

Immediately afterwards, the slope above the mountain road was littered with arrows, and the arrows rained down.

Moreover, this rain of arrows is also mixed with a large number of powerful jackdaw arrows.

The Song army was taken by surprise by the Tiger Ben army, and 7,000 people crowded on the narrow mountain road, running from east to west and trampling on each other.

At this time, dozens of heads were thrown out from the opposite side, and then someone shouted: "Zhang Gong and his cronies are here, you can wait for the plan!" ”

As a result, the Song army inevitably became more panicked, and trampled on each other and injured many people.

Han Shizhong saw that all of them had to die here if this continued, and said loudly: "If there is chaos, they will all die here, all of them will stay, and they will obey my orders!" ”

Han Shizhong immediately ordered the men and horses of the headquarters to line up, and then Han Shizhong personally led hundreds of people who dared to die in the headquarters, screaming loudly, and rushed straight into the tiger army.

The generals who commanded the ambush were frightened by the beast-like screams of Han Shizhong and them, and they didn't expect the Song army to be so brave, they actually rushed up at the risk of missing the arrow, and were so frightened that they retreated again and again, and forgot to command for a while.

Fortunately, when the prison army saw this, he slashed the commander with a knife and shouted: "I die, my family lives!" I fled, my family died! All with me! ”

After speaking, the overseer army took over the command and continued to command the Huben army to shoot the Song army with bows and crossbows.

It's a pity that after such a delay, Han Shizhong, who is good at seizing fighters, led people to rush into the formation of the Tiger Army.

Han Shizhong's troops are all elites of the Western Army, and their fighting ability is naturally not comparable to the soldiers of the Tiger Army, who have mixed most of the recruits and have not experienced much hand-to-hand combat.

It didn't take long for Han Shizhong to kill the junior colonel holding the banner, causing serious confusion in the command of the Tiger Ben Army.

Seeing this, Wang Yuan took the lead and led the remaining Song army to kill the battle formation of the Tiger Ben army.

The soldiers of the Song army screamed while killing, like a pack of hungry wolves.

Although the ambushed Tiger Army was much larger than the Song Army, the difference in combat strength between the two sides was really not half a star.

This quickly reversed the tide – the Song army gradually gained the upper hand.

At this time, the sound of gold sounded in Jiaoshan Temple.

The ambushed Tiger Army heard the order to collect its troops and hurriedly withdrew from the battlefield.

Wang Yuan was already red-eyed, and when he saw that the Tiger Ben Army had withdrawn its troops, he even wanted to pursue it.

Fortunately, at the last moment, Han Shizhong grabbed Wang Yuan: "Xianggong, our army is strategic, there must be a large army hidden in Jiaoshan Temple, withdraw quickly!" ”

Only then did Wang Yuan react, and he almost fell for the Tiger Ben Army's plan to lure the enemy deeper.

Wang Yuan hurriedly led the remaining three or four thousand remnants of the defeated army to retreat to the shore.

But Wang Yuan, Han Shizhong and other remnants of the defeated generals had just come down the mountain, and the personal guard horse army, which had been in ambush for a long time, roared up under the leadership of Niu Wei.

When Han Shizhong saw this, he was in a hurry to send more than a dozen archers from his headquarters to climb a large reef, and then used the rest of his headquarters to shoot in a queue, preparing to shoot the soldiers of the Ma Army with bows and arrows, so as to buy time for the other remnants of the defeated generals to get on the ship.

Soon, both sides came into range of each other's fire.

The sharpshooter arranged by Han Shizhong, under the command of Junior Colonel Xie Yuan, fired a salvo to dismount Niu Wei, who was charging at the front, into a second of fire.

The soldiers of the Guards Horse Army who followed behind Niu Wei saw that their master was about to be shot, some wanted to avoid Niu Wei's corpse, and the horses rampaged, and some did not control the war horses well, so that the horses that sat down stepped over Niu Wei's body, and they were so frightened that they panicked and hurriedly stopped their horses, which caused a serious collision within the Guards Horse Army.

In this way, first of all, the pro-guard horse army was leaderless, which severely damaged the morale of the pro-guard horse army, and the attack formation of the key pro-guard horse army was chaotic.

At this time, Han Shizhong's salvo came over.

Although the prison army Gao Hongliang also commanded the guards in time to return fire with bows and arrows and divine arm bows.

But the archery skills of the soldiers of the Horse Army are too many elites of the Western Army under Han Shizhong, the key is that they hurriedly fought back in a panic, and even some people just pulled the trigger on the bow of the divine arm just to complete the order given by Gao Hongliang, as for where the crossbow arrows were shot, they themselves didn't know.

On the other hand, on Han Shizhong's side, almost every arrow of the dozen or so archers commanded by Xie Yuan could take the life of a cavalryman of the Horse Army, even the other soldiers of Han Shizhong's department, and their archery skills were also quite accurate, which made them very efficient in harvesting the lives of the cavalry of the Horse Army.

As a result, the pro-guard horse army was shot and killed by Han Shizhong's troops.

In fact, if Niu Wei had not died in battle at this time, with Niu Wei's bravery, he would definitely lead the remaining guards to continue to rush forward.

In that case, not to mention that the four or five hundred infantry troops of Han Shizhong's army would be defeated, and the more than 3,000 remnants of the defeated army led by Wang Yuan would definitely be covered up and killed by the pro-guard horse army.

But Gao Hongliang, who took over Niu Wei to command the battle, was too cowardly, he saw that the archery skills of Han Shizhong's soldiers were too powerful, and his own side was in chaos, so he gave the order to retreat at the risk of being beheaded.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Wang Yuan led more than 3,000 remnants of the defeated army to rush to the shore.

Immediately afterwards, Han Shizhong, who was lucky enough to escape, also hurriedly led the men and horses of his headquarters and fled to the shore.

Seeing this, Li Cun, who was in Jiaoshan Temple, put down the clairvoyant mirror in disappointment.

Li Cun's disappointment was not only for Zhao Han'er, the commander-in-chief this time, but also for other soldiers of the Tiger Army.

In this ambush battle, the Tiger Ben army can be said to have an absolute advantage - not to mention that Li Cun arranged everything for them in advance, in terms of troops, the Hu Ben army is five or six times that of the Song army, and there are three thousand horse troops into the battle, so it is said that it is easy to annihilate these seven or eight thousand Song troops.

But from top to bottom, everything went wrong with the Tiger Army.

And the Song army won without any flashy skills, that is, by virtue of the combat quality of the commanders and soldiers, it was far stronger than the combat quality of the commanders and soldiers of the Tiger Ben Army.

To be honest, this is also an unfair battle, a battle that Li Cun used to hone the soldiers of the Tiger Ben Army.

Otherwise, the Tiger Army will lose and win.

Li Cun did not blame Zhao Han'er and the soldiers of the Tiger Ben Army.

——The Tiger Ben Army has only been more than half a year since it became an army, and although the battles experienced are not small, but under the protection of Li Cun, the Tiger Ben Army has not fought hard battles and hard battles, and even many recruits have not been on the real battlefield, and the birth of elite soldiers and strong generals will always have only one way, that is, to fight, keep fighting, only by fighting a lot, and experiencing enough blood and wounds, can they grow and transform into real elite soldiers.

And at present, the Tiger Ben Army is really too bad.

Li Cun felt and said: "There is a long way to go!" ”

After sighing, Li Cun waved his hand lightly.

Seeing this, the herald, who had been waiting for a long time, immediately gave the order: "Release the letter cannon!" ”

The three messages and cannons immediately exploded.

Immediately afterwards, tens of thousands of torches were soon lit on the originally dry and dark Yangtze River.

All of a sudden, it was as if the Yangtze River had been set on fire.

Looking closely at the light of the torches, I don't know when at least 2,000 large ships appeared on the Yangtze River.

These big ships, densely packed with canine teeth, seem to lock the Yangtze River.

Wang Yuan, Han Shizhong and the others, who had just climbed onto the boat, looked up and were all dumbfounded!

- They were so surrounded that they couldn't get through......

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