"Knock knock!"

The drums in the camp were loud, and even Deng Chun led the light cavalry and ran on foot to chase and kill the Chu army.

On the contrary, the heavy armor soldiers and firecrackers who had just made meritorious contributions chose to silently retreat to the battalion.

The Chu army was not an elite Jin soldier, and it was defeated several times in a row, and if there was no decisive force to join the battle, the rest of the battle would be completely one-sided.

said that the unlucky Gong Bin encountered a crazy enemy army, and the sword and shield men under his command suffered nearly 100 casualties (more wounded and less dead), which has reached a third of the proportion. For out of the three thousand soldiers, there were only two hundred and fifty sword and shield men.

Just as Gong Bin was fighting hard, the Chu army on the left was killed.

Get rid of the friendly forces on the left side of the battle, immediately attack the flank of the mad Chu army, and work with Gong Bin to defeat the enemy in front of you. Gong Bin also quickly got rid of the bitter battle, and then rushed forward to cooperate with the friendly forces on the right, continuing to form a two-sided flank attack.

Flanking, routing.

Flank again, then rout.

The advantage of the Sichuan Gorge Rebel Army in the entire battlefield expanded like a snowball.

Because there were too many defeated troops of the Chu army, the reserves that rushed to meet were rushed to the ground by their own routs.

Zhong Xiangxin led his headquarters to participate in the battle, and as far as the eye could see, it was full of routs, and he didn't know where to save at all. Even if he knew, he couldn't get through, and the way forward was blocked by the rout, and his own soldiers pulled him to persuade him bitterly.

"Your Majesty, let's go, you've been defeated!"

Zhong Xiang glanced at Zhu Ming's camp, resentful and powerless at the same time, turned around and fled back to Jiangling City with his own soldiers.

Deserters and pursuers ran hard in the mud, and from time to time someone fell to the ground.

It's a pity that you can't chase and kill with cavalry, you can only watch a large number of routs, and flee to the direction of Gangneung City like that.

Zhu Ming asked the heavy cavalry to follow, as well as some of the people who returned to the camp, to clean up the battlefield and control the prisoners, and said to the people behind him with a smile: "The south is stable." ”

Zhang Bo asked: "There will still be many enemy troops fleeing back to the city, do they want to stay and continue to attack the city?" ”

"It's naturally best to be able to negotiate," Zhu Ming looked north, "Our enemy is not in Jinghu, so there is no need to increase unnecessary casualties." It's just that in this negotiation, one Jiangling is definitely not enough, Yidu and Changyang must also be won! ”

Yidu is on the south bank of the Yangtze River, and Songzi can be attacked by land, and if Zhu Ming occupies there, Zhong Xiang will be even more restless.

Gu San's chest continued to bleed, and he came back with a strange spear: "Marshal, look at this, you can pierce heavy armor." ”

Zhu Ming glanced at it and said, "The iron cone gun is not rare, it is in the "General Essentials of the Martial Arts". ”

It is impossible to pierce heavy armor by attacking with guns by manpower, but it can pierce the gaps between the armor pieces.

Yue Fei's son, Yue Yun, did not use a hammer as written in Romance, but used an aggravated version of a special iron cone gun. In the early Northern Song Dynasty, in order to deal with the heavy armor of the Liao State, the Song army was equipped with iron cone guns on a large scale, but then it was gradually used less, and it was not until the Southern Song Dynasty dealt with the Jin soldiers that they picked it up again.

This is not a strange weapon, there are a lot of surviving world, and more than 200 have been excavated by archaeology in later generations.

"Its blade is four-edged, quite strong, unfoldable, shaped like an ear of wheat, and the side people call it a wheat ear gun." This is the written record of the iron cone gun.

When repeatedly stabbing heavy armor, the tip of the spear and spear slip and slide from the nail piece to the gap.

The force of the ordinary spear slid into the gap, and the force was much weaker, and even the gap was difficult to pierce. The special structure of the iron cone gun can use the residual force to easily pierce the gaps between the armor pieces.

If you stab deeper, the wound left by the pyramid can still make the enemy bleed.

Wang Yu glanced at it: "It may be that the cane warehouse of which state and county in Jinghu has stored some iron cone guns from decades ago, which were obtained by the Zhong thief and ordered the craftsmen to imitate them." The Song army has rarely been used, because it is not easy to build, and even if it is built, it will be disliked by the soldiers. Because in the past few decades, a large number of weapons in the Song Kingdom have been built with steel. The tip of the iron cone gun is too thin, and the steel filling is not hard enough, and it is easy to break during combat. ”

"Don't go bandage it yet!" Zhu Ming reproached.

Gu San was stabbed by a quadrangular pyramid, but fortunately it didn't go deep into the flesh, otherwise the wound was really difficult to treat.

Zhong Xiang's headquarters was the first to flee back to Gangneung, and as soon as he entered the city, he shouted: "Only open the north gate of the urn!" ”

He asked the remaining troops to stand above the urn city, ready to drop stones and logs at any time, and led his troops to ambush on both sides of the gates of the inner city. As long as the enemy dares to follow the rout, it will immediately be an all-round attack.

Gong Bin chased the enemy to the moat, and the water level of the moat had risen sharply, but the current was not turbulent.

Some of the Chu troops who were pursued by him fell and were captured halfway, some fell to their knees and surrendered, and some were trampled to death, and nearly half fled here and jumped into the moat.

Inside the moat, it is dense and crowded.

No matter how good the water is, you can't swim away, and there is no room for your arms to paddle, so you can only keep treading water with your feet.

The Sichuan Gorge Rebels, who chased here, stood on the shore and poked into the water repeatedly, and the bright red blood began to open in the water.

There were also some Chu soldiers who were out of strength, and it was difficult to support them by treading water with their feet, so they subconsciously hugged the people next to them, and then sank to the bottom of the river together.

Those who can get close to the opposite bank are the lucky ones, and they don't have to climb at all, the river has risen to nearly the height of the riverbank. Just lie on the shore with both hands and push hard, and roll up with one roll.

Several bridges in the moat were also crowded with routs, and from time to time people were squeezed into the river, and there were many corpses trampled to death on the bridges.

The urn city was already crowded with routs, and the latecomers could not enter at all, so they could only run around the city wall for their lives.

On the outskirts of the city, there are also scattered routs everywhere, they are fighting in the wrong direction, they can't escape towards the city, they can only flee where there are no pursuers.

"Hurry up, don't worry about me anymore!"

Dongting Haoxia Yingxuan roared angrily, he had a deep wound, bleeding too much, and his body was weak, and he couldn't hold it after running for a while, and he was almost dragged all the way by his own soldiers.

"When I first bowed, I said that I would live and die together, how can I give up my brother at this moment?"

"When a man is alive, it is nothing more than a righteous word, and he will accompany his brother to death today!"

"We can't speak, anyway, this life will be sold to my brother."

“……”

There are about twenty or thirty people left around Ying Xuan, all of whom are rangers in the waters of Dongting Lake.

Armed with weapons, they surrounded the Ying Xuan group and tried to pull a few cushions on their backs.

There were more and more rebels chasing after them, and some of the mandarin duck squads had already run away, and they immediately temporarily formed a formation when they saw this. One after another, hundreds of people formed a formation here, feeling that Yingxuan was a big man, and once he was caught, it would be more cost-effective than ordinary routs.

Yingxuan is indeed a big man, he brought money into the group, and laid down two counties to take refuge in Zhong Xiang.

After Zhong Xiang became the emperor, he rewarded the leaders of various departments, which was originally to give Ying Xuan the title of king of the county. But Ying Xuan didn't want to be too showy and resolutely resigned from the king's title, and finally sealed a Northern Holy Prince.

Yan Qi, who Han Shizhong and Chen Ziyi defeated in Zhijiang, was only titled the Western Sage Marquis.

Ying Xuan couldn't bear the death of these rangers, pushed away the two people who were protecting him, and said to the pursuers who were besieging in formation: "I am the Holy Father of the Northern Kingdom of Great Chu, if I surrender, can I spare their lives?" ”

An officer said, "Since it is the Northern Holy Prince, I should take it to the generalissimo for disposal." ”

Ying Xuan said: "Mr. Zhu's name, I have already heard like thunder, and today I just went to meet the heroes." ”

Although the ranger was not afraid of death, he did not want to die, so he honestly threw away his weapons and was escorted back to the camp by the soldiers.

"Northern Saints?"

Zhu Ming looked at this person carefully, he had some impressions of Yingxuan, he was Zhong Xiang's right-hand man, and he died in battle before Yang Qi became the leader.

In the early stage of Zhong Xiang and Yang Qi's uprising, they were still very popular with the people.

There were even heroic deeds of officials and soldiers plundering the people, while the rebel army desperately protected the people.

At that time, the Southern Song Dynasty general Kong Yanzhou (later demoted) suppressed the uprising, and plundered small towns and villages halfway. Although Xie Baoyi, the general of the rebel army, had few soldiers, he fought hard with the officers and soldiers, and the villagers also came to help. Killed Kong Yanzhou to a great defeat, and also robbed the officers and soldiers of the warship and greatly increased his strength.

"It's the Holy Father of Great Chu North who is here!"

Ying Xuan was almost unstable, and arched his hand and said: "They are all rangers, please let Mr. Zhu let them live." ”

Seeing that his face was pale and his wound was bleeding, Zhu Ming ordered: "Call the military doctor and bandage this Northern Holy Prince." ”

The Sichuan Gorge Rebels have withdrawn their troops and are escorting the captives back one after another, and more people have been called back to clean up the battlefield.

Zhu Ming sat next to him, watching the military doctor wash the wound with spirits, and then apply ointment and wrap it in linen.

"On the side of the Chu State, there are four Holy Princes, right?" Zhu Ming asked.

Ying Xuan said: "One prince, four holy kings, four holy princes, four holy princes. ”

Zhu Ming smiled: "With the title of north, south, east and west, and a holy word, this title is not a matter of effort." Do you believe in Zhong Xiang's set? ”

Ying Xuan said: "I believe that both rich and poor, and equal to the rich and low. ”

Zhu Ming asked, "In other words, you don't believe in Manichaeism?" ”

Ying Xuan was silent and did not answer.

Zhu Ming asked again: "Zhong Xiang has become the emperor and you have become the holy prince, how can he be equal to the people?" Zhu Ming pointed to the prisoner camp, "I don't have enough liquor and ointment, and I still have to heal my own soldiers." You can be healed for your serious wounds, but the rest of the captives can only be bandaged. Not to mention waiting for the noble and cheap with the people, even with the soldiers, you can't wait for the noble and low. ”

Ying Xuan was speechless, so he could only go around and say: "After all, it can make the poor live better." ”

Zhu Ming said: "I can also make the poor live better. ”

Ying Xuan said: "I have read Mr. Zhu's "Asking for a Single Husband Zhao Jixuan". ”

"Will you submit to me?" Zhu Ming asked bluntly.

Ying Xuan said: "It is difficult to rebel against the old master. ”

Zhu Ming said with a smile: "If you come here, if you don't fight Zhong Xiang's army, you will follow me to fight officers and soldiers in the future." ”

Ying Xuan was still hesitating.

Zhu Ming pointed at those rangers: "If you don't want to submit, they all have to die!" ”

Ying Xuan and the rangers looked at each other, and after a while, they knelt down in severe pain from the wound: "Meet Ming Gong!" ”

"Good!" Zhu Ming happily supported.

After a short time, the soldier came back with a corpse: "Marshal, when cleaning the battlefield, I found a senior official, who was pressed by the corpse before and never saw it." ”

Zhu Ming asked, "Who is this person?" ”

Ying Xuan glanced at it and said with a sad face: "Dongsheng Gong Xia Cheng." ”

Zhu Ming immediately ordered: "Send Xia Cheng's body to Jiangling, and say that I want to talk to the person surnamed Zhong!" ”

(End of chapter)