The war horses of the rebel cavalry were getting closer and closer, and the Song army commanded by the white-robed young general also reacted immediately, the pikemen immediately stepped forward, the tip of the spear was slightly raised, and the shield hand behind used the shield to protect the body of the long snatcher, and the archers immediately gathered in the third row and opened their bows and arrows.

The rapid cavalry charge came in an instant, and the huge horse collision force hit the formation of the Song army, and it was rare to be able to face a large number of cavalry charges without changing the face of the officers and soldiers, but this kind of surprise in the technical arms needed to be made up for with extreme equipment, just like the foot armor, which was the most effective equipment for the Song Dynasty to deal with the Xixia cavalry of the Liao State, but at the moment these Song troops did not go, and there were not many people who even wore leather armor.

The sword and shield soldiers of the Song army camp obviously couldn't withstand the rush of the rebel cavalry, and were immediately rushed through a gap, the cavalry didn't need to line up at all, just a straggler charge, the first horse rushed through the crowd, and the riders who followed closely began to harvest their lives, and a shining knife light slashed, blood splashed, and dozens of Song soldiers were killed.

The white-robed young general came on horseback, a silver spear flew up and down, picked off a few rebels, quickly organized manpower to plug the loopholes, and the enemies who rushed over were handed over to the archers to serve, a messy rain of arrows, more than a dozen rebels who rushed through the formation shot off their horses, but the other party was also experienced, the cavalry began to run sideways, the two wings of the Song army formation were few, only the sword and shield soldiers were pressed there, and soon the rebels were disrupted from the flanks.

The cavalry of the rebels wantonly swept the horses, wielding knives and slashing the archers of the Song army, and at this time, the rebel infantry of the brigade also rushed up with a strange scream, the opponent's tactics were appropriate, the officers and soldiers were about to be defeated, and the white-robed young general also reacted immediately, the formation of the team contracted, under the cover of the pikemen, the sword and shield soldiers and the archers shrank together, and slowly retreated to the hillside, wanting to rely on the terrain to block, the hillside and hilly area, the cavalry could not be deployed, and the infantry of the rebel brigade was not afraid.

The cavalry didn't care about them, and after a few circles, they threw the pursuit task to the infantry behind, turned their horses' heads and began to rush towards Xiao Ming's chariot formation.

The rebel cavalry with a roar in their mouths rushed up quickly, and began to shoot arrows after a few hundred steps, the tiger guards did not fight back, only waited for orders, and everyone was also very nervous, seeing that the opposing cavalry had broken the formation of the Song army, and they didn't know if they could block it.

Several rebels who were riding fast were already close to the periphery of the carriage, but at this time they were shot by the tiger guards hiding inside, and the black god crossbow hit the head directly, and they fell off their horses in unison, seeing that their own people were killed, but it aroused the beastliness of the rebels, and they quickly organized a formation and began to charge in a group.

The rumbling sound of horses' hooves began to mix with the winter ground again, the opposing cavalry was getting closer and closer, and suddenly saw countless heads emerging behind the car formation, and a dense rain of arrows fell into the air, and then the front row of personnel retreated, and the rear row of personnel stepped forward to fire crossbow arrows, and the three consecutive crossbow arrows formed two or three rounds of dense sharp iron raindrops, fiercely surrounding the rebel cavalry.

Every shot is angled, which is adjusted with the speed of the cavalry's movement, Rowan seems to be very good at this, the crossbow arrows are basically shot into the human body at a forty-five degree angle, and the angry horse rushes past both sides of the car formation, but there is basically no one left! Fish that slip through the net will also be shot down by crossbow arrows.

The cavalry fell off their horses like dumplings, and the officers and soldiers on the hillside were dumbfounded, the cavalry of the Demon Cult rebels was actually not too much, a total of only two or three hundred people, this group of people was originally bandits, and they had always been fierce and murderous, after being appeased by Fang La, they followed the attack on Shezhou, and this time they came out to rob without permission from their bandit and bandit nature, but they didn't expect to encounter a freak like the iron factory tiger guard, which was lost by seventy or eighty percent, and the rest of the rebels turned their horses and wanted to escape.

But the distance is too close, in terms of efficient tiger guard shooters, one or two hundred steps less than three hundred paces of distance, completely free aim, relying on the powerful lethality of the crossbow, one arrow by one, these bandit cavalry did not run away, all killed, the consequence of a cavalry charge was completely annihilated, this no one expected.

Seeing this result, the rebel infantry attacking the official army behind was frightened and hurriedly retreated, but the official army would not let them run, under the command of the white-robed young general, the Song army covered down in a special formation, and the archers used blocking shots to drive the rebels in the distance back, and the pikemen and sword and shield soldiers pushed over and stabbed the rebels one by one......

Although the scale of this battle is not large, but it is thrilling, the official army won a big victory, the remnants of the rebel army who chased it were defeated and ran out for a long time, before the team came back, although it was victorious, but people also knew that without Xiao Ming, they solved the other party's cavalry, and it was difficult to say who won and who lost, so the white-robed young general jumped off his mount and walked towards Xiao Ming.

The tiger guards withdrew from the car formation and began to reload the car, Xiao Ming and the others saw each other coming, and they also greeted each other.

"Under the Xia Xi Army, Liu Yanqing set up the military lieutenant Han Liangchen, thank you for your help just now," the white-robed young general thanked him.

He said to Luo Wen, among Xiao Ming's group, only Luo Wen is like a general, and the others are men and women, no matter how you look at it, they are not martial artists, of course a military general who can command such a well-trained soldier must be respected, Luo Wen didn't dare to do it, and pointed his eyes directly at Xiao Ming.

Han Liangchen was quite surprised, this polite young man in front of him didn't look like a military general, but the Song Dynasty has always been a civil and military official, and the status of civil officials is greater than that of military attachés, and he is not surprised, only that Xiao Ming is a small civil official, and he is the person in charge of this group, and he thanked Xiao Ming at the moment.

Han Liangchen was surprised, Xiao Ming was even more surprised, and hurriedly asked.

"Are you Yan'an Mansion, Han Shizhong, the deputy general of the Western Army?"

"It's under this, I don't know how Mr. knows about Liangchen's tuba?"

Xiao Ming's shock is not small, a generation of famous generals! Such a young man! This is one of the four generals of the Song Dynasty who are as famous as Yue Fei, if the people He met before, An Daoquan, Gongsun Sheng and others are just legendary characters in the Water Margin novel, but Han Shizhong in front of him is a famous celebrity in the official history, thinking of this makes Xiao Ming excited, "Historical celebrities are right in front of you, hehe!" I'm going to make friends."

"The former Western Army inspected Yang Zhen, do you know?" Xiao Ming said.

Han Shizhong said happily: "It turns out that you know General Yang, great, General Yang had a kindness with me earlier, and we met in Hangzhou two days ago, and he is now in front of the official army camp, Mr. can go with me to see him."

So everyone went on the road with the Song army led by Han Shizhong, Xiao Ming and Han Shizhong talked very happily on the way, it turned out that Han Shizhong's department belonged to the Western Army's moderation, not the Jingshi Forbidden Army and the Dingyan Army under Chen Hengbo's jurisdiction, the imperial court had been informed of the latest post report of the Fangla Rebellion, so he sent troops to come, and Han Shizhong's department belonged to the vanguard.

Specifically, Han Shizhong doesn't know too much, the general situation is: Song Huizong Zhao Ji heard about the southeast rebellion, and was furious for a while, and was discussing with the northern Jurchens to prepare for cooperation in attacking Liao, and transferred the western army to the east to prepare for the Northern Expedition, and now the southeast is against Fang La, of course, first deal with the southeast rebellion, so Zhao Ji immediately ordered Tong Guan to be the Xuanfu envoy of Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Huainan and other roads, Liu Shiqing to be the commander of the Xuanfu Division, Tan Zhi to be the envoy, Wang Yu to be the commander, and led the Beijing Forbidden Army and Shaanxi Fan Han Jin 150,000 soldiers out of Jiangning (Nanjing, Jiangsu), divided into two roads and went south to suppress.

Han Shizhong was originally a junior colonel under Liu Yanqing, and was promoted to deputy general because of his military merits, this time he belonged to the vanguard army, and he came in the starry night, and joined the remnants of Chen Hengbo's department and Yang Zhen's department, and today he led two battalions of troops to survey the terrain around Hangzhou, and was catching up with the Demon Sect rebels to rob on the official road.

Han Shizhong was very interested in Xiao Ming's ironworks tiger guard, only a few hundred crossbowmen dared to shake the opponent's cavalry, he really hadn't seen this kind of soldier, at least no worse than the Western Army that they often fought with Western Xia, but they were really not regular troops, but Xiangyong Nursing Academy, which couldn't help but make Han Shizhong very impressed, the general who brought out such a team must be a general with a ravine, but their commander was the polite Xiao Ming in front of him.

Han Shizhong continued to test Xiao Ming with words, but found that Xiao Ming didn't know anything about arranging troops, and what he could barely say was also learned from the game "Age of Empires III", but Xiao Ming had no interest in cold weapon warfare, and always developed science and technology quickly, and then used hot weapon tactics to attack the city, which made Han Shizhong suspicious, but the attitude of these guards in front of him towards Xiao Ming was respectful from the heart, Han Shizhong understood that only the founder of the army could enjoy such a vision, even if it was the generals of this group of tiger guards, The one named Luo Wen was also respectful to Xiao Ming and obedient.

Xiao Ming was also deeply interested in one of the future "Four Generals of Zhongxing", and found that Han Shizhong was very steady, whether he was talking or doing things, he thought more about everything, and his old and dignified appearance really did not match his age, and seeing that he was interested in Huwei, he took out a black god crossbow and handed it to him.

"General Han is quite puzzled that we dare to fight against the enemy's cavalry, right? Look at this and you'll understand"

Han Shizhong looked at the bow and crossbow in his hand over and over again, and couldn't help but love it, and his heart was excited.

"Good stuff! If equipped with such a bow and crossbow, the combat power of our Great Song army will be unstoppable! ”

Xiao Ming laughed and said, "How can it be the same as what Brother Yang said!" ”

"Oh? Did General Yang praise this crossbow as well? His knowledge is higher than mine, and I think this crossbow must be a sharp weapon for fighting in battle," Han Shizhong said sincerely, but he was thinking about how to exert the power of this crossbow on the battlefield.

Xiao Ming saw that he liked it, so he said: "Since General Han likes it, he will give it to General Yu."

When Han Shizhong heard this, he was naturally extremely happy......

The team was about to arrive in Xiuzhou City after traveling twenty miles, the Song army camp was camped ten miles south of the city, Xiao Ming arranged for Su Cai'er to enter the city to meet Richanglong, Su Bi and others, and took Gu Xiaoliu to meet Yang Zhen with Han Shizhong.

The Song army camp is pressed on the left and right horns, on the left is the forbidden army of the Beijing Division, on the right is the guns and swords and shields of Ding Yan, and the thousands of troops under the jurisdiction of Yang Zhen were incorporated into the forbidden army camp, he seems to have returned to the fighting career in the Western Army, in addition to the armor and soldiers in the camp tent, the marching bed is the sword, gun and weapon, and he was very happy to hear that Xiao Ming came to visit.

Han Shizhong also came up to salute, and then said goodbye, he was in a hurry to arrange for his subordinates to take the heads of the rebels to record their military merits.

"Brother Xiao, thousands of troops in my Hangzhou City are now temporarily stationed here, and Lord Chen is willing to arrange it this way, just to see that the combat effectiveness of my crossbow soldiers is extraordinary, but now we are in urgent need of crossbow arrows and crossbow arms and other parts" Yang Zhen was straight to the point.

Xiao Ming spread his hands, "I'm waiting to withdraw from Hangzhou City, the blast furnace is sealed, how can I provide you with parts?" ”

Yang Zhen also scratched his head, but Xiao Ming said: "Brother Yang, why bother! He pointed to Han Shizhong's back and continued: "The imperial court will arrive immediately, and you still need to charge there!" ”

"Brother doesn't know, I have an old grudge with that Liu Yanqing, and the person who commanded the army this time is Tong Guan, this person is so happy and likes to preserve his strength, when the time comes, we old generals in Hangzhou will still inevitably go to be pawns, but I don't know if Enshuai can save this time, if he is there, maybe he can still speak."

Xiao Ming said: "Brother Yang is too worried, I have already brought all the craftsmen of the ironworks to Xiuzhou, but I can help you repair the damaged bow and crossbow and make some armor, but the blacksmiths in the army must cooperate." ”

Yang Zhen said: "Thank you so much"

"The southeast rebellion will not last long, the imperial army has arrived, as long as I serve in the army, my brother will soon move back to Hangzhou"

Xiao Ming didn't stay long in Yang Zhen's place, and refused Yang Zhen's kindness to stay for dinner, but quickly entered the city, met with the iron factory personnel and Richanglong, and brought the latest news to everyone.

"It seems that I don't have to make any plans to move to Jiangning, I can settle down in Xiuzhou first, and wait to move back to Hangzhou," Su Bi said.

Xiao Ming nodded in agreement, but was worried about the placement of the iron factory personnel, and finally Su Caier decided to lend Xiao Ming the mulberry garden east of Nanhu and let him settle the iron factory personnel, for which Xiao Ming was very grateful, so most of the personnel of the Chengxi Iron Factory temporarily lived in the mulberry garden, and the tiger guards also went with them.