Chapter 208: Expedition (2)
And the one responsible for commanding this army is the privy envoy Lu Shinang of the Fang La Army, and there are the other eleven of the twelve gods of Jiangnan under his command. They are Shen Gang, the god of Youyi, Pan Wende, the god of Dunjia, the god of Dunjia, the god Xu Tong, the god of thunderbolts, the god of thunderbolts, the god of thunderbolts, Shen Ze, the god of Taibai, Zhao Yi, the god of hangers, the god of yellow flags, Zhuo Wanli, the god of leopard tails, and the god of Tong and Shen Luan.
How strong the other eleven of the twelve gods of Jiangnan are, Song Jiang and they don't know for the time being, but inferring from the high combat power of the Tai Sui God, it shouldn't be too high, after all, this guy has only lasted three or four moves in the hands of Thunderbolt Fire Qin Ming, and he can barely be regarded as a third-rate master. If the other eleven generals were all on the same level as Gao Keli, then Song Jiang felt that he could push over without pressure.
However, to be on the safe side, Song Jiang still reported the news he had just obtained from interrogating the enemy prisoners, and at the same time collected more ships along the Yangtze River.
After listening to Song Jiang's report, Ye Tianlong immediately sent 50,000 horses to support the other party, of which 10,000 were heavy cavalry.
At the same time, Ye Tianlong also sent a full twelve masters to help in the battle, isn't there any Jiangnan Twelve Gods in Fang La! He also sent twelve fierce generals to Song Jiang to help in the battle, so that Song Jiang would not suffer at the hands of Fang Lajun because of the lack of fierce generals.
The twelve masters sent by Ye Tianlong to help in the battle were Jade Qilin Lu Junyi, Dadao Guan Sheng, Double Whip Hu Yanzhuo, Flower Monk Lu Zhishen, Double Spear General Dong Ping, Feather Arrow Zhang Qing, Urgent Pioneer Suo Chao, Golden Gunner Xu Ning, Nine Pattern Dragon Shi Jin, Sick Lieutenant Chi Sun Li, Walker Wu Song and Prodigal Son Yan Qing.
Most of these twelve people have recently defected to the Qinglong Empire, and they are all eager to make meritorious contributions, and all of them are extraordinary, and they can definitely become Song Jiang's strong helpers after they go.
And Song Jiang's subordinates, there were originally fifty-four Liangshan heroes, namely Zhiduoxing Wu Yong, Zhuyun Dragon Gongsun Sheng, Thunderbolt Fire Qin Ming, Xiao Li Guanghuarong, Shenxing Taibao Dai Zong, Red-haired Ghost Liu Tang, Black Whirlwind Li Kui, Unblocked Mu Hong, Winged Tiger Lei Heng, Mixed River Dragon Li Jun, Lidi Tai Sui Ruan Xiaoer, Short-lived Erlang Ruan Xiaowu, Living Yan Luo Ruan Xiaoqi, Sick Guan Suo Yang Xiong, Two-headed Snake Xie Zhen, Twin Tailed Scorpion Xie Bao, Divine Machine Military Master Zhu Wu, Zhen Sanshan Huang Xin, Holy Hand Scholar Xiao Rang, Iron Face Mu Pei Xuan, Moyun Golden Winged Ou Peng, Fire-eyed Deng Fei, Jinmao Tiger Yanshun, Jin Leopard Yang Lin, God Operator Jiang Jing, Xiao Wenhou Lu Fang, Sairengui Guo Sheng, Bantam Tiger Wang Ying, Mixed World Demon King Fan Rui, Maotou Star Kong Ming, Dumars Kong Liang, Eight-armed Nezha Xiang Chong, Flying Sage Li Gon, Jade Arm Craftsman Jin Dajian, Iron Flute Immortal Ma Lin, Out of the Cave Jiao Tong Wei, Turning River Mirage Tong Meng, Jade Banner Pole Meng Kang, Jumping Stream Tiger Chen Da, White Flower Snake Yang Chun, White-faced Langjun Zheng Tianshou, Nine-Tailed Turtle Tao Zongwang, Iron Fan Song Qing, Iron Calling Zi Lehe, Little Sha Mu Chun, Yunli King Kong Song Wan, Touching the Sky Du Qian, Zhu Gui of the Dry Land Sudden Law, Zhu Fu of the Smiling Tiger, Li Li, the Judge of Urging, Li Yun of the Blue-Eyed Tiger, Shi Yong, General Shi Yong, Bai Sheng of the White Day Mouse and Duan Jingzhu of the Golden Retriever.
Among them, except for Zhiduoxing Wu Yong, the holy hand scholar Xiao Rang, and the iron fan Song Qing stayed in the Liangshan base camp, the remaining fifty-one heroes all followed Song Jiang on the expedition.
The weakest of these heroes also have the Ming Jin realm, and the strongest ones such as Qin Ming and Hua Rong have the combat effectiveness of innate martial artists, and now there are twelve generals sent by Ye Tianlong to support, so it is even more like a tiger with wings, and the combat power has increased greatly.
Looking at the many masters under his command, Song Jiang's confidence increased greatly, and he immediately crossed the river after spending two days to collect enough ships.
At this time, Lu Shisang saw that Tai Sui Shen Gao Keli had not sent anyone to send back any information, so he knew that this army that had crossed the river was likely to have been wiped out, and the army conscripted by the imperial court might be on the other side at this time.
So he immediately made his troops ready for battle, ready to fight a decisive battle with the army sent by the imperial court at any time.
And he soon found traces of the enemy army, according to the report of a small team of scouts he sent out that day, a large fleet of ships was found on the river, and the flag was that of the Blue Dragon Empire.
So Lu Shisang immediately led a large army to rush over, and by the time he arrived, thousands of enemy troops had already gone ashore, and more enemy troops were still coming ashore, and it seemed that the enemy's strength was at least 60,000 or 70,000.
In order to prevent more enemy troops from successfully landing on the shore, LĂź Shisang immediately ordered an attack.
Song Jiang saw that a large number of enemy troops were pressing, and hurriedly ordered the more than 5,000 soldiers who had already landed on the shore to line up on the shore to block the enemy's attack.
Because they had anticipated that they might be attacked by the enemy, most of the soldiers who landed first were hoplites who were good at defending.
At this time, these hoplites quickly lined up on the shore, and laid out a strict infantry phalanx, and sharp spears poked out of the large array, flashing with a deadly cold light.
And the crossbowmen were quickly in position, ready to support their allies with long-range fire.
After the Fang La army entered within two hundred meters, the crossbowmen on the side of the Blue Dragon Empire began to fire arrows, and even some fishing boats with bed crossbows began to fire giant crossbows to attack the enemy.
The equipment of these soldiers under Lu Shinang is not much better than that under Gao Keli, and there are few soldiers with iron armor at all, so as the rain of arrows continues to fall, Fang La's side suffered heavy losses, leaving a large number of corpses along the way.
However, Lu Shisang knew that now was not the time to feel sorry for the casualties of the soldiers, so he was still urging the soldiers to speed up and move forward, and they must be driven back before all the enemy soldiers landed on the shore. After entering the firing range, the archers of the Fang La army shot a few waves of arrows and found that the arrows they shot could not hurt the enemy at all, so they also gave up archery directly, preparing to save a little strength to wait for melee hand-to-hand combat.
After paying tens of thousands of casualties, the soldiers of the Fangla army finally managed to rush to the front of the enemy formation, but before the actual engagement, the enemy army threw a wave of throwing axes and javelins, knocking down at least 1,000 Fangla troops on the spot.
"Don't be afraid! There are few officers and soldiers! Give it to me! Lu Shibao was in the rear, shouting constantly, telling his soldiers to charge.
And those soldiers also understood that at this time, they had to race against time to repel the enemy before all of them landed on the shore in order to have a chance of victory, so even if they suffered heavy casualties, they still continued to charge.
Soon, a group of soldiers managed to rush in front of the enemy line, and then raised their spears and stabbed at the enemy.
As a result, they found that the length of the enemy's spear was much longer than theirs, and the spear in their hand was only about three meters long, while the enemy's spear was more than six meters long, more than double the length of their spear.
As a result, most of the Fangla army was not able to attack the enemy, and was pierced into honeycomb coal by the dense gun forest that came from the front. Occasionally, one or two Fang La soldiers avoided these stinging spears with their dexterity, and after successfully attacking the enemy, they found that their weapons could not break through the enemy's armor defenses.
This is actually normal, after all, these at the forefront of the big array are the elite heavy infantry of the Qinglong Empire, wearing heavy full-body plate armor with an average thickness of five millimeters, and the defensive power is not politely thicker than the armor of the early bean chariots of the little days, even if it is fought with a rifle, it may not be able to penetrate, let alone the attack of this cold weapon.
Lu Shisang couldn't help but be anxious when he saw that his soldiers couldn't effectively kill the enemy after they finally rushed up, and then he took a group of generals under him to attack in person.
He has the remaining eleven people of the twelve gods of Jiangnan under him, and this lineup looks quite strong.
Therefore, Song Jiang also immediately noticed this group of people, after all, this team of people and horses were all riding war horses and wearing iron armor, so it was difficult not to be noticed!
So Song Jiang immediately sent eighteen generals to intercept this group of enemy generals. In addition to the twelve people supported by Ye Tianlong, these eighteen generals also include Thunderbolt Fire Qin Ming, Xiao Li Guanghuarong, Mu Hong, Winged Tiger Lei Heng and Zhen Sanshan Huang Xin.
In addition, Song Jiang asked Li Kui, Liu Tang, Xiang Chong, Li Gon and others to organize the infantry who had just disembarked into an assault force, and once the enemy showed flaws, he would send this force to give the enemy a final blow.
And because of his mediocre martial arts, Song Jiang also arranged two bodyguards by his side, namely Xiao Wenhou Lu Fang and Sai Rengui Guo Sheng. These two people were wearing golden bright light armor, holding Fang Tian's painting halberd, riding a high-headed horse, and they looked very mighty.
With these two mighty bodyguards by his side to protect him, Song Jiang was also a lot more confident, raised the binoculars in his hand, and began to check the specific battle situation ahead, mainly looking at the victory or defeat of the fighting general.
At this time, the jade unicorn Lu Junyi, holding a steel gun, took the lead, and stabbed out the enemy commander who was rushing in front of him.
That Lu Shinang's weapon was a snake spear, and his martial arts were not bad, but it was a pity that he met Lu Junyi, and after fighting with the other party for just five or six moves, he immediately felt bad.
Knowing that he was not the opponent's opponent, Lu Shisang immediately wanted to slip away, but at this time, Qin Ming, who was in the thunderbolt fire, also arrived quickly, and smashed out with a stick, which immediately hit Lu Shinang's right shoulder, and let out a terrible scream in pain, and the snake spear in his hand fell to the ground as a result.
The twelve gods of Jiangnan behind him still wanted to rush to the rescue, but Lu Junyi had already stabbed out with a shot, piercing Lu Shisang's neck, and killing the general of the Fang La army on the spot.
When the twelve gods of Jiangnan saw that the Lord was about to be killed, they were angry one by one, and they rushed up with weapons and surrounded Lu Junyi and Qin Ming to fight.
Facing the siege of the enemy's eleven fierce generals, Lu Junyi did not panic at all, and the steel spear in his hand danced impermeable, blocking all the attacks of the enemy generals.
Compared with Lu Junyi's calmness, Qin Ming was a little struggling at this time, the weapon Qin Ming used was a mace, and it naturally couldn't be as fast as a spear when wielded, which also made its attack power very high, but its defense power was not very good, so it would often be deflated in the hands of those first-class masters. However, if he encounters those opponents who are not very good, he can often defeat them in a few moves.
Fortunately, this time Qin Ming did not fight alone, and soon the big sword Guan Sheng and the flower monk Lu Zhishen also felt that with a wave of the glaive sword and Zen staff in the hands of these two people, they each helped Qin Ming stop the two enemy generals. But what is even more powerful is the little Li Guanghuarong and the featherless arrow Zhang Qing, one of these two shot a cold arrow in the rear, and the other silently waved his hand and threw a flying locust stone, directly killing an enemy general.