Chapter 41: The Battle of the Water
Horns sounded in the military camp in the distance, and the Eastern Jin Dynasty army on the shore of the river became boiling.
"Report, the 250,000 vanguard army of the Northern Qin Army has arrived in Huishui!" The fast horse came quickly, and before it could stop before reaching the barracks, the scout jumped off his horse. He rushed to the camp of the captain of Changshui and urgently reported the military situation.
"Report! The Metropolitan Governor has an order, and the Changshui Lieutenant Battalion will immediately drive to the front line of Weishui with Deputy Governor Xie Xuan!" The heralds kept shuttling between the various garrison barracks.
"The army is pressing, and the Changshui Captain Camp will start immediately!" Just after the competition ended, Shi Ning, the captain of Changshui who became the leader of the martial arts alliance, stood in the ring and gave orders.
The five major factions had never fought on the battlefield, and when they heard that there were 250,000 pioneers of the former Qin army, they were at a loss for a while.
Yang Xi, the head of the Shangqing faction, said loudly: "Heroes, the enemy army has come to attack my Dajin again, and I swear to defend the rivers and mountains of Dajin to the death!"
"Swear to defend the rivers and mountains of the Great Jin Dynasty! Defend the rivers and mountains of the Great Jin Dynasty to the death!" Under the encouragement of Yang Xi, the chivalrous warriors of the three major factions were all high-spirited and had no fear of the enemy, only the people of the Divine Spell Sect and the Donghai Gang were lazily shouting slogans, and they had no morale.
Shi Ning ordered: "The five major factions listen to the order and immediately go to Weishui with the Changshui Army!"
"Cao Long and Yuan Cen listen to the order, and the captain of this school orders you two to be the left and right staff officers of the Changshui Captain's battalion, and assist me in commanding the Changshui Hu soldiers!"
Most of the Changshui Hu soldiers were cavalry, with strong mobility and the closest to the river, so they marched at the front of all the troops. The five major gangs are all martial arts people, and they are naturally better than ordinary people, and the marching speed is not inferior to that of Changshui Hu soldiers.
"Report!" The mouth of the river ahead has been occupied by the Qin army, and our army cannot continue to advance!" The scout hurriedly reported.
"We must break through the estuary and ensure that the vanguard deputy governor can reach the front line of Weishui smoothly!" At the sound of an order, the Changshui Hu soldiers roared away with their waist swords, and the five major factions also rushed forward to kill the enemy bravely.
Fortunately, the former Qin army was a small army, and when the Changshui Hu soldiers and the five major factions successfully arrived in Huishui, they saw that the front line had been slaughtered. It turned out that Xie Xuanqin, the vanguard of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, led 80,000 Beifu soldiers along the Huai River to the west, and had quickly arrived at Huishui to meet the main force of the former Qin.
In the face of the 250,000 vanguard troops of the former Qin, Shi Ning was not afraid, and led the Changshui Hu soldiers and the five major factions to rush into the enemy army and fight hard. Shi Ning's Liangyi sword was in the scabbard, and he did not take out the sword, but hit the former Qin army with the scabbard until the enemy lost his combat effectiveness, and did not kill or injure the enemy.
Yang Xi was puzzled and said: "General Shi, there are no eyes on the battlefield, if you don't kill him today, he will kill you tomorrow! Besides, these are Fu Jian's Qin dog's Di soldiers, who have been invading my Great Jin for many years, let go of one Di soldier, and in the future they will kill ten or more Great Jin people!"
Shi Ning said: "As long as they are subdued, they will not come to commit crimes again, so why do you need to kill people? I promised my father that I can't kill people! Yang Tianshi also taught me the 'Nine Virtues and Nine Virtues' in the Shangqing School, and one of the nine virtues is not to kill." β
Yang Xi said: "For the good people, the disciples of the Shangqing faction must achieve 'nine merits and nine virtues', otherwise it is against morality, but these Qin dog soldiers killed my relatives and destroyed my homeland, they are the enemies of my Great Jin, and for the enemies and wicked people, they don't have to do the 'nine merits and nine virtues' abstinence and killing." β
Shi Ning stretched out his left hand and said: "Yang Tianshi, you see that my left hand is missing a finger, my father asked me to swear an oath before he died, not to kill anyone, but I broke the oath and killed a Qin general, this missing finger is the punishment for not keeping the oath!"
Yang Xi exclaimed: "Could it be that this finger... It's General Shiγγγγγγ Yourself..... β
"Yes, I cut off this finger myself, and in the future, whenever I kill someone, I will cut off one of my fingers, and I have been punished!"
There were more and more former Qin troops, and the Eastern Jin army gradually fell into a situation of being surrounded, Shi Ning used his internal strength, and only used two layers of strength to shake the surrounding former Qin army to two zhang away, but if Shi Ning used the wild goose gong or the Three Emperors Qi Sword to wound the former Qin army, he would not let others kill the injured enemy.
"Report! Qin Tianwang Fu Jian personally led an army of 600,000 and cavalry of 270,000 to arrive in Weishui! Our army has been surrounded by regiments!"
The 250,000 vanguard army of the former Qin Yang Pinggong Fu Rong, the arrival of the Eastern Jin Dynasty was already very difficult, plus the 870,000 main army led by the former Qin Heavenly King Fu Jian, how could the Eastern Jin Dynasty reach this million army!
Under the order of Fu Jian, the former emperor of Qin, a million army threw their horse whips into the Yangtze River, and the river was cut off by the horse whips of this million army! A million troops rushed into battle shouting on the shore of the river, and the momentum was huge and resounding through the clouds.
Xie Xuan, the pioneer of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, saw that the former Qin army had arrived, and knew that he was invincible, so he hurriedly called Jin to withdraw his troops. But it was too late, gradually the Eastern Jin army was scattered by the former Qin army, surrounded in large circles and small circles, Shi Ning struggled to resist the enemy, he said to Yang Xi beside him: "Yang Tianshi, the sword wound on your body has not healed, you can't fight anymore, and the deputy governor has already Mingjin to withdraw his troops, I will cover the Shangqing faction to break out of the encirclement!"
Yang Xi said: "There are so many Qin dogs, I'm afraid it will be difficult to break through!"
The disciples of the Shangqing faction fought bravely to kill the enemy and always rushed to the front, so they suffered heavy losses, and more than half of them were killed or wounded.
Shi Ning transported the wild goose gong, knocked the former Qin soldiers in the west to the ground, opened a breakthrough from the west, and said to the people of the Shangqing faction: "You guys hurry up and break out from the west, I have already ordered the Divine Spell Sect to respond in the west canyon!"
"What should you do then, General Shi?!"
"Don't worry about me, you guys go quickly, I have my own way to break through!"
Suddenly, Shi Ning jumped onto a former Qin chariot again, drove the chariot to the east with two war horses, broke through one small encirclement after another, and found the Lingbao Sect and the Wudou Mi Sect at the foot of the mountain northeast of Weishui.
Shi Ning shouted: "Master Ge Tianshi, Sect Leader Sun, you guys quickly lead your respective gangs to break out from the east, I have ordered the Donghai Gang to meet at the east ferry!"
The Lingbao faction and the Wudou Mi Sect encountered the elite cavalry of the former Qin, although the two major gangs jointly resisted the enemy, they could not break through, Shi Ning carried the wild goose palm in front, knocked down a piece of the former Qin soldiers, and escorted the Lingbao faction and the Wudou Mi Sect to break out of the encirclement.
Shi Ning saw the thick smoke billowing from the position of the Chinese army of Xie Xuan, the deputy governor of the vanguard and the deputy governor of the Chinese army, and knew that Xie Xuan, the deputy governor of the Chinese army, the main force of Beifu, was also surrounded by the former Qin army, so he hurried to the south bank of the river to rescue.
The million-strong army of the former Qin was successfully assembled, and Fu Rong, the former Pinggong of the former Qin Yang, who had already collapsed, immediately boosted his morale, led the vanguard army to break through the position of the Chinese army first, surrounded the main general and deputy governor Xie Xuantuan, and gradually encroached on it.
I saw a person flying over the former Qin army, and with only one palm, the former Qin soldiers fell down with a brush.
"Who's that!" said the besieged Xie Xuan.
"Report to the deputy governor, it seems... It seems to be Captain Shi Ning of Changshui!" Captain Liu Yu, who had been protecting Xie Xuan's surroundings, looked at it and said.
"Yes, it's my third brotherγγγγγ Elder brother..... Stone..... Shi Ning!" Captain Xie Ying also said happily.
"Deputy Governor, my subordinates are late for rescue, please forgive me!" Shi Ning broke through the siege of Qianqin's regiments and arrived in front of Xie Xuan's main general's camp.
Xie Xuan was overjoyed and said: "General Shi can come and go freely in a million army, and he is really a hero of the world!"
Shi Ning said: "Don't worry, deputy governor, wait for me to kill the Qin vanguard general!"
Xie Xuan instructed the sergeant in the tent to take a sword, and said: "This is the Qingyu sword made by the fierce general Xiahou Ba during the Three Kingdoms, and later the Three Kingdoms belonged to my Great Jin, and this sword was kept in the arsenal of Emperor Wu of the Great Jin Dynasty. Whenever I go to the front line, I, the chief general of the Xie clan, will keep it by my side. The Qin army sent millions of troops, outnumbered, and in times of crisis, I am afraid it will be difficult to break through this time. I hope that General Shi will break out and hand over this sword to the Holy Lord, and I, Xie Xuan, will fight to the last soldier!"
Shi Ning said: "Deputy Governor, although there are many Qin troops and few of my Great Jin Army, they can still resist bravely, and the Qingyu Sword can continue to kill the enemy with you!"
After that, Shi Ning had quickly left the military tent, transported the wild goose gong, and successively killed the iron cavalry of the former army who wanted to break through the defense line of the main general of the Chinese army.
Among the Iron Cavalry was a general in silver armor, the scales of which shimmered silver in the sunlight, and the silver light reflected sparkling on the surface of the water.
Shi Ning repelled several fierce guards and cavalry, and came to a place that was only three zhang away from the silver-armored general.
Shi Ning shouted loudly, "You are Qin Heavenly King Fu Jian?"
The silver-armored master said unhappily: "Where did you come from, the hairy boy, the name of the Heavenly King is also something you can easily scream!" After saying that, he ordered the close archer next to him to pull up his short bow and shoot an arrow at Shi Ning.
Shi Ning's body slanted to dodge the short arrow, and when the arrow passed by, he clamped his two fingers, pinched the arrow steadily, and then shot the arrow back into the quiver of the near archer with a little force.
The near-archer was so frightened that he nearly fell off his horse.
The silver armor master scolded: "Who are you to dare to break into the Chinese army of your father!"
Shi Ning said: "You are not Fu Jian, so who are you?"
"Bold, you dare to ask about your father-in-law!"
"If your surname is Shi, I will let you go!" Shi Ning remembered that he had to break his oath during the Battle of Luojian and kill the former Qin pioneer general, and he was also a member of the Qian tribe surnamed Shi, Shi Ning would deeply blame himself and feel sad every time he thought about it.
The silver-armored master smiled and said, "Joke, as a nobleman of the Great Qin Fu clan, how can this prince have those inferior surnames." β
Shi Ning listened to the silver armor general's disrespectful words, so he had the heart to teach a lesson, he casually picked up a small stone the size of an inch, and threw it at the silver armor general with lightning speed, shooting down the helmet of the silver armor general, just because Shi Ning's internal force was too deep, and the speed of the thick accumulation was too fast, no one could see that it was Shi Ning who threw the stone, and the silver armor master only said that the Eastern Jin Dynasty army released dark arrows, so frightened that he fell off his horse, lost his armor, and was very embarrassed, and immediately ordered the Chinese army to retreat a zhang to prevent the other party from releasing arrows again.