"That is Yang Congzong, the eldest son of Yang Jingchen. Yang Jingchen surrendered to the enemy in Xiongzhou. At first, he claimed to be ill and could not come out. His son Yang Congzong had a violent temperament and had no thoughts about family and country. He was willing to be a slave. After surrendering, he led Xiongzhou's army to surrender and acted as an accomplice in the states of Hebei.
The burning, killing and looting in the county were fierce, and he committed all kinds of evil. However, he was good at using spears. In addition to the spear skills passed down from his family, the young man once worshiped under many famous spear masters in Hebei..."
In his early years, Zhang Xiongshan was ordered by Xiao Linshi to lurk in Bianliang and run warehouses and cattle and horse markets. He made friends with Jianghu and became a well-known hero. He was very familiar with the situation in Bianliang and surrounding counties. He even stayed in Yan Xiaoyi and Zhu Chengjun.
Above others.
Xu Huai did not abandon him because he was a Khitan-Han general, but asked him to assist Zhou Jing and specialize in spying on the military situation in Bianliang and surrounding counties.
This time Xu Huai also deliberately brought Zhang Xiongshan with him to be responsible for spying and scouting. At the same time, he also referred to Zhang Xiongshan's suggestions and formulated a preliminary battle plan for the raid on Bianliang.
After the fall of Bianliang, Zhang Xiongshan also risked his own life several times and personally sneaked into Bianliang to spy on the news.
He was most familiar with Bianliang's surrender, rebellion, and troop deployment.
He rushed to Xu Huai's side and saw at a glance that the man in the enemy formation on the left who was wearing scale armor and surrounded by dozens of elites and trying to break out of the chaotic array was Yang Congzong, the eldest son of Yang Jingchen.
Zhang Xiongshan first loudly reminded Wang Xian and Wu Chihai, who were leading the attack on the left wing, and then detailed Yang Congzong's information to Xu Huai.
Xu Huaiduan sat on his horse, took out a Mingdi from his quiver without haste, put on the string and shot towards Yang Congzong.
The ringing arrow is also called the ringing arrow. The bones open holes and send out sharp whistling and whistling sounds as they fly through the air. Overcoming the noisy fighting on the battlefield and the collision of soldiers and shields, Yang Jingchen and others who are far away on the Zhuque Gate tower clearly understand.
hear.
The sound of chirping is like stealing a soul!
At this moment, Yang Jingchen seemed to be tightly held by invisible hands, staring at the battlefield with wide eyes.
He could hear the sound of the whistle, but being more than a thousand steps away from the battlefield, he had no way of seeing exactly which arrow made the sharp whistle.
However, the Ming Di is a whistle arrow, a head arrow, and the sharp whistling sound is a command, usually pointing out the core target for the archers in the army to concentrate on shooting.
Yang Jingchen couldn't see clearly which arrow was Mingdi, nor which direction Mingdi was shooting at first, but in an instant, three arrows were shot out from the elite array of Chushan in the sky, and in the blink of an eye, there were hundreds of sharp arrows clustered in the air.
They merged to form a shadow trail that was like a trickle, a hundred steps long, and swept over his son Yang Congzong's body, covering him.
This scene made Yang Jingchen's eyes go dark and his hands and feet couldn't help but tremble.
The spear in Yang Congzong's hand turned like a wheel, parrying the furious attacks of Wang Xian and Wu Chihai.
Wang Xian and Wu Chihai might not be able to stop Yang Congzong alone, but the two of them joined forces and each made their spears leap like dragons. The sharp blades of the spears stabbed wildly, like tens of thousands of cold rays blooming in Yang Congzong's left and right armpits.
Yang Congzong restrained him and separated Yang Congzong's left and right guards.
There was a hole in the bone cluster. Even if the arrow was shot by Xu Huai with a strong bow, it could not have had any power if it traveled nearly two hundred steps in the air. The arrow cluster broke into pieces when it hit Yang Congzong's shoulder armor.
However, the sharp whistling sound made Yang Congzong's pores explode at this moment, and a cold air passed through his tailbone. Yang Congzong is worthy of being one of the few famous spearmen in Hebei at a young age.
At this moment, all the muscles in his body exploded with great strength far beyond normal, and he opened the two spears thrust by Wang Xian and Wu Chihai.
There were chaos behind him, and the horse had no room to retreat. He stepped on the stirrups, and instantly jumped into the air. At the same time, his spear swung out to the empty place in front of him. The flexible gun shaft swung out in circles like water waves and spread outward.
Shadows of spears were shooting at him one after another, and all the arrows as dense as a swarm of locusts were blocked.
The problem was that when Xu Huaiming fired his arrows, Yang Congzong was beaten back and forth, allowing the Chushan archers to shoot arrows from three directions within a hundred steps.
The spear and spear held by Yang Congzong were long soldiers. No matter how superb his spear skills were, he could only block the feather arrows shot from one direction in an instant. There were also dozens of sharp arrows shot from the direction of his armpits, making it difficult for him to completely dodge them.
Although Yang Congzong jumped up at the critical moment, and the armor he wore, most of the arrows missed or were blocked by the armor leaves, but his calves and thighs, which were only covered by cooked cowhide armor, were still blocked by seven or eight arrows.
The branch hits and penetrates.
In addition, Yang Congzong's left armpit was also hit by two slender armor-piercing arrows that penetrated the scales.
Maybe these arrow wounds are not fatal yet.
The problem is that Wang Xian and Wu Chihai saw Yang Congzong's extraordinary status from the beginning, and Xu Huai's screaming arrow pointed the direction for the generals.
Just when Yang Congzong fell back into the saddle, Wang Xian and Wu Chihai rode forward to grab half of their body, and covered Yang Congzong with their spears like dragons, not giving him a chance to breathe; the same was true for the elite infantrymen on the left and right.
His blood was boiling, and he roared, raised his sword and shield, slashed and struck, killing Yang Congzong's guards to the left and right. The elite bows and arrows in the array focused their targets on Yang Congzong and the guards around him.
At the moment of life and death, Yang Congzong burst out with far more powerful strength than usual to support Wang Xian, and Wuchihai attacked and stabbed with hundreds of guns, but he did not show any sign of weakness.
This is something Xu Huai usually finds difficult to do.
However, the guards around Yang Congzong were quickly cleared and killed. At the same time, they were also pierced by sharp arrows one after another. The armor had already been stained red by his own blood.
Although the war horse under Yang Congzong's crotch was also an extremely powerful horse, it was shot with sharp arrows all over its body like a hedgehog, with all its blood flowing out. At this moment, it was kneeling on the ground, whining and whining, trying to stand up again, carrying its master on its back and carrying on.
Fighting, but unable to do anything.
At this time, Wang Xian and Wu Chihai also tried their best to retreat and rest their strength, but ordered their generals to hold heavy shields to surround Yang Congzong tightly.
Yang Congzong held the broken gun in front of him and looked around. At this time, he saw that all their soldiers and horses south of Longjin Bridge had been killed. There was only one remnant soldier on the south side of Longjin Bridge. They were Chi Chi who had dismounted and fought.
The elite soldiers, led by Ba Ge, resisted stubbornly and wanted to hold on to the key node of Longjin Bridge...
And he was surrounded by three or four layers of Chushan armored soldiers with heavy shields on his left and right, and no Xiongzhou soldiers could be seen within twenty steps standing on the battlefield to fight.
"Xu Huai, do you dare to fight with me?" Yang Congzong came from the middle and couldn't help but pointed his gun at Xu Huai, who was a hundred steps away, and shouted.
Xu Huaizheng was looking at the fighting in front of Longjin Bridge. When he heard Yang Congzong's call, he turned around and just smiled indifferently. He said to Wang Ju, Zhang Xiongshan and others next to him: "It's just a clown! Ask Wang Xian to shoot him quickly and cut off his head."
Hang a long pole in front of the formation to show off!"
Wang Xian, Wu Chihai and others all switched to walking bows and shot arrow after arrow at Yang Congzong.
Yang Congzong was hit by seventeen or eight more arrows before he finally died. He temporarily leaned on the battlefield and stood there, unwilling to fall down, and almost all the blood in his body was drained.
Wu Chihai personally stepped forward, cut off Yang Congzong's head, and hung it on a long pole...
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Xu Huai handed over the Xiongzhou soldiers who fled to Liangbi Alley Street Shop Courtyard to the rebel generals for encirclement and suppression, and gathered the limited Chushan elite on Lichang Street on the south side of Longjin Bridge to continue the fierce attack on Longjin Bridge.
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The war drums roll like thunder, the arrows are like swarms of locusts, the soldiers strike each other, and the shields and armor are clanging.
Bage broke off the slender shaft of a feather arrow that hit his left shoulder. He watched Yang Congzong's head being cut off by the Chushan army and hung on a long pole. A cavalry carried it on his shoulder and headed towards Longjin Bridge.
Run over.
Over the years, he has been fighting in the north and south in the army without ever being defeated. At this moment, he couldn't help but feel inadequate.
The Red Husbands did not lack armored cavalry for attacking fortresses. Even at the beginning of the Khitan's demise, they really valued the coordinated combat of light and heavy cavalry and played a huge role in encircling fortresses and fighting against the enemy.
Both Zhennan Zongwangfu and Pingyanzongwangfu have thousands of war horses that are also armored, which are truly heavy-armored cavalry.
However, who would have thought that Bianliang, with 200,000 to 300,000 troops garrisoned on the outskirts and 50,000 to 60,000 garrison troops of its own, would become the target of a surprise attack by the Southern Dynasty's surprise troops?
Who will station the precious heavy armored cavalry in Bianliang?
Bage's more than 2,000 cavalry are all light cavalry. Their main equipment is leather armor, scimitars, and riding bows. There are not even many who are good at using spears and spears.
They were sent to garrison Bianliang, and they were actually mainly responsible for monitoring whether there were any changes in the surrendered troops from Bianliang - this could have been said to be an absolute blessing, a reward for their previous victories in ten battles, and I don't know how many people were envious of it.
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They should have used their superior mobility in a more open battlefield to harass and attack the enemy from the flanks, rather than attack the opponent's solid infantry array from the front, let alone charge into battle with the opponent's heavy armored cavalry.
In any case, massing the light cavalry on a long street that is only a hundred paces wide, and fighting in a dense formation with the assault armored cavalry on the opposite side, is an unforgivable and stupid mistake.
It's too late for Bage to take the medicine of regret.
The Chushan armored cavalry has not yet reached the standard of heavy armored cavalry. After all, the war horses are not wearing armor.
However, the generals who formed the Chushan Assault Cavalry may be slightly inferior in cavalry and shooting skills, but each of them is an old pawn who has experienced several bloody battles and is determined. Their bloody bravery is definitely no worse than that of the red soldiers.
Even if the war horse is not wearing armor and is shot by dozens or even dozens of arrows, it will not have any impact on the short-distance sprint in a short period of time, or until the blood is exhausted.
The endurance of excellent war horses is much stronger than that of soldiers.
Also because none of the war horses ridden by the Chushan elite were wearing armor, in the distance in front of Longjin Bridge, at the expense of dozens of war horses, they could actually get a stronger impact.
At the same time that Yang Congzong was beheaded, more than a hundred red warriors with rich combat experience around Bage were dismounted and killed. He himself was also wounded by arrows. Surrounded by his subordinates who had to abandon their horses to fight, he retreated to Longjin.
Bridge, and everything in front of them shows that the Chushan elite will not let them go easily...
