Seeing an arrow heading straight for his face, Bage wanted to raise his mace to strike, but he was exhausted and was too late.
He could no longer feel the pain, but looked down and saw the arrow shaft buzzing under his eyes and nose, then his vision went dark, and he fell back.
Niu Er sat on the foundation stone of the bridge, holding a heavy shield with intertwined maces and seals in front of him, gasping and swearing: "This guy is really hard to kill!"
Shi Hu commanded the generals to board the Longjin Bridge, and together with the rebel generals occupying the river in boats on the left and right, they used bows and crossbows to suppress the enemy forces on the north bank.
Wang Jun and Su Miao did not board the bridge, but stood beside Niu Er with knives to rest their strength. They looked at the corpses of the captive soldiers on the ground and were secretly shocked by the fierce battle just now.
Wang Jun was three or four years older than Su Mi, but he had just reached adulthood when he met Xu Huai in Yingzhou.
Wang Xian and Fan Zongqi had led the troops to fight very early, and it was common for them to be in the front line and fight, but for the sake of protection, Wang Ju would always take Wang Jun with him to teach him.
Whenever there was a fierce battle, Wang Ju would accompany Xu Huai and charge into battle. Only when there was a favorable wind, would Wang Jun and his bodyguards take the lead to kill the enemy.
Wang Jun prides himself on being good at swords, spears, horseback riding, and archery. He fights daily. Among the younger generation, only Xu Peng can compete with him. He thinks that his martial arts skills are not even weaker than those of Tang Qing, Yin Peng, Han Qi, and even his brother-in-law Fan Zongqi.
, of course he was not convinced by this arrangement; besides, Xu Huai was not much older than him.
But just after the battle, Wang Jun truly understood how thrilling it was to fight with the world's first-class military commander.
He, Su Mung, and Niu Erdao, who are as stable as a shield, are skilled in the combined attack technique, and they have secured a decisive victory in the south of Longjin Bridge. The fight with Ba Ge can be said to be a sure chance of victory.
However, the swords he and Su Mung used to strike seemed to be able to severely injure Bage. However, at the critical moment, Bage would miss and avoid critical points, even cutting with the blade and Bage's shoulder and back.
, but it is difficult to break armor and hit hard.
You must know that with their extremely sharp swords, they can cut through several layers of armor with one strike.
In the end, it can be said that Bage died after the dozens of arrows in his body were exhausted. At the beginning of the battle, Bage had a fierce battle with Xu Huai and was at a disadvantage and retreated. A lot of his strength had been consumed before that.
Wang Ju and Xu Huai rode their horses to the Longjin Bridge. When they saw Wang Jun standing there in a daze, they scolded: "Look at you idiot. Now that you know what the world's heroes look like, you still have the nerve to sit in a well and look at the sky."
Killing heaven and earth?"
Wang Jun muttered a few words in a low voice, but did not dare to talk back.
"What a heroic figure, why don't you call me Lao Niu and I can't breathe under the weight of a heavy shield?"
Niu Er patted his butt and stood up, picked up Bage's mace from the bridge, weighed it, and didn't know how much it weighed, but felt that he could take advantage of it, so he took off the sheath of Bage's mace from his waist, and followed him.
Xu Huai said,
"This iron mace makes the general look majestic in Hu'er's hand, and it's just right for me!"
Xu Huai took the mace, weighed it carefully, and said to Niu Er: "This mace may need to be cut to three inches before it can be used by you! Keep it with you first, and return to Chushan to show it to Master Zhuang.
Let’s see if we can make some improvements!”
"This shield made by Master Zhuang is very good," Niu Er patted the heavy shield with intertwined maces and seals, and said with great satisfaction, "Master Zhuang said before that this heavy shield is worth a pair of war armor.
I thought he was tricking me!"
If the nail plate is simply hammered by cold forging, it can only be thinned by one-fifth.
A thickness of one, and if you really want to forge the nail leaf to the level of wart nail, there are many complicated processes in between.
In a world where metal forging was purely dependent on the experience of craftsmen, a pair of top-grade wart armor would require a lot of hard work to be made.
The iron shield that Niu Ersuo used needed to be strong and rigid enough, but also light and heavy enough to be handy. It really took a lot of hard work.
Of course, this iron shield was a product of testing a new forging method, otherwise Xu Huai would not have asked Zhuang Shouxin to spend such effort on one person's weapon.
"Such a strong general is only the deputy of Wanhu, there are really many brave generals in Chihu!"
Han Changfu came closer and looked at the body of the general lying across the bridge, and couldn't help but sigh.
Bage died with his eyes glaring angrily. A sharp arrow was inserted deeply into his left cheek. His whole body was covered with seventy or eighty feather arrows. The armor was covered with coagulated blood. He could no longer see clearly what could not be covered by the original color armor.
There were criss-cross stab wounds on the arms, shins and legs.
The left-wing troops, led by General Fan Zongqi and other generals, have successfully captured Guangli Gate and completed the first phase of the combat mission. Later, considering that the rebel generals followed the night march, their physical strength was extremely exhausted and they needed a short rest. At present, they mainly occupied Guangli Gate.
Temporary defenses were deployed at Limen and Changtai Bridge. Han Changfu and other rebel leaders returned to Xu Huai on the middle road to discuss matters, and were able to watch the complete scene of Bage being surrounded and killed at the bridge head.
Han Changfu was originally a general of the Imperial Guards in the capital. After the fall of Bianliang, he led dozens of remnant troops to flee back to Yanling. He organized rebels in Weishi and other counties in the southern part of the capital to resist the Hu barbarians unremittingly.
He was very familiar with the situation of the Bianliang garrison, and knew that Bage, the commander-in-chief of the Red Army stationed in Bianliang, was a rare warrior. However, he did not have a deeper understanding until he saw Bage being besieged and finally died of exhaustion.
Han Changfu thought that it would be difficult for him to withstand a few attacks under a brave general like Bage, let alone escape unscathed.
"The Red Husbands have risen from Mobei. In the past forty years, major and minor wars have not stopped. The backbone military officers of thousands, ten thousand, or even hundreds of households have been tempered by countless bloody battles. Their bravery is certainly extraordinary!"
Xu Huai looked at Bage's dead body calmly and said calmly,
"However, we were able to contain the Japanese soldiers in the Hehuai River and were unable to move south. The two sides frequently clashed in the Hehuai River. We, the men of Dai Viet, continue to hone our martial arts skills in life-and-death fights, and a number of outstanding and powerful generals will surely emerge!"
When others said these words, Han Changfu might laugh at his loud tone, but when these words came out of Xu Huai's mouth, they were full of heroic spirit.
Han Changfu couldn't help but perked up, and raised his voice and said: "What Marshal Jie said is true. We have great people in Vietnam, how can a man be weaker than Hulu! How does Marshal Jie plan to deal with this guy?"
Xu Huai had just ordered Yang Congzong's head to be cut off and hung on a long pole for public display. Han Changfu didn't think anything of it. In fact, from the bottom of his heart, he felt that no matter how violent Xiongzhou's soldiers and horses were, there was nothing to fear, but the general's head was cut off.
He was a little hesitant about whether to deal with it in this way.
He was worried that cutting off the head of General Bage would arouse the desire of the prisoners in the city to fight to the death, which would be detrimental to the war.
"Cut off the head and hang it on a long pole together with Yang Congzong, and pass the head to the public!" Xu Huai said, "The rebels should be punished. They trampled on the Central Plains, plundered and killed wantonly, and they should be cut into pieces with a thousand cuts. How can we still remember him?"
Won't he be given a generous burial for his bravery?"
Chushan warriors had no fear of the Red Husbands. When Xu Huai gave the order, there were three soldiers on the left and right.
The four of them scrambled over, took off his iron helmet, grabbed General Bage's beard and hair, pulled out his sword and slashed his neck.
In the blink of an eye, the still ferocious head was cut off, and then hung on a long pole together with Yang Congzong's head, protected by several cavalry, and galloped towards the enemy formations...
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After all the defenders on the south bank of Longjin Bridge were wiped out, more than a thousand defenders who rushed to the north bank for reinforcements saw the Chushan elites coming to kill across the Longjin Bridge. They no longer had any intention of resisting and fled directly to the Zhuque Gate Gate Tower.
Yang Jingchen and others were afraid that the Chushan army would take advantage of the chaos and seize the city gate, so how could they dare to open the city gate?
More than a thousand defenders could only escape to the east and west sides of the city wall.
Fortunately, Chushan soldiers and horses were not prepared to force the inner city, nor did they want to press under the towering inner city wall and be attacked by stone arrows. In the end, they asked more than a thousand defenders to escape into the inner city through the Jiaozi Gate on the east and west sides.
"The traitor general Yang Congzong was willing to be a bastard. He humiliated his ancestors by serving the enemy. The captive leader Bage trampled on the rivers and mountains of our country, and brutally harmed our children in the Central Plains. They are all guilty of many crimes. They deserve to die for their crimes. The two thieves have become the marquis of Jingsheng of our country and the general of Yulu.
Xu Huai is leading the 30,000 Chushan troops to kill the two thieves. Here are the heads. Please wait and see. Open the city gate quickly and beg for surrender. You may be able to save Xiang Shang's head!"
Several horses were galloping back and forth just a stone's throw away from the Zhuque Gate Tower. At the same time, they lifted up the long poles on which the heads of Yang Congzong and Bage were hanging. While galloping, they shouted loudly, asking the enemy generals and soldiers on the tower to watch the two thieves.
The first level is to pass down the head.
"Quickly shoot these rampant thieves! Quickly shoot these rampant thieves!"
Yang Jingchen shouted in a trembling voice.
At this time, he could clearly see the head of his son Yang Congzong. Seeing that his eyes were still open after his death, he felt that his eyes were going black for a while, and he almost stopped breathing.
The generals of the Imperial City Department, as well as the ministers sent by the puppet Chu Emperor Li Ji and Prime Minister Wang Qi Yong to climb up to the Zhuque Gate Tower to watch the battle, all had pale faces and were frightened.
Yang Congzong became famous at a young age in Xiongzhou, and as an adult he was known as the best gunfighter in Hebei; Ba Ge was even a famous Xiong Zhu warrior in Chihu.
The 500 infantrymen who followed Yang Congzong to the south of Longjin Bridge were the most elite armored soldiers in Xiongzhou; the 200 cavalrymen beside Bage were also the most elite veterans of many battles in his unit.
If the Chushan army was several times or even ten times larger than them, and Yang Congzong and Ba Ge had their heads dislocated, and 700 elite troops plus more than a thousand defenders south of the bridge were annihilated, everyone would still feel that it was a coincidence. It was indeed a matter of strength.
Unlike humans, they can still accept such results calmly.
However, the battlefield south of Longjin Bridge was only between 1,000 and 1,500 steps away from the Zhuque Gate. Everything that happened on the battlefield could be seen clearly from the tower of the Zhuque Gate.
On the battlefield in front of Longjin Bridge, the Chushan Army did not invest more than a thousand elite troops from beginning to end.
However, the Chushan Army was so sharp that they killed the 1,7800 soldiers and horses in front of Longjin Bridge to a rout. In the end, only a hundred people had the chance to escape to the north bank.
The Chushan Army was so sharp that they beheaded the second general who was recognized as the most brave in Bianliang City, cut his head on a long pole, and invited them to watch...
Is this the truth behind the fact that Marquis Jingsheng rushed thousands of miles to attack Taiyuan, killing several times the number of people on the northern front and leaving ten times the defenders unable to fight back? It turns out that the rumors were not exaggerated at all, but now it is their turn to bear this incompetence.
