Chapter 707: Pay attention to the presence of the master
The chaos in the east will immediately affect the north, but in a short period of time, it will not have the slightest impact on the vast Central Plains. />
Therefore, in the Central Plains at this time, the object of everyone's attention is still the lone Song Army. They have given the world too many surprises and inconceivables. Although they encountered a heavy setback in the southwest of Bozhou not long ago, they still turned around and took advantage of the situation.
After arriving at Chengwu County, we had a solid foothold.
The world is big, but there are only a few people who are qualified to play chess. Except for the Holy Emperor in the Jinluan Hall of Tianjing City, the rest of them are looking expectantly at Song Jun, who seems to be in trouble.
They look forward to Zhu Biao giving another wonderful performance!
The setting sun was setting, and the sunlight dyed the city head shop a layer of red. Zhu Biao, with a pale face, stood at the city head looking at the continuous enemy camps outside the city, his whole person was as solemn as a stone sculpture.
Sixty thousand Song troops have been trapped in Chengwu County for seven days. In the Battle of Yinping nine days ago, when the Song troops faced off against Bozhou's 100,000 troops, Zhu Biao had a great chance of winning. Because he used to be a hindrance in the camp.
The situation of the Liyang refugees has improved after a series of transformations, and they can add strength to the fight. How can he be afraid of an army of 100,000 people?
But what Zhu Biao didn't expect was that among Bozhou's 100,000 troops on the battlefield, there were actually 30,000 Bingzhou Wolf Cavalry. This was the most elite cavalry unit in the Great Peripheral Army!
They have three horses and are good at riding and shooting. Each one of them wears tight silk and chain mail. They are the most terrifying group of horse archers in the world, even better than the nomads on the grasslands!
In addition to the elite Forbidden Army in Beijing, the powerful Zhou Dynasty also only had an elite bow cavalry with a total of hundreds of thousands of people. Their impact was not as powerful as the Liangzhou Iron Cavalry and Youzhou Iron Cavalry, but their power was better than that of the Bingzhou Wolf Cavalry.
He even overpowered the Youliang Cavalry!
The Bingzhou Wolf Cavalry, with a total of only 100,000 people, actually dispatched 30,000 people to go south to Bozhou. The man in Tianjing City really thought highly of the Song Army. In the Battle of Yinping, the Song Army could be said to be glorious despite defeat. What's more, in the Battle of Yinping
During the battle, there were three innate masters who appeared on the battlefield, two of whom were from Shizhou at the beginning. When Cui Gong came, Shen Yiyi's army of 400,000 was wiped out, and even two of them died in the battle, but Shen
However, the two innate masters in Zhou Zhou's army were unscathed and fought all the way to a safe place. After the Song army went north, they immediately chased after them.
In the Battle of Yaozhou, the Zhou army's overall losses were not great. Although injuries were inevitable, Zhu Biao also missed a lot because he frequently mobilized the Zhou army at the beginning. He widened the distance between the two armies and passed through the gap.
Less. Therefore, when the Song army was defeated in Yinping and moved to Chengwu County, a large number of Yaozhou and Zhou troops followed. There were more than 200,000 troops outside the city. They contributed half of it.
The last Xiantian Grandmaster among the Zhou army was transferred back from the front line where the Zhou army and the Tang army were confronting each other in Bozhou. The three of them attacked together and almost killed Zhu Biao in battle.
Zhu Biao was so disturbed that he was unable to command the army for a period of time. Although every innate master could not take care of himself three times, five times five times two, but each of them had a level of stability that was higher than his own.
Yes, realm!
The greatest threat that the innate grandmaster poses to Zhu Biao is not in terms of internal strength. Zhu Biao was surprised to find that his high-level internal strength seemed to be as good as the innate true energy of the martial arts master. He was still very surprised when they first fought against each other, and then
Since the situation was urgent, I didn't have time to think about it. I thought about it carefully later. What I cultivated in my inner strength was the "Nine Yin Manual". It is an absolutely unique and unparalleled knowledge. It is not unbelievable that I can excel in the quality of my inner strength.
. And the more important point is that you are yourself. An innate master is an innate master who has a system in his body. Some divisions in martial arts do not necessarily have to be consistent with reality. It is like becoming famous after penetrating the two channels of Ren and Du.
, ultimate, peerless, etc., there is obviously no exact division in the real world.
In the world of martial arts, it is customary to refer to masters with a system power of around 85 to 95 as top masters! The former are called top masters, and the latter are called peerless, supreme or even unparalleled. There are different opinions.
Does the quality of the internal energy of the upper level of the system have to be worse than the innate true energy of a martial arts master? After Zhu Biao realized this, he realized that he had consciously integrated the system and reality. In fact, there is still a difference between the two.
The real threat that martial arts masters pose to Zhu Biao is their martial arts realm. One of the three master masters was pulled away by the people around King Song, and the other was dragged away by the few remaining guards and sergeants of the army who risked their lives. The last one Zhu Biao
Biao could only meet him.
The opponent also used his sword, cutting straight to the root with one sword. Zhu Biao fought with him. The opponent's sword was not really fast and unparalleled, but it was like a magical force that could not be avoided. He looked at the long sword that was stabbing and slashing.
, there will be a feeling in his heart that this sword will stab and cut him.
If it weren't for the murderous intent in the opponent's sword, which was stimulating Zhu Biao's unwillingness to die all the time, he was afraid that he would really fall into the formation.
However, if the opponent can really remove the murderous aura from the sword, then the Xiantian Grandmaster and his men are just like idiots.
Zhu Biao is a master of swordsmanship, a master of marksmanship, a master of light skills, a hidden weapon with a life and death talisman, and a Han Chi inner armor on his body, which can be said to be invulnerable to swords. He has Han Chi gloves on his hand, which can beat the opponent's sword edge.
It was also unharmed. Although Han Chi was hit by three swords in the chest and abdomen, which reduced the durability of Han Chi's inner armor to 93, he still escaped the opponent's pursuit and exchanged injuries for injuries, which were also on the opponent's swordsman.
A bloody hole was left.
The blood hole was not a big wound, but the evil spirit condensed on the sword edge rushed into the swordsman's body. Even the innate master vomited blood on the spot, and Zhu Biao vomited even more.
After successfully repelling the attack of Zhou Ting's masters, Zhu Biao also ushered in his first defeat after entering the Central Plains. After losing more than 10,000 men, he regained the strength of his team and was defeated.
He withdrew from the battlefield calmly. Then he marched overnight, turned around and broke through the empty Chengwu County City. No matter how Bozhou Zhou's army reacted next, they wanted to secure a foothold first.
Seven days have passed, and more and more Zhou troops have gathered outside the city. Zhu Biao is not under much pressure. Chengwu County is also a county after all. All the two to three million residents have been expelled from the city. The Song army has gained control of the city.
There are plenty of food and grass supplies. Even if the army outside has been surrounding it for a year, there is still enough to eat and drink.
The Bingzhou Wolf Cavalry, which is a powerful deterrent in field battles, is useless in siege battles. At best, they can serve as infantry archers. Silk tights and chain mail armor. These expensive configurations are extremely effective in preventing arrows and crossbows.
.But in the case of hand-to-hand combat with swords and guns, the protective power of chain mail armor is not much better than that of ordinary vests, and the threat is reduced by more than one level.
Those Bingzhou wolf cavalry, which were extremely powerful in field battles and were equipped with absolutely exquisite equipment, had never wandered around the city alone after arriving outside Chengwu County. Otherwise, Zhu Biao would definitely suffer a loss if he let the cavalry go out of the city to attack.
It's them.
During the Battle of Yinping, the cavalry of the two armies had a brief battle. The Bingzhou Wolf Cavalry was good at riding and shooting, and was also extraordinary in hand-to-hand combat with swords and guns. However, in the end, five or six hundred Song Cavalry blocked the two thousand Bingzhou Wolf Cavalry without any pressure.
ride.
A bleak cold wind blew across the city. Zhu Biao blinked his eyes. His expression remained unchanged. It was October and winter was here!
It's already cold.
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Beijing city, in an inn.
Zhu Cai'er, who was still dressed like a handsome young man, was pacing back and forth in the room. She couldn't sit down.
She had just entered Beijing a few days ago and had not even walked around yet when she heard the rumor in the market. Her brother had suffered a defeat in Bozhou and was being surrounded by hundreds of thousands of Zhou troops.
The anxious Zhu Cai'er immediately wanted to go to Bozhou, but Qian Bao persuaded her to stop her.
"Bang bang..." There was a knock on the door.
Zhu Cai'er hurriedly opened the door, and Qian Bao, still dressed in single clothes, immediately walked into the room.
"How's it going? Is there any news? Will the King of Tang send troops?" A series of questions shot out of Zhu Cai'er's mouth like bullets.
Qian Bao didn't feel the cold weather at all, and his face was glowing red when he came back from outside. "The King of Tang has sent out troops, the King of Tang has sent out troops, and an army of 200,000 has entered Bozhou!"
Zhu Cai'er's tense heart suddenly relaxed, and she couldn't help but shed tears.
"well……"
A faint sigh sounded in the room. There was a third person in the room?
Looking around, it was not Song Yingzhu. Her face was white, and she was injured and bedridden.
How did Song Yingzhu get injured? And how did he meet Zhu Cai'er? This would take a long time to talk about, so I won't mention it here.
"The King of Tang finally has some conscience. Otherwise, he and I will be at odds with each other!" It has been almost half a month in Beijing, and Zhu Cai'er knows the current situation of the Tang army. Bozhou is not entirely controlled by the Zhou army.
The three northern counties were all under the control of the Tang king.
"It's good now. There are another 200,000 Tang troops in Bozhou. The Zhou army must be involved. My brother is skilled in military tactics and has unparalleled battle formations. He will definitely take the opportunity to break out of the encirclement. Sister Liang, you have to rest for two or three days, and then we will go
Bozhou. Today is the tenth day since you left the mountain. There is still time. Uncle will be fine."
Song Yingzhu's face turned pale, and only a few traces of blood red could be seen on his face. It looked like he had either lost too much blood or suffered internal injuries. But seeing that there were no signs of bandaging on Song Yingzhu's body, it was probably the latter.
"Thank you, little sister!"
"Look what you said, we are not all a family." Zhu Cai'er, whose worries were gone, had a smile on her lips and seemed to have regained her former liveliness.
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Chengtou, Chengwu County.
The wind in early winter is also very cold. It takes away the heat of the defenders at the top of the city all the time. No matter how warm you wear, if you stand motionless on the top of the city, you will be frozen to the bone in less than an hour. But the soldiers are
No matter how unbearable the cold is, no one will dare to slack off or be negligent under strict orders!
A Duber in his early twenties, wearing a cotton coat and an armor, his whole body wrapped tightly. White air was constantly blowing out from his mouth and nose. He climbed to the top of the city and inspected the soldiers' clothing and equipment in turn.
"Damn it! Why are you shaking? Stand still!" Dub shouted, but the soldier in front of him trembled even more fiercely.
"Tou Wu, it's cold!"
"There's something going on outside the city!" Uncle Dub's eyes widened in anger, and he was about to point at the soldier's nose and curse. Suddenly, a loud shout resounded through the city. Uncle Dub's heart was shocked, and he hurriedly looked outside the city.
In the open space to the north, I saw crowds of people surging and flags flying. At a quick glance, what else could it be if it wasn’t the Zhou army outside?
After several days of confrontation, a large number of houses outside the city wall were either burned to the ground by Zhu Biao's men, or were taken away by Zhou soldiers themselves.
They will starve to death without looting, freeze to death without demolishing their houses. The Yue family's army has the quality that the vast majority of Zhou soldiers do not have.
The news quickly reached Qu Wutong's ears. Not long after, before Qu Wutong arrived, he heard the sound of running. On the main road in the city, the flying crossbowmen startled the birds on the roof of the street. The birds flew up one after another.
The officers roared out the order, and the soldiers responded with a bang. After running to the top of the city, they all took their positions. They saw Wu Boniu, a sturdy man with a strong back and a strong waist, brandishing the sword on his waist, and the voice spread in all directions: "Ready the crossbows!"
The archers and crossbowmen on guard at the top of the city quickly picked up their weapons and scattered the bundles of arrows and crossbows, ready to replenish them at any time. The soldiers beside the few crossbows naturally had to work harder. The bed crossbow manpower turned the winch, which was very laborious. The city was not yet ready, and the clang of armor and the clash of weapons were heard from behind. The sound of heavy footsteps, and if you look back, you can see that groups of fully armored infantry are filling the city. .
Qu Wutong straddled his horse and galloped to the bottom of the city, accompanied by several of his subordinates. When he got to the top of the city, he looked down and couldn't help but get furious!
Outside the city, the Zhou army has been assembled. It can be seen by visual inspection that it is about ten thousand people. Among them, there are four to five thousand crossbowmen, and the rest are all infantry. What makes Qu Wutong angry is that this Zhou army The army had no large siege equipment, only simple ladders.
If you dare to seize the city like this, you are too underestimated. How can Qu Wutong not be angry?
In fact, it is not that the Zhou army is really poor and only has ladder trucks. It is intentional. Otherwise, more than 200,000 Zhou troops have been trapped under the city for many days and nothing can be seen. The houses outside the city, the Song army would have burned them. There are few, and there are many left behind. Almost all the houses left behind were demolished by the Zhou soldiers. What can be done with so much wood that is not enough? It is obviously wrong to only use ladder trucks to seize the city.
"I won't let you cross the moat! Damn it." Qu Wutong cursed secretly in his heart, and then ordered all the troops to give Zhou Jun a head-on blow! "Add kerosene. Add kerosene -"
Before the battle, both sides were mobilizing to boost morale. The Zhou army generals leaped in front of the formation and shouted loudly. The soldiers raised their weapons and responded like thunder. But such a scene could not scare the Song army at the top of the city. These People fought all the way from Kaizhou to Bozhou. What kind of formations have you not seen?
Is an army of more than 200,000 strong? In the Battle of Shizhou, the Zhou army numbered 500,000.
"Don't be afraid of him! Don't be afraid of them! Don't look at how happy they are. Later, when you shoot over with an arrow, he will still fall to the ground. Not to mention that we are now well-equipped and rely on the city. Even if we fight with them in the field during normal times, we will not be inferior to them. .There are really casualties, who is more and who is less? I broke into the Zhengba camp when I was in Yaozhou, and in the battle of Yinping, I beheaded two people." A soldier with a refugee background from Liyang said to him who had just pulled up to the Zhengba camp. A fellow from the barracks said.
"Who's scared? I'm not scared!" The soldier looked about sixteen or seventeen years old, still childish. But he wanted to save face. Hearing the fellow villager say that he was scared, he shouted with a blush.
"Then why are your hands shaking? Little guy, just watch. I'll let you see my brother's arm strength in a moment." The veteran laughed and arched his biceps as if to show off.
Seeing that the Zhou army was ready to attack, Qu Wutong strode behind a bed crossbow. The bed crossbow soldiers had already loaded their arrows. Just now, two strong soldiers, one on the left and one on the right, each held the wheel on the crossbow bed. On the side of the winch, use all your strength to winch the string on the crossbow bed to the back, and buckle the crossbow.
The long feather arrows were placed on the arrow trough. When Qu Wutong approached, two crossbow soldiers were holding the rails. They were visually measuring the exact distance of the Zhou army. They must be accurate to ensure the accuracy of the crossbow.
Suddenly, there was a loud killing sound from the Zhou army outside the city, which went straight into the sky! Tens of thousands of Zhou soldiers lined up in rows and swarmed forward with a roar, each with a ladder cart as the center. The soldiers in the front held up long shields as cover and rushed towards them with all their strength. Chengwu County City.
The officers of each department of the crossbowmen stood among the soldiers, visually measuring the distance, and shouted repeatedly: "Steady! Steady!" At about three hundred steps away, the powerful crossbows of the infantry were still far away from the range, but The bed crossbow is already available.
At that moment, an officer ordered a crossbow next to him: "Shoot an arrow!" As soon as he finished speaking, he heard the sound of a string and the sharp arrow was flying!
It wasn't the bed crossbow beside him, but the one at Qu Wutong's place.
The feather arrow accurately hit the target, and both men and horses pinned the Zhou army officer to the ground. This caused a panic among the surrounding Zhou soldiers.
If there are hundreds of crossbows on that city, it will definitely be a disaster if the enemy wants to attack.
Two hundred steps, one hundred and fifty steps...
"Test firing——" Qu Wutong was no longer operating the crossbow. After all, his mission was to command. He said to a soldier beside him.
The soldiers immediately bent their bows and arrows, pointed them at the army surrounding the city, and shot them with one arrow.
The arrow hit a shield in the middle, and the range was sufficient.
"Fire the arrows!" Qu Wutong ordered loudly before the arrows entered the enemy's formation. The city-wide archers strung the arrows, drew the bows to full length, looked at the Zhou army's infantry formation, and instantly released the bowstrings! The tight bowstrings were pulled. When the bow moves, there is a creaking sound!
The crossbowmen strung up their crossbows and fired their arrows, which were even sharper than those of the foot archers.
The thunderbolts emitted by more than three thousand strong bows and crossbows were as chaotic as locusts and as dense as rain!
The charging Zhou army immediately jumped into one! Although the shield wall was dense, it could not completely cover the Zhou army. This kind of volley required coverage, not precision. It was like the mounted archery of archers!
On the top of the city, strings were ringing continuously, and below the city, Zhou's soldiers were constantly hit by arrows and fell to the ground. Wu Boniu was squatting behind a crossbow on the bed, squinting one eye and looking for the target. He saw Qu Wutong killed with an arrow. Enemy, I was itching in my heart. I put my hand on the crossbow machine, ready to shoot at any time. Seeing the Zhou army marching forward in the face of the rain of arrows, I sneered in my heart.
Suddenly he caught a glimpse of a person in the Zhou army's charging formation, brandishing a saber and shouting everywhere. Undoubtedly expecting it to be an enemy officer, he turned the crossbow bed and aimed at this person. The crossbow arrow was already aimed at the Zhou general. Just as Wu Boniu was triggering the crossbow, Suddenly I heard the trumpet sound of the Zhou army's rear formation!
When Zhou Jun who was charging at the front heard this, he suddenly stopped advancing. The rear team changed to the front team and quickly evacuated, not even using the ladder trucks.
Wu Boniu didn't care about killing the Zhou army officer. He stood up and looked around. He saw tens of thousands of Zhou soldiers retreating. After a while, they all ran away. What does this mean? Is it a feint attack? Look at the Zhou army in front of the city. Wu Boniu was puzzled to understand the one or two hundred corpses abandoned by the army.
Not only was he confused, Qu Wutong and the Song soldiers above and below the city were also confused. They were planning to fight and kill until the sky was dark and the sun, moon and sky were dark. Why didn't they have enough time for a cup of tea? Zhou Jun Just withdraw?
