Meng Shanming's wheelchair was carried up the mountain together with the people, and he went to the forefront of the encirclement to check. He personally observed the formation of the besieged Chen Shaotong's troops, but still could not see anything strange.
One thing made him slightly nod his head in approval, "The arrangement of the troops is quite orderly. The son-in-law who was picked out by Zi Pingxiu from the Song army is indeed not an ordinary person."
Su Qitong said: "There are rumors that Chen Shaotong succeeds in Zi Pingxiu and loses in Zi Pingxiu. It is said that Chen Shaotong's ability at that time was actually not weaker than Luo Zhao, but he was not as lucky as Luo Zhao. It is said that because of some things,
He suffered humiliation, suffered the loss of having no background, and was depressed, so he agreed to be Zi Pingxiu's son-in-law. Another theory is that Zi Pingxiu fell in love with him, but he didn't obey, and the humiliation he suffered later was actually
Zi Pingxiu's secret tricks forced Chen Shaotong to succumb to reality."
"It is said that there is an inside story. It is said that after Chen Shaotong refused at first, Zi Pingxiu also listened to the advice of his advisers and gave up. However, Zi Pingxiu's daughter heard that the person she was marrying actually refused to marry her, and she was very angry.
, so she secretly ran to find trouble with him, and she fell in love with him at first sight, and fell in love with Chen Shaotong's extraordinary prowess, so the eldest lady made a desperate fuss and insisted on marrying Chen Shaotong. In the end, Zi Pingxiu had no choice but to
, had no choice but to use means to force Chen Shaotong to surrender."
Zhang Hu on the side said in surprise: "Lao Su, you actually pay attention to such nonsense?"
Su Qitong chuckled and said: "After hearing that this leader went on an expedition, I couldn't be blind, so I asked someone to inquire about it. I heard it by the way. In short, regardless of whether the rumors are true or false, there are pros and cons after Chen Shaotong climbed the big tree Zi Pingxiu.
They are all here, and their ranks have risen, but it is said that they are quite marginalized in the army. The Emperor of Song Dynasty did not want Zi Pingxiu to insert his hands too deeply into the army. In recent years, he has been serving as a casual post in the army, and he has no power.
I heard that if we hadn't attacked this time, it wouldn't have been Chen Shaotong's turn to show up."
Zhang Hu looked over and said: "The formation of troops seems to have some rules, but the spirit of the personnel cannot be compared with Jiang's defense troops. At first glance, they are not on the same level."
Su Qitong cupped his hands to Meng Shanming and said: "Commander, the general's subordinates are ready and can take action at any time. How about testing his depth now?"
Meng Shanming hesitated slightly, but finally nodded, "Be careful."
There is nothing I can do. I still have to give it a try after all. I can’t be frightened by other people’s mysteries. I still have to find a way to get rid of this stumbling block.
"Don't worry, Commander. It's just a test. If I find out that it's a conspiracy, I will take advantage of the situation and kill him!" Su Qitong immediately turned around and said to the deputy in a deep voice: "Send the order and launch the attack as planned!"
"Yes!" the deputy general took the order and left.
Soon, a group of men and horses came through the mountain forest.
Song Jun was not blind either. He immediately noticed the abnormality and the horn sounded.
When the Song army in Bulao Mountain heard the alarm, they immediately became restless and quickly made defensive preparations according to the pre-arranged arrangements.
Chen Shaotong, who was inside the tent, heard the alarm and rushed out quickly. A general outside the tent also rushed to report, "General, the Yan army has launched an attack."
Chen Shaotong looked in the direction of his finger and saw a group of people rushing out.
Realizing that Song Jun had discovered it, Su Qitong waved his hand, "Dong dong dong..." The drums in the mountains and forests here suddenly sounded like thunder.
"Kill!" A team of 50,000 men and horses shouted loudly and rushed out.
In front is the shield formation, behind is a group of people holding up simple wooden rafts, and tens of thousands of people on horseback carrying a large number of wooden rafts are following behind the shield formation to attack.
There were dug trenches at the front of the Song Army. The trenches were filled with sharpened wooden thorns. At the rear were blocking horses. A group of Song Army archers appeared. As the commander gave the order to "shoot arrows", arrows were fired instantly.
The rain was falling and the air seemed to be shaking.
Densely packed arrows fell from the sky. The shields they were resisting made a clanging sound, and the wooden rafts they were lifting suddenly made a sharp "dong-dong" sound, and they instantly became like hedgehogs. People flashed out from under the wooden rafts, and they were also
The archer takes the arrow and strings it, draws the bow and shoots back, and shoots while running.
Attacking and counterattacking at the same time, the skillful coordination of shields, wooden rafts, and archers showed that they were elite men and horses at this moment.
Although many people who emerged from the gaps between the rafts were knocked to the ground by arrows fired by the enemy, it did not affect the Yan army's attack speed.
Seeing that the casualties among his men had begun to appear, Su Qitong's cheeks tightened as he looked far away.
Standing on the top of the mountain, Chen Shaotong was dressed in battle armor. His fingers on the hilt of his sword were clenched tightly, and his cheeks were also tense, staring closely at the offensive and defensive battlefield.
He could see that the combat quality of his defensive troops was very different from that of the enemy. The enemy's charge was not chaotic at all when facing the offensive, but on his side, as the defender, the enemy's arrows rushed towards his own side.
After the damage was done, the defensive lineup was clearly in a panic.
The law-enforcement supervisors who held the line killed some people on the spot before they stabilized their position.
As soon as the Yan army, which had rushed across the plain between the two mountains, arrived at the trench, the shield bearer quickly dwarfed and got out of the way. The soldiers behind him who were holding up the raft immediately joined forces to throw the raft out and set it directly on the trench.
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Some of the rafts were thrown too far, but it didn't matter. I had already anticipated this possibility. There was a rattan rope tied to the back of the raft. The people behind pulled the rattan rope and raised the back end of the raft again and set it on the shore.
.The shield bearer, who had been in front of the attack before and then stood aside, immediately held up his shield and rushed onto the plank bridge first, rushing towards the other side.
"It's not simple, they must be the elite troops of the Yan army!" Chen Shaotong, who witnessed this scene from a distance, spoke out from between his teeth.
How could the Song army monks who were standing at the front to help the enemy succeed? They fired out swords one after another, either knocking the oncoming people into the ditch or directly cutting off the simple wooden bridge. Groups of Yan soldiers and horses fell into
The trench was pierced by wooden thorns, and screams were heard.
The monks of the Yan Army did not show weakness and rushed out, either demolishing the soil to fill the trench, or flying out to fight with the monks from the other camp to clear the way for the army at the rear.
The elites of the troops on both sides were incomparable, and the Song Army's defense line was quickly disrupted. A large group of Yan troops invaded the Song Army's defensive area.
Chen Shaotong's eyes were splitting as he witnessed it, and his knuckles turned white. He was guarding the pre-built fortifications with far more men and horses than the opponent. He was actually able to break through the defense line with a wave of enemy attacks. He couldn't help but grit his teeth.
He cursed loudly, "A bunch of trash!"
The deputy general on the side said urgently: "General, give the order!"
Chen Shaotong glanced in the direction of the general's flag erected on the mountain in front, and said angrily: "Why are you so anxious? Wait a minute, hundreds of thousands of people can't stop tens of thousands of people?"
The lieutenant general said in pain: "General, to put it bluntly, the troops on our side are just a mob. If we continue to resist, we will only get a lot of casualties, or we can pretend to be defeated!"
Chen Shaotong angrily yelled: "You bastard, shut up! The enemy has clearly surrounded us with heavy troops, and they can attack us in one fell swoop. Why do they only send tens of thousands of people to attack? To test, do you understand that this is a trial attack? They are in a hurry.
Staring here to check for clues, are you pretending to be defeated? If you are pretending to be defeated in this situation, can't you think that the enemy commander is a fool? You must fight back with all your strength. If you lose, you must really lose to others, otherwise you will be beaten to death if you make a move.
Scared away!"
He pointed at the lieutenant general's nose, "I'm using my body as bait. What I want is not just the enemy's tens of thousands of troops! Let these losers resist, let them all see blood first, and let them become red-eyed first."
Have the courage to chase and kill, otherwise you will be a soft-footed shrimp! Send the order, resist with all your strength, and kill anyone who disobeys the order!"
"Yes!" The deputy general accepted the order bravely and turned around to issue this cruel order.
The one hundred thousand civilians on the mountain shivered in fear when they saw this formation. There were not enough people and horses here, so one hundred thousand civilians were recruited to accompany the army to act as logistics and help transport food and so on.
Seeing a large number of men and horses rushing out of the mountains and besieging the Yan army that broke through the defense line, Chen Shaotong stared at the Yan army's command center and looked at the formation, then turned back and asked, "Are you sure it will not hurt our troops?"
Next to him was a general who had changed his appearance in a battle armor. He said slowly: "Don't worry, General, the medicine has been secretly mixed into the diet of the army these days, and the medicinal properties have penetrated into the bodies of the troops and horses.
, there is a special smell emitting from the body, and those things will not attack the people under the general’s command! The general has already tested it himself, why are you still uneasy?”
Chen Shaotong nodded slightly and took a deep breath. It was not that he was worried, but that he wanted to confirm again and again that this was a battlefield and there was no room for mistakes!
He had been silent for many years, and finally got this opportunity, and he didn't want to make any mistakes, otherwise he would not be able to explain it to his father-in-law or himself!
After Zhang Hu, who was watching the battle, made an estimate for a while, he stared at the battlefield and said: "With 400,000 troops, I'm afraid half of the troops have been concentrated to resist our army's probing attack. It doesn't look like there is a trick. It seems that old boy Chen Shaotong is really playing tricks!"
Su Qitong also immediately raised his hands to Meng Shanming and said: "Commander, you can't hide any deceit. Now a large number of enemy troops are concentrated here to resist. The surrounding defense line is no longer enough, and the combat power of this ragtag group is only this."
, you can launch a full-scale attack and annihilate these 400,000 enemy troops in one fell swoop!"
He was also a little anxious. Tens of thousands of horses were facing an enemy siege several times his own. If we didn't add more troops to supplement the offensive force, even if we won, the casualties of those tens of thousands of horses would be heavy. We can't retreat now.
The depth of the enemy's force has been tested. If we retreat now, all our previous efforts will be in vain. The brothers who were sacrificed in the previous test will be in vain.
Meng Shanming frowned.
Gong Lince beside him didn't say anything to disturb him. He just turned his head and stared at Meng Shanming, realizing that Meng Shanming had a rare hesitation.
"Commander, we can launch a full-scale attack!" Zhang Hu also chimed in.
Meng Shanming finally nodded and relaxed, "Let's attack!"
Even though I had my doubts, after testing it to this point, I really didn’t see what the enemy could do to deceive me.
Su Qitong looked delighted and immediately turned around and ordered: "Order our troops to launch a full-scale attack immediately!"
"Yes!" the deputy general took the order and quickly ran to convey the message.
Soon, the Haozhou troops who were waiting in the rear, together with the imperial troops, totaling about 500,000 people, rushed into the mountainous forest area from all sides.
The rumble of war drums resounded around Mount Burao, and large groups of men and horses rushed out from the mountains and forests in all directions, rushing across the fields and charging towards Mount Burao to lay siege to them. The sound of killing was loud!
"General, the Yan army has launched a full-scale attack." The deputy general came to report again.
"I'm not blind, I saw it!" Chen Shaotong glanced left and right, a hint of ferociousness appeared on his face, and at any cost, he finally got a large number of Yan army to take the bait. He turned around and looked at the general who had changed his appearance beside him, and said sternly: "Let's get started.
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PS: I have nothing in the south of the Yangtze River, so let me give you a spring! Thank you "Brother Cangshui" for giving me a big red flower for support.