The commanders of the two battalions in Texas wore a vermilion helmet with golden dots, and a broomstick on the top of the long and short red tassels. He wore a pair of Suan Ni armor with a ring that swallowed beasts, and a crimson robe with a collar embroidered with clouds and flying monsters.
Wearing emerald cloud-stitched brocade-heeled boots among double-thorned unicorns. He rides on a rouge horse and wields a familiar copper knife.
The other commander wears a square iron cap made of thick iron, with large and small black tassels scattered on the top. He wears a bear skin armor with black oil caulking on the edges, and wears a collar embroidered with jade flowers and bald sleeves.
He wears a robe, a pair of slanted leather stirrups and stitched cloud-heeled boots, and is tied with a strip of green nails that resembles a lion's belt. He rides on a dark black horse and wields a black spear.
The general in red armor and crimson robes was full of pride, while the general in soap robes and black armor had a calm expression. He stared straight ahead and said, "You have such a temper... You must not be careless when you meet a thief on a narrow road."
The red-armored and crimson-robed general was high-spirited and said with a smile: "Brother, we suddenly encountered the enemy this time. I don't have time for you to assess the terrain and show off your abilities. So I will deal with these thieves! Just plunder the formation."
That’s it!”
The general in the soap robe and black armor smiled slightly and said nothing, while the general in the red armor and crimson robe waved the copper knife in his hand and shouted: "Young men! Prepare your utensils and let the thieves know that our Texas Forbidden Army is
How difficult to offend!!”…
The two leaders sent by Zhang Di to intercept the Dezhou army were Fang Shun and Su Ji. They combined two thousand soldiers and horses. They came all the way and bumped into the commanders of the two battalions of Dezhou and their troops. The military exercises in the Song Dynasty were deserted and their combat power was reduced.
Weak and weak, for example, the imperial army guarding Enzhou that they had repulsed before was defeated as soon as the battle started. Seeing these two battalions of soldiers and horses, Fang Shun and Su Ji didn't take them seriously. They saw that the official troops were carrying countless people.
The thieves were even more unscrupulous, just roaring and charging towards them.
The formation of the officers and soldiers did not loosen up. Under the command of the red-armored and crimson-robed generals, they pushed the vans covered with oilcloth to the front of the formation. Some of the soldiers in the back rows took off the cans and sealed them tightly.
There were clay pots and others with bows and arrows, just waiting for the thieves to attack.
Dozens of vans only want to block our brother's offensive? Fang Shun, Su Ji sneered in his heart, and didn't know why he rushed within the bow and arrow range of the Texas army, but the other party did not release arrows to stop us, but charged very fiercely.
Waiting for Fang Shun, when Su Ji's thieves were not far from the Texas army, the red-armored and crimson-robed general gave an order, and the officers and soldiers in the front row pulled off the oilcloth on the carriage, and saw that each one was black and thick, with something on it.
The wrought copper cabinet with a large tail and a thin roll suddenly appeared in front of the thieves.
The military athletes in the front row used red-hot torch cones to ignite the medicine primer on the cabinet. After preheating, some military athletes pulled the pump behind the cabinet. The powerful fire oil contained in the cabinet spurted out and ignited when it was heated.
, dozens of fire dragons were shot out from the nozzle, instantly devouring the thieves who rushed forward in the blazing fire!
In an instant, heart-rending screams came one after another. Fang Shun and Su Ji watched helplessly as their thieves howled and struggled in the flames, and finally fell to the ground and were burned into a ball of black coals.
Have you ever seen such a scene before? And have you never seen the terrifying power of the fierce fire and oil tanks that are often used in water and fire attacks in the two military cities?
When Fang Shun and Su Ji were dumbfounded, the red-armored and crimson-robed general gave another order, and the two hundred fire soldiers under his command took off the fire phosphorus gourd on their backs, and still used the burning cone to guide it, and pulled out the pump at the bottom of the gourd, and then
It was a ball of fierce and devouring flames that burst out. The thieves who rushed to the front could not hold back their momentum and rushed straight into the sea of fire. The thieves in the following rows were bumped into each other, and many of them were unable to hold back.
The thieves in the back row pushed into the fire...
Fire filled the sky, and the raging flames suddenly swept across the battlefield. The thieves, let alone fighting in close combat, were all swept away by the flames as soon as they got close. The most severe ones were burned until they were crispy on the outside and tender on the inside, while the light ones were burned until their eyebrows were burned. Fang Shun,
Su Ji and the two thieves looked at the red-armored and crimson-robed general, as if they had seen the God of Fire Zhurong coming to the world, and in his anger he was about to burn all living things in the world with the fire of the eight wastelands.
"Quickly retreat!" It was really falling apart and running around. Even if Fang Shun and Su Ji didn't say anything, the thieves under them would rather be slashed a few times on their bodies than burned to death in the fire. They were so arrogant just now.
A group of thieves ran away crying for their father and mother, only regretting that they didn't grow more legs.
The red-armored and crimson-robed general glared and gritted his teeth, and said in a ferocious voice: "How can we let the thieves escape like this!?" After saying that, he made another gesture, and hundreds of powerful fire soldiers in his hands tied the ropes.
The hemp ropes on the earthenware pots that I carried with me turned around a few times like windmills and were thrown out with all their strength. They drew parabolas in the air and hit the fleeing thieves with ping-ping-pong-pong.
The fierce fire oil mixed with firewood and grease drenched many of the thieves.
When the general in soap robes and black armor saw it, he ordered his archers to light the oilcloth wrapped around the arrow clusters, draw the bow toward the sky, and "咻咻咻咻!!" Two to three hundred rockets were thrown out, and the falling rockets were sprayed with fierce fire oil, and then
It caused a fierce fire to burst out. In an instant, flames soared into the sky and smoke billowed. The fleeing thieves and generals were frightened and fled in panic. Instead, more thieves died trampling on each other.
some.
Several groups of fierce fire attacks came down, and two thousand bandits were burned to death and trampled to death. Countless people fled in all directions. Fang Shun and Su Ji only escaped with their lives with three to four hundred remaining soldiers, but before they could escape very far, they were hit.
Mounted a troop of soldiers and horses.
Fang Shun and Su Ji couldn't help but cry out in pain when they saw the banner on the other side saying "Da Ming Prefecture's left-behind troops and horses escorting Xiao Tang." When Xiao Tang saw Fang Shun, Su Ji led the Jinan thieves and bandits one by one.
They were all burned like smoky little devils, and they were all frightened and had no intention of fighting. He was also wondering in his heart: Prime Minister, the two camps of Cizhou Forbidden Army were easily defeated by the thieves, but the two battalions of Dezhou Forbidden Army were so fierce and powerful that they were able to kill so many people.
Are road thieves like lost dogs?
Xiao Tang saw the thieves of the Southern Hebei Army around him, so how could he hold him back? He clamped his legs together, and the horse galloped out like a whirlwind, heading straight for Fang Shun. Su Ji and the others rushed towards him. Fang Shun also wanted to use words to calm Xiao down.
Tang and other officers and soldiers were in a hurry, but they didn't know that the officers and generals rushing out from the opposite side were so impatient that they didn't even say anything and just came to kill him?
Panic-stricken, he lowered his gun to block, and the big ax in Suo's hand came at him fiercely. Before he could close his arms, Fang Shun, who had no intention of fighting, just shouted: "Stop..." and was chopped up by Suo with the axe.
It entered the chest, stumbled off the horse, and died instantly.
Suo swung his axe, looking for another thief to fight, when he saw Su Ji had already rolled off his saddle and dismounted, and knelt down on the ground with all the thieves, shouting: "The heavenly army is above! We are willing to surrender!!!"
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At this moment, the generals in Dezhou's red armor and crimson robes, and the generals in soap robes and black armors also rode in pursuit of the thieves. When the generals in red armor and crimson robes saw the Xiao Tang flag, they sang: "
Your Excellency, you are Xiao Renxia from the Daming Palace? Are you here to help us? Hahaha! It’s a pity that Xiao Renxia came a step too late, most of the thieves have been killed by me! I am Wei Dingguo, the commander of the Dezhou Forbidden Army Camp, the Divine Fire General!"
The general in soap robes and black armor was much calmer than Wei Dingguo. He turned over and dismounted, cupped his fists towards Xiao Tang and said: "The last general, Shengshui General Shan Tinggui, the commander of the Dezhou Forbidden Army Camp, has met Xiao, the prisoner who was left behind in Daming Mansion." (
In the Water Margin, it is written that Wei Dingguo, Shan Tinggui, was a general in Lingzhou, Hebei Province, and the military prefecture of the Song Dynasty had Lingxian under the jurisdiction of Dezhou, so it is treated as Dezhou.)
It turned out that it was the two of them, Wei Dingguo, who was proficient in fire attack methods and used special firearms to capture people in battle, known as the "Sacred Fire General", and Shan Tinggui, who was good at soaking soldiers with water and nicknamed the "Holy Water General"... At this time, this
It turned out that the two of them had not yet reached the official position of training envoys of the state regiment, they were only battalion commanders in charge of one battalion each.
Xiao Tang saluted Wei Dingguo and Shan Tinggui in return: "I have long admired the names of these two generals, General Divine Fire and General Holy Water! When I saw them today, it was really amazing! They actually eliminated all the thieves who came to intercept them!"
Wei Dingguo laughed loudly and said: "It's just a grass bandit, why do you care? I just feel like I haven't had enough fun to kill the bandits! If two thousand more people come, what can they do to me?"
Shan Tinggui replied: "Prisoner Xiao has been over-honored. It is our duty to accept the favor of the imperial court and eat the country's salary. It is our duty to kill thieves and defend the land."
When Xiao Tang was exchanging greetings with Wei Dingguo and Shan Tinggui, they looked back at the tragic scene where the two generals, Water and Fire, had just killed the enemy. Wei Dingguo and Shan Tinggui were absolutely victorious in this battle. They led 500 fire soldiers and 500 black armor soldiers to defeat them with close to zero casualties.
Two thousand thieves.
What he saw was a corpse that was twisted and blackened by fire, and the smell of burning meat reached his nose. Xiao Tang suddenly felt that his internal organs were scattered and he almost felt sick. He tried to hold back his thoughts.
The urge to vomit, calm your mind, after all, the battlefield is so cruel, if you don't say that your tempered heart is like a rock, how can you face the future killings and battles?
Thinking of this, Xiao Tang suddenly realized that the fights he had experienced before were all small-scale battles. If he and Wei Dingguo and Shan Tinggui were rivals on the battlefield, I am afraid that he is not the two who are good at attacking with fire and soaking in water.
The adversary of the general.
Wei Dingguo and Shan Tinggui were ranked among the top generals in Liangshan. Although they had little merit after being recruited, when it came to leading troops in battles, these two experts were definitely overshadowed among the one hundred and eight generals.
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Especially the divine fire general Wei Dingguo. He first defeated Dadaoguan Sheng with Shan Tinggui and captured the second generals Xuanzan and Hao Siwen alive. Later, Shan Tinggui surrendered to Liangshan. Wei Dingguo lacked the help of the holy water general and only led 500 fire soldiers to burn it.
Guan Sheng, the five tigers of the Liangshan cavalry army, retreated for more than 40 miles. If Li Kui had not led Jiao Ting, and Bao Xu had led the Kushu Mountain troops to seize the state capital, Wei Dingguo would not have been able to retreat to Ling County to defend it. Shan Tinggui and Guan Sheng
He came to persuade him one after another, not knowing how much trouble this divine fire would bring to Liangshan.
In the ranking of Liangshan's five tigers, eight husks and sixteen xiaobiao generals, personal bravery and reputation have a greater impact. But in the case of Wei Dingguo and Shan Tinggui, two xiaobiao generals can compete with one tiger and two xiaobiao generals.
They have the upper hand in the confrontation. If they can be used properly, the role of the divine fire general and the holy water general on the battlefield will definitely not be limited to the level of deputy general.
Thinking of this, Xiao Tang admired Wei Dingguo and Shan Tinggui even more, and asked him for advice on military matters from time to time. Wei Dingguo and Shan Tinggui had heard about Xiao Tang's name for a long time, and saw that he was so humble and courteous to them.
Having a good impression of Xiao Tang, he joined forces with Suo, Hua Rong and other Xiao Tang's confidants and returned to Wei County, Daming Prefecture. They talked non-stop on the way to the garrison camp in Guantao area.
During the conversation, Xiao Tang also learned that although Shan Tinggui was known as the Holy Water General, most of the time he only assisted Wei Dingguo in battles. Wei Dingguo's character was as bold and bold as fire, while Shan Tinggui was restrained and restrained. The two of them complemented each other in every move and in silence.
Furthermore, Shan Tinggui's ability to flood the enemy depends on many conditions such as terrain and water potential. The "Wu Jing Zong Yao" has already recorded flying torches, swallow-tailed torches, whip arrows, iron fire beds, and iron boxes for traveling fire.
, igniting fireballs, violently igniting oil tanks and many other fire attack methods, Wei Dingguo, who likes fire attacks, can improve them and use them with great joy. Although water and fire are ruthless, he, the Holy Water General, can never lead five hundred sergeants with water guns.
Fight your rivals...
After Xiao Tang introduced Wei Dingguo, Shan Tinggui returned to the garrison camp and introduced him to Wen Da, Xue Yuanhui and others. After another six or seven days, the commander-in-chief and deputy commander of the expeditionary army, the old romantic Wang Huan, and the lone tiger Zhang Zhang finally met with Chen Zhu.
, Wu Bingyi and other generals led their troops to the Wei County garrison camp and joined forces with the Hebei Forbidden Army.
