"Di Qing came here on a starry night journey. We are exhausted and need to rest. Let's wait until the enemy approaches to see first. If we can handle it, we don't need to call Di Qing. If we can't handle it, we can call Di Qing over."
After thinking about it for a while, Kou Ji spoke decisively.
Zhong Shiheng pondered for a moment and nodded.
Chen Lin said solemnly from the side: "How can our family help?"
Kou Ji and Zhong Shiheng looked at each other, but Zhong Shiheng was speechless.
Kou Ji asked: "How many people did you bring?"
Chen Lin did not hide anything and said: "There are only six people on the surface, but there are three hundred people secretly."
Kou Ji nodded and said: "Send out the three hundred people you secretly brought with you to closely monitor the enemy's movements."
Chen Lin asked doubtfully: "Aren't there scouts on the battlefield?"
Kou Ji explained: "The enemy is not a regular soldier, 70% of them are murderers, and there is no way to fight. From the beginning to the end, we are not afraid that the enemy can defeat us. What we are really afraid of is the swarm of enemies."
Come here and pass through our blockade from everywhere.
Once they get through our blockade and break into pieces to cause chaos behind our back, it will be a big trouble for us."
Chen Lin heard this and nodded: "We understand. Do you want our people to keep an eye on it to prevent enemies from passing through this place from other places?"
Kou Ji nodded.
Chen Lin said in a deep voice: "Then our family intervened in the war and killed the enemy. You won't be held accountable, right?"
Kou Ji said decisively: "As long as your men have the strength, you can kill as many as you want. All our enemies, as long as they don't put down their weapons and kneel down to ask for surrender, we will kill them all."
Chen Lin said: "Then our family will have no problem. We will go down and pass the order."
After Chen Lin said this, she took a step and walked down the mountain.
Zhong Shiheng stared at Chen Lin's leaving figure and sighed: "I didn't expect that Chen Lin also has a heart to serve the country."
Kou Ji glanced at Zhong Shiheng and said angrily: "Although he lacks some things, his spirit is not inferior to ours."
Zhong Shiheng was stunned and said suspiciously: "Don't you have trouble dealing with him?"
Kou Ji asked: "Who told you?"
Zhong Shiheng did not answer.
Kou Ji snorted and said: "Other people don't regard eunuchs as human beings, but I regard them as human beings. Chen Lin sometimes hates them, but in terms of safeguarding the country of Song Dynasty and protecting the lives and reputations of the officials,
, he cares more than anyone else.
Although we often quarreled, we were never hostile to each other."
Zhong Shiheng shook his head and said, "I admit, I said the wrong thing, okay?"
Kou Ji snorted again.
"Da da da..."
Just as he landed with a groan, the sound of rapid horse hooves sounded on the hillside.
Kou Ji and Zhong Shiheng followed the sound and saw Di Qing, a tall man with a handsome face, wearing heavy armor, carrying a heavy gun in his hand, and rushing up the hill with a musket astride his horse.
Di Qing was riding a BMW, so even if he was rushing up a gentle slope, his speed would not be slow.
After rushing to the top of the mountain, he raised his front hooves and neighed.
The man and horse seemed to have become one under the sunlight.
Golden light filled the bodies of men and horses.
When Kou Ji and Zhong Shiheng saw this scene, their mouths twitched.
It doesn't matter if you are a bitch or a person, it doesn't matter if you are good-looking, you are still trying to be cool.
Really in need of a fight.
Zhong Shiheng turned his head and said to Kou Ji: "You shouldn't have recognized him as your brother in the first place."
Kou Ji looked at Zhong Shiheng and said, "In that case, you can justifiably scratch his face?"
Zhong Shiheng nodded without any concealment.
Kou Ji confessed: "When I first met him, I had the same idea. But later I figured it out. I am handsome on the inside, and he is handsome on the outside. After a few decades, his external handsomeness will definitely disappear.
But the beauty within me still exists."
Zhong Shiheng couldn't help but rolled his eyes.
While they were talking, Di Qing had already jumped off his horse and walked up to the two of them.
"Brother... we share the same knowledge..."
Di Qing bowed and saluted Kou Ji and Zhong Shiheng.
Kou Ji asked: "Didn't I ask you to take your people down to rest? Why did you come here?"
Di Qing hurriedly said: "I just finished setting up the tent and heard the sound of a huge number of horse hooves, so I came up to take a look. But the enemy is coming?"
Kou Ji didn't hide anything and nodded.
Di Qing said hurriedly: "Then I will go and order all the troops and horses now to prepare to meet the enemy."
Kou Ji raised his hand to stop Di Qing, "Don't worry, let's see how many enemies there are. If Zhong Shiheng's soldiers and horses can handle it, you and your soldiers and horses will rest first.
It won't be too late to join the battlefield when you have gathered enough energy."
Di Qing heard this and said in a deep voice: "Brother, judging from the sound of horse hooves, there are quite a few enemies."
Kou Ji stared at Di Qing and said: "I also know that there are many enemies, and most of them are murderers. It is precisely because of this that you and your soldiers and horses should rest.
The thugs fought without any rules. When the fighting started, they didn't know when it would stop.
In order to get here, you and your troops worked hard for two days and two nights without rest.
It would be bad if you show your tiredness when fighting the enemy and the enemy takes advantage of you and injures your life.
Our Forbidden Army officers are much more valuable than those murderers.
You should not suffer humiliation at the hands of thugs just because you are tired."
Zhong Shiheng nodded at the side and said: "What Privy Kou said is reasonable. Even if our officers and soldiers die, they will die in the hands of powerful enemies. Only in this way can we be worthy of our title of "Forbidden Army."
Di Qing heard the persuasion from Kou Ji and Zhong Shiheng and did not mention the dispatch of troops again.
"Then let the soldiers under my command rest first. I will guard here. When they need to go into battle, I will send someone to wake them up."
Di Qing said seriously.
Kou Ji was stunned and said, "Why don't you go down and rest for a while?"
Di Qing said to Kou Ji with some embarrassment: "I can't sleep listening to the sound of the enemy's horse hooves."
Kou Jili was happy.
Zhong Shiheng also became happy.
People who fight on the battlefield all year round always have some quirks.
Cao Wei is a dreamer and can always dream about the enemy's attack. Once the dream approaches, he will wake up unconsciously, then grab the nearest weapon and rush out.
It wasn't until he rushed out of his home a few dozen feet that he finally woke up.
Di Qing was so pure that he could not sleep as long as the sound of the enemy's hoofbeats echoed in his ears.
Zhong Shiheng likes to sleep with a knife in his arms. If there is no sword in his arms, he cannot sleep.
Zhu Neng had to drink before going to bed. Only if he drank too much, he would not have the enemy hovering in his mind after he lay down.
This is nothing unusual in the military.
Most generals in the army have some habits that have been affected by war.
Some soldiers have quirks even with their eyes open.
Some people suddenly go crazy and kill people, and some people suddenly go crazy and bang their heads against the wall.
Kou Ji summarized their quirks into two types, one is a habit honed by fighting on the battlefield for a long time; the other is mental illness.
There were no political commissars or psychiatrists in the ancient army.
Therefore, everything experienced on the battlefield needs to be digested by oneself.
In later generations, when soldiers in the army go out to perform tasks and kill evildoers, psychiatrists and political commissars will immediately intervene to intervene in their hearts.
In ancient times, no one cared about it at all.
Whether you kill someone on the battlefield or watch your companions being killed, after you get off the battlefield, you need to digest it yourself.
Whether you can digest it or not, no one cares.
Once there is a war and you need to go into battle, you must go into battle.
It is precisely because of this that some officers in the army who have served for a long time have more or less quirks.
Di Qing's quirks are relatively benign, so Kou Ji and Zhong Shiheng laugh.
However, the smiles on their faces did not last long before they were awakened by the sound of an explosion.
"The enemy has entered the place where the mines are laid."
Zhong Shiheng said in a deep voice.
The three of them walked to the top of the mountain together and looked north.
Under the gaze of the three people, a troop of soldiers and horses appeared on the horizon.
Then there was an overwhelming crowd, blocking nearly half of the grassland where the three people could see.
"Look at the opponent's posture, they want the whole army to attack!"
Di Qing saw the other party approaching aggressively and couldn't help but speak.
Zhong Shiheng stared at the enemy and said solemnly: "If they don't take the entire army, they won't have a chance to break through our blockade."
Di Qing looked at the opponent's unorganized formation and nodded slowly.
"The opponent is obviously a mob. If you take people out and charge for a while, if you kill all their energy, they should disperse in a rush."
Di Qing nodded and said thoughtfully.
The mob generally has little perseverance and little courage to fight.
As long as you kill them hard and let them clearly understand how much they weigh, they will decisively surrender or flee.
The Song Dynasty court almost always used this trick when suppressing rebellions.
When facing a large number of rebels, you only need to seize the opportunity to give the rebels a head-on blow and make the rebels realize that they are no match for the official army.
The rebels will either surrender immediately or flee in all directions.
The next war will be fought by the government and the army chasing the rebels.
After hearing what Di Qing said, Kou Ji shook his head and said: "We have muskets and artillery, which are enough to deal with the enemy. There is no need to go out and take risks."
Di Qing hesitated and said: "It will take a long time for him to rush over and kill him."
Taking the initiative to rush out and kill the enemy has a completely different deterrent effect on the enemy than waiting for the enemy to rush over and then kill.
Killing with a strong attitude is far more intimidating than waiting for the enemy to come over and then kill.
This is why Di Qing always likes to take the lead in the charge when fighting.
Di Qing understood the saying "The strongest defense is offense" very clearly.
Kou Ji knew Di Qing's thoughts and the benefits of Di Qing's proposal, but he did not agree. He patted Di Qing's uninjured shoulder and said: "We can afford it, so there is no need to go out to kill. Of course, going out to kill can scare the enemy, but there are risks.
Also big.
The number of enemies is huge. If they are surrounded and attacked from all sides, the soldiers and horses that rush out will be easily annihilated by the enemies.
Now, the trend is ours and we don’t need to take risks.”
Di Qing pondered for a moment and nodded.
After Di Qing and Kou Ji finished speaking, Zhong Shiheng stared at the enemies rushing towards him and said: "It's roughly half a million, which is about the same as what the scouts found."
Kou Ji asked: "Let me go and fight, or should I fight now?"
Zhong Shiheng said without any hesitation: "Give them a few shots first to scare them."
Kou Ji nodded and said no more.
Then the battlefield became Zhong Shiheng's home field.
Zhong Shiheng watched the enemy approach step by step while giving orders in an orderly manner.
As he passed on his military orders one by one, the 100,000 troops and horses under his command were all ready to fight.
By the time Zhong Shiheng's order was almost issued, the enemy was approaching the ravine.
"kill!"
The enemy had no intention of shouting, nor did they do any pre-war mobilization.
When they approached the ravine, they decisively gave the order to charge and kill.
After receiving the order, the enemy at the front whipped his horse vigorously and rushed over with great momentum.
"Bang!"
Don't wait for the Song Dynasty soldiers to take action.
They once again stepped on the fire mines laid by the soldiers of the Song Dynasty.
The soldiers of the Song Dynasty had a short time to lay mines, so most of the mines were deployed close to the battlefield.
Only a small number of land mines were carried by scouts and deployed to relatively distant places.
As the first fire mine exploded, other fire mines also exploded.
"Bang! Bang! Bang!"
The sound of the explosion spread inside and outside the ravine.
For the enemies in the explosion area, those who were bombed were knocked upside down and screamed countless times.
When the soldiers of the Song Dynasty deployed ground fire mines, they arranged them very densely.
The enemies had no formation and came swarming over, covering most of the area outside the ravine, so running into land mines was inevitable.
"Prepare!"
After Zhong Shiheng saw that the mines and mines had given the enemy a head-on blow, he prepared to order the artillery troops to greet the enemy with artillery.
Just after shouting two words, Zhong Shiheng couldn't shout anymore.
Because there was a dramatic scene on the battlefield.
The enemies at the forefront actually ran away from both wings and retreated back into their army after being ambushed by fire and thunder.
Zhong Shiheng stared at the battlefield in astonishment, his hand stiffly raised in the air, neither putting it down nor continuing to hold it up.
Kou Ji and Di Qing also looked shocked. After they looked at each other, they looked dumbfounded.
"So, those people died in vain, and those thunders were in vain?!"
Kou Ji couldn't help but ask.
Di Qing nodded and said, "I died in vain..."
Zhong Shiheng pondered and said: "It only killed and injured hundreds of people. For the enemy, it did not harm the bones. If my prediction is correct, the enemy should send regular troops and horses to drive them away.
Let the thugs rush over."
Kou Ji and Di Qing nodded.
The thugs obviously don't have the courage to fight to the death and fight bloody battles, so if they were conscious, they would not charge forward to die.
They will only charge if regular soldiers and horses are supervising the battle from behind and forcing them to charge forward.
Soon, the enemy proved Zhong Shiheng's words with actual actions.
After the murderers retreated, a group of soldiers and horses that were obviously different from them rushed out from the army and killed some of the leaders among the murderers.
Then another group of thugs were assigned, and together with the thugs who had escaped earlier, they were driven towards the battlefield.
Forced by the sword, the criminals who had escaped before had to set foot on the battlefield again.
But they charged again, obviously much more cautious.
They charged very slowly and avoided the minefield that had exploded previously.
However, they can avoid the landmines under their feet, but they cannot avoid the artillery shells above their heads.
After the murderers rushed into the range of the artillery.
Zhong Shiheng barely hesitated and waved down the hand he had raised for a long time.
"Bang bang bang bang bang..."
Hundreds of artillery fired volleys.
The sound is uniform and very pleasant.
As soon as it fell into the ears of the murderers, it became a death-inducing demonic sound.
They looked up at the place where the roar of artillery came from, and saw round cannonballs flying towards their cheeks.
Don't wait for their reaction.
The cannonballs exploded one by one.
The murderers fell off their horses one by one like dumplings.
The horses were wounded by shells and began to rampage.
The murderers' charging steps were abruptly stopped in place, and they became a mess.
Screams were everywhere, blood and flesh were flying everywhere, and the scene was quite tragic.
The murderers who were charging behind saw the murderers in front of them suffering numerous casualties under the bombardment of artillery shells, and they stopped abruptly one by one.
Some timid men, not caring about the regular soldiers and horses behind them who were supervising the battle, began to turn their horses' heads and flee back.
The enemy's offensive momentum was interrupted again.
Among the enemy troops, several leading men looked at the mines and artillery strikes with despair in their hearts.
They have been in rebellion for more than half a year and have fought many battles.
But there is no battle that makes people feel as frustrated and desperate as the one in front of them.
Two charges were launched, with nearly ten thousand people attacking.
From the beginning to the end, the Song army was beaten back without even touching its hair.
The Song army was stronger than any enemy they had ever experienced.
They were fighting against the Song army and felt in a trance.
It feels like we are on different levels.
It feels like we are not fighting a war of the same era.
"Chief Walker Terrace, what do you think?"
An older man looked sideways at a middle-aged man next to him and asked in a heavy voice.
The middle-aged man said with a stern face: "The Song army... is invincible."
"The Song army is invincible, so we must outwit it. Before winter, we defeat the Song army and return to our pasture. Otherwise, our pasture will become the pasture of the Song people."
If the God of Everlasting Heaven knows that we failed to keep the pasture He gave us, he will definitely punish us."
Among the seven people at the top of the army, one is a woman, and it is that woman who is speaking now.
The woman was in her thirties, with colorful paintings on her face. She looked like a priest on the grassland, but unlike the priest, she was not wearing anything like a robe, but instead she was wrapped in a thick bearskin coat.
He was holding a stick with a sheep skull hanging on it, which made him look a bit like a priest.
The older man heard the woman's words, frowned slightly and said: "Tuktu Duduoyi, it's okay to fool the people with your longevity, don't fool us, we won't follow your tricks."
Those who can become the masters of a branch are all smart people, and no one believes in religion.
Tuktududuoy also knew that her trick would not work on the other people, so she just snorted without saying anything.
It's not like she hasn't tried to influence other people through the oracle of Changshengtian, but she hasn't succeeded, and she was even threatened by others, so she restrained herself in front of these people.
If anyone else had questioned Changshengtian, she might have used the sheep bone staff in her hand and smashed the other person's head.
Walkertai ignored this lunatic who was making trouble through religion. He said to the older man: "Now is not the time for bickering. Now we should think about how to defeat the Song people."
The older man pondered for a moment, then looked at a man in his forties not far away who had a shaved head and two pigtails on his ears, and said: "Chief Tuoba, are you from?
Those who escaped from the hands of the Song people should be killed by the Song army. Tell me, how should we resist the Song army's firearms?
How can we defeat the Song people?"
Tuoba Ye shook the braid beside his ear, frowned and said: "I'll say it again, I didn't escape from the Song people. I defeated the Song people and came out of the Xixia homeland in an upright manner.
One day, I will defeat the Song people and take back the homeland that belongs to my Tuoba tribe."
Hearing this, Tuktu Duduoyi said with a sarcastic face: "If you can't pass this test, you will definitely be captured by the Song people and taken back as a slave."
Tuoba Ye was furious when he heard this, "I, the warrior of Tuoba tribe, will never be a slave! You humiliate me, warrior of Tuoba tribe, like this, I will kill you."
"Enough!"
The older man roared angrily and said: "In the face of a powerful enemy, how can we be noisy and noisy? Tuktu Duduoyi, where is that smart Song man under your command?"
Ask him if he has any way to deal with the Song people's firearms."
Tuktu Duduoyi said with an indifferent expression: "He refused to serve me, and I have already torn out his heart and lungs to pay homage to the Immortal Heaven."
The older man's face darkened, "I said, I can redeem him with five hundred sheep."
Tuktudu Doi said unceremoniously: "I don't care about the sheep, I only care about whether he is willing to serve the messenger of the gods. Anyone who is unwilling to serve the messenger of the gods should be put to death."
The older man glared at Tuktududuoy and didn't want to deal with this crazy woman anymore.
He stared at Tuoba Ye and said: "You should have seen the Song people using firearms to fight. Have you ever seen anyone resist the Song people's firearms?"
Tuoba Ye frowned and said, "I have never seen anyone who can withstand Song people's firearms."
The older man gritted his teeth and said, "Is it impossible to restrain the firearms in the hands of Song people?"
"Maybe use a shield..."
Someone suggested.
As soon as these words came out, they were immediately refuted by others, "Shield?! Can a shield protect the head and feet?"
As soon as these words came out, the seven people fell into silence.
After being silent for a long time, Tuoba Ye gritted his teeth and said: "If we can't resist the Song people's firearms, we will have no choice but to rush over.
Although the Song people's firearms are powerful, they cannot kill us all at once.
We have an absolute advantage in numbers.
We rush forward together, and the Song people will never be able to stop us."