Changfeng Thousands of Miles End Han Song

Chapter 497

The equipment of the Xingzhou garrison is very crude.Just because this place was once captured by Tian Hu, Yiying's military reserves no longer exist.

It can be seen from Li Gang's compilation of military training and bravery.Not to mention bed crossbows and divine arm bows, none of which are available, even bows and arrows are mostly civilian bows.

The Zhongyong army under the city and the Liangshan army and horses at a later stage had the same crude equipment. They rushed all the way to Xingzhou, let alone Liangshan cannons and other siege weapons, not even a ladder cart or bed crossbow.

The fight under the city of Xingzhou was undoubtedly a low-tech fight.

——Strong bows and crossbows have a limited range, and their relative lethality is even more ordinary.

The only thing that can be expected on the top of the city is that there is no shortage of arrows, and Li Gang has arranged rolling logs and rocks early, and built a battle shed at the top of the city, and arranged countless bamboo and wooden stands.

In an instant, the bowstring on the top of the city rang, and the sharp arrows were like locusts!
The Zhongyong Army only used long cards to protect the top of their heads, and then connected the front and back to protect the torso.A hail of arrows came flying in, but they could only make a "doo" sound from the long cards without seeing any practical use.It's like a heavy rain hitting the roof tiles. People in the room can only hear the sound but see no effect.

The long plaques on the left and right wings were erected, and the archers from the top of the city shot from the two wings, but it didn't work.What's more, the peripheral soldiers are all wearing heavy armor, even if they are shot in the waist, legs, shoulders and arms, it is not suitable for use.

The entire shield array is like a big tortoise shell, moving forward steadily without any chaos.

Li Ganghu's heart hurts so much, if there are more bed crossbows in Xingzhou City, how dare the bandits be so presumptuous?

But he could only watch helplessly as the tortoise shell formation formed by the Zhongyong Army, facing the arrows on the top of the city, reached fifty paces below the city.Then, with super-intensive firepower, he instantly covered a section of the city wall in front of him with arrows and crossbows.

Compared with the total number of crossbowmen above and below the city, naturally the majority were on the city.We can have a shield array, but what is the concept of forming a shield array that can cover thousands of crossbowmen?
There is no need for Wang Yan to do this, nor would he be so unwise.He only needs to form multiple shield formations with his soldiers and horses, and attack in turn, which is enough to make it difficult for the city to parry.

Moreover, he wanted all the archers and crossbowmen in the turtle shell array to concentrate on shooting. Even if the archers at the top of the city were protected by war tents, standing signs and female wall battlements, they would still suffer a lot of losses.Moreover, the manpower is sometimes exhausted. It is very rare for an ordinary archer to bend the bow and shoot twenty times. This is not shooting a gun, and the continuity between them is very different.

But if the defenders at the top of the city want to maintain the continuity of the archers, they can only mobilize troops and horses.Withdraw the original archers and mobilize intact archers from both sides to fill the vacancy.But don't forget, this is a battlefield, and the defenders are a group of rookies. They are already nervous, and they move back and forth on the narrow city wall like this. Strange!
In fact it is.

In order to maintain the combat effectiveness of the archers, Li Gang could only frequently mobilize archers to fill their positions, causing chaos at the top of the city.

Wang Yan saw the timing and personally led a group of armored soldiers forward.One side of the wooden stand stands in the front, and when there is no threat of bed crossbow, the wooden stand is more useful than the shield chariot.

The team went straight to the bottom of the city, and the three-foot-wide moat could not be a natural moat.When bundles of dry firewood were put into the moat, and when wooden rafts were pressed down, a two-foot-wide passage was soon paved.

A series of simple long ladders were set up at the top of the city. The loyal and brave soldiers in armor were holding shields, and they all climbed up with ants in hand.

On the top of the city, arrows rained like rain, and rolling logs and rocks kept falling, but the loyal and brave army continued to surge forward.

Li Zongzhi led a large number of armored soldiers to the top of the city, but he couldn't restrain the momentum of the loyal and brave army.Wang Yan made up his mind in this battle, how could it be so easy to stop?It must be known that Liang Shanjun was watching behind them.

Defeating the enemy in the first battle, at any rate, also raised the face of these surrendered troops.It would be a shame to collide with such a city without breaking down.

Lu Zhishen was wearing armor and still had a layer of monk's robes on the outside. But standing in front of thousands of troops, he didn't look like a monk. He was as tall as an iron tower and his dark face was covered with beards.Now his eyes were fixed on the fighting below the city, and Yu Wangyan felt very satisfied. "The prince really has a good general."

While speaking, he saw a general flying into the city, wielding a steel knife in his hand, killing several people in a blink of an eye.Ask the defenders at the head of the city to take pictures.

"Kill—" Li Zongzhi shouted hysterically!This person must be suppressed as soon as possible, the bandit army on the top of the city is increasing all the time, and if the number increases, bad things will inevitably happen.

The hundreds of unarmored soldiers on the two wings of the formation also moved after hearing the wind, like a pair of iron tongs, outflanking from both ends!

His roar also made Wang Yan see his target. With a shield in one hand and a sword in the other, he rushed towards Li Zongzhi to kill him.

Lu Zhishen held up the binoculars, he was like a dead stone, and there was no movement for a quarter of an hour.Fang put down the binoculars, let out a long breath, and immediately heard the deafening cheers of the loyal and brave soldiers from above and below the city.

In the crowd, Wang Yan held a knife in one hand and Li Zongzhi's head in the other, shouting loudly.The morale of the Zhongyong Army was greatly boosted, but the morale of the defenders plummeted.

"Socha."

Lu Zhishen ordered the general immediately, and the vanguard took the order awe-inspiringly. He heard the sound of drums in the Liangshan army's formation, and a thousand armored soldiers rushed straight to the city wall with the sound of the drums.This is to support my little brother, a sense of happiness instantly rises from the hearts of the Zhongyongjun.If so, the morale of the loyal and brave army will be even better.

Before Suo Chao arrived with a golden ax in hand, Wang Yan beheaded the Xingzhou Bingdu Supervisor, leaving a group of training envoys to flee desperately.And Li Gang led a hundred people to guard the gate tower, guarding the upper and lower passages on both sides of here.

"Fire arrows..."

A large number of loyal and brave troops had rushed to the top of the city, and Wang Yan was not a reckless general, so he asked people to shoot first, and then a hundred heavy armored soldiers rushed in.

Li Gang now has a way of looking down on life and death. Ever since Li Zongzhi was beheaded, his heart has died.I hate that after months of hard work, he was defeated so easily by the bandits. I hate that he can't have a few bandits.

"If you kill a thief with your heart, you can't bring yourself back to heaven; if you kill a thief with your heart, you can't bring yourself back to heaven." After speaking, he drew his sword and cut his neck, and died cleanly.

At present, Li Gang is still unknown. Therefore, as a magistrate, he will die when he dies.Lu Qian didn't feel it was a pity when he received the letter. Li Gang's father and two brothers were officials in the Song Dynasty. It was almost impossible for him to surrender. In his heart, he didn't think Li Gang was a great talent, so he died.

His gaze had already crossed Xingzhou and came to Zhaozhou.

To the north of Zhaozhou is Zhending, and to the west is Shenzhou. At the beginning, Tian Hu almost fell here, but now King Tian is going to make a comeback.

The Hejian Mansion was thrown to the Liangshan Army by him, and the whole army had already entered Shenzhou.Helpless, Tian Hu didn't want to lose Hejian either.The terrain here is flat and fertile, and the water source is plentiful. If it is possible, Tian Hu is not willing to throw Hejian to the Liangshan army in vain.But this is all helpless.

Tian Hu claimed to be the King of Jin, not to mention that the Liangshan Army has always taken him in without a doubt, even if he showed his intentions, Tian Hu would not dare to agree.

Looking at the historical records, how many people who went to the king's title and surrendered can live the rest of their lives in peace?

Don't think that Zhao Da and Zhao Er treated the Wu Yue Qian family preferentially and honored, just think that the latter one lived comfortably, that was just a special case.

Empress Li didn't mention it, and Empress Xiao Zhou's humiliation didn't mention it, so let's see the next game of Houshu King Meng Chang?Meng Chang descended to the Song Dynasty and was captured to the capital.You can see it.

Therefore, Tian Hu can only go out.

The Liao Kingdom in the north is a giant with mud feet, but the Khitan people have accumulated power for a hundred years, and he is still not something he dares to provoke.Tian Hu couldn't see the way ahead, so he could only follow the Liangshan Army's wishes and head west.

Shenzhou was not their shelter, Zhaozhou and Zhending were not their shelters, and Liang Shanjun didn't give an accurate statement, they just wanted them to go west.

If Tian Hu planned to return to Hedong for the time being, if Liangshan's army took Tai as the boundary line, then he would be able to manage Hedong for a while, and avoid the current embarrassment.

Now he has no guts to attack the Guanzhong in the west, has no guts to provoke the Liao Kingdom, and provokes Xixia, but he is still gutless, which makes Tian Hu very aggrieved!But when facing the envoys of the Liangshan Army, he still greeted them with a smile.

In fact, Tian Hu was not the only one who had a great change in the perception of the Liangshan Army, but also the Khitan Daliao in the north.

Bao Xu led 300 people to make waves in the south of Nanjing Road. The Liangshan Army in Cangzhou was only two days late and sent troops to the west.The Khitan soldiers at the bottom may not connect the two, but in the eyes of those high-ranking Khitan nobles, Song Jiang is already close to fighting with open flames.

The Sangmen God caused a lot of trouble for the Khitan people, but never broke through the "bottom line" - inserting into the hinterland of Nanjing Road. This is an obvious example in the eyes of the Khitan nobles.

But can they use this as an excuse to turn against Liang Shanjun?The latter sent Chen Guan, urging the Khitan people not to go south, otherwise the Liangshan army would take necessary measures.

Chen Guan also brought a letter written by Lu Qian to the Khitan people-I will not attack if people do not attack me; if people attack me, I will attack.

The sixteen big characters can only be said to be written so-so, but the pen is as sharp as a knife, but it is full of awe-inspiring murderousness.

He has a memory of the Liao army's "Dacaogu". When the army went out in the early Liao Dynasty, the troops were not given food and grass.To put it bluntly, the army dispatched no logistics and food to attack, and all supplies were obtained by looting on the spot.

Ding Zhuang was killed by the sharp edge, and the old and weak were entrusted with ravines. From the east and southwest Ji and Zheng, Hua, Cao, and Pu, for hundreds of miles, wealth and livestock were exhausted.

This is the description of the Battle of Chanzhou by the literati of Zhao and Song Dynasties.

At that time, the Liao Kingdom was still in its heyday, and the grassland was already so fierce, but if it were changed to the present, the Liao army, which was forced to complain to the extreme, flooded into the Han territory, wouldn't it be like falling into the treasure mountain with the poor Same?Sweep everything?
Even if Lu Qian could encourage Tian Hu to jump out of the cage and disturb half of Hebei, he could not just watch millions of people in the northern border fall into the hands of the Khitans.

The Khitan people were naturally very angry with Lu Qian's attitude and Song Jiang's methods.But they will not openly tear themselves apart with the Liangshan army. This is not what it used to be, and Khitan is not what it used to be.

Their method is to raise troops and horses to suppress Bao Xu, and at the same time go to the southern country to make a fortune.The other is to ask people to drive Chen Guan and his party out of the post house to show their attitude.

(End of this chapter)