Great Song Pirate

Chapter 690 The Battle of Xingzhong Mansion

A small grass stretched its young branches and leaves in the morning light, and there was a crystal clear dewdrop hanging on it. The earth was peaceful, but soon, the blades of the grass began to tremble, and the crystal dewdrop followed The shaking of the earth fell into the ground, quickly soaked into the soil, and disappeared.

A big foot stepped heavily on the grass, and then walked over it non-stop, and walked forward. After suffering such a catastrophe, the grass tried its best to stand up again, but what happened immediately It was more big feet that landed on its immature body, until it was trampled into a ball of mud and blended into the ground.

A large army maintained a strict formation in silence, led by a cavalry of 5000, marching forward like a long dragon, and horses galloped back and forth on both sides of the team, conveying various news, the officers from time to time Some will scold some lazy soldiers in the team, and drive those soldiers who want to fall behind back into the queue.

Xu Yi straddled a snow-white tall horse. This kind of war horse was very different from the Mongolian horse of the Jin Army. It was obviously taller than a Mongolian horse. It had long legs and a thin waist. Anyone with a discerning eye would know that it was a river meander horse. The horse was specially selected by his subordinate Li Bin from the Golden Horse Racecourse in Dading Prefecture, and was allocated to Xu Yi to ride on.

"How far is it to reach Xingzhong Mansion?" Xu Yi stretched his back on the horse, took the rein slightly, and asked Ma Zhe beside him.

Ma Zhe looked at the terrain around him, and after questioning a local soldier who followed him, he replied: "If you go back to my lord, this place has already passed Jianping, and it is about forty miles away from Xingzhong Mansion. If we maintain this speed, we will arrive outside Xingzhongfu city in the afternoon."

Xu Yi nodded to show that he understood, shook the reins again, and continued to walk forward under the protection of his personal guards, while Ma Zhe got off the horse and ran to a carriage specially prepared for him beside him. Urging the driver: "Hurry up, don't pull it down! Take a rest outside Xingzhong Mansion at night!"

He will not let his butt be worn out by the saddle anymore. Now when he rides a horse, he feels a dull pain in his tailbone, so he specially bought a carriage to accompany him. If he is tired from riding a horse, he can take a carriage instead. too much.

It is very different from when they first came from Jinzhou. At that time, only important generals and a small number of cavalry could ride horses. Now after they came out of Dading Mansion, they can say that the shotguns have changed. After the mules and horses, the army has basically become mules and horses. It is basically easy to march [-] miles a day, instead of running [-] miles a day like when I came here, and people who are exhausted will die.

Even the heavily armored infantry in the army don't have to wear heavy armor to advance. They can put all the armor on the mule cart and advance lightly on foot, so it is much easier to walk.

This time Xu Yi really couldn't stay in Dading Mansion anymore. After waiting for a month or two, Zongfu's Jin Army didn't even see a shadow. At most, he sent some scouts to wander around Dading Mansion. It became the target of the poisonous snake squad.

If Zongfu didn't think of a way, he would be wronged. During this period of time, he sent out many secret agents, taking advantage of the opportunity of the Fubo Army to recruit troops in Dading Mansion, and wanted to sneak into the city to cause some damage, but at this time, Dading The mansion has already been heavily guarded. As long as you stay in the city honestly after entering the city, it is not a big problem. But as long as there is any movement in these details, it will be reported and exposed immediately, and it will soon fall into the hands of the Fubo army. To show the public, there are now many meticulously crafted heads sent by Zongfu on the walls of Dadingfu.

Seeing that Zongfu didn't dare to come, it was not an option to wait like this, so after discussing with Li Bo and others, Xu Yi decided not to come, but to take the initiative to attack Xingzhong Mansion. This time he counted two Fifty thousand soldiers and horses sent troops out of Dading Mansion and rushed to Xingzhong Mansion. At the same time, they also ordered Jinzhou City to deliver a batch of siege artillery to Xingzhong Mansion to join him. The Zhanren elephant soldiers brought from Liuqiu Island at that time, now that the weather has turned hot, the elephant soldiers can be used again. This is Xu Yi's trump card. If they are there, even in field battles, he is really not afraid of gold. What's more, in comparison, his current strength and the elite level of soldiers are not necessarily worse than that of the Jin army.

In Xu Yi's eyes, Xingzhong Mansion is basically like a big meal, and it doesn't take much trouble to eat it. This is not because he has become arrogant now, but the result of training during this period of time. The troops in hand are very sufficient, and the people in the local area are also inclined to their Fubo army. Many of the people who joined the army were former generals of the Liao army. After a period of rigorous training, their combat effectiveness may not be as good as The gold soldiers are poor.

What surprised Xu Yi even more was that during the conscription this time, he thought that the cavalry might be all Khitans, but after listening to Li Bin's report, he realized that most of the cavalry were Han Chinese. I understand that in the north, Han people and Khitan people live together. There are Khitan people farming and Han people are nomadic. Therefore, among the Han people who have an absolute superiority in numbers, there are also some who are good at riding. Therefore, it is not surprising that there are many Han people in the cavalry.

Through careful investigation, the number of Zongfu's Jin army currently guarding Xingzhong Mansion is only more than 2, which is similar to the number he brought this time, but Xu Yi is confident that he will take down Xingzhong Mansion. His artillery advantage is here, and after meeting with the elephant soldiers, his troops are very powerful, whether attacking or defending. The north is really not afraid of any army, so Xu Yi is full of confidence in sending troops this time .

And the morale of the soldiers in the army is also high. After a month of rain, this group of people has also gained a lot of weight. They are holding back to go to the battlefield and show Xu Yi a show, so the army marched along the way The speed is very fast, and it took two days to get here.

Regarding Xu Yi's attack on Xingzhong Mansion this time, Zongfu also quickly learned the news. Even though Dang was frightened enough, he was not a timid person, but during this period of time, the fighting situation from various places made him Knowing how powerful the Fubo army is, both Zong Han and Zong Pan ended up in a disastrous defeat in Liaoyang Mansion, and even Zong Wang died. The big Zhongjing Dao basically has the surname Xu, but he can only shrink back In the Xingzhong Mansion, he kept sending troops to the surrounding areas to suppress those rebels, but he had no strength to deal with Dading Mansion. Now, it is good, if he does not go, they will come first, so he immediately summoned his men and started Set up an array in Xingzhong Mansion, ready to face the Fubo Army.

In his opinion, it is not necessarily a bad thing for the Fubo army to attack Xingzhong Mansion this time. He does not have the strength to attack Dading Mansion. It is also a good choice to deal with Xu Yi's army in Xingzhong Mansion. He does not believe it. Xu Yi's army of new recruits can defeat his generals in the field, so he is quite optimistic about the future battle situation. As long as he can defeat Xu Yi's army in Xingzhong Mansion, then he will be able to revive Although Jin Guo's prestige may not be able to recapture the Dading Mansion soon, at least it can let the rioters in Zhongjing Road see who is the most powerful, and they all fell to the Fubo Army.

So this time he personally went to the army to motivate the soldiers under his command and boost their morale. After Xu Yi arrived here, he would give them a hard lesson on Fubo Army.

But as soon as he got ready to fight, news from the scouts came back one after another. From the news, he felt something was wrong, because the scouts observed that Xu Yi's army was not as unbearable as he imagined. , It can even be called an elite soldier. He really couldn't figure out that Xu Yi trained these recruits into elite soldiers in such a short period of time, but now he has no choice but to meet Xu Yi. Let's make a difference.

Moreover, he also learned from the scouts that the Fubo Army of Jinzhou City also sent reinforcements to attack Xingzhong Mansion together with Xu Yi's army, and that the reinforcements sent by Jinzhou City this time were monsters from the legendary Fubo Army Jun, this time Zongsuke started to worry.

He collected a lot of information about Zonggan's defeat last year from various sources, and he knew that the Fubo Army had such a monster army, and it was the appearance of this monster army that caused the collapse of Zonggan's army , but later I never heard that the monster army of the Fubo Army appeared on the Liaodong battlefield, but I didn't expect to appear in Jinzhou City today.

After Zongfu carefully analyzed the information, and consulted some well-informed people, he came to the same conclusion as Zongwang had at the beginning, that is, this so-called monster army was not a monster, but a monster. War elephants shipped from the south, but even if he knew the existence of such war elephants, he couldn't deal with them. As northerners, they didn't know how to deal with such terrible animals as war elephants. After learning the news, he had no choice but to put away his underestimation of the enemy, shrink the camp of soldiers and horses outside the city a little, and set up deer villages to resist horses and other things everywhere, in order to be able to deal with the attack of the Fubo army's war elephants.

Facing the scorching sun above their heads, the Fubo army finally arrived ten miles outside Xingzhong Prefecture in the afternoon, and began to set up their positions here. Li Bin's cavalry arrived here first, and immediately fought against the cavalry sent by Zongfu. In the first battle, both sides were cavalry, and Li Bin knew the weakness of his own cavalry. When he found that the cavalry of the Golden Army tried to take advantage of their unsteady footing to attack their formation, he immediately gathered all his troops and formed a group. Occupied a dirt slope and used this as a position to face the two thousand elite cavalry of the Jin army.

The two sides fought a battle around this slope, each with some casualties, and the Jin army seemed to have taken advantage of it, but it failed to achieve the goal of defeating the Fubo army immediately. The Jin cavalry had no choice but to give up the attack and turned back to the Jin army camp, announcing the bankruptcy of Zongsuke's plan.

Although Zongfu did not achieve the goal of attacking the Fubo army head-on, he realized that the Fubo army was indeed not as bad as he had imagined at the beginning. Most of the opponent's cavalry were recruits. He broke up and fought them hard, killing more than 300 of his elite cavalry, so he became more careful.

But what he didn't expect was that the Fubo army had just set up their camp that night, and without waiting for a rest, they began to harass the Jin army's camp overnight, firing at least a hundred rockets into the Jin army's camp. De Zongfu couldn't fall asleep all night, let alone the soldiers under his command. As a result, when he woke up in the morning, everyone was yawning, with dark circles under their eyes, and their clothes were sluggish.

Zongfu now knows the despicableness of the Fubo Army. He has finally seen the rumored eagle fighting method today, but he is not too afraid. After all, he has heard of the Fubo Army's tactics He played despicably, so he immediately counted the number of soldiers killed in battle at night. After the final count, he found that the roar of the night did not actually cause serious losses to his golden army. It only killed and injured less than a hundred people. Basically unscathed, except that a few rockets hit the stables behind their camp, which shocked many horses and caused some confusion. If the cavalry wanted to fight today, they probably couldn't all go out.

After learning about the loss, the generals in his army felt relieved to some extent, and then rushed out of the camp aggressively, to scold the Fubo army, intending to take revenge for being unable to sleep all night.

The Fubo army was not polite, and immediately set out to fight. After the two sides set up an array outside the city, they looked towards the opponent's camp.

As a result, Zongfu couldn't help but fight a cold war. After seeing it, he knew that he was completely wrong. The Fubo Army was not what he imagined, but the flags and banners were unfurled, and the lineup was pruned. It looked a little chaotic, from the time they came out of the camp to set up their positions, all the soldiers and horses were in an orderly manner, without any feeling of miscellaneous soldiers.

"Xu Yi is really capable!" Zongfu couldn't help saying to the lieutenant beside him.

"Deputy Commander! The general is willing to meet the enemy generals first to see how capable they are. When I chop off one of the enemy generals' heads, we can boost our morale!" One of Zongfu's generals raised his horse When he came in front of Zongfu, he took the initiative to ask Ying to single out the generals of the Fubo army, planning to kill one of the opponent's generals first, and then boost the morale of the Jin army.

After Zongfu thought for a while, he looked at the well-organized formation of the Fubo Army from a distance, and nodded: "Yes, you go! As long as you cut off the head of the enemy general, I will immediately wave the army to cover up the kill, let Xu Yi from the Fubo Army, it would be nice to see how good our Jurchen athletes are!"

After the Jin general got the order, he immediately rode his horse and rushed out of the formation, rushed to the front of the formation of the two armies, raised his knife and began to yell at the formation of the Fubo army: "The thieves on the opposite side have listened. Come out and have a touch with the uncle, the uncle will show you how powerful our Dajin warriors are!"

Xu Yi sneered and looked at this clown-like golden general who was jumping in front of the two armies. He has no interest in such a one-on-one fight now, but he can't refuse when he encounters such a situation, otherwise, it will be very difficult for his own side. It will have some impact on the morale of the team, and this kind of one-on-one confrontation is common in this era, and he can't avoid it, so after pondering for a while, he nodded and said: "Li Bo, you should send someone out to fight, remember You can only lose but not win!"

Originally, Li Bo and other generals were gearing up, waiting to go out and teach this golden general a lesson, but when they heard Xu Yi's order, they immediately lost face. They always seek victory in wars, and there is no one who seeks defeat!So they all looked at Xu Yi, their eyes full of doubts.

"Don't look! Hurry up to someone and come back after a fight. My lord is going to have Yin Jin people again! Artillery, hurry up and get ready, the Jin people are doing this to hit our morale first, and then attack our big formation with troops." I want to ask for some cheapness to go back, you should understand what the lord means! You have followed the lord for so long, but you don’t even understand this, I really admire you!" At this time, Ma Zhe was waving a cattail fan to catch cold Feng came out from behind Xu Yi, and said to the generals with contempt on his face, originally he wanted to imitate Lord Zhuge, but this kind of virtue looks like a treacherous minister, and this guy's words are bad enough, let's go Li Bo The old subordinates who helped Xu Yi were all ruined.

The generals immediately understood Xu Yi's thoughts, but they all glared at Ma Zhe, cursing in their hearts that this guy is really not a good guy!But there is really nothing to do with him.

Xu Yi looked at Ma Zhe's attire, and was speechless. This guy was like a roundworm in his stomach, and he couldn't hide his thoughts from him. This attire was indeed cool, but no matter how you looked at it, it didn't please your eyes!
Now everyone knows Xu Yi's intentions, just now he was holding back to meet this golden general, but now he lost his energy, and they all hung their heads and refused to go out. If he said that, it would have a great impact on morale, so he scanned all the generals under him, and finally locked his eyes on Daniel.

"Daniu, you go and fight this battle! I don't worry about others going!" Li Bo said to Daniel.

Daniu's head shook like a rattle immediately, and he replied: "No! If I go, I can't guarantee that I will smash this guy to death. I can win the battle, but I can't cheat the defeat. The teacher should find someone else. Someone else!"

Li Bo stared and said: "I told you to go, so you go, what are you talking about? Today is yours, hurry up and get out! If you dare to talk too much, I will reward you with a military stick!"

In desperation, Daniu had no choice but to put his horse out of the battle and ran towards the enemy general. With a dark face, he raised his mace and smashed it, which scared the golden general. If you don't report your name, why don't you just fight when you come up?This is too ignorant of the rules!But when he saw Daniel coming, he had no choice but to fight. Daniel was patient and tried his best to use as little effort as possible to fight with the golden general. Even so, he still shocked the guy until his arms went numb and he was terrified. up.

Fortunately, after fighting for a few rounds, Daniel pretended to be invincible, turned around and ran away, the golden general was finally happy, Xin Dao encountered an idiot with only a little brute force today, so he immediately rode behind He chased after him, and was about to kill the bull under the horse.

Seeing that his own men had won, Zongfu immediately ordered the left and right cavalry to attack the flanks of the Fubo army, and the central army immediately moved forward and charged towards the large formation of the Fubo army.

The artillerymen have already loaded the cannons placed in front of the formation. In this case, they don't consider loading any flowering or solid ammunition, and directly fill a bag of iron sand and lead particles into it. The face-to-face charge is still the same. Things are the most lethal.

When Daniel retreated back to the formation, the golden general also took the reins, and triumphantly pointed at the formation of the Fubo army and yelled. The crossbowmen couldn't help staring at this guy, and one after another, they bowed their bows and fell to the ground, aiming at this guy. Following their chief officer's order, several people shot at the same time, and several crossbows shot out. It's ridiculous that this guy didn't react at all. Before he could make it out in time, he was pierced with a few holes on the spot, flew upside down and knocked off his horse.

After seeing this fellow fell to the ground, Zongfu felt that something was wrong. He knew that the Fubo Army's firearms were extremely sharp, and he had also seen the power of artillery in Jinzhou City. He always felt that things seemed to be going badly, so he wanted to order the army to withdraw Stop the pace, but after the army moves, it is not easy to stop, especially the cavalry on the two wings have increased the speed of the horses, it is impossible to stop the pace, so Zongsuke had to put away With this in mind, I thought about colliding with Fubo Army first, and seeing how powerful the opponent is.

Seeing that the cavalry of the Golden Army on the two wings was about to approach the large formation of the Fubo Army, the blast cannons arranged on the two wings ignited and rang almost simultaneously, and the iron sand swept towards the two cavalry of the Golden Army like a torrential rain. A cloud of snow and mist rose up, and then the cavalry in the lead fell to the ground almost at the same time, and then came the cloud of arrows rising from the two-winged soldiers, covering them like rain. Entered the Golden Army cavalry formation.

The formation of the cavalry of the two wings of the Golden Army suddenly became chaotic, and the frightened horses no longer listened to their masters' commands, and jumped up and down. After being enveloped by the rain of arrows, a large number of cavalry fell down immediately. Before he had time to let go, he was beaten until he was like a bird or a beast.

"Listen up, cavalrymen! Javelins are ready, let's fight!" Li Bin waved his big spear, and immediately ordered the cavalry standing behind the pikemen and crossbowmen on the two wings of the formation, the pikemen and crossbowmen in front immediately As soon as the formation changed, several gaps were opened in the neat formation, making way for the cavalry.

The cavalrymen didn't get any cheap in the battle with the Golden Army cavalry yesterday, and they were all full of anger. When they saw the opponent's cavalry in chaos, they knew that it was time for them to take advantage of it. Following Li Bin's order, everyone rushed Pulled out a javelin from behind, and then rushed out from the lined up formation.

At this time, the Chinese infantry of the Golden Army also lined up in a neat formation, step by step approaching the range of the artillery of the Fubo Army. Following the order of the artillery commander, more than a dozen artillery pieces fired almost simultaneously. Even if there are only a dozen Leigong cannons firing at the same time, it is still a very terrifying thing in the eyes of these golden troops. Although their frontline spearmen are heavily armored, they seem to be under the flying iron particles. Without any defensive effect, a dozen or so gaps fell in front of the queue.

(End of this chapter)