Troubled Times: Start with 800 Dead Soldiers

Hu Shiwen shook his head: "It's too late, it's too late! I gave you a chance but you didn't use it."

"Chen Dujian, I think you can be changed to a vanguard officer and lead the troops directly to Qingzhou Prefecture. Do you think it's feasible?"

"I will obey the general's orders!"

"Master Duan, your cavalry will rest for a while. When Master Chen's army breaks through the Qingzhou army, it will be up to you to attack again. As long as we work together, it will not be a problem to wipe out the Su Xia bandits!"

Chen Chen, the Supervisor of the Military and Horse Command in Zhengzhou, was not a good military general. Compared with Duan Pengju, he was far behind.

However, the relationship between Chen Chen and Hu Shiwen can be said to be extraordinary.

These people all thought that Su Xia's rebellion was not worth mentioning. As long as he sent out his troops, they could be wiped out in minutes.

Duan Pengju was previously selected as the vanguard officer, firstly because of Duan Pengju's personal martial arts skills, and secondly because Duan Pengju's cavalry unit was the most well-equipped and well-trained among the armies.

If Duan Pengju is not allowed to be the vanguard officer of the entire army, it seems somewhat unjustifiable in name.

If Ma Jun is not the vanguard, who will be?

Therefore, Duan Pengju was chosen to serve as the vanguard officer of the entire army.

Seeing that Duan Pengju's attack on the front line was thwarted and his troops were lost before he could fight, although he did not lose too much vitality, it gave him a reason to replace him.

For this reason, Duan Pengju was unhappy.

After all, who wants to do this if the back team becomes the front team?

Duan Pengju snorted coldly and stopped talking. After a while, he actually told his soldiers and horses to rest and adjust where they were!

The troops were originally insufficient, but at this moment, the army led by Duan Pengju was allowed to rest and recuperate until Chen Chen led the [-] infantry to attack. Only Hu Shiwen could do this!

Su Xia was also surprised by Hu Shiwen's operation. He never expected that Duan Pengju's cavalry army would be changed from vanguard to rearguard!

The main force of the attack was changed from the cavalry army to Chen Chen's infantry army!

Chen Chen's infantry is equipped with ordinary Song army equipment. Due to the problem of free payment, the actual training of these 3000 forbidden troops is only more than [-], and more than [-] of them are temporarily recruited refugees, with extremely high combat effectiveness. Difference!

However, in the minds of Chen Chen and Hu Shiwen, Su Xia and the others are just a bunch of rabble!

As long as the army attacks, Su Xia and the others will surely fall apart!

Facing Chen Chen was Zeng Keda, the former commander of the Armed Guards and the current captain of the Third Army Corps of the National Defense Army!

According to Su Xia's arrangement, his Third Corps will pretend to retreat!

A person with ten thousand people is boundless, and a person with a hundred thousand people can reach the sky!

On the wall of Gaoqing City, Zeng Keda was wearing a brand-new uniform of the National Protectorate Army. He used the monocular telescope Su Xia gave him to look at the scene in front of him. He kept shaking his head and silently said: "There are quite a few people here, but What kind of formation is this charge? How can there be such a fight? The team has dispersed!"

The deputy general on the side stared blankly: "Captain, why did Mr. Su ask us to abandon Gaoqing City? I see that their attack formation is very scattered. Although our Third Corps only has 6000 people, we should have no problem blocking them!"

"Of course there is no problem in blocking them. Even if there are another [-] or [-] bear soldiers, we can block them. But what's the use of blocking them? Kill three thousand enemies and lose eight hundred to yourself? Mr. Su said that we must flexibly destroy the enemy. Gaoqing City is originally the buffer zone between the two places, it is not our territory, it doesn’t matter if we lose it, tell brothers, let me shoot arrows, shoot a batch of arrows first, and hold on!"

"Yes, Captain!"

On the city wall, the crossbowmen began to fire arrows together!

From time to time, arrows fell into the group of charging Song soldiers, causing casualties!

The tentative attack was temporarily defeated!

The deputy general leading the team exaggerated to Chen Chen: "General, the arrows in their hands are falling like raindrops, and the brothers can't attack!"

"Use a bed crossbow! I will inform Commander Hu and request Master Wu Bingbi's divine arm bow to attack the enemy's formation. As long as the crossbowmen go out together and fire thousands of arrows, I don't believe we can't defeat this small Gaoqing County!"

(Bed crossbow. A large weapon that requires multiple people to launch. It is the pinnacle of ancient weapons. It has a complex structure, ultra-long range, and accurate shooting. "Martial Arts General" records that the bed crossbow is also called The principle of the three-bow bed crossbow is to use three bows, two positive and one negative structure, and cooperate with other parts to complete its production.

During the Song-Liao War, Xiao Taolin died from this cold weapon)

Naturally, Hu Shiwen accepted the opinion put forward by his confidants.

Sure enough, that afternoon, thousands of arrows were fired!

When Zeng Keda saw thousands of crossbowmen deployed only 200 meters away from the city wall, he immediately ordered the officers and soldiers to get off the city wall!

A hail of arrows came at full speed, especially "heavy weapons" like bed crossbows.

When the sound flew into the city, the huge penetrating force hit the bluestone street.

The sound of "duang" pierced the bluestone floor!

Although the officers and soldiers of the Third Corps retreated slowly, some officers and soldiers were still killed by the Song Army's arrows and crossbows!

The deputy general was a little dissatisfied: "Captain, this is too cowardly!"

"You know nothing! Tell the brothers to throw away the baggage and run with me quickly to Qingzhou Mansion!"

"Yes, Captain!"

In less than an hour, Chen Chen, who encountered sporadic resistance, led his army to occupy Gaoqing County "effortlessly".

When Hu Shiwen and others entered Gaoqing County, Chen Chen looked arrogant and said: "Your Majesty, our troops have defeated the enemy and killed hundreds of them!"

In fact, when Chen Chen inspected the city walls, he only found a few soldiers who had been unfortunately shot by their tens of thousands of arrows. Considering that there was nothing to gain from wasting so much effort, he had to compile a record for Hu Shiwen!

Hu Shiwen was very satisfied, "Master Chen made an extraordinary move. With this move, he captured a county of Su Thief. It seems that Gaoqing County is just around the corner!"

Wu Bingbi, the former Chenzhou Military and Horse Superintendent on the side, also echoed. Only Duan Pengju, who had just entered the city, reminded some cautiously: "Sir, the cavalry unit that attacked me yesterday was extremely powerful. It is not their fault that the attack went so smoothly today. Is there some fraud in the real combat power?"

Duan Pengju tells the truth, but sometimes others may not like to hear the truth.

Hu Shiwen snorted coldly: "Master Duan, you were not frightened by Su Xia's cavalry yesterday, right? Your men are fully armed and well-trained Forbidden Army cavalry. What do you have to fear when dealing with such bandits and wild bandits? ?”

"But whether the troops before Su Xia's uprising were Ping Haijun, Cheng Haijun, Wuwei Army, or Xuan Yi Army, which one was not a forbidden army of the imperial court, please do not be careless, Commander!"

"Okay, Mr. Duan, didn't you listen to what Mr. Chen said? We attacked today and killed hundreds of enemies! Come on, report to the officials, saying that our three-pronged army destroyed Gaoqing City where Su Xia was entrenched. , killing hundreds of enemies!"