Tang Dynasty Mingyue Song Dynasty Pass

Chapter 474 Life and Death Contest
The Song army was crossing the river, passing rafts and pontoon bridges, the team crossed the river slowly, without any hurry.

Because the Song Army, from the commander to the soldiers, never imagined that there would be ambushes on the other side, and the idiot Shu army dared to come here to ambush them.

Since they attacked Shu, they have become accustomed to the Shu army fleeing at the wind, and the whole line collapsed. They would never have thought that the Shu army would have the courage to abandon Xiongguan and dare to come here to the river beach to fight a decisive battle with the elite Song army.

They all thought that the possibility of this was almost zero, so the coach Wang Quanbin didn't even send scouts to conduct a carpet-like inspection of the woods on the other side in advance.

This has become a arrogant soldier, overconfident, and does not take the Shu army seriously.

More and more people crossed the river, and soon more than 4000 people arrived at the river beach, and more than 1000 people were in the river and were crossing the river.

It is estimated that nearly [-]% of the troops have left the north bank.

Meng Xuanyu stared at this scene, already ready to move, and glanced at Su Chen.

"How about it?"

"almost."

"Okay!" Meng Xuanyu nodded, and directly issued orders: "Send the order, prepare for an ambush, and launch an attack according to the pre-set attack procedure!"

"Here!" Several heralds, after listening to the order, took the flag from Meng Xuanyu's hand, and began to go to the designated area to deliver the order.

"Swoosh! Pop—"

A loud arrow soared into the sky, resounding through the mountains and forests.

The archers in the forest quickly approached the river bank, and then released their arrows.

The first is a frontal attack, with arrows raining like rain.

"Shhhhhh!"

Cold arrows whizzed out, and some of the soldiers of the Song Army who arrived at the south bank were seasick and watersick, and they were sitting on the ground to rest. When they looked up, there was a rain of arrows in the air.

"Pfft!"

Many soldiers of the Song Army were unprepared and were shot by cold arrows.

"No, there is an ambush!"

"Send a warning signal—"

Song Jun suddenly panicked and became a mess.

Song Jun's lieutenant general, Duke Yuhou Xiangtao shouted loudly: "Don't panic, form a defensive formation, even if the Shu army is in ambush here, so what, if they dare to show up to fight, they will die as many as they come!"

The soldiers of the Song army who were a little flustered at first felt that it made sense when they heard Du Yuhou's scolding, and immediately stabilized the morale of the army.

Should they be afraid of the Shu army?It doesn't make sense!
As long as the cold arrows are well protected, it is estimated that the Shu army will not dare to rush out of the forest.

Otherwise, in close combat, the Song army could block three with one, and the Shu army would be defeated.

This is a strong self-confidence, which worked at critical moments.

However, the Shu army had already planned and deployed. After the frontal archers finished shooting, they also shot cold arrows from the side, giving the Song army a burst of attack.

"Ah, ah-"

The soldiers without shields in the Song army were shot and fell to the ground screaming.

However, most of the soldiers carried shields on their backs, and quickly formed a shield formation, which surrounded them from top to bottom, left and right, and could block the dense rain of arrows from falling.

Seeing this scene, Su Chen said: "The Song Army reacted faster than expected. Just a few rounds of cold arrows only injured a few hundred soldiers, and their number on the south bank is still 500. With the ability of one to block three, we have to dispatch 1 people to suppress it, and the speed must be fast, otherwise, when the Song army from behind continues to cross the river, the advantage will not be on our side."

Meng Xuanyu nodded when she heard the words, and knew the truth of Su Chen's words.

"The water army from the upper reaches has come to block the Song army from crossing the river. As long as we wipe out these four to five thousand people, we can completely smash the strategic purpose of the Song army to break through the Jialing River."

Su Chen said again: "The effect of the bow and arrow has weakened, and after a few more rounds, you can charge and kill."

When the Song army gathered in the phalanx and covered them all with shields, they were like tortoises shrinking their heads one by one. When the arrows shot past, the probability of hurting people was very small.

Most of them are blocked, and the penetration is not strong.

"Understood!" Meng Xuanyu's face was solemn at this time, and he felt a little nervous and worried. After all, it was related to the first battle of the national destiny.

But he didn't show it, he really did not change color before the collapse of Mount Tai.

"Cavalry charge first!"

This time the Shu army brought a whole capital of iron cavalry, and placed them far away. When the arrow shot out, all the iron cavalry, a total of [-] cavalrymen, armed with spears and long knives, stepped through the mountains and forests, roaring. out.

Rumble!
At this moment, the sound of horseshoes sounded like thunder.

In order to deal with the elite of the Song army, the iron cavalry went on a rampage, breaking the formation of the Song army, and bringing more opportunities to the Shu army behind.

Otherwise, the Shu army would be at an absolute disadvantage in fighting on the ground.

"Kill ah-"

The Song army's phalanx dispersed, and the soldiers who were avoiding the rain of arrows rushed out and confronted the Shu army's cavalry first.

"Array of guns!"

The capital of the Song Army, Yuhou Xiangtao, remained calm in the face of danger, and issued another tactical order.

All the soldiers in front suddenly knelt on one knee, pointing their spears forward at different angles, forming a three-dimensional defensive spear formation like a forest.

Since the Song army often fought against the Khitan cavalry, there was a familiar way of fighting the cavalry.

Thirty steps, twenty steps, ten steps...

The iron cavalry of the Shu army had already rushed forward. Although they saw the dense forest of guns, they couldn't get off the tiger.

"Crash-"

There was a sound of weapons clashing, and the screaming and neighing of war horses.

The two armies officially clashed together.

Just like the moment when two huge waves meet, they collide and shatter, splashing everywhere.

As soon as the confrontation happened, there was no need to fight at all, relying on the momentum of the man and the horse, they pressed up like mountains and seas, and there was a big collision with guns, spears, knives and shields.

"Pfft!"

"Crack!"

All kinds of sounds of bone cracking, the gun head piercing the horse's belly, or the horse hitting the soldiers of the Song army, all kinds of sounds were mixed together, and the bloody smell immediately spread out.

"kill--"

When the battle begins, no one can back down, either you die or I die.

The soldiers on both sides almost didn't use martial arts skills, but clenched their long soldiers and stabbed desperately. When they met each other, both sides were either killed or injured.

What is needed is this kind of military prestige that puts one's life on the line, to suppress the enemy's army and scare the enemy's courage!

In an instant, the people in the front row turned on their backs, blood and flesh flying everywhere.

"Kill! Kill—"

From time to time, cavalry soldiers of the Shu army were picked off, chopped down, stabbed down, and died unexpectedly.

However, relying on the advantages of iron cavalry, the Shu army still had a positive impact on the Song army and wiped out the Song army's spirit.

Even though the Song army was very brave, the disadvantage of an infantry against a cavalry was very obvious.

The cavalry of the Shu army attacked vertically and horizontally, completely destroying the formation of the Song army. Due to the limited space, many Song troops were forced to retreat in the river.

At this time, the spearmen and Modaomen of the Shu army behind, under the leadership of Luo Qijun, Lu Han, Song Dewei, Wang Keliao and other Du Yuhou, rushed over and started a life-and-death duel.

(End of this chapter)