Prime Minister

Chapter 794
When Zhang Yue was sleeping in the big camp, he was half asleep and half awake, when he vaguely heard the sound of a mournful Qiang flute coming from a distance.

Zhang Yue wanted to go back to sleep but suddenly realized something was wrong, and immediately sat up as soon as he turned over.

At this time, there was a sound outside the tent, followed by a series of footsteps and the sound of armor colliding. Zhang Shouyue, Wang Hou and more than a dozen other generals who were wearing armor lifted the tent and said, "Commander, the Qiang army is about to attack!"

Zhang Yue nodded.

He stood up with his clothes on, and boarded the watchtower of the Chinese army together with all the generals. It was already dawn, and the enemy's fortress was still vaguely visible.

"Please listen, Commander!" Zhang Shouyue said against the strong wind.

Zhang Yue listened carefully, but he heard the unique sound of the wind outside the Great Wall, mixed with the whistling of horses and the sound of Qiang flute.

Zhang Yue asked, "Old General, what is this?"

Zhang Shouyue clasped his fists and said, "Commander, this is a Qiang song. The sound of this song is high-pitched and sometimes low-pitched. When I was young, I encountered Qiang raids twice, and I have heard this Qiang song before. Commander, I see ghosts." Zhang, Mu Zheng is planning to fight today!"

Zhang Yue nodded, he relied heavily on the veteran's experience.

Seeing that Fanjun was approaching two hundred paces, Song Jun's arrows were ready to go. When they reached one hundred paces, with an order, the arrows smashed towards Fanjun's high cart like locusts!

Zhang Shouyue ordered the flag to be waved again, and the cavalry of the Song army on the left and right flanks also dispatched thousands of places to leave the village to harass the flanks of the Fan army.

Mu Zheng looked at Gui Zhang's back with far-reaching eyes, and then he also rode into battle.

The 5000 members of the Song Army who accompanied Zhang Yue to the expedition this time were all elites, and at least they had to be able to win two bows with one stone.

Zhang Yue said: "Needless to say, prepare to fight!"

The Song army outside the trench was half-kneeling on the ground, with bows outstretched.

But Zhang Shouyue said to Zhang Yue: "Commander, Gui Zhang seems to be coming straight for our camp, please avoid the sharp edge first!"

"Also... don't eat too much!"

Zhang Shouyue also felt that the odds of this victory were great, reminding Zhang Yue to avoid it was also based on worldly wisdom.

Xu Xi questioned: "The strength of the Qiang people is not as strong as ours, so they dare to attack? Did the old general make this decision too early?"

"Isn't the old general here?"

"Could it be that the Qiang people are pretending to attack instead of fleeing?" You Shixiong questioned.

You Shixiong also said: "Commander, after Guizhang and Muzheng are done, Qingtang will be free from worries for several years."

Many of the cavalry on the left and right flanks of the Song army were Qiang soldiers temporarily recruited from Xizhou, Hezhou, and Bao Shun was among them.

"Commander, Gui Zhang and Mu Zheng are about to die. Congratulations to Commander, and congratulations to Commander." Xu Xi had congratulated Zhang Yue in advance.

The vigorous cavalry stepped across the wet grass beach like the wind, and the dew on the grass blades was shaken off as the horseshoes passed by.

I saw sand and soil on the tall cart with tall wheels, followed by the Fan Army pulling the horses, and the front and left sides of the Fan Army were scouts responsible for patrolling the formation.

On the left side of the Song Army's middle army, there are Yao Xie, known as the two Yaos, and the Yao Lin brothers are riding together to watch Fan Jun attack.

"it is good!"

Gui Zhang raised his spear and shouted forward, followed by all his troops.

The tactics of the Song army defending the village and defending the city are average.

Zhang Yue issued an order, and the generals below were all gearing up. The governor added a reward of [-] guan, and they were already jealous.

Zhang Shouyue ordered the flag to be waved, and the Song army also opened the gate of the camp to meet the battle.

"It's beyond self-control!" Yao Si said to the hundreds of Yao family disciples behind him: "When the barbarians charge into the formation, shoot their horses first!"

However, like Xu Xi, everyone was a little skeptical that the Qiang people dared to attack the city that was defended by the superior force of the Song army with their weak force?
At daybreak, Gui Zhang led the horse and left the barracks.

The scene where Zhang Yue left and right Xu Xi, You Shixiong saw Gui Zhang, and Mu Zheng's whole army came.

Zhang Shouyue said: "In case of any accident, it is not a pity for the last general to die, but as the commander-in-chief of an army, there must be no mistakes."

After speaking, Gui Zhang put on the bronze mask with a lion's head and grimacing face himself, and his attendants brought him a war horse whose body was painted with gold, and the saddle was also decorated with jewels and colored feathers.

At this moment, a long series of horns sounded, and Guizhang wearing a lion head ghost mask shouted loudly, and then Fan Jun under him pushed the high cart to attack Song Jun.

Zhang Yue shook his head and said, "I'm not going anywhere."

The fight hasn't started yet... Zhang Yue looked at the confident expressions of the two staff members, and didn't know what to say.

He was sitting on the observation tower of the Chinese Army holding the command flag in his hand, looking out ahead, and Zhang Yue stood aside very cooperatively, serving as a competent background board for this veteran who had fought for many years.

At this moment, Gui Zhang pointed to the eye-catching big banner in the tent of the Song Army's army camp and said to Mu Zheng: "Mu Zheng! The coach of the Han people heard that he is a scholar, so we will fight against his commander's flag with our lives. You can win if you fall the handsome flag!"

Zhang Shouyue looked at Zhang Yue, who was wearing three layers of heavy armor and could barely walk, and stopped pushing.

After Zhang Yue finished speaking, he sat down calmly, and told Tang Jiu that Zhang Gong put on a thick armor for himself.

After Gui Zhang rode his horse, he looked like a ghost and god, and the guards on his left and right also treated him like a god.

Before, he had asked Wu Zhu to divination about the matter of dispatching troops, and he came to the conclusion that he must win.

Zhang Yue: "???"

The Fanjun soldiers who were pushing the high carts were also knocked down by arrows from time to time.

As usual, there was a heavy fog on the grassy beach separating Song Jun and Fan Jun.After the fog gradually dissipated, the military appearance of the Qingtang and Tibetan tribes was displayed in front of Zhang Yue.

Mu Zheng said: "Okay, I'll fight!"

Send troops to guard the sheep and horse wall outside the city, and form a high and low crossing angle with the defenders on the top of the city, so that the power of the Song army's arrow formation can be best utilized.

"Gui Zhang is going to die today!" Yao Lin said.

Guizhang said: "Remember that when we fight this bloody courage, the Han Chinese have more soldiers and horses than us. If we drag it out for a long time, we will lose!"

A moment later, the high cart of the Fan army was baptized by the arrows, and the earth bags piled up on the high cart were shot by the arrows one after another, and the sand fell from the breach.

Zhang Yue knew that it was useless for him to stand here, but like a banner, he could stabilize the morale of the army by being here.

Guizhang said without hesitation: "I'll fight, if it doesn't work, you fight again!"

Thousands of Song troops were deployed behind the trench outside the camp, and other Song troops climbed up the camp wall.

At this moment, the camp of the Song army was also extremely busy, and various voices of giving orders sounded, as if they were singing in a hall. The person in charge of commanding was the veteran Zhang Shouyue.

They led their cavalry across the grassy beach and shallow stream, harassing the flanks of Guizhang and Muzheng.

As a general of Dongying, Bao Shun (Yu Longke) has defected to the Song Dynasty since the second year of Xining, and followed Wang Shao and Zhang Yue all the way to fight all the battles. This time he led hundreds of cavalry to attack, and now he has been hidden Library makes.

He knew that although the flanking cavalry he led was not the decisive force for the battle situation, if he could attract more enemy troops on the flanks, he would be able to relieve some pressure on the central army.

As for the thousands of Fanjun led by Guizhang in the front, with the cover of Gaoche, they had already attacked the front of the formation and started fighting with the Song army. Zhang Yue, who was sitting in the middle army, stopped breathing immediately when he watched this scene.

(End of this chapter)