The new era of chaos begins in the Song Dynasty

Chapter 247 Attacking Mengjiazhuang

Classical fortress offensive and defensive warfare is more challenging than modern warfare.

Let me just say one thing. Before real thermal weapons were used on the battlefield, city offensive and defensive warfare has always been one of the greatest strengths of Eastern civilization. No matter what genius general or iron-blooded barbarian you are, you will all look forward to it and sigh in front of the unified Eastern city. .

Therefore, there has always been a unique saying in Eastern military philosophy: attack the city first, attack the heart first.

Many people, especially civil servants after the Tang and Song Dynasties, understand this sentence to mean that sending troops to fight and conquering cities is the worst policy, and conquering people's hearts is the best policy.

This is not wrong, but if we really want to get to the root of the matter, why do serious commanders and generals have so many twists and turns? It is not because they are forced by the difficulty of siege to find new ways on the battlefield.

The defense of a city or fortress is a highly professional skill, especially for commanders. This requires not only systematic inheritance, but also sufficient battlefield practice to achieve success.

Fortunately, in the nearly 140 years since the founding of the Song Dynasty, the most indispensable thing was to defend the city. A peerless offensive commander like Yang Liulang spent most of his military career focusing on defensive warfare. This cannot but be said to be true. A great irony.

Jiao Dong's grandfather was Yang Liulang's personal soldier general, so he naturally had a family tradition of defensive tactics. Meng Ze was not at home, so Jiao Dong had to take on the heavy responsibility of the defensive commander.

While Jiao Dong assigned the banker's defense tasks, Ergou silently hid aside, observing and understanding Jiao Dong's tactical arrangements.

In any defensive battle, whether it is as large as a city or as small as a house, different defensive tactics will be implemented due to different defensive purposes.

However, any defensive war must first have sufficient material reserves, and then the allocation of troops and the arrangement of tactics.

Therefore, the first arrangement Jiao Dong made was to count the materials in the entire village, especially food, drinking water, and firewood.

The most fundamental purpose of a manor-style defense like Mengjiazhuang is to protect Zhuangzi from being robbed by bandits. To achieve this goal, it is best to defeat or even eliminate the bandits. The second is to use strict defense to let the enemy know Retreating from difficulties, and finally relying on brutal offensive and defensive fighting to force the enemy to give up.

Just because Ergou was quick, he had already killed the yellow monster, so he didn't know the true details of the invading bandit.

Therefore, Jiao Dong is somewhat conservative in his tactical arrangements.

He first asked people to count most of the food, especially the food of ordinary farmers, and deposited it all in the Meng family compound, which had the best defense. He also asked all the old and young who had no fighting ability in the village to He hid in the Meng family's house.

The adult men in the village are all armed as Ding, and the strong women are supplemented by formations. Each of them is assigned to the node of Zhuangzi's wall to be on standby.

Of course, the most important combat forces in this defensive battle are the three real masters Ergou, Shouzhen Taoist, and Xue Daoyuan. They will play the mainstay role in this defensive battle. Meng Li, the eldest son of Meng, can also be considered a A relatively capable young general, but there are some doubts about how effective he can be.

In a defensive war, if the defending army is not elite enough and the people's hearts are not stable enough, then they must not be left idle, because once people are idle, they will think nonsense. People's hearts are inherently unstable, and it is easy to think nonsense again. Something went wrong.

If you want to avoid this kind of thing happening as much as possible, you need to keep everyone busy as much as possible without affecting the combat effectiveness, such as repairing defense facilities, digging traps, etc.

Before the bandits attack, it is undoubtedly smarter to lay more traps and resist horses outside Zhuangzi.

However, from Ergou's perspective, these barely concealed traps and simple horse-rejections would hardly cause any harm to possible enemies, and looked like useless decorations.

But when Ergou suggested that Jiao Dong set up those traps to be more lethal, Jiao Dong's answer made Ergou feel that the wisdom of the ancients should not be underestimated.

Jiao Dong said: "The function of traps and horse-rejection is not to directly kill the enemy, but to delay and divide the enemy's array through these obstacles, so as to provide better strangulation space for one's own banker guards. Therefore, are the traps set up enough? Sophistication is not the key, the key is to make the enemy avoid subconsciously."

Ergou had to admit that what Jiao Dong said made sense. In fact, the tall walls, moats and other facilities in classical cities played such a role.

Can the moat directly drown many enemies, or can the city wall fall down and kill the enemies?
Of course not, their greatest role is to provide the defenders with the tactical advantage of strangling the enemy's vitality.

Don't forget that Mengjiazhuang is just an inconspicuous village. After some arming, a group of more than fifty strong men was able to pull out a relatively elite hunting bow archer.

The fourteen strongest men in their prime, perhaps their archery skills were not very accurate, but when the fourteen hunting bows were opened and they were shooting at a certain place, it was Taoist Shouzhen and Xue Daoyuan. Such masters can't help but feel frightened.

Here we need to correct everyone’s misunderstanding about shooters.Because of the misleading of some later film and television works and games, many people generally believe that ancient archers were agile but mediocre in strength.

In fact, this perception is wrong. In ancient times, the innate criteria for a good shooter were strong enough strength and long endurance, followed by requirements for eyesight and coordination.

When almost all the ancients evaluated a warrior or general, they always liked to describe him with phrases such as "a skillful bow and horse, extraordinary physical strength, and capable of firing a powerful bow of several stones".

If you don't have enough strength, you won't be able to draw the hard bow, the arrow won't shoot far, and the lethality will be insufficient. And if you don't have enough endurance, you will turn into a soft-footed shrimp before shooting two arrows, which is even more outrageous.

Especially in the Song Dynasty, archery was the most basic skill for a qualified imperial guard. Among the people, bow and arrow associations were widespread and universal social organizations.

Just like in Mengjiazhuang, almost all the strong men are familiar with bow and arrow shooting, but the reason why only fourteen regular archers can be selected is because the others lack physical strength and the lethality of the arrows they shoot. Slightly lacking, being a shooter can only be regarded as a waste of time.

The remaining 40 or so strong men can only serve as spearmen with simple knives, responsible for fighting the enemy in close combat.

What made Ergou find it ridiculous was that the weapon used by the strong men of the villagers, the Pu Dao, was not a standard piece of equipment, but a collective name for a large category of people's homemade equipment.

Common and commonly used knives in the lives of ordinary farmers include sickles, firewood knives, kitchen knives, butcher knives, etc. These knives are tied to a five or six-foot long pole to form a long-handled sickle/firewood knife. Knives/kitchen knives are all collectively called Pu knives.

Of course, some refined waist knives, short knives, etc. can also be called simple knives if they are attached to a long handle.

During the Song Dynasty, crossbows, armor, spears and halberds were banned among the people, but there was no ban on weapons with relatively flexible sources such as the Pu Dao. Therefore, the Pu Dao became a standard weapon commonly used by rural people and gangsters.

To be honest, even for a family like the Meng family with a military heritage, and Meng Ze is an active junior officer in the Forbidden Army, the Forbidden Army-style weapons in his family are quite rare, and his armor only has a pair of ancestral patent leather animal masks. Rhinoskin armor, this armor was now worn by Meng Li, the eldest son of Meng.

During the day, Mengjiazhuang has been actively preparing for war, but the so-called bandits have made no noise, but this does not mean that they do not exist.Anyone in Mengjiazhuang will suffer some unpredictable attacks once they leave Zhuangzi for one mile.

Ergou, who was restless, decided to test it himself.

When he slowly walked out of Zhuangzi and came 500 meters away, an inexplicable darkness immediately enveloped his soul, making his eyes blind, his ears hearing but not hearing, his nose smelling but tasteless, and his limbs even unable to feel touch.

Ergou understood the situation he was facing almost instantly. He was being targeted by hostile psykers.

Ergou became wary, and he released his spiritual energy out of his body without hesitation, turning them into thunder and lightning, sweeping in all directions with the most violent attitude.

But after hearing a few shrill screams, Ergou's senses returned to normal, and around him, there were several corpses curled up in a mess that looked like they had been electrocuted. Next to their corpses there were still Throwing some swords, guns and sticks, it was obvious that he was going to attack Ergou just now, but he was struck by Ergou's thunderous electric shock, which resulted in his defeat and death.

Ergou looked around again, and saw a young Taoist with green eyes and thin eyebrows, wearing a crane cloak, holding an ancient iron sword, staring at Ergou in shock.

Ergou stepped forward and shouted: "Where are you from, a Taoist priest, and yet you dare to come against me?!"

But the Taoist put away his sword and said: "I am a poor Taoist in the mountains of Kongtong Mountain. The Taoist name is Daoqing, but I have seen Taoist Brother! Taoist Brother is unparalleled in his thunder and power. He is actually the only one Qiao has seen in his life. I'm afraid he is Senior Brother Luo Cheng from Erxian Mountain is quite inferior to Brother Dao."

But Taoist Qiao said again: "It was not because I was deliberately against Taoist brother. I was only assigned by Taoist brother Luo Cheng the next day to come here to assist a group of heroes in attacking this Zhuangzi, which harbors evil and evil. I never thought that But he bumped into Brother Dao, which led to this misunderstanding."

However, Ergou had already come closer and asked, "How can you be sure that this Zhuangzi is harboring filth?"

Qiao Taoist said: "This is what my friend Pang Yi said!"

Ergou asked again: "Who is Pang Yi?"

Taoist Qiao said with a face of honor: "Brother Pang Yi is the successor to Pang Tong, the wise man of the Three Kingdoms. He is good at martial arts, loyal and courageous. He is one of the best men in the world!"

When Ergou heard this, he laughed and said: "You are a blind person. How can you be the best hero in the world after Pang Tong? Such a person who recognizes his ancestors indiscriminately and boasts about himself will make people laugh! "

Taoist Qiao said angrily: "You are so unreasonable. I want to talk to you with good intentions, but you come to insult my friend, but you are going too far!"

Ergou cursed in his mouth: "You are a demon who confuses right and wrong, kills innocent people, and yet you come to argue with me. How can I spare you? Come and die with me!"

Suddenly a war spear appeared in his hand and he stabbed Taoist Qiao.

Although Taoist Qiao had to be on guard, he couldn't bear the speed of Ergou's spears and couldn't resist them. He was immediately shot through the crane's cloak by Ergou and stabbed him in the ribs.

Ergou was about to stab him to death with another shot when he suddenly saw a cold light coming. Ergou had no choice but to let go of his pursuit of Taoist Qiao and raised his gun to pierce the light.

When the gun collided with the light, Ergou felt as if he had stabbed a swimming fish, giving him the illusion of being lost.

However, the light stopped and actually revealed a handleless sword blade that was more than a foot long. Ergou was surprised. Could this be the flying sword of the legendary swordsman and his ilk?

However, to Ergou's expectation, as the sword blade stopped, a muffled groan came from not far away. He raised his eyes and saw another Taoist with disheveled hair frowning in pain, as if he had been beaten by someone. It's like pinching the vital part three inches.

Ergou sneered, but he immediately guessed the opponent's situation. He raised his gun and broke the stagnant sword blade with one strike.

The disheveled Taoist screamed loudly, then blood spurted out of his mouth as if for free, and then he turned over and passed out.

Taoist Qiao turned around and screamed: "Senior Brother Bao?! What a thief! How dare you destroy Senior Brother Bao's [Xuantian Hunyuan Sword]! I will fight with you!"

Ergou sneered and stabbed Taoist Qiao who was attacking him unceremoniously.

Taoist Qiao's martial arts skills can be said to be ordinary. Ergou knocked down his ancient iron sword with just one shot. Just as he was about to kill him with another shot, another Taoist appeared in front of Ergou. .

This Taoist was about ten steps away from Ergou, but he was able to arrive behind him and block Ergou's blow to kill Taoist Qiao in advance. Especially since he also used a sword, he could always intercept it with almost perfect accuracy. Live Ergou's every attack change.

Ergou never thought that he would encounter an opponent here who could use a fast sword. The opponent's speed was almost the same as his, and his swordsmanship was also extremely high. Ergou's hundreds of shots that he attacked unexpectedly did not take advantage of him at all.

The two dogs saw that they were not getting much advantage, but they didn't say anything more. They immediately retreated and returned to Zhuangzi in one breath.

The sword-wielding Taoist in the distance only watched the two dogs retreat, but never had the slightest thought of pursuing them.

When a man wearing armor and holding a broadsword came closer, he asked: "Why didn't Mr. Jin Jian capture that guy? In this way, half of our mission is completed!"

The sword-wielding Taoist sighed and said: "How can this matter be so simple! That young man's quick spear is unparalleled, he can almost keep pace with my quick sword, but I can't do anything to him. It's a pity that the Magic Lord's spell was broken, and Brother Bao flew away The sword was destroyed and there was no fighting power for a while, otherwise the three of us should be able to take him down without any problems!"

Later he said: "General Pang, I'm afraid you can only break the situation this time! When night falls, you immediately lead your men to attack the village. I will hold off the young man's rapid fire for you!"

General Pang said: "Sir, don't worry. I will gather my men and attack at any time. It's a pity that Chen Xizhen and Yun Tianbiao are not here. Otherwise, the combined efforts of the three of us can help you surround and kill that guy."

The two of them exchanged some words, and then sent people to move the two injured Taoists to other places for treatment, and then waited until the sun went down.

Pang Yi held up a big knife and waved a flag in the field outside the farm. Then someone blew the horn, and countless gangsters emerged from the field beside Pang Yi. They formed an array and began to press towards Mengjiazhuang step by step.

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