Song Dynasty

Chapter 46
Earlier, Wang Shen finally figured out the situation of Li Yu's old battalion, which was fifty miles away from the cavalry battalion.

Marching in the dark, even though the horses could see at night, and even though the road had already been surveyed clearly, it still took a long time to reach the ground.

After leaving Hongze Lake, Li Yu's old camp is in the distance.

Li Yu must also be inside, as we can tell from the word "Li" embroidered on the big flag on the gate.

There is a brick kiln in the open space between the cavalry battalion and Li Yu's old battalion, like a small hill rising from the flat ground.

Wang Shen and Chen Lanruo stood on the top of the brick kiln to observe the situation of Li Yu's bandit army.

To be honest, Wang Shen is very contemptuous of Li Yu.The battle in Pingyuan Town really opened his eyes. The bandit army's tactical literacy was extremely low. After a good battle, they turned it into a water and land dojo.

More than 1 people, without any cooperation, just rushed forward, and scattered at the slightest casualty.

As far as the brick kiln is concerned, it is the only commanding height in this wilderness. Standing on it, you can have a panoramic view of dozens of miles around. You have to put a few sentries, right?
In fact, this is also the characteristic of the peasant army and rogues of this era. They have not learned the art of war from the war, and Wang Shen does not intend to give him this opportunity.

Today's weather is very bad, and the dark clouds above the head are getting darker and darker.The wind was stronger, and it was so cold that people shivered. No one knew when the rain would come.

In front of him was an empty land covered with yellow grass. In the past, this area should have been farmland, and we could vaguely see the criss-crossing ridges.In addition, there are many rivers that wind and circle on the land and flow into the Great Lakes.One of them is the widest and seems to be a tributary of Surabaya.The geography of ancient and modern times is very different, and Wang Shen can't figure it out.However, after such a long drought, the river also dried up, revealing only white pebbles and trickling streams on the river bed.

The most important thing for the army to set up camp is to find an available water source, so the main force of Li Yuzhong's army is stationed by this river.

Li Yujun's army looks very scattered, and there is no way to talk about it.It's just that everyone gets together, spreads out the tent, builds the hut, and then fences it around.Unlike Li Chengjun, after setting up camp, the army was divided into four parts: east, west, north, south, and each camp was even dug with isolation ditches and firebreaks, and horses were placed on the roads, and guards patrolled back and forth.

Probably because of this, Li Yujun's stall in front of him was very large, with tents and huts spread out evenly, endlessly, it looked as if thousands of patches had been made on the ground for nothing.

In the camp, Li Yu's ragged soldiers were running around in disorder, with no military discipline at all.

Chen Lanruo: "How?"

"Are you asking me?"

"Nonsense." The female general looked impatient.

Wang Shen sighed: "There are at least 2 troops, that's a lot! I'm just surprised that Li Yu has survived by relying on this group of rubbish troops, and even fought fiercely with the Huaixi Army."

Chen Lanruo sneered: "This shows that the Huaixi army is also very bad, and the king of heaven doesn't know what he thinks, but he actually stopped the war with Liu Guangshi, and he was recruited to let him restrain himself."

Wang Shen knew that Chen Lanruo was very angry about accepting the recruitment, and he didn't want to express his opinion on the matter, so he looked up and said, "Looking at the weather, I'm afraid it will be another heavy rain. Originally, it has been dry for so long, and the sky is dry. Li Yu's old camp is also in a mess. You only need to set a fire on it, and let him get out of hand. Now, the method of attacking with fire cannot be used."

Just as he was talking, some raindrops fell and hit his face, but it was very cold.

Wang Shen Yilin: "Sure enough, it fell. It's very dangerous. If we arrive here one day later, the water in the lake will rise, and everyone will have to feed the fish."

While speaking, the rain gradually became heavier. Although it was not as heavy as the torrential rain in Pingyuan Town that day, it pattered into endless silver threads in the sky.

The junior looked at the three hundred cavalrymen under the brick kiln, all of them were soaked through, with mud accumulated on their armor.Although their expressions are strong, there is tiredness between their brows.

Wang Shen sighed: "After walking for two days and two nights, all of them were dry rations, and they didn't eat anything seriously. The soldiers were all in great hardship. In my opinion, this battle..."

Before he finished speaking, Chen Lanruo sneered impatiently: "You can't use fire because of the nonsense, just hit hard."

She raised her voice and shouted to the soldiers below: "Listen everyone, we have reached the end of the land, and Li Yu is right ahead. Zhi Niang, this journey has been really hard, and now I don't have to suffer anymore gone."

Everyone was full of excitement, growling in a low voice, trying not to let themselves cheer.

Chen Lanruo waved the horse in his hand: "But you also saw it today, it's raining, and it won't stop for a while. Maybe the water in the river will come down in an hour or two, that is, Said that the lake will definitely flood, and we have no way out. There are [-] enemies and [-] of us. This battle can only be fought head-on, and it must be difficult."

When everyone calmed down, she went on to say: "In ancient times, the overlord of Chu broke the boat, and today we have to fight with our backs, either to live or to die. But don't worry, I will always be at the forefront. Our Western Army——"

"mighty!"

All the people held their horses high and let out an earth-shattering roar.

"Come with me!" Chen Lanruo rushed down the brick kiln on the belly of a horse, and slowly walked towards the enemy camp that was darkly pressing ahead and could not see the side, like a stroll in a courtyard.

Wang Shen also rushed down.

Behind them, the [-] cavalry stopped cheering, and a team followed, gradually forming rows of sparse linear formations, advancing forward like a comb.

The horseshoe is crisp and soft, with a pleasant melody.

Dawn is the time when people are most lazy. Occasionally, some people come out of the shed rubbing their eyes and yawning, and some people go to the river to fetch water.Cooking smoke rose one after another, linking the sky and the earth together in the humid air.

Occasionally, there were a few neighings of animals, and the whole Li Yu's old camp was silent.

However, this peace was quickly broken by the cavalry battalion.

A dozen or so guards at the gate of Li Yu's old camp were chatting, when suddenly, the sound of horseshoes made them raise their heads at the same time.

I saw a large group of cavalry wrapped in metal suddenly appearing in the wilderness to the east.

They first pushed forward slowly, and gradually, the horses began to trot.

Then, the cavalry general who rushed to the head suddenly pointed the long lance in his hand towards the sky.

With a bang, all the horses increased their speed to the maximum at the same time.

The cavalry in the back moved forward row by row, forming a fast and strong formation behind the enemy general.

The sound of horseshoes made the sky turn over, and the earth that had turned into a vegetable garden rolled in waves of mud, raising patches of black mist, which made them seem like demons that suddenly came out of the ground.

The dozen or so guards were stunned, and before they could wake up, they were already overwhelmed by the sharp long spears of the cavalry who rushed in front of them.

At this moment, Wang Shen really saw how powerful Chen Lanruo was.With a long whistle, she rushed into the gate first, waving the long lance in her hand like a whip, and kept pulling it out.Every time he draws, the sharp blade brings up a clump of flesh and blood.

Behind her were more long spears, also sweeping forward.

These horse lances are the sharpest front-running weapons in the cold weapon war. When making them, they need to cut the best gun materials into small wooden strips, paint them, wrap them in silk, and paint them.Then soak in water for a period of time, then dry in the shade, continue to wrap wooden strips, paint, and soak in water, so it will take three years.

Once the long lance is made, it will be two meters and two feet long and extremely flexible.I just thought that it was too difficult to make, and it consumed a lot of materials and labor. After the Northern Song Dynasty, it was gradually eliminated by the battlefield.

The cavalry of the Western Army is probably the last heavy cavalry equipped with a large number of horses in history, right?

Following that, a panicked bandit army was knocked to the ground by the long lance, and before they even had time to groan, they were trampled into meat paste by the crazy horseshoes.

Tents were overturned by horses, and the people inside couldn't get out, so they were trampled to death.Red blood oozes from the canvas, turning black and red.

Even if someone escaped from the inside by chance, they just turned around and ran away.

They rushed in about [-] meters in one breath. Although it was not far away, the entire Li Yu's old camp had been completely disrupted by the cavalry.

Ever since Wang Shen traveled to the Song Dynasty, he couldn't remember how many people he had killed.Last night, he took the lives of five people in one breath, and his whole body was numb.In such a field of life and death, compassion is the indifference to oneself and comrades-in-arms.

If you want to live, you have to kill, kill all the way, kill a sky and open the sky.

Long lance is a weapon that requires extremely high physical fitness and skills, and it cannot be learned in a short time.At this moment, Wang Shen was holding a plain knife in his hand, and was lying on the horse, trying his best to drive the horse forward.

Without him making any movements, the war horse can cut off the heads of the enemies one by one with a sharp blade.

Blood spewed up beside him, and Heihuhu's head jumped into the air.

He didn't know how many people's blood splashed on him. At first, the blood flowed down the armor, and gradually it congealed into tofu.

The wounds on his body are still hurting. In the bloody battle last night, he was stabbed at least three times. Fortunately, he was protected by armor, and only a little bit of skin was broken, so there was no danger.In addition to the lung injury, his throat was itchy, and he wanted to cough but couldn't cough.

Wang Shen stabilized the blade and his figure, and shouted with all his strength: "We are the athletes under Li Tianwang's command, following the order of the Song Dynasty officials to punish the people and punish crimes, only take Li Yu, and don't ask questions!"

The other cavalry also shouted in unison: "Only take Li Yu, don't ask the threat!"

This loud shout was like spring thunder in the flat ground, even suppressing the sound of drums in the enemy camp.

After the cavalry battalion broke into the enemy camp earlier, the bandit army was naturally in chaos.However, Li Yu's Jinan Army's camp occupies a very large area and has a large number of people. The sound of drums sounded from places that were not affected. It was the bandit generals who were recruiting troops and sending densely packed beggar-like soldiers to this side. Come and join the battlefield.

When the Northern Song Dynasty is mentioned in the historical materials, the first impression is that it was a prosperous and prosperous age, and even the old soldiers who guarded the city wore silk shoes.But in fact, due to the limitation of productivity, coupled with the large increase in population in the middle of the Northern Song Dynasty, the phenomenon of land annexation was serious, the people's life was extremely difficult, and social contradictions were extremely great.

In the Northern Song Dynasty, peasant uprisings came and went one after another, and there was peace every year.Among them, the largest one was the rebellion of Wang Xiaobo and Li Shun, and then Fang La captured several provinces in the south of the Yangtze River.In the early years of the Southern Song Dynasty, there were still Yang Yao and Zhong Xiang.

To deal with peasant uprisings, in addition to sending troops to conquer, the most common method used by the Song Dynasty was to recruit security.Recruit rogue bandits and peasant soldiers into military officers, making them insiders of the system, eating the imperial rations and holding iron rice bowls.

It is also true that by the late Northern Song Dynasty, the official army had swelled to an astronomical sum, which made the country's finances unbearable.

Because of this tradition, in this era, it has become a tradition for the peasant army to accept recruitment, rebel, and then be recruited as a routine.

After hearing the shout of "Only Li Yu, don't ask me the threat", everyone's footsteps obviously hesitated.

(End of this chapter)