Prince of Song Dynasty

Chapter 725 Night Attack
He was a soldier in later generations, and he was used to a professional army with clear division of labor and clear responsibilities, so deep down in his heart he longed for the army under his command to be such a professional army.

Ye Chen is very clear about the difference between professional soldiers, professional army and the army of this era, and he is even more aware of the combat effectiveness and efficient action of the former under the orderly mobilization.Just like this, these 1 people were able to firmly block the [-] Song army. Of course, Yang Jiye, who is good at defending, has contributed a lot, but he also has a lot of credit for the newly established engineer battalion, strong crossbowmen, medical soldiers, and heavy soldiers.

And this is the main reason why Ye Chen rushed to the front line on light horse with the honor of the emperor, and carefully inspected every detail of the battlefield.

"This is the best way to bring out everyone's best ability, and then use it where or when it is most needed in the most scientific and reasonable way?" Ye Chen murmured to himself, and Li Guangshun's black wolf flag was in front of him. , the root of an acute-angled line of defense.Ye Chen, Yang Jiye, and Hu Sanguang quickly walked up to the wall along the slope.

The explosion of gunpowder packs filled the air with gunpowder smoke, but you could still see the ocean-like formation of the Song State Army in the distance. There were hundreds of shield vehicles in front of the earth wall. Corpses, countless soldiers in the shield workshop were filling the potholes, and many even ran to the front of the shield vehicle.

"Let the Nanshan garrison send two commanders to move towards the foot of the mountain to contain Song's left wing. After this wave of attacks, replace all the giant crossbows and put new ones on them... Oh! By the way, let those idiots Record the number of times each giant crossbow was fired, and then hand over the data to the equipment department." Li Guangshun was issuing an order when he saw Ye Chen and Yang Jiye arrive, turned around and was about to salute, Ye Chen waved his hand to stop him and said, "Do yours!" Things, don’t worry about me, I’ll look at the enemy’s situation first.”

Li Guangshun knew his temper, and he would not disobey Ye Chen's order at all, and continued to deploy the messengers. At this time, there was a loud noise from the front side, and Yang Jiye raised his binoculars. In his field of vision, there were four shield vehicles, and more than 20 Song soldiers were blown to pieces. , This is the result of just throwing a gunpowder bag by the trebuchet.Ye Chen's abnormal eyesight naturally doesn't require binoculars. Looking at this scene, he smiled slightly and couldn't help muttering in his heart: "I don't know if Yu Wen and the people from the Firearms Research Department of the Equipment Department can lead people to develop the artillery in my lifetime. "

The ants-like Song army pushed the shield car forward, and more soldiers behind filled the small potholes. They had already filled up the potholes dozens of steps ahead, but the signal to withdraw troops had not yet sounded.

The catapults on both sides bombarded each other, and the rocks smashed down some fortifications on the side of Xiangfu Kingdom with a roar, and the shield vehicles of the Song Army were also smashed to pieces, especially the countless soldiers who were flesh and blood in the explosion of gunpowder bags. Flying horizontally, but still unable to stop the soldiers of the Song Army approaching step by step. The battle to this extent is certainly a display of the Song Army's bravery, but it is more because of Dangjin sending his own soldiers to supervise the battle.These days, the Dangjin soldiers who supervised the battle forced some soldiers forward, and mercilessly shot and killed some soldiers who turned around and fled or fled.

The shield chariot formation of the Song Army was fragmented, and behind those crooked and tattered shield chariots were countless soldiers who were still busy. The crossbowmen and archers of the Black Wolf Legion who had begun to be silent began to enter the field, and the high-speed fire swept across the soldiers without cover. It took their young lives, making filling Song's pits a costly job.

Li Guangshun issued an order on the earthen wall to let the archers and crossbowmen speed up their fire to attack the archers and soldiers behind them. The explosion of gunpowder packs would resound every once in a while. Seriously hit the morale of the Song army.

The dense bows and crossbows made the soldiers of the Song army no longer have time to fill in the pits, and they hid behind the remaining shield vehicles. The archers of the Song army flashed in the shield workshop, shooting at the soldiers of the Black Wolf Army who only showed their heads.

A group of soldiers on the far right survived by chance, and under the leadership of a commander, they rushed forward desperately. They attracted the attention of a general of the Black Wolf Army who was in charge of this defense. The archers of the battalion commanded a volley, and the densely packed Song army soldiers howled again and again. The three giant crossbows closest to them also shot there. The giant gun more than ten feet long shot through the crowd and smashed five The soldiers stopped, and none of the five soldiers had a complete body.

The courage of the remaining soldiers suddenly lost, they turned around and fled in all directions, and were shot to death by the archers and crossbowmen of the Black Wolf Legion.

The life of a soldier is so cheap in the firepower of the opposing sides, so humble that it is only worth an arrow, or even a piece of sawdust flying out of the shield car.

Because of Ye Chen's arrival, he has gradually agreed that the soldiers of the Black Wolf Legion of Xiangfu Kingdom intend to show off. The soldiers on the earth wall accelerated their attacks, the archers and crossbowmen accelerated their firing speed, and the gunpowder packs of the engineering battalion threw a few more. One, the trebuchet has never stopped.Finally, Dangjin couldn't bear the casualties, and ordered two rings of gold, and Dangjin's soldiers retreated, and the soldiers of the Song Army on the front line retreated like a tide.

Without Li Guangshun's order, a horn sounded on the dirt wall, and several officers of the Black Wolf Army commanded loudly. The soldiers under his command jumped out of the dirt wall and the horse barrier, passed through the remaining potholes, and rushed to the position of the shield car line with shouts. The bows and arrows chased the retreating Song soldiers and shot them, and then killed the wounded soldiers on the ground with knives.

Li Guangshun's banner moved again, and then hundreds of soldiers who had just rested poured out of the aisle. They carried shovels and hoes on their backs, and held waist knives in their hands. , They were all chopped off with one knife.Some sentinels rushed out of the passages on the two wings, swimming around on the battlefield in the middle, and took a look at the scattered heads along the way.

Although Ye Chen intends to reform the method of calculating military merit in this era, so far he has not come up with a method that is more satisfactory to the soldiers below than recording beheading. Therefore, the main method of recording military merit in Xiangfu Kingdom is the same as that of Song State—see beheading, Capture the flag, siege and more.

"The Song army attacked, and we defended, mainly with long-range attacks. Song Guo can't beat us in this position and in this kind of battle." Yang Jiye smiled lightly.

Ye Chen said: "Linzhou and Fuzhou have already entered our hands and the news of Gao Huaide's suicide. At this time, Dangjin should have just heard about it. If it is not bad, he has already begun to consider retreating. He is just still hesitating. But Liaoguo Nanyuan The news that your Majesty led an army of [-] to the south and approached Song Guozhending’s mansion should be known to Dangjin by tomorrow morning at the latest. By then, he will definitely retreat.”

It is not difficult to judge what Ye Chen said, so Yang Jiye was not surprised at all.Hu Sanguang had also told Li Guangshun the latest military situation just now, and the latter only looked lifted when he heard it, and was not surprised.

Ye Chen paused for a moment, and continued: "Before I came here, I asked Tuoba Gelu and Zhe Yuxun to lead 2 people each to detour to break the party's back path. Therefore, the later the party advances, the later we withdraw, and we will The more confident you are, the more sure you will catch them all in one go. And you here, also have to be prepared to hunt and kill them at any time!"

Yang Jiye and Li Guangshun respectfully said yes.

Ye Chen turned around and looked at Song Jun on the opposite side, and suddenly said to Hu Sanguang next to him: "Put up my dragon flag."

The emperor's dragon flag was raised, and the six-foot dragon flag fluttered in the spring breeze. The soldiers from the four military villages were the first to spot Ye Chen's big flag.The Dangxiang people are an extremely pragmatic nation, so as the Dangxiang Bashi followed Ye Chen to eat well, dress well, live a good life, and always win battles, not many people died.

Therefore, since Ye Chen came to the Northwest for more than half a year, Dangxiang Ba's identification with Ye Chen and Xiangfu Kingdom has been very strong.They have even tacitly agreed that Ye Chen is their king.

Therefore, when the soldiers of the Black Wolf Army saw Ye Chen's dragon flag, they spontaneously cheered loudly. Ye Chen was in the middle of the battle line, and all soldiers could see it.

Ye Chen enjoyed the tide of cheers under the banner of Tianzilong. He was relieved to finally subdue the Dangxiang Bashi with the 'sugar-coated shells'. At the same time, his eyes were looking at the Song Army camp in the distance. He squinted his eyes and laughed in a low voice. : "Dang Jin, I told you that I am here. If you want to use Zhen's head, you can always make Dang Jin retreat later. Hmm... Maybe the Song Army will attack tonight."

night.

With a loud bang, a mass of red exploded from the foot of the mountain, a rock mine was stepped on, and two figures were thrown into the air amidst the sparkling fireworks.Then someone threw a torch from the Lanma Ditch, and the Song Army who was reflected in his figure was suddenly shot to death by the Black Wolf Army hiding in the Lanma Ditch with a strong crossbow.

Li Taoming is one of the thousand dare-death warriors personally selected by Dangjin.But at this moment, he was lying on the ground and didn't dare to move a bit. There was a shout from the Xiangfu army on the mountain. Several torches were raised, and somersaulted in the air and fell to the mountainside. Nearly a thousand soldiers of the death squad of the Song Dynasty quietly hid in the darkness. Among them, no one made the slightest sound.

This is Nanshan. In fact, Dangjin has been paying attention to this place all the time, but he let it go after deliberately probing, hoping to let the Xiangfu army on this mountain relax their vigilance.Nearly a hundred trebuchets on Nanshan shoot at the foot of the mountain every day, and each of them shoots nearly a hundred stones every day. The trebuchet on the top of the mountain could throw a distance of more than half a mile, causing great casualties to the Song army.The Song army had to extend the camp to the north. If Nanshan could be conquered, Dangjin would be able to observe the defense and mobilization of the Xiangfu army from the top of the mountain, and then condescendingly attack the army from the side.

It is almost impossible to seize this mountain during the day, and after he learned that Fuzhou and Linzhou were defeated on the two front lines, lost the city, and Gao Huaide also committed suicide, he already knew that he had no time, or that he would go to work tonight. The night raid was his last chance.

(End of this chapter)