Warrior in Turbulent Han Dynasty

There were few village houses on the banks of the river behind the forest. Thousands of Zhou army rebels came out of the forest at this moment. The scene was strange. In the blue color, people rushed to the camp behind in a mess.

There are undulating mountains on both sides, and only this beach is relatively open. In the wilderness, the beach is even more noisy. There are many camps and towering arrow towers.

After the enemy's infantry chased out of the forest, they did not rush over.

But after a while, at the edge of the woods at the foot of the mountain, some giants suddenly appeared one after another. The soldiers in the Zhou Army Camp looked on in surprise.

"Mou" a strange behemoth called. The Zhou army general in the camp finally recognized it, it turned out to be an elephant

The elephant was not an ordinary elephant. It was caught from nowhere. It was very large, with iron armor on its body, and a tower-like thing on its back, with people sitting on it. Although the elephant walks slowly, it is covered with iron and spears, as if it is impenetrable and looks terrible.

On the sides and back of each elephant, the infantry with swords and shields in the front, and the crossbowmen behind, followed the elephants. Those huge war elephants look like warships in a sea of ​​people and very much like armored army groups. Infantry soldiers form battle groups centered on war elephants.

Dozens of war elephants rushed out of the mountains and forests, followed by the Southern Han Dynasty cavalry, and the troops went straight to the camps scattered on the riverbank by the Zhou army.

The Southern Han Army gradually approached with a strange war elephant organization, and for a while on the open ground, it seemed as if a torrent was slowly surging over with the calls of elephants, and the voices of people and horses neighed through the mountains. This barren countryside was very lively.

The war elephants spread out horizontally and the infantry with thick wooden shields gradually attacked within two hundred steps. Both sides had not fired long-range weapons, but the soldiers of the Southern Han Dynasty on the war elephants had prepared their bows and crossbows; the giants seemed to move. The arrow tower came over as unstoppable

Not long after, some of the pennants on the ground were overturned by the infantrymen of the Southern Han Army who came over.

At this time, there was a sound of wood rubbing in the Zhou Army Camp, and the men were pulling the hemp rope on the catapult. "Kang bang bang" Many cobblestone bumps were thrown out of the catapult.

The pebble bump was shot very accurately, just in time for the attacking position of the Southern Han Army, because the range was marked in advance.

"Boom" suddenly there was a loud noise, the fire flashed in the air, and the smoke exploded the boulder in the air.

After a while, the explosions sounded "boom boom boom" one after another, the stone cannons exploded with loud noises in the sky or on the ground, the stones flew randomly and the smoke was filled. The attacking army of the Southern Han Dynasty was immediately struck by thunder and panicked.

Those war elephants turned around in fright, and the rider above couldn't control the frightened elephant. The elephant turned around and rushed back, followed by the Southern Han Army infantry. At this time, except for the horse squad, the army was basically very dense to maintain combat strength. The elephants rushed into the crowd. They were huge, covered in iron, and spears like hedgehogs; where could the Southern Han Army prevent the elephants from evading, forming a chaotic formation.

The stone cannon exploded for a round, and it stopped quickly. Then the real stone was thrown. It cannot be exploded. According to the method of Tokyo Beiyuan Firearms Shop, people have to drill on the stone to hollow out the interior, but it is not easy. less.

But the Southern Han Army has been overwhelmed by its own war phenomenon

At this time, the fence between the camps was lowered with a bang. The neatly armored infantrymen heard the gongs and drums and the flags were released, and they ran out in a column.

The front army caught up with the Nanhan rebels with spears and swords and shields and killed them. The crossbowmen and firearms behind them changed their columns into three rows and moved forward.

The battlefield was surging, shouting loudly, and people everywhere. The land here is moist and the vegetation is good. Countless people rushed together, but there was no dust; but the sky was filled with gunpowder smoke from stone cannon bombing.

Behind the soldiers of the Zhou army, some people actually played the sing. The vigorous tunes, the screams of fear, the scenes on the battlefield were very strange.

The Zhou army in front and the dense rebels of the Southern Han Dynasty fought. The Southern Hanshi's machete and spear pierced into the plate armor of Sergeant Zhou's clanking, and some just pierced the hard leather armor between the four plates, screaming and screaming. Sergeant Zhou died very rarely, mostly injured.

At this moment, the military music stopped, and those people banged thick copper instruments "ding, ding, ding," and the soldiers in front of Sergeant Zhou turned around and retreated. Some were nervous and didn't hear them, but they turned around when they saw their accomplices all ran away. . The rebel soldiers withdrew from the void in the middle of the horizontal line.

At this time, the crossbowmen of the horizontal formation were also ready, and the sound of "crackling" sounded everywhere, and the Southern Han Army ran away in a mess. The Zhou army marched from time to time in various queues, and stopped to shoot a salvo from time to time. Firearms and crossbows of each command were fired alternately, and white smoke filled the air.

The infantry of the Zhou army brigade chased to the foot of the mountain. At this time, all the men and horses attacked by the southern Han army collapsed and ran into the woods.

The messenger with the triangular red flag on its back came over on horseback, screaming at the commanders everywhere while sprinting: "The Chinese army has ordered, stop chasing, and prohibit entering the forest."

The army in the camp was cheering everywhere, and it was very lively

Civil officials and military commanders around Cao Bin were congratulating, and Prime Minister Li Gu said with a smile: "General Cao deserves to be a group of new soldiers appointed by his Majesty. He was still a **** a few months ago, and now he can defeat the Southern Han Dynasty with weapons The main reinforcement, the old man admires the most"

Cao Bin politely said, "This is also because your Majesty has provided excellent equipment, and Li Gong dispatched sufficient food and military supplies, so I did not dare to take credit. I would have entered the army in the later Han Dynasty. These armored weapons are replaced by yes. In the past, elite soldiers might not have such equipment."

The staff said: "Dashuai Cao sent people into the forest in advance, it turned out to be a trick to lure the enemy."

Cao Bin was noncommittal.

At this moment, a group of generals in front of them entered the account and quarreled. Some people patted their chests and said loudly: "If the Chinese army does not tell us to retreat, we must fight to Shaozhou by victory."

Someone said: "Don't talk about hitting Shaozhou, breaking through this mountain, and camping behind the mountain and approaching Shaozhou will be fine."

Cao Bin is in his thirties, his face is pale, and he is very elegant in his shots. He is often praised as a Confucian general. He is not angry at the complaints of his generals, but said with a serious face: "It is reported that the Southern Han Army has increased in Shaozhou. Reinforcement, high mountains and dense forests ahead, the Chinese army has not yet taken control of the situation.

The staff immediately agreed: "Cao Gong's words are reasonable. There are no elephants in Shaozhou. The elephant soldiers of the Southern Han Dynasty were obtained from Dali and Annan Wu dynasty. Only the forbidden army in its capital has it, and it appears in Shaozhou today. As Cao Gong expected, the Southern Han Dynasty sent its main reinforcements."

The generals took a break from the noise, and they were said to be stunned.

Li Gu then said: "This is a great victory in this battle.

Cao Bin's gaze swept past the civilian officials of the "Passing the Legion", and said: "I will report it according to the facts. This is a great victory, but no real progress has been made. First, because the Southern Han Dynasty increased its reinforcements. Secondly, there is miasma in the south, and there are many sick people in the army, resulting in a great reduction in the strength of our troops."

Li Gu frowned and worried: "The miasma is really difficult to deal with. The old man brought a lot of medicinal materials to the healing camp, but it was not good."

People in the Central Plains are indeed very afraid of the miasma in the south.

In the previous Han and Tang Dynasties, the southern part was under the jurisdiction of the court, but the last thing officials wanted to go to was to become an official in the Southern Han. They were regarded as out of favor and exiled because many people came to become officials and died of miasma.

In the army, there was an imperial doctor sent by Taichang Temple, who thought that the miasma was terrible, which made Cao Bin and other members of the army very worried.

Under the arrangement of the imperial doctor and the army physicist, the people who fell ill were divided into camps for residential treatment. In addition to copying the medical books, the treatment methods were based on local doctors who took herbal medicines to treat them. Some of them could be cured, and some of the illnesses were cured.

After Yu Liang escaped from the forest, he fell ill. Swinging that night, covered in cold sweat, he was immediately sent to live in the wounded camp. The Kaifeng command was in the worst condition. Hundreds of people were killed and injured in the woods. Some people fell ill one after another. The whole command basically lost its combat effectiveness.

Yu Liang was lying in the makeshift straw shed, surrounded by the smell of realgar smoke, black smoke, and vomiting and groaning. His mood was very bad.

He didn't expect that the war was completely different from the words in the poems: "If you don't break Loulan, you won't pay it back", "Why don't you take Wu Gou" and so on, it is not so poetic and artistic. Yu Liang's experience after the expedition: walking, walking, always Go, walked his mother’s thousands of miles and then heard that Xiongzhou had been captured, so he walked over again, and then led people to dig trenches and build walls in the wilderness, and just marched forward, not even looking at the looks of the enemy soldiers. Clearly, ran back in embarrassment.

Then he fell ill~www.readwn.com~ and was sent to this broken place to lie down.

Zhou Jun became ill with many people. The reason why he did not retreat was that under the treatment of the imperial doctors and local doctors, people continued to recover. It is said to be a miasma, but it can be cured anyway.

But Yu Liang hasn't improved. He lay on a broken bed every day, and no one came to see that the soldiers he was familiar with were forbidden to enter the healing camp. Yu Liang felt that his body was getting worse and weaker, and he was a little struggling to get up. He had to think about whether he would die in this broken place.

After all, he is a scholar, Yu Liang is now a little questioning whether he has entered the wrong profession, he is not suitable for martial arts, but he can't pass the Jinshi study. It's really a literary and martial

Now he can only wait for death full of depression, despair deepening a little bit.

The Zhou army made slow progress and almost stopped the offensive. After the last war, there was no news of the Southern Han army. A few days later, Yu Liang never saw him well. He was pulled out of the camp by an ox cart and sent to Xiongzhou. Many people were sent away with him by Minzhuang.

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