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Volume 1: Yan Yun Chaos Volume 3: Bending the Sky Chapter 130: Killing and Swallowing (Twenty)

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    However, at the water city that blocked the river three miles away, the sound of fighting and shouting could be heard in a shocking way, but in the land battlefield here, no one was distracted.  For the Song Army, a land battle with Jurchen troops and horses was ten times more dangerous than a water battle.  At this time, it is not enough to concentrate on it. How can you distract yourself from the water battle situation?  "Compared with the Jurchen army and horses in the battle against the river, the arrangement was clumsy, the coordination was improper, and the fighting was clumsy and cowardly.  The Jurchen infantry, which were waiting solemnly in layers, looked like a strong army at a glance.  Due to insufficient resources, the West Route Army led by Zong Han did not spend much energy on reorganizing the auxiliary forces such as Cangtou.  When fighting, he is basically used as a simple archer.  For the East Route Army Group, the land blessed by the Liao people is under control as soon as possible, and the population under its control is also larger.  After the collapse of the Liao people, there were more than hundreds of thousands of troops and horses of various colors who surrendered. The Cangtou Bianpa and other infantry troops selected from them were much better than Zong Han's men from every angle.  Zong Han led the West Route Army to fight for a longer period of time, even going as far as the desert to sweep and subjugate the grassland tribes.  Before the feast could be warmed, he planned to go south to attack the Song Dynasty.  Although the military generals have a higher level of command due to the continuous war, the Zhenjvzhen cavalry still retains the simplicity and bravery of the first army.  With the same number, the combat effectiveness of the Zhen Jurchen Division is actually better than that of the Eastern Route Army.  "But when it comes to family background, the West Route Army is far worse than the East Route Army.  Moreover, the Eastern Route Army has ¡á, ww¦ç. In addition to the Jurchen cavalry, which is the backbone, it also has more time to polish these Jurchen infantry, which mainly suppresses the Cangtou.  The battlefield here is not that big.  The defense system of the Song Army's military stronghold in the northwest of Yi County split the east-west Jurchen army into two parts.  The number of troops and horses that can enter the battlefield along the river and spread out, numbering five to six thousand, is already fully packed.  Even if reinforcements have to be mobilized.  It can only be joined from behind.  Extremely troublesome and inconvenient.  The Jurchen army general Ba Lisu, who is in charge of commanding this aspect, is ready to return it to his command with the existing allocation.  The troops and horses deployed along the river fought the Song people to the end.  On this small battlefield, from the river bank to beyond the firing range of the Song army's northwest military stronghold, about 4,000 Jurchen infantry troops were arrayed, with more than ten columns stacked on top of each other.  In the array, dozens of Jurchen Muke flags were flying.  These soldiers and horses are really the Jurchen establishment's opponents. Whether they are Paizitou or Pu Liyan, most of the backbones are mature Jurchens. They were all newly built by the East Route Army in the past two years, and they all have fields in Liaodong that they can defeat.  Although their status is far inferior to those of the old conspirators who gave birth to Jurchens, they are by no means a cannon fodder team. ?????????????????????????????????????? ?????????????? ?????????????? ?? Each person wears a sleeveless breastplate, an iron pocket, and no battle skirt.  Everyone is carrying a horned bow, a short sword at his waist, and four bags of sharp arrows.  And after the archers in the front row, there are the infantry warriors wearing heavy armor.  Under the cover of the front row of archers, the formation of these infantry warriors was obviously heavy on the wings and light in the middle.  Each sergeant was wearing a complete set of iron scale armor, braving the cold in the rain.  All they hold are long swords.  This is the main force preparing to fight in an array.  The ones with their wings spread out are the old Jurchen cavalry, and there are as many as four of them.  Like the Song army, there was less deployment on one wing close to Yishui and more deployment on the other wing.  Needless to say, the equipment of these old Jurchen cavalry is as good as an iron can, with all kinds of weapons skewered on the sides of the saddle.  Like the Song Army, it also plays a role in stabilizing the position.  Under the banner of pulling away from the rear of the formation, there was also Mou Ke, his personal guard under his direct command, guarding several large-wheeled carriages.  And Ba Lisu was on one of the xi chariots, commanding the entire army through flags, drums and horns.  Such an array, mainly composed of infantry, has a neat formation, clear flags, strong armor, and sharp weapons.  The team of thousands of people did not hear any noise or commotion.  Most people in the world think that Hulu relied on riding and shooting to fight.  But the Eastern Route Army pulled out such an infantry, which was no worse than the elite infantry of the Song Army!  Ba Lisu stood on the Xi chariot and glanced at the magnificent military formations under his command, full of confidence.  Fortunately, Zongbi did not choose me to command the Na Sheniao river battle, but sent me here to isolate Yi County from the southern reinforcements.  As long as you are on land, whether immediately or on foot.  No matter how the Southerners want to fight, I will fight with you to the end!  As long as the southerners dare to come out, they might be able to defeat the elite troops they selected and march towards Yi County!  While waiting in formation here, Ba Lisu once thought that the southerners did not have the guts to come out and challenge such an array.  And finally the southerners came out!  Amidst the drizzle, we saw the southerners also spread out their array, with flags flying and drums and trumpets sounding.  The large group of armored men advanced slowly.  This chilling scene shows that the southern troops and horses in the city are indeed an elite force!  Such an opponent is interesting to fight withSome!  Ba Lisu stared arrogantly at the Song army that was slowly pressing through the mud like a wall. The only thing that worried him was that in such rainy weather, the infantry under his command would suffer some losses when using angle bows in the shooting.  However, Bazilisu had fully deployed ten Muke archers. Even if he suffered some losses in the shooting and suffered slightly heavier casualties, Bazilisu firmly believed that they would not be shot down!  But Ba Lisu¡¯s plan was to use these new weapons to pin the Song army¡¯s formation firmly.  Then under the cover of the cavalry, the old Jurchens who were fighting in the formation came out from both wings and defeated the flanks of the Song Army first, causing the entire Song Army array to collapse. As long as things went smoothly, this group dared to go out of the city to fight.  At least half of the elite Song army must be left behind!  ¡°After such heavy losses, how long can this damn Yixian City sustain itself?  The array of Song troops in front of them was getting closer and closer, already a hundred steps away.  On top of the Xi chariot, Ba Lisu could clearly see the uniforms of these Song troops.  Compared with Jurchen Erlang, these Song soldiers were taller and taller. The sleeveless iron scale armor they wore was dazzling in the rain. Each Song soldier wore a fan Yangli under his hood.  , is to use Fan Yangli's wide brim to block the rain.  On top of the douchi, the red tassel has absorbed enough water and hangs down, making it dazzlingly red.  The Song army¡¯s archer array consisted of about a thousand people.  Divide into three columns.  You can see the Song army in the front row holding a crossbow at an angle.  With the dull beat of drums.  Steady steps forward.  There was no pause, no flinch.  And the thick array of Jurchen archers in front of Lisu finally started to move.  Thousands of horned bows suddenly opened like a full moon following the general's long or short orders.  The front row uses armor-piercing light arrows, while the back row uses heavy projectile arrows.  Thousands of cold arrows were densely directed towards the Song Army brigade that was still slowly approaching!  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Yang Zaixinghe  Thirteen were among the cavalry array pressing down on the flanks, and the entire command of the cavalry was also arranged in a slightly loose array.  Slowly move forward at the pace of the infantry.  Amid the rain and mud, it was harder than usual for the horses to move forward.  Coupled with the bloody battles for days, back and forth killings.  , although people have to feed their mounts fine food even when they are hungry, these war horses have still lost a lot of fat and are not very excited now. They are obviously not in the best condition.  Seeing that he was escorting the infantry on the flank until they were more than a hundred steps away from the Jurchen formation, Yang Zaixing happily raised the big gun in his hand and waved it left and right.  The entire cavalry command stopped.  The Jurchen cavalry on the opposite side, which had been watching the movements of the Song cavalry, made no move.  They did not take advantage of Yang Zaixing and the others to stop and launch an attack.  But if the Jurchen Tatars in front of us dare to charge over, they will be killed.  Yang Zaixing was not afraid.  During these days of leading the cavalry in battle, although Yang Zaixing still managed everything in the army like a mother, he did a terrible job.  But on the battlefield command.  It also grew rapidly.  The vision and planning are not comparable to that of Yang Yicheng before, who only thought about rushing into the battle.  On such a muddy road, the Jurchen cavalry could not pick up the speed even if they wanted to rush over at a distance of more than a hundred steps.  A burst of random fire from the infantry crossbows is enough to turn these Jurchen Tatars into dogs.  The Jurchen Tatar cavalry on the opposite side, whose lineup was more than twice that of Yang Zaixing's troops, really just watched the movements of the Song Army's cavalry coldly, with no intention of rushing forward.  Whether fighting against the Jurchen West Route Army or the East Route Army, Xiao Yan's powerful cavalry and Jurchen cavalry, which can be called the best in the Song Dynasty, have always caused sparks to fly in various battles.  Today, the cavalry on both sides were very restrained. Not to mention the cavalry hedging, they did nothing to harass or raise the cavalry curtain, they just held down their positions.  In today's battle, both sides are united and prepared to clash fiercely with their infantry to determine a winner!  Yang Zaixing reined in his horse and stood at the front, turning his head to watch the infantry soldiers advancing past the cavalry without stopping, their armor clanking and their steps steady.  An infantry commander even grinned at Yang Zaixing as a greeting. ????????????????? After the three rows of archers, there were the infantry warriors who came out from the road between Shuiguanzhai Gate!  This infantry warrior has the strength of two thousand men and two commanders. At this moment, he only wears his armor and does not wear armor. There is also a large group of auxiliary troops behind him, carrying their armor on their backs.  These two command infantry sergeants can move much faster than armored archers, and each of them has a long weapon in his hand. Looking at their formation, it is obvious that they are concentrated in the center of the array.  At this time, the important generals on both sides who were standing on high ground had already understood the battlefield situation.  Both sides started with rifle fire, and then engaged in hand-to-hand combat with armored infantry warriors.  However, the Jurchens focused on the two wings, with the idea of ????annihilating as many soldiers as possible from the Song army.  The Song army focused on the center, aiming to penetrate the Jurchen Tatar array as quickly as possible.Respond to the idea of ??reinforcements rushing along the river!  Both parties have their own arrangements. In fact, there is no one who is smarter.  What determines the outcome in the end is who is the braver and tenacious warrior on both sides!  On the battlefield, as the infantry arrays of both sides got closer and closer, they looked even more chilling. Even the rain seemed to have an ominous smell of blood.  The sound of shouting and fighting came from the distant river, which foreshadowed how tragic the collision that was about to happen on the battlefield under the cold rain would be!  Yang Zaixing withdrew his gaze from the infantry. In the next battle, these brothers who slowly but firmly entered the battlefield will suffer tragic casualties. It is not known how many of them will be able to return to Yi County to chat and laugh.  However, as a sergeant, fighting with barbarians is all expected. A man should not be sentimental about his mother-in-law.  Yang Zaixing's eyes just fell in the direction of the flag of the Jurchen general who was commanding behind the Jurchen array. After a hard look, he suddenly turned to Thirteen next to him: "Can you find out the Jurchen Tatars' flaws? Let us have a chance.  If you have a chance to rush in? It's not a waste of time to kill this Tatar general!" Thirteen followed Yang Zaixing.  Compared to this guy who has arms and waist and is extremely handsome, he will be able to show off his abdominal muscles and mermaid lines in magazines in future generations.  He was thin and inconspicuous on the horse.  This time he accompanied Liu Baozhong on his expedition to Yan. Originally, Liu Baozhong kept him by his side as a personal guard to protect his safety. However, he later found out that this kid would not die wherever he was placed, so he simply let him go.  Yang Zaixing has some friendship with Shi San, and Yang Zaixing is unusually convinced of Shi San's abilities.  This skinny little guy is born with a keen sense of smell to find gaps in the fight!  Whenever there is a battle, Yang Zaixing is always willing to pull him.  Although Thirteen is not a member of the command structure like him, every time he goes into battle.  President Thirteen quietly dressed up and went forward, fighting the most dangerous and brutal battle with Yang Zaixing.  Hearing Yang Zaixing's question, Thirteen's stubby eyebrows moved. His small eyes glanced at the Lisu flag on the opposite side, and just shook his head: "Not now." Yang Zaixing also knew that there was no hope. Now the Jurchen infantry is layer upon layer.  Bree, the cavalry is even more eyeing on the flanks. No matter how high he thinks he is, he knows he can't charge through.  In the end, he could only let out a loud sigh: "Sister-in-law, I don't believe that I can't wait for the right opportunity!" In the cold rain, the Song Army array finally approached the arrow with red tail feathers stuck on the ground.  But they still didn't stop and continued to move forward!  Generals from both sides watching the formation.  No matter where you are, no matter how far the river battle has progressed, or how ferocious the fighting is, you should all focus your attention at this time.  Everyone clenched their fists unconsciously, just waiting for the fight to break out!  The collision between the infantry arrays of both sides without any tricks is always the most tragic and the most critical point on the battlefield!  Standing on the Xi Chai, Bali Su suddenly slashed his palm.  The guards around him immediately blew more than ten horns, which was just a long, monotonous sound.  There was a deep whine in the rain.  The sound of the horn had just sounded, and there was a dense sound of vibrating bowstrings!  Countless pairs of hands that were tightly clasping the bow string suddenly released their hands, and then naturally raised their hands. The bow string trembled, causing water droplets to splash. At this moment, a vast white mist rose in the Jurchen army formation!  Thousands of arrows roared into the sky, rushing towards the Song army's advancing array. The battlefield was temporarily dimmed by the dense rain of arrows!  Countless feather arrows fell down and swooped into the Song Army's formation like locusts. They either hit the iron armor and made a sound of metal collision, or made a muffled sound of tearing flesh and blood. In the blink of an eye, a piece of the Song Army's formation fell down.  !  At this moment, the Song army was about seventy steps away from the Jurchen formation.  Under normal weather, at such a distance, the armor-piercing light arrows fired by the Jurchens are already quite powerful, and can already cause effective damage to these Song Army archers who only wear a layer of sleeveless scale armor weighing seven or eight kilograms.  But today¡¯s battle was humid and rainy, and the power of the Jurchen arrow array was reduced by at least 30%.  Whenever the feather arrow lands on the armor or armor, no matter whether it is a light arrow that breaks the armor or a heavy arrow that is thrown, it cannot break the armor.  However, the archers of the Song Army held crossbows for the convenience of shooting, and the protection was not complete after all.  Under such a dense rain of arrows, there were still forty or fifty people who fell down with arrow wounds on their arms and legs!  How could he not know the impact of wet weather on bow power when commanding the battle's draw speed, but he still started shooting at a distance of seventy steps.  The Jurchen archers used bows, and the Song army used crossbows.  The Jurchens naturally had an advantage in terms of speed of fire. The Song Army seemed to want to ensure absolute power and gave the Jurchens a chance to strike first. It was not polite to pull out the speed. They might as well start earlier and shoot more rounds. Look at these southerners.  How long can it last!  The Song army was still moving forward silently. According to the pre-arrangement, no one even went to rescue the injured who fell to the ground.  These soldiers, with indifferent expressions, continued to move forward slowly. ???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????Only in nation-states can infantry armies form formations and endure huge casualties while fighting each other without collapsing. This is actually a mistake.  Since the pre-Qin Dynasty, men of the Han family have been good at forming formations and facing each other on foot. They endured the barbarian cavalry going back and forth, throwing arrows, and bearing constant casualties, but still shot the crossbow firmly and steadily.  Until the Tartars themselves collapse!  In the Song Dynasty, because a stable and qualified horse source was lost for a long time, it was impossible to form a large-scale cavalry force.  A great deal of effort was spent on the infantry array.  The Liao people could barely maintain a strategic balance with hundreds of thousands of cavalry. The war against Xixia was basically pushed through by the infantry's step-by-step hardening of the stronghold and the fight.  It doesn¡¯t matter whether the Song Dynasty¡¯s military horses in the capital, Hebei, Jiangnan and other places died for decades.  But the Western Army, which invested huge resources to maintain and kept fighting.  At least the infantry fought in formation.  It still maintains a fairly high standard.  Not to mention Xiao Yan's new army, which has gathered elites from all sides and has been fighting fiercely since it formed an army!  A mere rain of arrows, what does it count?  (A few more words, in fact, the fall of the Northern Song Dynasty was not without military opportunities. At that time, the Song Dynasty was able to mobilize and organize at least 200,000 capable troops. The reason for the demise of the Northern Song Dynasty was mostly due to various factors in the ruling center.  The rise of Mongolia actually overwhelmed the Southern Song Dynasty in terms of military strength. They even gathered servants from half the world from all over Central Asia and Near East Rus, and set up countless technologies.  The Huihui cannons of the Shangdu were bombarded day and night. As for the late Ming Dynasty, the inheritance of the Han Dynasty's classical military system was completely abandoned, and a strange system like Jia Ding appeared in the regular army, and the military system of the new era had not yet been established.  It shows that the last era was the lowest period of the Han family's military power. Oscar Press) In the Jurchen army formation, another round of arrow rain rose. This round of firing, although not as neat as the first time, was still in the Song army formation.  Another thirty or forty people fell.  The pace of the Song army still did not pause for a moment.  In the end, the sergeants gritted their teeth and lay in the mud, trying their best not to scream in pain.  The positions vacated by them were filled by the shooters in the back row without saying a word.  ?Then it¡¯s the third round.  At this time, the Song army was already sixty steps away, and the arrow with red tail feathers had long been submerged in the Song army's array.  Another round of arrows came down from this distance, and finally they were able to break through the armor. Fifty or sixty soldiers of the Song Army fell down for a while, and screams finally started to sound in the Song Army formation!  Ba Lisu stared at the wave of steel men approaching slowly, with countless arrows rising and falling, but the wave of men always pushed forward steadily.  People from the south kept falling, but there was never a gap in the wave of people.  Not even the slightest scream or cry of pain was heard.  If he hadn't really seen the southern sergeant fall to the ground after being hit by an arrow, Ba Lisu would have doubted for a moment whether the arrow formation he had set up was completely useless!  When he finally heard screams from the Song Army's formation, Ba Lisu suddenly realized that his fists were almost water-filled, and he finally relaxed a little.  But at this moment, the Song Army array finally stopped!  A human wave of steel, still stable without any gaps.  With the heavy sound of the step drum, countless crossbows were immediately lifted up, and the rays of light from the cold arrows exuded endless cold air in the continuous rain!  Sixty steps away, both sides can already be seen clearly.  The Jurchen infantry formation suddenly became commotion.  You can see a Jurchen soldier's eyes widening and his face distorted. However, as the Jurchen army is still at the peak of its strength at this moment, it still stands firm. Countless Zhangjiao bows are still being stringed, ready to continue to throw out dense fire.  Rain of arrows!  There was another accent on the step drum.  The sound of the teeth being pulled together was heard, and the sound of the crossbow strings vibrating violently was ten times more powerful than the Jurchen Arrow Array!  The power of the crossbow machine was fully demonstrated at such a close range, almost at the level of the shot. Hundreds of crossbow arrows roared into the dense array of Jurchen infantry, blood spattered, and screams followed immediately!  After the first round of shooting, the crossbowmen from the rear formation did not step forward. They just handed over the crossbow machine and took over the empty shots from the front formation.  Then there was another round of intensive shooting, and finally the third round.  Until nearly a thousand pre-strung crossbows were fired in just a few breaths!  The Jurchen's dense and complete infantry array, after three rounds of arrow sweeps, the first few rows were almost wiped out. The corpses were piled on top of each other, and the blood rushed out like a stream, staining the ground on their bodies.  The color of bright red mud!  The sound of screams resounded throughout the battlefield, and many injured Jurchens just rolled down and struggled in the bloody mud.  Three of the ten Jurchen Muke flags originally held high had fallen down. Including the Jurchen Muke who was standing in the queue and commanding, they were all shot like hedgehogs in the sweep of the arrows!  It¡¯s just this sudden attack that caused the damage suffered by Song Jun to be repaid several times!    The Jurchen infantry array finally inevitably became chaotic.  But at this time, it can be seen that the Jurchen army and horses are, after all, a powerful army in this era.  How many of Jurchen's low-level and middle-level backbones were calming down and shouting with all their strength at this time, restraining the troops and horses under their command, asking them to stand still, fill the gaps in the array in front, continue to draw their bows and shoot, and exchange lives with these southerners!  After a brief pause, the sound of the bowstring vibrating started to sound messily again.  It was also mixed with the hoarse screams of many injured people.  The originally strict Jurchen infantry array had opened large and small gaps like dogs gnawing at them.  But every Jurchen soldier is still firing arrows!  Amidst the rain of arrows, people kept falling down in the Song army array.  However, these Song Army archers still bowed their heads and cocked their crossbows unmoved. Everyone, including the commander, focused on the crossbow in their hands. Even if the brothers next to them fell, they would not look away!  The arrows roared and opened large and small gaps in the Song army's formation. At this time, it was just a matter of exchanging lives.  It depends on who can persist.  On the high mound at the back, Zong Bi, who had turned all his attention to this place, had already stood up.  As a general, how could he not realize that the Song Army's approaching blow had completely disrupted the original shooting rhythm of the Jurchen infantry.  Seeing this duel, I'm afraid I'm going to suffer a loss.  Maybe these ten archer arrays will be penetrated and swept by the Song Army's archers!  Zong Bi couldn't help but gnashed his teeth and shouted: "Ba Lisu, what are you waiting for? The men in heavy armor come forward!" At the other end, Liu Baozhong on the watchtower also knocked hard on the railing: "Shoot  Well done! One more round to defeat these dog Tatars! Let our soldiers prepare to go up and kill them after this round!" Liu Baozhong waved the flag behind the front shooter array.  , the large group of infantry gathered in the center of the battle line had already put on their armor at this time, and formed an array that was not large in width but very deep in depth. Hundreds of giant axes were in front of them, and the cold light shone, waiting for another round of attacks.  After firing the arrows, change formations and move forward to launch an attack!  After several rounds of arrow rain, the crossbow machine finally finished winding the string.  A Song Army commander raised his head and looked around. In the Song Army array, corpses were also piled on top of each other, and the injured were also struggling in the bloody mud.  This is not a good time to be sad. Such a scene can only arouse people's anger!  Hundreds of crossbows rose up again one after another, and the commander shouted at the top of his lungs: "Wait for my order!" In the battle formation, he could only be heard shouting, and the other man walking side by side with him could be heard.  The commander was already lying in a pool of blood at this time.  The commander gritted his teeth and waited for all the crossbows to be leveled.  The Jurchen army formation on the opposite side also saw this terrifying scene. Countless Jurchen Tatars burst into roars of despair and fear, and fired the horned bows as fast as possible. Many even broke the bow strings and beat them with broken strings.  Then, blood surged from his face and hands!  When the last crossbow was raised, the guards around the commander held on to the drumsticks tightly, and finally the commander waved his hands down.  A heavy sound sounded again, and then countless arrows swept through the Jurchen Tatar array again!  Along with the sound of drums, the rapid sound of horns in the Jurchen army formation began. The large group of Jurchen armored infantry warriors began to take steps. In the shooting situation, Lisu was ready to admit defeat. What follows is the fierce collision between the armored warriors of both sides!  
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