Changfeng Thousands of Miles End Han Song

Chapter 557 The Dust Settles
Two flowers bloom, each representing a branch, and talk about the Huainan matter.

Yang Weizhong defended Lujiang to his death. Although the latter is a small county, it has been run by the Song army for a long time, and the city defense is also strong.In this way, Yang Weizhong's headquarters is only five or six thousand, and the co-authored part of the former Huainan Song Army has a total strength of less than 6000. He has to separate a part to guard Shuzhou, Qizhou, etc.—essentially use the original Huainan Song Army, There are only [-] people in the headquarters in Lujiang City, and it is also relying on strong city defenses to resist the onslaught of tens of thousands of Liangshan troops at Chao Gai.

Even after the city wall was blown down, the Western Army did not retreat. Whenever the Liangshan Army retreated at the gap, it suffered because of the small number of people.The situation is like the battle of Jinling City in Jiangning Mansion, which is increasingly biased towards the attacking side.

Yang Weizhong can only show up on the front line to boost the morale of the defenders. He is highly skilled in martial arts and surrounded by personal soldiers, so his safety is guaranteed.But the problem is, how can you not get your shoes wet when you often walk by the river? The turning point of this Lujiang offensive and defensive battle was his injury, and he was shot in the neck by a stray arrow.

Although he was lucky to be blocked by the silk collar, the injury was doomed and serious.

How can the morale of the soldiers be maintained when the general is injured?His son-in-law Chen You immediately wanted to leave.What's more, the medical skills of the doctors in the army are limited, so it is better for Yang Weizhong to send him to a famous county in a big city for treatment as soon as possible.

In this way, when Mu Hong and Mu Chun brothers had already entered the outside of Tongcheng, the Lujiang defenders suddenly broke through at night.

In the battle of Lujiang, the Liangshan army was useless to lock the city.Gai because Chao Gai wanted to destroy the defenders in the city.The land to the west of the Lujiang River seems to have a large area of ​​land, but in fact there are many mountains and mountains.From Luzhou to the south of the river, the official road passes through the Lujiang River.If this place does not go down, Chao Gai dare not send troops to attack Shuzhou and other places.We must know that when he attacked Lujiang, Liu Guangguo was still stationed in Jiangzhou City.

Yang Weizhong was seriously injured, and Chen You was the deputy general of the army, so it was logical to take over the command.After communicating with the generals, the transferred military strategy was easily approved by everyone.

When it suddenly broke through to the south in the dark, the Liangshan army reacted quickly. The army dispatched and intercepted some western troops. The retreating western troops fought at the top of the city and at the gaps in the city wall than before. The Western Army came, like a soft-legged shrimp that had been hit by cartilage powder, and it seemed vulnerable.

However, Chao Gai and others fell into Chen You's trick of Li Daitao, mistaking the dead man for Yang Weizhong, but Chen You took the real Yang Weizhong with him and took the opportunity to escape.

Chen You's success in the army did not depend entirely on his father-in-law's face.In the dark night, I saw the Liangshan army gathering one by one, and there were constant killing sounds in all directions, but the Western army lost its courage first, and became even more confused in the night, with its combat power greatly reduced, and its own soldiers suffered heavy casualties.If you want to return to the city again, the way back has been cut off.He felt ruthless in his heart: "Zhiniang thief, the back road is cut off, grandpa, go ahead and kill!" So he sent his confidants to falsely fight Yang Weizhong's banner to attract the Liangshan army, and at the same time brought hundreds of his own soldiers, and rushed forward to kill .The Liangshan Army dispatched all of them to encircle and kill the Western Army, but how could the troops be evenly distributed in the dark?It is also the sky that will never destroy him. Chen You chose this direction, but there were not many interceptions in front, and he broke through the defense line after a while.At that time there was a scuffle in the dark, the general didn't know how, he led hundreds of soldiers to rush for a while, and saw that the road in front of him suddenly opened up, but there was an army stronghold towering in front of him.

Chen You was overjoyed, no matter how many soldiers were around him, he just rushed to kill them.But the iron lock on the gate of the army village had not been removed, it was just a cover. The guards in the army village suddenly saw a group of people killing them.

It was one of the many military strongholds established by the Liangshan Army outside Lujiang City, and it was guarded by Sun Xin.But at that time, Sun Xin had already led his troops to kill the generals, not to mention the emptiness in the army camp, and there was no leader, only a few soldiers were left. Earlier, he saw a soldier and horse rushing, and thought that It's Sun Xin returning to camp.Where did you think it would be the enemy?Naturally, they were shocked.In the dark, he didn't know the number of Chen You's army, let alone how the battle was so intertwined, how this enemy army got here, it's strange that he was able to hold the army stronghold under panic.

Chen You didn't stay for a moment, but only took some army horses from there.But it was only this that showed his traces, and Sun Li was even more annoyed, and Sun Xin felt ashamed.The two brothers naturally lead the army in hot pursuit.

In such a fight, there were nearly [-] soldiers of the Western Army in the city, but seven or eighty-eight were lost.Only the Liangshan army was captured and no less than [-] were captured. This is by no means what Wang Xiaozhong thought was "only heavy losses, not annihilation of the entire army".When Yang Weizhong's remnant army fled to Dahuluding in Luochang Town, there were only three to five hundred remnants left.Later, Sun Li led his pursuers to kill him.

We are outnumbered, we are victorious and defeated, how can Sun Li want to see the remnants of the Western Army escape?Ask Sun Xin to lead hundreds of people to forcibly march from the side to outflank, and the border governor led the army to cover up and kill them.

Yang Weizhong's favorite general, Panda, was commanding the army to fight and leave. Suddenly, Sun Xin came from the flank, causing chaos. When he got off his horse, he was trampled into meat in the chaos.

Bing Yuchi made a meritorious deed with one arrow, and was overjoyed, so he drew his bow and shot the second arrow, aiming at Chen You to shoot.Suddenly he heard the sound of a gust of wind, Sun Li was an orthodox general, and was always alert in battle. He immediately turned his face to see an arrow passing by his ear, and brushing his hair, he didn't know where it flew.When he looked up to where the arrow came from, he saw a general holding a carved bow, standing on the top of a hill a hundred paces away behind him, with a big "Mu" written on the banner behind him.

Sun Li started in Dengzhou, how did he know who Mu Hong was?Immediately furious, he raised his hand and shot an arrow, which was easily dodged by Mu Hong.

Seeing that his own army and horses were resisted by a group of newly arrived Song troops, the leader, wearing an iron helmet, sat on a streaky horse, holding a tiger's head gun, and was yelling at the soldiers to come forward.Look at the men and horses in the brigade behind, coming up layer by layer.Sun Li felt timid in his heart.

He fought since the dark night, and then marched all the way to catch up to this place, not to mention the lack of men and horses, but also his combat power was greatly reduced, he dared not fight head-on with the enemy, so he shouted: "The whole army retreats, turn back to Luochang town! "Liang Shanjun left after hearing the order.

The Mu brothers could also see that the Liangshan army was not at its peak, and they refused to let go of this golden opportunity. They roared wildly and rushed towards Sun Li with hundreds of swordsmen.

After Sun Li cut off the gun, he led his soldiers to fight with him. One of the Song generals came out on horseback and said, "The thief will look at the sword!" Sun Li laughed loudly, slapped the horse and rushed out. He couldn't fight three times and stabbed the horse with one shot. Mu Chunche immediately stepped forward to catch Sun Li, but he was still not in Sanhe. He was shot across by Wei Chi, and he leaned over hastily. The sash belt on his back had already been cut off, and the breastplate clattered to the ground. He was so frightened that he turned back on his horse. run.Sun Li defeated two generals in a row, and the Liangshan army cheered loudly.

Mu Hong, who was stronger, slashed and killed in the formation, but was caught by spears and swords.When the brigade of Liangshan Army regrouped behind them, Sun Li withdrew his troops back.At this moment, Mu Hong didn't dare to pursue him.

Sun Li asked the troops to return to Luochang Town, but Sun Xin was still not at ease, and said, "Why should brother be afraid of these poor soldiers? Seeing that their armor is not complete and the lineup is not complete, you can tell that they are the new army. .Even if our army is a little tired, we can beat them."

Sun Li wanted to retreat, but he couldn't ignore his brother's face, so he couldn't care less about the damage to his opponent's sergeants by forcibly killing them.At the moment, all battalions are called to line up, sword players in the front, followed by strong bows and crossbows.

When approaching within fifty paces of the Song army, suddenly the trumpets and drums of the Liangshan army burst out, and the swordsmen in front parted, revealing hundreds of bowmen and crossbowmen.The troops there were chaotic, and Liang Shan's army came out from the two wings again, cutting into the middle of the Song army, and immediately taught Mu Hong's army not to be in chaos.Mu Hong brandished a broadsword in the formation and slashed wildly. His martial arts skills were indeed so strong that Liang Shanjun couldn't get close to him.

In the original novel of the Water Margin, although he has no outstanding achievements, beheading generals and enemies, and attacking cities and villages has nothing to do with him.But according to No. 20, he is one of the eight hussars, which is convincing. The main reason is that there is also a strong opponent in the evil star, Chi Sunli.What's more, Mu Hong and Mu Chun, the idiot younger brother, have attracted countless slanders, causing him to be underestimated by others.

But I don't think that this Mu family brother can be called the Three Hegemons of Jieyang together with Zhang Heng, Zhang Shun, Li Jun, Li Li, Tong Wei, and Tong Meng. If his martial arts are as bad as his brother Mu Chun-Xue Yong can Putting Mu Chun down easily, how could the Mu family brothers stand side by side with the other two tyrants?
There is such a passage in "Water Margin": "Too fair:" My son is so short-lived.He has his own money to reward the medicine seller, but he did something to you!Why did you hit him?But knowing that he was beaten, he was never seriously injured.Just do as I say, and Hugh will teach his brother to know.If you cannibalize and beat him, will he stop? "

From the Taigong's words, it can be seen that Mu Chun himself is not strong, and every time he is bullied, it is Mu Hong who goes to find his place in the end.The three tyrants in Jieyang Town, Li Jun and Li Li on Jieyang Ridge, followed by Tong Wei and Tong Meng; Eighty-nine out of ten of the two brothers depended on Mu Hong alone.Therefore, Mu Hong's ability should not be underestimated.

However, his generals were too weak, and he was killed miserably by the Liangshan army after he was in chaos.Mu Hong was a bold one, he was still fighting inside, but the soldiers he led had already been killed one after another.Mu Chun watched from behind, and hurriedly called for help, but the team lost their spirit after all.

After losing a battle, he returned.

Sun Xin let out a bad breath, and saw that the soldiers were really tired, so there was no way they would pursue them.Sun Li saw that he was happy to withdraw his troops, and first went back to Luochang Town to settle down and rest.

The next battle in Huainan went smoothly.The fault was not that Cai Dezhang had made preparations in advance. There were beacon towers along the coast, and countless fishermen acted as water warriors. Marching troops to Jiangzhou.

The Liangshan army was not close to the river before, but now it can be said that it has neither a navy nor a ferry.Even if there are some ships in Chaohu Lake, they can only enter the Yangtze River through Ruxukou, but it is located downstream.In this season when the east wind is gone in winter, it is both against the wind and against the current.

When the first part of the Navy of the Song Army returns to aid Jiujiang, all this will be completely settled.

(End of this chapter)