Changfeng Thousands of Miles End Han Song

Chapter 607 To the South——

Just halfway through the first month, it is the land of the south of the Yangtze River, where the warmth of spring has not yet been seen, and the cold of winter is still there.However, the Great River region is already like cold water pouring into boiling oil, and the boiling is full of sky, so it is not lively.

When the Liangshan army crossed the river suddenly, Li Qiong, the former general of Liu Guangguo, rebelled and led the rebels to drive out the defender Xin Daozong, captured Runzhou City, and responded to the northern army's southward crossing.

In this way, Liu Yanqing and Liu Taiwei, the governors along the south coast of the Yangtze River, were still ignorant, tens of thousands of Liangshan army elites had already attacked Runzhou to the west, and the momentum along the way was like a broken bamboo, and the soldiers approached the city of Jinling.

How could the huge Jinling City be defended by Liu Yanqing's thousands of soldiers?What's more, Jinling City's defenses were dilapidated, and it was impossible to hold on.Immediately, he led his troops back into Taiping Prefecture.Luan Tingyu did not pursue the attack, but insisted on defending Jinling City.Wu Song, the right deputy governor of the right army governor's mansion, led the army and took Changzhou from Runzhou east. Later, he left Chen Yi to garrison here, and brought Shan Tinggui, the left deputy commander of Huainan province's soldiers and horses, to attack Yixing south.

His troops are short of troops, and the contracted Huainan garrison has just over [-] troops.In addition, Zhang Shun's water diversion division was stationed on the river, and a certain number of troops and horses were stationed in the north of the river.The soldiers who went south were only about [-].Two-thirds of the soldiers belonging to the Dudu Mansion of the Right Army came.

Seizing Jinling, Runzhou, and Changzhou is a great achievement, but I dare not think about going south to Yixing and Changxing, encircling Huzhou from the west road, and cutting off the connection between their troops and the main force of the Western Army.

But even so, it hurt the Western Army to the bone, and Fang La in Suzhou City was furious.

In Suzhou City, in a magnificently decorated hall, Fang Shenggong burst into anger. At the age of 45, he was in his prime, and his roar shook the entire Suzhou City.He is not that stupid person, thinking that this is the son-in-law coming to support the old man, how can he not see the harm that Liangshan's army going south will do to the Manichaeism?From now on, can they still be the masters of this land in the south of the Yangtze River?What are the consequences of going on like this?
So Fang La was furious in his palace, but he did not impulsively issue an imperial edict asking the Manichaean army to attack Changzhou.

The two sides took Furong Lake as the node, Wuxi in the east belonged to the Manichaean Army, and the west belonged to the Liangshan Army.As for Jiangyin on the North Road, because Liu Menglong's naval diversion division was stationed here, Liangshan Army drew it into its own territory.

"Reporting to Shenggong, the Liangshan army has enough food and supplies, and has been recharging their energy for a long time. Now that the army is heading south, our army will fight with it. It is extremely unfavorable. Besides, Lu Qian has hundreds of thousands of troops, many soldiers and many generals..." There are not only such a few people, if you eat them, you don't have to worry about coming again.

Zu Shiyuan didn't say anything, "I think that our army should turn its spearhead and defeat the Lingnan Song army first." That's why I dare not expect extravagantly from the land in the north of the Yangtze River, and it is Jinling. The natural barrier of the Yangtze River is also lost.In this way, Manichaeism completely lost hope of going north.Today it is still facing south.Skills are not as good as people, there is nothing to do.

Even Fang La, who was so angry, couldn't help but say that Zu Shiyuan was an old man who wanted to seek the country!

But these old-fashioned words have never been very pleasing to people's hearts. After hearing what Zu Shiyuan said, although Fang La thought it was correct, he still felt blocked psychologically.

How many years has it been?The gap between the Manichaeism and the Liangshan Army was too great to be bridged.

Even if they still look forward to Liang Shanjun's livelihood, Fang La feels aggrieved.

Fang Hao, who had already left Yidu with Yang Zhi for a while, when he heard the news on the way, jumped three feet high in anger, and hurried back to Yidu that day, but Yang Zhi was galloping day and night. yangzhou.

But it's useless.Lu Qian avoided seeing him, even Fang Jinzhi had nothing to do.Send people to say: "Uncle Erguo, please be considerate of your mother. How can weak women do what this man has set?"

Lu Qian made up his mind to go south, but Fang Jinzhi's words were of no use.Could it be that some people still think that King Lu is a master who doesn't love country and beauty?

Therefore, regardless of whether there was deception before, the truth is the most important thing.

The not-so-happy New Year's Eve Zhong Shidao didn't dare to be negligent at this moment, and at the same time called Liu Menglong's department to return to help quickly, block the north-south channel of the Yangtze River, and then led his troops to Dangtu.Tens of thousands of Western troops rushed towards Jinling City without stopping.

The latter's current scale cannot be compared with that of Nanjing City in the later Ming Dynasty, but it inherits the former sites of Yangwu and Southern Tang, and its perimeter, shape and scope are almost the same as it.Its slightly cloud: the perimeter of the city wall is 25 miles and 44 steps, and there are parapets and battlements on the top of the city wall.

If the city defenses were intact, Jinling City would undoubtedly be a strong city.However, it is a pity that the battle between the Western Army and the Manichaeism has destroyed the current Jinling City in sevens and eighties.

After Luan Tingyu arrived with his troops, he spent money and grain to call on the young men to assist the Liangshan Army in repairing the city defenses and dredging the city trenches.But such a large city cannot be repaired in a short time.

He only roughly repaired a few collapsed places, the sheep and horse walls were not repaired, and there were still remnants everywhere on the top of the city.But even so, the Liangshan army still had to stick to the city.

On the top of the towering Jinling city, on top of the wide city wall, tens of thousands of soldiers under the governor's mansion of the right army of Liangshan Army are waiting in formation.The crossbowmen had already lined up, and behind the wooden parapet on each horse's face, there was a bed crossbow on display, and arrows had already been put into the slots.The cannon carriages in the Tibetan city were also fully prepared, all that was lacking was an order.

Before the big battle, the battlefield always seemed surprisingly quiet. The officers who had been running around and shouting earlier had already taken their positions, watching the Western Army outside the city vigilantly.

And the Western Army is obviously ready.The black crowd was beyond the range of the crossbow and ballista stones. Thousands of soldiers of the Western Army surrounded the shield car trenches and bridges. Whenever they attacked the city, they were always the first batch of troops.Behind the trench bridge, there are ten ramming vehicles. Just looking at the positions of these ramming vehicles, they must correspond to places where the city wall is weak.Those newly repaired city walls are naturally not as strong as the old city walls.

After that, there is a row of ladder carts, followed by several formations of infantry, all of them are wearing iron armor, and the protection is solid, especially the weapons in their hands are eye-catching.There is no single-handed sword, and there is no long spear that drops the knife, but all blunt weapons!

It has been raining in Jinling City for two days, and the rain just stopped last night.

But now, before the fierce offensive and defensive battle begins, the continuous spring rain is like the woman in the south of the Yangtze River, gracefully falling slowly.

The endless group of western troops also stopped, which meant that they were all in place.The officers of various ministries leaped in front of the horses, doing the final mobilization to boost morale.When the shield car trench bridge troops shouted in unison, the Western Army boiled!Shocking voices came and went, as if they were about to destroy the sky and crash into the sky!The huge sound echoed over Jinling City for a long time, endlessly!
In the west city of Jinling, Wei Dingguo narrowed his eyes slightly, he was very surprised by the momentum of the Western Army.It is worthy of being a strong soldier, and now it is in this scene and there is such a momentum.But the Western Army is not weak, is the Liangshan Army weak?It's not that the soldiers and horses belonging to the Governor's Mansion of the Right Army have never fought against the Western Army.He took a deep breath, put his right hand on the hilt, and slowly pulled out the saber...

The soldiers around are all elite Liangshan Army.The Governor's Mansion of the Right Army entered Huainan a long time ago, but every time the troops were expanded, Lu Qianke never forgot them.The selected soldiers are all veterans of the garrison.

When he followed Yang Zhi into Huaixi, he had many battles with the western army, and his soldiers were strong and brave.

At this time, no one was frightened when facing the Western Army's heavy troops.Let’s not mention those big principles, but just talk about the most essential thing. Each of these soldiers knows that they eat King Lu’s food and wear King Lu’s clothes, so they must die and die for King Lu.As soldiers, their job is to lick blood with their swords!
The horn sounded suddenly!
Then came the thunderous beating of drums.

Many soldiers felt their hearts sinking!Both hands involuntarily clenched the weapon tightly!Because apart from the comrades around them, only the guy in this hand is their most powerful support!
The call sign of the Western Army reached its peak in an instant!When the front shield vehicles and trench bridge troops swarmed like a flood, everyone in Jinling City knew that the war had begun!

Wei Dingguo stared at the Western Army rushing over like a flood without blinking.Four hundred steps, 350 steps, three hundred steps!

"Bed crossbow shot—!"

"God's arm bow, shoot——"

There was no need for Wei Dingguo to shout loudly. He just slashed down with the saber in his hand, and all the instructions were there.

Thick crossbow arrows were shot out, aiming at the shield car in the front, and then the divine arm bows were shot in rows, covering the entire Western Army's offensive force.

Even though the latter array had been prepared for a long time, there were still screams immediately.However, you have to admire the bravery of the Western Army. Knowing that there are strong bows and crossbows all over the city, and there are invisible artillery vehicles ready to fire, they still rushed towards Jinling with loud shouts!In the eyes of the ex-soldiers, those things seemed to be nothing!

A large number of crossbow arrows struck, and the soldiers of the siege army fell down in pieces.When they approached [-] steps, the Liangshan artillery deployed behind the city wall fired.One after another, the stone bullets hit the shield car, trench bridge, and rush car.

The god arm bow shoots half an arrow into elm wood three hundred steps away, and the bed crossbow can nail a man and a horse to the ground together at this distance. It is very powerful, but it is far from being comparable to a stone cannon.Once the latter hits, it will inevitably smash the target to pieces.Even if it's the sturdiest rusher.The Western Army cannot hear the sound of strings on the top of the city wall, but just by listening to their screams, you can know that the Western Army will pay a huge price for every step forward!

It's just that whether it's a bed crossbow or a god arm bow, the rate of fire is slow.Even when the distance is shortened to a distance of a hundred steps, the archers on the top of the city bend their bows and set arrows in unison, aiming and shooting again and again, they cannot prevent the shield cart from being pushed to the edge of the moat, or a moat bridge from being erected. On the moat!The sheep and horse wall has long since disappeared under Jinling City.Luan Tingyu was only busy repairing the city wall earlier, so he went back to greet the sheep and horse walls.Therefore, don't blame others for the ease of laying trenches and bridges now.

After building the trench bridge, the one who followed him was the rushing car.This kind of rush car is also more than ten feet high, with shields on the front and back, and is covered with a roof. There are no people in the car, and the speed is not fast.But with its tall size, it is still like a mobile fortress. Groups of soldiers from the Western Army hid behind the vehicles and shot at the top of the city from time to time!

Before approaching the corner of the city, the rushing car had no effect at all.But once they get close to the corner of the city, the power will be great.

Nowadays, [-]% of China's city walls are made of adobe. No matter how solid the rammed earth is, it is not a problem for it to be hit by a car.

When the Western Army saw the car approaching the city wall, everyone was excited, but Wei Dingguo didn't care about it. With a wave of his hand, a large bundle of dry firewood and dry grass was thrown under the city, buckets of hot oil were poured down, and a few more sticks were dropped. The torch, the raging fire immediately burned under the city.

Although it can protect against arrows, it cannot protect against fire.

Arrows from the defenders rained down like rain, but the cries of pain, wailing, and shouting from the city never stopped.A rush car was burned down, and a new one was replaced. The Western Army fought hard!

Presumably, everyone in the upper and lower ranks should know the disadvantages of Liangshan's army crossing the south of the Yangtze River and gaining a firm foothold.Zhong Shidao wanted to take advantage of Liangshan Army's unstable foothold, drive them back to Jiangbei early, or take the opportunity to eat them.And if they are followed up by the large troops of the Liangshan Army, the current situation of the Yixi Army will be worrying.

One by one, the soldiers of the Western Army fell to the ground, and the ground was soaked in bright red blood!
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At this moment, in Jiangbei and Huainan, Qin Ming is leading an army of tens of thousands of people, rushing southward along the canal; while on the eastern sea, Li Jun is leading his fleet, unfurling its sails, sticking to the coastline, and is also rushing to the south. go south.

(End of this chapter)