Chivalrous Song Dynasty

In fact, what he wanted to say in his heart was: "Our 100 army can't defeat Fang La, can't we also destroy a group of bandits? Although we only have [-] people at the moment, the army behind is overwhelming. Mount Mangdang is flattened!"

But guarding Huang Chang, he couldn't say that, and changed it to "Don't say Master Huang's martial arts are world-class, even me, Mr. Wang, can level these mountains alone!"

"Okay, this soldier also has good intentions, so that's it." Huang Chang stopped Wang Wenbin from being impassioned, ignored Bai Sheng's reminder, and leisurely walked up the slope of the nearest mountain with his hands behind his back, and disappeared in the Among the mountains and forests.

If someone asks, maybe Bai Sheng will introduce the power of Fan Rui and others, but no one gives him this opportunity, and no one can take his words seriously, or in other words, no one takes him seriously as Song Junjia .

Who told him to curry favor with Wang Wenbin when he was camping yesterday?The soldiers also had steelyards in their hearts. They would only be in awe of Song Junyi who dared to contradict Wang Wenbin, but they would not take Song Junjia who beat the leader's leg seriously. Even the cavalry led by him looked down on him.

In terms of skill, everyone could see that Song Junjia followed Song Junyi to learn and sell when he practiced bow horse yesterday afternoon.

Bai Sheng was helpless, so he had no choice but to slander: "A bunch of idiots, I reminded you kindly, but you didn't listen, you deserve it if you die later!"

Of course, people would not pay attention to Bai Sheng anymore, they should be busy, and after yesterday's anti-Japanese incident, Wang Wenbin did not ask Bai Sheng to beat his legs.Only Song Junyi walked to Bai Sheng's side and said softly, "Why, are the thieves on this mountain very powerful?"

Bai Sheng was inexplicably moved, this Song Junyi was so confidant!He didn't even ask himself how he knew there were bandits on this mountain, but he just believed it.

So he murmured: "Well, it's really amazing."

In fact, he also knew that others would not care about his reminder, and he didn't intend that people would pay attention to his reminder. All he wanted was to prove himself with the results, but he didn't expect Song Junyi to trust him without thinking about it.

"Then what should we do? How about we run away?" Song Junyi lowered his voice and suggested.It seems that except for the hard fight against Wang Wenbin, Bai Sheng is his main focus.

Bai Sheng shook his head slowly, "No." But he didn't explain why he couldn't.

At this moment, Wang Wenbin issued a new order, ordering the team to go two miles forward and camp in a valley ahead. The reason is that the valley is relatively leeward, which is good for cooking by campfire, and it will be warm for sleeping at night. Some.

This is really not going to die, if you camp outside the valley, you can escape in case of an attack, but if you enter the valley, it depends on whether the three brothers Fan Rui are willing to leave a way out for these officers and soldiers.

Of course, there is another possibility that Fan Rui and the others did not come to provoke the hundred imperial cavalry, but if this was the case, then his plan would come to nothing again.

So he is very torn.If you want to save your life, you can't follow the brigade into the valley.If you want to use this opportunity to develop a relationship with Huang Shang, you have to go in and take risks to protect Huang Shang's family as much as possible.

Wealth and wealth are sought in insurance!He finally made up his mind and followed behind the brigade.

Song Junyi had no choice but to walk side by side with him, "Brother, why can't I understand you? Since you know there are bandits"

"Ah..." Bai Sheng sighed, and sang a high-pitched voice: "Since you have come to serve as a soldier, you know that you have great responsibilities. What's the matter if you run away?"

Song Junyi looked sideways at Bai Sheng for a long time, laughed, shook his head and said, "I don't believe it, you're lying."

Bai Sheng couldn't explain any more. When he arrived at the camping place designated by Wang Wenbin, he grabbed a shovel from a soldier who was digging a stove and started digging.

"Brother, are you going to cook yourself?" Song Junyi was surprised.The soldiers next to him also looked suspiciously, the captain actually did the logistics work himself, is this trying to buy people's hearts?

Wang Wenbin also came over curiously, "Song Junjia, what are you doing?"

Bai Sheng didn't even raise his head, and continued digging hard, "Master, I'm digging my own grave, planning to bury my brothers alive."

Chapter 99

Everyone watched Bai Sheng dig a hole as if they were a fool, but they saw that he dug deeper and bigger, and they gradually believed it. Combined with the "crazy words" he said to Huang Chang before, some people guessed: "This Song Junjia is really crazy."

It doesn't matter whether Bai Sheng is really crazy or pretending to be crazy.Curiosity can't stop hunger and fatigue. In short, eating and sleeping are the most important things, so no one pays attention to him doing this stupid thing, and each of them splits up.

Seeing the others disperse, Song Junyi also borrowed a shovel from another soldier who had dug the wild stove, jumped into the pit to dig with Bai Sheng, and asked while digging: "It seems that you think the gang in the mountain Thieves are good at attacking from a distance, aren't they?"

Bai Sheng stopped in shock, looked at Song Junyi like a ghost, and asked after a while, "Brother, who are you?"

"I'm your younger brother. Since I was a child, I've known what you want, brother. Look, can this digging work?" Song Junyi didn't stop, but instead asked Bai Sheng for technical guidance.

Song Junyi read it right. What Bai Sheng dug was a trench, or a bunker, a field fortification that even machine guns would not be able to penetrate in later generations.

The pit is not too deep. When a person stands in the pit, his chest is level with the ground, but the height of the pit below the lower abdomen expands horizontally. This is to prevent possible projectile attacks from the enemy—just hide In the horizontal hole in the pit, only guided missiles can get in.

But of course there are no guided missiles in the world of this era, so the trench dug by Bai Sheng is a foolproof underground bunker.

Seeing that he continued to pretend to be dizzy, Bai Sheng had no choice but to continue digging. In addition to his and Song Junyi's positions, he also wanted to dig space for Huang Chang's wife and children. Hu raised his face and asked in a low voice: "Don't talk to me. , you are definitely not Song Junyi!"

Song Junyi said with a smile: "Then who do you say I am, who do you say I am, I am who, do you think so?"

Bai Sheng was speechless.

Of course, the busy people also saw the two brothers of the Song family going crazy together, but no one paid any attention to it.

The two men dug the trench with twice the result with half the effort, progressed extremely fast, far better than ordinary engineers, and dug a trench enough to accommodate ten people. It took only half an hour, and they didn't even delay their own meals.

Bai Sheng simply brought a marching pot, and the remaining stewed cakes in the pot were reserved for them. It was authentic Henan style, and the two brothers ate deliciously by guarding the edge of the pot.

The night was darker, but the forest tops in the valley lacked the crescent moon that it should have. The soldiers who had eaten had already spread hay on the spot to rest, and their horses were all tied to the trees on the hillside. Wang Wenbin got into him Sleeping in the exclusive military tent, Huang Chang's family also returned to the car to rest.

Only Bai Sheng and Song Junyi sat side by side on the edge of the trench, holding bows and arrows in their hands, listening to Song Junyi whispering the essentials of archery.

It is definitely not enough to have trenches alone. If there is no means of counterattack, the enemy only needs to cover up and kill them, stamping their feet and burying the two alive.

"The moment the arrow feather leaves the string, you must hold your breath, and at the same time, you must keep the bow arm steady. Ordinary archers struggle when drawing the bow fully, and the bow arm will tremble, so that the arrows shot are aimed at the head. just bad"

"Well, I remember, but I think now what I need to learn is how to aim the upward shot as a flat shot, you think, if there are bandits coming, will they appear on the top of the mountain or the cliffs around the valley superior?"

"That's true, but I think if they appear near the top of the mountain, you and I will have no way to fight back, so we can only hide in this ditch."

"why?"

"Because bows are not good. I have seen that the bows allocated to us are all stone bows. Even if this kind of bow is thrown, it can only shoot up to [-] paces. If it is flat, [-] paces is the limit. The nearby target is an archery target. This mountain is at least seventy feet high, right? I can’t shoot it visually.”

After Song Junyi's explanation, Bai Sheng learned that ancient Chinese bows were divided into one stone bow, two stone bows, three stone bows and even the legendary nine stone bows.

One stone in the Song Dynasty was 92.5 Song Jin, which is equivalent to 120 Shi Jin or 60 kg in later generations.In other words, if you want to draw a full stone bow, you need both arms to have a pulling force of at least one hundred catties.

Not to mention the three stone bows and above, but the two stone bows, there are very few people in the world who can open them to the full. Huang Zhong, a famous general in the Three Kingdoms period, was proud of being able to open two stone bows when he was very old.

Therefore, anyone who can open two stone bows and join the army is definitely a general.

As for the legendary nine-stone bow, except for the bragging King Xuan of Qi who shamelessly pretended to be a three-stone bow in the Spring and Autumn Period, if there is such a bow in this world, then probably only Hou Yi in ancient times could draw it.

Right now, if a crossbow is shot at the top of a cliff at a nearly vertical angle, under the effect of gravity, it can only shoot to about [-] feet before it falls, so it is impossible to talk about aiming, because the shooting range is up to [-] meters. less than.

The night wind in the valley is indeed much weaker than outside, and the mountains and fields in early winter are completely silent.The two people on the edge of the ditch stopped talking about bows and arrows, and began to think about their own thoughts.

Suddenly, Bai Sheng yelled: "Oh, my stomach hurts, oh, I can't do it, I need to be convenient." While talking, he held his stomach, slipped out into the ditch, and squatted in a corner of the ditch to pull it up.

"Brother, right?" Song Junyi was very dissatisfied, "Even if I'm not afraid of being smoked by you, brother, you can't drag me here!"

"Haha" Bai Sheng was very happy, and he couldn't hold back his laughter. Song Junyi finally couldn't guess what he wanted to do, so he stopped laughing and said, "I'm sorry, brother, the pain was so sudden. Otherwise, I'm afraid it will be pulled in the trousers."

"I don't believe it! You are obviously laughing, are you playing tricks on me?"

Bai Sheng saw that the lie was exposed, so he had to tell another lie: "I'm afraid of being attacked by bandits, I'm safe here, and you can protect me, so I can feel more at ease."