Five Dynasties River Mountains Fengyue

Generally speaking, when setting up the formation, the heavily armored troops will be placed in front to defend against long-range weapons. The reason for such operations is that it is really difficult for weapons such as bows and crossbows to cause too much damage to the heavily armored troops.

The heavy-armed troops can use this to buy time and shorten the distance for other cavalry, long-range troops, and light-armed troops. Other soldiers can cooperate in any way, but the formation in front must not be chaotic.

But the appearance of the cannon suddenly broke this situation. The densely armed troops faced the cannon. Several wars in Hedong, large and small, have proved that the consequences will be extremely tragic...

This has also become an important reason why the Qin army has been invincible across the north in the past few years.

It was also because of this that Pan Mei would directly send the most elite partners, the Shenhuo Army and the Crane Army Army, so that even if the Southern Han Army cheated him, he would not be afraid.

At the same time, he also carefully arranged the reserve team and flank protection troops.

A quarter of an hour later, a large number of troops assembled in the distance by the river, formed formations, and then began to advance towards the direction of the Southern Han Army. Climbing the small hill, so that the position of the reinforcements is not exposed to the enemy's field of vision.

Qin Jun also talked about martial arts and laid out a large formation of more than 3000 people. After the formation was completed, he began to advance to the south of the river.

The cannons of the Shenhuo Army also approached slowly under the cover of many infantrymen of the Crane Control Army holding large shields.

The two armies were separated by a small river more than ten steps wide. The Qin army had already prepared the means of crossing the river, which was a bamboo raft that could be directly placed on the river. Move in the formation, and build a pontoon bridge only when the time is right.It is not difficult to build a pontoon bridge on a river that is more than ten steps wide.

The two sides were getting closer and closer, and the Southern Han army was on the opposite bank. When the Qin army approached the river, they immediately began to fire their bows and crossbows, and the Qin army's crossbowmen also responded.

The black arrows roared like locusts and shuttled across the narrow river, and the battle began instantly.

Both sides arranged soldiers holding large shields to defend against the arrows in various places in the formation, and the elites in heavy armor were in front of them, so the arrows of both sides came and went, causing certain casualties to the other side, but they could not play a role. Decisive, the formation is still intact.

Slowly, the front of the Qin army advanced to the river, and the two sides were separated by a river. At a close distance of dozens of steps, arrows, spears, and even small stones that could be thrown were all thrown into the opponent's formation.

All of a sudden, the water in the river splashed all over the place, and countless fish were killed. It looked like a layer of black and brown new grass grew on the bank. It was the arrows that had missed, and the battle was very fierce.

Two quarters of an hour later, the formations of the two sides were still tight, because across the river and dozens of steps apart, they couldn't do anything to each other. The bows and crossbows were not enough to break through the tight shields and heavy armor, and the battle seemed to be at a stalemate.

At this time, the Southern Han army on the opposite side must have known that the Qin army wanted to try to cross the river, and they were guarding the riverside to find a way to prevent the Qin army from crossing the river. There were already many warriors holding big axes and wearing heavy armor waiting behind the shield. Qin Jun built the pontoon bridge, and immediately rushed up to prepare to cut it off with arrows.

But they waited and waited, and they had been shooting at each other across the river for a few quarters of an hour. The arrows cost nearly half, but the Qin army had no intention of building a pontoon bridge at all, and still stuck to the riverside...

Suddenly the situation was a little awkward, and both sides fell into a situation where they couldn't do anything to each other.

Chapter 429, Thunderbolt Formation

On the Twin Female Peaks, flags were flying, and many people were watching the battlefield below from a distance. Looking down from here, the battle by the river was very clear.

The two sides have been deadlocked by the river for nearly half an hour.

Of course, everyone knows that this stalemate will not last long, because in places where the Southern Han army cannot see, behind the Qin army's forward position, the Shenhuo army's cannons have roughly completed the stabilization, loading, and proofreading procedures, because the distance is very close. Put on aiming without difficulty.

At the rear of the artillery position, the auxiliary soldiers also carried a large number of rafts and prepared.

The battle enters the next stage.

The horn sounded from the rear, and the Qin army began to retreat slowly.

Seeing this, the Southern Han army on the other side burst into cheers. They probably thought that the Qin army was afraid of retreating. After all, the Southern Han army had not won a single victory since the start of the war. Wouldn't this break the myth that the Qin army was invincible!

Many Southern Han soldiers were even more excited, and even the formation moved a little too fast, and the front line was a little scattered, but they quickly pressed down to the river.

To be honest, Pan Mei looked down on all this and understood their excitement. As a person who has been fighting for a long time, he understands the hardships of war best. Many times, many lives are filled, but there is no satisfactory result, not even comfort. No.

But this is the cruelty of it, it is the ultimate means of violence that transcends moral humanity, there is no morality at all, and there is no benevolence at all.

The excitement of the Southern Han army lasted only for a while. When they were excited and thought that they would repel the Qin army and advance to the river, the Qin army retreated in advance, revealing the prepared artillery positions behind.

The pitch-black muzzle and the reinforced gun carriage to prevent huge recoil force were the reasons why the Qin army stood against each other for half an hour.

Seeing that the Shenhuo Army was ready to go into battle, Pan Mei almost breathed a sigh of relief. Not only him, but also the generals, clerks, and judges who were watching the battle seemed to all breathe out at the same time, and they were all very neat for a while.

After many battles over the years, everyone has a clear understanding of the combat effectiveness of the Shenhuo Army.

Yun was by the river, and when the Southern Han army on the other side hadn't reacted to the change of the Qin army, the loud noise instantly tore the river surface, and the ripples on the water surface spread rapidly. Bursts of blood blossomed at the front of the Southern Han Army.

The high-speed roaring stones and iron beads instantly turned the splashed blood into a mist. The blood-colored mist diffused in the Southern Han army, and a large number of soldiers in the front line wearing heavy armor fell down like straw swept by a strong wind. A huge concave gap spreads deep into the position.

The people in front had been beaten to pieces, the blood mist filled the air, flesh and blood were mixed with gunpowder smoke, and thousands of projectiles wrapped in subsequent shelling rushed to the rear to be exposed, and the archers of the Southern Han Army who had not yet reacted to what happened.

Those unlucky people who died didn't understand why they were obviously in the rear, and the front was a dense front line, and they were colleagues in heavy armor. Why did they suddenly change from the rear army to the front army?

Not enough time for them to think, the bloody bullets instantly knocked them down in large numbers.

They were really unlucky, because the Qin army's artillery did not strike across the board, but concentrated its firepower on several points in the front to open up paths.

After the preparation of artillery fire, the Southern Han Army's position was in a mess, with heavy casualties, the front line was completely disrupted, and the organization was in chaos. The Qin Army did not give them time to recover from their bewilderment. When they got to the river, they took it directly. In some places where the water surface was wide, the auxiliary soldiers jumped into the water to move the pontoon bridge in desperation.

Then the Qin army's heavy troops immediately stepped on the unsteady pontoon bridge and killed it aggressively. The river with a width of more than ten steps can be easily crossed. The formation no longer existed, and the Qin army easily rushed in, interspersed and divided the Southern Han army's large formation, forming a partial flanking attack on two sides and three sides.

On the Twin Female Peaks, the situation of the battle is even more clear at a glance. The cannons hit the infantry in a dense formation. Even veterans who have experienced many battles feel scalp numb every time they watch it, it is too bloody and cruel.

After the Qin army landed on the south bank, they rushed forward and quickly penetrated the formation of the Southern Han army through the gap opened by the artillery. The southernmost troops had already penetrated the line of the Southern Han army and went to the rear, chasing several officers. He wanted to run on horseback, but the Qin army behind him threw a spear in his hand and stabbed him to death beside the horse.

Another small group of passing cavalry rushed towards the main banner of the Southern Han Army from the side. The general of the Southern Han Army fled to the rear under the protection of dozens of cavalry. They did not dare to take the main road but crossed a paddy field. The horse got stuck in it and dismounted. walk.

The handsome flag at the rear was directly chopped down by the cavalry with giant axes, and replaced with the red and black flag of the Qin army.

Soon, the resistance in the front also collapsed, and a large number of Southern Han soldiers began to flee to the rear. The soldiers in the front line were the most unlucky. They didn't even have a chance to escape, and they were already surrounded.

However, in just two quarters of an hour, the situation of the battle turned forward. The wide land to the south of the river and the fields criss-crossed with rice paddies became a situation where a large number of deserters fled around like ants, like headless flies, and the soldiers of the Qin army were chasing after them. In general wars, this stage is also the most fruitful.

However, because there were too few cavalry troops crossing the river, the Qin army's pursuit and killing was obviously not enough. Many soldiers of the Southern Han Dynasty who ran fast fled into the mountains and forests on the east and west sides and survived.

However, some unlucky people ran towards the camp in the south, but the comrades there did not dare to open the gate of the camp to let them in, because the Qin army was chasing after them, and in the end they were all shot and killed by the Qin army's rangers on the outskirts of the camp. , fell by the ditch, and the Southern Han army in Dazhai did not send troops to respond, nor did they organize a counterattack.

The follow-up Qin army did not chase randomly, but guarded the river, let the reserve team of the follow-up ten battalions cross the river, and assembled a large number of troops in the south of the river.

But what surprised Pan Mei and the others was that, from their point of view, in the southwest of the rout, some routs regrouped at the mouth of a large field. It seemed that there were hundreds of people. They didn't flee, and they weren't going back Battalion, but continued to rectify and slowly drove towards Qin Jun's direction.

This was different from all the Southern Han troops they had seen, and everyone was a little surprised. Maybe it was a loyal minister and good general of the Southern Han Dynasty, a man of death festival?

But it was just a momentary surprise.

On the north side of the river, tens of thousands of troops from the Qin army have already crossed the river to reach the opposite bank, and there will be reinforcements in the future. These hundreds of people can't make any waves at all. Although their integrity is noble, nobility cannot save the defeat.

Pan Mei glanced at the hundreds of people who were not advancing but retreating, and then ignored them, but ordered in an orderly manner, "Let the Chinese army cross the river, move the Jiannan army forward, and tell Cao Bin to come see me immediately when we arrive.

Go to the fish oil in the warehouse, prepare the gunpowder, and transport it across the river...

Let the cavalry of the flanking cavalry also cross the river. "

Chapter 430, Breaking the Last Resistance

His lungs ached like they were on fire, his heavy breathing was as thick as a phoenix box, the blood stains blurred his vision, and his eyes hurt from the irritation of sweat.

The pain in his body has disappeared. He knows that he has been injured a lot. The blood has made his whole body sticky and slippery. His vision in the distance began to blur. , slowly covering the distant fields, blocking the sun, rushing towards him.

Zhi Tingxiao recalled that when he was a child, he was playing on the beach, and the tide was raging. Under the raging black tide, he experienced unprecedented despair and fear, which was the shadow of his life.

Now those scenes are vivid again, as if to suffocate him...

The irresistible, unstoppable force makes people despair.

Then I remembered that he bribed the fortune-telling witch with gold and silver, and asked her to say that she could win the battle, so that she could fight under the son of the son of a son of a bitch, and those who were willing to come out with him to face the Qin army were only under his command None of the remaining 1 or so brothers dared to fight against the Qin army. Without the commander's order, he could not mobilize other friendly troops......

Everyone regards Qin Jun as a tiger and wolf and avoids it...

His loyal subordinates followed him out of the camp, but most of them died under the hands of the Qin army. They were loyal, brave, and the most tragic, but the cowards and scum lived well behind the camp.

A lot of things rushed into his head, his headache was splitting, the pain and exhaustion all over his body seemed to be less painful than the pain in his head, and the pain in his heart tore him almost fainting.

In front of him was the unshakable Kuroshio, the red and black Qin army overwhelming the sky, and the blurry north bank was full of their orderly troops and flags.

Sure enough... as in the legends of these years, the Qin army is invincible, but unlike hell ghosts, they are heavenly soldiers. They are united, firm, loyal and patriotic, and indestructible, making him incomparable envious.

Everything behind him makes him as cold as falling into a freezer, the decaying imperial court, the commander who prays to God and worships Buddha, the cowardly soldiers, the closed camp gates, and the colleagues who sit and watch them die and dare not help... ..everything made him confused and confused, his mind almost froze, and even the pain all over his body was covered up.

For a moment, he thought about throwing down his weapon, walking over, and surrendering to the Qin army.

But in the end, Zhi Tingxiao just wiped the blood on the horizontal knife, picked up the spear, stepped on the mud and blood without saying a word, and rushed towards the Qin army who was like a high wall.

Vaguely, he felt that there were many people following him, but it was too late for him to think about it.

.......

Yin Chongke led the Chinese army across the river. Tens of thousands of Qin troops had gathered on the north bank and formed a formation. The Qin army's figures were everywhere along the several miles long river bank.

After they landed on the south bank, they didn't need to command, and they had already formed a formation habitually.

In the distance, the pursuit was over. The rangers of the Qin army were returning one after another with their bloody ears as trophies, and reported to Yin Chongke that the remnant enemies in front had been eliminated, and many had fled into the woods. They did not pursue any more.

"None of these Southern Han troops are forbidden to fight." Dang Jin next to him said contemptuously, causing everyone to laugh, and everyone believed it. Indeed, they have been fighting for nearly half a year now, and they have not encountered any Nan Han soldiers who can fight. The Han army is not at the same level as the Northern Han, Southern Tang, and Liao.

"In my opinion, today's Southern Han Army can fight. If there is no Shenhuo Army, it may be difficult to cross the river." Yin Chongke said.

Strong generals like Dang Jin still didn't take it seriously, but the rest of the people nodded in agreement. Today's Southern Han soldiers are indeed the hardest bones they have encountered since they arrived in Lingnan.

While everyone was talking, in the field beside the road in the distance, a dilapidated team of 200 people held a flag, and the formation approached this side again.

"Are you here to surrender?" Yin Chongke subconsciously wanted to send someone over to receive the disarmament, but soon realized that something was wrong. The two hundred remnant soldiers held the flag and formed a tight formation. They were bruised, but they didn't look like they came to surrender at all, because the weapons in their hands all there.

"What's the situation?" The generals were puzzled.

When they approached Baibu, someone in the front shouted, "Throw the weapon under your feet, stop moving forward, or you will shoot arrows."

The other party didn't seem to hear it, and continued to approach, and then the leading general roared, and one or two hundred people shouted and rushed towards the tens of thousands of Qin troops.

"They want to commit suicide?" Someone said.

Yin Chongke, Dang Jin and the others didn't speak, but just watched. They rushed towards the Qin army's position regardless of their own safety, but the dense arrows quickly struck in all directions, and the black rain of arrows shuttled past.

The group of people seemed not afraid of death, and none of them retreated. In the end, only four or five people struggled to reach the front of the formation like hedgehogs. What greeted them was a dense array of spears, more than three feet long. Qin Jun was pierced through countless holes by a single hair, and fell in front of the formation.

It was like a light wave crashing into a solid wall, without leaving a trace, it was extinguished instantly.

It's just that this counterattack was obviously beyond everyone's expectations, and even Dang Jin was speechless. The Southern Han Army, which had been vulnerable all the way, unexpectedly had such courage.

Yin Chongke looked at the corpses in front of the battle, and said to the herald beside him, "Go back and tell the commander, you can start attacking the camp tonight."

"I heard that there are 6 to [-] people in their camp." Dang Jin retorted, saying something that was not in his style, probably because he was frightened by the suicide counterattack just now. Indeed, if there were [-] to [-] people in the camp Such a Southern Han soldier, that is, he, a titan, would also feel afraid.

Yin Chongke seemed to see through his mind, looked at the corpses in front of him and said, "Give them a good burial, and erect a monument; anyone who is brave will die here." He pointed at the Nanhan camp behind him with his horsewhip: "Everyone who is alive will die here." A coward, vulnerable."

.......

At night, the fire illuminates the sky, and the surroundings are as red as the sunset.

Pan Mei agreed to Yin Chongke's request, and decided to take advantage of the victory to launch an attack on the camp, and the executor was the Jiannan Army of Shudi led by Cao Bin as the forward.

A large number of auxiliary soldiers touched the outskirts of the camp, threw many clay pots filled with fish oil, turpentine, and gunpowder, and then lit them with torches. The fence made of bamboo and wood that had been exposed to the sun for a month was quickly ignited in a large area.The scorching flames rushed into the sky, the flames were more than ten feet high, bursting sparks were flying around, and the thick smoke was covered in the night.

After the fire was almost finished, the Shenhuo army, which had been prepared earlier, opened fire hundreds of steps away. This time, they used solid bullets. It was crushed into powder and shattered, and many shells poured directly into the rear camp, bringing disability and death in the dark, with endless panic and chaos.

All of a sudden, drums and horns sounded, mourning was everywhere, and the Jiannan army who had prepared earlier was drenched in water, covered their noses and mouths with wet clothes and rushed into the camp. A big battle began in the chaos.

......

Just two quarters of an hour later, the main gate of the camp was opened by the Jiannan army, and a steady stream of follow-up troops began to enter from the main gate, but it caused confusion. At night, there was no distinction between the enemy and the enemy, and the soldiers who followed up all held torches. The Jiannan Army who entered first wrapped their red scarves around their arms.

The battle broke out completely. Looking down from the air, wherever the Qin army went, there were bright flames everywhere, like hot red molten iron, flowing and expanding from right to north and south in the camp.

The night covered the killing, and it also covered the blood.

In the middle of the night, the Southern Han army had completely given up resistance. Many people fled to the south, and many scurry around in the dark like headless flies, and many knelt down and surrendered on the spot...

An army of [-] to [-] was defeated overnight.

Once "14 people were all disarmed, and none of them was a man", the Shu army was remarkable in this battle. Under the leadership of Cao Bin, many of them rushed into the enemy camp fiercely in the first wave. It is the whole body on fire and does not care about fighting the enemy to the death.

This also caused the Jiannan Army to suffer the most damage in this battle.

The Southern Han army was already distracted and their morale was low. The successive defeats made them fear the Qin army as if they saw a tiger. The Jiannan army who was beaten as a forward collapsed even more.

Early the next morning, the Qin army had completely controlled the camp that was almost burned out on the periphery, and the news of the great victory made the whole army cheer.

In this battle, more than 2000 people were beheaded and more than [-] enemies were captured. More victories and prisoners are still on the way, because the cavalry cavalry is chasing and has not returned yet.

As for the other defeated troops, there are tens of thousands of naval troops of Guo Tingwei and Si Chao to the south waiting for them to throw themselves into the trap.

Pan Mei was the commander in the rear, when he entered the scorched ruins everywhere, a large number of Southern Han prisoners, with different expressions of fear or numbness, were being escorted to the open space in the distance.

Pan Mei took a glance, but couldn't see the side. When she looked up, the east sun was shining in over the treetops.

He breathed a sigh of relief, suppressed the excitement in his heart, pretended to be calm and said to the clerk next to him: "After winning this round, Nanhan has no power to resist anymore, report the victory to the officials!"

Chapter 431: Another Year of Autumn Moon

The wind whizzed past, and near the forest avenue, there were chaotic figures everywhere, ferocious beasts howling at night, and there were dim lights flickering in the dark from time to time, which were the pupils of the ferocious beasts.