The third emperor of the Sui Dynasty

Chapter 941 Strikes Halfway (seeking tickets)
In the middle of the night, Zhang Changxun, who was dozing off, was suddenly awakened by the sound of horse hooves. He opened his eyes, and saw his own soldier, the school lieutenant, running towards him with a happy face, and he shouted from a distance: "General, respect general!" Found a way to cross the river."

"Seriously?" Zhang Changxun was overjoyed when he heard the words, he stood up suddenly, and his drowsiness was also driven away by the sudden good news.He thought it would be at least tomorrow morning. He never expected that Jing Junhong would find a way to cross the river so quickly. If the army crossed the river now, he would have one more night than the Sui army who had penetrated into the enemy's territory, and he could reach Luo County. Sit back and wait, if time permits, you can even continue to go north, and choose a dangerous place at the turn of Luoxian County and Mianzhu to build fortifications, blocking the way for the Sui cavalry to go south.

"Exactly." The captain of the personal soldier replied quickly.

"Has the army crossed the river yet?" Zhang Changxun looked quite excited.

"Never, General Jing is waiting for the general."

"Why don't you cross over?" Zhang Changxun was furious. The dam that temporarily blocked the river could not block the water for too long, otherwise it would bring disaster to the downstream army. Therefore, he made an appointment with Jing Junhong before, and at most he could only break it for a moment. Time, at this time, as long as the army passes through Mianshui, they can pull up the chain bridge in mid-air.However, Jing Junhong was still waiting for him, and this precious time was wasted like this, how could he not be angry?
"General Jing didn't set up a dam to block the river." Seeing that Zhang Changxun's expression became ugly, the school captain quickly explained: "Reporting to General, the Mian River is so fast that General Jing will not find a way to block the river for a while, but there are more than ten rivers upstream. The river here is about [-] feet wide, and the water flow in this area is gentle, which is very suitable for ferrying. Therefore, the wharf here has become one of the three major wharfs in Luo County. The people in the fishing villages on the shore have gone to the mountains to escape the war, and now there is no one there. The boats they hid in the reeds were discovered by our scouts, there were more than a hundred small boats and a dozen large boats, so General Jing ordered the big and small boats to be rowed into the river, and a pontoon bridge was built on the Mian River."

Zhang Changxun breathed a sigh of relief. Compared with the dikes that could collapse at any time, the pontoon bridge built by ships is much safer and more reliable. The reason why Jing Junhong didn't cross the river immediately was obviously because the Sui army on the other side had been monitoring every move of the Tang army. As soon as he moved, he was afraid of being ambushed by the enemy army, so he prepared to combine the forces of the two armies and fight to the opposite bank together.

This is a relatively stable choice, and Zhang Changxun can understand it.After all, Jing Junhong only had [-] soldiers. If the lurking Sui army cavalry attacked halfway, it would be all over.

Thinking of this, Zhang Changxun also felt the urgency of time. He needed to fully cross the [-] troops to the other side before the arrival of the Sui cavalry.

He immediately ordered: "Pass my order, the army will go north immediately and cross the river with General Jing!"

"Here."

The order was passed, and the five thousand Tang troops who had been resting for several hours, immediately set off in a mighty manner and rushed towards the pier.

But Zhang Changxun still underestimated Yang Tong, and even more underestimated the speed of the Sui army's transmission of messages. When Yang Tong received the news that ten thousand Tang troops on the east bank of Mianshui were going to cross Mianshui to support Luo County, he realized that A surprise attack on Luo County has become impossible, because the Xuanjia Army led by Luo Shixin is lightly armed and does not have a single siege weapon. If the Tang army in Luo County closes the city gate and shoots with arrows, Luo Shixin and the Xuanjia Army will be impossible Flying to the top of Luoxian County, Yang Tong, knowing this, immediately changed the surprise attack to a reinforcement battle, and ordered Luo Shixin to march quickly to wipe out the reinforcements from Luoxian County first.

After receiving the order, Luo Shixin immediately changed the direction of the march, and came straight here under the guidance of the Black Ice Terrace fighters acting as scouts.

Now that he had a set direction and goal, he naturally would not wait for all the soldiers of the Tang army to cross the river before making a move, and chose the place for the decisive battle near the pier.

If the Tang army continued to go north, he would let the opponent cross the river and lay in ambush on the west bank. At dawn, he would directly launch the advantage of the cavalry to attack the Tang army infantry who had been busy all night. If the Tang army chose to cross the river overnight, he would attack halfway.

The [-] Xuanjia soldiers crossed the Mianshui River in one step first Jing Junhong at dusk. They were divided into three groups, and [-] soldiers were led by Luo Shixin and Cheng Chumo, and they hid right in front of the pier on the east bank of Mianshui; Liao'er led another [-] soldiers to lurk in the jungle at the northeast corner of the east bank of the floating bridge; as for the last thousand soldiers of the Xuanjia Army, Xue Wanbei hid in the southeast corner, staring at the soldiers under Zhang Changxun from afar.

Soon!
After the mighty Tang army arrived on the east bank of Mianshui, the two armies immediately merged into one. Jing Junhong had already built a pontoon bridge on Mianshui, and more than a hundred small boats were connected by ropes. The wooden boards were removed from the fishermen's houses and spread on the chain boats, which not only allowed the army to cross the river quickly, but also reduced the disaster of dam collapse faced by wading across the river.

"The former army cross the river immediately!" Zhang Changxun roared and gave the order to cross the river.

"The last general obeys the order." The former general and school responded with a bang, commanding the soldiers of the Tang army to line up, then rushed up the pontoon bridge, and rushed to the opposite bank.

The Mian River was about a hundred feet wide, and the water was relatively gentle. The terrain on both sides of the river was flat and undulating. Less than [-] steps away from the river, there were lush forests.

At this time, more and more Tang soldiers boarded the pontoon bridge, rapidly increasing from the initial 3000 to [-], [-], [-]...

Seeing that more than half of the soldiers of the Tang army had reached the river, Luo Shi, who was following behind the buttocks of the Tang army, was confident that the time was ripe. 150 paces was the most effective killing distance for the Sui army's hand crossbows. Under his command, Lin Nei let out a burst of thunder. The sound of clappers sounded, and two thousand soldiers of the Xuanjia Army fired crossbow arrows at the same time. Suddenly, the arrows were like locusts.

Soldiers of the Tang army who were waiting to cross the river were looking at the opposite bank. Unprepared, hundreds of soldiers who lined up behind were attacked fiercely first. Arrows rained densely into the crowd, screams were everywhere, and pieces were killed one by one. Shooting down, this sudden attack plunged the Tang army on the east bank into chaos.

Luo Shixin was full of fighting spirit, pointed his spear directly at the front and shouted: "Brothers, follow me to kill the enemy!"

The [-] soldiers who fired their arrows in the air followed him and rushed out from the woods in the north, like a pack of ferocious wolves, rushing towards the enemy.

"Brothers, come out with me!" Xin Liaoer also yelled loudly in the northeast corner, leading another [-] soldiers to fight towards the pontoon bridge. A piece of Tang army soldiers killed.

"Woooooo..." At the same time, a mighty and high-pitched horn sounded from the southeast corner.

A group of famous cavalry led by Xue Wanbei also appeared. They were as fast as thunder, and like an indestructible steel spear, they came to hide and kill the soldiers of the Tang army.

Qianqi's sharpest Sui army rushed into the rebellious army, and then began to gallop horizontally, killing limbs and blood, causing countless enemy soldiers to die tragically under the iron hooves.

The three Sui armies took the shape of arrows and cut a bloody road to the east of the pier, smashing the Tang army to pieces.

Zhang Changxun, who was behind the pressure himself, shouted anxiously: "Send the order, let the spearmen line up to fight, and be sure to stop the cavalry."

The captain of the personal army shouted anxiously: "General, the Sui army is coming!"

Zhang Changxun turned his head sharply, and saw a general Xuanjia, guarded by a group of soldiers, killing him among the torches soaring to the sky.A spear in his hand danced out gorgeous pear blossoms the size of a bowl, beautiful but deadly, no one could stop him wherever he passed, just like the overlord reborn.

Behind him, the character 'Luo' on a battle flag appeared and disappeared.

"It's Luo Shixin!"

Some soldiers of the Tang army recognized this brave general, and they were frightened out of their wits, stumbling and running in all directions.

Not only did he believe that he was invincible, but his army was also extremely sharp. Under the leadership of the general, they defeated Zhang Changxun's army steadily, showing signs of defeat.

Zhang Changxun was attacked on three sides, and he couldn't help but look up to the sky and sigh: "It's over, it's over! Today we're all over."

"Look, general!" At this moment, the captain of the personal soldier pointed to the river excitedly and shouted: "There is a boat on the river, and it is our boat!"

Zhang Changxun stared at the blazing fires on these ships, and saw more than a dozen large ships on the Mianshui river, with full sails, coming downstream from the upper reaches. He looked carefully, and suddenly felt cold and sweaty all over his body. DC.

These ships are obviously not Tang Jun's ships, because the bows of each ship are all equipped with armored heads, and they are hitting the pontoon bridge with an unstoppable force.

Thousands of soldiers from the Tang army were crowded on the hundreds of feet long pontoon bridge. The Sui army had already launched a full-scale attack before the vanguard even reached the opposite bank. As the huge ship hit, the soldiers on the pontoon bridge screamed in fright.

With a loud 'bang', the pontoon bridge built by Jing Junhong was smashed in the middle, and hundreds of soldiers fell into the water one after another. Immediately afterwards, the second large ship also hit the pontoon bridge with a 'bang', which will connect a section of the pontoon bridge at the West Wharf. The collision caused the soldiers of the Tang army who were about to go ashore to scream and fall into the water.

When more than a dozen large ships collided one by one, the pontoon bridge on the river had disappeared without a trace, and the river was full of ship debris, broken planks, and countless soldiers calling for help.

These [-] soldiers of the Tang army came rushing from Xuanwu County. They were already exhausted. In addition, the Tang Dynasty continued to lose land and cities, which made their morale scattered. They had no will to defeat the Sui army, let alone fight to the death for the precarious Tang Dynasty. To the end.

At this time, the pontoon bridge was crashed by a ship, and colleagues on the bridge fell into the water one after another. They did not know whether they were alive or dead; the cries for help and screams from farther and farther from the river made people panic, and on the east bank, there were still unknown numbers of Sui people. The fierce killing of the army caused the morale of the army to completely collapse and began to be completely defeated.

Zhang Changxun was completely desperate. Since he surrendered to the Tang Dynasty, he had been running Yizhou for the Li and Tang Dynasties, and had no chance to fight the Sui Army. He has never underestimated the Sui army, but he was still a little unbelievable in his first confrontation. It was less than half an hour, and he thought he was an elite army. Easily kill the whole army and defeat it?

He saw the fierce cavalry of the Sui Army criss-crossing the battlefield. Wherever they passed, heads were flying and stumps were flying. There were almost no complete corpses.

He is a veteran in his sixtieth year. He participated in the Battle of Pingchen, Emperor Wen's Conquest of Turks, Emperor Wen's Expedition of Goguryeo... He also participated in the Battle of Tuyuhun, the Battle of Goguryeo, and the Battle of Yanmen during the Daye period. There were no less than a hundred battles of all sizes. , It is no exaggeration to say that he is well-informed.

But he has lived for so long, and he has never seen such a ferocious army. The small knives in the hands of these soldiers slashed, and sometimes even three or four heads flew in response, as violent as a sickle cutting grass. All of them were swept away and destroyed.

Zhang Changxun's eyes were already red with anxiety, his army could not resist these fierce Sui troops at all, and the enemy troops of the three armies were now shrinking the encirclement, pressing towards his central army step by step.On the other hand, our own army is already at a disadvantage, and this battle is obviously powerless.

Zhang Changxun's personal soldiers rushed to the commander-in-chief on the captain's flying horse and shouted: "General, we are at the end of the game, and we will lose this battle. Let's withdraw quickly while it's dark!"

Zhang Changxun was also flustered and confused, he turned his head and shouted, "Quick retreat."

He led the soldiers to fight a bloody road with all their might, but just as he rushed out of a encirclement, he saw hundreds of cavalry standing dozens of paces away. The leading general was holding a big bow. The arrow shot out from the string, the arrow shot from Zhang Changxun's neck, and the arrows came out through the neck, and died tragically under Xue Wanbei's arrow.

Xue Wanbei put down his bow and shouted: "Pass my order, those who surrender will not die, and those who resist will be killed!"

The main general Zhang Changxun was killed in battle, the deputy general Jing Junhong disappeared, and the chaotic Tang army, whose fighting spirit had already collapsed, abandoned their weapons and surrendered one after another.Hundreds of soldiers who broke out to the south were chased by Xuanjia soldiers and killed them all.

The battle lasted less than an hour, and the soldiers of the Sui Army achieved a record of killing more than a thousand enemies and capturing two thousand alive.

However, he lost less than a hundred people and achieved a very beautiful volley victory. However, Jing Junhong, the deputy general of the Tang Army who escaped in the chaos, became the biggest regret of this battle.

However, although this person won the Duke of the Kingdom due to his meritorious service in the Xuanwu Gate, in the eyes of the generals of the Sui Dynasty, he was still just a small person who could not be put on the table. Although he escaped now, not many people took it seriously.

Although the war is over.

However, Luo Shixin did not stay here long. After joining the soldiers from the Black Ice Terrace who had hit the pontoon bridge with their boats, he put all the prisoners on board the big boat to take care of them. He let his horses carry Zhang Changxun's body, and together with the Xuanjia Army, he headed to Luoxian County overnight. Direction advance.

Before the Tang army arrived in Chengdu, they planned to use the body of Zhang Changxun, who was quite prestigious in Yizhou, to make an emergency landing on the [-] county soldiers in Luo County.

(End of this chapter)