Qian Song

Chapter 126
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For some reason, Bao Kang feels a little different from Fang La today.

How to describe it, today's Fang La seems to be less hostile and more indifferent, not at all as violent as when he was shot and killed by someone who advised him.

Bao Kang was just a little surprised, but he didn't take it too seriously, but said bluntly: "Yan Cheng is also a loyal minister, otherwise he would not persuade you to surrender at this time."

To Bao Kang's surprise, Fang La nodded, "I know."

Bao Kang was puzzled and said, "Since you already know, why did you kill him?"

Fang La said: "On the eve of the war, he disturbed our army's morale, shouldn't I kill him?"

Bao Kang was silent.

After a while, Bao Kang said again: "You want to fight the Song army, and you agree with me. Those who are eager to fight are also the Song army. What the enemy fears and what we rely on, we must be firm." Guard the city, help each other, and fight for a long time."

Bao Kang also knew that Fang La's rebel army didn't have much food now, so he couldn't help but advise Fang La again: "If you come here because of lack of food, it's unnecessary. , he will send food and grass for you, and even send troops to help you."

What made Bao Kang frown was that Fang La was still as indifferent as before: "I also know."

Bao Kang's brows frowned even tighter: "When you are here, why are you fighting so eagerly?"

Fang La said leisurely: "Everyone says that I am not as good as Li Cun. I want to prove the world is wrong."

Bao Kang scolded: "Nonsense! This is the rise and fall of a country, hundreds of thousands of lives and deaths, how can it be child's play?!"

Fang La was silent for a while, and then smiled and said: "If Fang La dies in battle, it will be easy to revolt?"

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Bao Kang was a little vigilant: "What do you mean by that?"

Fang La smiled and said, "Xizhi, don't blame me."

Bao Kang felt that Fang La was very strange today - he knew Fang La too well, and knew that Fang La was not a person who liked to joke at all.

Besides, now is the eve of the war, it's too late to worry about it, how can you still be in the mood to joke?

Bao Kang didn't want to play charades with Fang La anymore, so he asked bluntly, "Why are you keeping me?"

Hearing this, Fang La took out a letter sealed tightly with beeswax and pushed it to Bao Kang, saying: "This battle is over, you can read it again."

Bao Kangli ignored Fang La, and opened the letter directly in front of Fang La, and then Bao Kang saw two letters inside the envelope, one of which was written "Sister-in-law Li Cun's relatives", it turned out to be written to Letter from Li Cun.

The other was a letter without an envelope, apparently addressed to Bacon.

Bao Kang unfolded it directly and looked at it.

Fang La scolded: "You are not a gentleman." But she didn't stop Bao Kang from reading the letter.

After reading the letter, Bao Kang said, "Are you a gentleman? Tell me with a letter. If you win, you will sacrifice my head to the flag. If you lose, you will rely on me. It is extremely shameless."

Fang La said as a matter of course: "You have humiliated me so many times that my majesty is not there. If I don't kill you, what face should I have against my subjects?"

Bao Kang exposed it and said: "What you are afraid of, the villain's words don't follow my plan, don't I know what you think?"

After finishing speaking, Bao Kang picked up the letter that Fang La asked him to forward to Li Cun, and then turned and left.

"If I am not dead, I will bring it for you."

After hesitating for a while, Fang La still said to Bao Kang's back, "Brother."

Bao Kang paused.

Then, Fang La's voice came from behind Bao Kang: "I will destroy Song Dynasty, and my original intention has not changed."

Bao Kang didn't turn his head back and said, "I know."

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July [-]th.

The Fang Layi Army claims to have millions of soldiers, but in fact there are nearly 70.

The Song Army claimed to be 50, but it actually had nearly 40.

According to the military principle of "doubling and attacking" as stated in Sun Tzu's Art of War, the offensive strength of Fang Layi's army seems to be sufficient.

On the other hand, the Song army occupied a favorable terrain under the auspices of Zhong Shidao, who had rich combat experience.

However, because more than half of the so-called 40 troops of the Song Army were the Gyeonggi Forbidden Army, the Hebei Forbidden Army, the Xiang Army, and the Hong Zai Army, this undoubtedly made its army have a lot of weaknesses.

In order to prevent accidents and increase the odds of winning, Zhong Shidao set up more than a dozen gun mounts (ie trebuchets) behind the defense line, piled up rocks like mountains, and set up hundreds of bed crossbows in key places.

On the eve of the bloody battle, although the two sides drew their swords and bows and the atmosphere was suffocatingly tense, the coaches Fang La and Zhong Shidao of both sides pretended to be relaxed.

July eleven.

Fang La and Zhong Shidao met by chance before the battle.

Despite the distance, both sides knew who the other was.

Fang La then sent someone to the front of the Song army to spread the message: "The Zhao family has declined and cannot be supported. If the king can agree, I will make him a king."

Zhong Shidao then sent someone to the front of Fang Layi's army and replied: "I have served the Zhao family, how dare I have two hearts?"

It seems to be the practice of military strategists to salute first and then fight.

July [-]th.

Fang Layi's army took the lead in attacking.

Amidst the heart-piercing shouts, the former army of Fang Layi's army commanded by the Eighth King Lu Mai and Zheng Mowang swarmed towards the Song army. Launched a series of attacks one after another.

After the bloody battle between the two sides for more than [-] battles, the camp controlled by Hong Zai was breached by Fang Layi's army, and Hong Zai and his Hong Zai soldiers abandoned the battle and fled.

Zhong Shidao rushed here quickly, and beheaded Hong Zai with a knife to show the public, stopping the retreat.

Later, Zhong Zhong also led his troops to organize a counterattack and take back the camp guarded by Hong Zaijun.

The planting division shouted loudly to the soldiers: "The ants and thieves are coming out of their nests. This is a good opportunity to fight the chaos and serve the country!"

The teacher then drew a line under his feet with his saber, pointed to the line on the ground with the tip of the knife and said: "Whoever crosses this line, beheaded!" Flee again.

Under the condition that the seed division personally led the supervisory team to supervise the battle, the soldiers of Hong Zaijun fought desperately and stabilized their position.

Seeing this, Fang Layi's army launched an attack again. Fang Qifo and Fang Wuxianggong each invested [-] reserves, and launched a fierce attack on the two wings of the Song army.

Seeing this, Zhong Shidao immediately mobilized troops to support the two wings, repelling Fang Layi's attack.

A moment later, Fang La attacked again with the elite of the Chinese army.

This time, the congregation of the Manichaeism once again chanted their hymn: "Burn my remnant body, the blazing holy fire. What joy is there in life, and why bother in death? For good and evil, only the light. Joy and sorrow, all return Dust. Pity me, the world, there are many sorrows..."

Accompanied by the chants, these Manichaeans, regardless of casualties, rushed towards the Song army in a dense formation, and the two sides launched the bloodiest fight.

There were too many people in Fang Layi's army, and they were not afraid of death, causing huge casualties to the Song army, and even almost tore apart the Song army's formation at one point.

The dusk was heavy and it was getting late, but the fanatical Manichaeists were still attacking frantically.

Seeing this, Zhong Shidao calmly took advantage of the strong mobility of the cavalry, changed the tactics of hard attacking the front, and divided them into two formations, East and West. Change the deployment of troops on the east and west sides, concentrate the troops to attack the east for a while, concentrate the troops for the west for a while, and divide the troops for east and west to attack at the same time.

The change in tactical rhythm made Fang Layi's army run back and forth too much, helping the east and the west for a while, and was very tired.

In the end, the Song Army repelled Fang Layi's attack at a considerable price.

July thirteenth.

Fang Layi's army did not launch an attack due to the exhaustion of its troops and the exhaustion of the soldiers from the previous day's battle.

Song Jun also took this opportunity to lick his already exposed wounds.

July [-]th, the Ghost Festival, the gate of ghosts is closed.

Fierce fighting broke out again.

This time, Zhong Shidao summed up the experience and lessons of the last battle, and felt that he could no longer go head-to-head with the fearless Fang Layi army.

——If this continues, even if Song Jun wins, he will have to withdraw from the battlefield.

Fang Layi's army's strategy and tactics have not changed, and they still use their best crowd tactics.

However, under the command of Zhong Shidao, the Song Army changed to take advantage of the advantages of cavalry and geographical advantages, and no longer faced a decisive battle, but mainly used wandering combat and shot and killed Fang Layi's army from a long distance with the help of divine arm bows, bed crossbows, and trebuchets .

Fang Layi's army was very uncomfortable with this style of fighting, where it was difficult to meet the enemy and fight the enemy head-on.

There was no other way, Fang La could only command Fang Layi's army, and rushed into the camp of the Song army without fear of life and death, seeking opportunities to fight directly.

But fighting until the evening, Fang Layi's army didn't have much chance to fight the Song army head-on.

In the two days of fierce fighting, Fang Layi's army would only blindly attack, which caused Fang Layi's casualties to be very large, especially today's attack, not only the casualties were huge, but there was no meritorious service, and even Zheng Demon King died in battle, which led to A large number of soldiers of the Fang Layi Army lost their fighting spirit, and as soon as it got dark, hundreds of soldiers of the Fang Layi Army began to flee.

The scout sent by Zhong Shidao found out the situation and reported the news to Zhong Shidao in time.

Zhong Shidao keenly grasped the opportunity and issued a combat order to completely defeat Fang Layi's army.

At night, the dead soldiers of the Song Army sneaked into the camp of Fang Layi's army, and then set fire behind the camp.

Seeing the fire, Song Jun beat drums and shouted, and attacked across the board.

The soldiers of Fang Layi's army, who were already running, ran even faster seeing this.

In an instant, the stronghold of Fang Layi's army was breached by the Song army, and the soldiers of Fang Layi's army fled.

Seeing that the situation was over, Fang La ordered the camp to be burned down and fled overnight.

Regardless of his age of more than 70, Zhong Shidao personally commanded the Song army on horseback and then chased Fang Layi army non-stop.

There is only one purpose at this moment for Zhong Shidao: not to give Fang Layi army a chance to breathe, but to pursue and fight fiercely, completely defeat and even eliminate Fang Layi army!
The soldiers of Fang Layi army threw away their helmets and armor, and fled to the side of Poyang Lake.

Yang Keshi, the commander sent by Zhong Shidao, had already arrived with his troops and set up an ambush.

Seeing Fang Layi's army fleeing, Yang Keshi gave an order to ambush everywhere.

Fang Layi's army had no intention of fighting, and just ran away desperately.

In this battle, Yang Keshi's army beheaded nearly 5 people and captured more than [-] soldiers of Fang Layi Army alive.

Yang Keshi didn't care to clean up the battlefield, and ordered the soldiers to take a small path to pursue in parallel, stepping on the spoils that were discarded everywhere.

Soon, relying on the advantage of Ma Jun, Yang Keshi's troops copied to the front of Fang Layi's army.

However, after leaving a part of the troops to guard the prisoners, Yang Keshi's troops were running out, and he was unable to "swallow" all of them in the face of the Fang Layi army who fled in large groups.

There was no other way, Yang Keshi could only lead the Song army to cover up and kill the enemy as much as possible, chasing the enemy for more than a hundred miles, until dawn, the horses could no longer run, and then called the gold to withdraw the troops...

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Hearing the news of Fang Layi's defeat, Li Cun sent people to subdue the remnants of Fang Layi's defeated generals, while paying close attention to the next move of the Song army and Fang Layi's army, and at the same time making preparations for a battle with Zhong Shidao.

But at this moment, something happened that made Li Cun furious.

——Tong Guan led his army across the river!

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