Qian Song

Chapter 145 The Battle of Spear and Shield

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Li Cun didn't want to scold Zhan at first, because Li Cun thought it was a bit naive.

But Liang Zhen persuaded Li Cun that sometimes small tricks can lead to big things, and recommended a crooked talent to Li Cun.

The crooked talent recommended by Liang Zhen was named Xing Junchen.

This Xing Junchen was originally a market boy in Bianliang City, Tokyo. He has a mischievous personality, loves to joke by nature, and is very quick-witted.

With this advantage, Xing Junchen met Cai You who was always looking for strange people and things, and was brought into the palace by Cai You to make Zhao Ji happy.

In this era when poetry was very popular, Xing Junchen stood beside Zhao Ji with his masterpiece "Linjiang Immortal".

——"Linjiang Immortal" was originally a Ci card commonly used by literati, but Xing Junchen's version of "Linjiang Immortal" is different. It always has a signature imprint: the last two sentences must be concluded with poems to achieve a kind of The effect of shaking the burden.

The year before last, Zhu Xi obtained a very miraculous Taihu stone for Zhao Ji, connected by dozens of large ships, and managed to transport that piece of Taihu stone to Bianliang City, Tokyo.

Such a spectacular scene inspired Zhao Ji's artist heart, and he ordered Xing Junchen to fill in a song "Linjiang Fairy" to add to the fun, and the rhyme was limited to the word "Gao".

Limiting rhyme is a way to increase the difficulty of creation, and masters can't enjoy themselves if they don't play like this.

Xing Junchen's ability to form a poem in seven steps can be brought into full play under the harsh conditions of proposition, rhyme, word cards, and time. A poem "Linjiang Fairy" was blurted out, and the essence of the whole article is at the end: " Majestic and high in the sky. Courtesy is light and affection is heavy, and goose feathers are sent thousands of miles away."

A piece of Taihu Lake stone that cost countless human, financial and material resources, Xing Junchen actually said that it was a goose feather sent from thousands of miles, which was clearly mocking Zhao Ji.

Zhao Ji is still a bit of an emperor, and he doesn't pay attention to Xing Junchen's sarcasm.

But Liang Shicheng took this matter to heart.

Once, Liang Shicheng presented a new poem, Zhao Ji admired it, and asked Xing Junchen, who happened to be at the side, to write lyrics. The theme of the lyrics was to praise the beauty of Liang Shicheng's lines, and the rhyme of "poem" was limited.

Xing Junchen's "Linjiang Fairy" was completed immediately, with the finishing touch at the end: "Hard work is a new poem. One word of An'an breaks several mustaches."

The line "One word of Yin'an breaks several mustaches" comes from "Crying Hard" written by Lu Yanrang, a poet of the Tang Dynasty. Twist off several stems and tendrils..."

This means that when the poet is conceiving, he unknowingly twists and breaks several beards for the deliberation of a word.

Just to take care of the rhyme, Xing Junchen changed "mustache" to "mustache", the meaning remains the same.

These two lines of poems are so wonderfully ridiculed that Zhao Ji burst out laughing—because Liang Shicheng is an eunuch, how can there be a beard to twirl?
Liang Shicheng secretly hated Xing Junchen for teasing him as an eunuch, and soon after, he instigated his party members to impeach Xing Junchen. Zhao Ji also felt that Xing Junchen was uninterested, so he exiled Xing Junchen to Suzhou.

Liang Shicheng secretly sent a letter to Zhu Yu, asking Zhu to tidy up Xing Junchen, who likened his boulder to a goose feather.

How could it be possible that Zhu Mo didn't try his best to deal with the matter that he had confessed to each other?

What's more, Xing Junchen really insulted the fruits of Zhu's labor.

Therefore, in the past two years, Zhu Xi has not dealt with Xing Junchen lightly.

Until the Huben Army captured Suzhou City.

Later, Liang Zhen who was stationed in Suzhou accidentally met Xing Junchen.

Xing Junchen was grateful to Huben Army for saving him, and hit it off with Liang Zhen at first sight, and the two became very good friends.

As soon as Li Cun heard it, he understood that his cheap father-in-law was recommending talents for him.

For this little face, Li Cun must sell Liang Zhen.

Therefore, Li Cun asked Xing Junchen to try it, and asked someone to prepare a loud publicity for Xing Junchen.

Then, the side that made Li Cundu look sideways appeared.

Xing Junchen rode a little donkey alone, arrived at the front of the battle, and then sat sideways on the donkey, cursing from Liu Yanqing's ancestors, three generations of Liu Yanqing's ancestors, and then Song generals one by one, finally Zhao Ji, Tong Guan As well as those corrupt officials in the Zhao and Song Dynasties were scolded by him.

What is "Han Xin is ashamed to compare Jiang Guan, and you are ashamed to drive Tu Gu'er away.", what "I heard that people kill people in Hanshui, and women are mostly in the army", what "Pearls and jade buy songs and laugh. Dross chaff cultivates talents.", what "The stuffed ones belong to other Japanese horses, and there is no juvenile chicken fighting in the east of the city."...

Xing Junchen is quick-witted, comical and narrow-minded.

In addition, Xing Junchen does have a bit of literary talent.

This makes Xing Junchen's curses funny, humorous, and penetrating.

Many Song generals were furiously scolded by Xing Junchen, and they all asked for a fight and went to fight.

Liu Yanqing originally wanted to wait for the sun, because after a while, the sun would be beneficial to them, but now it is more beneficial to the Huben army.

But Xing Junchen's mouth is too poisonous, even Liu Yanqing was scolded by Xing Junchen to the point of smoke.

Moreover, the decisive battle is about to begin, and the morale cannot be discouraged.

So Liu Yanqing said loudly: "Whoever captures that thief Li Cun alive will be promoted to ten ranks and rewarded with a reward of [-]!"

"kill!"

Following Liu Yanqing's order, the [-] infantry marched forward with clamor.

On the contrary, those cavalry soldiers in chain mail did not mount their horses, but led their horses forward, as if they were waiting for the infantry to tear a hole in the crescent formation of the Huben army, and then they mounted their horses to strangle them.

Seeing this, Xing Junchen, who was still cursing, hurried back on his donkey...

The general of the Huben army commanding the tower seems to have decided that the Song army will rush up to fight with the infantry first, and the bows and crossbows in the hands of the crossbowmen above them, including the bed crossbows on the tower, all began to aim at the infantry of the Song army.

Seeing this, Liu Guangshi, who was in the reserve team, smiled and said, "The ant thief has caught the trick!"

Many generals of the Song army on the side also laughed. Some people even thought that the soldiers of the Huben army were all idiots. With such a powerful horse army, how could they rely on the infantry to fight against the Huben army?
You must know that cavalry is at least one to three against infantry, and it may even reach one to five or one to ten, especially on this plain.

Therefore, many generals of the Song Army felt that their side had an absolute advantage, and there was no possibility that they would not be able to win against the Huben Army who had left the protection of natural dangers, the Great Wall, and passes.

This is also one of the reasons why many soldiers of the Song Army did not understand why Liu Yanqing did not fight—in their view, as long as they played, they would definitely win against the Huben Army.

Only Niu Meng didn't laugh, because he knew that so far, no one has caused Li Cun a big loss.

When approaching the land of three arrows, all the horsemen of the Song Army suddenly got on their horses and began to ride slowly.

At this time, the soldiers of the Huben army on the tower seemed to have just realized that the Song army might not be making the first charge with infantry, and adjusted the angles of their bows and crossbows one after another.

In fact, this process is not cumbersome, but it is easy to affect the morale of the Huben army, because in the process of fighting, the most feared thing is to change the order casually.

In the land of two arrows, Song Jun's horse army suddenly began to accelerate diagonally from the two wings.

At the same time, the Song Army's infantry suddenly separated.

Immediately afterwards, a horse army of 300 horsemen in harness and armor suddenly rushed over from the middle of the Song army.

Armored cavalry!

This armored cavalry, the horses under their crotch are all the best northern war horses, and almost all the soldiers are strong men over nine feet.

What's more, the armor on these 300 men and horses is not ordinary armor, but a cold-forged armor that only Xixia can produce.

This kind of cold-forged armor is also called wart armor. It is black in color, smooth and translucent so that the hair can be seen, and it is tied with musk skin as a belt. It is thin and tough, and its defense performance is much stronger than that of Song armor. It can be said that it is the pinnacle of armor in this era.

Zhao Song tried to imitate this kind of cold-forged armor countless times, but he never succeeded.

These [-] sets of cold-forged armors were brought back from Xixia and Liao Kingdoms by Tong Guan who spent a lot of money and manpower.

Originally, Tong Guan wanted to engage in [-] sets to rebuild Zhao Song's trump card army, the Jingsai Army.

But because cold forged armor is too difficult to get.

In addition, this kind of best northern warhorse is also something that can be encountered but not sought after.

Therefore, Tong Guan worked hard, and in the end, he only managed to come up with three hundred Jingsai troops.

This time it was because the opportunity to cross the river was so rare that Tong Guan lent the three hundred Jingsai troops to Liu Yanqing for use.

Liu Yanqing deeply felt that there was something wrong with this battle, and he didn't care so much, so he sent Tong Guan's darling to the battlefield.

After the three hundred Jingsai troops rushed through the infantry of the Song Army, they slowly unfolded into a "∧" shape.

Immediately afterwards, the Song Army's heavily armored cavalry army rushed from the two wings to meet the three hundred Jingsai Army.

In this way, the Song Army's horse army turned into a steel cone covering the sky and the sun, wedged straight into the Huben Army's central army, and the three hundred Jingsai troops were like alloy cone tips.

As for the [-] infantry, they were completely covered by this steel cone, and in the "∧" shape, they also followed the horse army to attack the tiger army.

A stone's throw away.

Song Jun's steel cone began to accelerate as a whole!
"It's near."

"It's close again."

"almost."

"..."

Xie Yuan, who was in charge of commanding the tower, was preparing to order the shooting while judging the distance between the Song army's horse army and the tower in his heart.

"right here!"

Xie Yuan decisively gave the order to shoot!
"Shhhhhhhhhh..."

"Shhhhhhhhhh..."

"Shhhhhhhhhh..."

The overwhelming arrows shot straight at the [-] Jingsai Army.

Xie Yuan is a general who understands military affairs very well. He knows very well that if he can destroy the [-] Jingsai army and cut off the tip of the Song army, then he may have made the first contribution.

But under this wave of seemingly deadly concentrated fire, because of the protection of cold-forged armor, the three hundred Jingsai troops are not afraid of the god-arm bow that was invincible before. Only the bed crossbow can pose a fatal threat to the Jingsai army.

But there are still too few bed crossbows in the Huben army. The key point is that after shooting a bed crossbow once, it is impossible to shoot it a second time in a short time.

in short.

Only seventy or eighty riders were lost, and the Jingsai army rushed out of the range of the tower.

Next, it was the moment when more than 2000 small counterweight trebuchets and hand-pulled trebuchets bombed wildly.

It is undeniable that although the trebuchets and catapults were not accurate enough, they still caused a lot of damage to the Song army, and even the Jingsai army was killed by them.

But the speed of the Song army's attack was too fast. Even if the trebuchets and catapults, including towers, killed thousands or even tens of thousands of Song soldiers, so what?
The focus of victory or defeat is no longer these catapults, catapults and towers, but whether the Song Army's "steel cone" can pierce the Huben Army's central army.

As long as the Song Army can penetrate the Huben Army's central army, they can use their powerful cavalry to continuously divide the Huben Army, and the Song Army infantry, which is now protected by the Song Army's horse army, will kill the soldiers of the Huben Army. Reap, reap, reap...

In the middle army of the Huben Army, the second pole who never knew what nervousness was, finally became nervous.

There is no way, the key to the victory of this battle depends on whether the [-] Huben army under his command can withstand the Song army's attack.

The second pole didn't know why the governor didn't let the very powerful Han Shizhong command this crucial battle, but let him command this crucial battle.

But it doesn't matter, because the second pole believes that the governor is always right. Since the governor asked Li Gan to command this battle, it means that in the eyes of the governor, Li Gan is definitely more suitable for commanding this battle than Han Shizhong .

The second pole let go of his nervousness and said loudly: "The phalanx is the foundation of the soldiers of our Huben Army. When I first joined the army, I learned this phalanx. Those who fail to pass the test will never be able to become officers and soldiers of the Huben Army. He said, you all know that as long as you obey my orders, our army will surely win."

Although the second pole said that he didn't need to say more, he still couldn't help but continued to say: "I told you that I earned my wife with a phalanx, and she is one of the most beautiful women in Qingxi." , the first daughter of a rich family, well-educated, she never underestimated me because of my humble background, she also taught me to read and write, a first-class good wife and mother, if you make military exploits today, maybe you will also get a good wife."

"And if you want to make meritorious service, Yi Ye, just keep an eye on the military flag and follow my orders..."

Er Ganzi talked a lot, and in the end, he didn't even know what he said.

Until the Jingsai Army headed by the Song Army came to kill.

The second pole stopped chattering and said loudly: "Shield protection!"

The orderly listened to the words and waved the order flag.

The soldiers of the Huben Army who lined up in the front row of the Macedonian phalanx took up their shields to protect their bodies.

Immediately afterwards, a rain of arrows from the generals of the Song Army shot over.

Despite the protection of shields, many soldiers of the Huben army were shot and killed by the arrows of the Song army.

Some soldiers of the Huben Army couldn't bear such a terrifying rain of arrows, so they wanted to turn around and run away.

But as soon as these people made a move, several arrows flew from behind them, mercilessly shooting them to death on the spot.

This is the supervisory team of the Huben Army, whoever messes up will die.

The generals at all levels and the supervising army hurriedly took the opportunity to do ideological work for the soldiers: "Don't move around, the military law is ruthless, you will die if you move, if you don't move, you still have a chance to survive, and you will be rewarded for your meritorious deeds..."

at last!

The Jingsai Army is coming!

And smashed away the chariot formation, horse refusal formation, and antlers laid down by the Huben army, and then continued to rush towards the phalanx of the Huben army.

The soldiers of the Huben army in the front row of the phalanx decisively stabbed out the spears in their hands according to the command of the second pole.

But the long spear, which was supposed to be omnipotent, couldn't pierce the cold-forged armor on the Jingsai army at all.

Once the soldiers of the Huben Army were hit by the Jingsai Army like tanks, they would fly upside down, vomit blood and die.

It would be even more terrifying if it was stepped on by the Jingsai Army, and it would directly turn into a meat paste.

However, the soldiers of the Huben army were still sticking out the spears in their hands meticulously according to Er Ganzi's order, who was unmoved by this.

Soon, the soldiers of the Huben Army discovered that what they had done was not useless, because the Song Army's horse army who followed the Jingsai Army would die with one stab, and there was nothing to be afraid of.

A long time ago, the instructor told the recruits of the Huben Army that the phalanx has many weaknesses and is very easy to defeat, but on some specific battlefields, such as in a place that cannot be dispersed, the phalanx can be extremely lethal A method of warfare...

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