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Chapter 209 Interception
On the evening of May 29, the Chen family's horse army, which had only rested for four hours the night before including setting up camp, eating, etc., finally arrived outside Chuqiu City after galloping for a day.

Carrying people for more than a hundred miles continuously, even the strengthened war horses will be exhausted.

The basis of the [-]-mile express is a complete network of post stations. When the messenger rides a fast horse to the inn station, he will immediately change the horse and continue on his way.The delivery of an express letter often required multiple messengers and multiple fast horses to complete the task, thus achieving a speed of eight hundred miles a day.

Marching on the road is completely different. In real combat, the speed of cavalry is generally not as fast as that of infantry on long-distance marches.

"Where is Zongze's army?" Chen Xun asked the commander of the direct investigation battalion.

"Captain, Zongze's army is still thirty miles away from Chuqiu. They will not arrive here until this time tomorrow." The scouts all have one person and three horses, and the quality of the horses is better than that of ordinary cavalry, so they have mastered Zongze's army early. whereabouts.

"Okay, let's set up camp and rest first, send people to cut off Chuqiu's connection with the outside world, and then send people to contact the navy to unload and assemble the siege equipment. We will capture Chuqiu City early tomorrow morning." Chen Xun ordered.

All night.

At Chen time the next day, everything was ready.

Five hundred elite Miao Dao battalions who came with the army served as the main attacker, and a thousand dismounted cavalry assisted. The battle officially started at the moment the sun fully rose, and ended half an hour later.

Throughout the siege, there were very few casualties.Less than ten people in the Chen family's army died and less than a hundred were injured.The total number of casualties among the Song troops defending the city was only 300.

Everything is too fast.

The Song Army garrison still deployed troops and generals according to old ideas and experience. Unexpectedly, the elite Miao Dao battalion wearing two layers of heavy armor directly attacked the city wall in a wave, opened the city gate again, and the cavalry waiting outside the city swarmed in. enter
When the cavalry entered the city, many infantrymen outside the city wall had not yet touched the ladder.

"I used to think that the Song army in Guangzhou was weak because they had not experienced fighting for a long time, but I didn't expect that the Song army in Hebei was also so weak." Chen Zhuang stood behind Chen Xun and witnessed the rapid start and end of the entire battle. He couldn't help but sigh. road.

"How can you expect an army with no faith and just to have food to eat?" Chen Xun simply replied.

The Song Dynasty treated soldiers too harshly, and their status was too low, which fundamentally determined that the upper limit of the combat power of this army would not be very high.

"Shall we enter the city?" Chen Zhuang asked.

"No, we are waiting outside the city." Chen Xun smiled slightly. Chen Zhuang, who was already familiar with him, immediately realized that the governor was setting a trap for someone again.

……

At noon, more than a dozen Song army scout horses arrived at the south gate of Ningling City.

Looking at the Song flag flying on top of the city and the city gate wide open, I felt a little relieved.

Yesterday, all the scouts on the west side of Zongze's army marched away and never returned, making the generals wonder if Chen Thief would take advantage of the horse army's advantage to cut off the Song army's way back north.

Now it seems that it is too much to worry about.

The guard at the gate of the city was very enthusiastic about Tan Ma, and when it was time for dinner, hot boiled pancakes were brought up, which just filled the hungry stomachs of Tan Ma.

"Eat quickly. Go back and report after you finish." The deputy was sent back, while the ten generals stayed in Chuqiu to rest.

As soon as the deputy left, the tenth general thought about having someone give him some wine to eat. He didn't think about it. When he looked up, he found that the enthusiastic Song army around him had been replaced by a group of tough soldiers. The large Song army uniforms on their bodies were actually... Somewhat tight.

In addition to the ill-fitting clothes, the crossbows held by these people were pointed in the wrong direction.

"Raise your hands!" the tough soldier ordered.

“Spare my life!”…

……

Huang Qianshan looked at the Song army entering Chuqiu in front, and he finally breathed a sigh of relief.After all, he did not return empty-handed during his trip south this time, bringing back [-] living things.

"Mr. Zong, it's a good thing we left early, and Chu Qiu is still here. Judging by the loss of Xixi Tanma, Chen thief must have come close. If it is a day or two at night, maybe Chen thief will cut off our retreat."

"Yeah." Zongze didn't want to talk about this topic with Huang Qianshan. This feeling of running away without a fight made him feel very ashamed.

Neither of them planned to enter the city. They just waited for the ferry to build the pontoon bridge and then crossed the river immediately.

Suddenly, Zongze saw a big commotion at the gate of Chuqiu City ahead. The defenders on the city top were shooting arrows downwards, and the wide-open city gate was slowly closing.

"You've fallen into the trap! Hurry! Send the order and form a formation to meet the enemy!" Zongze ordered loudly.

As a veteran, when he saw the scene in front of the city gate, he realized that there was something wrong with the defenders of Chuqiu City. Immediately afterwards, many possibilities popped up in his mind, each of which was very unfavorable to the Song army.

Sure enough, as soon as the order was issued, thousands of cavalry rushed out from the side of Chuqiu City and headed straight towards the unsuspecting Song army, who was resting on the spot waiting to cross the river.

The distance is too close!The speed is too fast!
All the Song troops were waiting to cross the river and had already taken off their armor to avoid accidentally falling into the water and sinking directly to the bottom.

This directly caused the panicked Song army to be completely unable to fight back in the face of the sudden cavalry.

The cavalry easily penetrated the waiting queue and divided them into three large groups.

Two of the brigade turned around and continued to rush towards the Song Army, and the whole brigade rushed towards the Chinese army's banner.

"Formation! Circle formation!" Zongze ordered loudly. The surrounding guards were relatively elite. Before the cavalry approached, they barely formed a circular formation, surrounding Zongze and others.

"Shoot!" Zongze vaguely heard the order.

Boom!Boom!Boom! …

Intensive shooting sounded, and the cavalry on horseback used short-barreled muskets to fire a wave of projectiles at the Song army forming a circular formation.

The formation was immediately torn open.

kill!The cavalryman who rushed at the front roared, raised his long sword and swung it quickly. The Song army had no enemy, and it was like being in a deserted land.

There were arrows breaking through the formation, and the cavalry following behind easily tore the gap wider and wider.

"Let's go, bring the news back to the official, and let him know! You must not underestimate Chen Thief in the slightest." Zongze grabbed Huang Qianshan who was about to escape and explained: "This is an enemy more dangerous than the Jin man. , let the officials deal with it carefully."

"Mr. Take care!" Huang Qianshan didn't expect that in this situation, Zongze was actually thinking about the official family's future, and felt a little sore for a moment.

"Hurry up and leave. I'll let the guards take you out." Zongze stopped talking nonsense. The enemy general had already advanced twenty steps.

Boom!One of the guards standing in front of Zongze fell to the ground on his back, his face covered in blood and flesh.

"Protect the general!" The guard next to him immediately rushed forward to take up his position.

Boom!Boom!I saw the short-fire muskets in the hands of the enemy generals firing continuously without interruption. Song troops who dared to block the road would be shot immediately.

Zong Ze only felt his scalp go numb. The enemy's weapons were already so powerful that Song Ting didn't know anything about them.

Boom!Another shot, and there was no obstacle between the enemy general and Zongze.

(End of this chapter)