Song Dynasty

Chapter 219
But archery, yes, his own archery is the best in the world.

This is what Wang Shen spent a lot of time in the modern society, hired a former national team athlete coach, and trained with scientific methods.

For bow and arrow, Wang Shen has incomparable confidence.Especially after traveling to the ancient times, after exercising his muscles and bones every day, his strength has increased a lot, and his marksmanship is even more superb.

Zhang Deyuan said that Wang Shen's arrow technique is actually better than Liu Qi's.

This is also Wang Shen's housekeeping ability to save his life on the battlefield. Today's rain is too heavy, and his bow and arrow cannot be used.Beforehand, Wang Shen wrapped the bow and arrow with a raincloth.Now that the rain stopped, it was time for him to show his might.

Li Hong's reputation is not obvious in history, and he doesn't know whether he has done evil.But judging from his martial arts, he should have a good reputation among the bandit army.The cavalry charged, and it was not difficult to kill him.But if he can be captured alive and used by me, it will deal a greater psychological blow to the other seven bandits.

Because Li Hong's martial arts are really good, this time Wang Shen didn't use the method of connecting arrows that he used to use before.Instead, only one arrow was placed on the bow arm, and the iron tire hard bow was pulled to the maximum, and it was a quick word to get it.

Aiming at Li Hong's lower abdomen, an arrow shot out.

There was a sharp piercing sound, because it was too dark to see the flying trajectory of the feather arrow.

But suddenly, a little spark splashed out, and then there was a "ding".

It turned out that at the critical moment, Li Hong shot Wang Shen's arrow away with a flail and a short stick.

He laughed loudly: "Are you Wang Shen's child? If you want to capture grandpa alive and make your Qingqiu dream come true, we will have a bright future!"

While speaking, he hid among the cavalry and rushed towards the river while roaring.

Wang Shen's expression changed, did he just let him escape?If Li Hong could not be captured, this battle would not be perfect.

The arrow shot today was Wang Shen's pinnacle work in terms of speed, power and accuracy, but this still allowed Li Hong to escape.His face was ashen, and he didn't speak. He swung his long knife, and the white army bit him.

The rain has stopped, the lightning has disappeared, and the sky is dark for a moment, which is a good time for the enemy to break through and flee.

Wang Shenxin called it unlucky: It's hard to die, but when the rain stopped and there was no lightning from the sky, it was difficult for the troops to maintain their formation.

Fortunately, fires continued to ignite in one tent after another. Although it was impossible to start a prairie fire in the humid air, there was still some light.

The air began to be filled with choking smoke, and it was like a billowing fog for a while.

After another half day of rushing, there was a faint projection of morning light from the east, and they fought fiercely for nearly two hours without knowing it.

The scene in front of him became clear, and the water under his feet was still flowing, but the water was much weaker.The flood that reached the knees last night has receded to the ankles.Whether it's horses or human feet, without this annoying flood, the speed of travel is much faster.

The water is full of enemy corpses, broken weapons, armor taken off to reduce the burden and escape, tattered flags... and more of them are yellow valleys.

The yellow rice floated on the surface of the water, densely packed and boundless. This is the army ration that Li Hong looted from the people of Xiaogan.There are so many grains as much as the sand of the Ganges River, it can be imagined that the bandit army has gained a lot since entering Jianghan.

Seeing so much food and remembering that his soldiers were already half-starved, Wang Shenyi felt distressed but also filled with joy.Today's battle must have gained a lot. If Anlu can be completely taken down, I don't know what it will be like.

All the stagnant water flows southeast. It should take another hour for the flood in the enemy camp to drain away!

Li Hong just fled, Wang Shen was more concerned about the capture of this bandit than the head of the bandit.

Immediately, I didn't bother to care about how the battle was going. Anyway, even if Li Hong descended from the gods, it was impossible to gather resistance in the chaos.

Leave the rest of the matter to Yue Yun, Hu Yantong and the others!

Wang Shen turned his head and glanced at Li Heng. Although the old man was wearing a coir raincoat and a hood, he was completely soaked and was shaking like a drowned rat.

Not to mention him, Wang Shen naturally felt a little cold, so he said: "Fujun, today is like this, let's go to the bandits' camp to rest for a while!"

Li Heng was too cold to speak, in order to avoid embarrassment in front of everyone, he just nodded with a pale face.

Wang Shen turned around and said, "Chen Da, do you know where Li Hong's Chinese army tent is?"

Chen Da: "The villain has already found out, the general and Mr. Li Fu will follow me."

Under his leadership, the Chinese army walked for a long time in the messy enemy camp, and finally saw a big yellow cowhide tent.The inside has already been tidied up, replaced with a dry carpet, and set fire again.

After changing into clean clothes and drinking a bowl of hot tea, everyone felt better.

The rain has completely stopped, and the sky has turned into the cloudless blue of the previous few days, giving people a sense of leisure and tranquility.But the fierce shouts of killing still came one after another, reminding everyone that the bloody battle is still going on.

There were constant reports of military news like flowing water. It was reported that the water in the ring was soaring, and the river was twice as wide as before, which completely blocked the escape route of the bandit army.

More than [-] thieves were surrounded by the five armies of the Sizhou Army on the river beach in the southwest. Those poor guys stood by the water in ragged clothes, and many of them were trembling with empty hands.

But even so, they still organized charges again and again, trying to fight a bloody way through the siege.

In the fierce battle last night, Beiwei was the assault arrow of the Sizhou Army. After fighting all night, the soldiers were already exhausted.This time Yue Yun was uncharacteristically not in a hurry to act recklessly.Instead, cooperate with the troops of other armies, use the spears and armor on their bodies to form a thick human wall, and push forward bit by bit, compressing the enemy's foothold space on the river bank.

At the same time, because the sky had already brightened and cleared up again, the god arm crossbows and infantry bows of various ministries could be used.Arrows rained down, and arrows and stones flew across.

The thieves were so dense that it was almost unnecessary to aim, and each arrow could bring up several clusters of blood.

They retreated further and further back, and finally, someone's foot stepped into the river and fell down with a plop.

Seeing this opportunity, Yue Yun's Ministry blew the horn, and the warriors who had already changed into long axes and broadswords were like huge rolling stones, and once again fell into hand-to-hand combat, flying water drops and stumped limbs were all in front of them.

Finally, the thieves couldn't resist and jumped into the water desperately.Don't say that they are all northerners who are not familiar with water, even if they are southerners, jumping into this surging flood is a dead end.

……

"It's still an extremely fierce battle!"

"It's just that this kind of tragedy belongs to the enemy, it's okay, it's okay!"

Wang Shen stood in the big tent, looking at the blue sky and white clouds outside, feeling in his heart: "We still haven't been able to find Li Hong. Although this battle is not perfect, it is satisfactory enough."

……

After all, the drought has lasted for so long, and the flood came and went quickly.At about two o'clock in the afternoon Beijing time, the water in Huanshui receded.

One after another, the corpses of the bandit soldiers were gathered together by the soldiers of the Sizhou Army and piled up on the ground, forming hills like piles of firewood.The weather was too hot. According to the military order issued by Wang Shen, after the war, regardless of the enemy's corpses, they must be buried deeply to avoid causing plague.

"How many gains have you gained in this battle?" Wang Shen asked slowly.

Gu Lie replied: "Report to the envoy of the army, to the Lord Li, there are more than [-] enemies in this battle. In this battle, our army beheaded more than [-] ranks and captured more than [-] people. The rest were probably drowned. died in the river."

Wang Shen: "How about our army's losses?"

Gu Lie: "Our army killed 130 people in battle, and about [-] people were lightly or severely wounded. It is impossible to count."

"It's only a small loss?" Li Heng, who had already built up his strength, couldn't help but yelled, killing one thousand enemies and losing eight hundred.In hand-to-hand combat, everyone's casualties should be about the same. Why did the Sizhou army die so few people?

This is impossible.

However, Wang Shen frowned, with anger in his eyes: "Our army counts intentionally and carelessly, and organizes versus unorganized. Why are there so many casualties? What do the generals of the army do?" In the field, the enemy is almost destroyed, and there is a posture of zero casualties for future generations.Except that many people died during the siege of Qichun, they have never paid such a high price.

In fact, all those killed in Qichun's siege were captives, while his regular army did not die.

Gu Lie replied: "Report to the military envoy, it rained too much last night. Most of the casualties were due to inadvertent separation from the army, and some accidentally fell into the water and were drowned."

Wang Shen was furious: "Leaving the army, the rain is too heavy? How do you train your soldiers on weekdays? You haven't drowned many people. Sorry. As a tiger of my Sizhou army, I will not die under the enemy's sword and arrow. Drowned, shame, shame!"

All the generals bowed their heads in shame, and Gu Lie blushed so much that he was about to bleed.

Lu Can hurriedly stepped forward and asked Gu Lie to retreat: "Military envoy, our army has captured a good harvest this time. In the future, more than 1 shi of grain will be enough for our army to feed for ten days. However, because most of the grain has passed through the Soaked in rainwater, there are only more than 4000 stones that can be used. It seems that our army has to move to Anlu and Yingcheng as soon as possible, to find the main force of the bandit army and fight decisively, and the Israeli army will eat."

Wang Shen sighed: "Yes, man is not as good as God. Although the heavy rain last night was God's help, but God soaked the food I smoked. Kong Xian."

Kong Xian came out and cupped his hands: "The end is here."

Wang Shen: "Your rear army must build a pontoon bridge in Huanshui within one day, and early the day after tomorrow, someone's feet will set foot on the west bank of Huanshui. By the way, you let Qin Sizhao do this. Don't think he is someone If the adopted son of my father can't fake the bridge within a day, and cut off his head to order the army, the army is not a place to talk about human feelings."

"Yes, General." Qin Sizhao agreed loudly, and rushed out together with Kong Xian and Liu Fu.

After Wang Shen gave this order, he said to Lu Can, "Deputy Envoy Lu, please continue."

Lu Can: "A thousand pieces of linen and a hundred war horses were captured in this battle. The linen can be used once it is dried. Most of the war horses are wounded, and they can only be used as draft horses after they are raised. But they can still be used. There are still about forty horses."

"Give the war horse to Yue Yun, to enrich the Wei army."

Yue Yun was overjoyed: "Thank you to the military envoy, I take care of you."

All the generals couldn't help laughing.

Lu Can went on to say: "In addition, a lot of gold and silver were also seized, which is about [-] to [-] pieces."

Li Heng said suddenly: "Okay, very good, Army envoy, check the figures, the income system is set in the company."

(End of this chapter)