Powerful Song Dynasty

Chapter 237
"Fifth brother will follow the guard of the gentleman, and I will act as the front of the army." Qiu Yun's face was resolute, and his eyes were full of fighting spirit. The huge force of the opponent did not make him timid, but aroused fierce pride.

"Okay, if you can't cut a jade, you can't make a weapon. The three of you need experience, but I hope you can survive." Wang Xiu looked at the three grown-up boys, and felt relieved. He didn't express his passion, but only kind expectations and sincerity. Blessings, death, all things cease, live, all things are possible.

"Don't worry, sir, our brothers will follow him to make contributions." Feng Yuan said calmly, with a confident and calm face on his bland face.

"Okay, choose a few clever officials to find out the opponent's weak points, and the whole army will retreat ten miles for me to hide. We can only succeed and not fail." Wang Xiu is very satisfied with Feng Yuan's self-confidence. The basic quality of being handsome, and a person without any self-confidence is doomed to fail, and he explained again: "Be careful in everything."

"Don't worry, sir." Feng Yuan smiled lightly.

"Sir, I'll be the front of the army." Jing Bo was a little impatient.

Wang Xiu glanced at the anxious Jing Bo, and smiled.

"Sir." Seeing Wang Xiu laughing out loud, Jing Bo couldn't help but blush.

"Fifth brother, don't argue with me, I'll do it." Qiu Yun rolled his eyes at Jingbo.

"Old Jiu, you are arguing with me, be careful I will beat you."

"If you dare, I'm afraid you won't succeed."

"Okay, don't fight any more, you all have the mission." Wang Xiu waved his big hand and said seriously: "Ninth brother leads the army to be the front of the army, don't love to fight, just rush to the city gate, fifth brother leads the army to the rear."

"Sir." Jing Bo became impatient.

"Fifth Brother." Feng Yuan stared at Jing Bo fiercely, and said in a deep voice: "The army has a great responsibility. Sir, it is because of your bravery that the whole army comforts you. Do you understand?"

Jing Bo was taken aback, staring at Qiu Yun who had a smirk on his face, and nodded unwillingly.

"What's the hurry, can we kill less people in the future?" Wang Xiu said calmly.

Song Jiang really spent his money, changed his attitude of cherishing soldiers in the past, and tended to attack the city wave after wave, filling it with human lives, and insisted on taking the city as soon as possible.

Have no idea!Yesterday when news of the burning of the supply chain was reported, he immediately turned pale with fright, and hurriedly wanted to return to the rescue, but Wu Yong and Lu Junyi thought that the food and grass had been burned, and Yang Xiong would deal with it from behind, which should be able to hold Zeng Xiaoyun for a few days. They should concentrate their forces to attack the Liguojian, and strive to take the city to replenish the military supplies within a day or two. There is no other way out.

Wu Yong pondered for a long time, and persuaded: "Brother, Liguo has enough supplies, which can fully support the army to go south to Pengcheng. Brother can go south from Pengcheng to the Huaiyang army. At that time, our brothers will have a brighter future."

Lu Junyi glanced at Wu Yong. He was the main figure who advocated the conquest of the country, but he didn't expect that Wang Xiu would send troops to burn food and put the army in a desperate situation. It was a slap in the face for him!He also said sternly: "It's too late to return to the army now. There are still seven or eight days of food in the army, and it is enough to take down Pengcheng. If it is not possible, the Zhao family's soldiers and horses will have nothing to do with us."

Wu Yong's face was very dissatisfied. Lu Junyi was obviously saying that if the battle goes against him, he would abandon tens of thousands of miscellaneous soldiers and flee south with thousands of elites.However, the situation is difficult, if it is really impossible to win Liguo, and people's army gathers everywhere, it is really necessary to abandon most of the people, the reputation is not good, the face is not good, so I don't care so much.

Song Jiang had no choice but to persevere. On the first day, he cleared the perimeter of the Liguojian without any effort. He thought that the defense of the Liguojian was nothing more than that. Withdraw into the city.Therefore, instead of besieging the city, they set up seventeen simple camps and took a temporary rest. They set out to Pengcheng within a day or two, and quickly captured Changping warehouse to supplement the losses of Lanling.

He even sent his only [-]-plus cavalry, with the support of [-] original soldiers and horses, as a forward to go south to Pengcheng.

Before dark, the offensive finally weakened. Li Guojian repelled more than ten large-scale attacks in a row, and the city was already full of corpses and a mess.

Li Guojian's powerful counterattack caused heavy casualties to Liangshan soldiers and horses. Song Jiang was very annoyed. He didn't expect that the mere small town of Li Guojian would still stand still after fighting for a day.

According to the plan, the city should be destroyed now to wipe out the remnants of the soldiers, and tomorrow we should sort out the food and grass, search for armored battles and prepare to go south.However, due to his entrustment, nearly [-] main forces went south, and the remaining thousands of main forces are the capital of messing around in the future. I can't fight anymore, I can only wait until tomorrow.

He convened Wu Yong, Lu Junyi and other major generals to discuss, and decided that tomorrow, at all costs, Li Guojian must be filled with human life.After all, time is very precious to him, and there is no room for wasting it.

While discussing, they heard a commotion in the southeast direction, the sound of shouting and killing came faintly, and the flames also lit up.

"What's going on?" Song Jiang was shocked, and hurried to the outside of the tent, staring at the fire in the southeast direction.

"Could it be the reinforcements from Pengcheng? How can he, the Shuzi of the Cai family, be so bold?" Lu Junyi's expression was not good.

"No way, Cai Gengdao is just a sour Confucian. He retreated into the city and asked us to leave before it was too late. How could he send troops here?" Wu Yong pondered for a while, and then said, "Brother, it should be the gang that attacked Lanling Dazhai people."

Song Jiang opened his eyes wide and smiled coldly.He said sharply: "Okay, brothers, quickly dispatch troops to stop them, and we must not let anyone go."

It was Wang Xiu who came. A few cavalrymen caught a few tongues and asked him to find out that the main force of Song Jiang was in the direction of the north city. The troops in the southeast were relatively weak, and the camps were all simple camps. The encirclement, which gave him a space to intersperse.

He was overjoyed, and immediately gathered nearly [-] cavalry, cut deep into the weak point, and used rockets to ignite the tent and luggage, forming a powerful assault force, which caused panic among the recruits.On the other hand, he led his army to fight hard. They didn't expect to defeat the enemy army, they tried to avoid contact with the enemy, shot left and right with bows and arrows to kill those who dared to approach, and charged at the city gate with all their strength.

Feng Yuan was at the front with a heavy load of swords on his horse. Nearly [-] riders were like fierce tigers. He smashed these Liangshan soldiers to pieces and killed them. They were terrified. The fierce cavalry rushed forward, and the result can be imagined.

No accident happened, Liangshan soldiers did not react at all, they broke through the outermost camp and continued to advance towards the city.

Since Song Jiang didn't intend to trap the city, the gaps between the camps were very large, and the city was not really sealed off, only the patrols were used to guard and intercept the scouts.This made it easier for Wang Xiu and the others to rush through an outlying camp without any interception. They were less than [-] steps away from the city gate, and there was no camp to stop them. Victory was in sight.

"Keep going, we'll be there soon, don't love to fight." The victory was in sight, and Wang Xiu was very pleasantly surprised, he didn't expect that the rush would go so smoothly.

"Look quickly, there's a troop of cavalry approaching the flames in the north." Feng Yuan pointed to the north with sharp eyes and shouted.

"There aren't too many people, so let everyone be alert, and immediately organize defenses at the gate of the city." Wang Xiuduo said that he had already considered it before taking action. The military situation is unclear at night, and the defenders must not dare to switch rashly.

The moment when he arrived at the city gate was the most dangerous time. If Song Jiang didn't respond, he wouldn't be worthy of the title of "Three Roads".Therefore, he had long deployed that once he arrived at the city, he would immediately organize a circular defensive circle, use bows and crossbows to resist the enemy's attack, and allow the defenders time to open the door and let them go.

In fact, Song Jiang is also quite aggrieved, the horses are extremely precious, he won the Hebei Song Army with only a thousand horses, and many cavalry use civilian mules and horses.A defeat by Shi Jin made him lose three tiers, and he sent another [-] riders south to Pengcheng. Now he only has a few hundred riders, even if he catches up with Wang Xiu, he can't help but fight!
That is to say, cavalry was not needed in the siege, and he decided that he would go south again in a day or two. It would be better to let the cavalry go south to Pengcheng to occupy a favorable attack position and deter Cai Gengdao from acting rashly, but he did not expect that the opponent had a considerable size of cavalry.

Soon, Wang Xiu and others broke into the city, but no arrows were fired from the top of the city to stop them.

It turned out that the city guards saw the fire and immediately reported to Shangguan Qian and Qiu Fu. The two of them rushed to the south gate to watch, but saw a group of cavalry approaching the city gate. They thought it might be Wang Xiu leading the army back from the attack, so they refused to let the bows and arrows go. Arrows in hand.

Arriving at the foot of the city, more than [-] cavalry immediately dismounted and formed two defensive lines to the outside. Each of them drew their bows and arrows. The front team first fired a row of rockets to position themselves, preparing to face the approaching pursuers.

"Open the door quickly, I'm Wang Xiu." Wang Xiu galloped to the side of the moat and shouted towards the top of the city.

"Is there a proof of reconciliation?" Shangguan Qian raised his head from the crenel to ask, he didn't dare to be careless at night.

Wang Xiu gritted her teeth in hatred. At this time, 1 minute is precious, and it can decide the life and death of hundreds of people. Didn't you see the infantry behind the cavalry of the opponent?However, Shangguanqian has done a good job. If you come here late at night, who knows if you are a fake.

"What certificate do you need? Yuhou, switch the switch quickly. If you can't hear my voice, let Uncle Qiu come." Wang Xiu heard that the voice was Shangguanqian.

"That's right, it's your lord's voice, switch it on quickly." Qiu Fu confirmed Wang Xiu.

While speaking, I heard "whoosh, whoosh, whoosh." The sharp sound of feathered arrows piercing through the air, the enemy cavalry passed the rocket positioning point, these experienced Song army cavalry did not need to command at all, and fired the first two rounds of volley .

"Oops..." There were screams, and with the neighing of the horses falling down, at least a dozen people were shot to the ground.

A group of Liangshan Boyuan Congbu Bazi also caught up. They advanced quietly in the dark night, outflanking the Song army from both wings.

(End of this chapter)