Prince of Song Dynasty

Chapter 991 Special Operations

At this time, a large number of Minzhou defenders rushed up and down the city, and there was the sound of horseshoes in the distance. Apparently, there were also cavalry coming over from the city. Zhong Sanhe glanced at Sun Lixing on the gate tower, and knew that he was there. Guarding, there should be no problem in the city, he gestured to Sun Lixing, and hurried down the city.The city gate is the key point, there are 150 guards from the [-] killer battalion masters.

The north gate of the city faces the inner city. Zhong Sanhe led people to temporarily build a simple barricade with earth bags and some furniture. There are giant guns, crossbows and strong crossbows behind. Equipped with the sharpest steel knives, each with a short dagger made of fine steel and a fast crossbow.Before the melee combat started, the long-range attack alone suppressed the soldiers rushing on the street to a hundred paces away, unable to advance an inch, and could only shoot at them with bows and arrows from a distance.

When Kong Lingwu arrived at the North City Gate, there had been a stalemate here for almost half a stick of incense. Hearing the sound of horseshoes getting closer and closer outside the North City, Kong Lingwu looked livid when he saw the opened North City Gate and the falling suspension bridge. What is the current situation? If they failed to take back the North City Gate before the enemy cavalry arrived, the city would be destroyed today.

"Cavalry, charge over to me." Kong Lingwu roared, and took the lead to charge up. The few cavalry he brought were all his own soldiers. Following his general's roar, he broke the horses without hesitation Dash forward.Crossbow bolts whizzed towards them, horses fell to the ground, and some hit the simple barricades directly, collapsing the simple barricades, and the masters of the killer battalion behind had to dodge and dodge, and the rain of arrows immediately thinned out.

In one charge, dozens of horses and their riders fell down, and the street was blocked by corpses. The following cavalry could no longer charge. Kong Lingwu fell off his saddle, and with a spear in his hand, he hissed and shouted: "Life and death, at this moment, rush over with me."

Before the words fell, he took the lead and killed the past.Inspired by the leader's lead, the infantry in the rear raised their spears and swarmed forward with shouts.The soldiers behind were even more busy dragging the dead horse to the side of the street, opening a temporary passage for the continuous reinforcements from behind to charge and kill.

Swinging the iron gun, the masters of the killer battalion who went up were repulsed, wounded, and even two of them died. Kong Lingwu injured one person with one step, and approached the city gate step by step. 150 masters of the killer battalion dropped their longbows, pulled out their steel knives, and greeted them with a roar. One stick of incense, they only need to hold on for one stick of incense time, and now, half of the time has passed. Looking back, they The fire dragon approaching rapidly can already be seen through the city gate.

Zhong Sanhe met Kong Lingwu. Zhong Sanhe was the number one expert in the special brigade besides Bai Canghai and Gao Wuyang. , one inch is strong, one inch is short, and one inch is dangerous, but in this crowded killing field, his steel knife is more effective than Kong Lingwu's spear.With Zhong Sanhe standing up against Kong Lingwu, the pressure on the masters of the killer battalion was greatly reduced. With the swords flying, they fought on par with the Minzhou defenders who were several times more than them.

If it is on a spacious battlefield, these 150 people may not be able to play a big role. Under the attack of several times the enemy, they will soon fail, but now the entire North City Gate is in chaos. The army can't put up a combat formation at all, and can only start a melee with the enemy according to the terrain. This gives the special brigade killer battalion masters who are much stronger in individual strength to take advantage.In addition, the sharpness and firmness of the steel knives in the hands of Zhong Sanhe and his party were also reflected at this time. Often the Minzhou soldiers would slash at them with all their strength. Being cut off, followed by the head being chopped off.

However, the so-called ants kill tigers, Minzhou defenders are much more than Zhong Sanhe and his party, more than ten times, dozens of times, so Minzhou soldiers are still slowly approaching the city gate.

Above the city tower, Sun Lixing saw that the situation below the city was not good, he immediately turned his arrow and swished, and the Minzhou soldiers in the front row fell down one after another.

Kong Lingwu was very anxious. He had practiced advanced martial arts and was also a first-class master, but he was still not Zhong Sanhe's opponent. Seeing that he could not gain the upper hand at this time, he threw away the spear in his hand in a rage, drew out the treasured sword at his waist, and fought with the sword. He slashed at Zhong Sanhe like a mad tiger, which was a completely reckless way of playing, and even forced Zhong Sanhe to take two steps back in a moment.

On the top of the wall, Sun Lixing drew the string, drew his bow, and with a whoosh, an arrow shot at Kong Lingwu. It was Kong Lingwu who should have died. At this moment, Sanhe slashed at him with a knife. When he retracted his neck, the arrow knocked off his helmet. With a single shot, he himself didn't even hurt a single oily skin, but being frightened by this, Zhong Sanhe quickly seized this rare opportunity, and struck out the steel knife in his hand like lightning, Kong Lingwu hastily He blocked it with the saber in his hand, but he was cut several steps away, and after slashing with Zhong Sanhe more than ten times with all his strength, the saber in his hand finally couldn't bear it, and broke into two pieces with a click.

At the same time, Sun Lixing reached out his hand to touch the arrow again on the tower, but found nothing. When he looked down, there were no more dozens of arrows lined up on the ground. With a long cry, Sun Lixing pulled out his waist knife , with a knife in his right hand and a dagger in his left, he swooped down from the top of the city tower like a swallow, and went down the steps. When he ran down the steps, dozens of Minzhou soldiers on the steps had already fallen into a pool of blood .And his body was also stained with blood, which of course was the blood of the enemy.

Kong Lingwu stabilized his figure, then looked at Zhong Sanhe and couldn't help taking a breath, his heart sank completely. Zhong Sanhe's strength was high, but he was stronger than him. He blocked it with ease, and with Zhong Sanhe standing in front of him, it was difficult for his soldiers to take a step forward for a while.

The sound of shouting and killing sounded like thunder, countless torches illuminated the North City Gate, and the sound of horseshoes was close at hand. Kong Lingwu looked at the North City Gate a few steps away, but it seemed as far away as the end of the world.

"It's too late, the general situation is gone, it's too late! Go now, if you don't go, you will die here." He yelled in his heart.

With a certain thought, Kong Lingwu swung his saber, turned around and left. When he turned his head, the guards who accompanied him turned around and ran away with him.

"Kill!" Outside the city, Yang Yanqing leaped on his horse with a gun, and dashed across the suspension bridge first, rushing into the north city gate.

Minzhou fell.

Kong Lingwu was terrified like a bereaved dog, and anxious like a fish slipping through the net. He only led more than a hundred soldiers, abandoned Minzhou and took the road, and went south to Qinzhou. Behind him, there were still thousands of defenders in the city. Commanding, there was a mess, some cheered up and threw themselves into the defensive battle, some abandoned their knives and guns, took off their military uniforms, and stood against the wall, and some even took the opportunity to make trouble, rushing into the homes of the people in the city, burning and killing them. Looting and doing evil wantonly happened. At this time, the personnel of the Security Department of Xiangfu Kingdom also set fires everywhere in the city, causing chaos.

After entering the city, Yang Yanqing had no time to care about this. After leading the cavalry into the city, he immediately divided his troops into various places according to the strategy drawn up in advance, controlled the key points in the city, took over the city defense, occupied the yamen and warehouses, and controlled the main roads.Then Yang Yanqing led the main force to approach the barracks in the city, directly blocking a large number of soldiers in the barracks.Although the gate of the camp was closed in time, the leaderless Minzhou soldiers watched in horror as more and more cavalry gathered outside the camp, not knowing what to do.Several commanders of the Song army battalion gathered together and temporarily formed a command organization to discuss how to face the immediate crisis. In fact, there are only two ways, surrender or die in battle.It is more hopeful to count on the thin camp gates and wooden fences to block the wolf-like cavalry of the Xiangfu Kingdom than to count on the sow to climb the tree.

Yang Yanqing had about 4000 mobile troops available at this time, most of which were used to control the city defense and various important institutions, and hundreds of cavalry followed Zhong Sanhe of the special brigade to chase Kong Lingwu who had fled. In the barracks opposite him, there are still more than [-] Minzhou defenders. If these soldiers are brave enough to fight, Yang Yanqing is really not sure to take them down in a short time.

Yang Yanqing didn't wait long, and the matter was easily resolved beyond his expectations. The more than 4000 Minzhou defenders decided to surrender.A battalion commander named Wu Qingfeng came to see Yang Yanqing on behalf of the soldiers of the Song Army in the battalion and expressed their intentions.

Half an hour later, more than 4000 Song soldiers in the military camp in Minzhou City were all disarmed and imprisoned by Yang Yanqing.Then Yang Yanqing quickly organized a security team, deployed to restore order in the city, and strictly ordered his soldiers not to disturb the people.So far, Minzhou has completely fallen into the hands of Xiangfu Kingdom.

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Xizhou, like Minzhou, belongs to the Qinfeng Road of the Great Song Dynasty. It is located in the east of Minzhou.In addition, in the past two years, the Great Song Dynasty established a military village on the border, named Pingliang Village, to guard against the Xiangfu Kingdom.

However, compared with Minzhou next to it, Xizhou is more than two or three times larger and more than two or three times larger in terms of land area and population. Especially because Xizhou borders Lanzhou of Xiangfu State, the two Over the past few years, the number of garrisons has been increased several times. Now the strength of Xizhou City and the three counties plus Pingliang Village is four or five times that of Minzhou.Therefore, plotting Xizhou is not as easy as Minzhou.

Zhang Dawei led the other three brigades of the Qinglong Legion, with a total of 5000 people, "chasing and killing" the [-] Tubo people led by Zheri Shimu all the way, and came to Xizhou (later Pingliang City area).

(End of this chapter)