Wulongling is leaning on the Yangtze River, the cliff is thousands of miles high, stretching for hundreds of miles, and it can be called the existence of the top one among the many dangerous and important passes in the south. And it was on the road that the Song army had to go straight to Muzhou, the old nest of the Wu army, and it became a key point that the armies of both sides could not avoid and could only fight to the death. (Well, I had a confused mind before, and I always wrote Muzhou as Wuzhou, so I'll correct it here.) ）

However, the towering mountains, the turbulent rivers in front of them, and the stone Xiongguan set up on the road through the mountains are all prohibitive existences for the Song army. The Yangtze River water in front of the pass alone is enough for the Song army to spend a lot of money if they want to cross it, and if they want to break through the pass, they will have to pay more than a hundred times the price.

At this time, on the river, hundreds of Wu army ships were shuttling back and forth, and they really achieved strict defense, and in the Wulongling Pass, there were even more swords and guns, arrows flashing, and tens of thousands of troops were waiting for it, not daring to have the slightest cowardice.

On the high ground of Xiongguan, Fang Bainian stared at the Great Song army that was constantly gathering in front of him, but he had no fear, only fanatical fighting spirit: "It's finally here, it's time to use my long overdue death to fight for Your Majesty, for the Wu Kingdom, and for those brothers who died." This time, even if I really die, I must defend the Wulong Ridge and not let the Song army go over! ”

As the most capable and trusted person in the Wu army today, Fang Bainian, a brother of the Fang La tribe, and a general who made great contributions in the battle of Hangzhou that day, became the chief general of the Wulongling Pass. Although he is not as good as Fang Shi Buddha in terms of martial arts and bravery, and not as good as Pang Wanchun in terms of command, his loyalty to Wu is not weaker than others.

"Tonight, let the sailor's people secretly lean over and attack first, and they must not be beaten passively as before. Also, the mountain trails are guarded by people, right? After retracting his gaze slightly, Fang Bainian glanced at several generals beside him.

These people are also the only loyal and righteous people left in the Wu army, and they all have serious faces, and they should be holding their fists. Immediately, a slender officer took the initiative to say: "General, this first battle will be handed over to the lowly position." I'll lead the clippers down the river, and I'll be able to catch them off guard! ”

"Okay, Deng Yuanjue has this thought, I won't let it go. But you have to remember that you must not recklessly get too close, let alone lead your army ashore. Your purpose is only to harass, use more rockets, and kill the enemy as the main purpose. ”

"The last general obeys!" Deng Yuanjue was overjoyed, and he hurriedly hugged his fists to respond to his fate. And some other generals still have a little envy in their eyes, they are all Fang La's henchmen who stayed in Muzhou's hometown before, and they have not really experienced a series of wars such as Suzhou and Hangzhou, so they still have some heart, and they also want to be able to turn the tide with a breath in their chests.

But just when they said that they had planned to wait for dark to send people to attack the Song army camp opposite, suddenly a stirring horn sounded from the Song army array, followed by the sound of drums, and at the camp gate, one after another warships had gone down to the water, and went straight to the Wu army water village against the current.

Who would have thought that the Song army had just arrived in front of Wulongling, and they had not rested for a day or two, and they actually launched an attack directly.

"Quick, order the sailor to come forward and intercept it, don't let them gain momentum!" Fang Bainian panicked when he saw this, and hurriedly ordered loudly.

Deng Yuanjue didn't have any delay, and quickly rushed down the city at that moment, shouting to order the naval army under his command to prepare for war quickly. For a time, there was also a noise of gongs and drums in the city, and there were many roars, and all the horses and horses were quickly mobilized to join up with the Wu army sailors who were already cruising on the river, in order to block the Song army's water attack.

This is a head-to-head confrontation with almost no tricks to speak of, competing for the strength of the water war between the two sides. The two armies of Song and Wu were all warships, and on the Yangtze River, there was a ship collision and a short-handed battle to the death. And after the battle lasted less than half an hour, the victory and defeat were already clear - the Song army in the water battle, completely presented an overwhelming advantage, killing the Wu army collapsed, either killed and captured, or jumped into the water to escape, there are also some ships saw the opportunity quickly, and docked back to the shore in time, and as the Song army continued to pursue, they did not even dare to defend the water village, and hurriedly fled back to the rear of the Wulongling Guancheng......

In fact, if it was just an ordinary water battle, although the Song army was indeed superior to the Wu army by relying on generals such as San Ruan who were proficient in water-based water warfare, it was not yet enough to form a crushing enemy army in a short period of time. However, when the Song army showed a weapon that was far stronger than the Wu army, they had no way to resist it at all.

First of all, the bow and crossbow, the Song army has surpassed all the enemies in the world in the bow and crossbow, and the reason why they can tie with the rising Liao State and Western Xia in the past hundred years is because they have bows and crossbows that far exceed the general range, especially sharp weapons such as the divine arm bow, which can raise the long-range strike of individual soldiers to a limit.

This time, Uncle Zhang and their arrival brought a batch of divine arm bows that the Jiangnan official army did not have before, and now, these divine arm bows have become a good arm for Sun Tu to destroy in the water battle.

Of course, the bow and crossbow alone still can't really determine the victory after half an hour, and the real key is still in the broken bullet. At this time, Sun Tu didn't need to hide anymore, at the moment of the first battle, the officers and men of the navy smashed hundreds of destructive bullets at the enemy warships within the attack range as if they didn't want money.

This time, the damage to the Wu army's warships was too great. The sound and movement of the explosion were not at all what these Wu soldiers could bear now, and it was completely beyond their psychological construction. Even when the iron nails and other lethal weapons exploded in the crowd on the ship, all the sergeants stood on the spot stupidly, and they didn't look like they were dodging.

As a result, the ships caught fire, the people on board were screaming, and the ships of the Wu army lost their strength to resist, and they all walked around the river like a swarm of headless flies, and then they scattered and fled, completely suppressed and pursued by the Song army. It is also that the speed of the Song army is not comparable to that of the enemy, otherwise this battle alone will be able to annihilate all the Wu army's sailors on the Yangtze River.

But even if some enemy ships were let go, the outcome of the battle was already doomed, and the Wu army's water village, which originally had a certain defensive strength, was completely out of order because it was hit head-on by its own panicked ships, and was killed by the Song army's warships and lost its defense.

When everyone in the gate saw this scene, everyone's faces were not only in disbelief, but also terrified. After a few months, the combat power of the Song army looks stronger than when it was in Hangzhou before, which makes those Wu army soldiers inevitably panic in their hearts, even those who were still full of ambition before and wanted to turn the tide of the tide, at this time they also swallowed a mouthful of saliva with some difficulty, and they didn't know what to say.

In fact, if the Wu army was decisive enough at this time, and sent the army guarding the pass in time to rush out, taking advantage of the Song army's unstable foothold to give a head-on attack, even if it could not severely damage the enemy army that had just come ashore, but it could recapture this key water village, and then consolidate the defense, then this Yangtze River danger would still be in their hands.

But after seeing the fiasco of the sailors in front, most of the soldiers were already cowardly, and even Fang Bainian, who was the commander-in-chief, did not dare to risk sending people to fight again, and only sent a small number of soldiers and horses to respond, and in the end they could only watch the Song army on the other side of the river continue to send reinforcements to Shuizhai and hold it there little by little, thus giving up the last dangerous barrier in front of the Wulongling Pass.

By the time the sky was about to get dark, a 30,000-strong Song army had already appeared around the water village only ten miles away from Guancheng, completely forming a confrontation. Even Sun Tu's banner has been firmly erected there, which means that the commander of the Song army has also crossed the river.

A burst of uneasy uneasiness for no reason spread: "How can this be...... As soon as Song Jun came, he didn't take a break, so he took down our water village in one go...... What should we do next? All the soldiers were a little dazed in their hearts, and many people's eyes fell on Fang Bainian's body, looking at what his idea was.

And after Fang Bainian's face changed for a while, he finally gritted his teeth and gave his opinion: "Hold on." Our Wulong Ridge is high and steep enough, and the Song army can't break it at all. As long as we condescendingly block their several attacks and inflict more casualties, they will be unable to sustain themselves and finally retreat! At this point, the only thing he could think of was such a countermeasure.

The ensuing battle seemed to unfold as he had hoped. After the next day, the Song army did send troops and horses to try to launch an attack on the Wulongling Pass, but in front of this Xiongguan that went straight into the sky, the tens of thousands of troops really seemed so small, and every wave of their attack was steadily blocked by the defenders. Moreover, relying on the geographical advantages here, they also caused a lot of damage to the Song army, and in only three days, there were nearly two or three thousand casualties outside, and the enemy could not even build the cloud ladder on the wall.

"Okay, just keep it like this, and in the end, victory will definitely belong to us!" After repelling the Song army's offensive again, looking at the corpses of the Song army that had fallen below, and the enemy who retreated in embarrassment, Fang Bainian's confidence returned, and he loudly encouraged the army's morale, and shouted in his mouth: "With my Wulong Ridge, Muzhou in the rear will be as stable as Mount Tai." Unless he, Song Jun, can really give birth to wings and fly over our heads like birds, otherwise, my Wulong Ridge is the starting point of their defeat! ”

"Victory! Win! Win! The soldiers of the Wu army also shouted loudly, and their morale returned to their peak. But none of them noticed that at this time, some changes were taking place in the camp of the Song army, which had already crossed the river, and some things were slowly rising into the air.

It's a pity that because of the sky, Fang has never noticed this for a hundred years......