Under the firmament, on the banks of the Qiantang River, the war between the Song and Wu armies was in full swing, and more than 100,000 horses on both sides were spread out, almost occupying the great plain dozens of miles outside Hangzhou.

This was a head-to-head duel without the slightest trickery, and all the intrigues and intrigues had lost their effect at the moment when the two armies were hedged, and even the bow and crossbow that was supposed to be effective were not used by many people. Because the two teams have been completely mixed together under the charge of each other, it is better to shoot someone with an arrow that will hit someone, and it is better to fight with knives and guns more directly and effectively.

All the soldiers were red-eyed at this moment, roared out the most ferocious screams, slaughtered forward like bloodthirsty and cruel beasts, and stabbed the enemy on the opposite side with all their weapons in their hands, without retreating or retreating, only forward, and forward, until they were swallowed up by a more fierce offensive torrent.

After the battle instantly became white-hot and deepened, various problems hidden in the seemingly powerful, victorious, and monstrous Great Song Dynasty official army slowly emerged, thus beginning to affect the direction of the entire battle situation, dragging this complacent army into the abyss of defeat-

The first is the lack of physical fitness of the various armies. On the surface, the morale of the Song army in attacking Hangzhou was high, but in fact, the internal situation was far from so optimistic. In the past month, they have fought hundreds of miles, more than a dozen battles, although each battle has ended in a big victory, but it still consumes a lot of mental and physical energy of the soldiers, although it cannot be said that they have reached the end of the crossbow, but they have long been tired of the veterans.

However, Zhang Gon and other generals were eager to break through the city, and did not listen to Sun Tu's advice to let his soldiers and horses get a full rest, so they went south again. Just now, they marched dozens of miles in a hurry, rushing from Lin'an to Hangzhou in half a day, the soldiers were already exhausted, and then they confronted the Wu army that had been recuperating for a long time, and the strength and weakness naturally became clear over time.

Secondly, Song Jun was still caught off guard. Although this battle was a head-on battle, and it is not an exaggeration to call it an encounter, it was actually a big surprise to everyone. Because in their imagination, the Wu army, which has lost successive battles and many cities, and even Hangzhou is about to become a lonely city, should be held behind closed doors, how can there be a reason to take the initiative to attack?

But Wu Jun took the initiative to send troops in a way that surprised everyone, and it was the most straightforward and direct head-to-head confrontation. This suppressed the Song army from the momentum, and at the same time, because of the lack of preparation, many soldiers rushed for convenience, and did not even put on their armor. Once the war began, the Song army fell behind in weaponry, and suffered heavier casualties.

In the end, it was because Song Jun was not single-minded. This was an army formed by the merger of three separate Xiang armies of Gyeonggi, Huaibei and Gyeongnam, and although they were Song armies as a whole, they lacked a commander who could command the whole army. Zhang Gon, Xu Shen and Ren Shifan all have the same reputation, and they have not been able to distinguish their priorities before, and it is even more impossible to make a decision on who will be the main at this time.

Such a team with uneven hearts, if it is a good fight, there will naturally be no problems, and all the soldiers can move forward bravely and cooperate seamlessly. However, once the wind is passively adversary, the problem of little cooperation and trust between them will be completely magnified, and although it will not become a plate of scattered sand, it will also be difficult to form a system and resist the fierce offensive of the enemy army.

And Fang Shifo, who took the lead and fiercely attacked and killed at the front of the team, became a catalyst for exposing the various problems of the Song army. After killing Huang Mao with two hammers, he was unstoppable, and the double hammer in his hand was waved by him like two yellow clouds, killing into the Song army, straight like a tiger into the flock, in front of him, there was almost no enemy, and he was killed alive and scattered four or five Song army teams that tried to intercept, and a bloody road to the rear of the Chinese army was opened up by him with two or three thousand soldiers.

In the face of such a killing god, the Song army was completely afraid, many people did not dare to stand in his way anymore, and all went around to the side, and the morale of the army fell to the bottom, and the various armies could not help each other, and the decline was great.

In such a situation, the Wu army was full of momentum, and the rush was more and more ferocious and fierce, and the offensive like a wave was fierce wave after wave, and it was possible to completely crush and engulf the Song army in front at any time.

Above the city, Pang Wanchun was overjoyed, he and Wu Guo needed such a big victory to change the current situation. The successive defeats of the previous party, coupled with the stupidity of various forces in the country, have made this newly established regime crumbling, and only a hearty victory can deter the small and stabilize the people's hearts.

At this moment, there was a sudden cry of kneeling down to the ground and like a mountain behind him: "The ministers are knocking on Your Majesty......" He was startled, and he hurriedly turned around, and saw Fang La, who was wearing a dragon robe, striding up to the city under the escort of Fang Fei and other courtiers and hundreds of royal forest soldiers. This made him no longer care about continuing to stare at the battle below, so he hurriedly greeted him: "Your Majesty, why are you here." Although our army has a great victory in sight, it is too dangerous here after all......"

Fang La laughed, waved his hand disappretently and said, "Everyone get up, don't be polite." The soldiers are on the front line to kill the enemy, how can I, as the king of Wu, stay in the palace with peace of mind? Today, I not only want to witness this great victory, but also cheer for the generals! As he spoke, he came to a big drum standing in the northwest corner of the city, and raised his hand at the soldiers who were still beating the drums: "Give me the drumstick!" ”

The soldier felt only a moment of excitement, and without thinking much about it, respectfully presented the drumstick. Fang La took it, laughed again, then competed with his arms, luckily dantian, and roared: "Wu Guo will win!" With a continuous wave of his hands, the drumsticks struck the surface of the drum.

The fierce and majestic drumbeat of "Knock ......" sounded from the city again, penetrating the sky and reaching the battlefield several miles away.

The ministers and soldiers at the head of the city were all stunned, only a few courtiers such as Fang Fei and Jiang Shihu had a calm look on their faces, and there was a certain strong belief in their eyes - when the king of a country ran to the head of the city regardless of his identity and took the risk of beating drums and cheering for the soldiers of the whole army, this would be unimaginable to encourage the soldiers on the front line.

Not only the soldiers, but even those courtiers, who were as steady as Pang Wanchun, were all enthusiastic and short of breath at the moment, just thinking that they could join the battlefield and kill the invading Song army, and completely kill these enemy troops who had exploited themselves and now killed countless Pao Ze brothers, and drove them out of the territory of Wu State!

Even the courtiers at the head of the city were already like this, and the soldiers of the Wu army who were fighting bravely below were naturally even more encouraged, and the entire army was completely boiling! At first, they still felt a little strange, why did the drum beat at the head of the city suddenly stop, could it be that an enemy suddenly went around their rear to launch an offensive against Hangzhou City? Some people subconsciously turned their heads to look, and then saw a scene that stunned him, the emperor in the robe of the Son of Heaven was actually beating the drum himself!

At this time, it shows that Fang La did not change into an ordinary clothes that are more convenient to act. If he had changed his clothes, he would not have been able to know about the Wu soldiers in the distance below for the first time as the emperor beating drums and cheering for the soldiers. But now it was different, the bright yellow dragon robe crown was so dazzling in the setting sun that almost everyone could instantly confirm that the drummer was their Emperor Majesty when they glanced at it from a distance.

Subsequently, this astonishing news spread quickly among the Wu army like a swift wind. When everyone looked back curiously and saw this exciting scene, the war spirit in everyone's hearts was completely ignited. The offensive of the Wu army was instantly increased to more than twice as much as before, and everyone screamed and screamed, attacking and killing the Song army in front of them like crazy, which had the potential to destroy and decay, and even killed the queue of more than 20,000 people in front of it in one battle, and the front of the soldiers was even more directed at the front of the Chinese army.

At this time, the three main generals in the Central Army Department knew that something was wrong, and this time it was really a big disaster. Not only is it difficult to capture the city of Hangzhou, but it may also be completely defeated here.

The emotion of regret instantly filled the hearts of the generals, knowing that this was the case, they should have listened to Sun Tu's admonition before, and waited for the arrival of the Shandong army before attacking Hangzhou.

What to do? Such a question came to everyone's minds, and they looked at each other, and they couldn't come up with an accurate idea for a while. Just like the military horses under their command, these three generals are only good at fighting with the wind, and once they are at a disadvantage, they are a little overwhelmed.

"Military formation...... Yes, we can also use military formations. You can't fight so indiscriminately anymore, let the soldiers quickly gather and form an army formation to resist the enemy! Xu Shen's mind was the most sober and flexible, and in a hurry, he finally thought of a way to alleviate the current predicament, and roared loudly.

"Quick, give the order, the whole army retreats, reassembles into a formation, stabilizes the position with a phalanx, and resists the enemy with a circular formation outside!" Ren Shifan also roared loudly.

At this critical juncture, the three of them no longer had the idea of winning, and they worked together to give orders, so that their soldiers and horses quickly opened up the distance from the enemy, and quickly gathered into a formation under this, which was also the last bit of confidence of this regular army of the Great Song Dynasty in the face of the Wu army.

But obviously, it was impossible for the Wu army to let them perform such a killing trick on the battlefield. Seeing the movement of the Song army, Pang Wanchun didn't care about the emperor's side, and immediately shouted: "Blow the trumpet, let everyone chase and kill with all their might, you must not let the enemy form a formation and disperse them!" ”

"Woo woo woo ......" The loud horn sounded, and countless Wu troops rushed out like fierce beasts, rushing to kill them with all their might.

At the same time, Pang Wanchun's brows furrowed again: "It's almost over, it's time to end this battle!" Sound the arrows! ”

There was an archer waiting beside him for a long time, and when he heard the order, he did not hesitate, and immediately set up several special ringing arrows on the strong bowstring, and as soon as he let go, the three arrows went straight into the air with a sharp whistle, and the sound quickly spread far away......