After sunset, the Song Dynasty troops guarding the opposite bank saw the Mingjiao cultists approaching, and finally lit the fire oil, and the blazing flames illuminated the Baidi Mountain, Chijia Mountain and Baiyan Mountain on both sides.

"Report to the Holy Father, the advance of Tong Guan's army is still fifty miles away from here!"

Hearing the report of the spies, Fang La, who was standing on the shore watching the battle, and the generals under his command suddenly changed color.

The Western Army led by Tong Guan has been fighting with the Western Xia for decades, and it can be said that it is the most experienced and most combat-effective unit in the entire Great Song Dynasty.

Fang La's army swept through the southern provinces of the Yangtze River at the beginning, but since it fought with the Western Army, it has been defeated repeatedly, and it has already been beaten out of the psychological shadow.

Looking at the raging fire on the opposite bank, Fang La's face asked worriedly: "Generals, how long do you think it will take to capture these chain bridges and cross the river?" ”

Si Xingfang, the general who was responsible for leading the troops to attack the bridge, said helplessly: "The Song army is constantly adding fire oil and firewood to the flames, and it is difficult to rush through, there is no water source nearby, and it will take at least a few hours to wait for the fire to be extinguished." ”

"Alas!" There was a fire blocking the road in front, and there were chasing soldiers attacking behind, and Fang La, who had no way to escape, looked up to the sky and sighed: "I'm afraid we won't be able to hold out for so long, is the sky going to kill me here?" ”

Just when everyone had nothing to do, Wang Yin, who had always been resourceful in Mingjiao, suddenly said: "Holy Prince, the minister has a plan!" ”

Hearing Wang Yin's words at this time of life and death, Fang La suddenly said with joy like a dry land meeting a rainstorm: "Wang Aiqing, come quickly!" ”

Wang Yin looked at everyone, came to Fang La's side, and whispered in his ear.

Fang La's face continued to change, and after listening to Wang Yin's plan, he hesitated for a moment and then said, "The Song army is approaching, Master Baoguang, you take someone to stop you and buy some time for us." ”

"Yes!" Although Baoguang Rulai Deng Yuanjue was also very curious about what Wang Yin said, since Fang La was unwilling to say, he didn't ask, and hurriedly led the order to resist the pursuers.

As soon as Deng Yuanjue, the great monk, left, Fang La hurriedly asked his nephew Fang Jie in a low voice.

Fang Jie did not hesitate after receiving the order, and immediately led his own soldiers, as well as a large number of ordinary Ming Sect members, to rush to the burning chain bridge.

Everyone stepped on the paved wooden planks and approached the area where the fire was burning, the scorching flames made it impossible to approach, Fang Jie shouted: "Do it! ”

Fang Jie's personal soldiers, who had already received the order, quickly captured the sect members around him, slashed off their heads with a swing of the knife, and the warm blood pillars sprayed out of the big flames in front of him.

The screams kept remembering, the blood-spurted Ming Sect members were thrown under the bridge, and the new members were arrested, relying on the blood in these people's bodies, the flames on the side of the chain bridge became weaker and weaker.

Seeing that this plan was indeed effective, Fang La was overjoyed and shouted: "Send more people up and speed up!" ”

In order to cross the chain bridge, there were countless more unjust souls here, but in the end, all the flames were extinguished with blood.

Fang Jie personally led his soldiers to the opposite bank, only to see that the camp of the Song army was quiet, except for dozens of torches illuminating the vicinity exceptionally brightly, there was no trace of anyone.

Seeing this situation, no matter who would be puzzled, Fang Jie hurriedly sent someone back to the other side and reported the matter to Fang La.

"Could it be that the Song army knew that they couldn't defend it, so they retreated?" Although Fang La knew that this might not be big, the Song army on the other side must have something strange, but the chasing troops were coming, and since the road ahead was open, he had to go over and take a look no matter what.

Led by Fang La, he brought the four marshals, eight hussars, twelve gods, twenty-four generals and other henchmen who had followed him for many years, as well as thousands of elite soldiers to the camp of the Song army on the other side.

This Song military camp was built in a hurry after knowing that the Fangla army was coming, using trees growing on the mountain, which was not very strong, but at this time, under the reflection of the torches, there was a black hole inside, and it was impossible to see what was hidden.

Fang La was very suspicious, so he stopped at the place where the camp was a stone's throw away.

Fang Jie hurriedly sent soldiers into the camp to investigate, but unfortunately, after those people entered the camp, they were no longer alive, as if a giant beast was hidden in the darkness, devouring them.

After three teams of people entered the camp in a row, they all disappeared without a trace, and Fang La said impatiently when he saw this: "The whole army will attack and break through this Song army camp!" ”

Thousands of Mingjiao members lined up, the people in front held shields and swords, and the people in the back row held spears in both hands, cautiously approaching the camp in front, but this time they had not yet reached the gate of the village, and they saw a lot of things flying in the night sky.

"Grenade!" After the things that flew out of the camp fell to the ground, the Mingjiao sect members who knew about it shouted loudly, but it was too late.

Hundreds of grenades exploded in the Mingjiao's military formation, and this third-generation fragmentation grenade uses a melon-skin-like cast iron shell, which is not only more powerful, but also can cause more damage to nearby enemies when the shell is broken into multiple pieces.

The rumbling explosions came one after another, and seeing so many grenades thrown out of the Song army camp, Fang La immediately thought of a possibility, and a chill suddenly appeared in his heart.

"Hahaha!" On the wooden wall of the Song military camp, a foreign man with a strong foreign country wearing armor appeared, he looked at Fang La and the others not far away and said with a smile: "But the Fang La sect leader of the Ming Sect has arrived?" ”

Fang La stared at each other and shouted, "Who are you?" ”

The foreign man replied in a loud voice: "I am Leonida, the commander of the 3rd Infantry Regiment of Zhennan Kingdom, I don't know why you are here?" ”

"Knowingly ask!" Fang La roared angrily: "My Mingjiao wants to seize the land of Shu, but the people of your Zhennan Kingdom are blocking here in advance, don't you want me to fall into death?" ”

"Hehehe......" Leonida laughed, "since you guessed, it saves me nonsense." Now that Shu land has been owned by my Zhennan Kingdom, you Mingjiao should hurry up. ”

"Presumptuous!"

Fang Jie, as the first general of the Ming Sect and Fang La's own nephew, was immediately furious when he heard the other party's disrespectful words. Immediately brandished the halberd in his hand, and led his own soldiers to rush to the front camp.

"Bang bang......" Several rows of soldiers wearing black military uniforms from Zhennan appeared from the Song army camp, and they moved neatly in formation, and the smoothbore guns in their hands were aimed at the oncoming Mingjiao soldiers and fired.

These Zhennan recruits used the famous three-stage shooting tactics in Europe in later generations.

The so-called three-stage design tactic is that the soldiers in the first row lie on their stomachs, the soldiers in the second row squat, and the soldiers in the third row stand, so that the firepower of the first three rows can be exerted at the same time.

Although there are some problems with this, such as the front-loading smoothbore gun can only be reloaded while standing, so the soldiers lying on their stomachs and crouching must constantly retreat to the back of the line, which increases the complexity of the formation. But these soldiers who are a little flustered in their actions are the same as shooting targets against those Mingjiao infantry who don't know how to dodge and still charge.