Fifteen Battle of Renxiu 2

Lai Wenzheng said: "Zuo envoy, the bows and arrows of the Song army are too powerful, we must find a way to suppress them." Otherwise, allowing the Song army to release arrows like this will be too great a loss for us. ”

Zhong Shi frowned, of course he also knew that it would be good if he could suppress the archers of the Song army, but the Song army was condescending on the city wall, and the range of the bows and crossbows assembled was farther than that of the Manichaean army, and said, "Just how can you suppress the Song army?" Is there any good way to do it, Mr. Lai?"

Lai Wenzheng said: "The left envoy will hand it over to his subordinates to deal with."

Zhong Shi nodded and said, "Mr. Lai, you have to go straight to the arrangement." ”

Lai Wenzheng immediately transferred a thousand archers, and each archer was equipped with two shieldmen, and under the protection of the shieldmen, they advanced to a place only fifty paces from the city wall, and then shot at the Song army on the city. Although people continued to be shot through the gap between the shields, the threat of Song Jun's arrows immediately diminished. The Manichaean army took the opportunity to speed up the removal of sand, gravel and soil, and stepped up the filling of the moat.

When Qi Fang saw this, he immediately ordered the trebuchet to use large stones and throw stones at the archers of the Manichaean army. This time, all the boulders thrown were forty or fifty pounds each, and once they were hit, they would immediately break bones and bones, and flesh and blood would fly. Even with a shield, it is not immune. Although trebuchets were not very accurate, the Manichaean bow and arrow array was very dense, so there were many hits. Among the archers of the Manichaean army, some were hit in the head by rocks and died bleeding to death. At the same time, it also brought huge psychological pressure to the archers of the Manichaean army, and they were suppressed by the rain of arrows of the Song army.

When Lai Wenzheng saw this scene, he transferred 500 archers to join the archery battle group to increase the strength of the archers. And mobilize the archers to spread the formation as much as possible to reduce the impact surface. At the same time, he forced the trebuchet to brave the rain of arrows and push closer to the archers to support the archers. The two sides have gone back and forth between such constraints and counter-constraints.

Arrows flew in the sky like locusts, stones fell from the sky with a whistling, and three or four hours passed in a flash, and the Song army defending the city also suffered three or four hundred casualties, while the Manichaean army lost more than three thousand people, although several moats were filled, it was obviously not able to carry out large-scale siege warfare.

Zhong Shi never expected that the battle situation would be so unfavorable to the Manichaean army from the beginning, and then he knew the horror of siege warfare, and he couldn't help but feel a trace of remorse in his heart, which was completely the person who put it up. Is it really a mistake to insist on forcibly attacking Jingjiang Mansion? However, if the matter is as ordered, it can only be delayed, and you must persist even if you grit your teeth.

After three days of hard work, and after paying the price of more than 10,000 deaths, the Manichaean army finally filled in many moats in Renxiu County, and was finally ready to start a siege battle.

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"Master, let's take a rest, it's getting late today, we won't be able to catch up with the camp, let's leave tomorrow." A small leader said to Zhang Xingjiang.

Zhang Xingjiang is the master of the Thunder Gate of the Four Gates of Heaven and Earth Wind and Thunder, and the Four Gates of Heaven and Earth Wind and Thunder are still ranked under the Five Elements Banner in Manichaeism, and belong to the direct management of Zhong Shi, the Left Envoy of Light. This time, Zhong Ziyu went to Yongzhou and left the four gates of heaven and earth, wind and thunder to Zhong Shi. Zhong Shi successively captured Pennzhou, Xiangzhou, Xunzhou, Tengzhou, Wuzhou, Fengzhou and other places, and made a lot of military achievements in the four gates of heaven and earth. At this time, Zhongshi decided to attack Jingjiang Province. Wang Shuquan, the master of Tianmen, and Sun Li, the master of Dimen, both went with the Manichaean army to attack Renxiu County, while Lu Qi, the master of Fengmenmen, and Leimenmen, advocated Xingjiang, and was responsible for transporting grain, grass, food, and materials.

When Zhong Shi first assigned the task like this, Zhang Xingjiang was still very unhappy. Wang Shuquan and Sun Li can go to the front line to fight and make meritorious contributions, why should they be sent to do such thankless work. If you do it well, you don't have much credit, but if you don't do it well, you have to bear a lot of responsibility. Thinking of the day when the army set off, Wang Shuquan and Sun Li looked angry and raised their toes in front of him, Zhang Xingjiang was so angry that his teeth itched.

However, when I set out the day before yesterday, I heard the news from the front line, and I learned that the battle against Renxiu County was not going well, not to mention the loss of troops and the demolition of generals, Zhang Xingjiang also heard that Sun Lidu was hit by two arrows and almost lost his life. Therefore, Zhang Xingjiang secretly had some schadenfreude in his heart: should you let you make war merits? Is this work so easy to make?

However, due to the heavy losses ahead, the relief and materials transported this time are particularly important, and the others are secondary, just say that the arrows and 300 bows processed by the 200,000 friends are exactly what the front needs most at present. It must be delivered as soon as possible.

Therefore, Zhang Xingjiang took 3,000 soldiers and pushed more than 800 wheelbarrows to Renxiu County. Along the way, Zhang Xingjiang didn't dare to slack off, and kept urging the convoy to hurry up, so that at this time, the whole army was weak and numb, and almost tired and scattered. However, this is less than forty miles away from Renxiu County, it seems that today is not in a hurry, so rest for the night, and send things to the camp tomorrow, anyway, there is no mistake.

When the things are delivered, their task will be completed, although there is no great merit, but it is much better than Wang Shuquan and Sun Li playing for their lives on the front line. Therefore, Zhang Xingjiang looked at the sky, it was already full of stars, and a new moon was hanging in the middle of the sky, nodded, and said: "It's okay, then order to go down, let the brothers camp and rest, sleep well today, and send things to the camp tomorrow." ”

At this moment, a heavy and hurried sound of horses' hooves was heard, and in the darkness in the distance, a group of horsemen suddenly struck out, and in the light of the crescent moon, they were rushing towards the Manichaean army.

At this time, someone had already seen the outfit of this army clearly, "It's the Song army, the Song army is here." ”

"What? Is it the Song army who is here?" Zhang Xingjiang was stunned at first, then reacted immediately, and hurriedly shouted: "Prepare to welcome ......"

Before the word "war" could be shouted, it was muffled by a sharp sound of breaking through the air, and countless arrows flashed sharply in the moonlight, slashing by, as if they were meteors. However, Zhang Xingjiang had no intention of appreciating this beautiful scene at this time, because a sharp arrow was roaring towards him, and with a "pounce", it hit his left arm. This was followed by the sound of countless "pounce, pounce, pounce, pounce" arrows piercing the flesh, followed by screams and the sound of the body hitting the ground. The Manichaean army was in turmoil.

Yang Yan put away his bow, pulled out the "Wind Forest Volcano" and slammed it in the direction of the Manichaean army, shouting, "Rush." Hai Dongqing let out a roar, kicked his four hooves apart, and was the first to rush into the battle group. The "Wind Forest Volcano" struck like lightning, and in the blink of an eye, four or five Manichaean soldiers were cut down to the ground almost simultaneously. The Song army behind also followed closely behind Yang Yan and entered the battle group, like a tiger rushing into a flock of sheep, tearing and biting everywhere, and everywhere he went, blood and flesh were scattered.

The Manichaean army had been hurrying for days, and they had already been exhausted, and at this time, they were not in a hurry to take precautions, and their morale was low. The Song army, which was all cavalry, came prepared, and in one round of charge, only to kill the Manichaean army like dead grass in a strong wind, falling in rows. The two sides were not at all a level of competition, and in less than half an hour, the Manichaean army was killed and wounded by the Song army, and they all abandoned their vehicles and fled for their lives. Even Zhang Xingjiang saw the situation and knew that the situation was irreparable, so he quickly fled.

After defeating the Manichaean army, Yang Yan did not chase after him, but ordered people to gather the vehicles together, light a fire, and burn all the goods, food, and equipment transported by the Manichaean army, and then immediately led the army to retreat and disappeared into the darkness.

The next day, Zhang Xingjiang, who was hit by three arrows, fled to Zhongshi's camp with more than 100 remnants of his army, and reported to Zhongshi that the grain transport team was attacked by the Song army. Zhong Shi was shocked and hurriedly sent his men to the scene of the attack on the Manichaean army, the Song army had already disappeared, leaving only a large number of burned vehicles, and the wreckage of supplies was still left at the scene.

Three days later, Yang Yan led the Song army to attack for the second time, this time attacking the grain transport team led by Lu Qi. Although Lu Qi was cautious and fully prepared along the way this time, the Manichaean army and the Ben Yuan Fa blocked the strong impact of the Song army's cavalry, and after resisting for a while, they finally broke out. The grain and materials brought by the Song army were burned to the ground.

Zhong Shi received the report, and hurriedly dispatched another 10,000 horses to pursue the Song army in two ways, but after searching more than 20 miles, he didn't even see the shadow of the Song army. In desperation, Zhong Shi had no choice but to discuss with Zhao Cao and Lai Wenzheng how to deal with Song Jun. The three of them discussed for a long time, thinking that the Song army was all cavalry, their whereabouts were uncertain, and they came and went like the wind, even if they found the Song army, they couldn't catch up. The only way is to also send a cavalry army to deal with Yang Yan's Song army.

So Zhong Shi immediately concentrated all the cavalry in the army, led by Zhao Cao, and set off together with the next grain transport team, if he met the Song army again, Zhao Cao led the cavalry to deal with it. However, there were not many war horses in the Manichaean army, and the whole army combined only had more than 3,000 war horses, most of which were actually horses, and the horses that were really suitable for fighting horses were less than 500. At the same time, Zhang Xingjiang and Lu Qi also brought 5,000 men and horses, escorted them together, and formed the third grain transportation team with 1,000 vehicles, and set off in a mighty manner.

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