Chapter 313: Raising Kou for Self-Respect

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Li Jing couldn't help but sneer when he heard Wang Jingwu ask the two armies to meet before the battle. Li Liang said on the side: "The general must not go, at the moment, in front of the two armies, in front of everyone's eyes, it is easy to be misunderstood." At present, Wang Jingwu is at the end of his rope, so he really doesn't need to pay attention to him, so as not to provoke the suspicion of Song Jieshuai and others. ”

Li Jing also felt justified after hearing this, and immediately took off the ancestral horn bow from the saddle, put on the arrow and aimed at Wang Jingwu from a distance, and sent it directly with an arrow. Wang Jingwu in the formation fell in response, and the soldiers of the Zhendong Army saw that Wang Jingwu was a hundred steps away from the front of the formation, and Li Jing actually shot Wang Jingwu down with an arrow, and couldn't help shouting mighty, and the three armies were excited. The tooth soldiers exclaimed in unison, several pro-soldiers rushed forward, Li Jing stretched his bow and set up arrows, one arrow, eight arrows in a row, and shot all the eight pro-soldiers who rushed into the formation to death in front of the two armies.

Wang Yanwen personally rushed to the front of the battle with a shield and rescued Wang Jingwu. After rescuing it, everyone found that the arrow directly shot through the armor on Wang Jingwu's body and hit him in the chest. Fortunately, Wang Jingwu's armor also wore a heart-protecting bronze glass. The heart-protecting bronze mirror was shot by Li Jing, a deep dent. Just now, Wang Jingwu was shocked and fainted. Wang Jingwu woke up from the massage, holding the heart guard with a hole in the face, he couldn't help but be stunned, he had already known from the shouting in the enemy formation just now that the arrow was shot by Li Jing.

The power of one arrow turned out to be like this, and he shot eight of his own soldiers in a row with one arrow. It was his elite personal soldiers, each of whom was at least one in ten warriors, but he was killed by Li Jing. I thought of the fierce and mighty cavalry of the Zhendong Army under Li Jing that day. I couldn't help but feel a wave of despair at the moment.

Wang Jingwu drew his sword and wanted to kill himself. The generals persuaded bitterly. Wang Jingwu said: "Now our army is newly defeated. The morale of the army is low, and Li Jing is so powerful, I don't think I can escape. It's better for everyone to cut off my head and go to Li Jing, so as not to lose a rich ......"

Everyone is also a veteran who follows Wang Jingwu, and many have even followed the Wang family since Wang Jingwu's father. At this time, I can't help but arouse the blood in my heart. They all gritted their teeth and shouted that they would fight to the death with Li Jing, and would rather die than surrender. The other tooth soldiers were infected by this, and their morale increased. They all want to fight a decisive battle with the Zhendong Army, and they will break the net. General Wang Wu's heart was excited when he saw this, and the military heart was still available.

"Since everyone is willing to fight to the death with the enemy, then distribute dry food now, and after eating, it will be dawn, and then we will fight to the death with the enemy and take a way to live." Wang Jingwu said loudly. More than 10,000 Qingzhou soldiers and Ziqi soldiers immediately distributed dry food and drank water to rest. When a touch of fish belly white appeared in the eastern sky, the rebels began to attack in formation, and at this time, Li Jing also ordered an attack at the same time.

More than 10,000 men and horses of the two armies fought a decisive battle on the east bank of Zishui. Wang Jingwu's army was defeated by more than 11,000 troops, while Li Jing's Zhendong army was nearly 5,000 men. Wang Jingwu opened a three-talent array. Li Jing's side set up the Glaive Array.

The footsteps of the two armies rumbled, slowly approaching, and after approaching within a hundred paces, they began to shoot at each other. Although there were only 10,000 people on the Zhendong army's side, everyone was equipped with a bow and basically had a shield. After half an hour of bow and arrow shooting, Li Jing's losses were not large, but caused great casualties to the rebels. Watching each other's arrows come and go, Li Jing was a little sorry that there was no stockpile of gunpowder when he came, otherwise, if he brought some flying fire, he would definitely cause them great panic by throwing them into the rebel camp with an assembled artillery truck at this time.

After exchanging fires, the two armies engaged in close combat. However, at this time, the Qingzhou soldiers found that although these Zhendong troops had been trying to fight in close combat, they were actually fighting a defensive battle, as soon as the two armies approached, the front of the Zhendong army erected countless huge square iron shields, and then countless eight-foot spears behind the shields. There were many crossbowmen behind the formation who kept releasing arrows, and they were angry to find that where this was a field battle, it was simply a siege battle. Although there are no walls, this shield wall is no worse than ordinary walls.

The Qingzhou soldiers and Ziqi soldiers kept trying to break through the shield array, but how could it be so easy, the soldiers in front of them kept falling in the combined attack of spearmen, sword and shield soldiers and crossbowmen. After attacking for more than half an hour, the little morale that was so hard to mention was also exhausted.

Just when the rebels' offensive was becoming more and more sluggish, the Mo Dao soldiers, who had been temporarily serving as archers behind the shield wall of the Zhendong Army, suddenly poured out from behind the shield wall. Shouting and killing, he stepped on a heavy step, wearing thick armor and holding a long Mo knife to kill.

The Mo Knife Army only fights at the most critical time, and every time the shield array of the strange soldiers blocks the enemy in front of the formation, and then the various arms behind the combination attack, and the opponent can not advance or retreat, and the rhythm of the most unfortunate can not be picked up, at that time the Mo Knife Army will suddenly sweep out. At this time, the jumping sword and shield soldiers were on the left and right of the Mo Sword Army, covering the attack and cooperating with the counter-charge.

In an instant, the Zhendong Army had already launched an extremely beautiful counter-charge, killing the rebels and retreating.

Li Jing, who had been watching the battle seriously, nodded greatly, after many battlefield tests of swords and fire, although the Zhendong Army could not be completely regarded as an elite, at least these few people in front of him concentrated the battalion head of the most elite soldiers and horses of the Zhendong Army, which was already very good. With a wave of his hand, Li Jing said in a deep voice: "The cavalry attack!" ”

The standard-bearer of the herald behind Li Jing immediately waved the flag, and a special horn began to blow the horn of the cavalry attack. In the sound of the horn of the attack, the cavalry officers of Konghe and the 2nd Flying Cavalry Battalion, who had been waiting for a long time, quickly turned on their horses, instigated their horses, and launched the most fatal blow to the rebels who had begun to be unable to support them.

Li Juyi led the crane army to attack the left flank of the rebels, and Lizhenhai led the flying cavalry battalion to break into the right flank of the rebels. The two cavalry were invincible and unstoppable, and they fought all the way to the rebels' center.

The rebels were in turmoil, and Li Jing led the Flying Eagle Battalion, which was a reserve, to press the whole army, and the army was killed.

The whole army beat the drums and attacked, defeated the rebels, and beheaded more than 3,000 ranks. Li Juyi and Zhang Zhenhai captured the two Qingzhou soldiers and horses on both wings, Feng Rang, the soldiers and horses envoy of the rear of the Ya, Zhou Rong, the soldiers and horses of the front yard, and more than 30 people.

Li Jing's whole army pursued and killed, and Wang Jingwu's army was almost defeated, and he chased it to the river. By this time, there were already many rebels who could not care about the rushing of the river. Jumped straight into the river. There were only about 100 people around Wang Jingwu, and they were also forced to the river. A few of his own soldiers brought him a log to hold and pulled him across the river to the other side. After crossing the river, he found that there were only two or three thousand defeated soldiers left around him. Seeing that Li Jing had chased him to the shore, he couldn't help but bite his finger and write a bloody letter for a personal soldier to send to the shore.

"What's on the letter?" Li Liang asked.

Li Jing said lightly: "Wang Jingwu wants us to let him go, saying that if we let him go, he will immediately ask Wang Jing to hand over the Dengzhou Sailor to us." ”

"That's it?"

Li Jing nodded. But in fact, of course, it can't be just that. In order to save his life, Wang Jingwu not only wrote a blood letter, but also proposed to hand over all the Dengzhou sailors to him. What's more important is that it also mentions a point, which means that Li Jing should not be killed in a hurry, otherwise the birds will be hidden. It's better to leave him alive for the time being, so that Song Wei will not be in trouble with Li Jing immediately if he has him to contain one or two in the future. ”

Wang Jingwu was persuading him to raise his own respect, if it was before, Li Jing might not agree. However, Wang Jingwu did not give him the position of assassin before, but only gave him a defensive time. There was a little dissatisfaction in his heart. What's more, the army invaded Qingzhou City. The other armies were busy robbing, but Song Wei immediately asked the Zhendong army to chase and kill Wang Jingwu, Li Jing couldn't help but guess that maybe Song Wei crossed the river and demolished the bridge, wanting to use Wang Jingwu to consume some of his strength.

Li Jing didn't speak, and Guo Chengan and Li Liang, two smart people, had already guessed a few points. At this time, he did not say anything, but said: "The rebels have been defeated by our army, and only a few have escaped across the river." The river is in a hurry, why not build a pontoon bridge while cleaning the battlefield? ”

Li Jing knew that the meaning of the two of them was the same, and the meaning of letting Wang Jingwu go, anyway, Wang Jingwu fled to Ziqi, he was in the west, and Dengzhou was in the east, so it had nothing to do with it. If you want to be annoyed, it will annoy Song Wei, and Wang Jingwu can't toss much trouble with a few remnants, but it can make some trouble for Song Wei and consume some of his mental energy. Nodding his head immediately, the whole army began to clean up the battlefield, while slowly cutting trees into the mountains and preparing to build bridges.

After noon, Song Wei and Kang Chengzhi came with 10,000 soldiers and horses, leaving Cui Yunqing to guard Qingzhou. As soon as he saw Song Wei, Li Jing immediately stepped forward with a smile and reported the good news: "Our army defeated Wang Jingwu's rebels on the bank of the Zishui River, beheaded more than 3,000 enemies, captured more than 3,000 people, and the rest of the rebels scattered and fled. In addition, the soldiers and horses of the former Yahou were captured, and Zhou Rong and the soldiers and horses of the front yard were more than 30 people. ”

"What about Wang Jingwu, was he killed?" Song Wei asked.

"Well, his body hasn't been found yet, and it's possible that he has been washed into the river, or maybe he has escaped."

Kang Chengzhi said: "Wang Jingwu's defeated army only has more than 3,000 people left, and even if he runs, he can't run far. Envoy Li, why don't you pursue it? ”

Li Jing chuckled: "The soldiers just captured Qingzhou last night, and they didn't even drink a sip of water, and when the other brother troops were still happy in Qingzhou City, my brothers and I pursued all the way. Here, with more than 5,000 rebels, the brothers were exhausted and did not eat water at the end of the day. What's more, it's not that I don't pursue, but it's really deep, and our army has a lot of horses, and there is no pontoon bridge to cross, isn't this cutting down and repairing the bridge. If the deputy marshal could have arrived with his troops earlier, then Wang Jingwu would not have been able to escape. ”

Song Wei heard that Li Jing seemed to have some complaints, and thought that Li Jing had just defeated the rebels, which was a great achievement, so he immediately said: "Li Junzhi and the brothers have worked hard, you can rest here for half a day for the time being." The matter of building a bridge and pursuing it will be taken care of by Deputy Marshal Kang and the front army. In addition, the officers and men of the Zhendong Army made great contributions, and rewarded Li Jing with 10,000 horses, and the Zhendong Army gave 100 horses to each of the officers above the general level, 20 horses to each of the captains and first-class officers, and 10 horses to the rest. Li Jing thanked him beside him, Song Wei had a big recovery now, and after calculating it, he almost went to 100,000 horses of silk at once.

After returning to the headquarters, Li Jing ordered the whole army to abandon the matter of cutting down trees and building bridges, and the whole army rested. In the afternoon, Kang Chengxun led the construction of five pontoon bridges, and then led people to chase them down, and Song Wei wanted Li Jing to follow along. However, Li Jing used the excuse that his brothers were tired and injured, so he had to rest for half a day. As soon as Song Wei left, Li Jing immediately wrote a letter to Cui Yunqing in Qingzhou, saying that someone from Dengzhou had reported urgently, and Wang Jin, the sailor of Dengzhou, was in trouble, and he led his troops to worry about the peace of Dengzhou, so he rushed back to Dengzhou first. As for Wang Jingwu's side, anyway, most of Wang Jingwu was annihilated, and only a few remnants remained, he believed that with Song Wei and Kang Chengxun coming out, he would definitely succeed, so he would no longer follow.

After writing the letter, Li Jing handed the letter to a personal soldier and asked him to send it back to Qingzhou. Li Jing did not return the same way, but directly withdrew his troops to the north and went to Bochang City. After arriving in Bochang the next day, Li Jing led his troops to get on the boat of the Nutao Battalion, directly followed the Jishui into the sea, and then returned all the way to Shamen Town.

When Song Wei received the news, it was already three days later, looking at the letter sent by Cui Yunqing, Song Wei's face was slightly ugly, and he was silent for a long time. (To be continued......)