Zhang Dewei was defeated and left, and Wang Zhong led troops to chase and kill. When he didn't escape for a long time, he suddenly killed another biao soldiers and horses in the middle of the way, and under the firelight, a green wolf flag fluttered first, only to see a biao men and horses, and the soldiers were well-armed. In front of him, all the iron armor and iron helmets, all tall and large, carrying a four-foot square iron shield on one side, and holding an eight-foot three-edged spear in the other, on the road ahead, erected an iron wall, and a thorn forest was planted.

Behind this iron wall thorn forest, there were still many heads shaking, and I saw that behind them were countless tall men with the same iron helmets and iron armor, but they were holding a two-edged Mo knife with a length of a zhang, and there were countless regimental sword and shield hands standing on one side on both sides. Further back, there are many crossbowmen waiting with their bows open.

Zhang Dewei screamed bitterly in his heart, although it seemed that there were only seven or eight hundred people on the other side and less than a thousand, but just looking at the formation, looking at the momentum and equipment of the soldiers, he knew that this must be an elite army.

At this time, there was an interception in front and a chasing soldier in the back, although he knew that the other party was an iron wall, he could only hit it head-on. Zhang Dewei pointed forward with a big iron spear and shouted: "There is no advance or retreat, kill out!" ”

The front intercepted was the 800 soldiers and horses of the Green Wolf Battalion, except for the cavalry, which was all drawn to follow Li Jing, and the rest were all here. Long before the start of the war, staff officer Li Liang had already proposed to ambush the most elite green wolf battalion a few miles east of the city to intercept Zhang Dewei. At that time, when Li Liang proposed this arrangement, Wang Chong was still full of doubts. Zhang Dewei's Shamen army had 30,000 horses, even if more than 2,000 were killed in the previous battle, and 5,000 troops were divided to surround Huangbeard and others, and then 3,000 Tibetan soldiers who had been bought, the number was still 20,000.

The total number of people handed over to him by Li Jing is only 6,000, and the remaining 5,000 are eight joint soldiers, if the elite green wolf battalion is transferred. How to fight Zhang Dewei. You must know that although they have internal response and flying fire. But the other party can completely retreat into the city.

But now I see the Green Wolf Camp stopping Zhang Dewei who fled. Wang Chong couldn't help but be full of admiration for Li Liang, a staff officer who seemed to be a private school gentleman.

Zhang Dewei and the defeated soldiers were originally horse thieves, and when they saw that they were in a desperate situation at this time, they went crazy one by one and rushed straight to the position of the Blue Wolf Camp.

"Shoot the arrows!" Although Liu Shouqian, the deputy tenth general of the Green Wolf Battalion, was a cavalry general, he stayed in the Green Wolf Battalion this time to command the ambush and saw the enemy rushing towards him. Drink it immediately.

Suddenly, the eight hundred green wolf soldiers, whether they were strange soldiers, jumping soldiers or even strange sword soldiers, all pulled their bows apart, put the arrows that had been inserted on the ground earlier, and threw them at the enemy.

After shooting an arrow, regardless of the outcome of the battle, at this time, all the green wolf soldiers adhered to the rules of training, just nervous their bows and shoot arrows quickly.

All the soldiers of the Salmon Army were armed with longbows. Moreover, the longbow is a necessary training subject for all classes. Basically, the longbow assessment standard for the soldiers of Salmen Town is to shoot twelve arrows per minute. Fifteen arrows are indiscriminate, and some of the most excellent ones can even reach twenty arrows a minute. For example, Li Jing and Li Yuan, who are excellent at archery, can basically reach one arrow in three seconds.

In an archery test, Li Jing competed with a soldier on the spot, and he fired five arrows in a row, and the soldier had just shot an arrow.

At a distance of one hundred and twenty paces, it takes about a minute for the light infantry charging in array, about a minute and a half for the infantry with iron armor, and even fifteen seconds for the cavalry. Against such a moving target, slow and accurate shooting is clearly meaningless. The key is the density of the launch, and the more arrows you shoot, the more hope of life and victory.

Another factor in increasing the density of strikes is the increase in the number of people. In the hands of horse thieves, the longbow was only a single weapon that only a few people could use well. In the tradition of the Tang Dynasty, the bow and arrow is one hundred and two percent equipped, and everyone is equipped with a bow. In battle, the Don army usually gathered thousands of longbowmen and fired volleys from the flanks of the infantry line and from the gaps in the array. A thousand longbowmen fire at the same time, and tens of thousands of arrows can be shot in a minute, forming a literal storm of feathered arrows.

The current prosperous Tang Dynasty is no more, and the late Tang Dynasty has become a situation where the feudal towns are semi-divided, and the soldiers are all raised by the feudal towns themselves, so the equipment has dropped a lot, and there are few feudal towns with bows. But Shamen Town is different, Shamen Town is not only equipped with armor, but also with bows.

In the face of the charging enemy, the green wolf battalion did not panic, but methodically opened the bow of the whole battalion, eight hundred longbows, in the short period of about a minute from the enemy entering the firing range to rushing to the front of the formation, basically everyone shot more than ten arrows, and eight hundred people shot tens of thousands of arrows at once in a short period of time. Such a dense array of arrows formed a metal storm of death within a hundred paces, and countless Beisha troops who rushed in front continued to fall.

"Raise your shield!" When the enemy was within 20 paces, Liu Shouqian really ordered the odd soldiers and sword and shield soldiers to stop firing and raise their shields to meet the impact instead.

"Kill!" The 200 strange soldiers of the second team of the strange soldiers shouted loudly, and under the guidance of the red gun flags of the generals, team leaders, gang leaders, and army commanders, they raised their shields and held guns one after another. The crossbowmen in the back also lowered their bows and began to pick up the crossbow machine. The crossbow machine has more power, longer range, and is also less labor-intensive, making it easier to strike with precision. The only drawback is the slow rate of fire, often firing two or three arrows before a crossbow can be fired. But for the archers, after shooting a dozen arrows in a row, it also consumes a lot of strength. At this time, the crossbow machine can not only restore strength, but also be more suitable for accurate aiming and shooting at short distances.

The Beisha soldiers continued to charge with round shields, and there were more than 1,000 cavalry at the front, and these light cavalry were used as heavy cavalry by Zhang Dewei at this time to break the formation. Under normal circumstances, seeing more than 1,000 cavalry charging into battle, the hundreds of soldiers and horses on the other side would definitely be frightened back directly. But to his surprise, the other party not only did not retreat, but was firmly nailed to the spot. At any moment, a roar of majestic mountains and rivers sounded, and behind the iron wall, countless spear heads suddenly pierced out.

The sharp tip of the spear shone with a faint chill, like the gaze of death.

Behind the shield array of the green wolf soldiers, the strange soldiers in the first row knelt on one knee and half-squatted on the ground, the tail end of the eight-foot three-edged bayonet spear in his hand was fiercely inserted into the ground, and the spear pointed diagonally forward. The bayonet guns of every second row of odd soldiers were mounted on the shoulders of the first row, then the third. This is the standard infantry-to-horse spear formation.

The horses' hooves rumbled, and the horses stepped on countless dirt and dust flying. Looking at the approaching enemy cavalry, the soldiers of the Blue Wolf Battalion had no fear. He just gripped the barrel of the spear more tightly.

It's like waves crashing against a reef. The surging iron stream slammed into the shield array of spears. The war horse that rushed to the front was directly stabbed by the spear, and blood flowed out. Before dying, he slammed into the shield array with huge inertia. The strange soldiers behind leaned sideways, pressed their shoulders against the four-foot-high iron shield, and their feet were firmly pinned to the ground.

The shieldmen in the first row successfully blocked the most fierce first wave of impact, and the strange soldiers in the back, under the cover of the shieldmen in the front row and the crossbowmen in the back, kept stabbing out and retracting their spears. Prick out.

One by one, the Beisha soldiers fell in front of the rock-solid shield array of spears, and built a mountain of corpses, and blood flowed all over the ground.

Shock, impact, impact.

Resist, resist, resist.

In just a quarter of an hour, although the waves were turbulent, the eight hundred soldiers of the Blue Wolf Battalion did not take a step back at all, and countless Beisha troops fell in front of them. But I still can't break through this level.

Wang Zhong led the army to catch up at this time, and covered up from behind. The Beisha army could not rush in front, and was killed by the pursuers in the rear, and was routed when they landed, and the army scattered and fled. When many Beisha cities fled, they also took with them a lot of gold, silver, jewelry, and money that they had stolen when they attacked Qingni City.

At this time, it was too late to escape, so Zhang Dewei ordered all the money, silk, gold and silver to be thrown away. The Shamen town army was unmoved, and only cared about chasing and killing. However, when the eight soldiers and horses of Dengzhou saw these money, they were all moved. Instead of pursuing the deserters, they fought for and looted their belongings, allowing the Nabeisha army to flee in all directions. Wang Chong saw that only his own soldiers and horses were left to pursue, and he was afraid of losing, so he killed for a while, so he hated and withdrew his troops. Zhang Dewei was like a frightened bird, leading the defeated army and not daring to go back, and rushed directly back to Beisha City, even the five thousand subordinates who were still besieging Chigu Valley could not take care of it.

Wang returned to the army in victory, and Li Juren was very grateful to the army of Shamen Town for coming to help, and immediately invited Wang Chong to return to Qingni City with the eight departments of Dengzhou and the soldiers and horses of Sanfan. Li Juren only saw Wang Chong but not Li Jing, and hurriedly asked: "I don't know where my uncle is?" ”

Wang Chongdao: "The general is leading the army to rescue the two sons of Juyi and Juli, and Tianming deserves victory and triumph." ”

Li Juren wanted to lead the army to reinforcements at the moment, but Li Meng hurriedly persuaded: "Young master, although I have defeated Zhang Dewei at the moment, my Qingni City is in chaos." At this time, we should trust General Li Jing's arrangement, and we should still send troops to sweep away the defeated remnants of the enemy army, recall the scattered people, and restore order. ”

Wang Chong also nodded and said: "What Manager Li said is true, although he has defeated Zhang Dewei at the moment, he has only defeated but not annihilated. The Beisha Army may make a comeback at any time, and Yanai has explained it before, saying that if the Beisha Army is defeated, then let me lead my headquarters to stay in Qingni Chengxi and defend for the time being. As for the two sons of Juyi and Juli, please don't worry, there is a ya-nei who will personally go out, and there will be nothing to do. ”

After hearing this, Li Shouren made up his mind and did not send troops again. At the moment, he ordered the old manager Li Meng to arrange a banquet to treat the Green Wolf Battalion and the generals of the eight departments of Dengzhou, and the sergeants were also rewarded. During the banquet, Wang Zhong asked Li Liang in private: "Why don't you send troops to reinforce the Yanei, but stay here?" ”

Li Liang chuckled lightly and said softly: "This is actually a policy that the lord has decided first, before sending troops, the lord thought that Qingni City would be difficult to protect this time, so our purpose is to take the people from Qingnipu back to Da Xie Yan." But now that the situation has changed, things are going more smoothly than we planned. Successfully repelled the city of Beisha, and if nothing else, the reinforcements in the town of Tori are also likely to be defeated. In this way, the situation changes dramatically. Therefore, the Lord thought that we could keep Qingnipu. However, Li Lingfu is dead, and Qingnipu is now completely annihilated, and it is difficult to support it alone. The idea of the lord is that in the future, we will send troops to Qingnipu. In this way, it can not only raise the prestige of our army, but also deter and contain the great enemy of Duli Town. Moreover, after a long time, maybe Qingnipu will become the lord's belonging. ”

Hearing Li Liang's explanation, Wang Chong suddenly understood the meaning of his last sentence, even if Qingnipu was rescued this time, it would be difficult for them to support it without soldiers and horses. Rather than giving this piece of fat to Duli Town and Beisha City to gnaw on, it is better to find a way to swallow it yourself.

Qingnipu has the largest port in Liaodong, and as long as Shamen Town has Qingnipu, it is equivalent to opening a door at the southern end of Liaodong. With such a wedge wedged into the land of southern Liaoning, it will be much easier to deal with Duli Town in the future, and the unfavorable situation that was reversed because of Li Lingfu's defeat and death can be reversed immediately.

It's just that this thing that robs people's inheritance, is it a bit of a danger to take advantage of people?

Wang thought about it again, and finally told himself that even if Shamen Town did not take Qingnipu, Qingnipu would not be able to escape the fate of destruction. Either in the town of Duli, or in the city of Beisha. It's better to take it from Shamen Town, at least it can guarantee that the Li family will be treated well.

Li Liang took a sip of wine and said to him with a smile: "Figured it out? For example, today, the weak eat the strong, the Son of Heaven loses his authority, and it is difficult to command the world. It is also difficult to have peace between the towns. The lord is no longer a small town general, he has such a big inheritance. If you don't work hard, you will only be cheapened by others. You and I are both subordinates of the lord, so naturally we hope that the lord can have greater development, do you say so? ”

"Greater development?" Wang Chong was a little surprised, and then thoughtful.

However, it is said that Duli Town set up a plan to defeat Li Lingfu, not only killing Li Lingfu, who had been bothering them for many years, but also successfully annihilating the 40,000 coalition troops. After this battle, the unfavorable situation of the destruction of the combined fleet last time because of the joint army with Feng Zhang and the destruction of Shamen Town was suddenly reversed. However, although he killed Li Lingfu and annihilated Li Lingfu's coalition army, it made the Duli Town families and Wang Pu a little regretful, although this also wiped out more than 1,000 people under Li Jing's command, but it didn't really hurt Li Jing at all.

When Li Jing still raised troops after Li Lingfu's entire army was annihilated, it really made the people of Duli Town angry and frightened. Angry that Li Jing took the money, but now he is still raising troops. The fear is naturally because Li Jing has never been defeated, and every time he wins more with less, which makes them worry. In particular, although Li Lingfu was completely wiped out in this battle, the casualties in Duli Town were not small, and the net was broken in the last fish, and more than 6,000 people were killed in Duli Town, plus the wounded, almost 7,000 or 8,000 people were lost, which was also a huge blow to Duli Town.

However, after receiving a letter of help from Beisha City, Wang Pu ignored the opposition of many family representatives, and finally persuaded most of the representatives to agree to his proposal to send troops. sent only 3,000 cavalry to Qingni City to deal with Li Jing together with Zhang Dewei.

Li Lingfu has been killed in battle, and now the only one who still poses a huge threat to Duli Town is Li Jing, and they must face and completely defeat Li Jing's challenge of attacking across the sea. (To be continued......)