Chapter 1,233 Testing

He came to an empty horse, changed horses first, then patted the one he was riding on before, then drove the horse and headed towards Di Yong and the others.

Di Yong ordered his men to bandage the wounds of his comrades, clean the battlefield, collect horses, and ride towards the knight himself: "The strong man's divine arrow is really amazing! Why don't you continue to serve in the army?"

The man smiled bitterly and lifted up his trouser leg, and then Di Yong realized that it was a wooden foot.

Di Yong felt very sorry: "I am Di Yong, who knows Huanzhou. The Xia people will be here soon. I also ask the strong men to go back to Huanzhou with me. The woman in the singing and playing team just now is your wife, right?"

The man cupped his hands and said: "The villain Wu Cunzhi is from Huayin. He once served as a member of the Weizhou Bow and Arrow Society."

"Later, I followed Shi Xianqing and made some achievements, but I also injured my left leg. The court rewarded me with dozens of acres of land, and I became a farmer again."

Di Yong said: "Let's go back to the city first. Wu Zhuangshi is a master of shooting. He can't defend Huanzhou and needs help."

The man handed over his hand again: "You must serve your country."

After saying that, he turned to look at the battlefield: "By the way, I want to get back that armor-piercing cone arrow."

Di Yong's subordinates, Fanqi, admired this man with magical archery skills. They took back the arrowhead that killed the scout commander and held it up with both hands.

Wu Cunzhi took the arrow and said: "This is the treasure that Shi Xianqing gave me back then. The little man has been safe all these years, but it is all his protection."

Di Yong took the arrow and looked at it carefully: "The stone characters on this small mark are very impressive. It was made by Mrs. Guo's brother, Mr. Shi. It's a good thing."

He scratched the tip of the arrowhead with his hand: "It has passed through the armor, but it is still as sharp. This is a real treasure...Huh? By the way, I seem to have heard your name somewhere."

Wu Cunzhi took the arrow back and hid it, lowered his eyebrows and said calmly: "The name Xiaomin is not a thousand, but it is an eight hundred in the Song Dynasty. I guess it is the same name."

"No, no..." Di Yong shook his head and suddenly said: "I remembered that at the first sports meeting in Weizhou, Wang Wenyu lost to Qing Yi Jie Gui Zhang Yihu and failed to win the championship. He only won the

second."

"And the third place in that shooting competition was a local hero representing Sitong Company. His name is Wu Cunzhi. Is that you?"

Wu Cunzhi said: "I didn't expect the prefect to know this. He is just a commoner."

Di Yong said: "The reason why I know you is because Wang Wenyu once said that you should have been the champion that time."

"It's the rich man from Sitong who doesn't know the way of arrows at all. He only chooses the expensive ones, not the right ones. He temporarily replaced you with the Xixia Xingzhou treasure bow, hahaha..."

Wu Cunzhi smiled and said: "That's Wang Zimao being polite. In fact, he should be the champion. The last arrow was obviously deliberately missed."

Di Yong said with a smile: "With that arrow, he got a bride and a son. It's not a loss at all."

After saying this, he sighed: "Brother, if you had retired without getting injured, your achievements now would be similar to this."

Wu Cunzhi, on the other hand, didn't take it seriously: "It's all fate. The common people are living well now. There is a small village in Huayin. I came here to buy cattle and sheep. Alas..."

Di Yong's face turned solemn: "Brother, help me guard Huanzhou. I will take care of the cattle and sheep for you! You are not required to go out of the city to fight fiercely. You can only command the archers at the top of the city."

Wu Cunzhi immediately entered the role: "Is there a divine arm crossbow in Huanzhou?"

Di Yong sighed: "The Guangrui Military Revolt occurred in Huanzhou, and now I am the stepmother. However, the trench was first created by Xue Gong in Huanzhou. We can rely on the trench outside the city and within the Huanhe River."

Wu Cunzhi looked at the crane-shank crossbow beside Di Yong's saddle: "You should have this thing, right?"

Di Yong was very angry: "If you need it, I will give you all the cavalry equipment and I can spare a thousand."

Wu Cunzhi thought for a while and said: "These thousand are for the Han army to suppress the formation. Transfer the rural archers to me. Let's just use bows."

Di Yong said: "Where is Fan Brave?"

Wu Cunzhi was thinking: "The bravery of the Tibetan cavalry must be used on the edge of the sword. The Xia people are a bit slow to enter this time. If they can't plunder food, they won't be strong. We only need to defend by the river. After ten days, they will have to withdraw."

Already."

Di Yong handed the weapon commanded by the scout to Wu Cunzhi: "You can't ignore it. My brother sees that this steel whip is gilded with gold. This is something that only the king of the Xia people can afford to use."

When the team arrived at the river, the defenders had already begun to dismantle the pontoon bridge.

After Di Yong and others passed through, even the main bridge began to be removed.

The main bridge uses Chen Xiliang's flying bridge technology. In addition to being strong and durable, it also has the advantage that it is easy to dismantle.

The arch bridge is similar to the eggshell principle, exerting pressure on the bridge deck. It is absolutely strong, but if the bridge is pushed upward from the bottom, the bridge will be destroyed immediately.

Di Yong also turned around and said: "Pull all the giant trees closer to the city. Let's make a batch of wood first. I hope we won't need it."

Two days later, Mengmeng's army arrived at Huanzhou City.

Huanzhou relies on the terrain downstream of Guidechuan River. Xue Xiang dug a small moat here called Huanhe River.

Xue Xiang is a master of defense. Different from ordinary moats, the Huan River has abundant water and flows very fast. It is a bit difficult to attack Huanzhou through traditional methods such as filling in the moat and attacking.

However, the Xia people had their own way of crossing the river. They had crossing ropes and Huntuo.

The rope used to cross the river is a floating body made by peeling off the whole sheepskin.

Four huntuo climbed onto a platform made of shrubs and it became a small raft.

Several Hundao rafts were pushed down the Huanhe River. Xia chose the vanguard and lay down on the raft, carrying a large shield on his back, and began to row towards the other side.

…

Mengmeng was riding a horse and standing by the river, looking at the quiet Huanzhou City opposite.

General Huanzhou is the son of Di Tiantian, who has been the personal guard of the Emperor of Song Dynasty for a long time. Mengmeng wants to know how powerful he is.

Twenty thousand people attacking Huanzhou was actually a joke. Mengmeng knew that Liang Yongneng and Liang Gewei were both waiting to see his joke.

However, the reason why a miracle is a miracle is that before the result came out, everyone regarded it as a joke?

The moat around the city was not wide, so the soldiers arrived at the other side safely. The Song people also seemed to know that the soldiers were within the protection range of the Xia army's bows and arrows, so they did not come out to fight back.

The picks are all strong men, and behind each of them is a thick rope, which is the rope.

They began to nail stakes on the river beach in preparation for building a tow path across the river.

There was a fierce banging sound, and finally there was a reaction from the other side. Some heads emerged from behind some low walls half a man's height below the city, and they began to shoot at the beach occupied by the frontmen.

The vanguards put up large shields and blocked most of the bows and arrows.

Meng Mengyu raised his right arm, and when the Song army came out of the city to attack, he ordered the archers to cover them with their own forwards.

However, there was no movement in the city, but several iron melons with wooden handles were thrown out of the trenches.

Hand-thrown thunder!

"Boom!" "Boom!"

Several Xia pickers holding shields were blown away, and the wooden shields were also torn apart. The gaps were exposed. The archers of the Song Army were no longer polite, and countless arrows flew in, shooting all the pickers to death on the riverside.

Meng Mengyou had long known the power of Song people's firearms, and also knew that Xixia had also tried to study gunpowder, but the effectiveness was so bad that it could only be used as a trumpet. In the end, Mr. Jia rebuilt the iron kite, and the Xia Kingdom returned to the throne.

Back to the old path of developing heavy riding.

The Xixia people tried to rush to the beach twice more, and changed their tactics once. They put down dozens of Hundu rafts at once, crossed hundreds of people, one team drove stakes, and the other team prepared to enter the trenches to drive away the archers, but the same result

Destroyed by thunder and bows.

The corpses of nearly Baixia people were laid out on the river beach. Gong Mengxiao stopped trying and ordered his troops to retreat.

The next day, Di Yong's guards woke up and said that the Xia people had started attacking again.

When Di Yong saw the scene below the city, he couldn't help but feel jealous.

Mengmeng organized a large number of Han people who had not had time to escape from the clutches of the Xia people. They made cages out of leather ropes and vines, filled them with stones, and began to fill the entrance to the Huanhe River!

The common people moved a little slowly, and the Xia soldiers went up and struck with a knife. The corpses of the common people were full of blood everywhere at the mouth of the river, and the cries shook the heaven and earth.

On a small building in the ditch at the mouth of the river, Wu Cunzhi kept looking back and looking at the flag on the city wall.

The small building can shoot to the other side, but now Wu Cunzhi does not dare to shoot.

Finally, the sound of ringing gold rang out from the top of the city, and Wu Cunzhi spat fiercely on the ground: "Withdraw, withdraw into the city!"
Chapter completed!