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Chapter 781 Moths throw fire

When Zhao Bing set up a formation to observe the enemy, Wang Ying, the chief general of the Yuan army, also came to the front of the formation. In this battle, he secretly sent elite troops to sneak into the enemy's formation, launched a raid and successfully broke through two ditches and defeated the enemy for two miles. He was very happy and swept away the worries of the past few days. The reinforcements of the Southern Army came to support thousands of miles apart the day before, and the Baoding navy was wiped out in one fell swoop before he even arrived. The entire army was shocked.

After the Song army withdrew that day, Wang Ying was ordered to go to Yangluo Fort to inspect and gather the remaining troops. However, when he climbed the north shore, he found that all the four forts of Yangluo Fort had been destroyed, and the Central Fort was still in a raging fire and could not be extinguished. The burnt smell of barbecue could be smelled from afar. Several forts were covered with corpses, most of which were blown to death and burned to death. The bodies were tragic, and there were also those in the streets and alleys who could not escape and were choked to death by thick smoke, but they were burned beyond recognition.

The warship owners moored in the port fell and half sunk into the water. Some did not even put up anchors, and the cables were still tied to the cable posts. Many warships were piled up at the gate of the village, obviously colliding with each other while rushing to escape, causing themselves to sink. The bodies floating on the water almost covered the water surface, and at least half of them were naked. Obviously, they dived and escaped without getting dressed, and were frozen to death by the cold river water.

Wang Ying searched around Yangluo Fort for half a day and only gathered about 200 people, but they were all shocked. When asked about the incident, he only knew that thunderbolts from the sky overturned the warships, blew up the camp, and then lit a fire. There was chaos everywhere, and everyone rushed to escape, but they could not take care of each other. Some people said that the master general was killed and the seal was picked up by the Nanjun who went ashore.

After returning to the city and learning about the battle of Yangluo Fort, all the generals looked at each other. With this weapon in hand, how could the Ezhou City be defended? Everyone discussed for a long time that the navy had been destroyed. Moreover, after the Khan's death, the new Khan was still determined, and when the reinforcements in Jiangbei could reach a distance. For the sake of the present, the only way is to take advantage of the arrival of the Southern Army. Before the rest, they immediately launched a decisive battle, defeated the enemy in front of them, relieved the siege of Ezhou City, and then investigated for funeral.

Wang Ying planned to break through the left wing of the Southern Army with a surprise force, and then quickly develop in depth and detour to the enemy's right wing, encircling and annihilation. But what he did not expect was that the Southern Army reacted quickly and abandoned the entire defense line after the left wing was broken, and retreated and reorganized the defense line. This surprised him very much. In the past, the Southern Army always refused to give in and fought for the desperate battle. His cutting-edge move completely failed his plan.

Seeing that the Song army escaped from the trap he set up, Wang Ying was disappointed, but when he found that the Song army's front army had been replaced by a group of people with no leather armor and holding strange weapons, and the depth of the defense line was only a few horizontal lines. The thin formation seemed to be able to be washed away in just one round. This made him even more strange, and he couldn't figure out what the Southern Army was going to do, whether it was an empty city plan, a bluff, or a trap set for himself.

There was no turning back when the work started. Those who led the troops could die in battle, but not scared to death. Wang Ying then sent a team of lightning cavalry to test. Unexpectedly, they were struck by lightning before they even got into the battle. Seeing that the three hundred-man teams that were fighting were severely injured in a moment, only more than ten cavalry left to escape back into the formation, all of which were injured and frightened. He felt shocked. Although he was not middle-aged, he was considered a veteran who had experienced many battles, but this was the first time he had seen such a scene.

"General, the last general is willing to lead the troops to fight again!" Zhang Heng, a ten thousand households in Taiyuan, Pingyang, said.

"Don't worry, these Southern Army are strange!" Wang Ying raised his hand to stop him.

"General, listen to the shouts from the other side!" Baoerchi pointed to the opposite side and said.

"It's the pseudo-emperor of Cancel Song that is here!" Wang Ying heard it, and the camp opposite kept shouting "My emperor's mighty power" and he frowned.

Wang Ying and the generals present were familiar with the pseudo-emperor of the remnant Song Dynasty. Although he had not met, he had heard of his reputation for a long time. Qiongzhou and Huguang Province were connected, and there were constant conflicts between the two sides, and many major wars broke out. However, he had never gained benefits. Instead, he lost his troops and generals. Even Ali Hague personally led the army to attack and returned in a defeat. He did not dare to plunder his edge again.

"What's so scary about a little boy!" Zhang Heng's Wanhu Mansion was only transferred to Longxing Mansion after this reorganization. Of course, he never fought with the Qiongzhou Army. He only knew that he was still a child, so he couldn't help but look down on him.

"..." Wang Ying shouldn't answer for a while.

He said he was afraid, that was to destroy his reputation, how could he lead his troops? He said he was not afraid, but the little boy commanded 3,000 people to capture Guangzhou City at the age of five and plundered; at the age of six, he commanded the navy to defeat Liu Shen and destroy thousands of warships; at the age of seven, he became the emperor, defeated Zhang Hongfan in Yashan, and killed all his brothers. Speaking of which, he was their young master; at the age of eight, he captured Quanzhou, and all the officials of the prefecture were killed, and the Pu family was wiped out, and all the family wealth was plundered. Suodu was not only defeated, but also took over his son Baijiazi.

After that, the little boy defeated Jinghu, the coastal naval army, and joined forces with Annan and Chameng to fight against the Yuan Dynasty, resulting in a great defeat. Sodu and Li Heng died. At that time, he was only fourteen years old, but he rushed to the north. The four thousand households and the ten thousand households who guarded the Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces for only more than a month were all annihilated, and all the Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces were fallen. Then Lin'an, Jiankang, Wuhu, Jiangzhou and other downstream important towns along the river were conquered one by one. What the hell is this little boy? Genghis Khan is still chasing the enemy at this age and wandering around!

"General Zhang must be cautious and do not underestimate the enemy. It still needs..." Longxing Wanhu, who was curled by Erchi, is basically equivalent to reconstruction. It is still a small household with the weakest combat power. If it weren't for the identity of a Mongol, it would have been trampled to death, but at the moment, he could only speak in a low voice.

"It's time now, why should you hesitate? I'd better not to imitate your subordinates to learn from Chen Yi. I won't know how my head falls off at that time!" Zhang Heng didn't appreciate it, interrupting him and sneered.

"You..." He persuaded him kindly, but was actually humiliated by him. Zhuoerchi was furious and reached out to draw his sword.

"Stop it, otherwise military law will be carried out!" Wang Ying said in a deep voice, and was extremely annoyed. After only ten years of pacifying Jiangnan, he was immersed in drunkenness and was soaked in wine and women. He was soaked in the bones of wine and women, fighting for power and profits between each other, and even the army was in peace, and even the wars were at odds.

"Yes!" Seeing that the master was annoyed, the two of them resented their swords and politely said.

"General Zhang, do you think you should fight the enemy?" Wang Ying suppressed his anger and asked Zhang Heng with a look.

"Report to General, I think the defense line of the Southern Army is weak. Although the firearms are sharp, they will never be able to resist the attack of the iron cavalry. It is better to use the cavalry to attack the formation first and then follow the infantry. They will inevitably lose sight of each other. As long as they break through their defense line, they will directly capture the clerk and capture the little boy, and they can win in one battle. The siege of Ezhou will be resolved." Zhang Heng said.

"You just saw the power of the Nan's arms. Before we could rush into the range of the bow and arrow, we lost all of them. We couldn't rush forward at all. How could we break the formation?" Wang Ying shook his head and said.

"General, only 300 rangers have been sent just now, and the Southern Army can concentrate its troops to deal with it, so it is naturally difficult to resist. If a large army attacks each other, as long as it is not afraid of casualties, it can break through the enemy's formation!" Zhang Hengyan said.

"Yeah!" Wang Ying nodded, "Zhang Heng, you lead our cavalry first and break through the enemy formation. Zhuan Er Chi, you lead our troops to attack the enemy's left wing and restrain their troops. I will lead our army as the back to fight to defeat the enemy in one battle!"

Zhang Heng led tens of thousands of households, with more than ten thousand soldiers, including three thousand cavalry, which is relatively rare among the Han army, which is mainly infantry. He immediately raised his troops and prepared to attack, but this time he became scheming and divided it into three waves in a team of thousands of people. The vanguard army still used evacuation formations to charge, and once it started charging, it immediately raised the horse speed to the highest level, hoping to break through the fire blockade of the Song army by speed and rush towards the Song army's defense line.

‘Woooooooooooooooooooooooo…’ The sound of the trumpet sounded, and the cavalry forward rushed out of the formation and quickly dispersed, directly eliminating the process of slow steps to fast steps, directly turning to jogging, and then turning to fast run within fifty steps, increasing the speed to the highest within two hundred steps. The riders roared loudly, waved long swords in their hands, and constantly hitting the horse's belly with their heels, rushing towards the enemy formation like a whirlwind.

Zhang Heng watched the vanguard army in rapid movement, and the cavalry seemed to have a great distance, and there seemed to be no clear direction of attack, but they were all in a position of being close to their ten husbands. Each group formed a group with the centurion, and continuously adjusted the direction of the assault and their own position according to their command, so that the Song army could not understand their specific attack position.

Seeing that the vanguard army had run out, Zhang Heng ordered the second wave of cavalry to set off, but ordered them to follow up with a jog. Once they found that the enemy's formation was loose or was broken by the front army, they immediately accelerated to attack in this direction, expanded the breakthrough, and disrupted the entire defense line. However, he also knew that judging from the battle situation just now, the vanguard army basically had no return, and they acted as targets to attract enemy firepower. He only hoped to find the weaknesses on the Song army's defense line.

"Start!" After the second wave of cavalry advanced with an arrow, Zhang Heng personally led the cavalry of the rear army to follow quickly. They were the main force in breaking the formation. After opening the enemy's defense line in the first two waves, he would lead his army to take the enemy's central army and capture and kill the little emperor among the thousands of troops.

‘Woooooooooooooooooo…’ The horn sounded again, and Long Xing’s army moved all over and then moved forward.

‘Boom, boom, boom…’ Zhang Heng looked forward and the flames flashed in the dust and smoke in the sky. The vanguard army was intercepted by the Song army at a distance of 300 steps to resist the enemy. Although he could not see the specific situation, he also expected that the vanguard army would not be much better after hearing the continuous explosions.

"Speed ​​up!" Zhang Heng shouted to the flag-holding officer beside him, and he immediately pressed the flag forward. The central army immediately changed from jogging to fast running, and continued to increase the speed of the horse. Then the army also changed from fast step to jogging, and after a hundred steps, he also changed from fast running. He looked back and saw that the flag was also moving forward. The entire army had started and the decisive battle had been completed.

The speed of the war horses was getting faster and faster, and the explosions became denser. Zhang Heng kept asking for fear of the war horses' neck to soothe it, which was frightened and uneasy. At this time, he could no longer see the flag of the generals of the front army, but he had already seen the remains of the people and horses on the road. Under the trampling of the horse's hooves, he had already turned into bloody pieces of flesh and blood, and could not tell whether it was a human or a horse. But they could only ignore it and stomp on the horse.

Zhang Heng rose up as he was on the horse, but his horse speed did not decrease. He saw the scene ahead from a high place. At this moment, the banner of the front army was no longer visible, and the central army had approached within 200 steps of the enemy formation. However, he did not see the flames flashing in front of the Song army. Several cavalry fell down, as if an invisible barrier was erected in front of them, and they were bleeding from their heads. But as more cavalry surged up, some people finally rushed through this line of life and death, but they were still not as far as the range of the bow and arrows were shot down.

"Go, go!" Zhang Heng returned to his saddle. He still saw the central army pointing directly at the enemy's central army, pulling out the battle knife and pointing forward. The flag-holder immediately waved the general flag a few times, and then pressed forward. The entire army immediately adjusted its direction and rushed towards the general flag.

"Chi!" Zhang Heng whistled a short whistle, his legs clamped the horse's belly, and the war horse rushed forward in pain, surpassing the front cavalry and rushed to the front of the team, with his personal soldiers and flag-holding officers following closely behind. He wanted to use the firepower of the Song army to concentrate on the acceleration of the central army and break through its firepower blockade. After approaching three hundred steps, the previously sparse corpses were already in large numbers, and the war horses would stir up blood and flesh, mixed with the screams of the undead. But no one would lower the horse's speed, otherwise he would be knocked off the horse by his companions behind him, and falling off the horse during charge would be no different from death.

‘Boom!’ A loud noise suddenly came from Zhang Heng’s ear, and a shell exploded behind his horse. The two personal soldiers who followed him were dismounted. Several shrapnel flew over with their helmets, and the war horse mane suddenly rose. He quickly pulled the reins and pressed them over. He looked at the two personal soldiers who followed him with their mouths wide open, as if they were saying something, but there were only constant croaking sounds in his ears, and he couldn’t hear what they were saying.

"My boys, hurry up!" Zhang Heng ignored them, raised his sword and slashed it down, and raised the reins of the horse and crossed the horse corpse in front of him and shouted. He looked at the army as if he had thrown into the mouth of a man-eating monster. He fell in front of the formation with his blood, and the blood of the people dyed the land purple-red. Some frightened war horses ran around on the battlefield, and there was often a body that was dragged to pieces by blood on the stirrups.

‘Swoosh!’ Zhang Heng suddenly saw a black shadow passing by. Before he could react, he felt his face covered with sticky things. He reached out and wiped it. It was white but the human brain, while the personal soldiers around him had no heads and were still sitting on the horse. The war horse did not feel that the master was dead at all, and he still ran forward with the brigade.
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