Zheng Song's final battle finally begins.
On the eve of the first snowfall of this year, when the severe cold of winter was about to sweep across the northern border, at Sishui Pass in the state of Zheng, in front of the vast long river, Song Zhiwen ordered the three armies with the tiger symbol, and 70,000 horses gathered on the other side of the Sishui River.
The cold wind in the north seemed to be carrying the sword, making the men and horses on both sides stand on their heads.
But under the hair of this inverted stand, there is indeed a surging blood!
Success or failure depends on this.
Who is the king or the bandit, this is the final battle!
The young student Chen Shouren stood on the tower of Sishui Pass, surrounded by the elite soldiers of Qi State. In this battle, the Qi army came out in full force, and all the sergeants guarding Sishui Pass of Zheng State went into battle. The two armies gathered together with more than 40,000 people.
Xu Guandong, the guard of Sishui Pass, pressed his sword with one hand and watched as the Song army of 70,000 troops boarded the ferry and headed straight for the pass. The densely packed Song army was like locusts passing through the border, which was suffocating.
A last-ditch fight.
Both Chen Shouren and Xu Guandong knew that Song Zhiwen had staked his name on the Confucian sword and that this battle would be decided.
The shouts of killing drowned out the shouts of the rushing Si River. The huge siege equipment was pushed to the other side of the Si River by the Song army. Looking at the huge siege equipment, there were as many as ten!
"Sir, the art of war has something to say. Attack the army halfway across the river." Xu Guandong took a deep breath and looked at the murderous intention. "The Song army crossed the river. There were so many people that they would not be able to form their formation immediately when they came ashore. If you attack at this time, you will definitely win by surprise!"
Even if they break up the Song army's formation and kill them all without their helmets and armor, and the front and rear armies squeeze each other, the number of Song army soldiers who will drown in the Sishui River will be at least tens of thousands!
Chen Shouren's face was ashen.
Why doesn't he understand the principle of attacking an army halfway across the river?
But the giant siege equipment on the other side of the Sishui River clearly cannot be transported under the city gate. The Si River is wide, and no matter how sophisticated the siege equipment is, the range can only reach the wilderness outside the pass and cannot touch the towers.
What's more, those siege equipment were still inferior products made in a hurry.
Therefore, the siege equipment used by Song Zhiwen was clearly not used to attack the city, but to bombard the wilderness outside the pass to prevent the soldiers of Sishui Pass from making a sudden attack when the Song army was crossing the river.
There is no obstruction in the wilderness outside the pass. Under such a situation, faced with the bombardment of siege equipment, the soldiers leaving the city may have suffered heavy casualties before they could reach the Song Army's vanguard.
This battle is to lure the enemy to attack.
Xu Guandong said nothing when he saw Chen Shouren, but the soldiers of the Song Army had already started to cross the river. He looked anxious and said loudly: "What are you hesitating about, young gentleman? The siege equipment placed on the other side of the river by Song Zhiwen is all a scam!" The water is wide. How can the siege equipment that the Song Army hastily made throw rolling stones to the other side? In my opinion, if Song Zhiwen dares to use those showpieces, I am afraid that it will not be us who will suffer, but the Song Army himself!"
The implication is that if Song Zhiwen used siege equipment, the rolling rocks projected by the swing arm lever would not only not hit the wilderness on the other side and injure the soldiers trapped in the river, but would instead smash the Song army into drowned dogs.
Xu Guandong asked for orders to fight.
Chen Shouren still didn't want to believe that Song Zhiwen would have such a rash military command.
But then I thought about it, what if this decision was not made by Song Zhiwen?
According to military intelligence reports, the great eunuch Zhang Yan is now the military inspector of the Song Army. Song Zhiwen is being made difficult by him. Many generals in the army are overtly and covertly siding with Zhang Yan, and a considerable part of the Song Army's military power has been Zhang Yan was dismissed.
Moreover, Song Zhiwen was bent on defeat.
"Little sir, we can't delay any longer!" Xu Guandong shouted loudly, "It will take time for our army to rush out of the city! If we don't take action, when the Song army comes ashore and forms a formation, we will miss the best opportunity to attack the army halfway across the border! This general I am willing to lead eight thousand elite soldiers to serve as the vanguard. If I can open a gap and break up the Song army's formation, Mr. Xiao will come to help!"
Chen Shouren finally gave the order, "As General Xu said, open the city gates and form a formation to attack!"
"Obey the order!" Xu Guandong suppressed his dissatisfaction with Chen Shouren's indecision before the battle, made a loud sound, flicked his shirt, and went straight down to the tower to lead the attack.
The vanguard general of the Song army was none other than deputy general Yang Cheng.
The burly middle-aged general held a Xuanhua ax and led the first batch of river-crossing teams to number more than 10,000 people!
Song Zhiwen issued only one military order. After landing, he quickly spread out his formation, held the forward position, and escorted the remaining troops across the river.
The water is surging!
The ferry was controlled by the soldiers on the boat with crude oars. The loud shouts and the sound of breaking water urged the ferry to quickly approach the other shore.
Song Army deputy general Yang Cheng led the soldiers crossing the river to the center of Sishui.
At this moment, looking from a distance, the closed city gate of Sishui Gate finally opened!
The moment the city gate opened, the strong and sharp general inside the pass drew his sword and roared: "Kill!!"
"kill!!--"
A uniform roar came from the Sishui Pass.
The horses under the eight thousand soldiers neighed together.
With murderous intent like a dragon, he rushed out of Sishui Pass and went straight to the wilderness outside the pass!
"Here we come!" Yang Cheng's eyes widened and he looked excited.
The other side.
Song Zhiwen stood side by side with the eunuch Zhang Yan, standing on the makeshift observation deck, looking at the situation at Sishui Pass in the distance.
The moment the door was opened, a faint smile appeared on the young general's lips, which was extremely sinister.
Huge rolling stones were still being pushed to the base of the siege equipment, but both Song Zhiwen and Zhang Yan knew very well that this was just a trick to deceive Chen Shouren.
What are they really projecting, where are the Stones?
Compared with Song Zhiwen, who had been in the military since he was a teenager, Chen Shouren still lacked some of the viciousness and viciousness of a general.
"General, success or failure depends on this." The great eunuch Zhang Yan smiled and glanced at the young general beside him, "General, don't let me down..."
"My general's poor academic skills are enough to cause the eunuch's black cupping pot to be thrown into Sishui Pass." Song Zhiwen smiled and said, "Just don't worry, eunuch."
"That's good." Zhang Yan smiled hypocritically, raised his eyes to look at the Song Army's vanguard team crossing the river, and clasped his hands unconsciously, "As long as Yang Cheng can successfully open up the situation, our army has already won this battle. Seventy percent."
"Yes." Song Zhiwen said.
Behind the two men, the huge siege equipment cast a ghostly and slender shadow against the light under the slowly rising sun in the east.
If you stand under the siege equipment and raise your head, you can easily see that the swing arm levers are all engraved with complete formation patterns.
As for the base of the siege equipment, hidden among the huge rolling stones were pitch-black jars one after another.
These jars will soon become Chen Shouren and Xu Guandong's lifelong nightmare.
