Zongze's army appeared outside Cizhou City again. Wanyanchang couldn't help but spat when he learned about this.
"This old guy actually dares to bully me again and again. Does he really think that someone's sword is bad for him!"
Wan Yanchang slapped the table in front of him loudly, and the anger on his face could no longer be suppressed.
Many of the Jin generals under his command were also filled with righteous indignation. They had already suffered a lot at Zongze's hands, and Zongze's reappearance today was just another slap in the face.
This was unacceptable to them.
"Commander, we have prepared a countermeasure, and the warriors in the army have also made preparations. Since Zongze appears again for no good reason, we will let him die here today to avenge his past!"
"Azuna is right. Now is the time for us to seek revenge. We can avenge our shame by killing Zong Ze. I hope the commander will allow it."
"The last general asked for orders to personally lead my Dajin warriors to attack Zongze and use his head to wash away the shame of my Dajin!"
Generals stood up one after another. They were all filled with indignation. Their morale was unprecedentedly high, and Wan Yanchang couldn't help but nodded at this time.
"If you had understood these things as soon as possible, how could we have been lonely under Cizhou City for so long?"
"I'm waiting to be convicted!"
"Don't talk about what happened before in the future!" Wanyanchang waved his hand and became proud, "Since Zongze has returned to Cizhou again today, I, Wanyanchang, will pick it myself. His head to pay homage to our warriors from the Great Jin Kingdom!”
"I'll wait for the order!"
"Tell the army to let Zongze enter the battlefield without resisting him. We will completely defeat Zongze under Cizhou City today and kill him here.
Today I will use Zongze’s head to open the city gate of Cizhou! "
"I'll wait, follow your orders!"
Wan Yanchang's order was conveyed quickly, and Zongze also entered the Jin army as he wished, looking at Cizhou City that was already in front of him.
Zongze knew that after winning this battle, he would be able to enter Cizhou City... No, he would be able to completely stabilize this line of defense.
The five-state defense line, with Cizhou as the center and the tens of thousands of troops under his command as the roaming forces, combined with the four states of Xingzhou, Yuezhou, Luozhou, and Xiangzhou, can regain its strength in Hebei.
"Encircle!" Wan Yanchang personally took command and wanted to kill them here. "Soldiers, come forward!"
"Crossbowman, throw!"
"Bed Crossbow, come forward!"
"Surround and kill!"
Orders came one after another. First, the army surrounded them, and then the crossbowmen forced them to stop. At the same time, the bed crossbow was also pushed up.
Behind them came the soldiers who had been prepared for a long time. They held long iron rods and went straight to the lower third of the chariot to greet them.
To put it bluntly, Zongze's formation is just a turtle shell. If you want to break it, you have to either use a trebuchet to lift the boulder into the air, or find a way to destroy their tanks.
For the former, there was too little time. Let’s not talk about it. There is really no confidence in the accuracy of the trebuchet. If there is an accidental injury, the gain will not be worth the loss.
But the latter is not the case. If they cannot be penetrated, let them stop, use iron rods to pin their wheels, and then forcibly remove them, and these chariots will be the same as nothing.
Outside, hundreds of Jin warriors were waiting in full formation. They were all brave men under Wan Yanchang. If nothing else, each of these people could be considered as having killed nearly a hundred enemies.
He is a warrior carefully selected from an army of 100,000.
"When these chariots are in chaos later, you immediately lead people to rush in. You must break through the defenses of these guys as soon as possible, and then surround and kill that old guy Zongze!"
Wan Yanchang watched the soldiers charging forward and about to fight the enemy. He couldn't help but feel happy and could not wait to arrange the next task.
But just when these Jin men rushed to the front of Zongze's chariot formation, there was a sudden bang, followed by the spears on the chariot's baffle suddenly withdrawing.
Then....the arrows rained down.
The crossbow bow obtained from Xiangzhou became Zongze's first trump card. Thousands of soldiers holding crossbows hid behind the baffle of the chariot. After the Jin men rushed through, they began to pull the trigger without hesitation.
Then the arrows were shot out wildly, and the unprepared Jin soldiers who had just rushed over were shot into pieces like sieves.
The range of the crossbow is limited, and the Jin people are simply a target for them to shoot at will. After the arrow rain, the Jin people are in shock.
Zongze immediately seized this opportunity and forced the army to advance again. The chariots continued to advance and arrows continued to be shot. Many golden soldiers were shot and killed by them without warning.
Wan Yanchang finally reacted at this time and responded immediately.
"Crossbow throw, throw!"
"Sword and Shield, step forward!"
"Cross and retreat, no confusion!"
"Cavalry charge, charge!"
Use crossbowmen and cavalry to cover the army, cross and retreat to make distance, and at the same time let the sword and shield men step forward to stop the Song people's arrow rain.
Judging from these points, it has to be said that Wan Yanchang was called a famous general in the Jin army, and he had some real abilities as the commander of this army.
The reason why he was able to act unscrupulously before was not entirely due to the incompetence of the Song people.
But now he was not facing those weak and stupid Song generals who only knew how to escape and surrender. He was facing Zongze, who was entrusted with important tasks by Zhao Huan and relied on as his confidant.
His reaction was quick, and Zongze's reaction was even faster than his.
"charge!"
With a loud roar, the army moved forward quickly, and was now a few minutes closer to Cizhou City. When the cavalry charged, they did not resist, but directly moved the chariot out of the way.
The charging cavalry were led directly into the formation, and then they immediately encircled them.
At this time, the Jin people who were following behind them couldn't help but froze in place as they looked at the cavalry who rushed into the chariot. If Wan Yanchang hadn't commanded them well, another group of them would have died.
But those Jin people who rushed in didn't get any benefits.
"Put up the shield!" Zongze roared, and the golden cavalry who rushed in saw huge shields appearing in front of them before they had time to understand their surroundings.
The defense composed of a large shield and a sea of people was the only thing that the Song army could compete with in recent years by the Liao and Jin people in the north.
With a muffled "bang" sound, the cavalry collided with the strong shield, and then they flipped on their backs without knocking the shield away, even though the Song soldiers behind the shield were already bleeding from the mouth and nose.
But it still ensures the stability of this large shield.
Then, in a rain of arrows, they shot at the hundreds or thousands of cavalry, and spears and spears appeared at the same time, killing these golden men one by one in this small space.
This was a battle that belonged to the commander, and it was obvious that Wan Yanchang was completely defeated.
The chariots pressed forward step by step, forcing the Jin army to retreat and get out of the way.
If the soldiers in Cizhou City were not still tired and there were no famous generals stationed there, if Yue Fei was here, he would definitely be able to stage a drama of cooperating with the inside and outside, and attacking from the front and back.
At that time, either Wan Yanchang is thinking about how to break through Cizhou City, or they are thinking about how to keep Wan Yanchang here completely.
The soldiers in Cizhou City were dumbfounded as they watched Zongze's chariot formation step by step to the bottom of the city, and then stationed themselves directly on the hill outside the moat.
Using the chariot as a military camp, Zongze built a solid defense. At the same time, he fixed crossbows and other items on the hill. With the newly captured war horses, Zongze even gathered a cavalry of several hundred people again.
At the same time, the Jin army was forced back several miles away.
So far, Cizhou City has officially formed a corner, and at the same time, a large amount of grain is continuously sent to the central area of the city through hanging baskets at night, so that the soldiers in the city can finally breathe a sigh of relief.
The city gate was still blocked, but Wang Shan and thousands of soldiers, escorted by Zongze, were pulled to the city with the help of ropes. They took over the soldiers who had fought hard during this period and continued to garrison the city.
When Wang Shan looked at the blood and mess in Cizhou City, as well as the countless corpses, his lips trembled again.
"If everyone in the Song Dynasty was like this, how dare the Jin people be so arrogant! How dare they be so arrogant!"
The people in desperate situation did not let anyone down this time.
"If you don't come again, this Cizhou City will be set on fire. We have already made a decision. If the day comes when the city is really broken, we will set the entire Cizhou City on fire.
Die together with the golden men who rush in! "
An old soldier, the only old soldier left in Cizhou City, spoke feebly to Wang Shan and warned him at the same time.
"The weather is getting hotter. These corpses cannot be kept for a long time. Now that you are here, these corpses cannot be stored. Take the time to burn them, otherwise it will be bad if there is a plague."
The old soldier's nagging voice became quieter and quieter until he could no longer hear it. Looking at the old soldier with his eyes closed, Wang Shan immediately asked someone to carry him away and put him in a safe place.
But as soon as the soldier in charge took action, his expression changed drastically. He then touched his neck, and then looked at Wang Shan and spoke with difficulty.
"He's... dead."
At this moment, all the soldiers, including Wang Shan, had a look of reverence on their faces.
This old pawn did not leave a name, nor did he have any fame. It can even be said that he was extremely humiliated and humiliated in the first half of his life, but at this moment he won the respect of everyone.
"The Song Dynasty will definitely win!"
Wang Shan was also uneducated. He was full of things to say, but in the end he could only yell out this sentence.
"The Song Dynasty will definitely win!"
"The Song Dynasty will definitely win!"
Roars came out from the mouths of these soldiers. They were all soldiers who had just joined the Song Dynasty. At this moment, because of this unknown old soldier, they roared against the Song Dynasty for the first time.
