On September 8th of the third year of Daguan.

Xiangzhou, Huanshui.

The night was already shrouded in the battle formation of the Huanshui River. Countless burning torches were stacked on the battlefield, and the flames swayed, reflecting the large and small fortress walls on the south bank of the Huanshui River.

The shouts of killing echoed around this night, and hit these forts built splattered everywhere, adding countless murderous aura to this bloody night!

The Liao army had already controlled several shallows that could be crossed at this time. The four-jet infantry of the brigade came to Huanshui from these shallows and immediately attacked several fortresses near the shallows. The casualties and wounded soldiers were also carried down like flowing water.

The ability of Xiangzhou regiment to train the army to build forts cannot be compared with the regular army under Zhong Fu. They did not have the "Plane for the Camp" drawn by Zhao Ji. Zong Ze, who was responsible for building these camps, was also a capable layman. Therefore, he did not put forward strict requirements on the depth of the trenches, the height and thickness of the camp walls, and the fences of the horse army.

Therefore, the defense capabilities of these camps are not very strong, and there is no need for large equipment. They just let the soldiers of the Four Jet Army carry ladders and shields to rush up.

However, fortresses always seem to allow the Song people to get combat effectiveness bonus. Even though these fortresses were not very strong, there were still many casualties in the attacking Four-Czech Army soldiers and the Khitan Palace division soldiers who covered the attack with bows and arrows.

What caused them to casualties was mainly a crossbow machine with a very exquisite design, very convenient use, and high accuracy. Because low-cost materials are used to build crossbow arms, the effective range of this crossbow machine is not far. It is only effective for armor-worn targets. If the opponent is wearing iron armor, it must be able to shoot arrows at thirty steps to have a higher probability of running through it.

But this effective range can only be regarded as an ordinary weapon. In the battle this afternoon, it caused terrible casualties to the attacking Liao soldiers. Because there are so many cheap crossbows produced in this mass, each camp is equipped with more than 600 such Border River crossbows. Oh, it is called Tianjin crossbows.

If you fire within a specified distance, you can kill about 200 people in one volley! Moreover, the arrowheads used in this kind of powerful crossbow are all made in Tianjin. The arrowheads are very hard and are also made into three-sided shaped under the requirements of Wu Haogu, which is the so-called "triangular thorn" shape! After being shot into the human body, a generally square hole can be opened, which is difficult to stop bleeding and heal, and the stopping effect is also very strong.

If you insert a few flat arrowheads on your body, as long as it is not penetrated deep, the wound will automatically shrink and stop bleeding. Therefore, soldiers can still maintain a certain combat power without pulling out the arrowheads. However, inserting a few arrowheads on your body with three sides is enough to get hurt! Because the wound cannot be squeezed and stopped bleeding, the blades on your three sides will cause new damage during the human body's movement. Therefore, when you are shot by a triangular arrowhead, it is best to retreat and seek medical treatment as soon as possible, otherwise you will easily be seriously injured and die!

With the blessing of a large number of Tianjin crossbows, during the daytime battle, these small and strong trenches in front of the camp became the sad place for countless Liao dead soldiers. After rushing for countless times, they failed to break through the camp.

However, when the battle lasted until night, the Xiangzhou regiment training that had fought hard for an afternoon finally couldn't support it. In the afternoon battle, their losses were not small! They had Tianjin crossbows, and the Liao people also had stubborn goat horn bows! Although in terms of lethality, the Tianjin crossbow completely exploded, but the rate of fire was too far away. Moreover, the Liao people's archers were criticized! Almost the Xiangzhou regiment shooting an arrowhead, and they had to be hit by ten Liao people's feather arrows.

If these Xiangzhou regiments were wearing iron armor, they wouldn't be afraid of anything. But they only had paper armor and leather helmets with very limited defense capabilities, so there were quite a lot of casualties under the rain of arrows from the Liao people.

Moreover, at dawn, the village guarding the village was forced by the little rich man in Xiangzhou who led the team and did not dare to escape. The Xiangzhou team trained the army were all teachers, students, father and son, brother, and host and guest. They were still very controllable when they first started. However, at night, they were so dark that they could not see clearly, so their control naturally decreased.

One of the fortresses was finally broken by the Liao people. Under the fire, the black Liao soldiers rushed in from the gap in a collapsed fortress wall like a torrent. The Xiangzhou regiment, which was originally shooting arrows on the chest wall, collapsed at this moment. They had no courage to fight with Liao soldiers like the vicious gods. They lost their weapons and flags, spread their feet and ran back...

At this time, a huge loophole in the deployment of Zong Ze appeared. Because he had no experience and had no serious military education, he did not build a multi-level defense system at the location where the enemy could break through, but distributed his troops evenly. In other words, near the Liao army's breakthrough (shock) there was only one fortress, and it was not particularly strengthened. When the fortress was broken, the entire Huanshui defense line completely collapsed.

So on this night, the Xiangzhou regiment training army that had just been formed suffered their first crushing defeat.

According to the memories of witness Yue He later, Han Xiaozhou and Zong Ze, who were personally visiting the front line to supervise the battle that day, were very panicked when they found that the defense line had been broken. They hurriedly ordered a retreat. The entire army rushed to Xiangzhou City, with discarded weapons, armor and supplies everywhere along the way! There were also many Xiang army soldiers who were able to simply leave!

The regiment trained the army with as many as 20,000 people when they came out. The number of people ran back to Xiangzhou was counted, with less than 6,000 left! Han Xiaozhou, who felt that he was betrayed the emperor, even staged a good show of throwing into the water and loyalty in front of the gentry and officials in Xiangzhou. Finally, under the obstruction of a group of Han family students, he decided not to die for the time being. Then he wrote a memorial to Zhao Ji, expressing his desire to pack up the troops and fight with the thieves again...

And the result of the fight again was of course another failure!

However, failure is the mother of success. Han Xiaozhou and Zong Ze are both not afraid of failure, and they also have enough capital to lose, so they will succeed one day!

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"Save the laws of heaven, destroy the evil demons! Save the laws of heaven, destroy the evil demons..."

The slogans like death-seeking were once again heard in the ears of Xiao Xiamai, the governor of the Dao of the Great Liao Dynasty!

On the east of Yanjing City, on both sides of the Qinghe River, a great battle was also launched between the Song and Liao armies. However, unlike the Song defense and Liao attack in the Battle of Huanshui. This Battle in the Qinghe River was a battle of aggression launched by the Song army to fight aid. The besieged point was the Fengyin County town on the south bank of the Qinghe River.

Before September arrived, the Song army was very restrained in the actions around Xijinfucheng, which was to dig trenches and build turrets and surround Xijinfucheng. They turned a blind eye to the Liao army's actions of dividing two groups and approaching Xijinfucheng step by step.

However, as soon as September began, the style of the Song army suddenly changed drastically, and they began to make great moves around Xijin Prefecture. Within a few days, they pulled out the strongholds such as Tianzhuzhuang, Wangjingtai, Sunhouguan and Luxian County, which were east of Xijin Prefecture, and then on September 4, surrounded the Qianyin County, led by Yelu Eli, the nephew of Yelu Gu, who led the army to guard.

Now Yelu Guanligu and Xiao Xiamai could not sit idly by and wait for rescue. He had to mobilize more than 10,000 Xijun and more than 10,000 Han family members of the Han family in Yutian, and with the support of two thousand cavalrymen from the Wenzhong Palace, he went to rescue Qianyin. As a result, when he was crossing the Qiang River, he encountered the attack from the new army of four generals commanded by Zhao Zhongge who had been waiting there.

Since the people of the six tribes of King Xi were mainly peasants, the Xi army was mainly heavy infantry. The Han family in Yutian were mainly armoured infantry. Moreover, Xiao Xiamai, who was attacked, immediately ordered the troops to line up in the river, so he did not give the Song army too many opportunities, but only the two thousand cavalrymen of the Wenzhong Palace who were responsible for covering the Xi army and the Han family infantry were defeated.

The remaining battle began between the heavy infantry on both sides!

The three generals sent by Zhao Zhongge to the battlefield, the new army of Tianjin Prefecture (the original three of the four generals directly under the Hebei Xuanfu Department) were newly formed troops. The officers were all professional, and the training and equipment were the best, but after all, they did not undergo much tempering of war.

This is the first time that the two armies are fighting in formation!

The battle between the two sides began in the daytime on the eighth day of September. The soldiers of the King Xi's mansion and the Han family guarded a river bay. They blocked the only land passage with carriages and deer forts. Zhao Zhongge did not choose to attack by land, but ordered the troops to wading on the water and attack from the west, south and north. At the same time, dozens of crossbows were set up to fire bursting arrows constantly to cover their crossbows to get close to the enemy to fire arrows.

Throughout the day, the arrows and crossbows of both sides were intertwined in the air, as if they were not exhausted. This was a contest between dense bows and arrows and lethal crossbows! It was also a test of the physical strength of both sides' shooters.

When night fell, the soldiers of the King Xi's mansion and the Han family who had fought hard during the day had suffered considerable casualties. The center of the Hewan position had become a place for the concentration of dying wounded soldiers. There were wailing everywhere, and the smell of blood and blood burning everywhere was filled with the terrible wounds made by the cluster of three-edged arrows with a red soldering iron, which was probably the only way to stop bleeding!

However, the spear assault of the new Song army, which was more terrifying than the three arrows, also began with the arrival of night! The resistance of the water reduced the impact of some Song army's spearmen, but the Liao army under the bombardment of the explosion rockets was still difficult to block such an offensive. Just a few rounds of attacks made the Liao army full of corpses, and blood flowed into the strong river, dyeing a large section of the river surface red.

Listening to the sound of the Song army's crazy shouts, watching the armor jungle shining with cold light under the moonlight crushing towards him. Xiao Xiamai felt only fear! Judging from the reports from various divisions and battalions, his soldiers were exhausted and had heavy casualties, and they were on the verge of collapse. However, the enemy's offensive was better than the other.

This shows that the Song army did not suffer much casualties in today's fierce battle, and they also have sufficient physical strength to support the battle.
Chapter completed!