July 12, the ninth year of Hongwu, the Great Song Dynasty.

Tongling County, on the bank of the Yangtze River.

Two large armies are confronting each other across the river!

On the south bank of the Yangtze River, on a flat and open flat ground near Tongling County, 24,500 Southern Song Dynasty infantry and cavalry have already built one square after another based on the low bank embankment of the Yangtze River. Although the troops are not large, the equipment of more than 23,000 infantrymen is still very good, all of which are polished with shiny hot forging iron armor. When the morning sun shines, it is immediately a stunning cold light. About half of the soldiers hold long spears or long-handled swords and axes, and are lined behind each infantry phalanx, while those standing in front of the formation are soldiers holding divine arm bows. In addition to being equipped with divine arm bows, these soldiers also have hand knives, iron hammers and several bronze fried pots like small wine bottles hanging on their belts!

There were also a dozen short and fat hotpot cannons and a dozen camel cannons mounted on the shore and embankments.

What is more eye-catching than equipment is of course the people who formed this army. All the soldiers, no matter they are tall and short, look very solid and strong. They are also very young, with an average age of only twenties, which is when they are most physically strong. Now the Southern Song Dynasty court is indeed rich, and after the "abuse of martial arts and use of literature" reform, the three malpractice policies were almost completely eliminated, and they have enough financial resources to raise soldiers and train soldiers with all their food and food.

After years of rigorous training, the new army of the Southern Song Dynasty has indeed become a powerful force. It is impossible to do it without high military qualities just because of the urgent marches that have driven all the way from Jinling City in the past few days.

After nearly 300 miles of high-intensity marching, the spirit and morale that can still be maintained like this is now, and it is enough to be as good as the first-class army of this era.

Even Zhao Kai, who stood on the second floor of a tavern in Dukou Town across the Yangtze River and watched the battle with a telescope, couldn't help but nod and praise the army built by the Southern Song Dynasty.

"No, no, no, if I could have such elite soldiers ten years ago, how could there be a difficulty in Xuanhe?"

Yu Yunwen, a Hanlin scholar who was following Zhao Kai, smiled and said, "Although the little court of King Wu learned to train troops, he still did not learn to use troops. Their soldiers were fewer than us, and they were also split in Jiangdu and Jinling. Moreover, there was a strong city in Jinling that could be relied on, so we could completely let our army cross the river, and then send troops from Jiangdu to cut off the Yangtze River waterway and trap us in the south of the Yangtze River.

As a result, tens of thousands of people were dispatched to block us on the south bank of the Yangtze River, and they also blocked and divided the troops along the way. The Yangtze River is so old that they are allocating their troops to the point of being able to do so how much force is needed?"

Zhao Kai laughed and said with a smile: "Their hearts are already weak when we resist the world with a corner of our corner and the vassal states against the heavenly dynasty. In addition, our achievements over the past ten years and the number of 600,000 heavenly soldiers in our dynasty are as high as 600,000. It would be strange if the ruler and ministers of the Wu Kingdom did not advance or retreat! When the ruler and ministers of the Wu Kingdom lost their authority, they would command randomly.

Besides, even if Zhao Huan gathers all the elite troops in one place, he can defeat me? Haha, although his Land Division is elite, his artillery is weak, and the few horse soldiers are still good at weak brigades, so they are not enough to look at me in front of me.

Moreover, they had not suffered from being bombarded by gunfire, and they actually placed the army behind the shore embankment, thinking that they could block my shells by leaning against the Yangtze River and a shore embankment? Humph, wait and eat the cannon!"

As he spoke, footsteps sounded behind him, and then the voice of the commander-in-chief Huang Wubing: "The official family, all the troops have been arranged, and 80,000 soldiers are all wearing strong and holding sharp edges, waiting for the imperial edict of Your Majesty!"

"Okay!" Zhao Kai smiled, "Take out my six flags and recognize the flag! Then give them half an hour of artillery fire to prepare for half an hour, and Li Shifu led the Second Army to launch the battle of crossing the river first!"

"Here!"

"Long live! Long live! Long live"

On the north bank of the Yangtze River, a huge cheer sounded like a tsunami, which was loud and fierce, sweeping from the north bank of the Yangtze River to the south bank of the Yangtze River.

"Long live someone in the mountains"

"It's Zhao Kai who is here!"

On a high ground outside Tongling County, Li Gang, the right Privy Councilor of the Song Dynasty and Zhang Suo, deputy commander of the left Privy Councilor, stood side by side and looked north.

The lineup of the Red Turban Song Army on the north bank of the Yangtze River is also extremely amazing, with the number of people alone being several times higher than that in Jiangnan!

The same is shining armor, the military flag is flying, the team is neat, and the morale is high.

What’s even more terrifying is the cannons placed on the outer river embankment of Dukou Town on the north bank of the Yangtze River!

The 160 cannons of the four artillery generals have been placed in place, the gunners have been in place, the ammunition has been loaded, and the black holes are all pointing to the Southern Song army formation on the south bank of the Yangtze River!

Seeing these cannons, Li Gang felt that it was not good, quite bad! It was very bad! It felt very familiar!

It feels almost exactly the same as before the Battle of the Ten Thousand Years of the Yellow River Dike ten years ago! Is it going to repeat the same mistakes ten years ago this time?

Thinking of this, Li Gang whispered: "The Northern Army has a lot of tubes!"

I always feel something is wrong!

Zhang Suo next to him shook his head, "I'm not afraid of being separated by a Yangtze River and a bank embankment. When the Northern Army opens fire later, our people will squat down to avoid bullets."

"Oh that's good!" Li Gang muttered.

At this time, the sound of shouting long live on the north bank of the Yangtze River had already stopped abruptly. This was the signal that the shelling began!

The four artillery generals of the Northern Army who had been impatiently waiting at the same time pulled out their straight swords and kept moving forward, loudly ordered: "Send!"

The 160 long-drilling guns, short-drilling guns, and the gun captains of the mortars also sent the ignited fuse into the fire door, and each muzzle spit out a tongue of flame!

Compared with the last time when he attacked Yan Yun, the artillery of the Northern Song Army made some progress. The progress was mainly brought by the flowering bullet!

The "flowering bullet" technology pointed out to deal with the Southern Song Dynasty tortoise ships also gave the "short tube cannon" a new life, and there were also howitzers such as 10 kilograms of short tube cannons.

These 160 cannons are arranged on the bank embankment and docks on the north bank of the Yangtze River, only a few hundred steps away from the Southern Song Army's position on the south bank of the Yangtze River (less than 1,000 meters). They are already outside the effective range of the artillery of the Southern Song Army's Land Division, but for the better performance of the Northern Song Army's 5-catties long cannon, 10-catties short cannon, 10-catties long cannon, and 25-catties mortar cannon, this distance can exert its maximum power and provide quite good accuracy!

The solid bullets with shiny hair were filled into the cannon chamber, and then spit out, flying towards the Southern Song Army position on the opposite bank. Because the Southern Song Army position was placed there openly and occupied a large area, the shells bombed by these 160 cannons were almost no false. The shells were either hit on the bank embankment or landed among the crowd behind the bank embankment.

On the other side of the Southern Song army, suddenly a group of smoke pillars and fires rose!

This is amazing!

Some of these smoke pillars of fire groups were raised in the group of people in the Southern Song Dynasty infantry formation. A ball of fire rose up, and a large area was dropped around. The officers and soldiers who were not knocked down were also panicked. What's going on?

Why did it explode?

Whose fried pot was accidentally fried?

It doesn't look like it, it's too powerful, right? Could it be that the Northern Army opposite has created a new type of bomber, right? If this is the case, this battle will probably be in danger!

"Boom boom boom"

Then came another terrifying scene of cannon roaring and shells exploding in the crowd!

Even if the infantry of the Southern Song army had already squatted down, they were still bombed by cannons. It was a squatch! It was useless to squat behind the bank and embankment!

The Southern Song Army's Land Division, which had been bombarded for two rounds, became even more chaotic. Some wanted to escape, some wanted to find a place to hide, and some officers were working hard to maintain order.

At this moment, the third round of shells came again!

This is endless!

Li Gang, who was supervising the battle in the rear, reacted quickly and immediately understood what was going on. "Fried, fried pot? It's really damn that the big tubes of the Northern Army can be used to put fried pots. Why did I forget that Zhao Kai is good at strange tricks and tricks?"

The Zhang Su was also anxious and asked: "What should Yuanshu do? If the men are only bombed and don't fight back, they will definitely not be able to withstand the morale after a long time!"

In fact, with dozens of mortars and short-bottle cannons that opened the flower bullets, it would not only kill more than 20,000 people under Li Gang's men, even one-tenth of them could not be killed.

But being constantly bombarded has greatly weakened morale!

When the morale of the Southern Song army weakens to a certain extent, the Northern Army will be able to launch a charge across the river and close to collapse. The army, which is shrouded in panic, cannot fight fierce hand-to-hand combat!

So when the opponent climbs to the south bank of the Yangtze River and the hand-to-hand swords intersect, the Southern Army is very likely to collapse at one touch!

With many experiences in defeats, Li Gang knew that something was wrong at the first time. He made a quick decision and said to Zhang Su beside him: "The situation in Zhang Longtu is wrong, so he can only use the plan, use the plan!"

"The plan?" Zhang Suo didn't understand yet, "What plan?"

Li Gang sighed: "Thirty-six strategies, let's go first."

I'm going to run away? Zhang Suo never expected that Li Gang would become timid now.

Zhang Su shook his head, "Yuanshu, you are going to use the trick now? Is the general trend going like this?"

"Boom boom boom" When the two were talking, there was another roar like a shaking wave on the frontline!

Li Gang glanced at the dozen or so fireballs that had just risen, and said with a wry smile: "We must leave if we can't stand it! Stay green mountains there, and you don't have to worry about burning Zhang Longtu. You can take the infantry first, and I will lead the cavalry to cut off the rear for you!"

The Zhang Suo was still hesitating, but Li Gang roared: "There are only these dozen elite soldiers in the official family, so that the official family can have a way out!"

He can even save his strength! If he wants to learn this skill early, Zhuang Zong Zhao Ji is very likely to be still there!

Zhang asked: "Where to go? Should I go back to Jinling City?"
Chapter completed!