Chapter 30 Qinshui

Only then did Hu Yangeng get the power to command the entire army. Once the power was in hand, he took the order and merged Xuanzan and Shi Xingfang's 15,000 people first, and accepted the annual monies escorted by Xuanzan. All the troops were reorganized, and 20,000 people who dared to fight were selected and went to Longde. Hao Siwen was promoted to the commander of the army and opened the way for the vanguard.

Hao Siwen led the 4,000 headquarters to travel all the way. In two days, a soldier said to Hao Siwen: "It's early winter now, Qinshui is shabby, and it's not difficult to cross the river. I'm afraid that the Jin thieves have set up ambush on the other side. It's better to wait for the army to arrive and make a decision."

Hao Siwen said: "When the army arrives, the vanguard will do something." After that, he ordered the entire army to cross the river.

Hao Siwen's troops had 4,000 people, but they did not encounter any obstacles when crossing the river. When most of the soldiers had already crossed the river and the vehicles were crossing the river, they suddenly heard people shouting that the horses were neighing, and a golden soldier came out.

Hao Siwen shouted: "It was not as expected by the commander, the Jin soldiers were indeed ambushed. The entire army was backed by Qinshui and they all led the commander's army. They arrived in two hours."

Hao Siwen's troops have 4,000 people arranged in small circles in command units, and nine small circles are arranged into large squares with three rows horizontally and three rows vertically.

It turned out that Wanyan Yinshu had expected that rescue soldiers would arrive, so he sent a scattered cavalry to provoke the west. The branch that Hao Siwen encountered was a trick of the Jin soldiers.

This branch of Tok was guarding the riverside. When he saw Hao Siwen's troops start to cross the river, he sent someone to inform Meng'an's Bojin (the prince of Jurchen, who later became Beile in Manchu) Wanyan. After Hao Siwen's troops all crossed the river and formed a formation, Meng'an, the entire Jin soldiers arrived.

Wanyan Tushe, who commanded Meng'an, was an external branch of the Wanyan family. He had always despised the Song army. Although he learned that there were nearly 10,000 Song army crossing the river and his own Meng'an had only more than 2,000, he still launched an attack on Hao Siwen with confidence.

When Hao Siwen saw the enemy rushing over, smoke and dust rose, and he couldn't help but spit out: "Domestic goods, don't even know if Cheng Lie doesn't fight."

The nine commanders stood in a row between the swords, shields and spearmen, in the outer circle and the inner circle were crossbowmen. When they saw the enemy rushing towards them, the crossbowmen in various circular formations began to shoot arrows. Unexpectedly, the enemy went back again.

Wanyan Tushe laughed: "Is the arrows still three hundred steps away? Are they all grass chickens who have never been on the formation?" He sent a light cavalry to circle around the Song army's formation, luring the Song army to fire arrows.

Hao Siwen was very anxious, so he sent a commander to various round formations to send commands, "Listen to the sound of the gongzi in the central main formation, and the gongzi does not sound, and no arrows are allowed to be shot. Those who violate the order will be killed."

After several rounds of temptations, Wanyan waved the order flag, and the three tricks rushed towards Hao Siwen's formation.

Hao Siwen waited quietly. When the Jin soldiers rushed to within two hundred steps, the archers in the right circle of the first row could not hold on and shot out a few arrows, all of which fell into vain.

Hao Siwen frowned and was about to break out, but the Jin soldiers were already a hundred steps away. Hao Siwen snorted out words: "Click the clang and shoot the arrow."

The sound of chongs in the Song army formation was loud, and the sound of bowstrings sounded like bees.

The Jin soldiers who rushed in the front were shot off the horse, but the Jin soldiers did not stop. More than 600 cavalry rushed towards the Song army's formation. Except for more than 100 cavalry that were shot down, the others rushed to the periphery of the Song army's formation.

The drums were loudly sounded in the various circular formations, and the spearmen laid two spears flat, and the nine circular formations were like hedgehogs with spikes spread out.

When Yang Kefa arrived at the west bank of Qinshui River, six of the nine circular formations under Hao Siwen's command had collapsed, and the remaining four circular formations had already squeezed into a group. Jin soldiers attacked around Hao Siwen's large formation.

Most of the disastrous Song Bings had already escaped from the river. Yang Kefa asked Song Bings who escaped from the river and understood the whole story.

It turned out that the Jin soldiers circled around Hao Siwen's formation and shot arrows into the formation, and the crossbowmen in Hao Siwen's formation also fought back with bows and arrows. The Jin soldiers were riding on horseback, while the Song army stood in a formation, which was obviously even more at a disadvantage when shooting the Song army. Hao Siwen's troops were also temporarily pieced together, and were attacked by the Jin soldiers first with arrows and then with Tiefutu. In this way, the six round formations collapsed one after another. Fortunately, Hao Siwen gathered the remaining four round formations together and tried his best to support them. The Jin soldiers had no time to chase the defeated soldiers, so these defeated soldiers were able to cross the river.

The third person who arrived by Qinshui was Lu Zhishen's troops. When he saw the battle situation on the east bank of Qinshui, he was furious: "Four thousand people were defeated by two thousand people. Buddha was really embarrassed by you." He immediately ordered the headquarters to cross the river and fight with the Jin soldiers.

Until now, Hao Siwen's troops are still superior to Wanyan Tushe, so Lu Zhishen did not lead the entire team across the river, but pulled out the monk soldiers brought by Mount Wutai alone. Fifty sword and shield monks were in front, holding shields, fifty bow and crossbow monks followed closely, and fifty spear monks and fifty long axe soldiers led by Lu Zhishen himself. These fifty long axe soldiers were also selected by Lu Zhishen after serving as the commander of the army. The teams went down from the shore to the river and moved forward one after another. The river water was not over the knees, and the bottom of the river was muddy. It would take a lot of effort to lift their feet. The water was not wide, just a few feet, but one or two hundred soldiers had been killed and two hundred soldiers on the muddy road just a few feet long, and the river water was red, all of them were defeated trying to escape the river.

After going down to the water, the monk Dao Shield held the shield with both hands, raised the shield high, half-squatted and flowed forward, walking without two steps, and the "bang bang" kept making noises. The crossbows were shot on the other side, and several arrows pierced the shield one after another. The two spear monks in the front were nailed to the shield, and blood flowed down the wrist, and the other was penetrated by the crossbow arrow and shot on his shoulder. Although he was wearing leather armor, it was useless. The whole person was led back by the crossbow arrow and staggered back, sitting in the water, and screaming bitterly. The monk Dao Shield behind came forward, replaced the two men, and continued to push the arrow forward.

Fifty crossbowmen shot archery and fought back, shot two rounds in a row, and then rushed forward.

Although the river was cold and the Jin soldiers on the other side shot arrows into the river, with the shield monk's resistance and the crossbow monk's counterattack, the Jin soldiers were mainly besieging Hao Siwen's formation, and Lu Zhishen's monk team finally crossed the Qinshui.

A few feet away, there were more than ten monks of swords and shields here, and more than 30 people on the other side were Nakaya.

As he approached the shore, the monk bowed and crossed the monk. Lu Zhishen shouted loudly, and crossed the monk with the monk bowed and crossed it. The monk left the monk straightened up and raised his shield over his head to resist the enemy's arrows.

Lu Zhishen led the spear monk and the axe soldiers to rush directly towards the Jin soldiers. The spearmen quickly formed two loose horizontal formations, mixed with swords, shields and hands.

Seeing that he was approaching the Jin soldiers, Lu Da waved the Shuimo Zen Staff, and fifty long axe soldiers rushed up, rushed to the front of the formation, and rushed forward half a step. Lu Zhishen rushed to the front, jumped over the shield of the spear monk, and met the four or five cavalrymen rushing towards him.

Four or five cavalry generals stabbed the spears in their hands at Lu Zhishen, three pierced from the left and right sides, and two pierced from their heads.

Lu Zhishen ignored the three spears that were stabbed on the side. He was wearing half of the armor and was hit by three spears. Almost at the same time, he raised his face and stared at the two spearmen who were just above his head. The water-melting Zen Staff swept across the horse. First, he slapped one on the left and then one on the right. The spear of the Jin soldiers on the right was pushed to the sky. Lu Zhishen used the crescent shovel at the tail of the Zen Staff to turn over the right side with the man and horse. Then Lu Zhishen waved the staff backwards and swung a cavalry on the side off the horse, shouted loudly, "Strike!" This sound was like thunder. One of the Jin soldiers on the side accidentally dropped the spear, and the other was stunned. Lu Zhishen rode one by one, and then dealt with five cavalry.

Fifty long axe soldiers followed Lu Zhishen, seized the gap and rushed towards the Jin soldiers and cavalry one by one.

Lu Zhishen rushed into the formation, like a tiger entering a flock of sheep. The fifty long axe soldiers he brought may not be the strongest in terms of courage, but they are all selected dead soldiers, who dare to kill and fight. Wanyan Tusheben was besieging Hao Siwen's formation with all his might, and did not care much about Lu Zhishen's branch who crossed the river. He only sent more than a hundred Bohai people and surrendered troops to intercept them. Unexpectedly, Lu Zhishen was killed and dispersed at once.

The crossbow monk, the spear monk, the sword and shield monk all followed and formed a squad with Lu Zhishen and the long axe soldiers. The soldiers on both sides fought to the death in the rain of arrows. The Song army's crossbow arrows were constantly, and the arrows were as fast as rain. In a blink of an eye, more than 20 Jin soldiers who were trying to rush over were shot down. The two hundred people led by Lu Zhishen would join the same place, and their forces had the upper hand on this local battlefield. With Lu Zhishen's command, everyone divided the front and back orders and formed an impact formation. The sword and shield monk, followed by the spear monk, and the bow and crossbow monk, and the long axe soldiers were scattered around the team.

The monk Knife and Shield advanced with his shield. The monk spear stabbed the halberd behind the shield. The monk bowed and crossbow shot arrows up to the sky, and the axe soldiers chopped the approaching enemies. The group of people was like this, like an iron hedgehog, gradually moving forward. The soldiers of the Jin army surrounded one after another, either on their wings or around them to attack and intercept them.

Wanyan Tushe discovered Lu Zhishen's bravery and mobilized a large group of troops to siege Lu Zhishen.

The enemies came layer by layer, and more than 100 Lu Zhishen's men were crowded together. Although they kept cutting down the enemy, they could not move forward in half a step.

After Lu Zhishen's attack, Wanyan Tushe completely gave up the advantage of the cavalry and fought with the Song army in close combat.

Hao Siwen's pressure was also relieved and he began to counterattack Wanyan Tushe. He had a large number of troops, but he was completely suppressed by the Jin soldiers. Now that the pressure has disappeared, Hao Siwen has expanded his formation and fought steadily, not seeking merit, but seeking no mistakes.

During this period, Yang Kefa also took his headquarters to cross the river.

Wanyan walked through the trek and saw a fat monk rushing around in the formation, brave enough to rush over with a mace and riding a horse.

Lu Zhishen was calm and first dealt with a Jin soldier in front of him. He saw Wanyan Tushe's war horse rushing in front of him, and the sound of wind was heard in his ears. He turned sideways and avoided the mace and war horse. The Zen staff swept away and broke the horse's legs. Wanyan Tushe fell down the horse. Lu Zhishen made up for a stick and ended his life.
Chapter completed!