Across the Water Margin: Officials of Ximen

If General Ximen is defeated and the Song army takes advantage of the momentum to rush into the city, and the ministers and His Majesty will all become prisoners of the Song army, then the situation is over and irreversible!

Your Majesty, it is better to cease the war immediately, send ministers out of the city to negotiate with the Song army, and declare your majesty's intention to return power to the Zhao family. "

After Lu Haowen stood up, more than a dozen ministers, including the censor Hu Shunzhi, also seconded their proposals, urging Zhang Bangchang to stop the war and seek peace immediately.

Bangchang took a look at Luan Tingyu, and said firmly, "I believe in General Ximen, and will never make peace with the bandit army outside the city. You don't need to say any more."

"Please think twice, Your Majesty! Think twice, Your Majesty..."

Lu Haowen and the others are still entangled.

"Stop arguing, there is already a war outside the city!"

Luan Tingyu said coldly.

Lu Haowen and the others were startled, and hurriedly looked out of the city.

I saw banners flying outside the city, drums and trumpets were loud, and the sound of killing shook the ground. The restoration army supporting the Zhao family had already launched an attack from south to north.

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Outside Nanxun Gate is a special flat land.

Caihe water enters the outer city of Bianliang City in Tokyo from southwest to northeast through Caiheshangshuimen on the west side of Nanxunmen. .

Therefore, the east and west sides of the land outside Nanxun Gate were cut off by the Cai River, and the left and right wings of Ximen Qing's army were surrounded by river water.

The Zhao Restoration Army could only gather in a narrow area and attack the Ximen Qing Army.

Chapter 969 The Power of New Weapons

Ximen Qing took the initiative to provoke and lead the enemy troops outside the city to the Nanxun Gate for a decisive battle, in order to use this special terrain to compress the enemy's formation.

Outside the Nanxun Gate, the flat land sandwiched by Caihe River and the west is wide in the south and narrow in the north. The Restoration Song Army can form a wide formation on the south side, but when they attack in front of the Ximen Qing Army, they will squeeze from both ends to the center. make the crowd very dense.

The denser the enemy army, the more lethal the Ximen Qing army's firepower can be exerted.

Therefore, when choosing the battlefield outside Nanxun Gate, Ximen Qing had already dug a pit for the enemy, and was waiting for Zhao Zisong and Uncle Zhao to jump into the pit for these people.

However, in the eyes of Zhao Zisong, Zhao Shuxiang, Zhao Ye, Zhang Shen, Liu Guangshi and other generals, the battlefield Ximenqing chose was a dead end.

Ximen Qingjun leaned against the city wall, with Caihe on the left and right flanks, and only Nanxunmen had a retreat.If the battle is unfavorable, how can tens of thousands of troops have a chance to retreat to the city through a city gate?

Zhao Zisong, Zhao Shuxiang and others saw clearly that the puppet Chu army that went out of the city to fight was only 4 to [-] people.Our own army is five times that of the puppet Chu army, and it is not difficult to defeat the enemy with a large number of people.

Seeing that the Puppet Chu State had only tens of thousands of troops capable of fighting, the more than [-] restoration troops outside the city suddenly felt contemptuous.

Zhang Shen, Liu Guangshi, Wang Yuan, Fu Liang, Wang Yi, Yu Huan and other generals all believed that Ximen Qing was a local tyrant who didn't know how to fight, and he could be captured in one battle.

So, with the beating of war drums, the left, middle, and right armies of the Restoration Army marched hand in hand, rushing towards Ximen Qing Army with a murderous look.

The Hebei army and horses of Zhao Yebu are the left-wing army, with Wang Yuan's [-] cavalry as the forward.

The Huainan army and horses of Zhao Zisong's department served as the right-wing army, and the two generals Fu Liang and Wang Yi rushed to the forefront.

Zhao Shuxiang's Western Army and Xiangyang Army served as the Chinese Army Corps. The eager Liu Guangshi and Zhao Shuxiang's general Huan led [-] cavalry to charge ahead, followed by Zhang Shen.

Before and after the generals killed the soldiers, Zhao Shuxiang, Zhao Zisong, Zhao Ye, Wang Boyan, Wang Xiang and others also led the rear army to advance slowly, pressing down on the Ximen Qing army in the north like a black cloud.

"General Ling, the enemy has already entered range!"

The sergeant in charge of observation reported to Ling Zhen.

At this time, one hundred cannons had been loaded and were waiting for Ling Zhen's order.

Ling Zhen didn't give the order to fire, but stared at Ximen Qing's banner ahead.

Ximen Qing knew the range of the artillery commanded by Ling Zhen. When he saw that the forward cavalry of the Restoration Song Army had entered the range of the artillery, he did not give Ling Zhen an order to fire.

Because the artillery is used to bombard the enemy's central army, and the enemy's vanguard horses are the targets of the musketeers.

If the artillery is fired too early, although it can kill a large number of enemy forwards, it will also scare the enemy and allow the main force of the enemy to withdraw from the battlefield.

Ximen Qing didn't want to chase the more than [-] troops all over the world. What he wanted was to defeat the main force of the restoration army at once.

When the forward troops of Liu Guangshi, Wang Yuan, Fu Liang and others gathered together and entered the range of the Musketeers, Ximen Qing gave an order, and the [-] Musketeers commanded by Tang Long fiercely faced the dense formation of the enemy's forwards. open fire.

"Bah bah bah~ bah bah bah~ bah bah bah~"

The gunshots continued, and the rain of bullets poured out wave after wave, passing over the half-squatting heavy armored infantry, and shooting into the forward camp of the restored Song army.

Ximenqing's musketeers adopted a three-stage platoon tactic, dividing 5000 musketeers into three teams, each with [-] men.

The three teams of musketeers took turns filling, reloading, and shooting, shooting and killing the enemy with almost no gaps.

After a while, the position of the Ximen Qing army was surrounded by gunpowder smoke, making it difficult for people in the distance to see the truth.

In each round, [-] projectiles were shot into the dense crowd, causing great damage to the forward cavalry of the restored Song Army.

I saw the vanguard cavalry of the Restoration Song Army turned on their backs, blood spattered, like wheat swept by a sickle, and fell to the ground piece by piece.

After three rounds of volleys, tens of thousands of vanguard troops of the Restoration Song Army fell in a pool of blood, and Liu Guangshi, Wang Yuan, Fu Liang, Wang Yi, Yu Huan and other generals who once rushed to the forefront with majesty disappeared. , life and death unknown.

However, although there were heavy casualties, the Restoration Song Army had invested more than [-] troops and horses, and the large Chinese army was still charging forward without knowing it.

The vanguard of the Restoration Army did not stop their charge and was still rushing forward.

The Central Army of the Restoration Army entered the artillery range.

Seeing this, Ximen Qing decisively gave the order to fire.

Seeing the change of the flag of the Chinese army, Ling Zhen immediately commanded a hundred artillery pieces to bombard the crowd in front of them indiscriminately.

After a burst of "boom, boom, boom~", the Chinese army that restored the Song army suffered heavy losses. Before seeing the true face of the enemy, it was blown up and down, and it was in a mess.

At this time, hundreds of lucky vanguard cavalry escaped waves of musket bullets and approached the phalanx of Ximen Qing's army.

However, waiting for them were five thousand archers commanded by Yue Fei.

Seeing the musketeers killing, the archers couldn't hold back for a long time.After Yue Fei gave an order, the hundreds of lucky cavalry were greeted by a dense rain of arrows.

This time, there was no more luck, and the hundreds of cavalry fell like hedgehogs in front of the phalanx of Ximen Qing's army.

Under the triple blow of artillery, muskets, and bows, the offensive of the Restoration Song Army came to an abrupt end.The sergeants of the Song Army who were beaten out of their wits no longer dared to charge forward, but turned around and fled desperately.

Unfortunately, due to the terrain, these defeated soldiers could not disperse and escape. They huddled together like headless chickens in front of the Ximen Qing army, and suffered several rounds of shelling and musket queuing to shoot them.

These Song Army or the army that had been dispersed by the Jin Army, or the army that lacked training in the Jianghuai area, did not have many elite divisions.Now that they have suffered heavy losses, they cannot fight and escape, and many soldiers of the Restoration Army suddenly lost their morale and knelt down to beg for mercy.