Chapter 401: No more fists when fighting?

Chapter 401: No more fists when fighting?

At first, the thick smoke had just floated up, and a thunderous sound came from the river. The thunder continued to sound, and the rolling thick smoke was ignored.

The ancients did not know that light spread faster than sound. They saw fireworks first and then heard thunder, but did not associate the two. The fireworks may have been caused by the burning of the Navy warships of the Navy. Of course, it may also have been caused by the burning of the Fang La Navy ships. However, because everyone saw the power of the Fang La Navy when it left the camp, the latter idea was just a circle in their minds, but felt that it was impossible.

In fact, the Song people were the first to know the "small hole imaging" of light. The famous writer Su Shi once discovered the phenomenon of small hole imaging and silver-plate fixed images. If Su Shi had not been exiled, his knowledge was not respected in the Song Dynasty. Perhaps the camera had already been invented in the Song Dynasty, and perhaps China would have discovered some optical theories in advance... But at this time, everyone was looking downstream worriedly.

Next, the thick smoke not only did not drift, but new pillars of fire continued to float into the sky. During this period, the faint thunder kept ringing. By the evening, the fire became brighter and brighter, and the downstream direction was reddishing half of the sky. In the twilight, the flame was brighter than the sunset.

When Fang La naval army came out, the huge number scared everyone. At this time, most people dared not guess the outcome of the victory or defeat. They just hoped that the Haizhou naval army would not suffer too much. At this moment, seeing the twilight and the thunder on the river were still ringing, the Grand Marshal Tan Zhen sighed and gave a thumbs up to praise: "The Haizhou army is really tenacious. It has been fighting for the whole afternoon. Although it is at a disadvantage, it is still fighting endlessly. Well, it seems that Fang La army will inevitably be dragged into the night battle. I hope there will be a turnaround in the night battle...at least, they can escape a few more ships, right?"

Most of the generals present had seen the huge team of Fang La naval army when it was dispatched. At this time, everyone speculated that the Haizhou Leihuo soldiers were at a disadvantage. However, the team that had been in adversity, facing a giant ship that was advancing like an iron wall, was still fighting for half a day, and delaying the war until night - how tenacious this team should be.

At this moment, although everyone had never seen the Haizhou Leihuo soldiers faced each other, they couldn't help but silently salute the team in their hearts.

So tenacious

Because the final battle situation was unclear, Tong Guan and others were worried. The generals gathered together and sat in the tent waiting for the final result before they were disbanded. In the evening, some warships of Fang La naval army returned sporadically, but these warships were small warships and were not decisive factors in the war. This made everyone's judgment of the situation of the war still confused - although all the warships returned looked extremely ravaged.

Tong Guan was in the tent, commanding the remaining naval personnel from Jiangning Mansion to venture across the river and inquire about the battle situation downstream, while sighing: "I didn't expect that the Leihuo soldiers in Haizhou are so powerful. Perhaps, the Manichae gangsters suffered a lot of losses. Look at their small boats, looking like they look miserable... But where is the big ship of Fang La's naval army? Their giant tower ships, slings, fighting ships, and sea loaches... why didn't they return?"

Tong Guan's military tent was built under the embankment on the river bank. From time to time, there were soldiers looking down from the embankment to report the situation of Fang La's naval army. The defeated ships of Fang La's army entered the camp and were under surveillance on the shore... Of course, if they rushed towards the north bank of the river, Tong Guan would have enough time to escape.

Because the Fang La naval army's empty group was dispatched, there were almost no fishing boats on the river all day, and only the river water kept rushing downwards. Therefore, every move of Fang La naval army was particularly obvious at this time. Tan Zhen listened to the wind at night. In the wind, the faint thunder continued to sound, and there was a tendency to become clearer and clearer. The Taiwei Tan Zhen closed his eyes, thought for a while, and interrupted: "The Haizhou Leihuo Army is really tough - they are still fighting."

This tenacity made the soldiers respectful.

Modern history textbooks use his 95% unreliability to say: The Song Dynasty was a weak dynasty, commonly known as "weak Song" - however, according to statistics, the winning rate of foreign wars in the Song Dynasty exceeded 70%, which is equivalent to the sum of the Tang and Song dynasties.

This winning rate is achieved through the tenacity of decision-making. During the Song Dynasty, the Song people had natural shortcomings in military affairs. They lost all the horse-raising bases, and the cavalry in the country was only about 30,000. In the battle of cold weapons, the cavalry was the king.

Because the Song people did not have enough cavalry, they could only use their bodies to fight against the huge number of Hu cavalry. The heavy infantry of the Song people wore the infantry armor, weighing more than 40 kilograms. This is a very rare armor weight. In addition to the infantry armor, most armors in human history did not exceed 30 kilograms. Even the iron-canned knight full-body armor, which was famous in the Knight War, did not reach the weight of the infantry armor.

However, modern archaeology discovered from the excavation of tombs that, since Buddhism has been practiced for five or six centuries, most Song people have stopped eating meat for hundreds of years, so their average height is only about 1.6 meters, and 1.78 meters tall is rare in the Song Dynasty. It is this height and weight that the Song people used their thin and short bodies to wear rare heavy armor and achieved victory comparable to the Tang and Song dynasties in foreign wars - how tenacious and tenacious this is

A man with a height of 1.56 meters, even if he is wearing a heavy armor of forty kilograms, his overall weight is only about 100 kilograms; while a war horse weighs about half a ton and crashes into the heavy infantry at a speed of 60 kilometers per hour. In this case, even if the infantry armor is heavy, if he does not have a tenacious will, how could he deal with hundreds of thousands of cavalry of the Western Xia and Liao Kingdoms?

The border troops of the Song Dynasty were tenacious. They could wear 40 kilograms of heavy armor and arranged a strict formation. They faced a wave of shocks from the cavalry of the Western Xia and Liao Kingdom, and won the foreign war in 70% of the war. However, due to physical endurance limitations, the Song soldiers who grew up with vegetarian food were not durable. They often won victory on the battlefield, but were unable to pursue the defeated soldiers...

Now, even if the most tenacious Qin Feng border army is used to measure, the Haizhou soldiers can still fight for the whole afternoon when they are at a disadvantage. This physical strength and the tenacious spirit of not giving up are already rare in the entire Song Dynasty.

Realizing this, the generals present no longer cared about the outcome of the battle, but only cared about how many people the Haizhou soldiers could have left after this fierce battle.

Tong Guan was also a little regretful at this time. How much honor could such a tenacious army bring to him? Why didn't he think of sending people out of the camp to respond? He said in annoyance: "The soldiers reported by the Haizhou soldiers were more than 1,240 soldiers and more than 2,000 auxiliary soldiers. Our family originally thought that such a team of 3,000 people would actually allow the fleet to transport supplies and supplies...

Ah, I have a brief count. They transported the baggage to everyone's heads, and each soldier needs to carry about four (two tons) of supplies with him. Ha, I was originally planning to take this and refute the Haizhou County Lord Bo. Now it seems that I have misunderstood... More than a thousand of them can continue to fight for the whole afternoon, no wonder they need to carry a lot of bows, arrows, ammunition, and burning objects."

Liu Zhen, the magistrate of Changxi (i.e. Xiapu), interrupted and said: "Mr. Zhang Shuye has recommended Leihuo soldiers to the court for many times. I heard that Leihuo soldiers' cannons are made of iron eggs and lead bullets. Every time the gun is shot, regardless of the amount of gunpowder, the iron eggs weigh about half a tael of lead. When this gun is fired, it is said that it is worth a lot of money. No wonder they have to carry such heavy luggage, no wonder the court is unwilling to configure Leihuo soldiers as a common example."

Liu Zhen is a very special existence in the Jiangning military tent. He was the magistrate of Changxi and the ninth rank official. His jurisdiction was in Shezhou and has now been captured by Fang La. In the entire tent, it seems that his rank is the lowest. For example, Tong Guan was the Privy Councilor - Prime Minister Wu and Duke of Jingguo; Taiwei Tan Zhen was the Taiwei, that is, the Minister of National Defense; Tong Guan's confidant Wang Bing was the seventh general of Jingyuan Road, and he was from the fourth rank.

Even if the small general under the Muzhou Tuan Zheng envoy Wang Yuan was preparing to general Han Shizhong, he was from the sixth rank... But the characteristic of the Song Dynasty was "using civil servants to control military affairs". Liu Zhen was the only civil servant in the military tent. According to the Song Dynasty, he, a "ninth rank" civil servant, was qualified to point at the nose of Tong Guan, the leader of the "super first-rank" military officer, and Tong Guan had to smile with the other party, for fear that he would accidentally anger the civil servant group - he lived a better life than a small section chief in modern times.

So although Liu Zhen has a small official position, he usually walks sideways in the entire military tent. When everyone discusses matters, he interrupts when he wants to speak, and if he doesn't want to interrupt, he becomes the "Sleeping Emperor"... Oh, a second civil servant will be added to the military tent, that is, Shi Chuan Shi Changqing, the chief clerk of Haizhou County, who is the same level as Liu Zhen.

Liu Zhen’s interruption explained the reason why the Haizhou soldiers carried a large amount of supplies, and also explained the reason why the imperial court was unwilling to increase the organization of the Leihuo soldiers - the cost was too expensive, which was not in line with the customs of the Song Dynasty.

The Song Dynasty was a customary act to arrange refugees into the wings, so that fewer homeless people would be better. The musketeers took the elite soldiers route, and training a soldier cost a lot of money. If they really had to equip the imperial guards in this way, the Song Dynasty would not have enough money.

The Grand Marshal Tan Zhen knew the details of the incident. He sighed and interrupted: "Mr. Zhang Shuye's memorial, Wang Xiang (Wang Fu), Li Xiang (Li Bangyan), and Liang Chengzhi (Shi Liang) have all read it. Unfortunately, everyone agreed to give up - the court has raised an imperial guard, which is only fifty cents a day, and another liter of rice is added; but the Leihuo soldiers only fired one shot, and the cost of supporting five soldiers in one day will be gone... Fortunately, there are only 1,200 Leihuo soldiers in Haizhou. If there are a little more people, who can afford to support them?"

Zhe Keqiu, the general of Fuzhou Town, who led the Jindong Dangxiang soldiers to reinforce, also sighed according to this topic: "There are only more than 1,200 people in Haizhou. I saw that there were thousands of warships driven by the Fang La navy, and more than 1,200 people fought more than 1,200 people and fought until night. Such an army is indeed admirable."

The Lin'an County regiment training envoy present, Song Jiang, a newly recruited Liangshan hero, interrupted in a low voice: "Sir, those 1,200 soldiers are not all Leihuo soldiers."

"Oh" Tong Guan immediately pointed to Song Jiang: "I forgot that you came from Haizhou..."

As soon as they said this, everyone laughed meaningfully - Song Jiang, a group of Liang bandits, were not recruited by the imperial court, they were defeated and surrendered. It is said that the one who made them desperate was more than a thousand "generals" commanded by Zhang Shuye. Among those generals, Shi Chuan and Li Yan were the leaders.

A hint of anger flashed with a flash of redness on Song Jiang's face. He lowered his eyes, took a deep breath, and continued: "The Haizhou regiment was established on the basis of the Cuizhuang regiment. It is said that the Haizhou regiment was divided into three commanders, including more than 400 commanders on the left and right sides. My brother Lin Chong was the commander of the left and right sides. The chief clerk Shi Xiuwu personally led the right sides. Shi Xiuwu's apprentice Ling Fei led the artillery team, and my brother Sun Li led the cavalry.

Among them, the artillery team and the cavalry each have more than 200 people. The cavalry belongs to the direct team, responsible for conveying military information and scouts and provocations. In the two boxes on the left and right, there are usually half of the spearmen, and the other half are the thunder and fire soldiers... In other words, there are only more than 400 thunder and fire soldiers in the entire Haizhou. As for the remaining two thousand auxiliary soldiers, they are basically auxiliary personnel serving the artillery team and the cavalry team-oh, and officers and servants."

This statement not only did not make the people present despise the power of the Haizhou soldiers, but instead made everyone open their mouths and don’t know what to say. After a long time, Zhe Keqiu said intermittently: “Four hundred people… God, how did this battle be fought?”

Water confrontation relies on long-range attacks and short-soldiers. Of course, if the battle reaches the stage of short-soldiers, think about the height and number of Fang La ships, the generals do not think that Haizhou soldiers can survive in that situation. Therefore, this battle, spear soldiers, auxiliary soldiers, etc., cannot be used, and these people have been automatically ignored by the old corps in the military tent. The continuous thunder sound on the river surface also shows that the main force of this battle is 400 thunder soldiers, facing more than a thousand warships - they have been fighting.

There was silence in the military tent, and everyone could no longer think of the words to evaluate the Haizhou Leihuo soldiers. At this time, the thunder sound on the river surface became louder and louder. After a while, outside the military tent, several wet soldiers supported each other and ran in. Tong Guan recognized that this was the soldier sent to the opposite side of the river. He hurriedly stood up and urged repeatedly: "What is the situation of the battle, say it quickly."

Several soldiers took a moment of breath and blurted out: "Defeated"

Tong Guan scolded: "I know what the victory or defeat is - what I want to know is, what the casualties of the Haizhou soldiers?"

The soldiers reported the news forgot each other in a daze and replied: "I have never heard of the casualties of the Haizhou soldiers?"

Tong Guan jumped his feet and cursed: "Are you guys eating shit? Let's go to the south bank and find out what you heard? Useless waste?"

At this time, the downstream direction was still rushing into the sky. At the same time, countless ghost fires seemed to appear on the black siege river. These ghost fires moved upstream from the downstream, moving quickly and fluttering towards Jiangning Mansion. When the officers patrolling the embankment saw the ghost fire appear, they thought it was the victorious Fang La naval army returning, and they also panickedly entered the military tent to report to Tong Guan. They had just walked near the military tent, and only heard the answers of the several naval brothers who had just returned: "I lost, they were defeated - we waited to inquire about the defeat of the Fang La naval army on the south bank.

It is said that about 40% of the tower ships sank, 20% of the tower ships were stranded, and the remaining large ships were set on fire by the Haizhou soldiers along the way. Those who escaped were all small boats with flexible rudders... It is said that the Haizhou soldiers were still chasing those large warships against the current, and only the small boats were not noticed and were able to escape..."

This news was completely beyond everyone's expectations and even subverted everyone's common sense. Many people opened their mouths and opened their mouths, but they didn't know how to evaluate them.

In their consciousness, water battles are like the distance between the two sides throwing stones and shooting arrows at each other, and when the distance is close, both sides jump up and fight. Whoever fistes the big ship belongs to whom the final victory still needs to fight with two soldiers on each other.

There were only 400 soldiers in Haizhou, and even if there were snatchers, there were only more than 1,000 auxiliary soldiers, so the Fang La navy had 600,700 arson ships, giant warships, and four or five hundred "small" warships, which were 4 or 500 people. In this way, they could be defeated and chased against the current by the fewer people... Is this world?

This world is really hard to understand.

Song Jiang once again reminded: "Sir, the Haizhou Batou Navy was formed by Xiuwu at the time. Now the commander of the Batou Navy is my brother, the former commander of the Dengzhou regiment training, and Zhang Heng, a 10-zhang Qing."

Song Jiang repeatedly reminded everyone that "the army that is particularly capable of fighting in Haizhou is actually led by the former Liangshan subordinates." In fact, he said this to attract the attention of Tong Guan in the military tent and use him. However, there are old foxes in the military tent, and everyone automatically ignores the implicit meaning in his words.

At this time, the sound of cannons on the river surface became clearer and clearer, and with the sound of cannons, there were flames that could be seen from time to time. The flames were very bright, making the night sky flash. Even if you were in the military tent, you could see a sparkling light.

Tong Guan heard the movement on the river surface, raised his eyelids and looked at the soldiers who were peeping in the account. He quickly lifted the curtain and went in to report: "Prime Minister, Taiwei, sirs, countless torches appeared downstream, and the torches moved very quickly. The brothers of the navy army speculated that this was the light hanging on the ship. I just didn't know which navy army was coming."

Tong Guan couldn't sit still, so he stood up and invited the generals: "Just, let's wait and see."

It was a winter night in December, and the wind was cold and dripping water turned into ice. Hearing this greeting, many generals cursed in their stomachs. But the Grand Marshal responded first, and the two eunuchs walked out of the military tent one by one and walked towards the embankment. Although the generals complained constantly, they could only follow them.

After leaving the tent, he felt a gust of cold wind. The generals quickly summoned the servants to send clothes to protect the cold - but no matter who had the clothes to protect the cold, they were not as light as Tong Guan. His servant handed over a crane buckle, which Tong Guan casually draped on his body, and suddenly said, "Oh, I remembered it. No wonder I know the name Shi Changqing very well. It turns out that he is the owner of the crane buckle."

As he said that, Tong Guan tightened the crane cloak on his body and said leisurely: "I heard that Shi Changqing was just a helper three years ago, responsible for escorting Haizhou Juzi to Beijing for the exam. The reason why Haizhou Juzi invited him to escort along the way was because he was attracted by the travel supplies made by his family..."

Chapter 401: No more fists when fighting?
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