Warrior in Turbulent Han Dynasty

There are few village houses on the bank of Zhenshui behind the forest. At this time, thousands of Zhou army rebels came out of the forest, and the scene was strange. People rushed towards the camp behind in a mess.

There are undulating mountains on both sides, only this river beach is relatively open. In the wilderness, the beach was even more noisy. There are many camps and towering arrow towers.

After the enemy infantry and cavalry chased them out of the forest, they did not rush to catch up.

But after a while, at the edge of the forest at the foot of the mountain, suddenly some huge creatures slowly emerged one after another! All the soldiers in Zhou's camp watched with amazement.

"Mou..." a strange giant called out. Zhou Jun soldiers in the camp finally recognized that it was an elephant!

The elephant was not an ordinary elephant, it was caught from nowhere, it was very big, its body was covered with iron armor, and it carried a tower-like thing on its back with a person sitting on it. Although the elephant walks slowly, it is covered with iron and sharp spears, as if it is invulnerable, and it looks very scary!

On both sides and back of each elephant, infantry with swords and shields in front, and bow | crossbowmen in the back, advancing with the elephant. Those huge war elephants are like warships in a sea of ​​people... They are also very similar to armored army groups, and the infantry forms a battle group centered on the war elephants.

Dozens of war elephants rushed out of the forest one after another, followed by cavalry from the Southern Han Dynasty, and the men and horses directly attacked the Zhou army's scattered camps on the river beach.

The Southern Han army gradually approached with a strange war elephant system, and it seemed that a torrent was slowly surging over the open ground for a while! The calls of elephants, the sounds of people and horses resounded through the mountains, and this wilderness was very lively.

The horizontally deployed war elephants and the infantry with thick wooden shields gradually entered within two hundred paces! Both sides have not yet launched long-range weapons, but the soldiers of the Southern Han Dynasty on the elephants have already prepared their bows and crossbows; the huge monsters are coming unstoppably like moving arrow towers!

Not long after, some pennant flags stuck on the ground were overturned by the approaching infantrymen of the Southern Han Army.

At this moment, there was the sound of "jiji" wood rubbing in Zhou Junying, and the men were pulling the hemp rope on the catapult. "Kang, kuang, kuang..." Many boulder lumps were thrown out from the catapult.

The boulder bump was very accurate! It happened to be thrown at the attacking position of the Southern Han army, because the range was marked in advance.

"Boom!" Suddenly there was a loud noise, the flames flashed in the air, and the smoke exploded... The boulder actually exploded in the air!

After a while, the sound of explosions "boom boom boom..." sounded one after another, and those stone cannons exploded loudly in the sky or on the ground, flakes of stone flew randomly, and the smoke filled the air. The attacking army of the Southern Han Dynasty was struck by lightning immediately, panicked and confused.

The war elephants turned around and ran away in fright, and the drivers above couldn't control the frightened elephants at all. The elephant turned around and rushed towards the Southern Han Army infantry who followed closely behind... At this time, except for the cavalry, the army was basically dense in order to maintain its combat power. The elephant rushed into the crowd. It was huge, covered in iron, and had spears like hedgehogs. How could the Southern Han army stop the elephant? They all avoided, and the formation was in chaos.

The stone cannon blasted for one round, and then stopped quickly, and then the real stones were thrown, which could not be exploded... According to the method of Tokyo Beiyuan Firearms Workshop, people have to drill the stones to hollow out the interior, but it is not easy, and there are few shells.

But the Southern Han army has been disrupted by its own war elephants!

At this time, the fence gate between the camps was lowered with a "bang". The neatly armored infantry inside heard the sound of gongs and drums, and as soon as the flag was lowered, they ran out in a column.

The former army chased up the Southern Han rebels with spears and swords and shields, and killed anyone they saw. The crossbowmen and firearms soldiers in the back changed their columns into three rows and moved forward.

The battlefield was full of people and horses, the shouts were loud, and there were people everywhere. The land here is moist and the vegetation is good. Countless people rushed together, but there was no dust; but the air was filled with smoke from the blasting of stone cannons.

Behind Zhou Jun's horse, some people actually started to play cymbals, exciting tunes, screams of horror, the scene on the battlefield was very strange!

The Zhou army in front fought with the densely packed chaos of the Southern Han Dynasty. The machetes and spears of the soldiers of the Southern Han Dynasty pierced the plate armor of the soldiers of the Zhou army, clanging and clanging, and some of them just pierced the hard leather armor between the four plate armors, causing screams and screams. Zhou's soldiers rarely died, mostly injured.

At this moment, the military music stopped, and those people slammed the thick brass instruments "Ding Ding Ding..." and the Zhou soldiers in front turned around and retreated. The chaotic soldiers retreated from the void in the middle of the line.

At this time, the horizontal crossbowmen were also ready, and the sound of "cracking" sounded everywhere, and the chaos soldiers of the Southern Han Army fled in a mess. The formations of the Zhou army marched from time to time, and stopped from time to time to shoot volleys. The firearms and crossbows of each command fired alternately, and white smoke filled the air.

The infantry of the Zhou Army Brigade pursued to the foot of the mountain. At this time, all the troops from the Southern Han Army's attack collapsed and ran into the woods.

An orderly with a triangular red flag on his back rode over and shouted loudly to the commanders everywhere: "The Chinese military order, stop chasing, and prohibit entering the forest!"

... The army in the camp was cheering everywhere, and it was so lively!

The civil servants and military generals around Cao Bin were congratulating, Prime Minister Li Gu said with a smile on his face, "General Cao is worthy of being appointed by His Majesty as a commander! A group of new recruits, who only had hoes a few months ago, can now defeat the main reinforcements of the Southern Han Kingdom with weapons. I admire you so much!"

Cao Bin cupped his hands politely and said, "This is also because His Majesty gave you excellent equipment. Mr. Li dispatched sufficient food, fodder and military supplies. I would not dare to take credit for this. I would have joined the army during the (later) Han Dynasty. These armors and weapons were replaced by those in the past. Elite soldiers may not have such equipment."

The staff said: "Marshal Cao sent people into the forest in advance, it turned out to be a trick to lure the enemy!"

Cao Bin was noncommittal.

At this moment, a group of generals in front entered the account and started arguing. Someone patted his chest and shouted: "If the Chinese army doesn't tell us to retreat, we must take advantage of the victory and fight to Shaozhou!"

Another person said: "Don't talk about hitting Shaozhou, breaking through this mountain, setting up camp behind the mountain and approaching Shaozhou will definitely make no mistakes..."

Cao Bin is in his thirties, with a pale face and a very elegant posture. He is often praised as a Confucian general. He is not angry at the complaints of the generals, but he just said seriously: "It is reported that the Southern Han Army sent more reinforcements to Shaozhou. The mountains are high and the forests are dense. The Chinese army has not yet controlled the situation. It is taboo for military strategists to underestimate the enemy!"

The staff immediately echoed: "Mr. Cao is right. There are no elephants here in Shaozhou. The elephant soldiers of the Southern Han Kingdom are war elephants obtained from Dali and Annan (Wu Dynasty). Only the imperial guards in their capitals have them. Now they appear in Shaozhou. As Duke Cao expected, the Southern Han Kingdom sent the main reinforcements!"

The generals calmed down their noise, and were taken aback by what they said.

Li Gu then said: "This battle is a great victory, Mr. Cao can write a book to report the victory and ask for credit."

Cao Bin glanced over the civil servants of the "herald army" behind him, and said, "I will report the truth. This is a great victory, but no substantial progress has been made. Firstly, because the Southern Han Dynasty sent additional reinforcements, secondly, there is miasma in the south, and there are many sick people in the army, resulting in a great reduction in our troops."

Li Gu frowned and worried: "The miasma is really difficult to deal with. The old man brought a lot of medicinal materials and took it for the healing camp, but it didn't get better."

... People in the Central Plains are indeed very afraid of the miasma in the south.

In the Han and Tang Dynasties, the south was under the jurisdiction of the imperial court, but the last thing officials wanted to do was to be an official in the Southern Han Dynasty. They were regarded as falling out of favor and exiled... because many people who came to serve as officials died of miasma!

In the army, there was an imperial doctor sent by Taichang Temple, who thought the miasma was terrible, which made Cao Bin and other people in the army in the camp very worried.

Under the arrangement of the imperial doctor and military doctor, everyone set up separate camps for the sick to live in for treatment. In addition to copying medical books, the treatment methods used were also brought in by local local doctors to treat them with herbal medicines.

After Yu Liang escaped from the forest, he fell ill. That night, he swayed, covered in cold sweat, and was immediately sent to live in a wounded barracks. The situation of the Kaifeng command was the worst. Hundreds of people were killed and injured when they were defeated in the woods, and some people fell ill one after another. The entire command basically lost its combat effectiveness.

Yu Liang was lying in the temporary hut, surrounded by the smell of realgar smoke, smoky air, and the sound of vomiting and groaning. He was in a very bad mood.

He didn't expect the war to be like this...It's completely different from the poems written in the poems "If you don't break Loulan, you won't return it", "Why don't men wear Wu hooks", etc., it is not so poetic at all! What happened to Yu Liang after he set out on the expedition: he walked, walked, kept walking, and walked thousands of miles of his mother! Then I heard that Xiongzhou was captured, so I walked over again, and then led people to dig trenches and repair walls in the wilderness... Just marching in line, I didn't even see the appearance of the enemy soldiers, so I ran back in embarrassment.

Then he fell ill and was sent to this poor place to lie down.

Many people were sick in Zhou Jun, and the reason why they didn't retreat was that under the treatment of the royal doctor and local doctors, people kept recovering. It is said that it is miasma, but it can be cured anyway.

But Yu Liang never got better. He lay on a broken bed every day, and no one came to see him... The soldiers he was familiar with were forbidden to enter the healing camp. Yu Liang felt that his body was getting worse and worse, his whole body was weak, and it was a bit difficult to get up, so he had to think wildly, would he die of illness in this crappy place?

After all, he is a scholar, Yu Liang is a little doubtful now, whether he has entered the wrong profession, and is not suitable for martial arts at all... But he can't pass the Jinshi examination even if he studies literature. It's really a man who can't do anything without writing!

Now he can only wait to die in depression, and his despair deepens little by little.

Zhou Jun's progress was slow and almost stopped attacking. After the last war, no movement was heard from the Southern Han Army. After a few days, Yu Liang didn't feel better. He was pulled out of the camp with a bullock cart and sent to Xiongzhou. Many people were sent away by Minzhuang along with him. \u003c