Chapter 375 Why can’t I stand firm?

Chapter 375 Why can’t I stand firm?

Street fighting is the most troublesome battle for military scientists and famous generals from ancient times to the present.

When the two armies fight in the wilderness, the generals can compete with the command art, soldiers' quality, training level, etc. to open up the gap with the other party. However, street fighting is only related to the general's character - a best soldier may be stoned by a farmer on the corner of the street... Even if he is not killed by the farmer, he will be continuously, from front, back, left, left, and from the sky and underground, causing extreme mental tension and even collapse.

The flames behind them were still burning. The heroes of Liangshan retreated step by step from the cool streets, and the more they walked towards the dock, the thick smoke and mist made the heroes of Liangshan increasingly unable to distinguish the direction. However, at this time, the attacks from all directions from the high places continued. The shield array of Liangshan heroes covered the front, unable to cover their backs, and could not cover their left and right sides, and could not cover their heads. As they retreated, they left the injured and left pools of blood.

The generals Li Yan chose were basically locals in Haizhou. Jinxiu Street Ghost Market (night market) is a place where they often visit. Which pick and meat patty here is delicious, the pick and sesame paste are delicious, the shop is famous for its powder, and the shop is bright in silk... They all know that even in the most intense night, they will not get lost when walking on Jinxiu Street. Even if they jump on the wall, they will talk about it carefully...

"Be careful, this is the Cao family's scissors shop. The Cao family is small-minded and has broken his tiles. Be careful, Miss Jia Qiuyan quarreled with you... Hey, I saw a head with the character Xu underneath the flag. I must be a high-ranking official. Don't snatch anyone from—"

Then, with a bang, the golden spear led Xu Ning to reduce the defense circle under his command. He felt his head buzzing and almost staggering.

"Who? Who hit me? Who dares to hit me?" Xu Ning turned his dizzy head and looked around. On the upper right side, a general leaned over and looked at him with a smile. Xu Ning slapped Hua Rong on the shoulder. Hua Rong's hand was fast and he hit an arrow like lightning... Then he looked up and saw that the general had hidden behind the chimney behind the eaves.

"Be careful—" Hua Rong shouted loudly, then counterattacked with an arrow, but the direction of his counterattack was already behind him - the general who had just shot had jumped to the roof of another house and said casually: "This is the Dou family silk satin shop. The silk sold by this house is from Dingzhou, and the silk surface is thick and dense."

"Boom", a huge rock fell from the roof, falling on several shields. The huge rock fell on humans cannot resist it. Several shield hands were hit to the ground and groaned in pain.

"This... why did they lift such a huge stone onto the roof?" Hua Rong was puzzled.

At this time, I can't hesitate. Opposite, Li Yan's team was lined up to press forward step by step. The people on the walls and roofs were familiar with every cover on the street, and the attacks came anytime and anywhere. The heroes of Liangshan on the ground could not prevent it. "Look at the houses along the street, they were all built of huge stones. What's the strange thing about having stones on the roof... Don't worry about the formation, I'll cover you, run away, and after running out of this street, you can protect me and retreat."

The ground troops led by Li Yan were also local tyrants. They fought on this straight road in a vivid way. The heroes of Liangshan retreated all the way. There was no abnormality in the streets they had passed. However, after Li Yan led the spearmen to force them out, the crossbowman who followed him flashed. The signs on the roadside store, stone tigers, stone benches, and stone lamps, all became shooting positions.

As for the seemingly inconspicuous half-walls along the way, they will suddenly turn into the generals' sentry. A group of generals who jumped out of nowhere refused to guard the half-wall and used endless, elusive scattered shots to make the heroes of Liangshan unable to deal with it.

"It's now---run", Xu Ning shouted loudly, the shield wall flashed, Hua Rong led the remaining Liangshan heroes to run hard, and Xu Ning jumped out, protecting his face with a shield, acting as a human sandbag to attract firepower. In an instant, countless generals appeared in front, back, left and right, and shouting: "Don't compete with me."

Then, the raindrop-like arrows and crossbows fell on Xu Ning. In the blink of an eye, Xu Ning was covered with arrow rods, but he stepped back without panic. Until he saw a man lifting a huge rock on the roof, he was panicked and quickly threw down his shield, spread his legs, and ran towards the back.

"Why can't this person be beaten to death?" The general holding the stones looked unhappy.

"Yes, why can't I be killed? There are so many arrows inserted into my body." The generals were puzzled and sighed together: "It's a true god."

As a human sandbag, Xu Ning's usual role-playing role in Liangshan is nothing more than that. He has a peerless armor - Sai Tang, which is the Persian chain mail.

In fact, Persian chain mail was not uncommon in the Song Dynasty. "Xu Zizhi Tongjian" records that Guangzhou Maritime Affairs imported more than 100 Persian chain mails every year. In the Song Dynasty, it has been two hundred years, and there were about tens of thousands of such chain mails. According to records, this thing is not as expensive as people imagined. In the middle of the Song Dynasty, the Maritime Affairs Bureau collected taxes at a price of 300 to 500 guan, while at the end of the Song Dynasty, it collected taxes at a price of about 700 guan.

300,000 to 700,000 yuan is about the price of a BMW x6. And Xu Ning's armor is said to have been bought by his great-grandfather, and that can be bought for about 300,000 yuan.

To put it in detail, in fact, the "Tang Zi Armor" was not as fierce as the well-known "Bai Ren Armor" in the Song Dynasty. The latter weighed 40 kilograms, and the leather armor was full of iron pieces. Even ordinary bed crossbows shot on it, at most it would knock the human body away. It was difficult to penetrate it. However, because the "Tang Zi Armor" was light and soft, and you can do various movements when you put it on your body. Therefore, although the protection ability of the Tang Zi Armor was only 60% of that of the "Bai Ren Armor" was still enthusiastically sought after by the generals.

Relying on this soft Tang Dynasty armor, Xu Ning finally withdrew from Binhai Street. Then, Hua Rong directed everyone to pass through the burning flames and jump into the dock area. At this point, the heroes of Liangshan outside the dock area were basically wiped out. Only the small army led by Xu Ning Hua Rong was able to merge with the heroes of Liangshan in the dock area.

But at this time, the group of heroes in the dock area had a bad life. The flames were so bad that they could not stand. What added to the fire was that several giant boats appeared on the sea in the distance. Behind these giant boats were countless ships of all sizes. They shouted loudly on the sea, and the noise was heard... But strangely, these ships were not close to the berth area of ​​the dock, they were just patrolling the outer edge of the channel, swimming back and forth quickly.

Later, Yizhang Qing Zhang Heng had already packed up two hard sailboats on the right elevated street. Several Liangshan leaders rushed over. They stood on the berth of the ship and looked at the fast sailboat in the distance and asked Zhang Heng: "Run out now, can you?"

Zhang Heng was not on the boat, he stood on the springboard connected to the berth. After hearing the leader's question, Zhang Heng did not turn around. His eyes turned with the four cruising fast ships for a moment, slowly shook his head, and replied: "It's too difficult and the other party has raised all the sails. The sails are full of energy. We start Zhang Fan now. It will take some time for the ship to start, and the speed has just increased, and it will collide with the other party... These four sea boats look strange and the turn is too flexible. I have never seen them before, and when they fight, they are in a loss of confidence."

The four fast sailing ships that were worn in Shizhou were not large, with a load of about 200 tons, and a hull of about 30 meters long and about seven meters wide. In modern times, this kind of ship is just a small sampan for ordinary fishermen to carry passengers. However, at present, the sea boats with a larger load of sea boats have been transferred in advance by Shizhou Pier, and the pier that were left at the pier were all 100 tons of small boats. At this time, the length and width ratio of the Song ship was about one to two to seventy four. This kind of ship was round and fat, and it was more stable in Jiangzhonghu, but it was extremely poor in direction because the body was too round and the turns were neither flexible nor fast.

In recent years, the heroes of Liangshan have mainly moved in lakes. All the leaders are not navigators. When they saw four fast boats rowing around the sea like swimming fish, the other party's hull was obviously bigger than themselves and the freeboard was much higher. The leaders who came to ask questions hesitated for a moment and said along the way: "Unless you press a sufficient number of ships at a time to limit the range of movement of the other party, and then siege... How many boats are prepared in the left slanting lane?"

The leader of the navy army, Ruan Tong (i.e. the 'Short-Life Erlang Ruan Xiaowu' in the Water Margin, and the 'Short-Life Erlang' in the Water Margin," Ruan Xiaowu, who ranked fifth, was nicknamed 'Short-Life Erlang' in the Water Margin) replied: "We grabbed twenty intact ships. Although the waterway on Zuoxi Street was blocked, it still left a crack. We can go one boat after another and go out next to it. Be careful that we can barely sail. However, outside, the waters left for our entire team are not enough."

The navy leaders all understood that when the surface wars, the fleet needs extra space. In order to prevent the collision of two ships, the ships must be at least four or five hulls apart. If the ships are fast, they will be separated by two or three nautical miles apart, which is common sense... However, the latter situation belongs to the era of ironclad ships.

Zhang Heng added again: "I often hear that the sea water flows at Haizhou Pier are strange. They are not guided by familiar water diversion boats, and they are almost impossible to reach the shore. Now, even though the other party is circling around the sea, it seems that this sea area can be sailed at will, but I dare not enter the other party's sea area."

"There is no time left." The leader Song Jiang stomped his feet and ordered: "You first lead the boat out to the sea outside the Zuoxie Lane, throw the cables to the brothers in Zuoxie Lane, and then tie the sunken ships with the cables to drag them away from the channel one by one. Now the Zuoxie Lane can no longer support it, so we must go out to sea quickly."

After saying that, Song Jiang hurried to Zuoxie Alley, probably to greet the brothers from Zuoxie Alley on board. After they left, Zhang Heng murmured in the back: "The hydrological situation is not familiar with, the ship is not familiar with, and the enemy is not clear... The surface battles that our Liangshan people are best at, this time it seems that they will fall into the surface battles. Look, how flexible the ships on the sea are."

The leader of the navy army next to him, Zhang Shun (Water Margin is a "Water Margin") snorted with a dissatisfaction and rebuked, "It's not all your idea - to fight Haizhou, take the ship out to sea and see what you have come up with. I just asked Zhang Qing without a feather arrow, saying that more than 40 brothers have been killed in Zuoxie Lane. We have been traversing Shandong for so many years, but we have never suffered such a big loss."

Zhang Heng rolled his eyes and retorted: "Isn't this because he was caught off guard? Who would have thought that the generals of Haizhou are so bold? We harassed Haizhou according to the plan of military advisor Wu Jialiang. Shuyang County was already scared to keep the city closed. According to the plan, we should hide in the deep mountains, quietly find out the dynamics of Haizhou Port, and then take down the Haizhou Pier. Who would have thought that since Haizhou still dared to send a great general to search, we would force us to hide in the mountains and have to launch it in advance."

The leader of Liangshan who had just spoken sighed and said with emotion: "I heard people say that Haizhou Pili Fire is very famous, but I didn't take many actions. This time, we underestimated Pili Fire, and it ended up disrupting his plan."

Zhang Heng quickly asked again: "There was no explosion on Zuoxie Street. It seemed that the one who led the attack was not the Thunder Fire. I heard that there was another general in Haizhou who was also very famous. Several figures in the Ming Cult were trapped in his hands. The person's name was Li Yan. I don't know if the attackers were led by Li Yan."

"Jumping in the waves" Zhang Shun shook his head and replied: "The so-called generals are all insidious guys who are stolen from behind. They never fight with others. I heard Xu Ning say just now that someone called Li Leader Li during the battle. Maybe the leader is Li Yan."

Zhang Heng sighed and turned around to greet the Liangshan heroes on the dock to board the ship quickly. After giving up the passage on the springboard, he pointed to the sea and continued: "There are only two well-known figures in Haizhou. Since Li Yan is the one who led the attack on the dock, the leader of the fleet on the sea must be thunderbolt fire... Oops, it seems that the wave of enemies on the dock is easy to deal with, and the enemy on the sea is probably even more difficult to chew."

"The waves are gone" Zhang Shun bowed and said firmly: "We must break out. It's getting closer to evening. The longer the time is delayed, the more troops the imperial court comes. Now we are trapped on the dock. If we can't rush out, we will die without a place to bury."

"That's all," Zhang Heng said, clasping his fists at the other party so that he could step onto the springboard, and said, "Take care for each of you and I."

On the sea, Shi Chuan drove around the warships, never moving forward. The generals who participated in the war on his ship could not hold back and suggested to Shi Chuan: "Defense, we might as well move forward and catch them off guard in the chaos of the other party."

Shi Chuan shook his head and pointed to the dock: "The hydrological situation in our dock area is complicated. My hull is large and the space for maneuvering into the dock area is too small. Liangshan gangsters are used to fighting water battles. They are crowded and powerful. If they are entangled by the other party, we will suffer a loss."

After a while, Shizeng laughed: "Anyway, we have to clean the dock area. It's better to let the Liangshan River Devils do this work. When they are exhausted, we just beat the fallen dogs - we don't have to worry. Our local people in our hometown are familiar with the waterways, and Liangshan River Devils may not dare to sail at night."

The heroes of Liangshan did not dare to sail at night. Li Yan launched elusive attacks on the wharf area one after another. The heroes of Liangshan really did not dare to stay on the wharf overnight. Fortunately, the wharf area was relatively empty, and the long berth area of ​​Zuoxie Street stretched for ten miles. Li Yan did not dare to force him to go forward. In addition, the fire interval made Li Yan weak and had to attack and retreat to rest. This allowed the heroes of Liangshan to stabilize the front line.

When Song Jiang rushed over from Youxie Street, the smoke-filled Li Jinyi (Lu Junyi) whispered: "I can't hide anymore. The generals just now repeatedly attacked. Although we defeated them, we also injured our three leaders and broke more than 40 brothers - a total of 500 people were blocked from the Thunder Fire, injured twenty or thirty, and lost Suo Chao. The loss of fifty or sixty on the long street outside, and now there are more than 40 injuries...

I saw, in the blink of an eye, 30% of the brothers died here. If we stayed on this breakwater tonight, I was worried that the generals would swim over and attack from somewhere, and we didn’t even know the depth of the sea, so we could only stand here and be beaten - this is not a good thing."

As he was speaking, the leader of the former twelve commanders, Yang Zhi, who was the leader of the former twelve commanders, ran over from the tail end of the dike with a knife. He was wearing a brocade robe, without wrinkles at all, and had no expression on his gray face. He bowed and reported: "I have already explored. There are two ships available for the current channel. Let's go quickly. Only by reaching the sea can we get rid of those elusive generals."

What is inconsistent with the description in the novel is that there is no scar on the face of the green-faced beast Yang Zhi. Because the Song Dynasty, like other ancient dynasties, believed that appearance is born from the heart and believed that appearance is not determined by genes but by the morality in the individual. Therefore, the court had special requirements for the appearance of officials. People with ugly appearances basically did not have the qualifications to be an official. The legendary Zhong Kui in the Ming Dynasty committed suicide because he was ugly and even though he passed the Jinshi, he was still humiliated by others.

The reason why the ancients emphasized that "appearance is born from the heart" was because the worldview at that time was: people who looked ugly were too ugly because they were too ugliness in their hearts, so they reflected on their appearance.

In ancient times, officials had to go through a palace examination procedure. No matter whether they were civil and military, they were too scary, they would be demoted by the examiner.

The green-faced beast Yang Zhi is the leader of the twelve commanders. Since he is an officer of the court, he has nothing to be criticized about in terms of appearance. As for the fact that he is a green-faced beast, Yang Zhi is probably like the famous poet He Zhu and He Qinggui of this era. He has a blue face after drinking too much, so he has obtained the nickname of the green-faced beast.

"You have to go quickly," Yang Zhi, a green-faced beast, urged: "This berth looks weird. I heard Xu Ning's narrative that Li Yan was very good at street fighting. An inconspicuous building decoration on the long street could be used as a barricade in his hands. There are many inexplicable low walls in this pier, which looks strange. I heard that after the Thunder Fire was built into Zuoxi Street, he once claimed that he would not be afraid of pirate attacks anymore. In this way, he speculated that every strange building in the berth has a purpose that we cannot describe.

Now, Li Yan's attack eased a little, and the thunder fire was patrolling the sea. It was a good time to break through. Hurry up, wait until the night, I really don't know what else is coming out. It's hard to guard against, and it's going crazy."

Chapter 375 Why can’t you stand firm?
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