Fenghou

Chapter 128 Fierce Battle

At the critical moment, five hundred crossbow troops arrived, and together they raised their crossbows and shot at the cavalry who were close at hand. The five hundred powerful crossbow bolts shot at the cavalry like a storm. In front of the powerful crossbow, the armor of the cavalry seemed like Thin paper, the galloping cavalry and horses fell headlong, blood burst out, the horses neighed, and the last two hundred cavalry quickly piled up into a mountain of corpses only a dozen steps away from the mudbag wall.

At the same time, gunpowder barrels exploded among the crowd sixty steps away, poisonous nails shot out, flames flew into the air, and black smoke enveloped the position.

Many soldiers were shot by the poisonous nails. The itching caused by the poison made the soldiers break down and turned around to run away. But this time, Han Chang did not allow them to flee. Hundreds of Khitan cavalrymen held sharp axes and ruthlessly They hacked and killed the soldiers who had fled back. The soldiers were forced to turn around and continue to attack.

Han Chang stared at the explosion in the crowd in surprise. At first he thought it was an ordinary firearm, but now he found something unusual. All the firearms thrown by Song Jun exploded without exception, which is unbelievable.

During the siege of Bianliang, the Song army also threw a large number of firearms, but less than [-]% of the firearms successfully exploded, and most of them were extinguished halfway. You must know that firearms use oil paper as the ignition medium, which is greatly affected by wind and terrain. , the wind will be blown out, and it will be easily extinguished after landing.

So that in order to improve the success rate, the Song army burned the iron bar red, poked it into the firearm to ignite the gunpowder and then threw it. Of course, this kind of firearm would not have explosive power, but only played a role of burning and igniting.

Therefore, the firearms seem to have powerful fireworks, but they are actually tasteless and not very lethal. Otherwise, the Song army would not be suppressed by the Liao army for a long time, otherwise the Song Dynasty would not have almost destroyed the country.

But now, Song Jun seemed to have found some trick. Not only did the firearms have a high success rate, but most of them exploded on Jin Bing's head, and the timing was very precise.

Han Chang suddenly became interested, and he immediately ordered: "If you pass on the order, whoever can find a non-explosive firearm will be rewarded with five hundred guan!"

Guo Anguo was about to explode. He watched the wounded soldiers retreat, but were slaughtered by the Khitan cavalry like livestock. Many soldiers had followed his father for many years. They did not die under the spears of the enemy, but died under the spears of their own people. Under the knife and axe.

He couldn't bear it anymore, rushed forward and shouted: "General Han, tell your subordinates to go away, you don't need them to be supervisors!"

"What did you say?"

Han Chang looked at him coldly, "Are you ordering me?"

Guo Anguo was in great pain. If he said one more word, he would be beheaded. Blood rushed to his head. He shouted at the two thousand soldiers behind him: "Brothers, follow me!"

He brandished his sword and rushed up the hillside with the last two thousand soldiers.

Han Chang snorted coldly, "Add twice as many knives and axes, no matter who it is, whoever dares to retreat will be killed without mercy!"

The Song army threw kerosene, the firearms exploded above the heads, the fire burned in the crowd, and there were powerful crossbow arrows. The whole hillside was like Shura Hell, the corpses were burning, the smelly smoke filled the air, and the ground was full of scorched corpses. Can't see the ground.

The attacking enemy army was already in a state of madness. They put wooden planks on the mudbag wall and attacked like zombies. They were shot to death by random arrows, and then rushed up frantically. The corpses rushed into the camp.

But they were stubbornly resisted by the Song army. The spear array composed of a thousand Song troops firmly withstood the enemy's impact. They were like seawalls made of huge stones. In front of the camp standing firmly, one soldier was killed, and immediately another group of soldiers came up. A group of soldiers died, and a new group of soldiers came up.

Fifty steps away from the spear array, there are [-] god-armed crossbow soldiers. They use dozens of carts as cover, and shoot at the enemy with five rounds of powerful crossbow arrows. Groups of enemy soldiers who had just rushed to the heights were shot down by them.

The generals who commanded the battle on the spot were Yang Yuanqing and Zheng Pingping. The chief general Chen Qing was squatting on the side wall, watching the movements of the [-] cavalry in the distance. What he was really worried about was the [-] enemy troops. , I am afraid that the camp will not be able to hold on.

At this time, Chen Qing suddenly saw an enemy general on the slope surrounded by dozens of people. He kept waving his saber and ordered the soldiers to charge.

Chen Qing decisively took down the Dingyuan bow, drew out an arrow, opened the bow and set the arrow, and shot at the general.

The general was Guo Anguo, and he also risked it all. If he retreated, he would die. If he simply captured the enemy's camp, his soldiers still had a way out.

But he never dreamed that he had already been locked by Chen Qing's arrow, and he suddenly saw a black spot in the sky, before he could see it clearly, the black spot was already in front of him, it was an arrow, it was too fast, he didn't even know it. Too late to react.

'puff! An arrow hit the center of the eyebrow, the arrow pierced the head, and the tip of the arrow protruded from the back of the head, and there was a lump of bloody red and white brain tissue on the tip of the arrow.

Guo Anguo didn't even scream, he fell off his horse and died on the spot.

More than a thousand of the most elite soldiers behind him saw that the little lord was killed, and began to hesitate and stopped charging.

Han Chang also saw Guo Anguo being shot, he cursed in his heart, and ordered around, "Cavalry gather!"

Now is not the best time to attack, but Guo Anguo's killing disrupted Han Chang's plan, and he had to attack.

There were still more than [-] enemy troops attacking on the ramp, and the enemy cavalry began to gather. Chen Qing could see clearly that the enemy was about to attack.

Chen Qing immediately turned around and shouted sharply: "Zheng Ping, throw the fire oil barrel! Throw the fire oil barrel!"

Hearing Guo Song's shout, Zheng Ping ran to the small trebuchet and shouted, "Throw fire oil!"

Nearly half of the trebuchets had been damaged, and the remaining [-] or so trebuchets started together, throwing barrels of kerosene out, over the heads of the enemy soldiers, and even fell into the crowd of enemy soldiers.

At the same time, Han Chang gave the order to attack. He has always grasped the timing very precisely. It can't be too early or too late. It must be when there is not much remaining courage left in the attack from the Allied Army. This is the time to pick the fruit. best time.

Now the ramps are full of Confederates, they will hinder the cavalry attack.

The ramp with a width of several tens of feet cannot accommodate ten thousand cavalry to attack. Without these allied troops, one thousand cavalry could rush in directly, but now, at most, five hundred cavalry can only rush up.

"The first battalion cavalry attack!"

The first batch of [-] cavalry rushed to the ramp, the second batch of [-] cavalry was eager to try, and the third, fourth, and fifth batches of cavalry were all ready to attack at any time.

Just as the first batch of cavalry rushed up the slope, the slope suddenly caught fire. The fire was so fierce that it seemed to explode. It instantly engulfed more than a hundred cavalrymen rushing ahead, and more than a thousand infantrymen were engulfed. The front door was shrouded in choking smoke, and I couldn't see anything.

However, the Song army was still throwing oil barrels one after another, and the fire was getting bigger and bigger. The more than a hundred cavalry behind couldn't bear the fire, and retreated one after another. Dozens of cavalry rushed out from the thick smoke and fire, soaked The fire, the horse's tail was also burned, the horse neighed in terror, and ran away desperately.

More than a thousand soldiers of the Confederacy Army couldn't stand the scorching fire, and rushed down the hillside to retreat. The main general Guo Anguo was dead, and Han Chang spared them this time for the first time, and he will take over the army.

The fire array only temporarily blocked the cavalry army, and once the fire subsided a little, the cavalry would come back.

At this time, the fierce battle inside the camp gate had gradually come to an end. The corpses in the camp were piled up like a mountain. It was hard to distinguish between the Song army and the Jin army. The five hundred god arm crossbow troops played a huge role. Enemy casualties.

When the last hundreds of people who rushed into the camp were wiped out, the camp suddenly became quiet, and there were no more enemy troops, only the catapults "Boom!"Boom! The sound of projection, thick smoke billowed on the hillside, and the flames were raging, and the fire became more and more fierce.

The battle lasted from noon to dusk. The Consortium Army, including the main general Guo Anguo, dispatched [-] troops successively. In the end, only less than [-] people survived, and even the main general Guo Anguo died in the battle.

Song Jun also paid a tragic price, more than [-] people were killed and more than [-] people were injured.

The Song army had no time to celebrate the victory. They seized all the time to clean up the enemy soldiers, especially the two thousand charred corpses before and after the mudbag wall, so as not to give the enemy horses a chance to leap over the mudbag wall.

The last trebuchet was also damaged, and no new kerosene barrels were thrown out. The fire finally subsided, and the smoke gradually dissipated. The god arm crossbow soldiers are already in position, ready to meet the impact of the enemy cavalry.

But unexpectedly, the enemy cavalry did not continue to attack, and the chief ten thousand, Mutli, stopped the cavalry attack.

Without discussing with himself, Han Chang took the initiative to use the cavalry and arranged for the cavalry to attack, which accumulated the dissatisfaction in Mutli's heart to the extreme.

And the opponent's kerosene weapon also made Mutli very frightened. Once the fire burned into pieces, the horses could not bear it first, and they would inevitably fall into frenzy and collide with each other, causing huge damage to the cavalry.

Seeing Song Jun trying his best to clean up the corpses, Han Chang was furious, and shouted: "So many brothers died in exchange for the present opportunity. The opportunity is fleeting. If you don't catch it, you will never have another opportunity in the future." !"

Mutli said coldly: "You still have [-] Xie troops under your command. Since it's an opportunity, you just let them go. Why do you let the cavalry go to die?"

"You idiot!"

Han Chang finally couldn't help it, and cursed, "I really don't know how you got into the position of Chief Wan. You don't even understand the basics of common sense. The Song army is exhausted. It's a good opportunity for the cavalry to attack. You can defeat the enemy in one battle." , if I can use infantry, will I use cavalry?"

Mutli ignored Han Chang, and he said to a group of cavalry commanders: "Without my order, whoever dares to send troops without authorization will kill without mercy!"

He turned away.

Han Chang watched helplessly that the corpses in front of the Song army's camp had been cleaned up, and the bed crossbow appeared. He closed his eyes in anger. Muteli's stupidity bought precious time for the Song army, and the fighter that appeared in an instant has disappeared. up.

Han Chang was extremely frustrated. Today was indeed not going well, and internal strife caused them to lose their chance.

At the same time, he never got any samples of the Song Army's firearms. It's not that all the Song Army's firearms exploded, but that kerosene and firearms were mixed together, and a few gunpowder kegs that did not explode also burned up in the fire.

Night finally came.

　In fact, Lao Gao didn’t save many manuscripts. His old father was seriously ill in the early days, and he basically consumed the saved manuscripts. Lao Gao tried his best to stick to three chapters a day. Attitude, strive to write every chapter.

　　
　
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