Fenghou

Chapter 174
The main general of the Crescent Moon Camp is Wanyan Wushu's eldest son, Wanyan Bodie, who is the commander of a thousand commanders and leads [-] Jurchen soldiers to guard the mouth of the canyon.

Wanyan Bodie was as ruthless as his father, in the dark he saw countless Jurchen soldiers running, and he ordered without hesitation: "Shoot arrows!"

Thousands of arrows were fired at once, and the powerful arrows shot at the Jurchen soldiers who were fleeing in a hurry, and one by one the Jurchen soldiers were shot down, and after several rounds of arrows, more than half of the Jurchen soldiers were shot down.

The Jurchen soldiers who were fleeing were blocked by arrows in front of them, followed by the fierce Song army chasing after them. They were desperate and fled to the rock piles on both sides, but the fate that greeted them was still the merciless killing of Song army soldiers.

The attack on the third army camp was unsuccessful, so Chen Qing ordered the army to stop the pursuit.

As the chief general, Chen Qing, it is his style to make decisions before making moves. The scouts have already investigated the twelve military strongholds established by Wanyan Wushu very clearly. At least for capturing the first three military strongholds, Chen Qing has prepared several plan.

"Heavy shield army attack!"

The [-] heavy shield troops lined up to attack again. They lined up in ten rows with fifty people in a row. Each soldier held a heavy shield and a short spear in his hand, lined up the shields in a row, and pushed forward step by step.

Arrows came like raindrops, but they couldn't penetrate the heavy shield, nor could they stop the soldiers with the heavy shield from advancing.

The team stopped suddenly when they were a hundred steps away from the army stronghold. Two small catapults appeared in the middle of the team. Wanyan Bodie could see it clearly. machine!"

A thousand crossbow bolts shot at the two catapults at the same time, but the two catapults were already protected by thick heavy shields.
The two trebuchets were assembled in the afternoon, and the Song army didn't have enough time. Only two of the twenty trebuchets were assembled, but two were enough.

This small trebuchet only needs four people to operate, and it can throw objects weighing five to ten catties a hundred steps away.

The soldiers quickly loaded the gunpowder barrel, and one soldier lit the fuse, and when it burned to the end, he shouted, "Withdraw the shield!"

Shields out of the way, powder kegs 'Boom! When it was thrown out, the two gunpowder barrels drew two arcs and fell into the battalion fence. It exploded violently, the flames shot out, and the thick smoke filled the air. The tall camp fence was blown into several sections. Dozens of soldiers Was killed and wounded.

Wanyan Bodie was about twenty steps away from the explosion, so he was not directly impacted, but he was still hit in the face by a poisonous nail, and blood flowed down immediately.

"Commander, this iron nail is poisonous!"

Several generals shouted, "Send the commander away!"

Just kidding, Wanyan Bodie is the eldest son of the fourth prince, if he has three ups and downs, then everyone will die.

Everyone rushed to help Wanyan Bodie onto the horse and ran into the valley. Wanyan Bodie also felt his face start to go numb, knowing that the poison had begun to attack, he was a little frightened. He heard his uncle Wanyan Lu Pu said that this poisonous nail is insidious and vicious, and many Jurchen soldiers died on this poisonous nail.

At this time, the second round of trebuchets shot out, one gunpowder barrel exploded, and the other gunpowder barrel hit the hard rock wall. The wooden barrel shattered, and the gunpowder just ignited, but did not produce an explosion effect.

The gunpowder barrels of the Song army are very strong and strong, and they will not break when they are dropped on ordinary muddy ground, unless they fall on boulders, or hit directly on rock walls as they are doing now.

After five consecutive rounds of shooting, most of the barracks were blown up, but the Jurchen soldiers refused to retreat. Seeing that the archery was ineffective, they simply stopped shooting.

"Put the crossbow on the bed!" Chen Qing ordered coldly.

Five hundred bed crossbows were pushed up by the soldiers, and the heavy shield troops and catapults were withdrawn. Wang Duo shouted, "Shoot!"

The first row of one hundred bed crossbows was fired at the same time, and five hundred jackdaw arrows shot at the Jurchen soldiers like a rainstorm. The Jurchen soldiers raised their shields to meet them, but they didn't know that this was the most powerful bed crossbow in the world. External shooting is invincible, and shields can't resist it at all.

The extremely powerful five hundred jackdaw arrows instantly pierced the shields of the Jurchen soldiers, their bodies, and even the soldiers behind them.

The screams resounded through the army camp, and a large number of soldiers fell down. Then the second row of bed crossbows were pushed up and fired again.
When the Song army fired the fourth round of jackdaw arrows, the Jin soldiers collapsed completely. The thousands and centurions were all shot and killed, and the remaining hundreds of soldiers fled into the valley desperately.

The Song army successfully occupied the mouth of the Shencha Valley.

Chen Qing and the soldiers knew exactly what they were going to face next. Tens of thousands of golden soldiers would soon retreat to the south, and they might even arrive in a few hours. They had to build up a solid defense as quickly as possible.

Hundreds of carts came up continuously, bringing boulders and logs, and thousands of loads of hay. Not only that, Chen Qing also sent thousands of soldiers to cut down trees nearby, search for boulders, and use all means to block the entrance of the valley.

Dozens of soldiers with high martial arts skills can climb to the top of the mountain on the left. They use long ropes to pull giant logs up one after another, forming a powerful deterrent on the top of the mountain. When dealing with Xiao Cong before, the soldiers pushed Down more than two hundred giant trees.

Considering the advantage of the top of the mountain, Chen Qing simply sent the last [-] barrels of gunpowder to the top of the mountain together.

At midnight, hundreds of trees and hundreds of boulders had accumulated at the mouth of the valley, sealing the mouth of the valley firmly.

Chen Qing entrusted Zheng Ping with the task of blocking the entrance of the valley, and he immediately led the cavalry to the periphery of Heshangyuan.
Wanyan Wushu had to withdraw his troops, not only because of food and grass problems, but also because of morale, which was getting lower and lower every day. During the siege this morning, none of the soldiers on one of the thirty siege ladders could reach the top , I don't want to attack up when I climb halfway.

If only the golden soldiers on one ladder were like this, it would be fine, but the golden soldiers on the thirty ladders all behaved in the same way, as if they had made an appointment in advance.

The camp was burned down, the pass could not be stormed, and the soldiers suffered heavy casualties. Now the food and grass are about to be cut off. All kinds of blows made the soldiers completely lose their fighting spirit.

Wanyan Wushu realized the seriousness of the problem, which was a sign of extreme war weariness, and the next step was to flee collectively.

Wanyan Wushu could only accept the reality and ordered to prepare to withdraw the troops.

At two o'clock, Wanyan Wushu's tens of thousands of troops began to retreat to the south, and they had less than two days of food and grass left, and the backup food and grass that Wanyan Wushu had been looking forward to was also cut off by Chen Qing on the south bank of the Weihe River. Disrupt the follow-up plan of Wanyan Wushu.

Wanyan Wushu originally considered retreating to the West Valley, but the food and grass now were not enough to support them returning to Fengxiang Mansion from the West Valley, so they could only retreat to the south.

Fortunately, he deployed twelve military strongholds in Shenchagou just for this moment.

There are still more than [-] Jurchen troops left, and there are about [-] soldiers deployed along the way.

Wanyan Wushu was afraid that the Song army would find out that they were retreating, so he ordered the tent not to be dismantled, and the army retreated quietly.

On the top of the city, Wu Jie stared intently at the Jinbing camp. They were too familiar with the Jinbing camp. There was a wooden tower in the middle of the Jinbing camp. There was a string of lanterns on the wooden tower, which was used to tell the time at night. One lantern is lit at the hour, and five lanterns will be lit at five o'clock. Every day is on time, and there is no delay in the day, so that the Song army also uses the time-telling lanterns of the Jin soldiers to change the guard at night.

But today is very strange, half an hour has passed since the second watch, and only one lantern is still on.

"Dutong, could it be that the golden soldiers have already withdrawn?" Wang Wu, the commander on duty, boldly guessed.

Wu Jie nodded, he also had this doubt, he pondered for a moment and ordered: "Send two brothers to find out the truth, and give them a big reward!"

Wang Wu immediately found two brave soldiers, each rewarded fifty taels of silver, and ordered them to take the ladder down to the city and go to the Jinbing camp to investigate the truth.

The two climbed the ladder down to the city, ran across the battlefield, and went to the Jinbing camp two miles away.

Wu Jie stared at the two soldiers without blinking until their backs gradually disappeared.

(End of this chapter)