Fenghou

Chapter 9 Desperate

Chen Qing guessed right, Wanyan Alu was within the woods less than fifty steps away from them.

Wanyan Alu also discovered the weakness of the army village, the mountains and forests around them are dense, as long as they don't take the mountain path, or crawl forward on the mountain path, the opponent's bed crossbow can't do anything to them.

Wanyan Alu hid behind a big tree, observing the terrain around the military village.

Under the fence of the military village is a steep slope of [-] feet high. According to today’s standards, it is [-] meters high and has an inclination of about [-] degrees.

But they can use ropes to pull down the barracks, and then suppress the opponent with bows and arrows to cover the soldiers' frontal attack.

Wanyan Alu waved and called the three centurions forward.

"We don't have time to waste time with the Song army. Tonight we must wipe out each other. The three of you listen to my deployment. Yan Shulie leads a hundred brothers to attack from the front. I will talk about how to attack later, Yinya. And Bolt each lead fifty soldiers from the left and right to support, we must first destroy the enemy's barracks."

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Time gradually reached the middle of the night, and black shadows emerged from the woods on both sides of the mountain road.

There were dozens of people on each side, holding shields and spears, climbing up the muddy ground.

Hundreds of enemy soldiers also appeared on the mountain path. They crawled on the mountain path, waiting for the opportunity to attack.

The sentinel of the Song Army immediately discovered the opponent's situation, and the soldiers took their positions one after another.

Chen Qing watched the movement of the enemy army, but the night was pitch black, without stars and moonlight, he could only see some vague shadows.

He could understand the enemy attacking from the front, but why did they attack the sides, a slope that was one foot five feet high, the heavy rain for several days made the slope full of slimy mud, extremely slippery, they couldn't climb up at all, what did the Jurchens want to do?
But the development of the situation no longer allowed Chen Qing to think about it, and the figure of the other party gradually became clear and approached.

"shooting!"

At Chen Qing's order, the soldiers of the Song Army squatted in front of the barracks and raised their crossbows to shoot.

After a round of crossbow arrows was shot, only a few screams were heard, and at most four or five people were shot down by random arrows. The opponent had shields and armor, and the arrows could not penetrate.

"Tou, they use ropes!"

Ropes flew from below one by one, and they were accurately placed on the camp fence.

Chen Qing suddenly understood that the opponent wanted to pull down the barracks. The barracks were a barrier for soldiers. Without the barracks, the opponent's bows and arrows could suppress them.

"The first team cut the rope with me, and the rest of the soldiers shoot!"

Chen Qing yelled, swung his knife and slashed at a rope, 'Crack! 'A rope was cut.

The Jurchen soldiers below got up and tugged on the rope together, and the barracks began to shake violently.

Ten Song soldiers swung their knives and slashed at the ropes on the barracks.

At the same time, the rest of the soldiers of the Song Army also seized the opportunity that the opponent could not use their shields, and shot dense arrows at the enemy...
The barracks of the military camp was not one piece, but was made up of [-] sections, each section was about two feet long. Chen Qing discovered the opponent's attempt in time, commanded it properly, and most of the ropes were cut off.

However, three sections of the six-foot-wide barracks were still pulled down, especially the two gaps in the east were connected together, with a width of four feet, through which the enemy could block the gate of the barracks with arrows.

For these three gaps, the Jurchen soldiers also paid the price of nearly [-] casualties, and even the centurion Bolt was hit by two arrows in a row and was seriously injured.

"Archery!"

Wanyan Alu let out a loud roar, and a hundred Jurchen soldiers simultaneously shot arrows into the gap to the east.

The arrows were like rain, and several Song soldiers couldn't dodge in time. They were shot by random arrows and fell down screaming.

"Kill it!" Wanyan Alu saw the opportunity and shouted sharply.

The soldiers attacking the camp gate on the mountain road got up one after another, raised their shields and walked towards the camp gate step by step, but the bed crossbow couldn't push it, and the arrows shot from the gap just blocked the camp gate.

The situation was critical, Chen Qing yelled at Yang Hua, the escort: "Ten shieldmen, block the gap!"

"Follow the order!"

Yang Hua divided his troops into two groups, and ten soldiers raised their shields and rushed up, blocking the gap with their shields.

But this was just a matter of profit, Yang Hua led ten other soldiers to drag out the corpses of the Jurchen soldiers piled up in the northwest corner.

This is the body of more than [-] Jurchen soldiers who were shot and killed by the bed crossbow during the day, and their armor has been stripped off.

They dragged the corpses to the gap and piled them on top of each other.

This is called a human target, also known as a meat pile. It was invented by the Liao army at that time, and it made full use of the corpses of the fallen enemy soldiers to resist bows and arrows.

Another burst of dense arrows came, and the arrows were all nailed to the corpse, the gap was blocked, and they could no longer enter the camp.

"Commander, those corpses... seem to belong to us!"

Silver Fang, the centurion, discovered the mystery of the human target.

Wanyan Alu punched the ground hard, his teeth clenching.

He originally wanted to use the night to sneak attack the opponent, but he didn't expect the sneak attack to be seen through by the Song army, resulting in too high a cost for both sides of the attack.

Moreover, the gap that was opened with great difficulty was blocked by the other party in a shameful way, and his plan was completely worth the candle.

Wanyan Alu couldn't help becoming angry from embarrassment, and ordered: "Concentrate your forces and attack the enemy's camp."

The original attacking team of [-] people increased to [-] people, led by centurion Yan Shulie and Yinya.

Just as the soldiers blocked the gap with their shields, ten bed crossbows had been pushed up and aimed at the Jurchen soldiers on the mountain path, and the Jurchen soldiers had already killed ten steps away.

"Shoot!" Chen Qing shouted.

The bed crossbow shot twenty-five jackdaw iron arrows powerfully, and the Jurchen soldiers running in front fell to the ground one after another, screaming, and many of them were pierced by the iron arrows.

Immediately afterwards, the second round of bed crossbows was shot out. In the chaos, both sides of the crossbows fired at once, and the Jurchen soldiers on the mountain road suffered heavy casualties.

The bed crossbow needed to be wound, and there was a short pause, and the centurion Yan Shulie roared, "Follow me!"

He charged forward with a spear, and the hundred Jurchen soldiers behind him rushed to the gate of the camp.

The situation was critical, Chen Qing roared and charged forward with a spear.

Chen Qing was wearing the black lacquered iron armor of the Jurchen soldiers who died in battle. This kind of iron armor was actually made by the Imperial Forest Army of the Liao Kingdom. It was made by the best Han craftsmen in Youzhou. Armor-penetrating arrows of the Jurchen cavalry.

The [-] soldiers of the Song army behind Chen Qing also put on the black lacquered iron armor of the Jurchen sentry cavalry. Although the iron armor of the two armies is exactly the same, the helmets are different. Wear a hat.

Chen Qing roared, and the big iron spear was as fast as lightning, and stabbed straight at the opponent's general.

The opposite of Chen Qing was the centurion Yan Shulie, the opponent's iron spear was too fast, Yan Shulie raised his spear to block it, but unexpectedly the opponent's move was false, he made an empty move, screaming in his heart that something was wrong, he hurriedly backed away, But it was too late, I only felt a pain in my chest.

'puff! The iron spear pierced Yan Shulie's chest, and Yan Shulie died immediately with a scream.

Yan Shulie's death depressed the morale of the Jurchen army, and they were killed by more than [-] soldiers of the Song army and retreated again and again.

Wanyan Alu was furious, and sternly ordered, "The whole army goes up!"

Wanyan Alu put all his eggs in one basket and put the last [-] Jurchen soldiers up there. There were [-] Jurchen soldiers on the mountain path, and Wanyan Alu personally commanded them behind.

"Ugh-"

The horns of the Jurchen soldiers blew vigorously, resounding through the mountains and forests.

The Jurchen soldiers on the mountain road rushed forward like a stormy sea. The soldiers on both sides raised their shields to defend against the crossbow arrows of the Song army, and countless spears fought in front of the barracks.

"Get out of the way!"

Zheng Ping, the guard from behind, yelled, and the soldiers of the Song Army stepped aside one after another. Several bed crossbows rushed out of the gap one after another, and all eighteen jackdaw iron arrows shot out, and the twenty or so Jurchen soldiers facing them were shot down , There was a lot of screams.

Chen Qing turned his head and shouted: "The bed crossbow continues!"

"Du Tou, the Jackdaw Iron Arrow is gone!"

Chen Qing's heart sank, the thing he was most worried about finally appeared.

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At the most critical moment, Song Jun's bed crossbow stopped shooting, and Wanyan Alu realized that the opponent's bed crossbow had shot out.

He shouted excitedly: "Song Jun has no bed crossbows, rush up and kill the opponent!"

The Jurchen soldiers were attacking like a wave, and the Song army was all on board, and they had no way to retreat.

Chen Qing brandished his gun and shouted: "Brothers, we Da Song Erlang would rather die in battle than retreat!"

"Never step back!"

The soldiers of the Song army roared in unison, and fought hard to kill the Jurchen soldiers. Even the seriously injured soldiers in the cave also joined the battle. Both of them started a bloody fight in front of the gate of the barracks. One group of soldiers fell, and another group of soldiers went up.

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Chen Qing was shot in the leg with a spear, bleeding profusely, and was dragged down by the soldiers.

He simply bandaged them up and got up to check the battle situation. Nearly half of the Song army had been killed or injured, with only fifty people left, but the opponent still had more than one hundred people. If this continues, their entire army will definitely be wiped out.

"Yang Hua!"

"I am humble!"

Chen Qing handed him his spear, "You lead the soldiers to resist, I will buy time, and I will go around and kill the enemy general."

"Follow the order!"

Yang Hua took the spear and rushed out.

Chen Qing picked up the only magic arm crossbow in the warehouse, and said to Zhao Xiaoyi: "You guide me, let's go around!"

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