I am Da Song

Chapter 27 The Emperor's Fiery Authority

There was a stream of arrows, rocks and stars in the sky, and the broken stones that continuously pierced the sky shot past Zhao Huan's head.This background of distress made Zhao Huan's killing intent seem to condense into substance, dyeing the whole sky red.

All the soldiers in the city ran forward in fear, crossing the dazzling long sword, for fear of being executed by the enraged emperor.

Guo Zhongxun, whose legs were weak, fell to the ground, supported his upper body with his hands, and kicked his legs frantically, supporting his body to keep retreating, so as to stay away from the Imperial City Siqin who was striding towards him.

However, the subordinate officer, who was covered in fine heavy armor, seemed to be a ruthless god of death, leaving only a pair of murderous eyes.

The two officers easily grabbed Guo Zhongxun, who was limp all over, and locked his arms behind his back in front of a group of soldiers who left the city.Wu Ge raised his long saber high and slashed down with all his might.The next moment, the head flew horizontally, and a large amount of blood sprayed up, several feet high.Blood poured on the faces of countless nearby soldiers.

The soldiers who fought could only feel the heart beating violently in the chest at this moment, the muscles of the whole body were tense, and the blood was throbbing.

The majestic Marshal Ma, one of the three most powerful commanders in the Forbidden Army, was executed decisively and directly like this!
No one in the entire army dared to take chances anymore, so they could only burn the boats and fight the enemy bravely.

Zhao Huan turned to look at Liu Fan, and asked, "I heard that once the force is vigorous, it will decline again, and then it will be exhausted. The imperial army has experienced so much chaos, will they continue to fight?"

Liu Fan said decisively, "We must continue to fight. The officials have killed so much that they have blocked the way of life for the forbidden army. Looking around, the forbidden army is all dead ends, and there is no life in sight. Therefore, we must point out a way out for the forbidden army!"

Advancing and retreating to wait for death, you must survive from death!Obviously, the way to survive that Liu Fan said is to defeat the Jin army, or at worst, to draw a tie with the Jin army.This is the direction Zhao Huan expected the imperial army to survive from death.

Zhao Huan said: "Since you think so, then everything will be arranged according to your decision! I will go to beat the drums myself to cheer for the soldiers."

Liu Fan was also full of energy, and shouted: "The cannon is on the string!"

"There is no more Yaishi here!"

"There's no Yaishi here either."

"There are more here."

"There are also here, come here to get it!"

The cannon mounts and crossbows on the city wall were wound up again. This was the last arrow of the day, and only about [-]% of the cannons and crossbows were successfully filled with ammunition.

After shooting this time, if you can't repel the Jin army, you can only watch the Jin army show off their power, constantly bombard the defenders, hit the morale of the defenders, calmly fill up Caihe, and prepare to attack the city.

At that time, defending the city will fall into the most passive situation, and can only defend the city with flesh and blood, passively responding to the powerful offensive of the Jin army.

With a solemn expression, Liu Fan held up the command flag himself, looked at the morale of the golden army in the distance, took a deep breath, waved the command flag suddenly, and shouted: "The whole army salvos!"

The sky was dark again, and a large number of cannon stones, crossbow guns, and arrow rain covering the sky and the sun covered the Jin army's position.

This volley full of defenders' anger, expectation, and fighting spirit instantly killed hundreds of people. There were screams and screams in the Jin army, stumps and broken arms flew across the ground, and dirty weapons were everywhere on the cold ground. Dirty liver and splattered blood.

The cannon stone smacked Jin Jun's corpse, and the crossbow gun penetrated Jin Jun's body. The undead Jin Jun soldiers were nailed to death by the crossbow gun and then struggled painfully while spitting blood.

At this time, the loud drums in the city sounded, Zhao Huan did not avoid the arrows, and beat the drums himself to help the battle!

"Long live!"

"Long live!"

"Long live!"

The roar of the soldiers after putting down the last arrow on the city wall was earth-shattering.

The deputy commander in front of the hall, Wang Zong, was far more courageous than Guo Zhongxun. When defending the outer city, he led troops to attack several times, killing and wounding thousands of Jin soldiers.

Wang Zongguan walked out of the inner city, stood in front of the whole army, threw down his head pocket, raised his knife and shouted: "The captives invaded the palace again, and wherever they went, they only killed people, looted property, and drove away women. The whole world is saddened!"

"We share weal and woe. At this time, when the hero is working hard, report to the king's father and go to the Baoshi family."

"Soldiers and soldiers, the Son of Heaven will act personally to inspire the army for us. And how dare we disappoint the expectations of the world? Follow me into the battle to kill the enemy and expel the Hulu!"

The Forbidden Army, who had been driven to a dead end, could no longer retreat, and shouted decisively: "Kill!"

"kill!"

"kill!"

Nearly a thousand people rushed to the river bank with swords, guns, axes and sticks high, and stepped on the Baokangmen Bridge with heavy and dense footsteps.

Song Jun's "Wu Jing Zong Yao" is a very complete army drill book of Song Jun.Regarding the formation of infantry, there are not only detailed textual regulations for each row and column.Even draw directly, drawing the position of soldiers in each formation of infantry.The Infantry Four Transformation Map has been compiled in graphic and text form.

The deployment of the Forbidden Army out of the city is based on the map.Except for a group of people who directly charged the opposite bank, everyone else stood still on the river bank.

The heads of the hundreds of people shouted loudly: "Form a six-flower array!"

The so-called Liuhua Formation is not the famous army formation created by Li Jing, the military god of the Tang Dynasty, but the third formation in the "Four Changes of Infantry" in "Wu Jing Zongyao", which is called Liuhua Formation in the army.

This is a formation that can best exert the power of the Song Army's arrow formation.If one person is in formation, two steps in width and length, each can accommodate people in the world, and can make soldiers come and go.Therefore, nearly a thousand soldiers lined up in formation, covering a very large area.As far as the eye can see, the north bank of Caihe River is full of vermilion army.

In the front row of the army formation, there are ten archers with a wider distance.Behind the archers, there are ten standard bearers standing staggered with the archers.

In the back two rows are neat crossbowmen, 20 people in each row.In the last two rows, there will be twenty archers in each row.

The arrangement of the six-flower formation is very strict, and soldiers can find their positions as long as they use the bow and crossbow in their hands.

The emperors and ministers of the Song Dynasty concluded: "The elders of the captives are the iron cavalry, and the officers and soldiers are invincible; the elders of the Chinese are the strong crossbows, and the captive soldiers are very fearful."

In the city of Tokyo, the golden cavalry could not gallop.And the Song Army couldn't wait to see the wind and collapse, and it was enough to start an upright battle.

In an instant, the Song army's arrows were like locusts, and they were as numerous as rain. The arrows covered the sky, and the flowing arrows covered the ground.

The Jin army hadn't recovered from the chaos, and was hit by arrow rain again, causing more and more casualties.Thousands of troops died in front of Caihe alone.

Don't think that bows and arrows can't break armor.Cold weapons have been developed for thousands of years, and there are countless lessons of blood and tears. Will these military experts and generals not understand the significance of bows and arrows to break armor?

The use of bows and arrows in the Central Plains has a history of 8000 years, and the types of arrows alone are roughly equivalent to the number of Chinese characters.Armor-piercing arrows are one of the most important categories.

Especially in the Song Dynasty, the rate of wearing armor was greatly increased, and breaking armor with bows and crossbows became the top priority.

The military book of the Song Dynasty "Mr. Cuiwei's Northern Expedition Record" clearly emphasizes: "An arrow does not break the strong, it is the same as no arrow; an arrow does not break the armor, and the enemy uses it against capital."

The armor-piercing arrows of this era "have arrow clusters up to six or seven inches in size, shaped like chisels, and can't come out when they enter."

In the Song Dynasty, one foot was 31.68 centimeters, and six or seven inches meant that the arrowhead alone was more than 20 centimeters long, longer than a ruler.

Moreover, armor-piercing arrows are generally cone-shaped, and the triangular armor-piercing cone is a relatively common armor-piercing arrow. The armor-piercing cone of more than 20 centimeters is almost comparable to the thorns of the triangular army of later generations, and it is of course no problem to penetrate armor.

Not only is the Eastern armor unstoppable, but the Western armor is also unstoppable.Regarding armor-piercing with bows and arrows, the Western record is "A Mongolian heavy arrow pierces armor", while the Eastern record is: "The one hit by a heavy arrow immediately dies."

So when the Song Army's arrow rain covered the Jin Army's position, the Jin Army immediately suffered heavy losses.Especially in the rain of arrows there are crossbow arrows shot by the god arm bow (named bow, actually a crossbow), which is the number one weapon of the Song army. Jin Wushu, the fourth prince of the state of Jin, once suffered a lot, and issued: "Song uses military weapons to be great." The wonderful one is nothing more than a bow with a divine arm, the next one is a heavy axe, and there is nothing to fear outside."

The range of the divine arm bow is as high as 340 steps, and at a distance of 340 steps, it can still shoot into hard elm knots for several inches.

Shooting the Jin army at close range across the Caihe River, even the Jin army wearing heavy armor was directly pierced and nailed to the ground.

As long as the Song army is willing to fight seriously, it is hard to say whether it can defeat the Jin army. It is absolutely no problem to give full play to the sharp weapon in its hand and cause damage to the Jin army.

Today, the entire Song army is in awe and has to fight to the death.The Jin army was caught off guard, and was beaten into chaos, and the formation was unable to reorganize under the rain of arrows.

Wang Zongguan led the troops across the Baokangmen Bridge and shouted, "Kill the thief!"

The soldiers of the Song Army had no way to retreat, so they could only follow Wang Zongguan to swarm up.

As the deputy commander in front of the palace, Wang Zongguan still has extraordinary martial arts.Although forced to take the lead, he also killed two golden soldiers.

The guards of the Song Dynasty who were hiding behind Wang Zongguan were stunned in astonishment, they didn't expect their commander-in-chief to be so powerful.In close combat, two soldiers of the Jin Army were killed.

At this moment, the soldiers of the imperial army looked at Wang Zongguan with the same expression as they looked at a humanoid monster. How brave is it to kill the golden man head-on?
After killing the two, Wang Zongguan was also out of breath, knowing that if the group of imperial guards had been hiding behind him, pushing him forward.Then you can die in the golden formation if you are tired.

Then he shouted: "Today, with the protection of the Daoist ancestor, why should you be afraid of mere gold people? Go up and hack them to death!"

Thinking of Daozu, the imperial guards became more courageous.A few ignorant and superstitious soldiers roared to embolden themselves and rushed to the Jin army in front.

The greatest advantage of the Song army was that they had already lined up. The five men each held a long spear and a big stick, and the spears stabbed together. The chaotic Jin army in front of them was completely unable to resist.

Although these five people only killed two Jin soldiers, they still encouraged the Song army.This is an ordinary soldier of the Song army killing the Jin army, and the Jin people seem to be able to be killed!
The courageous Song Jun finally began to charge forward.The densely packed knives, guns, swords and halberds caused the chaotic golden army to retreat steadily.

In the era of cold weapons, two heavily armed armies often had bloody battles for one day, with only a thousand casualties.That's because, if there is no chaos in a well-organized army, with spears like forests and armored shields, it is difficult to be directly killed by swords.

But right now, Song Jun almost repeated the scene where Jin Jun played unparalleled to Song Jun.

The Song army's dense spears stabbed randomly, and the Jin soldiers who fought independently could not even pass through the layers of spear formations, hurting the Song army in iron armor.Occasionally, he was able to cut a knife desperately, and most of the damage was blocked by the armor of the Song Army.

If it can continue like this, a brilliant victory is just around the corner.

However, after all, the Jin army had a large number of people, and Wanyan Shema brought a total of 5000 people to attack the city, of which more than [-] were infantry from other tribes, responsible for the siege of the city and filling the river.The two Jurchen Meng'an (Qianhu) are in charge of holding the formation.An army of this size is absolutely invincible to the Song Army.Even with a Song army of [-], it is impossible.

After the decline of the frontline siege soldiers was revealed, Wanyan Sheye immediately dispatched reinforcements ready to fight.

The support troops were all Jurchen iron cavalry, neatly lined up, heavily armored, and their morale was like a rainbow. They quickly launched an attack on the Song army.

However, there were no arrows on the city wall, and neither the cannon mounts nor the bed crossbows could be fired, and they were unable to disrupt the formation of the Jin army.

The Song army could only rely on flesh and blood to face the attack of the Jin army.

(End of this chapter)