Prince of Song Dynasty

Chapter 726 The Expendables

In fact, if he hadn't learned that Ye Chen had come to the opposite military camp at the end today, Dang Jin wouldn't even want to launch a night attack tonight.Having said that, he learned that Ye Chen came to the opposite side, and if he retreated without a fight, after returning to the capital, the eunuch and supervising army must have nothing good to say in front of His Majesty the Emperor, and His Majesty probably won't let him go. Most of the civil and military courts are full of voices of impeachment and condemnation.

Therefore, he must launch a night attack tonight.And he is not without hope, these more than 1000 dare-to-die warriors are all the best fighters.Dangjin organized these more than 300 death-defying warriors with 1000 taels of silver per person and a reward of promotion to a higher level as long as those who came back alive afterwards.

Li Gensi is a capital, and the place he is in is a small pothole, covered with a layer of camouflage of branches, and there are two hidden sentries of the Black Wolf Legion lurking inside, if not for a person coughing in a low voice Li Gensi would never have noticed that there was an ambush post here. Now one of the ambush posts has turned into a corpse, and the other has been captured alive by him, and has been sent to the rear at this time.

He sent a message to the person behind, no matter how much the Xiangfu army tried to keep everyone from moving, the people behind passed on the message layer by layer, and the fighting at the bottom of the mountain was very lively. There was a sudden pain in his foot, and Li Gensi knew that he had stepped on a barbed thorn. He held back the pain and pulled out the four-pointed thorn. Then he stopped and listened to the movement around him. It was only 20 steps away from the enemy's first ditch. , After confirming that there was no ambush army, he began to grope to get rid of other barbed wire on the ground.

At this time, there was a sudden barking of dogs nearby, and Li Gen thought it would be terrible to bark, but he didn't expect that the Xiangfu army even used dogs.

A few sparks immediately rose from the mountain, and an officer of the Black Wolf Legion roared. Those sparks rose into the sky. Li Gensi thought it was a torch just like before, and immediately lay down on the ground. With a loud noise, that spark exploded into a ball of flames, which dazzled Li Gensi's eyes in the darkness, and then other sparks also exploded.

These are small powder packs designed to startle and illuminate well-hidden, motionless lurkers.In fact, the effect is very good. The Song army has long been frightened by the terrifying lethality of the gunpowder bag these days. After discovering that it is a gunpowder bag, all the nearby daredevil warriors instinctively jumped up and rushed to the distance desperately go.

This time the death squads of the Song Army exposed their hiding place. There was a roar behind the low wall on Nanshan, and amidst the sound of crossbow arrows and strong bows, more sparks were thrown down.Li Gensi knew that they had seen it through the light of the fire, and it was completely outside his authority to attack.At this moment, a loud arrow shot up into the sky from behind, which was a signal to launch an attack. The death squads of the Song Army shouted in unison and rushed up the mountain like a tide. The point they attacked was the top of an acute angle.

"Why rush!" Li Gensi yelled in his heart. The thirty steps ahead may be full of traps, which is the most dangerous section. His eyes were dazzled and he couldn't see clearly at all. The people passed by, and after this rolling, he was hit by several barbed thorns that could not be eliminated.

The dense crowd rushed past Li Gensi, and dropped torches and small gunpowder bags on the mountain, illuminating the figures of the death squads of the Song army. The horns of the Xiangfu army sounded from the top of the mountain. The fourth line of defense in front of the village also responded with horn sounds.

The sound of bows and arrows and crossbows piercing the air sounded, and the death squads of the Song Army screamed incessantly. In particular, there was another small gunpowder bag that could splash a lot of caltrops after the explosion was thrown down, and the explosions continued. The dense death squads of the Song Army They were blown to pieces, and the people behind continued to rush forward. Their formation was chaotic, and the flames of the explosion also dazzled them. Many people couldn't tell the direction.

"Don't rush!" Li Gensi finally couldn't bear it, and shouted loudly. With the light of those torches, he could finally see the figure of a death squad in front of him. Suddenly, a ball of fire exploded under the man, throwing him into the air, The Death Squad behind also fell to the ground.

This time it was not a gunpowder bag, but a stone mine. The horn of the attack at the foot of the mountain was still blowing. Groups of death squads stepped forward on the corpses of their comrades. They lost more than 100 people in a short period of time. But since they are death squads, the casualties are not enough. stop them.In fact, if they retreated before the retreat horn sounded and returned to the corner of the mountain, they would also be shot to death by the commander-in-chief who supervised the battle.

After stepping on two more stone mines, the Death Squad rushed to the bottom of the trench. Many of those who went down first were pierced by the caltrops inside. climb.

There were also bows and arrows and crossbows on both sides to start salvos, and people in the death squads would fall down at any time, and they couldn't find a blind spot.Rows of climbing ladders were set up, and the death squads rushed upwards, throwing fire cans and poison cans from them. The limestone and poisonous smoke filled the trenches, and the flames of explosions were constantly flashing.

The Song army at the foot of the mountain began to hold back the battle, and the trebuchets began to fire at the four army villages with all their strength, relying on the distance and accuracy mastered during the day.

Since the beginning of the war, the biggest night battle, and perhaps the last night battle has begun.

Li Gensi, the head of the capital, was fighting in front of the sky. A climbing ladder was overturned and then erected. The agile death squad desperately climbed up, and the companions behind began to cover with bows and arrows, throwing random shots at the defense line of the Black Wolf Army.

Finally, after paying a heavy price, the first batch of death squads climbed up the earthen wall on Nanshan Mountain. These party fighters in the Black Wolf Army have been attacking from a distance these days. Although it was easy and comfortable, they were not satisfied with fighting with short-handed soldiers. At this time, they finally had the opportunity to fight face-to-face. They screamed strangely and grinned grinningly. The death squad of the Song Army who was stabbed and slashed screamed and fell down.

The follow-up death squads came up one after another, and there were more and more death squads in the trench. They were crowded inside, but the gap was not opened for a long time. Li Gensi felt a sense of danger getting stronger and stronger. There would definitely not be only sharp wood in that trench. Pile and caltrops.He hoped to find the two battalion commanders who commanded the operation and persuade them to order the withdrawal first.

He had just walked a few steps in the dark when a series of explosions suddenly occurred in the trench, submerging that section of the trench in flames. Countless stones and pieces of scrap iron swept across the trench. Inside, screams soared into the sky, and almost none of the soldiers in the trench was spared.

In the evening, Ye Chen deduced that Dangjin might attack at night, so Yang Jiye decisively ordered the engineering battalion to put the two hundred guyed mines that the supply battalion had just brought in in the evening Fifty of them were buried in this trench.Engineers buried bamboo tubes in the earth wall, and the ropes passed through the bamboo tubes. Fifty stone mines in the trench could be pulled from behind the earth wall, waiting for the death squads of the Song Army to fill the trench.

Li Gensi listened to the mingjin horn sounding in frustration. At this time, more than 500 elite death squads had been lost, and half of them died in the last round of explosions.Facing the black wolf army behind those trenches, Li Gensi felt powerless like never before.

The big tent of the Song Army was brightly lit, and it was surrounded by commanders and generals. Dang Jin held a small gunpowder bag in his hand. This was one of the many small gunpowder bags thrown down from the mountain by the engineer battalion of the Black Wolf Army tonight. This one did not explode, and the gunpowder inside had been taken out, and a row of caltrops were placed on the table, all of which were found from the gunpowder bag.

This gunpowder bag is obviously an enhanced version. It contains not only gunpowder, but also barbed wire. The outside is covered with thick cowhide for three layers, and the outside is tied with hemp rope. It is not easy to break after being thrown out. The fragments of thistles, with the explosion, will scatter in all directions, killing or injuring those caught, it is a powerful and extremely vicious weapon.

This is also a recent new research result of the Xiangfu State Equipment Department. Because it has just been developed and has not yet been fully finalized, there are some defects. There are often one or two out of ten that will not explode. The Weapon Research Department of the Xiangfu State Equipment Department is doing public relations. solve this problem.

Under Ye Chen's personal attention and guidance, Xiangfu Country's research system has an advantage that any similar mechanism in this era does not have --- that is, it can continue to learn and improve.

According to Article No.19 of Xiangfu Country’s Regulations on the Use of Weapons and Equipment, the new weapons meet certain requirements, but before they are finalized, they will be sent to the troops for use. During the use of the troops, the technicians of the Weapons Research Department will accompany them to the front line. Record the practical results and data in real and detailed way, and then bring them back to the research mechanism for improvement.After it is finalized and installed, training regulations and operating regulations will be formulated for this weapon, and then it will be vigorously promoted and installed in the corresponding combat department.

"Commander, you are humble and incompetent! Please punish me, Commander." The two commanders knelt on the ground. More than half of the more than 1000 death squads they led were lost, and most of them didn't even get their bodies back.

"You said they still have dogs in front of the trench?" Dang Jin asked in a deep voice.

"Yes, the lurking enemy sentries on the road were all quietly killed by the military masters we arranged. Li Gensi, under the humble command, had touched the trench [-] steps away, and suddenly there was a dog barking, and then a torch and another kind of fire were thrown from above. A powder pack with a lot of light."

The other generals of the Song army frowned. It was fine to use dogs to guard the house. They never thought that dogs could be used on the battlefield as scouts. Camp is almost impossible.

(End of this chapter)