Guide to traveling through the Northern Song Dynasty

The man who led Hezha Meng'an and fought with Wang De on foot in the gap was Wanyan Zonghan's powerful general Hung Qi.

This person has always undertaken arduous tasks. For example, a few years ago, the Jin Kingdom attacked Yanyun, and Liao soldiers were stationed at Gubeikou for defense.

At that time, Po Luhuo and Hunqi each led two hundred horses as vanguards.

Hunqi acted as the main attacker and charged forward with only thirty cavalry, chasing the Liao cavalry all the way into the valley.

There were tens of thousands of Liao cavalry in the valley. After a fierce battle, only five cavalry were killed. Although they were forced to withdraw from the valley, the entrance to the valley was blocked. Tens of thousands of Liao troops did not dare to pursue them, and were completely defeated by the main force of the Jin soldiers who arrived later.

Wanyan Hunqi is nearly 1.8 meters tall, with broad shoulders and a round waist, tall and muscular. Not only was he wearing heavy armor, but he was also carrying a wrought iron rod in his hand. He had killed and injured seven Ming Army Yaksha Camp warriors.

"drink!"

Wanyan Hundui swung out his stick again, and Cao Wu, the deputy general of Yaksha camp, suddenly bumped into him.

Cao Wu held up his shield with his bent arm and hit Hun Qi's left arm hard from the side. The two of them fell to the ground one after another, and fell into the depression between the two large walls.

Cao Wu pressed down on Hundi, held the shield in his left hand and pressed Hundi's chest, supporting his upper body in an attempt to ride and swing the hammer.

Just as Cao Wu was riding, Hunqi rolled violently. Cao Wu couldn't sit still and fell over, subconsciously lying on Hunqi again. In the following time, no matter how Hunqi rolled, Cao Wu adjusted his posture to suppress him.

Soldiers from the two armies nearby came to help, and soon they started fighting.

Wang De charged in the middle of the gap, blocking with a shield with his left arm, and then attacked with his mace with his right hand. These two moves were used over and over again, but they always achieved results. No matter how high Hezha Meng'an's defense was, he would be seriously injured even if he was struck a few times with the mace.

Seeing that Wang De was about to break through in the middle, Wanyan Zonghan sent an order: "Let Ba Lisu go up personally!"

Ba Lisu is Yin Shuke's younger brother and a powerful Jin soldier.

None of the more than a thousand Hezha Mengan who participated in the infantry battle rushed forward, and there were only 400 people left in reserve in the rear. As soon as Ba Lisu and his reserve team moved, the Ming army lookouts on Lu Gong's upper level immediately stretched out their flags and waved them wildly.

Only fifty strong men wearing medium armor were seen, with burning match ropes wrapped around their waists.

Behind each strong man, there is a group of soldiers, all of whom are carrying a basket of thunder.

This kind of thunder is slightly smaller in size, weighing about two and a half kilograms each, and is equipped with a wooden handle for easy holding.

The grenadiers came to the back row of the battlefield. Because their sight was blocked, they couldn't see clearly what was ahead. They all turned and stared at the signal flag of Lu Gong's car. When the signal flag was waved again, the grenadiers immediately lit the fuse and threw thunderbolts with all their strength.

Ba Lisu led the Sibaihe Zhamengan reserve team and slowly moved forward, waiting to support the friendly forces, when he suddenly saw many unknown objects flying from the front.

A thunderbolt even hit Ba Lisu's shoulder, then bounced off and rolled on the ground.

Although Ba Lisu was very curious, he didn't take it seriously and continued to lead the team forward.

"Boom boom boom!"

Of the fifty thunderbolts, except for two that accidentally went out, the remaining forty-eight exploded one after another.

These thunderbolts are less powerful, but many of their explosive armor fragments can pierce heavy armor. What was even more terrifying was the explosion on the ground. Hezha Meng'an, who was close to the thunder, had his legs broken and lost mobility even if his legs were not blown away immediately.

The tibia of his left leg was fractured when he was pulled out, and several shrapnel pierced his legs.

This fierce general of the Jin Kingdom was wearing heavy armor, and he couldn't hold himself up and fell to the ground on the spot. Just as he was struggling to get up, another fifty thunderbolts flew over.

"Run!"

Hezha Meng'an, who was still able to move, felt as if he had seen a ghost at this moment, and fled from the place where he was, just to stay as far away from Zhentian Lei as possible.

Even among the two batches of bombs dropped, a few thunderbolts were not thrown hard enough and fell among the spearmen of the Jin soldiers who were fighting.

The soldiers' backpacks had been put down, and when the grenadiers finished throwing the second batch, the soldiers immediately handed over the third one.

The grenadiers took the thunderbolts, quickly ignited the match ropes around their waists, and threw them out one after another.

Si Baihe Zha Meng'an's reserve team couldn't run fast in the heavy armor, and they were bombed to the point of losing their organization. They scrambled to escape indiscriminately. When the third wave of thunder struck, the survivors were so frightened that they screamed and even abandoned their weapons and ran away.

The first wave of explosions broke the calf of Tuali Su, and the second wave only suffered shrapnel attacks.

He endured the severe pain, stood up with difficulty, and limped forward.

At this moment, a third wave of sky-shaking thunder flew over, and two landed near him at the same time.

"Boom boom boom!"

This time he finally couldn't stand up. Both of Ba Lisu's legs were broken off by the shock, and there were more than 20 pieces of shrapnel stuck in various parts of his chest, abdomen, arms, legs... Some were blocked by the armor and did not penetrate deep into the flesh, while others penetrated through the gaps and penetrated deep enough to reach the bone.

Wanyan Zonghan stood in a high place to observe the battlefield, and was dumbfounded at this moment.

"Don't retreat, go ahead and fill the gap!" Wanyan Zonghan didn't know how to deal with the thunder. He only knew that if the reserve team didn't go up, the Ming army would inevitably rush into the city through the gap.

Just as Wanyan Zonghan gave the order, the fourth wave of sky-shaking thunder came flying again.

All those who could escape had already fled. For more than ten steps around the explosion site, not a single golden soldier could still stand. Being killed on the spot is considered lucky. The real unlucky ones are those who suffered four explosions but were only injured and not unconscious.

The successive explosions behind them and the wails one after another frightened the golden soldiers who were fighting.

There was also a reserve team of a thousand gold soldiers, who were ordered to come forward to support.

Together with Zhameng'an, they were killed and wounded and fled. Their morale was extremely low and they could only press forward.

"Boom boom boom!"

The fifth wave of sky-shaking thunder was thrown. After encountering the explosion, the golden soldier quickly fled the battlefield.

What Wanyan Zonghan could do now was to let the Jin soldiers on both sides of the gap stand on the wall that had not yet collapsed and shoot arrows at the Ming soldiers in the back row.

And, point at the grenadiers and shoot!

But the Ming army musketeers on Lu's bus kept firing at the archers at the top of the city.

The Jin army reserve force was repulsed by Zhentian Lei, but the Ming army reserve force continued to invest, and even had time to pull back the wounded soldiers.

Under this situation, the balance of victory quickly tipped towards the Ming army officers and soldiers.

After fighting, it even turned into two or three Ming troops, working together to besiege a Jin soldier.

Especially those who joined forces fiercely, and the Ming army pounced directly on them. After knocking the cans down, someone was responsible for holding them down, someone hit them on the head with a blunt object, and someone wiped them on the neck with a short blade.

He even held the short spear upside down and stabbed the eye socket with the tip of the spear through the eye hole of the mask.

Wanyan Hunchi was still rolling and fighting with Cao Wu. Both of them lost their weapons, tore each other's necks apart, and strangled each other's necks with their bare hands.

However, there were fewer and fewer soldiers who were deposed by Wan Yan, and Cao Wu's warriors were free to use their hands. They took advantage of Wanyan Hunchi's head to be exposed, and hit his helmet hard with a bone. The huge impact made Hunchi dizzy.

Cao Wu broke free from Wanyan Hunqi's arms and touched the weapon on the ground next to him. It was Hunqi's lost wrought iron rod. He was so tired that he didn't have the strength to strike, so he held the iron rod with both hands and pressed it horizontally on Hun Qi's throat, and then knelt on the rod.

The Ming soldier who had hit Cao Wu on the head before was afraid of accidentally injuring Cao Wu, so he instead swung his hammer and hit Hundi's crotch.

Hungti's body gradually stopped moving, and he didn't know whether he died from the hammer exploding the egg or from suffocation caused by the iron bar pressing his throat.

"kill!"

Wang De used his mace to knock over another Hezha Meng'an, and the remaining enemies in the gap finally collapsed.

They lost the support of the follow-up reserve team and suffered heavy casualties from the Ming army. Even Hezha Meng'an began to flee.

"Drum roll!"

"Army attack!"

Zhang Guangdao stood on the hillside, saw clearly with a telescope, and immediately issued the order for a general attack.

In the valley two miles wide, five hundred Ming troops were seen as a team, jogging and charging towards Guancheng in an orderly manner.

Wang De and Xu Qing, with the Yaksha battalion still able to fight, took the lead in crossing the gap and entering Guancheng, followed by the Ming army infantry.

The grenadiers and musketeers of the Ming army further behind also entered the city one after another.

After the Ming army's spearmen, crossbowmen, musketeers, grenadiers and companions entered the city and stabilized their positions, they did not immediately pursue the enemy, but ran quickly to form a mixed formation.

This is a variant based on the Yuanyang formation, used for street fighting and mountain fighting.

Wanyan Zonghan had already followed the horse path, leaving the city wall and arriving at the street. He quickly mobilized the Jin infantry and formed formations in various streets and alleys. He even organized cavalry on the main roads, intending to use the cavalry to defeat the Ming army in the narrow streets.

The two nearby horse paths and city walls were also filled with Jin infantry.

But they saw the Ming army, which had been mixed into more than ten teams, advancing in three directions: east, west and north.

The first battle broke out on the two horse paths. The Ming army's long gunners lined up and rushed forward. The Ming army's crossbowmen fired forward. The musketeers fired cold guns through the gaps in the formation. The soldiers carried their backpacks and handed out thunderbolts and threw them. The bomb soldiers lit the bombs and threw them forward.

The moment the two armies came into contact, Jin Bing was stunned.

These are all the top elites left by Aguda, and they are first-class existences in the Kingdom of Jin.

In the past, when facing tens of thousands of Liao soldiers or Song troops, they would dare to launch a frontal charge with just a few hundred soldiers, and they could often win with fewer troops and more troops.

Now he didn't know how to fight back. He was not afraid of the arrows flying overhead, but from time to time there would be a few cold shots, and then bombs would be thrown into the crowd. When the formation was in chaos, the Ming army's spearmen charged again.

The two horse roads were quickly lost, and the Ming army quickly occupied the horse roads and the city wall, driving off all the Jin soldiers at the top of the city.

Then he was condescending and threw bombs from the wall into Wengcheng, which caused the golden soldiers in Wengcheng to scream and run away. The soldiers of the Ming army took the opportunity to rush into Wengcheng and opened the city gate to welcome more friendly troops.

Wanyan Zonghan was so shocked that he sent several groups of infantry to block the streets, fled with the main force, and even sent people to burn down the granary.

Fighting in a street fight in Guancheng and having to deal with such an enemy was outrageous no matter how you thought about it. Wanyan Zonghan could not find any hope of victory.

He planned to retreat to the open terrain around Xinzhou City and then concentrate his forces to fight the Ming army.