The north wind was strong, the weather was gloomy, and there was no sunshine all day. After nightfall, the dark clouds hung even lower, and the starlight and moonlight were completely obscured. The black mist-like night enveloped the West Valley, and you could not see it more than ten steps away.
silhouette.
An army of more than a thousand people marched rapidly in the darkness. This army was a Khitan army, led by captain Xiao Cong. Their mission was to attack Liu Ziyu's camp at night.
This army is all tall and elite. They are all selected from the 20,000 Khitan troops. They are all wearing heavy armor and holding long contradiction cards. They are very powerful in combat.
Behind this team, there is an army of tens of thousands of people, led by Wanyan Alubu himself. The Jinbing West Route Army camp is still fifty miles away from Wangjianpo. Of course, they cannot walk all the way here. They first
He rode a horse to ten miles away, and then started walking ten miles away to the vicinity of the Song Army's camp.
At two o'clock, a thousand heavily armored soldiers arrived a hundred steps away from the military camp and lurked in the grass.
At this time, in a forest seven miles west of the camp, several Song Army patrol posts were also resting under the trees. On the tallest tree, a soldier on duty suppressed his sleepiness and looked around boredly.
At this time, the soldier suddenly felt something. He leaned out and looked out of the woods dozens of steps away. He saw a huge black shadow moving a hundred steps away. Although the night was dark, the moving black shadow was slightly lighter in color.
A rough outline can be seen, the black shadow is very long, and the head and tail cannot be seen.
The soldier was inexperienced and he was very frightened, 'Could it be a snake demon?'
The soldier quickly climbed down the tree and woke the escort from his sleep. "Boss, go and see, there is a snake demon!"
"Fart! Where did the snake demon come from?"
"It's really a snake demon, a very long one, at least several miles long, moving outside the woods."
The guard blinked, suddenly realized, and slapped the soldier, "You useless thing, it's the army marching, not the snake monster!"
The escort woke up all the soldiers and prepared to retreat. He grabbed the gunpowder arrows and climbed up the tree until he climbed to the top of the tree. He also saw a huge shadow.
The escort was not as inexperienced as the soldiers. He recognized at a glance that this was a mighty army, at least tens of thousands of people.
The escort team made a prompt decision and immediately lit three gunpowder arrows and shot them into the air. The gunpowder arrows emitted a bright red light, passed through the air, and finally exploded with a pop. Three gunpowder arrows exploded in a row, indicating that there was a serious threat.
enemy situation.
The patrol in the camp discovered the gunpowder arrows and immediately sounded the alarm, "Dang! Dang! Dang! Dang!"
The rapid sound of alarm bells echoed in the camp, and the sleeping Song soldiers were awakened one after another.
At the same time, Wanyan Alubu also saw the Song army's gunpowder arrows. He knew that his team had been discovered, and immediately shouted: "Go into the woods and catch them!"
Hundreds of Jurchen soldiers rushed into the woods, and Wanyan Alubu no longer hesitated and immediately gave the order to attack.
The Jin soldiers' gunpowder arrows were also fired. Their gunpowder arrows contained more powder, the flames were more dazzling, the aperture was so large that they could be seen dozens of miles away, and there was no explosion sound.
Commander Xiao Cong shouted, "Kill -"
The heavily armored soldiers lurking in the grass got up one after another, holding up their shields and spears and charging towards the camp...
Liu Ziyu's camp also has a ramp that is more than thirty feet long and about seven to eight feet wide. In the middle of the ramp, a stone road about ten feet wide was built with stones. Soldiers and carts walked along the stone road.
, of course there is a special reason for this arrangement, that is, the ramp is covered with poisonous thorns.
Each general's defense has its own characteristics. For example, Chen Qing likes fire oil and gunpowder, while Liu Ziyu is good at using tribulus thorns.
How did the thousand heavily armored soldiers know this secret? They ran up the slope, but after only running a dozen steps, they fell down one after another. The sharp spikes pierced the soles of their boots and penetrated into their skin, and the poison entered their bodies.
Internally, my feet soon began to feel numb.
But the soldiers behind thought that the soldiers in front had been shot and fell by arrows. They raised their shields and continued to charge. Except for the more than a hundred soldiers on the stone road, the other soldiers on the ramps on both sides fell to the ground.
A centurion rushed to report, "General, there are poisonous thorns on the ramp, and we have suffered heavy casualties!"
Xiao Cong said coldly: "Attack for me, even if there are mountains of swords and seas of fire ahead!"
Liu Ziyu led thousands of people and finally arrived in front of the camp. The gate had collapsed. Hundreds of Song soldiers were fighting fiercely with more than 200 heavily armored enemy troops. The two sides were crowded together, stabbing with spears, slashing with swords, and using swords.
Arrows were fired, and a steady stream of enemy troops came from behind. The Poisonous Tribulus Formation had been breached by the Jin soldiers. More than 300 dead soldiers fell on the hillside, becoming stepping stones for the soldiers behind.
Liu Ziyu is indeed an experienced veteran. He knows that the attack at the gate is just an appetizer. There will definitely be a large army attack later, so it will not be limited to the gate. The gate cannot be delayed and must be solved before the enemy attacks in a large scale.
"Push out the crossbow!"
The soldiers launched hundreds of crossbows, and Liu Ziyu shouted, 'Retreat!'
‘Dang! Dang! Dang!’ The bell rang, and hundreds of Song troops who were fighting fiercely with the enemy retreated one after another, revealing hundreds of crossbows behind them.
"shoot!"
The jackdaw arrows of the bed crossbow were shot out like a storm, powerful and dense. Hundreds of heavily armored soldiers fell to the ground screaming. Their armor could not block the bed crossbow shots at close range. After two rounds of arrows, there was no one left on the ramp.
Soldiers were standing, and corpses were piled up in front of the gate.
The Song army quickly cleaned up the corpses and piled them in front of the gate with sandbags to form a sandbag wall. Liu Ziyu immediately ordered, "Demolish all the tents and light the beacon fire!"
Liu Ziyu knew very well that he was afraid of fire in night battles. Once the tent was set alight by enemy rockets, the consequences would be disastrous.
At the same time, he wanted to inform Chen Qing to take precautions to prevent a sneak attack by the enemy.
The battle came to an end for the time being. After less than half an hour of fierce fighting, there were only more than 300 heavily armored soldiers left. The powerful crossbows of the Song Army made Xiao Cong hesitate, and he did not dare to take the remaining 300 people forward.
Wanyan Alupu led an army of 20,000 people and had already reached a mile away. At this time, he received a report from Xiao Cong that the Song army's crossbows were too sharp and nearly 700 heavily armored soldiers had been killed, so he had to temporarily stop the attack.
This news made Wanyan Alupu extremely angry. He originally planned to launch an attack at the third watch, with heavy armored soldiers attacking from the front and covering the army from attacking from both sides. Unexpectedly, they were discovered by the Song Army patrol, so he had to
Launching the offensive in advance will destroy the connection between the two armies.
Chief Semuta stepped forward and suggested: "It is better to give the Song army a show of strength first and lower their morale!"
Wanyan Alupu nodded, "Instruct the Fire Crow to shoot!"
The fire crow is a wooden bird. Its body is covered with flammable fire oil, and its belly is equipped with gunpowder. After being ignited, it is shot with a powerful crossbow. It can fly as far as two to three miles. Especially after the gunpowder burns, it will form a huge fireball, which has a fire-igniting effect.
Excellent, a weapon for dealing with enemy camps.
Following the general's order, a thousand fire crows soared into the sky, dotted with flames in the sky, which was very spectacular. They flew towards the Song Army camp on Wangjian slope with fireworks...
Liu Ziyu was rich in experience and would not leave the opportunity to the opponent. He had already demolished all the tents before the opponent's fire crows were launched. The fire crows flew into the camp one by one, fell to the ground and burned, and were quickly killed by the soldiers.
Bury directly with soil.
Han Changchang's fire crow had no effect, so he immediately stepped forward and said: "General Alupu, the enemy has already removed the big tent. Attacking the camp will have no effect. We can attack the camp fence. Burning the camp fence will help us launch a large-scale attack."
Wanyan Alupu immediately woke up and shouted: "Fire crows shoot at the camp fence!"
Two thousand Khitan soldiers rushed out, two of them had a heavy crossbow. The two of them worked together to open the heavy crossbow, and installed the fire crow. One soldier lit it on fire, and the other pulled the hanging knife, and a thousand fire crows flew into the air.
, shooting toward the camp fence on the cliff.
This time they brought 3,000 fire crows, enough to launch three times.
The soldiers had a clear goal. One after another, the fire crows hit the camp fence and fell one after another, or were stuck on the camp fence. Not long after, the fire on the camp fence to the west soared into the sky, and the flames on the several-mile-long camp fence soared into the sky, blazing.
