Guo Anguo waved his sword and shouted sternly: "Kill!"
Three thousand spear troops rushed towards the Song army's camp with spears in hand. Guo Anguo found that the shields could not stop the Song army's powerful crossbows, so he simply stopped using swords and shield troops and directly used spear troops, sacrificing 30% of them.
The remaining 70% can reach the camp gate.
Three thousand golden soldiers ran wildly from a mile away. When they reached 150 steps away from the camp, the Song army's crossbows became powerful. Two thousand people fired arrows from the camp at the same time. The crossbow arrows flew away like locusts, swarming densely.
Crossing the sky, shooting towards the rushing golden soldiers.
Xie Congjin's soldiers were wearing leather armor and could not withstand the penetrating power of the crossbow bolts. In the crowd, enemy soldiers fell to the ground one after another after being struck by arrows, exposing gaps. However, the gaps quickly closed, and the attacking enemy troops were only a few meters away from the main camp.
About a hundred paces.
The second round of crossbow arrows was fired from the camp, filling the air with a dense black mass, and falling like raindrops on the group of soldiers.
Two rounds of 4,000 crossbow bolts resulted in the attrition of more than 600 soldiers, but the 600 only accounted for 20% of the attacking force, which could not affect the impact of the Jin soldiers.
At this time, the five hundred divine arm crossbow soldiers in front of the camp had been quietly replaced by five hundred spear soldiers, and there were dozens of gunpowder men hidden inside.
More than two thousand soldiers gradually approached the Song Army's camp. The covering arrows stopped firing, and the crossbows in the camp also stopped. There was an extreme uneasiness and depression flowing in the entire air.
Guo Anguo held his breath, and was so nervous that his heart almost jumped out of his chest. The soldiers were less than fifty steps away from the camp gate, but the Song army did not make any counterattack. If something goes wrong, there must be a monster. Guo Anguo felt a kind of
The tension before the storm.
Han Chang narrowed his eyes, but he was very excited inside. He was about to see Chen Qing's counterattack. This was also the purpose he ordered Guo Anguo to attack. He did not expect Guo Anguo to be able to capture the Jiwangpo Camp.
,How can Chen Qing be so weak?
But he hoped to test Chen Qing's defensive bottom line and see the true defense level of Chen Qing's army so that he could learn from the experience during the official attack.
More than two thousand golden soldiers finally rushed to the front of the camp. What greeted them were hundreds of spears and a wall of mud bags up to one foot high. The spears on both sides faced each other, and the soldiers were very dense.
At this moment, dozens of gunpowder barrels were suddenly thrown out from behind the mud bag wall, and the fuses burned. This ultra-small gunpowder barrel was about the same size as a later milk powder can. It contained three kilograms of gunpowder, and was mixed with it.
With a large number of quenched iron nails,
The explosive power of this kind of gunpowder barrel is far from comparable to that of later generations of explosive bags. At best, it is about the same power as a wooden handle grenade. But its lethality is not the explosive itself, but the half kilogram of poison-quenched iron nails inside. This
Iron nails, shields and armor can withstand it, but leather armor and the exposed face and neck cannot.
"Boom! Boom!"
Gunpowder barrels exploded one after another in the dense crowd. Several soldiers were blown up by the air waves. There were shouts of terror everywhere. The golden soldiers were suddenly in chaos, pushing and trampling each other. The golden soldiers who fell to the ground howled desperately in pain.
, the Jin soldiers were defeated like a mountain, and they scrambled to flee down the hillside. Many soldiers fell down while running, and the toxins in their bodies broke out.
At this time, the Song army fired a volley of arrows from behind, and all the Jin soldiers who were running a little slower were killed by crossbow arrows.
This round of attack did not even touch the Song army's Mao, and ended in a disastrous defeat, with more than 1,300 casualties, and more than 100 people were trampled to death by their own people alone.
Guo Anguo was really frustrated and stepped forward to apologize to Han Chang. Han Chang smiled and waved his hand, "Victory and defeat are commonplace in military affairs. There is no need to blame yourself for this small defeat. I saw a lot of things in this attack, but it was not enough. Please Guo Anguo."
If the general continues to organize the attack, he can bring more long wooden boards and put them directly on the sand wall, so that the soldiers will not rush to the sand wall and be unable to do anything. General Guo can give it a try."
Guo Anguo felt a little sad for his own army. From last night to now, there has not been a single substantial contact battle, and they have already suffered more than 2,000 casualties. Isn't this just paving the way with the lives of soldiers?
Guo Anguo also knew that Han Chang had this idea. He didn't care about the casualties of his army at all. He clearly only wanted to understand the Song army's defense situation through the casualties of his soldiers.
Guo Anguo had hatred in his heart, but he did not dare to disobey, so he could only clasp his fists and say: "I humbly obey my orders!"
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In the military camp, Chen Qing watched as more than thirty soldiers came out and killed all the poisoned and injured enemy soldiers, leaving no one alive.
Next to him, Zheng Ping asked with some confusion: "Commander, I'm a little confused. We fought so fiercely at Jianjun Pass that almost all the soldiers were wiped out, but here we are fighting like a joke, killing more than 2,000 enemies."
, but we didn’t hurt a single soldier, what’s the reason?”
Chen Qing said calmly: "So far, the enemy has only made a tentative attack to find out our details, not a real attack. Did you see that the attackers are all Han troops with poor equipment and low morale. If there is a slight confusion, they will
As they retreated downwards, the Jurchens did not use swords or axes to drive them away. These soldiers were just snacks to fill our bellies before the meal, and the real feast had not yet begun."
"Then we made a mistake in using kerosene and gunpowder to deal with the enemy?"
"Of course not. We also need to test the combat effectiveness of kerosene and gunpowder?"
Yang Yuanqing worriedly said: "I am most worried about the Jin soldiers attacking from the east and west sides. Once they use heavy trebuchets to smash the walls, the enemy will attack in an all-out way, and our disadvantage of insufficient troops will be fully exposed."
Chen Qing looked into the distance solemnly and said slowly: "If we really get to that point, it will be the real test for us."
Chen Qing turned back to the two civil servants Zhou Kuan and Zhang Miao and said, "Please do your best to write the last letter home for the soldiers."
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At this moment, the war drums in the distance sounded again, and the six thousand Xie soldiers gathered again to prepare for a second attack. This time they prepared more than a hundred long and wide wooden boards, preparing to rely on them to rush through the Song Dynasty.
Army mud bag wall.
This idea is correct. They didn't think it through before, so they rushed to the mud bag wall with nothing to do. Now they finally have a countermeasure.
"Attack!"
Guo Anguo gave an order, and five thousand soldiers from the Jin army waved their spears and battle flags, and held crossbows in their hands. They rushed towards the Song army camp like a Qiantang tide again.
This time Guo Anguo learned his lesson and mixed two thousand crossbowmen directly into the attacking team. The crossbow arrows could shoot farther. Their shooting target was no longer the Song army on the sandbag wall, but the people inside the camp.
Soldiers of the Song Army.
Chen Qing's eyes became solemn and he ordered: "The crossbow soldiers use large shields, the trebuchets are ready to throw gunpowder barrels, and the bed crossbows are ready!"
He also changed his strategy. He no longer waited for the enemy to crowd up to the door before throwing gunpowder barrels. Instead, he started throwing gunpowder barrels a hundred steps away from the enemy and used poison-quenched iron nails to kill and wound enemy soldiers."
Generally, poisoned iron nails will not cause death immediately due to poisoning, but its toxicity will quickly paralyze the enemy's hands and feet, loss of combat effectiveness, and blindness for a long time. Moreover, if the iron nails are shot into the body and are not taken out in time, they will indeed be killed.
Life is at risk.
This kind of weapon is indeed more vicious and unkind, but at the critical moment of life and death, on the battlefield where you die or I live, all kindness and morality are just nonsense. Killing the enemy at all costs is the right way.
Chen Qing also reduced the number of crossbowmen by half, and used large shields to cover the other half. This was because he found that the enemy's crossbowmen were also following the attacking team, and their target was obviously the Song army in the camp.
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Five thousand Xie soldiers rushed to the hundred-step line, and five hundred cavalry suddenly burst out from among them. They rushed towards the hillside with their horses whipping and holding shields and spears.
This was Guo Anguo's hidden weapon. Five hundred cavalrymen were hiding behind, blocked by the big flag, and suddenly launched force at a hundred paces.
The long-distance space battle between the two sides broke out at the same time. The arrows were like two dark clouds, meeting and intertwining in the air, and falling into each other's team. The Song soldiers used large shields to resist, but the Jin soldiers had no way to escape, and could only be beaten hard.
The arrow hit him and he screamed and fell to the ground.
'Bang! Bang! Bang!'
When the Jin cavalry reached the fifty-step line, the Song Army's fifty small trebuchets were launched. They were not very powerful and could only throw heavy objects weighing less than ten kilograms to seventy or eighty steps away. If it was five
A ten-pound barrel of kerosene can only be thrown about fifty steps.
Dozens of burning gunpowder barrels rolled in the air, and almost all exploded before landing. The match ropes left by the Song army were very short, and almost all exploded above the enemy's heads.
"Boom! Boom!"
An explosion sounded, and dozens of barrels of gunpowder exploded above the heads of the five hundred cavalrymen.
In an instant, five hundred cavalrymen flipped on their backs, blood and flesh flying everywhere. The horses were frightened and screamed. Although the cavalrymen wore bright light armor to protect their chests and backs, their thighs, faces and necks were exposed, not to mention there was a target.
For larger war horses, once the war horse is hit by densely packed poison-quenching iron nails, the poison will occur faster.
When they reached thirty steps, only half of the five hundred cavalry remained.
The second round of fifty gunpowder barrels was thrown again, this time, their target was the thousands of infantrymen coming from behind.
