At the critical moment, five hundred divine arm crossbow troops arrived. They raised their crossbows together and fired at the cavalry nearby. Five hundred powerful crossbow arrows shot at the cavalry like a storm. In front of the powerful divine arm crossbow, the cavalry's armor looked like
Thin paper, the furious cavalry and horses fell down, blood burst out, the horses neighed, and the last two hundred cavalry quickly piled up into a mountain of corpses only a dozen steps away from the mud bag wall.
At the same time, gunpowder barrels exploded among the crowd sixty steps away, poisonous nails shot out, flames rose into the sky, and black smoke enveloped the position.
Many soldiers were shot by poisonous nails. The itching caused by the poison caused the soldiers to collapse. They turned around and ran away. But this time, Han Chang did not allow them to escape. Hundreds of Khitan cavalrymen held sharp axes and were ruthless.
He slashed and killed the soldiers who had escaped. The soldiers were forced to turn around and continue the attack.
Han Chang looked at the explosion in the crowd in surprise. At first he thought it was an ordinary firearm, but now he discovered something unusual. The firearms thrown by the Song Army exploded without exception. This was simply incredible.
When besieging Bianliang, the Song army also threw a large number of firearms, but less than 20% of the firearms successfully exploded, and most of them were extinguished halfway. You must know that firearms use oil paper as the ignition medium, which is greatly affected by wind and terrain.
, it will be blown out if the wind is strong, and it will be easily extinguished after landing.
In order to increase the success rate, the Song Army heated iron bars red, inserted them into firearms, ignited the gunpowder, and then ejected them. Of course, such firearms did not have explosive power, but only served as a kind of combustion and ignition.
Therefore, the firearms may appear to have powerful pyrotechnic sounds, but they are actually useless and not very lethal. Otherwise, the Song army would not have been suppressed by the Liao army for a long time, otherwise the Song Dynasty would not have almost destroyed the country.
But now, the Song Army seemed to have found some trick. Not only did the success rate of the firearms be very high, but most of them exploded on top of the Jin soldiers' heads, and the time was controlled very accurately.
Han Chang suddenly became more interested, and he immediately ordered: "Pass this order, whoever can find a firearm that does not explode will be rewarded five hundred dollars!"
Guo Anguo was about to explode. He watched helplessly as the injured soldiers were withdrawn, only to be slaughtered like livestock by the Khitan cavalry. Many soldiers had followed his father for many years and did not die by the enemy's spears, but died by their own people.
Under the axe.
He couldn't bear it anymore and rushed forward and shouted: "General Han, let your men go away, they are not needed as supervisors!"
"What did you say?"
Han Chang looked at him coldly, "Are you ordering me?"
Guo Anguo was in great pain. If he said one more word, he would be beheaded. Blood rushed to the top of his head. He roared to the two thousand soldiers behind him: "Brothers, follow me!"
He waved his sword and rushed towards the hillside with the last two thousand soldiers.
Han Chang snorted coldly, "Add double the sword and axemen, no matter who it is, anyone who dares to retreat will be killed without mercy!"
The Song army threw kerosene, firearms exploded overhead, fire burned in the crowd, and there were powerful crossbows. The entire hillside was like a Shura hell, with corpses burning, smelly smoke filling the air, and charred corpses everywhere on the ground.
Can't see the ground.
The attacking enemy was in a state of frenzy. They put wooden planks on the mud bag wall and attacked like zombies. They were shot to death by random arrows and then rushed up madly. The corpses piled up more and more. In the end, there was no need for wooden planks anymore and they were trampled on.
Corpses entered the camp.
But they encountered tenacious resistance from the Song army. A spear formation composed of a thousand Song troops withstood the enemy's attack. They were like seawalls made of huge rocks. No matter what kind of rough waves, they remained
Standing firmly in front of the camp, one soldier died, and immediately another group of soldiers came to fill up. A group of soldiers died, and a new group of soldiers came up.
Fifty steps behind the spear formation, there were five hundred divine arm crossbow soldiers. They used dozens of carts as bunkers and fired five rounds of powerful crossbow arrows at the enemy.
Groups of enemy troops that had just rushed to the high ground were shot down by them.
The generals commanding the battle at the scene were Yang Yuanqing and Zheng Ping. The general Chen Qingze squatted on the side wall, paying attention to the movement of 10,000 cavalry in the distance. What he was really worried about was the 10,000 enemy troops. Once they launched an offensive
, the camp may not be able to be defended.
At this time, Chen Qing suddenly saw an enemy general on the ramp, surrounded by dozens of people in front and behind him. He kept waving his sword and ordering the soldiers to attack.
Chen Qing decisively took off his Dingyuan bow, drew an arrow, opened the bow and nocked the arrow, and shot the arrow at the general.
The general was none other than Guo Anguo, and he was willing to risk his life. Retreating would mean death. He simply captured the enemy's camp, and his soldiers still had a way to survive.
But he never dreamed that he had been locked by Chen Qing's arrow. He suddenly saw a black dot appear in the sky. Before he could see clearly, the black dot was already in front of him. It was an arrow. It was too fast. He couldn't even
There was no time to react.
‘Poof!’ The arrow hit the center of the eyebrow, and the arrow penetrated the skull. The tip of the arrow came out from the back of the head, and there was also a lump of bloody red and white brain tissue on the tip of the arrow.
Guo Anguo didn't even scream, he fell off his horse and died on the spot.
More than a thousand of the most elite soldiers behind him saw the little lord being killed and began to hesitate and stopped charging.
Han Chang also saw Guo Anguo being shot. He cursed in his heart and ordered around, "Cavalry assemble!"
Now is not the best time to attack, but the killing of Guo Anguo disrupted Han Chang's plan, and he must attack.
There were still more than 2,000 enemy troops attacking on the slope. The enemy cavalry began to gather. Chen Qing could see clearly that the enemy was really going to attack.
Chen Qing immediately turned around and shouted loudly: "Zheng Ping, throw the kerosene barrel! Throw the kerosene barrel!"
Zheng Ping heard Guo Song's cry. He rushed to the small trebuchet and shouted: "Throw kerosene!"
Nearly half of the trebuchets were damaged, and the remaining twenty-odd trebuchets were launched together, throwing barrels of kerosene out, over the heads of the enemy soldiers, and even landed in the crowd of enemy soldiers.
At the same time, Han Chang issued the order to attack. His timing was always very precise. It would not work if it was too early, and it would not work if it was too late. The fruit had to be harvested when there were not many left to assist the army in the attack.
The best time.
The ramp is now filled with auxiliary troops, who will hinder the cavalry's attack.
The ramp that is dozens of feet wide cannot accommodate ten thousand cavalry to attack. Without these auxiliary troops, one thousand cavalry can rush in directly, but now, at most, only five hundred cavalry can rush up.
"First Battalion Cavalry Charge!"
The first group of 500 cavalry charged toward the ramp, the second group of 500 cavalry was eager to attack, and the third, fourth, and fifth groups of cavalry were all ready to launch an attack at any time.
Just as the first batch of cavalry rushed up the slope, the slope suddenly caught fire. The fire was so fierce that it was like an explosion. It instantly swallowed up more than a hundred cavalry running in front. Also swallowed were more than a thousand infantry, and the entire camp was swallowed up.
The door was covered in thick, choking smoke, and nothing could be seen.
But the Song army was still throwing barrels of fire oil one after another, and the fire was getting bigger and bigger. The more than a hundred cavalry behind could not bear the fire and retreated one after another. Dozens of cavalry rushed out from the thick smoke and fire, bathed in water.
The fire and the horse's tail were also burned, and the horse neighed in fear and ran away lifelessly.
More than a thousand soldiers of the Confederate Army could not withstand the scorching fire and fled down the hillside. The general Guo Anguo was dead. Han Chang spared them for the first time and he would collect this army.
The fire formation only temporarily blocked the cavalry army. Once the fire abated slightly, the cavalry would come back again.
At this time, the fierce battle inside the camp gate was gradually coming to an end. The corpses in the camp were piled up like a mountain. It was difficult to tell whether the Song army or the Jin army were soldiers. The five hundred divine arm crossbow troops played a huge role. Each round of their arrows had hundreds of arrows.
Enemy casualties.
When the last few hundred people who rushed into the camp were wiped out, the camp suddenly became quiet. There were no more enemy troops. Only the sound of "Bang! Bang!" was heard from the trebuchets. Thick smoke billowed from the hillside and the flames were billowing into the sky.
, the fire became more and more fierce.
The battle lasted from noon to evening. The Xie Congjun, including the general Guo Anguo, successively sent out 6,000 troops. In the end, less than 2,000 people survived, and even the general Guo Anguo died on the battlefield.
The Song army also paid a heavy price, with more than 500 people killed and more than 300 injured.
The Song army had no time to celebrate their victory. They seized every moment to clean up the enemy soldiers, especially the two thousand charred corpses in front and behind the mud bag wall, so as not to give the enemy horses a chance to leap over the mud bag wall.
The last trebuchet was also damaged, and no new barrels of kerosene were thrown out. The fire finally subsided, and the smoke gradually dispersed. It was already dark, and the charred corpses were still being cleaned, but the five hundred
The Meishen arm crossbow soldiers are already in position, preparing to meet the impact of the enemy cavalry.
Unexpectedly, the enemy cavalry did not continue the attack. Mutli, the captain of ten thousand men, stopped the cavalry attack.
Han Chang used cavalry without consulting him and arranged a cavalry attack, which accumulated the dissatisfaction in Mutli's heart to the extreme.
The opponent's kerosene weapons also made Mutli very scared. Once the fire burned in pieces, the war horses would not be able to bear it at first, and they would inevitably fall into frenzy and collide with each other, causing huge damage to the cavalry.
Seeing Song Jun desperately cleaning up the corpses, Han Chang was furious and shouted: "So many brothers died in front of us to get this opportunity now. The opportunity is fleeting. If we don't seize it, we will never have another opportunity in the future."
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Mutli said coldly: "You still have two thousand soldiers under your command. Since this is an opportunity, just let them go. Why do you want the cavalry to die?"
"You idiot!"
Han Chang finally couldn't help it and cursed loudly, "I don't know how you managed to become the captain of ten thousand men. You don't even understand the most basic common sense. The Song army is exhausted. It's a good opportunity for the cavalry to attack. They can defeat the enemy in one battle."
, if infantry can be used, will I call cavalry?”
Mutli ignored Han Chang and said to a group of cavalry commanders: "Whoever dares to send troops without my order will be killed without mercy!"
He turned and left.
Han Chang watched helplessly as the corpses in front of the Song Army's camp had been cleaned up, and the bed crossbow appeared. He closed his eyes in anger. Mutli's stupidity bought precious time for the Song Army. The fighter plane that appeared in an instant had disappeared.
Already.
Han Chang was extremely frustrated. Today was indeed not going well, and internal strife caused them to lose their opportunity.
At the same time, he never got a sample of the Song Army's firearms. It did not mean that all the Song Army's firearms exploded, but that kerosene and firearms were mixed together, and a few powder barrels that did not explode were also burned in the fire.