Wanyan Alupu set up camp on the other side of the river. They built five pontoon bridges on the river overnight. Just after dawn, the earth-shattering sound of war drums pierced the sky.
"All brothers are in position! Crossbowmen are in position!"
Zheng Ping ran and shouted: "Cheer up and prepare to go all out. The enemy has not tried to attack!"
It was the judgment of the commander-in-chief Guo Song that he did not test the attack. The enemy had already tested enough in the previous two days. It was impossible for the Jin soldiers to continue testing again and again. There was no need for it to be a big war.
Chen Qing's judgment was correct. Wanyan Alupu deployed an army of 10,000, consisting of 5,000 Khitan troops and 5,000 Jurchen soldiers. They set up ten military formations on the south bank of the river.
As before, General Chen Qing's command point is still placed on the east panel wall, where he can see the situation on the battlefield more directly.
Chen Qing stood on the high wall, watching the golden soldiers at the foot of the hillside. There were 2,000 cavalry among the 10,000 golden soldiers. It was probably the same plan as the previous two days, to attack the camp gate at the last moment.
Liu Cui whispered from the side: "In May this year, my father once suggested building a pass at Wang Jianpo!"
This is also the doubt in Chen Qing's mind. The width of the canyon on the Wang Jianpo side is only five miles, and it can be extended out to build a high-walled pass to block the Jin soldiers' path.
If built, their situation would not be as passive as it is today.
"Then why not repair it?"
"I heard from my father that everyone was in favor of building it, but Qu Sima was the only one who firmly opposed it, saying that he didn't have so much financial resources. The Xuanfu envoy also kept hesitating until August. The Xuanfu envoy finally decided to build it, but it was too late.
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Chen Qing let out a long sigh, "There is money to build tiles, but there is no money to build passes. The civil servants are ruining the country!"
"My father also scolded Qu Sima like this."
At this moment, fierce war drums sounded from the hillside.
"Boom! Boom! Boom!"
The battle was about to begin. Chen Qing patted Liu Cui on the shoulder and said, "Go!"
Liu Cui bowed, turned around and walked down the steps to the high wall. Chen Qing looked sharply at the foot of the mountain.
At the foot of the mountain, the crossbowmen were ready. Today's attack was organized and implemented by deputy general Han Changlai. Wanyan Alupu gave him the command of the 10,000-strong army.
"The crossbowmen are in position!"
Han Chang gave an order, and three thousand Jurchen crossbowmen ran towards the slope. They stopped a hundred steps away from the slope and fired arrows at the camp gate above.
Three thousand arrows soared into the sky, shooting towards the camp gate like a storm. The Song army at the camp gate was an army of five hundred divine arm crossbows. With the cover of the mud bag wall, their bows and arrows basically could not threaten them. They followed them one by one.
"Whoosh! Whoosh!" was shot overhead, and dense arrows filled the wall of mud bags.
When the arrow rain stopped, the five hundred Song troops immediately stood up, raised their crossbows and fired at the enemy. Five hundred powerful crossbow arrows roared in. The golden crossbowmen in the first row were hit by arrows one after another, and fell to the ground screaming.
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The Jurchen crossbowmen fired the second and third rounds of arrows in an overwhelming manner, and the dense arrows covered the sky like dark clouds.
‘Woo——’
A deep horn sounded from the bottom of the hillside, and a thousand Khitan soldiers rushed towards the hillside like a tide. They carried wide planks, just like soldiers attacking a city.
Chen Qing ordered: "Get ready to shoot!"
Behind him, the flag bearer waved a triangular yellow flag. In the military camp, five hundred arrows pointed at the sky at a 60-degree angle, with a cold blue light flashing on the arrow tips, faintly revealing a murderous aura.
On the wooden walls on both sides of the military camp, a thousand crossbowmen held crossbows and aimed at the ramp from both sides.
The five hundred divine arm crossbowmen at the entrance of the military camp even switched their tactics to five-stage shooting that had been specially trained for a month, giving the enemy a fatal blow at the last moment.
Chen Qing and the opponent's general knew very well that these thousand soldiers were actually a layer of preparation, and the real attack lay in the second or even third army.
A thousand soldiers had already rushed up the hillside, like a rolling tide, quickly approaching the camp gate, and they were within shooting range.
"Shoot!" Chen Qing gave the order.
The flag bearer waved the red flag, and five hundred arrows rose into the sky, forming a sparse cloud of arrows and flying towards the enemy's heads. A thousand arrows from the walls on both sides also shot out powerfully, shooting into the dense crowd from both sides.
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Fifteen hundred arrows were fired into the group of running soldiers, causing loud screams and soldiers falling down one by one while running.
Then the second round of 1,500 arrows came. The poor first batch of Khitan soldiers had no shields and only leather armor. They had no way to defend themselves. They could only bend down and rush forward, but they still could not avoid the powerful arrows.
Only two rounds of arrows killed more than half of them. At this moment, a hundred divine arm crossbow arrows roared in, and the arrows became even more powerful. More than sixty soldiers in the first row were hit by arrows and fell down.
But the Song army did not give them a chance to breathe. The second section of a hundred divine arm crossbow arrows came quickly, followed by the third section, the fourth section, the fifth section...
One round ended, and the second round began again. The crossbows continued, so that the charging enemy troops stopped at the seventy-step line. They were still unable to charge forward, and batches of soldiers fell down on the hillside.
A soldier ran up and asked for instructions: "Commander, Commander Zheng requests the use of kerosene!"
Chen Qing shook his head, "Tell him not to use it for now and watch my command flag!"
The first batch of soldiers did not have shields and wore leather armor. Bows and crossbows were enough to deal with them without the need for additional kerosene.
Under the continuous attacks of the Song army's two thousand crossbowmen, more than 800 enemy troops fell on the hillside, and the remaining less than 200 enemy troops were pinned down by arrows and unable to move.
Seeing that there were not many thousand soldiers left on the hillside, Han Chang showed no expression and coldly ordered: "The second battalion is going to kill!"
Three thousand Jurchen archers and crossbowmen at the foot of the mountain fired arrows at random, and the overwhelming arrows shot at the Song army camp, once again suppressing the Song army above.
‘Woo——’
The horn sounded in a low voice, and a thousand soldiers of the second battalion suddenly launched into action. They were still Khitan soldiers. This is the practice of the Jin soldiers. The initial charge was carried out by Khitan and Han soldiers. Until the final attack moment, Jurchens could
Come on stage.
Chen Qing could see clearly that this time the attacking soldiers wore armor and had shields.
Chen Qing sneered. The other party was setting the pace, so he would accompany him to the end.
"Pass my order, stop shooting arrows and crossbows, prepare the divine arm crossbow! Prepare the kerosene, prepare the bed crossbow!"
The Song army also changed its tactics. A thousand soldiers with arrows evacuated, and twenty trebuchets creaked away.
On the two side walls, two hundred bed crossbows will be put into battle for the first time, but the target of the bed crossbows is not the attacking soldiers, but the cavalry who are about to charge behind.
The bed crossbow has a killing range of 500 steps. Even if the cavalry wears iron armor, the bed crossbow is still a nightmare for them.
A thousand soldiers shouted, charging upwards with shields and short spears held high. Long wooden boards could still be seen in the crowd, and they ran upwards trampling on the corpses of fallen soldiers.
"God Arm Crossbow Shoot!"
The Five Hundred Divine Arm Crossbow Soldiers were the first to show off their power. They took full advantage of the insufficient width of the ramp to display too many soldiers, and adopted five-stage shooting.
The biggest advantage of five-stage shooting is that it avoids the waste of multiple arrows hitting the same soldier. After one round of five-stage shooting, the number of killed and wounded soldiers is close to 300, which increases the efficiency by at least three times.
The powerful crossbow bolts 'Whoosh! Whoosh!' were fired at the enemy 70 steps away. The crossbow bolts penetrated the thin shields and penetrated the iron armor. Rows of soldiers fell down. The attacking soldiers fell down after every dozen steps.
Dozens of soldiers.
Despite heavy casualties, the attacking soldiers still approached the camp gate step by step. At this moment, twenty barrels of kerosene rose into the air and hit the Jin soldiers in a parabola. Black kerosene was splashed in the air, and all the kerosene
The lids of the barrels were all knocked open. This was because the ground was covered with corpses. The kerosene barrels would not break when hit on soft corpses. This was also one of the purposes of General Jin Bingjing to send a thousand people to die first.
Let their corpses serve as bedding on solid rock.
Dozens of rockets were shot out at the same time, igniting a raging fire about fifty steps away from the camp. The golden soldiers were burned until they howled like ghosts and turned around to run for their lives. Many injured soldiers on the ground who were not dead struggled to get up, but still fell to the ground.
In the midst of fire.
The fire was flying and the smoke was filling the air. At this moment, the five hundred Jurchen cavalry launched. Although the fire defense was refreshing, the billowing smoke also obscured the Song army's sight.
Five hundred cavalrymen holding shields and spears rushed up the hillside like a stormy wave, followed by a thousand Jurchen soldiers behind them. This was Han Chang's real attack, but it was also unexpected by Chen Qing, the leader of the Song army.
, he had already seen the tactics of the general who broke through the golden army.
"The crossbow on the west side is firing, and the crossbow on the east side is on standby!"
The red flag was raised, and a hundred crossbows in the west were fired at the same time. Each crossbow fired five jackdaw iron arrows. The iron arrows were indestructible and shot at the cavalry team like a storm. The five hundred cavalrymen who had just rushed up the slope suddenly fell over and their horses
With a tragic hiss, more than 1,780 cavalrymen fell to the ground.
Immediately after the red flag was raised again, a hundred crossbows in the east were also fired, and another five hundred extremely powerful jackdaw iron arrows were shot. The Jurchens' armor could not block this powerful armor-piercing force at all.
The dense iron arrows shot through their bodies without mercy.
One thousand jackdaw arrows exerted great power, and nearly 350 cavalrymen were shot down. They had just rushed up the hillside and had not yet broken through the Song army's fireworks blockade.
Han Chang took a breath of air and hurriedly ordered: "Retreat! Retreat!"
The retreat bell rang, and the remaining Jurchen cavalry and a thousand Jurchen infantry retreated to the rear in panic.
The first attack by the Jin soldiers ended in a disastrous defeat.