Heshangyuan Shenchagou Valley has always been the valley of death for the Jin soldiers. This ten-mile-long canyon is the only way to Dashanguan in Heshangyuan. The Jin soldiers died in countless battles here.
Not long after Xiao Zong died in this canyon, Wanyan Wushu learned from the painful experience and set up twelve strongholds inside and outside the canyon with 12,000 troops stationed to protect the safety of this strategic road.
Although Chen Qing could not get information about the Jin soldiers at Dashan Pass, he could make a judgment on the situation. After the monk's original camp was burned down, the Jin soldiers frantically attacked Dashan Pass for eight days. They were almost running out of food and grass.
This time, all the food and grass in the Weihe River were destroyed by a sneak attack again, and there was no hope for the Jin soldiers to receive backup. Wanyan Wushu's withdrawal was a matter of these two days.
As night fell, Chen Qing led his army to the Shenchagou Valley. Three military forts were built here. The largest military fort was shaped like a crescent, with tall barracks surrounding the valley entrance and both sides.
In front of the crescent-shaped tent, there are two slightly smaller tent fences, and the entire shape is like a divine arm crossbow.
There are rugged rocks on both sides of the camp gate, making it difficult for the army to attack. Only the front is a flat passage about five feet wide and several miles long. This passage is not naturally formed, but has been paved by manpower through the ages.
Chen Qing's army appeared three hundred steps away from the passage. The golden soldiers in the three military strongholds were extremely nervous, with their bows and arrows drawn up, and they were ready.
In fact, the Jinbing Army Stronghold was established to deal with Chen Qing's army. Wanyan Wushu was very worried about Chen Qing's army blocking the exit of the valley.
"The heavy shield troops attack! The divine arm crossbow troops cover!"
Chen Qing shouted loudly, and five hundred tall soldiers, armed with heavy shields and short spears, advanced step by step under the leadership of General Niu Gao.
Behind them are three hundred and fifty God Arm Crossbowmen. They played a great role in guarding Camp Loneliness. For a long time, they were used as cavalry. This time they returned to their old profession, taking
He raised the divine arm crossbow.
"Ready to shoot!"
The commander Wang Duo shouted, and 350 divine arm crossbows were fired at the same time. The dense crossbow arrows streaked across the night sky in a parabola, shooting towards the camp fence 300 steps away.
Crossbowmen are all professionally trained. One of their greatest skills is the ability to use the mountains to judge the distance, and then adjust the angle of the upward shot to shoot. If it is a horizontal shot, the range of the God Arm Crossbow is up to 500 steps.
The arrows shot into the tall camp fence, causing a slight commotion. The night sky was clear and the moon was bright. Under the silver moonlight, everyone could see clearly that at least thirty Jurchen soldiers fell down after being hit by arrows.
A Jurchen centurion became angry, brandished his sword and shouted: "Shoot!"
Two hundred Jurchen soldiers inside the camp fired crossbow arrows at the same time, but their target was the heavy shield soldier who was approaching step by step. The arrows were studded all over the shield, but they could not penetrate the special copper shield.
This kind of copper shield is rectangular and three feet high. It was made by Han craftsmen in the Liao Dynasty. The main body is two layers of dense wooden boards, which have been soaked in oil countless times and then dried in the sun. A thin copper sheet is sandwiched between the double layers of wooden boards.
It is covered with a layer of cooked cowhide, and then copper is used to make various animal-shaped patterns on the shield surface. It is extremely strong and can withstand any other bows and crossbows except the bed crossbow. However, the giant shield is not very heavy, only weighing more than ten kilograms.
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The Heavy Shield Army was one of the guards of the Emperor of Liao. After being annihilated by the Jurchen cavalry, their shields became trophies. This time Wanyan Wushu brought a thousand heavy shields, of which 500 were in Wei
The riverside was captured by Chen Qing's army, allowing Chen Qing to temporarily form a heavy shield army.
Chen Qing was riding on his horse, paying attention to the movements of the enemy's camp fence. He found that there were sentry towers at each end of the camp fence, with sentries on them monitoring the movements on both sides.
Chen Qing immediately ordered: "Bring me some well-stringed divine arm crossbows!"
The soldiers immediately took out five strung crossbows. Chen Qing took one crossbow and aimed it at the sentry. "Click!" The crossbow machine sounded, and a crossbow arrow shot at the sentry on the left like lightning. The sentry was hit by an arrow.
Headshot, fell from the tower.
The sentry was killed and was immediately discovered by the centurion who commanded the army. He ordered: "Add another sentry!"
Chen Qing took the second divine arm crossbow, but this time he aimed at the centurion and shot an arrow. The Jurchen centurion was caught off guard, screamed and fell on his back, and was shot through the head by an arrow.
Chen Qing then shot the third and fourth arrows, killing the two sentries on the sentry tower.
Of course, Chen Qing had a reason for killing the sentries on both sides. Behind the jagged rocks on both sides, there were several Song soldiers hidden on each side. They used the strange rocks to cover up and approached the camp gate step by step. Without the sentries, the Jurchen army lost sight of the left and right sides.
, almost everyone’s attention is focused on the heavy shield army.
In fact, the heavy shield army was just a cover to attract the enemy's attention. The Song army's real breakthrough weapons were deployed on both sides.
The two soldiers on the east side approached the enemy camp step by step. They were only about twenty steps away from the camp fence, which was about the same distance.
The two soldiers took off the two gunpowder barrels on their backs. Each gunpowder barrel weighed five kilograms and had a fuse on it. Although this kind of gunpowder barrel was useless for siege, it was still used to deal with military fortresses built of wood.
It's more than enough, especially the thousands of poison nails mixed inside, which have huge destructive power against dense enemy forces.
The soldier lit the fuse behind a large rock and handed it to another soldier who was tall and had strong arms.
The soldier held the gunpowder barrel with his hand as big as a fan. When the fuse reached the entrance of the hole, he stepped out and threw it with all his strength. The gunpowder barrel was thrown more than twenty steps away and fell into the crowd behind the camp fence. "Boom"
!' There was a loud explosion, and more than a dozen soldiers were blown up. A section of the camp fence in front was blown to pieces, and a thick smoke rose.
Immediately afterwards, a gunpowder barrel was thrown from the west, and it also fell into the crowd on the west. The fire flashed, screams were heard, and thick smoke filled the air.
The Jurchen soldiers were still confused. The second gunpowder barrels on the east and west sides were thrown out at the same time. A second explosion occurred on the east and west sides. Blood and flesh flew everywhere, the camp fence flew into the sky, thick smoke billowed, and there were wails and screams.
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Chen Qing immediately waved his sword and said, "Cavalry attack!"
The cavalry was the main force of the attack.
One thousand cavalry suddenly launched into action, and Chen Qing took the lead, leading the cavalry in a furious charge towards the military stronghold 300 steps away.
When the gunpowder smoke cleared, the camp fence, which was more than ten feet wide, was blown down. Nearly a hundred soldiers lay on the ground wailing, and a large group of soldiers behind them were rushing towards the entrance of the camp.
Although the Jurchens were stationed in the military camp, there were no cavalry, only infantry. The Jurchen soldiers raised their crossbows and fired rapidly, and the cavalry raised their shields to resist. However, there were still cavalrymen who were hit by arrows, and both men and horses rolled to the ground.
Chen Qing fired arrows and rushed into the enemy group first, brandishing Fang Tian's painted halberd. In an instant, blood burst out, limbs flew around, and howls and screams suddenly arose.
Wherever Chen Qing passed, corpses littered the ground, and he was invincible. He turned his horse's head and charged into the crossbows of the densest crowd.
A thousand Song Army cavalry rushed into the first military stronghold, and the main army behind them rushed up with shouts.
The Jurchen soldiers in the military stronghold could not resist and rushed towards a military stronghold behind them. Liu Cui led a cavalry to cut off their retreat. Chen Qing shouted: "Let them retreat!"
Liu Cui quickly stopped the cavalry, and hundreds of Jurchen soldiers rushed towards a military stronghold behind them like a tide.
Chen Qing waved his halberd and ordered Liu Cui, "Follow them!"
Liu Cui suddenly understood and shouted: "Brothers, follow me!"
He led hundreds of cavalry to chase the Jurchen soldiers, and these hundreds of Jurchen soldiers became the human shields of the Song army...
There are many cases in history where more than a dozen strongholds were captured in one night. This was actually a domino effect. The first military stronghold was the key. If the first military stronghold fell, a large number of defenders fled to the second military stronghold. The enemy
The army followed behind, and while countless defeated soldiers fled into the army's stronghold, the enemy troops also followed and came in.
The second military stronghold was lost in this way. Hundreds of Jurchen soldiers fled back to the second military stronghold. In the darkness, Liu Cui led hundreds of cavalry and followed them into the military stronghold.
In just over half an hour, Chen Qing's army captured two villages in succession and reached the valley. The crescent-shaped third village appeared in front of them.
