The commander of Crescent Moon Camp is Wanyan Bidee, the eldest son of Wanyan Wushu. He is appointed as the captain of thousands and leads 1,500 Jurchen soldiers to guard the mouth of the canyon.
Wanyan Badie was as ruthless as his father. In the darkness, he saw countless Jurchen soldiers running towards him. He ordered without hesitation: "Shoot the arrows!"
Thousands of arrows were fired in unison, and the powerful arrows were shot at the Jurchen soldiers who were fleeing in panic. The Jurchen soldiers were shot down one by one. After a few rounds of arrows, most of the Jurchen soldiers were shot down.
The fleeing Jurchen soldiers were blocked by random arrows in front of them and pursued by the ferocious Song army. They were desperate and fled to the piles of rocks on both sides, but their fate was still met by the ruthless killings of the Song soldiers.
The attack on the third military stronghold was unsuccessful, so Chen Qing ordered the army to stop the pursuit.
As the commander-in-chief, Chen Qing's style was to make plans before taking action. Scouts had clearly investigated the twelve military strongholds established by Wanyan Wushu. At least for the capture of the first three military strongholds, Chen Qing had prepared several plans.
A plan.
"Heavy Shield Army attacks!"
The five hundred heavy shield troops lined up to attack again. They lined up fifty people in ten rows. Each soldier held a heavy shield and a short spear, lined up their shields in a row, and advanced step by step.
Arrows came like raindrops, but they could not penetrate the heavy shields, nor could they stop the soldiers with heavy shields from advancing.
The team suddenly stopped when they were a hundred steps away from the military stronghold. Two small trebuchets appeared in the middle of the team. Wanyan Bidee could see it clearly. He was suddenly shocked and shouted: "Concentrate your bows and arrows and shoot two trebuchets."
machine!"
A thousand crossbow arrows were fired at the two trebuchets at the same time, but the two trebuchets were already protected by thick shields.
The two trebuchets were assembled in the afternoon. The Song army did not have enough time and only two of the twenty trebuchets were assembled, but two were enough.
This small trebuchet only needs four people to operate it, and it can throw objects weighing five to ten kilograms a hundred steps away.
The soldiers quickly loaded the gunpowder barrel, and one soldier lit the fuse. When it burned to the end, he shouted, "Remove the shield!"
The shield dodged, and the gunpowder barrels were thrown out with "Bang!". The two gunpowder barrels drew two arcs and fell into the camp fence. They exploded violently. Fire light burst out, thick smoke filled the air, and the tall camp fence was blown up.
It broke into several sections, and dozens of soldiers were killed and wounded.
Wanyan Badie was about twenty steps away from the explosion and was not directly impacted, but he was still hit in the face by a poisonous nail, and blood immediately flowed down.
"Captain, these nails are poisonous!"
Several generals shouted, "Send the commander away quickly!"
It's just a joke, Wanyan Badie is the eldest son of the fourth prince, if he has three strengths and two weaknesses, then everyone will have no chance of living.
Everyone helped Wanyan Bidee onto the horse and ran towards the valley. Wanyan Bidee also felt his face starting to numb, knowing that the poison was starting to take effect. He was quite frightened. He heard that his uncle Wanyan A'a
Lu Pu said that this kind of poisonous nails is insidious and vicious, and many Jurchen soldiers died from these poisonous nails.
At this time, the second round of trebuchets was fired, one gunpowder barrel exploded, and the other gunpowder barrel hit the hard rock wall. The barrel shattered, and the gunpowder only burned but had no explosive effect.
The Song Army's gunpowder barrels are very strong and will not break if they fall on ordinary mud, unless they fall on a boulder or, like now, hit a rock wall directly.
After five consecutive rounds of projection, most of the camp fence was blown up, but the Jurchen soldiers refused to retreat. Seeing that the arrows had no effect, they simply stopped shooting and quickly gathered in formation, holding spears and shields, ready to fight the Song army to the death.
"Hold the crossbow!" Chen Qing ordered coldly.
Five hundred crossbows were pushed up by the soldiers, and the heavy shield troops and trebuchets were withdrawn. Wang Duo shouted, "Shoot!"
The first row of hundreds of bed crossbows fired at the same time, and five hundred jackdaw arrows shot at the Jurchen soldiers like a rainstorm. The Jurchen soldiers raised their shields to greet them, but they did not know that this was the most powerful bed crossbow in the world.
External shots are indestructible, and shields cannot withstand them at all.
Five hundred extremely powerful jackdaw arrows instantly penetrated the shields of the Jurchen soldiers, penetrated their bodies, and even penetrated the soldiers behind them.
Screams resounded through the military camp, and a large number of soldiers fell. Then the second row of crossbows was pushed up and fired again...
When the Song army fired its fourth round of jackdaw arrows, the Jin army collapsed completely. The commanders and centurions were all shot dead, and hundreds of soldiers were left desperate to escape into the valley.
The Song army successfully occupied the entrance of Shencha Valley.
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Chen Qing and his soldiers knew very well what they would face next. Tens of thousands of golden soldiers would soon withdraw southward, and they might even arrive in a few hours. They had to build a strong defense as quickly as possible.
Hundreds of carts continued to come up, carrying huge rocks and trees, as well as thousands of loads of hay. Not only that, Chen Qing also sent thousands of soldiers to cut down trees nearby, look for huge rocks, and use all means to block the entrance of the valley.
Dozens of soldiers with high martial arts skills can climb to the top of the mountain on the left. They use long ropes to pull up giant trees, forming a strong deterrent on the top of the mountain. When dealing with Xiao Cong before, the soldiers pushed him up from the top of the mountain.
There are more than two hundred giant trees.
Considering the advantage of the top of the mountain, Chen Qing simply sent the last sixty barrels of gunpowder to the top of the mountain.
By the third watch of the night, there were hundreds of trees piled up at the entrance of the valley, and hundreds of boulders, sealing the entrance tightly.
Chen Qing handed over the task of blocking the valley entrance to Zheng Ping, and he immediately led the cavalry to the outskirts of Monk Yuan...
Wanyan Wushu had to withdraw his troops, not only because of food and fodder problems, but also because of morale. Morale was getting sluggish day by day. During this morning's siege, none of the thirty siege ladders had soldiers on them reaching the top.
, halfway up the climb, I didn’t want to attack upwards.
If only the golden soldiers on one ladder were like this, it would be fine, but the golden soldiers on thirty ladders all behaved the same way, as if they had made an appointment in advance.
The camp was burned down, the pass could not be stormed, and the soldiers suffered heavy casualties. Now food and grass were about to be cut off, and all kinds of blows made the soldiers completely lose their fighting spirit.
Wanyan Wushu realized the seriousness of the problem, which was a sign of extreme war weariness, and the next step was to flee collectively.
Wanyan Wushu could only accept the reality and ordered to prepare to withdraw his troops.
At two o'clock in the morning, Wanyan Wushu's tens of thousands of troops began to retreat southward. They only had less than two days of food and grass left. The food and grass supplies that Wanyan Wushu had been waiting for were also intercepted by Chen Qing on the south bank of the Wei River.
Disrupting Wanyan Wushu’s follow-up plans.
Wanyan Wushu originally considered retreating to the West Valley, but the current supplies of food and grass were no longer enough to support their return from the West Valley to Fengxiang Mansion, so they had no choice but to retreat south.
Fortunately, he deployed twelve military strongholds in Shenchagou just for this moment.
There are still more than 30,000 Jurchens left in the Jurchen army, and about 40,000 people are included in the military camps deployed along the way.
Wanyan Wushu was afraid that the Song army would discover their retreat, so he ordered the tents not to be dismantled, and the army retreated quietly.
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On the top of the city, Wu Jie was watching the Jinbing Camp with all his attention. They were too familiar with the Jinbing Camp. There was a wooden tower in the middle of the Jinbing Camp. There was a string of lanterns on the wooden tower, which was used to tell the time at night.
One lantern is lit at each hour, and five lanterns are lit at the fifth watch. It is on time every day, and there is no delay in a day. So much so that the Song Army also used Jin soldiers' time lanterns when changing the guard at night.
But today is very strange. Half an hour has passed since the second watch, and there is still only one lantern on.
"Capital, could it be that the Jin soldiers have withdrawn?" Wang Wu, the commander on duty, boldly guessed.
Wu Jie nodded. He also had this suspicion. He thought for a moment and then ordered: "Send two brothers to explore the truth and give them a heavy reward!"
Wang Wu immediately found two brave soldiers, rewarded each with fifty taels of silver, and ordered them to go down the city via a ladder and go to the Jinbing camp to investigate the truth.
The two of them climbed the stairs down to the city, ran across the battlefield, and headed towards the Jinbing camp two miles away.
Wu Jie stared at the two soldiers without blinking until their backs gradually disappeared.
