The defenders in the city are 500 infantrymen and more than 4,000 auxiliary soldiers. Now half of the 500 infantrymen have been killed, and more than 700 of the 4,000 auxiliaries and miscellaneous soldiers have been killed. Three of the four walls have fallen.
After falling into the hands of the Ming army, the elite soldiers of the Xi army were heartbroken and secretly thought that the fort they were holding on to was about to be undefended.
That Xiao Tianma suddenly remembered a legend from the year before last. It was said that when the Baizhao Envoys entered Dagou City in Cangzhou the year before last, they encountered an army full of firearms. The army defeated Ye Qi Hongguang who was attacking the city.
, in the end, in the first battle of Hongguang, Ye Qi gave all the warriors from hundreds of soldiers to the Song army for military exploits, and only a thousand miscellaneous soldiers fled back. Could it be that this is the Song army that he encountered? After thinking about it,
This Xiao Tianma Jing became scared.
How could the flesh and blood bodies of the Khitan soldiers withstand the intensive fire of muskets? After leaving more than 500 corpses, the Khitan soldiers did not dare to fight back against the south city wall. They hid near the north city wall and tried to make a final stand in panic.
Waiting for them were 10,000 soldiers from the Tiger Division with rifles in hand. Soldiers from the Tiger Division rushed to the top of the city one after another, pressing toward the Khitan soldiers on the north wall with rifles in hand.
There are no battlements on the inner side of the city wall, so the Khitan soldiers who gathered densely on the north wall became the best target for the soldiers of the Huben Division. The front row soldiers of the Selection Group were the first to enter the shooting range and raised their guns to shoot from 200 meters away. It was just
A single volley from more than 200 people in the front row killed more than 100 Khitan soldiers who tried to defend the northern city wall.
Seeing that all four walls of the city were about to be occupied by the Song army, Xiao Tianma, the leader of the Khitan soldiers, saw the devastating offensive of the Song army and no longer had the confidence to fight against the trapped beast. He shouted "Retreat!" and jumped off the north wall.
After rolling around on the ground, he got up and ran away to the north.
Seeing the leader escaping, the fighting spirit of the Khitan soldiers collapsed. In just one morning, more than a thousand Khitan soldiers died at the hands of the Ming army. How to fight this battle? As soon as the leader Xiao Tianma escaped, the Khitan auxiliary soldiers
and the handymen no longer had the fighting spirit. Although these auxiliary soldiers and handymen had a sense of superiority against the Song army, their morale was extremely limited in the face of the heavy blow of reality. The defeat was like a mountain.
More than a thousand Khitan soldiers lost their flags, drums and horns and jumped down after Xiao Tianma. Seeing that Xiao Tianma had escaped, more than two thousand Khitan soldiers in the camp no longer resisted and rushed up to the north wall.
Jump off the city wall and escape outside the city.
The Khitan army all jumped off the five-meter-high city wall like a flock of penguins leaping into the sea, rolled on the ground a few times, got up and chased Xiao Tianma. Outside the fort was soft soil, not as good as the cement floor in later generations.
Khitan soldiers would not fall to death if they jumped from a height of five meters. However, there were still some unlucky Khitan soldiers who broke their legs and fell to the ground screaming.
The soldiers of the Selective Front Regiment kept pressing forward and fired continuously at the fleeing Khitan soldiers. At first, only a few hundred soldiers of the Selective Front Regiment entered the fire range, but soon the soldiers behind them ran up. They rushed to the east,
From the north of the city walls on both sides of the west, they fired at the fleeing Khitan troops.
During their escape, the Khitan army was attacked by the vanguard group on the city wall, which made them even more panicked. The fleeing Khitan army was like a swarm of ants, and some people kept being shot and fell down. The people behind were still rushing towards the city wall, hoping to escape from the north.
The city wall escaped. However, the width of the stone steps leading up to the city wall was limited, and only three people could pass at a time. The Khitan soldiers were crowded under the stone steps, making them the best target for the soldiers of the Selection Front Regiment.
The more than a thousand Khitan troops who were originally standing on the city wall jumped over the wall and all escaped. Most of the more than two thousand Khitan troops behind who escaped quickly also climbed up the city wall and jumped down. But they were still fighting with Choosing the Front.
During the regiment's shooting, the thousand Khitan soldiers in the south of Tunbao were not so lucky. The width of the stone steps leading to the city wall was limited, and they were squeezed under the stone steps and could not get up. The soldiers of the selected front regiment shot them down one by one.
fall.
Blood flowers were like fireworks, blooming continuously on the crowded Khitan soldiers. This was no longer a war, this was a massacre. As the soldiers of the Selected Frontier Regiment fired, the corpses piled thicker and thicker under the northern city wall.
, in the end there were two or three layers of Qing army corpses piled on every piece of ground. The blood flowed together, like a stream, flowing under the corners of the city wall.
Four thousand Khitan soldiers threw eight or nine more corpses under the north city wall, and only three thousand people escaped from this small fort. In the end, all the Khitan soldiers who did not escape from the city wall were killed. On the battlefield
It became quiet. Yang Bamei climbed up the city wall, looked at the battlefield, and shouted: "The vanguard group is on horseback to chase down the defeated troops!"
The two thousand soldiers of the Selection Regiment immediately took action, returned to the south city wall, climbed up from the ladder, and found their horses behind the artillery position. They rode their horses and rushed north to pursue the defeated Khitan army. The Selection Regiment
Galloping to the north, they divided into ten groups to search for the defeated Khitan troops. After chasing for two quarters of an hour, a group of cavalry met the Khitan troops who were following Xiao Tianma and escaping to the northeast.
The soldiers of the Selective Front Regiment wanted to rush forward and attack with cavalry, but the Khitan auxiliary soldiers turned around and fired arrows, forcing the soldiers of the Selective Front Regiment back. The cavalry stopped their horses a hundred meters away, loaded their rifles, and shot at the Khitan soldiers.
.There was another scream among the fleeing Khitan soldiers, and more than a hundred Khitan soldiers were shot and killed. The Khitan soldiers were frightened and did not dare to form an organized escape anymore, so they dispersed one after another. The soldiers of the Selection Group laughed loudly, jumped off their horses and cut off their heads.
, hung the head on the saddle, then rode his horse to chase the defeated soldiers, and shot the fleeing Khitan soldiers one by one with rifles.
It was another massacre. Finally, when the more than two hundred cavalrymen stopped chasing and rode back to the fort with their heads hanging on their heads, they had already chased and killed more than eight hundred Khitan soldiers. After the cavalry returned, the heads of the Khitan soldiers in the city were also killed.
It had been cut off. Yang Bamei counted the heads and found that in this battle, 2,441 Khitan soldiers were killed and 342 wounded Tatars were captured.
This is a big victory.
On Yang Bamei's side, thirty-seven people were slightly injured, seventeen were seriously injured, and fourteen were killed. These casualties were all caused by the archers of the Khitan soldiers. Looking at the casualties, Yang Peng also comforted Yang Bamei and secretly thought:
After returning from the First World War, the blacksmiths were asked to build stronger armor for the soldiers to reduce casualties from shooting with the Khitan soldiers.
Yang Bamei handed the wounded to Shen Yuji's medical team and asked the military doctors to seize the time to treat the wounded. Shen Yuji's surgeons quickly mobilized to clear the houses in the camp and set up a field hospital.
Yang Peng asked the soldiers to open the south gate and led the troops on horseback into the fort. The military households of the Song Dynasty in the fort had probably been killed by the Khitan soldiers, or had been looted. At this time, the fort was empty. Yang Peng found the granary,
Sure enough, we found bags of grain. The grain was packed in linen bags. It was obviously plundered by Khitan soldiers. It was piled up like hills in the granary, with at least 20,000 stones.
With this food, Kou Zhun's 30,000 troops and horses will not go hungry. Yang Peng checked in the fort and found another bank. Opening the bank, Yang Peng found boxes and boxes full of silver of various colors.
The silver included silver ingots and broken silver, which were the trophies of the Khitan soldiers. Yang Peng asked the soldiers to count them and found that there were 236,000 taels of silver in the warehouse.
Yang Peng secretly thought that the silver should not be cheap. He passed the order and ordered that each soldier of the Huben Division would be rewarded with 10 taels of silver. The two thousand cavalrymen of Yang Bamei's charge were rewarded with 20 taels of silver each. The remaining silver was given to the heavy troops.
Put it away, and after returning to Tianjing New City, I will reward the disabled and the families of those who died in this war.
After receiving the reward from the imperial decree, Commander Kou distributed the internal money rewarded by the official to the entire army, leaving only five taels of silver for himself to make a wine cup as a souvenir. Although the 30,000 soldiers did not receive much silver, they learned that Lord Kou was like this.
Everyone was very excited. Now that the army had sufficient food and pay, a celebration banquet was held in the Hanjiazhuang Administrative Office in the evening.
When Yang Peng walked into the tent, all the generals had already filled the hall. Yang Peng saw a group of generals under Huaihua, and there was an empty seat next to Shi Pingzhang. When he was about to sit in, he saw all the generals sitting there.
Chen An, the most senior general of Kou Zhun, stood up and said loudly: "Lord of the City, take my seat!"
Yang Peng was stunned, and said with cupped hands: "The general is just a city lord, let's sit at the bottom!" The other generals laughed, and Shi Pinghu said: "It's all thanks to the city lord that we have food and grass to eat, what else can we do?
Humble?" Other generals also said: "The city lord has won a series of great victories in the past few days, but we have not made any achievements! If the city lord does not take the first place, we will not be able to eat and drink!"
Shi Pingzhang also cursed loudly: "What kind of generals are there? Yang Peng's troops are much stronger than our general soldiers!" Yang Peng looked at Kou Zhun, and Kou Zhun also nodded and said: "The city lord has made outstanding contributions, but
Rank first!" Yang Peng then walked up to Chen An, saluted Chen An, and sat in the first position.
Sitting in the first place, he had a feeling of being valued. Yang Peng felt that the generals looked at him with a little more respect. When Shi Pinghu saw Yang Peng sitting next to him, he patted the table and said, "The city lord said that day.
I still don’t believe that Hanjiazhuang can be captured within four days. If I had known that the Lord of the City’s men were so good at fighting, I would have definitely followed and hunted down dozens of Khitan soldiers! Get some military exploits!”
Shi Pingzhang laughed and said: "I didn't believe that the Lord of the City could capture Hanjiazhuang at the beginning. Who knew that it only took two days to break the city! With such brave horses as the Lord of the City in the army, I really am not afraid of the Khitans anymore!" Shi Pinghu said
He said loudly: "When I heard about Lord City Lord's military exploits, all the sergeants under my command were greatly encouraged. They thought it would be easy to kill the Khitans. They were all eager to fight, and their morale was completely different!"
While the generals were sighing there, Captain Zhang Yan said abruptly: "Your Majesty, Lord of the City, has formed an army with firearms. May I ask the key to it? I want to imitate Lord Lord of the City in organizing his army, how should I start?" Hearing Zhang Yan's words, all the generals stopped.
With emotion, everyone looked at Yang Peng. Yang Peng's troops and horses were so powerful that all the generals were eager to learn from them.
Kou Zhun was also very interested in this topic and turned to look at Yang Peng. Yang Peng secretly said goodbye to these Song generals who asked him about the secret of his rifled gun. He thought about it and said: "The key to firearms is the essence! My fire
The key parts of the gun are all made of fine steel. It has a flintlock ignition and a firing rate of more than 90%. A fire gun costs fifteen taels! And my soldiers practice fire guns every day, so that they can hit 80-90% of the time on the battlefield.
With such intensity of training, a firecracker will be broken every three months!"
Hearing Yang Peng's words, the generals were stunned. According to Yang Peng, the monthly maintenance cost of the fire blunderbuss used for training is five taels of silver per person. The fire blunderbuss is not a fire blunderbuss, but silver.
!Other generals of the Song Dynasty sometimes couldn't pay soldiers even one tael of silver a month. How could they have so much money to maintain such a firearms army?
Yang Peng was so rich that he used private property to raise troops, so he could play like this. The money Yang Peng spent raising 10,000 soldiers and horses was enough for other military attachés to raise 30,000 soldiers and horses. If other Song generals learned from Yang Peng's method of raising troops, the imperial court would select soldiers and horses.
How to explain? I said that I raise elite soldiers? Who believes it? Doesn’t the official want to join you and get paid for free? After listening to Yang Peng’s words, everyone lost the idea of imitating Yang Peng’s firearms army, and they all raised their glasses and said
:"drink wine!"
On November 3, Kou Zhun and Yang Peng's troops arrived at Jinghai Town and encountered a Khitan army. There were about 15,000 Khitan troops there. The middle army held a gold-woven dragon banner high and was besieging Jinghai.
City. The traps and holes outside Jinghai City have all been filled up by the Khitan army's chariots. The defenders in Jinghai City struggled to hold on, and the city was breached in only one or two days. Kou Zhun's reinforcements arrived just in time, and they were delayed a few days.
, it is time to collect the corpses for the defenders in the city.
Seeing more than 20,000 Song troops approaching, the attacking Khitan army reluctantly abandoned Jinghai City and set up a formation under the city to face the Song army. Over the years, the Khitan army rarely failed against the Song army, often with a thousand Khitan troops.
The Khitan army could chase two or three thousand Song troops. Although the Khitan army under the city was only more than half of the Song army, they obviously believed that the Song army was vulnerable and useless in numbers. They thought they could defeat 20,000
How big is the Song army?
Yang Peng captured a few Tatar prisoners, pointed to the flag of the Khitan army in the distance and asked them: "Which Khitan army is that?" The general translated Yang Peng's Chinese into Khitan, and the prisoners pointed to the distance.
After looking at the Khitan army flag for a while, he replied: "That is the flag of Hu Yuan, the training envoy of Youzhou regiment!"
Li Zhi asked again: "How many vests and infantry does Hu Yuan have?" The prisoners said: "Now the Khitan soldiers are all divided into three camps. During war, troops and horses are distributed from the camps to Commander Hu Yuan as needed.
The troops are all temporarily allocated. We don’t know how many horse armors and how many infantry armors there are in this group of soldiers and horses!"
Yang Peng asked his men to give these Tatars a few whips, and they were beaten until their mouths were dripping with blood. They were so painful that they whined and moaned, but they still did not change their words.
Only then did Yang Peng let the Tatars live and let the soldiers take them under guard. Yang Peng rode up to Kou Zhun's central army. Kou Zhun and three generals were looking at the map to discuss the strategy of defeating the enemy. When they saw Yang Peng coming,
Kou Zhun said happily: "Your Majesty, the city lord has arrived just in time. We are dividing the flanks and discussing how to deploy them to defeat this Khitan army!"
Kou Zhun thought for a while and then asked: "The Lord of the City has captured many prisoners. Do these prisoners know who the Khitan general opposite is?" Yang Peng raised his hand and said: "A living confession shows that the Khitan leader opposite is Hu Yuan, the envoy of the Youzhou regiment!"
It turns out to be Hu Yuan!" Shi Pinghu said loudly: "I heard that Hu Yuan is considered to be brave and good at fighting in the Khitan clan, but because his mother was born in a lowly position, he has only been granted the title of regimental envoy, not a noble."
Kou Zhun nodded and said: "Hu Yuan is leading the army on the opposite side. It should not be underestimated. It is a tough battle." Yang Peng handed over his hand and said: "The last general is willing to be the east wing and attack the Khitan's right flank!"
Seeing Yang Peng's request, several other generals also said: "We are willing to guard the right flank of the army for the west wing."
Kou Zhun nodded and said: "Okay, then I will lead the standard army as the central army!" Kou Zhun stood up and said loudly: "Everyone, we will go into battle to kill the enemy! You are all high-ranking officials and nobles, and your rewards will be great.
Emperor En, this is the moment!" Shi Pingzhang and others shouted loudly: "Here!"
Everyone returned to the military formation, and asked the soldiers to put on their armor, grab their bows and knives, and enter into battle. The 25,000 Song army soldiers and horses were like a huge machine, moving slowly and setting up a formation. Yang Peng rode on the horse and observed the formation.
When Kou Zhunbiao went into battle, he felt that the four thousand soldiers were quite tough. At first glance, they looked like veterans who had seen blood. Most of these soldiers wore cotton armor with iron plates inside, and each of them held a broadsword and fought in formation. Look,
It's a good fight up there.
These soldiers are all professional soldiers who receive military pay. In terms of fighting skills, they are not inferior to the soldiers of Yang Peng's Huben Division. Even if they face the Khitan army with the same number of people, these soldiers can last for a period of time. Of course, with rifles
Compared with the Hu Ben division who killed enemies with powerful crossbows, their combat power seemed very dim.
Yang Peng rode in the middle army of Huben Division and called Huyan Chijin. "You lead 2,400 soldiers and horses to guard the westernmost flank of our Huben Division, bordering the Governor's Biao Army. You let the troops closest to Kou Zhun's Biao Army
One thousand and two hundred men let the Khitan soldiers wait a hundred paces before shooting. Don't let Lord Kou discover that our rifles can shoot a hundred and forty paces!"
"The remaining 1,200 people are a few hundred steps away from Master Kou's troops. Master Kou cannot see clearly, so he can fire at 140 steps!" Huyan Chijin said doubtfully: "It takes 100 steps to open fire, and the firepower is insufficient.
What should I do?" Yang Peng said: "Don't be afraid, I will place fifty powerful crossbows in your formation. When the time comes, I will use the powerful crossbows to kill the Khitan soldiers. How can the Khitan soldiers withstand it?"
Huyan Chijin then replied: "My subordinates obey!" Yang Peng nodded and asked Huyan Chijin to arrange it. The fifty powerful crossbows of the Selection Group quickly heard the order and deployed to Huyan Chijin's army, scattered among
Among the various companies, as soon as Yang Peng had arranged his troops, he saw Kou Zhunzhong's military flags waving in the distance. Kou Zhun ordered all the troops to advance and force the Khitan army under the city.
Yang Peng also asked the flag to be raised, and the whole army advanced. Seeing that the Ming army was coming from the left, center and right, the Khitan army also divided into left, center and right to meet them. Hu Yuan saw that the Song army had many people on both wings, so he released six thousand soldiers.
The people were on the west wing, 6,000 on the east wing, and only 3,000 on the middle. The ones who challenged the east wing of the Song army where Yang Peng was located were the 6,000 soldiers on the east wing of the Khitan army.
Yang Peng raised his telescope and looked around, and saw that the Khitan soldiers were all riding horses. About a quarter were in horseback, a quarter were in infantry, and the remaining half were auxiliary soldiers. The Khitan soldiers jumped down in front of the formation.
Horses, step forward to fight on foot. The Khitan is a fishing and hunting nation. Although they have many horses, they are best at fighting on foot. Whether it is Khitan spearmen or archers, their combat effectiveness is much stronger when they are under horses than when they are on horses.
But they didn't understand that Yang Peng's side was full of firearms, and the slow sprint speed of the infantry would turn the two hundred meters in front of the formation into a Shura hell. Yang Peng asked the entire army to form a four-row deep horizontal formation, preparing for a four-row round.
shoot.
Kou Zhun's central army blew the horn of attack, and the troops moved forward to kill Hu Yuan's army who was arrayed below the city. Not to be outdone, Hu Yuan's 15,000 Khitan army also blew the horn and pressed on the Song army.
Come over. The distance is 600 meters, 500 meters, 400 meters. The two armies are approaching quickly. The distance is 300 meters, 250 meters, 200 meters. The Khitan rushing over from the distance is already very close. Huyan Chijin is already there.
The ferocious expressions of the Tatars could be clearly seen with the naked eye. The Khitan soldiers seemed to despise the Song army in front of them, which was led by a woman. They howled and rushed up quickly, and many of them even had ferocious smiles on their faces.
Yang Peng's one hundred and forty six-power crossbows fired. The one hundred and forty six-power crossbows spurted out tongues of fire and shot more than a thousand long arrows at the ignorant Khitan soldiers. The damage caused by these long arrows was devastating.
As soon as the strong crossbow went off, a storm of blood and water immediately broke out in front of the Khitan army. More than a thousand long arrows swept through everything in the front row, piercing the bodies of the Khitan soldiers with or without armor, and shot them to death.
Their strong bodies and the armor they were proud of were as fragile as pieces of paper in front of long crossbow arrows. Passing through the bodies of the first row of Khitan soldiers, the long arrows could even kill a Khitan soldier and then continue to pierce back.
, and then kill the second Khitan soldier in the back row.
The blood was like flowers that bloomed collectively in June. They bloomed suddenly in front of the Khitan army. One by one, they connected into one piece and formed a surface, like a beautiful red picture of flowers. It was extremely gorgeous, but in an instant it
It took the lives of a thousand Khitan soldiers. Thousands of Khitan soldiers in the front row suddenly fell to the ground, screaming or not screaming, dead or shouting. Broken limbs and meat were everywhere, and their intestines were everywhere.
and various organ fragments were scattered on the ground. Blood and water burst out from the corpses, flowing out in the low ground in front of the formation and forming countless streams. The Khitan soldiers behind were immediately stunned.
What happened after all? Let’s hear the details next time.