The auxiliary soldiers in front of the fourth trench pulled out the swords on their waists and followed the Fende Bashiku to rush to the front of the Song army's formation. However, what greeted them was six hundred rifles at a distance of eighty meters.
The riflemen had been loading their ammunition for a long time. They only waited for the Khitan soldiers' wooden shields to be broken before firing bullets at the Khitan soldiers. Before more than two thousand Khitan soldiers could rush across the wooden bridge they had set up, they were
Hit by a hail of six hundred bullets.
In an instant, hundreds of people were knocked to the ground, thrown to the ground like sandbags, or fell on the wooden bridge. Some seriously injured people screamed and rolled on the ground, fell from the wooden bridge, and fell two meters.
In the deep trench, the organs that had been shredded by bullets were squeezed by the heavy fall again, turning into a ball of blood, leaving the wounded no longer alive. The leader Fende Bashiku shouted loudly: "Come on! Kill one of them."
The Song army will raise the flag!" When the followers heard this, their eyes turned red, and they followed the Fende Bashiku and rushed to the base of the Ming army's stronghold.
But their charge only advanced ten meters before stopping. Just now, the Khitan soldiers were busy building bridges and hiding behind wooden shields. They were so busy that they had no time to observe the battlefield ahead. Of course, the valley of Maligou is not a plain.
The ground was rugged and bumpy, and it was difficult to see clearly what was happening on the ground in the distance even from twenty meters away. They did not see the wooden thorn that was just half a foot high in front of them.
When these auxiliary soldiers rushed seventy meters in front of the stronghold, they discovered that there was a large area of wooden thorns in front of them. The Khitan soldiers could not walk in these wooden thorn areas. Dozens of auxiliary soldiers did not react and rushed in with swords raised.
Wooden thorns area. Their feet were pricked by wooden thorns, they were confused, and fell down among the wooden thorns in pain. Those wooden thorns were all sharpened by swords, how could their clothes and skin withstand them? Those followers suddenly
His body was stabbed open by wooden thorns, and he was bleeding.
Some of the followers charged too hard and fell with such force that they were stabbed to death by wooden thorns. Several auxiliary soldiers were also hit by the wooden thorns, but fortunately they were wearing cotton armor and were not injured.
They were stabbed to death by wooden thorns. They fell on the wooden thorns and screamed several times, then fled back in panic.
This road is blocked! On the entire 70-meter-deep battlefield in front of the stronghold, a depth of 40 meters is covered with wooden thorns. These wooden thorn arrays cover a width of 750 meters in front of the stronghold, and there is only a passage more than ten meters wide.
There are no thorns anywhere.
The wooden thorns were buried deep and it was impossible to pull them out. The Fende Bashiku gritted his teeth and shouted: "Charge in from a place where there are no wooden thorns." Before he could finish speaking, the Song Army's stronghold
Another six hundred rifles were fired. Six hundred rounds of bullets swept across the battlefield, hitting more than a thousand auxiliary soldiers and followers wearing thin or no armor. The blood flowers were like cuckoos in spring, one after another.
Flowers bloomed from the Khitan soldiers one by one. The Khitan soldiers who were shot squirted blood from their wounds and fell to the ground one by one.
That Fende Bashiku was also hit by a bullet. At a distance of 80 meters, even though he was wearing three layers of heavy armor, his body was penetrated by the bullet. He was hit in the right lung. The bullet shattered the
Delicate organs, blood shot along the trachea to various channels of the human body, and spurted out from his mouth and nose. He fell to the ground with a thud, and died. Together with this Fende Bashiku, hundreds of
A Khitan soldier fell down.
In the blink of an eye, most of the nearly 3,000-strong wooden bridge team was killed and injured. However, because there were more than 60,000 reinforcements behind them, these Khitan soldiers did not collapse. With so many reinforcements behind them, the fate of the retreat was likely to be that they were taken into custody.
The marshal's guards in the formation hacked him to death. The auxiliary soldiers and followers who were still alive, with red eyes, howled and rushed towards the passage without wooden thorns, preparing to attack the Song army from there.
But the passage more than ten meters wide was too narrow. More than a thousand Khitan soldiers crowded on the periphery of the passage. Only a dozen or so people could enter the passage. Most people could only squeeze outside and wait to enter. The people in the front row
The two hundred soldiers had just rushed into the passage and ran twenty meters. When they were fifty meters away from the stronghold in front, they were greeted by another hail of bullets.
The front of Yang Peng's stronghold was more than 700 meters wide. The Khitan soldiers who entered the passage were crowded in the passage. Soldiers who were too far away from the passage could not target them. But there were still more than a thousand Khitan soldiers crowded outside the passage. These Qing soldiers
It occupies an area of more than 200 meters, so soldiers more than 200 meters on both sides of the passage can shoot at the Khitan soldiers.
Four hundred rounds of bullets hit the three hundred people who rushed into the passage or tried to rush into the passage, immediately sending the charging Khitan soldiers to the west. The bullets were like scissors for pruning leaves, clicking and harvesting life.
He immediately killed all the auxiliary soldiers and followers on the east and west sides of the Khitan army. Those Khitan soldiers who were shot and fell to the ground were either dead, or twitching and struggling on the ground, turning into obstacles for the Khitan army behind to rush forward.
Even slower. It is estimated that in less than two rounds of volleys, these auxiliary soldiers and followers who rushed into the formation would all be killed.
Under the aim of hundreds of rifles, the only way to attack this narrow passage was to be completely wiped out. This wave of Khitan soldiers finally collapsed. The front was blocked by wooden thorns, and the only passage could not be rushed up. They stayed in front of the formation and just fired volleys.
It was just a target. Of the nearly 3,000-strong team, two thousand were killed in just one moment, leaving only 900 people. The Khitan soldiers did not dare to charge any more and collapsed screaming.
But they who escaped were still within the shooting range of the Tiger Division. Two to three hundred rifles behind them chased and fired at them. From a distance of 70 meters to 200 meters from the canopy, the rifles could fire four or five rounds. The Khitan
The soldiers had no hope of escaping. The soldiers of the Tiger Division shot the fleeing Khitan soldiers in the backs, legs and backs of their heads one by one, as if they were executing prisoners.
The fleeing Khitan soldiers fell on the battlefield one after another. When the last fleeing auxiliary soldier was shot to death 150 meters away, the battlefield became quiet for a while.
In order to fill up the four trenches, the Khitan army sacrificed 5,000 people. The last wave of Khitan soldiers charged into the formation, causing another 2,000 Qing soldiers to be killed and wounded. In just one stick of incense, the Khitan army had already advanced in Huben Division.
Seven thousand people were abandoned in front of the battle. The battlefield two hundred meters in front of the canopy was filled with corpses of Khitan soldiers, like a slaughterhouse.
Blood flowed on the uneven valley floor and gathered in low-lying areas, forming pools of blood. But after only a few seconds, the silence on the battlefield was broken by the roar of one hundred and forty powerful crossbows. The Khitan
The main force of the Khitan army rushed over from a mile away. The Khitan army was about to use more than 60,000 flesh and blood to attack Yang Peng's gun array. The soldiers in the front row of the main force of the Khitan army were 300 meters away from Yang Peng's canopy and had already entered the throwing area.
The range of the stone machine and the crossbow, the crossbow opened fire.
One thousand four hundred long arrows were like a meteor, shooting at the more than 60,000-strong army, sweeping across a large area in the front row. Although most of the stones were shot away, hundreds of arrows still hit the target.
The Khitan army three hundred meters away. The cotton armor and chain armor of the Khitan soldiers were helpless in the face of the iron bullets, and they were all shot through. Hundreds of people screamed or fell silently, and they were not close yet.
The trench died on the battlefield.
The damage caused by the long arrows made the front end of the Khitan army slightly confused. Many of the more than 60,000 Khitan troops rushing into the battle were infantry and horse soldiers wearing heavy armor. They wore one or even two layers of heavy armor. However, the Khitan army
The proud armor was defenseless against shotguns, which had a huge impact on the morale of the Khitan army.
However, the lethality of the powerful crossbow arrows fired from 300 meters away was limited, and only a few hundred people were killed. The officers of the Khitan army whipped the stagnant soldiers for a while, and then the team returned to normal. The Khitan army had to change from rough workmanship to heavy load
There were only four trenches across the limited wooden bridge, and a horse could easily weigh more than a thousand pounds. It was obvious that the wooden bridge would not be able to hold up when riding horses. Therefore, the Khitan army charged into the battle on foot, and there would be no big chaos caused by the frightened horses.
In fact, the Khitan army also has machine crossbows. Xiao Tianzuo brought more than fifty machine crossbows this time. However, the number of machine crossbows of the Khitan army is far less than that of Yang Peng, so it is not cheap for shooting. Moreover, these machine crossbows are the absolute treasures of the Khitan army.
, how many years did it take to accumulate these assets, and siege cities and strongholds all rely on these cannons. If they shoot against Yang Peng's powerful crossbows, it won't take long for the Khitan army's machine crossbows to be knocked out by Yang Peng's powerful crossbows. Xiao
Tianzuo was reluctant to give up.
The more than 60,000 Khitan troops accelerated their march and rushed towards the Song army's stronghold a few hundred meters away. When they reached the first trench, Yang Peng's crossbows and trebuchets opened fire again.
More than a thousand long arrows flew towards the Khitan army again, overwhelming the sky. Those long arrows made a whirring sound as they flew through the air. The sound of more than a thousand long arrows piercing the air merged together and turned into a roaring sound.
There was a murmur. It only took the blink of an eye for the projectiles to pierce into the Khitan army's formation, piercing into the flesh and blood under the armor.
The armor was immediately torn apart. Any part of the Khitan soldier's body that the arrow hit would always pierce two holes. After the long arrow penetrated a body, it would continue to pierce the back, killing the second Qing soldier in the back row.
. Facing the power of steel and gunpowder, the human body is as fragile as a layer of paper. This time the long arrow shooting distance was closer, the hit rate of the long arrow increased, and nearly a thousand soldiers in the front row fell down screaming.
Screams and howls came from the mouths of the wounded in front of the formation, which began to corrode the morale of the Khitan army. Blood, stumps and minced meat were everywhere. At first glance, it was all blood red. The front line of the Khitan army seemed to be a
Pig killing factory.
The Khitan army was hit hard again, and some of them were unable to react. How could the Song army's powerful crossbow fire so fast? Didn't it take a long time to fire once? With such a rate of fire, wouldn't it be possible for the Khitan army to hit the enemy before they rushed to the formation?
The soldiers in the front row seemed to have seen the Song army's powerful crossbows firing another round, killing themselves, and their faces turned pale.
However, there is no retreat in this battle. There are thousands of handsome guards in the Khitan army. If you escape, you will definitely die. In the roaring army of tens of thousands, the human adrenal glands will secrete exciting hormones, which makes the known
Death became less terrifying. The Khitan soldiers in the front row gritted their teeth and rushed upward, as if they had forgotten their personal life and death. They waved their swords and walked onto the wooden bridge over the first trench and crossed the first trench.
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The Khitan army had too many people. The front of Yang Peng's stronghold was only more than 700 meters. The more than 60,000 Khitan troops could not spread out at all. If they attacked together, they would be crowded together and cause chaos. The Khitan army could not rush forward together, and the troops and horses were divided.
There were two lines. One line consisted of 20,000 people in the front row, led by five thousand-man troops to charge forward. The other line consisted of more than 40,000 people in the back line, waiting at the edge of the trench, ready to support the 20,000 people in front.
people.
But Xiao Tianzuo believed that the 20,000 troops in the front could defeat Yang Peng's troops without the help of more than 40,000 people in the back. The trench had been covered with a wooden bridge, and the front was level. Yang Peng's troops
With only 10,000 people, how could they be a match for 20,000 Khitan warriors?
The moment the front row of the Khitan Army crossed the wooden bridge, the six hundred rifles in front of the Huben Division opened fire at the front row of the Khitan Army. From a distance of two hundred meters, the six hundred rifles spit out six hundred rounds of bullets, attacking with hands full of Han blood.
Khitan soldiers. As soon as 600 rounds of bullets were fired, a large piece of the Khitan army fell like wheat that had been cut by a sickle. At this distance, the conical bullets could not penetrate the two-layer armor of the horse soldiers.
But it is fatal to infantry soldiers, Xi clan soldiers and auxiliary soldiers.
In one salvo, at least three hundred Khitan soldiers were killed and wounded. The soldiers who were shot covered their wounds and screamed loudly. But soon the strength disappeared from them, and they fell into a pool of blood.
There was no sound. The Khitan army plucked up their courage and continued to rush towards the Ming army's formation.
After walking another dozen steps, another hail of bullets poured in front of the Khitan army. The blood flowers were like fireworks blooming during the New Year, blooming one after another on the Qing soldiers, soaking up the salty and hot blood.
It splashed several meters away, splashing on the bodies and faces of other Khitans around them. The Khitans still alive in the front row were all covered in blood, as if they had walked out of hell.
More than 300 Khitans were knocked to the ground again. The shot Khitans rolled and twitched on the ground, but no one paid attention to them. The 60,000-strong army formed a collective momentum of going forward, stimulating the fighting of the soldiers in front of the formation.
Will, ignoring these hundreds of individuals who died tragically.
The cavalry soldiers who were not killed by the bullets had the highest morale. They believed that the Hu Ben Division's fire cannons could not defeat them, so they charged with howls. The Khitans crossed the second trench. There were only more than a hundred wooden bridges on the second trench, and
The entire trench was not covered. The Tatar team was huddled together here, and only part of it rushed onto the wooden bridge, while those behind were crowded at the end of the wooden bridge.
The lack of wooden bridges on the trench slowed down the Khitan team's overall charging speed by several percent. The third rifle salvo came. Screams rang out again, and the soldiers in the front row seemed to be called by name, one after another.
One fell. A cavalry soldier wearing double armor rushed forward with the strength of his heavy armor, but was hit in the head by a bullet. Half of his head was broken by the bullet, and his blood and brains bloomed into a bloody flower.
, splashed on the face of the carabid next to him. The carabid touched his face in surprise, only to see blood red on his hand.
Just as the rifle fire stopped, the Khitans took another dozen steps forward, and the third round of catapult and the fourth round of rifle fire were fired at the same time.
The rain of bullets that covered the sky was like a net, a huge net that could kill at the first touch, which instantly dominated the entire battlefield. Long arrow projectiles and rifle bullets were fired into the Khitan crowd one after another, causing a rain of blood.
The storm. The long arrow projectiles hit anything, whether it was the human body's torso, thighs or arms, and they immediately penetrated. Broken meat and blood shot out everywhere. The Khitan soldiers who were lucky enough not to be hit in front of the formation seemed to be bathed in red.
The rain of blood covered their bodies with blood. They had no idea whether the flesh and blood on their bodies was their own or someone else's. They cried out in fear in the rain of blood, fearing that they would collapse in the next second due to the sudden severe pain.
This burst of shelling finally frightened the Khitan army. The Khitan army in the front row slowed down and did not dare to rush forward. The Khitan army in the front row was frightened, but the Khitan army in the back row still had morale.
There were more than 60,000 Khitan soldiers in this battle, and the casualties of several thousand were bearable. The generals would never allow the soldiers in the front row to retreat. Seeing that the Khitan soldiers in the front row were afraid of moving forward, the guards who were guarding the formation rushed forward to attack them.
The soldiers who stopped shot dozens of arrows.
The commander's guards usually used ten-power bows, and the arrows were accurate and fierce. The bows flew dozens of meters in the air and shot into the backs of the Khitan soldiers in front. The Khitan soldiers immediately screamed. The commander's guards were not allowed to move forward.
The soldiers in the platoon deserted! If the Khitan soldiers rushed to the front and died, they still died in honor. If they fled to the back and were shot to death by the guards, it would be meaningless. If one person is shot to death by the guards guarding the formation, the entire family will not be able to hold their head up in the future.
Come. Seeing this scene, the Khitan troops in the front row did not dare to hesitate anymore, gritted their teeth and started running forward again.
The Khitan army sprinted forward and crossed the third trench. About 110 meters away, the soldiers who fired in the first round of the Tiger Division had loaded their bullets again in the back row and stood in the front row for the fifth round.
Shooting. The soldiers of the Huben Division did not fire volleys at the same time with 600 soldiers. The front of the battlefield was too wide to unify the firing time. The Tigers Division basically fired volleys in units of thirty-one platoons.
The Huben Division fired bullets platoon after platoon, and the Khitan in the front row was hit hard again. At a distance of 110 meters, even the Khitan horse soldiers wearing iron-plated cotton armor and chain mail couldn't carry it.
Using conical bullets, cotton armor was penetrated, the inner iron plates were penetrated, and chainmail armor was also penetrated. When the bullets penetrated these armors, they shattered, turned over irregularly, and caused larger wounds when they penetrated the flesh.
Hundreds of horse-armored soldiers in the front row were leading the charge, but they were suddenly shot through their bodies by bullets. These horse-armored soldiers thought that the Song Army's firecrackers could not do anything to them, but at this time they were beaten squarely. None of them dared to
He looked at the huge wounds on his body with confidence, but he could not cover up the blood that flowed out. The blood that flowed out stained the armor red, causing the horse soldiers to fall down one after another.
The Khitan soldiers rushed forward more than ten steps and were hit by the sixth round of rifle fire. The soldiers in the second row on the front loaded their bullets, stood in the shooting position, aimed at the Khitan, and fired volleys one after another.
The distance was very close, and the Khitans were charging forward again. The formation was dense, and the Huben Division's shooting accuracy was very high. Missed bullets would even hit the Khitans behind and beside them, and very few bullets missed. One round of 600 soldiers
After the volley was fired, four to five hundred Khitan soldiers were knocked to the ground.
The Khitan soldiers suffered heavy casualties, but they still refused to retreat and continued to charge forward. Withstanding the fatal bullets of the Song army, the Khitan soldiers finally rushed through the fourth trench and rushed to the wooden thorn. The large wooden thorn made the rush here
The Tatars were shocked.
The Song army used a trick! The group of auxiliary soldiers who had just discovered Mu Ci were wiped out by the Huben division. No one went back to tell the Khitan army that there was Mu Ci in front. At this time, the large Khitan army rushed in front of Mu Ci and saw clearly.
The wooden thorns, which were only half a foot high, made it clear how indestructible the Song army's stronghold was. This wooden thorn area was completely impassable.
Thousands of warriors were sacrificed and they rushed to the front of the Song army's formation, but were unable to advance because of the Song army's fortifications. The Khitan soldiers who rushed into the formation felt like they wanted to cry without tears. Even the bravest Khitan soldiers suddenly felt as if they were dead.
Dozens of Khitan and infantry soldiers of the Xi tribe rushed into the wooden thorn formation. The soles of their shoes were immediately pierced by the wooden thorns and they fell on the pile of wooden thorns. Even if they were wearing cotton armor or cotton armor inlaid with iron sheets, these Khitans
The soldiers were also stabbed by wooden thorns. They struggled to find a place to stay among the wooden thorns and slowly escaped back.
The Song army's firecrackers were firing continuously, and they were still pouring bullets at the Khitan soldiers, but the Khitan soldiers had no way out. If they wanted to pass through the wooden thorns, they would have to dig out soil and lay a layer of soil half a foot high on the ground.
.But under the aim of the Song army's artillery, how many people had to die before these wooden thorns could be covered with soil? This was an impossible task.
Then some Khitan soldiers lost their fighting spirit and turned around to flee back the way they came. At the center of the Khitan army a few hundred meters away, the generals stopped when they saw the charging troops. They were so anxious that they finally managed to reach the Song army after sacrificing so many warriors.
Fifty steps away, how can we stop?
Handerang stared at the Qing soldiers who had stopped in front of him with his mouth open, and was so surprised that he could not speak. Apparently, the warriors encountered Yang Peng's fortifications and could not rush forward.
This Yang Peng is cheating! Han Derang's face turned pale and he said: "General, there seems to be a trap in front of us, and the warriors cannot rush forward." Xiao Tianzuo covered his nose with his hand, feeling as if his heart was cut by a knife.
After sacrificing so many warriors, Xiao Tianzuo felt like he was scared of being beaten by Yang Peng. Originally, he made such a big sacrifice to rush forward and annihilate Yang Peng's troops, but this Yang Peng was deceitful and arranged a long distance in front of the formation.
There were clearly traps everywhere. Not only that, the powerful crossbows that had been fired for a long time when the wooden bridge was being laid were now being bombarded continuously. If he had known that Yang Peng had left so many backup options, Xiao Tianzuo would not have done it at all.
Will let the warriors rush forward to die.
But now that everything is done and thousands of warriors have died, can they just withdraw like this? Fifty steps away from the enemy, they cannot advance. The Liao soldiers can only use arrows to attack the enemy. But Yang Peng's soldiers and horses are hiding behind the earth wall.
He was not in a good position to shoot the large Khitan soldiers. However, when building the wooden bridge, he had already left 7,000 auxiliary soldiers and followers in front of the formation. At this time, another 4,000 Khitan soldiers died in the attack. Xiao Tianzuo had already lost.
He was unwilling to admit defeat. He shouted: "Blow the horn and let the warriors hold on!"
In front of the formation, dozens of Khitan soldiers who took the lead in escaping were shot to death by the guards who escorted the formation. The Khitan soldiers heard the horn to continue charging and did not dare to retreat. They could only grit their teeth and bear the fire of the Song army.
In this situation, they could only shoot with bows and arrows. The Khitan soldiers looked pale and took out the bows and arrows on their backs, and began to shoot at the Song army's musketry behind the wall.
This was an unfair exchange of fire. Most of the cavalry and infantry soldiers used eight-power bows. Fifty steps, or seventy-five meters, was the ultimate shooting range of these Khitan soldiers. At this distance, they could not shoot at all.
The Khitan soldiers' auxiliaries and followers are even worse. They usually use six-power bows, and the arrows they shoot have basically no lethality at fifty paces. Most of the Khitan bows and arrows of the Xi tribe are similar to the eight-power bows.
, it is also a limit shot at fifty paces, the accuracy is very poor, and it cannot penetrate armor.
But Division Tiger Ben was hiding behind the awning and the earthen wall to shoot. The earthen wall was almost as tall as a man's shoulder, completely protecting the body and torso of the Tiger Division soldier, leaving only his head and shoulders exposed. Not only that, Song
There is an awning above the army's head, and most of the thrown bows and arrows are blocked by the awning. And among the 2,400 soldiers in the front, 2,000 are soldiers of the Selected Front Regiment, wearing chainmail. Fifty steps away, there are only handsome guards.
The ten-power bow of the armor can shoot through the chain armor. The guards are all behind the formation, and the eight-power bow of the vest and infantry in front of the formation is completely incompetent against the chain armor.