Fenghou

The galloping heavy cavalry is getting closer and closer, and their aura is getting more and more violent, like a huge wave sweeping in, and the momentum is like a landslide. Not to mention the poor psychological quality, even ordinary psychological quality can't resist this kind of attack. The frightening momentum was the reason why the millions of Song troops in the Northern Song Dynasty were about to collapse at the first touch.

The 45 black-armored infantry in the two army formations were as dignified as a mountain. They squatted halfway, holding three-pointed and two-edged knives at a [-]-degree angle, and their backs firmly supported the ground.

In the billowing yellow dust, Tiefutu was getting closer and closer to the Song army. They charged forward with a row of hundreds of horses with overwhelming force.

"God arm crossbow shooting!"

The [-] heavy god arm crossbows in the second row were launched. This kind of heavy god arm crossbow requires two people to lie side by side on the ground and use their pedals to wind up. They also use jackdaw iron arrows. The range is not far, but the armor piercing It is extremely powerful, no less than a bed crossbow, and can completely penetrate the enemy's heavy armor.

Half of the divine arm crossbow was shot flat, and the other half was projected. Two thousand and five hundred jackdaw iron arrows shot out like a storm.

Iron arrows swished into the cavalry group, and the heavy armored cavalry suddenly received a huge blow, and a group of people turned their backs, especially the [-] heavy armored cavalry in the front row, almost all fell to the ground from the arrow, and many cavalry fell to the ground in the middle. They tripped many cavalry behind, and a round of jackdaw arrows lost nearly a thousand heavy cavalry.

However, in the 7000 heavy armored cavalry team, the loss of more than a thousand soldiers is still too small. It only makes the offensive momentum stagnate a little, which has little effect on the overall strength, but the offensive momentum is reduced a little, and the pressure on the defense It has been greatly reduced, and only experienced coaches know this subtle change.

Otherwise, Chen Qing would not need to occupy 5000 people to use the double heavy crossbow.

After a short period of chaotic arrow strikes, the heavy cavalry quickly returned to normal. At this time, they had already reached the front of the Western Army formation, but without the terrifying momentum of landslides and ground cracks, the raging waves turned into flash floods.

In twenty steps, "Woo--" the horn blew, and five thousand throwers rushed out, threw five thousand fine steel short spears into the enemy army in an instant, and everyone was turned on their backs in an instant. There were screams and wailing sounds, and blood shot everywhere, and the group of heavily armored cavalry who had been fierce just now disappeared in smoke.

The thrower dodged back, and then the heavy crossbowman fired again, and [-] jackdaw arrows shot into the heavy armored cavalry behind.

Song Jun had rehearsed this kind of smooth coordination many times, and he was extremely proficient, but more importantly, his psychological quality, so that he would not be frightened weak by the powerful Jurchen cavalry.

In the Northern Song Dynasty, this kind of formation was impossible. When the Jurchen came rushing violently, the soldiers of the Song Army were scared to pee their pants and ran away, so that there was a tragedy of 20 troops fleeing overnight.

Only in the hard work of the war did the soldiers of the Song Army gradually possess such a strong will to compete with the Jin soldiers.

After losing thousands of people, the Jurchen heavy armored cavalry finally fought fiercely with the Western Army. The Jurchen heavy armored cavalry attacked the Western Army's infantry formation time and time again, but the black armored soldiers were as tough as a copper wall and iron wall. Withstood the impact of the heavy cavalry.

But the defense alone is still not enough. The defense must have a counterattack. The three major counterattacks of the Western Army are short-range counterattacks by throwing spears, followed by medium-range strikes by trebuchets, and long-range strikes by heavy god-arm crossbows.

Every counterattack caused heavy casualties to the heavy armored cavalry, but compared with the assassination by throwing steel short spears and the penetration of jackdaw arrows, the counterattack of firearms was relatively simple and concealed.

From the very beginning, dozens of chariots threw gunpowder kegs at the enemy in turn. Each gunpowder keg was thrown in an arc and exploded in the crowd. Black smoke filled the air, and the sound of the explosion made the horses squeal.But what is really scary is that the poisoned iron nails splash around, mainly hitting the horse's legs. The horse will only feel itching at first, and there is no great pain. It will not affect the battle for the time being, but the poison will slowly It has infiltrated the blood of the war horses, once the toxicity will suddenly attack, causing a large number of war horses to fall to the ground.

The onset time is half an hour after a person is poisoned by the nail, and the onset time of a war horse may be slower.

At this moment, Chen Qing found that the small phalanx was gradually unable to withstand the impact of the enemy's heavy armored cavalry, and three gaps were broken through. The soldiers of the Western Army suffered heavy casualties. He immediately ordered: "The two formations merge!"

"Woo! Woo!" The horn sounded continuously, which was an order to merge the two large formations into one.

Chapter 28 Fierce Battle

Yue Yun and Zhang Xian each led [-] cavalry to attack the signing army's infantry formation from left and right. The signing army's [-] infantry was led by Li Cheng, and it was naturally his elite army.

Li Cheng deployed [-] bow and crossbow troops, which were divided into three bow and crossbow formations, east, west and south. No matter which direction the western army cavalry came from, they could not escape from the big crossbow formation.

The cavalry of the Western Army rushed into the crossbow range of the signed army in an instant, and Li Cheng ordered coldly, "Shoot!"

"Boom! Boom! Boom!" The huge drum sounded, and a thousand crossbow arrows from the west were suddenly fired, forming a black cloud of arrows, rushing towards the cavalry of the Western Army led by Zhang Xian. The arrow fell down, and nearly [-] people were shot by the crossbow.

Immediately after the signing of the second row of crossbow arrows, the cavalry of the Western Army kept screaming and fell to the ground in the charge, and the third row of arrows roared again. The leather armor, or the horse was hit by an arrow, the horse fell over, and the cavalry on the horse suddenly rolled to the ground, and was trampled to blood by the horse that killed it later.

The three platoons of crossbowmen were proficient in their movements. They fired the upper crossbow, advancing crossbow, and firing crossbow in turn. After only one shot, the cavalry of the western army lost more than [-] people. The heavy loss made the cavalry of the western army slightly less murderous. It was also a little messy, but at this time, the cavalry vanguard of the Western Army had already rushed to the front of the enemy's formation, and Zhang Xian roared, "Get in!"

He took the lead and charged into the enemy's spear formation with a spear, followed by cavalry swarming in.

The [-] cavalry led by Yue Yun from the east arrived like a tidal wave, and the archers who had been waiting for a long time began to shoot vigorously. Thousands of arrows are as dense as torrential rain, and they are so powerful that they can shoot through even a man and a horse.

The more than [-] cavalrymen and horses of the western army who rushed to the front were shot and fell to the ground one after another. The dead bodies piled up. However, the cavalry of the Western Army still could not rush within forty steps, and suffered heavy casualties...

Yue Yun led 2000 cavalry rushing from the left flank. The predecessor of the [-] cavalry was the Beiwei Army of the Yue Family Army. San, still follow Yue Yun, but changed the name of the Beiwei Army to the Tucai Army.

The two thousand assault cavalry were a combination of cavalry and archers, and they charged bravely like other cavalry. They galloped and charged with powerful arrows, shooting rows of golden soldiers to the ground.

However, Yue Yun was very worried about the powerful bow and crossbow army of the signing army. At this moment, Yue Yun's eyes suddenly saw a big banner, which was the banner of Li Cheng's chief general, and Li Cheng must be under the banner.

Capture the thief first and capture the king first. Yue Yun's blood boiled in his chest. He ordered the general Yao Zheng to continue to lead the army to attack. He shouted, "Brothers, follow me to kill the bandits and make meritorious deeds!"

He wielded his double hammers and led two thousand elite cavalry to kill Li Cheng's camp. He led the cavalry to quickly kill a bloody road, and gradually approached the flag of the enemy general.

At this time, Yue Yun had clearly seen the enemy general in silver helmets and iron armor, who was quickly moving northward under the tight protection of hundreds of iron armored personal guards, and they were out of reach.

"General Yue!"

The soldiers shouted: "We have already killed the crossbowmen!"

It was really intentional to plant flowers and flowers, but unintentionally planted willows but the willows became shades. They actually killed the bow and crossbow army behind them.

Yue Yun shouted, "Kill me!"

Two thousand dashing cavalry followed Yue Yun and rushed into the 4000 crossbow formation from behind in an instant. The crossbow troops basically had no ability to counterattack and their defenses were extremely weak.

Yue Yun led two thousand men like fierce tigers into the flock of sheep, killing the archers and crossbowmen crying, and their corpses lay all over the ground.

Li Cheng could see clearly from a distance, and he recognized Yue Yun, and immediately flew into a rage, shouting: "The right-wing spear army intercepts them and surrounds them!"

Six thousand spear troops rushed forward, blocking the way of Yue Yun's army, and also rescued the last thousand or so crossbowmen.

The spear army quickly set up a formation and surrounded Yue Yun's cavalry regiments. Yue Yun led the army to break through, but the signing army desperately blocked them.

……

The two armies of the main formation merged into one, but the Jurchen heavy armored cavalry caught a breakthrough. The five hundred black armored infantry that should have been here were all killed, so they had to be supplemented by spear infantry. Eight thousand heavy armored cavalry rushed towards the breakthrough.

'boom! There was a loud noise, and the two armies collided like two mighty waves. The murderous look confused people's eyes for a moment. There were screams, heads fell to the ground, and rivers of blood flowed. The war was so cruel that the lives of soldiers were as humble as grass at this moment.

A soldier of the Western Army hook sickle screamed. His head was split in half by the ax of the Jurchen cavalry, blood and brains were splashed everywhere. The soldiers cut off the meridian with the sharp sickle on the side of the hook and sickle gun.

The horse flopped and fell, and the strong Jurchen cavalry on the horse fell to the ground together. The hooked and sickle gun soldiers rushed forward and held the cavalry down, pulled out the dagger from the leather boots, and pointed it at his forehead. With a ruthless stab, the dagger pierced his forehead. The Jurchen cavalry screamed and died.

But without the sword formation of the black-armored infantry, the ordinary soldiers with hooks and sickles could not stop the impact of the heavy cavalry at all. More than a thousand heavy cavalry rushed into the formation, and there was a steady stream of heavy cavalry behind them. Kill in the formation.

The situation was extremely critical, and the coach Chen Qing arrived with hundreds of black-armored infantrymen. With a loud shout, Chen Qing pierced the throat of a Jurchen commander. Armor is separated and connected with a belt.

The halberd waved again, a cold light flashed, another centurion's head flew up, and the headless corpse fell from the horse.

Chen Qing killed more than a dozen Jurchen generals in a row, and the cavalry behind them were extremely angry and rushed to kill them.

"Throw spears!" Chen Qing gave an order, and a hundred spear throwers rushed up behind him, and threw a hundred short spears that were shining with cold light. There was a scream, and dozens of heavy armored cavalrymen who rushed forward were stabbed to death. .

There was also a gap in the heavy armored cavalry for a very short time, Chen Qing shouted: "The black armored soldiers fill in!"

Hundreds of black armor seized this fleeting opportunity, swarmed up, and quickly formed an array to block the surging heavy cavalry.

Hundreds of hooked gunmen came up to fill their positions. They fought in a strange way. They lay behind the black armored infantry and attacked the enemy's horses with hooked guns from below.

As a supplement, a hundred spear-throwers also appeared in the third row, concentrating on one burst of spear-throwing.

Successfully blocked the gap, Chen Qing turned around and commanded the army to eliminate more than 1000 armored cavalry, hooked down with a hook and sickle gun, penetrated with a heavy crossbow, and hacked with a tomahawk. In just a moment, more than 1000 heavy armored cavalry were like waves Disappeared in the sea of ​​people.

The Western Army withstood an almost successful attack by the Jurchen heavy cavalry, the loopholes were quickly filled, and the chariot immediately showed its power, and the catapult on the chariot suddenly projected dozens of fire oil balls.

A few kerosene balls hit the enemy soldiers, and the kerosene poured out, and the cavalry suddenly turned into flaming people and horses. The horse raised its head and screamed, turned around and ran wildly, knocking down five or six cavalry in one turn. The last one fell to the ground, and both the man and the horse were burned and curled up.

More fireballs hit the ground, forming a sea of ​​flames, and the neat formation began to become chaotic.

"Use powder kegs!"

Chen Qing found that kerosene would also affect the operations of the Western Army, and immediately ordered to change the kerosene balls into gunpowder barrels. After two rounds of kerosene balls were concentratedly projected by the chariot, the gunpowder barrels were thrown again. explosion in.

At this time, the results of the explosion of the gunpowder barrel were finally revealed, and batches of war horses began to fall without warning, foaming at the mouth, twitching their limbs, and the toxicity in their bodies broke out.

In a blink of an eye, more than 3000 horses fell down, and the consequences were very serious. More than [-] armored cavalry lost their combat effectiveness, but the horses continued to fall one after another.

At the same time, the [-] Donghu light cavalry were completely no match for the encirclement and suppression of the [-] Western Army cavalry led by Liu Qiong, showing signs of defeat.

The [-] infantry led by Li Cheng also lost more than [-] people. Yue Yun and Zhang Xian's army became more and more courageous.

All three lines showed signs of rout.

Seeing that the situation was not good, Wanyan Wushu immediately ordered to ring the retreat bell.

"Dang! Dang! Dang!"

Chapter 29 Message

The Jin soldiers quickly retreated to the north, and the Western Army took advantage of the situation to chase and kill them. The Jin soldiers were defeated and countless beheaded. The Western Army cavalry chased and killed them for more than [-] miles before stopping their horses. There were killed corpses all the way. , especially the heavy armored cavalry who had lost their horses and couldn't run fast, all of them were beheaded from behind by the cavalry of the Western Army.

In this battle, more than 4 Jin soldiers were killed, and Wanyan Wushu only collected [-] defeated soldiers to retreat to Bianliang in a panic.

Lieutenant General Wanyan Alubu also led an army of [-] to fight fiercely with the Song army in Zhongmou County. Their fighting method was not a decisive battle between the two main forces, but a confrontation. Each side would send an army to fight every day.

This mode usually involves more than a dozen fierce battles, with small victories turning into big victories, and finally the side with heavy losses retreats. This mode of confrontation is relatively mild, far less tragic than a decisive battle. The heads-up of the main general also appears in this mode of confrontation.

They had already fought three games, the Western Army won two games and lost one game. The Jin soldiers lost more than 4000 men, and the Western Army also lost nearly [-] men.

At this time, Wanyan Alubu received Wanyan Wushu's order to withdraw his troops. He learned that his main force was defeated by Chen Qing's main force in Weishi County and suffered heavy casualties.

Liu Cui noticed the enemy's movement at night, but they didn't dare to act rashly. They didn't send people to check until dawn, and the enemy had already gone to the camp.

Chen Qing was not in a hurry to go north to Bianliang. He knew that the opponent still had 10,000+ signing troops who were training, but the number of Jurchen troops was insufficient.

In this decisive battle, the Western Army also lost tens of thousands of people, especially the commander Peng Kuang and the commander of the upper army Xie Jun, who were also the highest-ranked generals of the Western Army so far.

After Chen Qing rested for three days, the 15 army continued to go north and set up a camp in Chicang Town, about [-] miles away from Bianliang City. At this time, Liu Cui's army also arrived, and the two armies joined forces. , reaching [-] people.

At this time, the [-] East Route Army led by Gao Ding also went northward, marching towards Chenliu County, the second largest city in Kaifeng Prefecture.

At this time, Chen Qing was no longer worried about Yingtian Mansion's [-] golden soldiers. If [-] golden soldiers went to attack Xuchang County, he would directly send troops to capture Yingtian Mansion. Wan Jinbing.

On the contrary, these [-] golden soldiers will be like fish out of water, and Chen Qing will order the army to wipe them out.

From this point of view, Chen Qing still hopes that Yingtianfu's [-] golden soldiers will attack Xuchang, but Chen Qing knows in his heart that after the main force of Wanyan Wushu is defeated, this possibility is unlikely, otherwise he would not let Gao Ding's army went north to Chenliu County.

In the morning, Gao Ding led an army of [-] to Chenliu County. He had already sent scouts into the city, but there were no defenders in the city. The magistrate Lu Dai led a group of officials to surrender.

"Chen Liuzhi County Lu Dai, a lowly post, see General Gao!"

Gao Ding has an official booklet issued by Chen Qing. Those officials can use it, and those officials must be taken down, and he cannot be allowed to abscond. It is recorded in the official booklet. This Lu Dai ranks fifth among the available officials. Comments Yes: It's not clean, but a capable official can be used.

Gao Ding nodded, "Magistrate Lu is exempt, may I ask if there are any enemy troops in the city?"

"There is not a single soldier. In fact, when the Puppet Qi is destroyed, there will be no more troops in Chenliu County!"

Gao Ding nodded, "Look into the city!"

He led thousands of troops into the county under the leadership of Lu Dai. Chen Liu was also a very prosperous county in the Northern Song Dynasty. It was the largest transfer station of the Bianhe River. Numerous warehouses were built. Materials from the south of the Yangtze River would be stored. it's here.

But now Chenliu County is in decline like other counties. It is not safe to decline because of the exploitation of the Puppet Qi and the Kingdom of Jin. All the materials were transported to Bianliang, and hundreds of warehouses in Chenliu County became empty.

There were few pedestrians on the street, it was deserted, and the shops were basically closed. Gao Ding was puzzled and asked, "Is it because of the war?"

Lu Dai smiled wryly and shook his head, "The Jurchens have plundered all the meat, whether it is fresh game, cured meat, or cured meat, there are no more. The restaurant can't just sell vegetables when it opens! By the way, the wine has also been plundered. It made people panic, and all the shops were afraid to do business."

"How many food supplies are there in the county?"

"There are only a few hundred shi of grain in the county warehouses, and those large warehouses are all empty. They haven't been filled for more than ten years, and many of them are dilapidated and collapsed."

Gao Ding said with a half-smile: "No way! You just harvested wheat, and you have a lot of official land, why are you only a few hundred shi of grain?"

Lu Dai quickly explained: "The official and military fields in the counties of Kaifeng Prefecture, all the grain is directly transported to the military warehouses in Bianliang, and does not enter the warehouses of the counties at all. Our grain of several hundred shi is still last year's tax grain, and we have not had time to transport it away. This year The grains are even more grains that haven’t been put into the warehouse.”

Gao Ding inspected the city again, and felt that the city walls were relatively tall and strong, and there were many open spaces in the city, so he ordered [-] troops to enter the city and station them.

At dusk, Lu Dai, the county magistrate, brought a businessman to Gao Ding, "General Gao, I have something to report to you!"

Gao Ding was having dinner, quickly put down his rice bowl and asked, "What's the matter?"

Lu Dai pointed to the merchant behind him and said, "This is a well-known oil merchant in Chenliu County. He just came back from Yingtian Mansion. He said that all the gold soldiers in Yingtian Mansion have withdrawn to the east."

"what?"

Gao Ding was taken aback, and quickly asked, "When did it happen?"

The businessman trembled and said: "I left Yingtian Mansion by boat last night. It happened at noon yesterday. I was worried that the Jin soldiers would forcefully confiscate my boat, but there were no soldiers on the checkpoint. The boatman said that hundreds of small boats full of supplies had left the night before. Leave Yingtian Mansion and head east."

Gao Ding calculated the time, basically he walked forward, and the opponent left behind. This is a big deal, all the golden soldiers of Yingtianfu retreated, what about Bianliang?

Gao Ding immediately sent someone to find the deputy general Su Zunyi.

At this time, Lu Dai took a peek at the couture dinner, a plate of stewed vegetables, a bowl of boiled beans, a pickled fish, some dry cakes, a bowl of soup, and a pot of water, it should be water, the big tent There was no smell of wine, Lu Dai secretly clicked his tongue, this General Gao was exactly the same as the food he saw the soldiers eating on the road!No wonder the Western Army was able to defeat the Jin Bing, it can be seen from this small detail.

In fact, the food of the Western Army is not very bad. Chen Qing guarantees that the soldiers can eat meat every day. Today it happens to be fish, and tomorrow it may be mutton. But starting from Chen Qing, during the war, the soldiers must have the same food. This is a military order. .

Lu Dai and the businessman answered some more questions, then left.

At this moment, Su Zunyi hurried over, "What orders does the commander-in-chief have?"

"I have urgent information, I will rush to see His Highness immediately, come back tomorrow afternoon, you guard the city well, especially at night with 1 people defending the city, you must patrol at night, do not allow soldiers to slack off, and prevent the enemy from being attacked. "

"Humble job understands, there will be no slack."