Chapter 153: Step by step startling
(It is well known that the season is here, and I have to take three days off for the 15th, prepare for one day, climb a mountain, and recover... It was a journey of exhaustion, so see you on Sunday.)
Saliyu and Shiayama, the brothers who were in distress, were not asleep all night and were in a panic.
Bad news, bad news...everything is bad news:
"Report! At the beginning of the You hour, Xi's army was buried in Bojin Xiaoqi, and his twenty-four subordinates were killed in the city guard's palace! No trace of the enemy was found."
"Report! At the second hour of You, the Khitan plotted against Bojinhudalu and his four subordinates, when they entered a house, they were bombed and killed. No trace of the enemy was found."
"Report! At the third hour of You, a soldier took out something from the well while drawing water, and then exploded and died. No trace of the enemy was found."
"Report! At the beginning of the Xu hour, in the second quarter, thirteen explosions occurred in the north and south of the city, and seventy-six new affiliated troops were killed and injured. No trace of the enemy was found..."
"Report! At the third hour of the Xu hour, a series of explosions occurred in the stable, and hundreds of military horses and horses were lost. The houses collapsed and the fences were destroyed. Nearly a thousand frightened horses broke through the railings and collided around the city..."
"Enough! No trace of the enemy was found, right?" Sa Li couldn't help it anymore, and slapped it hard, roaring with blue veins, "It's all waste! How much is the total loss? Report it all, I only need the total number!"
The Zanhua, who verified the total number, calculated carefully and said tremblingly: "Report to the Dutong, so far, there are 462 casualties, of which 43 are slightly injured and 56 are seriously injured; more than 130 horses are lost
Fortunately, there is no loss of food and grass..."
As soon as he finished speaking, another loud noise came from somewhere, and a faint scream came into his ears...
Na Zanhua's face turned pale, and the goatee was shaking under her jaw. She said in a trembling voice: "Go and count again..."
"Get out!" Sa Li grabbed a cup of sheep horns on the table and slammed heavily on Zanhua, almost breaking her ribs. Zanhua endured the pain and rolled out of the central army's tent.
Shiayama didn't say a word from beginning to end. She just kept playing with a string of smooth jade Buddhist beads in her hand. This action was often seen on Zong Wang before. Since Zong Wang died, the string of Buddhist beads had reached his hand.
I don’t know when he started. He also developed the habit of counting Buddhist beads, especially at the moment when he felt huge pressure in his heart.
"Shiyama, you say something too! How did that guy named Di Lie get such a strange weapon?" Sa Li sat down with a heavy cry, and thought of some of the things Jin Jiang had described to him in his mind.
The tragic situation of my cousin slapping the corpse: the whole head and neck were broken, and even a decent piece of bone could not be found, as if he was sentenced to "Habola"... No, it's even more terrifying than this punishment,
It was like something was stuffed into the head and then exploded from the inside...that thing was probably the continuous explosion tonight.
Shi Yama stopped moving, slowly opened her eyes, with a hint of confusion, and murmured: "Ask me. Who am I asking? I said I should not attack this copycat, but should lead them out. Now
OK, this is just at Jingxing Pass! I didn’t even see the shadow of the enemy, and the loss was so great. It is said that there was a solid Naihe Pass in Tianshu City…”
Sali pressed the table with his elbow and slowly raised half of his body. His blade-like eyes stared at Shioyema, and his voice squeezed out from his teeth: "I don't care about Tianshu City, what's the point. My 20,000 army
Since I have been dispatched, no matter how solid Guancheng is, it will be crushed under the iron hoof of my army! The bastard named Di Lie is better not to be caught by me alive, otherwise, I will definitely give him a 'wae'
Spicy and scary'... No, I want to ask him to taste the most creative torture of our Jurchens, "Mengshan is not rude and flowers are not spicy"!"
"Mengshan is not as strong as the flowers are not as spicy as the flowers", the meaning of the Jurchen word is - the punishment of pulling the ribs!
Shi Yema didn't know if Salihe could catch the "evil spirit". He only knew that all the soldiers would have to wither in the cold wind for one night; this night was destined to be sleeping...
On October 29th, the weather is still cold, and even colder is the morale of the 20,000 Jin army.
If you stand on the top of the arrow tower halfway up the collapse of Jingxing Pass, you can see the cold and misty Guancheng Long Street. In front of the house, there are rows of soldiers wrapped like browns.
As the commanders at all levels kept shouting, whipping, and even hitting sticks, the soldiers swayed one by one, and stood up stiffly with their limbs. Of course, a considerable number of soldiers curled up in a ball, allowing their companions to shake hard, and remained motionless...
Before the first snow in the first year of Jianyan was about to fall, the Jin army's middle lane army, who stayed overnight in Jingxing Pass, staged the classic iron rule of the future Yue Family Army in advance, "not to tear down the house when frozen and hungry". Unlike the Yue Family Army, the Jin army's middle lane was in advance.
Jun was so cold that he wanted to tear down the house. However, most of the soldiers who were preparing to tear down the house for heating ended up enjoying excessive heat treatment - they were baked by landmines.
Between frostbite or toasted to death, most Jin soldiers chose the former.
On the long night in Jingxing, except for the more than 10,000 Jin army soldiers equipped with thick felts and tents, the rest of the thousands of auxiliary soldiers and servants who rely solely on military jackets and thin felts to keep the cold were frozen to death.
Up to 20%.
In just one night, he was frozen to death, bombed to death, and was trampled to death by a frightened horse, and his staff was reduced by more than 1,000 people.
The Jin army's army's 20,000 troops were just entering the sphere of influence in Tianshu City, and they didn't even see the shadow of the enemy, and they lost more than a thousand soldiers and more than a hundred war horses. The worst thing is that the people in the army were panic and were shocked overnight
The morale of the entire army fell sharply...
The next morning, Sali, rubbed Aohong's eyes, and depressedly handed over the battle report he had ordered last night to a Pu Nian. He asked him to lead fifty soldiers to escort the corpses of the minor and serious wounded soldiers back to Zhending.
At the same time, the situation was reported to the right deputy marshal Zongfu.
Then, the shamans in the army were asked to sacrifice money and predict good and bad luck, and they got a Zhong Gua. Sali and Shi Yema were relieved, as long as it was not a bad hexagram. So the army used breakfast and ordered the whole army to
Get out.
From Jingxing to Naiheguan, it is only 40 or 50 miles away. If it is a plain, the cavalry can reach it in half a day. Even if the infantry advances at full speed, they can reach it in one day. However, it is also dozens of miles away.
Put 20,000 people in this deep mountain of Taihang, with ravines, crisscross and dense mountains, and rugged roads. Not to mention one day, it would be great if you can arrive in three days. Moreover, the riding, which was originally known for its speed, is
The army, but even the infantry could not catch up, and the marching speed dropped to the level of the baggage troops.
In fact, before going to war, Saliyu had already predicted that under terrain such as the Taihang Mountains, cavalry could not have a place to use their skills. However, most of the elite soldiers of the Jin army were cavalry, so they could not keep the elite soldiers without them, and they would have all infantry, right?
It was when the attack was attacking and it was just a staircase battle. Therefore, Saliyu still brought five thousand elite cavalry. Although he was dragged by the cavalry, he thought that it was only a few dozen miles of mountain road, two or three days to overcome it.
.It is still acceptable.
However, soon, Saliyu realized that the marching time he had set was too optimistic. The trouble he encountered in Jingxing Pass last night was not over. It was a beginning...
Two hours after the army set out, the first one was a team of chariots of the vanguard army, which was the opening of the road. When the horse was passing through a dry riverbed with rocks, it touched the tripping string hidden in the pile of rocks in the riverbed. With two sounds
The loud noise not only killed eight Jin soldiers on the spot, but also gravel caused by the air waves. It hit the terrifying Jin soldiers like rain. The dense "stone bombs" hit the spot and overwhelmed more than ten Jin soldiers.
Then, the horses jumped around, overturning the cavalry on their backs to the ground, causing second casualties again. When the subsequent troops arrived and controlled the scene, there were less than a group of fifty soldiers who were full of Pu Yan teams left.
Twenty people...
Sali received the report, his face looked ugly as if he had just swallowed the stool - maybe he really wanted to swallow the stool, but he didn't want to hear the endless explosion of death again. Unfortunately, the special operation team led by Zhang Rui
, I didn't have time to negotiate with him about this...
Therefore, under this terrifying act of "blasting you without negotiation", the casualty rate of the Jin army rose sharply. After only half a day, the two Mouke vanguards who were exploring the way were already scarred and suffered serious loss of personnel, and were basically lost.
Combat power.
Sali and Shiyama were so distressed that they smashed their mouths. The vanguards who opened the way were all elite! And most of them were Jurchens... Jurchens, but one person died was missing!
Although I have not yet figured out what caused such an explosion, at least one thing I understand is that whoever is ahead is unlucky!
Once you understand this key, Saliyu immediately ordered the vanguard army to withdraw, and the auxiliary soldiers opened their way - this was obviously an order to die. Of course, the auxiliary soldiers would make trouble: I know you don't treat us as human beings, but
You can't treat us as dead!
Sali said nothing, raised his hand fiercely and slashed: "Wabo is so terrifying!"
The personal guards behind him were in charge of the prison squad, one by one, and one by one, riding a tall horse and carrying a huge mace of uniformity. They rushed to the team of auxiliary soldiers who were disobeying and causing trouble. They were like tigers entering a flock of sheep, and they held up a big stick.
A crisp sound, a blow, and a **. In the blink of an eye, corpses were everywhere and blood flowed into depressions.
Most of the thousands of auxiliary soldiers and servants were forced to sign the army. They had never been a soldier or a war. They had never seen such bloody and cruel methods. They were so scared that they knelt on the ground with a mourning voice.
Beg for mercy.
On the one hand, you kill on the spot, and on the other hand, you are rushing to the body. How to choose? Is there still a need to pick it up?
As a result, the morale was low and the loss of the auxiliary soldiers, the Thunder team, walked at the forefront of the army. They used their humble life to advance west for the army and wade out a bloody smooth marching...
Under such a terrifying attack of ten steps and a hundred steps, the speed of the march can be imagined. After a whole day, it was less than ten miles away! The soldiers at the tail of the army turned around and could see the arrow tower at Jingxing Pass...
…
At night, stationed in the wilderness, the whole army was silent, and the screams of wounded soldiers could be heard, confused with the howlings of wild beasts from time to time in the deep mountains and forests. It is hard to tell who screams more like wild beasts
.
The central tent of the Jin army was brightly lit.
Sali and Shi Yema stared at the irregular black iron sheets on the desk, which were faintly blood-covered. These objects were extracted from some of the dead and the injured.
The blacksmiths, fire craftsmen and even shamans who followed the army had already made the same conclusion - broken iron pieces! The most ordinary broken iron.
How could ordinary pieces of iron explode? How could they hurt people? The soldiers below didn't understand, and Sali, who had never dealt with Di Lie, didn't understand, but Shi Yema could guess a few points.
In order to eliminate the fear in the army as much as possible, Shiyama ordered the fire craftsmen to make several "Pi Li fireballs" and demonstrated them in the military camp. He also declared that the explosives that ambushed the army in the daytime and the object
Similarly, it is only more powerful. This is a new weapon of the enemy, rather than the divine fire and demon smoke that the soldiers privately circulate.
It should be said that Shiayama's refutation of rumors still has a certain effect. The morale of the soldiers has not increased much, but they finally have the courage to continue. In this era, people are afraid of things that are strange and chaotic, but if
It is just an unknown weapon, although it is also panic, after all, it still dares to face it directly.
Sali looked at it for a while, but couldn't see any flowers. When he was irritated, he whipped it up and smashed the iron pieces and fell to the ground. He angrily said, "It's just these worthless things, day and night."
In between, many warriors in Dajin have taken my life! So many good men did not die in the face-to-face battle with the enemy, but were buried in a despicable plot... I hate it!"
Shiayama pinched his eyebrows and felt depressed: "This Song man named Di Lie has repeatedly caused our army to suffer losses since the moment he appeared. He has killed many generals of Meng'an Mouke level in our army.
The deputy marshal was even more severely damaged, and recently, he encircled and annihilated the Hezha personal guards of Wanyan Agu... The damage this person had done to me, Dajin, far exceeds the so-called famous generals of the Song army in the past... I am very worried, we
Can these 20,000 troops eat his Tianshu City..."
If it was said in Zhending City, Sali would not agree with it, but now he would not dare to be arrogant.
The two main and deputy generals of the Jin army's central army discussed in detail until midnight, and finally decided unanimously - to ask for help! Even if they were scolded by the Zhending right deputy marshal or despised, in short, they must ensure that the central army has 20,000 real ones.
The war soldiers are available - after all, there are only 15,000 regular soldiers in the middle army, and less than 3,000 auxiliary military soldiers are left. And tomorrow, I don’t know how many casualties will be...
On October 30th, the weather became colder and the clouds were solemn, and there was a faint sense of snow. The flags and the tents were covered with frost, and it shook vigorously and scratched crisply.
The battles are ice and snow, and the fierce battles are the Jurchen tradition. Whether it is to defeat Liao or destroy Song, the time to fight is the cold season. The Jurchens and Khitans are used to winter battles, and the colder the more they are, the more energetic it is. But those signing troops
The auxiliary soldiers were in trouble. Their ability to resist cold was not as good as others. In addition, several people could not get a tent, and the torn jacket on their bodies was difficult to keep the cold... These thousands of signing soldiers were really seriously injured.
Chapter completed!