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Chapter 317: The Desperate Contest (1)

The horse-rejecting gun, or the horse-repelling gun, has a simple and practical shape: a barrel-thick shaft with a herringbone-shaped wooden frame underneath. A two-foot-long spear is pierced through the shaft with the tip of the spear facing outward, making it a weapon that can resist cavalry and infantry.

The pawn resists the horse's spear.

In the Northern Song Dynasty, a simplified version of the horse-rejecting gun also appeared. It is recorded in the "Martial Arts Summary". This type of horse-repelling gun was still commonly used in the Ming Dynasty when chariots were mainly used to deal with cavalry charges.

This kind of horse-rejecting gun is simplified to the extreme. It is an obstacle that bundles three wooden guns together. When not in use, it can be bundled into one, so it is more convenient to transport than the horse-repelling gun. The two ends of the gun are pointed and sharp.

The iron blade is made of iron, and the handle of the gun is made of wood with multiple connections.

An iron chain for a horse-repelling wooden gun. When using it, insert one of the guns into the ground and connect several horse-repelling wooden guns to each other with iron chains to block cavalry attacks. When building a temporary defensive position, not only set up

It's simple and fast, and has good defensive capabilities.

In terms of use and transportation, it seems that the latter type of horse-repelling gun is more suitable for the Tenchu ​​Army's vehicle formation. However, this simplified version of the horse-repelling gun can only defend against cavalry attacks, and is useless against infantry. It can be easily removed. However, the vehicle formation of the Tenchu ​​Army

, it is necessary to guard against both cavalry and infantry, so it is very inappropriate to use three guns to resist horses. The horse-repelling weapon used by the Tenchu ​​Army is the former, which is made of huge wood and a long spear, which is heavy and sharp.

Tu Ni had no intention of sending anyone out to move the horses. An hour ago, the death of Atuhan's thousand-man team was still vivid in his mind.

The way to overcome the resistance is very simple, to bulldoze it violently.

There are about thirty horse-rejecting formations in front of the chariot city. Each axis is about ten feet long and can hold up only 500 kilograms. Thirty horse-rejecting columns can only hold over 10,000 kilograms. With hundreds of people pushing more than a hundred

If a oar cart is pushed forward, it can completely push the horse-rejecting formation under the chariot city.

The guess of the sudden twist was indeed good. Under the huge force of the human wall and the oar wall, the horse staggered around and fell to the ground. Then it was pushed sideways, making a tooth-breaking squeaking sound, and crashed into the car city.

However, what makes Tu Ni both angry and helpless is that

, this collision action was repeatedly interrupted by bombings from overhead, unable to form an inertial momentum and crash into the Checheng. The only thing that made him feel gratified was that as the wall of oars and carts approached the Checheng little by little, the bombing gradually changed.

Weak. Finally. Slowly subside.

In the bombardment area of ​​Iron Wall Checheng Zicheng, the smoke was pungent, and the gunners were sweating. They slumped on the ground, ignoring the stimulation of the air, choking and breathing heavily. Of the twenty missiles, two were damaged, and another

Five of them were also damaged to varying degrees. There were overturned bamboo baskets everywhere on the ground, and there were also a few dozen three-pound thunderbolts collected from the cavalry regiment rolling down...

The thunderbolt bullets have indeed been used up! However, even if they are not used up, they cannot be fired anymore because the enemy has exceeded the red warning line of twenty steps. Even if there are still a large number of five-pound thunderbolt bullets at this time, they cannot be used anymore.

First, it is too close to the car city and it is easy to accidentally explode; second, even if it is thrown into the enemy group, the shock wave and shrapnel generated by the explosion can easily inadvertently injure the musketeers aiming at the enemy from the shooting hole.

"It's time for the decisive battle!" Di Lie, who had been observing from the Chinese army's watchtower, finally put away his sight and said to He Yuanqing beside him, "Yuanqing, the cavalry regiment will be left to you. Once our army has secured the Jin army,

When the time comes, look for the right moment and surprise the enemy with a donkey and a piece of cloth. It’s not much, but it’s a great honor. I hope you can get it.”

He Yuanqing suddenly laughed: "Okay! I really need a donkey in my house, and it's him!"

Amid hearty laughter, He Yuanqing picked up his saber, held his meteor hammer, turned around and climbed down the watchtower, called his guards, led his horses, and galloped away.

"Conquer the city with a wall? Do you think this is enough? You are so naive." The corner of Di Lie's mouth twitched, and a murderous look filled his eyes. If the car city is so easy to be breached by a bunch of crudely made car walls, then it is still called an iron wall car.

A city? The word "iron wall" not only refers to the appearance surrounded by iron baffles, but also has a different connotation of "copper wall and iron wall, indestructible".

"Instructions: 1. All musketeers, including the Tianjiao battalion, will withdraw from their chariots within sixty breaths, gather in the city, and deploy the city's defenses, under the command of Zhang Rui; 2. All spearmen, heavy armor soldiers and sword soldiers

, assembled in formation behind the chariots, commanded by Zhao Neng, and intercepted with all their strength to prevent the Jin soldiers from breaking through the outer city; the third platoon artillery battalion retreated and entered the Chinese army's artillery area in Zicheng to rest. They will not be needed in the following battle."

Following Di Lie's order, the entire chariot city moved into action. The musketeers carried guns and ammunition and withdrew into the city in an orderly manner. Behind the transport vehicles surrounding the city, densely packed musket formations were arranged; the heavily armored musketeers

The sword soldiers formed a three-talented formation, with one spearman and two sword-playing players in groups of three, cooperating with each other. Countless small three-talented formations were interlocked to form a large three-talented formation that cooperated with each other.

Although the soldiers of the fourth and seventh brigades of the Tenchu ​​Army are mostly new recruits, it is hard to say how effective they are in combat, but at least they have undergone long and rigorous formation training. Regardless of whether they advance or retreat in formation, they move extremely quickly. At sixty breaths, the Gunpa Sancai Formation was completed.

The musketeers were also in place and were lining up.

Due to the limited terrain, the 1,500 musketeers cannot move and change positions, nor can they shoot from a half-kneeling or crouching position. However, fortunately, this time the enemy troops appear in a different direction than usual. They will appear on the roof of the vehicle.

This solves the shooting problem of the musketeers in the back row. Shooting from a low position and aiming at a high place will not be affected by the people in the front row like fighting on the ground. Even the musketeers in the last row can shoot without any hindrance.

Launch the projectile in your hand.

Facing the enemy directly, there are still a thousand musketeers, and the Tianjiao Battalion's 500 female soldiers are distributed on both sides of the city. This is to prevent the enemy from attacking from the flanks.

Fifteen hundred muskets, thick as a forest, pointed in three attack directions: west, south, and north (the east side is the rear wing, and given the terrain, it is impossible to detour and attack from the rear), waiting for the enemy to come to the door.

At this time, the Jin army's oar car wall could only be pushed ten steps away from the chariot city. Since the horses in front of the chariot wall had already touched the iron wall chariot city, when it was pushed to this distance, hundreds of Alixi and the servants repeatedly exerted their strength.

, except that the roots of the horse gun were broken, the shaft timber remained motionless, and the oar wall could not be pushed further.

Ten steps is enough.

Tu Nian waved his arm holding the hatchet. The servants carried the long ladders one after another and placed them across the oar car wall and the edge of the city, forming rows of ladder bridges. This ladder bridge was enough to prevent the Jin soldiers from climbing.

If you want to go to the Checheng, you can take the long ladder and go directly to the Checheng.

More than 20 ladder bridges were completed. The golden soldiers, who had finally been freed from the devastating bombing, were like trapped animals emerging from their cages, surging like a tide, scrambling to step onto the ladder bridge, and the sound of killing was loud.

"It's done!" Wanyan Loushi slapped her fist with a happy face.

"It's done!" Tu Ni opened his mouth and laughed, constantly urging the golden soldiers around him to rush forward.

"It's done!" Zhang Rui stood on a transport truck piled with grain on the right side of Zicheng, looking at the dark mass of musketeers below that stretched for hundreds of paces, feeling very happy.

Fifteen hundred musketeers! Since the establishment of the Tianzhu Army, there has never been such a large-scale use of musketeers. Zhang Rui, as the first general to command a thousand-man musketeers, is full of pride and satisfaction.

open-minded.

Most of the first batch to rush onto the carriage city were Alixi in the Permian Formation. When they stepped onto the roof of the carriage with joy, they were greeted by dazzling iron-edged spears. The tragedy of the Jin soldiers was that,

They only want to get meat in the city

Most of the soldiers carried short weapons, but when they got on the roof of the car, they realized that this was too wishful thinking. Everyone in the Tianzhu army was holding a spear and spear two feet long, but the one he was holding was two.

A three-foot green front, isn't this a way to die?

Fighting on the battlefield is not a battle between rivers and lakes. There is no such thing as "one inch short and one inch dangerous". Some are just "one inch long and one inch strong"! A weapon that is longer will have an advantage; a weapon that is one foot longer will have an advantage of one foot.

So, what if the weapon is eight or nine feet long? Then the opponent will be dead!

Therefore, the nearly thirty Ali Xi who were the first batch to rush into the Checheng were instantly stabbed with bloody holes all over their bodies. They were carried out of the Checheng, and the bloody people seemed to be falling under the resistance of the horses. The ones who rushed up followed them.

The second batch of Alixi failed to escape this fate.

"Change the long soldiers! Change the long soldiers!" The momentum of the Jin soldiers stalled, and they all turned around and shouted.

Some of the Alis who were holding wooden spears came forward happily, but when they saw the two-foot-long spears behind the car city, their faces turned pale. The wooden spears in their hands were only seven feet long, and the spear tip had an edge but no edge.

The spear in his hand has a blade length of two feet, a thick spine and a broad blade, like a short sword...

As a result of the stabbing, Ali Xi, armed with a gun, once again used dozens of corpses to lay the ground on the horse...

In less than a minute, a new path was paved with the corpses of nearly a hundred Jin soldiers on the remains of Juma between the oar wall and the chariot city.

"Team Wolf Fang, enter!" Tu Nui, who was behind the car wall, had veins on his forehead pulsing. He never expected that in addition to the terrifying thunderbolts and muskets, the Tianzhu Army would also be so powerful in hand-to-hand combat! In this case

, let you taste the power of my Jurchen warriors’ fangs and sticks!

Any Jin army with more than 1,000 people will have a team of melee soldiers using heavy weapons such as maces or bones. They may range from dozens to hundreds, and may be cavalry or infantry, often as a group of soldiers.

The decisive force is used to support the bottom of the box. Every time the whirlwind riding shadow is accompanied by the mace and the club, it can easily tear apart the enemy's strong formation like a torrent.

Song Jun often used this to laugh at himself, "The Jurchens have maces, and we have Tianling Gai."

Now, Tu Nian will let Tian Ling Gai, a soldier of the Ten Punishment Army, try the mace of his own warrior.

Among the two thousand regular soldiers of the Jin Army, two hundred mace wielders were selected. The mace used by the Jurchens weighed at least twenty kilograms. Individuals with self-reliance and strength could even use thirty kilograms, physical strength, arm strength, and waist strength.

Those who are even close can't even think of moving it. Therefore, these two hundred mace wielders are all big, thick and tall men. They are also covered with forty kilograms of heavy armor, which can be said to be strong in defense and fierce in attack.

The sudden attack is to use this heavy commando team to break through the first line of defense of the Tenchu ​​Army.

When these two hundred heavy-armored warriors who looked like mobile mechas appeared on the chariot city on the bent ladder bridge, the heavy-armored spearmen and sword soldiers of the Tenchu ​​army behind the chariot all gasped.

A breath of cold air: Such heavily armored soldiers can be called battlefield butchers, and they are definitely not easy to deal with.

Sure enough, in the first encounter, the spears in the hands of dozens of heavy-armored spearmen were broken and knocked away, and the tiger's mouth bleeds. Several heavy-armored soldiers with wolf fangs jumped into the city, just like tigers entering a pack of wolves.

The sticks flew in the air, knocking away the knives and smashing the side cards, creating a bloody storm.

However, the power of these wolf-tooth heavy armor soldiers could not last long. A group of soldiers armed with melee weapons such as hawkbills suddenly appeared. After a burst of gunfire, there were several corpses on the ground with horrified faces and unyielding expressions. And this

The group of soldiers quickly reloaded their ammunition and watched eagerly from the sidelines.

This is none other than Di Lie's escort, twenty hunters.

Seeing more and more Wolf Fang heavy armored soldiers gathered in the carriage city, Zhang Rui, who was perched high on the food bag of the transport truck in the city, flashed a cold light in his eyes, and the red flame flag in his hand suddenly fell down. The drums shook and the muskets fired.

.

It was also Di Lie's first time to see such a spectacular shooting scene. A thousand muskets erupted in waves, and the flames continued. The first row finished shooting, the second row took over, and the third row continued... There were one hundred people in each row,

There were ten rows in total. After the first round of shooting, the sky above the entire city was filled with smoke, and there were coughs everywhere.

Ten rows of fire were fired in a row, and the rate of fire was comparable to that of a breech-loading gun, without any need to stop. And the musketeers in the front row who were closest to the enemy had their guns less than thirty steps away from the enemy on the top of the car city.

Such extremely close range, such continuous shooting, let alone wearing a suit of iron armor, even if he really is an iron man, he will be beaten with iron slag.

Only one round of shooting was carried out, and all the densely populated figures on the car city were brutally cleared away by lead and fire.

After the war, among the two hundred heavily armored soldiers of the Wolf Fang, the Khitan bone bundle, who was only slightly injured and saved his life by being captured, always had a horrified expression when asked about the battle: "If armor cannot be transformed into armor, there will be no human form."
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