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It was the first quarter of the unitary hour (five o'clock in the afternoon), and the sun was heading west. Under normal circumstances, it was the peak time for a marching team to set up camp. However, for Wanyan Zongfu's army, it was the time for the war to begin.

Wanyan Zongfu issued three military orders: first, bury pots to make rice and start fighting after eating; second, the army rested in place, but it was forbidden to camp; third, cut down wooden siege equipment.

At two o'clock in the morning, 1,800 golden soldiers, wearing armor and carrying soldiers, gathered at the entrance of the valley.

Among these 1,800 gold soldiers, there are a thousand troops of the Yisheng Army, 500 Khitan soldiers, and 300 auxiliary troops of the Lotus Army.

It is true that Wanyan Zongfu had an army of 40,000, but there were too many falsehoods in it: first, of the nearly 30,000 soldiers who crossed the Yellow River, 20,000 were auxiliary soldiers; secondly, of the 5,000 soldiers gathered from various states and counties, more than 30,000 were auxiliary soldiers.

Thousands of auxiliary soldiers; and among Zhending's three thousand rebel troops (originally five thousand, two of which were annihilated in Zhending City by two thousand-man troops), there were another two thousand auxiliary soldiers.

After such a 20% discount, the 40,000 gold soldiers are only more than 12,000 regular soldiers. Among them, the only ones who can be called elite are Wanyan Zongfu's Hezha Thousand-Man Team and the 2,000 Jurchen and Khitan mixed troops.

The remaining three-quarters of the cavalry are nothing more than city defenders - the kind of second- and third-rate armies that are very happy when fighting against the wind, but once defeated, they will be completely defeated.

As for the huge number of auxiliary soldiers in the army, each household received a ding, which is equivalent to a strong man. They only did chores in the army such as digging trenches and filling ditches, carrying heavy loads and carrying wages, and basically did not receive any decent training.

.The role of these people on the battlefield is to use their numbers to show off, push and pull siege equipment, pave the way for attack, etc... As for charging into battle, don't expect it.

In other words, the enemies of Tianjiao Battalion and Fushan Brigade only number twelve thousand - exactly ten times their number.

And their real opponents only have three thousand people - twice as many as themselves.

As long as these 3,000 core forces can be defeated, the 40,000-strong army will collapse without a fight. Unfortunately, Wanyan Zongfu will not be so stupid and directly throw out his elite forces. Just like in this first battle, they were basically not used.

Elite. Instead, let a group of cannon fodder be tested first.

Wanyan Zongfu originally wanted to use more than 3,000 to 4,000 troops at once. With a thunderous strike, he could cut through the mess with a sharp knife - he really didn't have time to slowly grind with the opponent. But the slope could not deploy a large army of troops, and 2,000 troops were already there.

It's the limit, just add more fuel. Anyway, the Fushan Brigade of the Tianzhu Army is not a strong army, so it shouldn't be difficult to fight.

In early summer, the days are long and the nights are short, but at 2:00 PM (6pm), the sky is still bright.

Wuwuwu——

On the top of the hillside at the entrance of the valley, ten strong men with bare arms and belly, clad in red hoops, gathered their breath and blew the unique Jurchen horn horns wrapped in red silk.

The trumpet sounded and the battle began.

The attack of the Jin army basically followed the method provided by Wanyan Loushi: the front row was a wall of oars, pushed by two hundred auxiliary soldiers, and later there were a hundred auxiliary soldiers holding long ladders, scratching hooks and other equipment. The scratching hook was used to prepare the hook to turn over.

In Luzhai, the roadblocks were cleared; the long ladder was prepared to be placed across the trench, so that one could cross over the trench, and it could even be mounted on the car wall to climb up.

In a hurry, the Jin Army craftsmen could only make these crude utensils.

The 1,000-yet victorious army was divided into three groups. The front group held swords and cards, the middle group held bows and crossbows, and the rear group held long soldiers and followed closely behind the auxiliary troops.

Five hundred Khitan soldiers were at the rear, waiting for the rebel army to open the gap in the car wall, and immediately jumped in to expand the victory. In addition, they also had another task - to kill any soldiers who retreated without orders, whether they were regular soldiers or auxiliary soldiers.

Soldier!

Nearly two thousand soldiers, with their roaring footsteps and the scraping of armor echoing in the valley, gradually approached the foot of the hillside. Under the reflection of the setting sun, the dazzling iron wall was right in front of them.

Wanyan Zongfu and Yelu Duo were sitting on a slope on the side of the valley entrance, staring intently at the car wall and the walled city in the distance, trying to carefully watch how the Tianzhu Army would counterattack.

According to Wanyan Loushi's summary, the Tianzhu Army's Checheng tactics are basically long-range bombing, mid-range shooting, and close-range assassination. It doesn't seem to be anything special, but due to the asymmetry of weapons between the two sides, the Jin Army has never been able to deal with it well.

Method. I originally thought that using siege engines and catapults might be able to counteract and suppress it, but there is a fire in the backyard right now, and there is not much time. Forget about anything else, killing people is the only way under the current circumstances.

When the Jin army's oar car wall reached the bottom of the slope, it was exactly eighty steps away from the iron wall car wall - this distance was obviously calculated by the defenders.

Similarly, the Jin Army fought against the Tianzhu Army so many times that they basically figured out the opponent's long-range attack range, so once they reached this distance, the commander Meng An shouted with a broken voice: "Charge!"

"Go quickly! Rush up!"

"Don't look back, don't retreat, anyone who disobeys the order will be killed!"

Each escort officer worked harder than the other to drive the soldiers under his command. Once the auxiliary soldiers pushing the oar cart and carrying the hook ladder stepped onto the hillside, there was no way to retreat - there were steep rocky slopes to the left and right, and the rebels were behind them.

The victorious army is forming a defensive formation and the shining sword tips...

No matter whether the auxiliary soldiers are willing or not, no matter what kind of blow they receive, they have only one way to go forward.

Just as the Jin army expected, four small black dots suddenly appeared in the sky, and they fell one after another——

Boom boom boom boom!

"Ah-ah-my feet..."

Three of the four thunderbolt bombs landed between the auxiliary soldiers and the main soldiers, and one fell outside the wall of the oar. The bombs exploded, shooting shrapnel in all directions, and swept away a group of auxiliary soldiers carrying hooks and ladders, screaming in agony.

It lasted for days. Although the Yisheng soldiers were protected by side cards, there were still a few unlucky ones who had their feet injured by shrapnel and were frustrated and wailing.

"Keep charging, don't stop, anyone who disobeys the order will be killed!"

In the first year of Jianyan, during the bloody battle at Wuma Mountain, the Yisheng Army had the experience of fighting against the Chasseurs of the Tianzhu Army, and had seen the power of muskets and thunderbolts, so they had a certain amount of mental endurance to withstand this small blow.

Naturally, they cannot stop their charge.

The Tianjiao Battalion only brought four missile launchers. Perhaps because the gunners of the Fushan Brigade were unfamiliar with their movements, their firing speed was twice as slow as the regular gunners of the main force. It was not until the Jin Army had reached fifty steps that they fired the second round.

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Four thunderbolts fell among the thousands of gold soldiers, like a few stones hitting the water. Even though they caused a wave, they could not stop the flow of people.

At this moment, a drum sound was suddenly heard in the walled city, and almost at the same time as the drum sound, gunshots were fired.

The one hundred and twenty-eight shooting holes in the car wall spurted out flames at the same time. The entire mountain ridge was instantly shrouded in white mist. Through the white smoke that alternated between light and thick, one could see the flickering light of the fire and the roaring sound that could not be heard without stopping, spreading continuously in the valley.

.The shock makes people’s eardrums hurt. They change color in shock...

The wall of the oar was used to block muskets. The Jin army had used it many times and it was indeed effective - but this time, it didn't work.

In the past, every time the Jin army used the oar car wall, it was always on flat ground, and the muskets were flat-firing weapons and could not hit the enemy behind the oar car. As a result, the enemy army relied on the oar car cover to gradually approach and attack the car city. But this time the terrain

Completely different, female soldiers are home

From such a high altitude, the slope angle of the hillside exceeds 30 degrees, and some steep slopes even reach 40 degrees. Shooting from such a height, whether it is a rowing car or a side sign, has no protective effect at all and is a pure target. It sounds ugly.

Pointing is no different from running naked.

The female soldiers had 380 muskets, and they used the passing round firing method. The female soldiers inside the tank only fired, and the female soldiers outside the tank were responsible for loading ammunition. Basically, they could fire continuously without interruption.

The Jin soldiers who were roaring up the hill were suddenly beaten into a mess by the continuous volleys of guns. The regular soldiers of the Rebel Army who bore the brunt fell in rows, and the dead and wounded rolled all the way down the hillside, stirring up the rear troops.

A large amount of splattered blood made the hillside sticky and slippery, making you fall when you stepped on it. For a while, the hillside was covered with rolling gourds.

The person who was originally fine became injured after rolling down the hill; the person who was originally slightly injured became seriously injured after a lot of spinning; the person who was originally seriously injured was still alive on the hillside, but became dead when he rolled to the bottom of the mountain; and the person who was already dead

It's so warped that it can't die any more...

Just a slope not only allows the musket to exert its power as usual, but also increases the casualties of the golden soldiers, maximizing the enemy-killing effect.

The female soldiers adapt to local conditions and use weapons flexibly; while the golden soldiers are rigid and rigid and apply mechanical tactics...the result of the two collisions is this.

After five rounds of shooting, the only army among the 40,000 Jin army that still retained sufficient morale, the Yisheng Army's thousand-man team, was brutally massacred by muskets, its morale was reduced to negative values, and the entire team collapsed. The rear was originally burdened with

The Five Hundred Contract of Supervising the War Team

The Dan soldiers, whose formation had been disrupted by hundreds of dead and wounded soldiers rolling down, and frightened by the sight of bloody deaths or serious injuries and wailing at their feet, did not have the courage to raise their swords and supervise the battle. After being rushed by the defeated soldiers of the Yisheng Army, they also followed

broke up and fled.

All the regular soldiers in the main battle ran away, and the auxiliary soldiers who were acting as part-timers were not willing to take a step slower. They immediately threw away all kinds of equipment and dispersed in a rush.

The slopes were full of fleeing auxiliary soldiers, but the gunshots did not ring out again. Perhaps the female soldiers could not bear it, or they thought that the auxiliary soldiers had no fighting power and were not worth wasting ammunition.

If Di Lie and his generals had seen this scene, they would have sighed: The Jin Army is really not as good as before.

On the hillside at the entrance of the valley, Wanyan Zongfu looked at the defeated troops scrambling for a way out in the valley and was surprisingly not angry.

After a long time, Wanyan Zongfu let out a long sigh: "So this is the killing array of guns and chariots! That Tianzhu army leader is really a genius. He can develop such weapons and tactics that integrate offense and defense. What a pity! What a pity! Why not be born in my university?

gold……"

Yeluduo asked carefully: "Deputy Marshal, do you want those defeated troops to..."

"No need, this is not a crime of war, and killing it is useless." As a strategic general, Wanyan Zongfu is relatively brave in self-criticism, "Lou Shi's tactics are good, but because our army...well, especially

This commander, lacking experience in fighting the enemy's new weapons, was inflexible and failed to change according to the situation, which led to this defeat."

Yeluduo looked at the darkening sky and asked for instructions: "Deputy Marshal, are you going to fight again and set up camp?"

"Fight again!" Wanyan Zongfu said in a tone that left no room for doubt, "If we can't pass through this valley tonight, it will be in danger tomorrow!"

"But the oar car is useless..."

"No, the oar car is still useful, but it needs to add something." Wanyan Zongfu smiled coldly, "The musketeer formation is indeed very strong, but it is not unstoppable. Send the leader of the craftsmen over..."

At this moment, I suddenly heard a burst of cheers in the distance. Looking up, I saw the abandoned oars, flying ladders, and hooks, all of which were set on fire by Fushan Brigade soldiers running out of the walled city. Halfway up the slope

, fires are everywhere, like bonfires, reflecting the deep indigo sky into orange-red.

This fire once again brought the morale of the Jin army to a new low.

…

Xin Yunu suppressed the urge to cough, walked out of the car filled with choking whistle smoke, closed her eyes, took a deep breath of fresh air, and felt extremely comfortable. Suddenly she seemed to feel something, and she opened her eyes suddenly - and sure enough,

, there was a person standing straight in front of him.
To be continued...