Chapter 1307: The Battle of the Scarlet Sun

Obviously, the overall defense of the Song army was greatly impacted, and the adventurous assault of the Jin army also paid a great price, especially in Cheng Jiao's reckless inner line attack, coupled with the abandonment of the Beizhai by the chariot brigade and the convergence of the mound and the baggage village, all of which caused severe pressure on the Jin army, making it impossible for them to gain a firm foothold on the inner line.

Dongzhai began to retreat, they abandoned Houzhai and concentrated their forces on the main camp to form a more solid defensive line.

Nanzhai did not give up, it protects the weakness of the main village and the west village, because of the abandonment of the east village, the car troops have been contracted, the Song army has a large room for flexibility, Feng Yuan decisively put the remnants of the Shenwei Dragon Guard, all into the Nanzhai garrison, with the battalion as a unit, handed over to Nanzhai for distribution and deployment, retaining the force that can support Nanzhai, two car battalions and a horse battalion.

The conditions in Xizhai are more favorable, the Jin army is still unable to cross the river on a large scale, and the troops who come by raft can only be brutally slaughtered, and half of the long-range projection weapons have strengthened Xizhai, which can be said to be a hard land, nothing to fear.

The fifth village of Nanzhai is the easternmost camp, the defender is a foot battalion of the 29th Brigade Town, plus some Shenwei and township army archers, the strength of the whole village reaches 2,000 people, and the battalion commander is Zhang Yan of the Closed Gate Mansion.

This is not an ordinary person, he can be regarded as a disciple of the Wang family, Zhang Guo Zhang Gaizhi's brother, and he is also a newly rising figure in the Shaozhuang faction, and his promotion is not ordinary fast. The Closed Door Mansion is a symbol worth cultivating, and the fact that a low-level general can become a Closed Gate Residence indicates that it is valued by the army, and the future is not comparable to that of ordinary generals.

Zhang Yan was fighting in the Walled Wall Festival, but he was very worried in his heart, and the complete abandonment of Dongzhai caused his five villages to protrude and bear the suppression of the Jin army on both sides.

Sure enough, although several teams of soldiers and horses were replenished, and some materials were also transported in, the fifth village was suppressed by Kong Yanzhou and Jin Shang on both sides, and the consumption was extremely large, and the replenishment of arrows could not keep up with the consumption at all.

What's even more hateful is that the Jin army obviously bullied people and intensified its attack on the fifth village, obviously wanting to hold this salient and trigger the chain collapse of the joint venture.

The defenders' crossbow arrows are the same as not asking for money, there is really no way, everyone is approaching, even if there is a shortage of arrows, they have to use it hard.

The Jin army still relied on the big names to advance step by step, and although they had to pay a very heavy price for every step forward, they were encouraged by their continuous victories, shouting and advancing without retreating, which was a tailwind battle.

It didn't take too long for the Jin army's military front to hit the bottom of the wall, and dozens of ladders were erected on the wall, and the Jin army's foot soldiers began to climb upward.

"Order the teams, the crossbowmen take turns to shoot at close range, and beat them down for me." Zhang Yan saw that the Jin army approached the wall without his life, and since people used human lives to fill it, he had no other good plan but to boost morale and contain the Jin army's attack.

There are more and more Jin troops under the wall, they are ants to attack, densely packed and completely fighting people.

The more the defenders fought, the more weak they became, and they fought one after another, as if the Jin army could not finish killing, many officials were about to collapse their nerves, and some of them were frightened and retreated, even the military judge who supervised the battle could not stop their retreat, and finally the military judge who was forced to do so carried out the most serious military law on the battlefield and killed the rout.

Many of the people who retreated were from the Dragon Guardian Divine Guard, and many of them were already frightened, and they happened to become rats who spoiled the soup, causing panic among the soldiers of the Gongsheng Army. The military judges tried their best to suppress and kill many people, but how could they completely suppress it?

More people looked miserable, hitting the enemy mechanically back and forth, life was no longer so important to them, anyway, they had only one thought, that is, to try to kill the person who was going to kill them before they were killed.

"Battering ram, pour oil quickly, don't let them come close."

Zhang Yan also saw that the huge siege cone was slowly passing by, and he felt a chill all over his body, although this siege cone was not big, it was a joke for a strong city, but the fifth village was a hastily built village, at best, it was a field fortification, and it couldn't withstand the indiscriminate bombardment at all, if only there was a trench to protect the village, but unfortunately the time was too hasty, and it couldn't be dug at all.

If it was topped by the battering ram, the walled gate could not hold out a few times, and in the battle of the whole village crossbow arrows, the Jin army did not use the precious horse army to send it to death, so naturally it was impossible to bombard the walled gate with a medicine bag.

"The crossbowmen suppressed me, loaded with medicine arrows, and couldn't let them get close to the gate of the village." He let out a terrible roar, filled with deep helplessness.

The crossbowmen were constantly firing, still intimidating with their arrows, but they could not penetrate the water-soaked cowhide in front of the siege cone, and some people were blown up and some were shot to the ground, but they were unable to organize their advance.

Finally, the siege cone pushed to the gate of the wall, the foot soldiers of the Jin army suffered heavy casualties, but it was still successful, the gate did not insist on a few heavy blows, it collapsed in a huge sound, followed by the Jin army who was enduring the crossbow arrow blow of the Song army, at the moment when the gate collapsed, howling and killing madly.

Zhang Yan saw that the camp could not be saved, and he was also very single, and ordered loudly: "Go down to the village to take over the battle and retreat." ”

The Song army gathered in the back village, and Zhang Yan still calmly commanded, trying to let more people escape, but he was caught off guard by a crossbow arrow.

The servants beside him were frightened, and saw that a featherless arrow was cut deep into the neck of his commander, or from the side of the cortical neck guard, piercing his neck, severing his arteries, and losing a lot of blood in a short moment, and dying without any pain.

He didn't leave any words, he fell to the ground with a bang, and died so quietly, sometimes the reality is so cruel, and so helpless.

The officials came to their senses and immediately snatched the corpse, but what could this be, Zhang Yan's death directly caused the Song army to lose its command, and gradually became a mess, and could no longer stop the breakthrough of the Jin army, they could only carry the corpse on their backs and move with the rout.

The Jin army's attack was tricky, with the fifth village to the west and the fourth to the west, but the south and east could not be protected.

The Song soldiers also understood that they desperately fled westward, hoping to escape to the fourth village for protection. The Jin army followed behind and slaughtered, and those who ran slower were all slaughtered.

No wonder the Jin army was ruthless, and was wantonly shot by the Song army's bow and crossbow, and many brothers and friends died tragically under the crossbow arrows.

The whole village is completely plunged into a nightmarish hell, full of mutilated corpses and scenes of killing, and eerie blood bursts out all the time.