Chapter 068: Foot Battle
"Loaded arrows!"
Next to the double-bow bed crossbow, more than ten Song soldiers put the two bows on the front and back of the thick crossbow back, the soldiers worked together to winch the winch, opened the crossbow string, buckled it on the teeth, and the crossbowman loaded with arrows installed the thick and long crossbow arrows in the shape of a flat chisel and aimed at the golden position in front.
Feathered arrows were stuck in the ground in front of them by the archers, and the big bows were in their hands, ready to shoot at any time.
At a distance of two miles, the cavalry arrived in an instant, and entered a range of 100 steps, and the Jurchen cavalry was divided into two parts, wanting to attack the ribs of the Song army from the left and right flanks.
The moment the Jin soldiers were divided, in the loyal army, one by one, the strong men who were in charge of firing raised a sledgehammer and hammered the trigger with all their strength, and the huge crossbow arrows broke through the air and flew towards the rushing Jurchen cavalry.
The double-bow bed crossbow has a range of 130 steps, and the reason why it is necessary to wait for the Jurchen cavalry to advance a hundred steps is naturally to increase the lethality of the crossbow arrows.
80 bed crossbows, 160 crossbow arrows shot out, more than 200 meters in front of the array, hundreds of heavily armored gold soldiers were knocked off their horses, and the screams rang out.
Some of the golden soldiers were knocked out and knocked over their comrades behind; Some were penetrated through the chest and planted directly under the horse; There were also some crossbow arrows that pierced the horse's body, and the horse fell to the ground with a wail, and tripped the horse behind, and the knight on the horse fell heavily to the ground, and was soon trampled into a pulp by the horse behind.
The heavily armored gold soldiers were blocked, and the Jurchen cavalry quickly dodged to both sides, avoiding the death forbidden area in the middle, and rushed towards the two wings of the Song soldiers.
Compared with the non-50 steps of the Jin soldiers who did not shoot, the foot soldiers of the Song soldiers pulled their strong bows one after another when the opponent's war horse was fifty or sixty paces away. The 300 strong archers fired in turn, 100 feathered arrows were shot, and sixty or seventy Jurchen knights were covered in a blood mist and fell to the ground.
Feather arrows continue one after another, and the arrows shoot like rain, and this is the "turn shooting technique" of the loyal army.
The Jurchen cavalry was stoic and endured the battle, they were not afraid of casualties, and one by one they urged the war horses to come straight to the Song soldiers' positions from both wings.
The Song soldiers stood with their backs to each other, and when the Jurchen cavalry entered the 50-step range, the archers pulled out their bows and arrows, still using the "turn-taking shooting technique", and shot at the galloping Jurchen cavalry. This time, not only did the thousands of archers all shoot arrows, but even the thousands of cavalry on their horses rained down arrows, overwhelming the sky and shooting straight at the Jurchen knights.
Both sides had entered the other side's firing range, and the heavy arrows of the Jin soldiers also flew towards the Song soldiers' positions.
The feather arrows covered the sky and the sun, and the sound of "poof" was endless, and the Song soldiers immediately fell down in the large array, and hundreds of people were hit by arrows, and the screams and cries suddenly sounded.
The arrows galloped, and the two long formations of the Jurchen cavalry immediately became sparse, and countless knights were shot down from their horses. The Jurchen knights behind were riding war horses, regardless of the dead and wounded, with bows and arrows, and rushed straight forward.
The heavy arrows of the Jurchen knights were full of lethality and strong armor-piercing ability, they galloped and shot feather arrows, and in the blink of an eye, hundreds of Song soldiers fell under their arrows, either dead or wounded, blood splashed, and some Song archers immediately became chaotic.
Because of the heavy armor of the spearmen, there are few casualties, and the archers are all leather armor, but when they are hit by the opponent's heavy arrows, they will immediately open the skin and flesh, and the casualties will be one.
A Song soldier archer was hit by an arrow in the chest, which pierced directly through the leather armor and penetrated through the chest, and the person immediately fell to the ground, unable to breathe anymore. Another archer was cut in the throat, bleeding profusely, and fell down wailing.
Xu Hu wanted to take the soldiers of the Youyi army over, and the thousand Jurchen cavalry on the opposite side were eyeing each other, and another thousand knights rushed forward, obviously wanting to take advantage of the stalemate on the two wings of the Song soldiers and raid the front of the Song soldiers.
Xu Hu had only patience and sent 200 cavalry to kill behind the Jin soldiers on both wings, while the remaining 800 cavalry were on both sides, covering the forward positions of the infantry.
Xu Hu also had no choice, the cavalry of the Loyal and Righteous Army was too small to form a fatal impact. Although Pantuoguan obtained thousands of war horses, they could only be called infantry on horses, and they had to go through a period of training before they could become real cavalrymen.
"Pass! Pass!"
The sound of the explosion sounded, the smoke of gunpowder filled the air, and the Jurchen knights on both wings fell off their horses one by one, and the grenadiers of the Song army lost no time in throwing out earth-shattering thunder.
A Jurchen knight was lucky enough to avoid the indiscriminate bombardment of the earth-shattering thunder, but there were very few comrades around. His eyes were red, and he rushed into the large array of the Song army.
The sixty or seventy surviving Jurchen knights were terrified, and they pierced through the smoke like evil spirits, and threw short axes, iron rods, and short spears in their hands one after another.
An archer was struck in the forehead by a short axe, and he fell to the ground, bleeding profusely, and soon ceased to be silent.
Another heavily armored Song soldier was smashed on the head with an iron rod, and fainted with a muffled snort, and it is unknown whether he is dead or alive.
A heavily armored Jurchen knight rode up, knocked over the horse in front, and smashed the three panicked Song soldiers in front of him, but was stabbed in the abdomen of the war horse by the spears on both sides.
The war horse screamed, fell to the ground with a bang, threw out the heavily armored Jurchen knights, fell into the heavy infantry of the Song army, and smashed over the two Song soldiers, but was stabbed into a pulp by the spears of the Song soldiers who swarmed around.
Another Jurchen knight crashed into the horse, and the horse's belly was stuck in the tip of the horse's spear, and the intestines and internal organs flowed out. The Jurchen knight was stabbed from his horse by the Song soldiers, and the spear stabbed violently, and in a blink of an eye, it became a corpse covered in blood.
On the two wings of the Song army's large array, more than a dozen rejecting horses were knocked out and knocked over, and the Jurchen knights almost all fought alone, falling into the Song army's battle array, although they also killed and injured many soldiers of the other party, but they were stabbed off their horses by spears one by one, and none of them survived.
A heavily armored gold soldier was quite fierce, and stabbed two Song soldiers in succession. Xu San's blood irrigated pupils, and evil was born from the side of the gall. He dodged the opponent's blade and struck the opponent's horse's hooves with a fierce blow, breaking the horse's leg and screaming and throwing the golden soldier down.
Jin Bing was short and nimble, and he quickly rolled up from the ground, and the weapon in his hand did not fall. Seeing Xu San pounce, he also picked up the giant axe and fought with Xu San.
Xu San has been practicing martial arts since he was a child, and his divine power is amazing, he is a well-known hero in the township, and when he encounters this fierce and powerful Jin soldier, he happens to be evenly matched.
After all, Jin Bing has been fighting for a while, and he has some losses in anger. Xu San's spear, the gun did not leave his vital point, Jin Bing's hand moved slowly, Xu San's spear was as fast as lightning, and with a "poof" sound, it penetrated Jin Bing's throat.
Xu San twisted the barrel of the gun, and Jin Bing was in pain, but he couldn't scream, and slowly knelt on the ground. Xu San pulled out his spear, Jin Bing's eyes widened, and he slowly fell to the ground.
He probably didn't expect that he usually slaughtered the Song people like pigs and dogs, but today he was planted under the cowardly Song people!
The Jurchen knights who were attacking head-on had already broken through to the 100-step range in front of the Song people's position, and the knights on the horses were already ready to shoot at any time.
The sound of breaking the sky was endless, and one after another crossbow arrows rushed in, whistling straight towards the Jurchen heavy armored cavalry, obviously this was the second launch of the Song soldiers' bed crossbowmen.
Seeing hundreds of heavily armored brave horses fall off their horses, Sha Guzhi's heart was painful, and the invincible warriors who came out of the white mountains and black waters were actually shot by the crossbow arrows of the Song people, which really made him unbearable.
The wound of the bed crossbow was too great, no matter whether there was defense or not, whether there was a shield and heavy armor in the hand, as long as it was shot, without exception, it was either dead or wounded, and the Jurchen cavalry was carried down piece by piece, tripping over the countless Jurchen cavalry behind.
Seeing that the archers in the middle of the battle formation were a little flustered, Wang Yan was furious, and slashed down a panicked archer who wanted to flee with a knife, and shouted loudly: "All of them, steady!"
The officers in the position also shouted angrily: "Steady!"
Wang Yan's face turned pale, he raised his hand and whipped it, hit a soldier in the face, and roared: "All of them, take a bow!"
One by one, the murderous officers stood in the middle of the large formation with long knives in their hands, their eyes were fierce, staring at the soldiers in the large array.
"The dog is very afraid, and if you want to die, Lao Tzu will die first!"
Wang Yan changed his previous elegance and blurted out viciously.
"Even the former army can't compare, and the straight lady thief still has the face to be afraid! If anyone escapes from the battle like the former army, Lao Tzu will make him more uncomfortable than death!"
He shouted: "It's all for Lao Tzu to stabilize!"
"It's all for Lao Tzu to stabilize!"
The officers shouted loudly and stood at the front of the line.
The generals looked forward to it, and the soldiers reluctantly settled down, and they all pulled up the feather arrows on the ground, put them on the strings, and aimed them at the sky.
Wang Yan saw that all the soldiers had plucked up their courage, and the anger in his heart quieted down.
As soon as the recruits are engaged, it is a big war, and the battle will not be dispersed, and the method of training the loyal and righteous army can be described as unparalleled in the world.
At a distance of sixty or seventy paces, the feathered arrows on both sides were covering the sky and the sun, and they were endless. The golden cavalry fell again, and the ranks immediately thinned out.
The heavy infantry in front of the Song soldiers' position, and the archers behind them were all hit by arrows, and two or three hundred people fell to the ground one after another, blood splashed, and the scene was extremely bloody.
No one escaped, and the Song army was red-eyed, and the bloody battle aroused their greater courage.
Both sides flew with arrows, both of them suffered heavy casualties, and when the second thousand-man cavalry of the Jin people reached the Song army's main array, less than half of the cavalry remained.
"Pass! Pass!"
Without waiting for the Jin soldiers to pick up the rejection horse, countless smoking grenades were thrown out and fell into the Jin soldiers' cavalry group, the explosions were endless, the billowing smoke rose, hundreds of Jin soldiers were shrouded in it, and the screams of the whole day continued to sound, and in front of the Song soldiers' position, a hill of human and horse corpses was piled up.
The golden soldiers on both flanks were cleared, and the remaining twenty horsemen ran away. There were only about 200 Jin soldiers left in the front, and these 200 or so people were quite strong, and they bypassed the piles of corpses of men and horses in front of them, and came towards the Song army on both wings.
The tall and long-arm grenadiers stood up again, and the smoking earth-shattering thunder in their hands were thrown out one by one, and they all fell into the galloping Jurchen cavalry formation, and the Jurchen cavalry in front of the forward position was instantly shrouded in billowing smoke.
The horses neighed, the smoke was filled, the smoke and dust were billowing out, and one by one the Jurchen knights were blown off their horses, and cold sweat trickled out of Wang Yan's forehead.
With such a brutal attack, even the most elite Lou room army of the Jurchens may be difficult to resist.