Chapter 63: Jinan Gateway
The spring breeze is slow, warm and comfortable, the sky is as clear as a wash, the fields are full of grass, wildflowers are everywhere, and it is a warm spring day in the north.
In the south of Dongping Mansion, the Song army is densely packed, coming from the south, the number of people is increasing, the cold light is iron-clad, the artillery is secluded, the flag is displayed, the steel jungle is boundless.
And to the south of the city wall, countless pseudo-Qi soldiers were waiting for the battle, tens of thousands of troops, all on foot, flying flags, swords and guns like a forest, everyone was hideous, watching the Song army rolling in front of them.
Liu Yi, the guard general of Dongping Mansion and the younger brother of the puppet Qi Emperor Liu Yu, surrounded by all the generals, was under the Great Guard, carefully looking at the Song army in front of him.
"Drumming!"
Liu Yi suddenly shouted loudly.
If you blindly wait, I am afraid that you will be suppressed by the Song army in terms of momentum.
The drums were dense, countless war horses slowly walked out of the formation, and Liu Yi slowly pulled out his knife and pointed diagonally in the air.
"Attack!"
The war horse slowly accelerated, and the knights on the horse were like a rolling torrent, waving their weapons and shouting, heading towards the Song army's array.
"Array!"
Zhang Heng shouted, and the Song army's large array stopped and quickly unfolded.
"Reload your ammo!"
The artillery positions were set out, and the gunners began to methodically reload their ammunition.
"These dogs, how can there be so many war horses?"
Niu Tong's eyes couldn't help but widen.
The horses are galloping, earth-shattering, the knights are boundless, and there are ten thousand horses to say. followed the Jurchens, the war horses of the pseudo-Qi, there were so many.
The whole army of the loyal army, I am afraid there are not so many cavalry.
"It's a pity for these war horses!"
Liang Xing spat out a sentence, and also spit out a sullen breath in his chest.
Tens of thousands of people rode in formation, like a surging tide, making people's hearts beat faster and sweat dripping.
"Ready!"
Zhang Heng also had a solemn face and shouted loudly.
The muzzles of the guns are pointed obliquely, and under the sunlight, the sound of the cannons exudes a cold light, and the gunners next to the guns are waiting intently, and everyone is staring ahead.
Wang Cai shouted loudly as he struck his horse forward:
"Brothers, all pass it on, the head of a loyal and righteous army is ten dollars, and the head of an official is one hundred yuan. Whoever surrenders the opponent's artillery will be promoted to the third rank and rewarded with a thousand dollars!"
The words were passed on by the surrounding soldiers, and soon there was a tsunami of the knights, all of whom were red-faced, and everyone was screaming wildly, as if they had taken stimulants, and everyone rode their horses and rushed forward madly.
"Brothers, kill all these shit!"
Thousands of horses galloped and shook the earth, and they rushed from the front and scattered one after another, apparently trying to break the large array of the loyal army in one fell swoop.
"Ready!"
Zhang Hengjun's order was issued, and thousands of loyal and righteous knights slowly rode out, and the long knives and spears in everyone's hands were ready.
"Charge!"
Niu Tong and Liang Xing led the left and right wings, and the two almost unanimously drew their swords and issued military orders with a roar.
"Fire!"
Seeing the cavalry rolling out, with Zhang Heng's roar, the red flag in the flag officer's hand fell heavily.
"Pong! Disheveled! Ponto!"
The 100 cannons in the front row roared together, the smoke from the muzzles of the guns billowed out, and 100 huge iron balls burst out of the air, tearing the air and roaring towards the pseudo-Qi cavalry that was rolling in front of them.
One by one, the iron ball people smashed into the riding array, smashing out the alleys of flesh and blood, countless war horses fell to the ground with a wail, and countless pseudo-Qi knights fell off their horses. Blood was splattered everywhere, broken bones everywhere, and flesh and blood blurred.
"Pong! Disheveled! Ponto!"
The 100 guns of the second platoon followed suit, and smoke billowed and lightning thundered. Soon after they finished firing, the guns of the third platoon also rang out, but this time the sound was louder and more harsh.
Countless huge iron bullets rose into the air, and their speed was so slow that they could be seen by the naked eye, and they fell into the pseudo-Qi cavalry formation one after another. Iron bullets exploded one after another, billowing smoke rose, and pieces of iron flew in the air, wantonly harvesting the lives of the pseudo-Qi knights in the cavalry array.
This is the flowering bullet, everywhere it goes, countless pseudo-Qi knights are on their backs, neighing and screaming, blood and corpses everywhere, and there are no people's war horses everywhere, they are mixed in the battle array, and they are still being carried forward by them.
The sound of the "puffy pong" artillery was incessant, and at a distance of 300 paces, the artillery fired three rounds. 600 iron balls, plus 300 flowering bullets, caused at least two or three thousand casualties of the pseudo-Qi knights. When it came to the 100-step range of the Song army's large array, the speed of the pseudo-Qi cavalry formation involuntarily slowed down.
The two 2,000-man cavalry formations of the Loyal and Righteous Army, under the leadership of Niu Tong and Liang Xing respectively, rumbled with horses' hooves, rolled forward, and collided head-on from the two wings of the side and the pseudo-Qi cavalry formation, and in an instant, a group of people turned over on their backs, with countless casualties.
Save the bookshelf forever and record the reading history download
Countless soldiers fell off their horses, Zhang Heng's heart was like a knife, but his face was silent. Seeing that the opponent's mid-lane cavalry was still rolling towards the large array of the loyal army, he coldly gave a military order.
"Change the shotgun!"
"Aim!"
The gunners were calm, they adjusted the angle of the muzzle, almost parallel to the ground, and the muzzle of the gun was faint, aiming at the pseudo-Qi knights who were pouring in like a tide.
"Fire!"
Seeing that the other party had entered the firing range of sixty or seventy paces, 100 general cannons fired together, 300 cannons rang out one after another, billowing smoke continued to rise, and the pseudo-Qi knights planted their horses in batches, and the knights in the front rows were almost swept away.
The flesh and blood are blurred, the stumps are broken, the iron beads are flying all over the sky, ruthless, the blood mist on the pseudo-Qi knights is soaring, the blood is splashing, the sorrowful sound of the horses, accompanied by the screams of countless knights, the front of the position is full of corpses of people and horses, the wounded are squirming and screaming, the war horses are struggling and screaming in the pool of blood, the corpses are mountains and sea of blood, a hell of a nose.
"Liu Yi, if you don't withdraw your troops, if you continue to fight like this, you will be disabled!"
Wang Qiong, the commander of the puppet Qi, could no longer endure such a bloody and cruel fight, his face was pale, and his face was full of cold sweat.
"Behind is Jinan Mansion, where else can I retreat?"
Liu Yi's face was pale, except for the cavalry on both wings, it could be regarded as a bit of a war, and the battle in the middle of the battle, where was the battle, it was simply a bloody massacre.
The other party's anger is too brutal and endless.
"Today's battle against the water, either life or death, this is the last one!"
Liu Yi grabbed the war horse, brandished the long knife, and galloped forward, shouting loudly from the inside of his mouth.
"Brothers, kill all these Song dogs!"
Liu Yi took the lead, and countless knights followed behind him with a roar, and they lay on the back of their horses, leaning on their horses to avoid the other party's artillery fire. The knights pulled away to avoid being hit by the enemy's artillery.
The knights fought their horses all the way forward, and the comrades around them were constantly knocked off their horses, and countless knights were trampled into meat by the war horses behind before they had time to get up. Everyone was frightened, regardless of it, they just beat the war horses and rushed forward desperately.
Niu Tong and Liang Xing each rushed twice, paying more than a thousand knights' casualties, and finally stifled the opponent's offensive and retreated.
Seeing that the pseudo-Qi cavalry formation was still rolling in, regardless of the casualties, Zhang Hongheng's eyes also widened.
I can't imagine that among these pseudo-Qi soldiers, there are such brave people. It's a pity that these people have no father, no mother, no country and no nation, and they are only for themselves
and followed behind the Jurchens, becoming an out-and-out "traitor".
"Zhang Xuezhi, aim at the banner of the Chinese army of pseudo-Qi, and blast down all these doggy officers for me!"
The gunners scrambled to prepare, and this time they did load dozens of flowering shells.
"Fire!"
Dozens of huge cannonballs fell from the sky and fell around the banner of the Chinese army, billowing smoke rose, and Liu Yi and the knights around him were all shrouded in the sound of explosions.
Liu Yi only felt a sharp pain all over his body, and the person planted down from the horse, and before he could stand up, the war horse behind him stepped on his body like a strong wind.
"Liu Shuai!"
In the pseudo-Qi cavalry array, there was a group of people on their backs, and the army wanted to stop to check Liu Yi's life and death, but they were ready to fly, they could only beat the war horses wildly, rushing forward like a tide.
Countless earth-shattering thunderbolts flew out, and those pseudo-Qi knights who had just approached the Song army's main array were shrouded in a thick smoke again.
The artillery was roaring, the explosions of earth-shattering thunder came and went, the positions of the two armies were full of blood and corpses, a hill of corpses of individuals and horses, the death was in different forms, plus those who were screaming in a pool of blood, there were human organs and flesh everywhere, and the miserable situation could not bear to look at directly.
There were heavy casualties, corpses were stacked on top of each other, the boss was killed, the dragons were leaderless, and finally, the knights of the pseudo-Qi could no longer endure the stormy blows of the other party, and the rear of the pseudo-Qi was the first to stir. The soldiers turned their horses and led their men to flee backwards.
The deserters were all over the mountains and fields, boundless, the artillery of the loyal army was constantly ringing, and the cavalry began to rush forward, swords and spears, horses neighing, and blood was abnormal.
Countless deserters were stabbed and cut to the ground, countless deserters knelt down, and the wilderness was full of fleeing soldiers and pursuing loyal soldiers.
Zhang Heng stood on the high slope and snorted softly when he saw the endless routs disperse like a tide.
The native chicken tile dog, the frog at the bottom of the well, and the young people also dare to use their arms as a car. The next step is Jinan Mansion, look at Liu Yu, the pseudo-emperor of Qi, what kind of struggle will he have to make?
"Zhu Shi, look at how fierce the heroes of the Loyal and Righteous Army are! After I go back, I will also join the Loyal Army, go north to fight against Jin, kill the enemy and serve the country!"
Wei Sheng and Zhao Chen stood on a high ground, both of them elated.
Zhao Chen wanted to tell his friends that he had long known that the puppet Qi army on the opposite side was not the opponent of the loyal and righteous army at all. Because a few years ago, he had seen the military might of the Loyal and Righteous Army in Taiyuan, in the north.
Although he had seen the military might of the loyal and righteous army, it was the first time he had seen the scene of the battle between the two armies, and he also saw the blood boiling.
"Wei Sheng, what you said is right, let's go back and join the loyal army, mix for a few years, and be a general!"
After a few years of polishing, his appearance has already changed greatly, and no one can see his original appearance, even Zhang Heng and others not far away are ignorant.
"In the old days, Wang Xie Tang Qianyan flew into the homes of ordinary people. Everything that has passed, let it pass. Zhu Shi, you have to start your new life again. ”
Zhao Chen muttered to himself, but Wei Sheng next to him was elated. The crowd of onlookers, all of whom craned their necks and looked towards the battlefield.
Zhang Heng and the others naturally never dreamed that one of the two teenagers on the high slope not far away was the former crown prince. At the moment, they were just staring at the battlefield in front of them, with different thoughts.
In the distance, a white rose on the city wall of Dongping Mansion, and the city gate slowly opened, and countless officials walked out and knelt on the ground.
A devastating battle not only destroyed the will of the puppet Qi soldiers, but also gave these puppet Qi officials a great shock to their hearts.
In this way, it was easy for the loyal army to open the door to Jinan Mansion.