Chapter 45: Armageddon (6)
The Nine Thousand Jurchen Cavalry were the lucky ones in the first wave of cavalry, but they faced an even harsher reality. The 9,000 cavalry plus the more than 20,000 infantry under the city were still blocked from the city walls, and they were still the opponent's live targets. Therefore, the two camp gates in the northeast are their primary targets.
The camp gate on the east side had collapsed, and this was the only entrance to the east wall, and thousands of Jurchen cavalry had no choice but to rush towards the camp gate.
The Jurchen cavalry is by no means in vain, their horse kung fu is unique in the world, and the Liao people who once rode and shot the best in the world can hardly match it. It was not just luck that these 9,000 lucky people were able to rush under the camp wall alive, they were all skilled cavalrymen, and in the face of the rain of arrows from the city, they hid on the side of the stirrups or even under the belly of the horse to avoid attacks, which was also an important reason why they were able to rush under the camp wall alive.
More than 9,000 cavalry rushed in the direction of the camp gate, and the east camp gate was already open, and hundreds of horsemen took the lead in rushing into the camp gate. However, they were greeted by a blockade of ferocious arrows. On the ten-zhang wide passage of the camp gate, in such a narrow situation, riding skills could not help them much. Although they shrank in the belly of their horses to avoid the arrows, the horses could not escape the arrows. The horses that rushed into the camp were immediately shot into hedgehogs, neighing and tumbling to the ground, stirring up dust in the sky. Some of those Jurchen riders were directly crushed by the heavy war horses and broke their tendons and fractures, and some of them broke away from the war horses in time because of the narrow terrain. For a time, there were heavy casualties.
At the camp gate on the north side, the camp gate that had not collapsed burst suddenly. The Jurchen cavalry directly smashed open the camp gate that had been cut to pieces. Of course, there is no choice, if you don't force it open, will you be beaten outside the wall? More than a dozen cavalrymen also red-eyed and didn't want to live, so they rode their horses directly and rushed up, smashing the broken camp gate to pieces. The Jurchen cavalry that followed swarmed in. But they were also dealt a ferocious blow by the cavalry archers of the Falling Goose Army, who had been waiting for them for a long time.
However, with a few hundred archers, it was impossible to stop the Jurchen cavalry, who had no other choice, from rushing into the camp. After losing more than a thousand men, a large number of Jurchen cavalry poured into the camp.
At the same time, the sound of shouting and killing outside the camp shook the sky, and the sound of horses' hooves roared. The second echelon cavalry of the Jurchens had already rushed to a hundred paces away. The black pressure rushed over like a tidal wave. The defenders on the camp wall and on the inner platform of the camp wall could only concentrate their attention on the second wave of Jurchen cavalry, and had no time to strike at the thousands of Jurchen cavalry who rushed into the camp. Because the commander made it very clear before the battle, it doesn't matter how many people rush into the camp, the point of the defending soldiers and firearms is to destroy a large number of living forces when the enemy charges, and there are people in the camp to dispose of them.
The person in the camp was Ma Qingshan, and his 30,000 cavalry were already waiting for the moment when the other party broke through the camp and entered the camp near the camp gate. When the bow and arrow could no longer prevent the opponent from pouring into the camp gate, Ma Qingshan's long knife was raised, and two 10,000-strong cavalry teams met the head of the head, blocking the opponent's cavalry head-on and enveloping them. Fighting ensued in the camp
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It has to be said that today's battle is rare in ancient and modern times, and there has never been a battle that has been fought inside and outside the camp at the same time. You said that the other party broke the camp, but the defenders of the Luoyan Army were as stable as Mount Tai on the camp wall. You said it wasn't broken, obviously there were Jurchen cavalry in the camp, and they were still fighting in the camp. You beat yours, I beat mine, each one fights his own, and it's a mess.
But this is exactly the result that Lin Jue hoped. In frontal field battles, although the Luoyan Army has the advantage of firearms, it is by no means an opponent. The opposing cavalry covered and killed in all directions, and the firearms could only resist for a while, and in the end, they still had to rely on frontal hand-to-hand combat. The Jurchens had many soldiers and horses, and the cavalry had high combat effectiveness, and the Luoyan army was bound to be difficult to defeat. That's why Lin Jue wanted to make use of his strengths and avoid his weaknesses and build a camp. The purpose of the camp was to transform field warfare into positional combat. Forcefully change the way you fight. However, this does not guarantee that the opponent will be completely passively beaten. For example, if the camp wall that Lin Jue was worried about before was broken down by the opponent with siege equipment, the opponent would once again reverse the fighting method and enter the opponent's familiar combat methods again. This is also the reason why the camp gate was broken in front of him, and the opponent's soldiers and horses had already rushed into the camp, but Lin Jue still kept the camp gate alive. The losses of the opponent when they charged were already very large, and the cavalry that rushed into the camp was simply not enough to change the tide of the battle, and the own cavalry in the camp was waiting for work and gathering the opponent with superior forces, which was exactly the situation that Lin Jue wanted to see. Dividing the battlefield and eliminating the Jurchen living force is the result that Lin Jue wants. Everything starts from the battle situation, everything starts from the actual combat advantage, and will not be led by the nose in order to ensure that the camp is not attacked by the other side.
A second wave of cavalry rushed in, and ferocious blows followed. This time, the Jurchen cavalry also suffered heavy losses, but because after witnessing the tragic situation of the first wave of cavalry, the cavalry's formation was deliberately more scattered, so the casualties were reduced a lot. And all the cavalry, after rushing through a swarm of bazookas and bows, went straight to the two open camp gates. Their goal was clear, not to give the opponent a chance to bloom grenades, and to concentrate the cavalry forces and rush into the camp for a big melee with internal flowers. The opponent's grenade throwers were scattered all over the camp wall, and it was difficult to assemble in a short time. Although there will be heavy casualties in a short period of time if you assemble a formation at the camp gate, it is much better than being bombed everywhere.
The short-term casualties are exchanged for the chaos of the opponent's defensive system, and the opponent's inability to quickly assemble the powerful firepower will eventually make the camp gate a huge breakthrough. Wanyan Aguda wanted to let more cavalry rush into the camp, on the one hand, to reinforce the own cavalry that had already rushed in, and on the other hand, to make the entire battle situation more chaotic, so that Lin Jue's defense system was completely ineffective. When there is an internal emergency, can the other party still defend the camp wall in a good time? They must divide their men and horses to fight, which will create the conditions for their last wave of the most ferocious charge.
It is often said that when you fight a stupid opponent, you will become stupid yourself. Just like playing chess, playing chess with a master will improve your chess skills, and playing chess with a stinky chess basket, your chess will become more and more stinky. Wanyan Aguda has fought with Lin Jue so many times, and he is always crushed by Lin Jue's IQ, and he has all kinds of middle circles
set, into a trap, almost completely suppressed. But in the midst of this loss, Wanyan Aguda also began to adapt to the rhythm of fighting with Lin Jue. After paying the tuition fees for the annihilation of more than 100,000 people, and losing the overall situation of being able to fully control the situation, if Wanyan Aguda did not grow in the battle with Lin Jue, it would be unless he was a pig.
But Wanyan Aguda is obviously not a pig, he is a wolf, and he is the kind of evil wolf with undying ambition and tenacity in his heart. Although this battle seemed to be an act of impatience, in fact, he understood that if he wanted to turn the situation around, other means had failed, and only the last means of victory were left. He also understood that even if he withdrew his troops and preserved his strength, Lin Jue would never let him go. He invaded the Great Zhou and killed hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians in the Great Zhou, and this blood debt cannot be written off. Lin Jue, as the current actual ruler of the Great Zhou, could not ignore the voice of the Great Zhou, otherwise his position would be in jeopardy.
So this battle has to be fought, and it must be won. Only in this way can he redeem his prestige and shock the world. As for the loss of strength, the Liao people may take advantage of the opportunity to move, but Wanyan Aguda believes that even if he only has 10,000 or 20,000 soldiers and horses left, he can still conquer those straw bales of the Liao State. And after the victory of this battle, with the temperament of the Great Zhou people, they must cut the land and negotiate peace, and they can stabilize the Great Zhou first, and then go south, taking the safe old road suggested by Lin Jue before.
So when this battle started, Wanyan Agu knew that he couldn't lose. His mind has been thinking positively since the beginning of the war, adjusting to the situation of the war. It can be said that at this moment, Wanyan Aguda has actually reached the highest point of IQ in his entire life. For so many years before, he had never had such adaptability and adjustment combat ability. In a way, Lin Jue stimulated his potential and made him even more powerful than before.
When the second wave of nearly 20,000 cavalry broke through many dangers and gathered into a strong torrent to rush to the entrances of the two camp gates, the Luoyan army had to adjust its defensive strength accordingly. The garrison of the camp wall gathered towards the camp gate. The throwers, who had been in fixed positions, had to assemble at the camp gate, otherwise they would not be able to throw melon grenades. Before they could arrive, the second wave of cavalry had already arrived at the camp gate and began to rush into the camp in a frenzy.
At the same time, the third wave of 30,000 cavalry of the Jurchen cavalry charged. After the defenders of the Luoyan Army shot the last two rounds of swarm bazookas, the third wave of Jurchen cavalry actually had no strong means of blocking them. Because the movement of the defenders on the camp wall affected the effect of the entire blockade, this allowed the third wave of Jurchen cavalry to successfully approach the perimeter of the camp wall. The tens of thousands of infantry who had been dormant under the city wall also began to move, and the hooks and cables in their hands began to throw them at the camp wall again.
At the same time, shouts of killing were also heard from the two directions southwest of the camp. The two Jurchen cavalry ambushed in the southwest also launched a fierce attack at the same time.
The Jurchens seem to have found a loophole in the Luoyan army, and finally the whole army attacked and launched a final onslaught.