Chapter 1527: Assault
The battle began in the early morning, and the attacking side moved with all its troops, desperately betting.
At the sound of the horn, the Jurchen soldiers were densely packed all over the mountains, climbing and charging towards the slopes on both sides in a straggler formation. At the ramp of the middle pass, Yalu Buhua personally put on the battle and led 10,000 cavalry to prepare for an all-out breakthrough in the direction of the pass.
Gao Muqing stood on an earthen platform above the pass with a solemn expression, witnessing the opponent's attack on all fronts, Gao Muqing knew in his heart that the real battle was about to begin. Yesterday's battle was just a tentative exchange between the two sides. The other party paid the price, but also tested a few of his hole cards. The two killer features of the Thorn Iron Thorn Array and the Swarm of Bazooka have been exposed, and they have lost their effect of surprise and deterrence of the other party. But overall, yesterday's battle was a big victory. After killing four or five thousand enemies, his own side only lost more than two hundred men, and that was still the damage caused by the counterattack of the opponent's cavalry archers. The opponent was not even able to fight with his own hand-to-hand combat at all, which shows that the overall defense line is solid.
But now, the enemy has launched a full-scale attack, and this kind of full-front attack is what Gao Muqing is most worried about. The Luoyan army only has a total of 40,000 soldiers and horses, although it is condescending, but this is only a hillside terrain, not a city. There is no need to attack by special means, they just need to climb up the hillside. After the battle line was lengthened, the opponent's superior strength was reflected, and whether he could withstand it or not, Gao Muqing himself had no bottom in his heart.
"The edict told Gao Songlin and Li Muzhu that there should be no room for loss on the slopes on both sides. It must be defended. I will send 5,000 men each to reinforce them to make up for the lack of troops on both sides. If there is any danger, it is important to inform us immediately so that reinforcements can be provided. Gao Muqing gave the order.
Several generals beside him frowned when they heard this, General Gao wanted to send 10,000 people to reinforce the slopes on both sides, and there were only 9,000 people left in the pass position. This seems to be something wrong. But none of them raised objections, and they all understood that it was a last resort. To some extent, the slopes on both sides are more important than the passes, and if the slopes are lost, the passes will be lost. The disadvantage in the number of soldiers and horses led to General Gao having to send additional men to assist in lengthening the defensive line, and the defender's strength was weak. The position of the pass is also hindered by fortification walls and ground thorn arrays, which are much easier to defend than the hillsides on both sides.
When the Luoyan army mobilized troops and horses to strengthen the defensive line, the attacking soldiers who were all over the mountains had already started an all-out attack on the hillside under the cover of stones and weeds and low trees on the hillside.
Although the Jurchens changed from cavalry to infantry, this did not have much effect on their actions. In fact, the Jurchens grew up in the mountains and forests and wilderness inside and outside Changbai Mountain, and had already cultivated the ability to move like a fly in the mountains, and the slopes of the two Fangcheng Mountains in front of them were not worth mentioning compared to the steep and dangerous peaks of Changbai Mountain. If it weren't for the bows and arrows and firearms of the defenders, these Jurchen soldiers would have rushed to the top of the mountain in a matter of time for a stick of incense.
However, they still remember the situation yesterday vividly, and the power of the opponent's firearms is really terrifying, and the Jurchen soldiers have some shadows in their hearts. Even if the generals gave the order to attack to the death, they did not want to rush up stupidly, but chose to leap between the rocks and dwarf trees, and no one wanted to be the target of the enemy's bow and arrow on the top of the mountain.
Soon, the attacking side was armed
Arriving at the mountainside, more than 300 steps from the top of the hillside, it has already entered the attack range of the bed crossbow. Thick crossbow arrows came as scheduled with a whining sound of breaking through the air. The iron-headed crossbow arrows shot between the rocks and the vegetation, splashing gravel, dirt and wood chips, and kicking up a cloud of smoke and dust, which was quite terrifying. However, all this is thunder and rain, shelter from mountain and rock bunkers, and the limited number of bed crossbows, the huge battlefield seems scattered and lacking in power. After a round of iron crossbow attacks, there were very few direct hits, but the flying rocks shattered by the arrows of the iron crossbow injured some Jurchen soldiers.
However, this also indicates that the battle is about to enter the stage of official fighting, and further up is not only the range of the bed crossbow, but also the range of the opponent's rockets and powerful bows.
The sound of a rapid trumpet blew down the hillside, and the cowhide drum made a rapid thump. It was the Jurchen soldiers' order to speed up their attack. Within a distance of 300 steps, Xu Jin is not allowed to retreat, this is a strict order. There can be no hesitation in the rapid capture of the hillside, and the more it is delayed, the greater the casualties. It's common sense.
"Kill!" The generals of all levels who led the army let out a loud howl. The Jurchen soldiers who had been climbing halfway up the mountain with their heads stuffed and panting also knew that the time had come to fight hard, and now they had to rush up the hill in one go, and they couldn't grind any longer, and if they stayed on the hillside for a while, they would be one step closer to death.
"Ulururu, ahhhh All the Jurchen soldiers emerged from the rocks and trees of the mountain, and as they struggled to climb the hillside, they let out a sharp and strange cry. It was the cry of the owls they made when they hunted wild beasts in the mountains and forests, and it was just right to use it as a slogan for charging at this moment.
The sight of people climbing up the hillside all over the mountains is both spectacular and small. The long hillside wounds, and the countless black dots were as small as ants. But countless ants climbed up densely, which made people feel goosebumps all over their bodies and their hairs stood on end. It was a real pressure on the defenders on the hillside, who did not dare to see the enemy as ants, and they were all armed and fangs and claws. They are all beasts. Once they get close to them, they will kill without mercy.
A firework bomb rises into the air, and it is a green flare.
As the green fireworks annihilated in the sky, there was an ear-loud rumble above the hillside. It wasn't the roar of firearms, and it wasn't a bed crossbow. The sound of bows and arrows, the sound of huge round stones rolling down from the top of a mountain.
The mountain of Fangcheng Mountain is not steep, and the mountain is not steep. Although there are many rocks between the grass and dwarf trees on the slope, there is no possibility of rolling stone attack at all. Because these stones are buried in the ground, only a severely weathered section is exposed, and they cannot be loosened. Therefore, when some people in the Luoyan army first proposed to carry stones above the hillside for rolling stone attacks, it was quickly found that it did not work at all. Don't look at the rocks all over the mountain, there are not many people who can carry them up the mountain. Because they are all buried deep in the mountain, they cannot be excavated and transported. Small rocks could not be rolled down the hillside, which was not steep. Stones the size of a sea bowl tumble down the hillside and are quickly caught in the grass and bushes and cracks in the rocks.
In view of this, the final plan was adjusted to concentrate on mining a huge rock from the top of the mountain, and digging it up
More than 100 round boulders weighing 1,000 catties are used as a special means of defending against mountains. This idea was actually put forward by Fang Huanqiu, she put forward this idea when she heard that Gao Muqing was worried that the rolling stones could not be arranged, according to Fang Huanqiu, this method is called 'pulling a whole body', with a huge rolling stone as the mother of the stone, when rolling down the hillside, it will inevitably crash into the rocks on the hillside, causing a series of rocks to fly the effect. Just like an avalanche, the fall of a piece of snow can cause a large avalanche on the entire hillside. That's what Fang Huanqiu hopes to achieve.
Gao Muqing praised Fang Huanqiu's idea, although this idea was somewhat taken for granted, and it was impossible to confirm it in advance. But Gao Muqing still ordered the excavation of the boulder on the top of the mountain as a means of defense. After all, whether or not this avalanche effect is realized, the giant Rolling Stones are always an effective means of defense. Anyway, the boulders on the top of the mountain are not too difficult to mine, and one more means of striking will give you more hope of victory.
At this moment, above the hillside, a huge round stone weighing a thousand catties slowly rolled down from the top of the mountain, at first slowly, but after falling fifty or sixty steps, the speed of the boulder became faster and faster, and the boulder became a small stone like a mud ball, and rolled down the hillside at a rapid pace. Along the way, the boulders crashed violently against the rocks and various obstacles on the hillside, and each impact did not slow it down, but seemed to make it more violent. When hit by rocks, they will fly into the air, and the next time they land, they will smash harder and with more force.
When dozens of boulders rolled down from the hillside, they smashed up countless rocks and dust, and fist-sized stones splashed in the air and fell like rain. Dozens of rock-splashing passages have been formed on the hillside. Each trail of rocks and smoke was like a huge monster leading the way down the hillside, followed by countless small monsters, straight to the dense Jurchen soldiers attacking the mountain on the hillside.
Some of the boulders did not make it to the end, and they disintegrated from the impact halfway up the mountain, breaking into dozens of rocks, large and small. But that doesn't make them less powerful, they make them more lethal. The shattered rocks still rushed down, causing a wider range of rocks to fly, causing more rocks to crumble down the smashed trees.
The situation on the hillside on the east and west sides of the pass, if you look at it from the air, at this moment, it is like more than a hundred tyrannical yellow dragons, carrying a large number of stones, shrubs, thorns and debris rolling down the hillside, the scene is extremely spectacular.
The Jurchen soldiers were horrified to see the yellow dragon rolling on the hillside, a large amount of debris raining down, where did they dare to rush up, busy looking for cover, dodging the oncoming stone dragon. However, the soldiers on the trajectory are actually unavoidable, and there are rocks rushing everywhere, rubble flying everywhere, and the angle is unpredictable. One by one, the smashed heads broke and bled out, lying on the ground to protect their heads and faces, and let the destiny of heaven be. Although unlucky, those soldiers who were unable to dodge were hit head-on by the boulders, and were directly crushed into meat patties, and then smashed into minced meat by the subsequent rocks.
Although the avalanche effect has not been completely formed, the entire slope has not completely produced a rocky collapse, only dozens of rocky tracks have been formed, and the power is really not small. Fang Huanqiu unintentionally inserted willows, but the result was an unusual blow effect.