Chapter 59 Joy Doesn't End -4
"His grandmother's." Jian Cheng gritted his teeth and looked at the one-sided slaughter on the battlefield in front of him, took the horse lance off the victory hook, and thrust it the mud ground. Du Blowhorn sighed: "It's amazing." He licked his lips and placed his right hand casually on the hilt of the knife. The sergeants watched the battle intently, and the garrison became more and more frightened.
It wasn't until the 20,000 signatories completely collapsed that those white-armored cavalry began to rush into the fleeing crowd of signatories like tigers entering a flock of sheep, and the blood splashed under the shining scimitars, until they approached the large array of the Jin army. It's a thrilling sight.
The Liao soldiers seemed to be only demonstrating, and did not take advantage of the rout of the signing army to attack the Jin army. Wanyan Di Gu Nai ordered the front army to release arrows at the defeated soldiers, so as not to let them mess up their own formation, and let the signing army know the fate of the defeated retreat. The arrows rained down in front of the battle, and the signing army wailed, and was killed and wounded by the Jin soldiers.
"The front army gave an order and ordered us to open artillery bombardment to defeat the soldiers."
Zhao Xingde's face sank, and he shouted in a low voice: "Listen to my orders, no one is allowed to fire." Han Ningshuang's eyes froze and she didn't speak. At this time, the other Jinguo artillery forts in the rear have been opened with a bang, and huge stone projectiles have fallen among the defeated soldiers, and there are ghosts crying wolves everywhere, and the power of the earth shaking the mountains has forced the remaining defeated soldiers to run towards both sides of the large array.
The Khitan cavalry retreated very quickly, Wanyan Di Gu Nai looked left and right, Tiefutu was all heavy armored cavalry, and he couldn't catch up, but it was difficult to say that the kidnapping horse could defeat the enemy, hesitated for a moment, and actually watched the two thousand palace tent cavalry retreat, for a while, the cheers in the Liao army were loud, and the morale was greatly boosted, and after a while, it seemed that Yelu Dashi had rewarded something to the winning general, and the cheers rose again, even more than just now.
Wanyan Agu's face was covered with a layer of dark clouds, and he secretly thought, this Yelu Dashi is really a strong opponent. Seeing that the Jin soldiers used the signing army to test the truth and reality, they simply calculated and used the strongest palace tent army to fight Liwei, although this battle did not damage the Jin soldiers themselves, the morale of the two armies of Liao and Jin was affected.
War drums beat in the back, and the emperor's banner swayed back and forth. Seeing this, Wanyan Di Gu Nai did not hesitate, and immediately ordered the front army to drive the signing army away, and 10,000 cavalry formed a circle formation to attack first, and the more than 2,000 horsemen in front were heavily armored Tiefutu, and the cavalry held up their spears, and the cavalry behind them only wore soft armor and held bows and arrows. The 10,000 cavalry in the back formed a separate circle formation, which was stacked with the front formation. The golden soldiers slowly approached the enemy, still seventy or eighty steps away, the arrow feathers cast on the opposite side have fallen densely into the Jurchen army, from time to time there are golden soldiers in the arrow fall off the horse, but for some reason, the golden soldiers are not returning an arrow, until within fifty steps from the Liao soldiers, the back suddenly released arrows together, only to listen to the sound of the strings of "Bang", suddenly ten thousand arrows were fired together, the Khitan cavalry in front of the formation was suddenly shot to a piece, and even a little chaotic, when Tiefutu was preparing to charge, the Liao cavalry suddenly scattered to both sides, only to see two hundred steps away, The muzzles of a row of barrel cannons were already aimed at the surging iron horses.
Jin Bing was not unaware of this iron barrel cannon, and suddenly there was a little panic, the iron floating pictures in front of him were all elite, and the officers who commanded the army forced themselves to hold back their panic, and several of them shouted in Jurchen words: "Charge!" "Rush forward!" Almost at the same time, thousands of cavalry were desperately urging their horses to rush closer before the Liao army opened fire. Even if some of the fierce Anmouke wanted to spread out on both sides, they had to move forward in parallel in this situation, not to mention, while the Khitan cavalry spread out on both sides, there were also cavalry mobilized from behind, and arrows were fired in unison, forming a squeeze on the Jin soldiers on both wings.
"Charge!"
"Fire!"
On one side is the distance of two hundred paces, and on the other side is the length of the gunpowder primer burning, and the end is already doomed. Just before the charge of the golden soldier war horse began a few steps, "Boom! "Boom!" "Bang!" The sound of cannons, the rising black smoke, and the shining firelight suddenly frightened many war horses, and they kicked and ran uncontrollably from their masters. What's even more terrifying is that countless small iron bullets flew out of the black smoke, with huge penetrating power, whistling towards them, hitting the body of the war horse, hitting the armor of the cavalry, some penetrated, even if they did not penetrate, it was as if someone was wielding a big stick and hitting the cavalry who was charging with all their might, and suddenly a large number of Jin cavalry fell off their horses.
"The Liao army actually uses shotguns!" Zhao Xingde was secretly surprised, he had been using a clairvoyant mirror to observe the battle ahead. Jin Guotie Futu was famous, and he actually suffered such a big loss, Han Ningshuang's face was also a little pale, and he subconsciously looked at the army in the rear.
The tens of thousands of golden soldiers in the rear were originally shouting and cheering for the Chinese army in the front, but now they are all silent, only the drummer is still beating the war drums, stopping in people's ears, but with a sense of haste. The Jurchen stacking battle method is the most accustomed to being used by the Jin army, and in the rear army, the Jin army generals have a faint fear on their faces.
Wanyan Agu saw that the most elite warriors of the Jurchens were slaughtered by the Liao State in this way, his face was pale, and he felt a faint pain in his chest, he was silent for a moment, and finally held back, and said with difficulty: "Knock the gong, knock the gong, let the warriors withdraw first." ”
The sun and moon flag symbolizing the emperor of Liao was inserted in the rear of the artillery array, Yelu Dashi did not use a clairvoyant mirror, and he could clearly see the scene of the Jin soldiers turning over on their backs and flying flesh and blood, and said with a slight smile: "The gunner army is detailed and stable, and the 'swarm of bees' offered by Chai Yi, the commander of the Gunner Army, is indeed a militaristic weapon, and it can be popular in the future to attack the Song Dynasty in the south." The tone was rather relaxed.
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Less than three miles away from Shenzhou City, there is a place called Roe Deer Ditch, where thousands of Khitan cavalry were gathered again, unlike the last Shenzhou defenders, the armor of these cavalry was painted white, and it was actually the most elite palace tent army in the whole Liao country. Because of the lesson that was broken by the Han army scouts last time, although after a series of killings, the land within a radius of several miles around the roe deer ditch has already become a ghost realm, and the palace tent army does not dare to relax at all. There are vigilant eyes on every hill.
"Is it really leading to Shenzhou City?" The general on duty, Yelubo, looked at the deep entrance of the cave, shook his head vigorously, and said secretly, "What His Majesty Dashi said, how can it be false, even if it leads to Liaoyang City, what is so strange?" Around him, there were officers of the palace tent army, and all of them stretched out their heads to look at the mouth of the cave.
Yelu Dashi selected the elite of the Liao army and won 50,000 palace tent troops. This time, in order to cut off the back road of the Jin soldiers, 15,000 were sent to follow Xiao Cha Raa to attack Shenzhou. There are 5,000 palace tent troops guarding Shangjing. Among the 200,000 Liao troops who fought the main battle with the main force of the Jin State, the palace tent army was only 30,000.
The capture of Shenzhou is a matter of great importance, and Xiao Chala, the commander of the capital of the capital and the camp in the northeast, did not dare to be good at it, so he only honestly followed the prior arrangement of Yelu Dashi, and placed 10,000 palace tent cavalry and 25,000 cavalry of the northern courtyard on all sides of Shenzhou, so as to confuse the Jin soldiers, and could not distinguish which city wall the Liao soldiers were going to attack. Because the Liao army is all cavalry, as long as the palace tent army that enters the city through the secret passage opens a gap, it can quickly concentrate on one aspect and capture Shenzhou.
The Liao army was scattered in all directions, and there were 30,000 Jin soldiers left behind in Shenzhou, which could have been broken individually, even if they could not be severely damaged, they had to frustrate the enemy's spirit. However, the third Bo Ji Lie Wanyan Pu Jianu who sat in Shenzhou was worried that he had fallen into the Liao State's plan to lure the enemy, and he thought that there was no room for failure in Shenzhou, and if the Liao army did not come to attack, he would only defend the city wholeheartedly.
"What does it mean that these Khitan cavalry stay outside the city, fight without fighting, and attack without attacking?" Wanyan Pu Jianu looked at the military appearance of the Liao army at the head of the city, and felt uneasy in his heart. The gently undulating hills to the northeast are covered with trees, and from all glances it looks like there are ambushes. Wanyan Pu Jianu's eyelids trembled uncontrollably again.
The Liao soldiers did not besiege Shenzhou to death, and the Jin army did not see how to intercept it when they entered and exited Shenzhou City. Between Shenzhou and Liaoyang, it was full of scouts of the Jin army. If the Liao army really planned to go straight to Liaoyang without attacking Shenzhou, Wanyan Pu Jianu would definitely give them a heavy blow from behind, and teach these Liao dogs what it means to be angry at both ends of the mouse in the bellows.
A ray of fire finally came from the dark passage in the roe deer ditch, and Xiao Ping, the deputy general on duty, poked his head out, looked at Yelubo, and said in a low voice: "Just like the figure given by His Majesty, we have opened the vent." Although his face was covered with dust, he couldn't hide his surprise. The generals of the palace tent army who were surrounding almost breathed a sigh of relief in unison, and then let out suppressed cheers. Everyone began to take off the blade armor from the war horse, preparing to enter Shenzhou through the secret passage. The palace tent army is not only good at cavalry warfare, but also foot warfare.
"Good!" Yelubo's face was full of excitement, and he immediately ordered: "Leave five hundred horsemen to guard outside, and the others will go down immediately, break through Shenzhou, and cut off the retreat of the gold thief, just today!" After saying that, he lit the torch first, and bent down to go down the tunnel. The palace tent army dismounted one after another, and followed one after another. Outside the secret passage, tens of thousands of war horses were crowded, and the hundreds of people left behind were all from nomadic tribes, and it was not difficult to guard these horses.
Jerubh had just taken a few steps inside when he felt darkness in front of him, and only the light of the fire shone brightly on the surroundings. This was the result of nearly two years of hard labor by 5,000 slaves, who were executed near the exit of the tunnel. The scene of clinker's execution of slaves was discovered by the Han army scouts, which caused a lot of trouble. Although neither the Jin soldiers nor the Han army finally discovered the secret of this secret passage. However, the Shenzhou guard general Yelu Dilie still felt guilty, and finally died with the city. The Khitan soldiers who had previously supervised the construction of the dark passage were also killed in the First Battle of Shenzhou.