Chapter 46: Armageddon (7)

The situation suddenly changed, and the situation seemed to become dangerous and dangerous in an instant.

At this moment, almost the entire Jurchen army went into battle and used almost all the strength at hand. Before the war, the Jurchen army had as many as 270,000 troops, including 160,000 cavalry and 110,000 infantry. In addition to 10,000 infantry mixed soldiers and horses left in Puyang City to guard the materials, grain and grass, the rest of the soldiers and horses in this battle all went to the battlefield.

Even in the past few hours of fighting, most of the infantry was reduced to cannon fodder, and the cavalry suffered more than 30,000 casualties. But even so, the total number of Jurchen cavalry on the battlefield now exceeds 120,000, and more than 20,000 infantry are still alive.

On the other hand, the Luoyan Army, the total number of soldiers and horses in its horse infantry army before the war was only 120,000, and at the moment there were tens of thousands of casualties, and in fact there were only 110,000 combatable manpower. This also includes a swarm of bazooka operators and melon throwers that are not frontal combat. Even among these 110,000 people, only 40,000 of the 50,000 cavalry are fighting in the camp at the moment, and 10,000 cavalry followed Lin Hu out of the camp last night, and they don't know where they went.

Under the circumstance that the camp gate was broken through and all the four camp walls were attacked, the Luoyan army seemed to have fallen into an absolute disadvantage, and it seemed that it could no longer resist this last. Attacked.

Lin Jue was still standing on the command platform, with an overview of the situation around the camp. Although his expression was extremely grim, he didn't want to be as flustered as some of the guards and generals around him. In fact, the situation in front of him was not unexpected by Lin Jue, but all this came faster and more violently.

The ambush soldiers on both sides of the southwest, Lin Jue, had already expected it, and the encirclement attack on all sides had long been the offensive method of Wanyan Aguda that Lin Jue had guessed. On the camp walls on both sides of the southwest, Lin Jue left soldiers and horses to defend. Although the number of defenders was small, only 5,000 men each, the horses and trenches on the southwest side were the main means of defense, and it was not easy for the opponent to break through the camp gate and attack in. Therefore, Lin Jue was not surprised or panicked by the ambush attack in the southwest.

However, the frontal situation on both sides of the northeast made Lin Jue realize that Wanyan Aguda's determination to win this battle was so strong. The casualties of the Jurchen horse infantry army under the three powerful blows arranged by themselves have far exceeded the limit of ordinary soldiers and horses. The deaths and injuries of more than 100,000 horse infantry soldiers are a result that no one can bear. One possibility that Lin Jue originally predicted was that when the casualties reached a level that Wanyan Agu could not bear, he would choose to give up withdrawing his troops, and he should not want to bury all his soldiers and horses here and die with himself.

However, the fact is that instead of being injured due to the loss of a large number of soldiers and horses, Wanyan Aguda launched a full-scale attack in a desperate manner, which shows that he only cares about today's victory and does not care about any consequences. A desperate person is terrible, because there is no burden that can bind him, and the goal is pure, and the act is more decisive and ferocious. Wanyan Aguda has obviously entered this state.

Of course, Lin Jue was also psychologically ready to meet the other party's death. The only thing he didn't expect was that he did not resolutely emphasize the point of defending the camp wall, which led to a mistake in the command of Ma Bin, Liang Qi and others at the scene, and they were involved by the second wave of cavalry of the other side, resulting in the inability to effectively strike at the third wave of soldiers and horses of the Jurchen cavalry. Now that the swarm of bazooka rockets had run out, the grenade throwers were drawn to the left side of the camp gate, and the archers could not stop the large number of Jurchen cavalry from rushing under the camp wall.

Fortunately, the battle in the camp is still under control, and the number of soldiers and horses rushing in from the two camp gates is still small, and the casualties caused by the throwers, shotgun firearms and crossbows gathered near the camp gate are still huge. Fifty paces outside the camp gate

The dense Jurchen cavalry in the range were all live targets, and they were almost killed by hundreds of bombardments, and the scene was tragic.

But Lin Jue knew in his heart that there was not much time left for him. The third wave of cavalry will soon be outside the camp wall, and they will soon realize that attacking from the congested camp gate is too costly, and they should make a fuss about the camp wall. With the remaining infantry, they should take advantage of the emptiness of the defensive force of the camp wall to occupy the camp wall, and at that point the defensive forces near the camp gate will have to be withdrawn. At that point, the whole camp can be called broken.

"Herald!" Lin Jue said in a deep voice.

More than a dozen guards beside him, who were anxiously watching the battlefield, hurriedly agreed in unison when they heard the words. They were worried because of the silence of the commander. The big marshal finally spoke.

"Immediately send an order to Nguyen Binh and tell him to set up the inner camp as quickly as possible according to what I told him before. He only had half an hour, or...... The time of a stick of incense. Lin Jue shouted in a deep voice.

The guards were stunned, they didn't understand what Lin Dashuai meant, build an inner camp at this time? How to build? Is it too late? Isn't that a joke?

Lin Jue frowned and shouted, "Don't go yet?" ”

"Yes!" A personal guard hurriedly rushed off the command platform and gave the order.

Lin Jue flicked his cloak, took out the two Wang Ba boxes on his waist and strode down the command platform, and the guards beside him all understood that the marshal was going to participate in the battle in person, so he hurriedly followed, and someone immediately went to report to Sun Dayong and asked him to lead the personal guard battalion to come to protect.

Lin Jue walked a few steps and was about to get on the horse, when someone behind him shouted, "Husband, I'm here." ”

Lin Jue turned his head to look, and indeed Bai Bing rode his horse and galloped over. Lin Jue hurriedly turned around and said, "Why are you here?" Why don't you accompany Mingyue in the big tent? ”

Bai Bing said: "I heard that the battle is fierce, Sister Mingyue wants me to come to protect you, she already has someone to take care of her." Are you going to kill the enemy? I came at the right time. ”

Lin Jue nodded, and said in a deep voice: "It's okay, come with me to rush and kill, and go beyond a few Jurchens." ”

Lin Jue turned over his horse, urged the horses, and galloped towards the battlefield in the camp where the camp was fighting at the gate outside Li Xu.

The third wave of Jurchen cavalry paid less than a thousand casualties before rushing under the camp wall. But the camp gate was heavily congested, and the second wave of cavalry had not yet fully rushed into the camp. The battle at the camp gate was also extremely fierce. The opponent's grenades continued to explode in the crowd, and the crossbows and shotgun firearms fired at the dense cavalry, and the Jurchen cavalry continued to fall. The entire area outside the camp gate was a hell on earth, with countless corpses of men and horses piled up, blood gushing and even flowing into streams along the trenches on both sides.

Faced with this situation, several Jurchen generals who led the third wave of Jurchen cavalry to attack naturally understood that they could not join in the fun, but the other party's camp wall was standing, and it was not good to stay outside the camp wall and do nothing. The infantry were throwing their hooks upwards, hooking the camp wall and climbing up. The opposing defenders were stubbornly defending the camp wall, constantly slashing and slashing the infantry who tried to climb up. The cavalrymen could not dismount and could only be suppressed by shooting arrows at the camp wall with bows and arrows. Although he shot and killed many soldiers of the opposing side, and also made the infantry rush to the camp wall several times, they were all cut down by the Luoyan army on the camp wall. It was never possible to storm the camp wall.

Several cavalry generals screamed anxiously, but there was nothing they could do. Suddenly, a Jurchen cavalry lieutenant pointed to the camp wall and quickly muttered a local language, and the rest of the generals cheered and shouted. The next moment they moved quickly, a large number of bows and arrows suppressed the defenders above a camp wall, and then gathered hundreds of infantry under this camp wall, using long ropes to connect hooks and cables, and then marched towards the camp in unison

The other side of the wall was thrown over.

The height of the camp wall is about zhang, and the width is only zhang, and the hook is thrown directly after being thrown hard; Fell on the inside of the camp wall. When the rope was tightened, the hooks of hundreds of hooks firmly hooked the head of the inner wall of the camp wall. Immediately afterwards, the Jurchens made an incredible move, and hundreds of war horses turned their horses' heads, tied their hips to ropes, and began to pull in unison.

The Jurchen lieutenant came up with this way of destroying the wall, because he saw that the hooks of his infantry often slipped from the top of the camp wall, hooking up large patches of dirt. He realized that the camp wall was not actually strong, but was made of mud and clods, and there was no reinforcement measure. So he came up with such a solution in a flash of inspiration, so he informed several generals who led the army. Those generals were suffering from no progress, and when they heard the words, they immediately adopted them, even if they got such a place.

Hundreds of war horses were pulled at the same time, and the strength was amazing. There was a boom, and the hook claw violently pulled down the dirt at the top of the camp wall by a foot. A ravine was pulled out of the top of the camp wall. Although the camp walls were not pulled down all at once, it has been proven to work. So the Jurchen cavalry quickly threw their hooks and claws from their original positions again, this time with dozens of hooks and dozens of horses, and this time the camp wall was pulled down two feet. It is already obvious that a deep groove with a width of more than ten zhang has appeared in the part of the camp wall.

After four tugging, the camp wall finally collapsed with a loud bang. After the dust flew, in the smoke and dust, a huge gap appeared in the camp wall more than ten zhang wide, and only the foundation of the wall less than two feet high was left below. The two-foot-high wall base was no longer an obstacle, and the war horse could leap over it.

Amid the loud cheers of the Jurchen cavalry, the two camp walls in the northeast were pulled down and five gaps were opened. Although the defenders on the camp wall tried their best to stop it, they had no choice but to lack firepower and could only watch the other side destroy the camp wall. In the gap, countless Jurchen cavalry poured into the camp like a tide. The camp of the Falling Goose Army was finally broken.

In the rear, Wanyan Agu witnessed this scene and laughed. Waving his one-armed, he shouted loudly: "Lin Jue, Lin Jue, I know how powerful my Jurchen army is." You brought it all upon yourself. Lao Tzu wants to kill all your Luoyan army and break your corpse into thousands of pieces, so as to relieve the hatred in my heart. ”

The people around him congratulated Wanyan Agu Avenue one after another, and the other party's camp was broken. Basically, the war can be declared victorious. No one could compete head-on with the Jurchen cavalry.

Just when Wanyan Agu and everyone were celebrating happily, dozens of horsemen galloped from the direction of Puyang City, and they were the soldiers and horses who stayed in Puyang.

"Reporting to the big leader, a Luoyan army of soldiers and horses attacked Puyang City from the north city. General Tieermu is fighting with them, but they are 10,000 cavalry soldiers and horses, and General Tieermu is worried that if he is defeated, our grain and grass materials will be occupied and burned by them, so he specially ordered me to come to report and ask the big leader to return to help quickly. The leading general hurriedly reported.

"What?" The crowd was amazed. When did the Luoyan Army actually divide its troops to attack Puyang City? All the food and grass were in the city, and there were 10,000 infantry guarding it. But when the opposing cavalry attacked the city, I am afraid that it will be difficult to defeat the opponent. Grain and grass are fateful. Roots, without these, what will the army eat? What do war horses eat?

"Great Chief, it seems that we have to return the help, otherwise ......," one of the generals whispered.

"Joke, at this time to withdraw the army and return to help? Isn't that a big joke? Lin Jue did it deliberately, knowing that he was invincible, he sent troops to attack Puyang, the purpose was to force me to come back. Hehe, I'm not fooled. Even if the food and supplies are gone, don't think about me withdrawing my troops at this moment. Don't worry about them, in front of the order, there are those who kill Lin Jue's head, reward 10,000 households, 10,000 taels of gold and silver, and 10 beauties. Wanyan Agu interrupted loudly.