Chapter 432: Calm
In the two ** stormy firepower strikes, Wan Yan Zonggan, who rushed in front of the team, was very lucky to only suffer a lead bullet, this 15 mm warhead flew off his right wrist, Wan Yan Zonggan fell off the horse, and several loyal guards jumped off the horse and climbed on him without dying, and used their bodies to help him buffer the trampling of the cavalry from behind.
Six guards died as a result, Wanyan Zonggan himself picked up a life, he was severely injured and passed out, and the remaining guards put him on his horse and directly turned around and evacuated the battlefield.
The guns of the Qi army roared, and the white smoke filled in front of the breastwork, as if a heavy fog had fallen from the breastwork, blocking everything in front of him and making it difficult to see clearly.
The horses scurried around in the fog, the smell of blood and the pungent smell of burning gunpowder irritated these sensitive creatures, and they neighed and jumped in the rain of bullets, and even the riders were powerless to calm their emotions, but they could not find the right direction.
The horses were timid, and the Jin cavalry, who had lost their speed, had lost the opportunity to directly step on their horses, and the panicked Jurchens were scurrying around like flies in the smoke of gunpowder in front of the breastwork, and the Qi soldiers could not see the opponent's figure clearly, but they knew that the chest wall was full of enemies, and as long as they shot outside the wall step by step under the command of the officer, they could always hear the enemy's screams.
Some of the Jin soldiers jumped off their horses and attacked the breastwork on foot, their choice was not incorrect, but in the deadly chaos, no one could organize a large-scale offensive, and the occasional armor soldier who appeared in front of the Qi soldiers would be quickly stabbed with several bayonets.
The Jin army's main formation, Wanyan Zongwang and Wanyan Zongbi couldn't see what was going on on the front line, but both of them were experienced in a hundred battles, and they could analyze from the dense and uninterrupted gunfire that Wanyan Zonggan's strong charge did not work at all - otherwise, the two armies should be fighting for knives now.
At least the cannon shouldn't have been so cheerful.
But the two were worried that Yan Zonggan would be able to form a breakthrough in the next moment, and now the collection of troops would affect his command, so they could only wait anxiously.
Wanyan Zongwang sent some sentry cavalry to try to get in touch with Zong Gan, but after drilling into the smoke, the sentry cavalry rarely sent back news, and even if they came back, they only said that they were still fighting in front, and they couldn't tell what the battle was like - because they couldn't see anything at all.
It wasn't until two quarters of an hour later, when Wanyan Zonggan's personal guards fled back in embarrassment with the unconscious Bo Jilie, that Zong Wang and Zong Bi were convinced that they had now even become a luxury hope to break through a low wall guarded by the Qi army.
The two princes had no choice but to order Ming Jin to withdraw his troops, and the Jin army, who was suffering from guns and cannons, fled in the direction where Jin Sheng came from, but some people could not distinguish the direction, and headless flies appeared in front of the Qi army and were easily shot.
The Qi army was still shooting step by step, and the cavalry of the Jin army were scattered and fleeing on the ground like ants that had been flooded with boiling water, and Wanyan Zongbi keenly found that many of the withdrawn armor soldiers were even shedding tears, and they didn't know whether they were smoked or cried by the enemy.
In any case, these people are the pillars of the existence of the Jin Kingdom, even if they are frightened, Wanyan Zongbi can't kill these cowards to get angry - after all, there are not even 40,000 real Jurchen armor soldiers now.
Wanyan Zongwang and Wanyan Zongbi sent small teams of cavalry to scatter to contain the rout, and tried every effort to preserve their strength, but even so, they only recovered more than 3,000 people.
In just an hour, half of the 6,000 armored soldiers who charged were lost!
Coach Wan Yan Zonggan was seriously injured and fell into a coma, and the three sons who followed him to participate in the battle, Wan Yan Chong and Wan Yan Yan were confirmed to be no longer in the formation, and only Wan Yan Liang survived.
Really folded the old book in.
After another quarter of an hour, the sound of the Qi army's guns gradually subsided, and it was estimated that the Jin army had retreated.
However, Wanyan Zongwang didn't hear the cheers, and they didn't know if the Qi army thought that the battle was not over, or because the other side didn't think that this victory was worth cheering.
Wanyan Zongwang and Wanyan Zongbi's handsome army lined up 2 miles north of Gaizhou City, neither attacking nor leaving, they still did not give up, counting on recovering more routs.
Time passed gradually, the battlefield 2 miles away had completely calmed down, a gust of wind blew, and even the thick smoke dispersed a lot, Wanyan Zongwang, Wanyan Zongbi looked at it with extreme eyes, but only saw countless corpses of people and horses covering the ground.
It was nearly dusk, and the setting sun cast an almost red glow on the corpse of the soldier, presenting a deadly poignant.
The iron-clad melee soldiers of the Qi army walked through the pile of corpses without others, and from time to time they swung their knives to cut off the heads of the Jurchens, and then grabbed the pigtails and threw them into the bamboo baskets beside them.
There were also some auxiliaries dressed in cloth clothes, carefully collecting the Jin army's blades and armor, belongings, and even rags—these things were worthless, but at least they could be used to make earthen bags or sell to the Koreans.
All the Qi soldiers focused on their work, and the tens of thousands of Jin soldiers two miles away were nothing, just concentrating on cutting off the heads one by one, or picking up the essence of the Jin soldiers.
After watching this scene, Yan Zongbi was angry, he waved his knife several times and pointed at the enemy, but he couldn't shout the order to charge, Wan Yan Zongbi grabbed his reins by his side, and several personal soldiers also looked at him with frightened eyes, for fear that the commander would not be able to figure out how to send someone to fill the bottomless pit of artillery array.
"That's enough, let's go." Wanyan Zongbi whispered: "Don't be impulsive, we can't afford to die so many people!" Let's go back to Liaoyang! If the Han dog dares to come out, we don't need to be afraid of him in the field! ”
Wanyan Zongbi was just looking for a reason to persuade him, now Dajin is so weak, even if he fights in the wilderness, he may not be able to suppress the menacing Qi army.
However, Wanyan Zongwang also knew that he really couldn't fight anymore now, this attack was originally a face-saving charge, and the three brothers had the idea of retreating immediately after breaking the breastwork, but now they can't even break the breastwork, and they can't get a good result if they fill in some lives.
Forget it, forget it.......
"Retreat!"
Wanyan Zongwang gritted his teeth and roared in a low voice:
"Withdraw! Withdraw! ”
"Back to Liaoyang, let's find another chance!"
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Xu Shiyang set up a Taishi chair on the north gate of Gaizhou City, and a small table, on which a few side dishes and newly produced apple juice from Qi Province were placed, and he enjoyed himself leisurely.
In the entire battle just now, he did not issue a single order, and purely let Li Jinghuai, the commander of the Dingyuan Brigade, command the battle on his own.
He treated the menacing attack of the cavalry of the 6,000 Golden Army as a harmless movie of ancient war.
Whether Xu Shiyang was pretending or not, he really didn't take Jin Jun seriously, and his calm performance did make the soldiers of the Dingyuan Brigade more confident in victory.
As expected, this battle was also an easy victory for the Qi army, and even the losses were very small.