Chapter 1640: Armageddon
The trumpets sounded and the drums of war shook the sky. The attack of the Jurchen army was launched.
In the past, the Jurchen army attacked in the form of pure cavalry charges. But this time was different from the past, more than 100,000 infantry took the lead, which was unheard of in the combat history of the Jurchen army. On the one hand, this is a battle adjustment made by Wanyan Aguda in response to the way the other party built a camp and refused to defend it. From a certain point of view, infantry has an advantage over cavalry in positional combat. They were more destructive to the fortifications.
Of course, on the other hand, it is also because Wanyan Agu has not all cavalry on hand. After a series of defeats, the cavalry under Wanyan Agu suffered great losses, and the replenished manpower was close to exhaustion, and the tens of thousands of people replenished in the army were already young men and old men who had not yet reached adulthood. There was no supply of horses for the young and strong manpower captured from the Great Zhou, and even if there were horses, it was impossible for ordinary people to become cavalrymen who could fight on horseback in a short period of time. Therefore, Wanyan Agu simply changed some of the soldiers and horses into the city infantry, and incorporated the captured Da Zhou Qingzhuang manpower into it to form an infantry cannon fodder death squad of nearly 100,000 people. Wanyan Aguda's intention is obvious, just like when he attacked the north gate of Bianliang City, first use cannon fodder to consume the opponent's firepower and energy, and it is best to cause a breakthrough, and then the cavalry can drive straight in, conquer the opponent's camp, and trample on it.
Most of these attacking infantry didn't even have armor, and Wanyan Agu didn't have that much armor for them. But Wanyan Aguda equipped each of them with a shield and weapons. Although the so-called shields are just woven of rattan or patchwork of wood, Wanyan Aguda only needs these shields to be able to block the opponent's arrows, and maybe also resist the bombardment of the opponent's rockets. He didn't expect these infantry to really attack the camp with such means, he just needed them to wear down the opponent, wear them down, and create opportunities. It can even be said that Wanyan Aguda wants to use the lives of these people in exchange for the consumption of the opponent's firearms, bows and arrows.
The phalanx of 100,000 infantry formed a 100,000-strong troop was really grand, and with the sound of drums and horns, the 40,000 infantry of the four phalanxes in front arrived 200 steps away from the camp wall. As soon as the flags in the formation changed, the drums became dense and chaotic. In an instant, four teams of 10,000 people let out an earth-shattering cry and began to charge, and the formation also changed from a phalanx to a straggler formation. Forty thousand people spread over the ground like sheep on the grassland, running towards the camp walls in the northeast and east.
When everyone in the Luoyan Army saw this posture, they breathed a sigh of relief. Originally, the opponent approached in a dense formation of a phalanx, and everyone was puzzled. Wouldn't this dense phalanx formation attack become a living target for a swarm of bazookas and small melons? The other party knows that his firearms are fierce, and he still wants to attack in a phalanx, which is either a bad brain or another conspiracy. It's unlikely that the brain is broken, then there are other means and conspiracies. So everyone was wondering what kind of new offensive they were doing this. As a result, everything was just an illusion, and the phalanx may have been just the way they marched, and had nothing to do with the means of attack.
The shouting and charging infantry approached quickly, and more than half of the 40,000 infantry were men dressed only in ordinary clothes. They are all young and strong people of the Great Zhou Dynasty who were captured by Wanyan Agu. Of course, they are going to be the first wave of cannon fodder. Of course they didn't want to, but the knives of the Jurchens and Liao infantry behind them were behind their backs, and they had already received orders, and these people dared to turn back, so they were killed on the spot. Therefore, these people can only rush forward with their heads shut.
The last time such a situation was encountered was when Xingren Mansion was fighting against the Qingjiao, and the Qingjiao disciples bewitched the old man and the young people to take the lead and attack the city wall of Xingren Mansion. At that time, Lin Jue had already told others with his actions that he would never be merciful on the battlefield because the other party was a common man of the Great Zhou. It's the same this time. If you don't shoot them, you'll pose a huge threat to the camp, allowing the opposing infantry to easily rush under the camp walls. Instead, it is necessary to force these civilians to retreat with strong firepower, which will cause counter-damage to the opponent's offensive formation and morale.
The order flag waved, and the Great Zhou Luoyan Army launched an attack. When the opponent entered the range of the bow and arrow, on the camp wall and the high platform of the arrow tower, the archers who had been waiting for a long time bent their bows and arrows, and fired thousands of arrows at once. The black rain of arrows was like a rapidly moving dark cloud, rising from the camp, drawing a low arc to envelop the charging formation of the opposing infantry. The dense arrows obscured the daylight, and a fast-moving shadow on the ground reached the attacking infantry at great speed, and ten thousand arrows were in the air, and a ferocious blow was already coming.
Feathered arrows as dense as a storm were shot at the wooden and rattan shields, and the tuk-tuk-tuk-tuk-to The shields worked, and each shield had a few arrows stuck in it, which means that they were protective. But that only helped. The shoddy shield is comparable to a disposable product, and after a few arrows, it is already useless. Some of them burst straight into wood chips and shattered into sawdust, leaving only one handle in the soldier's hand. In particular, the vine shield is even more funny. Wanyan Agu didn't know who to say, saying that the rattan shield could resist the opponent's firearms, because the vines were elastic, so he deliberately found someone to go to the mountains to collect a lot of vines and weave a rattan shield like a big futon. It's not a small area in the hand, it seems to be able to completely cover the upper body, and it's very lightweight. But now it's in its original form. There were also many arrows stuck in those rattan shields, and unlike the wooden shields, the arrows stuck in the rattan shields were shorter. Because the other one has been nailed into the human body through the rattan shield. The so-called rattan shield, which is too poorly protected, finally proved to be a joke.
A rain of arrows cleared a large area of the opposing infantry. Seven or eight hundred people were killed and wounded on both sides. When the first round of arrows rained down, the second round of arrows was already being launched. Dark clouds once again loomed overhead, like the shadow of death, which was creepy.
By the time the four 10,000-strong teams rushed to a distance of fifty paces, 40,000 had already been killed or wounded, five or six thousand had been wounded, and the formation was also disorganized. The people who had been taken captive and forced into battle began to flee. Even with a cutlass against their backs, they couldn't stop them from fleeing. The direction of their escape was to escape from the outside of the battlefield, and thousands of people managed to escape from the battlefield, running away in the wilderness without their lives. However, Wanyan Aguda had obviously been prepared for a long time, if these people were allowed to escape, how would they attack in the future? The two warlord cavalry that had been prepared galloped out from both sides, shooting arrows on horseback and chasing the fleeing people. Thousands of civilians were almost shot dead, and only a few escaped.
Lin Jue stood on the command platform and saw this scene, and he was very sorry and helpless in his heart. I can't save them by myself, this is the sorrow of the troubled people. An ordinary person can't control his own fate, he has a heart, but he is powerless. On the battlefield, he must be responsible for the battle situation and must think about the overall situation. He knew that in today's battle, in the future, someone would accuse him of shooting the people of the Great Zhou, and would use these things to hack himself, saying that his words about working for the well-being of the people of the Great Zhou were empty words and lies. But Lin Jue knew in his heart that what he wanted to protect was the interests of the vast majority of people and the overall situation of the world. Therefore, sacrificing some people and preserving the vast majority of people is, to a certain extent, an extremely correct choice.
"A speck of dust of the times is a mountain when it falls on everyone."
Lin Jue remembered the hypocritical and incendiary words written by a well-known writer in later generations during a disaster. Although he was extremely disdainful and even contemptuous of this well-known writer, the sentence itself was most appropriate for these dead people.
The first wave of the attack had apparently suffered a serious setback, and the remaining 20,000 men and horses were already within range of the melon grenade. In front, there are more defensive means such as trenches and stabbing horses. And a swarm of bazookas of the Falling Goose Army has not yet been launched. Obviously, 20,000 men were no longer enough to attack under the wall. But all this was expected by Yan Agu a long time ago, and he didn't expect a wave of attacks to work. He was just a little annoyed, the other party obviously didn't use all his strength, which went against his original intention of consuming the opponent, and he had to increase the pressure.
The flag waved, and the second wave of three 10,000 teams began to shout and charge, and these 30,000 people were the weight to force the Luoyan army to make a move. Because the opponent's attention was all focused on the first echelon of infantry, the second wave of the attack of the three 10,000-strong troops was much smoother, and the damage suffered when they came within a hundred paces was much smaller. If the other side wants to hold on again, these 30,000 infantry will rush under the camp wall with the first echelon infantry and launch a direct attack on the camp wall.
Sure enough, the Falling Goose Army did not allow such a situation to happen. Lin Jue instructed Liang Qi to launch. Liang Qi had been waiting for this moment for a long time, and immediately ordered it. Thirty swarms of bazooka launchers began to ignite and launch. For a while, the fireworks were rushing, and the flames were soaring into the sky. The ferocity of a swarm of bazooka is really soul-stirring. Nearly 2,000 rockets per round are fan-shaped and tilted. Scattered on the ground a hundred paces away, the exploding arrowheads sparked in the smoke and dust, turning the rocket-shrouded position into a sea of hellfire. Although a swarm of thirty gates cannot completely cover the area of the length and width of the two walls, the blow to the other party is enough.
After firing three rounds in a swarm, the formation of the 30,000 follow-up Jurchen infantry collapsed, and instead of charging forward, they had to retreat with their heads in their hands, out of the range of the swarm of bazookas. Once again, the infantry armed with wooden and rattan shields proved that these things were useless except to turn into ignitions.