Chapter 798: Destroying the Withering and Decaying [Ask for Subscription]
The sound of the golden drum shook the heavens and the earth, the roar of the cannons, the wailing of the horses, and the screams of the people, mixed with them, and the spirit of slaughter and courage swept the entire battlefield. Everything around him seemed to be shrouded in this bloody tragedy.
After Jin Jun tasted the taste of artillery in Yanyun and tasted the helplessness of the frightened war horse, he would naturally start to adjust. They can't touch the artillery, but they can.
The Khitans have been at peace with Zhao and Song for a hundred years, but they are spying on Zhao Song's military secrets all the time, and the thunderbolts and fireballs that the latter has made have never escaped the eyes of the Khitan. Therefore, they can also configure gunpowder, but the power is smaller than that of Zhao Song.
But it is enough to train war horses.
At the beginning, the Jurchen cavalry in western Liaoning was no longer surprised by the sound of artillery, but the Jurchen cavalry that rushed in with artillery rockets and crossbows would also be knocked to the ground by scattered bullets.
More than a dozen tiger squatting cannons opened fire in unison, and the first half of the entire Jurchen cavalry group overturned almost at the same time.
In the charge, the Wanyan Living Girl, who had gradually retreated into the center of the queue, looked at the war horse that was put down in front of her, and was furious, and they fell before they could fight with the Qi army.
Arrows and crossbow artillery, the fault is not that the number of Qi troops who came ashore is limited, if all Yue Fei's troops have arrived on the other side, just a strong bow and crossbow, I am afraid that all these Jurchen cavalry will be killed.
"Sons! Forge ahead! Wang Gui roared hoarsely, waved the broadsword in his hand, and drove forward a horizontal formation of pikemen and broadsword and heavy axemen.
At this moment, if you stand on a high place and look down, you can find that on the battlefield, a mobile city wall composed of heavily armored sergeants is quickly crashing towards the Jurchen cavalry in front of them!
Bao Xu held a big iron sword and rushed to the front, without any fear of the galloping Jurchen cavalry. Leaning over to dodge a shot stabbed on the horse's back, the iron sword slashed flat, only cutting the opposite Jin Bing and the horse into four pieces.
As the blood splattered, he shrank and rolled forward, the whistling of the mace crossed his head, the iron sword slashed across the horse's hooves, and the Jurchen soldiers on horseback were gathered to the ground in the wailing of the horses, and immediately broke their necks.
Wanyan Lou led the Jin army to follow the sprinting horse army to fight behind, of course, the array was not very neat, but the morale was acceptable. Are they numerous, and they have a certain advantage in their hearts.
However, a large number of people does not mean that the combat power is strong, and fighting a war is never a matter of quantity. The number of Qi troops on the shore was close to three thousand. Even if there are no reinforcements, Wang Gui dares to compete with the 5,000 Jurchen army.
He stood under the banner of the general, armed with a broadsword, ready to fight into battle at any time. With the Liao River barrier, only bilateral transfer of troops, and it is a waste of time.
If the large number of horse troops of the Jin army were still there, and a charge would be killed, it would be really difficult for the Qi army to gain a foothold on the other side of the Liao River.
At that time, the Qi army wanted to cross the Liao River, and the only way was to either break the mouth of the Liao River by the sailors, or wait for the Lu Emperor to lead the army to the west bank of the Liao River, and use the absolute superiority of the army to launch a battle to cross the river at the same time in multiple locations.
But now that the cavalry of the Jin army has been transferred, the Qi army has at least the strength to fight. Although they were inferior in numbers, they were all heavily armoured. The wooden raft is huge, far less light and slower to make, and it is slower, only because of its large size and more weight. It can be equipped not only with small torsion ballistas, but also with a relatively large number of heavy armor.
Now their most basic task is to hold out until the next wave of river crossings arrives. Because the Qi army has sufficient stamina, with the arrival of the first Qi army, the defeat of the Jin army is inevitable. Therefore, this first wave of people is the most critical.
This is also an important reason why Yue Fei beat Wang Gui out as soon as he made a move.
But Wang Gui never thinks so. 3,000 Qi troops against 5,000 gold troops, as long as he commanded them properly, he thought that he could completely defeat them.
"Kill......"
A large number of Jurchen soldiers followed the Ma army to fight behind, and the Qi army naturally knew that the latter was a major threat, but they still had to pay attention to the Ma army led by Wanyan Huonu.
The heavily armored soldiers, like a wall, really had a strong city wall, so that the Jurchen cavalry who had been subjected to arrow fire and artillery fire broke their heads and bled out. The war horses wailed, the soldiers were miserable, and the remaining Jurchen cavalry was like moths fighting fire, turning into flying ashes under the sea of guns and knives of the Qi army. The arrows fired by the Jurchen soldiers on both wings did not pose a great threat to the Qi army, but they suffered heavy casualties under the return fire of the Qi army's bows and crossbows. But when thousands of Jurchen heavy armor soldiers were the leaders, and the golden soldiers behind them surrounded him, the bitter battle began.
At this point in the battle, the number of golden soldiers still has a slight advantage, and the Jurchen heavy armor soldiers who are at the forefront are also not bad. The armored soldiers on both sides are like two beasts that meet in a narrow way, their claws and claws see blood, although flesh and blood fly, but they will not let it go at all.
However, what the Qi army can hold is not only its own bravery, but also the standardized earth-shattering thunder.
Throwing type earth-shattering thunder, just ask if you are afraid!
A heaven-shattering thunder was in Wang Gui's hands at this moment. Compared with the same kind used to defend the city, or the kind used in the beginning, today's Earthquake Thunder has long been updated, and it is getting closer and closer to the grenade appearance of later generations.
It's just that the explosion site is much more than that of later generations. The inside is loaded with half a kilogram of medicinal powder, with a cast iron shell on the outside, and its appearance has prefabricated vertical and horizontal grooves, and the lethality is still considerable.
This kind of earthquake thunder is easier to keep than before, it is safer, more moisture-proof, and easy to carry. However, the power has decreased, the powder is less, and the cost of monomer is even higher.
The cast-iron shell on the outside of the grenade is only technical in terms of technical content, but it is higher than that of a sword.
But after Emperor Lu had enough money, materials and materials in his hands, as well as labor, he still chose to upgrade without hesitation.
The grenadier system will be extended in the future, and the earth-shaking thunder must be regularized.
With a soft sound, the feather arrow flew away like a meteor catching the moon, drilling into Gao Pinzhou's cheek, and the sharp arrow shot through the skull, drilling out from the back of the head, and brought out some pink-colored brains. Gao Pinzhou didn't even have time to scream, and he fell to the ground.
This Bohai man with a slippery personality finally fell on the battlefield. On such occasions, blindly avoiding war and cowardice cannot absolutely guarantee the safety of one's life.
In the rear of the Qi army, a small number of crossbowmen were still exerting their might, but Wang Gui held a heaven-shattering thunder in one hand and a red-hot fire hook in the other.
"Ignition ......"
Wang Gui roared, watching the fire rope leaking from the earth-shattering thunder burning with sneer, and silently counted three numbers in his heart, one, two, three, "Vote!" ”
Hundreds of earth-shattering thunderbolts crossed over the heads of the Qi army in unison and fell towards the Jurchen armor.
Such means must wait until there are enough enemies before they can be used, otherwise they will be wasted. Wang Gui's thoughts!
Wanyan Huonu saw at a glance what the black dots flying in the air were, and she couldn't even care about the war horse, rolled off the horse, and jumped behind the people desperately, and before she could run a few steps, a deafening loud noise had already come!
At the same time, a wave of qi rushed straight to his back, and the whole person seemed to be smothered by a sledgehammer, and flew out a foot or two away.
"Sure enough, it's a firearm."
The appearance of this sky-shaking thunder is very different from the sky-shaking thunder shot out by the Shicai torsion ballista, but all of them emit light smoke, which makes Wanyan Huonu subconsciously think of an explosion.
From leading the cavalry to leading the heavy infantry to charge into battle, the beautiful girl fled, but she couldn't escape this catastrophe.
After landing on the ground, he spurted out a mouthful of blood, and passed out as soon as it was dark in front of him.
"Boom, boom, boom......"
The front line of the entire Jurchen army formation seemed to have suddenly turned into a hell of fire. Almost ninety (ten that did not explode were found afterwards) earth-shattering thunderbolts exploded at the same time! The orange-red fireballs and mushroom-shaped white smoke were not clusters, but rose in groups, enveloping the heavy armor of the Jin Army in the first place.
This is by no means the first time that the Jin army has been bombed, and the ballista on the wooden pole is also firing earth-shattering thunder. It's just that this is the first time that such a dense and concentrated explosion has occurred. No matter how awesome that torsion ballista was, it was impossible for it to fire one hundred and eighty earth-shattering thunderbolts in one go, let alone let it be so concentrated.
Now the Emperor of Xia Lu has a high-quality sulfur production base in the Ryukyus, and with the saltpeter refined from guano on the islands of the South Seas, it can be said that the cost of purifying sulfur saltpeter has been greatly reduced, and the power of gunpowder has been improved, and the output of gunpowder has been increased.
Each earth-shattering thunder contained half a pound of gunpowder, the quality of gunpowder was quite good, and after the ignition exploded, the cast-iron cannon shell was blown to pieces, and the whistling monolith almost turned the first half of the Jurchen heavy armor into a brutal corpse field.
The neat and dense infantry ranks of the Jin army were blown out of large and small gaps, like a piece of cloth passing through the flames, and countless black holes were burned, and the splatters of blood stained large swaths of desolate land red. For a while, the screams of the Jurchen heavily armored infantry soldiers who were injured by the earth-shattering thunder overwhelmed the drums, horns, and shouts of killing on the entire battlefield!
Those Jurchen soldiers who were not injured by the earth-shattering thunder were also in a state of collective stupidity for a while—everyone was stunned by this sudden explosion. Obviously, the wooden flute in the water has not yet arrived, and it was really blown up suddenly?
Previously, they were blown up and fled with their heads in their hands, until Mu Yan left, and all the 3,000 Qi troops landed on the shore, they dared to charge.
Although there are many veterans among them who have been in the army for a long time, and they have all seen the power of the earth-shaking thunder, but now they are killed by a large number of people in one fell swoop, which is an unprecedented experience!
Can artillery cluster bombardment be the same as single artillery bombardment?
Many soldiers just opened their mouths half-open, their eyes did not blink, their ears were buzzing, their heads were blank, and they couldn't even hold the knives and guns in their hands.
A few generals of the Jin Army who had not been completely frightened reflexively went to see Yan Lou's room, who was still standing under the banner of the general. He was also deaf by the repeated roars, and his eyes were even darker, because he felt that as long as Han'er had such a move, the Jurchen would not only be finished in the first battle of Liaohe, but also in the future. And his son......
Wan Yan Lou's throat and eyes faintly felt a smell of rust......
"Kill, kill, forward, forward—"
Wan Yan Lou couldn't hear what he was shouting, and now he only had the word 'war' in his mind. While making people anxious to sticky drink. After the defeat of Liaoxi, there were only 10,000 men and horses left, and almost all of them were horse troops, and it was Aguda who urgently allocated him 10,000 infantry troops, which could stabilize the Liaohe. Although due to the Hua Rong Army from the south, let the sticky drink take away the main force of his horse army, there are still tens of thousands of gold troops stationed along the Liao River. Wanyan Lou's room is just part of it. So the second is that he urgently asked for help from the Pearl King Wanyan Sheyema and the Baoshan King Wanyan Xiebao on the left and right.
These two are the two sons who have not drunk.