Chapter 431: Destroying the withered and decaying
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In the dark and silent night, a little red quickly flew into the air more than ten feet high, and then exploded.
With a loud thunderbolt on a sunny day, a colorful fireball with a diameter of more than three zhang exploded in midair.
The sky is full of sparks, sprinkled like rain.
The forbidden soldiers who were sleeping soundly in the Song army camp were suddenly awakened by this loud noise, and the soldiers on duty outside couldn't help but raise their heads, looking at the dazzling fireballs in the air, and they were all stunned.
It wasn't until two or three seconds later that the thunderous sound of horses' hooves outside the camp sounded, and the soldiers on duty on the wall and in the camp reacted and exclaimed: "Enemy attack, enemy attack!" ”
The Song military camp that stretched for seven or eight miles was suddenly in chaos, with screams, shouts, neighing horses, and noisy sounds.
Outside the camp, 10,000 Liangshan iron horsemen and 6,000 Liangshan horseback riders roared like thunder, and the sound shook the sky.
"Rush, only punish Gao Yu, surrender and don't kill!"
The infantry of the Liangshan army, who had secretly climbed to the front of the trench, set up a shield array, lit torches, and countless strong bows and crossbows began to rain arrows on the wall.
Behind them, 10,000 Liangshan iron cavalry charged the Song army camp from three directions, and when they rushed to the Liangshan army foot soldiers not far behind, they hit the horse horizontally, and at the same time took out the eight bucket cavalry bows, and suddenly a bowstring trembling sound sounded intensively!
Even with the rain of arrows shot by the synchronous army, countless feather arrows rose and flew away like locusts to the wall of the Song army, and pounced into the military tent behind the wall.
Suddenly, I heard the sound of a jingling feather arrow hitting the iron armor and shooting into the wood of the wall, or the muffled sound of shooting into the human body tearing flesh and blood, and in an instant, there were countless people on the wall of the Song army who fell down screaming, and the screams and exclamations in the wall were endless!
Don't look at how much the night raid is written, but generally speaking, as long as the defenders are not so wasteful, it is the attacking side that suffers.
The vision is unclear at night, and the difficulty of command and dispatch increases exponentially; Especially for cavalrymen, who can't see what is in front of them clearly, it is easier to step headlong into a horse trap, in a trench, step on thistles, or hit a deer and reject a horse.
As long as the defenders are a well-trained and high-spirited army, they can react quickly with the help of the lighting of the campfire, continuously support the wall, and lay an arrow array behind the wall.
In this way, the wall with the bow with the bow with the arm, under the wall with the bow and heavy arrows to shoot, as long as the command is appropriate, you can use the strong bow and crossbow to shoot the enemy on the back of the horse, play a very good exchange ratio.
However, since Lin Chong dared to launch a night attack, he calculated that the more than 80,000 Song troops must not be a well-trained army; It is calculated that these Song troops are enough waste, and their morale is low, and the army has no fighting spirit!
But even if it is counted as the death of the Song army, where is the stability of things on the battlefield?
It was Lin Chong and Hu Sanniang, as well as Xiang Yuanzhen, the envoy of Langya Pengcheng Jiedu, who had just surrendered to him, to stand behind the battle formation, and at this time they were all wide-eyed, ready to deal with all kinds of emergencies at any time.
But in the end, Lin Chong and others still looked down on these Song Jun.
It had been two or three minutes since the night attack was launched, but Lin Chong, who was standing on the saddle and watching the battle, still didn't see reinforcements coming up on the wall, and the camp was still in chaos.
On the battlefield, the Liangshan army in front of the trench is still splashing with a rain of arrows, a stone and five buckets of foot bows, eight buckets of riding bows keep changing in the semicircle and the full moon, almost in the blink of an eye on the wall of the Song army wall on the dense arrow shaft jungle.
At this time, I saw that the shield array was separated, and countless Liangshan army foot soldiers began to fill in the trenches; Behind them, the cavalry who arrived in Liangshan no longer drew their bows and galloped back and forth, but carried bags of sand and soil, and with the help of the speed bonus of the war horse's charge, they passed over the heads of the foot soldiers in front of them and threw the bags into the trench far away.
Suddenly, I heard Hu Sanniang shouting excitedly: "It's going to be defeated, it's going to be defeated!" ”
Lin Chong nodded, and sure enough, he saw that after suffering several rounds of arrow rain from the Liangshan army, the Song Army archers on duty on the walled wall jumped off the walled wall and fled, giving way to the wall.
Speaking of which, don't look at how dense the arrow rain of the Liangshan army is, but the Song army is wearing armor, as long as they don't hit the vital point, they are actually hit by more than ten arrows, and even if they are shot into hedgehogs, they can continue to fight.
At the beginning, the Song soldiers on the walled wall could still use the cover of the walled wall to shoot at the Liangshan army, but the firepower of the Liangshan army was too fierce and the morale was too high.
After two or three rounds of shooting, almost half of the Song army's archers were demoralized, and they were so frightened by the rain of arrows from the Liangshan army that they just hid behind the walled wall and screamed; After the other half shot two or three more rounds, seeing that the casualties were increasing, he also hid his whole body under the wall.
The Song army was such a waste, and the Liang Shan army was naturally not polite, so he took this opportunity to fill in the trench at once, and then the foot soldiers rushed forward with a loud shout, wanting to climb over the wall and kill it.
The Liangshan cavalry was even faster, only to see countless cavalry riding horses across the trench, throwing long ropes to lassodate the protruding wooden stakes on the wall, and then beating the horses and running back, hundreds of horses worked together, neighing, almost in the blink of an eye, dragging down sections of the wall.
Seeing this, the infantry and cavalry of the Liangshan Army became more and more warlike, and countless cavalry suddenly poured in, everyone shouted and cheered, and their morale became more and more high.
At this time, the Liangshan infantry who rushed to the vicinity of the walled wall would quickly move the knocked down wall away to clear the obstacles for the cavalry behind; Or stop and form an arrow array to rain arrows on the Song army camp again to cover the cavalry camp.
"Rush, only punish Gao Yu, surrender and don't kill!"
With a roar like thunder, the Liangshan Iron Cavalry of the brigade had rushed into this military village, and there was no resistance at all as far as the eye could see, and all the Song troops either fled backwards like crazy, or knelt on the ground and begged to surrender.
These cavalry soldiers didn't care about them, they just drove all the way in, and when they met people, they asked: "Only punish Gao Yu, surrender and don't kill!" Tell me where Gao Yu is? ”
The soldiers did not dare to resist, that is, the military spirit was gone, and this night attack was won without suspense.
However, whether it is a complete victory depends on whether you can catch Gao Yu.
The night attack was never Lin Chong's goal, Lin Chong's purpose was to capture Gao Yu alive from the beginning, take him to Bianjing City, hit the morale and confidence of the defenders in the city, and force Zhao Ji to sue for peace with him.
According to Lin Chong's understanding of him and Cai You, Wang Hao, Liang Shicheng and others, Gao Yu is actually the smartest and well-behaved among these people.