The army that came from a distance was the two thousand vanguard cavalry sent by Wanyan Zongwang, led by two thousand commanders, Pu Cha and Shenguo, and because of the narrow mountain road, the two of them galloped in front and led the long procession.

These two thousand people are the elite of the Jin soldiers, but their elite is more reflected in the equipment, the horses are strong, well-equipped, everyone is wearing iron helmets and iron armor, ordinary bows and arrows can not penetrate their armor at thirty paces away, each soldier carries a shield on his back, carries a sword at his waist, holds a standard spear of the Liao State, and hangs a bow and arrow on the saddle, each soldier has superb riding skills and strong combat effectiveness.

At this time, Hua Rong smiled at Guan Sheng and said, "The first arrow will let me make a profit!" ”

Guan Sheng nodded, although his archery skills are not bad, but they are still a lot worse than Hua Rong, who is known as the second arrow in the world, second only to Li Yanqing.

Hua Rong took the dragon pattern archery bow, drew a wolf's tooth arrow from the quiver on his back, buckled the string and stretched the bow, and waited for the golden soldier to approach, at this time, the golden soldier was about eighty steps away from the farthest sandbag wall, and the distance from Hua Rong was one hundred steps.

He drew his bow like a full moon, his eyes were half squinted, and in the half-light and half-dark twilight, as soon as the bowstring was loosened, a wolf's tooth arrow shot out like lightning, and the thousand-legged rope that galloped on the edge of the mountain road was caught off guard, and was shot through the throat by an arrow, and he let out a muffled scream, turned over and fell off his horse, and rolled into the abyss on the side.

Pu Cha, another commander next to him, was taken aback, grabbed the reins sharply, and hid the side of the war horse in the third row, at this time, Hua Rong's second wolf tooth arrow came, and an arrow hit the horse's eye, and the war horse neighed miserably, and jumped off the cliff like a madman, and the cavalry immediately let out a long scream.

The sudden change only happened in an instant, the other cavalry reined in their horses, raised their shields, and the commander Pucha had already retreated to the middle of the group, he grabbed the guide and asked sharply, "Where is this?" ”

Someone translated, and the guide trembled and said: "The front is Niangzi Pass, which is already very dilapidated, and it is not even closed!" ”

Hearing that there was a pass ahead, Pu Cha took a closer look, only to find that in the twilight, a pass was faintly visible in front, and it turned out that there were ambushes in front.

Everyone looked at Pucha one after another, of course Pucha could not withdraw his troops back, he was the vanguard, opening roads in the mountains, building bridges in the water, and pulling out the enemy's outposts, these were all tasks that he had to complete.

From a distance, this gate city does not look big, and it can only accommodate more than 100 people at most, indicating that the number of Song troops will not be very large, and they must be soldiers who came to Jingcheng to patrol the sentry, or township soldiers in the county town in front.

He immediately shouted: "The first team rushes through the pass!" ”

A centurion shouted, "Follow me!" ”

He took the lead, leading a hundred cavalry with shields in hand to rush towards the Niangzi Pass on the slope, the Jurchens' riding skills were extremely skillful, although they were galloping in the narrow mountain road, they were not messy, like a sharp spear straight to the city gate, but when there were still thirty steps from the first sandbag wall, the three war horses in front of them rolled violently and fell to the ground, and even the people and horses rushed down the cliff, which was the thistle thorn that the war horse stepped on the ground.

At the same time, the fifty scouts on the Niangzi Pass fired the Divine Arm Crossbow, a row of fifty arrows shot out intensively, like a storm and rain towards the oncoming cavalry, even the shield could not block the powerful crossbow arrows within a hundred steps, the cavalry fell from the horse with arrows, some fell on the mountain road, some fell into the cliff, screamed, and instantly shot more than a dozen cavalrymen in front, even the centurion was shot through the chest by an arrow, and died tragically on the spot.

And hiding in the top of the cliff above the village soldiers also have arrows, but they do not shoot people, but shoot horses, these soldiers are basically the hunters of Taihang Mountain, the arrow is accurate, the war horse continues to be hit by the arrow, began to be confused, in the negative pain of the collision, many war horses fell off the cliff of Baizhang, a hundred cavalry soon lost more than half.

In the confusion, the cavalry continued to gallop forward, and the horses continued to fall down from the thistles, and at this time, the second round of crossbow arrows came again like a torrential rain, and more than two dozen cavalrymen were hit by the arrows and fell off their horses, and the remaining cavalry had rushed to the first mud bag wall.

The mud bag wall is about five feet high, if it is flat ground, the cavalry can lift the war horse and jump over, but this is a slope of about 20 degrees, the war horse can not jump over, the cavalry had to turn around and run back to the team, originally a hundred people attacked, when they retreated, only a dozen people remained, and most of the cavalry fell into the cliff and died.

After listening to the cavalry's report, the commander Pu Cha frowned, there were thistles on the ground, and there were roadblocks, obviously relying on the cavalry could not rush to the bottom of the city, and had to dismount and fight.

Pu Cha knew how to deal with the thistle thorns on the mountain road, he ordered people to cut down dozens of thick branches full of branches and leaves, and then the soldiers raised their shields to protect them, five hundred soldiers squatted on the ground and walked forward, and a dozen soldiers used the branches as big brooms in front, swept the mountain road left and right, and swept the tribulus thorns down the cliff, or into the ravines next to the cliff.

This was indeed a good solution, the thistle thorns on the stone mountain path were easily swept away, but the golden soldiers also paid the price, and the soldiers who were sweeping the ground were constantly killed by arrows, and when they swept the first obstacle, fifteen sweeping soldiers were shot and fourteen were killed.

Just as the Jin soldiers were crouching forward, stones kept rolling down from their heads, and even with shields to resist, many soldiers were still injured.

At this time, ten Song army scouts rushed to the cliff and mixed with the villagers, they were just above the heads of five hundred soldiers, ten soldiers took out the iron fire thunder, and lit the lead with a fire fold, the lead sneered and smoked, and when it burned to the mouth of the wooden handle, ten iron fire thunders were thrown down, "Everyone lie down!" The soldiers shouted, and the soldiers on the cliff threw themselves on the ground.

I only heard a series of explosions at the foot of the mountain, and the iron fire and thunder exploded in the dense crowd, the flames burst out, the smoke rose into the air, the iron pieces flew horizontally, and the quenched iron nails scattered and splashed in all directions, and suddenly a large number of enemy troops fell.

Guan Sheng was overjoyed, "This little hammer is good, give me one too!" ”

A soldier pulled out an iron fire thunderbolt from his back and handed it to him, Guan Sheng followed their example and unscrewed the wooden lid at the bottom end, and lit the fuse with a fire fold, and the soldier nervously told him, "When it burns to the mouth of the wooden handle, you must throw it out!" ”

Guan Sheng nodded, and when the lead burned to the mouth of the wooden handle, he struggled to throw the iron fire thunder towards the mountain road, only for a moment, 'Boom! With a loud bang, the iron fire and thunder exploded, and more than a dozen golden soldiers fell in response.

The rest of the Jin soldiers fled backwards again, discarding the corpses on the mountain road, except for two of the eleven iron fire mines that fell into the cliff, the remaining nine iron fire mines all exploded in the dense crowd, causing more than 200 casualties among the Jin soldiers, and what is even worse is that most of the more than 100 injured soldiers were hit by highly poisonous iron nails, and they would soon be poisoned and unable to support them.

The Jin soldiers stopped attacking for the time being, they were not afraid of arrows and stones, but the powerful firearms were too lethal on the mountain road, and they were a little helpless.

At this time, a centurion whispered to Pucha: "We can walk with our shields close to the stone wall, and the stones and arrows above our heads will not hurt us, and even if the firearms are thrown, we can crouch down and use the shield to resist in time, so that the casualties will be much less." ”

Pu Cha nodded, this method is very good, he immediately sent another three hundred people according to the centurion's plan, against the rock wall of the mountain slowly, because there are huge boulders protruding overhead, so that the arrows and stones above their heads can not hurt them, their biggest threat is still iron fire thunder and divine arm crossbow.

Ten more iron fire thunder were thrown from the top of their heads, the golden soldiers were so frightened that they raised their shields and squatted down, in a violent explosion, the killing effect of the iron fire thunder was indeed greatly reduced, the iron pieces and iron nails flew in all directions, only a very small number of them shot at the golden soldiers in the corner, and most of them were blocked by the shield, only more than 20 people were shocked to death by the shock wave, or were injured by the iron nails shot through the shield, and the number of casualties was significantly reduced.

In just a moment, the soldiers rushed to the first mud bag wall, and dozens of golden soldiers worked together, they directly dragged the mud bags and threw them off the cliff, and in a very short time, the seven-foot-long and three-foot-wide mud bag wall was cleared.

The golden soldiers concocted the same method, and hundreds of golden soldiers began to cling to the mountain wall and marched towards the second mud bag wall, although the crossbow arrows continued to shoot the enemy soldiers walking against the wall, but a round of crossbow arrows could only shoot seven or eight people, and the killing effect was far less than the initial frontal shooting.

Shoot the man first and shoot the horse first, capture the thief and capture the king first, Yan Qing finally decided to retreat from the enemy by surprise.