Chapter 16: Cleansing (I)

"Yan Jiqian and Tian Dingke will go to the left flank with me, and the others, listen to the orders of Lord Na Na and prepare to attack forward! The true God is watching us in Heaven, looking at his warriors! At the critical moment, it was the Great Elder Pu Shiren who stood up and made a hoarse voice to adjust the deployment for Na Wuna.

You can't turn around and flee, and if you do, the whole army will definitely collapse. And rushing forward, if you can defeat Chen Youding, maybe you still have a chance to survive. After all, compared with the Huai'an Army, the combat effectiveness of the Chen Jiajun should be weaker, and they have just changed their court, and their morale cannot be too high.

"Kill Chen Youding! Kill Chen Youding! God is watching us! Hearing the desperate cry of the Great Elder Pu Shiren, Na Wuna also forced himself to calm down and waved his sword and shouted.

"Kill Chen Youding, kill Chen Youding!" In the ranks, generals at all levels echoed the chaos one after another. Chen Youding was newly surrendered to the Huai'an Army, and he may not be able to cooperate closely with other Huai'an Army units. The Chen family has deep roots in Fujian Province, and the Zhu butcher may not be unhappy to see him and the Pu family fight to lose. What's more important is that from the very beginning to the present, the front, left, and right sides, only blocking the Chen family's team in front of them, keep coming out of people shouting horses. Although the Huai'an army on the left and right sides was also adjusting its formation and shortening the distance between it and the Pujia army, from beginning to end, there was no noise.

They seem to be tens of thousands of clay puppets or puppets made of wood, and their movements are neat and uniform, swift and silent. They don't seem to make any extra noises other than the sound of trumpets and horses' hooves. Just move forward silently, approach silently, and greet victory or death in silence. But the more this happens, the more pressure they put on the Pu family. It is like the waves of the sea at high tide, wave after wave, rushing forward, weighing down the true God's believers' legs trembling and their bodies swinging like willow leaves in the wind.

"God forbid!"

"The kingdom of heaven and earth is the true God's, who created what he wanted. The true God is all-powerful in all things! ”

"The true God sends down a thick fog to confuse those kaffirs. The believers of God walked up to them and cut their throats with knives! ”

"Kill all their men and turn their women and children into slaves. Take everything from them and burn down their temples. Then enjoy the glory of the true God! ”

The elders, preachers, and holy warriors in the procession took the lead in reciting deliberately altered scriptures. Despair and madness were written on their faces. In addition to the central figures such as Navulna, they are the ones who most want to establish the kingdom of heaven on earth. That means they will be able to take from the vanquished for nothing. And if they are defeated, their losses will also be the greatest, and the future will be the darkest.

"Kill those who do not believe and deny the signs of the true God, who are the dwellers of Hell and who will abide in it forever."

"Those who deny the signs of the true God and despise them are the dwellers of Hellfire, and they will abide in it forever."

"All the gates of heaven will not be opened to those who deny the signs of the true God and despise them, and they will not be allowed to enter Paradise until the cable can pass through the eye of a needle."

In the team, other big food mercenaries and the children of several major families also chanted loudly. Thousands of chanting voices converged together, and actually suppressed the sound of war drums and suona coming from all around. Listening to the familiar scriptures, thinking of the possible kingdom of heaven, thinking of the endless food and the seventy-two virgins in the kingdom of heaven, the red-eyed raider raised his sword, straightened his body, and his mind was at peace.

"Boom! Rumble! Rumble! Rumble! Rumble! On the right side of the battlefield, the six-pound cannon of the Huai'an army began to wield. This kind of gun, with rifling engraved inside, has a very long range and is very accurate. At a distance of 1,500 or 600 paces, a six-kilogram flowering projectile can be sent to the approximate range of the predetermined target, and the soldiers and horses around the landing point can be blown to pieces.

In the ranks of the Pu family, more than a dozen deep pits immediately appeared. Where the smoke began, dirt and broken limbs flew in all directions. All the "holy warriors" who were unfortunate enough to stand within four feet of the shell landing site, regardless of whether they were chanting scriptures in their mouths or not, all broke their tendons and fractures.

However, the huge casualties did not cause the Pujia army to collapse immediately. On the contrary, the sound of chanting in their ears and the flesh and blood of their accomplices ignited the last madness in their hearts. I saw that they quickly raised their scimitars one by one, followed behind the self-proclaimed Quanzhou Jiedu envoy Na Na, and howled and pounced on the Chen family army who was blocking the front. Everyone's face is full of piety.

"Boom! Rumble! Rumble! Rumble! Rumble! "Another row of six-pound flowering bombs smashed into the ranks of the Pujia army." Thundered! "Several barrels of Greek fire were detonated directly by the shells, raising a huge, orange cloud. The nearly 100 children of the Pu family around were all sent directly to heaven by the firelight. And at the edge of the firelight, more than a dozen holy warriors who had been personally ordered by the preacher lifted three whirlwind cannons from the pool of blood, and tightened the strings of the cannons alternately with their hands and feet.

"Launch!" A preacher with a black veil on his head shouted loudly.

The three clay pots that lit the fuse immediately rose into the air, swept over a distance of more than 400 steps, and smashed into Chen Youding's team. The flames rolled, the smoke rose into the air, and the soldiers splashed by the flames fell to the ground, screaming and rolling desperately. However, the wet ground made the flames on their bodies burn more and more, and burn more and more. Soon, the people rolling on the ground turned into huge balls of fire, and the smell of burnt flesh and blood stimulated the surrounding robes with tears.

"Quick, quick, put up all the whirlwind cannons you can find, fire, and fire them straight ahead!" The black-clad preacher saw the bargain and continued to remind him loudly.

Hundreds of inspired children of the Pu family pounced on the carriage carrying goods. Lift down the whirlwind cannon and assemble it on the spot. Then one after the other fired Greek fire canisters forward.

"Whoosh! Sou! Sou! Sou! More Greek firebombs flew into the air and smashed into Chen Youding's soldiers and horses.

"Boom, boom, boom!" The six-pound cannon of the Huai'an Army adjusted the muzzle and suppressed the "magic weapon" of the Pujia Army. After a round of shelling, at least four of the Tornado cannons were reduced to pieces, and the blazing fire burned the operators to the point of red smoke all over their bodies. However, the Pujia gunners, boosted by the morale of their previous achievements, continued to quickly swing out new whirlwind guns. Desperately poured the Greek fire jar towards this Chen Youding.

Shooting against the Huai'an army will not take much advantage. smashed at Chen Youding's side, but the effect was very good. The Pu family army, who vowed to fight a bloody way, didn't care how fast the artillery fire from the right side of his house was. They don't want to get revenge, they just want to live. Just wanted to rush out of a bloody road from the front before the Huai'an troops on the left and right sides converged, and escaped from Shengtian.

Such a very spicy and decisive tactic immediately caught Chen Youding off guard. There were more than 30,000 soldiers and horses under his command, but the Huai'an army on the left and right flanks outflanking the Pu family was less than 5,000. In particular, the Huaiyang cavalry led by Fu Youde on the left side, counting all the trumpeters and civilian soldiers who could not go into battle at all, was at most in the early 2,000s. But the group of crazy evil ghosts of the Pu family refused to choose to break through on the left flank, but found him from the front!

For the Whirlwind Cannon and Greek Fire, the best countermeasure is the Fuyuan Crossbow. For the Chen family, who have lived in Fuzhou for a long time and have a lot of communication with the big cannibals at sea, the twisted arm accumulator is also not unfamiliar. It's just that due to the family's financial resources, they can't afford to buy too many Greek fire pots, so they simply combine the strengths of the East and the West, combine the bed crossbow and the whirlwind cannon, and recreate a kind of Fuyuan crossbow. The firing range can also be as high as more than 400 paces, and the same two or three people can be quickly operated, and they can move with the army by hanging on the back of a large animal. (Note 1) I saw that Chen Youding quickly waved the order flag a few times, and the Fuyuan crossbow the size of thirty donkey carts was immediately pushed to the front of the team. Chen You, the leader of the troops, gave an order, and thirty crossbow arrows with gunpowder cartridges tied to the front end rose into the air. Leaping past the Pujia army, which was trying to quickly rush closer, it was fiercely stuck near the whirlwind cannon that was wielding.

"Boom! Rumble! Rumble! Rumble! The explosion of gunpowder was mixed with the violent explosion of Greek fire pots. In an instant, five whirlwind cannons were killed in the flames, along with the gunners around them. The tumbling heat wave burned the surrounding Yan clan soldiers to the ground.

"Leave it to me here, you don't have to worry about it. Resist the cavalry of the Huai'an army! At the critical juncture, the fifth elder Pu Shijie stepped forward. Lead more than 500 of the most fanatical Pu family children to lift more whirlwind artillery carriages from the edge of the sea of fire.

"Forward, forward, into the middle of the carriage. The first row raises the shield, the second row, the spear, the crouch! In the third row, the spears are placed on the shoulders of the second row and stretched diagonally forward. Archers, listen to my orders, eighty paces ahead, put! Yan Jiqian, the volunteer soldier, heard Pu Shijie's shouting, turned a deaf ear to the explosion behind him, and commanded the most elite children of his clan to meet the Huaiyang cavalry who came from the left flank.

His ancestor Yan Bolu once made miraculous achievements in the slaughter of the Zhao Song clan and the wounded soldiers of Lianghuai, so in case the Pu family was defeated, he didn't know what kind of revenge his family would suffer? And the cavalry that resisted the Huaiyang army may not take too long, it only takes two or three rounds, according to the current situation, Na Wuna can kill the sky, join the Yisi Baxi army, and return to Quanzhou by sea!

Xiao Xiao's feather arrows soon rang out, and in a very short period of time, it replaced the sound of artillery bombardment and explosions behind him and became the main theme on the battlefield. The children of the Yan and Tian clans, who were left behind by Pu Shiren, the old man of Daxing, desperately pulled the bowstring, trying to weaken the impact power of the Huai'an cavalry and strive for more advantages for their own families.

His tactics were very successful, and the Huai'an cavalry, which was not too fast, moved more and more slowly after being covered by a large number of feathered arrows. The distance between them is also getting bigger and bigger, as if they plan to use this stupid method to reduce their own casualties.

"That Fu Youde doesn't know how to use cavalry at all!"

"The group of thieves who came over on the left side are suspicious soldiers, and they don't have much combat effectiveness at all. At the beginning, Na Urna should have chosen the left side as the breakthrough point! ”

"The Huai thief didn't have a good heart, he really wanted the Pu family and the Chen family to fight and lose!"

In the next moment, chaotic thoughts surged up one after another from the hearts of the Great Elder Pu Shiren, the Third Elder Tian Dingke, and the Volunteer Soldier Yan Jiqian and others.

No wonder they think about it, Fu Youde's performance today is indeed very layman. The biggest advantage of the cavalry over the foot soldier is the speed of the war horse. Just speed up the horse and run it directly over the head of the foot soldier. Even if the opponent is blocked by feathered arrows and opens up a gun array. After paying enough price, you can still drive straight in.

But today, Fu Youde chose to evacuate the formation because he was unwilling to let his subordinates sacrifice in vain, and when the feather arrow was at the head. Then he quickly pulled the group out of the range of the feathered arrows, and changed all the cavalry from a frontal charge to a diagonal approach. Doing so minimized the threat of feathered arrows to the cavalry, but it was much more difficult for the cavalry to break through the line of spears and carriages.

Just when the soldiers of the Pu family who were in charge of the break secretly rejoiced that the chances of their family leaving safely increased greatly. Fu Youde suddenly took out a chain hammer from his waist, and at the same time clamped the horse's belly fiercely with his legs. The Khitan good horse trafficked from Liaodong was in pain, let out a low roar from his mouth, spread his four hooves, and cut diagonally towards the array of carriage spears.

"Shh "Shh Shy shh The mournful sound of the war horse was endless, and the sound of the horse's hooves instantly sounded like thunder. A hundred Huai'an cavalrymen, in groups of three, pulled out a huge long dragon, followed behind Fu Youde and his two guards, and approached the Pu family's chariot spear array diagonally. Each of them carried a pair of chain hammers connected from end to end in their right hands, and at the handles of the hammers, two raised iron lids were bubbling with a cold blue.

"Shieldman, raise your shield, raise your shield to protect the top of your own head!" Pu Shiren, who was riding on horseback, instantly widened his eyes and opened his throat and shouted.

Chain hammer, Fu Youde actually tried to smash it with a chain hammer! This is the usual tactic of the Asu soldiers in the Western Regions, and it is terrifyingly powerful when it is used to the extreme. Unexpectedly, Fu Youde actually copied it back from the hands of the Asu captive.

"Shoot the arrows, archers, shoot the arrows. Whirlwind cannon, whirlwind cannon, don't just deal with Chen Youding, you can give me a bite too! Yan Jiqian is not as knowledgeable as Pu Shiren, but thinking about the feeling of two iron bumps smashing on his head with the speed of a war horse, he is devastated. Turning his head and rushing behind him, he tore his throat open, and his voice was hoarse.

"Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!" Another dense row of feathered arrows soared into the air and swooped down on the galloping horse team. Pu Shide, who was organizing manpower to shoot at Chen Youding's troops, also immediately dispatched five whirlwind cannons that had just been assembled to provide fire support to Yan Jiqian and Tian Dingke.

However, neither feathered arrows nor Greek firebombs had minimal effect. The horses that were running at high speed at a distance from each other were difficult to be the target of the feathered arrows. Even if you are unfortunate enough to be hit, as long as you don't hit the right point, you can continue to run under the constraints of the rider.

As for the powerful Greek fire bombs, they all smashed into the air, and in vain they raised clouds of red light. The well-trained Huai'an cavalry either jumped directly over the flames on horseback, or slightly pulled the horse's head around the road and made a detour, which was not affected at all.

Seeing that Fu Youde's mount was getting closer and closer to the car wall, getting closer and closer, Yan Jiqian's nervous face was like earth. Preparing to deploy the archers for another covering shot. But he saw that the other party suddenly left his left hand, which had been pulling the reins of the war horse, empty, and quickly twisted and pulled at the protrusion at the back end of the meteor hammer, and then, the two iron bumps connected together emitted thin white smoke.

"Be careful, it's thunder!" Even if his knowledge is poor, Yan Jiqian also knows that what the opponent is holding is not a meteor hammer. Jump up and shout a reminder.

Where is the time? At a speed of twenty paces per breath, the war horse rushed to the front of the chariot and the spear. Fu Youde waved his arm vigorously and threw out the "chain hammer", and then rode away at high speed!

"Boom!" Two grenades, tethered together by ropes, wrapped around the shaft of the spear, exploded in the air. Blow up the flesh directly underneath.

"Boom!" "Boom!" Two other grenades, tethered together by ropes, flew one after another and wrapped themselves around the shaft of the spear, causing the same disaster.

There is no way to dodge at all, the spear against the cavalry, the formation must be dense, and if it is not dense, it will have no effect. And it was precisely because of their dense ranks and squatting on the ground in advance that the most tragic results were achieved. At the moment of the grenade explosion, none of the spearmen next to each other had time to move their bodies, so they could only shrink their heads to the back of the robe in front of them, and then resigned themselves to fate.

The grenade, which has been improved more than a dozen times by the Huaiyang Workshop, has been reduced by half in size, but its power is far greater than back then. The iron shell, which had been carved out in advance, was quickly exploded into fourteen or fifteen petals in mid-air under the impetus of a pound of granulated black powder. Then, together with the embroidered iron beads wrapped in the grenade, they flew in all directions like hailstones. Tear open the shark skin armor of the Pu Jiajun, tear the flesh and blood inside the leather armor, burrow into the bones, chest and abdomen, and stir the internal organs into a mess.

"Ahh The wounded, who had only one breath left, leaned against the corpse of their dead companion and vomited blood. Around the blast point, the other spearmen were stunned. I don't know how to save my own robe, and I don't know what to do next.

Before they could recover from the shock, the three cavalrymen in the second row rode up again. "Boom!" "Boom!" "Boom!" , three explosions, one after another, sounded near the landing point of the first wave of grenades, blowing up the corpses of the clay wood carving-like spearmen all over the field.

"Boom!" "Boom!" "Boom!" "Boom!"

"Boom!" "Boom!" "Boom!" "Boom!"

The third wave, the fourth wave, the fifth wave, the sixth wave, the seventh wave, said that it was too late, it was fast, and in the blink of an eye, there were more than 20 waves of grenades, which were thrown into the defensive array that the Pujia army had put together improvised with carriages and spears. There were at least forty or so spearmen, and before they could even move, they were blown to pieces. And those who were lucky enough not to be affected by the explosion were tightly squeezed together, you look at me, I look at you, like a flock of lambs to the slaughter!

"With a spear. Grab the chain of the palm thunder with your spear and throw it outward! "I don't know if I was stupid by the sound of the explosion, or if I suddenly had a sense of urgency. Yan Jiqian, the deputy of the volunteer soldier, jumped up and shouted with a crying voice.

That should work, at least he thinks so. When the stunned spearmen heard this, they immediately recovered from their stupid state. Before a new round of grenades smash on your head, drop your spear and run away!

Note 1: According to Wang Hanfeng's "Discussion on Several Issues of Pu Shougeng", it is estimated that Pu Shougeng probably slaughtered 6 or 7,000 people. Among them: more than 3,000 people from the Nanwai clan (Ming Yang Siqian's "Quanzhou Fu Zhi" said that there were more than 3,300 people in the Nanwai clan in Shaodingjian [1228-1233]), 2,500 Huai soldiers, and the number of scholars and doctors is unknown.