494. Mountain and Fire

"Zhang crossbow!"

Before Zhou Quan got up, in the southeast of Yanjing, Yue Fei's voice was so calm that there was no change in emotion, and then, there was a sound around him. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Everyone was silent, there was no bloody shout, no angry roar, but this cold sound made the approaching Jurchens tremble.

Immediately after, they were faced with a storm of crossbow arrows.

For Zhou Quan, people are the most precious, in order to increase the lethality of his own troops, and also to improve their survivability, so whether it is armor, or weapons, especially long-range weapons crossbows, Zhou Quan spares no effort to invest.

This kind of investment was a luxury for any other army at this time, and the money he spent on arming one person, even on the most expensive Jinren Tiefutu, was enough to arm five people, or even eight people.

But all the investment is worth it, and the reflection on the battlefield is the amazing lethality ratio.

Since the middle of last night, it has been several hours since the fish belly in the east has been white, and in these hours, the Han army array has advanced a full five miles, while the Jin army has retreated five miles.

In five miles, at least 5,000 corpses of the Jin army lay on this land, but the losses of the Han army were minimal.

At least in the faint old eyes of Ah Guta, he didn't see much of the losses of the Han army at all.

He had never seen such an army, and if his son Wushu was there, he might have told him that this kind of army was like a factory run by the Song people in Jeju, Xuzhou, or Haizhou, and each person was only an insignificant part of the factory's machine, but each part could exert enough power to crush everything.

"Ahem, ahem!"

Perhaps it was the chill that hit his body, Ah Guda coughed violently, he reached out to cover his mouth, and then felt the dampness and heat in his palm.

He didn't look at what it was, and he didn't dare let anyone else know.

"The Han army is advancing again!" At that moment, he heard the shouts of the people beside him.

The cry was accompanied by the gasping sound of a sick beast purring.

Not only Hulu, but also the surrounding Jurchen nobles, all of them were like this, and they felt as if their chests were pressed by a big stone, which made them breathless.

Since the beginning of last night's engagement, the Song army has maintained this rhythm, if the Jurchens come to attack, they will stand up and defend strictly, if the Jurchens do not attack, they will advance a hundred steps, and then stand in formation, relying on the range advantage of crossbow arrows, forcing the Jin soldiers to retreat.

This cycle is like a moving mountain, forcing the golden soldiers to come out and attack their strong formation. At first, Aguta was still afraid of fratricidal killing, so he only ordered all the departments to fight, and later several departments were on the same page, but it was still the same.

Aguta's gaze shifted from Hulu's face to the younger Jurchen nobles around him, who were the most active supporters of the Vasong Alliance, but now, their faces were almost filled with fear.

Obviously, there is no way for everyone to take this slow-advancing Han army. To a certain extent, this Han army, with its iron will and machine-like cooperation, brought suffocating despair to the Jurchens.

"It's okay, it's okay, the rope fruit department has arrived...... In this battle, it is only us who wins in the end, only us! Ah Guda was silent for a while, suppressed the sweetness in his throat, and then urged the horse forward and shouted loudly.

At this time, he was still like a bell, and he couldn't see the slightest sickness, and he could even pick up the mace hanging from the horse and dance around.

Seeing the elderly emperor so heroic, the dull eyes of the Jurchens recovered.

Yes, it doesn't matter, the main cavalry they divided has already circled behind the enemy's flank, and then, as long as the cavalry destroys the enemy's position, they will take the opportunity to besiege it.

And at this time, the sky is already bright, and there is no need to worry about cannibalism in the melee, so this time, they will be pressed by the whole army. Although the Han army's machine crossbow is terrifying, after all, the machine crossbow has to be wound, and their penetration ability is also limited for iron shields and iron armor.

"Iron Float!"

As if to confirm what they thought, Ah Guda roared again.

"Iron Float!" Thousands of people shouted in unison, and then roared forward.

This is the main force of the Jin people left in Yanjing by Aguta, composed of all Jurchens, a total of five thousand.

In fact, if it weren't for the Wushu who went to Japan to loot and brought back a lot of craftsmen and money, the Jin people would not have been able to gather so many iron floating slaughter.

The whole body is heavily armored, including the war horse under the crotch is iron-armored, even if the body is strong and strong, it cannot support this equipment for a long time. Therefore, it was only after Ah Gu hit them that they stepped forward, and then, with the help of others, began to put heavy armor on themselves.

"Ten thousand horses Tiefutu, I left five thousand horses in Yanjing, waiting for this moment...... I have never underestimated Zhou Quan, I know that he will be the mortal enemy of our Dajin and our Jurchens, so I am here, crushing his hard work with Tiefutu, stepping over the corpses of his men, and taking everything from him! Ah Guta's voice carried a scandium sound, as if it burst out of the crack in the steel, he swept his eyes around him, and then stared at Hulu: "Hulu, you wear my armor and fight for me!" ”

"Yes!"

Hulu roared with a puff, his face was full of red light, in the battle of the Liaohe River, he was defeated by Zhou Quan's men, and even caused the death of Aguta's eldest son, Huben. But at this moment, Aguta put the opportunity for revenge into his hands.

He was overjoyed by this.

"The Han army has moved." At this moment, a scout reminded.

Hulu is still in armor, no matter how the Han army moves, he will replace Aguda to rush and kill. And Aguda picked up the binoculars, looked at the Han army, divided a part, and went to the side and rear.

This part was clearly to block the cavalry led by the rope fruit in the flank, and the spears they held in their hands proved that they were all extra-long spears about two zhang long, and the formation they listed was also a little strange.

The most strange thing is that among these Han soldiers, there are some people dressed in red, who are obviously different from others, and the weapons they hold are not the kind of extra-long spears, but short spears.

These Han troops were arranged in six rows, the first three rows were spear-wielding, and the last three rows were short spear-wielding, facing the rope fruit, the spear-wielding crouched down, and the spear was inserted diagonally upward, and the spear handle was pressed into the ground; The man with the short spear stood silently, as if waiting for the rope fruit to charge, and then fight nearby.

The corners of Ah Guda's mouth curved slightly: With such a thin array, it was impossible to block the light cavalry assault led by Rope Guo.

At that time, the flanks and rear were light cavalry, the front was Tiefutu heavy cavalry, and the wings were flanked by infantry armor - this Han army was indeed tenacious and good at fighting, but in the face of this kind of siege, they would be defeated!

Thinking of this, a flush of excitement appeared on Ah Guta's face, he really wanted to put on his armor himself, fight such a tough opponent, and then destroy their courage, crush their confidence, chase them, capture them, and enslave them!

"Are you ready?" He looked at Zerus.

He pushed the mask off his helmet, which he also learned from Jeju, so that the soldier's face could be protected.

He nodded to Akuta, indicating that he was fully prepared.

"Attack!" Ah Guda shook his mace again.

But at this moment, a sudden weakness struck, and he couldn't lift the mace higher.

It didn't matter, Tiefutu had already let out a tsunami-like cry of a landslide and began to march towards the Han army.

The Iron Floating Tu is a heavy armor, and the speed of their charge is not very fast, but they are lined up and advance in a dense formation, and the feeling of oppression is indeed shocking.

It's just that I can't shake those Song people in front of me.

Thirty guns were pushed forward, their muzzles lowered, almost flat, all directed at the approaching Iron Float.

However, they were not the first to roar, the first to roar was the group of Han soldiers in red uniforms.

The short spears in their hands spewed fire and smoke, and then in front of them, the light horses were harvested in rows and rows!

Muskets, and breech flintlock pistols!

This force had already begun to be formed as early as when Han Shizhong and others joined the Chamber of Commerce Escort Army, but at that time there were only front-loading arquebuses, and Zhou Quan was not satisfied with its power, rate of fire, and range, and only made a very small number of them, so he began to further improve them.

It wasn't until last year that he came up with a suitable primer, but it wasn't easy to make the right gun, and even if it took a year, the production was only a meagre 2,000.

These two thousand guns, all of which were sent to Yue Fei.

The spearmen did a good job of protecting these red-clothed Han soldiers who only wore cuirasses and held muskets, and when Aguta saw this, his eyes were split: the Han people have new weapons, can it be said that the Han people can only rely on these new weapons to defeat them?

What kind of hero is this!

If Zhou Quan was here, he would definitely respond with a cold snort: The Han people don't use their own strengths and attack the enemy's shortcomings, could it be that when they are hunting, they also use their nails and teeth to fight with dogs, bears and tigers.

It's a pity that there is not enough time, otherwise Zhou Quan will definitely replace the crossbow arrows with muskets, although the current range of muskets is not much stronger than crossbow arrows, but after all, it is cheap and easy to train.

There are spears in front of the block, there are muskets in the distance, the rope fruit department seems to have encountered a tiger wearing thorn armor, before it approaches, it is facing the baptism of death, fortunately not dead rushed to the front of the formation, scattered war horses face the spear formation of spears, the impact formed is also very limited.

Not only were they unable to penetrate the Han array, but they began to collapse after throwing down a large pile of corpses of men and horses.

Even the most elite troops, in the era of cold weapons, a loss of five out of five is enough to make them shake in fear and even collapse!

Ah Gu bit his lower lip white with his teeth, and he looked back at Tiefutu, who he had high hopes for.

The other party did not use that new weapon against the Iron Float, perhaps because that weapon could not penetrate the heavy armor of the Iron Float......

But before the luck in Ah Guda's heart lasted longer, the short cannon also began to roar.

Instead of a solid iron ball, a large ball of steel was shot!

The firing range is extremely close, and the accuracy is extremely poor, but in the face of the Iron Floating Tu, which is not as fast as the light cavalry and is arranged in a dense formation, the steel ball scatter is the most suitable. Even if it is protected by iron armor, but in the face of the rain of death composed of steel balls, the elite that Akuda is most proud of, is no different from those light horses! (To be continued.) )