Chapter 14: Artillery
Gao Huaiyuan's arrow was shot on the shield of this thousand-commander, and he nailed his arm and shield together, so painful that this guy immediately screamed loudly, wanting to reach out and break the arrow from his left arm, but where would Gao Huaiyuan give him this opportunity, when he shot the first arrow, he saw that he didn't let go of this guy, so he immediately pulled out the second arrow from the sack in front of him, and immediately opened the bow and shot it again, this time he aimed at the throat of this guy, intending to pull him down.
But this guy was so fateful that he shook his body at a critical moment, and the arrow immediately hit his shoulder, bringing him to his back and falling down, and the two soldiers around him saw that it was not good, and immediately blocked this guy with their bodies, dragged him up, and retreated downward.
Gao Huaiyuan was overjoyed in his heart, and was about to open his mouth to cheer, but he felt a sudden shock in his chest, and a sharp pain came, and he looked down to see that it was broken, just now he focused on the commander, but he didn't guard against the archers of the Jin Army, an arrow hit his right chest, and was firmly nailed to his leather armor.
However, Gao Huaiyuan took a deep breath and found that although the arrow had pierced the leather armor, because a piece of iron had been sewn into the middle of the leather armor, it successfully jammed the arrow of the arrow, and the arrow passed through the armor and was only inserted into his chest muscles.
A villager who was closer to him happened to see Gao Huaiyuan hit an arrow, so he exclaimed: "Gao Huai's team has been hit by an arrow!" His shout immediately attracted everyone's attention, and everyone was taken aback, Gao Huaiyuan is now their backbone, if he falls, then this group of people will not be far from collapse!
Damn, patronizing the thief and capturing the king first, he was also targeted by others, Gao Huaiyuan scolded secretly in his heart, and when he saw that the movements of the people around him slowed down, he yelled: "What do you see?" Master is fine, he can't die! Keep calling me! Then he stretched out his hand and broke the tail of the arrow, scooped up a stone again, and smashed it down.
When everyone saw that Gao Huaiyuan was not hit by an arrow and was still fighting with the Jin army, they were immediately greatly admired in their hearts, which also aroused the anger of these villagers, so the remaining villagers smashed the stone like crazy again.
Zhang Qing led a group of spearmen and sword and shield hands, behind the car wall, seeing Gao Huaiyuan so fierce, his heart was hot, he jumped into the car, grabbed Gao Huaiyuan and said: "The high escort team goes down to rest for a while, let me hold it here!" Then he grabbed a stone and threw it down.
At this time, the attacking Jin soldiers had already suffered heavy losses, with falling stones above their heads, as well as arrows that kept swaying from behind the car wall, and the commander they led the troops had long since disappeared for a while, so the army's heart suddenly became chaotic, and after seeing that they couldn't rush up, some of the Jin soldiers turned around and ran down the mountain.
As soon as the people in front retreated, the golden soldiers behind them didn't have the courage to continue to hold on, and they retreated like a tide under the pass.
Uburu looked down at the thousand-captain who was kneeling in front of him, covered in blood, his mouth opened a few times, he didn't scold, and finally shook his head helplessly, he also saw the situation of the battle just now, to be honest, it's really no wonder that this thousand-commander has anything, after all, he also tried his best, if it weren't for his fate, it is estimated that he would have been lying in front of the pass at this time, and it would be useless to scold him again.
In less than half a day, they devoured the lives of nearly 200 of his men, and wounded even more soldiers, and the entire front army was almost crippled by them, but they were stunned that they couldn't even touch the pass.
This situation was far beyond his expectations, but he did not expect that a village barracks of several hundred people would block his thousands of soldiers and horses here, and after raising his eyes and looking around, he called the guides who had brought the troops this time, and asked them: "Do you know that there are other roads from here that can go around behind this pass?" Or do you want to bypass here and go straight to Fenglindu? ”
Several guides shook their heads one after another: "General Huiyu, there is only one way here to go to Fenglindu, and there is no other mountain road for the army to bypass, this place is originally called Tiger's Mouth, and there is no other way than to rush over!" ”
This answer really made Uburu feel discouraged, this time he was originally ordered to sneak attack Fenglindu, and then smuggle across the Han River, but he didn't want to be here, encountered a difficult bone to gnaw, if he was dragged here, I'm afraid it will only take two days, his operation this time is a complete failure, the Jin people are not good at water warfare, once the news reaches Xiangyang, the Song Army Navy will be Han Shui, then he can go back to his home and end this sneak attack war!
Turning his head to look at this pass, which the locals call the tiger's mouth, Uburu ordered: "The Chinese army replaces the front army, divides into three waves, and takes turns to attack this pass for me until it breaks through him, I want to see what this Song army is made of, which can stop ten times our troops!" Come! Drumming! Keep organizing the offensive for me! ”
After Gao Huaiyuan led his troops to repel the Jin army's assault, he withdrew the group of people on the car wall, and ordered Zhang Qing to lead the troops to take their place, so that these people could also take a rest, and by the way, he counted the losses. After this fierce battle, more than 30 people died at once, and more than 20 people were injured, even he himself was hit by an arrow, the loss is not small, although the enemy's casualties can be said to be ten times that of them, but after all, they are relatively small in number, and they can't fight with the Jin soldiers, so if it goes on, he doesn't know if he can hold out until the reinforcements from Xiangyang come!
And Gao Huaiyuan's injury, so that everyone in the army was upset, and they came over to ask how his injury was, Gao Huaiyuan untied the leather armor, reached into his chest, touched it, and then pulled out the broken arrow on the cuirass, and looked at the arrow, which was a dagger-shaped arrow cluster unique to the Jin Army, so he threw it to the ground casually, and said with a smile: "Fortunately, it is not an armor-piercing arrow, otherwise, I will be in danger today, you don't have to worry, it's just a small injury, it's no big deal!" As he spoke, he took a piece of cloth sprinkled with gold sore medicine handed over by Zhou Hao, and pressed it on the wound on the chest muscle, the wound stimulated by the medicine was hot and painful, but he only frowned slightly, and then put the armor on his body again, jumped up and moved his arms, and made an expression as if he was fine.
He knew at this moment that he was already the backbone of this place, if he fell, then this team would definitely not last long, and he couldn't fall no matter what, otherwise, everyone would be finished this time!
In addition, he is still secretly slandering, he is really lucky to the extreme, a long way to try to be safe, actually ran into the Jin army, this kind of luck is really not ordinarily good, fortunately God took care of it, let them meet the Jin soldiers in this place, if it is changed to other lots, then he can only drop these vehicles, and run towards Xiangyang!
Seeing that Gao Huaiyuan was like no one, everyone admired it in their hearts and relieved at the same time, and persuaded Gao Huaiyuan to take a rest, asking to take over Gao Huaiyuan to go to the car wall to command the battle.
Gao Huaiyuan thought for a while, looked at the sky again, and said to everyone: "If my prediction is right, Jin Bing will launch an attack on the pass overnight tonight, everyone seems to have to work hard, and you don't have to think about sleeping at night!" I'm afraid it will be very difficult tonight, you take advantage of this gap, hurry up and hurry up to prepare some rolling wood stones, you have also seen the battle just now, the threat of rolling wood stones to the Jin army is much greater than the bow and arrow, whether we can block the gold soldiers, it depends on whether we can hold out until tomorrow morning!
Whether it's dead or alive, it's useless to say it now, I hope you can twist it into a rope and persevere! Even if we don't think about the Great Song Dynasty, we have to think about ourselves and the brothers around us, the pass can't be lost, once lost, no one wants to live! If anyone dares to escape, I will also say that my sword will never agree! ”
At the end of the words, Gao Huaiyuan's voice revealed a gloomy meaning, which made everyone shudder a little, although they had not been with Gao Huaiyuan for a long time, but they also understood his temper, and knew that he was a person who said the same, if someone really dared to escape, then he would never just talk about it, his snow-bright Mo knife would never be soft! And Gao Huaiyuan is now a lot of blood on his hands, and he can't even blink an eyelid when he kills someone!
So everyone hurriedly nodded and said: "Don't worry, I'll give the order right away, everyone knows that the stakes are high, if someone dares to escape, you don't need to deal with it, we will be the first to cut him down!" ”
Seeing that everyone had already made up their minds, after fighting to the death with the Jin army, Gao Huaiyuan didn't say anything more, nodded and asked Zhang Qing to take his place first, first for a while, followed by Fan Dutou, Guo Liang, Gu Lao Er and others in turn, and the soldiers below were also divided into five waves, and the five of them each led a wave, and took turns to fight against the enemy, so that the soldiers and generals could also take turns to take a break.
When they arranged these things, Gao Huaiyuan ordered the man to immediately bury the pot and cook the rice, make it more sumptuous, so that everyone could eat enough, and in this night, I am afraid that someone will never have the opportunity to eat the next dinner!
Here Gao Huaiyuan and others were still busy cutting wood and transporting stones, and then they heard the war drums of the golden people again, and Gao Huaiyuan, who had just picked up the rice bowl and broke two branches as chopsticks to open the rice, put the rice bowl on the ground and scolded: "Damn, this golden dog is really damned, and this doesn't let people eat!" ”
His words immediately caused a burst of laughter from the surrounding villagers who were eating, and after playing for a long time, although people were already very tired, their nerves began to relax a lot. People with a lot of nerves have begun to get used to this kind of life at this time, so after hearing the sound of the Jin Army's war drums, there are really not too many people who are really nervous.
"You eat first, I'll take a look!" Gao Huaiyuan got up to go to the pass to see the situation, but was stopped by Fan Dutou.
"Let's take a break from the high detention team, I'll go over and take a look, I'm the next reserve team, and I'm on it, you said it can't be short this night, you don't have to keep an eye on it!" With that, he drew his knife and walked towards the pass.
Gao Huaiyuan thought about it, he couldn't keep staring at it alone, so he sat on the ground, took the bowl and got some pickles, and began to eat it, the guy came over and put a large piece of horse meat in his bowl, smiled at him and signaled him to eat quickly, now everyone is counting on him, so no one cares that Gao Huaiyuan eats more than others.
When the Jin army was adjusted by Ubru, he also saw the difficulty of this battle, he now has a lot of soldiers, but he can only use this kind of oil warfare * attack, it is useless to have many soldiers, and this is in the mountains, the terrain is very unfavorable to them, so he has no good way to deal with the Song people in the pass, so after thinking about it for a long time, he still let his subordinates form a team again to start a new offensive.
After having the experience of repelling the Jin soldiers a few times before, Zhang Qing did not panic this time, the soldiers came to block, the water came to flood, and he commanded the one hundred and ten people under his command, with the cooperation of the Fan Dutou reserves, and beat them violently, and the Jin army dropped one or twenty corpses under the pass and retreated.
At this time, it was already late, seeing that after repelling this group of Jin soldiers, Zhang Qing led people to withdraw, collected the corpses of the villagers who died in this battle, and treated the wounded, Fan Du led the soldiers to get into the car and took their place, both sides lit torches, and after lighting the battlefield, the Jin soldiers also immediately sent another group of men and horses, and launched an upward attack again......
Gao Huaiyuan listened to the sound of shouting and killing at the pass, and called some people who did not join the team, a few of whom had done carpenter work, Gao Huaiyuan pointed to the trees that were cut down on the ground and said to them: "Don't be idle, use this thing to make a few simple cannons out, just rely on manpower stones to throw it not far, get a few of these things out, let Jin Bing taste it!" ”
The cannon of the Song Dynasty is actually a stone machine, but the stone machine of this era is mainly powered by human drag, throwing stones or other things, and the shape is divided into many kinds, including single cannons, double cannons, five-pin cannons, seven-pin cannons, tiger squat cannons, column belly cannons, whirlwind cannons, combined cannons, lying car cannons, car cannons, traveling artillery cars, etc., and there is a kind of light "hand cannon" that only uses two people, which can fire half-kilogram cannonballs, and Gao Huaiyuan naturally has a detailed understanding of these things, so he decided to use ready-made wood, Piecing together a few cannons, anyway, it's for emergency use, and it's something that will be thrown away when it's used up, and I don't pay attention to any details.
So the idlers immediately put together the wood according to the pattern he had said, and found some iron nails from the car to put them on, not for beauty, but for one to be fast.
Soon their movements attracted the attention of a group of soldiers who were resting, and they all gathered around, and those who knew a little about carpentry also reached out to help, and they really quickly made an extremely ugly double-tip cannon, and then made a net bag with the ready-made ropes on the carriage to carry the stones, shouted and hummed, and carried them to the pass and set them up.
At this time, Fan Dutou on the pass is leading his subordinates to fight fiercely with the Jin soldiers, the whole pass shouts and kills the sky, the arrows shuttle back and forth in the air, from time to time someone falls to the ground with an arrow, not to mention the dead, the injured cursed loudly and was helped down to wrap the wounded, Fan Dutou scolded and slammed the stone to the Jin soldiers below the pass, and it was really a bit of a posture that was not afraid of death.
After these hundreds of people had Gao Huaiyuan, the main general who was not afraid of death, the group of people below also became bolder, and they were much more fierce when they fought with the Jin soldiers.
"Come here, come here! Hold the rope, listen to my call, and everyone work together! Gao Huaiyuan ignored the fierce battle at the pass for the time being, but gathered a group of idlers over, grabbed the two pulling ropes on the cannon, and made a stone weighing more than ten catties and put it into the cannon, and instructed them.
When everyone saw that Gao Huaiyuan had come out with this thing so quickly, they were overjoyed, and they were worried about the shield array of the Jin Army, with this kind of thing, it was enough for the Jin Army to drink a pot!
So under the command of Gao Huaiyuan, shouting the number of one, two, three, a group of villagers immediately worked hard together, and pulled the rope hard, and the end that originally hung down was dragged by everyone, and suddenly raised, threw the stone in the cannon, drew an arc in the air, and disappeared into the night, Gao Huaiyuan hurriedly asked Fan Dutou on the car wall: "How is it?" Where did the stone go? ”
At this time, I heard Fan Dutou laughing on the wall of the car: "It's enjoyable! Ha ha! It happened to hit the crowd of golden soldiers, and several of them were overturned at once, and the high guard team was really a god! Fast! A few more times! ”
Gao Huaiyuan immediately threw the throwing car to Gu Lao Er to say hello, continued to throw stones outside, and ran back to greet people according to the style of this artillery car, just continue to build the throwing car, anyway, the more the merrier, so a group of guys who don't need to go into battle for the time being are in full swing.
After night, both sides of the line of sight are not good, the effectiveness of the bow and crossbow has been significantly reduced a lot, the golden soldiers are now also anxious, with shields, holding knives and guns screaming towards the pass, although the officers and soldiers of the pass also struggled to resist, gradually let some of the gold soldiers rush to the front of the car wall, under the heavy figures, and finally the two sides have a short encounter at the car wall.
After hearing a wild scream at the pass, Gao Huaiyuan was shocked, immediately turned around and raised his knife, took Zhou Hao and others and immediately rushed to the car wall, and saw a large number of Jin soldiers began to pour under the car wall, the car wall was not very high, standing below with a spear, he could stab the people on the car, so after the Jin soldiers stabbed randomly, the Song army on the car wall immediately suffered heavy casualties, but they were also anxious at this time, and they also stabbed with guns, smashed with stones, and cut with knives, and killed a lot of Jin soldiers under the car wall.