Chapter 59: The Battle Under the Ice Wall 3
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The Great Song Marquis, who was in charge of long-range support, was furious and yelled at his men to fight back against the Liao with the most powerful weapons at hand. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
Gunpowder shells were thrown into the Liao people's military formation, with the piercing roar, gunpowder bullets were like a stone was thrown into the water, after the explosion caused a ripple, it disappeared, in the dense crowd, the effect of gunpowder bullets is not very good, most of the shrapnel was borne by the people in front of it, but could not play the role of mass destruction.
His army was not equipped with those new incendiary bombs, which made him not very good at facing the suicidal attacks of the Liao, except for constantly throwing fierce fire oil into the Liao army.
Some Liao people were shattered by gunpowder bombs, and some Liao people were ignited by fierce fire oil, howling and breaking through the military formation, but they were hacked to death by his superiors one by one, so that the riot that had just formed quickly returned to calm.
The distance was getting closer and closer, and the extremely angry Li Dongchu gave an order, and the ice wall suddenly cracked three huge openings, and countless White Horse Army warriors poured out of the gap, and the strong physique of the White Horse Army warriors and the hard training they received on weekdays came in handy at this time. Dressed in heavy armor and armed with weapons, they ran as briskly as antelopes and as swift as cheetahs. The Liao people's large long-range weapons only fired two rounds, and then stopped, because the Song army and the Liao army had already begun to engage in close combat at this time, and the armor-piercing cone carried by the white horse army behind its back was thrown out, and the armor-piercing cone that could penetrate the heavy armor within twenty steps broke through the Liao people's shield array at the first time.
At this moment, a trumpet sounded from Yun Zheng's base camp in the distance, and three consecutive drums were heard at regular intervals. Hearing these signals, Liang Ji on the right wing and Han Niu on the left flank shouted at the same time, and began to open the ice wall and charge the Liao.
Because it's a circle. So it doesn't matter if there is a middle lane and a left and right road, only when Yun Zheng arrives there, it will immediately be considered the middle lane.
Today's middle road is Li Dongchu's White Horse Army, with the support of the Chinese army's strong crossbow battalion, the White Horse Army shoots arrows against the enemy. The two armies were mixed together in an instant.
Behind the giant shield, the spears stretched out by the Liao army were separated by huge shields by the Song army warriors in the front row, and the warriors in the back row with war hammers waited for an opportunity to smash the giant shields that were still blocking the way under their cover.
A few minutes later, the long shield array was smashed into a gap. Fighters on both sides, armed with knives, guns and shields, huddled in the gap. You retreat and I advance. Repeatedly fighting, scuffling together.
In this kind of battle to the death, if you are not careful, your life will be in danger. If the dragon fights, there will be death. The loser falls to the ground. Trampled repeatedly by those who came after him, the winner may follow in the footsteps of the next moment.
In order to break through each other, tens of thousands of people fought closely. Tian Dahu is a brave general, nicknamed the Tiger, as his name suggests, he is as fierce as a tiger descending from the mountain on the battlefield, and he is brave and forward. If you want to divide the generals in the White Horse Army into two categories: wisdom and bravery, then he can be called the top of the list of brave generals.
"I am a tiger! If you are not afraid of death, come up! Tian Dahu was holding a big knife. Stepping on the backs of his subordinates and slamming over the shield array, the armor was pierced by the spears of the Liao, and he didn't care. Guarding the face gate with an arm shield, while screaming, he bravely slashed and killed the Liao soldiers who surrounded the gap.
Follow Li Dongchu to guard Yanmen Pass for many years, many times led the army to the hinterland of the Liao country to fight the grass valley, his brave name was spread among the Liao people a few years ago, at this time the Liao people saw that he was really as brave as the legend. All those who were in front of him were slain by him, so they took refuge.
A moment later. Two or three of the Liao soldiers broke away from the queue and fled backwards, and some people fled with them one after another. The morale of the defenders plummeted, and the shield formation collapsed and the soldiers scattered and fled. Tian Dahu's subordinates took the opportunity to break the first shield array and rushed towards the location of the Liao army's trebuchet.
Seeing that the situation was urgent, the Liao army marquis personally led the elite foot soldiers with red-handled guns in their hands, stepped on the snow and rushed out, shouting in unison, and rushing towards Tian Dahu.
There are many Liao people, Tian Dahu is very difficult to take a step forward, the machete in his hand has been discarded, and now he is holding a mace in his hand that I don't know who discarded the tiger and the tiger is dancing, and all the Liao troops who are bumped by the mace are all broken bones.
After a hundred and ten steps of difficult progress, Tian Dahu found that there were fewer and fewer brothers around him, while there were more and more Liao people on the opposite side, and after a roar, his subordinates were like snakes that had been stepped on by their tails, and immediately coiled in a circle, always maintaining a frontal confrontation with the enemy, with strong armor, and the two sides once again launched a tragic fight to the death.
The strength of the Song army was reflected at this time, under the attack of the triple enemy, Tian Dahu did not panic, did not collapse, and the various squads always maintained tacit cooperation, attacked and defended properly, and moved freely. In front of the Song army's formation, there were countless corpses.
"Only forward, not backward!" A Liao team member shouted loudly when he saw that his subordinates were showing signs of collapse again.
"Don't take a step back, those who flee without permission will be killed!" The Liao military marquis jumped forward, beheaded several soldiers who were retreating step by step, and shouted again.
When the Liao officer first shouted, Tian Dahu noticed him, but saw that he was too far away and had no chance to kill him. At this time, in order to kill the retreating soldiers, the Liao officers got closer and closer to the ranks of the Song army. Tian Dahu saw the opportunity and rushed towards him with a mace.
The circle array turned into a sharp arrow formation in an instant, Tian Dahu was the sharp arrow, and more than ten Liao soldiers who blocked Tian Dahu's way were easily killed by Tian Dahu without much effort.
In the blink of an eye, Tian Dahu rushed in front of the Liao officer, and the mace struck him heavily on his helmet. In a hurry, the strength was insufficient, and the Liao officer also took advantage of the situation to dodge, although the stick did not knock his head open, but the ambassador of the momentum fell to the ground and fainted.
Song Jun, who was beside Tian Dahu, cut off his head with the second sword. Then he stabbed the bloody head on his sharp knife and proudly shouted: "Kill the enemy chief!" ”
Yun Zheng saw this scene very clearly on the high platform, although he didn't know who had made the contribution, but he knew that in this short-handed encounter, his subordinates had gone completely crazy.
Perhaps it is that there has never been a real defeat in these years, so that the Jingxi army has developed a kind of arrogance that Lao Tzu is the best in the world.
It is this arrogance that gives them a belief in victory in the face of any enemy, so it is not false to say that the fierce army is fed by the corpses of the enemy.
Chen Lin did not follow Yun Zheng's orders to hide behind the fifth ice wall, but found another high ground to objectively observe the army he was in, he was not only the supervisor of the army, but also the observer of this army, and Wang Anshi was also doing the same thing.
Whether it is Chen Lin or Wang Anshi, through these two battles, they already have an objective and detailed understanding of the army they are in, that is, from this moment, they finally agreed with Yun Zheng's original plan, this army can really cross the grassland, and finally block the reinforcements of the Liao State at Gubeikou outside Yanzhou, and completely separate the sixteen states of Yanyun from the Liao State.
Chen Lin had already seen that the trumpeter behind the ice wall was ready to blow the trumpet, and he also saw that the heavy cavalry like a giant beast in the wilderness was already ready to go behind the ice wall, as long as the infantry could destroy the Liao people's shield array and clear a space for the heavy cavalry to sprint, this army would definitely cut the Liao people's surging crowd into separate pieces at the first time.
Yun Zheng was waiting for the moment when the Liao army was tired, the Song army had the opportunity to rotate, but the Liao army, which was more numerous than the Song army, did not have such an opportunity, they were like a large group of frightened beasts who only knew how to rush forward, regardless of the front army and the rear army, they were all the same tired.
The blooming flower of the Liao army finally slowly withered, Yun Zheng stood on the building car and saw it clearly, under the attack of the Song army in black armor, the Liao people in the earthy yellow leather armor were already slowly retreating.
Now, what is missing is undoubtedly the final blow.
"Doodoo ......"
The horn finally sounded, several doors on the ice wall were slowly opening, Tian Dahu, who was working hard, fought a cold war for no reason, and looked back to see that his door was open again, and the mace repelled the two Liao troops, and then ordered his subordinates to leave this road that was very suitable for heavy cavalry charges.
Since the unsatisfactory performance of the heavy cavalry in the last battle was known to the commander, the commander took all the heavy cavalry in the army out of the army, and asked the blacksmith in the army to build a thick iron chain, which completely linked these heavy cavalry in a team of thirty people, lightened some unnecessary equipment, and added more gunpowder shells in addition to the saber, these heavy cavalry now have another loud name called the iron chain!
Such an army is completely used to charge the battle, Tian Dahu also knows that behind the iron chain, he will follow the very unreliable light cavalry of the Great Song Dynasty, as long as the iron chain breaks through the enemy's tight military formation, those infantry on horseback can also use the advantage of the speed of the war horse to kill and injure some more Liao troops.
The Liao soldiers who had just been killed by Tian Dahu and abandoned their armor suddenly found that Tian Dahu was leading his subordinates to run to the mountain bag on the left, and was about to pursue with his tail, when he suddenly heard a loud sound shaking the mountain.
A group of strange cavalry completely wrapped in iron armor rushed out of the Song army camp opposite, the speed was not very fast at first, slowly, the speed of those cavalry became faster and faster, and after the group of cavalry left the Song army camp twenty zhang, another team of cavalry in the same costume came out.
The eyes of the Liao military marquis were about to fall out of their sockets, because he saw that this group of cavalry was not afraid of crossbow arrows, even if one of the horses was shot through by a strong crossbow, he would still be dragged by the rest of the heavy cavalry to rush towards his already battered army. (To be continued)
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