Chapter 120: Zhan Yuan Prefecture (5)
As soon as the day dawned, Wanyan Lou Room pulled out the camp and marched three miles, stopped at 500 steps outside the city of Yuanzhou, lined up in formation, and prepared to attack the city, the battle still began with filling in the moat, this is the time when the rain is scarce, and there is no river around Yuanzhou, so this is just a dry trench. Groups of cavalry rushed out, braving the arrows from the head of the city to throw the firewood and grass they were carrying into the trenches, and several passages were filled in the trenches in a few reciprocating rounds.
The horn sounded, three thousand Jurchen soldiers lined up in a strict military formation, like a storm to the head of the city of Yuanzhou, it was the Jurchen elite 'iron-headed soldiers' who played the vanguard, they were wearing heavy armor one by one, holding giant axes, long knives, invulnerable, they were the king of soldiers in this era, the magic weapon of attacking the city and plundering the land, from Tokyo to Shangjing, Zhongjing, it was they who broke through the city defense of the Liao army, so that the Liao army finally failed. Behind the 'Iron Soldiers' were crossbow troops and cavalry units, one to provide fire cover, and the other to storm the city gate after breaking the city to pursue the routed army.
After approaching the city, a dense rain of arrows will envelop the head of the southern city of Wonju, and the enemy archers on the city will not dare to raise their heads. This is the usual tactic of the Jurchens in siege, first with a volley of archers, and then with heavy armor and foot soldiers, as long as they rush to the bottom of the city, then under normal circumstances, the city can be declared broken. But this time, they miscalculated, and before they rushed halfway, the head of Yuanzhou City exploded again and again, and the people who rushed in front suddenly fell to the ground, and the Jurchens were startled, this has not yet entered the range of bows and arrows?
Surprised, more of her companions fell to the ground, and the living girl was only slightly stunned, just curious that the enemy's weapon could shoot through the armor, but she didn't care, how could there be immortals in battle. As long as they rush to the city, those Khitans are slaughtered goods! He roared and raised his shield and beckoned the army to rush forward!
If it's a party member, it's also a complete face. Even if Wanyan Pu's slave is here, they won't do it. Because it was simply a death, but unfortunately the Tanguts and they were enemies who would not tell them, and Wanyan Xian was still a guest in the loyal army, and Wanyan Pujianu was 'recuperating' in the camp!
As the Jin army advanced, the gunfire on the city became more intense, and they did not know that they were facing firearms that were far more powerful and long-range than bows and arrows.
Wan Yan Lou looked at the battlefield expressionlessly. Seeing that the sons and daughters did not retreat, they rushed through the moat step by step, and the ladders and siege vehicles approached the city, and the archers immediately began to counterattack when they entered the firing range, shooting a rain of arrows at the city, and the crackling sound that made people tremble finally stopped. He breathed a sigh of relief, narrowing his eyes to see the scene he had become accustomed to—the city breaking.
As soon as the ladder reached the city wall, a group of Jurchen warriors with hay on their backs immediately braved the rain of arrows from the city and began to climb, lighting the firewood and grass before they reached the top of the city. Grass was thrown at the castle towers and set on fire, because the castle towers were all wooden structures, and once they were set on fire, the wind would spread throughout the castle. At this time, the living girl ordered a group of archers who were good at shooting to shoot arrows at the southeast corner of the city, so as to cover the arrival of a group of dead soldiers led by him.
This job was a girl who followed his father at the age of seventeen and started to do it in Yan Lou's room. It can be said that it is a family heirloom, and it has been doing well, and it has been rewarded by the emperor. That's why he loves the job that brings him great glory.
It is said that practice makes perfect, and it is the same if you do more work in this city. Taking advantage of the attention of the Wonju army to be attracted by the arson soldiers, the living girl went around to the corner of the city. He had a big axe on his back. Take off the helmet, this thing is good, but it's a little heavy and affects the vision. Seeing the position, he rubbed like a dexterous ape to climb the city wall, and the situation in front of him was a little different from his expectation, and the tower was not ignited.
The geographical difference determines that the northern nomads are good at field warfare, and the Han people in the Central Plains are good at defending cities. The Khitan people still learned the work of defending the city from the Great Song Dynasty, but they only learned a superficial job, and they were not as beautiful as the party members. The Jurchens only learned what a city was when they walked out of Nagada in the northeast, and they slowly learned how to attack and defend the city in the war with the Khitans.
They are good at learning new things, but the master is too tide to turn over and over again, there are no new tricks, they attack the city and form a fixed routine, this is the city to know the way, as long as the felt is wet and covered on the city tower, firewood and grass can not ignite the city tower. It's lit, and there is mud and a broom on the side, and the fire can be extinguished in a few clicks, not to mention their hay that doesn't even have a little oil star.
Although the fire did not burn, the living girl was not discouraged, and immediately drew her big axe and cut down the pillars of the tower, thinking that since you could not burn down the tower, I would cut you down. He made such a big fuss, no one could see it, and an archer from the Yuanzhou Army gave him an arrow casually. The living girl has also been on the battlefield for a long time, and she has the ability to see and listen to all directions in the morning, and when she heard the sound of the bowstring, she saw an arrow flying with her eyes and hurriedly dodged.
Maybe the archer who released the arrow was a master, and the arrow he shot was navigated, and he was wearing heavy armor that was difficult to penetrate, so the target was locked on the hand of the living woman, and with a 'duh' sound, the arrow hit his hand, penetrated the handle of the axe, and was nailed to the pillar, isn't this a living retribution?
A famous general is a famous general, when Xiahou pulled out the arrow and looked at it again, the living woman fought with her left hand, pulled out the arrow, and immediately splashed the blood on the wall, he fought again with an axe, and even split two cheap Yuanzhou soldiers, and was addicted, his courage can be described as a soul-snatching, and the morale of the sergeant who followed him to the city was greatly boosted, and he stepped forward to chop it up. The Yuanzhou army at the head of the city was taken aback and retreated one after another, and the living girl was even more energetic, chasing and chopping with an axe, causing a great chaos in the city, which seriously affected the city defense work of the Yuanzhou army.
Few people in the Yuanzhou army from top to bottom have experienced the offensive and defensive battles of the city, and they lack experience in dealing with this situation, and they are frightened by the lifeless fighting style of the living girl, coupled with the previous fear, the first thought in my mind is to escape...
Before the war, according to their respective operational characteristics, Zhao Xin and Zhuge Hong made some division of labor. The Krüd army is equipped with firearms, strong attack power, and long range, so it serves as a blocking task outside the moat, and once it passes the moat, it will be taken over by the Yuanzhou army, using bows and arrows and rolling wood and stones to block the Jin army that is trying to enter the city, and at this time the Krüd army turned to mobile defense, acting as a fire extinguishing team, and where there is danger, go there.
The arrogance of the living girl annoyed a person - Zhang Qi, the commander of the third battalion of the fourth brigade of the Krüd army, he can also be regarded as an old qualification in the Krüd army, he was an ordinary soldier of the four battalions in Beijing, and the prince was selected into the personal guard when he went out of Beijing to the northwest to work, and later entered the tiger general as a soldier and became Zhao Yong's subordinate, and participated in the raid and harassment of Yamato Fort and Shizhou on the border. This kid was born to be a soldier, with a burly figure, extraordinary strength, and brave and good at fighting, and soon stood out and was promoted to captain on the battlefield.
After Brother Cha launched the battle of the Eastern Crusade, the tiger general followed Zhao Ren to attack Xiazhou for thousands of miles, and after succeeding, he participated in defensive operations, and was promoted to the head of the capital, awarded Wu Yilang, became an officer, and then participated in the battle of attacking Shimen and Lingzhou, which can be said to have rich combat experience in the attack and defense of the city. Compared with Lingzhou and Xiazhou, that is, the bath and the bathtub are compared, and now this scene can only be comparable to Yamato Fort, but I didn't expect the Yuanzhou army to be so cowardly, and let the Jurchens go to the city in a few clicks.
Seeing that the situation was critical, Zhang Qi immediately ordered the standby Yidu to attack, the training of the Kryu army was like that of the loyal and brave army, and the dragoons were all trained in urban offensive and defensive warfare. Zhang Qi led a team of personal soldiers to meet the living girl who was killed along the city wall from the southeast corner.
"Copy the guys, stab them!" The soldiers of the Yuanzhou Army here ran around, and they couldn't even stew them together by shooting with firearms, Zhang Qi saw a row of spare spears leaning against the women's wall, and immediately ordered his soldiers to change into spears that were nearly two meters long and stepped forward to greet them. The city wall is only two zhang wide, and ten people side by side can block the entire passage, and the Yuanzhou army saw that someone was coming to help, and ran through the gap, but it was immediately retracted into a team by the people behind with punches and kicks, and it was observed and studied.
A Jurchen soldier who rushed to the front saw someone blocking the way, and stared at him with his thick-skinned axe, "Kill!" Before he could get his axe down, he saw three spears piercing himself with a roar, his head turned over the spear that pierced the front door, and the axe rungs in his hand separated the spear that pierced his chest and abdomen, and it was not easy to complete these two actions at the same time, he could only watch the third gun pierce into the root of his thigh, only to feel a sharp pain, instinctively threw the axe and reached out to grab the barrel of the gun, but the other two guns stabbed again, or one up, pierced into the face door and armpit respectively, and the three guns were lifted up at the same time to lift him to the city.
The next thing is to concoct it in the same way, whoever comes to stab whom, if you don't come, I'll line up to stab you, just don't fight with you alone. This is a tactic that Zhao Yong has studied and summarized, just one action, everyone stabs together, and uses the collective strength to make up for the defects of their own individual combat ability. It seems to be a simple shot, but it also has a certain amount of knowledge, generally with three people as the basic unit, stabbing the enemy's upper, middle and lower three ways, so that you can avoid it, and you can't prevent it.
Although the armor of the Jurchen iron-headed soldiers is thick, it is not without weaknesses, and the face, armpits, thighs, and joints of the limbs cannot be completely covered by the armor, as long as the place is selected, it can also kill them. Zhang Qi opened the way with a spear, it was really bloody step by step, stepping on the corpse of the enemy, the eyes of the living girl were red at the moment, and there were fewer and fewer people around her, what the hell is this called, I want to cut my own axe short, I can't touch the other party, and there are a few more blood holes on my body after several attacks, and I can't use my strength. (To be continued.) )