Chapter 52: The Battle of Tongguan (14)

With the advance of the golden soldiers of the brigade, the sun also slowly rose, and the light was evenly sprinkled on the bodies of the warring parties, without the slightest bias. Only at this moment, no one feels the grace and love of nature, and all that is seen in the eyes and heard in the ears is the shining iron spear in the soldier's hand and the rumbling war drum.

The enemy's footsteps became faster and faster, and the cold light of the weapons in his hands converged into a piece, pressing straight over, making the Song soldiers at the head of the city feel the great pressure.

"Steady, steady!"

Seeing that some soldiers' faces turned blue, and some people's hands couldn't help trembling, Kang Chengxun had been in battle for a long time, and knew that even the elite forbidden army must be a little nervous when they experienced the battle formation, not to mention that the crossbowmen of most sections of the city wall were all miscellaneous soldiers who had never experienced war.

He couldn't stop giving orders, and dozens of personal soldiers around him also followed his orders, and loudly conveyed them to the rest of the generals and soldiers.

When the enemy forced to the vicinity of the bed crossbow, the dust covering the sky and the sun spread lightly towards the city, Kang Chengxun silently calculated the distance, and paused for a moment before he ordered loudly: "Use the bed crossbow!" ”

He gave an order, dozens of bed crossbows placed in the four corners of the city immediately began to start, the upper arrow tightened the bow, because it was three big bows stacked together, the force was very great, so each bed crossbow was lined up with seven crossbow arrows, dozens of bed crossbows were fired in turn, only a loud sound of "horn" was heard, hundreds of long arrows like spears were shot out, first flew obliquely into the air, and then according to the calculated track, in the air suddenly accelerated, floating towards the swarming enemy infantry formation.

Such a diffuse shot was faced with a dense array of golden soldiers, and the results were immediate.

Someone was pierced by a long arrow and thrown into the air, and someone was shot in the head by a long arrow, and the entire skull shattered immediately as if it had been hit by a boulder. Snow-white brains and blood shot out like fountains, and some people were stabbed in the waist and abdomen, straight to the ground, unable to die for a while, and unable to break free, so they had to let out a mournful cry in the blood water. Ask the comrades behind him to give him a good time.

What made Jin Bing even more terrifying was that a huge arrow shot into the formation, often piercing through one person at the same time, its strength did not decrease, and it had to penetrate the chests of two or three people behind him, so it stopped on the chest of the person with a slight tremble, bringing out wisps of blood, and went straight down along the cold arrow shaft.

The bed crossbow, one of the most terrifying long-range weapons in the world invented by the Song Dynasty, was still in the Tanyuan Alliance. He shot and killed the general of Liao. Countless Khitan people were terrified.

In the Battle of Song and Jin, this terrifying weapon was at most deployed at the head of Tokyo, and its power had not yet been exerted. It has been snatched away by the Jurchens who don't know what is at stake.

And today, a large number of bed crossbows placed at the head of Chang'an City can finally play the mission it was given at the beginning of the design.

The bed crossbow kept firing, blood splattered, and screams were heard.

Countless fierce warriors had already fallen on the way before they got close to the walls of Chang'an.

When the Jin army got a little closer, it had already approached within a hundred paces, and the crossbow archers at the head of the city received the order to step on the light crossbow with their feet. Mounted on the arrows, the salvo was fired in sections, and for a while, countless arrows let out a sharp roar in mid-air, covering the sky and shooting towards the enemy army getting closer and closer.

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In the flash of light, the soldiers in the front row of the entire Jin Army, as if they were held down by an invisible giant hand, fell to the ground in unison. Blood spilled into the air, and the fallen body was heavily planted on the ground, stirring up puffs of dust.

Yesterday's Han Chang's actions made many Jin soldiers despise the archery skills of the Song army at the head of the city, but at this moment, the dense rain of arrows played a great role in killing the slow and approaching infantry team.

It's just that the army under the city is carefully selected, experienced in a hundred battles, and the blood does not have much effect on them, they keep moving forward, their companions fall, and the people behind them silently move forward and take the other party's place. Even if they were hit by arrows, as long as the injuries were not serious and did not endanger their lives and affect their progress, these soldiers would quietly cut off the shaft of the arrow and continue to move forward. Most of them are just wearing simple light iron armor, or even just wearing leather robes, and they are holding shoddy light shields made of wooden bread and iron sheets, these simple equipment cannot block powerful arrows for them at such a close range, but these Jurchen warriors, with rich experience, often use rolling and dodging actions in an instant, using these most rudimentary equipment, to minimize the damage caused by the opponent's sharp arrows.

When they were forced to a range of about fifty paces below the city, the generals at all levels who had been in the formation immediately ordered, and the Jin army erected a cloud ladder in the formation and began to rush towards the city.

Chang'an City does not have a moat, although it is getting closer and closer to the city, and the damage caused by the rain of arrows at the head of the city is getting heavier and heavier, the Jin soldiers still rushed to the city in an instant, and tens of thousands of people shouted at the same time, as if they were stuffy in their chests and spit out.

When they raided Chang'an, they did not prepare any siege equipment, always thought that either the emperor would run away, and the city could be won without a fight, and yesterday they knew that Zhao Huan was defending the city and all the gates were completely blocked. So since yesterday afternoon, the Jin soldiers have been cutting down trees everywhere, or forcibly demolishing the roofs of people outside the city, and trying to think of ways to force the Song carpenters outside the city to lead a large number of soldiers to build a ladder in a hurry.

In the middle of the night, due to the large number of people, more than 100 crude ladders were made, but they were far from the real ladders that were built by Seiko and could hook the incomparably strong cloud ladders at the head of the city.

At this time, the vanguard finally attacked the city under the rain of arrows, everyone shouted, and the Jin soldiers behind began to block the rain of arrows at the head of the city, while taking off the bow and arrows and shooting, the arrows began to shoot towards the city, killing and wounding some unlucky Song soldiers.

As the ladder was erected, tens of thousands of golden soldiers shouted again, and the Jurchen warriors who rushed to the front quickly dropped their shields, pinned their long knives and giant axes behind their waists, and climbed up the ladder with both hands and legs. Under this large section of the city wall that is five or six miles long, countless people began to go up frantically along hundreds of cloud ladders, if you look down from the clouds, it seems to be a large number of ants, dense, black and pressing, boundless, like a tide, sweeping towards the city.

Underneath their wriggling bodies, are the most capable warriors of the most capable of archery produced by the nation, their bows and arrows are not as powerful as the bow of the divine arm, but they are more accurate, with a buzz, the arrows like flying locusts flew up to the city, some hit the city made of blue bricks, stirring up pieces of stone chips, and some flew into the air and landed in the city, shooting and killing many unsuspecting Song people, and even Zhao Huan, who rushed to the city to supervise the battle, was urgently embraced into a private house by the guards, and did not dare to take a step forward to avoid this rain of arrows. At the same time, more arrows were shot in the formation of the Song people at the head of the city, and they began to return the color to the Song archers who were condescending and had been reaping the lives of the Jurchens.

In the rain of arrows coming and going, the Song army at the head of the city began to throw stones and sandalwood, often a stone or a piece of wood rolled down, which could make several golden soldiers be knocked down, so that the most climbed on the top was smashed into meat sauce, and the lightest was also the head broken blood, falling from a height of seven or eight meters, twisting the neck, or breaking the bones of the fall, making a burst of crackling and crisp sounds.

If the defenders can be doubled, or even just a few thousand more well-trained soldiers, they can completely block these siege gold soldiers, and the fact is that the defenders at the head of the city are too few, the lot to be responsible for is too large, the enemy army is blocking more and more, with the first one, there is a second one, although most of the golden soldiers who rushed up are exhausted, and their bodies are full of wounds, and even some people are exhausted after climbing up to the top of the city, leaving a bloody handprint, or being cut down by a prepared forbidden army soldier, However, the number of Jin soldiers exceeded the defenders several times, and the Jurchen Wanhu who commanded under the city knew the importance of this battle, and left no room at all, and even all the ten thousand households were commanded in the formation, and nearly 50,000 Jin soldiers did not even leave a reserve of one person, and completely devoted themselves to this life-and-death struggle.

The gap in numbers and experience and tactical literacy between the two sides gradually manifested, the rain of arrows at the head of the city became more and more sparse, and the soldiers of the Xiang army, who lacked training, could not withstand the counterattack from the city, and were forced to retreat, and each step back, the enemy's counterattack became more and more ferocious, under the cover of the archers on the side, more and more Jurchen soldiers climbed to the top of the city and began to fight to the death with the soldiers of the forbidden army who rushed over.

At first, it was only one or two gaps, and the golden soldiers who climbed up were driven back again, but gradually there were more and more, from a few people in small groups, more than a dozen people, gradually expanded to dozens, more than hundreds, and the time in the city was getting longer and longer, and when they confronted and fought with the soldiers of the forbidden army who rushed over in heavy armor, they also began to have contacts and contacts, and they were not as vulnerable as they were at the beginning.

In such a situation, as long as there is another half an hour, they can establish a solid position at the head of the city, protect the comrades outside the city to climb the city one after another, and then kill to the bottom of the city, open the blocked city gate, and the whole army will pour in, completely defeat the Song army in the street battle, and completely lead Chang'an.

Wan Yan Sa Libu and others, who watched the situation at the head of the city under the city, also keenly felt this opportunity, the Song army at the head of the city was not afraid of casualties, and fought to the death, which had brought him great shock and horror, this army, which was completely different from his previous cognition, seemed to be reborn and changed. Such fierce resistance and the energy that erupted gave the siege soldiers great damage, if it weren't for Yan Zongbi's strict order, he really wanted to order to stop the attack. When the opportunity came, he didn't feel particularly happy, but notified the rest of the ten thousand households, asking them to urge their subordinates to attack desperately, and be sure to make persistent efforts to break the city in one battle.