Chapter 159: Rhinoceros and Rhinoceros Again
Minami Kaoru Gate.
"It's still this thing domineering!"
Wang Yue carried his giant Mo knife and looked at the chaotic array of King Qin's forbidden army in the distance, with a deep sigh on his face.
At the moment, his equipment has been fully upgraded.
The armor has changed!
The original triple cold forging armor has become a set of special armor that costs a lot of money to make, and the main body of this armor is a pure plate cuirass, and the large iron plate is actually not difficult for the craftsmen of this era, the difficulty is only how to reduce the cost. Therefore, as long as you are willing to spend money, you can choose the best ore to smelt with charcoal when smelting iron, smelt high-quality pig iron and then smelt it, and finally hot forge the wrought iron you get.
Finally, carburizing is carried out for steel.
The craftsmen of the Great Song Dynasty did not understand carburizing, let alone carburizing, and many heat treatments were understood.
But why did the craftsmen of the Song Dynasty know carburizing, but they would not carburize the hot-forged armor, so that it could achieve the protection that was not inferior to the cold-forged armor, but made Shen Kuo sigh that the armor was really good?
Very simple.
Is a thief's life worth a set of carburized armor?
Just have armor!
What kind of bicycle do you want?
Technically, it's all off-the-shelf.
However, the cost of such a production is another matter.
But Wang Yue doesn't care about the cost.
In the end, he spent a lot of money and gathered a large number of skilled craftsmen from the original engineering department, so as to create a cuirass with an average thickness of five millimeters, and the thickness of the front chest even reached seven millimeters.
And with a basin collar.
As for Wang Yue's arm protection, it is similar to the iron arm hand of the Ming Dynasty, using a large piece of the same carburized iron plate with a thickness of five millimeters, whether it is steel or not, he doesn't know, but he is wider and thicker than the original, including his legs are also this way of protection. There are still some bits and pieces such as armpit and throat protection, which are also essential, and then add a helmet, behind which is a fart curtain, of course, this fart curtain is a large piece of iron nailed to the cowhide, and it can always wrap most of the head. Finally, there is also a face armor with an obvious pretense of force, the face armor is painted with red paint, and it is even more pretended to make fangs, and after buckling it, from the opponent's point of view, there are two eyes left on his body without protection.
And then there's the mount......
"General, can this thing really catch up with a war horse?"
Gao Jie looked uncertainly at the equally exaggerated mount under Wang Yue's crotch.
On the four legs as thick as a pillar, there is a fat body like a pig, with colorful patterns painted on the body, and on the head raised in front of it, there is a long thorn with cold light......
Well, it's a rhinoceros.
General Yang's armor basically did not fall five millimeters in thickness, although it did not completely cover every surface of the body like the European full-body plate armor, but it still covered more than three-quarters, such armor weighed more than one hundred and twenty catties, and his weight was more than three hundred.
In addition, he also has a Mo knife of more than 70 catties, as well as a pair of spare maces.
The total weight of the full set is close to four hundred and five.
War horses are definitely out of play, not to mention river horses, even Andalusian horses are in vain.
But General Yang will definitely not be able to charge in a carriage.
He's got to have a mount!
Then he was in Yujin Garden, and was pleasantly surprised to find that there was a lonely rhinoceros, which was said to be a foreign tribute, originally a pair, but one died before, and the name is not called a rhinoceros, some people call this thing Tianlu, but the name is controversial, so the official is called a strange beast......
In other words, the Great Song Dynasty didn't know what a rhinoceros looked like?
But it's also quite possible.
After all, at this time, it is estimated that there are only Dali rhinoceros left in China, and even if there are still remnants in Liangguang, they must be in those remote places, at least the princes of the court do not know each other, but this is not Wang Yue's concern, he only needs to know that his mount is available. Then, after violently beating up and putting a nose ring on this lonely rhinoceros, the Javan rhinoceros accepted his fate with a dead heart.
Then he was at his mercy.
"It is not slower than a war horse, but its endurance is not as good as that of a war horse."
Wang Yue patted the rhinoceros on the head and said.
The latter shook his head, a humiliation that dared not speak angrily, and it could only be so after being beaten by Wang Yue and putting on the nose ring.
"Beat the drums!"
Wang Yue then said.
On the carriage next to him, the war drums immediately sounded.
In front of them, with their backs to Yujin Garden, the forbidden army that was forming a formation was in chaos.
This is Li Yan's subordinate.
In fact, there are two generals in the prefecture, this is the main force of Li Yan's subordinates, and the total strength is only 7,000, as for the ones he recruited, this one will definitely not dare to be pulled out for field combat, and he will not be so brainy. At this time, the attack on Kaifeng City had already begun, Fan Zhixu's troops in the west mainly attacked Kaiyuanmen, Deng Xunren's troops attacked Chenqiaomen, Zhang Shuye attacked Xincao Gate, and Li Yan attacked Nanxunmen.
But the battle is all about rookies pecking at each other.
Those who defend the city are all scum, and those who attack are also all scum.
Slag to slag.
The two sides were more than 100 meters apart and threw stones at each other and shot arrows at each other.
Counting on those forbidden troops and the newly recruited rabble to charge at the risk of arrows, it is completely impossible, not to mention having to fill in the trenches, those who have not yet attacked have approached the moat, they are all carrying ladders and running a few steps, and then seeing someone fall with an arrow, the rest immediately threw the ladder and scattered, these forbidden troops are all the worst scum of the Great Song Dynasty, Hebei, Jingdong East and West, Fujie and Jingxi, all of them have not experienced war for more than a hundred years......
You can't catch thieves!
If they can do it, they won't let the thirty-six brothers of Song Jiang crisscross the river.
These scum defending the city are very hanging, in fact, Jingkang has proved that they really can't even defend the city, and the protagonists of the seventeen Jurchen soldiers who defeated the two thousand Song army are these.
And now you want them to attack the city?
And it was also an attack on Kaifeng, which actually caused the Jurchens to have a headache later.
Is there a mistake?
So Wang Yue was relieved and boldly led the cavalry out of the city to counterattack.
At this moment, Gao Jie's cavalry brigade is all lined up under the city, with 500 cavalry in the middle, and it is said that none of them have died in battle, but two have died of illness, and there are still 498 in total. On the two wings were two other archer battalions, Wang Xuan led one battalion, and the commander of the other battalion, Cao Cheng, was a ten-year general in the original forbidden army. Wai Huang people, because of the brawl killed people, so they absconded into the army, and joined with a group of good friends during the Kaifeng Change, and then performed well and quickly won the favor of Shi Jin, and recommended to Wang Yue to be promoted.
The main thing is that this person is sociable and very good at gathering his subordinates.
This is Wang Yue's cavalry brigade.
With a total strength of 1,500 troops, the tactics were similar to those of Tiefutu and kidnapping horses, and the light cavalry on the left and right flanks attacked and harassed, and the cavalry mounted in the middle of the road made the decisive blow.
But not now.
"The whole army is attacking, and there is no need to be so troublesome with this scum!"
Wang Yue said.
Immediately after that, the Mo knife in his hand was raised.
The standard-bearer holding the tooth flag of the Chinese army behind him immediately waved the yellow flag, and at the same time, the two cavalrymen on the left and right blew the horn in their hands, Wang Yue poked the rhinoceros with a special spur on his right foot, and the latter roared dissatisfiedly and then stepped out of the four hooves, and the huge body weighing nearly two tons began to move forward slowly.
Behind Wang Yue, the five hundred mounted cavalry urged the war horses at the same time, and then raised their Zhangba spears on horseback.
This is the infantry of the Rush Formation.
They had to use the longest spear.
However, their speed was not fast, Wang Yue at the front was actually not running at all, but letting the rhinoceros move forward slowly at a normal speed, not so much attacking as scare, and he held the Mo knife in one hand and kept rotating on the rhinoceros's back.
Mo Dao constantly reflects the sunlight.
Then in the obviously chaotic formation of archers on the left and right flanks, with the waving of their respective flags, accompanied by the sound of horns, they also moved forward at the same time, but they stepped forward in a disorderly manner, and the cavalry on horseback were all holding bows and arrows, and their speed was faster, these cavalrymen with only simple armor, and the mounted cavalry that quickly exceeded the controlled speed, like two open pincers crashing into the two wings of the opposing infantry formation.
The chaos on the opposite side intensified.
Although these forbidden armies finally completed the formation, it was not the Yue family army behind the shield wall.
Everybody's shivering.
"Steady, steady!"
Behind them, Li Yan screamed.
He didn't notice that he was also trembling, and he hadn't seen this, he wasn't Tong Guan Tan Zhi who had been on the battlefield, he was a person who specialized in scraping the ground to collect taxes, and on the opposite side was the mounted cavalry advancing like a wall, and the light cavalry on the left and right opened their bows, and the core of all this was still a monster riding a monster, and the legend is a monster who came to the world with demons.
Look at the weapon in his hand that keeps shining, it's obviously a magic weapon!
"All, all steady, we are here to rescue the king of Qin, fight, open the Nanxun door, everyone has a reward, a hundred, a hundred!"
He stammered.
The soldiers in front of him looked back at him speechlessly......
Then don't shake yet!
At this moment, the cavalry of Cao Chengbu on the left flank arrived first, and the five hundred cavalry swept over the flanks of the infantry formation like a torrent, and the cavalry on horseback continued to shoot sharp arrows, and the chaotic counterattack on this side, but the distance between the two sides was more than thirty zhang, and the casualties caused to each other were few.
But......
Li Yan trembled even more.
Then the right wing Wang Xuanbu arrived, and also swept on the other side of the formation, passing by at the same time as a sharp arrow was fired, causing sporadic losses on this side, and the crossbow arrows fired in a haphazard manner on this side caused very few losses to such a galloping cavalry.
But......
Li Yan's face turned white.
And at this moment, the frontal mounted cavalry was also clear in his field of vision, especially the rebel in the front, the huge long knife in the latter's hand radiated cold light, his face was hideous and his fangs were exposed, and the terrifying horn of the monster under his crotch was erected, covered with various patterns, and even had scales, and the four hooves as thick as an elephant stepped out of the ground.
Li Yan began to retreat......
Suddenly, the long knife in the thief's hand pointed to this side......
"Kill that Li Yan and eliminate harm for the people!"
A thunderous roar instantly resounded across the battlefield.
Immediately after that, he began to accelerate......
"Ah......h
Li Yan's endurance finally reached the limit, he screamed like crazy, turned his horse's head without hesitation, and ran backwards, and the next moment the soldiers in front of him, who were already on the verge of collapse, also screamed and threw down their weapons, scrambling to crowd, and running in the same direction......
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