Chapter 216: Defending Cangzhou (3)
But even if it's not easy to fight, Sticky Han still thinks it's necessary to give it a try. As soon as noon arrived the next day, Mu Han asked Ha Mi Chi to take the two brothers Yinshuke and Jinshuke to lead 30,000 horses to fight Crouching Tiger Villa.
Crouching Tiger Villa is in the south of Cangzhou City, only forty miles away from the city. The cavalry trotted all the way, and arrived in half an hour.
After Ha Mi Chi let the two of them rest for a while, he began to attack from the front.
Chao Gai saw that the Jin soldiers had finally arrived, and he had already taken the 5,000 men and horses who stayed in the villa to wait.
The siege ladder of the Jin people has not yet been built, and they can only rely on accurate bows and arrows to suppress the soldiers on the wall. However, the officers and soldiers guarding the villa were all fully armed, with steel helmets, steel armor, and masks, and in the face of the enemy's rain of arrows flying all over the sky, they deliberately stood on the wall without dodging, and used them as arrow targets for the golden people. Countless flying arrows were like meteors, shooting at their steel armor, striking countless sparks, dazzling.
If it weren't for the constant sneering laughter from everyone's mouths, the Jin people would have thought that there were thousands of stone statues standing at the head of the wall.
The rain of arrows that lasted for half an hour only caused minor injuries to dozens of officers and soldiers standing on the wall, all of whom occasionally got into the gaps in the armor and injured their shoulders and bones.
However, the guards on the wall did not fight back, thinking that the guards in the village were just ordinary private households, and in addition to good armor, bows and arrows may be scarce. So he ordered all Jin Shuke's men and horses to dismount, divide into 3,001 teams, and attack the front of Crouching Tiger Villa.
After rushing to the wall, they tried to break through the courtyard by building a ladder or smashing open the gate with a giant log. A limited number of more than a dozen infantry shields covered the dozens of golden soldiers carrying giant trees to the Zhuangmen. Chao Gairang had already prepared, and the six small cannons installed on both sides of the walls of the village gate were ignited together, aiming at the golden man carrying the giant tree. 、
Thundered...... Boom, six cannon shots in a row, the golden soldiers fell, and the stumps flew in all directions. Two shots hit the giant tree, and the giant tree was also blown into several pieces. At this time, the thousands of gold soldiers who rushed to the village wall were less than thirty meters away from the village courtyard, although they were frightened by a few cannon shots, but they did not receive the order to retreat, and after a slight pause, they had no choice but to rush forward.
Suddenly, a large number of mallet-like things appeared on the heads of the advancing golden soldiers. Some of these mallets make loud noises when they hit the ground, and some of them make a deafening thunderous sound in the air. It turned out that Chao Gai took everyone and threw two rounds of grenades at Jin Ren.
With thousands of grenades thrown into the enemy group, a large number of shrapnel flew around, into the body of the golden people, some of the golden people were killed on the spot, and most of them were only wounded in many places, crying on the ground and crying for their fathers and mothers.
The few who were not injured or had minor injuries that did not affect their movement got up from the ground and fled back. At this moment, a dense stream of repeaters flew out of the wall, shooting the fleeing golden soldiers into hedgehogs.
Of the 3,000 gold soldiers, less than 200 fled back. At this rate of casualties, there would be very little left of the 30,000 horses they brought to attack more than a dozen times.
The chief general of the Jin soldiers, Yinshuke, was furious, and said in his heart: Yesterday in the attack on Cangzhou City, 50,000 horses were mobilized, but there were only more than 1,000 casualties, and 2,800 casualties were caused by 3,000 people in the first battle today. Is your small mountain villa more difficult to fight than Cangzhou City?
He ordered the remaining 20,000 people to rush forward regardless of casualties, and did not take the villa and did not retreat. Ha Mi Qi hurriedly stopped: "Yinshu can be a general must not be reckless, the protection ability of this mountain villa is stronger than Cangzhou City, if you don't invest all your troops regardless of casualties, I estimate that if you can't get it right, our 30,000 horses will be buried here." ”
"You see, there is something special about the wall here, it is made of a rare tile-gray earth, and although it is very high, it is not made of stone after all. But as long as it is made of mud, it must be afraid of water. ”
Hearing this, Jin Shuke's eyes lit up: "The military advisor said that if the soldiers are allowed to carry water to water the wall in the middle of the night, the wall soil will be stained with water, and the foot of the wall will be loosened with a knife, and the wall will be crossed, and the village will be broken without a human ladder." ”
Yinshu could hear his brother explain this, and thought in his heart that this plan was indeed high. So he ordered the 5,000 soldiers to empty the sheepskin bags containing dry rations, and all of them went to the river to fill them with water, and set them up for the third watch in the middle of the night......
That night, the moon was dark and the wind was high, and I couldn't see my fingers. At the third watch, all the 5,000 gold soldiers gave up their long weapons for battle, carried waist knives behind their backs, and each carried two sheepskin bags full of water in their hands, and quietly moved in the direction of the villa.
Close, close. When he was still thirty paces away from the villa, Jin Bing felt that his feet suddenly softened, and there was a slight sound under his feet when he walked, as if he was still elastic. After walking more than ten steps, Jin Ren suddenly realized that there was a layer of straw on the ground.
Jin Ren said in his heart, a small straw, and can't trip people, it's better to dig some traps, as long as someone attacks at night, no need to cover up will inevitably cause casualties to us.
The straw is 20 paces wide and more than 300 steps long, covering the front of the villa.
This time, it was Alchem who personally led the team. He saw that the Jin soldiers in front of him had already arrived at the wall, so he took dozens of relatives to command behind, and asked the Jin soldiers to line up and pour water on a short section of the wall less than ten meters, and wait on both sides of the fallen wall, so that they could enter the village. A quarter of an hour passed, and there were fewer and fewer soldiers with water in their hands.
Jin Shuke was about to pour water forward with his own soldiers, when he suddenly heard a shout from the head of the city: "Release the rocket!" ”
In an instant, thousands of rockets flew out of the wall, drawing beautiful arcs in the sky. In a matter of seconds, the circle of straw laid on the ground was all clear. Ten steps in front of Crouching Tiger Villa, a sea of fire became informed.
Fortunately, Alchemy can walk not far into the straw circle, and the reaction is fast enough. "Run, the Song people are going to attack." With a flick of his hand, he threw out the water bag and doused the two rockets in front of him.
The fifty soldiers around him also followed closely behind him, throwing out the water bags and temporarily suppressing the fire. Even so, when they rushed out of the fire, their clothes began to catch fire, and there was no hair on their heads.
The four or five hundred golden soldiers who were holding on to them also doused some of the flames with water bags, and more than 200 people rushed out, and more than 200 fell on the edge of the sea of fire......