"These things that don't know whether to live or die are just asking for their own death; Send a signal to inform the Fifth Cavalry Regiment and let them prepare to intercept and pursue the rout of this golden army~"

After putting down a monocular in his hand, Hu Biao said so.

In his expression and tone, there is a bit of spirit.

And in the position next to him, there were several netizens including the concubine and the singer, as well as a group of Great Song officers and generals including Yue Fei.

At this moment, although they didn't say anything, the expectant expressions on their faces could actually show that they also agreed with Hu Biao's statement.

Today's time is the fifth day of the second month of the second year of Maode, and it is more than nine o'clock in the morning.

That is, after they set off from Kaifeng City, it was the fifth day.

What makes Hu Biao and others so high-spirited is because of the beginning of this Northern Expedition, at least so far, everything has been quite smooth.

Not to mention anything else, just because they had raised the daily march of the army to the extent that it was seventy miles from the next day, it made them happy.

The reason for this is all due to the beauty of the sky, and the weather suddenly warmed up rapidly.

On the morning of the day of departure, the temperature was still below freezing; But by noon, the temperature had risen to fifteen or sixteen degrees.

And in the days that followed, the temperature got higher and higher day by day.

During the day yesterday, the maximum temperature reached 212 degrees.

As a result, the ice on the thick surface of the river, which had been frozen, is getting thinner and thinner day by day, and it is about to melt completely.

This means that in the current marching procession, there is no need to carry a full load of grain, grass and supplies on the large carts.

It can be used to improve the efficiency of the march of the army.

Based on such an idea, Hu Biao and the others had many vacant seats on these big cars.

These vacant seats not only allow the soldiers to throw a twenty-pound backpack behind them onto the cart to reduce their burden when they are marching.

There are even some spare slots where the fighters can take turns to rest and regain some stamina.

However, when it comes to these new carts, one of the biggest effects they play at present is to reduce the time and energy spent by the soldiers in setting up camps every night when camping.

And building a camp every day is one of the key factors affecting the speed of the march.

In order to prevent the opponent from stealing the camp in the middle of the night and the camp roar that may be triggered, the army of the Central Plains has been quite particular about camping since ancient times.

The effect, if you strictly camp according to the military book, it is naturally quite good.

But this also means that there are many requirements for the choice of campsite; When you set out in the morning, you need to pack up for a while, and in the afternoon, there is still a long time before dark, and you have to stop to build a camp.

Taken together, it is a lot of time and energy that has been delayed.

Otherwise, for Mao Gu's many armies in one day, they can only travel thirty miles in the military region? That is, the legendary 'retreat and retreat', one of the allusions in this allusion.

You must know that modern people can generally walk ten miles by walking for an hour.

It's a three-hour journey, but it takes a whole day.

It's not that in the process of marching, there are too many other things that involve energy; In order to ensure basic combat effectiveness, it is only possible to walk such a small distance in a day.

But with these new cars, everything is different.

It's like the cowboys during the Great Gold Rush in the West, and they operated at night camping.

Every night when the soldiers camped, as long as they gathered together in regiments, loaded the carts with wooden planks, and formed a circle, a strong formation of carts appeared.

The whole process only takes about 20 minutes at most, and there is no need to build the camp at all.

Even these cars can be topped with a wooden roof.

This means that even if it rains, it will not affect the defenders to use muskets and artillery and constantly open fire.

In this way, Hu Biao and others, who found that the soldiers marched sixty miles a day, and it was still relatively easy, increased the daily march distance by ten miles.

Don't look at the small number, but the accumulation is still considerable, which can arrive in Yanjing a few days in advance, it can be said that their plans are more abundant at once......

As for the battle that took place at the beginning, what was it all about?

To be precise, the first battle of the Northern Expedition of the Great Song Dynasty was still an encounter.

According to the information transmitted by Xichang Fanzi, who was active in the north, the army of the Jin people was currently beginning to assemble in the Yanjing area.

Even Wanyan Wu begged to buy it was a personal expedition, and it seemed that it should be the main battlefield of both sides, the end.

However, this does not mean that they can let the Northern Expedition of the Great Song Dynasty reach Nayanjing so easily.

Wanyan Yan's mother, this Wanyan Aguta, Wanyan Wu begged to buy the two emperors of the Jin State before and after, the half-brother, and the few famous veterans left in the Jin Kingdom.

As early as a few days ago, with a total of 40,000 cavalry, he met the way of the Northern Expeditionary Army.

So, yesterday out of the border of Xiangzhou, which was controlled by the Yuejia army, and today when they arrived at the capital city away from the Daimyo's mansion, but only thirty or forty miles away, the battle between the two sides began.

To be more specific, a golden cavalry of about 3,000 men.

After breaking through the Song army's sentry cavalry cruising around the army, it suddenly launched an attack.

It's a pity that these Jin cavalry were found by the sentinels who were cruising outside by the army eleven or twelve miles away, and made a timely warning.

The sentry rider holds a special monkey piercing the sky, and when he pulls the fuse, the thing can rush to the top of the old man in an instant.

When the explosion opens, even in the daylight hours, such a huge movement can be seen clearly from far away.

So, wait until the 3,000 golden cavalry rushes closer.

Immediately, all the Song troops stopped advancing and connected the carts to each other, forming one strange car formation after another.

After a little hesitation, the Jurchen acted as the commander of Meng'an.

Still commanding the cavalry under his command, he chose a slightly smaller scale, only two or three thousand car formations, and directly launched an attack.

It seems that he is ready to rush up and take advantage of the fact that the cavalry of the new army will rush forward and take advantage of the fact that he will leave.

Then, just like the evaluation given by Hu Biao: These things that don't know whether to live or die are just asking for their own death.

In the process of these golden soldiers rushing over, first they used Napoleonic field guns with a longer range in front of them and on the left and right of the car formation.

The use of continuous firing of solid shells, fiercely gave them a dismount.

Even these golden people, obviously because their comrades had suffered a big loss in Zhuxian Town, knew the power of this kind of artillery.

In the process of charging, they tried to widen the distance between each other as much as possible, and they were still smashed out of the flesh and blood alleys in the charging team by a huge cannonball.

However, compared to the muskets waiting in the car formation, and the shotguns fired by the small Franc machine guns, the intensity of this artillery bombardment is nothing.

In particular, these golden cavalry, after rushing to the position of fifty paces in front of the formation.

In front of them, it was like an invisible barrier, and every step they wanted to take forward would have to pay an astonishing price.

When they paid a huge price and rushed to the front of the formation, they rushed thirty paces.

When the grenades were thrown, the casualties were all to the point that the Jurchen Meng'an commander was trembling.

Eventually, the battle began, but only three or four minutes later.

The Jin side was completely unable to bear the thousands of casualties; Suddenly, one of the soldiers frantically blew the horn, preparing for the rest of the personnel to withdraw in a hurry.

It's just that after they turned around, they just ran out of the way they had been in the sky for two days.

A cavalry force of the Song people, with a scale of two thousand two or three, had already been stabbed obliquely; This is the 5th Cavalry Regiment of the 2nd Cavalry Division, which has already rushed over after receiving the flag.

The knights above were all in control of their horses in one hand, and in the other hand they held a short hammer that had been lifted high.

That doesn't seem entirely true.

Because he was riding a green horse with a divine horse, he rushed to the front of the high pet, and he was just carrying a chiseled golden tiger head in his hand.

However, such an operation does not affect the performance of this former 'first general of the Southern Song Dynasty' at all.

Under the background of the bursts of short guns, he rushed straight towards the Jurchen Meng'an commander with the shadow of the spear in the sky.

No matter who blocked him along the way, after a shot passed, he stabbed, picked, or smashed off the horse, and there was no enemy at all.

After a short cavalry battle, only seven or eight hundred of the originally 3,000 Jin cavalry escaped.

As they fled, their horses frantically whipped their horses, everyone's faces were filled with fear.

Not only is the power of the firearms of the Song people far more powerful than the legend; Another point, that Song young general is too powerful.

Because their Meng'an Qianfu is already being held in his hands like a pampered chick at this moment.

After mentioning Hu Biao and others all the way, he threw it on the ground like garbage; This is the military salute of a new army on horseback, and the mouth says aloud:

"I've seen all of you......

At this moment, the little brother Gao Pet is really the most beautiful boy in the audience.

*******

Although in such an encounter, the number of Jin people killed and captured by the new army was only more than 2,000.

However, under the good omen of victory in the first battle, the Northern Expeditionary army was naturally thunderous with joy, and the morale immediately soared again.

Even the pace of the road under his feet was immediately several points faster; If the marching speed is followed, I am afraid that the distance can be increased to eighty miles a day, which is not excessive.

When the time came in the evening of the same day, another good news came, and the morale of the Northern Expeditionary Army skyrocketed again.

Why? Because after a march, the forward troops of the large army arrived outside the capital of the Daimyo's Mansion at about noon.

By two o'clock in the afternoon, the First Army and the First Artillery Division, which had been in front, had basically all arrived outside this famous city.

For such an outer city, the circumference is forty-eight miles and two hundred and six steps, the gate is seventeen, the south gate is threeteen, and the city wall is as high as three and a half zhang.

Although it is still a wall of earth, it is covered with a layer of bricks outside, which can be said to be quite a strong Xiongcheng, and the Jin people naturally have no reason to give up.

The defenders of the city, consisting of 1,000 Jurchens and 30,000 miscellaneous soldiers, had already prepared a large number of trebuchets and ballistae.

There are also a lot of defensive materials such as sasswood, rolling stones, and gold juice, and even forcibly mobilized the people in the city, forming a group of more than 20,000 people, who can top the city wall at any time.

Wanyan Wu Qimai and others naturally knew that it was naturally impossible to use such a famous city to stop the Northern Expedition of the Song people.

However, with their rich experience in warfare, they unanimously came to a consensus:

There was plenty of food and grass in the city, and there were 40,000 cavalry roaming outside the city with the help of the high walls; At least it can delay the Song people for a month before they can take this place.

Although those new Song troops were powerful, they should also pay twenty or thirty thousand casualties.

If it was replaced by other Song troops, it would be impossible to defeat it at all.

However, they soon learned that times were completely different.

Since the new army of the Great Song Dynasty completed the complete weaponization of gunpowder, it is not the field mode that has changed, and the same is true of such siege warfare.

After the First Army arrived outside the city, in the concept of the commander of the old snake, there was no such thing as the whole army resting for a little night, and the siege would be made early tomorrow morning.

Immediately, he commanded a group of troops under his command and launched an attack on the Daimyo Castle.

This is also the first time that the Northern Expedition army has carried out a siege battle, which can be regarded as a preliminary rehearsal for the siege of Yanjing City in the future......

After the battle began, the first thing to do on the side of the New Army was, of course, the 1st Artillery Division.

A total of 6 24-pounder guns, 24 12-pounder guns, 36 8-pounder guns, and 66 6-pounder guns, just outside the south gate of the daimyo castle, lined up all the way under the noses of the defenders of the city.

No way! The defenders at the head of the city, regardless of the trebuchets or ballistae in their hands, could not beat these Song people at all.

And near the artillery, there are also many Song people's musket phalanx to defend, they dare not go out of the city, except to watch, what else can they do?

When these guns fired, the dense shells smashed the wall stacks and debris flew up,

The doomsday scene of smashing trebuchets, ballistas, and human bodies to shreds, like the earth shaking the mountains, made many Jurchens in the city who supervised the war so frightened that they peed their pants.

Not to mention the main force of the defenders composed of the surrendered Song army and the people who captured Ding.

When a lot of the unlucky people who were running around in great panic were knocked down by cannonballs, and splashes of masonry and wood.

The surviving personnel were all holding their brains and squatting under the wall, praying that this could end soon.

The war has begun, and the morale has dropped to the freezing point.

Of course, these people don't have to be so afraid, because even the field artillery of the devils during World War II will need a certain amount of time to blast through the walls of this level.

What's more, the current Great Song New Army uses such an old-fashioned artillery that still uses black powder.

If you really want to bomb the city wall in this way, you need to bomb it for at least three or five days in a row.

The problem is that the old snake didn't think of relying on artillery to blast such a majestic city alive; Time is tight and tasks are heavy, how can they have this idle time.

When all the defenders at the head of the city were suppressed by artillery fire.

The suspension bridge here at the south gate, under the special bombardment of ten guns, the iron chain that was originally stirred up was suddenly loosened, so that the heavy suspension bridge fell on the spot.

Then, the artillery, including three 24-pounder guns, continued to greet the city gate.

Under the power of these shells, even the iron-clad city gate did not resist for ten minutes, and finally fell with a dense hole in the eye.

Even at this moment, the defenders of the city did not completely collapse.

Because of the majestic castle of the Daimyo Castle, the city gate has the structure of an 'urn castle'.

Specifically, even if you pass through the first gate, you have to pass through an open area with a hollow structure and open another gate before you can officially enter the city.

In the process, the attackers were attacked by the defenders from four directions, including front, back, left, and right.

Fundamentally, it's a trap.

But after the first gate was blown open, the old snake did not send a large army to storm it at all; Instead, at his signal, hundreds of soldiers of the guard company were dispatched.

They carried two oversized 'coffins' with large shields on their heads, and rushed into the city gate hole with sparse arrows.

The next second, these people escaped with their lives; only hates his father and mother, and gives birth to a pair of feet for himself.

In fact, it is absolutely normal for them to have such a reaction.

Because the two so-called oversized 'coffins' are basically two wooden boxes containing thousands of pounds of black powder in each of them.

How powerful this thing is, these people don't know.

But they knew that just a ten-pound bag of explosives was already terrifying.

Then such a box with a charge of more than two or three hundred times, once it explodes open, the power can only be described as outrageous.

And before the action, they were told a little.

After the fuse is ignited, it will detonate in about two minutes.

So if they don't run now, how far and how far they can, are they completely living enough, waiting to be blown to pieces by these things?

In fact, just 115 seconds later, an explosion scene that even a modern person like the old snake was very staggering appeared at the south gate of the Daimyo Castle.

In short, after a huge burst of smoke and loud noise.

When everyone looked over in the calmed smoke, they found that the entire city gate had collapsed into a long section, revealing a huge gap.

"Immediately, blow the trumpet" immediately shouted out in the mouth of the old snake,

Finally, in the sound of 'tick-tock~', the troops of the First Army swarmed in from the breach.

The resistance they encountered after entering the city can only be described as weak; It was really because of such a dimensional-reducing blow that the defenders in the city had almost lost all their will to fight.

In the evening, the entire city of Daimyo Castle was taken.

The old snake rode a war horse and swaggered into the city in the afterglow of the landing, and in front of him were kneeling and begging for mercy......

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