The wooden bridge was heavy, and there were some wooden shields hanging in front and on both sides, and more than 20 people carried the wooden bridge with great difficulty and slow speed. According to Yang Peng's estimates, these wooden bridges will not advance half a meter in a second. It took a stick of incense to walk ten wooden bridges to the front of the trench. At a distance of two hundred meters, Yang Peng's Tiger Ben Division began to shoot at the wooden bridge. Six hundred rounds of ammunition were fired at the auxiliaries and followers who had erected the wooden bridge, and hit the wooden shield in front of the wooden bridge.

But the bullets of the Tiger Ben Division failed to kill and injure the Khitan army under the wooden bridge. The wooden shields placed in front of and on both sides of those wooden bridges were thick, with thick planks half a fist thick. The rifle crackled against the wood, sending sawdust flying, but it did not cause casualties to the auxiliaries behind the wooden shield. After a round of shooting, the Khitan army was unharmed.

Seeing this, there was a cheer among the Khitan army. Yang Peng's riflemen couldn't kill the Khitan army who built the bridge, so the Khitan army could swagger and put the wooden bridge on it. Then the Khitan soldiers in the back came up, and 70,000 people could kill Yang Peng's 10,000 people without leaving a piece of armor. Several Khitan generals who watched the battle in the back even felt that this wooden shield hanging on the wooden bridge was very good. When fighting with Yang Peng in the future, do you let every soldier who rushed forward with this kind of wooden shield? Protective rifles?

Ten wooden bridges slowly walked to the front of the first trench, put the front end of the wooden bridge against this side of the trench, and then pushed the back of the wooden bridge together so that the rear end of the wooden bridge fell over the trench and landed on the other side. Three wooden bridges were erected on top of the trench, which became a thoroughfare. As soon as the three wooden bridges were placed, the more than 20 auxiliary soldiers under the three wooden bridges fled back to the wooden shield, and slowly retreated behind the wooden shield. After leaving the wooden bridge, the wooden shield could still be held by more than 20 Khitan soldiers. Although the wooden shield was heavy and made the soldiers walk slowly, under the protection of the wooden shield, Yang Peng's riflemen could only watch these Khitans slowly retreat.

The seven wooden bridges behind them passed through three wooden bridges and pressed towards the second trench. In the formation of the Tiger Division, Lu Hu, the second deputy head of the Xuanfeng Regiment, commanded one hundred and forty strong crossbows. He squinted at the wooden bridge of the Khitan army in front of him and asked, "General, do you want to shoot them with a strong crossbow?" ”

To deal with this kind of half-fist-thick wooden armor, you really should use long arrows. However, Yang Peng was afraid that as soon as the long arrow was fired, he scared the 70,000 Khitan troops away. Yang Peng shook his head and said: "Don't use long arrows first, use a stone thrower to use solid bullets to repel these seven wooden bridges!" After thinking about it, Yang Peng said again: "The speed of the stone thrower is slower, don't scare them." ”

Lu Hu chanted loudly and commanded ten stone throwers to aim at the seven wooden bridges that were slowly advancing. Only a few loud "booms" were heard, and the ten stone throwers hidden behind the earthen fort opened fire, firing solid bullets at seven wooden bridges more than 100 meters away. The five-pound stone whistled through the air and slammed into the wooden bridge. The distance was very close, and the hit rate of the ten stone throwers was very high, and eight of them hit. Those half-fist-thick wooden shields could hold off bullets, but they were easily torn apart in front of the stone like papier-mâché. Solid shells hit the auxiliaries and followers under the wooden bridge, destroying them wherever they went.

Even if the hands and feet are touched by these stones, they will be cut off immediately. If the torso of the body is hit by a stone, it will be immediately dead. At least three or four layers of the Khitan army's body were pierced, and the shells stopped. The blood splattered from the wound was like a splash of paint, splashing all over the inside of the wooden bridge in an instant, splashing all the Khitan soldiers under the wooden bridge in their faces. The auxiliaries and followers under the wooden bridge were hit hard, and their morale was sudden, and they wanted to flee if they had followers.

"Wanda", who commanded the battle, saw that the soldiers had lost their morale, and shouted under the wooden bridge: "Rush to the third trench, everyone raises the flag!" "Raise the flag! That's the ideal of countless lifelong servants. If you raise the flag, you will no longer be a man and a slave, you will be a flag man with your head held high, you will be able to eat well, you will be able to wear warm clothes, and you will be able to have a woman! When the attendants heard the words of "Wanda", their morale was greatly boosted, and they returned to their posts with a howl, and walked forward with a strong support on the heavy wooden bridge.

Seven wooden bridges drummed up, and after walking more than twenty meters, the second round of stones began. Ten catapults spewed cannonballs at the wooden bridge, and ten shells crashed under the seven wooden bridges. Eight out of ten shells hit the target, and another scream rang out under the wooden bridge, and dozens of auxiliaries and followers were broken by the shells and fell in pools of blood.

A wooden bridge was hit by three cannons, and the losses were too great, and the Khitan soldiers who were still alive could no longer lift the wooden bridge. They abandoned the wooden bridge in front of the trench and slowly retreated with their wooden shields. Six more wooden bridge cars went to the front of the second trench and lowered two wooden bridges.

Seeing that the six wooden bridges in front of them had successfully reached the front of the second trench, the Khitan army applauded in unison. The nobleman of the foreign domain, the Karaqin Gurus, said happily: "General, this wooden bridge can be used!" Han Derang and Xiao Tianma glanced at each other, and their eyes were full of joy. Since ten wooden bridges can be advanced to the second layer of trenches under the pressure of the cannon fire of ten stone throwers, the thousand wooden bridges go hand in hand, and one hundred and forty strong crossbows cannot be prevented in any way. Xiao Tianma's wooden bridge strategy is feasible!

Xiao Tianzuo touched his long beard and groaned. On the front of the battlefield, the four wooden bridges, which were still moving forward, came under another round of shelling as they approached between the second and third trenches. The Qing soldiers of the two wooden bridges could not resist, abandoned the wooden bridges, and retreated with wooden shields. Two other wooden bridges were advanced all the way to the edge of the third wooden bridge, and the two wooden bridges were erected on top of the third trench.

After the wooden bridge was erected, the Qing soldiers under the two wooden bridges retreated with wooden shields. They managed to reach the third layer of trenches and were able to raise the flag! The followers of these Khitan soldiers were so excited that their faces were bloody. Seeing this scene, the 70,000 Khitan troops in front of the Chinese army thundered with joy and thunder, and ten wooden bridges could advance to the third layer of trenches. The Khitan soldiers seemed to have seen thousands of wooden bridges with long arrows on the trenches, and 70,000 warriors killed the Song army from the wooden bridges.

Han Derang turned his head happily and said to Xiao Tianzuo: "Commander-in-chief, the wooden bridge can do it!" Xiao Tianzuo didn't know why, but he was unexpectedly a little nervous, he looked at the Song army in front of him, and he was undecided. Xiao Tianma saw that his strategy could be used, and he was a little proud, and said loudly: "Commander-in-chief, let the warriors go, we can defeat these Song troops in just a stick of incense!" ”

Yi Bai, a nobleman of the Xi clan, said: "The commander general, in order to get out of the customs, can only build a wooden bridge and rush over!" Even the Xijun, who had been a little flustered, did not say any more frustrated words, but only looked at the wooden bridge erected on the trench in a daze. Yang Peng's rifle and strong crossbow were fired, but the wooden bridge still rushed up, no matter how you look at it, the situation is favorable to the Khitan army.

Xiao Tianzuo gritted his teeth and said, "Okay, the wooden bridge rushes into battle!" "The horn of the Khitan army sounded, the flag was waved, and the order for a general attack was issued. To the rhythmic beat of the drums, 20,000 or 30,000 auxiliaries and followers shouted loudly, grabbed the edge of the wooden bridge, and lifted it together with all their might. The auxiliaries and followers went under the wooden bridge, held the wooden bridge, and moved towards the four trenches in unison.

More than a thousand wooden bridges were like more than a thousand armored vehicles, pressing towards the Tiger Division. Those wooden bridges are more than three meters wide, while the front of Yang Peng's fortress is only more than 700 meters, plus the gap between the wooden bridges, only more than 100 wooden bridges can be placed on one front. A thousand wooden bridges lined up in a long line, with eight or nine floors, looked mighty.

However, the wooden bridge walked very slowly, and it took more than ten minutes to reach the first trench. Yang Peng didn't let the strong crossbow fire, and the Khitan army was a little surprised and sped up their speed of hands and feet. The first row of wooden bridges in front of them put the wooden bridges on the first trench, and two hundred wooden bridges were erected on them, so that the first trench became a flat land.

The Khitan soldiers who had paved the wooden bridge retreated with wooden shields. Seeing that the first trench was paved with a wooden bridge, there was a jubilant sound in the Khitan army column in front of the Chinese army. Xiao Tianma held the horsewhip and said, "Commander-in-chief, it won't be long before we can pave the four trenches and rush up." Xiao Tianzuo was suspicious of why Yang Peng didn't shoot, and he was a little anxious, so he looked at Xiao Tianma and didn't speak.

After the first trench was laid, 800 wooden bridges crossed the first trench, and they were only 180 meters away from Yang Peng's strong crossbow. The reason why Yang Peng let the Khitan army pave the first trench was because he was afraid that the Khitan army would collapse and flee after the first round of long arrows. The range of the long arrow of the strong crossbow is 850 meters, and after the wooden bridge of the Khitan army enters 180 meters, it has to run the same distance to escape the range of the long arrow. In other words, the Khitan army, which had passed through the first trench, had fallen into the middle of the strike range of the strong crossbow.

Yang Peng sneered and shouted loudly: "Strong crossbow!" Shoot! "The stone throwers fired at the same time, and one hundred and forty strong crossbows were already ready to go, and one hundred stone throwing machines were under Yang Peng's order, and more than one hundred strong crossbows shot at the eight hundred Khitan army wooden bridges one hundred and eighty meters away.

Fourteen thousand long arrows were like a torrential rain, overwhelming the sky, pouring towards the auxiliary soldiers and followers of the Khitan army. A large number of stones from the stone thrower smashed into the Khitan army, and the wooden shield under the wooden bridge of the Khitan army was thick enough to withstand rifle bullets. But in the face of long arrows and stones, these wooden shields are useless. The stone flew from a hundred and eighty meters away and slammed into the wooden shield as if a can opener had met a sardine can, and pierced the wooden shield without hindrance.

The click of the wood being pierced merged into a loud "boom". Each wooden shield was hit with at least a dozen projectiles. More than 100 wooden shields on the front of the wooden bridge in the first row were all destroyed. There were pieces of wood flying everywhere, and from a distance it looked like a cloud of mist emerging from a wooden bridge. After the stone pierced through the wooden shield, it still had momentum, and continued to stab it in the back, and stabbed to death the four or five auxiliaries in the first and second rows under the wooden bridge before stopping.

Blood spurted out of the shotgun's body like water, like small fountains, splashing everywhere in the wooden shield. The air, which was still dry just now, was suddenly filled with a salty and wet smell of blood, which made people breathe short. Without the protection of the wooden shield, not only the auxiliaries and followers in the front row were killed by long arrows, but the Khitan soldiers in the back row were also immediately in danger. Without the protection of the wooden shield, the Khitan soldiers* under the wooden bridge were exposed to the muzzle of the riflemen.

The riflemen did not hesitate to open fire. The Khitan soldiers who were densely lined up on one hundred and eighty meters, holding the wooden bridge and moving slowly, were the best targets. Even if the bullet misses and misses the Khitan soldiers in front, it will hit the Khitan soldiers in the back. The six hundred soldiers in the first row pressed the trigger, and blood flowers bloomed from the Khitan army's body one after another.

Screams came out from under more than a hundred wooden bridges at the same time, as if they had been promised. The Khitan soldiers who had been shot struggled on the ground, twitching and shouting. They covered the wounds of the bullets, hoping to stop the blood that was pouring out there. But the spinning bullet destroyed too much body tissue, and the body beneath the wound had turned into a bloody paste, and the blood was like a chirping spring, constantly flowing out of the wound.

The Khitan soldiers under the first row of wooden bridges suffered heavy losses, and holding the heavy wooden bridge impact rifle array was undoubtedly killed, they threw the wooden bridge to the ground in a panic, and fled behind them. But the tiger division in the fortress still did not let them go, and the six hundred soldiers in the second row quickly walked up to the firing position and shot at the fleeing Khitan soldiers. Crackling gunfire rang out, and the fleeing Khitan army fell down one after another as if it had been blown down by a strong wind, and hundreds more people died in the gunfire. In the middle of the Khitan army, the Khitan generals and the Xi nobles were speechless when they saw the scene on the battlefield.

This Yang Peng, cheat! When the ten wooden bridges were charging into battle just now, why didn't he use the loose cannon? Now a thousand wooden bridges have rushed to the halfway point, there is no way to advance, there is no way to retreat, but Yang Peng showed the wooden bridge where the scattered arrows hit the Khitan army at this time.

What a sinister southerner! Han Derang's face turned a little pale, and he muttered: "Oops, even if you retreat now, you will be bombarded by stones several times" Xiao Tianma panicked again, grabbed Xiao Tianzuo's sleeve and said: "Commander-in-chief, general, quickly retreat!" Wait for the future! The Queen Mother is here, there must be a way! Xiao Tianzuo didn't expect such a battle situation, and closed his eyes a little weakly.

Han Derang was so anxious that his face was bloody, and he turned his head and said loudly: "Commander-in-chief, general, don't retreat!" If you retreat, you will have to suffer several rounds of shooting, and the fighters will die in vain! Yang Peng's strong crossbow could only be hit once for a long time, and Xiao Tianzuo opened his eyes. Indeed, Yang Peng's cannon was very slow when the ten wooden bridges were charging just now, and if the rate of fire was calculated, a thousand wooden bridges could rush to the fourth trench.

Xiao Tianzuo gritted his teeth and said, "Blow the horn and let the auxiliaries rush!" Yang Peng stood in front of the formation, heard the horn of the Khitan army charging into the formation, and smiled. The Khitan army was still not scared away, and continued to rush up. Yang Peng's strong crossbow has a maximum rate of fire that can reach three or four rounds a minute. But that was without cooling the barrels and moving the ballista back into place. Ten shots at that extreme rate of fire, the barrel is completely red-hot and can no longer be fired. If you want to do a full set of steps, cool the barrel with a damp cloth, and aim with tools such as a gun gauge, the crossbow can only be fired once a minute.

Of course, Yang Peng's long arrows now don't need to be aimed with a gun gauge, even if the sword barrel is cooled, he can fire one shot in forty seconds. However, Yang Peng was unwilling to defeat all the wooden bridges of the Khitan army, if all the wooden bridges were destroyed, the armored soldiers of the Khitan army would not rush up.

Yang Peng shouted at Lu Hu: "Slow shot!" Don't defeat the Khitan soldiers! Hearing the horn of the Chinese army, the auxiliary soldiers and followers of the Khitan army regrouped their morale and walked forward with a howl. The battle situation was critical, and these Khitan soldiers gritted their teeth and quickened the pace of their feet, hoping to rush to the trench and lay a wooden bridge as soon as possible.

Fortunately, the Song army's artillery only fired once in a long time, and after that round of scattered artillery was fired, the Song army did not fire again for a long time. A row of auxiliaries and attendants under the wooden bridge walked to the front of the second trench, lowered more than a hundred wooden bridges, and then retreated with wooden shields. Seeing that the second trench had also been paved with a wooden bridge, the Khitan army breathed a sigh of relief.

Yang Peng's strong crossbow is not so terrifying. If you only fight once in such a long time, the auxiliaries and followers will be able to rush to the front of the fourth layer of trenches! The situation is favorable to the Khitan army! More than 500 wooden bridges of the Khitan army continued to advance, slowly approaching the third trench.

Yang Peng was silent for a minute, and then one hundred and forty six-strong crossbows and stone throwers opened fire again. More than a thousand stones of the Long Arrow Pill Gil Stone Thrower dominated all the space in front of the battle in an instant, and attacked more than a hundred wooden bridges in the front row. The heavy wooden shields under the wooden bridge were as fragile as glass in front of the iron projectiles, and they shattered at the slightest touch. The broken wooden block not only can no longer protect the Khitan soldiers behind, but even becomes a deadly weapon, which will cut the skin and blood vessels of the Khitan soldiers behind. Under the double attack of wooden blocks and projectiles, the auxiliaries in cotton armor and the unarmored followers were killed and wounded, and fell to the ground screaming.

It was a massacre. The Khitan soldiers holding the wooden bridge had not yet reacted from the onslaught of the long arrows, and were immediately met with a head-on attack from the riflemen.

The Khitan soldiers carrying the bridge moved slowly, as if they were stationary in the crosshairs, and the riflemen hit these Khitan soldiers as if they were shooting targets. Another stream of blood flew sideways, and the six hundred riflemen killed more than four hundred auxiliaries in a single volley.

The wooden bridges in this row saw that the situation was not good, and they broke up again. In the process of the rout of more than 2,000 Khitan soldiers, Yang Peng's 600 riflemen in the back row, who were waiting in front of the formation, stepped forward to shoot again, and killed hundreds of fleeing Khitan soldiers. It was not until the routs ran behind the wooden bridge in the rear row and were stopped by the wooden shields of the rear wooden bridge that the riflemen stopped shooting them. However, the Khitan army had 70,000 people, and the Khitan soldiers in the back row were still full of morale under the encouragement of the Khitan officers. The auxiliaries and followers threw down more than a thousand lives, withstood the second round of fire from the Song army, and continued to advance.

After a round of Yang Peng's strong crossbow, it quieted down. In the interval between the Song army's reloading of arrows, the Khitan army erected more than 100 wooden bridges on the third trench, and successfully turned the third trench into a thoroughfare. Seeing that the third trench was paved with a wooden bridge, the Xi nobles of the Khitan army looked at each other for a while, and their faces were full of joy.

Hold on a little longer, and you'll be able to rush to the fourth trench.

The auxiliaries and their attendants carried the last two hundred or so wooden bridges and rushed towards the fourth trench at the rear. The Khitan soldiers knew that even if the Song army above fired another round of strong crossbows, there would be at least more than a hundred wooden bridges that could erect the fourth trench. As long as you go a dozen steps further, all the trenches will be conquered by the Khitan army, and the large army of the Khitan army can cross the trenches and kill the Song army in the fortress. The central military department of the Khitan army blew the horns to boost morale and encourage the Khitan soldiers who held the bridge to rush forward.

Hearing the sound of the horn, the Khitan soldiers changed from walking to running, and rushed forward with all their strength, rushing towards the fourth trench. More than a dozen steps away from the fourth trench, the strong crossbows and stone throwers on the Ming army's fortress really opened fire again. Stone bombardment, long arrows pierced through the chest and then to the chest of the second soldier, and some strong crossbow arrows could actually be a string of four Khitan soldiers. Then followed by the rifle fire of the Song army.

The wooden blocks that flew out after the wooden shield was broken by the stone bullets were amazingly lethal, and many auxiliary soldiers wearing cotton armor were cut and killed by the wooden blocks. And the projectiles of stone bullets are even more deadly, and the thin cotton armor is as fragile as paper in front of these projectiles, not to mention those unarmored followers. If you are shot in the head, your skull will be broken. Being hit in the stomach is a big wound hitting the intestines.

And the shooting of those riflemen was even more tricky, and they all hit the torsos of the Khitan soldiers one by one. The Khitan soldiers in the first few rows were either killed or wounded. With the trebuchet bombing and rifle platoon fire, more than 1,000 Khitan soldiers fell on the hard ground in the early spring of North China, bleeding like a stream. A row of wooden bridges was crushed, and thousands of Khitan soldiers retreated in disarray. As they fled, rifles were being fired, chasing them along the way.

But more than a hundred wooden bridges in the rear row survived artillery fire and platoon guns, howling and rushing to the front of the fourth trench with all their might. They put the base of the wooden bridge against the side of the trench, pushed the upper part of the wooden bridge, let the wooden bridge cross the trench, and put it on the low earth wall opposite the trench with a "boom".

On the four trenches, all wooden bridges have been erected. The Khitan army's wooden bridge tactics can be said to have been successful. In the ranks of the Khitan army, there were deafening cheers. Xiao Tianma's eyes were red with excitement, and he shouted: "Commander-in-chief, the wooden bridge has succeeded!" Rush on! ”

Han Derang also shouted: "Commander-in-chief, general, hurry up, if Yang Peng's soldiers and horses come out to destroy the wooden bridge!" Our bridge-builders died in vain! Xiao Tianzuo was also excited about the success of the wooden bridge, and shouted with a wave of his hand: "The whole army rushes into battle!" ”

As soon as Xiao Tianzuo gave the order, the trombone of the attack sounded in the middle of the Chinese army. The rear of the Chinese army ordered the flag to be unfurled and conveyed orders to the various departments of the Xi Clan coalition army. The 25,000 soldiers of the Khitan of the Liao State, the 20,000 soldiers of the Xi tribe and the nobles of the foreign domain, and the 20,000 auxiliary soldiers who had just been withdrawn from the army, a total of more than 60,000 people gathered into a boundless army and rushed towards the small fortress in front. However, the front of the Song army's fortress was only 500 steps long, and the Khitan army could only place a few hundred people on one front. The army of more than 60,000 people dragged into a long procession, rushing towards the Song army's fortress like a giant beast.

In front of the fourth trench, the Khitan soldiers who had just put down the wooden bridge retreated into the wooden shield as soon as possible, preparing to use the wooden shield to cover the army behind the charge. However, they didn't understand that the slow rate of fire of the Song army's strong crossbow was a trick. At this critical moment, how could Yang Peng's strong crossbow be dumb? Let the wooden shields of these Khitan soldiers get stuck on the battlefield, won't the riflemen be completely unable to shoot?

Before the Khitan soldiers had fully raised their wooden shields, one hundred and forty strong crossbows and one hundred stone throwers opened fire on the wooden shields. More than 1,000 long arrows pierced the void, shattering more than 100 sets of wooden shields into pieces, and beating the Khitan soldiers behind the wooden shields to blood. At once, more than 600 Khitan soldiers were killed by stone bullets.

The blood was like paint, sprinkled all over the ground. The Khitan soldiers in the back row were all beaten stupid all at once. What's going on? How did Song Jun's crossbow shooting come so fast this time? Isn't it a long time to load the arrows? However, there was no time for them to think about this issue at this time, and one of the commanders of the battle, Pashku, jumped out and shouted: "Rush with me!" ”

After all, what happened next, and listen to the next breakdown.