Chapter Eighty-Seven, Blood Debt and Blood Repayment.
The auxiliaries in front of the fourth trench drew their swords from their waists and followed the dividator to rush towards the Song army. They were greeted by a salvo of six hundred rifles at a distance of eighty meters. The riflemen had been loading their ammunition for a long time, waiting for the Khitan soldiers' wooden shields to be broken before calling for bullets on the Khitan soldiers. Before more than 2,000 Khitan soldiers could cross the wooden bridge they had erected, they were hit by a rain of bullets consisting of 600 bullets.
In an instant, hundreds of people were knocked to the ground, like sandbags, or on wooden bridges. Some of the seriously wounded screamed and rolled on the ground, fell off the wooden bridge and fell into a trench two meters deep. The organs that had been strangled by the bullets were again crushed by the heavy fall, turning into a cloud of blood, leaving the wounded lifeless. The leader of the group shouted, "Rush! Kill a Song army and raise the flag! When the followers heard this, their eyes were bloody, and they followed the assigned Paishku to rush to the Ming army's fortress.
But their charge, which had only advanced ten meters, stopped. Just now, the Khitan soldiers were busy building bridges, hiding back in wooden shields, and they were in a hurry, so they didn't have time to observe the battlefield in front of them. Of course, the valley of this Mali ditch was not a plain, the surface was potholed and undulating, and it was difficult to see the situation on the ground in the distance from twenty meters away, and they did not see the wooden thorns that were only half a foot high in front of them.
When these auxiliaries rushed to seventy meters in front of the fortress, they found that there was a large area of wooden thorns in front of them, and the Khitan soldiers in these wooden thorn areas could not walk at all. Dozens of followers did not react, and rushed into the wooden stab area with their swords in hand. They were stabbed under the feet of the wooden thorns, and they fell into a swarm of wooden thorns in pain. Those wooden thorns are sharpened by swords, and where can the clothes and flesh resist? The followers were immediately stabbed open by the wooden thorns, and they were bleeding profusely.
A few of the followers rushed too violently, and when they fell, they were so strong that they were stabbed to death by wooden thorns. Several auxiliaries also fell for the wooden thorn, but fortunately, they were wearing cotton armor and were not stabbed to death by the wooden thorn. They fell on the wooden thorns and screamed a few times, and fled back in a panic.
This road is not working! Forty meters of the battlefield in front of the entire fortress was covered with wooden thorns. These wooden thorn arrays covered a width of 750 meters in front of the fortress, and only a passage more than a dozen meters wide had no wooden thorns.
Wooden thorns are buried deeply, and it is impossible to pull out them. The one who had to divide the shhe shku gritted his teeth and shouted, "Rush in from a place where there are no wooden thorns" Before he could finish speaking, another six hundred rifles were fired at the Song army's fortress. Six hundred rounds of ammunition swept across the battlefield, beckoning to more than a thousand auxiliaries and followers wearing thin or no armor. The blood flowers are like cuckoos in spring, blooming from the Khitan soldiers one after another. The Khitan soldiers who were shot spurted blood from their wounds and fell to the ground one by one.
The one who was the one was also hit by a bullet. At a distance of eighty meters, even wearing three layers of heavy armor, his body was pierced by bullets. He was shot in the right lung. The bullet shattered the delicate organ, and blood shot down his trachea into the various tubes of the human body, spurting out of his mouth and nose. He fell to the ground with a thud and died. Along with this shared, hundreds of Khitan soldiers fell.
In the blink of an eye, this wooden bridge team of nearly 3,000 people was killed and wounded. However, because there were more than 60,000 reinforcements behind them, these Khitan soldiers did not collapse. With so many reinforcements behind him, the end of the rout is likely to be hacked to death by the guards of the commander who escorted the formation. The surviving auxiliaries and followers had red eyes and howled and rushed to the passage without wooden thorns, preparing to storm the Song army from there.
But the passage more than ten meters wide was too narrow, and more than a thousand Khitan soldiers were crowded on the periphery of the passage, and only a dozen or so people could enter the passage, and most people could only crowd outside and wait to enter. As soon as the two hundred soldiers in the front row rushed into the passage and ran twenty meters, fifty meters from the fortress in front, there was another rain of bullets.
The front of Yang Peng's fortress was more than 700 meters wide, and the Khitan soldiers who entered the passage were crowded on the passage, and the soldiers who were too far away from the passage could not aim at them. But there were still more than 1,000 Khitan soldiers crowded outside the passage, and these Qing soldiers occupied an area of more than 200 meters, so the soldiers of more than 200 meters on both sides of the passage could shoot Khitan soldiers.
Four hundred bullets hit the three hundred people who rushed into the passage and tried to rush into the passage, and immediately sent these charging Khitan soldiers to the western sky. The bullet was like a big scissor for building leaves, clattering and harvesting life, killing all the auxiliaries and followers on the east and west sides of the Khitan army at once. Those Khitan soldiers who were shot and fell to the ground were either completely dead, or twitched and struggled on the ground, turning into obstacles, making the Khitan army behind rush more slowly. It is estimated that if there are no more than two volleys, all these auxiliaries and followers who rushed into the formation will be killed.
Attacking this narrow passage under the aim of hundreds of rifles can only be completely destroyed. This wave of Khitan soldiers finally collapsed. The front was blocked by wooden thorns, and the only passage could not be rushed, so staying in front of the formation was just a target for the platoon. The team of nearly 3,000 men was killed in just a moment, and only 900 remained. The Khitan soldiers did not dare to rush again, and collapsed with a scream.
But they were still within the range of the Tiger Warrior when they fled. More than two or three hundred rifles behind them chased and shot at them. From a distance of 70 meters from the canopy to a distance of 200 meters, the rifle could shoot four or five rounds, and the Khitan soldiers did not have the slightest hope of escaping. The soldiers of the Tiger Ben Division shot the fleeing Khitan soldiers in the back, legs, and back of the head as if they were executing prisoners.
The fleeing Khitan soldiers fell on the battlefield one by one, and after the last fleeing auxiliary soldier was shot dead at one hundred and fifty meters, the battlefield was quiet for a while.
In order to fill the four trenches, the Khitan army sacrificed 5,000 people. And the last wave of Khitan soldiers rushed into battle, so that the Qing soldiers killed and wounded another 2,000 people. In just one stick of incense, the Khitan army had already lost 7,000 people in front of the Tiger Division. The battlefield two hundred meters in front of the canopy was piled up with the corpses of Khitan soldiers, as if it were a slaughterhouse.
The blood flowed on the uneven valley floor, gathering in low-lying places, forming pools of blood. But only a few seconds later, the silence of the battlefield was broken by the roar of one hundred and forty powerful crossbows. The main force of the Khitan army rushed over from a mile away, and the Khitan army wanted to use more than 60,000 flesh and blood to attack Yang Peng's gun array. The soldiers in the front row of the main force of the Khitan army were three hundred meters away from Yang Peng's canopy, and they had already entered the range of the stone thrower and the strong crossbow, and the strong crossbow fired.
1,400 long arrows were like meteors, shooting towards the army of more than 60,000 qi, sweeping over a large area in the front row. Although most of the stones were shot away, hundreds of arrows still hit the Khitan army three hundred meters away. The cotton armor and chain mail of the Khitan soldiers were defenseless in the face of the iron bullets, and they were all shot through. Hundreds of people screamed or fell silently, and died on the battlefield before they could get close to the trench.
The damage of the long arrow made the front end of the Khitan army a little confused. Many of the more than 60,000 Khitan troops who rushed into battle were infantry soldiers and horse armor soldiers wearing heavy armor, and they wore one or even two layers of heavy armor. However, the proud armor of the Khitan army was defenseless in the face of shotguns, which was a big blow to the morale of the Khitan army.
But the powerful crossbow arrow shot from 300 meters away was limited in lethality after all, and only a few hundred people were killed. The officers of the Khitan soldiers beat the stagnant soldiers for a while, and then the ranks returned to normal. The Khitan army had to cross four trenches from a wooden bridge with rough workmanship and limited load, and a horse could easily exceed a thousand catties, and it was obvious that the wooden bridge could not hold up when riding a horse. Therefore, the Khitan army rushed on foot, and it would not cause great chaos because the horses were frightened.
In fact, the Khitan army also has a crossbow, and Xiao Tianzuo brought more than 50 machine crossbows this time. However, the number of crossbows of the Khitan army was far less than that of Yang Peng's, and it was not cheap to shoot. Moreover, these machine crossbows are the absolute treasures of the Khitan army, and it took many years to accumulate these family foundations, and the siege of the city and the village all rely on these cannons. If you shoot against Yang Peng's strong crossbow, it won't be long before the Khitan army's machine crossbow will be defeated by Yang Peng's strong crossbow, and Xiao Tianzuo is reluctant.
More than 60,000 Khitan troops accelerated their march and rushed towards the Song army's fortress a few hundred meters away. Walking to the first trench, Yang Peng's crossbow and stone thrower opened fire again.
More than a thousand long arrows flew towards the Khitan army, overwhelming the sky. The whirring sound of those long arrows breaking through the air as they flew, and the sound of more than a thousand long arrows breaking through the air converged into a roaring noise. It only took a blink of an eye for the projectile to pierce into the Khitan army's large array, piercing into the flesh and blood beneath those armors.
The armor was immediately broken, and the arrow hit any part of the Khitan soldier's body, piercing two holes. After the long arrow pierces a body, it will continue to pierce the back, killing the second Qing soldier in the back row. In the face of the power of steel and gunpowder, the human body is as fragile as a piece of paper. This time, the long arrow shot closer, and the hit rate of the long arrow went up, and nearly a thousand soldiers in the front row fell screaming. Screams and howls came from the mouths of the wounded in front of the formation, and began to erode the morale of the Khitan army. Blood, stumps and minced meat were everywhere, and at a glance it was all blood red, and the front of the Khitan army seemed to be a pig killing factory.
The Khitan army was attacked again, and some of them could not react. How did the Song army's strong crossbow fight so fast? Isn't it a long time to once? With such a rate of fire, wouldn't it be possible to fight a round before the Khitan army rushed to the formation? The soldiers in the front row seemed to see the scene of Song Jun's strong crossbow fighting again and killing themselves, and their faces turned pale.
However, there was no way back in this battle, and there were thousands of commanders and guards in the Khitan army, and they would definitely die if they fled back. In the roaring tens of thousands of troops, the adrenal glands of the human body secrete exciting hormones that make known death less terrible. The Khitan army in the front row gritted their teeth and rushed up, as if they had forgotten their personal life and death. They brandished their swords and walked up to the wooden bridge over the first trench and crossed the first trench.
The number of Khitan troops is too much, the front of Yang Peng's fortress is only more than 700 meters, and the more than 60,000 Khitan troops cannot be deployed at all. The Khitan army could not rush forward together, and the soldiers and horses were divided into two routes. The first route consisted of 20,000 people in the front row, led by 5,000 people. The first route consisted of more than 40,000 people in the back row, waiting at the edge of the trench, ready to support the 20,000 men in front.
But Xiao Tianzuo believed that without the help of more than 40,000 people in the back row, the 20,000 soldiers and horses in front could defeat Yang Peng's soldiers and horses. The trench has been covered with a wooden bridge, and the front is flat. Yang Peng's soldiers and horses only have 10,000 soldiers, how can he be the opponent of 20,000 Khitan warriors?
At the moment when the front row of the Khitan army crossed the wooden bridge, the six hundred rifles in front of the Tiger Ben Division opened fire on the front row of the Khitan army. At a distance of two hundred meters, six hundred rifles spat out six hundred rounds of bullets and attacked the Khitan soldiers who were covered with the blood of the Han people. As soon as the 600 bullets were fired, a large piece of wheat fell in front of the Khitan army like a wheat cut by a sickle. At this distance, the conical bullet could not penetrate two layers of armor, but it would be fatal to infantry soldiers, creek soldiers, and auxiliaries.
In a salvo, at least more than 300 Khitan soldiers were killed and wounded. The soldiers who were shot covered their wounds and screamed loudly. But soon the strength disappeared from them, and they collapsed in a pool of blood, gradually losing their sound. The Khitan army mustered up courage and continued to rush in front of the Ming army.
After walking more than a dozen steps, another rain of bullets poured towards the front of the Khitan army. The blood flowers were like ceremonial flowers blooming during the Chinese New Year, blooming one after another on the Qing soldiers, splashing the salty and hot blood several meters away and splashing on the bodies and faces of the other Khitans around them. The Khitans who were still alive in the front row were all covered in blood, as if they had come out of hell.
More than 300 Khitans were knocked to the ground. The Khitan, who had been shot, rolled and twitched on the ground, but no one cared about them. The army of 60,000 people formed a collective momentum that stimulated the will to fight of the soldiers in front of the battle, ignoring the hundreds of individuals who died tragically.
The horse armor soldiers who were not killed by the bullet were the most demoralized, and they thought that the fire guns of the Tiger Ben Division could not do anything to them, and they screamed and charged. The Khitan crossed the second trench. There were only a hundred wooden bridges on the second trench, which did not cover the entire trench. Here, the Tartar procession was huddled together, and only part of it rushed up to the wooden bridge, while the people behind crowded at the end of the wooden bridge.
The lack of wooden bridges on the trenches made the overall rushing speed of the Khitan team several percent slower at once. A third rifle salvo hit. The screams rang out again, and the soldiers in the front row fell one by one as if they had been named. A soldier in a double armor rushed forward with heavy armor, but was hit in the head by a bullet. Half of his head was shattered by a bullet, and the blood and brain pulp bloomed into a bloody flower, splashing the face of a step armor next to him. The step armor touched his face in surprise, and only saw the blood red of one hand.
As soon as the rifle fire stopped, the Khitans took a dozen more steps forward, and the third round of crossbow stone throwers and the fourth round of rifles opened fire at the same time.
The rain of bullets that covered the sky was like a net, a huge net that would die at the touch of a button, dominating the entire battlefield in an instant. Long arrow projectiles and rifle bullets were fired into the Khitan crowd one after another, setting off a storm of blood rain. The projectile of a long arrow hits anything, whether it is a human torso or thigh or arm, and it immediately pierces it. Broken flesh and blood burst out, everywhere, and the Khitan soldiers who were lucky not to be hit before the battle seemed to be bathed in a red blood rain, drenched in blood red. They didn't know if the flesh on their bodies was their own or someone else's, and they cried out in fear in the rain of blood, afraid that they would fall in the next second due to the sudden sharp pain.
This burst of artillery bombardment finally frightened the Khitan army, and the Khitan army in the front row slowed down its pace and did not dare to rush forward with its head down. The Khitan army in the front row was scared, but the Khitan army in the back row still had morale. There were more than 60,000 Khitan soldiers in this battle, and the casualties of several thousand were still bearable, and the generals would never allow the soldiers in the front row to retreat. Seeing that the Khitan soldiers in the front row were afraid, the marshal guards rushed up and shot dozens of arrows at the soldiers who stopped.
The commanders and guards are generally ten-force bows, and the arrows are accurate and ruthless. The bow and arrow slashed through the air for dozens of meters and shot into the backs of the Khitan soldiers in front, and those Khitan soldiers immediately let out a miserable scream. The marshal guard does not allow the soldiers in the front row to desert! If the Khitan soldiers rushed to the front and died, they would still die in honor, and if they fled to the back and were shot to death by the guards, it would be meaningless. One person was shot dead by the guards who escorted the formation, and the whole family would not be able to raise their heads in the future. When the Khitan army in the front row saw this scene, they didn't dare to hesitate anymore, gritted their teeth and ran forward again.
The Khitan army sprinted forward and crossed the third trench. At a distance of about one hundred and ten meters, the soldiers of the first round of fire of the Tiger Ben Division had already reloaded their bullets in the back row, stood in the front row, and fired the fifth salvo. The soldiers of the Tiger Division did not fire a salvo of 600 people at the same time, and the width of the front of the battlefield was too wide to unify the firing time, and the Tiger Division basically fired a salvo in a platoon of 31 people.
The Tiger Ben Division shot bullets one platoon after another, and the Khitan in the front row was hit hard. At a distance of 110 meters, even the Khitan horse armor soldiers wearing iron plate cotton armor and chain mail could not bear the conical bullets, the cotton armor was pierced, the inner iron plates were beaten, and the chain mail was also pierced, and the bullets shattered when they passed through these armors, turning irregularly, and causing larger wounds when piercing the flesh.
Hundreds of vest soldiers in the front row were leading the charge, but they were suddenly shot through the body by bullets. These vest soldiers thought that the Song army's firearms could not do anything with them, but they were beaten at this time. One by one, they looked at the huge wound on their body in disbelief, but they couldn't hide the blood that was pouring out. The blood that flowed out stained the armor a large area of blood-red, causing the vest soldiers to fall one by one.
The Khitan soldiers rushed forward a dozen more paces and were hit by a sixth round of rifle fire. The soldiers in the second row on the front loaded their bullets, stood in the firing position, aimed at the Khitan, and fired a volley after platoon. The distance was very close, and the Khitan rushed forward again, the formation was dense, and the hit rate of the Tiger Division's shooting was very high. Bullets that missed would even hit the Khitan in the back and next to them, and very few bullets missed. After a salvo of 600 soldiers, 4 or 500 Khitan soldiers were knocked to the ground.
The Khitan soldiers suffered heavy casualties, but they still fought to the death and continued to rush forward. In the face of the deadly bullets of the Song army, the Khitan finally rushed through the fourth trench and rushed to the wooden thorn. The large wooden thorns shocked the Tartars who rushed here.
Song Jun cheats! The team of auxiliaries who found the wooden thorns just now were all wiped out by the Tiger Ben Division, and no one went back to tell the Khitan army that there were wooden thorns in front. At this time, the large army of the Khitan army rushed to the front of the wooden thorn, and saw clearly the wooden thorn that was only half a foot high, and only then did he understand how impregnable the Song army's fortress was. This area of wooden thorns is impassable at all.
Thousands of warriors were sacrificed to rush to the front of the Song army, but because of the Song army's fortifications, they could not advance, and the Khitan soldiers who rushed into the battle had a feeling of wanting to cry without tears. Even the bravest Khitan soldiers were suddenly like ashes. Dozens of Xi Khitan and infantry soldiers rushed into the wooden thorn formation, and the soles of their shoes were punctured by the wooden thorns and fell on the pile of wooden thorns. Even if they were wearing cotton armor or iron-inlaid cotton armor, these Khitan soldiers were stabbed by wooden thorns. They struggled to find a place to stay in the wooden thorns, and slowly escaped.
The Song army's firearms were endless, and they were still pouring bullets at the Khitan soldiers, but the Khitan soldiers had no way out. If you want to get rid of the wooden thorns, you have to dig up the earth to spread a layer of soil half a foot high on the ground. But under the aim of the Song army, how many people would have to die to cover these wooden thorns with earth? It's an impossible task.
Some Khitan soldiers lost their fighting spirit and turned around to flee back and forth. A few hundred meters away, at the central military office of the Khitan Army, the generals were anxious when they saw that the team that was charging into battle had stopped. After sacrificing so many warriors, how could they stop when they finally rushed to fifty steps away from the Song army?
Han Derang looked at the Qing soldiers who stopped in front of him with his mouth open, and was speechless in surprise. Obviously, the warriors encountered Yang Peng's fortifications and could not rush up.
This Yang Peng, cheat! Han Derang's face turned a little pale, and he said: "Commander-in-chief, there seems to be a trap in front of you, and the warriors can't rush forward." Xiao Tianzuo covered his nose with his hand, and his heart was like a knife.
After sacrificing so many warriors, Xiao Tianzuo had a feeling that he was scared of being beaten by Yang Peng. Originally, he made such a big sacrifice to rush up and annihilate Yang Peng's soldiers and horses, but this Yang Peng cheated and arranged a trap in front of the battle that could not be seen from a distance. Not only that, but the strong crossbow, which had only been fired for a long time when the wooden bridge was paved just now, was bombarded continuously at this time. If he had known that Yang Peng had left so many back-hands, Xiao Tianzuo would not have let the warriors rush up to his death.
But now that the wood is complete, and thousands of warriors have died, can they be withdrawn like this? Fifty paces away from the enemy could not advance, and the soldiers of the Great Liao State could only use arrows to strike at the enemy. However, Yang Peng's soldiers and horses hid behind the earthen wall, which was not advantageous for shooting the Great Khitan soldiers. But when the wooden bridge was laid, 7,000 auxiliaries and followers had been left in front of the battle, and at this time, more than 4,000 Khitan soldiers had died in the battle, and Xiao Tianzuo had already lost his eyes, and he was unwilling to admit defeat. He shouted, "Blow the trumpet, let the warriors withstand!" ”
In front of the formation, dozens of Khitan soldiers who took the lead in escaping were shot dead by the guards who escorted the formation. When the Khitan soldiers heard the clarion call to continue the charge, they did not dare to retreat, so they could only grit their teeth and stand under the mouth of the Song army's firearms. In such a situation, only to shoot with bows and arrows, the Khitan soldiers took out the bows and arrows on their backs with pale faces, and began to shoot at the Song army behind the wall.
It's a fair fight. Most of the horse armor soldiers and infantry soldiers are holding the eight-force bow, and fifty paces, or seventy-five meters, is the limit range of these Khitan soldiers, and they can't shoot accurately at this distance. The auxiliary soldiers and followers of the Khitan soldiers are even more humble, and they generally hold six-force bows, and the bows and arrows shot are basically lethal at fifty paces. Most of the bows and arrows of the Xi Khitan are similar to the Eight Forces Bow, and they are also extreme shots at fifty paces, with poor accuracy and inability to break armor.
The Tiger Warrior, on the other hand, hid behind a canopy and earthen wall to shoot. The earthen wall, which was almost shoulder-high, completely protected the torso of the Tiger Warrior's body, revealing only one head and shoulder. Not only that, but there was also a canopy above the head of the Song army, and most of the bows and arrows thrown were blocked by the canopy. Moreover, 2,000 of the 2,400 soldiers on the front were soldiers of the Election Regiment, wearing chain mail. Fifty paces away, only the ten-force bow of the Great Shuai Guard could shoot through the chain mail. And the guards are all in the back, and the eight-force bow of the horse armor and infantry armor in front of the formation is completely powerless against the chain mail.
After all, what happened next, and listen to the next breakdown.