Chapter 894: Massacre
Now that they knew that it was Shi Wengong who shot the arrow, all the leaders of Liangshan were afraid, including Song Jiang, with a shield in front of them, and walked into the Nanda camp under the escort of the soldiers, people didn't have to look ahead, anyway, they couldn't see the situation of the big camp in Zengtou City in the dark night.
There are five large camps in Zengtou City, and at this time, the four large battalions in the east, west, north and south of the periphery have been taken by Liangshan soldiers and horses, and the Zhongda Battalion is actually in Zengtou City, which can be considered that the Zhongda Camp is Zengtou City, and Zengtou City is the Zhongda Battalion.
On Song Jiang's side, Guan Sheng, one of the five tiger generals, was ordered to lead 10,000 horses into the Zhongda camp, and the rest of the three east, west, and north, Lin Chong, Qin Ming and Dong Ping, the three members of the five tigers, each brought 5,000 soldiers and horses into Zengtou City, and 25,000 soldiers and horses plus 300 ironclad chain horses that entered first, which was enough to level Zengtou City.
Although I couldn't see the scene in Zengtou City, I could hear the sound, which was a wave of countless screams and curses, not to mention the Liangshan soldiers who had just entered the Nanda camp, and even the fields farther away.
Song Jiang was very relieved when he heard this, there was no doubt that this was the 25,000 Liangshan soldiers who had attacked Zengtou City first and were harvesting the lives of the enemy, and victory was already close at hand, but he was afraid that the battle would end without waiting for dawn.
So he said to Taiwei Su beside him: "Don't worry, Taiwei, we have won this battle." Speaking of this, as if to make Su Yuanjing more at ease, he looked around at the leaders on the left and right, and asked, "What do you brothers think?"
After all, Song Jiang was born as a civilian official, even though he got the three volumes of the Book of Heaven given by the Nine Heavens Xuannu, but he had no experience in leading the troops to fight, and the previous defense of several waves of encirclement and suppression by Gao Yu relied on Chao Gai, Wu Yong and others to provide advice, and now Wu Yong is not around, Chao Gai is dead, and he has appeared in his original form.
He wanted his generals to prove his judgment, but there was silence for a while, and no one seemed to think that his judgment was correct.
That's right, there is indeed a killing sound in Zengtou City, but this sound alone cannot confirm that it is Liangshan's complete victory.
Guan Sheng, who also heard this sound, had different thoughts from Song Jiang, and he felt a little strange, why was there only screams and angry scolding on the battlefield, but there was no golden and iron exchange between weapons? Could it be that the soldiers of Zengtou City had already thrown down their weapons and let the soldiers and horses of Liangshan slaughter them?
If it was really slaughtered, how could it be angry and angry?
Guan Sheng's battlefield experience was far richer than Song Jiang's, so he felt that this situation was very abnormal.
Not only Guan Sheng, but the other leaders on Liangshan, as long as they have led soldiers to fight, have all felt the abnormality in Zengtou City, Guan Sheng can still care about Song Jiang's face, and he can't help but say this doubt, but the other leaders are not all from the city government, and the white-faced Langjun Zheng Tianshou said: "I don't sound right, how can I listen to these screaming and scolding people like our brothers on the mountain?"
Zheng Tianshou didn't say this, but it just resonated with other leaders, and he was not the only one who heard this situation, and others were also suspicious in their hearts, but they didn't dare to say it, for fear of being accused of demoralization.
At this time, as soon as Zheng Tianshou said this, others didn't care, if you want to say that the morale of self-depravity is also Zheng Tianshou said this first, so he said it gossipily, and even the leaders and soldiers who scolded people and screamed all reported their names.
Song Jiang was very embarrassed when he heard this, and said, "No, did you hear it wrong?"
He only stayed in the Juyi Hall on weekdays, and he and Wu Yong were two flies camping dogs, and he did not participate in the training and drills of the army on the mountain, so it was his Hu Baoyi who was the least familiar with the people below.
Song Jiang questioned that the leaders had misheard, and the leaders didn't argue with him, after all, he was the boss of Liangshan now, how could the boss's face be easily refuted?
The more everyone was like this, the more Song Jiang felt that Zheng Tianshou was very likely to say it, and when he was about to send a few soldiers to investigate, he only heard the sound of horses' hooves, and when he looked up, it was Hu Yanzhuo who came back.
Hu Yanzhuo's horse was extremely fast, and when everyone saw him, he had already arrived in front of everyone, and he didn't take a breath after turning over and dismounting, but said angrily: "Brother Gongming, the big thing is not good, my chain of horses are all broken inside, and the soldiers who broke into our rush are being slaughtered, you hurry up and order the soldiers to be withdrawn, if it is too late, I am afraid that none of the 25,000 soldiers and horses will come back." ”
"Huh?" Song Jiang only felt a buzzing sound, his body shook twice, and he almost fell headlong, but fortunately, the bantam tiger Wang Ying next to him helped him, so he stabilized his body and said in a trembling voice: "General Huyan, what is going on, quickly explain it." ”
Hu Yanzhuo sighed and said something, and everyone was immediately dumbfounded when they heard it.
Although Zengtou City does not have a city wall, it has houses and courtyards, and these houses and courtyards are precisely the existence that makes the ironclad chain horse powerless.
Whether it is the ironclad chain horses of the Great Song Dynasty, the iron harriers of the Western Xia, or even the Tiefutu of the Jin Kingdom, these ironclad cavalry are all a pattern - side by side and attack forward.
On the battlefield of cold weapons, the charge of ironclad heavy cavalry is tantamount to the tanks of later generations, and even much more powerful than tanks, because more than a dozen horses are crushed forward in a row, and the area of crushing is much wider than that of tanks.
Therefore, the ironclad cavalry can crush all infantry camps with impunity.
It's just that everything has mixed pros and cons, and the ironclad cavalry also has a fatal flaw, that is, it needs a sufficiently open field, in the wilderness, no matter how many infantry the opponent has, the ironclad cavalry can be crushed back and forth, but this is not the concept in the town, there is no galloping space for heavy cavalry in the town.
The town streets of this era could not be narrower, and there was no comparison with the urban roads of later generations, let alone the construction of sixteen-lane roads, even two-lane roads.
In such a narrow street, how can the chain horse be used? It is impossible to use it at all, and it is impossible to crush the courtyard walls and houses? If it is the kind of wooden plank house in the south of the Yangtze River, it is easy to say, but the houses in Zengtou City are all adobe houses, which are the representative works of the ramming technology of the northern peoples, and although the collision area of the chain horse is large, it cannot hit the adobe wall and the adobe wall.
The most important thing is that the houses in this Zengtou City seem to have been specially designed, and holes are reserved in the outer wall of the house and the courtyard wall, and the enemy will pierce spears, shoot arrows or hidden weapons from these holes.
This is the reason why people outside can't hear the symphony of gold and iron, the fact is that there is no symphony of gold and iron at all, and the spear pierces out of the hole and directly pierces the body of the Liangshan soldiers, how can there be a symphony of gold and iron?