The northwest of the Henan section of the Great Wall was originally an open area with vast plains. During the day, the Jin's brigade had no choice but to detour far away, using the cover of tall grass, woods, and ravines to sneak to the "middle section of the Great Wall" seven or eight miles away. Then he lurked for two hours. After the sky darkened, he suddenly rushed out and pounced on Wanyan Zonghan's planned assault target - the middle section of the "Great Wall".
At the beginning of the attack, in order to maintain the suddenness as much as possible, the Jin army still did not raise fire, did not shout, nor blew the horn or beat the drum.
But now that the Song army has discovered the attacking Jin soldiers, they have also raised the six banners representing the emperor on the "Great Wall" and the white flags that read "The mountains and rivers are about to have the land of China, and the sun and the moon have reopened the Song Dynasty." , then there is no need for the Jin soldiers to hide and tuck them in. They can simply put out lanterns and torches, beat the war drums, and blow the horns... and let the officials of the Song Dynasty who are about to be attacked see how the Jin soldiers are doing. Magnificent!
As countless torches were lit, the Song army was finally able to roughly see the scale of the incoming Jin soldiers.
The soldiers and horses of the Jin people are really so numerous that they can be seen all over the mountains and plains! There are no less than ten thousand soldiers and horses attacking the middle section of the "Great Wall"! Not to mention that subsequent soldiers and horses are still entering the battlefield in a steady stream - as all the golden soldiers set up lanterns and torches, two dotted seas of stars and a flowing stream of fire appeared on the battlefield.
The two seas of stars, one behind the other, have moved near the middle section of the "Great Wall", and the flowing fire stream is also moving towards the middle section of the "Great Wall" - they should have been playing and beating on the right side of the "Great Wall" all afternoon. Virtual soldiers. It is said that they are empty soldiers, but in fact they are not empty at all, there are tens of thousands of them.
And the number of golden soldiers on the northwest battlefield of the entire "Great Wall" will never be less than 50,000!
Of course, this number of 50,000 includes Ali Xibing, but this is still a quite astonishing number.
What's even more astonishing is that so many golden soldiers are all rushing in the same direction - the middle section of the "Great Wall" where Zhao Kai is!
I have to admit that the Jin people's horse-riding troops (not all cavalry) do have strong mobility and assault capabilities, and can launch a powerful and rapid offensive on a certain section of the long front!
If Zhao Kai hadn't "summoned" the "Great Wall", he could now break through to Jishan or Funiu Mountain under the protection of Guo Tiannu and Niu Gao...
However, even with the support of the "Great Wall", the situation is still very critical. Because Zhao Kai's "magic power" is not enough, he can only "summon" a shabby section of the "Qin-Han Great Wall", but cannot "summon" the Ming Great Wall.
Therefore, Niu Gao relied on the thousands of Ruzhou soldiers and the more than a thousand Yulin cavalry still guarding Zhao Kai and the same number of Yulin auxiliaries (Zhao Kai brought a total of 3,600 cavalry, but sent 1,100 to Li Fuchen and Yue Fei) He kept 1,300 and sent 200 to serve as lecturers. He only kept 1,000 Yulin cavalry around him, and each Yulin cavalry brought an auxiliary.) It was simply not enough to defend the "Great Wall" for a long time... ....Now it depends on whether the reinforcements in the mule carts will arrive first, or whether the "Great Wall" will be broken by the Jin soldiers first?
And it takes an hour to mobilize troops from both ends of the "Great Wall"... This hour will determine which step the reopened Song Dynasty can take?
It will also determine Zhao Kai's life or death!
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Before the Jin soldiers approached the trench outside the "Great Wall", Guo Tiannu, who was responsible for commanding 1,000 Yulin cavalry and 1,000 Yulin auxiliaries, and Niu Gao, the commander of the Ruzhou soldiers, hastily divided the defense zone. They divided the seven-mile-long city wall into two, with Yulin's cavalry responsible for two miles and Niu Gao's men responsible for the remaining five miles.
While the people on the city wall were busy adjusting the defense zone, one of Jin Bing's "Xinghai" stopped advancing after advancing to a distance of less than 300 steps from the "Long Wall" - they came on horseback. , but you cannot attack the city on horseback. You must first dismount, then regroup, arrange some people to look after the horses, and then find the ladder dragged up by the horses and assign them to the first dead soldiers.
Although the number of Jin soldiers was large, they did not have any siege equipment. They could only use temporary hammered ladders.
While the Jin soldiers were still busy organizing the team and distributing ladders, the Song army had already completed the adjustment. All the skirmishers originally deployed outside the city wall were withdrawn, and the several gaps in the city wall (equivalent to city gates) were all blocked layer by layer with door jambs and horse-repelling guns.
In addition to the trenches outside the city, many large pits were dug, filled with hay and wood, and were now set on fire. In addition, the torches on the top of the city illuminated the entire city.
The soldiers on the wall were armed with various shooting weapons and were ready for battle. According to the order of Zhao Kai, a sinister official, at least one of his soldiers had to do the work of two people!
Being prepared for two battles, that is, having both melee and shooting weapons, is the most basic requirement! Regardless of whether they are government soldiers or rural soldiers (the original Forbidden Army and Xiang Army who joined Zhao Kai, but did not become government soldiers, they are all rural soldiers and have local responsibility), they must meet the requirements!
So now there are more than 7,000 crossbows, which are placed on rice bags piled up behind the forks. Most of them have arrows on the strings, but they just don't fire!
The officers leading the team at all levels were all sweating in their hands. Looking hundreds of steps away, the golden soldiers with torches started to scream strangely, as if they were shouting some slogans. The shouts were so loud that it was terrifying.
Zhao Kai knew that the gold man's shouting must not be something nice, but he still couldn't help but want to know, so he asked Guo Tiannu: "Goddess, what is the gold thief yelling about?"
"Officials, they are shouting: Kill Zhao Kai, reward ten thousand gold, seal ten thousand households, and lead him to the town!"
Zhao Kai snorted and said with a smile: "I am the chosen king, and I have the blessing of God. How can I be hurt by gold thieves and beasts?"
What he said was quite confident, but he was still a little panicked in his heart, so he had to pray silently to heaven: God, Father, Mother, Emperor, Earth, bless me!
"Dong dong dong..."
Zhao Kai had just finished praying, and the sound of war drums was already beating loudly behind the Jin army's formation!
Come on in!
The first wave of Jin soldiers' attack has begun!
The first wave of gold thieves that rushed up was a bit too much. The torches they held covered a large area of land, making it look like the mountains were all over the place.
Seeing this scene, the officers and soldiers of the Song Army had an ominous premonition... This reopened Song Dynasty may be over!
"Tight, tight, tight..."
Suddenly there was a vibrating sound in the air, and countless feather arrows and wooden feather arrows were shot out - the bamboo clapper that conveyed the shooting order was not struck, but the nerves of the soldiers of the Ruzhou Army were already blown. It was torn apart by the huge pressure. Probably only by shooting arrows desperately can the fear in their hearts be relieved a little.
But now the golden soldiers are still far away, and the sky is dark, so it is difficult to aim at the key points. They can only cover them haphazardly. Therefore, although the arrowheads are as dense as rain, the results are very few. It can't hurt a few heavily armored golden soldiers at all... The golden soldiers are still coming like a tide!
The Yulin cavalry and Yulin auxiliaries who were not enough to protect Zhao Kai withstood the test. The 2,000 divine arm bows in their hands did not shoot a single sharp arrow.
Seeing their performance, Zhao Kai felt a little relieved.
After a while, the golden soldiers who came like a tide finally rushed out of the ditch in front of the long wall. There were scattered many iron and wooden caltrops, the kind of iron and wooden balls with long spikes. You have to use a crutch when you step on it... Some of the Jin soldiers who were too excited and thought only about cutting off Zhao Kai's head in exchange for a heavy reward didn't look at it and stepped on the caltrops and caltrops. On the wooden caltrops, the soles of the feet were pierced on the spot. They screamed and fell to the ground. The crowd of golden soldiers who were attacking were immediately stagnated.
"Bang bang bang!"
On the long wall, there was a sound of bamboo sticks. This was an order to shoot!
Only then did 2,000 Yulin cavalry and Yulin auxiliary soldiers shoot the fatal arrowheads!
The Yulin cavalry are all descendants of aristocratic families, and the auxiliary soldiers who follow them are also veterans of the Western Army. Of course, they are not comparable to the soldiers from Ruzhou. And their equipment is also very sophisticated. Not only are they equipped with horn bows, but they also carry additional divine arm bows!
Now they adopt the tactic of one main and one auxiliary cooperating with each other, with the main soldiers shooting and the auxiliary soldiers cocking arrows, maintaining a fairly continuous and fierce firepower.
The wooden feather arrows were shot out in waves, and most of them were inserted into the golden soldiers who were blocked outside the city!
However, those golden soldiers are indeed brave. Unless an arrow hits a vital point, even a sharp arrow will not retreat. Even the wooden and iron caltrops could not stop them. They could only see these golden soldiers dragging their steps, kicking away the wooden and iron caltrops and continuing to move forward.
The gold thieves at the forefront were all "bag coolies" - carrying bags of soil to fill the trenches. Judging from how well they worked, they were probably not regular soldiers, but Alixi, whose life was not worth much.
Following them were what should be regular soldiers. Some of them were carrying ladders, while others took out their bows and arrows and started shooting waves of arrows at the top of the city.
The Song soldiers guarding the top of the city also experienced the rain of arrows! However, the arrowheads shot by these Jin men could not hurt Zhao Kai. He was now sitting in a temporary "shed" with some spears inserted as pillars on both sides and a large frame on top to resist the thrown arrows.
Because the Jin soldiers did not have cannons, this simple arrow shelter blocked most of the Jin soldiers' arrowheads, so some were temporarily built before the Jin soldiers came up.
Due to the existence of the arrow shelter, the Song army on the top of the city did not suffer much losses. But the arrowheads they shot were also not enough to withstand the tide of golden soldiers.
Soon, the trench was filled with dozens of passages. The Jin warriors carrying ladders and shields stepped through these passages and rushed to the base of the "Great Wall" in the blink of an eye!
The ladder was set up, and then the golden warriors who were not afraid of death climbed up!
On the city wall, fierce melee fighting broke out in many areas!
