In the center of the Henan section of the Great Wall, on a front about six or seven miles long, the offensive and defensive battle between the Song and Jin Dynasties was in full swing.
The six or seven miles long city wall here is not a continuous whole, but divided into three sections. Each section is different in length, but they are all facing upwards on two miles. There are about ten steps between the two sections, which is the passage for soldiers to enter and exit. When the Jin soldiers approach, they can be blocked layer by layer with horse-repelling guns and door-blocking knives. Therefore, these six or seven miles long city wall can also be regarded as three independent fortresses. If one or two of them are captured, the remaining one can still hold on independently.
On the southeast side of the three long sections of the wall, there are more than 10,000 "Red Scarf Army" - those civilians with red scarves covering their heads. When the long wall was attacked by gold thieves, they neither idled nor ran away. Instead, they got busy under the supervision of lecturers and officers from various states and township armies, and they not only let out bursts of shouts and cheers. It seems that the picture cake given by Zhao Kai is still working!
These "Red Scarf Army" soldiers may have used carts and rice bags (some can be moved out from the ramp behind the long wall) to build a temporary defense line behind the long wall. Or organize the team, prepare swords, shields, bows and arrows, and prepare to go into battle. Others found a lot of hay and piled it under the slope on the back of the long wall...
The fierce fighting first started on a long wall defended by the Ruzhou Army!
Niu Gao's Ruzhou army totaled more than 5,000 people, and he divided it into three parts. Two of them had a total of about 5,000 people guarding two sections of a long wall more than two miles long. The remaining 200 to 300 elite troops were all wearing heavy armor. , carrying a long ax, waiting under the long wall near Zhao Kai and a section of the long wall defended by the Ruzhou Army - the Ruzhou Army and the Yulin Knights guarded three sections of the long wall in total, Zhao Kai and the Yulin Knights The city walls on the right, middle and left are all guarded by Ruzhou troops.
Among the three sections of city wall, the one that suffered the most violent attack was of course the long wall where Zhao Kai was located! The Jin soldiers surged toward Zhao Kai's six banners and banners like a tide. However, 2,000 divine arm bows were fired in turn and suffered heavy casualties. Especially those Alixi who were carrying earthbags and wanted to fill the trenches, became the key target of the Yulin Knights, and they fell in rows. Before the trench!
Because the Alixi soldiers who filled the trenches were too seriously injured, the trench blocking the Jin soldiers could not be filled in for the time being. Some Jin soldiers who were eager to make meritorious deeds couldn't wait any longer and jumped directly into the trench. Only after they jumped did they realize that something was wrong!
The bottom of the trench was not only sprinkled with iron caltrops and wooden caltrops, but also many sharpened wooden stakes were inserted. The golden soldier who jumped down was immediately injured, and his thighs, calves, and feet were all pierced. Under the severe pain, he let out bursts of screams and howls, which also frightened other golden soldiers who were about to jump into the ditch.
However, the main soldiers of the Jin people did not wait all the time. Instead, regardless of casualties, they approached the trench directly. They stood in rows and fired dense arrows at the feathered knights on the long wall.
However, the Yulin knights all have large shields on their heads (held by spears), and they are also covered in armor, and even their faces are protected by visors. Moreover, the main soldiers of the Jurchens were not too close to them, and their special skill of heavy arrow shooting at close range could not be used, so the losses of the Yulin Knights were not too heavy. However, there were still some Yulin knights who were shot in the vital parts and were carried down for treatment by the people with red scarves on their heads.
At the same time, the Ali Xi soldiers who were filling the trenches continued to rush forward one after another carrying large bags. Regardless of casualties, they desperately threw bags of soil into the trenches and filled in the passage bit by bit.
But in front of the two sections of long wall held by the Ruzhou Army, the situation was much more critical!
The trenches in front of the two sections of long wall have been filled with seven or eight passages. The main soldiers of the Jin army carrying long ladders swarmed up and put the ladders up on the long wall. At the same time, a large number of golden soldiers with bows and arrows poured through the passage, lined up under the long wall, and sent waves of arrows towards the city wall to greet them.
The Ruzhou soldiers guarding these two long sections of wall are no match for the Yulin army. They don't have such good armor, they don't have enough divine arm bows for them to use, and their archery skills are not that good either. What's worse is that they just fired a wave of indiscriminate shots. They didn't kill a few golden soldiers, but they exhausted their own strength. Therefore, the arrowheads fired now are all loose and cannot hurt the golden soldiers who are wearing two layers of heavy armor.
I saw these hard-line warriors holding a big ax in one hand and a long ladder in the other, trying to climb up the wall!
Niu Gao, seeing something was wrong, made a prompt decision and led his men to climb a long wall near Zhao Kai. After going up, Niu Gao immediately ordered his swordsmen and axemen in groups of ten to disperse along the long wall... While preparing for battle, he also acted as a supervising team to prevent the more than two thousand people posted on the wall from People dispersed.
Under the supervision of the axemen holding long knives and big axes, the Ruzhou soldiers on the wall also gritted their teeth, holding long-handled knives and guns, and lined up behind the forked logs.
The so-called forks are actually fences, inserted directly between the rice bags and more than five feet higher than the long wall. The snitch climbing up the long ladder will be blocked by the forks. Only by cutting some wooden poles with an ax can he drill through. Go in and fight the Song army hand to hand.
And when they were chopping wood, the Song army used long-handled swords and guns to attack them!
Although the hard-line soldiers of the Jin people are all wearing heavy armor, it is difficult to block the assassination with spears and knives - if the armor can hold it, the person will most likely be pushed down and fall heavily to the ground.
If you look forward from the rear of the Jin soldiers, you can see that their dead soldiers are constantly climbing up the city and being stabbed down again and again.
Under the long wall, the corpses and wounded soldiers of the Jin soldiers were piled up in layers, and they were also beaten into a stalemate for a while.
On the other long wall defended by the Ruzhou soldiers, the situation was not so good. The Song army's stabbing speed was a beat slower, and several forks of wood were chopped off!
A fierce close-quarters fight soon began between the Ruzhou soldiers and the Jin people's hard-line soldiers!
The dead soldiers of the hard army are all strong men among the mature Jurchens and Bohai people. The most brave among them is the so-called yellow-headed Jurchen. There are many yellow-headed Jurchens among the hard-line troops rushing up the long wall. They are like tigers and lions rushing into a herd of sheep, waving their axes vigorously to greet the Ruzhou soldiers who are coming up!
Ruzhou soldiers are also fighting for their lives at this time... If they don't fight, they will have no chance!
The officers supervising the battle (they were the Yulin Knights) also opened their throats and shouted as loudly as possible: "Hold it! The golden thieves are here to steal our land and our wives... Fight with them !”
"Those who retreat...will be killed without mercy!"
"The officials are right behind us, we can't retreat!"
You can't retreat...but can you withstand it?
As more and more Jin hard troops swarmed up the long wall, the battle became very unfavorable to the Song army. Even if they risked their lives to fight to the death, they still couldn't resist more and more golden soldiers...
It's about to die!
Niu Gao, who was supervising the battle on another section of the city wall, was a master with an eye for all directions, and he had long known that the long wall would not be able to withstand it without his own observation. So he hurriedly led twenty or thirty swordsmen and axemen (the others were still supervising the battle) and rushed down the long wall where they had just fought, and then headed towards the long wall that was almost unbearable.
And under the long wall that was almost unbearable, a deputy general of the Ruzhou Army had already organized two thousand strong red scarf troops. They looked as if they were going to push up, but they just wouldn't go up... ..The fighting above was so brutal that normal people would be scared!
But when Niu Gao arrived, he took over the team without saying a word, and even ordered the shameful lieutenant: "If I can't stand it anymore, don't wait for me to retreat and set fire to the Great Wall... !”
Setting fire to the city was planned long ago!
The long wall made of rice is flammable! Although mud was smeared on the surface, it was only applied to the front and the back was not touched... Not only was there no mud, but there was also a little hay piled on it!
Once the long wall is not defended, the Song army will light hay and set fire to the wall!
This is a fire-and-death strategy. Although setting fire to the wall can temporarily block the enemy, what happens after the long wall is burned?
However, the current situation was extremely critical, and Niu Gao could not care so much. After giving the order, he shouted: "Red Scarf Army, follow me... kill the enemy!"
"Red Scarf Army, kill..."
The response and shouts were equally shocking, and the farmers in Ruzhou who were inspired by the division of fields also risked their lives - just as the officials said, if you win, you will have land, money, wives, everything! Losing... is nothing but death!
What are you afraid of?
No land, no money, no wife...can we live a good life?
Since you haven't lived a good life, why should you be afraid of death?
As soon as the two thousand roaring Red Scarf Army came on stage, the situation on the long wall suddenly reversed. The Jurchen hard-line army is powerful, but they are not made of iron... They are fighting "full armor combat", and before they were running and climbing, they didn't even have time to breathe, and now they are slashing and killing. It's been a while since I've been exhausted. When you see the enemy's new force coming, how can you dare to act cruelly? They all spontaneously retreated towards the gaps where several rows of trees were crisscrossed, and then formed a semicircle to protect the gaps.
As long as the Song army cannot block the breach, there will be a steady stream of golden soldiers coming up. As long as there are enough golden soldiers ascending the city, this section of the wall will be captured by them!
As soon as they shrank like this, the Song army on the wall could no longer recruit... After shrinking, the enemy area of the Jin soldiers was greatly reduced. The Song people's numerical advantage could not be used, and the Jin soldiers below the city wall were still desperately firing. Feather arrows, for the unarmored Red Scarf Army, these sharp arrows are deadly weapons.
And the most terrifying thing is the heavy armored troops that are constantly climbing up!
There were so many of them that they almost collapsed the long wall made of rice bags... As the battle continued, the Song army on the long wall was once again in crisis!
After receiving support, the Jin people's hard army, which was originally compressed, once again used force to force Niu Gao and his Ruzhou Army and Red Scarf Army back step by step. They were about to be driven off the long wall.
At this moment, a fire suddenly broke out under the long wall where Niu Gao was!
The Henan section of the Great Wall is on fire!
