The camp that Wu Lin was in charge of was located to the west of the Western Song Dynasty Army Camp in Wu Lahaicheng, facing the open land of Pingchuan on the south bank of the North River of the Yellow River. The large cavalry of the Jin Kingdom just relied on the cover of night to hide in the grass 2,000 paces away, and then used a large group of kidnap horses to block and cover it, preventing the Song people's sentinels and scouts from detecting their existence.
Jin Bing had two purposes for hiding in the darkness for more than two hours.
The first is, of course, to paralyze the opponent and make the Song army mistakenly think that the main force of the Jin army has retreated. In the eyes of Wu Qimai, Lou Shi and others, the Song army detoured all the way from the fork of the Yellow River, and fought with Wanyan on the way. The armies led by Xiebao and Wanyan Zonggou fought. After arriving at Wu Lahai City, they didn't have any rest. They were still busy building forts and forts. It was impossible not to be exhausted.
When such a tired teacher is tense, it doesn't matter, but once he relaxes, the fatigue and fatigue cannot be driven away... At least the two old men Wu Qimai and Lou Shi are Think so.
The second purpose of making tens of thousands of golden soldiers wait in the dark for two full hours is to wait for the early morning - usually early in the morning is when sleepiness is the most intense, and it is close to dawn, so that the night attack can be launched. The best time.
Catch the enemy off guard under the cover of darkness, and when the enemy wants to escape, it's daylight!
Now is the darkest time before dawn. In theory, it is also the time when the exhausted 30,000 Song troops are extremely exhausted.
The first assault wave of the Dajin Army was launched at this time!
As the incoming Jin soldiers gradually approached the piles of bonfires lit outside the Song army's camp, the Song army was finally able to roughly see their size.
The soldiers and horses dispatched by the Jin people launched an attack from the west, north and south at the same time. However, the number of people invested in various directions is very limited.
The focus of the first wave of Jin soldiers' assault seemed to be the west side of the Song army's camp.
The east side of the Song Army's camp is facing Ulahaicheng, and the artillery fortress is also in this direction, so it is of course the focus of the Song Army's troop deployment. The west wall of Wulahai City and its vicinity facing the east of the Song Army's camp could not be used as starting positions for night attacks on the Jin soldiers because they had been bombarded by the Song Army before.
Therefore, in the first wave of the Jin Army's offensive, no troops were arranged to attack the east side of the Song Army's camp.
The Song Army's camp is directly adjacent to the North River of the Yellow River to the north. The water level of the North River of the Yellow River in this area is not deep and the current is not fast. It is not the flood season, so it can be forded. However, it is not always convenient to cross the river to launch an attack. Therefore, in the first wave of the Jin's offensive, there were not many troops in the north, only two thousand men.
However, the noise caused was not small, including beating drums and shouting. They even disassembled twelve cannons and pulled them to the North River of the Yellow River, and then completed the assembly in the darkness. When the Jin soldiers deployed in the Yellow River and Beihe launched the first wave of attacks, these twelve cannons began to fire large bombs at random on the other side.
Of course, these bombing pots were not accurate at all, and most of them did not even touch the edge of the Song Army's camp.
But it still made a lot of noise...it was obvious at first glance that it was a feint!
Since the Jin army in the north is a feint attack, and there is no starting position for the Jin people in the east...then the Jin people's main attack direction should be to the west or south.
Judging from the first wave of attacks launched by the Jin... the west of the Song Army's camp seems to be their key attack direction.
In this direction, in the first wave of attacks alone, the Jin people invested as many as six to seven thousand troops! Not to mention the even denser, rumbling hooves sounds behind them. Standing where Wu Lin was, looking out, the Jin cavalry, the Jin cavalry pouring out from the darkness, were almost endless!
The 2,000 soldiers under Wu Lin were responsible for guarding the right wing to the west of the Song Army's camp - this side was divided into two wings, each guarded by two infantry generals.
Because Liu Wu discovered the incoming enemy in time, Wu Lin's soldiers were well-trained and had high morale. Therefore, before the Jin cavalry arrived, they had already relied on the camp to launch defense.
The traditional infantry battle formation of the Song Army is usually divided into four layers on one side, with the horsemen on the first layer, the spearmen on the second layer, the divine arm bow on the third layer, and the archers on the last layer.
However, the Northern Song Dynasty infantry under Zhao Kai had integrated the throwing arms and melee combat arms... There was no arm that was only responsible for archery or pot throwing. Instead, each team (equivalent to a company) has a divine arm bow platoon (equipped with long guns), two infantry bow platoons (one platoon equipped with long guns, and one platoon equipped with swords and axes), and a throwing pot platoon (equipped with spears). knife and ax).
When setting up the formation, depending on the strength of the troops and the terrain conditions, a formation of four rows (one row and one column), eight rows (one row and two columns) or sixteen rows (one row and four columns) will be arranged.
But now, Wu Lin's men formed a relatively thick eight-row formation to meet the enemy!
However, there were too many Jin cavalry, so many that they were almost as strong as the rising tide of the sea. Wu Lin, who was standing on a cart behind his battle formation to supervise the battle, held a small army in his hand. Break into a cold sweat.
However, the incoming Jin cavalry did not attack the Song army's camp directly. Instead, they dismounted their horses a hundred steps away from the Song army's defense barrier, formed a foot formation, used their shields to clear the way, and slowly approached. .
Wu Lin and Hua Dalang, the middle-level and junior officers of the Song Army, all knew that the golden soldiers behind the shield must have dirtbags. After they get close to the trench, they will throw out the bags of earth and quickly fill a trench that is neither wide nor deep.
After the trenches are filled, the real fierce battle will begin!
But it’s not easy to fill the trench!
Because before completing the trench filling, the attacking golden soldiers had to withstand the terrible damage caused by the divine arm bow and the explosive pot...
When the Jin people's shield array approached the piles of bonfires outside the trench, the generals in charge of commanding the divine arm archers waved the flags in their hands and shouted orders. Then I heard a thumping sound with a metallic vibrating sound in the air. Countless short wooden feather arrows shot out angrily, heading straight towards the golden man's shield array.
Although the power of these wooden feather arrows is powerful, they are not enough to penetrate the large shield in the hands of the golden warrior. Therefore, the archers who used the divine arm bow aimed at the gaps between the big shields to shoot arrows... The density of people behind the golden shield was extremely high. As long as they could shoot the wooden feather arrows in, they would not be afraid of causing casualties. .
However, when it comes to shooting wooden feather arrows into the gaps between large shields, there is not much room for use of the super long range of the Divine Arm Bow.
Because they put the enemy closer before shooting, the golden archers following the shield also began to throw arrows from a distance. The archers in the back row of the Song army also raised their long-stepping bows and began to fight back. The pot-throwing soldiers in the last two rows of the array also lit the match ropes wrapped around the long-handled axes, waiting for the Jin men to rush through the trench... After passing the trench, it was the distance where the pot-throwing force could exert its power. !
And once the Jin soldiers rushed through the trench, that's when they launched their final fierce attack... The Song army's pot-throwing soldiers didn't need to aim at all, they just threw waves of pots!
Just as the arrows from both sides were going back and forth, the soldiers of Ali Xi, Sheng Tatar and Han'er, who were carrying earth bags on their backs, began to rush out from behind the shields of the Jin soldiers, holding the shield in one hand and carrying earth in one arm. They threw the bags into the trench like they were desperate... As long as they threw the bags in their hands into the trench, the mission was completed!
As long as you complete a life-threatening mission, you can "live for a long time"... because this kind of life-threatening mission is taken in turn by all the Alixi, Han'erjun and Shengtatars. .
However, the divine arm archers on the opposite side were happy to harvest the lives of these Alixi soldiers, Shengtatars and Hanerjun... However, the Alixi soldiers, Shengtartars and Hanerjun who were shot to death were also valuable. of!
Their corpses will be pushed into the trenches by other Ali Xi soldiers, Sheng Tatars and Han soldiers, and become objects to fill the trenches!
Although the casualties were considerable, the trenches outside the barracks to the west and south of the Song Army's camp were slowly filled with dirt bags and human corpses...
...
"Boom boom boom..."
Intense explosions came from the west and south of the Song Army camp and reached a high ground on the north bank of the Yellow River.
Emperor Wanyan Wu of the Jin Dynasty was begging for money. At this time, he was with Lou Shi, the most powerful general of the Jin Dynasty. He immediately stood up and looked at the fire that appeared around the Song Army camp on the other side of the river.
The fire was mainly concentrated on the west and south sides of the Song Army camp, and it was very dense!
Wu Qimai knew that this was caused by the Song army's explosive pot... This of course meant that the attacking Dajin soldiers were suffering terrible casualties!
It would be very difficult for the Jin soldiers who were staggered by the explosive pot to break through the fortress stationed by the Song army... However, a cold smile appeared on Wu Qimai's face: "Lou Shi!"
"I'm here!"
Wanyan Loushi immediately drove forward.
Wu Qimai asked: "Is the Iron Pagoda ready?"
"It's ready!" Wanyan Loushi said, "I have prepared 3,000 iron pagodas!"
The so-called "Iron Pagoda" is actually an armored cavalry, with people wearing armor and riding gear! Generally speaking, soldiers who can have this kind of equipment must be the most elite warriors!
Of course, the most elite warriors cannot only charge on horseback... They can also mount and shoot, and they can also dismount and fight - so in the "East Asian Monster Room", there are no light cavalry who use bows and arrows to teach heavy cavalry. There is no good example of infantry shooting many iron pagodas with long bows.
"Can you rush through?" Wu Qimai asked, looking at the Yellow River and Beihe in front.
"I can cross it..." Lou Shi assured, patting his chest, "I have already tested it... It is completely possible to ford it, and the fortresses built by the Song Army against the Yellow River do not count. It’s so strong that it doesn’t even have trenches… the Iron Pagoda can rush directly to the outside of their fortress!”
Wu Qimai nodded: "Then go! Remember, as soon as you grab the big tube, retreat...to Wu Lahai City!"
