When the Great Jin Empire's ditch combined fleet was destroyed by Niu Gao's deck-washing tactics, the sound of horns suddenly sounded in the direction of Wanyan's diagonal Baoya flag, and the drums urging the army also rumbled. stand up.
The trumpets and drums urging the infantry to advance came so quickly that the big canisters that had just been moved to the front of the formation didn't even sound. The trumpets and drums urging the infantry to advance began!
The reason for this is that Wanyan Xiebao, who was supervising the battle from a high place, had already seen what happened on the surface of the Baigou River.
Although he was far away and couldn't see the casualties on the ship clearly, he could still see the Song army placing dozens of cannons on the embankment and bombarding the ditch fleet!
He also found many people jumping into the water on the bombarded warship... Needless to say, something terrible must have happened on the ship!
Wanyan Xiabao realized that his previous ominous feeling was coming true, and the smell of failure he smelled was getting stronger and stronger.
Xiabao knew what he had to do. So he made a prompt decision and issued the order for a general attack... At the same time, he quietly issued the order to retreat to the tube soldiers and hotpot soldiers on the front line.
Although these tubes and hot pots performed poorly against the Red Turban Song Army. But Wanyan Xiebao knew that as long as he replaced some worse opponents, these tubes and hot pots would become particularly powerful. Therefore, these tubes and pots cannot be lost, and it is not easy to train the tube soldiers and hot pot soldiers, so they must be preserved.
In addition, Wanyan Xiebao also discovered that there were some deviations in Daikin's tube route. The tube should not just be big, but should also be light and flexible.
If we want to fight on the desert grasslands in the future, it would be best to make a small tube that can be carried on camels...
Of course, that is all a thing for another day. Right now, there is only one thing Wanyan Xiebao has to consider, which is how to withdraw most of the troops from the Baigou River battlefield.
Thinking of this, Wanyan Xiebao gritted his teeth and loudly ordered again: "Let the Tiefu Tu and Guaizi horses from every ten thousand households, as well as the horse soldiers of the Han'er Army, be on standby behind the formation, under the control of the Solitary King!"
Some of the soldiers around him immediately responded and rushed to Wanhu's positions to mobilize cavalry for Wanyan Xiebao.
Although every Jurchen nation now has horses, after the previous service, they will also be divided into Tiefutu, Kaizi horses and heavy armored infantry. Among them, women whose families are relatively wealthy can equip themselves with heavy armored horses. A real person can be the iron pagoda. Jurchens who are skilled in equestrian skills, good at riding and shooting, and can lead at least two horses in the army can serve as kidnappers. If you are not that rich and are not good at riding and shooting, then you can only serve as heavy infantry.
The situation of Bohai Ten Thousand Households is similar, but each Bohai Ten Thousand Households can produce far fewer iron pagodas and kidnapping horses.
The Khitan Ten Thousand Households were at a lower level than the Bohai Ten Thousand Households. There was no iron pagoda but only light cavalry.
As for Han'erjun, the level is even lower. In theory, they recruit soldiers, but in fact they also implement a common military system, mainly infantry, but there are also a small number of light cavalry.
Wanyan Xiebao had quietly drawn out the tube soldiers and hot pot soldiers before, and now he had drawn out the cavalry from each army and took control of them himself.
In addition, before retreating to the second line of defense, Wanyan Xiabao had already adjusted his subordinates' array. The Han army, the Khitan army, and the Bohai navy were put in the front, and the Jurchen soldiers were pushed back.
In this way, when necessary, he can escape with the Jurchen soldiers, cavalry, and tube soldiers... I have to say that Wanyan's way of using troops to protect him is a bit shameless!
However, his thoughts were not known to Liu Xiao (son of Liu Yanzong), the commander of the Nanjing Road Guards and Pro-Army Command, who was commanding the troops at the front, Bai Gao of ten thousand households in the Bohai Sea, and Yelunu Ge of ten thousand households in the Khitan.
The three of them only knew that the "Dajin Shuigou Fleet" had rushed behind the Song army in front of them, and had also blown up the pontoon bridge, so the Song army in front of them had been surrounded by the Dajin heavenly soldiers!
And looking at the current performance of this Song army, it is quite consistent with the normal reaction when being attacked from the front and back... They were arrogant just now, relying on the sharp cannon and the power of the explosive pot to suppress the big Jin soldiers. Now they suddenly shrank back, shrinking back in a timid manner, even abandoning the defense line of grain trucks that originally belonged to the Jin soldiers that they had grabbed before, and shrank back to the Baigou River, and the Song Army's initial defense line went up.
Perhaps the southern general was planning a last-ditch battle, but he failed to calculate that the "ditch battleship" behind them had a cannon!
They were far away from the river before, and the cannons on the trench warships might not be within reach. Now they retreated a hundred or two hundred steps, and their backs were completely exposed to the cannons in the ditch.
When Dajin's land division pressed forward, the cannon boats on the water would throw bombs at their butts... If they couldn't win, the three of them would simply jump into the white ditch and drown themselves. Forget about the country.
Therefore, after receiving the order from Wanyan Xiebao, the three of them did not hesitate and immediately led their infantry to press towards the Song Army's position.
Moreover, the three of them didn't pay attention to Wanyan Xiebao's order to transfer their cavalry - the terrain on the north bank of the Baigou River was so narrow, there was no room for the cavalry!
In addition, the three of them did not notice that the tube team and hot pot team behind them did not follow up, but quietly withdrew... After all, these big guys moved very slowly. Moreover, Wanyan Xiebao's little cannons followed closely, divided into three groups, and were directly assigned to Liu Xiao, Bai Gao and Yelunu Ge.
However, the Jin Army's 20,000 Han'er Army, Bohai Navy, and Khitan Army failed to advance with dozens of cannons to the distance where the cannons could hit the Song Army's position.
Because the 5-pound cannons and 10-pound cannons of the Song Army had already opened fire when the Jin soldiers advanced to two or three hundred steps away.
At this distance, small cannons are useless at all, and as for bows and crossbows, they can't even reach the Song army.
And the Song Army's more than one hundred cannons, whether long-barreled or hot pot cannons, can hit the heads of Jin soldiers with iron and stone bullets!
Iron bullets and stone bullets weighing 5 kilograms, 10 kilograms, or even 25 gold fell into the golden soldier formation in hundreds!
Although Yue Fei did not concentrate his firepower this time, the golden soldiers were made of meat after all. If hundreds of iron balls and stone balls were smashed down, they would always produce pools of meat!
And there are some ricochet among them... It's a large piece or a long strip in one sweep. Not to mention directly hitting the vital point, it's unbearable to carry a little bit of it!
Just when Liu Xiao, Bai Gao and Brother Yelunu felt that something was wrong, the urging drums and trumpets sounded again!
At the same time, the large group of Tiefutu and Guaizima had already lined up behind the Han army, the Bohai navy, and the Khitan army.
This is to supervise the battle and prepare to rush in and fight immediately after the Han army, Bohai navy, and Khitan army disrupt the Song army's position!
The current Jin army has strict discipline...especially for the Han army, Bohai navy, and Khitan army!
Liu Xiao, Bai Gao and Yerunuge also knew that there was no way to retreat, and they still had illusions about the "Shuigou Fleet". So as soon as he gritted his teeth, he ordered his trusted generals and soldiers to mobilize the soldiers below and push forward despite the Song army's artillery fire.
Although the Song Army had a lot of artillery, they were only bronze smoothbore cannons with limited power and slow rate of fire. If they wanted to defeat the more than 20,000 people commanded by Liu Xiao, Bai Gao and Yelunu Ge by shelling alone, it would be impossible. An hour.
Therefore, it was very wise for Liu Xiao, Bai Gao and Brother Yelunu not to wait for their men to be blown away by the Song army's artillery.
Moreover, these three people were willing to go all out, and instead of adding fuel to the fire, they started a one-on-one deal.
Twenty-two or three thousand people from three thousand households (including the Nanjing Road Guards) (minus the cavalry, and some had been lost before) rushed forward together amidst the sound of drums and drums.
Looking from the Baigou River embankment opposite, Jin Bing's crowd is no longer surging, it's like floods filling the sky! The Jin soldiers in helmets rushed over like a flood breaking through a bank, forming three huge square formations and pounced directly on the front of Yue Fei's command.
But when the sea of Jin soldiers surged up like a tide, the artillery fire on the Song army suddenly became sparse. All the cannons stopped firing, leaving only the pot cannons that continued to throw stone projectiles. When stone bullets fall in the crowd, they can always knock down a group of people, but there are so many attacking enemies that the gap created by the stone bullets is quickly filled by a steady stream of people coming up.
Yue Fei and Xu Qing, who joined the army, stood side by side on the river embankment, each looking into the cylinder and observing the situation on the front line.
Xu Qing frowned: "The gold thieves are willing to pay with human lives, and they are really willing to..."
Yue Fei shook his head: "No, the gold thief wants to run away!"
"Run? But they clearly..."
"Their artillery has withdrawn, and the cavalry has retreated behind. And the people attacking are all Han'er and Zahu, right? No matter how many people die, Wanyan Zongqian won't feel sorry for him!" Yue Fei put down the telescope and frowned, "Let's Our opponents are much more cunning and cunning than we thought before. They did not blindly fight with us, but carefully preserved their strength. If we preserve our strength, we can maintain it, learn our skills, and have a future... ..."
Xu Qing sighed: "Their people are human beings, but Han'er, Khitan, and Bohai are not human beings?"
Yue Fei put down the telescope, glanced at Xu Qing, and said expressionlessly: "Can those guys who consider thieves as their fathers count as human beings?"
Just when Yue Fei said "recognizing thieves as fathers", the long-barreled cannons that had just "rested" on the Song Army's position in front suddenly roared at the same time.
This time, they sprayed the most deadly shotgun!
The golden soldier who rushed at the front was immediately cut down in large pieces!
And this scene was also seen by Wanyan Xianbao. The "crow's mouth" general of the Jurchens saw his own people being beaten to death, but he nodded slightly and whispered: "I understand, I understand... This is how the barrel is used! Next time , I will definitely let you know how good my Wanyan Xianbao is next time!"
