Chapter 387 Wanyan Xiabao’s blessing

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For Wanyanqi, who was trapped in Yuguan City, it was not difficult to recruit 10,000 troops. Despite the dozens of rounds of shelling, there were fires everywhere in the city, there were many ugly corpses, and the air was filled with the unpleasant smell of burning human flesh. However, the actual casualties of Wanyanqi's troops were not large, probably less than a thousand.

And after being hit by dozens of rounds of shelling, many people have found a way to avoid the shelling - lie down and don't move as much as possible. It would be even better if they could find a section of ruined wall to hide behind and lie down.

Of course, if the cannonball hits someone when it falls from the sky, they will definitely die!

In addition, stay away from any flammable and explosive items as much as possible to avoid being burned by fire.

If you see a hot cannonball rolling towards you, it's best to get out of the way immediately to avoid being scalded to death...

By the way, it's best not to squint under the base of the city wall. Although it is a blind spot for the 25-pound hotpot cannon, under the constant bombardment of the 5-pound cannon and the 10-pound cannon, many cracks have appeared in the walls of Yuguan City. It's a bit shaky, and I don't know when it will collapse. Anyone who wants to stay under the collapsed city wall may be buried alive.

In short, being bombarded in a small and dilapidated old castle (which cannot effectively resist shelling), even if the possibility of casualties is not too high (nor too low), is still very torturous... Because there are too many weird ways to die, and they all die in an ugly way. Sometimes you have to endure painful torture before death, and let out a scream that is unforgettable for a lifetime!

Therefore, in an era when smoothbore artillery dominated the battlefield, the side with superior firepower often used shelling to force the opponent to leave the preset position and initiate an attack.

For those who are about to collapse under the torment of the enemy's artillery fire, if they risk their lives and rush out to fight, even if they die, they will die happily, and maybe even gain some support!

So Wan Yanqi quickly gathered 10,000 Dajin Heavenly Soldiers who looked a little embarrassed, and then led them to open the east gate and kill them out.

Why go out to the east gate?

Because only the east gate can get out. The west, north, and south gates of Yuguan City were blocked by the Song Army's long cannons. If you rush out from there, you will have to be bombarded by shotguns. Only the outside of the east gate is relatively open.

Yue Fei made a very strange "Three Missing One" strategy today, which was not to surround three buildings but to besiege them on three sides and block the enemy on one side - the three armies pulled cannons to block the gates on the west, south and north sides of Yuguan City. They added bombardment and prepared to attack the city.

Li Shifu, on the other hand, led the most elite First Army and deployed a large hollow square array to the east of Yuguan City, three to four hundred steps away from the city wall, blocking the pontoon bridgehead leading to the Yuhe Camp.

The reinforcements sent out from the Yuhe Camp led by Wanyan Zongfu were blocked by Li Shifu's army.

And Wanyan Zongfu didn't dare to charge hard, and he couldn't charge hard - Li Shifu chose a very small place to block him, allowing his soldiers but not giving them enough space to spread out. If you can't spread out the brigade, you can only add fuel, charge in waves, and then be bombarded by shotguns one after another...

Don't do such stupid things!

Therefore, Wanyan Zongfu had no choice but to order his soldiers to leave the bridgehead and detour along the banks of the Chongqing River to both sides of the Song army's formation, hoping to go around to the flanks of Li Shifu's troops to regroup.

And Li Shifu did not let the infantry and cavalry below launch an attack immediately to prevent the Jin soldiers from passing. He just asked the artillery to fire from a distance and used solid bullets to bombard the Jin soldiers moving along the river bank.

Although the lethality of solid bullets is limited, the sound of a military-level artilleryman firing 32 long guns is quite intimidating. And from time to time, I can knock down a few!

The Jin soldiers meandering along the river bank seemed not to be very elite, and were a little frightened by the Song army's cannons.

Therefore, it was unavoidable to move around while facing the shells, and from time to time I had to squat down to avoid the shells. The men who led the troops, An Mooke, were so angry that they screamed and shouted, urging their men to stand up and continue moving forward.

But they just screamed, and no one came out with a knife to kill people. After all, the Song Army's cannons looked so powerful, and there were quite a lot of them!

Therefore, the battle around the Yuhe Bridgehead sounded lively, but in fact it was not very intense, and the casualties on both sides were not large.

But Wanyanqi, who rushed out from the east gate of Yuguan, didn't know that the Yuhe Bridgehead was filled with smoke, cannons were rumbling, drums were beating, trumpets were wailing, and from time to time, people were shouting - sometimes cheering, sometimes It's time to yell. Anyway, listening and watching, it seemed like a fierce battle was going on.

Wanyan Qi had been knocked unconscious by the Song Army's artillery, and he was not a veteran like his father Wanyan Zongwang, so his actual combat experience was not worth mentioning!

At this moment, I had long been confused about the situation. I saw a large formation of the Song Army in front of me. It was being attacked by the Jin soldiers coming from the east bank of the Yu River. The fight was very lively, so I took it for granted that I could beat them from both sides. .

He looked back and saw that the cavalry and infantry of the brigade had followed him out of the doorway of the east gate of Yuguan, crossed the moat on the suspension bridge, and began to spread out on the east bank of the moat.

Located in the center of the formation is a group of heavily armored iron pagoda cavalry. Everyone is wearing armor and has a spear in their hand.

Under the afternoon sun, a piece of armor shines!

This cavalry is Wanyan Zongwang's "legacy". It belongs to Zongwang's personal soldiers Meng'an. There are 3,000 cavalry in total. This time Wanyan Qi brought 2,000 of them to Yuguan, and now they all follow him out of the city.

And in front of the Song Army formation opposite them... there were no cannons deployed!

It seems that the Song people have transferred all the artillery teams there because the fighting in the direction of the Yu River was too fierce.

This is the opportunity for Iron Buddha to launch an attack!

Oh, if it had been a few years earlier, before the Red Turban Song Army had risen, the Iron Buddha would not have been used like this. The Iron Buddha was a trump card used to give the opponent the final blow!

They won't use them at the beginning, otherwise why would they need Han'er troops, Khitan soldiers, hard-armed heavy armor and kidnapping horses?

But times have changed now... The Song Army has artillery!

If we don't invest in Tiefu Tu now and wait for the Song army's artillery to come up, Tiefu Tu will be useless.

Shotgun doesn’t know anything about Iron Buddha...

Thinking of this, Wanyanqi's hand has been raised, and the generals around him have gathered around, looking nervously at the young master. As long as the young master gives the order, they will follow Wanyan Zong to conquer the east and west. The general who has been a general for many years is about to lead the cavalry into battle.

Wanyan Qi spoke at this time: "The whole army will come together and we will fight... Tiefutu will take the lead. After rushing into the Song people's formation, you are not allowed to retreat. Just fight hand to hand on or off the horse!"

His father would have scolded him for this style of play a few years ago.

But now is the era when artillery dominates the battlefield... It is impossible for the Jurchen cavalry to charge into the formation round after round without artillery support.

You've already suffered heavy losses by going up with solid bullets and shotgun shells. Where can you go back and die again?

"Don't worry, young master, we understand!"

"Young Master, give the order!"

"Young Master, give the order quickly, it's time for the Nanren's tube to come up after a long wait!"

Wan Yanqi nodded solemnly, and all the Jurchen generals below turned their horses and rushed back to their respective teams. They also drew out their swords and raised them high.

The Jurchen knights and Han'er, the Bohai infantry, and the yellow-headed Jurchens all became nervous at this time, and their eyes were fixed on the guy in the hands of their respective generals.

Wanyan Qi suddenly pointed the sword in his hand forward: "My sons, follow the lonely king... and charge!"

All the Jurchen generals waved their swords at the same time and shouted orders to charge.

All the Jurchen knights, whether they were iron pagodas or kidnapper horses, shook their ropes at the same time and rushed towards the Song army's formation in front of them, which looked like knives and axes stamping out. The Han infantry, Bohai warriors, and yellow-headed Jurchen hard troops who followed these Jurchen knights also shouted and rushed forward.

The momentum of ten thousand cavalry charging at the same time is really amazing!

But their opponent was no longer the Song army who was only good at archery, not good at hand-to-hand combat, and didn't forget to ask for rewards when going into battle.

This time they encountered the grenadiers of the Red Turban Song Army!

Although Li Shifu placed all his artillery on the east side of the phalanx, he placed his most elite infantry on the west side of the formation to face the crazy attack of the Jin soldiers and cavalry.

Seeing the golden infantry and cavalry coming like a tide, these grenadiers had already used a wooden handle to explode thunder, and also lit the match rope wrapped around the spear inserted in the soil...

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"Hurry, hurry, hurry up... King Wei is still waiting for us to save his life!"

When Wanyan Qi led his troops of 10,000 infantry and cavalry to attack Li Shifu's troops, his cousin Wanyan Xiebao already sensed that something was wrong.

Feeling bad, Wanyan Xiabao had no choice but to loudly urge the people below to hurry up.

Wanyan Xiebao had received the order to return to Yuguan an hour ago. However, despite the good orders, Xie Bao's 50,000-strong army could not spread their wings and fly over to save Wanyanqi, "someone else's child"!

In fact, Wanyan Xiebao had not liked Wanyan Qi since he was a child. Wanyan Qi was good-looking, studied hard, and was good at martial arts. He was a "good boy from Daikin" in Wanyan Zonghan's eyes. But Wanyan Xiebao is fat, lazy and greedy. He is not good at studying, his martial arts skills are not as good as Wanyan Qi's, and he is not good looking either...

Of course, these things have passed, and now Xie Bao, as the number one crow's mouth in Daikin, has long since stepped out of Wan Yanqi's shadow.

Wanyan Qi relied on his father to get the prince, but Wanyan Xiebao worked hard to become a prince on his own!

But for some reason, Wanyan Xiebao actually remembered that when he was a child, his father Wanyan Zonghan always compared him with Wanyan Qi...

Thinking of this, Wanyan Xiebao couldn't help but sigh and said to himself: "Wanyan Qi, Wanyan Qi... If I hadn't come to save you today, you would have been dead! But! You must hold on now, you must stay at Yuguan... don't come out!"