"Camel Cavalry? Why are you all squatting?"
"No, there's a door cannon on the camel's back..."
"Many, many camels carrying cannon!"
Xiao Heda, who personally led a group of armored cavalry at the head of the battle, had just repelled a group of kidnapping horses. When he arrived outside a forest at the foot of Huaishu Ridge, he encountered three hundred and dozens of camels squatting outside the forest... ..And each camel has a tall and large camel saddle on its back, and a small bronze cannon is mounted on the camel saddle!
Next to the camel carrying the small bronze cannon were golden soldiers wearing wide-sleeved leather robes. Some of them were holding short spears wrapped with lighted match ropes... as if they were wrapping the spears around them. Put the match rope into the cannon's fire door!
This is about to open fire!
Xiao Heda was stunned!
We had obviously won a complete victory, but why did we encounter the Golden Thief's artillery... and there were so many of them!
Where should I hide?
There is no way to hide! The 350 artillery camels commanded by Tu Dan Hexi set up an arc-shaped artillery formation outside a forest. The muzzles of the guns were all pointed at Xiao Heda's flag, and there were no blind spots in all directions!
"Rumble..."
When Xiao Heda and his Khitan cavalry were stunned by the sudden appearance of the camel artillery, more than 300 eighty-two cannons were fired. Half of these eight-liang cannons were loaded with iron sand, and half were loaded with stone bullets, turning the one or two hundred steps in front of the muzzle into a real hell on earth. Deadly iron sand and gravel flew at extremely fast speeds, weaving into an airtight net of death, knocking everyone and horses in the net to the ground.
Xiao Heda was killed on the spot. He died without even screaming. He was hit by at least seven or eight cannonballs, and they were all beaten into pieces. It was so miserable!
The Khitan cavalry who followed him also died in pieces. The dead men and horses lay on the ground, and the blood of men and horses also flowed all over the ground. The air was filled with the smell of fire, saltpeter and blood.
The Khitan cavalry, who were relatively far back and had not yet entered the range of the camel cannon, were shocked when they saw this scene.
I was winning the battle just now! Why did it happen in such a short time? Where is their King Xiao (King Xi Liubu)? Wouldn't he be shot to death by a gold thief with a cannon?
When these Khitan people were confused, they saw a group of cavalry covered in iron armor rumbling out of the woods!
The timing is just right!
"Iron Pagoda!"
A cry that seemed to erupt directly from the chest aroused the deepest fear hidden in the hearts of these Khitan cavalry.
"Run quickly, the Iron Buddha is coming..."
Immediately, some people couldn't hold it any longer, turned around and ran away. Because Xiao Heda was killed in the battle and He Ji was supervising the battle in the rear group, these Khitan soldiers not only lost their spiritual leader, but also temporarily lost their command. Naturally, they were unable to overcome the fear in their hearts and collapsed under the impact of Tiefu Tu.
He Ji, who was in the rear formation, only had one general's Song cavalry and his own soldiers, and was unable to prevent the collapse of tens of thousands of Khitan soldiers.
And He Ji himself heard the sound of artillery fire that was so dense that it was continuous... This was not something that a dozen or twenty cannons could produce. There had to be at least hundreds of cannons firing at the same time!
Hundreds of gates...Have you met the main force?
While He Ji ordered people to stop the collapsed Khitan soldiers, he also asked his soldiers to find someone to ask. After a while, a fleeing Khitan family was escorted to He Ji. This guy could speak Chinese, and without waiting for He Ji to ask questions, he cried loudly: "Captain He, my king is gone. He was shot to death by a gold thief with a camel cannon, what a miserable death!"
"Camel Cannon?" He Ji was confused. What kind of cannon was Camel Cannon? Why are camels and cannons related?
"It's just camels carrying cannons... there are hundreds of them!" said the Khitan Qianhu, "and the Iron Pagoda, thousands of them!"
As soon as he said this, "thousands" of iron pagodas had already driven the panicked Khitan soldiers into He Ji's sight!
Although He Ji also has two battalions of red scarf cavalry under his command, the battlefield is now in chaos and full of fleeing Khitan people. The red scarf cavalry cannot charge as a whole unit. Moreover, He Ji saw many camels following the Iron Buddha cavalry from a distance... These camels had very high saddles on their backs, and there was a small cannon on the saddle!
There is such a combination!
He Ji also gained knowledge this time...but this knowledge was of no use at the moment, because he had neither camels nor cannons in his hands. Therefore, he could not withstand the attack of the Tiefutu cavalry supported by camel cannons. All he could do now was to fight and walk, trying to delay the Jurchens' attack as much as possible, but not letting them rush behind Han Shizhong's army. Otherwise, the outcome of this Yuguan battle would be difficult to say.
But He Ji's worries were unnecessary, because when Xiao Heda was killed and the Khitan cavalry was defeated, Wanyan Salihe had been beaten to tears by Han Shizhong, and was now escaping the battlefield northward in tears!
If the camel cannon in Wanyan Zongbi's hand is a powerful weapon for mobile warfare in complex or battlefields without good roads, then the Song Army's cannon, grenadier, and red scarf cavalry take turns to fight in the current formation. Invincible existence!
Faced with the firepower of more than ninety 5-pound cannons and 10-pound cannons, Wanyan Salihe's one hundred and fifty eight-tael camel cannons in his hands had no power to fight back... In fact, camel artillery was not used at all. They are used against the 5-pound and 10-pound long guns. They are used to accompany the cavalry in mobile warfare. But Salihe didn't know this at all, and his troops couldn't move now.
If he had decisively invested in camel cannons, iron pagodas and kidnapping horses when the fake peace talks first started, and used mobile warfare to disrupt Han Shizhong's formation, there might have been some fighting.
But he hesitated and gave Han Shizhong the upper hand!
With nothing to do, he could only force the camel cannon to counterattack the Song grenadiers... The camel cannon repelled the Song grenadiers, but there was still a group behind the Song grenadiers. The 5-pound cannon follows!
The artillerymen of the Song Army discovered the camel cannon and immediately deployed four 5-pound cannons. After a few rounds of shotgun shells, they killed twenty or thirty camels. The remaining camel artillerymen could not withstand the bombardment of the 5-pound cannon and were unable to fight back (they had no granular gunpowder, so they were slow to reload and had a short range) and all fled in panic.
The Red Turban Cavalry of the Song Army took the opportunity to launch an attack again!
At this time, Yue Fei on the other side of the Yang River detached another 20,000 cavalry, armed with twenty or thirty 5-pound cannons, and advanced northward along the Yang River with great fanfare, pretending to block the Jin soldiers' escape north. posture.
The demoralized and panic-stricken Jin soldiers under Wanyan Salihe finally collapsed. The Han army on the right side of Salihe's formation began to flee first. Tens of thousands of people ran together, and while running, there were still people on the side. He opened his voice and shouted: "Failed, defeated, the Kingdom of Jin is over!"
Immediately afterwards, the Khitans under Sa Lihe also got into chaos and collapsed together with the Han army. Some of them headed north and some rushed to the Yanghe Village Floating Bridge, trying to hide across the Yanghe River.
The Jurchens and Bohai people who oversaw the battle were equally panicked. Just at this time, the sound of cannons and shouts of death came from the direction of Huaishuling in the north - it was clearly Wanyan Zongbi who was beating He Ji and Xiao Heda, but to the Jurchens and Bohai people who did not know the truth, it sounded like It must be the Song Army's artillery attack again... Huaishu Ridge is their only retreat. If it is occupied by the Song Army, they will be doomed.
At this time, the camel artillery sent by Wanyan Xiebao took the lead in escaping. Two to three hundred camels (and camels with ammunition) rushed northward, regardless of whether the people in front were Han, Khitan, Bohai or women. Real person!
As soon as they ran away, other Jurchens and Bohai people also fled with them.
Sa Lihe didn't want to do anything anymore. Although he was praised by Aguda when he was young, at that time he just led Muke into the battle and served as an officer for hundreds of people. In the following years, we were all fighting against the odds, following Wanyan Zonghan, Wanyan Zongwang, Wanyan Loushi, and Wanyan Yinshu. Who wouldn't know how to burn, kill, and loot behind these people? This time, he was asked to lead tens of thousands of people to fight a tough battle that even Yan Zongbi could not fight, and a battle to win despite defeat. How could he have such ability?
Seeing everyone down there collapsed, Sa Lihe was so sad!
How could the great Jin Kingdom lose like this? If this continues, the Great Jin Kingdom will be gone.
Thinking of this, he burst into tears, and while crying, he shouted: "Emperor Taizu, Emperor Taizu, you have a spirit in heaven, just open your eyes and take a look... The Kingdom of Jin" If we lose, Daikin’s empire will be gone!”
When he collapsed like this, the Jurchen soldiers around him didn't know what was going on, so they had no choice but to protect the "Crying Man" and run north.
When the "Crying Prince" Wanyan Salihe ran away like this, the Jin soldiers on the west bank of the Yanghe River finally collapsed. Tens of thousands of people ran wildly together, screaming in panic and fleeing in all directions.
The Song army under Han Shizhong's morale was so high that they took the unit as a unit and launched wave after wave of attacks on the collapsed Jin soldiers!
Enemies in a rout are the easiest to eliminate, because they cannot mount organized resistance at all and are just a mess of loose sand.
Wanyan Zongbi learned that the main force led by Sa Lihe had collapsed, and Yue Fei divided his troops to retreat to his side. He did not dare to fight anymore, so he had to order his troops to withdraw, and then retreat towards the vast Yanshan Mountains to the north.
Wanyan Zongbi's retreat also marked that the Jin soldiers completely lost the Battle of Yuguan, and also lost the strength to continue to hold on at Shanhaikou...
Somewhere on the high ground on the east bank of the Chongqing River, Wanyan Zongqian just looked at the battlefield in the distance with dull eyes, his mouth wide open, wanting to shout but not being able to, and wanting to cry but not being able to.
Wanyan Xiebao's crow's mouth had arrived at his side at some point, and whispered to the left deputy marshal: "Uncle, retreat! We can't continue to fight... If we continue to fight, we We won’t be able to attack Goryeo! If we can’t take Goryeo, there will be no Great Jin Kingdom!”
"Ah..." Wanyan Zongqian suddenly realized that the Kingdom of Jin must have a fertile land that could provide a large amount of taxes and food.
Otherwise, a group of military envoys will go their separate ways and the country will fall apart!
"Send the order..." Zong Qian's voice trembled, "Retreat!"
