Located in Kaiyi County, Yizhou, the battlefield around the Thirteenth Army of the Song Dynasty blocking Jindong Road's aid army was already a mess, filled with fireworks, and a sea of blood and corpses!
Starting from the early morning of the 21st, the 140,000 gold army led by Wanyan Zongqian, Wanyan Zongpan, and Wanyan Zongmin used all their strength to storm the barracks of the Thirteenth Army of the Song Army... .And it also used beef array, no, it should be fire beef array (beef array and fire beef array are different. Fire array contains not only beef, but also beef offal, beef bones, butter, and cowhide). Finally, we made a breakthrough. It formed the first layer of defense for the Song Army's camp.
However, the role of these fire bull bombs only ends here. Wu Jie, the commander of the Thirteenth Army and the commander of the East Route Army, is not an easy person.
Moreover, he had known about the fire bull bomb for a long time, so of course he took precautions and built a circle of low walls and many gun emplacements in the camp where his troops were stationed.
However, due to limited time, the second line of defense of the Thirteenth Army camp was only built in a hurry. It only used sandbags to build a low sheep and horse wall, and there was an intermittent trench around the wall. Soil left after filling sandbags. In order to prevent the attack of the golden thieves' cavalry, after the golden thieves' fire bull offensive ended, Wu Jie ordered people to drag out all the baggage vehicles and form a circle between the trench and the sheep and horse wall. It is said to be a circle, but actually it is segment by segment, because if it is really a circle, it will be difficult for the enemy to break in, but your own people will not be able to get out.
It's not a good way to defend yourself by boxing yourself in and waiting to be beaten!
Therefore, the sheep and horse walls and trenches built by Wu Jie, as well as the large vehicle formations used to replace Juma Luzhai, were all in sections. However, the openings left by the sheep and horse walls, trenches, and large vehicle formations were staggered. The enemy There is no way to directly rush through these gaps into the defense line formed by the sheep and horse wall.
Although this temporary defense line is not very strong, the more than 25,000 soldiers of the Thirteenth Army under Wu Jie are not vegetarians... They hold "shares" in the Song Dynasty Most of the soldiers of the government are still the "first generation of the government", and a few are the "second generation of the government" who have grown up. After more than ten years of development and growth, the Song Dynasty soldiers are now in a state of subversion in terms of their power!
In addition, Zhao Kai not only clicked on the golden finger of retrogression of the Mansion Military System, but also lit up the golden finger of progress on the Military Academy.
So now the officers of the Thirteenth Army and above are not only battle-hardened soldiers, but also have attended military schools and have mastered a set of efficient and standardized military command skills!
When Wu Jie thought about it, with such strong generals and elite soldiers, coupled with the artillery firepower composed of 32 long cannons, hot pot cannons, and more than 200 camel cannons, it would not be enough to defend a camp against hundreds of thousands of outdated gold thieves. A piece of cake?
But when the Jin Bing's fierce attack really started, Wu Jie was still shocked. Because he saw the word "desperately" from the attacking Jin soldiers. This is something Wu Jie, who has been fighting against gold thieves for more than ten years, has never seen before.
Maybe before the great victory of Guarding Dagang, the Jin soldiers would have to risk their lives to fight!
Without fighting, how could it be possible to overthrow the Liao Dynasty?
Without fighting, how could the Great Jin Kingdom appear in the world?
But when Wu Jie met Jin Bing, they were stronger than others, but they already had a big family and a big business, and all of them made a fortune. Although their martial arts skills have not been abandoned and their experience in using cold weapons is unparalleled, they have begun to cherish their lives!
When they met Zhao Kai and Zhao Kai's soldiers who were risking their lives to fight against the Jin Dynasty, they began to shrink back and refused to fight, otherwise Zhao Kai would never be where he is now!
But now, the time has come when the country of Jin, which once had a great business, had to fight hard again. If we don't fight hard, the Kingdom of Jin will be gone, and the lives of the Jurchen warriors below will also be lost!
So fighting hard now is not only a way to protect the country, but also a way to save one's life!
If you go all out, it will be a narrow escape. If you don't fight hard, you will be dead.
Therefore, starting from the morning of April 21, the Jin people's infantrymen, supported by camels, coppers and hot pot cannons, marched forward one after another, no longer caring about casualties, no longer saving gunpowder and explosive pots, no matter how much the price was paid, They must rush into the barracks stationed by the Thirteenth Army and completely pull out this nail that has been stuck in their way to rescue Jinzhou!
The hundreds of thousands of golden soldiers in front of the Thirteenth Army really started to fight hard!
Because this battle of Jinzhou might be the last battle of the Jin Empire... Such a crazy impact caused Wu Jie's defense line to fall into crisis again and again. It can be said that it is full of dangers. .
But what made Wu Jie's opponents Wanyan Zongqian, Wanyan Zongpan, and Wanyan Zongqiang extremely frustrated was that even if their Jin soldiers really tried their best, they were still short of breaking the Song army's rock-solid defense.
It’s really just one breath away!
In the afternoon of the 21st and the morning of the 22nd, the most elite infantry of the Jin Kingdom, the yellow-headed Jurchen hard-line troops, had already rushed into the Song army's sheep and horse wall and started fighting hand-to-hand with the Song infantry. But contrary to the expectations of the three "Da Wanyan", the Song army inside the sheep and horse wall was actually very good at hand-to-hand combat. Forcibly using long-handled spears, broadswords and long-handled axes, they beat all the dead soldiers of the Yellow-headed Army to death!
Of course, the reason why all the yellow-headed tough soldiers who could fight were killed was because there were too few yellow-headed Jurchens who withstood the Song army's firepower, broke through numerous obstacles, and finally rushed into the sheep and horse wall - also In other words, too many people died during the charge.
If the three "Da Wanyan" still have thousands of brave beef cattle, no, fire cattle, and can launch another round of fire cattle offensive to clear the obstacles in front of the Song Army's second line of defense, maybe they can More yellow-headed soldiers rushed into the Song Army's sheep and horse wall!
If the firearms of the Jin Dynasty were more powerful, the rate of fire of the camel barrel would be higher and the range would be farther. The more accurate the hotpot cannon is... it will be able to suppress the Song army's firepower and help the yellow-headed Jurchen defeat the Song army.
But the problem is that the three big "Wanyan" now have neither better or more powerful firearms, nor cattle... Oh, they don't have cattle on hand!
It’s okay if we don’t have good firearms, that’s true.
But there are cattle in the Kingdom of Jin. Let alone thousands of cattle, even if you want tens of thousands of cattle, you can still get them.
However, the three "Da Wanyan" only brought a few thousand cattle to the battlefield, and now these cattle have been sacrificed. Some of them were even eaten by the ferocious Song Army!
So they didn't have enough cattle to fight another wave of fire cattle array.
This is so awesome that you won’t regret it until you use it!
If the Kingdom of Jin loses a key battle and is about to perish because they did not bring thousands more cattle, this will really break the hearts of these three great men.
When the time came to the early morning of April 23, in the eyes of Wanyan Zongqian, who was on the front line to supervise the battle, everything on the battlefield seemed to have become a doomsday scene... The end of the Jin Dynasty, not the Song Dynasty end!
To the north of the Song Army camp where the fighting was fiercest, the corpses of soldiers from both sides were laid out in layers in front of the Song Army formation. At some low points, they were even piled as high as the sheep and horse wall... Most of these corpses were left behind by the Jin soldiers!
Many of them were killed by Song artillery, some were shot to death by Song arrows, some were killed by thunder, and of course many were killed in face-to-face fights with Song soldiers. Killed.
There were so many dead people that the blood flowing out from these corpses dyed the earth red. There was so much blood that even the land could not absorb it. Finally, it turned into red streams and flowed into Daling to the east of the battlefield. The water on the west bank of the Daling River burned red.
Wanyan Zongqian knew that Wanyan Zongpan and Wanyan Zongqiang had really tried their best, especially Wanyan Zongpan, who had used his old skills to fight. Most of the yellow-headed Jurchens who died in front of the Song army were subordinates of Wanyan Zongqian and Wanyan Zonggu. According to the report Zong Qian received, in the battles from the 21st to the present, no less than 5,000 of these yellow-headed Jurchens died!
If we include other Jurchen, Bohai, and Khitan warriors who died in front of the Song army's formation, the total number has exceeded 10,000!
The total number of Jin soldiers brought by Wanyan Zongqian, Wanyan Zongpan, and Wanyan Zongqiang was only about 140,000... In less than three days, the casualties were nearly 100%.
Wanyan Zongpan and Wanyan Zongqiang were able to fight to this point. Wanyan Zongqian really couldn't say anything else... But the problem was that their efforts were not successful!
Wanyan Zongbi's troops in the southwest are too far away from Jinzhou. Even if they can break the Song army's blockade, it is estimated that it will be difficult to rescue Jinzhou. The most they can do is capture the Song army's Jinxi camp.
But now Jinzhou is in danger. Once Jinzhou is occupied by the Song army, the Song army that besieged Jinzhou will move north to Yizhou. The 130,000 people led by Zong Qian, Zong Pan, and Zong Qiang may not escape defeat.
At that time, even if Wanyan Zongbi captured Jinxi, he would not be able to save the overall situation!
Daikin is going to be finished!
Wanyan Zongqian was already seriously ill. If he took good care of himself at home, he might be better. However, he had to go to the town to supervise the battle and witnessed the defeat. His whole body felt bad... he felt a little dizzy. Huhu, he is about to collapse.
Just when Wanyan Zongqian was swaying a little, he suddenly remembered Wanyan Zongqiang's roar: "Oben, something bad has happened... Jinzhou has been lost!"
"What?" Wanyan Zongqian turned his head and looked at Wanyan Zongqiang, who was riding on horseback with a look of panic on his face, "What did you say?"
Wanyan Zongqiang almost burst into tears, "Oben, Jinzhou was captured by the Southerners last night...The Southerners' army started chasing the Jinzhou defenders who broke through last night and came to us. Now It’s only twenty miles away from us!”
It's over...it's really over!
Wanyan Zongqian's vision suddenly went dark, and all the strength in his body seemed to have disappeared. His whole body went limp, and he collapsed and lost consciousness.
