When the two "Sky Fire Phalanx" commanded by Huang Wuji and Han Shizhong's general Jieyuan began to slowly approach the Jinbing camp on the south bank of the Wuzhang River, Wanyan Wanlibu and Wanyan Yanmu had already assembled. The soldiers under his command are ready to attack at any time.
The tens of thousands of households under their command are not "fake gold thieves" made up of Khitan, Han'er, and Xi people, but "real gold thieves" whose main body is Jurchens and supplemented by Bohai people. Their combat effectiveness is very impressive!
If the people of the Song Dynasty hadn't suddenly come up with an unimaginable weapon like the "Sky Fire Demonic Technique", Jie Yuan and Huang Wuji would have more than 20,000, and you could put them in any formation, no matter how many Kaifeng household registrations and Kaifeng school district housing Zhao Kai issued, He couldn't resist the beating of the two "real gold thieves" Wan Hu!
There is no need to even start a fight, as long as the two "real gold thieves" Wan Hu appear, Jie Yuan and Huang Wuji's soldiers will become timid.
If you are timid before fighting, can you still win this battle?
But now that the sky fire breaks out, the mentality of both sides is immediately different... It's so scary when the light crude oil burns. If the Western Xia rebels were fighting today, they would not be frightened by the canned light crude oil. Because on the battlefield between the Song Dynasty and Xixia, both sides had cans of fierce fire oil. But Jin Bing has never seen violent oil bombs. The oil in the Northeast is buried deep and cannot reach the surface at all. The Liao Kingdom may be able to get some fierce fire oil from Xixia, but the quantity is definitely extremely limited.
So it was the first time for Jin Bing to see this thing... They couldn't even figure out whether this kind of fire oil bomb was a spell?
If it were a spell... the Dajin Heavenly Soldier would be no match!
In addition, if Song Jun really knows magic, is it only Sky Fire? Will three fire-breathing dragons descend from the sky?
Very worrying!
The Song Army knew about the fierce fire oil, but this was the first time they saw the power of the counterweight trebuchet.
If there is no counterweighted trebuchet, it will be difficult to exert its full power with just heavy fire oil!
This does not mean that human-pulled cannons must not use heavy fire oil tanks, but the range is relatively short and requires too much manpower, so it is good to use it to defend the city (defending the city can let ordinary people help pull the rope). It's not enough for field battles or sieges.
For example, a double-shooting cannon that can be used in field battles and defend cities requires 100 gunners to pull it and one gunner to aim and direct it. The stone projectiles it throws can weigh up to 25 kilograms and have a range of 80 steps (about 120 meters). According to this data, using 100 twin-tip guns would require 10,000 gunners. Moreover, the 80-step shooting range is too short, and there is no need for a divine arm bow. A step bow with a stronger bow can be used to aim at the gunner and shoot arrows. You can even fire rockets directly to ignite the fire oil tank.
If more powerful and longer-range three-shooter cannons, four-shooter cannons, and five-shooter cannons are used, there will be more people pulling the rope... An army of tens of thousands of people will all pull the rope. Neither can the gunner!
But now the emergence of counterweighted tip guns has perfectly solved the problems of range and manpower, allowing heavy fire oil tanks to exert their power in field operations.
Of course, using a counterweighted tip cannon to fire oil tanks with heavy fire is still incomparable with real artillery... The counterweighted tip cannon is still too big and cannot be mounted on wheels to maneuver. It can be disassembled, loaded and transported, and assembled on the battlefield.
In addition, the counterweighted tip cannon needs to adjust the range by replacing the tip rod and bag, and the shooting direction needs to be changed by moving the tip cannon. Therefore, in the face of targets that can maneuver on the battlefield, the role of counterweighted tip guns is limited.
However, on September 21, the first year of Jingkang, on the battlefield on the south bank of the Wuzhang River, the counterweighted cannon came into use.
Because the troops commanded by Huang Wuji and Xie Yuan were approaching the Jin Bing camp on the south bank of the Wuzhang River!
The fortress has no mobility, and there are all kinds of flammable materials piled inside it, so it cannot withstand the attack of heavy fire and oil bombs!
Moreover, this fortress guards the pontoon bridge on the Wuzhang River, and there is the main company camp of the Jin soldiers across the pontoon bridge.
If Wanyan Youli and Wanyan Yanmu did not abandon the camp, it would be impossible for their two thousand households to evacuate to the north bank of Wuzhang River through the pontoon bridge with a large amount of supplies, vehicles and livestock in a short period of time.
We can only choose to retreat eastward toward Jingdong Road... There is Gao Qiu in Jingdong!
This is not the worst. The worst thing is that once the Song army occupied the camp abandoned by Wanyan Yibu and Wanyan Yanmu, they could set up their cannons to the south bank of the Wuzhang River, and then directly bombard the Jin soldiers on the north bank. The company camp... Opposite the camp where Wanyan Youlibu and Wanyan Yanmu were camped, it was originally the safest place in the entire Jinbing company camp, so Wanyan Wu begged for food and grabbed food and grass on the way south. The wealth was piled up in that area.
If this were to cause the Heavenly Fire to burn, then Wanyan Wu Qingbu would have to run out of food and retreat, and he would have to retreat at a loss of money!
As soon as Wu Beibei retreats, can Wanyan Yibu and Wanyan Yanmu, who are blocked by the Wuzhang River, break out of the encirclement and return to the north?
Therefore, Wanyan Yibu and Wanyan Yanmu had no choice but to go out to fight!
And they didn't dare to concentrate their forces to attack the Song army all the way...because in that case, the rest of the way would set up cannons and throw sky fire outside their camp!
They had to keep the Song soldiers as far away from the camp as possible.
But it's not enough to just block the Song soldiers. They have to launch a fierce attack against the opponent's "demon magic" and defeat them in one fell swoop.
Because Liu Yanzong's artillery formation is now being attacked by skyfire... The scene looks very terrifying, and it must not be able to withstand it for long.
As soon as Liu Yanzong was defeated, the Song war fleet would rush all the way and break the pontoon bridge on the Wuzhang River!
In addition, do those warships have "Sky Fire Demon Technique"? Will there be a burning camp?
It’s scary to think about it!
So the two of them had to divide their troops into two groups, each leading more than 10,000 cavalry out of the camp, to fight the Song soldiers who were approaching step by step!
Seeing the Jin infantry and cavalry marching out of the camp in a mighty manner, Jie Yuan and Huang Wuji, who commanded the two Song army formations, were not panicked at all.
Because they now have the "Sky Fire Immortal Technique" available...and the battlefield situation is extremely favorable to them.
Moreover, the gold thief must fight quickly, otherwise he will be trapped on three sides and his camp will be burned down!
Therefore, the Song Army can rely on strong formations, long spears, divine arm bows and small bottles of fire oil bombs to fight a phalanx defensive battle!
This is the advantage created by the Skyfire plus counterweighted tip cannon for the Song Army!
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The battlefield on the south bank of the Wuzhang River was originally an open area with a flat surface. For the gold thieves who have a large number of horsemen and cavalry, that is extremely advantageous.
Even though they were divided into two groups, Wanyan Youbu and Wanyan Yanmu each led more than five thousand Kaizima and Tiefutu. After the cavalry, there was a steady stream of armored infantry coming out of the camp. ——These people are actually Alixi brought by Jurchen soldiers, and they can also fight on horseback. However, because the Jin soldiers were out on the expedition for a long time and the scale of the troops was huge, the horses were also consumed a lot. Now only the Jurchen and Khitan soldiers are guaranteed to have war horses available, and Ali Xidu, who is accompanying the army, can only go into battle on foot.
However, these Alixi who walked into battle were all wearing heavy armor, well-equipped equipment, and were in strict formation. They came out in groups, which really gave people a great sense of oppression.
The Song Army's phalanx also stopped moving forward before the Jin soldiers' infantry and cavalry arrived, and they also completed their reorganization. Not only did they arrange the formation almost as if it were chopped with a knife and an ax, but they also unloaded many anti-horse guns from the carts in the phalanx and placed them around the phalanx!
At the same time, in the center of the two Song army formations, ten counterweighted cannons were being assembled!
Looking at the high-erected throwing poles, Jin Jun felt a little numb...
However, under the urging of a burst of urgent horn sounds, the thunderous roar of horse hooves began to sound on the battlefield!
The Jin soldiers' Guaizi horses began to charge towards the two phalanxes of the Song army.
However, these kidnapper horses did not charge headlong, but split into two in front of the Song Army's formation, and then fired arrows while outflanking both sides of the Song Army's formation.
Their mission is not to launch a head-on attack, but to use running and mounted shooting to create chaos and exert psychological pressure on their opponents.
Although these light and sturdy cavalry do not have heavy armor to protect themselves, they are extremely maneuverable, and everyone is a good archer. They can shoot well regardless of whether they are on or off horseback.
What appeared after the kidnapping horse was the Iron Pagoda, which was covered in iron armor from top to bottom, and even the war horses under their crotches were armored!
Before the advent of the age of firearms, these armored cavalry were undoubtedly the masters of the battlefield!
But they won't launch a charge right now... The Song army's strength has not been exhausted, and the anti-horse rifles placed in front of the formation have not been removed. Isn't Tiefutu looking for death when it rushes forward?
But when the Tiefutu appeared 200 steps away from the Song army's formation and moved slowly on the battlefield, the hearts of the Song army infantry who were defending the formation still trembled... It doesn't matter, we have sky fire. !
Thinking of being supported by the sky fire, these Song army elites felt much more stable and were no longer afraid of the Iron Buddha Tu.
At this time, the Jin soldiers' Guaizi horses had been divided into several groups and began to run around the two Song army formations while shooting arrows.
"God's Arm Bow! Aim for a long shot!"
The generals and generals in front of the Song Army's formation also began to issue orders to counterattack at this time.
However, they did not issue an order to fire a volley of bows and crossbows. They did not even let the longer-range and more powerful divine arm bow fire a volley. Instead, they fired a long-range and precise shot... For these moving kidnap horses, Volley coverage is of little use. It will only waste the soldiers' physical strength. It is better to let the divine arm archers aim at the "roll call" from a distance.
Of course, those early divine arm archers who were not well trained were not very accurate. But now the men under Jie Yuan and Huang Wuji are all "997" divine arm archers, and they can shoot accurately!
Although there were not many wooden feather arrows fired from the Song army's formation, Wanyan Youlibu and Wanyan Chanmu still saw the kidnap horse under his command falling from the horse's back like dumplings. .
This exchange ratio... seems to be a bit of a loss!
The two men exhaled almost at the same time and gave the order for the heavy armored infantry (those armored Alixi) to attack!
