June 23, early morning, in the ravine.
On the Jiashan Valley battlefield, the brutal sounds of fighting started from yesterday evening and have continued till now, without any intention of stopping. The roar of war drums in the Jin soldiers' formation almost drowned out the sound of explosions on Anzi Mountain in the northwest.
So when Han Chang, the commander of all households in the Han army in the East of Jin Dynasty and Liao Dynasty, went to observe an explosive pot with a fuse lit because of his great curiosity, and his skull was blown to pieces and he died, the war in Jiashan Valley was reaching its peak. When solving difficult problems.
To be fair, Jin Bing's fierce attack was still very good. First, two thousand households were used to repeatedly attack the two wings of the Song Army, and two fierce cavalry were sent to outflank the left wing of the Song Army.
At the same time, the Jin army only maintained a diversionary offensive in the middle to confuse the Song army. It was not until the early morning of the 23rd that Wanhu, commanded by Wanyan Zhenluguan, suddenly launched an attack, investing six elite soldiers at once and launching a wave of offensive.
By the early morning of the 23rd, this wave of onslaught had paid a heavy price, but it had still filled in the ditch (with the bodies of men and horses), cut off a large section of the wooden fence, and used a Tiefutu's fierce attack flattened the shield array behind the wooden fence, and finally tore apart the first line of defense in the middle of the Song Army.
But beyond the expectations of the two brothers Wanyan Wushu and Wanyan Jianlu Guan, after the Jin soldiers and iron pagoda tore through the Song army's shield array and pried open the Song army's defense line in the middle. Not only did the Song army on the opposite side not collapse, they also took advantage of the temporary exhaustion of the attacking Jin soldiers and launched a counterattack like a storm!
This wave of counterattack first started with poisonous smoke and fireballs thrown out by the Song Army's counterweighted tip cannon. Dozens of tip cannons standing in the middle of the Song Army's rear formation launched more than a hundred poisonous smoke and fireballs in three waves. Moreover, the accuracy of these fireballs is quite high, and almost all of them fall in the area where the Jin soldiers break through. There is no doubt that these cannons have been fired repeatedly towards the Jin soldiers' breakthrough point!
In other words, the Song Army already knew that there would be a breakthrough by the Jin soldiers!
However, Wanyan Wushu and Wanyan Tuuluguan did not have the intention to think so much at that time, because the poisonous smoke and fireball emitted the choking poisonous smoke (composed of arsenic, lime, gunpowder, animal fat, and fire oil). Before it dispersed, while the Tiefutu cavalry shrouded in poisonous smoke were still in chaos, a Song Army's cavalry suddenly launched a fierce charge in a very neat formation!
In fact, this Song Army lancer did not have any good horses, nor was it any armored cavalry. The cavalry only had a collar to cover their chest and abdomen, a bronze helmet to protect their head, and the war horse was naked and unobstructed.
Even so lightly armed, their impact speed is not very fast. But the formation of this Lancer is really neat. At first glance, you can tell that it is the "997 Cavalry" that has gone through long-term training.
In addition, this cavalry also grasped the timing of charging very well, almost immediately following the poisonous smoke and fireballs falling from the sky.
Moreover, they also adopted the tactic of charging and running... During the charge, they controlled the speed of the horses and maintained the formation as much as possible. When the charge was over, they ran back at full speed. Before the Jin soldiers could react, At that time, he had already run back to the square formation composed of his own infantry.
This tactic is actually very similar to the Jurchens' own cavalry assault tactics, but the size of the cavalry group is much larger. Not fifty and one hundred, but three hundred! And there are only lance cavalry, no bow cavalry. The 1,500 spearmen were divided into five waves, charging one after another. How could the chaotic Tiefutu resist it?
Not only was he unable to stop him, he almost stopped running. Fortunately, Wanyan Wushu reacted quickly. When he saw a large number of poisonous fireworks and fireballs coming from the Song army, he immediately sent 3,000 kidnapper horses to reinforce the Tiefu Tu in Zhenlu Temple. He then barely repelled the successive attacks of the cavalry general commanded by Yue Fei. Most of the iron pagodas under Zhenlu Guan were saved.
However, the Tiefutu under the command of Xun Luguan still suffered heavy losses in this sudden blow!
After Wanyan Wushu led his ten thousand households to join the battle group, the Jin army in the middle pressed forward again, and finally pushed the battle line back to within the "fence line" of the Song army's middle camp.
But their offensive was once again curbed by the poisonous smoke and fireballs fired by the Song Army's cannons and the successive attacks of the Lancers!
In fact, the combination of these poisonous fireworks balls and the Lancers is Ma Kuo's second trump card!
However, the number of lancers who can carry out a group charge of 300 cavalry is still too small. There are only 1,500 cavalry in total, forming a cavalry general, led by Yue Fei... Only Yue Fei can maximize the power of these 1,500 lancers. !
It needs to be mentioned that this is not that Ma Kuo had 1,500 lancers under his command, but that there were only this number in the entire Song Dynasty.
After several repeated attacks, the Lancers were a little exhausted and had to temporarily stop the attack.
At the same time, the counterweighted cannons deployed behind the formation also stopped firing poisonous smoke and fireballs.
The reason why it is no longer launched is because the name of this poisonous fireball sounds very powerful, but its actual lethality is very limited, and it cannot poison anyone at all... unless someone is willing to hold a poisonous fireball and take a few bites.
However, the smell produced when the poisonous fireworks ball burns is quite strong, and it smells very choking. If you are confused by the smoke, your eyes will shed some tears...that's all.
Therefore, the greatest use of this poisonous fireball is to disturb the enemy, not to kill it.
Therefore, it was a complete waste of ammunition to launch poisonous fireworks balls when the Song army was temporarily unable to launch an attack.
When the poisonous fireworks and fireballs stopped being released, the smoke that filled the battlefield was quickly dispersed by the cool breeze blowing from the sea.
As soon as the smoke cleared, brothers Wanyan Wushu and Wanyan Zhenluguan were finally able to see clearly what was happening on the other side.
At first glance, both of them knew something was wrong.
The Song army on the opposite side was not only large in number, but also extremely organized. Relying on Houshi Mountain and Dongjiguan Mountain, they formed a deep horizontal formation and blocked the path of the Jin soldiers.
Seeing the momentum of this blocking formation, even a layman who doesn't understand military affairs knows that these Song troops are not easy to mess with.
And a terrible thought began to swell in Wanyan Wushu's mind.
Maybe... Captain Gao is not dead?
Song Jun played so tenaciously, and the transition between offense and defense was so smooth. How could there be any trace of the loss of the coach?
Just when Wanyan Wushu was worried that Gao Qiu was still alive, he heard the roar coming from the Anzi Mountain area in the north again!
Is this thunder?
Wu Shu raised his head and looked at the sky. It was cloudless!
Then this is...
"Wushu, look over there, to the north of us... there seems to be thick smoke!" Zan Luguan suddenly shouted at this time.
The north is Wu Shu's retreat!
Wu Shu quickly turned around to take a look, and when he saw it, he was shocked.
That's thick smoke! I don’t know where the fire broke out. Looking at the general location of the thick smoke, it seems to be around Anzi Mountain!
"Boom boom boom..."
There were a few more faint roars, but I didn't know what they were from?
Just when Wanyan Wushu was feeling frightened, his aide Cai Songnian (the son of Cai Jing) suddenly shouted: "Gao, Gao, Lieutenant Gao!"
Lieutenant Gao?
where is it? Is it a human or a ghost?
Wanyan Wushu hurriedly turned his head to look for it, and without much effort, he saw a familiar identification flag... That was Taiwei Gao Qiu's identification flag!
I don't know when this recognition flag appeared in the center of the Song Army's formation, squeezing out Ma Kuo's recognition flag!
"Gao Qiu recognized the flag, could it be that he..."
"There is a fraud! There must be a fraud... Gao Qiu must be dead, Ma Kuo is stabbing us!" Xuan Luguan's voice was a bit hoarse, and he didn't sound confident!
At this time, the officers and soldiers of the Song Dynasty who formed the horizontal formation suddenly let out a shout that shook the earth: "Captain Gao! Commander Gao! Commander Gao..."
Captain Gao is here!
This is Ma Kuo’s final trump card!
I saw a sudden disturbance in the Song Army's horizontal formation, and the recognition flag of "Captain Gao Qiu" began to move quickly, moving from the center to the front of the formation.
Along with this recognition flag, hundreds of cavalrymen wearing red embroidered clothes appeared. These cavalry surrounded the general in silver helmet and silver armor. This general has a tall figure, a rosy face, a short beard, and a heroic figure on horseback. He is none other than Taiwei Gao Qiu!
Oh, to be precise, it was Gao Qiu's brother Gao Lian.
Of course the generals of the Song Army knew that Gao Qiu would only win by lying down, but Ma Kuo had to find someone to impersonate Gao Qiu to deceive the Jin soldiers and his own lower-level soldiers!
So he asked Gao Lian, who had previously served under Zhao Mingcheng (and also served as Gao Qiu's substitute), to come.
Therefore, Gao Qiu who appears in front of Huacheng Pass these days is played by Gao Lian... Playing Gao Qiu is actually quite dangerous. Not long ago, Gao Lian even asked Jin Bing to shoot an arrow, and he almost became a loyal hero!
After Gao Lian recovered from his injury, he heard that "Gao Qiu was officially dead". He thought that he would no longer have to live in a job where he could die at any time. Unexpectedly, he was forced by the traitor Ma Kuo to continue pretending to be Gao Qiu...
Gao Qiu was officially dead, but Ma Kuo actually wanted to stage a drama about "death Gao Qiu and scaring the gold thief alive". Gao Lian was really speechless.
But no matter how speechless he was, Gao Lian didn't dare to disobey him. Ma Kuo had the right to act cheaply, and he could kill Gao Lian first and then show off.
And as soon as such a "fake Gao Qiu" appeared, Wanyan Wushu's face turned pale...so scared!
He had met Gao Qiu in Huachengguan... It seemed that he was the one in front of him!
Gao Qiu is really not dead!
Just as he was thinking of this, another of Wu Shu's staff suddenly flew up to him and said, "Fourth Prince, we just received the military report that Anzishan was besieged by tens of thousands of Song troops, Han Dutong was killed by thunder, and Anzishan is about to fall. It’s in the hands of the Song Army!”
I've fallen into a trap...Run!
Thinking of this, Wu Shu no longer had any fighting spirit. He said to Zhen Luguan and his staff: "Gao Qiu is still here... I am waiting for you to fall into the trap. We can't stay in the fight for a long time. It's better to retreat quickly!"
Retreat your troops quickly... Wanyan Wushu, a living person, was actually scared away by Gao Qiu, a dead person who had been dead for a long time!
