Chapter 430 Attacking the Mountain (two chapters in one)
Chapter 430 Attacking the Mountain (two chapters in one)
Author: Uncle Long Legs
Chapter 430 Attacking the Mountain (two chapters in one)
In the second year of Jingkang, on the ninth day of the first lunar month, the sun was at the zenith.
Starting from the Jinbing West Route Army Camp, the infantry consisted of two thousand people. After a period of rapid march, they finally arrived at the foot of Chubing Mountain.
At this time, more than a hundred large and small trees on the mountain had just been cut down, and there was no time to cut off the extra branches.
The dilapidated mountain temple was only half demolished.
Hundreds of large green bricks have not yet been moved into place.
Hu Biao, who heard the news at that time, hurriedly put on the heavy armor he had taken off while working, carried a horse spear and a recurve bow, and came to the edge of the hilltop to look down the mountain.
We can see these Jin soldiers and infantry, although they are obviously cannon fodder troops among the Jin soldiers.
However, most of the people were wearing leather armor, and one or two percent of the people were even wearing fish-scale armor.
Various arms configurations such as spears, swords, shields, swords and axes, bows and arrows are available. Judging from the details of marching, formation and other details, the combat effectiveness is quite good.
More importantly, with the continuous victory in the battle against the Song Dynasty.
The morale and morale of these cannon fodder troops are now quite high, which means that their fighting will is stronger.
Therefore, after arriving at the foot of the mountain, these infantrymen had no intention of taking a break. Amidst the shouts and curses of the low-level officers such as the centurions and colonels in the army, they prepared to attack the mountain immediately.
Specifically, three hundred archers, under the cover of some sword and shield men, began to slowly approach the foot of the mountain.
Chubing Mountain is only forty or fifty meters high. If the bows in their hands are projected, they can cover almost all the areas on the top of the mountain.
In addition, there are about a hundred golden soldiers who are obviously thicker and stronger.
They were wearing iron armor, with shields in one hand and axes and swords in the other as the vanguard. Behind them were more than two hundred people, slowly approaching Cubing Mountain.
In short, after the infantry arrived, they immediately prepared to dispatch several times the force.
Under the cover of bows and arrows, he planned to not only follow the only steps up the mountain, but also climb up the steep slopes on the other two sides, charging straight up in one go.
This is also the reason why Chubing Mountain, a small hill and the northwest slopes bordering the land, can only accommodate attacking personnel. Otherwise, the Jin soldiers would invest more attacking troops.
Therefore, in addition to the above offensive troops, the Jin soldiers also have two to three hundred archers ready to replace them.
And there are thousands of troops ready, ready to join the attack on the mountain at any time.
In comparison, the guard strength at the top of the mountain, including Hu Biao and others, Liu An and other government officials, as well as some male musicians, did not exceed a hundred combatants.
There are nearly 200 Kabuki dancers, but their graceful figures represent specific combat capabilities, which are not even comparable to those strong women in Haiyang City back then.
And except for a group of netizens, who can be said to have complete weapons and armor, no one else can even have a weapon.
After simply comparing the military strength, equipment and other hard conditions between the two sides, the male and female natives on the top of the mountain were all frightened...
"Special! Why did you come so fast?"
After seeing all the above situations, Hu Biao suddenly cursed in his mouth.
You know, he had ordered people to cut down all the trees on the mountain in the previous time, except for using those logs to support some potholes on the reverse slope.
I also plan to use these logs to bundle up some simple wooden shields and erect them to defend against arrows flowing down the mountain.
The result? These golden soldiers arrived so quickly that there was no time to make a corresponding simple shield.
Fortunately, even though not many holes have been dug out on the reverse slopes, there is no problem in going there to avoid the arrows.
For this reason, Hu Biao did not dare to delay any longer and quickly shouted:
"All the men with handles stayed behind, and all the women quickly retreated and hid in the caves in the back mountains; they must not come out without my instructions.
Liu An, take some of them to hold up the door panel to block the flow of arrows.
Others, bring those big blue bricks over to me and smash these grandsons to death when the time comes; as long as I'm waiting, these golden men can't even think of rushing up."
Amidst Hu Biao's throat-raising roar, the panicked men and women on the top of the mountain immediately seemed to have a backbone; they all followed Hu Biao's orders and began to work individually.
The veterans of the team naturally don't need Hu Biao to talk nonsense.
In addition to Lang Qing and Wu Zu, plus Chen Tang, a rookie, the three of them continued to seize the time on the reverse slope to make the crucial black powder.
Among the other team members, excluding Hu Biao, there are a total of 17 veterans, and they are all ready for battle.
Even Xu Feng didn't forget to call Old Snake. The two quickly found a straight trunk of a small pine tree and cleaned up the excess branches with a knife and axe.
He took out a brand-new battle flag of Xuange Camp, hung it up, and erected it on Cubing Mountain.
After more than four years, Xuange Camp has once again made its name in this world and will leave behind countless legends.
As for the other seven rookies, including Guifei, Barong, etc., of course they fought with Hu Biao and the others.
For Hu Biao and others, there is no way to help rookies grow up faster than directly joining the battlefield to participate in the battle.
Of course, the premise is that these rookies don't die during this process.
However, every time they come here now, they will bring some basic equipment to the rookies; as long as they take care of it during the battle, it is not that easy to die...
About a minute later, when the last woman with small feet also ran to the relatively safe reverse slope, just at the foot of the mountain, a golden centurion shouted out:
"Fire the arrow and throw it at full speed~"
The three hundred archers who had advanced to the foot of the mountain under the cover of the sword and shield men all released the fully drawn bow strings in their right hands and shot an arrow towards the mountain.
Then they shot the arrow in their hands. Without even looking at the specific result, they took out another arrow from the arrow pot at their waist with their right hand, opened the bow and shot it again.
The interval between the two arrows is only three or four breaths.
Suddenly, arrows were densely packed one after another, like a rain of arrows; after drawing an arc in the air, they began to fall towards the Cubing Mountain, which officially opened the curtain of the battle.
And almost at the same time, the golden soldier who had just yelled "shoot an arrow" tried to defeat the centurion.
One of his men in front of him raised the shield high, and with a "bang~" sound, large pieces of sawdust flew up.
Without waiting for the golden sword and shield wielder to react, behind him, the centurion's head wearing a felt hat was like a smashed watermelon, and red and white things flew all over the sky.
yes.
That was when Lao Hei greeted him with a gun and then forcibly killed an officer of the Jin Army on the spot...
"This recurve bow is a bit ugly in appearance, but it looks quite easy to use."
Feng Hua Hui, a rookie who is said to be "the best at playing Gaara in the King of Kings", managed to fully draw a recurve bow with at least 100 pounds of power without much effort.
While squinting his left eye and aiming at an archer at the foot of the mountain, he muttered in his mouth like this to relieve the huge pressure in his heart.
There is no way! At this moment, the seven rookies, including Fenghuahui, were panicking.
Since the war started, when at least 300 Jin soldiers archers at the foot of the mountain opened their bows and fired rapidly, for them on the top of the mountain, it could be described as arrows raining down.
In a short while, the ground on the top of the mountain was littered with arrows stuck into the ground.
At first glance, it looks like weeds growing wildly on the ground after a spring rain.
Under such a dense rain of arrows, there was no way for them to avoid it; it was only a short time after the war started that even Fenghuahui himself couldn't remember how many arrows he had been hit by.
The only good thing is that the equipment provided by those veterans is indeed quite powerful.
Not to mention the recurve bow with its compact pulley, which can be fully drawn without much effort.
With such power, it should be able to penetrate iron armor if it hits a target within 70 meters.
The most important thing is that in the previous time, after Yu Hanfeng learned about their personal situation, he distributed to them some spare equipment that was said to be deliberately brought by a group of veterans.
Each of their rookies has these armors and weapons.
Specifically, it includes a stainless steel helmet with a visor, boots with steel plates on the toes, and a set of 100% silk underwear.
The gap between the steel wires is very small, the weaving is dense, and it can completely defend against bows and arrows. It is a short armor style iron armor.
There is also a steel mask that can be tied to the face with beef tendons.
After wearing all the above on the body, even if the short headgear shrunk significantly during the production, it can still protect against thrown arrows well.
In addition, wearing such a burden of more than 30 kilograms on the body is quite strenuous.
But the arrows that landed on Fenghuahui were basically bounced away after impacting with some sparks.
A small number of arrows coincidentally passed through the gaps between the armor plates and penetrated the outermost piece of armor, but were then blocked by the dense chain armor.
The final feeling that made Feng Hua Hui feel was that after being pricked by a needle, the body was basically fine.
The problem is that even thanks to good protection, such arrow rain coverage does not actually cause any actual harm to Fenghuahui.
However, there is always a stinging pain on the body, or there is a "dong~" sound on the Tianling cover. For a modern ordinary person, such a sound is really scary.
Therefore, Fenghuahui could only use chattering to relieve the tension in his heart.
I won’t say whether it’s useful, but you have to do something, right?
In short, after being hit by another arrow on the helmet on the forehead and having "ding-dong~" sounds on his body three times, Fenghua Hui finally thought he had aimed at the target.
Then, he released his right hand that had the bow string fully drawn.
Under the powerful vibration of the bowstring, an arrowhead was hurriedly soaked in fecal water for about twenty minutes. It was not known whether there was a heavy arrow carrying germs, and it was just shot out.
By the way! This is the first time that this greasy old man from Feng Hua Hui has shot an arrow at a living person.
Such a feeling of being about to kill someone is so difficult to express in words.
Under the inexplicable emotion, he even had an illusion:
That is, you can see the heavy arrow shot out, twisting and turning like a fish in the air, which is a magical scene like a movie special effect.
The next second later, Fenghua Hui, a rookie, blurted out a national curse:
"What the hell! Why did you miss the shot~"
Similar to Fenghuahui, the situation where the shot misses after working for a long time is actually quite common among rookies. Maybe they have been exposed to bows and arrows in the modern dimension, and can even be regarded as enthusiasts.
But playing and actual combat are completely different things.
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"Liu An, other government officials, listen to my orders and smash down those big bricks for me~"
After shooting an arrow from the recurve bow in his hand and directly piercing the thigh of a golden soldier; looking at his opponent who had already rushed more than twenty steps away, Hu Biao issued a brand new command in his mouth.
He didn't know at all, and he didn't care about those rookies. They seemed to be lonely.
Under such an order, he put on a helmet in the style of a Liao soldier, and wore a bloody leather armor pulled from the corpse of a Jin soldier, Liu An, the headman in front of Kaifeng Mansion.
He picked up a big blue brick in his hand, mustered up his strength, and threw it out.
The large green brick, which weighed more than twenty kilograms, was thrown by Liu An for less than ten meters before falling to the ground helplessly.
But it doesn't matter, it's not a big problem.
Although the square shape of this big green brick has no curvature, it is not as easy to roll over as a big stone; but thanks to the mountain top of Cubing Mountain, which is over 60 degrees, it bounced up again after landing.
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Then he jumped and rolled all the way down, getting faster and faster.
The other twenty or so government officials, after moving a little slower, also threw down the large green bricks.
Soon after, on the steps and on the west and north slopes of Chuibian Mountain, there were many large green bricks tumbling down.
Although a group of Jin soldiers who attacked the mountain had long been wary of the Song people on the mountain, they dropped dead wood and rolling stones in the process.
But it's one thing to see it clearly; it's another thing to avoid it on the hillside where every step up is a bit laborious.
But in the blink of an eye, more than a dozen golden soldiers screamed in agony.
Either they were hit in the chest by a big brick that bounced up, or they were hit on the leg when they couldn't dodge.
But no matter where he was hit, he immediately let out a scream and lost his balance, throwing his head up and falling down.
Immediately afterwards, these people who fell down rolled downwards like gourds that fell to the ground, making the scene even more chaotic.
From the hillsides on both sides of the northwest, screams were heard.
It is a pity that the attacking Jin soldiers are too abundant in strength, and their morale after successive great victories is now ridiculously strong.
The remaining people who were not knocked to the ground took advantage of the gap between Liu An and others throwing big green bricks and accelerated their pace and continued to rush upward.
Some of the fastest people had already rushed within ten meters.
What's even worse is that although the archers at the foot of the mountain are all cannon fodder, their archery skills are far from as accurate and deadly as the purebred Jurchens.
The key is that if there are too many of them, the arrows will become denser.
After Liu An and others each threw one or two big green bricks, the Jin soldiers' archers at the foot of the mountain had already turned their attention to the officers' roars in response.
Even in the next second, the two exposed officers were killed by the warehouse manager and Lao He respectively.
But after a swarm of sharp arrows flew down the mountain, Hu Biao heard several screams and muffled groans in his ears. He quickly turned his head and glanced, and saw that four or five government servants had fallen to the ground without knowing whether they were alive or dead.
Even the head catcher Liu An had a skin-out wound on the left corner of his eyebrow.
The blood that kept pouring out stained half of his face red, making him look particularly miserable.
Just seeing that the Jin soldiers were about to rush forward to engage in battle, Hu Biao could no longer care about the casualties of these government officials.
He yelled: "Liu An keeps throwing, pay attention to hiding~"
At the same time, he decisively dropped the recurve bow in his hand, picked up the horse blade on one side, and stabbed hard at the target in front of him.
Waiting for the next second, Hu Biao rushed to the left and killed a Jin soldier climbing up the steep slope to the north.
The golden soldier, who was gasping for air with his mouth open as he rushed upwards with all his strength, was the one with a frozen expression of fear before death, and fell to the ground with a 'snap~' sound.
Just now, Hu Biao's horse spear went directly into his mouth and broke the back of his head.
When Hu Biao took action, other members of the team also engaged in close combat.
Frankly speaking! No matter how high the morale of these golden soldiers is, after a difficult upward attack and climb, when they rushed to the edge of the mountain, they were not only tired, but their movements were also much slower.
Therefore, let alone veterans like Hu Biao, even a group of rookies and government officials can kill their opponents relatively easily.
In the end, almost all of the more than one hundred soldiers who were at the forefront when the Jin soldiers attacked the mountain were killed; including other casualties, the number exceeded two hundred and twenty or thirty.
At the foot of the mountain, the sound of a retreat horn was finally heard.
Jin Bing, who had already felt the fear, immediately retreated frantically.
Another horse stabbed out and stabbed a golden soldier in the back who turned around and tried to escape, but Hu Biao did not continue to pursue him.
After taking a quick look around, I finally got two pieces of news, one good and one bad.
The good news is that by removing the armor and weapons from the golden soldiers who died on the edge of the mountain and some nearby, their equipment dilemma can be greatly alleviated.
As for arrows, you don’t have to worry about this thing.
Nowadays, arrows are planted densely on the top of the mountain, and they are all over the ground like a crop field after a good harvest.
The bad news is that in the battle that lasted just now, it was actually not that long. They occupied the ground and still killed and injured more than a dozen government officials.
Perhaps placed in other places in the Song Dynasty, such a casualty exchange ratio can be described as a catastrophe; but such casualties, for their limited military strength, are close to 20%.
And before dark, God knows how many more attacks they will face.
