About twenty hours later, it was the fourteenth day of the first lunar month in the second year of Jingkang, the day before the Lantern Festival.
After the loud noise of "Boom~", Hu Biao felt that he had urgently held the shield in front of him to block his vital points, like a banana leaf under a heavy rain, being beaten crazily.
There was a "ding-dong-dang-dang~" impact, and the shield in his hand was almost knocked off.
After a second or two, Hu Biao poked out the back of his head and took a look at the shield, which had been severely deformed and even had many pieces of armor inserted into the outer shell.
Suddenly Jiuzhen couldn't help it and cursed in his mouth:
"What the hell! Chen Tang, you kid is going crazy, why can't you throw it a little farther? Also, you kid can't throw it a little faster, it's so scary when you touch it in your hand."
Hu Biao's voice finally fell, and other netizens also echoed.
Before the explosion, Huang Yizhi squatted on the ground and escaped the fatal splash. After spitting out a mouth full of sand, he also cursed on the spot:
"Yeah, it's such an extreme operation every time.
I don't know if all those golden soldiers will be killed, but I will be sent away by you sooner or later."
Amid everyone's scolding, Chen Tang pulled his face and forced out a smile that was uglier than crying. Even though he was responding to everyone's responses, he had no intention of replying.
Upon seeing this, Hu Biao and others' heads began to hurt.
Because they have already determined one thing, there is no need to doubt that when Chen Tang, a rookie, throws explosive bags next time, the operation will definitely be as thrilling and thrilling, and there will be no change at all.
The reason why Chen Tang's rookie became like this was because the girl named "Xiao Niang" who had an affair with Chen Tang died in the battle two days ago.
This rookie seemed to have been greatly stimulated and became even more taciturn.
Just like Guofeng and War Dog in the team, they have become dull gourds who are ruthless and don't talk much. This is the general posture.
It is understandable when you think about it. For an ordinary person in the modern dimension, even a former PLA veteran, after encountering such a thing, the stimulation and changes in the whole person will be amazing.
It is precisely because of this that while Chen Tang became silent, his specific operations became even more crazy when throwing explosive packets.
For example, he threw out the one just now.
The fuse that was originally reserved for five seconds was shortened to three seconds by Chen Tang; even so, after lighting it, he was as steady as an old dog, holding it in his hand before throwing it out.
Then, a 2.5 kilogram explosive package exploded suddenly almost ten meters in front of the position.
Good guy! If Hu Biao and others hadn't already had the unexpected idea, they would have reacted in time and held a shield in front of them, or they would have squatted on the ground and raised an arm to protect their head and face.
At that time, I was afraid that they were all lying on the ground together with the large number of golden soldiers in front of the position.
You know, after making dozens of explosive bags in succession, Lang Qing and the others are now becoming more and more proficient in making this kind of equipment.
Now their latest product, except that the gunpowder remains unchanged at 2.5 kilograms.
In addition to wrapping some gravel on the outside, some fish scales pulled from the corpses of the golden soldiers were also disassembled and wrapped.
The overall weight is still kept at about five kilograms.
The weight has not changed much, but once the armor pieces made of fine iron are splashed under the shock wave of the explosion, the power is even stronger than the power of gravel.
Flying all over the sky, it was like countless small flying knives flying, and their power was quite powerful.
Of course, Hu Biao and others cursed each other, but they did not stop moving their hands; there was no intention of using another person to throw the explosive package next time.
Because of his qualifications as a PLA engineer, he is definitely the best candidate for this operation.
More importantly, although Chen Tang's operation looks a little scary, the effect on killing golden soldiers is surprisingly good.
In the explosion just now, almost all the golden soldiers in front of the formation were knocked to the ground.
Hu Biao and others picked up the stones thrown up by the trebuchets one by one by the Jin soldiers, and smashed them at the Jin soldiers who had successfully survived the explosion halfway up the mountain.
In a short period of time, forty or fifty stones rolled down the steep hillside.
Thanks to the intensive offensive formation formed by the Jin soldiers' heavy investment of troops in the past two days, these tumbling stones quickly knocked down at least fifty or sixty people.
At this point, these golden soldiers are weaker in equipment, morale, and combat effectiveness than the soldiers at the front.
Finally, under the huge casualties, morale completely collapsed.
Even if a soldier was so frightened in his heart that he no longer cared about anything and just wanted to turn around and run away, he would be shot to death on the spot with a precise arrow by an elite Jurchen who was supervising the battle.
But this rout thing, as long as it starts.
It will trigger an irreversible chain reaction that cannot be stopped at all.
The larger number of golden soldiers were only half a second slower, and they turned around and fled, eventually triggering a rout involving all attackers.
Seeing such a scene, the elite Jurchens supervising the battle at the foot of the mountain.
Under the curse, he wisely did not continue to shoot more defeated soldiers with his bow.
The reason for them to do this is very simple, or in other words, they are quite helpless; because with the frequency with which they attack Chubing Mountain, they can launch at least eleven or two attacks a day, or even more.
Generally, more than 400 troops would be invested each time, but half of these people would be killed or injured in the battle, or even only 30 to 40 percent. This would result in a defeat like this.
This is the result of the Jurchen elite troop supervising team behind them, who can use brutal force to force them.
Otherwise, there may be 20% casualties, and they will lose due to low morale.
But even so, in every battle, at least two hundred soldiers retreated from the defense line in great panic.
If they had to kill them all every time these troops broke out, wouldn't it mean that after a day's fighting, they would kill two to three thousand people just by marching?
No one's family's financial resources can support such a consumption.
In this way, as a large number of golden soldiers retreated under a golden sunset, they escaped from the attack range of the bird cannon on Chubing Mountain in embarrassment.
Lao Hei, who had just loaded a Rumi gun, put down the gun a little angrily.
The shouts of killing had been going on in this small battlefield all day long, and now they had completely stopped.
After many days of fighting, among the personnel on both sides who have gained experience now, except for Alubu, the captain of ten thousand men who was commanding the Jin soldiers on the spot, he is still furious, but has to accept the reality.
Everyone else exhaled silently, secretly glad that this damn battle was finally over today.
Among them were even the elite Jurchens who were supervising the battle. At this moment, they also breathed a huge sigh of relief in their hearts.
What needs to be explained is that the Jurchens who originally fought in such difficult environments as the White Mountains and Black Waters are now the same group of people, but their combat effectiveness has actually dropped a bit.
They were no longer as brave as the Jurchens they met when Hu Biao and others were in Pingzhou, and they were not afraid of death.
That's because these people who originally had nothing but a dead life, after conquering the huge Liao Kingdom, they now have women, slaves, land, livestock, money and food.
After seeing a colorful world that was completely different from the white mountains and black waters, I became a little afraid of death, and my combat effectiveness naturally dropped quickly.
But compared to the Song Dynasty, their combat effectiveness after the decline was still quite terrifying, and they were still incapable of defeating powerful opponents.
This is good news for Hu Biao and the others...
In the following time, both parties took advantage of the last moment before dark to start some aftermath work very skillfully.
Such as cleaning the battlefield, burying corpses, treating the wounded, etc.
During such a process, Wu Zu, the owner of the hardware store, dragged Jin Bing's corpse and couldn't help but ask:
"Lao Hu, do you think we will have reinforcements coming tonight?"
When Wu Zu asked this question, it was the result of temporary statistics that had just been calculated.
It was found that during the whole day's battle today, even if everyone was fully equipped with armor, 17 people were killed and 8 were seriously injured.
Forget about the lightly wounded. Is there anyone who hasn't been injured so far?
The most important point is that he, Lang Qing and others worked overtime last night and made a total of 13 explosive bags overnight, and today they used 11 more.
If there are no reinforcements tonight, bring saltpeter and sulfur, these key raw materials.
With the remaining two explosive packs, tomorrow's battle will also be a bit difficult.
After hearing this, Hu Biao spoke to everyone again in the same firm tone he used when talking to Lang Qing last night:
"Don't worry, reinforcements will definitely come tonight; everyone has a good meal and prepare drums and musical instruments in advance.
Although such a way of cheering sounds a bit ridiculous, and seems a bit like watching the excitement and not despising the big deal; but this is also the only thing we can do to help them at present, and there is not much support."
After hearing such a helpless statement from Hu Biao, Wu Zu nodded in agreement.
But in the following time, he couldn't help but glance in the direction of Kaifeng City, his face was still full of indescribable worry.
But at this point, he was no longer worried about whether reinforcements would arrive.
What I'm really worried about is the horrific casualties the reinforcements will suffer when they arrive.
Because on both sides of the upper reaches of the Cai River, the Jin soldiers have been busy for a long time today, and the number of archers has increased to at least 600.
The number of even more deadly trebuchets reached an astonishing 20.
The above are distributed on both sides of the river about a mile long; no one knows what a staggering price the reinforcements will pay when they forcefully pass through such a section of the river.
But when the soldiers and others were about to take action, they discovered that Princess Maode was already holding a pair of drumsticks in both hands, standing silently in front of the big drum.
Her face, which had the charm of a mature woman, had a meaningless expression.
The whole person seemed to have no life at all, just like an exquisite doll.
It was among the reinforcements that arrived from the job that Emperor Maode heard the royal family of the Song Dynasty and the Cai family of her husband's family announcing to the public that she had passed away due to a sudden illness.
Probably because of their so-called reputation, Emperor Maode was forced to die of illness.
I have to say that this has the characteristics of a feudal royal family; the problem is that Princess Maode seems to be a little unable to withstand such repeated blows.
After seeing such a scene, Hu Biao, Wu Zu and other members of several teams almost shouted in a low voice at the same time:
"AT, go comfort the other person."
"What the hell! Why is it me? I'm not a friend of young women." After hearing this, the young white-collar AT immediately felt like he was going to explode...
Just as Hu Biao promised everyone, at about a quarter past midnight that night, the Northeast Water Gate in Kaifeng City was suddenly opened.
Then a group of reinforcements quietly left the city along the river.
As for the specific situation, according to Chubingshan, a disabled scholar who watched the whole process, with a heart full of excitement, then wrote the following record:
In the second year of Jingkang, it was the evening of the fourteenth day of the first lunar month.
A group of volunteers in Kaifeng City, headed by Dutou, a man named Tang who knew the destiny of his age, totaled 239 people. They drove 19 small boats and left the city in batches carrying grain, herbs, good wine, and suspected military gunpowder.
Only a moment after leaving the city, his whereabouts were discovered by Jin soldiers outside the city.
Moments later, arrows rained down from the golden army formations on both sides of the bank, and countless rocks fell. The first group of volunteers in Tang Dynasty suffered heavy casualties. After a while, the river was filled with corpses of volunteers, and the river turned into blood.
At the same time, the thundering drums on Chubing Mountain sounded.
Empress Maode did not hesitate to use her status as a proud daughter of heaven to personally beat drums and cheer for the righteous people.
Amidst the thundering drums, the volunteers moved forward desperately and refused to turn around; in the end, with only two boats, forty-one volunteers successfully arrived at the foot of Chubing Mountain.
Fortunately, I was blessed by the flower-growing spirit, and one of the boats contained a hundred pounds of gunpowder, which solved the urgent need...
For some unknown reason, today the golden soldiers at the foot of the mountain did not get angry and launch an attack overnight.
But Hu Biao and others, after placing the seemingly arriving reinforcements one by one,
Everyone looked at each other and found that the other person was not sleepy at all.
That's because they suddenly realized that the offensive and defensive battle in Chubing Mountain has been going on until now, whether the enemy or we are willing or not.
In fact, it has already entered an extremely weird state of tacit understanding.
On the one hand, they stood firm on Chubing Mountain and acquiesced to the Jin soldiers using their own huge casualties to consume their limited number of explosive packs and defensive forces.
On the other hand, the Jin soldiers acquiesced to the reinforcements from Kaifeng City, after suffering huge casualties.
As long as you survive that section of the river filled with death and blood, you can transport reinforcements, supplies and other key things to Chubing Mountain.
Perhaps deep down in their hearts, neither party wants such a situation to arise, but in reality, it has turned into such a strange appearance.
But then again, in such a strange state, Hu Biao and the others became more confident.
Because behind them, there are millions of compatriots who have been successfully inspired and are no longer numb.
As long as one percent or one thousandth takes action, they will have enough information to persist on the cake mountain until some favorable changes come.
The only problem is that none of the commanders such as Wanyan Zongwang and Wanyan Loushi of the Jin Bing side are ordinary people and they will definitely not let such a thing happen.
So in the next time, what methods will they use and what changes will they make?
It was precisely because of this that Hu Biao and the others couldn't sleep at all for a while.
They smoked cigarettes silently under the moonlight, and then suddenly discovered something: the moon is really round tonight, but tomorrow is the Lantern Festival, so it should be rounder by then...
PS: Updates will resume tomorrow, and by the way, I’ll pay back the chapter I owed last month.
