This one started blowing at about five o'clock in the morning. The southwesterly wind with a moist smell can be said to have suddenly made the originally relatively comfortable autumn weather in Kaifeng area drop by as much as seven or eight degrees.
Under such a huge drop in temperature, everyone in Zhuxian Town was immediately shocked.
I can clearly feel that late autumn is about to enter, with a biting chill.
However, for the enemy and our personnel on the Zhuxian Town battlefield, such cooling and coolness are actually not important. What is important is the continuous autumn rain that is coming soon.
Facing such a continuous autumn rain, the Song Dynasty and the Jin people immediately showed completely different attitudes...
The Jin people were in the Chinese army camp surrounded by numerous camps.
Wanyan Zongwang, the second prince of the Jin Kingdom who was expected to die of illness in June in the original history, did not need anyone to wake him up when the sky was getting slightly brighter.
Based on the biological clock that has been cultivated for a long time, I have woken up on time.
After sitting up from the bed covered with several pieces of soft bearskin, he had not yet had time to put on his clothes and armor under the service of several snatched Song women.
Suddenly, I heard some cheers faintly coming from outside the tent, and what was contained in them.
When he regained his energy, he pushed away the delicate woman beside him. Wearing only a pair of obscene pants, with his arms and soles bare, he rushed straight out of the tent like a wild bull.
After he opened the thick tent curtain, a moist cold wind blew into his face.
After looking up and seeing the gray sky above his head, Wanyan Zongwang could finally confirm one thing:
Yes, that's right! Just as many people in the camp are currently cheering.
After waiting for nearly half a month, it's finally going to rain.
At this moment, Wanyan Zongwang, who was definitely a famous figure in the early Jin Dynasty, his eyes turned red and he almost cried.
For him to be able to perform like this, if you think about it carefully, it is not too exaggerated. You can even express your understanding from his standpoint.
Back then, Wanyan Zongwang, as the commander-in-chief of the Song Dynasty army, led an army of 800,000 people southwards.
At that time, there were generals in the army like clouds, and counselors like rain. When the army marched, it could stretch for hundreds of miles; if a person threw a riding whip in his hand, it seemed that he could stop the flow of the Yellow River.
After crossing the Yellow River, Luoyang, Dengfeng, Xinzheng and other cities of the Song Dynasty were extremely intimidating.
After sending cattle, sheep, fine wine, gold, silver, women, etc. to reward the army, one by one the local officials of the Song Dynasty opened the city gates to greet them, and knelt down under their own horses, like hunting dogs.
At that time, he was so high-spirited.
Thinking that the whole world was about to fall into the hands of the Kingdom of Jin, Wanyan Zongwang was even able to achieve a shocking military exploit that was even more glorious than that of the old emperor Wanyan Aguda.
The result? The series of things that happened later made him even a little uncomfortable to look back.
Each of these Song troops on the battlefield in Zhuxian Town was obviously a lowly person like a peddler in the city eight or nine months ago.
After training for a short period of time, although the military formation was still quite strict.
But when it comes to close combat, let alone the elite Jurchens who are comparable to them; the Han people under their command are mostly skilled in archery and horsemanship, and one person can defeat at least two or three Song troops.
It's just that the firearms in the hands of these Song people were really ridiculously powerful.
This one is powerful. It does not mean that you will be invincible after using it, but it forcibly narrows the originally huge difference in combat power between the warriors on both sides.
Those men under him who have practiced martial arts for many years and are as tough as iron, if they are hit by a lead bullet, they will end up with their hands and feet cut off and become disabled at best.
The more critical point is that with the status and strategic vision of Wanyan Zongwang and others.
From the birth of such firearms, we can see something that ordinary people cannot see:
Even after they destroyed the Liao Kingdom, they, the Jin Dynasty, had almost completely occupied the entire Northern Territory; but after years of war, the population of the Northern Territory had been greatly reduced.
A roughly estimated result based on Han civil servants such as Zuo Qigong in Chaozhong.
Nowadays, the people of all ethnic groups in the entire North are probably only more than 300 households, with a population of 10,000,000.
But what about the Song Dynasty, the legendary lush and fertile land in the south of the Yangtze River? It is said that according to statistics in the third year of Daguan, there were 20.88 million households in the Song Dynasty, with a population of more than 10 million.
Even though many people have been killed and injured in these years of war, the camels that starved to death were larger than horses. The total number of people might not be 10 million, which is ten times the population of their big gold.
In the past, this would have been fine.
No matter how large the number of these Song people are, they are useless on the battlefield. A single Jin soldier can chase and kill hundreds of Song people.
But now that there is such a gunpowder weapon, everything is different; as long as it does not take a year, a Song Dynasty person can easily kill a master who has practiced weapons for many years with a musket.
It was during the battle between the two sides that a Song man was replaced by a Jin man.
If they continue to consume it for such a long time, they will not be able to use up their large sums of money.
Besides! In fact, Wanyan Zongwang and others are also very clear that the current situation of Dajinneng is just a result of the forcible unification of the Jurchens by force.
Once they entered into a war of attrition with the Song Dynasty, the various clans under their command would soon have second thoughts.
At that time, they can return to the black mountains and white waters to hunt for a living, which is probably the best outcome.
This is also the biggest reason why they have been stubbornly suppressing the army under their command, suffering shocking casualties, and constantly fighting with Hu Biao and the others in Zhuxian Town these days.
In short, everything is now a blessing in disguise.
As long as he thought about the weapons supervisor who accompanied the army, he had practiced in front of his eyes at that time. No matter what kind of firearms the Song people had, as long as the gunpowder was completely wet by the rain.
It immediately stopped firing, like a toothless tiger, not as useful as a fire stick.
So today, one day after Hu Yitong and his army were defeated, Wanyan Zongwang's heart was suddenly filled with indescribable joy.
Thinking about Hu Biao, the warriors under his command lifted him up and knelt down in front of him, and Queen Maode had no choice but to let herself be humiliated.
Wanyan Zongwang can no longer control the impulse in his heart.
He simply raised his head and roared loudly at the sky like a wild beast.
A short time later, Wanyan Xiyin, one of the commanders of the Jin army, hurriedly got up after hearing the commotion. He rushed out of his camp with some bodyguards in disheveled clothes and carrying swords and guns.
Seeing Wanyan Zongwang's strange look, before he could ask anything, the other party was already pointing his finger at the sky.
Seeing this, Wanyan Xiyin quickly looked up.
When he saw the gray sky in the sky, he reacted instantly as he knew something inside.
Immediately, with the huge joy in his heart, he roared as loudly as Wanyan Zongwang; as if he wanted to use this method to vent all the depressed emotions for many days.
Seeing that the two commanders were like this, all their guards also started shouting in amusement.
Then such a method of shouting to the sky was astonishingly contagious like a plague. First, the entire Chinese army camp was filled with a loud roar that shook the sky.
Soon after, I figured out why.
In the camp of the Jin people, which stretches for more than ten or twenty miles, no matter whether they are Jurchens, Xi people, Liao people, Bohai people or Han people.
They were all in great excitement, and they screamed like a madman.
So that in such a crowd of hundreds of thousands of people, they roared loudly in unison, and the huge movement was clearly transmitted to the Song Army camp in Zhuxian Town opposite.
Almost everyone in the new army in the camp became discolored because of it...
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"Lao Hu, is this the turning point you have been secretly shouting about and waiting for? It's a twist. I think this is the turning point we are waiting for to die. Isn't that more like it?"
When the loud roars from the Jin camp reached the ears one after another like a tide.
With an anxious expression on the verge of jumping up, Huang Yizhi cursed at Hu Biao bitterly.
None of the other netizens uttered the same curse amidst Fatty Huang's high-pitched curses; but looking at Hu Biao's extremely disgusted eyes and wanting to go up and kick him a few times, it already said a lot.
Problem.
Speaking of which! As a modern person, as an otaku and otaku who have learned a lot of strange knowledge after reading various online articles for a long time.
Naturally, these netizens understand the disadvantages of muskets, artillery, and other primitive gunpowder weapons better than the aborigines of the late Northern Song Dynasty.
So this morning, when they opened their eyes one by one and got up and went out under the influence of the long-term biological clock, they noticed an autumn rain.
In a very short period of time, I realized something was wrong.
They all rushed towards the headquarters where Hu Biao was located, riding a war horse.
Yes, that's right!
It's so pitiful that after such a long time, these time travelers finally rode war horses instead of donkeys and mules.
After many days of fighting, Hu Biao and the others had captured more than 2,000 good war horses in total that were not injured.
As for the horses that died in battle, there were so many people that even if they let go, they would not be able to eat them all.
The only pity is that under the current circumstances, Hu Biao and the others have no time and cannot select so many suitable personnel to form a new cavalry unit.
But it was somewhat of a good thing, because Hu Biao and other senior officers were finally allowed to do so.
Finally, there was no need to worry about anything, and there were scenes where some important officials of the Song Dynasty had to ride a mule or a small donkey and run wildly.
As for Huang Yizhi, he arrived on a fast horse.
I was quite surprised to find that every one of the netizens who were still alive and able to move on the battlefield of Zhuxian Town had now arrived here.
The expressions on everyone's faces are relatively calm, but if you look closely, you can see that there is an indescribable look of panic in their eyes.
After thinking about it clearly, after thinking about the terrible situation they are currently facing.
Although he was extremely anxious, he had to forcefully put on such a calm expression in order not to worry his subordinates too much.
Just at this moment, the golden man's long roar full of joy came to my ears.
Huang Yizhi couldn't hold it in any longer and yelled the above sentence to Hu Biao...
However, in the face of Fatty Huang's scoldings and the unkind looks from other netizens; Hu Biao, who seemed to have a lot of eye-guts after being woken up just now, was still as steady as an old dog.
Seeing this, Old Snake couldn't help it anymore and quickly expressed his thoughts:
"What are you doing here, you idiot? I remember I had already suggested that we should build some covered sheds on the battlefield to prevent it from raining.
But you just said that you were worried that the golden man might run away after seeing it.
Okay! I also admit that it makes some sense, but what time is it now? Let everyone put up the sheds as much as possible, it is better than nothing.
By the way, mines may be useless when it rains, but the barbed wire should be pulled up quickly~"
The voice just fell, and the captain of the staff also spoke:
"The 2nd Infantry Division and the 4th Infantry Division no longer need to be on the sidelines. They can all push forward to the front line. With their addition, today's losses may be huge, but they should be able to barely withstand the Jin Dynasty.
Human attack."
Not to mention, the suggestions of the above two people are quite reasonable.
But Hu Biao didn't seem to be in a hurry at all. After rubbing his face vigorously with both hands a few times, he finished washing his face.
Only then did he calmly speak to everyone and express his thoughts:
"I'm so nervous. Isn't it about to rain? The key point is that it hasn't rained yet? Even if it rains, it will be fine. The weather looks like a continuous drizzle.
What we used was a musket, but a flintlock gun, not the kind that used a match rope. The gunpowder tank was protected by a cover.
The propellant and fuse of the artillery are also wrapped quite tightly in oil paper, so they are not easily affected by moisture.
So even if it rains, in such drizzly weather, we can still fight normally for a period of time before the muskets and artillery can no longer fire.
What's more important is whether you have thought about it, even if you can barely hold on today.
But the continuous autumn rain has lasted for several days, but our mission deadline is only about 40 hours.
What should we do with the second phase of our mission? There are still two requirements that have not been completed?"
Faced with such a question as Hu Biao, everyone who was anxious and angry finally realized, oh! In such a nervous state, they actually forgot about the mission.
Just when everyone was worried about the mission, AT cursed:
"If you can find a way, just say it directly. When did you learn this bad habit of talking off the ground?"
It was then that everyone realized that Hu Biao seemed to have a plan in mind for his sudden death.
Before everyone went crazy, Hu Biao finally wisely expressed his thoughts, and he said a plastic sentence in Cantonese:
"Brothers, I am so frightened that the sky cannot fall.
This rain is not only a huge crisis, but also a huge opportunity.
Think about it? If the fighting breaks out later, those Jin people who think our muskets are useless will first be hit by rows of muskets and cannons, and then be hit by Congreve rockets.
of washing,
Will such instantaneous casualties and a huge sense of psychological loss drive them completely crazy and collapse all at once?"
Say it or not, some of the statements made by Hu Biao are quite reasonable.
The golden man is not invulnerable. When you are in such a high-spirited state and think you are sure to win, suddenly someone comes with such force that no one can withstand it.
Therefore, after Hu Biao's statement fell on the ears of many netizens, their eyes lit up one after another.
In such an environment, Hu Biao made some final arrangements that made everyone even breathe quickly:
"Brothers, who belongs to such a world depends on who loses and who wins this battle?
Stick to it, I stick to the words of a grandma, except for the warehouse manager, everyone went down to the army.
Beating the drums, the entire army began to move out of camp and advance toward the Jin people. They pushed forward all the way; the soldiers were told to prepare for each company to fight on their own.
There is only one point in this battle, go forward, go forward, if people block you, you will kill, if you block Buddha, you will kill Buddha.
Warehouse manager, your task is the heaviest and most critical. After receiving the order, send all the Congreve rockets in stock to me to greet the large formation of the golden soldiers.
As long as 50% of the targets are hit, it will be the first success in this battle."
I don’t know that there is a saying like ‘people who stand in the way will kill, and Buddha who stands in the way will kill the Buddha’.
Or perhaps such a battle is actually related to the ownership of a whole world. Such an unprecedented experience really makes ordinary people in the modern world feel aroused.
Anyway, after Hu Biao talked and became excited, everyone's mood was also extremely excited amidst those very loud roars.
Especially for a girl like the imperial concubine, she didn't know what happened at that time; after she started to tremble hugely, her face became abnormally flushed.
When the singer saw this scene, he asked with some concern:
"My dear concubine, do you have a cold? Why don't you tell Lao Hu and let you follow the warehouse manager and lead people to release the Congreve rockets?"
‘Ahem~’ After hearing this, the imperial concubine coughed forcefully a few times.
He covered his head with one hand, made a gentle gesture, and said lightly: "It's okay! I just caught a little cold when I slept last night. It won't affect the fight."
But this female driver complained feebly in her heart: "This little brother is quite pure..."
Invite friends to dinner tonight. The next chapter may come later.
