"It's all fake. Those big flying balls and golden dragons are just some Song people's deceit.
You are not allowed to kneel, all of you must stand up for me. All officers and soldiers must obey the order. If there are any kneeling people around, I will kill them all on the spot~"
Like a madman, Wanyan Wu, the pseudo-emperor of the Jin Kingdom, was begging for money. While waving a bloody golden knife in his hand, he roared loudly and madly in his mouth.
Speaking of which! When I saw a total of twelve big balls rising from the position of the Song Army on the opposite side, they just started to rise from the ground.
Wanyan Wu begged to buy this product, and based on a beast-like battlefield intuition, he felt that something was very wrong in his heart.
Soon after, the twelve big balls rose straight up to an altitude of hundreds of meters; when illuminated by the sun, the various forms of dragons above seemed to come alive and began to dance in the air.
Frankly speaking, at that time, this man claimed to be the emperor and was a false emperor who was the incarnation of a dragon in the human world.
I was also frightened at that time, my legs were shaking, and I felt like I wanted to pee.
It's no wonder that this guy is too cowardly. It's a carbon-based life form like human beings. For such an unknown and incomprehensible scene, there is a kind of instinctive fear from the heart.
The difference was that when I saw a large number of our own personnel, their faces turned pale.
On the spot, he knelt on the ground and kowtowed, showing his full fighting spirit.
Some other personnel did not kneel down, and their legs were shaking violently. There were even many Jurchen warriors among them, who also knelt down and muttered words.
Wanyan Wu Qimai was so excited that he reacted instantly.
I have clearly realized that this situation cannot be allowed to continue to ferment.
Otherwise, if this battle had not started, our army would have completely collapsed due to the drastic drop in morale, causing the Jin Kingdom to suffer a major defeat in this war that was related to the fate of the country.
Then the situation led to the annihilation of the country and the annihilation of the entire nation, with some horrific consequences.
Thinking of the above-mentioned awesomeness, Wanyan Wu was so frightened that he broke into a cold sweat in today's weather, which was no more than seven or eight degrees Celsius.
At the same time, the fear in my heart of seeing balloons and flying dragons was immediately suppressed.
When this guy looked to his side, he happened to see a guard about ten steps away, dismounting from his horse, kneeling on the ground and kowtowing repeatedly.
Wanyan Wu Qimai kicked the horse hard and charged forward.
During this process, he made various actions such as drawing a knife and slashing, and immediately cut off the neck of the guard from behind.
A head full of complex expressions such as fear, confusion, and confusion suddenly rolled away.
In fact, Wanyan Wu Qimai also understood that the population of his Jurchen clan was not large to begin with, and many of them came from the old forests of the Black Mountains and White Waters.
The harsh environment gave these people the advantages of being sufficiently savage, not afraid of death, and powerful in combat, but it also had the disadvantage of not having seen much of the world at all.
Especially for such a miraculous scene, there is no resistance at all.
Just understanding, understanding, still couldn't stop him from roaring out the brutal command at the beginning, "Kill all those who kneel and cannot afford to kneel."
Under such an order, the personal guards and ministers around Wanyan Wu were the first to react.
After they figured out the consequences, they were also frightened into cold sweats and took action quickly.
While repeating the order loudly, "Kill all those who cannot afford to kneel down," they all used the swords, guns and other weapons in their hands to kill twenty or thirty people in one fell swoop.
And following the orders and movements here, they quickly spread to the surrounding areas.
As one unlucky guy after another was killed on the spot, more Jin warriors who were kneeling on the ground immediately felt that the fear of death in their hearts overcame the fear of the unknown scene.
They all stood up quickly until no one was left kneeling on the ground.
But even so, even after many people stood up, their faces were still full of fear; obviously their fear of unknown things could not be easily relieved like this.
Seeing this, Wanyan Wu's mind whirled rapidly as he begged to buy something, and he already had an idea.
He yelled again: "Great shaman, did you ever have a way to break the evil spells of the Song Dynasty~"
After hearing this, an old man with a thin build and colorful clothes, who was the great Jurchen shaman accompanying the army, immediately spoke in an extremely hoarse voice.
With a very confident tone, he replied:
"Your Majesty, there is no need to worry. After we cast some spells, we will naturally be able to let the gods protect my warriors of Dajin from the evil spells of the Song Dynasty~"
After saying that, he led dozens of similarly dressed people to perform the great dance in public.
Various strange magic weapons appeared in his hand, as well as magic objects such as 'black dog's blood', 'woman's riding cloth', 'boy's urine' and 'big cock'.
As for the shamans who accompany the army, what is the specific role of dancing in public?
It can only be said that there are some, but only some.
Upon seeing this, the panic on the faces of the Jurchens immediately improved a lot; their current beliefs mainly focused on advocating various gods and mountain gods.
But even so, these people still cannot return to the high fighting spirit they had at the beginning.
When the other northern Han people, Bohai people, Liao people, and Xi people saw this, their faces became slightly less nervous.
But since they don't believe much in shamanism, their effects are naturally far inferior to those of the Jurchens.
In short, the effect of the hot air balloon is far better than that expected by Hu Biao and others...
The above scene that happened in the team of golden people naturally fell into the eyes of those people in the basket of the hot air balloon, holding telescopes in their hands.
Naturally, such a complicated situation cannot be explained clearly to the people below using simple semaphores.
However, the problem is not big, and there are other methods.
These watchers quickly took charcoal pens and wrote the relevant content on a piece of paper, then stuffed the paper into a large bamboo tube and threw it down.
There are some hot air balloon auxiliary personnel below, always paying attention to the movements above.
Naturally, it will be picked up and delivered to the relevant personnel.
So soon after, Hu Biao learned about the current situation of the dancing master on the side of the Jin people through such a transmission method.
It was also at this time that I happened to see a man who had just been ordered by him.
The messenger who made a trip to the rocket launcher division had already returned in a hurry.
He immediately opened his mouth and asked, "What did the warehouse manager say? How long will it take for the rockets to be launched, and whether they can hit the Jurchen area where Wanyan Wu is begging for money."
After the messenger heard this, he immediately answered:
"Reporting to Mr. Hu, the warehouse manager said that half of their rockets have been installed and debugged and can be launched at any time.
The remaining half can be launched again in two or three minutes.
It's just that those Jurchens are too far away from the launching position. Although some of the rockets should be able to barely reach them, the killing effect will not be very good."
After hearing this sentence, Hu Biao sighed secretly in his heart.
In view of the good effect of rockets in clearing the ground in the battle of Zhuxian Town, when they were preparing for the Northern Expedition, how could Hu Biao and others not invest more energy in this aspect?
For this reason, they specially formed a rocket launcher who is more professional in operation.
The rocket model has also been further improved to make it stronger in power and farther in range.
The more critical point is that the specific number is much more than the only more than 300 rounds during the battle of Zhuxian Town.
Through a total of three workshops, the efforts of more than 4,000 workers working day and night, and the full cooperation of all departments, the supply of raw materials is limited.
When the Northern Expeditionary Army set out, a total of 4,210 rounds of the latest rockets were carried on the team's cart.
This doesn't count until two days ago.
The navy fleet that Yu Yunwen was in finally caught up with the army during the journey; in addition to a large amount of grain and other materials, the fleet was also loaded with more than 3,000 rockets.
Therefore, a total of 7,000 rounds of enhanced rockets were sent out in a short period of time.
The scene and lethality were completely worth the anticipation of Hu Biao and others.
Hu Biao and the others were all ready. In this battle, all these rockets were directed at the Jurchens, which could be regarded as hitting the snakes within seven inches.
It's a pity that Wanyan Wu's begging to buy this product is really a bit of a thief.
After absorbing the experience of the Zhuxian Town Battle, their large Jurchen troops were deliberately placed behind them, more than 15 miles away from the launch position.
So if you use it now, the effect will not be very good.
Otherwise, if you take advantage of the effect of the hot air balloon and use a rocket to clear the ground against the Jurchen army, the enemy might be defeated directly.
But if you switch to attacking those miscellaneous fish, it will also have excellent effects.
The problem is that most of the Jurchens' strength is still there, and they are sure to win this battle, but the casualties are expected to be huge.
Based on the above considerations, Hu Biao only thought for a while about whether to launch rockets to clear the ground, and then he finally came up with an idea: not to launch them yet.
Since the Jurchens are hiding behind now, let's fight them out.
With such a decision, Hu Biao issued a new order: "Send the order, implement the No. 3 combat plan, and take the initiative~"
That's right! It was the Song Dynasty, whose number was only one-fifth of the opponent's, who took the initiative in this battle.
According to the so-called No. 3 combat plan, which has been distributed for a long time.
Under the signal from the Chinese Army, the grassroots officers blew the iron whistles on their lips, and the military musicians beat strings of drums.
To be more specific, the New Army troops on the left and right wings formed a phalanx that could support each other and began to advance in an orderly manner.
The same goes for the artillery assigned to them.
Only the miscellaneous soldiers from various parts of the Song Dynasty stayed put as supporting forces for the time being.
Here in the Chinese Army, there are two infantry divisions of the New Army and 10,000 Yuejia Army personnel, plus an artillery division, who also formed large and small battle formations to advance.
The remaining personnel, including the 7,000 cavalry, were all used as battlefield reserves.
Even the Yanshan Divine Army in the north began to actively march towards the Jin people; the difference between them and the Northern Expedition army was simply that they mainly used cold weapons, so their battle formations were larger.
All told, there were a total of 140,000 to 50,000 people, actively attacking an opponent four times more numerous.
After seeing this, Wanyan Wu Qimai even though he knew that the morale of his own personnel was far from being restored, still issued the order to fight.
Let the left and right wings and the central army, those cannon fodder troops.
Pushing a large number of shield carts, movable eight-oxen crossbows, and small and medium-sized double-bow bed crossbows, these combat equipment actively greeted them.
It's not that they don't want to fill up all the troops at once.
On the one hand, the space on the battlefield is limited, and there is no way to pile up all the troops.
On the other hand, after suffering enough from the Song people's firearms, the Jin people have noticed that the formation should not be too dense during battle...
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The sound of footsteps, horns, yells, whips, iron whistles, drums, the neighing of cattle and horses, all these strange sounds are intertwined.
The combat troops on both sides are constantly approaching each other.
But before the two sides started fighting on a large scale, the two sides took the lead in an artillery battle; a special artillery battle between cold weapons and hot weapons with the characteristics of time travellers.
In order to deal with the artillery of the New Army of the Song Dynasty, or after suffering losses, they imitated the tactics of artillery.
Although the process of imitating the cannon was not smooth, Wanyan Wu Qimai thought hard and ordered hundreds of ballistas to be built as soon as possible, intending to compete with the Song army.
Today, it is time to see the specific effects of such a tactic.
When the two sides moved relatively slowly because they needed to cooperate with the artillery units, in the end the personnel on both sides were almost four miles away.
The artillery formations of the New Army stopped one after another, and after quickly establishing their positions, the 24-pounder cannon and the 12-pounder cannon with the longest range were the first to fire.
As for the target, it is the ballistae among the golden figures.
Suddenly, amid the loud sound of cannons, hundreds of thick projectiles were fired at the Jin people; however, only two of them hit, and the ballistae were smashed to pieces on the spot.
Are you on the golden side? Of course, keep moving forward.
Because at such a distance, they have no means of counterattacking their opponents.
Even if it is built by a group of Song craftsmen who were captured from Kaifeng City, the eight-oxen crossbow can move, and its maximum range is only three miles.
Therefore, driven by their officers and supervisory team, they still had no choice but to bite the bullet and move forward.
Finally, after another round of shelling, the Jin people's ballista unit also stopped.
A group of operators began to work hard to fix the wheels of the ballista with wood. Many people worked together, and even used the power of mules and horses to start winding.
The crossbow arrows, which are as thick as goose eggs, three to four meters long, and have iron arrowheads, are quite powerful at first glance.
It is a pity that at this time, the 8-pounder cannon and 6-pounder cannon, which were the largest number in the artillery division of the Song Dynasty, also joined the firing process.
After the barrels of these 8-pound and 6-pound iron cannons were lengthened, their range could reach three miles.
More importantly, although their caliber is not large, they can still pose a considerable threat to the Jin's artillery troops.
When nearly three hundred small-caliber artillery pieces participated in such a firing process.
The density of artillery fire on the Song side suddenly increased by more than three times.
Moreover, a group of gunners, under the coordination and command of grassroots officers, often formed a batch of three guns and fired at a certain ballista at the same time.
Greatly increased hit rate and lethality.
Under such a fatal attack, the Jin people's ballistae were often destroyed directly while they were still being loaded.
While the ballista was being dismantled, the shells that continued to roll, as well as flying sharp wood chips, knocked down a large number of people on the side.
It's just that no matter how powerful the artillery of the Song Dynasty was, they couldn't defeat the numerous ballistas of the Jin people before they opened fire.
After struggling to get online and completing the reloading, the Jin side also had about 300 rounds of crossbow arrows and greeted the artillery here.
There were almost twenty rounds among them, and they were fired at the gun emplacement here with roughly accuracy, after knocking over the guards holding shields.
The remaining power of the ballista continued to move forward, and it shot through some gun crew members before stopping.
There were even seven or eight shots that hit Napoleon's cannons, knocking them crooked or overturning them.
It is a pity that these ballistae fired at the maximum distance can only produce a maximum impact force, which is not enough to destroy the thick barrel made of all steel.
Therefore, after the Jin's crossbow took one shell, it was immediately scrapped.
After the Song Army's cannon was shot, replacements immediately stepped in, raised the cannon again, straightened it, and started firing again.
In such an unfair battle, the number of ballistas on the Jin side was rapidly reduced one by one.
Soon after, the number was reduced to less than a hundred; if it weren't for the fact that behind each ballista, there was a Jurchen and three hardcore traitors to supervise the battle.
Those operators may have run away long ago.
But even so far, the operators are gritting their teeth and continuing to load and launch, but I personally know that the Jinren's artillery unit will soon be completely destroyed.
After seeing such a scene, Wanyan Wu Qi bought this false emperor and sighed helplessly.
Regarding the fact that his side's ballistae could not defeat the Song's artillery, he was certainly quite aware of this.
Because he originally thought that using crossbows to shoot at each other would be able to contain the time and energy of the Song artillery troops to some extent; but the carefully built crossbow troops were defeated so quickly.
Such a feeling suddenly made him feel so powerless.
It was a feeling of being completely crushed in terms of equipment. He tried his best to imitate it, but couldn't do it. It even made him feel a little desperate.
It's just that things have reached the current stage, what else can they do except grit their teeth and fight to the death?
For this reason, he turned his attention to the infantry that had begun to engage in battle.
Not long after, the pseudo-emperor found with some helplessness that the infantry that had just advanced were also severely suppressed and were about to be defeated before his eyes...
