Yes, the Jin side had just overtaken the infantry army, and it seemed that they were about to be defeated.
To be more precise, when the two sides started the artillery battle, Wanyan Wu Qimai turned his attention to such an artillery battle.
From the beginning to the present, Wanyan Wu Qimai estimated that the entire artillery battle lasted only a quarter of an hour, which was only fifteen minutes using the new timing method of the Song Dynasty.
To sum it up, in the process of the artillery of both sides firing at each other, the time spent by the infantry of both sides getting closer to each other is excluded.
The battle between the infantrymen on both sides only lasted for about ten minutes.
But in such a short time, when Wanyan Wu Qimai turned around and looked over, he was horrified to find that his infantry was about to be unable to withstand it.
Before this battle, he and Wanyan Zongbi and other generals who had been recovered from Zhuxian Town had repeatedly studied various infantry warfare methods, but none of them seemed to have achieved the expected goals.
For example, the shield vehicles they built in large quantities could block Song musket bullets at a longer distance.
But once they entered the opponent's forty steps, the Song people fired every time with their muskets, hitting the Jin warriors hiding behind the shield chariot.
Even though they were wearing fine armor, they were still knocked to the ground one by one.
Suddenly, after rushing to this position, a group of Jin infantry found their current situation and became extremely embarrassed.
Without throwing away the shield car in their hands, they could not move forward at their slow speed; under the volleys of guns from those Song people, they seemed to have encountered an invisible rock and could not move forward at all.
But what if they threw away the shield car? Frankly speaking, they didn't dare either.
Of course, when they reached such a distance, they could naturally use their walking bows to shoot arrows at those Song people.
In fact, all the archers did the same thing; even when the comrades around them were being shot through the shield chariot's guns one after another, and were knocked to the ground one by one.
A group of archers holding more than seven steps of bows were inspired by their panic. They used a far faster shooting speed than usual to point their arrows at the Song people in front of them.
He greeted me.
For a moment, the dense arrows were like raindrops.
It is a pity that the armor on those Song people was too good, and they could not reach within thirty steps; even if they used armor-piercing arrows, they could not penetrate their armor and cause fatal damage.
On the contrary, during this process, their arms quickly became sore and numb.
The rate of fire began to decrease, and the arrows shot out became lighter and lighter.
As for the situation that most disappointed Wanyan Wu for buying a first-class Jin Kingdom high-level official, it was the dead soldiers who were holding explosive packs and holding torches.
These were the thousands of dead soldiers who were killed by them through all possible means, perhaps with huge profits, or by seizing leverage and threats.
I originally thought it was the best way to break through the tortoise shell-like phalanxes of the Song people.
As long as these people rush seven or eight steps in front of the formation and ignite the twenty kilograms of explosives on their bodies, they can immediately blow a big hole in the Song formation.
The ensuing army rushed forward, which was naturally the end of those Song people.
But in reality, these dead soldiers were often shot to death by the Song people as soon as they showed up, let alone being able to rush to the front of the Song people's formation.
The reason is that they were those warriors in the Song Dynasty who were wandering around alone, holding special firecrackers with longer barrels, called hunters.
They specifically targeted a group of dead soldiers and opened fire, and their marksmanship was frighteningly accurate.
Almost every time he fired, he could kill a dead soldier.
There were even many hunters who opened fire at the explosive bags carried by the dead soldiers; often after a shot was hit, the explosive bags exploded on the spot.
Twenty kilograms of explosive bags failed to explode the Song people's battle formation, but instead knocked down a large area of their own troops.
So far, no other Jin soldiers dare to approach within the area around the dead soldiers; without the cover of the crowd, these dead soldiers die faster.
Combining all the above, it only takes about ten minutes.
These cannon fodder troops, who were initially frightened by the hot air balloon and the golden dragon and had little morale at all, were on the verge of collapse in a short period of time.
The reason why it hasn't collapsed yet is simply that there are still many Jin people supervising the battle.
But Wanyan Wu Qimai and others knew that when the Song people turned the muzzles of those artillery pieces and opened fire on the infantry, it would be useless no matter how many supervising teams existed...
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The development of the subsequent battle was almost as expected by Wanyan Wu Qimai and others.
After completely knocking out the opponent's ballista artillery that looked like a joke, a group of New Army gunners began to turn their muzzles amidst the roars of the gunners.
In the subsequent loading process, they naturally loaded shotgun shells against targets at extremely close distances.
Especially the two large-caliber artillery pieces, the 24-pounder and the 12-pounder, contain hundreds or thousands of shotshells. For infantry, their power can only be described as "crazy".
No! When hundreds of artillery fire one by one in a few seconds.
That crazy burst of firepower can't be compared to how many rounds of volleys of gun fire.
Almost instantly, the first few rows of Jin men in front of the Song Army's formation all fell down without exception, their whole bodies turned into sieves, and each of them weighed at least a pound more.
And under such a situation, those Jin people who could barely persist in fighting were immediately defeated.
After making a U-turn, they desperately fled back.
The Jurchens and die-hard traitors who were supervising the battle originally started to attack these people wildly, but in the blink of an eye they were scattered by the dense flow of people, knocked over, and stepped on by countless feet.
That is to say, the strength of the Jin people is quite terrifying. After this group of people was defeated, there were still many people in formation a few miles behind.
In the roar of the officers, the archers in the formation were ready to shoot their bows and arrows. As long as they were willing to be ruthless, the formation would not be broken by these defeated soldiers.
Otherwise, just such a group of defeated troops could trigger the overall defeat of the Jin people.
But even looking at the defeated soldiers, after being shot over a lot, the remaining people finally knew to retreat to both sides of the military formation, so as not to trigger a chain of bad reactions.
Those Song people did not pursue them directly, but after sorting out their formation, they continued to advance.
Wanyan Zongbi, one of the few remaining former generals among the Jurchens, gritted his teeth and said loudly to Wanyan Wu:
"Your Majesty, it seems that I can't wait for the Song people's rockets to be used up. Let me lead the iron pagoda as the vanguard, and other Jurchen warriors follow behind, and charge directly at the Song people's central army.
No matter what, you have to give it a try."
After hearing such a sentence, Wanyan Wu Qimai's face clearly showed a look of struggle.
Their original battle plan sounded simple.
It is nothing more than driving the cannon fodder troops to first consume the Song people's firepower, personnel, etc., and finally dispatch the cavalry to charge directly into the opponent's central army regardless of losses.
Although such a tactic is simple, Wanyan, Wu Qimai and others asked themselves that they should have a three-point chance of winning.
But now, if their cavalry does not dispatch, the army may completely collapse; but if they do dispatch, Wanyan Wu Qingbuy will not even dare to say that he has a chance of winning.
After a brief period of confusion, Wanyan Wu Qibuy burst out with the fierceness in her heart.
He drank in his mouth: "Forget it! The Han people in the north, the Xi people, the Liao people, and the Bohai people are all unreliable. We, the Jurchens, can only have a chance of survival by fighting on our own."
Zongbi, take Tiefutu as the vanguard, and I will follow with the other tribesmen.
Whether we, the Jurchens, can have a future, all depends on Zong Bi and you guys, whether you can break through the enemy's obstructions and clear a bloody path for the army to attack the Chinese army where Hu Yitong's man is~"
After saying that, with the dignity of the Emperor of the Jin Kingdom, he made a solemn salute to Wanyan Zongbi on his horse.
Wanyan Zongbi, whose heart was full of death wish, calmly accepted the gift and immediately rode forward to join the queue at Tiefu Tu.
After greeting the five thousand Jurchens' strongest cavalry, they put thick armor on their horses one after another; and every five horses were connected to each other with iron chains.
Including Wanyan Zongbi, he also did this with his four personal guards.
After some preparations, such a group of the strongest heavy cavalry in the Eastern Continent began to advance slowly like steel walls.
On everyone's face, there is an expression of determination that cannot be expressed.
Behind them, all the Jurchen cavalry of the Chinese army, as well as the hardcore traitor cavalry, followed after a distance of one mile.
Of course, this situation was discovered immediately by the lookouts on the hot air balloon.
He quickly reported this news to the coach Hu Biao.
In this regard, Hu Biao had only one sentence: "Let the warehouse manager shoot out all the rockets, not even a drop, no! Not a single rocket will be left."
After shouting such a sentence, Hu Biao knew that today's battle should be over soon.
