At the foot of Tanzhou City, Jurchen soldiers and horses surrounded Tanzhou and could not attack it for a long time.
Rows of arrows rained down from the crossbow bed as if for free.
These powerful crossbows are no better than curved bows. They shoot out a crossbow as thick as a small stick. The arrow is replaced by a spear head. This is a small spear.
A small bed crossbow can be placed in every gap in the low wall. The Song army only needs to stand beside these small bed crossbows that have long been twisted with iron strings and equipped with short spears that look like tailless iron arrows.
Use a mallet to knock down the teeth, and the crossbow arrows will shoot out.
With each round of shooting, there will be a violent sound of breaking through the air, and eight iron arrows are fired from a bed crossbow.
The densely packed golden soldiers below the city suddenly howled loudly. Infantry could only be used to attack the city, and when these long iron arrows were fired into such a dense infantry array, the damage caused was extremely tragic.
With iron arrows and crossbow arrows, you can easily crush the heads of Tatars, causing them to explode like rotten watermelons, with red, white, and gray objects flying everywhere.
It's summer now, and the Jurchens, who are intolerant of heat, have taken off their thick leather armor.
Many iron arrows pierced through a Tatar, and then the castration continued, and then shot through the rear row of Tatars, and some even pierced three Tatars at once.
At first, a Tatar had a transparent hole shot out of his body, while the two behind him were nailed together, with large mouthfuls of blood spurting from their mouths. They reached out and tried to pull out the iron arrows that were still stained with rust.
, as a result, he lost his strength in an instant, and the two of them were nailed together and fell down.
The most frightening thing is that these crossbow arrows seem to be inexhaustible. Amidst the huge sound of teeth being pulled, the sound of strings is as dense as rain, and the tailless wooden arrows fly like locusts. I see rows of golden arrows falling at the front of the array in front of me.
soldiers.
If the Song army could keep shooting, even the gods would not be able to get close to this city.
Han Xianqi, the Jin general who commanded his troops to conquer the city, was a direct descendant of Zong Han, and now he could no longer hold on.
After the soldiers around him were shot to death, Han Xianqi drew his long arrow and led his men to retreat to the back to see Zong Han.
Han Xianqi retreated out of breath, his body covered with blood. Zabaodi on the side said sullenly: "Han Xianqi, we fought desperately to cross Jingzhou, and you just marched to the city. Now several rounds of arrow rain,
Just shoot you back?"
Han Xianqi threw the "small spear" in his hand and cursed: "You call this a bow and arrow?"
Zong Han bent down and picked it up. He saw that the stick-like middle was covered with blood. This stick must have killed more than one person.
Only then did Zong Hancai truly understand the power of money.
It is said that the Song Dynasty was rich. In the past, the rich were the scholar-bureaucrats and the ministers. The poor in each camp and army had to beg for food.
Since Yang Lin came to power, the army has been paid exactly the same, and there is a commander-in-chief. If money is needed to develop weapons, the court will quickly allocate funds.
Han Shizhong has been guarding Tanzhou for many years. It can be said that he has built Tanzhou like an iron barrel. The order he received at the beginning was not to give up an inch of land.
As the first stop, Tanzhou, with the Great Wall at its back, naturally became the key city he worked hard to build.
Zong Han held the long arrow, his expression became increasingly ugly, and the generals around him did not dare to argue anymore.
"Perhaps we were deceived. The Song army was in Jingzhou and did not use all their strength. They wanted to let us in."
Zong Han said coldly.
As a general, he has commanded troops for many years and is keenly aware of danger.
But it was of no use at this time. Longshan was being attacked by the Song Dynasty and was in danger. If nothing unexpected happened, by the time he returned, Longshan would have changed hands.
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Hongjiazhai in Longshan is the most critical place. As long as this military stronghold is occupied, the only passage can be blocked.
If you continue to guard Longshan, don't try to break through easily on both sides. The cliff-like mountain roads alone are enough to scare away most people.
Jieyuan burned the cauldron without forcing his men, whose clothes were sticky, covered with water, and whose feet were covered with mud, to continue on their way.
Instead, Dala la repaired on the hillside for three days, and on the last day, he rushed to Hongjiazhai.
Three thousand elite soldiers took out gunpowder from boxes covered with animal skins and planted them on the road, and then sent people to lure the enemy.
In the Hongjia Village, Gao Qingyi coaxed Zong Han's beloved son and Wanyan set up a horse. In the past few days, Longshan was like an evil ghost coming out of hell, burning, killing, raping and plundering everywhere, turning the Longshan area into a hell on earth.
Wanyan Aguda raised the army in advance, so that the Jurchens of Shiyema's generation had never experienced the magnificent war of accompanying the army and overthrowing the Liao Dynasty.
When they were young, they had countless Liao slaves and had never suffered any hardship at all. Therefore, people like Shi Yema were still inferior to those of later generations in history, let alone their ancestors who looked like cheaters.
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It's a cliff-like gap in strength, but Shi Yema himself doesn't know that bullying the people these days has made him so inflated that he thinks that fighting is nothing more than this. After killing a few old and weak women, he feels that he is comparable to Wanyan Loushi.
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However, Gao Qingyi was not a dandy like She Yema. He was one of the Bohai generals who had done well.
It was precisely because of his extraordinary ability that he was reused by Zong Han. He arranged the place seamlessly, and the army and material resources continued to enter Youyan through Longshan.
Gao Qingyi was at the checkpoint when he heard a sound in the distance. The roar of people gradually grew louder, and it seemed like they were shouting for death.
At first, he didn't pay much attention, thinking that the horse was "hunting" again, but then the unique Jurchen horn sound sounded, which was the horn sound of charging.
Gao Qingyi was shocked and quickly called his men to ride back.
When he arrived, there was only a loud noise, and the Jin soldiers who chased out of Hongjiazhai were blown to pieces.
Flesh and blood were flying everywhere, smoke was billowing, and the choking smell still made it hard to breathe even though it was far away.
Jie Yuan took the opportunity to send troops and invaded Hongjiazhai. Gao Qingyi saw She Yema and his men counterattacking on the city from a distance, and he felt reassured.
No matter where this Song army came from, as long as they were strangled, they would be a pile of corpses asking for credit.
But soon, he discovered something was wrong. Although these soldiers and horses were not many in number, they were very capable of fighting...
These are the warriors Han Shizhong carefully selected after searching for the Great Wall Corps. Each one of them was selected from thousands of people.
There were screams from the towers of the city. Gao Qingyi clenched his fists, his eyes were bloodshot, and roared: "Come into the stronghold, the Hongjiazhai will be lost, and we will all die."
Gao Qingyi's men all wore pointed leather hats with pheasant feathers stuck on their hats, and everyone wore sleeveless leather armor.
What they held in their hands were not the horned bows and arrows commonly used by the Jurchen army and the vassal army, but crossbows of the same shape as those used by the Song army.
These are the powerful crossbowmen of the Bohai Sea. Since the rise of the Jurchens, the survivors of the Bohai Sea who were destroyed by the Liao were originally of their own race, so they quickly integrated into the Jin Kingdom established by the Jurchens.
Bohai people not only have outstanding shipbuilding technology, but also have unique features in smelting and equipment.
These powerful Bohai archers under Gao Qingyi could support the battlefield from a distance, and the rain of arrows once blocked the Song army's attack.
The Jin soldiers under She Yema finally had a chance to breathe, and they drew their swords one after another to fight with the Song troops who poured into the stronghold.
There were not many defenders in Longshan, and hundreds of them were killed. Most of the Jurchen Tatars were still searching for the remaining Yandi Han'er in the Longshan area.
But even these remaining people are all elite conspirators under Zong Han's account, and they are all extremely brave.
Shi Yema grabbed a Jurchen general, his eyes were like spitting fire, and said: "Hold it down, don't let a Song army come in, or I will kill your entire clan."
There was a hand-to-hand fight under the wall, with swords piercing the flesh. The archers on both sides were supporting each other from a distance. When the soldiers of both sides were fighting, if they were not careful, they might be pierced through the chest and neck by powerful crossbows. Whether it was the Bohai archers or the big guns.
The archers of the Song Dynasty were all very accurate.
Gao Qingyi led his people straight to the walled city. He knew in his heart that if Wanyan set up his horse and the village, he would lose his life if he lost one of them.
The Jurchens in the stronghold came to their senses, and there were strong crossbowmen outside the stronghold. If they couldn't capture Hongjiazhai quickly and waited for reinforcements, it would become increasingly difficult.
Thinking of this, Jie Yuan took the lead, rushed forward, raised the big gun in his hand to the sky, and roared: "Kill!"