In the afternoon, after making arrangements, the Jurchen soldiers and horses finally began to attack. If the several attacks in the morning still contained a hint of disapproval of the Luoyan Army and the idea of underestimating the enemy, then the attack in the afternoon was already from top to bottom.
They didn't dare to take anything lightly. Everyone, including Yalu Buhua, realized that the other party was obviously prepared and had already prepared to meet the enemy here. If they continued to ignore them, they would be trapped.
Big root.
The low and hoarse sound of the horn echoed in the valley. Led by Battle, the Jurchen forward cavalry began to slowly attack up the slope. A large number of carts loaded with mud bags drove in the middle of the team, and the surrounding Jurchen cavalry lined up with shields.
The dense formation slowly marched up the pass.
On both sides of the pass slope, 20,000 soldiers and horses led by Alibai and 10,000 soldiers and horses led by Lu Zixing formed the two wings of the 30,000-strong army to attack the mountain. In fact, they served as escorts for the cavalry attacking on the pass slope.
Horses. They will compress the space of the Luoyan Army soldiers and horses on both sides of the ramp, forcing them to focus on themselves, thereby reducing the pressure on the cavalry on the ramp. Of course, since they want to attack the mountain, they have to
Abandoning their mounts and switching from cavalry to infantry.
Alibai was so shameless that he divided Lu Zixing's 10,000 troops into two groups of 5,000 troops each and ordered them to be the first echelon to attack the mountain. His two troops of 10,000 men followed behind.
This was obviously Lu Zixing's soldiers and horses being used as cannon fodder. Although Lu Zixing was very angry, he could do nothing about it. Alibai was even more unreasonable than Yalu Buhua. If he didn't obey his orders, he would probably die immediately.
Here. Therefore, Lu Zixing had no choice but to agree to Alibai's rude request. Even though his generals and soldiers yelled and made noise in anger, they could only comply.
The afternoon spring sun shone on the grassy and rocky hillside, and the air was a bit warm, even a bit hot. The soldiers attacking the mountain were scattered on the hillside, and they climbed up the hillside cautiously step by step.
There were beads of sweat on their faces, and they didn't know whether it was because of nervousness or the weather.
The atmosphere of the entire battlefield was suffocating. Both the cavalry on the slope and the attacking troops on the hillside remained silent. Apart from the sound of violent breathing, there was only the sound of climbing and accidentally rolling.
There was the sound of falling stones, and the sound of heavy cart wheels squeaking against their axles as they rolled on the ramp.
Of course, this dull atmosphere could not be maintained for too long. The shouts of killing on the hillsides on both sides were the first to break the dullness. When the attacking soldiers and horses approached more than two hundred steps below the hillside, the shouts of killing were loudly heard from above.
Numerous archers emerged from the simple fortifications on the side of the mountain top. They were standing high, holding long bows and shooting down arrows like rain. With the advantages of height and slope, these arrows had a range of fifty or sixty steps longer than ordinary arrows.
The arrows were shot diagonally towards the sky, and the angle when they fell was also very tricky. They were basically parabolas falling from the sky. Even though the soldiers and horses attacking the mountain were protected by rocks, many people were killed by the rain of arrows. It was tragic for a while.
There were loud screams, and from time to time someone was hit by an arrow and rolled down the hillside. The arrow may not be fatal, but many people lost their lives when their bodies hit the rocks.
The soldiers and horses attacking the mountain hid behind rocks and bushes one by one. They hid in the hollows and gaps on the hillside and did not dare to raise their heads, let alone attack.
"Fuck, give it to me
Sub-attack, don't stop, otherwise you will be killed without mercy." Alibai roared angrily from the bottom of the hillside.
The order was quickly passed on, and the attacking troops had to brave the rain of arrows to continue the attack on the top of the mountain. As a result, their casualties became more serious. Lu Zixing's 10,000 men who were cannon fodder on the left and right hillsides suffered the most casualties.
It was so tragic that hundreds of people died under the rain of arrows every twenty or thirty steps up. It truly interpreted the word cannon fodder, and they were treated as soldiers and horses sent to death.
But the cannon fodder still played a role. In order to prevent the attack on the mountain, the archers of the Luoyan Army who were originally ambushed on the slopes on both sides of the pass to assist the soldiers and horses at the pass in attacking the cavalry on the slope had to appear and shoot at the soldiers and horses attacking the mountain.
The purpose of the Jurchens' attack on the mountain was to attract their firepower, but this purpose was achieved.
When the battle started on the slopes on both sides, the Jurchen cavalry on the slope took the opportunity to rush up at a faster speed. Naturally, there were many archers of the Luoyan Army on the pass, and a large number of arrows were shot at them, although they could not kill them.
The girl was really a soldier, but this time they did not retreat. Instead, they braved the rain of arrows and retreated the cart to the ground stabbing formation. Hundreds of cavalry jumped off their horses and acted as porters, loading bags of mud onto the pavement.
On the ground stab array.
Due to the lack of firepower from the passes on both sides, the damage done to the Jurchen soldiers and horses by relying solely on arrows from the front of the pass was sharply reduced. The Jurchen cavalry carrying shields formed a wall with their shields to protect those carrying mud bags.
The Jurchen soldiers covered with thorns made the defenders on the pass seem helpless.
The attacks on the left and right hillsides became more and more fierce, putting more pressure on the defenders on the hillsides. The more so, the less they were able to free up their hands to shoot arrows at the slopes to support them. Not only that, their own positions were already under attack.
On the hillside on the west side of the pass, thousands of attacking soldiers and horses have reached fifty or sixty steps below the fortifications, and are in danger of directly breaking through the mountains on the west side. This makes the situation even more precarious. It seems that it was originally letting
The Jurchens' thorny defense line is about to be penetrated.
The attacking cavalry on the slope advanced even more unscrupulously, and the Jurchen cavalry archers accompanying the attack had begun to fight back. The formation of soldiers and horses also continued to advance upward until they encountered the third iron thorn belt. More than a hundred Jurchen cavalry used their bodies to attack
After getting out of the last buried iron thorn array, naturally there was another operation of paving the road with mud. The Jurchens seemed to have found their rhythm and confidence. They found their tactical opponent and contained it through the attacks of soldiers and horses on both sides.
After that, the pass was no longer out of reach.
The third ground thorn strip was less than a hundred steps above the pass, and the faces of the soldiers shooting arrows behind the opponent's low wall fortifications were vaguely discernible. The attacks on the hillsides on both sides also advanced simultaneously to a hundred steps below the hillside.
It seemed that the opponent's entire defense line was about to be torn apart. Battle had already begun to consider that he would lead the remaining five or six thousand cavalry to charge on the spot without waiting for subsequent cavalry reinforcements. He believed that he could directly overwhelm the enemy at the pass.
line of defense.
However, something unexpected happened in an instant.
Above the pass, a red firework soared into the sky, exploding into a shower of peach blossom-like petals in the blue sky.
The next moment, a burst of ear-piercing roars and screams suddenly erupted from the tops of the slopes on both sides of the pass. The fire-breathing trumpets swallowed flames, and countless dragging
The rockets with flaming tails and smoke trails poured down from the top of the mountain, forming a huge fan-shaped impact surface. The arrows flew around randomly and wandered in the grass between the rocks and among the people attacking the mountain.
It's exploding.
More than one Swarm Rocket Launcher was placed on the hillside on both sides. Gao Muqing knew that if the hillside was not captured, the pass would be impregnable. Therefore, Gao Muqing placed the only eight-door Swarm Rocket Launcher newly manufactured by the Luoyan Valley Arsenal on both sides of the pass.
On the side of the hillside. Moreover, these guys are all mobile, with dozens of dedicated soldiers carrying them and carrying their components for maneuver. And above the hillside, as many as eight rocket launchers were built specifically for these eight swarm rocket launchers.
There are more than 30 launch platforms in order to allow these guys to arrive at the required location in time, install and launch them quickly and in time.
The Jurchens' tactics did make Gao Muqing a little confused. She actually didn't want to expose a swarm of rocket launchers prematurely. But the opponent was already approaching the hillside and the pass, so she could only give the order to take action.
There are only eight rocket launchers in total, but don’t look at them. There are only eight rocket launchers. The noise when they are launched is comparable to that of thousands of troops. Sixty-four rockets are fired in succession, covering the entire fan-shaped area of a hundred steps below. Although it is not as dense as
Arrows are like rain, but a swarm of rockets does not directly kill the opponent as its lethality. Its power lies in the impact and irregular trajectory of the rocket, as well as the contamination of the flame caused by the explosion of the gunpowder bag, and
The impact of large amounts of smoke and dust on the battlefield's senses.
At this moment, on both sides of the hillside of the pass, the entire 300-400-step offensive surface of the Jurchen soldiers and horses was almost completely covered by smoke and fire. Not to mention the damage caused when the rocket exploded, the grass on the hillside was ignited, and the soldiers
The armor on his body was also stained with flames and burned. Rockets with huge screams were flying among the people on the rocks, and the tail flames like poisonous snakes shooting messages were everywhere in the smoke and dust. The feeling was simply terrifying and terrifying.
asphyxia.
In a very short period of time, a swarm of eight rocket launchers fired four rounds in a row. It felt like there were countless rocket launchers firing. And such dense rocket fire completely turned the bottom of the hillside into a sea of smoke and fire. Thousands of rocket launchers were fired.
The soldiers attacking the mountain were about to see the dawn of victory, but they were suddenly stunned and frightened by the overwhelming blow. They were trapped in a sea of smoke, dust and fire, running around like headless flies.
They were ruthlessly harvested by rockets and arrows fired by the defenders.
At the bottom of the hillside, Yalu Buhua stared blankly at everything happening on both sides of the hillside. His scalp was numb and his body was cold. He remembered the attack on Shili Changgang that day, and the opponent's dense rocket firearms.
It impressed me deeply and made me deeply afraid. It was not only something that frightened me, but also something that everyone in the Jurchen army was afraid of after that battle. At this moment, I also encountered this kind of firearm. This was too shocking.
People are frustrated. Yes, I have actually thought of this problem for a long time: I am also facing the Luoyan Army, and it is not unusual for them to have firearms. But I always don’t want to face this problem, I always want to take a chance, hoping that I can
There is an exception. Apparently the exception did not occur.
The explosion of a swarm of rocket launchers completely turned the situation around, and the Jurchens' idea that it was possible to break through the pass and the hillside this time was ridiculously in vain.
