The situation suddenly changed, and the situation seemed to become extremely dangerous in an instant.
At this moment, the Jurchen army was almost in full force, using almost all their strength. Before the war, the Jurchen army had as many as 270,000 troops, including 160,000 cavalry and 110,000 infantry. In addition to 10,000 infantry and cavalry mixed troops,
In addition to staying in Puyang City to guard supplies and food, all the remaining troops and horses went to the battlefield.
Even though most of the infantry were reduced to cannon fodder in the past few hours of fighting, the cavalry suffered more than 30,000 casualties. But even so, the total number of Jurchen cavalry on the battlefield still exceeds 120,000, and there are still more infantry.
More than 20,000 people survived.
On the other hand, the Luoyan Army had only 120,000 cavalry and infantry combat troops before the war. Now it suffered tens of thousands of casualties, and actually only had 110,000 fighting men. This also includes a swarm of rocket launcher operators and melon throwers.
Among the 110,000 troops, only 40,000 of the 50,000 cavalry are fighting in the camp at the moment. There are also 10,000 cavalry who followed Lin Hu out of the camp last night and went to unknown destinations.
With the camp gate breached and all four camp walls under attack, the Luoyan Army seemed to have fallen into an absolute disadvantage and seemed unable to withstand this final attack.
Lin Jue was still standing on the command platform, with a clear overview of the situation around the camp. Although his expression was extremely serious, he did not want to be as panicked as some of the guards and generals around him. In fact, the situation in front of him was not
It was beyond Lin Jue's expectation, but it all happened faster and more violently.
Lin Jue had already anticipated the ambushes on both sides of the southwest, and the encirclement attack on all sides was what Lin Jue had guessed would be Wanyan Agu's offensive method. Lin Jue left soldiers and horses on the camp walls on both sides of the southwest for defense. Although the number of defenders was not large.
There were only 5,000 men each, but the defensive horses and trenches on the southwest sides were the main means of defense. It would not be easy for the opponent to break through the camp gate and attack. Therefore, Lin Jue was not surprised by the ambush attack in the southwest.
Not panic.
However, the frontal situation in the Northeast made Lin Jue realize that Wanyan Agu's determination to win this battle was so strong. The casualties of the Jurchens' horse infantry under the three powerful blows he arranged had far exceeded what ordinary soldiers and horses could withstand.
Limit. No one can bear the casualties of more than 100,000 infantry troops. One possibility that Lin Jue originally predicted was that when the casualties reached a level that Wanyan Agu could not bear, he would choose to give up withdrawing troops. He should not
As for wanting to bury all the soldiers and horses here, they will die together with themselves.
But the fact is that Wanyan Aguda not only was not injured due to the massive attrition of troops, but instead launched a full-scale attack with all his might. It can be seen that he only cares about today's victory and does not care about any consequences. A desperate person is terrible
, because there is no burden that can fetter him, and his goals are pure, he acts more decisively and fiercely. Wanyan Aguda has obviously entered this state.
Of course, Lin Jue was mentally prepared for a fight with the opponent. The only thing he didn't expect was that he did not resolutely emphasize the key point of holding on to the camp wall, which led to the appearance of Ma Bin, Liang Qi and others on-site command.
He made a mistake and was involved in the opponent's second wave of cavalry, resulting in the third wave of Jurchen cavalry being unable to effectively attack. Now, the spare rockets of the swarm of bazookas had been exhausted, and the grenade throwers were attracted to the camp gate. With the help of the archers,
It is absolutely impossible to stop a large number of Jurchen cavalry from rushing under the camp wall.
Fortunately, the battle in the camp is still under control. The number of soldiers and horses rushing in from the two camp gates is not large, and the throwers, shotguns, and repeating crossbows gathered near the camp gate are attacking the opponent's crowded formation.
The casualties caused by the attack were still huge. Fifty steps outside the camp gate
The densely packed Jurchen cavalry within the area were all living targets. Almost hundreds of them were bombarded and shot to death. The scene was extremely tragic.
But Lin Jue knew in his heart that there was not much time left for his side. The third wave of cavalry would soon arrive outside the camp wall. They would soon realize that the cost of attacking from the crowded camp entrance was too high. They should
They will make a fuss about the camp wall. Cooperating with the remaining infantry, they should take advantage of the emptiness of the camp wall's defensive force to occupy the camp wall. By then, the defensive forces near the camp gate will have to evacuate. By then,
The whole camp can be said to be broken.
"Send the order!" Lin Jue said in a deep voice.
A dozen guards who were anxiously watching the battlefield heard the words and hurriedly agreed in unison. They were worried because of the commander's silence. The commander finally spoke.
"Immediately send an order to Ruan Ping, telling him to build the inner camp as quickly as possible according to what I told him before. He only has half an hour, or... one stick of incense." Lin Jue shouted in a deep voice.
The guards were stunned. They did not understand what Marshal Lin meant. How to build an inner camp at this time? How to build it? Is it too late? Isn't this a joke?
Lin Jue frowned and shouted, "Aren't you going yet?"
"Follow your orders!" One of the guards hurriedly rushed down from the command podium to deliver the order.
Lin Jue flicked his cloak, pulled out the two bastard boxes from his waist, and strode down the command podium. The guards beside him all understood that the marshal was going to join the battle in person, so they followed closely. Someone immediately went to report to Sun Dayong, asking him to lead the guards.
The camp came to protect.
Lin Jue walked a few steps and was about to mount his horse when he heard someone from behind shouting: "Husband, I'm coming."
Lin Jue turned around and looked, and indeed Bai Bing was galloping towards him on horseback. Lin Jue turned around quickly and said, "Why are you here? Why aren't you accompanying Mingyue in the tent?"
Bai Bing said: "I heard that the fighting was fierce. Sister Mingyue asked me to come and protect you. Someone has already taken care of her. Are you going to kill the enemy? I came just in time."
Lin Jue nodded and said in a deep voice: "Okay, come with me to charge and save a few Jurchens."
Lin Jue got on his horse, urged the horse, led Bai Bing and more than a dozen personal guards and generals and galloped towards the battlefield in the camp where a fierce fighting was going on at the camp gate outside Lixu.
The third wave of Jurchen cavalry rushed under the camp wall at the cost of less than a thousand casualties. However, the congestion at the camp gate was so severe that the second wave of cavalry had not yet completely rushed into the camp. The battle at the camp gate was also extremely fierce.
The opponent's grenades continued to explode in the crowd, and repeating crossbows and shotguns fired at the dense cavalry. The Jurchen cavalry continued to fall. The entire fifty-step area outside the camp gate was simply a hell on earth, with countless corpses of men and horses.
Stacked on top of each other, blood flowed gurglingly, and even merged into a stream to flow along the ditches on both sides.
Faced with this situation, several Jurchen generals who led the third wave of Jurchen cavalry attack naturally knew not to join in the fun, but the opponent's camp wall stood tall, and they could not do anything outside the camp wall. The infantry were using hooks and ropes to attack.
Throw it up, hook onto the camp wall and climb up. The opponent's defenders cling to the camp wall, constantly slashing and killing the infantry who try to climb up. The cavalry cannot dismount, and can only use bows and arrows to shoot arrows at the camp wall to suppress them. Although they kill
He killed many soldiers of the other side and allowed the infantry to rush up to the camp wall several times, but they were all killed by Luoyan troops on the wall. They were never able to capture the camp wall.
Several cavalry generals screamed anxiously, but there was nothing they could do. Suddenly, a Jurchen cavalry lieutenant pointed at the camp wall and quickly spoke in dialect, and the other generals cheered and shouted. The next moment they moved quickly
, a large number of bows and arrows suppressed the defenders above a camp wall, and then concentrated hundreds of infantry under the camp wall, lengthened the hooks with long ropes, and then rushed towards the camp with all their strength.
The other side of the wall was thrown over.
The height of the camp wall was about ten feet, and its width was only about ten feet. After the hook rope was thrown hard, it landed on the inside of the camp wall. When the rope was tightened, the claws of hundreds of hook ropes firmly hooked the camp wall.
At the top of the wall on the inner side of the wall. Immediately afterwards, the Jurchens made an incredible move. Hundreds of war horses turned their heads, tied ropes to their buttocks, and began to pull with all their strength.
The Jurchen lieutenant came up with this method of destroying the city wall because he saw that the hook ropes of his own infantry often slipped from the top of the camp wall, dragging down a large amount of soil. He realized that the camp wall was actually not
It was solid, just made of mud-covered soil blocks, with no reinforcement measures. So he came up with this idea in a flash, and informed the generals who led the army. Those generals were suffering from the lack of progress, so they immediately adopted it after hearing the words
, even if you have done something like this.
Hundreds of war horses pulled at the same time with astonishing force. With a roar, the hook forcefully pulled down the soil at the top of the camp wall by a foot. A gully was pulled out at the top of the camp wall. Although it did not collapse at once.
The camp wall was pulled down, but this method had been proven to be feasible. So the Jurchen cavalry quickly threw the hooks from their original positions again, this time with dozens more hooks and dozens of horses. This time the camp wall was pulled down.
It was two feet away. It was obvious that there was a deep groove that was more than ten feet wide in the camp wall.
After four pulls, the camp wall finally collapsed with a huge roar. After the dust flew up and in the smoke, a huge gap more than ten feet wide appeared in the camp wall, leaving only a gap less than two feet high below.
The foundation of the wall. The two-foot-high wall foundation is no longer an obstacle, and a war horse can jump over it.
Amid the loud cheers of the Jurchen cavalry, five gaps were opened in the two camp walls in the northeast. Although the defenders on the camp walls tried their best to stop them, they had no choice but to have insufficient firepower, so they could only watch helplessly as the enemy destroyed the camp walls.
In the gap, countless Jurchen cavalry poured into the camp like a tide. The Luoyan Army camp was finally breached.
In the rear, Wanyan Aguda saw this scene and burst into laughter. He waved his one arm and shouted loudly: "Lin Jue, Lin Jue, you know how powerful my Jurchen army is. You brought all this on yourself. I
I need to kill all your Luoyan army and cut you into pieces to relieve the hatred in my heart."
Everyone around them congratulated Wanyan Agu Dao Dao, and the opponent's camp was broken. Basically, the war can be declared a victory. No one can compete with the Jurchen cavalry head-on.
Just when Wanyan Aguda and everyone were celebrating happily, dozens of horsemen galloped from the direction of Puyang City. They were the soldiers and horses left behind in Puyang.
"Report to the big leader that a group of Luoyan Army soldiers and horses have invaded Puyang City from the North City. General Tie'ermu is fighting them, but they have 10,000 cavalry troops. General Tie'ermu is worried that we will be defeated and our food and grass supplies will be lost.
It was occupied and burned by them. I have been specially ordered to report and ask the chief to return quickly for reinforcements." The leading general reported hurriedly.
"What?" Everyone was shocked. When did the Luoyan Army actually divide their forces to attack Puyang City? All the grain and grass supplies were in the city, with 10,000 infantry guards left. However, if the opponent's cavalry attacked the city, it would be difficult for the opponent. The grain and grass supplies
But the lifeblood, without these, what will the army eat? What will the war horses eat?
"Big Chief, it seems we have to return for reinforcements, otherwise..." a general whispered.
"It's a joke, you have to withdraw your troops and come back for reinforcements at this time? Isn't it a big joke? Lin Jue did this on purpose. Knowing that he was outmatched, he sent troops to attack Puyang with the purpose of forcing me to come back for rescue. Hehe, I won't be fooled. Even food and supplies
They're all gone, don't even think about me withdrawing my troops at this moment. Don't worry about them, send an order to the front, whoever kills Lin Jue's head will be rewarded to ten thousand households, ten thousand taels of gold and silver, and ten beauties." Wanyan Agu interrupted loudly.
