Fenghou

Chapter 45 Fight Again
When a person is about to die, his words are also kind. The puppet soldier who was captured was seriously injured. twenty people.

There were actually a thousand people, Zheng Ping was secretly surprised, he only had fifty people.

He thought about it, and cursed: "Damn it, you're afraid of a fart!"

That being said, he also sent a soldier back to report to the commander that the fuel was not enough and he needed some more.

At this time, Zhao Xiaoyi had boiled the poison in an iron pot, and the soldiers poured hundreds of caltrops into it.

Don't look at Zheng Ping's big heart and fat body, he is actually full of bad things, and he is best at using all kinds of insidious methods.

He looked around the canyon and saw that the inside was very narrow and not well ventilated. Zheng Ping couldn't help turning his eyes, and turned around to tell a corporal: "You take a few more brothers to cut some pine branches and come back. You want fresh pine branches, the more the better." .”

"Follow the order!"

The corporal saluted and led a dozen soldiers to the pine forest in the north.

Zheng Ping led more than a dozen brothers and scattered hundreds of poisoned barbed wire into the canyon for a mile.

The soldiers held shields and bows and crossbows, and stood ready.

The dining table has been set, the knife and chopsticks are already in hand, and the dishes are waiting to be served.

After waiting for half an hour, the enemy did not wait, and the pine branches came first. More than a hundred soldiers of the Song army brought a large number of pine branches. Zheng Ping's men encountered Song soldiers who were logging in the pine forest. Everyone worked together and brought over a dozen carts of pine branches.

"Enough, enough, let's get busy, brothers! I'll deal with it here."

Zheng Ping spoke insincerely, he wished to keep all these soldiers, but thinking about the greater pressure on Guancheng, he had no choice but to give up this unreasonable idea.

As soon as the soldiers left, there was a scream in the canyon, and someone stepped on a barbed wire.

"Quick! Pile up the pine branches."

Everyone hurriedly piled up pine branches one person tall at the mouth of the valley, poured fire oil on it, and sprinkled a few tablespoons of gunpowder. Zheng Ping glanced at the poison juice left in the iron pot and rolled his eyes.

"Pour these poisons in too!"

The pine branches were lit, and thick smoke billowed into the canyon.

The fierce battle in Wujia Town lasted for nearly an hour. Both sides suffered heavy casualties. The Jin soldiers fought bravely.

With the help of high-speed maneuvering cavalry and powerful cavalry and shooting capabilities, they constantly attacked the formation of the Song army. When the situation was not good for them, they withdrew immediately, reorganized the army and came back again. Repeatedly, the Song army was very passive. For more than an hour, more than half of the soldiers of the Song Army had been killed or injured, but the Jin soldiers also lost nearly [-] people.

A captain shouted: "General Yang, if we fight like this, our entire army will be wiped out. Let's retreat!"

Yang Zheng was also hit by an arrow, he smiled wryly and said: "The army will be wiped out once it withdraws, the Jurchen cavalry will never let us go, if we persist, the golden soldiers will not fight to the death, maybe we still have a glimmer of life .”

'Wow! '

The Jurchen cavalry in the distance began to gather again, and Yang Zheng shouted: "Brothers, fight with the Jin soldiers!"

The soldiers of the Song Army roared in unison and quickly formed a spear phalanx.

"Boom! Boom! Boom!"

The sound of war drums at Jiandao Pass was earth-shattering, and the Jin soldiers attacked like a tide. Han Chang invested [-] troops to attack the pass city at all costs.

He suppressed the opponent with overwhelming arrows, and the soldiers immediately charged forward with siege ladders.

Han Chang learned his lesson. He replaced all the four front rungs of the siege ladder with fine steel rods, and the Song army would never want to cut them off.

This trick really worked, Song Jun's sharp ax could no longer cut across the crossbar, and he lost the lives of several axemen in vain, and was shot to death by random arrows.

The rolling logs and stones on the top of the city fell like raindrops, and the siege soldiers kept screaming and rolling down, and some soldiers attacked the top of the city, standing in front of the battlements and fighting fiercely with the defenders.
Both sides were red-eyed. A Qiuxu puppet general was powerful. Holding a shield and a short spear, he killed three Song soldiers in a row on the top of the city.

A crossbow arrow from the side 'whoosh! The shot came and hit the neck of Qiu Xu's general. He screamed and his body was shaking. The soldiers of the Song army who were facing him seized the opportunity, pierced his chest with a spear, and pushed him off the city wall.

It was the tiger shooters squatting by the wall facing the horse that played a role at the critical moment. Ten tiger shooters were dedicated to shooting down enemy generals and brave soldiers. Facts have proved that their existence is extremely important for the defense of Jiandao Pass. It destroyed countless opportunities for the enemy to rush to the top of the city.

Chen Qing was injured in his back and could not use weapons, bows and arrows. He could only command all the soldiers to defend the city wall.

"Send an order to Luo Dutou, and send another fifty brothers to support the east of the city!"

"The situation at the tenth defensive position is not good, the reinforcements will kill me!"

"General Yang!"

Chen Qing shouted, Yang Yuanqing looked up.

Chen Qing pointed behind him and said: "That big black man, he is about to break through, cut off his lower body!"

When Yang Yuanqing turned his head, he saw a big black man with a strong body holding a huge shield and desperately climbing up. Several cold arrows of the tiger shooter were blocked by his huge shield, and the three soldiers defending him were almost unable to withstand it.

With a loud roar, Yang Yuanqing turned over and charged forward, and slashed in from under the gap in the opponent's giant shield with one blow.

'Crack! '

This knife caught the loophole in Hei's defense and severed his right leg.

The big black man let out a miserable scream, and was thrown down by three soldiers of the Song Army.

Yang Yuanqing turned his head and gave Chen Qing a thumbs up, and Chen Qing returned a thumbs up with a smile.

The battle became more and more bloody, but Chen Qing remained as calm as a mountain. His vision was like a torch, paying attention to the situation of each defensive position. Once a crisis occurred in a certain position, he immediately dispatched troops to support it.

It was his strong command that made the offensive and defensive battles at the top of the city seem dangerous, but the Song army always held the top of the city firmly, and did not give the enemy a chance to break through.

General Han Chang watched the offensive and defensive battle at the top of the city with a solemn expression. His heart was a little heavy. Although the opponent's troops were small, the city wall was not wide enough that a few hundred people could hold it.

But even so, the opponent's morale is too high, and they are tenacious. When did Song Jun become so brave and good at fighting?

He looked at the sky again, the sun had already set in the west, Han Chang became anxious, turned around and shouted: "Up the battering ram!"

Two hundred soldiers appeared holding a huge battering ram. It was the trunk of a big tree, with one end sharpened and about five feet long. Fifty men on each side were holding it up, while another hundred held it high. Shield Guard.

From a distance, it looks like a centipede covered with scales.

The battering ram was immediately discovered by the soldiers on the top of the city, and the soldiers ran to report to the general Chen Qing.

Chen Qing walked quickly to the top of the Mamian city. There was a half suspension bridge hanging directly under the Mamian city. There were slopes below both sides, making it inconvenient to attack the city. Only here is safer, and there is no enemy attack.

Several soldiers held up their shields to guard the general. Chen Qing looked down the city, and at a glance he saw a centipede-like battering ram team running towards the city gate.

"Commander, that's a battering ram!" Yang Yuanqing also appeared beside Chen Qing.

Chen Qing and his generals had discussed how to deal with the enemy's battering ram. They could use arrows or crossbows to pierce through the opponent's protective shield.

But the most effective is to use rolling wood and stones, and they have developed a set of countermeasures for this.

However, the city gate was unexpectedly blessed, that is the suspension bridge, the suspension bridge was burnt into two pieces, and half of the suspension bridge was pulled by the iron chain, just hanging in front of the city gate, forming a natural city gate protective shell.

This invisibly increased the difficulty of the battering ram. It had to smash half of the suspension bridge before continuing to attack the city.

Chen Qing nodded and said to Yang Yuanqing, "Follow the established plan to deal with the battering ram!"

"Follow the order!"

Yang Yuanqing immediately ordered ten tiger shooters: "Aim at the battering ram and shoot!"

He ran to the wall and shouted to a dozen soldiers: "Get ready to roll logs and stones!"

The tiger shooters are all skilled in archery. They use the god arm crossbow, and there are two soldiers behind each of them to string the string for them.

' Whoosh!Whizzing!'

Ten powerful wooden feather arrows shot out, with sharp armor-piercing arrows at the front end, which is a sharp weapon against shields.

Ten soldiers immediately fell down in the battering ram team. The head of the ram sank and almost fell to the ground. The protective cover at the front was also broken, revealing the soldiers holding the ram.

The tiger shooters each replaced a god-arm crossbow with a crossbow bolt installed, aiming and shooting again.

Another ten people in the battering ram team were shot, and the battering ram lost its balance and fell to the ground with a crash.

Han Chang could see clearly from a distance, and he was furious in his heart, and ordered: "The Copper Shield Army go up to cover, and continue to charge the door for me!"

Two hundred soldiers with copper shields rushed up. This is a special army prepared to deal with the Song Army's god-armed crossbow. There are not many people.

On the one hand, because copper is relatively expensive, it is impossible to forge it on a large scale.

On the other hand, a copper shield weighs more than [-] catties, and not ordinary people can lift it. They are all specially selected soldiers, all of them are burly and powerful.

There are three special armies under Han Chang's subordinates. In addition to the wolf soldiers of the Xi tribe that have been wiped out, there is the Bronze Shield Army, and there is also a special army that is the Firearms Army.

The enemy troops throwing fireballs down from the top of the mountain are the soldiers of the Firearms Battalion.

Two hundred bronze shield troops held up copper shields to block the Song army's shooting, and the soldiers picked up the battering ram again, and rushed towards the city gate under the cover of the copper shield troops.
Yang Yuanqing turned his head and shouted sharply: "Bring some barrels of kerosene!"

(End of this chapter)