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Chapter 542 Eight Mile Bridge ([-])
"It's fake, it's all fake, those flying balls and golden dragons are nothing more than some Song people's tricks.

You are not allowed to kneel, all stand up for me, all the soldiers listen to the order, if there are still kneeling around you, I will chop all of them to death on the spot~"

Like a lunatic, the pseudo-emperor of the Kingdom of Jin, Wanyan Wu, was begging to buy, while waving a bloody golden knife in his hand, he roared crazily in his mouth.

Talk!When he saw a total of twelve big balls rising from the position of the Song Army army on the opposite side, they had just started to rise from the ground.

Wanyan Wu begged to buy this product, based on a beast-like intuition on the battlefield, he felt something bad in his heart.

Soon after, when the twelve big balls rose straight to a height of hundreds of meters; when they were illuminated by the sun, the dragons of various shapes on them seemed to come alive and began to dance in the air.

Frankly speaking, at that time, this person who claimed to be the Son of Heaven was a false emperor who was the incarnation of a dragon in the world.

At that time, I was also frightened, my legs were shaking, and I felt like I wanted to pee.

No wonder this guy is too cowardly, it is a carbon-based life like human beings, and there is a kind of instinctive fear from the bottom of my heart when such an unknown and incomprehensible scene appears in front of my eyes.

The difference is that when you see a large number of people from your own side with pale faces.

On the spot, he knelt down on the ground and kowtowed like pounding garlic, his fighting spirit completely gone.

Some other personnel didn't kneel down, but their legs were trembling violently. There were even many Jurchen warriors among them, kneeling on the ground and muttering words.

Wanyan Wu Qimai reacted instantly under a shock.

I clearly realized that this situation cannot be allowed to continue to ferment.

Otherwise, if this battle did not start, our army would completely collapse due to the sharp drop in morale, causing their Dajin Kingdom to be defeated in this war that related to the fate of the country.

Then the situation will destroy the country and the family, such terrible consequences.

Thinking of all the great things above, in today's weather of only seven or eight degrees, Wanyan Wu Qimai was frightened into a cold sweat.

At the same time, the original fear of seeing balloons and flying dragons in my heart was immediately suppressed.

At the moment when this guy looked around, he happened to see a guard who was under his command turned over from his horse and kowtowed to the ground about ten steps away.

Wanyan Wu Qimai kicked the horse vigorously, and rushed forward just like that.

In this process, he made actions such as drawing a knife and slashing, and immediately cut off the neck of the guard from behind.

Let a head full of complex expressions such as fear, bewilderment, and bewilderment roll away all at once.

In fact, Wanyan Wu Qimai also understood that the population of their Jurchen clan was originally small, and many talents came out of the old forests in the black mountains and white waters.

Under the harsh environment, these people have the advantages of being brutal enough, not afraid of death, and powerful in combat, but they also have the disadvantage of not seeing anything in the world at all.

Especially for such a miraculous scene, there is no resistance at all.

It's just that it's understanding, but it still can't stop him from roaring out the brutal command at the beginning of "kill all those who can't kneel down" from his mouth.

Under such an order, the guards and ministers around Wanyan Wu Qimai were the first to react.

After thinking about the consequences, they were also frightened into a cold sweat, and acted quickly.

They repeated loudly in their mouths, "All those who kneel down will be hacked and killed" At the moment of the order, all kinds of weapons such as knives and guns in their hands were shot together, and twenty or thirty people were hacked to death in one fell swoop.

And following the orders and movements here, it quickly spread to the surroundings.

While one unlucky guy after another was killed on the spot, the fear of death in the hearts of more golden warriors who were kneeling on the ground immediately overwhelmed the fear of the unknown scene.

They got up quickly one after another until no living person fell to their knees.

But even so, even after many people stood up, their faces were still full of fear; it was obvious that their fear of unknown things could not be easily relieved like this.

Seeing this, Wanyan Wu's thoughts of begging for money were spinning rapidly, and he already had an idea.

Another sentence came out of his mouth: "Great shaman, has there ever been a way to break the demon law of the Song people~"

After hearing the words, a thin old man dressed in gaudy clothes, who is also the great Jurchen shaman accompanying the army, immediately spoke in an extremely hoarse voice.

With a very confident tone in his mouth, he replied:
"Your Majesty, there is no need to worry. After we cast some spells, the gods will naturally protect my Dajin warriors from being affected by the demonic spells of the Song people~"

After finishing speaking, he led dozens of similarly dressed characters and danced to the big god in public.

All kinds of strange magic tools in his hands, as well as spell-casting objects like 'black dog's blood', 'women's riding cloth', 'children's urine' and 'big cock', also appeared one by one.

As for these army shamans, what is the specific role of dancing in public?

It can only be said that there are some, but only a few.

Seeing this, the panic on the faces of the Jurchens immediately improved a lot; their current beliefs are mainly worshiping various gods and mountain gods.

But even so, these people still couldn't return to the high fighting spirit they had at the beginning.

Seeing this situation, all the other northern Han people, Bohai people, Liao people, and Xi people showed a little less tension on their faces.

But they don't believe in shamanism very much, so the effect is naturally far inferior to that of the Jurchens.

In short, the role played by the hot air balloon is far better than what Hu Biao and the others initially expected...

The scene that happened in the above-mentioned golden men's team naturally fell into the eyes of those lookouts who were in the basket of the hot air balloon and held binoculars in their hands.

Naturally, such a complicated situation cannot be clearly explained to the people below with a simple semaphore.

But the problem is not big, there are other means.

These lookouts quickly took charcoal pencils, wrote the relevant content on a piece of paper, stuffed the paper into a large bamboo tube, and threw it down.

There are some auxiliary personnel of the hot air balloon below, always paying attention to the movement above.

It will naturally be picked up and delivered to the relevant personnel.

So soon after, Hu Biao learned about the current situation of the great god dancing on the side of the golden man through such a means of transmission.

It was also at this time that he just happened to see a person who had just been ordered by him.

The orderly of the rocket launcher division, who had gone for a trip, had already returned in a hurry.

Immediately, he opened his mouth and asked, "What does the warehouse manager say, how long will it take for the rocket to be launched, and can it reach the Jurchen area where Wanyan Wu begs for money?"

After the messenger heard it, he immediately answered in his mouth:

"Reporting to Hu Xianggong, the warehouse manager said that half of their rockets have been installed and debugged, and they can be launched at any time.

The remaining other half can also be launched again in two to three minutes.

It's just that those Jurchens are too far away from the launch site. Although some rockets should be barely within reach, the killing effect will not be very good. "

After hearing such a sentence, Hu Biao secretly sighed in his heart.

In view of the good effect of the rockets washing the land in the first battle of Zhuxian Town, when preparing for the Northern Expedition, why didn't Hu Biao and the others put more energy into this aspect?

For this reason, they specially formed a rocket launcher who is more professional in operation.

After further improving the model of the rocket, it is more powerful and has a longer range.

The more critical point is that the specific number is much more than the three hundred rounds during the first battle in Zhuxian Town.

Through the efforts of three workshops and more than 4000 workers working day and night, as well as the full cooperation of various departments, the supply of raw materials is limited.

When the Northern Expedition army set off, a total of 210 rounds of such latest rockets were carried on the carts of the team.

That's not counting, until two days ago.

Yu Yunwen's navy fleet finally caught up with the army along the way; besides a large amount of grain and other supplies, the fleet was loaded with more than [-] rockets.

Therefore, a total of [-] rounds of enhanced rockets were called out continuously in a short period of time.

The scene and lethality are totally worth looking forward to by Hu Biao and others.

Hu Biao and the others are all ready. In this battle, all these rockets greet those Jurchens, which can be regarded as the last one to hit snakes and seven inches.

It's a pity that Wanyan Wu begging to buy this product is really a bit of a thief.

After absorbing the experience of the first battle in Zhuxian Town, their large Jurchen troops were intentionally placed at the back, and the distance from the firing position was more than 15 miles.

So that if you use it now, the effect will not be very good.

Otherwise, taking advantage of the effect of the hot air balloon, and then launching a rocket to wash the ground against the Jurchen army, the opponent might be defeated directly.

But if it is replaced by attacking those miscellaneous fish, it will also have an excellent effect.

The problem is that most of the Jurchen's strength is still there. This battle is definitely won, but the casualties are estimated to be huge.

Based on the above considerations, Hu Biao thought about whether to launch rockets to wash the ground, but after thinking about it for a while, he had a complete idea: not to launch.

Since the Jurchens are hiding behind now, let's beat them out.

With such a decision, Hu Biao issued a new order: "Order, implement the No. [-] battle plan, take the initiative to attack~"

That's right!It was the Da Song side, whose number was only one-fifth of that of the opponent, who took the initiative to attack in this battle.

According to the so-called No. [-] combat plan that has been issued long ago.

Under the banner of the Chinese army, the officers at the grassroots level blew the tin whistle on their mouths, and the military musicians beat a series of drumbeats.

To be more specific, a group of new army troops on the left and right wings formed a phalanx that could support each other, and began to march forward in neat steps.

Even the artillery assigned to them is the same.

Only those miscellaneous soldiers from all over the Song Dynasty, as a support force, temporarily stayed put.

Here in the Chinese army, there are two infantry divisions of the new army and [-] members of the Yue family army, plus an artillery division, forming a large and small battle formation to advance.

The remaining personnel, including the 7000 cavalry, were all used as battlefield reserves.

Even the Yanshan Divine Army in the north began to actively march towards the Jin people; the difference between them and the Northern Expeditionary Army was nothing more than the fact that they mainly used cold weapons, so the battle formation was larger.

Calculated, there are a total of 5 people, actively attacking opponents with more than four times the number.

Seeing this, even though Wanyan Wu Qimai knew that the morale of his personnel was far from recovering, he still issued an order to fight.

Let the left and right wings and the central army, those cannon fodder troops.

Pushing a large number of shield carts, movable eight-ox crossbows, and small and medium-sized double-bow bed crossbows, these combat equipment actively greeted them.

It's not that they don't want to fill in all the troops at once.

On the one hand, the space on the battlefield is limited, and there is no way to pile up all the troops.

On the other hand, after suffering enough from the firearms of the Song people, the Jin people have noticed that they should not line up too densely in battle...

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With the sound of footsteps, horns, shouts, whips, tin whistles, drums, and neighing of cattle and horses, all kinds of strange sounds are intertwined.

The combat troops of both sides are constantly approaching each other.

However, before the two sides fought on a large scale, an artillery battle took the lead between the two sides; a special artillery battle between cold weapons and hot weapons with the characteristics of a traverser.

In order to deal with the artillery of the new army of the Song Dynasty, or after suffering a loss, they imitated the artillery tactic.

Although the process of imitating the cannon was not smooth, after a lot of hard thinking, Wanyan Wu Qimai ordered people to quickly build hundreds of ballistas, intending to wrestle with the Song army.

Today, it is such a tactic, and it is time to reflect the specific effect.

When the two sides moved relatively slowly because of the need to cooperate with the artillery units, the personnel on both sides were finally separated by about four miles.

The artillery phalanx of the new army stopped their pace one after another, and after quickly building up positions one by one, the 24-pounder and 12-pounder guns with the longest range were the first to fire.

The target is the ballistas among the golden men.

Immediately amidst the loud sound of cannons, hundreds of thick projectiles greeted the golden man's side; but only two hits, smashing those crossbows to pieces on the spot.

The golden side?Of course it is to move on.

Because at such a distance, they have no way to counterattack their opponents.

Even if it was built by a group of craftsmen of the Song Dynasty who were captured from Kaifeng City, the movable eight-ox ballista has a maximum range of only three miles.

Therefore, driven by their officers and the supervisory team, they still had no choice but to bite the bullet and move forward.

Finally, after another round of shelling, the ballista troops on the Jinren's side also stopped.

A group of operators began to work hard to fix the wheels of the ballista with wood, and many of them worked hard together, and even used the power of mules and horses to start winding.

The goose eggs are thick and thin, three to four meters long, and the crossbow arrows with iron arrows are quite powerful at first glance.

It is a pity that at such a time, the 8-pound guns and 6-pound guns with the largest number of artillery divisions in the Song Dynasty also joined the firing process.

These 8-pound and 6-pound iron guns have a range of just three miles after the barrel of the gun is lengthened.

More importantly, although their caliber is not large, they can still pose a considerable threat to the artillery units of the Jinren.

When nearly three hundred small-caliber artillery pieces joined such a firing process.

The artillery fire density of Da Song's side increased by more than three times at once.

Moreover, a group of gunners, under the coordination and command of the grassroots officers, often formed a batch of three guns, and fired at a certain ballista at the same time.

Greatly increased the hit rate, as well as lethality.

Under such a deadly attack, the ballistas of the Jinren's side were often reimbursed directly while they were still being loaded.

While the ballista was being reimbursed, the shells that continued to tumbling, as well as the sharp sawdust splashed, knocked down a large number of people nearby.

It's just that no matter how powerful the artillery on the Song side is, they can't solve the many crossbows on the Jin side before firing.

After enduring the Internet and completing the loading, the Jinren side also had about [-] rounds of crossbow bolts and greeted the artillerymen here.

There were almost [-] rounds of them, and they greeted the artillery positions here roughly accurately, and shot down the guards holding the shields.

The remaining momentum of the ballista continued to move forward, shooting through some gun crews before stopping.

There were even seven or eight rounds that hit Napoleon's cannons, knocking them crooked or overturning them.

It is a pity that these ballistas fired at the maximum distance can only achieve such a maximum impact force, which is not enough to destroy the thick barrel made of all steel.

Therefore, after the golden man's crossbow was hit by a shell, it was immediately scrapped.

After the Song Army's cannon was shot, it was nothing more than a substitute immediately filled it up, raised the cannon again, straightened it, and fired again.

Under such an unfair battle, the number of ballistas on the Jinren's side was rapidly decreasing.

Soon after, the number would be less than a hundred; if it weren't for each ballista, there would be a Jurchen with three hard-core traitors as a war supervisor.

Those operators probably ran away long ago.

But even so far, those operators are gritting their teeth and continuing to load and launch, but I personally know that the artillery force on the Jinren side will soon be wiped out.

After seeing such a scene, Wanyan Wu begged to buy this false emperor, and heaved a helpless sigh.

Regarding the fact that the ballistas on his side cannot beat the artillery from the Song people, he is of course quite aware of this.

Because he originally thought of using crossbows to shoot at each other, which could somewhat restrain the time and energy of the Song artillery troops; it was just that the carefully crafted crossbows were defeated so quickly.

Such a feeling immediately made him feel so powerless.

It was a feeling that he was completely crushed in terms of equipment, and he tried his best to imitate it, but he couldn't do it, and it even made him a little desperate.

It's just that things have reached the current point, what else can they do besides grit their teeth and fight to the death?
For this reason, he turned his attention to the infantry that had already started fighting.

Not long after, the false emperor found helplessly that the infantry that had just stepped up was also severely suppressed, and was about to be defeated...

(End of this chapter)