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Chapter 242: Terrifying Heavy Armored Soldiers

Zong Ze was really angry with Yan Fei. The heavy armor worn by the northern Tartars seemed to be at least at the same level as the Bu Ren Armor. The Bu Ren Armor was extremely expensive, and even with the national strength of the Song Dynasty, it would not be equipped too much.

It seemed incredible to him that such a powerful military weapon was actually handed over to a group of surrendered soldiers. If Yan Fei was his general, then he would really want someone to chop off his head at this time.

"Don't worry." Yan Fei smiled and comforted Zong Ze. Then Zong Ze, whose angry face turned red, was stunned to see the Han children in Yan Fei's army starting to take off their clothes one after another.

That's right, thousands of big men took off their camouflage uniforms under the gaze of both the enemy and us on this battlefield, and then put on strange gray vests. Then they took out the thick armor like the auxiliary soldiers from a cart covered with red, blue and white plastic cloth and started to wear them.

Yan Fei is not stupid, of course, this kind of good thing must be equipped with Han people. And for example, only Han soldiers can own the anti-spike suits, and Han people in the northern region can only be distributed selectively after verification. As for those Khitans, Xi people, Bohai people, etc., don’t even think about it.

Compared to the heavy armor, Yan Fei attaches more importance to the anti-sting suit. Because the heavy armor foot weighs dozens of kilograms, although it has excellent defense ability, no one can wear it every day. Moreover, if you don’t have a war horse, you won’t be able to move for too long without a war horse.

The anti-sting suit is different. This thing is light and can be used for a long time. It is fine to cover the body without taking off every day. If the knife is cut, it cannot be easily lost if the gun is stabbed.

After Yan Fei was about to relieve the crisis in Bianjing City, he began to train the soldiers and change their clothes at the same time. At that time, he would be equipped with a large number of firearms and did not have to worry about the rebellion of the auxiliary troops with heavy armor. Moreover, in case of dealing with these modern steel armors, Yan Fei was preparing to use more advanced weapons than flintlock rifles.

In the face of the power of modern weapons, something like armor is meaningless.

"This......" Zong Ze was stunned. This heavy armor was obviously expensive and was a real military weapon. But Yan Fei equipped tens of thousands of people under his command with heavy armor without blinking. This is too exaggerated!

"Deputy Marshal, your staff is enough to be responsible for cleaning the battlefield. Now take a good look at how I killed all these savages." Yan Fei waved his hand and told Yue Fei about the marching and fighting, and turned around and went to the behemoth behind him who was pulled by more than ten horses.

Yan Fei seized thousands of war horses, but not many of the defeated soldiers and good-fathered children recruited, who could really ride and fight. There was no way. Since the rebellion of Xixia, the Song Dynasty has lost all the horse-producing lands. In the long-term lack of horses, there are naturally few cavalrymen that can be used. Therefore, his main force is the more than 2,000 surrendered auxiliary soldiers.

Wanyan Jiemu, who saw Yishui's heavy armored cavalry slowly approaching him like a metal ocean, instantly realized that this was the unprecedented elite of the Song army. She quickly mobilized the strong soldiers in her hands to prepare for the battle.

The steel production in this era was extremely low and the technology was also very backward. A set of full-body heavy armors like this is a complete military and national heavy weapon.

In various dynasties, it is rare to prohibit the possession of weapons such as swords, guns, or even bows and arrows from the people, but anyone who hides armor privately is equivalent to treason. This can be seen from the fact that Nurhaci relies on thirteen pairs of armor to raise an army.

Although the Jin Kingdom created a heavy armored iron-guilled horse in history, it was also an elite soldier built after they obtained the iron ore of the Liao Kingdom and plundered the craftsmen of the Song Dynasty. After they were defeated by Yue Fei, they could no longer rebuild.

At this moment, only a few of Wanyan's men could wear heavy armor seized from the Liao Kingdom and the Song Dynasty, and most of the soldiers and horses were actually still fighting in leather armor.

With the order of Wanyan Jiemu, a large number of Jurchen cavalry rushed towards the auxiliary troops under Yan Fei on the green seedlings in the field.

To put it bluntly, the combat characteristics of this nomadic people are almost the same. They are nothing more than using the speed of horses to conduct long-distance maneuver combat. Simply put, it is riding and shooting. For example, the Mongols in later generations used the power of riding and shooting to the extreme. The Jurchens of this era were not much different, and their riding and shooting level was also very strong.

More than three thousand Jurchen cavalry roared out and shot sharp arrows at a high elevation angle more than a hundred steps away from the auxiliary cavalry formation. With the help of acceleration, these light arrows that could fly farther out long parabolas in the air and fell into the auxiliary cavalry struggling to maintain the queue slowly forward.

As the sound of the tinging arrows hitting the armor, the auxiliary troops under Yan Fei were unmoved at all.

This kind of light arrow that pursues range is useless to shoot the full-covered heavy armor. Although the ground is filled with dense arrows, even the war horses wearing horse armor cannot be injured, let alone humans.

After shooting two rounds of arrows, the Jurchen cavalry moved to both sides. After running back, they gathered again and looked at the steel Great Wall that was pressing over like a mountain made of metal. Everyone's faces showed a look of shock. The riding and shooting attacks that used to be unfavorable in the past were not even tickling.

"Change heavy arrows!" The Jurchen Meng'antemu (Captain of Ten Thousand Veterans) Wanyan Han, who was in charge of commanding the more than 3,000 cavalry, roared with an ugly face, and drew a heavy armor-breaking arrow from his arrow bag, which was thick and long, and the arrow was like a shovel.

This kind of armor-breaking arrow is specially used to deal with the enemy in heavy armor, but due to the difficulty of making, even the Jurchens who plundered the entire Liao Kingdom did not own too many.

After making a big circle on the battlefield, the more than 3,000 cavalry began to rush towards Yan Fei’s auxiliary troops layer by layer like waves. This time the distance was much closer, and the two sides were only shooting dense rain of arrows when they were more than fifty steps apart.

The armor-breaking heavy arrows whistled with a sharp whistling sound, falling into the auxiliary army's ranks, causing a dense metal impact.

"How could this happen?!" After the Jurchen cavalry dispersed from the two wings turned around and ran back to regroup, Wanyan Hanjisa looked at the Song army cavalry who had no reaction and almost no losses and was shocked. She was even useless in armor-piercing arrows!

The quality of modern industrial products is by no means conceivable in this era, and even the most ordinary steel armor cannot be penetrated by these sharp arrows. The failure of riding and shooting also slapped the morale of the Jurchen cavalry.

Seeing the Song army's cavalry slowly approaching, Wanyan Han gritted his teeth and raised the mace in his hand and shouted loudly, "My sons, follow me to kill the enemy!"

Since riding and shooting are ineffective, they can only be close-knit fights. Whether it is for the sake of maintaining morale or the situation of the battle, they cannot retreat without fighting.

More than three thousand Jurchen cavalry shouted and waved the weapons in their hands and rushed towards Yan Fei's auxiliary army again. Yue Fei, who had been observing the battlefield closely, put down the telescope in his hand and shouted "Charge!" at the messenger beside him.

Two shirtless burly men walked in front of the huge drums on both sides with hammers that were much thicker than a rolling pin. Then they started to knock hard.

Beating the drums is to advance, and making the gold is to retreat. After hearing the drums, the auxiliary troops immediately began to speed up and hedge towards the Jurchen cavalry opposite.

These auxiliary troops and horses all had thick armor, and they had heavy armor before. They had been slowing down before preserving horsepower. Now they started charging, which was like moving steel fortresses.

The two teams charged towards each other and soon collided heavily.

It's just like a moving mountain on one side, while on the other side, although the number of people is advantageous, it looks a bit thin in form.

‘Ha!’ Wanyan Hanjis waved his heavy mace with both hands and smashed him hard on the steel helmet of a auxiliary army. Even if the heavy weapon that was powerful and heavy was unable to smash the helmet, it was enough to break the neck of the auxiliary army.

Seeing the auxiliary army with a twisted neck falling down from the war horse, Wanyan Hanjisa roared again, and the mace swept across the waistband of a auxiliary army on the other side. Under the huge impact force, the auxiliary army was also directly smashed off the horse.

Using heavy weapons to deal with heavy armored soldiers is a good choice. Even if the armor cannot be smashed, it can shake the people inside to death. But the problem is that there are too few people with such powerful power, and you must have enough power to smash with heavy weapons. If you don’t have enough power, you can’t break the defense at all.

Wanyan Hanjisa is a famous warrior among the Jurchens. It is said that he can give birth to a tiger and leopard. If he is not strong enough, he will not be able to be the position of a ten thousand men. However, although many of the more than 3,000 Jurchen cavalry use heavy weapons, not many of them can kill the heavy armored Song army with heavy weapons like Wanyan Hanjisa.

Most Jurchen cavalry who use heavy weapons such as the Mace Axe are insufficient, just let the heavy armored soldiers sway their bodies, and if they are suffocated, they will only shoot them down from the horse if they are killed. Those who do not have heavy weapons are in trouble. Not only are they powerless to do anything to the heavy armor, but they cannot even cut the armor on the war horses.

The auxiliary soldiers under Yan Fei's command were not puppets, and they also wanted to fight back. All kinds of guns, axes, spears, swords, hammers, and other eighteen weapons were called out, and the two sides quickly fell into a fierce close-killing battle.

Yue Fei in the rear nodded slightly, Zong Ze was stunned, while Wanyan Jiemu's eyes were red. Because he could clearly see that the Jurchen cavalry in the fight were constantly falling off the horse at a speed visible to the naked eye. The heavy armored soldiers of the Song State suffered almost no losses.

When the extremely fierce Wanyan Hanjisa broke through the heavy armored cavalry of the Song army and rushed out, there were only a few Jurchen cavalry rushing out. The first round of impact caused him to lose most of his troops.

Wanyan Han, who was panting, pulled the reins hard, and was about to turn the horse's head and continue to rush to kill, but he was stunned and stopped the movement in his hand. Because he was facing the Song army's formation, he saw a strange thing slowly approaching under the push of hundreds of Song army.
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