Chapter 196 Burn it, the Great Wall! Ask for a monthly pass)
In the center of the Henan section of the Great Wall, on a front about six or seven miles long, the offensive and defensive battle between the Song and Jin sides was in full swing.
The six-seven-mile-long city wall here is not a continuous whole, but is divided into three sections. Each section has a different length, but is facing upward from two sections. The two sections are about ten steps apart, which is the passage for soldiers to enter and exit. When the Jin soldiers approach, they can be blocked layer by layer with a horse-rejecting rifle and a door-stop knife. Therefore, the six-seven-mile-long city wall can also be regarded as three independent fortresses, one or two of which are captured, and the remaining one can still be persisted independently.
On the southeast of the three long walls, there are more than 10,000 "Red Turban Army" that are the people who are wearing red scarves. When the long wall was hit by the golden thieves, they were neither idle nor fled. Instead, they were busy under the supervision of the lecturers and the officers of the township soldiers of various states. They did not make waves of shouts and cheers. It seems that the painting cake given by Zhao Kai is still working!
These "Red Turban Army" either used carts and rice dumplings behind the long wall (you can move some out from the ramp behind the long wall) to set up a temporary line of defense. Or they set up teams, prepare swords, shields, bows and arrows, and prepare to fight. Some found a lot of hay and piled them under the slope on the back of the long wall.
The fierce battle first unfolded on a long wall defended by the Ruzhou army!
Niu Gao's Ruzhou army had a total of more than 5,000 people, and he divided them into three parts. Two of them had a total of about 5,000 people guarded on two sections and two miles long walls. The remaining two or three hundred elite soldiers were all wearing heavy armor and carrying long axes. They stood by under the long wall near the long wall where Zhao Kai was located and a long wall that was defended by the Ruzhou army. The Ruzhou army and the Yulin knights guarded three sections of the long wall. Zhao Kai and the Yulin knights were on the right side, and the city walls on the middle and left side were guarded by the Ruzhou army.
Among the three sections of the city wall, the one that was most violently attacked was of course the long wall where Zhao Kai was! The Jin soldiers rushed towards Zhao Kai's six flags and flag recognition like a tide. However, they were hit by 2,000 divine arm bows that were fired in turn, and were seriously injured. Especially those Ali Xi, who carried the earthblocks and wanted to fill the trenches, became the key targets of the Yulin Knights, and fell row by rows in front of the trenches!
Because Ali Xi's soldiers who were filling the trench were too seriously injured, the trench blocking the Jin soldiers could not be filled for the time being. Some Jin soldiers who were eager to make contributions couldn't wait and jumped into the trench. Only after they jumped down did they realize that something was wrong!
Not only were there caltrops and caltrops sprinkled at the bottom of the trench, but many sharpened wooden stakes were also inserted. The Jin soldiers who jumped down immediately touched the thighs, calves, and feet. In the severe pain, they screamed and wailed, which scared the others about to jump into the trench.
However, the Jin soldiers did not wait, but approached the trench regardless of the casualties and wounded, and stood in rows of directions towards the Yulin Knights on the long wall, firing dense feather arrows.
However, the Yulin Knights were wearing big shields on their heads (with spears) and were wearing armor, and even their faces were protected by facial armor. Moreover, the Jurchen soldiers were not too close to them, and they could not use their skills of shooting heavy arrows in close shots, so the Yulin Knights did not suffer too much. However, the Yulin Knights who were shot at the vital point were kept carrying them down to treat them by the people who were wrapped in red scarves on their heads.
At the same time, Ali Xibing, who was filling the trench, continued to carry large bags of soil and pounce on it one after another. He ignored the casualties and desperately threw bags of soil into the trench and filled the passage forward little by little.
And in front of the two long walls that the Ruzhou army held, the situation was much more critical!
Seven or eight paths were filled in the trenches in front of the two long walls. The Jin army soldiers carrying the long ladder rushed up and put the ladder on the long wall. At the same time, a large number of Jin soldiers rushed through the passage with bows and arrows, arranged under the long wall, and greeted the city wall one by one.
The Ruzhou soldiers guarding these two long walls are not as good as the Yulin Army. They do not have such good armor, nor enough divine arm bows for them, and they are not even very skilled in archery. What's worse is that they had a wave of fire just now, and did not shoot a few Jin soldiers to death, but they exhausted their strength. So the arrows shot out now are loose and they can't hurt the dead soldiers of the Jin people wearing two layers of heavy armor.
I only saw these hard-armed soldiers holding big axes in one hand and holding long ladders in the other, and they were about to climb up to the wall!
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Seeing that the situation was wrong, Niu Gao made a quick decision and took his subordinates to a long wall close to Zhao Kai. After going up, Niu Gao immediately ordered his subordinates to group ten swords and axe players to scatter along the long wall while preparing to join the battle. He also acted as a supervisor team to prevent the more than 2,000 people who were deploying defenses on the wall from dispersing.
Under the supervision of the swordsman holding a long sword and axe, the soldiers of Ruzhou on the wall also gritted their teeth, holding long-handed swords and guns, and lined up behind the forks.
The so-called fork-rowing wood is actually a fence, which is directly inserted between rice bags and is more than five feet above the long wall. The golden thief who climbs up the long ladder is blocked by the fork-rowing wood. Only by cutting off some wooden poles with an axe can he get in and fight with the Song army.
When they cut the wood, the Song army greeted them with long-handled swords and guns!
Although the hard soldiers of the Jin people were all wearing heavy armor, it was difficult to stop the spear and sword from assassinating the armor in time, and most people would be knocked down and fell heavily to the ground.
If you look forward from the rear of the Jin soldiers, you can see their dead soldiers crawling up the city and being stabbed down again.
Under the long wall, the corpses and wounded soldiers of the Jin soldiers were covered with layers of layers, and they became stalemate for a while.
On the other long wall that blocked the defense of Ruzhou soldiers, the situation was not good. The Song army stabbed people a beat, and several forks were cut off!
The fierce close-knit fight soon started between the soldiers of Ruzhou and the hard-armed dead soldiers of the Jin people!
The hard army was all played by the mature Jurchens and the strong men among the Bohai people. The most brave one was the so-called yellow-headed Jurchens. Now there are many yellow-headed Jurchens among the hard army that rushed up the long wall, all of whom were like tigers and lions rushing into the flock of sheep, waving the axe in their hands to greet the Ruzhou soldiers who were coming up!
The Ruzhou soldiers fought hard at this time, and if they didn’t fight, they would have no chance!
The lecturers who supervised the battle (they were the Yulin Knights) also opened their throats and shouted loudly: "Hold on! The golden thieves are here to steal our land and fight with them!"
"Those who retreat will be killed immediately without mercy!"
"The official family is behind us, we can't retreat!"
Can't retreat but can you withstand it?
As more and more Jin people's hard army surged onto the long wall, the battle had become very unfavorable to the Song army. Even if they sacrificed their lives to fight to the death, they still could not resist the more and more Jin soldiers.
It's almost gone!
Niu Gao, who was supervising the battle on another section of the city wall, was a master who could see six directions, and he had long known that he would not be able to hold on without the long wall he was watching. So he quickly took twenty or thirty swords and axe players (the others were still supervising the battle on the spot) and rushed down the long wall he had just fought, and then headed towards the long wall that he was about to be unable to hold on.
And under the long wall that was almost unbearable, a deputy general of the Ruzhou Army had already prepared two thousand strong Red Turban Army. It seemed that he was about to push it up, but the battle was too tragic if he didn't go up. Normal people were afraid!
But after Niu Gao arrived, he took over the team without saying a word and ordered the deputy general who was full of shame: "If I can't stand it anymore, don't wait for me to retreat and set fire to the Great Wall!"
The city has been planned to set fire to the fire!
The long walls made of rice are flammable! Although the surface is covered with mud, it is only applied to the front and the back is not touched, but not only does it not apply mud, but also a little hay is piled up!
Once the long wall is not guarded, the Song army will light hay and set fire to the wall!
This is a way to fight with both jade and stone. Although setting fire to the wall can temporarily block the enemy, what if the long wall is burned?
However, the current situation is extremely critical, and Niu Gao can't take care of so much. After giving the order, he yelled: "Red Turban Army, follow me to kill the enemy!"
"Red Turban Army, Kill"
The responding was as shaking as the shouts. The farmers in Ruzhou, who were inspired by the land and land, also sacrificed their best. As the lecturers said, they won, land, money, and wife, everything! Losing is just a death!
What are you afraid of?
Without land, without money, and without a wife, can it be considered a good life?
Since I haven’t lived well, why are you afraid of death?
As soon as the two thousand screaming Red Turban Army came on the field, the situation on the long wall suddenly reversed. The Jurchens' tough army was powerful, but they were not iron-clad, but they were fighting "full-armor battles". They were running and climbing before, and they didn't even have time to take a breath. Now they have been chopping and slaughtering for a long time, and they are already a little exhausted. Seeing that the enemy's new force is coming, how dare they act violently? They all spontaneously retreated to several fork-row-tied thrusts, and then formed a semicircle to protect the thrust.
As long as the Song army could not block the break, there would be a steady stream of Jin soldiers coming up. As long as there were enough Jin soldiers climbing the city, this long wall would be captured by them!
As soon as they contracted like this, the Song army on the city wall did not retreat. After the Jin soldiers' contact surface was greatly reduced, the Song people's numerical advantage could not be exerted, and the Jin soldiers under the city wall were still shooting feather arrows desperately. For the armorless Red Turban Army, these sharp arrows were enough to kill weapons.
The most terrifying thing is the heavy armored strong army that is constantly climbing up!
There were too many of them, and the many were almost crushed the long wall made of rice bags. As the battle continued, the Song army on the long wall was once again in crisis!
After receiving support, the Jin people's hard army once again forced Niu Gao and his Ruzhou army and the Red Turban Army to retreat step by step, and were about to be driven off the long wall.
At this moment, the fire suddenly ignited under the long wall where Niu Gao was!
The Henan section of the Great Wall caught fire and burned!
Chapter completed!