Chapter 16 Sneak Attacks and Counter Sneak Attacks
The envoy of the Kingdom of Jin was thinking nonsense in the tent, when he suddenly heard a rush of footsteps outside, mixed with the shouts of someone in a hurry.
Then, the two soldiers standing at the door shouted: "General! ”
Then it was the Song general who rushed in.
The envoy of the Jin Kingdom lit up, and said in his heart that this guy had really come to find him. But he never expected that the other party wouldn't say a word of nonsense to himself, and when he came in, he punched himself in the stomach.
Then came a storm of fists smashed down, but the envoy of the Kingdom of Jin did not feel much pain.
He understood the identity of this general, and he had long heard that the Song people liked to let some civilian officials who didn't know anything lead the army, and now it seemed that the Song general in front of him was one of them.
Thinking of this, he didn't want to die. Because he is well aware of the shortcomings of this kind of civilian command. Most of them are self-serving, and after reading a few military books, they feel that they are great characters, and those experienced veterans in the army give him advice, and he will not accept it, and will only do things according to his own ideas.
If that's the case, it would be easy for a fierce general like Wanyan Lou to defeat him. If you can bring this information back, I'm afraid that Wanyan Lou will give himself more rewards.
Thinking of this, he heard Tang Ning stop angrily and scolded: "You pickled talent, you spew blood for no reason!" I can't stand this grievance, I must behead you! ”
The messenger chuckled in his heart, and then he saw a one-eyed man beside him rush up and grab him, and said, "No! The two armies are fighting each other without cutting off, so this is the old practice, and my holy pilgrimage is a great country, isn't it a loss of face to be angry with this little envoy? ”
"I haven't suffered this grievance since I was a child, how can you let me swallow this breath?"
Another elderly general also persuaded: "You have punched him so much, he is still half dead." He's been punished, so don't worry too much! ”
"No! I'm still going to kill him! ”
So after the other two people tried to persuade him, Tang Ning showed his willingness to let the envoy of the Jin State go.
He snorted heavily, flicked his sleeves and said, "I don't care!" ”
With that, he turned and left.
Zhao and Chong Jianzhong untied the rope for the envoy of the Jin State, and the envoy looked at the two of them gratefully and said, "Thank you two for coming to the rescue!" ”
"Alas......" Zhao sighed and said: "My general is on the battlefield for the first time this time, if there is a ......" Before he finished speaking, he was interrupted by another person.
Chong Jianzhong said with a smile: "As the saying goes, the ugliness of the family is not publicized, and what the envoy sees and hears, I hope that it can be kept secret after returning to the camp." ”
The messenger rubbed his aching stomach and smiled, "It's natural. ”
Subsequently, Zhao will be the messenger
Send it away.
When the envoy returned to the Jin army camp, he naturally told Wanyan Lou Room everything he had seen as it was. At the same time, because of his hatred for Downing's indiscriminate beating, he did a little artistic processing.
highlighted Tang Ning's incompetence and stupidity, and made Wanyan Lou believe it to be true.
Wanyan Lou Room laughed and said, "God help me!" Let's see how Ben Shuai captured this kid alive, and then ask him how they used that powerful weapon! ”
Later, after finishing Yan Lou's room, he prepared for battle, ordered people to gather generals, formulated tactics, and ordered people to gather soldiers to prepare.
When it was close to dusk in the afternoon, Wanyan Lou sent 5,000 cavalry to attack the flank of the Song army, and another 30,000 infantry to attack from the front. In addition, 15,000 cavalry were deployed on standby, and after the infantry cleared the horses and thistles, they directly attacked the Song army's main formation.
Observing Jin Jun's unusual behavior, Song Jun also began to take countermeasures. Erect a horse rejection and spread thistle terrestris on the ramp. Infantrymen, crossbowmen, artillerymen have found the most suitable positions to stand by.
The cavalry had also set off in advance to prepare for the Jurchen cavalry attacking the flank of the Song army.
The Jurchen infantry advanced slowly, and Wanyan Lou sent people to call for battle, and they were extremely insulting to Tang Ning.
After hearing about it, Tang Ning immediately asked the infantry on the left and right to exchange defensive positions, but this scene fell in the eyes of Wan Yan Lou Room, which was precisely a manifestation of Tang Ning's anger by the provoking general.
Then he stepped up his efforts, and Tang Ning also appeared in person to scold back. As a result, he was covered by a round of arrows from the golden man, but fortunately, he had been prepared and retreated unscathed.
Wang Sunsin has been looking for the position of the opposing general, and the strong bow he uses is given by Zhao Xu, the materials are all of the finest, and the effective range has reached a distance of 800 steps that makes people's scalps tingle.
This strong bow is paired with Wang Sunchen, and it is simply a sniper in the era of cold weapons. Whenever he saw a man dressed like a general, he would shoot an arrow at him, and the general would fall off his horse.
However, he was able to get some cheap at first, and after the Jin army found out that the Song army had crossbowmen who specialized in shooting generals, the generals immediately dismounted and changed their clothes, no different from ordinary soldiers.
At a distance of about five hundred paces, a strong crossbow could already be used, so the Song army began to fire a salvo at the Jin army array. The first round was used with gunpowder crossbow arrows, although the Jin army was on guard, but because the coordination was not in place, when you hit me and I hit you when they dispersed, there were still a large number of casualties.
In the second round, the Song army did not use gunpowder crossbow arrows, but the Jin army did not know about it. When he saw the rain of arrows falling, he hurriedly dispersed.
In the next three or four rounds, the Song army did not use gunpowder. This made Wanyan Lou room mistakenly think that the Song army no longer had such weapons, so he ordered to charge.
But the power of the flint cannon and the eight-bull crossbow came into play at this time, and one eight-ox crossbow arrow could string four Jurchen soldiers with undiminished momentum and fell from the sky
The stone bullets made it even more difficult for the Jin army to parry.
But the Jin army that participated in the battle today were all well-equipped soldiers, no more than the slave cannon fodder yesterday, and did not suffer heavy casualties under the destruction of gunpowder, crossbow arrows and stone bullets.
However, the Song army had its own countermeasures, and when the Jin army reached the foot of the hillside in the sky, the Song army began to throw incendiary canisters.
Dressed in iron armor stained with flames, the Jurchen soldiers were no different from the meat in a pot. For a while, the soldiers of the Jin Army screamed and struggled to take off their armor, but their surroundings had turned into a sea of fire.
There was a light snowfall last night, but the melted snow did not extinguish the flames, but instead showed signs of fueling them.
Faced with this abnormal situation, the Jurchen soldiers were terrified. Under these circumstances, the Jin army was quickly defeated.
Wan Yan Lou's face was uncertain, what was he doing lazy? It's been half an hour since the war started here, why hasn't he shown up?
The fact that he didn't show up was not because he was cowardly, nor because he took 20,000 elites as deserters. Lazy and fierce by nature, even if he is alone, he will not hesitate to rush forward in the face of Song Jun.
Unfortunately, he met the Pingxia camp and met Takaki and his ruthless killers.
After being attacked yesterday, Tang Ning asked Gao Shu to lead the Pingxia camp to guard against the back road.
When he chose this location, Downing didn't find that there was a possibility of an enemy behind him. But after all, the Jurchens were familiar with the terrain here, and they found a small path to sneak attack.
Tang Ning thought that the Jurchens had the possibility of another sneak attack, after all, they were the ones who made their fortune by sneak attack. So he sent Gao Shu to ambush on the path, but he didn't expect to wait for the Jin army to sneak attack.
The battle started last night, and the scouts of the Pingxia camp suddenly noticed a large black shadow in front of them, and they did not light the torches while it was night.
So the scout judged that this was a sneak attack sent by the Jin army, and immediately went back to inform Takashu. Gao Shu informed his subordinates again, so he ambushed on both sides of the road in the Pingxia camp, and without the Jin army noticing, he put it until the Jurchen Chinese army reached the middle of the road.
At this time, Gao Shu gave the order to attack, and grenades, incendiary bombs, and gunpowder canisters were thrown on the road. The soldiers of the Pingxia battalion hanging from the trees were also killing the enemy with assault rifles and crossbows.
The fire was blazing, and the Jurchen soldiers fell into a panic. The Pingxia battalion continued to kill and wound the enemy with long-range weapons, and only when the fire was smaller did they rush forward to engage the Jurchen soldiers in hand-to-hand combat.
An hour later, there were few of the 20,000 Jurchen soldiers left. Lazy was unfortunately injured in the eye by the tiles after the explosion of the gunpowder can, and was finally captured by Gao Shusheng.
The rest of the Jurchen soldiers saw that the commander was captured and fled in all directions, but they were all shot and killed by the Pingxia camp one by one, and finally had to surrender.
So this morning, when the Jurchen envoy came to the camp of the Song army, whenever he went deeper, he could see thousands of Jurchen soldiers who had been captured......