"Crossbowmen are wound, archers are ready!" Gao Huaiyuan stared at Jin Bing's queue and ordered again.

"Arm up, shoot up!" When Gao Huaiyuan saw that the Jin soldiers had entered the range of the bow and arrow, he immediately ordered.

So the archers who had already prepared raised their arms and pointed into the air, and at the same time opened their bows and released the bowstrings, so a cloud of arrows immediately floated out from the wall, and the sound of swishing filled the ears, and quickly floated to the top of the golden soldiers' heads.

With the sound of fluttering, the number of golden soldiers who were hit by arrows increased significantly this time, and another group of golden soldiers fell to the ground and became the second group of victims of this battle.

"Rush ......," one of the commanders in the Jin army suddenly let out a loud roar.

After hearing the sound, these golden soldiers immediately started running, and they wanted to reach the bottom of the wall as quickly as possible, so as to reduce some losses.

Looking at the golden soldiers who began to run, Gao Huaiyuan shouted sharply: "Keep releasing arrows!" The crossbowman stepped forward, took aim and shot again! ”

As the golden soldiers began to run, their formation began to be a little chaotic, and the protective effect of the shield bearers was reduced a lot again, and many people showed their figures, so they also gave the villagers on the wall a great opportunity, and everyone immediately launched wantonly together.

The arrows fell like rain in the crowd of golden soldiers, many golden soldiers were hit by the arrows, fortunately they had armor protection, otherwise, they were not allowed to lie down, but even so, in the wall of such a fierce baptism of arrows, many golden soldiers were shot through the armor, screaming and fell to the ground, some of the golden soldiers were injured, for fear of being trampled to death by the people behind, struggling to continue to move forward, at this time the front and middle people had no choice at all, they could only blindly rush forward.

At this time, the archers in the Jin soldiers also arrived within the range of the counterattack, stood still, raised the bows in their hands, and began to fire at the Song people on the wall.

As they counterattacked, some of the villagers on the wall began to scream and roll to the ground covering their wounds, announcing the first casualties in this battle.

Gao Huaiyuan commanded the battle, while also joining the ranks of arrows, the strong bow in his hand is like a sniper, specifically picking the centurion and ten-captain officers in the Jin army team, and his archery skills have been tempered for a long time, almost to the point of no failure, and his quiver is filled with the most well-made arrows specially selected, and the arrow clusters are all triangular armor-piercing arrows, almost every arrow falls, to take the life of a golden officer, Even if you can't shoot them, you will leave them seriously injured and fall to the ground.

Gradually, with the increase in the casualties of the Jin soldiers, the Jin soldiers began to be confused, and before their attacking team rushed to the gate of the town with the logs, there was a sound of gold among the Jin soldiers.

After hearing Mingjin, the Jin soldiers immediately turned around and retreated back like a tide, and some of the Jin soldiers also carried the injured comrades on the ground and withdrew together.

"Stop the arrows! Stop firing arrows! Gao Huaiyuan put away his hard bow, and was a little too nervous about those who were nervous, seeing that the golden soldiers had run out of range, the villagers who were still frantically firing arrows shouted, these guys are new soldiers*, inexperienced!

"Jin Bing has retreated! ......" I don't know which recruit* suddenly let out a cheer, and then the nervous recruits also let out a crazy cheer.

And the young officers and veterans looked disdainful and exclaimed, "What is this! It's not a big deal! Calm me down, I'm still going to fight! Hurry up and get ready to carry these wounded brothers down for treatment. ”

Veterans are veterans in the end, compared to new soldiers, they are much calmer, they don't need Gao Huaiyuan's orders, they know what to do next, command their subordinates, carry those wounded subordinates down to the people in the town to take care of and treat, and then continue to prepare to defend against enemy attacks.

This first tentative attack ended in the defeat of the Jin army, and the chief general of the Jin army pointed at Qifang Zhen and said angrily: "These damn village soldiers really dare to fight!" Come on, continue to prepare for the second attack! I don't believe in the little Qifang Town, we can't take it! ”

So the Jin soldiers gathered up and retreated, retreated to the rear and started the whole team again, replaced with a team, and lined up in front of the formation again.

Gao Huaiyuan temporarily handed over the guard here to Huang Yan to be responsible, turned around and walked down the wall, came to the gate, and instructed the county lieutenant Zhou, who was busy here and didn't know what to do: "County Lieutenant Zhou, you quickly take people and get something to block the gate for me, such a gate can't carry the golden soldiers a few times!" ”

"Blocked? If it's blocked, then wouldn't we ...... too" Zhou Fatzi was a little worried that if he was blocked, he wouldn't be able to escape out of the town, so he hesitated and said to Gao Huaiyuan.

"Are you still thinking about escaping? Soldiers like us will be in chaos immediately after we go out, and we will only be sent to death! Without further ado, block the door for me immediately, the stronger the better! Gao Huaiyuan was really too lazy to talk nonsense with this pig-like thing, and shouted at him.

Then he turned around and greeted Jia Qi, who was walking over: "You personally supervise me here, and then send someone to the West Gate to block the door for me, and tell Zhou Hao that if Jin Bing attacks from him, let him hold me up!" ”

"Yes! Little obedience! Jia Qi immediately bowed down and replied, then put his hand on the handle of the knife on his waist, looked at Zhou Fatzi and said with a smile: "Lord Zhou, hurry up!" ”

Zhou Fatzi stomped his feet, and then hurriedly greeted the man helplessly: "You come over for me, immediately demolish these two houses for me, the bricks and stones are blocked in the door hole, and the door will be stubbed to death for me!" Hurry up, you can't get the whip of Lao Tzu? "This girl is a bit of a fox and a tiger.

Gao Huaiyuan caught the head of a heavy battalion again, and instructed him: "You arrange for someone to cook quickly, send the rice directly to the wall, and give it to the brothers to eat, and collect all the oil that can be found here for me to use in a unified manner, and all the lead and tin things in the town are also collected, find a few pots to boil, and pour them on the heads of Jin Bing in a while!" Go ahead and do it! ”

The head of the guy immediately agreed, and quickly ran to arrange, and at this time Gao Huaiyuan was not at ease, thought for a while, and asked the carpenters who used to act as coachmen in the camp to come over, and instructed them: "You still follow the old way, get me a few simple throwing carts, this thing is powerful, by the way, look at the bed crossbows that were pulled with the car this time, and also unload them from the car for me, and get them on the wall, I want to see how powerful this thing is!" ”

The group of coachmen also immediately agreed, and rushed out, Gao Huaiyuan touched his chin, hehe sneered and said secretly, the goods transported this time are really complete, and there are even bed crossbows, it seems that if you fight well, it is really enough for Jin Bing to drink a pot! It's just that this wall is a little short, which makes people worry!

At this time, Gao Huaiyuan heard Huang Yan shouting above the city gate: "Crossbowman prepare, let me go!" ”

Listening to the sound of the crossbow machine in the city, and another tense sound came down the wall, Gao Huaiyuan always felt that he was still not very at ease, knowing that the Jin soldiers had begun to attack again, he turned around and climbed the stairs to the wall.

"I will take over your command, and you will immediately draw out a hundred strong and resolute men in our battalion, all of whom will be clothed in armor, and gather in the town, and I want you to organize a reserve army, and bring people ready to support me at any time, and once the golden soldiers attack any section of the wall, you will lead the troops to defeat them for me!" But remember, don't smoke veterans and our guys! Go for it! Gao Huaiyuan swung his knife and knocked away an arrow aimed at him, and commanded Huang Yan, who was commanding the battle.

Huang Yan agreed, immediately turned around and ran around the wall, and kept pointing at some brave and strong people on the wall, shouting, "You...... You...... You, you follow me! Leave it alone here! Hurry up! ”

Gao Huaiyuan saw that Huang Yan had already prepared the reserve team according to his instructions, so he was a little relieved and turned his attention to the outside of the town.

This time, the number of Jin soldiers sent was obviously more than the first time, and this time their formation was much thicker, and the cooperation between the arms was also tighter, and it was no longer a tentative attack like the first attack.

As they approached, the archers of the two armies had begun to exchange fire, and the arrows shuttled back and forth in the air, and from time to time some villagers would be hit by arrows, which made the villagers on his side begin to panic a little again.

And the infantry of the Jin army was maintaining a dense formation, continuing to advance, the shield in his hand blocked a lot of flying arrows, and the pressure on his side increased: "Don't panic, everyone, we are in a high place, the Jin soldiers can't help us, get up for me and shoot with them!" If you dare to lie down in fear, I will cut you down now! ”

Gao Huaiyuan kicked an archer lying under the battlement and didn't dare to show his head to the ground, and shouted to the nearby villagers.

This guy was obviously frightened, after being kicked over by Gao Huaiyuan, holding his bow, the ghost screamed and rolled on the ground again and again but refused to get up, his cry obviously had affected the other people's battles, Gao Huaiyuan saw that he still refused to get up and release the arrow, and his heart was furious, once there are more such people, fear will spread, and it will soon attract some other timid people to be like him, which will eventually lead to collective collapse, and even cause Xiaoying to perhaps.

Although Gao Huaiyuan had never experienced this situation, he had heard about it from Fan Dutou and others, and he also knew that this kind of person was naturally timid, and he might be an honest and good person, but here, he became a scourge, if he couldn't stop him, this person would probably do something bad!

So he gritted his teeth, secretly said that he couldn't help his brother, and then suddenly pulled out his waist knife, closed his eyes, and swung the knife away, the ghost cry of the archer stopped abruptly, and his head was cut down by Gao Huaiyuan, and the headless corpse shook a few times, and then fell silent.

"Listen to it all, the military order is like a mountain, if anyone dares to fight, this person will be your fate, give me arrows!" Gao Huaiyuan grabbed this person's bloody head and yelled at those villagers.

He slashed down with this knife, definitely different from the mood of slashing at the enemy, to be honest, he was a little unbearable, this person died a little unjustly, after all, he was just a common man who had just put down his hoe, let him suddenly devote himself to this kind of bloody battlefield, fear is inevitable, but Gao Huaiyuan had to do this, if he didn't do this, he would have to kill many people with him, so he had to die.

Gao Huaiyuan grabbed a spear with all his heart, stuck the person's head on the tip of the gun, and then forcefully slammed the gun into the crack in the wall, and lifted the person's head high in the air.

In this way, it really shocked those timid people, and they knew that what Gao Huaiyuan said was really not a joke, he was really good at killing! No wonder the veterans have always instilled in them the idea that the more afraid they are of death on the battlefield, the faster they will die, and it turns out that those who are afraid of death will be killed by their own people! So these people stood up violently, grabbed their bows and arrows with a strange scream, and shot at the Jin army below.

Gao Huaiyuan, as the main general, naturally couldn't stand on the battlements and shoot at the Jin army like a soldier, so he walked back and forth on the city wall, constantly cheering for these villagers and boosting their morale: "First concentrate on shooting those archers of the Jin army!" Then shoot the other golden soldiers! Seeing that the archers of the Jin Army were more accurate in their archery than the archers on his side, which caused a lot of losses to the villagers on the wall, he immediately ordered the villagers to concentrate their firepower to suppress the archers on the other side first.

Under his mobilization, the villagers on the wall immediately shifted their attention to the archers behind the Jin army, and for a time the bows and crossbows were fired together, although the archery was not good, but they instantly surpassed the other party in number, and actually suppressed the counterattack of the Jin army archers, and shot many Jin army archers on the spot and fell to the open space outside the town.

At this time, the Jin soldiers had already approached the wall, and some of them carried a long simple ladder and tried to build it towards the low wall.

"Put down the bolts, pick up the pike, use the pike!" Gao Huaiyuan shouted loudly, grabbed a shuttle gun stacked at the battlement, raised his hand and threw it under the wall, a golden soldier just raised his upper body, and was immediately pierced through the chest by his shuttle gun, and took him to fall down, and was nailed to the ground at once, and the ladder he lifted also fell, and smashed over a few golden soldiers who were caught off guard.

The villagers saw that the shuttle spear was more powerful than the bow and arrow, so they put down the bow and arrow, grabbed the shuttle spear, and threw it downward, this shuttle gun was originally used by the shield soldiers, about two and a half meters long, the front end is a sharp iron spear head, shorter than the spear, there is no kind of red tassel of the spear, which can be used for combat assassination, and can be used as a javelin throwing, the power is naturally needless to say, the quality of a shuttle gun far exceeds the bow and arrow too much, under inertia, the natural lethality is much stronger than the bow and arrow.

The armor of the golden soldier may be able to resist the penetration of the bow and arrow, but in front of the shuttle gun, like paper paste, as long as it is hit, even if it is pierced, it can be said that the middle one will not be spared, and it can take the life of a golden soldier, even if the skin wooden shield in the hands of the golden soldier, it can not resist the piercing of the shuttle gun, and the shuttle gun can still penetrate the wooden shield, and the shield hand can be nailed to death or nailed.

Under the blow of a shuttle gun, the formation of the Jin soldiers was completely disrupted before it could be maintained under the wall, and at the same time it paid heavy casualties, and finally lost its impact, and the remaining Jin soldiers began to retreat back in panic.

In fact, the current elite level of the Jin soldiers is not very good, although they are the regular army of the Jin Army, but the level of training is not necessarily much better, after suffering heavy casualties, these Jin soldiers also began to panic, one after another turned around and fled.

After watching the Jin soldiers retreat again, a cheer sounded in Qifang Town again, and the people in the town were relieved, and they were no longer afraid of the Jin army like a tiger! As a result of the two attacks, the Jin soldiers paid more than 300 people killed, not including the wounded, and the wounded in the city, the total battle losses were only more than 100 people, which angered the Jin army's commander.

"Someone! Prepare siege equipment, I don't believe it, a small Qifang town can actually stop us! The Jin army commander roared angrily.

So the Jin army suspended the attack, began to gather the craftsmen in the army, and began to build some siege equipment on the spot, this time they were ordered to pursue the Song army's baggage team, originally did not put this baggage team in their eyes at all, in the eyes of the Jin army, so many people, it was definitely a matter of hand, the reason why they would send 4,000 soldiers and horses, was because they thought that they might encounter Meng Zongzheng and other Song troops who had recently been active here in this area, thinking that they would be prepared, By the way, it was also convenient to transport such a large number of materials back to the Jin army camp outside Zaoyang City, so when they sent troops, they did not prepare for attacking the fortifications at all.

But it didn't come to pass, after arriving here, he actually bit an iron bump and almost broke his big teeth, and then he thought that he needed some siege equipment to support their attack.

In this way, it was quite a bit of a temporary cramming, and it also greatly provided valuable preparation time for these Song people in Qifang Town.

At this time, Qifang Town finally settled down, and many people showed a relaxed expression, and the panic at the beginning began to gradually subside at this time.

"I say, brothers, fear not! Look at Jin Bing's ability, let's follow Commander Gao, then we will definitely not lose the battle, as long as everyone listens to Commander Gao's orders, that's right! "Some of the veterans began to instill in their recruits* all the tenets of obedience to the high command.

"How good am I still a golden soldier! But that's it! Even Fat Zhou began to relax at this moment, and began to speak unashamedly to those who worked with him.