Chapter Twenty-Four: The Fierce Battle of the Seven Directions
"Young Master! This thing is called the Jackdaw Arrow, the little one has seen this thing in the book, you can put dozens of ordinary arrows into the barrel bag at a time, and you can launch dozens of arrows together every time, which is very powerful! Bed crossbows are generally equipped with this thing, and you can use this quiver when you need it! Judge, who didn't participate in the test firing of the bed crossbow just now, suddenly said to Gao Huaiyuan.
"Oh? I see! Gao Huaiyuan realized what this thing was, and his heart was suddenly overjoyed, in this way, the power of this thing is almost the same as the machine gun of later generations, it is a large sweep! Great stuff! That's a good thing!
As the war drums of the Jin army resounded over Qifang Town again, the two Jin armies divided into east and west roads, and pressed towards Qifang Town again, with the posture of crushing Qifang Town in one fell swoop.
On a cold day, a group of golden soldiers threw off their shirts and busily prepared ropes, boulders and other things, preparing to use the simple cannons that had just been erected to give a few blows to the walled wall of Qifang Town.
And Gao Huaiyuan and the others have also been carefully watching their actions with their pergolas in hand, repeatedly adjusting the bed crossbows that have been installed, and they have already aimed at the throwing cars of these Jin troops.
When the Jin army built these cannons, they used the crossbow to harass them, and shot some of the golden soldiers who were setting up the throwing car, forcing the Jin soldiers to have to configure a lot of soldiers for these throwing cars, holding a shield to protect the gold soldiers who operated the throwing car.
And as the war drums sounded, Gao Huaiyuan finally gave an order, and the operators of several bed crossbows suddenly knocked the mallets in their hands on the crossbow machine, only to hear a violent rattling sound, several huge hammer arrows buzzed, and flew out of the wall, heading straight for the Jin soldiers' throwing cars.
The giant arrows of the bed crossbow have no tail feathers, relying on the counterweight of the arrow in front to maintain stability, and the hammer arrow relies on the impact force to kill the enemy or destroy the enemy's equipment, when they hang the wind and fall, the golden soldiers are stunned, the shield is under such a thing, it is simply ignored, it is like a fictitious general, a few golden soldiers in front of the car were immediately hit by these round hammer arrows, and the golden soldiers who were hit by the arrow flew upside down on the spot like a short-term paper kite, and fell heavily to the ground, Or directly hit those simple throwing cars, and when they landed, they were already blurred with flesh and blood, and the dead could not die anymore.
And the hammer arrow is still castrated, continue to rush forward, either smashed on the throwing car, or swept over after the imbalance, even if it was swept by the arrow shaft of these giant arrows, no one could stand it, and it was immediately pumped out when it was stained, even if it did not die, it was broken and fractured, and it was almost crippled in this life.
Such a blow immediately made the Jin soldiers guarding the throwing car a mess, they didn't expect that the Song people in the town actually had such sharp defensive weapons, and they were so frightened that they wanted to turn around and flee or dodge, but they were immediately driven back by their officers.
At this time, Gao Huaiyuan ordered his crossbow-wielding subordinates to temporarily focus on these throwing cars, taking advantage of the chaos of the golden soldiers and the collapse of the shield wall, when an order was given, the crossbowmen shot crossbow arrows at the Jin army who threw the cars, and suddenly the crossbow arrows flew wildly, shooting many gold soldiers around the throwing cars.
"Hurry up and reload, keep aiming at them and launch!" Gao Huaiyuan shouted at the villagers who operated the bed crossbow.
And these people did not need his orders, and by this time they had already exerted their strength to feed, and they pulled the wheels with great strength, and with a creak, they wound the bed crossbow again, and placed the big arrows, and began to aim again.
At this time, although the Jin soldiers suffered a blow, there were still a few throwing cars pulled by the Jin soldiers, and with a buzz, the stones were thrown to the wall of Qifang Town, dozens of catties of boulders, under the fierce pull of dozens of Jin soldiers, the long arm of the thrown car was given huge strength, and a whistling sound in the air gradually amplified in the eyes of everyone on the wall.
I only heard a loud rumbling sound, the people on the wall felt a tremor under their feet, the wall was still hit by the flying stones of the Jin Army, the big stone immediately smashed out a deep pit on the rammed earth wall, there were two big stones because the cannon was not accurate, flew over the wall into the town, fell on a house, and the roof of the house collapsed with a bang, which shows that the power of this thing is really not small.
The two armies immediately began to fight, a large number of golden soldiers shouted wildly and rushed towards the direction of the gate of the town, a group of strong men carrying thick logs, roaring and running towards the gate of the town, constantly people were hit by the arrows shot from the wall, but these guys were strong, wearing heavy armor, only a few people were shot to the ground, most of them continued to charge with logs even after being hit by arrows.
A throwing car at this time boom just hit by a hammer arrow, on the spot hula announced the breakup, and its cannon tip was just dragged by the golden soldiers at this time to raise a small half, the cannon scattered, it could not complete the launch, the boulder that was going to shoot to the wall of the wall suddenly lost power, just fell in front of the protection of the throwing car in the golden soldier shield hand, on the spot smashed the two golden soldiers into a pulp.
This is not the end, the long throwing rod was originally dragged by a group of gold soldiers, after losing the focus at this time, it swept out obliquely, and the result was even more terrifying, this long throwing rod just swept over in the crowd of gold soldiers, and seven or eight gold soldiers were swept out at once, and now they were messed up!
The power of the bed crossbow is really considerable, and accurate, every arrow falls, even if it can't be thrown in the middle, most of them are not missed, every arrow can almost take the lives of several gold soldiers, and the gold soldiers wail for a while, after a fierce battle between the two sides, these gold army have a few throwing cars to end their mission, and they were destroyed by the giant arrows of the bed crossbow in the open space outside the town, and those shield hands and operators who suffered heavy casualties immediately scattered like birds and beasts, turned around and ran back into their formation.
In this way, the main general of the Jin soldiers was stunned, he really couldn't figure it out, this group of Song people Xiangyong seemed to have dug a pit for them, in the small Qifang Town, even this terrible bed crossbow was equipped, and he didn't show his head just now, and now when he saw them throwing the car out, he immediately exerted his might and destroyed their throwing car one by one in front of the battle, so it was shameless!
At this time, he also forgot that he was the identity of the invader, scolded the Song people for being shameless, and ordered the death to urge the army to storm Qifang Town.
Soon after Gao Huaiyuan's west gate destroyed the Jin army's throwing carts, Fei Wenlong at the east gate also commanded the bed crossbow at the east gate to kill several throwing cars on the east side of the Jin army, and the Jin army immediately lost heavy fire support, and the attacking Jin troops on both sides were exposed to the firepower of the wall.
After killing the biggest threat of throwing cars, the town is equivalent to keeping the wall that is not good, so the morale of the villagers who are guarding the palace is boosted, and they began to stand on the wall and fight fiercely with the Jin army, all kinds of bows and crossbows are fired alternately, and the arrows are sprinkled into the attacking Jin army, and the archers of the Jin army are immediately changed to color, and people on both sides are constantly being shot to the ground, becoming a group of victims of this battle.
And the advantage can be said that at this time, firmly in the hands of the Song army in the town, they are now fierce, after the bed crossbow is freed up, immediately switch to the flat shovel arrow, towards the Jin army attack queue to shoot, this kind of thing is really powerful, every launch, to set off a burst of bloody rain in the Jin army crowd, the huge flat shovel-shaped arrow with huge force, rushed into the Jin soldier crowd, the middle of the person is not spared, as long as the arrow hits, it will be as if the giant axe was chopped, and was dismembered on the spot, Flesh and blood are flying and miserable.
In front of this kind of thing, manpower is so small, no matter who you are, in front of the giant arrow, everyone is equal, whether you are an official or not, it is a dead word.
A golden soldier was lying on the ground with a severed thigh screaming madly, blood gushing out of his broken leg like a fountain, but no one had time to rescue him, a large number of golden soldiers in the urging of the war drums, against the fierce rain of arrows on the wall, swarming past him, this golden soldier wailed, gradually his face began to turn white, and the voice of the scream gradually weakened, no one rescued him, after being hit hard, he could only watch his blood flow out of the wound like this, and finally there was no sound at all, After a few convulsions, the man turned into a wisp of grievances and drifted away.
Such a scene was constantly repeated on the road of the Jin soldiers' attacks, and every time a giant arrow fell, a clearing would appear in the crowd of the Jin army, and then it would soon be gathered together by the crowd of people.
The battle at the east gate is better to say, after all, the Jin army is attacking from the back here, and because they are facing the west and being disturbed by the sun, they cannot effectively and accurately aim at the defenders on the wall, so the casualties of the defenders around the east gate are not very large, and the pressure is relatively small.
But the situation at the west gate is different, this time the Jin army will be the main target of the attack here, and it should be for the sake of the sun, the crossbowmen on the wall want to achieve accurate aiming, it is very difficult, so they can only use the method of diffuse, intercept the Jin army, and the Jin army can shoot the defenders standing on the wall more accurately, so that the defenders are seriously injured.
This has to admit the vision of the chief general of the Jin army, he made the greatest use of natural advantages, and caused a lot of trouble to Gao Huaiyuan and others, especially the time they chose, it happened to be when the sun was setting, and the dazzling sunlight could not open their eyes, making the counterattack here very difficult.
Xiang Yong is a Xiang Yong in the end, especially since most of them are still new soldiers, and they are a little flustered when they encounter such a situation, if it were not for the encouragement of their officers, it is estimated that as soon as there are casualties, they will collapse immediately.
But when more and more of them were killed and wounded, there was still a serious commotion, and many of them were frightened, and they did not dare to show their heads under the breastwork, and no matter how the officers around them shouted and threatened, they did not dare to stand up, and some even screamed and tried to escape from the wall, and ran into the town to hide, which immediately made their counterattack much weaker.
In desperation, Gao Huaiyuan used thunder again, raised his hand and fired several arrows in succession, shooting several villagers who tried to escape from the wall, and the corpses fell off the wall.
"Those who dare to flee are like these people, since they are afraid of death, then it is better to die first! Stand up for me, if anyone dares to fight like a tiger, they will be your fate! Get up for me! Gao Huaiyuan shouted.
At the same time, he swept the strong bow in his hand one by one over the villagers who were lying under the chest wall and did not dare to show their heads, and those villagers showed a frightened look in their eyes, and they picked up the bow and crossbow again with helplessness, and fired it again at the expense of the arrows of the golden soldiers.
And Gao Huaiyuan had no choice but to redeploy twenty fierce soldiers, handed them over to Jia Qi to lead, and inspected the wall, so that he could execute those cowards who were afraid of war and did not dare to show their heads.
In this way, this commotion was finally suppressed, and the defense line was stabilized again, Gao Huaiyuan secretly wiped a handful of sweat, and fortunately withdrew in time, if they met the Jin army outside the town, they might really be scattered immediately and killed by the Jin army!
Although the Jin army paid a lot of price, it finally attacked the city gate, and the Jin soldiers carrying logs also rushed to the city gate under the cover of other Jin troops.
And once they reached the bottom of the wall, they entered the hunting horns of the bow and crossbow, and thought that they could feel a little more at ease, but then came a shuttle gun like splashing water, flying down from the wall, and poor these golden soldiers, before they had time to be happy, they were hunted by this rain of shuttle guns, and the wailing filled people's eardrums.
However, the Jin soldiers were also beaten at this time, followed by the general of the main general, and the war drums urging them to attack were tight for a while, and running back at this time was probably a stab, so they could only continue to attack.
The golden soldier who carried the log used as a ram was constantly killed by the thrown shuttle gun, but others were driven over, took their place, and carried the log heavily into the west gate of Qifang Town, each impact made the people above feel terrified.
Fortunately, Gao Huaiyuan had the foresight to let Zhou Fatzi block a lot of earth and stone in the doorway, otherwise, the thin gate would have been knocked open by Jin Bing a few times, and even so, the door was quickly cracked, making an ugly squeak.
"Here comes the hot oil!" A few soldiers came up from under the wall with several wooden barrels, each of which was filled with boiling hot oil, and the hot oil that splashed out fell on their hands, and they immediately screamed, but now they could not care about the pain.
The golden soldiers below who were banging on the door, holding their shields, kept retreating, and then rushed forward, some people shouted for them like they were playing for their lives, encouraging them to continue to rush the door, and no one looked up at what the people above the gatehouse were doing, because as long as they looked up, they would be hit by an arrow, and no one wanted to watch themselves be shot to death.
The dense shields blocked the arrows from above, and even the pike guns could no longer play a good killing role, and the guards could only lift stones and smash them downward, but because of the large number of golden soldiers carrying logs, they could not stop them from continuing to hit the door, and the situation became extremely critical at this time.
After seeing the hot oil being transported, Gao Huaiyuan was immediately overjoyed, and shouted to some of the soldiers above the doorway: "Get out of the way!" Pour the boiling oil down! ”
So a few soldiers carrying wooden barrels immediately responded to the sound of pouring the boiling oil in the barrel to the bottom, and suddenly heard a miserable howl under the city gate hole, the shield of the golden soldiers can prevent the arrows and shuttle guns, but it can not stop the boiling oil flowing everywhere, many golden soldiers were on the spot by the boiling oil flowed all over the face, so they were burned to cover their faces and screamed and threw away the logs, and crashed around.
At this time, some soldiers were still unwilling, grabbed the torches that had been prepared, and threw them down, and the hot oil met the sparks, and the result could only be a roar, so the door immediately became a sea of fire, and the logs and a large number of golden soldiers were even set on fire, and one by one the golden soldiers rushed out of the door with a turkey like screams, rolling everywhere.
The log that had lost its human shoulder was also thrown at the city gate with a bang, and the fire licked the surrounding golden soldiers like a poisonous tongue, and immediately completely interrupted their attack on the city gate.
Seeing that the attack on the gate failed, the adjutant general of the Jin army, who was in charge of the attack here, gritted his teeth and gave an order to attack the wall, so the ladders that were more than two people high were sent to the bottom of the wall by the Jin soldiers.
Gao Huaiyuan knew that the most tragic moment of this battle was probably coming, so he shouted loudly to the people who were resisting the Jin soldiers: "Stop them for me, if they let them attack, no one will want to live!" Bring the iron fork! Don't let them put a ladder on top of the wall! Hit me hard! ”
When the Jin soldiers put the ladder on the wall, they used the fork to fork the ladder hard, pushed the ladder away from the wall, and overturned it outside the wall.
Looking at the golden soldiers surging under the wall like ants, many people were really scared at this time, but they all knew that once the golden soldiers broke through the town, then they would all be finished, so even if they were afraid, no one dared to dodge anymore, and frantically started the most violent counterattack against the golden soldiers below.
These villagers are also crazy, as long as they catch something, they will throw something under the wall, and for a while, shuttle guns, rolling logs, and stones rain down like drops......