Poor Family Chapter 1030

  Chapter 1030 Night Battle Golden Soldier

Early the next morning, the army continued to march, and the Song army never encountered a small group of Jin soldiers on the backward march. Seven days later, the 100,000 troops arrived on a grassland about eighty miles away from Datong City. It is dozens of miles wide, and the Datong Water flows slowly through the grassland. Liu Kai immediately ordered to set up a camp here.

  The 20,000 Song army quickly cut down a forest ten miles away, and used a large amount of wood as a barracks. Soon they set up a barracks-style barracks covering an area of ​​about 1,000 acres, and built a sentry tower every fifty steps.

  The reason why Liu Kai started to build the barracks eighty miles away is an effective strategy to deal with the Jurchen cavalry, called step by step, and the barracks are constantly moving forward, so that the Jurchen cavalry will always face the Song army's barracks.

   At the third watch, the 100,000 troops set out again. After marching for 30 miles, they set up camp in the wilderness about 50 miles away from Datong City.

  At the third watch of the next day, the 100,000 troops set out again, and at the fourth watch, set up camp again. This time the Song army only traveled ten miles, and set up camp about forty miles away from Datong City.

  Liu Tie hurried to his brother's big tent early in the morning, he cupped his fists and saluted, "See Du Tong for humble posts!"

  Liu Kai smiled and waved to his brother, "Come here, I have a task for you."

  Liu Tie stepped forward, "Does brother think that Jin Bing will come today?"

  Liu Kai smiled and said: "I hope they don't come, let me fight a city siege and another street fight to wipe out the 20,000 cavalry, but I guess they will come today."

   "What task did my brother give me?"

   "I will give you 10,000 cavalry, and you will lead the army to the north of Datong City. Once the main force of the Jin soldiers comes out of the city to attack the Song Army camp, you will directly attack the city for me."

   "Brother, do you want me to blast the city gate with a thunderbolt?"

  Liu Kai nodded, "The spies have already found out that the north gate of Datong Mansion is an old wooden gate, and there is no suspension bridge. I will give you this opportunity to make meritorious deeds. Whether you can be restored to your original post depends on your performance."

   "Follow the order!"

  Liu Tie was overjoyed, he finally had the opportunity to make meritorious service and atone for his crime.

He led 10,000 cavalry to the south for 30 miles, then turned around and headed north, and rushed to the north of Datong City. To the north of Datong City.

Wanyan Chaci is a veteran of over forty years old. He is the younger brother of Wanyan Aguda, the great ancestor of the Jin Kingdom. He also made great achievements in the battle of destroying the Liao Dynasty. During the internal power struggle, he was hated by Wu Qimai because he firmly opposed Wu Qimai's ascension to the throne, and was gradually marginalized.

It sounds good, he is one of the princes, but in fact he is far away from the political center and the two hot spots of war in the Song Dynasty and Mobei, so he has no chance to make meritorious deeds. Jin Guo, he gradually fell.

Of course, Wanyan Chaci also knew the news of the 100,000 Song Army's Northern Expedition to Datong Mansion. His spies had been watching this army go north. He originally wanted to force the Song Army to withdraw by sneak attacking the logistics and food, but he didn't expect him to The powerful general Pucha Shisu sent finally failed, and more than a thousand people were wiped out, which really disappointed him.

   Wanyan Chaci stood on the top of the city and looked south. He just got the news that the Song army marched ten miles north again last night and set up a camp, only forty miles away from Datong City.

Wanyancha was really in a dilemma. Should he send troops or not? Sending fewer troops would be useless. If he sent more troops, he was afraid that the city would be lost. He now only has 19,000 troops, and it is difficult to dispatch troops. The opponent has 100,000 troops. Army!

   But if you don't send troops, once the opponent's soldiers approach the city, they will start to fight against you. What's the point of your own cavalry?

  Deputy General Duo Li Shui suggested: "Obviously the enemy army will not stop at thirty miles away, and will definitely approach the city. The opponent sets out at three o'clock at night. Why don't we launch an attack at this time, and the enemy army will be caught off guard."

   After thinking for a long time, Wanyan Chacai finally decided to send troops to attack the Song Army camp, and if the attack was unfavorable, he would withdraw the troops immediately.

  Before three o'clock at night, he left the general Duo Li and led an army of 2,000 troops to defend Datong City, while he himself led 17,000 cavalry to gallop out of the city to kill the Song Army camp 40 miles away.

As soon as the Jin soldiers rushed out of Datong City, they were immediately discovered by Song Army scouts. Urgent report.

The Jin soldiers were extremely fast, and when they were still 20 miles away from the Song Army camp, they were discovered by the sentries on the sentry tower. In the clear night sky, a large cloud suddenly rose up, completely covering the night sky in the north, and the earth was rumbling. Long echoed, and the sentinel immediately judged that it was either a sandstorm coming, or the golden soldiers were killed.

'when! when! when! '

  The alarm bell rang quickly, and the Song army, which had already been ready, began to run in formation, each rushing to their own combat positions. Among them, 30,000 crossbowmen were deployed in front of the barracks, ready to meet the Jin soldiers' attack on the camp.

Liu Kai has very rich combat experience. He knows that thirty miles is an important psychological defense line for the cavalry. Once it breaks through thirty miles, it will seriously affect the psychological advantage of the cavalry. Therefore, he judged that Wanyan Chaci would no longer tolerate him continuing to approach the city wall. , if he didn't have the determination to defend the city and not fight, then he would definitely come to make a surprise attack when the Song army moved tonight.

  The time has passed the third watch, and Liu Kai still stands still, waiting for the Jin Bing to kill him.

At this time, the ground was trembling, and the Song army had put away the big tents and stood in line in the wilderness inside the camp. The tall barracks became the Song army's protective wall. 9,000 crossbow troops were dispatched, and 7,000 troops were deployed on each of the other three sides. The soldiers on the sentry towers were all withdrawn. Everything was ready, and the camp was silent, waiting for the arrival of the big battle.

When the 17,000 cavalry were three miles away from the northern camp, two branches suddenly split up, each with 3,000 cavalry to attack the Song army's east and west camps, and the remaining 10,000 cavalry were still staring at the northern camp, but Their speed slowed down significantly, and finally stopped about 200 steps away from the camp, while the first two thousand cavalry accelerated and rushed straight to the gate of the barracks. They would directly open the gate and enter the camp.

   Liu Kai cursed secretly, this Wanyancha assassin was not stupid, knowing that he was prepared, he only sent two thousand people to test the attack.

   All he could do was yell, "Get ready to shoot!"

  The 9,000 divine arm crossbows were raised swiftly, aiming at the 2,000 cavalry who were getting closer and closer. Although there were only 2,000 cavalry, they were coming fiercely, and they still had the momentum of thousands of galloping horses.

   "Shoot!"

When the enemy army entered 150 paces, Liu Kai gave the order to shoot, and the sound of clappers sounded. First, three thousand arrows from the first row were shot at the overwhelming cavalry. The arrows were like rain. Hundreds of people fell off their horses with arrows, but the cavalry behind them still galloped swiftly, unaffected by the fallen soldiers. At this point in the war, they had no other way out except to fight to the death.

After the first row of 3,000 soldiers finished shooting, they immediately retreated to load their arrows. The second row of 3,000 crossbowmen stepped forward and fired, and the 3,000 arrows shot at the enemy army densely. The platoon of 9,000 soldiers rotated like a revolving lantern, and arrows shot at the 2,000 cavalry one after another like a storm.

  After only two rounds of six shots, the two thousand cavalry finally disintegrated completely, stopping at sixty paces, and the remaining hundreds of cavalry turned around and fled in panic.

  At this time, the Jin soldiers on the east and west sides were also beaten to pieces by the strong bows and crossbows of the Song army, leaving more than a thousand corpses, and fled back in embarrassment.

  The main force of the Jin soldiers also retreated quickly, but they did not go far. Instead, they stared at three hundred steps away, looking for loopholes in the Song army camp, like a pack of unwilling wolves, always patrolling around their prey.

  Wanyan Chaci is really not reconciled. His current strength has dropped from 17,000 to 14,000, but he hasn't even captured the Song Army's hair. How can he retreat so easily?

  At this time, a large section of the barracks in the north suddenly fell forward, as wide as a hundred feet wide, revealing the dark interior of the barracks.

The sudden flaw was exposed in front of Wanyan Chaci, which made him excited and puzzled. He suspected that there was a hook hidden in it, but when he looked closely, it didn't look like Song Jun deliberately pulled it down, but it looked like loose soil and fell down. Suspecting that it was the result of Song Jun's hasty camping, Wanyan Cha stabbed his heart wildly, he couldn't resist this huge temptation.

  He turned his head and shouted: "The fifth battalion, the sixth battalion, and the seventh battalion will kill me!"

   "Woo——"

The low-pitched horn blew, and three thousand cavalrymen suddenly mobilized, galloping with iron hooves, rushing towards the Song army camp like a flash flood, and they were still greeted by dense arrows like a storm. The Jurchen cavalry kept screaming and fell down, but Gradually approaching the Song Army camp.

  Liu Kai sneered, "Light me up!"

At this time, countless rockets soared into the sky and shot at the densely packed enemy army, but their target was not the enemy army, but the ground. The kerosene on the ground was ignited immediately, burning rapidly, spreading extremely rapidly, and the horses neighed one after another. Terrified, the soldiers of the Song Army stopped shooting and fell to the ground one after another.

  Wanyan Chaci suddenly realized that the Song army had deployed a trap in front of the barracks, and he fell for it. He hurriedly ordered: "Hurry up and withdraw the troops!"

But it was too late. Dozens of thunderbolts buried in the ground exploded one after another. Running around.

  When the gunpowder smoke cleared, the ground was full of corpses of people and horses, and the horses whose legs had been blown up tried to get up desperately. The undead soldiers lay moaning in a pool of blood, as if they were in hell.

  Three thousand cavalry were shot to death and more than two thousand people were killed. Only the seven hundred or so people behind escaped by chance, they turned their horses and fled, and the wilderness was full of frightened horses galloping wildly.

  Liu Kai suddenly realized the opportunity of the battle, and he immediately ordered: "Twenty thousand cavalry attack!"

  The gate of the camp opened, and 20,000 cavalry galloped out. Under Liu Kai's personal leadership, they rushed out of the camp, chasing and killing the fleeing enemy.

At the same moment when the enemy army began to attack the Song army camp, 10,000 cavalry led by Liu Tie quietly appeared one mile north of Datong City. into the city.

  At this time, three soldiers were holding a huge blasting thunderbolt and approached the city gate. They moved quickly, sometimes crawling, sometimes bending over and running, and gradually approached the city gate.

  The defenders on the top of the city are very vigilant, but most of the soldiers are deployed in the south city, and there are only two hundred soldiers in the north city. In addition to the soldiers on guard, there are also two patrol teams patrolling back and forth at the top of the city.

At this time, the three soldiers were only twenty steps away from the city gate. They were about to get up and run towards the city gate when they were suddenly spotted by the sentry on the top of the city. running.

Seeing that the situation was critical, the three soldiers of the Song Army immediately tossed the torch and lit the matchlock. One soldier rushed towards the gate of the city with Zhentianlei in his arms. The soldiers at the top of the city fired arrows one after another. He fell headfirst to the ground. At this time, Zhentianlei's fire rope had already burned into the thunder body, but it was still ten steps away from the city gate. Another Song soldier rushed up, picked up Zhentianlei and threw it towards the city gate with all his might.

The moment Zhentianlei hit the city gate, a dazzling red light shot out, and Zhentianlei exploded. The soldier of the Song Army was unable to catch the ground, and was thrown dozens of steps away by the powerful shock wave, and died tragically on the spot. , and the third Song Army soldier was also shaken to pieces, and died twenty steps away from the city gate.

The three soldiers of the Song Army paid the price with their lives, but the north gate of Datong City was blown to pieces. The two-foot-high gate was blown to only a few feet wide edge, and a big hole appeared in the middle. It is one foot five feet high and one foot wide, revealing the dark inside of the city.

   Liu Tie shouted, "Go to the city!"

   Ten thousand cavalry galloped on their horses and charged towards the city of Datong.

  (end of this chapter)

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