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Volume 1: Saving the Three Thousand Beauties in the Harem Chapter 425: Rain War (Part 1)

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    If you stand on the highest peak of Qipan Mountain and look northeast, you will see a magnificent siege scene.

    On the vast fertile plain, four square steel fortresses are located in four directions, blocking the passages and tightly suppressing a hastily built fortress in the middle, leaving no escape.

    The four steel cities are the 1st Mixed Brigade, 2nd Mixed Brigade, 3rd Mixed Brigade and 5th Mixed Brigade of the Eastern Front Army. They are all standard brigade-level car cities.  Thousands of gold soldiers were surrounded in this narrow area of ??less than three square kilometers.

    Wanyan Ang led the few elites left in the Jin Kingdom, and they were also raw soldiers, so the proportion of regular soldiers was quite high, reaching as many as three thousand.  Among the two thousand auxiliary soldiers, at least half are young men who have undergone rough training and can fight with weapons when necessary.  In other words, the field strength of this Jin army reached four thousand.

    And the strength of any of the four mixed brigades surrounding the Jin Army is no less than that of Wanyan Ang's available troops. No matter where Wanyan Ang wants to break out, the blow he will face will be the same intensity.

    On the day of the siege, Wan Yanang tried to send a hundred cavalry to break out of the siege in the northwest - the northwest was Pingguo City, the seat of Xianping Prefecture. In the current situation, Shenzhou was impossible to get to, and the east was deserted.  Either return to Beijing, or go north to Xianpingfu and join forces with the Jin general Hu Shihai to defend the city.

    There is no doubt that going to Xianpingfu is the best choice.  Not only because Pingguo is only more than a hundred miles away, it is very close, but also because there are eight thousand golden soldiers in Pingguo city at this time.  It is also guarded by veteran Hu Shihai.  As long as the two armies join forces and the military strength increases significantly, Xianping Mansion will surely become a big nail in the way of the Tianzhu Army's Northern Expedition.

    The direction of the Jin army's breakout was also planned by Di Lie, so he deployed brigades in the west and north.  It's Yang Zaixing's brigade and Zhang Rui's brigade.  These two generals, one is brave and the other is ruthless, and the soldiers under their command have also inherited the characteristics of the two generals well, with a brave and ruthless fighting style.

    Wan Yanang¡¯s elite hundred cavalry soldiers just tried to rush between the two chariot cities.  Then they were intercepted by a hundred-man light cavalry.  When the two sides approached eighty paces, the golden soldiers' bows were not drawn, and thirty cavalry suddenly rushed out from the opposite side, raising their guns and shooting.

    Bang bang bang!  More than ten golden soldiers fell off their horses at the sound, and the horses stamped their hooves in panic and jumped around wildly.

    Shoot at eighty steps!  The hit rate is so high!  This completely subverted Jin Bing's previous understanding of Tianchu Army's guns.  When the opponent's second round of shooting is about to begin.  The Jin soldiers scattered in panic and ran two hundred steps away in one breath, finally out of the terrifying range of their opponents.  The seventy or eighty-year-old golden cavalry didn't have time to breathe a sigh of relief, but they heard the sound of rocks falling to the ground. They looked around in shock, only to find that the ground under their feet was filled with iron balls with green smoke

    "Thunderbolt!" The knowledgeable Jin Bing howled in despair.

    With puffs of green smoke rising, the two armies stood in front of the formation.  There are all hurried figures of golden soldiers running like wolves and wolves.

    The ones blocking the Jin Army's cavalry are the hunters, and the thirty cavalrymen are the sharpest edge among the hunters - the sniper team.

    Under the long-distance attack of the sniper team, the Golden Cavalry retreated hastily. As a result, they accidentally crossed the cordon and retreated to a hundred steps away from the second mixed carriage city.  How could Zhang Rui be so polite? With one order, twenty missiles were sent out and one "goddess scattered flowers".  In the end, less than half of the Hundred Cavalry Golden Soldiers escaped.  There were less than half of the golden soldiers, and many were injured.  After escaping back to the camp, their injuries became critical, or their limbs were lost, and the elite became a liability.

    The result of the first test made Wanyan Ang terrified.  Realizing that there was no other way but to break out of the encirclement in one go.  What confused him was that the encircling Tenchu ??army had such an obvious advantage, so why didn't they launch a joint attack and besiege their own army?

    "When Yan Ang will be surrounded and annihilated, it depends on when Liang Xing sends a message." Di Lie said to the generals in the first brigade's Chinese army tent.

    The four generals, Yang Zaixing, Zhang Rui, Yang Zhechong, and Fang Hong (the commander of the fifth brigade), gave each other a knowing look.

    Di Lie led a force three times that of the enemy and surrounded Wan Yanang with absolute superiority. Of course, it was not just for the sake of the five thousand enemy troops. His purpose was to capture one of them, take one with him, and encircle the enemy for reinforcements.

    The strength distribution of the Eastern Front Army at this time is as follows: Tianbo Division Han Shizhong's troops guard Liaoyang to suppress the enemies of Xianping Prefecture; Tianbo Division Zhang Rong's troops stationed troops under Shenzhou City to monitor the enemies of Shenzhou; He Yuanqing organized two brigades and a hunting battalion of the Second Reorganized Division  The first one set up an ambush circle on the only way between Pingguo and Shenzhou, and the target was Hu Shihai's five thousand gold army in Xianping Prefecture.

    Hu Shihai was a veteran general in the early days of the Jin Kingdom. He had similar qualifications to important ministers such as Wanyan Zonghan and Wanyan Xiyin. He was brave and good at fighting and was famous in the military.  However, because he was not a Jurchen but a Bohai native, he slowly faded out of the military after the founding of the Jin Kingdom.  If it weren't for the murderous nature of the Tianzhu Army,?, one famous general of the Jin Kingdom was killed one after another, so that the Jin army had only a few generals, and it would not be enough, and it would not be possible to recruit this veteran who was in his fifties.

    September has arrived, and the autumn wind is getting colder. Di Lie does not want to fight a grueling offensive and defensive battle with such a veteran general and an army of nearly ten thousand gold.  Using Wanyan'ang as bait, he fished out Hu Shihai and wiped him out in one fell swoop on the plains.  If these two Jin reinforcements can be successfully surrounded and annihilated, Xianping Prefecture will collapse without a fight.

    This world is so strange: the Jin Army fought with the Song Army and tried every means to fight in the field, but the Song Army refused to do anything; the Jin Army fought with the Tianzhu Army and tried every means to defend the city, but the Tianzhu Army also refused to agree.

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    Now the first step of encircling the point and calling for reinforcements has been completed. Wanyan Ang was clamped tightly by the four main brigades and pinned under the Qipan Mountain, unable to move. It was just a matter of fingers to pack it up. The key lies in the second step - calling for reinforcements.  , can it be successfully achieved?

    Will Hu Shihai come?  This was the core of Di Lie's discussion with the generals. After some discussion, it was decided that before the tenth day of September, if Hu Shihai really did not send troops to rescue, the "bait" would be crushed.

    After deliberation, the generals dispersed.

    Di Lie stepped out of the camp, only to see dark clouds rolling in the sky, the autumn wind blowing strong, the grass and trees lying down, and the flags and subordinates hunting.

    "The autumn wind and autumn rain make people sad, this is what the poet feels, but Di Lie witnessed this scene.  A heart is sinking.

    This rain came at the wrong time!

    On the second day of September, it rained heavily, and at the foot of Qipan Mountain, Chengze Country was all over.

    "Timely rain! Timely rain!"

    In front of the main tent of the Jin Army.  Wan Yanang, who was thirty years old and in his prime, almost regardless of his image, ran into the wind and rain, raised his arms to the sky and screamed: "The gods have appeared! The Jurchens are immortal!"

    What is the weapon that the Tianzhu Army relies on to kill the enemy?  firearm!  What are you most afraid of about firearms?  Nature is water.  The storm was so violent that the explosive packs could not be used.  Thunderbolt bullets are ineffective, missile launchers are useless, and musketsmaybe barely usable in tanks, but if they only have musketsthis is the golden army's opportunity.

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    Di Lie stood on the watchtower, his eyes filled with mist, and the rain on the eaves was like a waterfall.  It was blown into a curtain of water by the strong wind, and the water vapor hit the face, making the body wet.  His camouflage uniform was already soaked through, and the raincoat on his body had long been thrown off. Although his whole body was cold, his blood was boiling.

    A fight in the rain.  On the verge of breaking out.

    God has done Jin Jun a big favor. How could a person like Wan Yanang let go of such a God-given opportunity?

    Since ancient times, the two armies rarely choose to fight on rainy days, because this has a great impact on the formation and use of weapons of the soldiers on both sides of the war, especially on the northern foreign troops who mainly rely on cavalry and archery.  Rain will soften the bow string, soften the swim bladder glue, and deform the bow arms. If used forcefully, a good bow will soon become useless; similarly.  The arrow's wings are stained with water and sticky, which greatly reduces the accuracy. Not to mention that the arrow will be blown by wind and rain during flight, greatly reducing its power.  There is not much lethality left.

    The above is the impact on bows and arrows, but the real impact is on horses.  The muddy and soft grass will create a pit when you step on it, which will cause great damage to the hooves of a rapidly galloping war horse. It can easily cause the horse to stumble or even break the horse's foot

    Wanyanang is not unaware of these disadvantages, but he would rather give up the Jurchens' advantage in riding and shooting. As long as his opponent also gives up the advantage in firearms, they can use their strength and courage to fight it out.

    This was the only chance to break out, and Wan Yanang took it all.  He gathered two thousand soldiers, gave up horses, bows and arrows, armed with swords, axes, guns and sticks, pushed a oar car modified from a grain and fodder vehicle, and launched a decisive battle against the enemy city entrenched in the due north.

    Checheng to the north is where Yang Zaixing's first brigade is located, and where Di Lie's Chinese Army is located.

    The two-thousand-gold army, without any armor or armor, naked to the waist, holding licenses, let the heavy rain pour down on their faces, making mud crackling under their feet, pushing hundreds of crudely modified oars, and pounced fiercely on the first brigade.  .

    The person charging at the front of the team was Saba, the former Heza captain of Wanyan Zongfu.

    Sa Ba was imprisoned for the crime of betraying his coach, but he was released after being imprisoned for a few months.  Now the Kingdom of Jin is in short supply of Jurchens, especially Jurchen warriors like Saba. When the country is in crisis, serious crimes should be punished lightly, and everything should focus on the overall situation.

    Currently, Sa Ba has been promoted to Meng'an Bojin like a rocket when the Jin Kingdom's middle-level generals are in extremely short supply. He wants to lead this elite Jin army to carve out a path of blood and survival.

    More than half of the Jin army's strength has not yet moved, and the four encircled chariot cities cannot move either, lest they be taken advantage of by the Jin army.

    The First Mixed Brigade will face the most severe test since its formation.

    If it weren¡¯t for this damn heavy rain and all weapons could be used normally, wouldn¡¯t it be possible?There are only two thousand people. Even if the five thousand gold army is fully pressed, the first brigade is sure to defeat the enemy.  But now, I can only watch the Jin Army getting closer and closer

    The war drums have not sounded, the orders have not been issued, and the city of Checheng is silent.

    A primary school student hurried through the rain curtain, rushed to the watchtower, and loudly reported: "Military Commander, everything is ready."

    Yang Zaixing took a step forward and saluted Di Lie: "Military Commander, the last general has left."

    Di Lie looked back at Yang Zaixing, who had changed into a soft chain mail armor, and nodded heavily: "Remember, you must control the heat!"

    "You will finally understand." Yang Zaixing held a sword on his hip and whistled to his personal guards, and a group of more than ten people rushed into the torrential rain.

    With the heavy rain, the long-range firepower advantage of the Tenchu ??Army was gone. The musketeers squatting in the tanks would not help, so they all withdrew to the second defense layer-Zicheng.  Behind the defensive circle formed by transport vehicles, the engineers urgently built a row of temporary wooden sheds. The scaffolds were made of wooden pillars, and the roofs of the sheds were equipped with spare baffles from combat vehicles. People inside could barely hide from the rain.  However, this is not used to hide from the rain, but to provide a sheltered space for the musketeers to shoot.

    The heavily armored spearmen and sword soldiers still stood behind the chariot as the first line of defense against the golden soldiers.

    The rain kept beating on the armor, washing the dust-stained armor until it was shiny, and the light could be used to identify people - but this was just a show of glory, but in fact the heavy armored soldiers were complaining in their hearts.  Because the armor on their bodies was getting heavier and heavier, and the cowhide armor lining was soaked in water for a long time and was shrinking, causing pain to the body.

    No soldier dared to move, because their division commander, Yang Zaixing, was holding a big gun and standing at the forefront with them.

    Outside the city, the rumbling footsteps were getting closer and closer, and then only loud shouts and a loud crashing sound were heard. It sounded like the Jin soldiers knocked away the horses in front of the chariot city and pushed them into the ditch.  Voice.

    Then, the figure of the first Jin Bing appeared on the roof of the car.  Subsequently, more and more Jin soldiers stepped on the oars and jumped onto the chariot city.

    There is no need for orders, the enemy just gives orders.

    The gunfire exploded and penetrated the rain curtain, marking the beginning of the bloody battle on Qipan Mountain.  (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to come to Qidian to vote for recommendations and monthly votes. Your support is my biggest motivation. Mobile phone users please go to m. to read.)
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