Chapter 717 0712 [He Zhamengan Was Hit by a Bomb]

The man who led Hezha Meng'an and fought with Wang De in the gap was Wanyan Zonghan's powerful general Qing Qi.

This person has always undertaken arduous tasks. For example, a few years ago, the Jin Kingdom attacked Yanyun, and Liao soldiers were stationed at Gubeikou for defense.

At that time, Po Luhuo and Hunqi each led two hundred horses as vanguards.

Hunqi acted as the main attacker and charged forward with only thirty cavalry, chasing the Liao cavalry all the way into the valley.

There were tens of thousands of Liao cavalry in the valley. After a fierce battle, only five cavalry were killed. Although they were forced to withdraw from the valley, the entrance to the valley was blocked. Tens of thousands of Liao troops did not dare to pursue them, and were completely defeated by the main force of the Jin soldiers who arrived later.

Wanyan Hunqi is nearly 1.8 meters tall, with broad shoulders and a round waist, tall and muscular. Not only was he wearing heavy armor, but he was also carrying a wrought iron rod in his hand. He had killed and injured seven Ming Army Yaksha Camp warriors.

"drink!"

Wanyan Hundui swung out his stick again, and Cao Wu, the deputy general of Yaksha camp, suddenly bumped into him.

Cao Wu held up his shield with his bent arm and hit Hun Qi's left arm hard from the side. The two of them fell to the ground one after another, and fell into the depression between the two large walls.

Cao Wu pressed down on Hundi, held the shield in his left hand and pressed Hundi's chest, supporting his upper body in an attempt to ride and swing the hammer.

Just as Cao Wu was riding, Hunqi rolled violently. Cao Wu couldn't sit still and fell over, subconsciously lying on Hunqi again. In the following time, no matter how Hunqi rolled, Cao Wu adjusted his posture to suppress him.

Soldiers from the two armies nearby came to help, and soon they started fighting.

Wang De charged in the middle of the gap, blocking with a shield with his left arm, and then attacked with his mace with his right hand. These two moves were used over and over again, but they always achieved results. No matter how high Hezha Meng'an's defense was, he would definitely be seriously injured if he was struck a few times with the mace.

Seeing that Wang De was about to break through in the middle, Wanyan Zonghan sent an order: "Let Ba Lisu go up personally!"

Ba Lisu is Yin Shuke's younger brother and a powerful Jin soldier.

None of the more than a thousand Hezha Mengan who participated in the infantry battle rushed forward, and there were only 400 people left in reserve in the rear. As soon as Ba Lisu and his reserve team moved, the Ming army lookouts on Lu Gong's upper level immediately stretched out their flags and waved them wildly.

Only fifty strong men wearing medium armor were seen, with burning match ropes wrapped around their waists.

Behind each strong man is a group of soldiers, all of whom are carrying a basket of thunder.

This kind of thunder is slightly smaller in size, weighing about two and a half kilograms each, and is equipped with a wooden handle for easy holding.

The grenadiers came to the back row of the battlefield. Because their sight was blocked, they couldn't see clearly what was ahead. They all turned and stared at the signal flag of Lu Gong's car. When the signal flag was waved again, the grenadiers immediately lit the fuse and threw thunderbolts with all their strength.

Ba Lisu led the Sibaihe Zhamengan reserve team and slowly moved forward, waiting to support the friendly forces, when he suddenly saw many unknown objects flying from the front.

A thunderbolt even hit Ba Lisu's shoulder, then bounced off and rolled on the ground.

Although Ba Lisu was very curious, he didn't take it seriously and continued to lead the team forward.

"Boom boom boom!"

Of the fifty thunderbolts, except for two that accidentally went out, the remaining forty-eight exploded one after another.

These thunderbolts are less powerful, but many of their explosive armor fragments can pierce heavy armor. What was even more terrifying was the explosion on the ground. Hezha Meng'an, who was close to the thunder, had his legs broken and lost mobility even if his legs were not blown away immediately.

The tibia of his left leg was fractured when he was pulled out, and several shrapnel pierced his legs.

This fierce general of the Jin Kingdom was wearing heavy armor, and he couldn't support himself and fell to the ground on the spot. Just as he was struggling to get up, another fifty thunderbolts flew over.

"Run!"

Hezha Meng'an, who was still able to move, felt as if he had seen a ghost at this moment, and fled from the place where he was, just to get as far away from Zhentian Lei as possible.

Even among the two batches of bombs dropped, a few thunderbolts were not thrown hard enough and fell among the spearmen of the Jin soldiers who were fighting.

The soldiers' backpacks had been put down, and when the grenadiers finished throwing the second batch, the soldiers immediately handed over the third one.

The grenadiers took the thunderbolts, quickly ignited the match ropes around their waists, and threw them out one after another.

Si Baihe Zha Meng'an's reserve team couldn't run fast in the heavy armor, and they were bombed to the point of losing their organization. They scrambled to escape indiscriminately. When the third wave of thunder struck, the survivors were so frightened that they screamed and even abandoned their weapons and ran away.

The first wave of blasts broke the calf of Tuali Su, and the second wave was only hit by shrapnel.

He endured the severe pain, stood up with difficulty, and limped forward.

At this moment, a third wave of sky-shaking thunder flew over, and two landed near him at the same time.

"Boom boom boom!"

This time he finally couldn't stand up. Both of Ba Lisu's legs were broken off by the shock, and there were more than 20 pieces of shrapnel stuck in various parts of his chest, abdomen, arms, legs... Some were blocked by the armor and did not penetrate deep into the flesh, while others penetrated through the gaps and penetrated deep enough to reach the bone.

Wanyan Zonghan stood in a high place to observe the battlefield, and was dumbfounded at this moment.

"Don't retreat, go ahead and fill the gap!" Wanyan Zonghan didn't know how to deal with the thunder. He only knew that if the reserve team didn't go up, the Ming army would inevitably rush into the city through the gap.

Just as Wanyan Zonghan gave the order, the fourth wave of thunder came flying.

Everyone who could escape had already run away. For more than ten steps around the explosion, not a single golden soldier could still stand. Being killed on the spot is considered lucky. The real unlucky ones are those who suffered four explosions but were only injured and not unconscious.

The successive explosions behind them and the wails one after another frightened the golden soldiers who were fighting.

There was also a reserve team of a thousand gold soldiers, who were ordered to come forward to support.

Even Hezhameng'an was killed and wounded and fled. Their morale was extremely low, and they could only charge forward.

"Boom boom boom!"

The fifth wave of thunder bombs was thrown, and after the explosion, the Jin soldiers ran away from the battlefield.

All Wanyan Zonghan could do now was to let the Jin soldiers on both sides of the gap stand on the city wall that had not collapsed and shoot arrows at the Ming soldiers in the back row.

Moreover, they pointed at the grenadiers and shot!

But the Ming musketeers on Lu Gong's car kept shooting at the archers on the top of the city.

The Jin soldiers' reserve was repelled by thunder bombs, but the Ming army's reserve continued to invest, and even had time to pull the wounded back.

As one side gained and the other lost, the balance of victory quickly fell to the Ming army.

As the fight went on, it even became two or three Ming soldiers, working together to besiege one Jin soldier.

Especially those Hezhameng'an, the Ming army directly rushed over. After knocking down the iron cans, some people were responsible for holding them down, some people used blunt weapons to hit their heads, and some people used short blades to wipe their necks.

Some even held short spears upside down and stabbed their eyes with the tip of the spear through the eye holes of the mask.

Wanyan Hunchu was still rolling and fighting with Cao Wu. Both of them had lost their weapons, tearing each other's necks apart and strangling each other's necks with their bare hands.

But Wanyan Hunchu's soldiers were getting fewer and fewer, and Cao Wu's warriors had their hands free. When Wanyan Hunchu showed his head, they hit his helmet with a bone flower, and the huge impact made Hunchu dizzy.

Cao Wu broke free from Wanyan Hunchu's arms and touched the weapon on the ground next to him, which was the iron rod that Hunchu had lost. He was too tired to hit it, so he held the iron rod with both hands, pressed it horizontally on Hunchu's throat, and then knelt on the rod with both knees.

The Ming soldier who had hit Cao Wu's head before was afraid of accidentally hurting him, so he swung his hammer to hit Hun Chu's crotch.

Hun Chu's body gradually stopped moving, and it was unknown whether he died from the hammer hitting his balls or from the iron rod pressing on his throat.

"Kill!"

Wang De knocked down another Hezhameng'an with his mace, and the remaining enemies at the gap finally collapsed.

They lost the support of the follow-up reserve team, and were beaten by the Ming army and suffered heavy casualties. Even Hezhameng'an began to flee.

"Beat the drum!"

"All troops attack!"

Zhang Guangdao stood on the hillside and saw clearly through the telescope, and immediately issued an order for a general attack.

In the two-mile-wide valley, five hundred Ming soldiers formed a team and jogged towards the Guancheng in an orderly manner.

Wang De and Xu Qing, with the Yaksha Battalion that could still fight, were the first to rush through the gap and enter the Guancheng, and the subsequent Ming army infantry followed.

The Ming army grenadiers and musketeers behind them also entered the city one after another.

After entering the city and stabilizing their positions, the Ming army's pikemen, crossbowmen, musketeers, grenadiers and cooks did not immediately chase the enemy, but ran quickly to form a mixed formation.

This is a variation of the mandarin duck formation, used for street fighting and mountain warfare.

Wanyan Zonghan had already followed the horse road, left the city wall and arrived at the street. He quickly mobilized the Jin infantry, lined up in various streets and alleys, and even organized cavalry on the main road, intending to use cavalry to break the Ming army in the narrow streets.

The two nearby horse roads and city walls were also full of Jin infantry.

However, more than ten teams of mixed Ming troops were seen advancing in three directions: east, west and north.

The first battles to break out were on the two horse roads. The Ming army's pikemen lined up and rushed forward, the Ming army's crossbowmen threw forward, the musketeers fired cold shots through the gaps in the formation, the cooks carried backpacks and handed out thunder bombs, and the grenadiers lit the bombs and threw them forward.

The moment the two armies came into contact, the Jin soldiers were stunned.

These were all top elites left by Aguda, and they were first-rate in the Jin Dynasty.

In the past, when facing tens of thousands of Liao soldiers or Song soldiers, they dared to launch a frontal charge with only a few hundred people, and they were often able to win with fewer troops.

Now they don't know how to fight back. They are not afraid of arrows flying overhead, but from time to time they get a few cold guns, and then bombs are thrown into the crowd. When the formation was in chaos, the long spearmen of the Ming army rushed again.

The two horse roads were quickly lost, and the Ming army quickly occupied the horse roads and the city walls, and drove all the Jin soldiers on the top of the city down.

Then they looked down from a high position and threw bombs from the wall into the city wall, causing the Jin soldiers in the city wall to wail and flee. The Ming army soldiers took the opportunity to rush into the city wall and opened the city gate to welcome more friendly troops in.

Wanyan Zonghan was so scared that he sent several teams of infantry to block the streets, and fled with the main force, and even sent people to burn the granary.

Fighting street battles in the city and dealing with this kind of enemy was outrageous no matter how he thought about it. Wanyan Zonghan could not find hope of victory.

He planned to retreat to the open terrain around Xinzhou City and then concentrate his forces to fight the Ming army.