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The other two thousand elite cavalry

They led their warhorses to rest on the spot.

If the attack on the enemy camp does not go smoothly

Their task was to hold off the arriving Jin soldiers.

The squires of those heavy cavalry,

He then mounted his warhorse.

Temporarily converted into light cavalry,

They were sent out to gather intelligence.

Upon discovering the main force of the Jin army, they immediately sounded the alarm.

The soldiers responsible for guarding the Jin camp,

Most of them were garrison troops from Meng County.

They were originally Liao refugees who were settled in Shanxi by Emperor Huizong of Song.

They were irreconcilably opposed to the local Han Chinese in Shanxi.

He once helped Wanyan Zonghan act as an inside agent to seize a city.

In addition, there were two hundred elite Jin Dynasty cavalrymen in the camp.

The direction Yao Pingzhong rushed in,

There were also three hundred Jin Kingdom light cavalry.

They would immediately return to report upon discovering the Ming army.

These five hundred elite cavalry and light cavalry

After they reunited,

They can form ten cavalry combat squads.

Of course, there were also laborers.

"Everyone, take up arms!"

“You’ve already invested,”

"If captured by the Ming army, they will all be executed!"

"Anyone who dares to retreat even a step will be beheaded on the spot!"

The laborers were given makeshift weapons.

They assisted in defending the city with trepidation.

Saba personally led two hundred gold soldiers as a supervisory team and reserve force.

The name Saba

It was extremely common in the Liao and Jin dynasties.

Just like the Chinese names Dazhuang and Tiezhu.

Its original meaning is "swift".

It comes from the Khitan language.

This idiot in front of me,

Full name: Wendusaba

He was the third son of Wuchun, the leader of the Jurchen Wendu tribe.

"The Ming army is climbing the mountain,"

"You shall each send four hundred soldiers,"

"Go and defend the two slopes!"

Wendusa said to Zhang He, a general of the Han Dynasty.

"Yes!"

Zhang He was also a Han Chinese refugee from the Liao Dynasty.

Because he acted as an inside agent to help Wanyan Zonghan capture the city,

He was promoted to general and stationed in Meng County.

This camp in the valley was only set up yesterday afternoon.

There were no trenches or walls.

Only wooden fences were erected.

They also scattered a lot of barbed wire outside.

One thousand heavy cavalry.

A four-meter-long lance was erected.

They walked slowly towards the Jin camp.

Five hundred vanguard soldiers followed closely behind.

There were one thousand elite Ming cavalry on each side.

They abandoned their horses, climbed the hillside, and charged towards the enemy camp.

"Don't shoot those heavily armored soldiers, shooting arrows is useless!" Wendusaba shouted.

Arrows continued to strike the heavy cavalry.

The clanging and banging were bounced away.

Even those that could be inserted into armor were few and far between.

Chen Ziyi stood outside the stockade directing the battle.

Although he only led five thousand cavalry.

However, his military rank was extremely high.

After all, he commanded the only heavy cavalry force in the Ming Dynasty.

Faced with this thousand heavily armed men,

As they slowly moved forward...

The defending troops were clearly panicked.

Arrows are completely ineffective!

"put!"

The Ming Dynasty's elite cavalry, abandoning their horses and climbing the mountain on both sides,

They are already firing arrows at the enemy camp.

The armor coverage rate of the garrison in Meng County was very low.

The laborers assisting in the defense were dressed in simple cloth.

After a volley of arrows,

The laborers have begun to flee.

More than twenty men were killed on the spot by the Jin soldiers' supervisory team.

The others cried out and turned back to defend.

The Jin soldiers also began to shoot arrows.

They stopped firing at heavy cavalry.

They then turned and fired at the cavalrymen on both sides of the hillside.

The heavy cavalry carefully moved to avoid the barbed wire.

Inevitably, some unlucky souls will step on it.

There were wounded soldiers, too.

The wooden fence near the enemy camp.

The four-meter-long lance, which was originally standing upright,

They fell forward one after another.

The top of the wooden fence,

While exchanging blows with the enemy diagonally above,

It continued to accelerate forward.

Chapter 228 Positional Warfare

Immediately afterwards, he discarded the spear.

Charging forward despite the enemy's weapons.

People and heavy armor

It crashed violently into the wooden fence.

The wooden fence has two sections, front and back.

The interval is about half a meter.

The middle was filled with loess blocks.

The two wooden fences were not only inserted into the ground,

They were also tied together with ropes to secure them.

That is, two wooden fences and many clods of yellow earth.

They formed a wall more than half a meter thick.

One night plus half a day,

The Jin soldiers were able to construct such defensive fortifications.

Its speed is already very fast.

Behind the wooden fence

There was also a low wall made of loess blocks.

The Jin soldiers stood on the low wall, defending from a high vantage point.

"boom!"

The heavy cavalry charged violently against the stockade wall.

One person hitting the target would definitely not have much effect.

But nearly a thousand metal cans rammed into each other.

The power and momentum were astonishing.

A half-meter-thick earthen and timber structure fortress wall.

Further back, there were low walls erected by the defending troops for reinforcement.

The impact of the thousand heavily armored soldiers caused it to sway slightly!

It was just filled with clods of loess.

It wasn't compacted properly.

It contains a lot of gaps in the middle.

If it crashes a few more times, it'll probably fall over.

The gate of the stockade is the most vulnerable point.