The entire city of Lin'an City is in the shape of a long strip, long from north to south and narrow from east to west.
So there is only the south city and the north city, but there is no distinction between east city and west city.
Yue Fei's Chongming Army was advancing southward along this imperial road that ran through the north and south of the city.
The end of this road was the Da Nei Palace where Zhao Gou lived.
When they reached Chaotian Gate, they had already wiped out several patrols along the way.
Soldiers of the Song Army.
Although almost all of these patrolling Song soldiers were annihilated silently in an instant, the imperial troops stationed in the city finally noticed it.
A few Song soldiers who were lucky enough to escape spread the news of the attack on Lin'an City, and the imperial guards on duty who were on night patrol or setting up sentries in every corner of the southern city quickly gathered towards the Imperial Street.
Not long after, a large number of Song soldiers gathered behind Chaotian Gate, nearly a thousand of them.
These were almost all the soldiers patrolling and guarding Lin'an City that night.
Chaotianmen is not a city gate, but a gate on Imperial Street.
After passing this gate, on the right are the government offices of the three provinces and six departments of the Southern Song Dynasty, and on the left are the residences of the court officials.
The lights behind Chaotian Gate were brightly lit, and a large number of Song soldiers holding torches and lanterns gathered together in a chaotic manner.
Their generals inquired about each other's situation before these Song soldiers formed a formation.
Fifty long archers from the Chongming Army fired a volley of arrows from a distance of more than 200 steps, and dozens of strong arrows and heavy arrows roared towards them.
With the sound of breaking bones and flesh, groups of Song soldiers were shot through the bodies with heavy arrows.
These Song soldiers belonged to the Forbidden Army and were much better equipped than the Xiang Army.
But that is, the body is equipped with multiple armor-style vests, without shoulder armor, arm armor, and greaves.
There is still a Fanyang felt hat on the head.
They were naturally killed in large numbers under heavy arrow sniper fire.
The Song Army's crossbowmen immediately counterattacked, and the range of their crossbows was almost the same as the range of the opponent's longbow.
It turns out that these Forbidden Army crossbowmen use the Divine Arm Crossbow, which is said to be able to penetrate the cloud-splitting city Note 1.
Although the hit rate of the powerful arrows they fired is not at the same level as that of the longbowmen, the rate of fire is also much slower than the latter.
But there are many people and dense arrows.
In an instant, many long archers were hit by arrows, and the back-wei guards at the rear stepped forward with their shields to build a shield wall in front of the long archers, covering most of their bodies.
The heavy arrows fired by the divine arm crossbow crackled on the shield, and the Chongming army was unable to move forward for a moment.
"Come in, change your arrows," the centurion commanding the long archers shouted loudly.
The archers advanced under the cover of the shield wall and drew out a black arrow with a strange shape.
The arrow cluster was not sharp like ordinary arrow clusters, but a cylindrical shape with a bulge at the top.
This thing was obviously neither an armor-piercing arrow nor a long-range arrow.
When the shield wall advanced to a point where the two armies were about fifty battles apart, the centurion shouted: "Fire the arrows."
Nearly fifty arrows were shot out in unison.
These arrows were obviously very heavy, and they were held by the bows.
The initial speed after being shot is slower than that of an ordinary longbow heavy arrow, and it is impossible to be shot very far.
Sure enough, these arrows were "thrown" into the Song Army's formation and landed on the bluestone floor or the Song Army's armor.
At this time, something happened that shocked Song Jun's heart.
Balls of explosive light flashed in the Song Army's formation, and then there was a loud sound like thunder.
The soldiers of the Song Army staggered in the bright light, some covering their bloody faces, shouting and screaming, some threw themselves on the ground, and some fell straight to the ground.
This is the newly developed Thunderbolt Arrow developed by Chongming Island Workshop according to Yue Fei's instructions.
The core component is still the arrow cluster with a flint firing device.
After the arrow cluster hits a harder object, sparks will be generated inside to ignite the new generation of gunpowder poured into the hollow arrow shaft.
In addition to gunpowder powder, there are also tiny steel balls in the arrow shaft.
Items such as nails that increase the killing effect.
This kind of explosion is not fatal unless the bullet fragments hit the vital point, but the wounding effect is amazing.
The skin and flesh of the people around the exploding arrows who were not protected by armor were torn apart by the bullet fragments, and some were even blinded by the bullet fragments.
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Many people were burned by the explosive flames.
Suddenly, the Song army was in chaos.
The thunderbolt arrows continued to strike.
Amidst the continuous explosions, the Song army was in chaos, and the scene was filled with smoke.
After three rounds of arrows, the longbow guards suddenly dispersed to both sides.
More than thirty horsemen and horses were fully armored, and the cavalry with high altitude began to charge.
They stood side by side, holding their flat-headed lances at an angle, with the blunt tip of the lance sticking out and lowering it to the height of the horse's lower chest.
This is a new type of plate armor heavy cavalry in the intermediate military camp in the Age of Enlightenment.
Their war horse is a giant war horse slightly smaller than the Shire horse, which is enough to carry thickened iron can plate armor weighing more than one hundred kilograms to gallop on the battlefield.
The nearly a thousand Song troops scurrying around like headless flies were like a pile of weeds.
After the rows of iron cavalry passed by like a lawnmower, they all fell to pieces in a pool of blood.
When the cavalry galloped by, some of them were hit by the spear heads of the lances; some were knocked down directly by the tall horses; and some were pushed to the ground by their own people when they were crowded with each other.
But their end was that they were trampled on by iron hoofs and became bloody and bloody.
Only a few survivors fled into the dark alleys on both sides of the street, or threw away their weapons and huddled on the street, raising their hands to beg for mercy.
At this time, Yue Fei arrived with two hundred Beiwei guards.
Seeing the battle situation, he immediately ordered Xia Yue loudly: "You go to the Yamen Office and Baiguan's residence area to supervise the battle, and I will lead the troops to attack the imperial city.
The rest of the people Come with me."
After saying that, he galloped his horse and continued running south along the royal road, followed by three hundred back-mounted guards and more than a hundred plate-armored heavy cavalry and long archers.
At the same time, there were two hundred guards on both sides of the city wall on the east and west sides, and fifty long archers also ran and rushed along the city wall, and successively controlled the Xinmenmen, Security Water Gate, Houhu Gate, Qiantang Gate and other city gates.
There are more than 500 back-mounted guards, long archers, Viking sailors, and plate-armored heavy cavalry who have entered the government offices and mansion areas along the side street.
There were 200 soldiers on duty in the government office of Zhongshu Province.
They heard the news early and gathered in the courtyard under the orders of the governor.
Except for the commander, none of these soldiers had ever been on the battlefield.
The only time they had seen someone kill was on the execution ground.
With a bang, the door was smashed open by a sledgehammer, and more than twenty men with fierce looks, black helmets and black armor holding sharp blades and large shields appeared in front of them.
The faces of these soldiers were ashen, and some of them started to tremble in their legs.
The dozen or so crossbowmen behind the formation forgot to draw their bows.
The twenty or so soldiers didn't say a word.
Twenty of them quickly came to kill with their swords, while the rest bent their bows and arrows and shot inwards.
The commander-in-chief of the Song Army raised his sword in his hand, and just as he shouted "kill", a flash of sword flashed before his eyes, and his head fell to the ground.
In a blur of sword light and blood, twenty tall-backed warriors each slashed three or four times in an instant.
There were more than a dozen heads still wearing felt hats and dozens of Song army corpses on the ground
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