Men donned armor, horses wore mail.
Heavy cavalry, the peak combat power of the era, charged out of Bianliang City as the gate opened, with the momentum to sweep aside everything.
Three thousand Iron Pagodas in motion made the very city walls tremble.
The two-foot-thick drawbridge creaked and groaned, as if it would break at any second.
The water in the moat rippled, and the fish in the distant Bian River were startled into unease, leaping out of the water one after another.
“Oh, my heavens!”
“I must say, in terms of sheer presence, these younglings have truly managed to impress me!”
On top of the Caterpillar's roof, Li Shimin watched the scene unfold and grinned at Hua Mulan.
Then, he picked up the walkie-talkie and issued an order.
“Xiao Xie, hurry, reverse!”
“Let these brats get a bit closer before you engage, otherwise, if they get scared and run, it'll be too troublesome to chase them!”
As Xie Bi'an began to back the truck up as requested, he cast a wry smile at Fan Wujiu.
Fortunately, “Xiao Xie” was spoken, not written down…
Damn, he couldn’t even imagine!
It felt like living in a privy!
The silent Caterpillar suddenly roared with deafening thunder and began to slowly retreat.
In Jin Wuzhu's eyes, this was undoubtedly a sign of cowardice!
“My warriors, the Song have shown fear!”
“Raise your curved sabers and follow my rhythm!”
“Let us together—”
“Kill!”
But to his surprise, just as they reached the other side of the moat, the colossal war chariot suddenly stopped retreating.
On the chariot's head, Li Shimin, wielding a Gatling gun, blew a kiss to Hua Mulan, then lit a cigar, placed it in his mouth, and pressed the firing button.
This weapon had been salvaged from a KA-27 anti-submarine helicopter and had a belt capacity of 1800 rounds. To let Li Shimin have his fill, Fang Er had even prepared several spare belts.
The barrels spun freely for a moment, and once they reached the required firing speed, a barrage of bullets poured out.
In the blink of an eye, Jin Wuzhu’s pride, the Iron Pagodas that had dominated the Central Plains, suffered an unprecedented assault.
Numerous Jin soldiers erupted in clouds of bloody mist, followed by the scattering of limbs and shattered armor!
Jin Wuzhu, who had narrowly escaped, stared blankly behind him. This was a scene that should not exist in the human world!
Even hell itself could not compare!
Yue Fei, Han Shizhong, and their soldiers, who had retreated to a distance, were deeply shocked by this immense firepower.
Previously, when the bullets had struck the city gate and walls, the visual impact was astonishing, but it was incomparable to the sight of them hitting flesh and blood!
On the truck, Li Shimin listened to the whirring of the gun barrels and began to curse as he changed the ammo belt.
“Damn it!”
“This belt should be ten thousand rounds long!”
Jin Wuzhu suddenly snapped back to his senses and shouted in terror to his subordinates, “Retreat! Quickly retreat! Back into the city!”
But the battlefield was not a weak woman to be manipulated at will, to be approached and departed as one pleased.
At this very moment, Li Shimin had finished changing the belt, and the six gun barrels began to spin once more.
“Rattatatatata—”
Bullets wove a deadly trajectory through the air, and wherever they passed, all the Jin soldiers were reduced to a bloody pulp!
Their heavy armor seemed so pale and powerless against such an attack.
By the time the second belt of ammunition was expended, the number of Iron Pagodas still standing could be counted on two hands!
Furthermore, these survivors were all dazed, with drool running from their mouths.
They had been scared witless!
The Jin troops on the city walls, witnessing this scene, descended into chaos. Realizing that continued resistance would lead to the same fate, they began to throw down their weapons and rush back into the city.
Run!
As fast as they could, as far as they could!
Inside the city, Wanyan Tuhes, known as the King of Dragons and Tigers, didn't even bother to issue orders, instead mounting a warhorse and fleeing towards the north of the city.
Cross the Yellow River, return to Yanjing!
Han Shizhong glanced at Yue Fei and said, “Brother, why does it feel like this battle was too easy?”
“That single gun wiped out three thousand Iron Pagodas?”
Yue Fei smiled wryly and shook his head. “It doesn’t matter, the process is not important, as long as we can reclaim our homeland!”
With that, he looked at Niu Gao beside him.
“Pass down the order, enter the city from the east, west, and south gates. Any resistance will be met with death!”
“Yes!”
The army of a hundred thousand men, divided into three streams, advanced from different directions. The Jin soldiers, utterly terrified, didn’t dare to resist. As long as they could save their lives, surrender was of no consequence.
The Jin soldiers who fled the city rushed towards the Yellow River crossing points in disarray.
There were no bridges across the Yellow River here; crossing relied on boats.
Wanyan Tuhes spotted a small boat and leaped into it, throwing the oars to a guard who had fled with him.
“Row quickly!”
The small boat rocked precariously on the surging Yellow River as it made its way towards the opposite bank.
Watching Bianliang grow smaller in the distance, he finally felt his heart relax.
But just then, a voice he had never heard before echoed from afar.
“Beep~~~”
“Beep~~~”
Wanyan Tuhes looked in the direction of the sound and saw a colossal ship rapidly approaching from the east on the river.
It was the flat-bottomed cargo ship left by Fang Er.
Zhou Yanxi, sitting at the bow of the ship, saw many boats desperately trying to reach the north bank and immediately ordered his subordinates in the cockpit, “Speed up, they must be the Emperor and his troops!”
His mission was to help Li Shimin cross the river with this flat-bottomed cargo ship, and he hadn't expected to arrive right in the midst of a battle!
The flat-bottomed cargo ship, over a hundred meters long, suddenly accelerated, blocking the path of the Jin boats.
Wanyan Tuhes stared dumbfoundedly at this behemoth. What incredible luck had the Song people stumbled upon!
The impossibly massive war chariot beneath Bianliang City.
And this equally terrifying warship on the Yellow River!
Why, why did these appear in the hands of the Song!
“Hey, are you a Jin?”
Zhou Yanxi scratched the back of his head with the muzzle of his gun and shouted at Wanyan Tuhes.
Wanyan Tuhes’s heart sank. He quickly waved his hands and protested, “No! This humble subordinate is a Han, under Marshal Yue, deputy commander of the Youyi Army!”
“Oh~ Then you carry on then~” Zhou Yanxi waved him away with a look of disappointment.
Wanyan Tuhes was overjoyed at this and, with a sigh of relief, signaled his men to row past.
But the next moment, he heard a gunshot, and his body uncontrollably plunged towards the water.
“Damn it, pretending to be human with a rat tail, trying to trick me!”
“I hate it most in my life when people lie to me!”
“Eat shit!”