Chapter 599: Winter Snow Sea, the Great Wheel of Life and Death (8)
From many, many years ago, the stone stayed on that ridge. It was an unknown low ridge, inconspicuous, with no commendable scenic spots. The stone was just one of many stones that had witnessed the rising sun.
Sunset has experienced vicissitudes of life and endured the changes of the four seasons. The water of the Yellow River has flooded through it several times. When people came and went around, the children herding cattle occasionally rested on it. For a long time,
It has not moved its position.
When the men in armor dragged it away from there, snow had just fallen from the sky, just like the snow that had fallen many years ago. It was dragged along with many stones to a flat ground, and the snow would cover it.
When it was being layered, the people who dragged it here began to hit it with objects, and it was knocked rounder, and then, it was piled among countless other stones.
In front of it is a rough, wooden camp, and further ahead, huge high walls extend toward both sides of the sky and the earth.
The snow falls, the sun rises and sets. Sometimes the area around the stone is lively, sometimes deserted. People are running back and forth, sometimes moving away the companions next to it, and sometimes stuffing more stones around it. Light and darkness flow.
Alternately, the surroundings suddenly became more lively. The footsteps of people and horses shook the earth, and more instruments with wheels were pushed from all around. The restless atmosphere was mixed with falling snowflakes.
When the sky darkened and then brightened again, a huge humming vibration enveloped everything. There were voices of people running around, various rough and strange sounds, and around it, a large number of stones were quickly moved away.
The stone streaked across the sky and disappeared. Finally, footsteps rushed over, picked it up, and placed it on the wooden board. They rushed quickly through the difficult snow. The road was bumpy, sometimes high and sometimes low. When someone rushed over,
He jumped over the stone, and then there were a lot of footsteps of galloping horses around him. The wooden plank hit the low-lying land, and with a bang, the stone rolled down, and people fell next to it. But after a moment, he
Get up and push it onto the board again.
This small journey ended next to the huge wooden instrument. When the board stopped, two people lifted the stone and placed it in a sunken container. The stone sank, and the sound of the winch sounded,
People's shouts rang out.
After a short while, it flew into the sky. The sky was filled with snowflakes that stretched towards the endless distance. It collided with the snowflakes and rushed through the cold wind. The horseback team ran under its body, and underneath it
There were also fallen people, blood and flames, and hysterical shouts. The huge wall in front of him quickly enlarged, and arrows with sharp arrows rushed past him in the opposite direction. In the short journey,
An arrow came quickly from the front, collided with it, and then bounced away without a trace.
The huge city tower, the words "New Jujube Gate" flashed by, the stone hit the huge wall, stone chips scattered everywhere, and then there was a huge gap, it fell from the top of the high city wall, with a bang,
There were splashes of ice chips and water splashes again. The stone fell on the edge where the moat and the city wall originally intersected. Half of it was smashed into the ice, and the other half was still outside.
On its left and right sides, more stones hit the city wall and fell down. Also falling were snowflakes, arrows, and other things. While it stayed there quietly,
Strange things always rained down on it, and the arrows bounced away. The water that fell from the high wall gradually turned into ice on its body, and was then broken open by another falling stone.
, the snow fell, and then the huge logs also fell, making a loud noise.
The restless and violent scene paused as the sky turned dark, the snow was still falling, there was a light on the city wall, and there was a continuous light behind it, and there was water washing down from the city wall. It was still dark, and the surroundings still seemed quiet.
, at a certain moment, restless sounds suddenly sounded again, stones were flying, arrows were flying, fire was approaching, huge wooden buildings and ladders were also approaching, a ladder was set up above the stone, and then people
The body also fell down and fell next to the stone. It was covered with strange flesh and blood, followed by a black, viscous liquid.
The whistling sound carried the light and swept over it. The fire spread down, and the stones were submerged in the blazing fire. Then the burning people fell down screaming, and soon after, the ladder also fell down...
The light of the sun rises in the east and sweeps across the huge high wall. It changes position and then sets. Countless lights and shadows around it are in conflict. In the journey of the stone, everything around it is both temporary and eternal.
.It is on the other side of the vicissitudes of life, and it is integrated with everything around it, whether it is experiencing huge explosions, divisions, or deformations, whether it is air, water, hard gems, or sparkling pearls.
Whether part of it becomes a lush tree, or becomes a life of flesh and blood, whether it can fly or merge with the soil, everything is like the change of sand and dust blown by the wind, and this change is a part of eternity.
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It was quietly embedded in the ice that melted and began to solidify, and the fallen things were shaped over and over again around it. Cavalry ran, arrows flew, swords and guns intersected, flesh and blood spattered, snow danced wildly, and flames burned...
...The corpse fell down with a scream, and the hard bones were shattered on its body. The sticky flesh and blood slowly slipped from the stone, and then continued to coagulate...
All of these are part of eternity, but perhaps in a short period of time, they have different meanings for these temporarily deformed objects called living beings...
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"Ah ah ah ah ah ah ah--"
A huge hysterical sound filled everything, blood was in the eye sockets, and it made the brain hurt. The wooden frame was being pushed wildly in the light of the dancing swords. The Jurchen was pushed back, and then hit the battlement. He didn't want to be pushed down.
, stretched out his hand to climb on the battlement, and the sword cut off the hand with force. Xue Changgong kicked the man off the city with a strong kick!
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Xue Changgong yelled hard at the captain next to him, half of his face covered in blood. He rushed to the female wall, stuck his head out and took a look. The city wall stretched for several miles, and the Jurchens were facing towards it.
People are coming from here. The wooden towers and ladders used to attack the city are all being erected. The moat at the city gate has been filled in. The charging chariots are being protected by soldiers holding shields as they move forward. Someone pours kerosene from the towers. In the wind,
A long fire dragon was pulled out of the snow, and arrows were being shot down desperately. There was another wave of strong attacks.
"There are only so many people left! The other brothers are all dead! The Jurchens just rushed up -"
"The Yaksha is not beaten enough and has been chopped down. Ask someone to bring it up quickly! There is also kerosene, don't be reluctant to part with the kerosene - don't just look at the main entrance! Look at Wusandan, follow me quickly! The Jurchens are going to attack over there -
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Outside the stretching city wall, the Jurchen offensive was like a sea wave, but inside the city wall, soldiers and volunteers defending the city were like a colony of ants going up and down crazily. Even if the maximum strength had been mobilized, the defense on the city wall was sometimes not enough.
Hou. The Jurchens launched a fierce attack on the entire northern city wall. The madness was enough to frighten the defenders of each section of the city wall. However, the Jurchen generals also used this furious offensive to test the strength of the city wall.
Weak points - to be more precise, they are actively creating weak points, trying to break down the entire city wall's defense with the soldiers' amazing combat awareness.
During the fierce attack, the Jurchen cavalry also galloped under the city, suppressing the city wall with high-density arrows. Once the defense on a certain section of the city wall became slightly exhausted, the siege force would go crazy.
If the Jurchen soldiers rush towards the city, the opening will immediately cause shocking casualties. In the three days of siege, the Jurchens have achieved this feat four times.
At noon on November 23, more than fifty Jurchen soldiers successfully scaled the wall. They killed the surrounding defenders and the people who helped defend the city, and retreated in large numbers. They then forcibly killed these more than fifty people.
Death, during the short period of time when the city wall was retaken, more than 500 soldiers and people died. A large part of them were directly killed by Jurchen soldiers and fell from the inside of the city wall to their death.
On the afternoon of the 22nd, when the Jurchens climbed to the top of the wall for the first time, they repelled three attempts by Wu Dynasty soldiers to recapture the wall with their powerful combat power. At that time, they were holding the wall, and a large number of Jurchens were
As they surged up, the recapture of the Wu Dynasty soldiers turned into a fueling tactic. Later, Zhong Shidao personally led the Shen Gong Battalion over, covering the city with arrows, and then used more than 3,000 elites to kill at both ends of the city wall.
They piled up and finally pushed the Jurchens back temporarily. This wave of casualties amounted to 1,500 people. At that time, the Jurchens and the Wu Dynasty defenders had not yet adapted to such a high-intensity rhythm. However, the sensitivity of the Jurchens' fighting consciousness was
Surprisingly, of course, in the subsequent battles, the mid-level generals of the Wu Dynasty, such as Xue Changgong, etc., were finally able to adapt to such battles.
Flying stones and arrows occasionally crossed the city wall and smashed into the crowds on the inside of the city wall. Among the Jurchen siege equipment, there were not many that could throw stones. Even if they could, they often risked entering the bow and arrow.
Within the shooting range. But almost every time it is possible to cause casualties. Compared with the Jurchens who can set up ladders anywhere outside the city as the siege party, the Wu Dynasty people as city defenders often have fixed corridors up and down the city wall.
When the fighting intensity above the city wall is too high, the defensive equipment needs to be replenished at any time, which leads to a large number of people crowding the corridors, and they often become victims of stray arrows or stones.
But apart from subconsciously avoiding on the spot or finding a wooden board to hold up, there was no other way to evacuate, because once their work stopped, the defense on the city wall would be in danger.
In fact, the Jurchens' crazy attacks and astonishing fighting power have already taken away part of the fighting spirit of the defenders. This taking away the fighting spirit does not mean to make people run away, but just makes people realize how powerful this army is.
The astonishing fighting spirit meant that once the Jurchens broke through the city, it would cost them several times their lives to push them back. The soldiers of the Wu Dynasty did not avoid it subconsciously, but when they faced them, they subconsciously felt: Fight.
but.
At this time, the Wu Dynasty's city-defending troops were all the most elite imperial troops of the Wu Dynasty. They were well-trained and well-paid on weekdays, so they would not run away - there was no point in escaping - but that was it. Facing the founding army of the dynasty,
The gap in subjective initiative is almost irreparable. For three days, on this city defense line that stretches for several miles, this defensive string has always been tightly stretched. People have been responding to everything hastily and dizzyingly. The city defense has given people a sense of security.
It feels like it could collapse at any time.
But it hasn't collapsed after all.
Rolling logs and rocks were thrown down from the city wall like raindrops, mixed with fire oil, hot water, and arrows. The stretching city wall was covered with Yaksha rings inlaid with sharp knives or barbs, waving long forked poles.
Soldiers were occasionally shot by arrows and fell into a pool of blood, while people who came up to deliver things occasionally picked up forks and shouted and waved them, trying to stop the Jurchens coming up from the ladder, with fierce and turbulent shouts and sounds of fighting.
Mixed in the sky full of wind and snow, it spread across the entire city wall.
A large number of wounded were carried down and sent to the wounded barracks. The weather was too cold, and the wounded two days earlier were quickly infected with wind and cold due to the decline of their body resistance. The weak were dying anytime and anywhere. All the doctors in the city had been
Mobilization started. Master Li was helping among them. She had not rested all day and night. Her clothes were dirty and her hair was messy. Her forehead and face were stained with other people's blood and plant ash from when she was boiling medicine.
, in the wounded barracks surrounded by countless wounded, just helping out mechanically.
This sudden tragic scene made her a little confused. Coupled with the almost non-stop busyness in the past few days, accompanied by blood, it was difficult for her to think about the things in front of her. She could only do things endlessly.
Response - Hou Jing once told her about the casualties suffered by the Jurchens during the attack. However, in the situation like this, Hou Jing may have been a little confused.
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Panic about war swept across the country.
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Twenty miles northwest of Moutuogang, more than 40,000 victorious troops led by Guo Yaoshi, Zhang Linghui, and Liu Shunren have left the Jurchen camp.
Zongwang wanted to attack Bianliang, and at the same time further train the Jurchens' siege power, which had been continuously improving when the Liao Kingdom was destroyed. He did not think about the possibility of failure. In this big battle, he did not let Guo
The pharmacist's army certainly had reasons to be arrogant and confident in participating in this. On the other hand, the Jurchen East Route Army had never truly fought together with the resentful army.
In the process of going south, there was no enemy that required the two armies to merge to defeat. On the other hand, the most important thing was that once they were side by side with Guo Yaoshi on the battlefield, a large part of the victory or defeat of the battle was handed over to him.
Pharmacist Guo has it in hand.
Although Zong Wang has surrendered the Ever Victorious Army, there is no process of "domestication" of this army. Assuming that both sides attack Bianliang together and Guo Pharmacist contributes, there is no doubt that the city will be conquered, but if it is in
At the most critical moment, he defected on the battlefield. Even the strongest Jurchen army under his command would probably be dead.
The Confucian scholars of the Wu Dynasty were fond of all kinds of conspiracies and intrigues. Who knows if Pharmacist Guo was playing a trick and waiting to kill himself at the most critical moment.
If the people of the Wu Dynasty really had such a cruel idea and let their army march straight to the gate of Bianliang City before turning against him and attacking, then it would be like what was written in the letter, and no one would be able to suppress Nianhan anymore.
For this reason, Zong Wang would not let the Chang Sheng Army enter the siege battlefield. Guo Yaoshi also understood this. When Zong Wang assigned him a task, he quickly launched an investigation and wanted to make a decision.
Which Wu Dynasty team was in the Yellow River? It was later discovered that the most likely one was the Western Army unit currently led by Zhong Shizhong.
Of course, such a conclusion is a bit reckless, but it doesn't matter. Zongwang has already begun to attack Bianliang, and he doesn't want to wait until everything is completely implemented before taking action. Maybe Bianliang will fall by then, and on the other hand, he has defected to the Jurchens
, but now he can't get more credit. Before Zongwang captured Bianliang, he felt that there must be a victory. Under this consideration, the Western Army has the best record - the other guys are all weak persimmons. If
When he was still in the Wu Dynasty, he could take credit for defeating such an army, but now in the Jin Kingdom, taking credit for a casual fight like that would only make people laugh.
Because of this consideration, when a message came from the outside saying that it was the Western Army who wanted to march at this time, he immediately believed it, broke out of camp and went to the current garrison point of the Western Army - he was too lazy to stay in the military camp to eat.
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Outside Bianliang City, further away from the Jurchen military camp, Ning Yi was riding on a horse, holding up a telescope to watch the amazing siege scene. Hongti was following him, Qin Shaoqian was on the other side, and there were others
Han Jing and a few others.
After putting down the telescope, Ning Yi swallowed: "How long can Bianliang survive like this?"
No one answered. After a while, Qin Shaoqian finally said: "...I don't know." His voice was so low that he had no confidence.
Seeing that no one was speaking, Han Jing pointed at Bianliang: "In any siege of a city, if you can't surround it by ten, there is also a strategy of attacking one side by force and attacking from the east to the west. The Jurchens' offensive is so fierce and concentrated on one side. If we can't attack it for a long time, we will
Guess Zongwang will definitely divide his troops to attack the remaining city gates. If he can predict the enemy's opportunity, he might be able to catch them off guard and eat them up."
Ning Yi frowned. Yue Fei, who was not far away, did not have a high status among these people, but he had become familiar with them these days. At this time, he said: "General Han is right, but the Jurchens here are all under Zong Wang's command."
Elites, even if we carry out a one-on-one surprise attack, I'm afraid we won't be able to take advantage, not to mention that the response on the battlefield is quick. Zong Wang's soldiers dismount to fight on foot and mount to fight as cavalry. I'm afraid they won't sit back and watch us.
Escape. Don’t ignore it.”
Han Jingdao: "Brother Yue reminded me."
"However, there are at least 12,000 people in the Moutuogang camp. Although most of them are infantry and there are also craftsmen, it is still difficult to attack them with our number." Someone said from the side.
"No matter what, we can't delay it any longer." Ning Yi, Qin Shaoqian, Hongti and others looked at each other, "Go back first, we have to make a decision tonight... Get ready to take action!"
The group of people turned back, but the direction they went was no longer Xia Village, but an abandoned village on the snowy plains of Bianliang. A total of 4,300 people had come out of Xia Village and were stationed here.
There were nearly 2,000 people in the team brought by Hongti from Luliang Mountain. Among them, there were 164 heavy cavalry that had been saved hard, and the rest were light cavalry. In the Wurui camp, Qin Shaoqian originally asked Ning Yi to train in Dulonggang
There were more than a thousand soldiers, but after the defeat at the end of September, there were now less than 500 left. The more than 2,000 cavalry that Wurui camp had managed to pull up had suffered heavy losses, and now Qin Shaoqian had less than 500 left.
, plus the remaining available veterans, the number here is now: 2,500 cavalry and 1,800 infantry.
As for those left by Xia Cun, there are still more than 15,000 people in total at this time. Although there are some elites who are used to suppress the formation, Bamboo Managers or martial arts masters, these people are not as popular as just now.
After being incited for more than a month, they could only be left in Xia Village to deal with future defensive battles. To pull them out and face the Jurchens head-on was basically to seek death.
The wind and snow kept falling in the cold village and town. Ning Yi and others discussed the situation, calculated the battle situation, and sometimes argued for a while. The Jurchens were too strong. To what extent could they use the power in their hands?
No one is sure. However, there is no time. This night, they must make a decision.
In Bianliang, the fierce battle is still going on...
Wanyan Zongwang wants to decide all this within a few days...