Just as my heart was surging, trumpets suddenly sounded from the three directions of due north, due west and due east. The sound became louder and louder, and the sound became faster and faster. In the blink of an eye, it was equal to the cheers.
However, it was the Khitan Emperor and the Queen Mother outside Chanzhou City who sensed from the sudden burst of cheers in the city that the morale of the Song army was greatly boosted. They specially ordered the attack horn to be blown and led the army to "pour cold water" on the heads of the Song soldiers.
Zhao Heng's scalp tightened when he heard this, and he instinctively raised his hand to close the car window in case a stray arrow suddenly flew through the air. However, before his fingers could touch the window handle, Kou Zhun's face
, had already appeared in front of him, "Officials, please get out of the car and go to the city to beat the drums and cheer for the men."
"This? Okay!" Zhao Heng's heart tightened rapidly, but he gritted his teeth and nodded vigorously, "Today, I will give my life to Kou Qing!"
"Weak ministers can use their bodies to protect officials from arrows!" Knowing that Zhao Heng could agree to go to the city to supervise the battle was already the limit. Kou Zhun did not dare to ask for more, so he made a promise loudly, and then quickly walked around to the car door.
Go and help Zhao Heng out of the car in person.
Zhao Heng felt that his body was shaking, and his arms and thighs were out of control. However, he struggled to jump out of the carriage, handed his hand to Kou Zhun, and then tried hard to move forward.
Dou Shenbao, who had quick hands and quick eyes, also quickly supported his other arm. Then, he quietly winked to the palace guards beside him and motioned for them to gather around, instead of Kou Zhun, he supported Zhao Heng's armpits and back.
The guards were well-trained and immediately took action according to Dou Shenbao's instructions. Pretending to be close to the body for protection, they actually used clever techniques to hold up Zhao Heng's body so that even if his feet did not come into contact with the ground, they could hold each other up.
Every step was taken quickly and steadily.
Surrounded by them, Zhao Heng quickly arrived at the enemy tower on the east side of Chanzhou City. He looked down at the city through the gaps between the helmets of the soldiers, and saw tens of thousands of Liao soldiers lined up.
The complex military formation rushed toward Chanzhou City like a wave.
Chanzhou City had been attacked by the Liao army for several months, and the Song soldiers who defended the city were all physically and mentally exhausted. Seeing the menacing Liao army, the morale that had just been restored immediately dropped at a speed visible to the naked eye.
"Officials, beat the drum!" Kou Zhun didn't have much combat experience, but he could feel the fatigue on the soldiers. He decisively found two drumsticks and stuffed them into Zhao Heng's hand, and then pulled the man's clothes.
He took his sleeve and pulled it toward a large drum that was about the same height as an adult man and stood on the outside of the second floor of the watchtower.
"Beat the drum, beat the drum, come together!" At this moment, tens of thousands of eyes were staring at him inside and outside the city. Even if Zhao Heng was scared, he had to hold on to the end. He gritted his teeth and handed the drumstick back to Kou Zhun.
One, then he opened his right arm and hit the drum head hard, "Boom——"
"Dong dong dong -" Kou Zhun immediately used another drumstick to harmonize. Immediately afterwards, the thunderous sound of war drums resounded through the top of Chanzhou City.
However, the veteran general Li Jilong reacted quickly and asked the drummers in the army to cooperate fully, beating all the war drums in the enemy tower in the west city and on the surrounding horses' faces.
Now, it doesn't matter whether Zhao Heng can play the drum or not.
As long as he was still waving his arms, the drummers would bring the drums back to the familiar rhythm. Around him, there were also guards and soldiers, shouting at the top of their lungs, "Brothers, the officials are playing drums to cheer us up. Take it."
Get your weapons and kill the Liao dogs together with the officials!"
"Kill the Liao dogs, kill the Liao dogs!" On the west wall of Chanzhou, all the soldiers were excited again. Everyone bent their bows and arrows, and took turns shooting towards the outside of the city according to the rhythm of the drums. In a blink of an eye, the first leader of the Liao army was killed.
The round of attacks was suppressed.
Yelu Hehe, the Liao general who was commanding the battle in the west of the city, was furious. He reorganized his troops and launched the second, third, and fourth round of attacks.
However, no matter how hard he tried and what tricks he adopted, he couldn't even touch the walls of Chanzhou City.
Li Jilong was a veteran general with rich experience. Seeing that Zhao Heng's role was very obvious, he decisively ordered the soldiers around him to beat the drums in person and spread the news to the brothers who were fighting fiercely on the other sides of Chanzhou City.
In the ears.
As a result, this evening, the Song Dynasty soldiers guarding the city actually created a miracle.
In three directions, they continuously repelled four rounds of attacks by the Liao army, killing thousands of enemies, but did not even give the Liao army a chance to set up a ladder.
Seeing that night was approaching and any further fighting would only increase casualties, Emperor Yelu Longxu of the Liao Kingdom ordered the withdrawal of troops without hesitation.
With the sound of shrill horns one after another, the Liao troops in the west, east and north of the city slowly retreated.
Upon seeing this, veteran general Li Jilong immediately ordered his men to blow the horn for counterattack. More than a thousand warriors immediately pulled ropes and fell from the north wall. Ignoring the Liao troops in the east and west of the city, they rushed straight to the north of the city.
The woolen scroll of Emperor Yelu Longxu.
The two sides had been fighting for so long, and Yelu Longxu had already become familiar with Li Jilong's tactics. Even when he was withdrawing his troops and retreating, he calmly dispatched 500 archers and 500 cavalry to fight.
The two sides fought again in the twilight. Neither side took advantage of each other, and each of them retreated in dismay.
Li Jilong immediately ordered people to count the losses and treat the wounded. After a lot of work, he found that more than 300 of his brothers had been killed in the battle, and as many as 2,000 were injured. Among them, there were more than 300 brothers who were fatally injured. He didn't know what would happen in the end.
Can't hold on.
The Liao army outside the city left more than a thousand corpses alone, and I am afraid there were even more injured. Yelu Longxu was so cruel that he did not send anyone to collect the corpses of the dead, and allowed them to be frozen into pieces by the cold wind.
A piece of ice cube.
"Thankfully the officials arrived in time, otherwise the consequences of today's battle would be disastrous!" There was no shortage of flatterers everywhere. Finding that the Liao army seemed to have suffered some losses, some people immediately gave all the credit to Zhao Heng.
"When the officials arrived in Chanzhou, it was like the spring sun shining on the snow!"
"The power of the officials made the Liao army frightened!"
…
In an instant, more than a dozen civil servants who had been "hijacked" by Kou Zhun were praising him loudly, including Wang Qinruo. It was as if Zhao Heng really knew some magic and could kill the enemy invisible with just a move of his fingers.
"Looking at the situation today, I'm afraid the Liao army is at the end of its war effort!" Li Jilong was Zhao Heng's uncle. He couldn't help but flatter his nephew like others, so he frowned and interrupted in a low voice.
"The official arrived just in time." Wang Qinruo immediately took over and once again attributed the credit to Zhao Heng. "Just when the Liao invaders were unable to sustain their strength, he led the soldiers of the three armies to deliver a fatal blow to the Liao invaders!"
After being kidnapped and brought to Chanzhou, he knew that his family's life was now in the hands of Kou Zhun and Han Qing. Therefore, he resolutely stopped mentioning the word "Nan Shou" and tried every possible means to make Zhao Heng happy to avoid Kou Zhun.
Use Zhao Heng's hands to deal with yourself and avenge private revenge.
Kou Zhun felt disdainful in his heart when he heard this. He frowned and was about to scold Wang Qinruo. Unexpectedly, the voice of the old general Li Jilong sounded first, "Privy Wang doesn't know. From top to bottom, the Liao Kingdom is full of people."
The nature of tigers and wolves. The more they realize that their soldiers are at the end of their strength, the more they will choose to make a desperate move."
"That, that..." Wang Qinruo felt his heart tremble upon hearing this, and his face suddenly turned as pale as snow.
The main reason why he had desperately encouraged Zhao Heng to "hunt south" was because he believed that the Song army was definitely no match for the Liao army.
If the Liao army chooses to make a desperate move and launch a fierce attack on Chanzhou. If the city is defeated, Wang Qinruo will definitely be doomed!
"Please order the officials to mobilize the Tianwu and Longwei armies, as well as the Zhenrong army on the left, and cross the river to Chanzhou as soon as possible!" At the critical moment, Kou Zhun's performance was many times better than Wang Qinruo's, and he bowed decisively.
, suggested in a low voice to Zhao Heng.
Zhao Heng knew that Kou Zhun would not let him leave Chanzhou. Of course, he hoped that the more soldiers and horses around him, the better, so he immediately nodded vigorously and said, "Zhun Zhao!"
Then, he quickly added, "There are other soldiers and horses, no matter which way, Kou Qing and Li Shuai will discuss and mobilize them. You don't need to report to me, I will report them all!"
"Then there is the camp in Henan. There are a lot of crossbows on the warships there. Take some off and put them on the city wall to deter the Liao army!" Kou Zhun was not polite and immediately added loudly.
"That's right, you draft an order for me and send General Han Chonggui to bring his warships to Chanzhou to assist in the battle." Zhao Heng nodded vigorously without even thinking about it. "I just saw that there is a river running from east to west in Chanzhou City.
If a warship suddenly rushes out from the water gates on the east and west sides, it might be able to catch the Liao army by surprise!"
"It's a tributary of the Yellow River, called Chanshui. That's why Chanzhou got its name." Li Jilong took over the conversation and added in a low voice, "The last time the Liao army broke into the city, the last general relied on a few lines given by Han Dujian.
The warship caught the Liao army by surprise. However, the general never thought that the warship could be sent out of the city from Shuimen to launch an attack on the Liao army."
"The officials are wise!" Immediately, someone else began to praise Zhao Heng. They didn't care whether Zhao Heng's support was a mistake or not.
Zhao Heng was so happy to be photographed that he immediately began to keep up his efforts. "Then send more ships out. Anyway, the Liao army is not good at water warfare. Then send some elites to suddenly land on the shore in warships at the critical moment and attack behind the Liao army."
Launch an attack..."
The smile on Li Jilong's face immediately began to turn bitter. He turned to look at Kou Zhun, hoping that he would stop Zhao Heng quickly and stop causing trouble for him.
The reason why he did not insist on asking the official Zhao Heng to come to Chanzhou like Kou Zhun before was because of this concern.
Although the morale of the brothers has been rising with the arrival of the official, the official has no knowledge of military affairs at all. Will everyone listen to the orders he gives to everyone?
"Guan Jia, the Chan River is too narrow. The Liao army only needs to deploy crossbows on the north and south banks and greet them together. The warships will have no place to hide even if they want to!" As if hearing what he was thinking, someone suddenly retorted loudly.
But it was not Kou Zhun, but a young man that Li Jilong had never seen before. He was holding a spear and showed no awe for Zhao Heng on his face.