The fire burned for half an hour. With the help of kerosene, the temperature of the flames was so high that no one could stand within thirty or forty steps of the fire, let alone the Liao army on top of the city.
Under the scorching flames, the upper part of the city wall was blackened, and the lower part burned to an ocher color, as if even the rammed earth was about to melt.
Someone said something behind Su Jin, which made Su Jin break into a cold sweat. It was a veteran of the Guards. He said: "This firing method is more like the firing of pottery pots and porcelain at the entrance of the kiln in our hometown."
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Su Jin's waterfall of sweat, if he did not burn down the city wall, but instead burned it even stronger, it would be the biggest joke of this era. He would probably go down in history and be known as the best idiot in the world.
After the flames were extinguished, Su Jin immediately ordered someone to fetch a water dragon and spray the water onto the city wall. The burning red city wall was hit by the ice water, and a vast white steam suddenly rose up, like thousands of poisonous tongues spitting out sneers.
There was a loud sound, and water vapor enveloped a large area. The Liao army on the top of the city stared at all this in stunned silence. They really didn't understand what kind of trick the Song army was playing. One moment, it heated the city wall, and the other moment, it quenched the city wall.
The steam gradually dissipated and the city wall had completely cooled down. Everyone was staring at the city wall. The Liao army wanted to know what tricks the Song army was playing. The Song army also wanted to know whether Marshal Su could succeed after working hard for a long time and paying the price of hundreds of brothers.
It's effective.
The small section of the lower part of the city wall that was in disarray was the focus of everyone's attention. They blinked for fear of missing something, but nothing happened there. The city wall was still the same city wall, not moving at all, and there was no chance that it would collapse as Su Jin said.
The Liao army at the top of the city laughed loudly, and Yelu Kanrong laughed the loudest. He laughed wildly at the top of the city, pointed at the Song army below the city and shouted: "I'm afraid you are the stupidest Song pigs in the world. In the cold weather,
, are you risking your life to light a fire and warm the kang for me? Hahaha."
The soldiers of the Liao Army were also laughing wildly, and all kinds of ridicule and sarcasm were denser than the arrows they shot, flying towards them.
The soldiers of the Song Army on the other side of the moat were speechless. The soldiers risked their lives to carry firewood and kerosene across. They thought it would have a miraculous effect, but unexpectedly it was a joke. Marshal Su was really whimsical. It was impossible to think about it.
The Muslim Liao people laughed their heads off.
Su Jin's face was gloomy. He didn't know why this happened. According to the principle, there should be nothing wrong. The city wall of Seoul is not that strong. Even if the entire wall cannot be burned down, at least one layer can be peeled off. How could it happen?
No movement or silence.
"Commander... let's think of another way. There are bound to be mistakes. No one is a saint." Jingtai comforted him.
"Ma Han, bring me your bow and arrows." Su Jin said coldly.
Ma Han quickly took off the bow and arrow from his back and handed it to Su Jin. Su Jin slowly took an iron-headed arrow, put it on the bowstring, and used all his strength to pull the iron bow halfway. When his hand was loosened, the arrow was like
The shooting stars chased the moon and headed straight for the city wall.
Everyone thought: "The handsome man is confused. The city wall will not collapse. The handsome boy has a childish temper. He insists on shooting an arrow at the city wall to relieve his anger..."
I saw the arrow hitting the city wall with a whooshing sound, and the nails on the city wall kept shaking, and then there was a rattling sound from the place where the wall passed. Although the sound was not loud, it was clearly audible; look at the surface of the city wall again.
, a crack visible to the naked eye slowly spread out where the arrow hit, and gradually spread into multiple branches like a spider web. Before everyone's eyes fell on the snow, a loud sound suddenly penetrated the eardrums, and dozens of steps
The lower part of the inner city wall collapsed like a mountain collapse, stirring up dust all over the sky.
"This..." Yelu Kanrong was stunned.
"Oh!!" Song soldiers cheered thunderously.
When the dust settled and the smoke dispersed, the city wall did not collapse, but the lower part of the city wall had sunk in, forming a huge cave four or five feet deep. Fortunately, the city wall was about ten feet thick, otherwise it would have collapsed directly to form a doorway; in the old and new
At the junction of the city walls, a huge crack was extremely exaggerated, extending upwards to the top of the city wall. Although it was not broken, it looked shaky.
Su Jin put down his bow and arrow and took a long breath. Cold sweat broke out on his forehead. He waved his hand and said: "Continue the second round of fire. This time, pile the firewood in the depression and light the fire. As the Liao dog said, we gave him the heated kang."
Add more fire."
The soldiers of the Song Army promised loudly. Once they saw how effective this method was, the soldiers immediately became energetic. They raised their shields and helmets, held firewood and rolled kerosene barrels, and rushed to the other side of the river. Yelu Kanrong recovered and shouted:
"Why don't you shoot arrows to stop the Song people from burning the city wall."
The Liao soldiers reacted and immediately launched intensive shooting. Yelu Kanrong hurried down the city to the imperial city to report the news. The Song army's method of burning the city was effective. They only needed two more rounds of burning and the city wall would be penetrated. At that time, Seoul would be broken.
Look at this, the bow and arrow technique prevented the Song army from carrying kerosene and firewood crazily. He needed to bring the ballistae over to smash the ice road on the river, so as to stop the Song army's attempt.
The Liao people's defense focused on the imperial city. Large defensive equipment such as crossbows and bed crossbows were deployed on the walls of the imperial city. As for Seoul where the Han people lived, not to mention bed crossbows and even battle towers were not allowed to be built. At this moment, they finally tasted the bitter fruit of crying.
When Yelu Kanrong rushed to the southeast of Seoul with 5,000 reinforcements and more than a dozen crossbows, the city wall had been burned down again. This time, even more fell off, and a hole about ten feet deep had been formed on the lower part of the outer wall.
There are huge potholes and cracks in the wall that are about to collapse.
Just when everyone was carrying the crossbows to the top of the city, there was a loud explosion on the top of the city. The soldiers were in a mess at the top of the city and ran towards the walls on both sides. A deputy general ran down the city sweating profusely.
Yelu Kanrong slapped his head and cursed: "The city wall is not broken yet, if you don't go and defend the city for me, if you dare to run away from the battle, I will kill you."
The deputy general said with a mournful face: "Sir, we can't hold it anymore. Look at the roots of the city wall and listen."
Yelu Kanrong turned his head to look, but saw a booming sound coming from the inner city wall corresponding to the burning place. Yelu Kanrong understood that the Song people did not burn the city wall for the third time, but lifted up the logs and were hitting the last thin wall.
It was already one level. Needless to say, the last two or three feet were unable to withstand the bombardment of logs, and the city wall could no longer be defended.
More than 500 Song troops carried more than 30 logs across the river. The rain of arrows on top of the city killed more than 200 people. The remaining 200 people successfully got into the collapsed tunnel. The Liao army could only
Can look forward to it and sigh, the hungry man meets the hungry widow, the frequency and intensity of the collision are difficult to describe in words, the huge rumbling sound frightened the Liao army standing on the city wall, they found that the cracks in the old and new walls had already
When it spread to the top of the city wall, they immediately chose to flee.
Their choice was wise. At the moment when more than a dozen depressions at the bottom were penetrated, the heavy top crushed the weak lower part. The entire city wall fell slowly like an iceberg collapsing like the sea. More than 200 Song soldiers
There was no time to escape, and they were all crushed under the rubble.
The northern city wall finally collapsed, and a gap about twenty feet wide appeared in front of the Song army.
Su Jin pulled out his sword and shouted loudly: "Attack!"
The Song army, which had already been lined up and prepared, rushed towards the gap like a tide. After thousands of people rushed into the gap, the ice bridge was finally overwhelmed and broke. However, this was no longer enough to affect the entire battle. All the defenders in Seoul had withdrawn to the imperial city.
, there was no decent resistance in the city at all, and the Song army was able to calmly build a simple pontoon bridge to allow subsequent troops to enter Seoul.
In half a day, only half a day's work, at the cost of three thousand lives and four thousand barrels of kerosene, Seoul fell into Su Jin's hands.
Su Jin immediately ordered the gap to be blocked, and thousands of bags of mud were used to block the gap again, because Yelu Zhongyuan's army would appear outside the city at any time, and Su Jin did not want him to attack without any cost.
Inside the city, although Seoul is not a strong barrier, it is many times better than fighting in close combat.
The officials and wealthy families in Seoul had already fled into the imperial city, leaving more than 200,000 ordinary people. They were all Han Chinese and had the lowest status. Most of them were oppressed by the Khitan people on weekdays, but they were all natives of Liao.
The Han people did not have much favorable impressions of the Song Dynasty. After Su Jin's army captured the city, these Han people were very nervous, and every household stayed behind closed doors.
Su Jin strictly ordered not to kill the people indiscriminately, but he would never be stupid enough to do anything wrong. In the afternoon of that day, the Song army forcibly collected tens of thousands of sets of winter clothes, and at the same time forcibly collected grain, fodder, firewood and other military supplies. More than 80,000 people were left in the cold.
After trekking for more than 20 days and camping in the ice and snow for several days, we finally had the first opportunity to truly rest and recuperate.