In the evening, Liu Ran leaned against the city battlement.
The wall tile on which his back was leaning was dripping with blood. The blood seeped into his military robe and felt sticky and cold against the skin of his back.
But Liu Ran was so tired that he didn't want to change positions at all.
Next to Liu Ran were Liang Hu and Zhang Pingliang, both of whom also looked exhausted.
All three of them had arrows stuck in their bodies. Fortunately, they were not the heavy arrows used by the Mongols. All three of them were protected by leather armor, and they were not seriously injured. Liang Hu's shoulder was struck by a knife, and the entire shoulder armor was damaged.
A large piece of skin and flesh was cut off, and half of his chest and arms were stained red with blood, but he didn't care.
These three people were all old soldiers. The year before last, Linhuang Mansion fell into the hands of Luizi, and more than 70 military forts along the boundary trench were lost. Most of the more than 40,000 defenders were killed, and only a few people escaped.
They joined the defeated troops in other places along the way and fled all the way to Zhongdu Road. Then they were recruited by Marshal Shuhu Gaoqi in Pingzhou and made a living again. Later they were transferred to Wulin, the military commander east of Zhongdu.
Answer the subordinates who beg to live.
These defeated soldiers were very unconvinced by the defeat at first. They all felt that although they had defeated the battle, the responsibility lay with the incompetence of the generals, so they started making noises every day, hoping that the court would reorganize the troops and take them back to fight back and rescue their families who had fallen into the hands of the Mongols.
Family members.
This is of course wishful thinking, and no general will respond to them.
Therefore, many defeated troops left one after another, either going to Zhongdu to join other generals, or heading to Beijing Road to join Wanyan Chengyu who stayed behind in Beijing.
Now it seems, what difference does it make where you go?
Liu Ran sighed. In the end, they would fight with their heads covered, or be killed with their heads covered.
Around the three of them, there were corpses of the defenders. Some were shot through the skulls by arrows, some had half of their bodies smashed to death by stones, and some were hacked by the enemies who rushed up to the city.
dead.
At Liu Ran's feet, there was the corpse of an enemy in black helmet and black armor.
This man was a Han, and like Liu Ran, he was a defeated soldier who had escaped from the Gyeongju area in northern Xinjiang. When the two were fighting, they shouted in exactly the same accent, and their offensive and defensive moves were all the same. I think Liu Ran fled to Pingzhou.
At that time, this man fled from Qingzhou to Jinzhou, joined the Jinzhou tycoon Zhang Jing, became an officer of the "Black Army", and now he has become a subordinate of the Mongols.
This man was considered a warrior among the black army. He climbed up the city along the ladder and slashed to death several defenders with a sword.
Later, Liu Ran and his companions surrounded him. Liang Hu came around and pierced his back with a spear. The man roared several times, struggled and rushed towards Liu Ran, slashing with his knife, but Liu Ran resisted.
After several blows, his hands were almost numb, and then the man fell limply to the ground, vomiting blood from his mouth, and died.
At this time, a guard soldier walked slowly from the top of the wall, collecting discarded arrows and weapons along the way. When he saw the body of the officer in black helmet, he first looked at Liu Ran, and then rushed up to peel off the armor.
As soon as he squatted down, Liu Ran said in a hoarse voice: "The armor and helmet are coated with black paint and cannot be wiped off. If you are not afraid of being killed by your own family, just wear it."
The soldier was stunned for a moment, then hesitantly let go and went to the other side of the city wall.
He walked so fast that Liang Hu wanted to ask him for some water, but at this time he had to give up.
Liu Ran continued to stare at the corpse in black helmet. He felt that his heart was in confusion. The Great Jin Kingdom was like this. The officials were incompetent and the generals were cowardly and greedy. Seeing the Mongols coming again, those who were forced to be the vanguard were actually their old companions.
.He didn’t know what to do, let alone what the world would become.
"Do you want to eat or not?"
Qian Zheng Ke stood in front of the three of them and asked in a loud voice.
Although this man was Liu Ran's boss, Liu Ran had always disliked him and felt that his personality was too fierce and violent.
After the enemy troops who had just attacked the city retreated, this man walked around at the top of the city, grabbing dry food and water from several people. The people were afraid of the Mongols' threat to massacre the city, so they demolished their houses and carried earth and rocks.
Chengtou helped in the battle. But Zheng Ke, holding a knife in his hand, threatened to kill people and robbed them of their last rations.
But Zheng Ke was not bad to his subordinates. He packed the rations in leather bags and distributed them along the way.
When he walked up to the three of them, Zhang Pingliang was a little hesitant. Liu Ran thanked Qian Ju, took out the dry food for three people in his leather bag, and took the water from Zheng Ke's personal soldier.
Liu Ran broke off a piece of cake and handed it to Zhang Pingliang.
Zhang Pingliang hesitated for a moment, swallowed, and grabbed it.
The three of them had just swallowed a few mouthfuls when they felt the world was spinning and their feet were trembling.
Hundreds of steps away, someone shouted: "The Black Tartars have broken down the city wall!"
Pingzhou City has been abandoned for a long time. The current city wall is still from the Liao Dynasty. There are traces on the wall left when Dajin attacked the city. There are several parts of the city wall that look like nothing on the outside, but there are cracks nearly a foot wide inside.
Spreading, can burrow into a child.
At this moment, this cracked wall finally collapsed after being thrown dozens of times by boulders.
The scope of the collapse was not very wide, about twenty steps. There was smoke and dust rising in the air, and loose and broken soil blocks on both sides were still falling. There were piles of broken bricks and broken walls on the ground.
The enemy troops attacking the city roared loudly and stepped over the rough ground, trying to rush into the city. There were also soldiers climbing along the walls on both sides, trying to kill the defenders' archers who were standing on the top of the city and shooting.
The defenders, including Liu Ran, shouted in unison and rushed to the gap for reinforcements.
Countless people crowded around the gap, making loud noises. The noisy people were confused and their ears were constantly buzzing.
The person who led the soldiers to attack this city wall was Genghis Khan's newly recruited general Shi Tianying.
He was also the one who provided many siege equipment to the Mongolian army this time. He had previously attacked and killed Zhang Jing and Zhang Zhi brothers with the tacit approval of Genghis Khan, and seized control of the elite "Black Army" of the Han army.
This operation, if done by anyone else, would definitely cause a commotion.
But Shi Tianying himself was born in the Black Army. He won the support of the people of Xingzhong Prefecture through his bravery and proficiency in fighting, and became independent from the Black Army. All the Black Army generals knew his reputation, and they generally believed that a man who could conquer Mongolia
A leader trusted by the Great Khan is a good thing for everyone.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! However, if Shi Tianying wants to gain the Khan's continued trust, he must rely on fighting on the battlefield. After he attacked and killed the Zhang brothers, he took nothing but all the property.
He came out to reward the soldiers and encourage them to fight. After many siege equipment came into play, he put on heavy armor and went into battle himself.
Shi Tianying was born into a military family in Northern Xinjiang, and he had outstanding martial arts passed down from his family, so he could become a powerful man in the Xingzhong Prefecture where the folk customs were fierce.
He held a long and heavy knife and fought fiercely back and forth in the gap. The defenders were almost invincible. The long knife was swung like a whirlwind. Wherever it went, broken limbs flew up and heads rolled down; blood flowed from the broken wounds.
Splashing everywhere, waterfalls rising and falling like this.
As Shi Tianying charged in, the soldiers in black helmets continued to advance, controlling more and more territory.
From this, we can see another boldness of Shi Tianying: he arranged all his cronies in the rear to control trebuchets and other equipment, and those who followed him to the city to fight were all new subordinates from the Black Army.
Most of the members of the so-called Black Army came from the defeated soldiers along the trenches along the northern border of the imperial court. After the Linhuang Mansion Road was not secured, tens of thousands of defeated soldiers moved south with their families and their families. Along the way, they were recruited by local powerful men. Zhang Jing recruited the largest group of them.
There are a total of 12,000 people in the army. When they go into battle, they all recognize the black flag, wear black armor, wield long swords and halberds, and are brave and good at fighting.
Zhang Jing, as a local tycoon, had the courage to call himself the King of Linhai County, relying on this elite army. This is not really arrogant. After all, the northern border trench was where the elite of Dajin was when it was strong. Now in
Guo Ning, the Dinghai navy man running sideways in Shandong, and Miao Daorun, Zhang Rou and others who all controlled considerable power in Zhongdu also relied on this power.
However, Zhang Jing's own talents are not enough to control this powerful army. Only stronger warriors can intimidate warriors.
At this time, the generals of the black army first received a generous reward from Shi Tianying, and then saw him marching forward bravely. They all followed him bravely, shouting for a fierce battle. For a while, the momentum was like a wind and a lingering cloud.