Although the fourth prince, Wanyan Wushu, was not very good at military geometry, he did not stop his subordinates from shouting. Instead, he frowned and waited for the noise to subside on its own, and saw that the coach finally became normal.
After a few days, the same expression appeared again today. Wanyanba Lisu and others did not act recklessly, and soon they all sat down again to watch the battle.
After leaning for a moment, the sound of drums below the city began to sound, and the sound of horns on the city continued. As countless people and horses poured out from the front of the Jin army's formation, hundreds of ladders appeared densely in the field of vision, and the war immediately broke out.
In other words, because few people can see what it means to have thousands of troops, few people can understand the momentum of thousands of people charging together... In fact, ordinary people may be afraid of their legs when encountering hundreds of horses galloping together.
Soft, let alone a real army of thousands of troops carrying equipment and shouting to charge?
However, facing the Jin people's first large-scale official attack on the city, the Song soldiers on the city were all silent... On the one hand, many people have become accustomed to these scenes over the years.
The Zhao official family who were watching the battle from a distance were all indifferent; on the other hand, as the "guardian", the Minister of War, Chen Gui, had a military order. On the first line of the city, the organizer was not allowed to speak without permission!
Therefore, after the horn sound stopped for a while, there was only the sound of the Jin Army drums, and then tens of thousands of Jin Army horses, led by their respective officers, shouted and killed in the rear, with a overwhelming momentum.
The people who rushed to the front were the civilians holding baskets. Their task was to continue to carry the soil and fill the ditch... Unexpectedly, this time they rushed to the front without firing a crossbow, which made these people overjoyed.
Debris and frozen soil were poured into the dry and frozen moat and then hurriedly turned around.
Due to the line of sight, Zhao Jiu couldn't see the scene directly in front of him from the watchtower in the city, which was actually far away. He could only observe from the side sideways, and he didn't know whether it was good or bad. Due to the clear weather, Zhao Guan's house even
You can see the happy faces of the civilians dressed as Song Dynasty people after they succeeded in overthrowing the earth, and then they naturally frowned.
"Official family."
At this moment, a person next to him suddenly said, "There is nothing we can do about this kind of thing. I was just like them in the Jin camp that day, and I had to carry earth to fill ditches."
Everyone looked up and saw that it was Yan Xiaozhong, the young man of Kaifeng Prefecture. They all sighed, but had nothing to say.
However, when Zhao Guanjia, who was lying on a chair, heard this, he asked one more question: "Can I have enough to eat in the Jin camp?"
"It's hard to say whether you have enough to eat or not on weekdays." Not only the others, but Yan Xiaozhong, who was short and as skinny as a dwarf, was slightly startled, and then shook his head repeatedly. "But there is always food, and the discipline of the Jin army is also good.
It’s quite strict and there are very few deductions...but in a war like this, you may not necessarily be able to get enough.”
"How do you say that?" Zhao Jiu was puzzled for a moment. "Is it because swords, bows and arrows don't have eyes?"
"No." Yan Xiaozhong replied seriously with a straight face. "When encountering this kind of thing, death is the inevitable result. But even if you return to the camp alive, you will probably starve... If I remember correctly, the Jin people will definitely
This involves breaking sticks to get soil. When these civilians receive a basket of soil, they can take a wooden stick as long as a finger and insert it into their hair or behind their ears. When the soil is poured out, they go back and hand over the empty basket and wooden sticks to the Jin people who supervise the battle.
Then they would use a dagger to peel off the bark of the stick to make a bare stick. With this bare stick, the people could get a bowl of rice at night. Those who didn't have a bare stick deserved to starve."
Under the sunlight, Zhao Jiu squinted his eyes slightly: "The one-stick man, I thought he was the one-penny man from the Northern Qi Dynasty in the past?"
"It is not easy for a single-handed man to do anything." Yan Xiaozhong ignored the increasingly darker complexions of the surrounding ministers and continued to explain to Zhao Guanjia. "I am in the Jin army and I know very well...those who can eat at night
Those who work for food are all ruffians and gangsters among the people. Most of their bachelors were snatched after the war, and the Jin people are not people who enforce the law impartially. They only cut sticks and distribute food, nothing else? So now these people are
The peasants in the ditch dumped a basket of soil and thought they were making a living. In fact, the Jin people would drive them back after they returned. However, they survived by chance day after day. At night, they were exhausted, but the bare stick in their hands had to be beaten by those who were 30% to 50%.
If a group of bachelors snatch it away, you will starve for a whole night, and if you have no strength the next day, you will die even faster."
Zhao Jiu remained silent, just leaning forward and watching the battle with his hands folded. There was some discussion on the observation deck, but after this 'explanation', everyone became silent.
"The enemy cloud ladder is a hundred steps away from the word 'Yellow'!" At this moment, suddenly, a loud report sounded on the quiet city wall in front, which immediately attracted everyone's attention.
Obviously, this is the real reason why the people who filled the ditches are alive today. Behind them are countless "strong people" carrying ladders... These people should be Zhang Yu, who is responsible for commanding the Jin army's camp.
Specially and carefully selected, in terms of organization, they are considered servants, not bachelors. At least many of them have a wooden shield or something like a wooden board in their hand to make a wooden shield to protect their sides; and many of them also have shields around their waists.
There is a knife, which is unimaginable for an unarmed man with a stick.
If not, why would the Jin people use bachelor sticks as tokens?
Back in front of me, there was a sound from the city, followed closely by similar reports like fried beans:
"The enemy's ladder is a hundred steps away from the word 'Hong'!"
"The enemy's ladder is a hundred steps away from the word 'Lie'!"
"The enemy's cloud ladder is a hundred steps away from the word "Yu"!"
And as the commanders on these steps (the city wall protruding from the platform) reported their numbers, the crossbowmen on the corresponding section of the city wall behind them almost immediately cocked their bows and prepared for battle, entering a battle-ready state.
Immediately afterwards, when a large number of Jin army's siege equipment entered the attack range of the city wall, the crossbows on the city wall were fired in an orderly manner under the command of the flag issued in the specific direction designated by the commander... carrying the ladder and moving forward quickly...
Most of Zhang Yujun only had a piece of wood, and only a few of the leaders had leather armor. Therefore, each stage was just a round of intensive shooting, and many ladders were thrown directly to the ground. The strong civilians who had just formed an army fled quickly.
But seeing this situation, Zhang Yu's soldiers who were supervising the battle and Meng'an, who was directly under Wanyanba Lisu's troops in charge of the northern camp, rushed forward, used machetes and horse hooves to force these people to come forward again, and asked them to hold up their shields and form a formation.
, and the main soldiers of Zhang Yu's tribe who had a certain armor rate should not hesitate any longer and follow immediately... because there were still some ladders that relied on their numerical advantage to approach the moat that had become an ice trench, and they were preparing to climb over the ice trench.
According to the defensive design of most cities, there should be only a person-high sheep and horse wall behind the trench or moat (the low wall outside the city wall and inside the moat is named after the livestock stored by residents outside the city during wartime. It is the most common city in Middle East Asia.
Standard equipment), as long as you climb over this low wall defense line, you can enter the last section of the city wall, which is about thirty to fifty steps wide, and try to attack the city with ladders from here.
Correspondingly speaking, in the face of the dispatch of the enemy's main force with well-equipped equipment, the troops on the city top immediately became vigilant, and under the command of the generals on each platform, the crossbows on the city wall also began to concentrate on firing these equipment.
Better soldiers.
The enemy-defeating bows, divine arm bows, and even small crossbows were no longer stingy with arrows. The main force of Zhang Yu's tribe quickly suffered large casualties.
Not only that, Wanyan's bodyguard Meng An, who was also supervising the battle, galloped into the shooting range and was suddenly fired upon by the Song army, killing dozens of people on the spot.
Seeing this shape, many people on the watchtower finally heaved a sigh of relief. Even Lu Yihao was a little annoyed. However, not far to the north of the city, below Wanyan Wushu, dozens of gold generals looked at this scene coldly.
But they were all indifferent.
In fact, almost all the attention of these golden people is still on those ladders, and they are still paying attention to how many ladders have successfully reached the frozen moat, and how many have successfully climbed over the sheep and horse wall? Some people have even begun to estimate how many ladders will be needed.
How many ladders must be thrown in at once to ensure that the entire Sheep and Horse Wall falls, is pushed to it, and finally starts the goose cart and drives over to hit the city gate?
And a moment later, I saw a ladder easily ascending from the bottom of the moat through the protection of the river bank and the sheep and horse wall, and was easily thrown over the short sheep and horse wall by Sergeant Zhang Yu, but there was actually no one inside the horse wall.
The Song army showed up to fight, and the generals of the Jin army almost all looked at the fourth prince Wanyan Wushu... Without him, behind the moat and the sheep and horse wall, and in front of the city wall, this distance has always been a distance due to the cross fire support above.
The best place to defend is with your back to the city, and sending troops out of the city to fight is a conventional means of defending the city, and even the most effective means.
In fact, even during the Jingkang Incident that day, soldiers and horses in Tokyo City repeatedly attacked from behind the sheep and horse wall. However, the soldiers of Nanyang Ming Dynasty had all the food and supplies, but they did not send troops out of the city to fight!
How can anyone in the world defend a city without leaving the city?
The fourth prince, Wanyan Wushu, was obviously startled for a moment, and seemed a little hard to understand, but almost immediately, the man gestured towards Wanyan Bali Sunuzui, who was number one on the left hand beside him.
Wanyan Bali quickly received the signal and immediately waved his hand, asking his two Meng'an who were waiting for orders to immediately step forward to join the battle. The two Jurchen Meng'an who were arrayed in front of the high platform received the military order and did not hesitate at all.
Horses, launched an infantry battle towards the Nanyang City Wall where bows and crossbows were densely packed, preparing to participate in the city climb.
"There's something wrong with the Song people's sheep and horse wall."
As soon as the two fierce troops left, they saw several more ladders being lifted over the sheep and horse wall. However, the Song army on the city wall still maintained a certain excessive calmness and order. Wanhu Han Chang was the first to express doubts.
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"It's really inappropriate."
The older Chi Zhanhui also twisted his beard and made up his mind. "But it's not just the sheep and horse wall... something was wrong from the beginning. The city was prepared so early, so there must be artillery, but from the first day to now, there has been no cannon.
There are cannon stones flying out."
"That's right." Han Chang squinted his eyes and said. "I just want to save stones and bullets, or I don't want to expose the position of the artillery cart too early so that I can fire the cannon, but why don't I use those artillery carts at the exit of the city? First of all,
If the artillery carriage is stationary and it just sits back and watches our army fill the river and climb over the sheep and horse wall, there must be other sources of support."
"Why can't it be that the civil servants of the Song Dynasty in the city were confused again?" Wanyan Bali quickly smiled but not smiled. "I heard that in Tokyo that day, someone fired a cannon on the city wall to hit the Second Prince's barracks, but he was beheaded in public by his own family... among the Song people's army
If it’s inappropriate, then is it still inappropriate?”
"That's because the former Zhao Song officials were as timid as mice and insisted on making peace." Wanyan Wushu finally spoke, but he directly rejected Ba Lisu's guess. "The Zhao Song officials in Nanyang are not that kind of fool!"
Wanyan Balisu neither refuted nor agreed, but immediately shut up... He had figured it out anyway, he couldn't please the fourth prince, and he was the fourth prince and the fourth prince.
Marshal Zuo Jianjun of the Capital Marshal's Mansion, it would be better to cooperate non-violently.
And now that Ba Lisu has shut up, the others are too bored and just wait quietly for the battle situation ahead to change.
However, the problem lies here. As the Jin Army continues to invest troops based on the so-called progress, the battle situation at the front has not changed...
In order to survive to have a bite of food tonight, the peasants continued to run forward risking their lives, either carrying earth baskets and corpses to fill ditches, or carrying wooden boards to resist the ladder. At most, Zhang Yu's main force and two
Meng'an's Jin people took the initiative to participate in the battle, which reduced the casualties considerably, but the rest remained as usual;
In order to be rewarded and to avoid the supervising troops, the soldiers of Zhang Yu's tribe mustered up the courage to rush to the moat, swarming up along the direction where the civilians had successfully set up the ladders, and often fell into pieces when they reached the sheep and horse wall, causing numerous casualties;
The two Meng'an troops of the Jin Army both wore iron armor and went into battle. They were very brave and fearless. When they came to the frozen moat, they even took the initiative to shoot at the top of the city, and asked the Han'er troops in their Meng'an army to form formations under the city and fire back.
Therefore, although there were frequent casualties due to the constant arrows on their heads, they could not stop them from climbing over the dry and frozen moat and climbing over the short sheep and horse wall.
However, whether it is the gap in combat power or the gap in battlefield status, there is only one result, that is, some people finally succeeded in climbing over the narrow wall of sheep and horses, but they all disappeared without a trace...
The generals of the Jin Army did not pay much attention to this phenomenon at first, because even if the Song Army did not have the courage to send troops to fight behind the city, they would definitely use the advantage of the stage and the city wall to carry out close-range bow and arrow strikes and cross fire against the sheep and horse wall.
Under the crossbows that the Song people were most proud of, this area was the area with the greatest casualties, and there was a narrow escape from death.
However, after a long time, no ladder was successfully erected on the city wall after crossing the sheep and horse wall, which is a bit ridiculous.
"Deer firewood or a trap?" Wanyan Balisu thought thoughtfully. "It can't be like the former Liao people in Yuguan (Shanhaiguan) who sprinkled it with iron caltrops, right?"
"The iron caltrops scattered all over that day did not prevent us from conquering Yuguan on the 15th." The veteran Chi Zhanhui became more and more depressed as he looked at it, but he actually stood up. "And the rapid attack on Yuguan that day was due to Taizu.
Only by taking the initiative to find out the details of the Qing Liao people can the emperor succeed in the battle... I'm going to see what the Song people are hiding!"
"Old General, please sit down."
Wanyan Wushu spoke immediately, but then went to look at Yanba Lisu.
And Ba Lisu didn't dare to neglect. He quickly stood up and stopped Chi Zhanhui with his own hands... Are you kidding me? Jurchen generals always pay attention to the fact that it is good for a Jurchen general to take the target personally, but he is the director of the northern camp, and he is the one responsible for today's battle.
How can we let others do the things that are part of our duties?
If I really let Chi Zhanhui go and return to the army in the future, I am afraid that I will be laughed at by Yanjing.
Therefore, as soon as he stopped Chi Zhanhui, Wanyan Bali immediately screamed for one person's life on the stage: "Where is Yuying?!"
A man in his twenties, Meng An, quickly stepped out and bowed his head. His age was in stark contrast to the surrounding generals, but he instantly attracted everyone's attention.
"Take your knights and go behind the wall of sheep and horses to find out what's going on, otherwise don't come back!" Ba Lisu ordered sternly, then drew his sword and threw it in front of the man.
Upon hearing this, the general just kowtowed on the ground, picked up the knife, and turned around as quickly as possible.
Seeing the young general leading the crowd to dismount and set off, Han Chang was thoughtful and asked Bali quickly: "Is this Dutong's nephew? His original name was Taran, but he changed his name to Yuying because he had the same name as the deputy marshal.
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"That's right." Ba Lisu sat down again, but without delay, he responded proudly. "That's my nephew!"
"I remember that your brother gave him the armor during the expedition against Liao. At that time, we laughed at the deputy marshal, saying that he was lazy and might not remember it clearly in the future." Chi Zhanhui, who also sat down again, said with a smile. "Sure enough, in the blink of an eye,
It’s been a long time since then…but the deputy marshal has also become a deputy marshal.”
"The name is meaningless, it depends on his ability." Ba Lisu continued to speak boldly, even Wanyan Wushu nodded slightly.
Moreover, Ba Lisu's nephew was naturally Wanyan Yinshuke, the son who stayed behind in Taiyuan. He was so dear that he actually led hundreds of cavalry to dismount and went to the most dangerous area under the enemy's city to investigate the military situation, and placed him on the side of the Song Dynasty.
It is simply unimaginable, but here in Jinren, it is still a matter of course.
It can only be said that this is a Jurchen.
Regardless of whether they have begun to degenerate or not, and to what extent they have degenerated, at this moment, they are still the most powerful cold weapon army in East Asia and even the world.
This is not an exaggeration, it is a fact.
At the beginning of the twelfth century AD, the Holy Roman Empire had no name, Byzantium was in ruins, West Asia and North Africa were in disarray, the Crusades were in full swing, the Ghaznavid dynasty in Central Asia and India was falling apart, and Saladin, who later achieved some success, had not yet been born.
, at this moment, the civilization in East Asia still leads the way... So, when the Liao Kingdom was destroyed and the Yelv Stone moved westward, it was naturally the Song Dynasty that dominated everything in the world politically, culturally, and economically, and in fact
The Jin Kingdom, the military overlord of East Asia, was also truly invincible.
In fact, the Kingdom of Jin, which has absorbed a large amount of advanced cultural knowledge from the Liao and Song Dynasties and acquired the prosperous land of Hebei, Yan, and Liaodong, is probably still the world's second-largest cultural and economic power at this time, while it almost died more than a year ago.
The Song Dynasty is still the second largest military power in the world...there is no doubt about it.
if not?
At this moment, no one on this planet can ridicule the economic and cultural backwardness of the Jurchens, except the Song people, and no one can ridicule the military incompetence of the Song people, except the Jurchens.
Yelu Dashi?
Did the Liao Dynasty or the Song Dynasty perish?
Wanyan Yuying's participation in the battle immediately attracted the attention of the Song army at the top of Nanyang City, because this unit was obviously temporarily transferred, and the cavalry came directly, unlike the two units that were placed in front of the enemy general's command platform, equipped with short soldiers and bows and arrows.
Being fierce is not the same thing at all.
Soon, the intention of this unit was also noticed. They rushed into the firing range of the Song army as skirmishers, but dismounted in front of the city defense trench that had been mostly filled. Then they dispersed across the trench and climbed up the sheep and horses.
Wall... Obviously, we want to understand the story behind the wall of sheep and horses.
Of course, there is no story, it’s just a simple trench! There is a trench inside and outside the Sheep and Horse Wall in Nanyang City!
Moreover, the inner ditch behind the sheep and horse wall was obviously dug temporarily. It was not as deep or wide as the outside, and the ice at the bottom of the ditch was not as spectacular as the outside, but it was enough to cause huge trouble to the Jin people who were attacking the city!
The trench outside is considered an authentic moat.
The moat, let's fill it in. After four or five days of filling it, and the thick ice finally formed today, the golden man finally turned over, but fell into another trench covered with ice edges!
so what should I do now?
In fact, Wanyan Yuying was thinking about this simple question as soon as he rolled over and slid to the bottom of the ditch, and he quickly came up with the most direct answer and crawled back.
Just climb back from the thick sheep and horse wall. Anyway, as long as there are not a dozen enemy-defeating bows, divine arm bows, etc. aimed at him, the double-layered iron armor on his body is enough to deal with it.
However, after finally climbing up from the inner ditch where there were many corpses under the rain of arrows, and reaching the bottom of the narrow wall, Wanyan Yuying was shocked to find that the wall had actually grown taller?!
The wall of sheep and horses that was easily climbed in from the outside had several corpses trampled on it from the inside, but it was far out of reach where the force could be applied?
Is it haunted?
“It actually has such a miraculous effect!”
It was gradually different from the angry and upset appearance in the morning. I saw hundreds of elite Jin Army soldiers falling into this trap as if they were throwing themselves into a trap. Although I don’t know which young man from the Wanyan clan fell into it, but
Lu Yihao and Mr. Lu Xianggong, who had been holding back all morning, were still in a rare mood. He even stood up and looked around while stroking his beard. His posture became much smoother. "This method of being low on the inside and high on the outside is also what Chen Shangshu thought of?"
"No." Yan Xiaozhong simply stood on the chair with his feet on his feet and blurted out. "Chen Shangshu has always liked things like inner trenches, but the different heights inside and outside the sheep and horse wall are beyond his imagination."
"No matter who it is, you should be rewarded!" Lu Shuxiang waved his hand and was extraordinarily generous. "Although it is a small skill, it is not worth mentioning, but it still has some cunning. If you win the first battle, you will be rewarded with a big reward."
The dark and thin Yan Xiaozhong looked at Lu Yihao who stood up on the chair, and then at the person next to him, but he simply said bluntly: "It's good to teach Xianggong Lu. I am a low-ranking official who has participated in the construction of city defense and knows very well."
, it is the person next to you who has acquired this cunning attitude."
Everyone looked at each other in astonishment. They instinctively looked at Lu Yihao. Even Lu Yihao also instinctively looked at the person beside him. However, when everyone looked at each other, they found that to Lu Yihao's left was another Lu Xianggong who was peeping his head and had been silent for the past few days.
, they each shook their heads, and then looked to the right of Prime Minister Lu... And there, surprisingly, was the Zhao Guan family who still had their hands folded and turned a deaf ear.
ps: The morning chapter of making a new life is here.