War of Nations (2)

For more than a month, the soldiers of the Northern Yuan Dynasty have deeply realized the meaning of the word "stubbornly defending". This is not like the Song army's habit of only defending and not attacking that they are familiar with, but the defending side drags the attacking side to death together.

"The defenders suffered heavy losses!" Almost every Mongol military general could have come to the same conclusion. The Song people standing on the head of Fengxin City were not at all fodder for war, and they were not even neat in dodging and hiding in the face of swords and arrows, and they were simply lambs to the slaughter for the Mongol warriors who used battle as a means of making a living. But this does not mean that the attacker can take advantage of much, Zou Xun's best tactic is to defend to the death, under his command, the Song people's tenacious will to fight and the strong city wall complement each other, coupled with the sharp firearms hidden behind the city wall, so that the attacker will pay two to three times the price when killing every Song person.

Most of the veterans who went south this time were veterans of a hundred battles, the essence of the Mongolian warriors. Of course, Prime Minister Boyan was reluctant to waste all the essence of his clan in a small city. So, after several unsuccessful storms, the soldiers who participated in the siege were changed from the Mongols to the Han, Jin and Tanguts, and those Mongol warriors armed to the teeth supervised the battle from a little distance with bows and arrows and long knives.

The pressure on Bongseong must be maintained, as only then will the surprise troops led by General Gegen have a chance to find holes in the entire line of defense in other directions. Therefore, even if he knew that he would not be able to break through the blue-gray city in front of him for a while, the daily routine attack still had to continue.

"Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!" Dozens of feathered arrows hit the face head-on, knocking the new annexed army and the Han army that had just retreated into pieces. The remaining 2,000 or so slave soldiers stopped like a tide meeting a reef, suddenly let out a cry of despair, turned around and rushed towards Fengxin City.

"Lift the ladder, lift the ladder!" Commander Bilig shouted at the top of his voice, "Push a few crashed cars, and then get on a thousand-man team." Whoever rushed to the head of the city was rewarded with twenty sheep and one hundred acres of land. Those who retreat without an order will be killed on the spot! ”

“…… Those who retreat without an order will be killed on the spot! The loud-voiced herald shouted out the order into Chinese, and instigated his war horse to gallop back and forth beyond the range of the opponent's steel crossbow. The cannon fodder of all races, carrying ladders and attacking the city in a loose formation, raised their heads, gave him a blank look, and then lowered their heads and continued to run forward, the high bounty did not arouse anyone's courage.

The earth beneath the city turned red, and no one was seen alive to receive the reward. Everyone is not stupid, and in this current situation, they don't ask for anything else, but when they want to charge, don't rush to the front or the formation is too dense, and be greeted by the steel crossbows and artillery at the head of the city. Don't run too fast when retreating, and be content if you hit the sword edge of the Overseer. Boyan has a high bounty, but no matter how high the bounty is, he has to have a life to spend it, right?

"Your Excellency Prime Minister has an order,......" The herald noticed that the cannon fodder was demoralized, stopped, and shouted in a different way. The morale-boosting rhetoric had just begun, only to hear the sound of the wind in his ears, and then the strength of his whole body was instantly drained, and a wolf's tooth arrow appeared between his eyebrows and the bridge of his nose, and it came out like a fountain of blood troughs, red, white, and along the shaft of the arrow.

The herald's body shook and fell off his horse. The surrounding Tanma Red Army, Han Army, and New Annexation Army immediately lay on the ground. The feeling of panic instantly spread throughout the army, and the entire attacking team came to a standstill.

In an instant, hundreds of archers stood on the city wall, and wolf's tooth arrows and steel crossbows rained down. Dozens of slave soldiers near the city wall fell like wheat smashed by hailstones, and the slave soldiers in the back row, seeing that the situation was not good, threw away the ladder, abandoned the rushing cart, and ran back like crazy.

Bi Lige did not hesitate to send a team of supervisors, in the past month, there are more than 100,000 new annexed troops who have been forcibly transferred to the front line by Boyan, and the supply of grain and grass for the army is already tight, if these people do not consume it, they will have to eat more food from the Mongolian army.

More than 200 Mongolian warriors rode horses to meet the rout, cut their horses and kicked, and stabilized the formation with blood. The new annexes, who had lost their courage, wept and wept loudly, and did not dare to flee to their own camp again, but they refused to move their legs close to the city wall even after being killed. After killing more than 20 soldiers in a row and still unable to drive them away, the commander of the thousand soldiers, Bi Lige, showed mercy and ordered the group of defeated soldiers to be brought down for dinner. The nodpole summoned a new annex Wanhu and asked him to change another batch of cannon fodder to continue the attack.

"Bi, Bi, General Bi!" Xia Pingjiang, the new attached army, stammered, "Humble, lowly position, there is a suggestion, I don't know when, when should I talk about it!" ”

A distant nephew of his old general Xia Gui, who led 200,000 Song troops to surrender to the Mongols with Xia Gui, was infamous and changed to the position of commander of ten thousand households. After a month, Xia Pingjiang saw that the 20,000 new annexed troops under his command were about to be exhausted, and he felt a little anxious.

"What, General Xia, have you lost the courage of a general?" Behind Bilige, Kim Jong-nam, the interpreter of Goryeo, asked with a gloomy face.

Unlike the Mongol generals under Da Chun, few of the generals under Boyan could speak Chinese, so they needed to be interpreted to communicate with the new annexed army and the Han generals. And for the generals of the new annexed army, the Goryeo translation pass was the most difficult. These dog-fighting guys are greedy and ruthless, and once they don't serve well, they often take the lead in turning their faces before the Mongolian generals say anything.

"Where, where, just trying to change the way of playing. In such a fight, the brothers suffered many casualties, but in vain! Xia Pingjiang said with a smile. In terms of military rank and knighthood, he is much higher than the Mongolian thousand households in front of him, but the two nationalities are different, and in the army, no matter how high the position of the Han generals is, they dare not be arrogant in front of the Mongolian soldiers.

"What is General Xia talking about?" Seeing that the Goryeo translator and Xia Pingjiang were muttering non-stop, Bi Lige thought that the two were conspiring, and asked a little unhappily.

Kim Jong-nam glared at Xia Pingjiang fiercely, turned around, nodded and said in Mongolian: "General Xia wants to give you advice, he thinks that your current style of play is not correct!" ”

"Oh, let him tell me what the correct way to play is?" A dark cloud obviously appeared on Bilige's face, and he said coldly. The corpses of the new annexed army and the Tanma Red Army alone could not be piled up on the city wall, and all the Mongolian generals outside Fengcheng City knew this at this moment. However, the plan for the feint attack could not be revealed to the new annexed army. Otherwise, they were already afraid of death, and they would not work hard when attacking the city, and it would be easy for the Song army in the city to guess the true intentions of the Yuan army.

"Humble, lowly it is recommended that between every five hundred new annexes, one hundred Mongol warriors be interspersed. The new annexed army has poor skills, is timid, and has no Mongolian warriors to bring it, so it can't muster the courage to fight! Although Xia Pingjiang, the commander of the army, was submissive on the surface, he was not without assertiveness in his heart. After seeing through Bilige's attempt to use the soldiers of the new annexed army as cannon fodder, he turned around and climbed onto the Mongol army.

Hearing this, Goryeo translator Kim Jong-nam glared at Xia Pingjiang again, but he didn't dare not translate truthfully. After thinking about it for a while, he translated Xia Pingjiang's suggestion to Bi Lige in as tactful a tone as possible.

"You say, you want to involve the Mongols in the siege? You say, you new annexes don't have the guts? Bilig asked with a gloomy face as he pressed his hand on the hilt of his sword.

"Yes, that's what the last general means. If the Prime Minister ordered the general to make a feint, the general had to involve some of the Mongols in the siege. Otherwise, the defenders in the city will always not be able to see the Mongol army, and they will suspect that there is an empty camp outside Fengcheng City, and speculate that the prime minister's real main attack direction is not this! After listening to the translator's words, Xia Pingjiang stood up straight and replied loudly.

Several nearby generals of the newly attached army who had been emphasized by Boyan from Jinghu heard Xia Pingjiang's words and stepped forward together. For more than a month, their subordinates have also lost a lot. Everyone is a person who eats with a lot of people and horses in their hands, and it is inevitable that there is some friendship between each other, and at this moment, seeing Xia Pingjiang taking the initiative to accuse Bi Lige, they all echoed it.

"Yes, yes, I came to help the war on the orders of the prime minister, but I don't have the ability to serve as the main attacker!"

"That's right, we can't miss the prime minister's big event!"

This time, it made Bilig difficult to do. Although Boyan arranged more than 40,000 new annexed troops for him to consume, he did not say that he could force the new annexed army to rebel. There were not many Mongol troops stationed outside Fengxincheng, and if there was a mutiny, he might suffer a big loss.

After carefully weighing the gains and losses, thousands of Biliges finally agreed to Xia Pingjiang's request. But he didn't want his Mongol warriors to be wasted. Ordered people to organize ten thousand troops of the new annexed army, and broke up the two thousand teams of the Mongol army and placed them in the middle of the thousand teams of the new annexed army. Then the gunners and archers were ordered to prepare, and in a quarter of an hour the artillery bombarded Fengxincheng. Finally, the Mongol army and the generals of the new annexed army who participated in the operation were ordered to use the cover of gunsmoke to rush forward with ten thousand troops, striving to inflict maximum damage on the defenders in an attack. Once someone storms the city, the bounty is doubled. In the event of visible damage to the walls, the three armies will rest for one day tomorrow and continue the siege on the third day.

"Yes!" The generals said yes and went their separate ways to prepare. A quarter of an hour later, the Yuan artillery team, consisting of twenty bronze field guns, took the lead in striking at Fengxincheng.

"Pow, puff, puff!" The sound of the brass shells and the grinding of the barrels was particularly poignant. Above and below the city walls, cannonballs exploded one after another, and with the continuous sound of explosions, patches of earth clotted by blood flew into the sky, and stones, broken wood, and the limbs of the dead flew back and forth.

Not to be outdone, the artillery on the walls immediately counterattacked. The quality of the artillery equipped by the Broken Army far exceeded that of the Northern Yuan, and the gap between the gunners of the two sides in proficiency and aiming skills was incomparable. Several rows of shells whistled across the sky, exploding in the middle of the Yuan army's artillery group, and the two guns were blown up, only to hear a loud "boom", and the gunner, the gun truck, and the unopened shells turned into a ball of flames.

After the explosion, corpses and scrap metal were scattered all over the ground. The Yuan soldiers, who were affected by the artillery fire, fell to the ground, bleeding from their noses, ears and mouths at the same time. The soldiers, who were lucky enough not to be killed, had no time to grieve for their comrades, so they put away the gun mounts, brought their horses, and put the gun carriages on their horses and quickly moved their positions.

"Boom, boom, boom!" As if enraged, the artillery on the city wall bombarded the position where the Yuan army fired cannonballs. Two more artillery carriages were overturned on the way to transfer. Shells and explosions of earth mixed with gunpowder smoke rose high, blocking half of the battlefield.

"Charge, the archers hit the walls and scattered. Others set up ladders, rushed cars, dug tunnels, and planted gunpowder under the walls! Angry and angry, Bilig used all the siege tactics at the same time. He didn't expect that after more than a month of attacking, the defenders' artillery fire would still be so fierce. I don't know how many shells are stored in this small city with a large projectile in front of me, as if they will never be able to shoot out, and each time it deals a great blow to the morale of the attackers.

Under the cover of gunsmoke, more than 10,000 new annexes crawled towards the city wall like locusts. No one believed that their team would be able to defeat Bongshin this time, but with the doubling of the bounty and the encouragement of a day off, the soldiers of the new annex army were somewhat motivated. In order to effectively deal with the artillery interception on the city walls, they did not dare to line up too closely. In order to be able to concentrate their forces on the city, their ranks must not be too thin. Under the fire of cannonballs, steel crossbows, and bows and arrows, the attacking team constantly adjusted at the cost of their lives, and after dropping nearly 500 corpses on the way, the soldiers who rushed to the front entered the artillery firing corner.

"Whole team, whole team, lift the ladder!" A man dressed in a centurion shouted loudly. Before he finished speaking, a puff of green smoke came out of the tiger squatting cannon on the city wall, and dozens of grains of iron sand smothered his face at the same time, smearing his eyes and nose into a flat surface.

The new annex soldiers, who were already close to the city wall, did their best to erect the ladder, and some of them used their shoulders to resist the feet of the ladder. Someone bit the scimitar in his mouth and struggled to climb up. On the city walls, feathered arrows and steel crossbows constantly flew down, shooting half-crawling attackers to the ground.

There was a thunderous sound of horses' hooves, and more than a thousand Mongol archers, taking advantage of the fact that the defenders were busy dealing with the infantry, took advantage of the chaos to approach the city walls. Shooting in galloping was the Mongols' specialty, and poisoned arrows rained down on the city walls, and the soldiers defending the city were caught off guard and fell in large numbers.

"Team, fight back! the gunners, aim at the horses! Shield hand, cover Minzhuang and carry the wounded down for treatment," Wu Yulin, the captain of the Broken Military Academy, greeted loudly. When a group of soldiers hiding behind the battlements heard the order, they immediately abandoned the Northern Yuan infantry under the city and turned their steel crossbows to the cavalry archers. Several small tiger squat cannons that could fire at close range were also quickly loaded with grapeshot shells designed to deal with cavalry, and adjusted their muzzles to shoot at the cavalry archers.

"Boom, boom, boom!" With the explosion of grapeballs, steel balls splashed. The Mongol cavalry archers fell by more than forty, and the rest turned their horses and quickly fled into the distance.

Hundreds of steel crossbows followed the horses, leaving the slow-fleeing Mongol archers in the battlefield. A few feathered arrows followed the steel crossbow and shot down from the city, but before they could hit the target, they lost their strength and fell to the ground lightly.

"Steady, steady, crossbowmen and gunners on guard to prevent the cavalry from turning back!" Guan Ruofei shouted. The number of breakers on the walls was too small to crush the cavalry archers in the first wave. The Nationalist Army, which was fighting in concert, was clearly afraid of the Mongol archers, and whenever the sound of horses' hooves approached, order on the walls of the city wall became chaotic.

Iron hats unique to the Yuan army appeared on several ladders, and two people who came to carry the wounded picked up a spear and stabbed it together at the nearest ladder. The Mongol warrior, who had just shown his head, was pierced through the chest with a spear and fell down with a scream.

At the other corner of the wall, the militia did not resist the attackers, and a Mongol warrior jumped on the top of the city, and with a sharp swing of his scimitar, he smashed a soldier of the Broken Army who rushed over to block the gap.

In an instant, several spears stabbed the Mongol warrior, picking him up and throwing him high into the air.

More and more Yuan troops climbed to the top of the city, and after a quarter of an hour, the two sides began to stalemate. With the encouragement of the first wave of Northern Yuan soldiers who climbed to the top of the city, some people climbed to the top of the city one after another. At the corner of the city wall, several groups of soldiers of the newly annexed army squatted on the ground and dug into the corners of the wall, relying on the protection of ironclad parachutes (a type of siege weapon with an iron plate on top and hiding people below). Behind them, gunpowder jars were brought up one by one, ready to blow up the city walls directly.

Guan Ruofei organized grenades to counterattack and blew up the parachute car close to the city wall "first". Then organize a small group of heavy infantry and rush to all corners of the city wall to rescue. The hoplite infantry wore chain mail reinforced with curved steel plates at key points, and held a special broken blade with a handle of more than three feet, and its defensive and offensive power were amazing. Everywhere they went, the Yuan soldiers who rushed to the city wall were cut down one after another.

However, the heavy armor also limited the speed of movement of the hoplites, and over time, the Yuan soldiers who stormed the walls gradually gathered into groups. On several city walls that the soldiers of the Broken Army could not call, the civilian army retreated one after another, giving almost the entire section of the city wall to the opponent.

"Could it be that the Immortal Heaven has blessed me!" Bilige, who was watching the battle with a telescope from outside the city, was so surprised that he couldn't close his mouth. Knowing that mixing the new annex with the Mongol army would have such a wonderful effect, he preferred to send out all the Mongol warriors under his command at the beginning of the mix. Seeing that more and more soldiers rushed to the city, he began to hesitate whether he should lead the whole army to rush forward.

At this moment, dozens of black projectiles fell into his sight.

"Grenade!" The name came to Billig's first thought. Before he could close his eyes, a cloud of smoke rose from the city gate, and the new annexed army, the Tanma Red Army, and the Mongol army, which were slamming the door with a rushing car, were blown up.

Immediately afterwards, a war horse rushed out of the smoke, and on the horse's back, a battle flag was raised high, "Break!" ”

"Tick-tick-click!" With the roaring sound of suona, a team of silver-armored cavalry rushed out of the city gate. The snow-bright saber splashed a cloud of golden light in the sunlight and slashed neatly into the Yuan army.

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