Chapter 116: Luck
After a night of fierce fighting, Chen Yu did not retreat on the city wall, exhausted. He returned to the house, plunged headlong, and soon fell asleep.
It was only three o'clock in the afternoon that he woke up again, his stomach rumbling and hunger.
Chen Yu sat down at the table, thought for a moment, spread out the pen and paper, and began to write.
"The minister received the grace of the imperial court, and since the first year of Jingkang, he has guarded Zhongshan Mansion, and now it has been four years. The soldiers attacked the city day and night, the grain and grass in the city were cut off, the arrows were exhausted, and the ministers were weak and bandits, and it was difficult to hold on. There is no grain and grass in the mountains today, and there is no ...... outside."
Sha Zhen was sleeping soundly in the house, and the sergeant woke him up, saying that Governor Chen had asked him to go to the city wall to discuss important matters.
What else is important, it is not to let himself lead the soldiers out of the city to die. Sha Zhen sneered a few times in his heart.
He got dressed, put on his armor, hid a short knife close to him, and headed for the wall.
Sha Zhen looked at the city wall and saw that there were not a few sergeants around Chen Yu, only his younger brother Chen Shi, and the attention of the two of them didn't seem to be on him. He quietly touched the sweaty short knife on his waist, took a few steps forward, hugged his fists and said, "Chen Xianggong, do we have to go out of the city to attack the soldiers?"
Chen Yu turned his head, glanced at him, his face became serious, and shouted angrily: "Manager Sha, go back and prepare quickly, ...... tonight"
"Report!"
Before Chen Yu could finish speaking, a sergeant ran in from the city wall and shouted, "Tell the minister, reinforcements are coming!"
"Reinforcements"
Sha Zhen could barely believe his ears, and the hand that was stretched out to the short knife at his waist also drooped.
"Where are the reinforcements, you can find out"
Chen Yu tried his best to suppress the fluctuations in his heart, and his face turned red.
The sergeant's face was full of excitement, and he clenched his fists and said: "The scout found that five miles outside the city, reinforcements came from the north and had already engaged Fanzi. Don't believe me, you can listen to the sound of artillery outside! ”
Several people's hearts were rippling, and they all pricked up their ears. The sound of "Tongtong" was earth-shattering, and it was obvious that a fierce battle was taking place in the north of the city.
"Gong Chen, this Song army is not simple, let's take a good look, which way of soldiers and horses, this artillery is so powerful"
Chen Yu and the guards glanced at each other, and they both saw the joy in each other's eyes.
The Jin Soldier Battalion in the north of Zhongshan Mansion was already in chaos at this time.
Dong Xian stood on a high ground, watching the battle of thousands of troops and horses in front of him, and couldn't help but feel itchy in his palms, and wanted to go into battle in person, but was stopped by Ma Kuo.
Ma Kuo picked up the clairvoyant mirror and looked at the dilapidated wall of Zhongshan Mansion in the distance. The Song soldiers above were watching, and it seemed that Zhongshan Mansion had not been lost.
Ma Kuo breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, and finally arrived before the city broke, and his efforts were not in vain.
On a scorching hot day, the Song soldiers were all over the mountains and fields, and they were densely pressed.
Feathered arrows galloped and artillery roared, and at first it was difficult to distinguish, and there were casualties on each other. With the firing of small cannons and heavy artillery of the loyal army, the pressure on the Jin soldiers suddenly increased.
The sound of "Pengpeng" was endless, and the iron balls flew wantonly, smashing out bloody paths. Whether it is the Jin cavalry or the foot soldiers, the tendons and bones are broken, and the flesh and blood are blurred.
The sound of artillery was incessant, tents or carriages were smashed to pieces, and exclamations and screams were constantly heard.
The stone throwers, the arrow towers, the goose carts, the fences, and the horses were all collapsed under the wanton bombardment of the iron balls, and the camp was in a mess and in chaos.
An iron ball roared and smashed a Jurchen knight off his horse, knocking over the two golden soldiers on the ground, all three of whom were spitting blood from their mouths and falling to the ground so hard that they could no longer get up.
Chen Yu was dumbfounded, and the Song soldiers on the city wall cheered, and many shed tears.
Sha Zhen quietly touched the short knife on his waist, wiped the cold sweat on his head, and secretly felt lucky in his heart.
If I had done it earlier, I am afraid that it would have been a catastrophe.
What a time has come for this loyal army to return Thanion!
Everyone stretched their necks and looked intently towards the north of the city.
The smoke of gunpowder was filled, the iron pellets fired sharply, and the artillery roared angrily, and shot towards the Jurchen cavalry rushing in front of the position. The Jurchen cavalry fell down from their horses in batches, as if they were cutting wheat with a sickle.
Some of the Jurchen knights broke through the range of artillery fire and opened their bows and arrows to shoot at the gunners.
"These gunners, why are they so stupid, don't they hurry up and run, do they have to wait to be shot by the Jurchens?"
One of the sergeants watching from the city wall shouted anxiously.
Sha Zhen is a veteran of the battlefield and has been in battle for a long time. The name of the loyal and righteous army shocked the world, so calm and calm, there must be a follow-up. ”
Sure enough, the remnants of the Jurchen cavalry had not yet fired arrows, and one by one smoking iron bumps were thrown from the Song army's formation, and they fell into the Jurchen cavalry formation that rushed in front of them.
The explosions of "Tongtong" continued to sound, and the Jurchen cavalry were blown down in a pool of blood. The horses screamed and cries, and the flesh and blood of the men and horses were blurred.
"I can't imagine that my Great Song Dynasty has such a strong soldier!"
Chen Yu burst into tears, not knowing whether he was powerless or grateful to God, and knelt on the ground.
"The straight lady thief is trapped in the city, sitting in the well and watching the sky, this dog's day battle, it turns out that this is how it was fought!"
Sha Zhen's face was pale, cold sweat broke out, and the thrilling bloody battle in front of him, the bloody war scene, was completely beyond his cognition.
The loyal and righteous army is so brave, if he votes for the gold, he will not be beaten into a sieve?
What a fluke for dog days!
"Use a shotgun to drive all the fans into the river!"
Dong Xian shouted loudly and commanded the gunners. The Jin camp has been broken through, and if there is another bombardment, the Jin soldiers will definitely be scattered.
Zhongshan Mansion is surrounded by water on three sides, and only the northwest direction is land. The loyal army came from the northwest direction, driving countless Jin soldiers in the direction of the river.
The cannon sound of "Pengpeng" continued to sound, and the Jurchen knights and Han'er fell to the ground one by one, drenched in blood and blurred flesh and blood.
Endless iron balls roared in, countless iron pellets flew through the air, and among the panicked and fleeing crowds, the golden soldiers fell one by one. The iron ball bounced forward on the hard ground, smashing a bloody path through the crowd, and countless golden soldiers fell on the way of the iron ball flying.
The Jin soldiers suffered heavy casualties, and the battalion fell into chaos. The drums were dense, the smoke and dust were rising, and the two thousand Song cavalry poured into the Jin soldier camp from both wings.
Behind the Song cavalry, under the banner waving, the dense and neat Song infantry soldiers were marching forward with neat and consistent steps, holding spears.
Feathered arrows roared, and people on both sides kept falling at the same time. The Jin soldiers, who were expecting Song Bing to be unable to withstand the blow and crushed with one blow, watched incredibly as the other party continued to step forward.
"Come back the fuck, don't run!
"Escapee, die!"
The Jurchen generals turned pale, and they drew their long knives and cut down countless panicked and fleeing Han'er, trying to stop the rout in front of them.
"Brothers, let's destroy these fans first, Han'er is vulnerable!"
Niu Tong and Liu Qi each led a thousand knights and rushed forward with horses.
The remnants of the Jurchen knights rose up their courage and immediately collided with the Song knights who rushed over, and in an instant, people turned on their backs, killing and injuring countless people.
Liu Qi led the knights on a rampage, and soon the front was empty, surrounded by Han infantry soldiers who fled in all directions, and it turned out that the Song army cavalry formation had carved the Jurchen cavalry formation.
"Brothers, rush again, Fanzi is already at the end of the crossbow!"
Liu Qi turned the horse's head, and everyone gathered in one place, re-arrayed, and rushed forward one after another.
Before coming to Hebei, he also thought highly of himself, thinking that with his experience in the army and his five cars, he could show his skills in the Loyal and Righteous Army and show his ambitions.
Participated in two battles, and there was no arrogance in his chest. The strength of the loyal and righteous army mainly comes from the good fighting of the grassroots officers, and there is too little that needs to be corrected, as long as they fulfill their duties.
Such a strong army also gave him strong confidence. Only the loyal and righteous army can defeat the invincible Jurchen Iron Cavalry.
The drums sounded, and countless Song soldiers marched forward bravely, spreading all over the mountains. They stepped forward with their steps, and no matter how fierce the Jin soldiers on the opposite side were, they couldn't stop them from rolling forward.
Song Jun rushed forward without hesitation, and the kind of bloody courage that defied life and death and fought for the future made the Jurchen knights and Han'er tremble and chill.
Looking at the Jurchen warriors who are usually invincible and self-assured, they were blurred and miserable one by one by the firearms of the Song army. The Han'er were full of fear, and they subconsciously retreated backwards, forming a trend of tidal retreat.
Even the Jurchen Iron Cavalry, who roamed the world and was brave and good at fighting, were so embarrassed and had countless casualties, how could they, the followers who saw the wind and steered the rudder, not be suddenly lost.
One by one, the flesh and blood of the companions were blurred, the muscles and bones were broken, and the companions around them became fewer and fewer, and many of them were blurred in flesh and blood, turning into silent corpses. Slowly, Han'er's courage disappeared little by little, bringing with him an uncontrollable fear.
Many men could no longer bear the pressure of death, and the knives and guns in their hands could no longer be held steadily. Their faces were pale, their bodies trembled, they abandoned their swords and guns, and fled backwards.
Even those Jurchen knights who still had fighting spirit couldn't help but be dragged backwards by the rout.
The routs and pursuers were all over the mountains and fields, endlessly, like a rolling and moving torrent.
Tens of thousands of people were torn apart, and there were corpses along the way. The Jin soldiers fled in all directions, and among the deserters, those Jurchen cavalry were particularly conspicuous. They wielded swords and spears, frantically slashed and stabbed the Han'er foot soldiers who stood in their way, and fled all the way to the south.
Some of the men were killed by their companions who fled the way; Some of the men were squeezed to the ground, and before they could get up, they were trampled to death by the deserters behind them; Some of the men panicked and jumped directly into the Tang River, struggling to swim to the opposite bank, countless people were swallowed by the river, and the corpses swirled along the river and floated southward.
On the surface of the river and on the bank, there are corpses of Jin soldiers everywhere, and the Song soldiers watching on the city wall are sweating in their palms, and their hearts are happy, how can it be described by a cool word.
Since the Jin invaded the Song Dynasty, how many Song soldiers died at the hands of the Jin soldiers; how many people have been displaced and killed; and how many Song women were ravaged and ruined; The blood and tears of the Song people soaked every inch of Zhongshan Mansion.
It was a massacre, a bloody, exhilarating massacre!
It's clear every day! It's clear every day! should be returned, and the Song people will definitely find it back.
Seeing the Jin soldiers coming towards the south of Zhongshan Mansion, Sha Zhen said excitedly: "Chen Xianggong, do you want the last general to go out and kill for a while?"
Chen Yu shook his head and said, "If you go out now, you will probably be scattered by Fanzi's rout." Let's wait and see what happens, and hold the walls. ”
Sha Zhen felt relaxed for a while, nodded and said, "What Gong Chen said is true." The defeat of the Jin people has been decided, let's stick to it, lest Fanzi take the opportunity to seize the city. ”
Chen Yu let out a long breath, nodded and said, "Chief Sha, you go and make arrangements, clear the road, remove the earth and stones in front of the city gate, and prepare to welcome the loyal army into the city."
Sha Zhengong respectfully bowed and said, "Gong Chen, rest assured, the lower officials will arrange it."
In the afternoon, Liu Qi led his troops into Zhongshan Mansion and recovered this important town on the north side of the river. Since the "Summer Offensive" launched by the Loyal and Righteous Army, Hedong has recovered the south of Taiyuan, and Hebei has been restored to the north of the Juma River, and most of the important towns on the West Hebei Road have been under the rule of the Loyal and Righteous Army.
Taiyuan Mansion, Zhongshan Mansion, Hejian Mansion, three important border towns, now only Hejian Mansion remains.