Chapter 207: Inside and Outside
Under the city of Xinchang, the sound of horns whimpered continuously, and tens of thousands of Sui troops were in good order, approaching the city wall in a mighty manner, roaring in unison: "Kill!" Kill! Kill! ”
At the head of the city, Wan Yanliang couldn't help but gasp: "The main force of the Youzhou Army has been defeated by the wolf lord and Temujin, and Luo Yi is now trapped in Zhuo County, where did these tens of thousands of troops come from?" Didn't Temujin send someone to impersonate him? ”
Guo Yaoshi is a general in Youzhou, and he still knows a lot about the Sui army. He stared down at the city for a long time, shook his head and said: "There is a difference in nature between Temujin's army and the Sui army, if it is a small force, it may be able to pretend to be a small force, but tens of thousands of troops are absolutely impossible. What's more, the wolf lord and Temujin have already fought for Zhuojun, and there is no need for him to blame the Sui army again. ”
At this moment, Zhang Xun under the city had already stepped forward and shouted: "Listen to the Jurchens in the city, I am Zhang Xun, the general of the Great Sui Left Guard!" Today, he was ordered to lead an army of 50,000 to come to the aid of Youzhou, and wait for a stick of incense to open the city and surrender, otherwise, no one will be left after the city is broken! ”
"Zhang Xun? General Guo, who is this? How come I have never heard of such a person under Luo Yi? Wan Yanliang turned his head and asked Guo Yaoshi.
Guo Yaoshi smiled bitterly and said: "Little general, this Zhang Xun is known as the number one guard general in the world, and he is a close general of Emperor Yang Gao of Sui, and he is one level higher than Luo Yi according to his official position. It seems that the soldiers and horses under the city should have been sent by Emperor Yang Gao of Sui to support Youzhou, but Youzhou is lonely, how did they come over? Could it be that Zhu Yuanzhang of Hebei was willing to lend the way to the Sui army? ”
"In the city, did you hear me clearly?" Zhang Xun's voice sounded again under the city, "Quickly open the city and surrender, but spare you from dying!" ”
"Drop! Fall! Fall! ”
After Zhang Xun's words fell this time, the army behind him also broke out into a shout. The voices of tens of thousands of people gathered together, and the violent sound was like a stormy wave, resounding in the sky. The fledgling Wan Yanliang turned pale with fright, and the other defenders couldn't stop trembling.
Although it is said that the Jurchens in history had invincible records, it was also related to the weak military strength of the Northern Song Dynasty at that time. Luo Yi does have such and such shortcomings, but his training ability is not bad. The Youzhou Army is also a border army, and it has been fighting on the border for many years, and its combat power is by no means comparable to the army in the late Northern Song Dynasty. After seeing the combat power of the Youzhou Army, it is naturally impossible for the Jurchens to be as arrogant as they were in history.
"Don't panic, Sui Jun is just bluffing!"
Seeing that the army in the city was unstable, Guo Yaoshi immediately roared, snatched a bow and crossbow from the soldiers around him, and shot at Zhang Xun with an arrow: "Zhang Xun dog thief, don't blempty here, Xinchang City is deep in high walls, there are 8,000 defenders in the city, if you have the courage, you will come to attack the city and discipline you to break the halberd under the city." ”
It's not that Guo Yaoshi is loyal to Wanyan Aguta, it's just that he was a general of the Sui army before, and now he is a traitor and a thief, unless he makes a great contribution, he will be the first to die after the city is broken.
Zhang Xunai is the commander of the army, and the defense around him is naturally not low. As soon as Guo Yaoshi loosened his strings, several guards around him raised their shields to protect him and blocked the sharp arrows.
Zhang Xun looked up and found that the person who shot the arrow at him turned out to be a Han man, so he was furious and shouted coldly: "Okay! Good! Good! I can't imagine that you, a Miao descendant of the Han family, a seven-foot man, are willing to be a dog for the Jurchens so loyally, it's really good! The order goes down, and after the city is broken, everyone else lives and dies, but this person must be captured alive! ”
Zhang Xun said at this time that he wanted to capture Guo Yaoshi alive, naturally not to let him live, but to do everything possible to torture him so that his life was worse than death. Of course, Pharmacist Guo also understood this, and shouted hoarsely: "Release the arrow, release the arrow quickly, shoot him, shoot him to death!" ”
Arrows rained down, and several guards hurriedly escorted Zhang Xun back to their own formation.
"Siege!"
Since the defenders of the city do not surrender, there is nothing to say about the future. With the rumbling sound of war drums, the infantry corps of the Sui army marched with firm steps and rushed towards the city wall.
"Resist, release the arrow, release the arrow."
"Quick, stop the Sui soldiers who have ascended the city and kill them all!"
"Roll the wood and stones, smash them down hard, and don't let them get close to the city gates!"
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There was a fierce battle between the top and bottom of the city wall, and at the same time, a Jurchen team of about fifty people was quietly marching in the direction of the city gate. The man at the head was eight feet tall and had a strong physique, although he was dressed in the clothes of a small soldier, but he revealed a fierce aura all over his body, and it was Zhang Xun's deputy general Ma Lan.
Jinyiwei has been established for many years, and the Youzhou Army is subordinate to the Sui army system, so it has long been infiltrated by Jinyiwei in many ways. When the Jurchens went south, Wu Sangui, Guo Yaoshi and many other generals surrendered without a fight, and most of the military horses under their command were also absorbed by the Jurchens, and Jinyiwei continued to lurk in this situation.
Zhang Xun is a general who is famous for his defense, as the so-called knowing oneself and knowing that the enemy is invincible, he also has a lot of research on siege methods. After landing on the shore, he quickly got in touch with the Jinyi Guards on the Youzhou side, and learned that there were also Jinyi Guards lurking in the defenders of Xinchang City, so he immediately decided to seize the city gate with the outside and the inside.
However, it has been said before that Beiping County is the starting place of Luo Yi, so most of the defenders are mainly Jurchens, and most of the Han troops have been disrupted and reorganized, and they are distributed to other counties, and there are not many people available. In order to be able to successfully capture the city gate, Zhang Xun sent his right-hand man Ma Lan to sneak into the city to preside over the overall situation.
The Sui army outside the city attacked fiercely, and these Han troops did not dare to make trouble on weekdays, so the Jurchens did not care about the movement of this team, and let them march to the city gate without hindrance.
"Who?"
Near the doorway, Ma Lu and the others were finally stopped by the Jurchens. The Jurchen centurion who was in charge of guarding the city gate stepped forward, and after seeing clearly that it was the Han people who had surrendered, he immediately stretched his face and scolded: "The big war is coming, what are you doing here, give it all to me..."
"Poof!"
Just when the Jurchen centurion had just said the word "roll", a cold light suddenly flashed in front of him, and the next moment his head rolled to the ground.
"Ding Dong, Ma Lu has been detected to have entered a state of bravery, force +5, base force 100, and the current force has risen to 105."
Ma Lan slashed at the Jurchen centurion with a knife, and roared angrily: "Brothers, how can my Great Sui land be trampled by the barbarians, take the city gate, and welcome the king into the city!" ”
"Kill!"
Under the leadership of Ma Lu, fifty soldiers raised their swords one after another and pounced on them like tigers descending from the mountain.
The Jurchen soldiers guarding the city gate obviously didn't expect that the Han army that lowered their eyebrows in front of them on weekdays also had such a bloody side, but they were all wiped out in the blink of an eye.