Chapter 301: The Longest Day
Li Deming walked outside the military tent and looked at Yanzhou City in the distance and frowned deeply, today's siege made him feel uneasy, when did the Song people's will to fight become so strong?
Although it can't be taken down in one fell swoop on weekdays, there will be no such heavy casualties.
Li Deming went to the wounded barracks to check on the soldiers who came back, including those who were carried back by the tribesmen and lacked arms and legs.
The wounded barracks was filled with screams and the smell of burnt flesh, this smell was very familiar to Li Deming, and every time he slaughtered the city in the Western Regions, he could always smell this smell mixed with the smell of meat.
Now that his party members have been punished, is this considered karma?
Li Deming, who advocates Buddhism, feels that this is by no means the Buddha's punishment for himself, because the lowly people of the Western Regions can not be compared with the Song people.
Although he kept saying that he didn't care about the attitude of the Great Song Dynasty, only he knew that deep down he still hoped that the Song people would recognize the status of the party like the Liao State, and in his thoughts, the Great Song Dynasty was still the Heavenly Empire.
And the Liao people are just speculators like themselves, that is, the fate of the Liao people is good, and they established power earlier than the party or even the Great Song Dynasty.
The screams reminded him that a soldier had become a test subject for Wild Glory Renrong, and the wounds on his body were used by Wild Glory to test the medicine, and the stimulated powder made the soldier let out a whole scream and kick the bed hard, although he was held down by the guards, his twisted body showed his pain.
Yeli Ren Rong shook his head slightly, and he didn't know who he was talking to: "This medicine doesn't work!" What is it that can burn people like this? The fire oil is not so violent, it is simply a maggot of the tarsal bone! The yin is extremely vicious, and the Song people have really changed now! ”
"It's not that the Song people have changed, but that my party members are becoming more and more like the Song people, hehe, we are the Hufu cavalry and shooting leaders, and we have used luxurious porcelain and put on gorgeous silk, but our ambitions have begun to wear off!
Master, the courage of our party members is slowly dying out, maybe my father's Yiliao and Song are right, but our party people are running on the grassland instead, instead of digging in the field like an old cow like the Song people! ”
Li Yuanhao looked at Yeli Renrong opposite with blazing eyes, and at this moment his childish face was full of pride that few adults have.
Seeing his son say this, Li Deming smiled slightly and hid in the corner of the tent without making a sound, and slowly stepped forward two steps to hear more clearly.
"Wei Li, the emperor of the Song Dynasty once said a sentence that I think is very good for teachers: there are two aspects to everything, and we must look at it dialectically. It's like you've only seen the bad side right now, yes! Our party members are becoming more and more like the Song people, and their force is slightly inferior.
But you know that since the king protected the territory and the people internally, resumed production, attached Liao and Song to the outside world, exchanged materials with the Song people, and concentrated on developing westward, no one in our party has starved to death because of famine!
Before that, how many party sons did not die on the battlefield of conquest, but died in their sleep because of hunger, this is not the ending that warriors should have! ”
Li Yuanhao nodded slightly, and looked at Yeli Renrong ignorantly: "Then how should my party be good, I can't just rely on nomadism, but I can't farm all the land, and I ask the master to teach me if I'm stupid!" ”
"The balance of it is your father, the king of my party has a good grasp, this is the question of the king, of course you can't get the answer from me, only your father can guide you and solve your doubts!"
Yeli Ren Rong wisely answered this question that he couldn't and couldn't answer.
Li Deming nodded slightly, he deserves to be a wise man in the party, even if he is solving doubts for the king's son, he is very measured.
Gently walking out of the tent, Li Deming decided to let the war answer his son's doubts, only the bloody truth can make his son understand what he did for.
With Li Deming's order, when the sky was slightly bright, the party members attacked again, and this time Li Deming invested all the soldiers to attack the entire Yanzhou City from all sides!
In the face of the tide of enemies, many of the Fan army trembled in fright, although they had fought with the Dang Xiang people, but almost all of them were touched away, the ferocity of the Dang Xiang people was deeply burned into their bones, compared to the Song people, the Fan army was even more afraid of the existence of the Dang Xiang people.
The reason why the Fan army still dared to fight against the Dangxiang people was mainly because at this time, Yanzhou City was surrounded on all sides, and they completely lost the way to escape, even if they surrendered, they would definitely be slaughtered, if they mutinied, they could not afford the ambitions of the Song people, after all, their old and young were also transferred, how could Rat San believe these Fan troops?
The sky is gradually brightening, but Yanzhou City has staged a sad song of blood and fire at this time, fighting, fighting everywhere, the ladder fell and more were shelved, cutting down an attacking enemy, and more enemies roared and rushed up.
At this time, there is no such thing as reason on the battlefield, and fighting has become the instinct of human beings, as long as there is an enemy at the head of the city, whether it is the border army with a blade or the Fan army, the long knife will be slashed at the enemy, until the enemy screams or wails and falls down the city, and a wrestle is over.
Rat San led people on the city wall to continuously support possible breaches, and Fan Yong was presiding over the rotation of the reserves, the number of reserves in his hands was getting smaller and smaller, there was no way that the combat power of the Fan army and the party people could not be compared at all, and Yanzhou City, which was attacked on all sides, was really powerless in the face of the tide of attacks.
The various siege equipment designed by the great craftsmen has been used to the extreme, but it has become less important in the face of the large number of enemies, and the party members have begun to use the stone throwing carts to suppress the three-bow bed crossbow on the city wall.
The scene of the stone piercing through the air made the masters particularly excited, and Rat San took his subordinates to protect these crazy masters with a black face, he didn't understand, wasn't it a kind of stone thrower that he had never seen before?
It is necessary to sacrifice the lives of his men to observe!
A huge stone bullet of one hundred and fifty pounds smashed on the shield, and the soldier behind the shield flew out like a piece of paper, and even if there were no obvious external injuries, the man was already dead.
"This should be a catapult from the Western Regions, using the lever principle of the pry arm, but their trebuchet arm elder has never seen it, and there is a heavy object under the short arm, which makes the consumption of manpower much less!"
"What Brother Fang Tai said is reasonable, I will draw a pattern and find a way to send it back to the Great Song Dynasty, this time it is worth dying in Yanzhou City."
Rat San blushed slightly, these craftsmen were even ready to die, and they were still fantasizing about the withdrawal of the party......
Both Li Deming and Fan Yong know that this is a contest of will to fight, whoever loses strength will lose the initiative, and the reserve team is the trump card in the hands of both sides.
Fortunately, Fan Yong is confident that the trump card in his hand is slower than Li Deming's, after all, as the party defending the city, he occupies the risk of geographical advantage.
The battle began in obscurity, and continued in obscurity, for a whole day, Yanzhou City was staged a flesh-and-blood wrestling, the losses of both sides were amazing, more than 80,000 people in Yanzhou City only left less than half of the military and civilians, and the party also lost nearly 50,000 combat strength.
This was the most tragic war ever fought between the party and the Great Song Dynasty, and nearly 90,000 people were consumed on the battlefield within 12 hours.
When the horn sounded, not only did the party retreat like a tide, but even the defenders on the city wall immediately collapsed in the sea of corpses and blood.
It's just a short day, but it feels like a whole year has passed.
Twenty hours of non-stop attack and defense, exhausting all the strength of both sides, Li Yuanhao returned to his father tiredly: "Father, when will our army be able to take Yanzhou City?" ”
"It's soon, it's three days late, it's tomorrow!"
Fan Yong's voice was hoarse and he asked Rat San, "When will the party members withdraw their troops?" ”
Rat San rolled his eyes: "I'm not Li Deming, how do you know what he thinks, according to this way of playing, even if he Li Deming takes Yanzhou City, he will be trapped and die here, shouldn't he?" ”
Just when Rat San was puzzled, a black hand in black armor rushed in and handed a wax pill to Rat San.
After reading it, Rat San's face changed drastically: "It's not good! Yanzhou's did not hide the false Pang did not go to Hongzhou City to help! ”
Fan Yong asked strangely, "Then where did he go?" …… Did you come to support Li Deming? But why didn't the security army be stopped by the Suide army?! ”
"This is also what I'm worried about, I'm afraid this Yanzhou City is going to be terrible!"