Chapter 457: A Death Match at the Gamble of Everything
Under the shrouded clouds, the already dilapidated city walls of Yanzhou City became more and more dilapidated, as if they could no longer withstand the fierce attack.
On the city wall, countless Liao soldiers came and went to this last fortress, under fierce artillery fire, fighting against the enemy under the city, doing a desperate struggle.
However, under the strong blow of the combined Jin army and the Shenwu army, the entire Great Liao was already crumbling and only had their last breath left, not to mention their last remaining resistance forces.
Despite this, they were not willing to give in, and the 30,000 Khitan warriors in the city, each with a white cloth belt wrapped around their heads, chanted words in their mouths, and after a while they retreated to the city, rested and then went up to the city to fight.
This tactic naturally came from the hands of Wu Yanguang, at this moment, he was clutching Fang Tian's halberd, his eyes gloomy looking at the Jin soldiers below who climbed up the ladder and were smashed down by rolling stones and bows and arrows, but they did not retreat, and the killing intent in his body only became more and more intense.
He wants all these people to die here, no matter what, he must kill these golden people as much as possible!
Although he knew that he couldn't do it, Wu Yanguang still gritted his teeth and desperately let the soldiers defending the city resist, killing and injuring a large number of Jin people under the city, although he knew how to do it, it was completely detrimental to the overall situation!
Because, the person under the city who commanded the Jin army to attack the city was the deputy marshal of Daliao who had worked with him for decades, Yelu Yuanyi!
This comrade-in-arms who has experienced the war with Wu Yanguang and has been on the verge of life and death for decades, although he has never been able to get along with each other, but at this moment, Wu Yanguang, who was standing on the city wall, was holding the depression of the city wall, and he was almost covered in bruises.
He could never have imagined that this person who had fought together for decades would choose to betray Da Liao and surrender to his life and death and national enemy!
"Kill, kill me quickly, work hard for Lao Tzu!"
Yelu Yuanyi rode his horse and charged in the Jin army, waving his sword everywhere, so that his troops could step up their attack and not slack off.
Some people gasped a little, and they were cut down by him, and blood was splattered on the spot, and the others were angry and had no other choice but to continue fighting.
"Whew......"
The sound of arrows piercing the air whistled by, and Yelu Yuanyi was still shouting, when he suddenly found that a sharp arrow had flown in front of his eyes!
"Boom!"
At the last moment, Yelu Yuanyi just swept the spear and had already shot down the arrow, and then he just looked at Yelu Yuanyi on the city wall and sneered: "Don't come to harm, brother."
"Yelu Yuanyi, you brute!"
Wu Yanguang held the longbow in his left hand, and his right hand was already clenched into a fist, he looked at Yelu Yuanyi, who was wearing heavy armor in the siege army below, and the whole person roared like crazy: "Actually surrendered to the Jurchens, you brute, are you still worthy of your conscience and the land that raised you?!" Yes! Answer me! ”
After saying that, Wu Yanguang just slammed his fist on the stone of the city wall, and the hard armor splashed the rocks in all directions, but he didn't care.
At this time, the fierce battle up and down the city wall continued, the Jin people mobilized a large number of catapults, and all the high-rise vehicles built these days also came, condescending to shoot arrows into the city, the Liao soldiers could be said to be miserable, and had to support them to the death, in order to survive for a while.
"How's that, Wu Yanguang, my strategy of "ambushing on all sides" is not bad, right? ”
Yelu Yuanyi didn't pay attention to the curse of the city's ugly face in his eyes, he just clasped his hands in front of his chest and sneered: "We deliberately did not fight with you, and the four princes and the king of Yan withdrew the army again, in order to paralyze you, now that my 100,000 elite lions are here, I want to see how your 30,000 old and weak soldiers can stop it!"
After speaking, Yelu Yuanyi just waved his hand back and suddenly roared.
"Gather all the artillery, give me a siege, and bombard the city until all the walls are completely destroyed, and don't save any gunpowder!"
As soon as he said this, the nearby soldiers were stunned.
You must know that this Yelu Yuanyi only surrendered for less than half a month, all because of Wanyan Lou's attention to him, so that he could mix well, so that this time he took the initiative to ask Ying to clean up Wu Yanguang.
Because of this, this general was able to master the 100,000 army in just ten days, you know, he came to surrender alone like a dog!
Who knows what the regent thinks!
Now, this man actually wanted to use up all the gunpowder, so high-flying, and he had to call up the most important resources, and the soldiers were suddenly silent.
"Poof!"
Suddenly, Yelu Yuanyi screamed, like crazy, and cut a partial general in front of him into two.
Blood was drenched on the nearby soldiers, and those Jin troops, except for the most fierce siege of the city, couldn't help but look at Yelu Yuanyi with fearful eyes.
Yelu Yuanyi and his own soldiers only glared angrily at those who resisted, and in the end, everyone compromised.
The Jin army used all the artillery, and in an instant, the tide of the battle was completely rewritten.
"Boom, boom, boom!"
Countless fireballs rained down from the sky, carrying a huge force like a meteorite impact, and smashed into the already dilapidated city wall.
Half an hour later, the east wall had collapsed, and the west wall and the north wall had fallen a little by half, and most of the soldiers and civilians who were repairing the wall were killed and injured, and the scene was terrible.
The people and people in the vicinity were also trembling with fright, the intensity of this kind of artillery fire, and the strong power were unheard of by them, this kind of fear, so that many people began to run all over the ground, and the logistical support orders issued to Wu Yanguang had long been thrown out of the sky!
"Don't run, don't run!"
Wu Yanguang ran on the only intact south wall with Fang Tian's halberd, roared and looked at the people in the city below, just shouting angrily: "Do a good job of your logistical support, and if you dare to panic the army's heart, I will personally kill his entire family!"
Those people panicked at once, and the overseers also killed them, killing most of the soldiers who wanted to escape while taking advantage of the chaos, and the situation in the city suddenly stabilized.
"Marshal, be careful!"
"Boom—click!"
After a violent bombardment, the place where Wu Yanguang was standing had completely collapsed.
Before he finally fell, Wu Yanguang could only see the cannonballs flying towards him and the young man who pounced on him.
"Damn it!"
patted the dust on his body and spit out the gravel in his mouth, Wu Yanguang hurriedly looked at the young man on his body, but he frowned.
"Why did you save me, don't you want to die?" Wu Yanguang looked at the dying young man, but got up and sat down on the side of the city wall, leaning against it, and his tone was low.
"Hehe, you are the most powerful and capable person we have here, if you are all dead, how can our country have any hope of revival?" The young man just smiled bitterly: "Marshal, hurry up, the city wall here is about to collapse!"
However, he was about to continue talking, but he had already vomited blood from his mouth and collapsed.
The second round of shelling began again, and the shelling continued, like a declaration of death, and the Liao army in the city concentrated all the large shield carts, desperately resisted at the broken city wall, and then hurried to repair the city.
"Woo woo, when will the war end?"
Several young soldiers sat under the city wall and wept bitterly, they were only fifteen or sixteen years old, and even strong men who had been temporarily captured from the village, at this moment, in the face of the terrifying appearance and lethality of the ten thousand cannons and the iron cavalry army, they had already been frightened and their souls flew out of the sky.
Wu Yanguang didn't speak, he just silently descended the city wall, and along the way, he never said a word, dealing with anyone who frantically asked him for help.
Then, ignoring the corpses of the soldiers who died along the way, and the screaming people who died beside him when they were shot in by random arrows, he walked step by step to the school grounds in the city and personally gathered the soldiers of the whole army, and after making a final declaration to them, he made an astonishing move.
The resistance in the city suddenly ceased fire.
This is what the Jin people have discovered.
They also wanted to rest, so they didn't attack right away, but repaired and lit a fire in place to cook.
It was completely dark, and the day's tragic fighting made everyone tired, and the soldiers naturally had no possibility of resting and sleeping, Yelu Yuanyi naturally went directly to sleep in the tent in the distance, and handed over the command to his deputy general Yelulin.
Just when the Jin people were temporarily dispersed and they were about to eat, there was a sudden killing sound in the city, and a group of men and horses opened the city gate under the personal leadership of Wu Yanguang and rushed towards the Jin army!
"It's not good, gather quickly and kill them!"
Yelu Yuanyi heard the shouting and immediately rushed out of the camp, he lifted Fang Tian's halberd and put on his armor and rode towards the position.
He could never have imagined that these Khitans, who had suffered such heavy losses and had suffered nearly half of the casualties in the three-day bloody battle defending the city, would dare to come out!
Along the way, let the soldiers hurry up and resist, while shouting and scolding, after seeing the artillery position, Yelu Yuanyi immediately went crazy.
Wu Yanguang led people equipped with many gunpowder and explosives and other objects, and was rushing towards there, invincible, the Jin army had not yet gathered or was eating, and was completely powerless to resist!
Damn, do these brutes want to destroy my artillery with a death squad, and then die here, Yelu Yuanyi just gritted his teeth and urged the war horse to gallop all the way, and he was going to Liwei to kill Wu Yanguang first.
However, he suddenly felt an extremely strong aura of death.
That feeling made him completely desperate.
"Poof!"
"Ahh
Yelu Yuanyi desperately dodged, but was still hit by that force in his left arm, and flew out after being directly pierced.
The soldiers desperately rescued Yelu Yuanyi and took him to treatment, and the deputy general hurriedly organized resistance, but fortunately, Wu Yanguang focused on destroying the artillery and did not pursue Yelu Yuanyi.
Wu Yanguang looked at Yelu Yuanyi's back and just sneered, but left.
Half an hour later, with bursts of sky-high flames and earth-shattering explosions, the seriously injured Wu Yanguang also withdrew to the city with more than a hundred people at the same time.
Wu Yanguang's injuries were very serious, and he could no longer ride on his horse to fight, and now Lang Zhonghe was also short of medicine, and he didn't know when he would get better, but after hearing that most of the Jin people's artillery had been destroyed, he just laughed and hurriedly began to command the overall situation from the hospital bed.
Although only 100 of the 5,000 people of the death squad came back alive, and the commander also lost his combat effectiveness, Wu Yanguang still believed that at least this time he did not suffer a loss.
This night raid not only dealt a heavy blow to the morale of the other party, but also, Yelu Yuanyi was seriously injured and could not move, and the Jin people were also killed and wounded thousands, which can be clearly seen from the front-line battle reports these days.
As soon as you have a little victory, you will be proud and show your flaws, this is your biggest weakness, Yelu, Wu Yanguang just sneered.
Just when Wu Yanguang was full of confidence and wanted to organize forces to launch a counterattack, something suddenly happened that surprised everyone.
From the next day, Yelu Yuanyi began to spread the rumors that Wu Yanguang was a Han Chinese, and that he wanted to conspire to become emperor himself, and use the corpses of the army to spread the throne for him, and when the time came, he could not defeat the rumors that he could no longer surrender to the Song Dynasty to serve them.
Moreover, no one knew where Yelu Yuanyi had collected countless evidence, and the soldiers of the Liao State naturally didn't believe it, but Wu Yanguang locked himself up directly after receiving the evidence and didn't go out for three days.
At this moment, the suspicion of the Liao soldiers in the city was completely deepened.
Another few days passed, the Jin army stormed the city, coupled with the political offensive, rumors brainwashed, Wu Yanguang was not in the command post again, the outer city fell not long after, only the military horses in the inner city were still desperately resisting.
Yelu Yuanyi ordered a siege but not an attack, and he rarely let the army begin to rest.
But in the days he's been resting, some rumors have begun to brew nearby.
Yelu Yuanyi, who had already surrendered to the Jin State, discovered the truth that Wu Yanguang was a Han Chinese, and led an army of 100,000 to take Wu Yanguang's entire family to the city of Yanzhou, and ridiculed him for being just a Han dog, forcing him to work for Dajin.
The two sides fought several bloody battles under this Yanzhou city, Wu Yanguang was seriously injured and led the death squad to personally destroy the artillery position of the Jin people, but after being exposed by Yelu Yuanyi, he hid and did not dare to come out, these rumors were like the wind, and quickly spread all over the vicinity of Yanzhou for dozens of miles.
On this night, in the city of Yanzhou, the junction of the Liao military camp and the people's houses.
"Alas, when is this war going to be a head."
A young soldier sat on a haystack of war horse food, looked up at the sky, and sighed at the beauty of the stars on the dome, but the thought of his present situation made him discouraged and depressed.
"Alright, what do you kid do with so much." The comrades-in-arms nearby just smiled and said: "We are all soldiers, as long as we protect our families and defend the country, we will try our best to get the money to go back to marry a daughter-in-law and have a son after the war."
"After that, what is the meaning of marrying a wife and having children, or is this the only value of human life?"
The young soldier still looked at the starry sky, he just shook his head and said: "Qiu'er, she is still waiting for me to go back, but now that the country is gone, we have nowhere to go, and I may not even be able to find my parents and Qiu'er, you say, what is the point of fighting now."
"Neuropathy."
Unable to answer the young soldier's words, the men, unwilling to be able to speak, laughed at him, and went off to sleep.
The young soldier only sighed softly, and he turned away, and he looked at the starry sky again.
Qiu'er, wait for me, after this battle, I will come to you.
The young soldier looked at the jade pendant he had taken out of his bosom, and he didn't know when, and he didn't notice when he lifted it up and lay down, facing the moon in front of him.
When the time comes, we will die in paradise, stay away from the strife of this world, and spend our lives exploring the meaning of life.
A cool night breeze blew, and the young soldier didn't know when he had fallen asleep.
Holding the jade pendant, he lay on the haystack and fell asleep quietly.
Half a month has passed, and the morale and popular aspirations of the army in the city have not continued to waver, and the morale and popular aspirations of the people in the inner city are completely indestructible.
Yelu Yuanyi was furious, and lying on the stretcher, he ordered to kill more than 100 members of Wu Yanguang's family, leaving no one behind.
However, Wu Yanguang endured the great mental and physical pain, and stood there standing on the city wall, taking in everything, but did not move.
The soldiers and civilians in the city heard that Wu Yanguang was seriously injured and went to the city wall to supervise the battle, and they also saw their family members die in the hands of the Jin people, and they all admired Wu Yanguang's character, and since then they have followed Wu Yanguang to defend the city, and never have two hearts, and they will fight to the death with the Jin army in every battle, until death.
Originally, the people in the city also supported Wu Yanguang, they cooked for the soldiers, healed their wounds, and tried their best to support Wu Yanguang, just hoping to help him.
Despite this, ten days later, Yanzhou's city resources and all war potential were also exhausted, and there was not a single grain of rice left in the city, and everyone could only find rat bark to satisfy their hunger.
Wu Yanguang couldn't hold on, he swore to protect the people of a city, and every time he insisted on commanding and shooting arrows to kill the enemy on the front line with everyone, although he was seriously injured and could not go into battle to kill the enemy, he never went to the front line for a day.
However, in the city, a change that no one could have imagined is brewing.
That night, Wu Yanguang's deputy general Tianshan Yong opened the city gate, sneered and told everyone in the barracks that he was a high-ranking person, and let all the Liao soldiers in the city surrender, otherwise there would be no one left when the Liao army was defeated.
At the same time, Tianshan Yong, who felt the opportunity and was completely in place, dispatched his own 5,000 elite soldiers and immediately launched a fierce attack on Wu Yanguang's camp.
How could the people who were still asleep predict this sudden situation, what they never dreamed of was that Tianshan Yong was actually Gao Yu's spy, and now this person has become the biggest opponent!
"The strongest fortresses are often breached from within."
Yelu Yuanyi opened the city gate under the response of Tianshan Yong's men, sneered and led the troops into the city, in order to vent his anger, he killed people when he saw them, and the streets were full of the cries of old and young women and children in Liao, which made people unbearable to witness.
In half a month, Yelu Yuanyi's injuries had already recovered almost, he was holding a knife in his right hand at the moment, riding a horse and slashing on the street, and it didn't take long for him to pass by, and the place he passed was already bleeding.
"Stop!"
To Yelu Yuanyi's surprise, a young soldier suddenly rushed out.
"Boom!"
He blocked Yelu Yuanyi's big knife that killed a woman, but he turned around and shouted behind him: "This eldest sister, hurry up and run with your child!"
The woman wept for a long time, but immediately came to her senses, and fled with her son.
"Bastard, what are you!"
Yelu Yuanyi became more and more annoyed, but only one arm could exert force, and the severe pain of the wound on his left arm made him unable to exert one-tenth of his strength, and the more he wanted to kill this person quickly, the more difficult it was to do so.
This person's martial arts skills are indeed good, although they are not the best, but the corpses here are already piled up, and he almost blocked this street leading to the core of the city alone.
Don't say that I'm not good at performing, this broken place is a master, and those ants can't help me, Yelu Yuanyi turned his head to look at the soldiers who were in a dilemma, but he scolded angrily in his heart.
If it drags on any longer, Wu Yanguang will fight back desperately, not to mention that I am going to lose, and my people will have a lot of casualties, Yelu Yuanyi thought about it, but he became more and more afraid.
"Obey the order, at all costs, even if I die, find a way to kill this person!"
Yelu Yuanyi almost roared out, and of course the sword technique in his hand did not stop at all.
"My lord, get out of the way!"
"Whoosh whoosh—"
Yelu Yuanyi heard this series of strange sounds that pierced the air, and almost subconsciously his hair stood on end, he suddenly lowered his head and rolled, and rolled into the pile of dead people with a body of blood and dirt, but he managed to dodge these deadly arrows.
However, the young soldier was stunned.
As soon as he gasped for breath to block Yelu Yuanyi's waves of fierce sword techniques, he was still gasping violently, and those black dots rushed towards him with a howling storm like a roaring storm.
I'm sorry, Qiu'er......
The young soldier's pupils contracted violently, and in the last moments of his life, he did nothing.
It's just a wry smile.
"Puff puff puff—"
The sound of a sharp blade piercing through the flesh resounded in the sky, and it was shocking.
In the next moment, the young soldier had already fallen to the ground with a bang, and the hundreds of bows and crossbows stuck in his body made him like a hedgehog, bleeding all over the ground, looking terrifying.
I...... I can't do what I promised you......
The young soldier's pupils flickered one last time.
Then, extinguished forever.
Hopefully, you can find someone who loves you as much as I do, and will accompany you to your death......
"Damn, I didn't say yes in advance if I wanted to shoot an arrow, I almost got an arrow!"
Yelu Yuanyi kicked those crossbowmen to the ground one by one, pointed at their noses one by one and scolded angrily.
It was you who said that you would kill that person at all costs immediately, and those crossbowmen were just aggrieved, but they didn't dare to say half a word.
Yelu Yuanyi saw that this street had been opened, and immediately led people to continue to drive towards the Liao army garrison in the center of the city.
The Liao soldiers in the city were already few at this time, and they suffered heavy casualties under the siege of Tianshan Yong and Yelu Yuanyi, and a large number of people chose to surrender in exchange for being alive, at least not to be killed.
Another half an hour passed, and the shouting and killing in the city gradually became much quieter.
Up to now, the resistance of the Liao soldiers in the city, only the 8,000 personal soldiers led by Wu Yanguang were left, Tianshan Yong and Yelu Yuanyi concentrated their forces to deal with them, and before the time of a stick of incense, in the face of the battle situation of one enemy and one hundred, the Liao soldiers finally shed the last drop of blood after killing twice the enemy in the death battle, and the whole army was annihilated.
Since then, Yanzhou no longer has any resistance from the Liao State.
The Liao State, which lasted hundreds of years to compete with the Central Plains regime for hegemony since the founding of Yelu Abaoji, was once the most powerful empire in Eurasia, and finally, today, it is completely destroyed.
"What, do you still have to do useless resistance?"
Yelu Yuanyi rode a tall horse, looking at the Wuyan who was kneeling on one knee on the ground, who had already killed many wounds all over his body, and no longer had combat effectiveness, he just sneered.
Wu Yanguang didn't look at him, just snorted coldly, and then, looking at the situation nearby, he just looked up to the sky and laughed.
"What, is this crazy?" Yelu Yuanyi just sneered again, and he waved his hand at the nearby black and suppressed Jin State army and gave an order: "Above, kill this bastard!"
The nearby Jin soldiers roared, picked up the spears in their hands, and the cavalry also jumped off their horses, and launched a fierce attack on the last Khitan, this Wu Yanguang, their last enemy.
The brilliance of the remnant sun shone on Wu Yanguang's dilapidated and damaged Fang Tian painting halberd, and Wu Yanguang only smiled bitterly, and made a decision before the enemy rushed in front of him.
"Sen—"
Wu Yanguang pulled out his rarely used Qingyun Sword, and looking at the refraction on it reflecting his face, he seemed to see his own life.
Although I am a Han Chinese, I have given everything for the people who raised me, the land where I grew up, and it has not been a successful life.
Laughing, as if crazy, he jerked his sword up and placed it around his neck.
Then, paddle firmly.
He wants to use the most glorious death of a general to bid farewell to this world, and draw a successful end to this life of mistakes and misguides.