765, Battle of Taiyuan

(Tomorrow, finished)

The sunset was shining, and the golden sunlight was shining on Wanyan Zongwang's face, but he didn't feel a trace of warmth, just looked at the direction of Taiyuan City in the distance, and his deeply furrowed brows were like two intertwined iron chains, tangled and heavy.

The 300,000 army came all the way from Xijing to this momentum, and it seemed that it could hit the edge of the Yellow River and approach the capital of the Song Kingdom, but he didn't expect to be stopped here, if it was a well-trained and well-armed regular army that stopped them, there was also a saying, but in fact it was a group of civilians who stopped them, which was a situation that Wanyan Zongwang had never encountered in so many years of warfare,

Such an army, let's call it an army, in the eyes of him and the Jin army, they are simply a group of rabble, they have no armor, only use the wooden planks split into pieces as shields, they only have very few weapons, most of them only have wooden sticks and shovels, and the smoke of cooking is rarely seen rising in Taiyuan City, indicating that they even have very little food and grass, but such an army has blocked the iron cavalry of the Jin army that swept through Daliao here for more than ten days!

In these ten days of fighting, the raindrops of boulders and arrows did not drive them off the city wall, every time the Jin army attacked the city wall, you can often see someone desperately holding the gold soldiers down the city wall, and the Jin soldiers died together, even if there are Jin soldiers really attacked the city wall, he is facing a group of unarmed, but like crazy people desperately pounced on him, with fists, feet, and even with teeth, to kill him,

In the battle that just ended, the Jin army finally broke the city gate, and was waiting to be killed into the city, but it was forced to be blocked by thousands of people with their bodies, the Jin soldiers desperately slashed at them with knives, stabbed with guns, but it had no effect, every time a person fell, there would be other people to make up for it in an instant, the corpses under the city were all over the field, and the blood flowed like a river, but the city gate hole that was just a dozen steps away from it became a moat that the Jin army could not cross.

It is by virtue of this completely desperate way, for every time Jin soldiers die in battle, they can make them pay the price of at least ten lives, in the past ten days, Wanyan Zongwang estimates that he should have killed tens of thousands of people on the other side, but this army is getting braver and braver, no one surrenders, no one escapes, everyone kills red-eyed, fights for their lives, and swears to defend the city to the death!

Wanyan Zongwang couldn't understand it, this was completely different from what he had seen in these days, when facing the Jin army, he only knew that the Song government and the army had fled, the same Han people, one side was a well-equipped army, and the other side was a refugee who couldn't even eat, why was the gap so big? If the Song government and army had shown even half the courage and determination of this group of refugees, the Jin army would never have been able to attack here so quickly.

Wanyan Zongwang shook his head and threw out this question that was destined to have no answer, no matter what, no matter who the people in Taiyuan City were, the Jin Army's advance must not be blocked, Taiyuan City must be breached, and it must be broken immediately, more than ten days of stagnation has seriously affected the morale of the Jin Army, and if it is delayed, it will affect the entire battle situation! Fortunately, so far, he has basically found some ways to break the city, just breaking through the city gate is a proof, the city tower of Taiyuan City has begun to crumble under the attack of catapults for more than ten consecutive days, as long as one or two more storms, Zong Wang believes that the Jin army can successfully break the city! When the time comes, he will give the order to slaughter the city, make these Han people pay for their stubbornness, and let the Han people on the road behind know the consequences of blocking the footsteps of the Jin army!

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After half a day's rest, Yue Fei came back to his senses, and the first thing he said when he woke up was to ask, how many of the thousands of people who had just gone with him to block the city gate came back alive?

No one answered him, Yue Fei guessed the answer, he clenched his fists, stood up again, and strode in the direction of the city tower,

When I came to the city tower, I saw that the "one-armed" Zhou Tong was directing the layout of defense, preparing for the next attack of the Jin army.

"Master!" Yue Fei looked at Zhou Dong's back and was stunned for a while, his eyes were a little red, and he stepped forward and shouted in a choked voice, in a battle three days ago and the night, the Jin army attacked the city wall, Zhou Dong monopolized dozens of Jin soldiers, and killed more than a dozen people with his own strength, buying precious time for the other rebels who rushed to hear the news, but he was also outnumbered, and his left forearm was cut off by the Jin soldiers, and he has been recuperating in the city these days.

Zhou Tong turned around, "Child, you're awake." ”

"Hmm!" Yue Fei said, "...... your injuries?" ”

Zhou Tong smiled, "It's out of the way." Come, give! ”

I saw that Zhou Tong put the remaining hand into his arms, but he took out a small half of the cake and handed it to Yue Fei.

"Master, this is ......, no, Master, you eat!" Yue Fei hurriedly said, but having said that, his stomach involuntarily gurgled with the appearance of this small half of the vegetable cake,

Since the arrival of the Jin army, after the government and the army fled, the people spontaneously organized to close the city gate to defend Taiyuan, and then they had to open the Yicang to distribute grain and grass to the whole city.

As a result, the people in the city immediately faced the dilemma of no food, supported so far, the city has almost run out of food, the only food has been collected and distributed to the wounded and sick and the elderly and children, Yue Fei has not eaten a drop of rice for two days, this small vegetable cake should have been distributed by Zhou Dong when he was recuperating from his injuries, but he did not eat it, but left it to Yue Fei,

The sound from his stomach made Yue Fei's face immediately red, Zhou Tong smiled again, and forced the vegetable cake into Yue Fei's hand, "Eat, be obedient, Master has eaten!" ”

Of course, this is an obvious lie, Yue Fei's eyes turned red all of a sudden, and Zhou Tong held Yue Fei's hand with his only remaining hand, and sent the half of the vegetable cake to his mouth,

Yue Fei finally opened his mouth that was a little trembling, and was about to take a bite, but out of the corner of his eye, he saw a pair of eyes looking at him, he turned his head to see that it was an eight or nine-year-old child who was staring at the vegetable cake in his hand with wide eyes, swallowing his saliva vigorously,

Yue Fei's heart ached, he closed his mouth again, and glanced at Zhou Tong,

Zhou Tong also found the little boy, and then let go of his hand and nodded to Yue Fei, Yue Fei immediately waved his hand at the child, the little boy hesitated, but he still couldn't resist the temptation of the vegetable cake, and came to Yue Fei's side cowardly,

Yue Fei handed him the vegetable cake, "Eat!" ”

The little boy was stunned for a moment, and then quickly "snatched" it from Yue Fei's hand as if he was afraid that Yue Fei would regret it, but he didn't eat it, but tucked the vegetable cake into his arms, like the most precious thing, and then he just wanted to turn around and run, but as if he remembered something, he stopped and said to Yue Fei, "Thank you, big brother!"

Yue Fei smiled and said strangely, "Don't you eat?" ”

It seems that as soon as he heard the word "eat", the little boy swallowed a big mouthful of saliva, but still shook his head and said very seriously, "I'm going to take it to my mother to eat!" ”

Yue Fei's heart trembled, he stretched out his hand and patted the little boy's head and smiled, "Good boy! Go ahead! ”

The little boy nodded vigorously, and ran down the city wall in a puff of smoke, and he didn't know where he went.

Yue Fei looked at the back of the little boy, and couldn't help but be in a trance, he recalled the Daimyo's Mansion more than ten years ago, the ignorant young man, and the tall and majestic figure .......

Zhou Tong looked at Yue Fei's expression and guessed his thoughts, only to feel that his heart was like a knife.

"Fei'er ......,"

"Hmm......? Master? Yue Fei came back to his senses,

"Do you hate Master?"

"Of course not! What's wrong with you, Master? ”

"Master is wrong, Master is really wrong......

"Master, you ......," Yue Fei was startled, and before he finished speaking, he only heard the sound of the early warning suddenly loud, and then a panicked shout came from his ears, "The golden dog is here!" The golden dog is coming......! ”

Yue Fei and Zhou Tong immediately turned around and looked out, and they were all shocked in their hearts, only to see the overwhelming Jin army coming towards Taiyuan City again!

The battle is about to start again!

"Yue Fei!" Zhou Tong said in a deep voice, "Get ready to kill the golden dog!" Kill Master hard! And also...... Stay alive! ”

"Yes!"

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Wanyan Zongwang gave a death order, this time Taiyuan City must be taken!

The Jin army mobilized almost all the heavy siege weapons such as catapults, bed crossbows, and battering rams, and the direct siege of the city also reached 100,000 troops, the scale was so large that even when Shangjing and Zhongjing attacked the Liao State, it was not like this, and the rebels on Taiyuan City also instantly felt the unprecedented pressure!

With the beating of the war drums of the Jin army, the battle officially began, the first to play was the sound of hundreds of catapults whistling, countless huge stones pierced the sky and smashed into Taiyuan City, and the ground shook the city!

Then came the volley of 30,000 crossbowmen, and arrows rained down from the sky, obscuring the sky and the sun!

Subsequently, the tide of gold soldiers from all directions began to launch a surprise attack on Taiyuan City, under the cover of bows and arrows, the cloud ladder was erected on the city wall, and the frenzied charge to the city wall, the Jin soldiers who operated the siege vehicle were also violently hitting the city gate with a battering ram.

When the Jin soldiers climbed halfway, the city wall that was originally silent like death under the two rounds of crazy attacks of the Jin army finally broke out with an earth-shattering shouting of killing, and the rebels squatting on the ground overturned the wooden planks on their heads to the ground, and launched a counterattack against the Jin troops under the city with only bows and arrows, and at the same time, many old people, women and children braved the rain of arrows and began to pull out the arrows fired by the golden soldiers from those wooden boards, so that they could become weapons for the rebels to fight back!

But this time the archers of the Jin army had an overwhelming advantage in numbers, the arrow array was dense, and the archery skills were much more sophisticated, although the rebels launched a counterattack, and the lethality formed was not worth mentioning to the Jin army at all, but because of the loss of the protection of the wooden plank, many people were immediately hit by arrows and fell to the ground, with heavy casualties!

So, the Jin army soon attacked the city wall, and the tragic hand-to-hand combat on the city wall began, but it was precisely because of this that the archers of the Jin army did not want to injure their own people by mistake, so they could only stop shooting, and the threat of the righteous army from the bow and arrow plummeted, and the Jin soldiers attacked the city wall more and more, and the righteous army was more, killing a group, and up again, killing a group, and then a group, and then a group, everyone was desperate, throwing away bows and arrows and stones, picking up everything they could pick up, and fighting with the gold soldiers who attacked the city wall!

After killing a few people in a row, the golden soldiers finally came to the other side of the city wall, but the scene under the city shocked him, only to see that the open space under the city and the narrow aisle of the city tower were already crowded with Han people, there were men and women, old and young, everyone was hugging the city in one direction, no one turned around, no one shouted, just like knowing that going to the city was a death, and he had to rush to the city without hesitation! At this moment, life and death are no longer important, they have only one belief, that is, to use their flesh and blood to defend this city and protect their land!

At the moment when the golden soldier shook his head, a volunteer soldier seized the opportunity, picked up a stone and smashed it on the back of his head, and immediately smashed the head like a watermelon.

The rebel soldier was overjoyed, and was about to pick up the knife that had fallen to the ground, but at this moment, a knife passed through his back and protruded from his front abdomen! The rebel soldier stared blankly at the blade that came out of his stomach, shook his head for a moment, and then reacted, and turned around sharply despite the pain, and the strength was so great that the owner of the knife took off his hand, and then the rebel soldier yelled at the golden soldier, rushed forward and hugged him and rushed to the city wall, and fell down the city wall with the golden soldier!

Yue Fei slashed a golden soldier to the ground with a knife, and was about to pull out the knife, but he didn't pull it out, it turned out that the golden soldier didn't care about the pain, and his hands were clutching the blade on his shoulder, just after a moment's delay, the three golden soldiers next to him seized the opportunity to slash at Yue Fei together!

Yue Fei had to let go of the handle of the knife, and finally dodged to the side, and three more Jin soldiers were killed, since these Jin soldiers attacked here, more than a dozen Jin soldiers had died in Yue Fei's hands, and the Jin soldiers had already seen that this young man was the most difficult person to deal with here, and they were determined to kill him first regardless of the cost.

Seeing that Yue Fei had nowhere to hide, at the critical moment, a one-armed old man suddenly appeared beside Yue Fei, although it was one-armed, the knife in his hand was more flexible than a loach, and the three swords like lightning and flint knocked all the three golden soldiers to the ground.

"Master!" Yue Fei took this opportunity to pick up a knife again, and was back to back with Zhou Tong, the incomparable tiredness made both of their bodies gasp violently, "How are you?!" ”

"It's fine!" Zhou Tong glanced at the more and more golden soldiers gathered around him, and then looked at the battle situation from far and near, and said in a deep voice, "Child, the golden dog is ruthless this time, this city tower ...... I'm afraid we won't be able to keep it! If the city is broken, you have to do everything you can to escape! ”

"Master, what about you?!"

"Me?" Zhou Tong shook his head and said, "Master, I can't run, child, you are still young, you have to live, ...... you,"

"No!" Yue Fei said loudly, "I want to live and die with the city!" The country is broken, the mountains and rivers are not there, how can they survive?! ”

"Good! Good boy! Master can have an apprentice like you, content! Come on, let's kill a few more golden dogs! ”

"Yes!"

As soon as the words fell, the master and apprentice separated again and killed towards the Jin soldiers!

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Wanyan Zongwang observed the battle situation from a distance, and couldn't help but breathe a long sigh of relief, the casualties of the Jin army had far exceeded his expectations, those Han people were too desperate, but this time the sacrifice was finally worthwhile, Taiyuan City could finally be taken!

At this moment......

In the corner of his eyes looking at Taiyuan City, he suddenly realized that something was wrong, turned his gaze, and looked over the tower of Taiyuan City to the sky on the side, and at that moment, his pupils narrowed by ......!