Chapter 642: Hand-to-hand combat

Youyan, Danzhou, Song-Jin border.

To the north of the Great Wall, the mountains are full of Jurchen camps.

Every night, the bonfire is like a sea, but when you look down at the beacon tower on the Great Wall, you can't see the edge at all.

This group of people is Zong Han's pro-town, and the first few defeats made him begin to face the Song army.

Some fortifications were also set up outside the camp, of course, compared to the dangerous defense system of the Great Wall, it was very simple.

The soldiers and horses on the Great Wall did not dare to slack off, because whenever they defended and attacked, they had to maintain a complete defense line of the Great Wall. The defending Song army actually consumed more troops than the attacking and defending Jin army.

Because the Jurchens can choose the focus of the attack at will, concentrate their forces to attack and fight. And the Song army must maintain the integrity of the entire defense system, and no place can be completely unprepared. Once the slightest wavering, maybe the mobile Jurchen military horses will be allowed to drill through the gaps, and the entire Great Wall defense line will be shaken.

The advantage is that the casualty rate is much lower, and after preparing for so long, there is nothing else on the Great Wall, and there are bows and arrows and rolling stones.

Han Shizhong looked at the increasing Jurchen barracks, not very panicked in his heart, and even had some expectations.

The area around the Great Wall is operated by itself like an iron bucket, not leaking, and the Jurchen Tartars spread the front, repeatedly tempted, but did not tear even a single hole.

After a few attempts, he was attacked by the defenders' arrows and crossbows. I lost a lot of lives, and I didn't touch the walls of the Great Wall once.

He was very confident in his heart, this line of defense built by himself, if he had his own guard, it could really be called impregnable. Moreover, compared with the Jurchens, the Great Song Dynasty can also afford it, and now the Great Song Dynasty is backed by Hebei Zhulu, and 100,000 people in Tianjin Port continue to transport military materials and grains. As long as the Jurchen Tartars are exhausted, Han Shizhong will not dare to counterattack at that time.

As for Juyong Pass, he is not worried at all, the terrain of Juyong Pass is dangerous, and the pass is strong, and it is still above his own place. And Zong Ze, the governor of the Northern Province, although he was born as a civilian official, Han Shizhong also admired his ability to fight.

Now the Jin soldiers are marching south, but at this time, Yang Shaozai is actually in Fuzhou, the extreme south.

The north and south are separated by thousands of miles, and it takes a month or two for the news to be transmitted for a while.

The people in the DPRK did not know if they could respond in time and send reinforcements in the absence of Shaozai.

Fortunately, Shaozai left enough reinforcements and reserve soldiers and horses, otherwise, this sudden attack by the Jurchens may really have a good chance to break the Great Wall.

Now that the Jurchens are constantly increasing their troops, the news of Aguta's personal expedition has already spread, and they expect to be able to kill them in half a month at most, and they don't know where they will be the first to attack.

After a brief night of peace, the morning breeze whined into the stone towers of the Great Wall.

Han Shizhong stayed in this building, the banner of Zonghan was erected below, and he personally led the army in front of him, no matter how bold Han Shizhong was, he did not dare not come to the front line in person, and kept abreast of the movements of the Jurchen army and horses.

This stone building is located in the center, and there is enough water to drink horses, and the terrain is slightly wider, which is convenient for him to personally lead the army and horses to help, so he chose this place to set up the Chinese army.

When the sky was dark, Han Shizhong jumped off the Hu bed, and the guards had already come to a basin of hot soup for him to wash. Rubbing his face vigorously and perking up, Han Shizhong asked, "Was there any movement in the Tartars last night?" ”

Inside the stone building, there were already auxiliary generals in the army, Sima and others, all crowded inside, waiting to report back on the situation last night.

"There was no movement in the Tartars last night, but this morning, there was more than ten miles of camps."

Han Shizhong gasped, wiped his face with a square towel indiscriminately, and scolded: "Thieves and birds, splashing tartars, could it be that the whole country has moved under the Great Wall, and you want to be a neighbor with Han Wu?" ”

On the uphill slope, more than a dozen sentinels dressed in branches and leaves were galloping on horseback, and the soldiers along the road were evading. One of the horsemen had never entered the outside of the stone tower, so he shouted loudly: "Report! The Tartars came out on all fronts and attacked the village in a big way! ”

Han Shizhong got up suddenly, stretched out his hand and said, "Quickly put on armor for me and go out to have a look." ”

Standing on the beacon tower on the high place of the stone building, overlooking the bottom of the mountain, Han Shizhong's hand was very tight.

Countless horns, whining, and teams of Jurchen military horses covered the range of sight. The dust swept on the ground, and groups of Jurchen military horses poured towards the Great Wall to the south. In addition to the auxiliary tribal army, there were also Jurchen Mou Jiamen, surging like iron streams, reflecting a terrifying black metallic light.

There are thousands of soldiers and horses, and it is still the Jurchen habit of using auxiliary armies and tribal armies as the vanguard to consume the bows and arrows of the defenders, and the Jurchen armor soldiers are postponed. So many soldiers and horses continued to burrow into the thousands of ravines under the Great Wall, and at least at the same time, they launched attacks on dozens of Great Wall fortresses!

This attack is different from yesterday, the scale is not the same, and the number of soldiers and horses mobilized is not as much as 10,000 or 20,000? And there are brigades, which are constantly coming out of the battalions in the north.

The Song army's defense is not ruthless, but these Tartars are just stalking in front of the fortress level as if they are not sparing their lives. If one team can't attack, the other team will go up again. And against the military fortress, he also began to build a camp at the foot of the mountain, as if he was preparing for a long-term siege.

"Thief bird, you have to fight hard if you are good, don't you live enough to rush to death?" Han Shizhong scolded while directing his subordinates to wave the order flag, and when he saw where the offensive was fierce, he mobilized the troops on the southern slope to support.

In front of this Great Wall defense line, the sound of killing shook the sky. I saw the Jurchen military horses surging up layer by layer like a tide. And in the fortifications of the Great Wall, how many strong bows and crossbows are fired like flying locusts. Some also have stone cannons, and the polished stone projectiles fly out and fall into the dense Jurchen army, which is a blur of flesh and blood.

The falling boulder even smashed countless tartars into bursting brains and shattering their sternums.

Qu Duan, the general behind Han Shizhong, clenched his fists tightly, gritted his teeth and said: "Han Shuai, just fight like this, accompany the Jurchen Tartars to the end, see how many lives these dog Tartars have, and see who can't afford it first." ”

His subordinates were so angry, but Han Shizhong's face sank like water, and he suddenly calmed down.

Such an offensive seems to be tragic, but after such a day of confrontation, the defense system built by the Great Song Dynasty camp is not completely filled by human lives. Can Zong Han know? And how many days can such an offensive last?

This kind of clumsy tactics, how could it be that he has perfected Yan Zonghan's level, Han Shizhong was suddenly shocked, could it be that there is a place that has been broken?

This surprise is not trivial, on the side of Juyongguan, Zong Ze is absolutely reliable. Further west, Ulzhou is broken, and Zong Han should transfer troops to fight Yunnei.

"Straight sissy thief! Immediately send someone along Jingshan to inquire about the military situation and report quickly! ”

In order not to shake the morale of the army here, Han Shizhong whispered: "Something may have happened to Longshan." ”

The Longshan defense line is located east of Jingzhou, north of Pinglu, and the Luanhe River runs from north to south, running through the Longshan Great Wall.

Han Shizhong immediately concluded that there must be something wrong with the valley through which this river ditch flows, and the Jurchens may have to be spared behind Danzhou.

This area is full of Youyan's heroes, they saw the opportunity quickly, surrendered early, and kept their territory.

At that time, Han Shizhong felt that Longshan was a hidden danger, but for political purposes, the matter could not be resolved. Because Youyan has just been recovered, located at the junction of Song and Jin, these land-headed snakes and swallows are strong, each with thousands of soldiers and horses, and their subordinates are all natives of Yandi.

These people you really forced them to be anxious, and if they say the opposite, they have been under the rule of foreign races for hundreds of years, and they have long developed the mentality of huddling together for warmth and only looking at interests.

Han Shizhong was more careful that day, and built another line of defense between Gubei Pavilion and Shimen Town, which should be able to hold them back. When he leads the army to kill, he will repel or encircle the Jin soldiers who broke in, and recapture Longshan is the right way.

However, with the loss of the Great Wall moat, the next few fierce battles are only afraid that they will have to engage with the Jurchen Tartars.