Chapter 269: Inexhaustible Brother's Blood

The night was deep.

Because of the light snow some time ago, there was still snow around Qinglong Castle, so although it was night, it was not impossible to reach out and lose sight.

In the place about four miles away from Qinglong Fort, it is even more bright, and the Jin people got everything they could dismantle and cut over, and burned it into a large pile of fire, looking at it from a distance, it also looked very lively.

However, the events of the day made the people of Jin Guo not happy, although they were also full of voices, more scolding and whispering. Those golden people who don't have tents, gather around the fire, you squeeze me, I squeeze you, and keep warm in this way. Rao is so, they sweat on the burning side, but get goosebumps on the side on the back of the fire.

Sitting in the tent of the Chinese army, Irabuha could hear the whispers coming from all directions, and his heart couldn't help but be restless. He was originally Wanyan Heda's deputy, and he was also the chief general of the Jin State in this Eastern Crusade, he was good at war, but now he is a little at a loss.

Because it was not up to him to decide how to fight, but to the bearded guy sitting in front of him, who was only the nominal commander of the man.

In order to prevent the cold, a thick blanket was spread on the floor of the handsome tent, and the bearded man looked at Irabuha while drinking, and his expression was very arrogant. But Irabuha sat still, neither obscribing nor paying attention, as if he did not exist. Although Irabuha was also very anxious in his heart, he did not dare to lose face in front of this bearded man, so he forced himself to calm down.

"It's almost time."

The bearded man took out a pocket watch, looked at the time, and then threw the wine glass on the ground: "Irabuha, give the order to attack the city!" ”

Irabuha was unmoved, but raised his eyes and glanced at the bearded man: "Your country only sent you as an envoy to negotiate the cooperation between the two armies, but it didn't let you shout orders to the commander, you are so rude, you should have cut off your head and send it to the king of Tulei Khan, but for the sake of the alliance of the two countries, I will let you go." ”

Hearing Irabuha's words, the bearded man laughed loudly, without the slightest fear: "What's the use of shouting, if you don't need the help of our Dayuan warriors, you can capture Xuzhou, and I will cut off my head for you." If you can't capture Xuzhou, how about you cut off your head for me? ”

His cynicism, Irabuha pretended not to hear, but quickly walked out of the camp, and after a while, all the generals arrived, and Irabuha gave an order.

The golden men gathered around the fire were forced to stand up by whips and knives and spears, and when they heard that they were going to attack the city by night, they immediately panicked.

When they were originally summoned, they didn't say that, but as long as they lured the Song people out of the city!

Someone said it loudly, but he was immediately cut off his head, and after dozens of people were killed at once, these golden people, who were still ordinary people some time ago, had to tremble in two arms, picked up their so-called weapons, and forced towards Qinglong Castle.

Irabuha looked behind him with a blank expression. Mo said that these people are all Han Chinese, even the Jurchens, so what, in the war, the people are worthless consumables, and if a hundred more people die, he will feel that it is worth it if he dies one less elite soldier.

The noise of the Jin people had already alarmed the police posts on Qinglong Fort, and the Jin people had no intention of concealing it, and after about half an hour, these procrastinating people returned to Xicheng again.

"The siege begins!" Irabuha ordered.

The people who had been carried forward carried the ladder forward, for if they did not move forward, the merciless arrows from behind them would kill them. Compared to their clumsy siege, their cries were the weapons that made the Song army in Qinglong Fort even more unbearable. Luo Anqiong's hair was all open, he only felt angry, in the education he had received, there was no such despicable means, he glared at Qin Dashi, and asked sharply: "Counselor, what can I do now?" ”

"If you attack, you are the enemy." Qin Dashi's heart was as cold as iron, he pursed his lips, looked forward on the watchtower and shouted: "An Qiong, you go down to rest, you don't need your cavalry in night battles." ”

Luo Anqiong went down to the watchtower angrily, he knew that what Qin Dashi said was right, they were cavalry, not ordinary soldiers who were consumed on the city wall. He walked away from the city quickly, and behind him Qin Dashi shouted: "Raise the fire!" ”

With Qin Dashi's order, above the watchtower, a raging fire ignited, illuminating Qin Dashi's figure clearly.

Then, Qin Dashi raised a flag, and the artillerymen on the gun emplacements saw this flag and immediately began to load the cannons.

When Qin Dashi lowered the order flag, the twenty cannons on the top of the city and the forts on the high ground in the city roared in unison.

After several years of exploration, the artillery used by the artillery of the Great Song Dynasty has also improved, although the firing range is only about 300 steps, but the explosive power of the shells and the accuracy of the artillery have improved. Naturally, it is not a heavy artillery on Qinglong Fort, but its power, especially when it is fired in unison, is not weaker than ordinary heavy artillery.

In the dark night, the flames that bloom when the artillery explodes are even more brilliant than the fireworks during the New Year. The crimson smoke swelled into huge fireballs, tumbling on the ground, and the cries of the people who had been forcibly recruited from the Jin Kingdom disappeared in an instant.

After natural artillery showed great deterrent power on the battlefield, both Menghu and Jin strengthened their training in this area, especially Jinguo, which also had certain gunpowder weapons, so it used gunpowder explosions to train its soldiers to get used to the loud sound of artillery. However, the artillery of the Song Kingdom far surpassed that used in the training of the Jin State in terms of sound and actual lethality. And those people who were temporarily brought in as a precursor, and they had not been trained, and they were instantly stunned.

"Damn it!" Luo Anqiong scolded, he knew that Qin Dashi couldn't wait to give the order to open the cannon, although he sympathized with the people who were coerced, but he couldn't let his soldiers go to death because of sympathy for them.

Qin Dashi raised the clairvoyant mirror to check the effect of the artillery bombardment, the effect of the first round of shelling was better than he imagined, and after the artillery stopped bombardment, the people of the Jin Kingdom who reacted immediately turned around and fled. Compared with the swords and arrows of the Jin State sergeant behind him, the artillery of the Song people was obviously more terrifying.

"Marshal!" A general shouted to Irabuha in a trembling voice.

Ilabha closed his eyes tightly and waved his hand.

After several years of hard work, Jin Guo's understanding of the Song artillery is no longer what it was back then, and the artillery must have sufficient shells to be powerful, and the number of shots that can be fired within a certain period of time is still limited. Therefore, the biggest role of these coerced people is to consume the cannonballs of the Song people. Although Irabuha was reluctant to kill the people, he had to give the order to let the overseers go up.

Following Irabuha's order, the overseers of the Jin Kingdom stepped forward and killed more than 100 people in succession, only then did they stabilize their position.

The frightened Jin Man only reacted at this time, and in an instant, the earth-shattering cry rang out.

"Think about your parents and wives, if you don't move forward, your parents and wives will fall into the hands of Menghu!" The generals in the battle team shouted: "If you don't retreat from the battle, you can survive in the death and save your parents, wives and children, it will be glorious and rich, and it will be just around the corner!" ”

The reason why these coerced people of the Jin Kingdom have not broken up is that their parents, wives and children have become hostages. Hearing such shouts, they finally settled down, and although they were still afraid, they had to regroup their army again.

When they attacked again, the Jin people scattered, initially only from the west wall, but this time around the north wall and the south wall, attacking on three sides at the same time. Tens of thousands of people hugged at the same time, and the distance between people was also widened as much as possible to avoid being knocked down by a single shot from the Song artillery.

Qin Dashi narrowed his eyes slightly, it was obvious that Jin Ren had learned to be obedient.

However, this set is also expected by Qin Dashi, when the intimidating effect of artillery is no longer so powerful, it will be the sword and gun that will determine the victory.

Up to now, the Jin people's attacks had been weak, so weak that Qin Dashi suspected that they were simply sent to death. He groaned for a while, and instead of giving the order to put oil into the trench, he chose to continue waiting. When the Jin people braved the artillery fire and approached the city wall, Qin Dashi ordered: "Bow and arrow!" ”

The bow and crossbow was originally the director of the Song army, and after the artillery, the bow and crossbow changed from the only long-range unit in the past to a long-range auxiliary class, and the degree of attention plummeted, but in the loyal guard army and the forbidden army, a certain scale of crossbowmen was still maintained. In the darkness of the night, the crossbowmen could not shoot far, only within sixty paces to have lethality, although the Jin people were not well armed, but the shields used as door panels or pot lids were still available, so the lethality of the bow and arrow was still limited. These golden people were persecuted by the superintendent team behind them, thinking of their relatives at home, one by one, they risked their lives, and tried their best to lean towards the city, and in just one moment, more than ten ladders were set up on the relatively weakly defended southern city wall.

Night battles were originally extremely unfavorable to the malnourished and unsightly Jin people, but they were not greatly affected by the night, because they were numerous, the bonfires everywhere were abundant, and the snow itself could reflect the light. After the ladder was set up on the city wall, the Jin people cheered and gathered to the more than ten ladders.

Qin Dashi sneered, raised a small flag again, and with this action, the boiling oil of the big basin was served to the city.

It was just a precautionary measure, and in fact, the boiling oil was of little use, and as the clumsy golden soldiers began to climb the ladders, the forks protruding from the battlements toppled the ladders one by one. Qinglong Fort is not high, but the taste of falling down is also uncomfortable, not to mention that the arrows at the head of the city are still shooting downward, and the excitement of the Jin people leaning on the city wall soon turned into a desperate wail, and under the heavy casualties, they chose to retreat again.

"I don't mean to withdraw troops......"

Qin Dashi did not feel relaxed because of this, the strange attack of the Jin people today made him always suspect that the Jin people were playing some conspiracy behind them, and, according to common sense, the night siege is mainly to occupy a surprise, in the case of sufficient preparations in the Qinglong Castle, the Jin general should choose to retreat, and wait for the dawn to fight again, after all, the influence of the night on the Song people at the head of the city is far less than the Jin people under the city. However, after the two attacks were frustrated, the Jin people were still not ready to collect the troops, on the contrary, after this group of Jin soldiers retreated, the Jin people lit more fires under the city, and between the fires were countless torches, at first glance, the number of Jin people was only afraid to be more than 100,000.

Duan You stared blankly at the city that was not tall, and his heart was nothing but fear or fear. He gasped violently, and managed to escape from the city, and although he had countless abrasions on his body, at least there were no fatal wounds, and he was much luckier than his companions who had left their lives behind.

"Don't go over the line of fire, don't go over the line of fire, don't kill the violators, and the whole family will be slaughtered! Violators will be killed, and the whole family will be slaughtered! ”

Without the slightest pity for the fierce and ferocious shouts of the Overseer, Duan You turned his head and looked at the line of fire made up of torches in front of him, and shrank back as far away as he could. He didn't want to escape from the Song people with great difficulty and be killed by "his own people".

"No, not my own." He swallowed his saliva and denied the thoughts in his heart, whether it was the Song people or the Jin soldiers, they were not "their own people", they all wanted to take their lives. Thinking of this, Duan You was very desperate in his heart.

"Spare your life, spare your life!"

A golden man who had been coerced like him shouted in a mournful voice, and he had not reined in his feet, but had rushed through the line of fire, and was being forced by the superintendent to kill with a bright knife and a sharp spear, and he was kneeling on the ground, and kept kowtowing. In the firelight, he couldn't see the face of this person clearly, but the voice was very familiar, Duan You tried hard to recall, wanting to know who he was, but his mind was blank, and he couldn't recall it at all, he just felt that this person was very close to him, but who it was, but he couldn't remember anything.

The overseer ignored the man's plea for mercy, the sword flashed, the head rose to the sky, rolled on the ground a few times, and just rolled to Duan You's feet, the face was raised, unwillingness, fear and anger made the expression on the face very distorted, Duan You and the lost gaze were stunned for a while, and then shouted miserably: "Big brother!" ”

This person is his eldest brother Duan Suo, in an instant, how the two brothers grew up in the village, and how they supported each other after being forcibly plundered as soldiers, all appeared in Duan You's heart. During the day, his brother grabbed a piece of meat thrown by the Song people, and quietly hid it in his arms to share it with him, which made Duan You's internal organs split.

"Big brother!" He threw himself on the ground, picked up his brother's head, took him in his arms, and wept bitterly.

Anger surged in his heart, and he roared to rush at the Overseers, but was held down by his left and right hands. Duan You howled and struggled desperately, and a person next to him grabbed a lump of dirt from the ground and stuffed it into his mouth, blocking his insults.

"Stupid, your Duan family only has two brothers, if you die like this, who will support your old mother?"

The voice ringing in his ears was also somewhat familiar, but Duan couldn't remember it at this time, he whined, and he didn't know whether he was scolding or crying.

"Array, siege!"

This little commotion did not alarm Irabuha at all, and he gave the order again.

Duan You was pulled up by several people around him, he was still struggling, one of them had already lost his patience, and he gave him more than ten slaps in the face, which made him look like gold stars, so he calmed down a little.

"Be careful when you fight, don't give your life in vain." The somewhat familiar voice rang in his ears again.

"Sooner or later, sooner or later, too!" Duan You roared in a low voice, and the clod of dirt in his mouth moved into his throat, forcing him to vomit.

"Big brother, this kid is a nest of goods, what do you care about him?" Another voice saw that he was still like this, and said disdainfully: "I was implicated by this kid for no reason, let's do something big!" ”

"The Duan brothers are all good men, if it weren't for the old mother, how could they fall into the hands of Jin Yu, since I met him, I naturally want to help him." The "big brother" lowered his voice and said: "Brothers, don't worry, when I drag him, I won't ......."

Before he finished speaking, someone booed in a low voice: "Be careful, the dog officer is here." ”

Duan You raised his head, glanced over at the "eldest brother", and vaguely recognized him as a large family in the neighboring village, who had fled to the Song Kingdom for a while, and only returned to the village a few days ago. Looking at the left and right, it turned out to be people from the neighboring villages, he was slightly stunned, Jin Yu clearly disrupted them, how did these people get together?