Chapter 59 Joy Doesn't End -2
The earth-shattering drums and roars on the opposite side did not make Xiao Tachi's mood fluctuate in the slightest, and he raised his left hand and pointed at the wall. The Mlb cavalry, which followed behind, parted to the sides, and a dozen light artillery pieces loaded on horses were pushed out. Although the power is far inferior to the three-inch and four-inch cannons of the Xia Kingdom, it is enough to deal with this thin wooden fence wall.
The roar of artillery resounded through the valley, and the rudimentary wooden fence walls of the Wenhan Department were soon blasted open. Of the more than 5,000 cavalry, more than 3,000 were on guard outside, and 2,000 cavalry rushed into the stockade like a tide. The Jin soldiers did not have time to retreat, so they had to rely on the wall and fight and retreat. Arrows flew sideways, swords and swords, the Jurchens resisted desperately, Wen Han Ahai bit the braid in his mouth, holding a long knife against the wall, he didn't have time to retreat into the barn, he was surrounded by the Liao soldiers who broke into the village. Some of the Liao soldiers jumped off their horses and fought with the Jurchen warriors, while the other part drove the horses to gallop in the stockade, constantly cutting down the deputy soldiers and the old and weak who had little resistance, and some reached out and threw out the noose to trap the women who fled in panic.
There were fewer and fewer fighters still resisting, and there were people fleeing in panic everywhere. Wen Han Ahai's eyes were red, and a long knife was brandished like a mad tiger. "Kill!" He roared and split the Liao soldier's small shield in half with a single sword, caught up with a step, and cut off his head. Wen Han Ahai was majestic, much taller than the ordinary Liao soldiers, and he fought for his life like this, so that the Liao soldiers did not dare to approach, and only four or five people surrounded him from afar. The leader was so brave that he inspired the Jurchen people next to him to grit their teeth and fight fiercely. The Jurchens were taller than the ordinary Liao people, and they were even taller than the Murbo people on the steppe. Compared with the Jurchens, hand-to-hand combat was not what the Erbo people were good at, and many Liao soldiers fell under the light of the sword.
Seeing this, Xiao Tachi frowned, took out his bow and arrows, bent his bow and arrows, and when Wen Han Ahai turned his back to him, an arrow was released, and the arrow broke through the wind. A burst of alarm swelled in Wen Han Ahai's heart, and just when he bowed to avoid it, he felt as if he had been hit the shoulder, and the arrow had shot into his right shoulder. "Lord Mouke," the surrounding Jurchen people were all shocked, and they didn't care about the Liao soldiers in front of them, and they protected the surroundings of Wenhan Ahai, protecting him and fighting and retreating.
Xiao Ta laid away his bow and arrows with a blank face, and he had neither the shame of a sneak attack from behind, nor the joy of shooting an enemy. This man is brave, but to him he is only a prey. In addition to grazing, the steppe tribes made a living from hunting, and archery masters abounded. The surrounding Liao soldiers followed suit and cast cold arrows in the distance. With a force far outnumbering the Jurchens, after a few rounds of arrow rain, the resistance in various parts of the Wenhan camp was also nearing its end.
The remnants of the fighters retreated into the barn. Since they learned to farm, the Wenhan tribe has built the barn in the most dangerous part of the village, with cliffs on three sides and a thick stone wall on one side. In the process of construction, I also got the guidance of the Han people. Although narrow, the barn is extremely strong, and the walls are thickened every winter.
The Liao army set up artillery to bombard it for a while, but in addition to breaking some white spots out of the wall, it could not destroy it. The road leading to the barn was narrow, and as soon as the Liao army approached, poison arrows were fired indiscriminately. After several attempts, Xiao Tachi decisively ordered the attack to be stopped.
Although the Jurchens had brought grain into the barn in advance, there were always some scattered in each house. After the Liao army carefully searched for food, they gathered the Jurchens captured in the camp, killed all the men, and divided the women into various squads, pulled to the front of the barn, and insulted them in every way, while scolding and provoking, trying to provoke the Jurchens to fight.
Hearing the unbridled laughter of the Liao people outside, Wen Han Ahai's teeth were gritted, and the wound on his shoulder condensed again and again, and then collapsed again and again, and the blood soaked through the strips of cloth wrapped in the wounds. The arrowheads of the Murbo people are also poisoned, and Xiao Tachi is no exception. A large chunk of flesh around the wound had to be cut off with a dagger, leaving a deep bloody hole in the back of his shoulder. Most of the hundreds of remaining Wenhan warriors had grief and anger on their faces, but most of them bowed their heads. If you lose the danger of the barn, you can only be slaughtered by the Liao army, not only that, but thousands of old and weak children hiding in the barn will be poisoned. When the wife of a deputy soldier was taken out by the Liao soldiers, he couldn't bear to rush out, and his head was picked on the tip of the spear erected by the Liao.
"Emperor Aguta will definitely avenge us." Wen Han Ahai's eyes were red, as if they were about to erupt into flames. The killing of the Liao people evoked a long memory, and it was Wanyan Aguda who ended all this. Wen Han Ahai believed that if Ah Guta defeated the Liao Dog Emperor, he would definitely return to his division to sweep away these brutal Liao Dogs.
"With these Liao dogs making trouble behind their backs, can Emperor Aguta win the battle?" A clansman hesitated.
"Of course you can," Wen Han Ahai frowned and said sharply, "When did Liao Gou stop making trouble." As he spoke, he touched the wound, and he took a breath of pain, and beads of sweat the size of soybeans appeared on his forehead. Looking at the frightened and pale faces around him, Wen Han Ahai endured the pain of his injuries and analyzed: "The Jurchen people are no longer at their mercy as they used to be, these Liao soldiers are biting everywhere like mad dogs, but they can't shake the foundation of the Dajin Kingdom. Da Bo Jilie led his troops to guard the Huanglong Mansion, and the Prime Minister Bo Jilie guarded the Huining Mansion. These two important towns are located in the hinterland of our Jurchens, the cities are strong, and the defenders are not weak. These Liao dogs came in a hurry, and it was difficult to conquer them. ”
In the barn, not only thousands of Jurchens hid in it, but also cattle, sheep and horses and other domestic animals drove in as much as possible, and the narrow space was very crowded and filled with the smell of stinking and baking. The moans and screams of the people outside were incessant, and the soldiers who were hiding in the barn shuddered, and most of them had a look of fear in their eyes, and gathered around Wen Han Ahai, listening to his words of comfort, as if they were baking a fire in a furnace in winter.
Wen Han Ahai's eyes seemed to radiate a blazing light: "Wanyan Pujianu is extremely fierce in commanding the troops to guard Shenzhou, protecting the grain road and the back road of the army, and Emperor Aguta can rely on Liaoyang City to fight to the death with Emperor Liaogou with peace of mind." When attacking Huining Mansion and Huanglong Mansion, the Jurchen was ten times weaker than now, but Emperor Aguta still defeated Liaogou, and now he will definitely be able to do it. A hint of fierceness flashed in his eyes, "As long as you wait until Your Majesty's victorious army returns, you can kill all these Liao dogs." Everyone also thought that this was the case, in the past, the Jurchens did not even have a city, and they were not afraid of Liaogou, but now they are even more afraid. Thinking so in their hearts, everyone gradually became less afraid.
The Liao soldiers rested for a night in the breached camp, and the next day, when it was light, they continued to march north. The Liao army could not stay in one place for two nights, one was to avoid being entangled by the Jin soldiers, but to change places to fight the grass valley. Before leaving, the Liao soldiers killed all the captives and set fire to all the houses, the flames were blazing, and the air was filled with a strange smell of meat and burnt paste. After this catastrophe, the Jurchen Wen Han tribe was greatly damaged.
Because of the lack of supplies, although the king of Jin pointed out the reality of the Jurchen tribes and sent Han army guides, if each tribe was as resolute and stubborn as the Wen Han tribe, the grain and grass carried by the Liao army alone would not be enough to hold out for so long. But not every Liaodong tribe was as tenacious and stubborn as the Jurchen Wenhan tribe. The cavalry of the Liao State was scattered in a vast area within a radius of hundreds of miles to the greatest extent, just to facilitate the fight of grass valleys.
Liaohuang Yelu Dashi's reinforcements arrived in Liaoyang, attracting the attention of the Jin army. The news of the Liao cavalry's attack on the hinterland of the Jin State has not yet come, and all the Jin soldiers are preparing to break the main force of the Liao soldiers in one fell swoop. The Han army marshal's office selected 10,000 strong men, and transferred officers from Suzhou Guannan for rectification and training, and the Han army in Liaoyang expanded to 12,000 people. A big battle is imminent, and during this time, Han Ningshuang has been busy urging all battalions to train soldiers.
"The Jin State used troops, and every time there was a war, it let other tribes sign troops to rush to the front, and sacrificed for the Jurchens in vain. The system of signing the army is the most harmful, and the art of war says, fighting without teaching, it is also called punishment. Zhao Xingde looked at Wanyan Zongbi's back, frowned and said to Han Ningshuang, "The wolf's ambition is rarely connived, but it has to be inched in." ”
These days, the prince of the Jin Kingdom has always found some excuses to come to the Han camp to inspect, obviously because the drunkard does not mean to drink. Since the conquest of Liaoyang, the Jurchen magnates have been complacent, and there is also a faint hint of the meaning of including all units of the Han army under the rule of the Jin State Meng'an Mouke after defeating the Liao army. Zhao Xingde was extremely dissatisfied with the matter of recruiting troops to help Jin attack Liao, but the situation was stronger than people, if it weren't for this, it would be impossible for Jin to return 100,000 Liaoyang Han'er to the Han army.
On the school field, a group of newly recruited strong men held spears in their hands, and formed formations, forwards, and retreats under the supervision of the sergeants. This is to be trained according to the drills of the Xia Guo regiment's military training, and in a hurry, it can only be like this. The sergeants were armed with short sticks and taught fiercely, but there were still strong men who made mistakes. On the Jin Guoying side, in order to fight a decisive battle with the Liao army, the Jin army itself requisitioned nearly 100,000 Bohai people and Han'er to sign an army. These signatories had no training at all, and usually acted as civilian men under the supervision of the Meng'an Mouke, carrying baggage, repairing the camps, and only when they went into battle did they issue a small number of weapons and war equipment, and the Jurchen soldiers rushed to the battlefield to die like a flock of sheep.
In the tent of the Emperor of Jin, Wanyan Aguta had just received the news that Liao cavalry had appeared near and north of Shenzhou, and immediately convened the generals to discuss whether to withdraw immediately, or to break the Liao army in front of him first, and then return to the division to sweep.
After the Jin State conquered Shenzhou, it was immediately used as the rear of the Liaoyang Battle to focus on management, not only strengthened the city for several days, hoarded a large amount of grain and grass, Wanyan Aguda also ordered the third Bo Ji Yan Pu Jianu commanded 30,000 Jin soldiers stationed in Shenzhou, protecting the rear of the main force of the Jin soldiers. If the Liao State wants to attack from behind, it is absolutely impossible to bypass the fortified city of Shenzhou, otherwise the Liao army that sneaks up will fall into a situation where they are flanked by the Jin soldiers. Liaoyang and Shenzhou are only more than 130 miles apart, so that the Jin army has sufficient warning time when the Liao soldiers appear, and can reinforce Shenzhou in time according to the situation.