Chapter 761: Set up the city of Fugaizhou

As more and more soldiers fled the camp, some unlucky people were discovered and captured, and the outcome of escaping was naturally to eat a knife and fall to the ground with a human head.

The Chenzhou army suffered too much damage, the morale was low, and more than a dozen people who escaped from the battle were killed, and the morale of the army quickly weakened.

Seeing that only four or five thousand people were killed in the fifteen thousand Chenzhou army, most of them were wounded, and there was no combat effectiveness at all, so the military department Shangshu ordered them to withdraw from the battlefield.

This encounter of the Chenzhou army is to warn all the armies, those who do not listen to the orders of the emperor and the imperial court, no matter how many troops you have, will end up like this!

Subsequently, Dongjin's elite, who had been watching from outside the battlefield for a few days, appeared.

The well-prepared and well-trained Dongjin elite was not comparable to ordinary armies, and with their sophisticated armor and excellent war horses, they came to the city of Gaizhou with just one charge.

Even though they had a huge advantage in defending the city, they could fight for more than ten days in a row, and the Great Song soldiers who did not have much time to rest gradually could not bear it, and after an hour of fierce fighting, the Jin army attacked the city.

Then the two sides fought fiercely up and down the city, the Jin army was driven down for a while, and it didn't take long to climb up again, and then drive down, and climb up again, and so on, the two sides were entangled, flesh and blood flew, and the battle was tragic.

It was not until it was dark that the Jin army was repulsed five times before retreating.

Although the Song army repelled the enemy many times, it also suffered heavy losses, because of the repeated battles on the city, the battle losses of this day were almost the same as the previous ten days, which is very regrettable.

The navy army is good at long-range attacks, and close-range fighting is not what they are good at, judging from the combat effectiveness of today's Jin army, it may not be easy to hold on to Gaizhou City, and the price they have to pay is difficult for them to bear.

That night, part of the Song army's troops and supplies withdrew from Gaizhou City and returned to the nearby naval fleet, while the rest of the army was deployed in the city for final resistance.

On the third day, more than 20,000 elite Jin troops attacked in an attempt to take Gaizhou City in one fell swoop

The Song army launched a fierce counterattack on the city, with trebuchets and bows and crossbows on the ground, no longer caring about the ordnance reserves, and pouring their brains on the heads of the charging enemy troops.

The Jin army was fiercely resisted and suffered heavy casualties, but after all, they were the absolute elite of Dongjin, and behind them were the emperor of the Jin State and a number of civil and military ministers, so whether they wanted to or not, they had to charge and take Gaizhou City!

After paying a huge price, the Jin army finally reached the city of Gaizhou again and climbed to the top of the city.

However, before they could cheer, they were surrounded by a raging fire, which burned the soldiers of the Jin army who climbed up to the top of the city, as well as the bows and crossbows and trebuchets that could not be taken away.

Taking advantage of the fire burning in the city, the Song army quickly withdrew into the inner city, which was more than 20 zhang away, discarding the outer city and defending the inner city.

The city was on fire, and it was difficult for the Jin army to cross the wall of fire, so they could only suspend the siege and wait for the fire on the city to be extinguished.

A few quarters of an hour later, with only black smoke and no flames left on the city, the Jin army immediately surged again, this time successfully capturing the ungarrisoned northern city head and occupying the northern gate.

Soon, the city gate opened, and the Jin army poured into the city, and their morale was high, and they quickly launched a large-scale attack on the inner city, which was more than 20 zhang away.

So a fierce battle unfolded in the open space more than 20 zhang wide between the inner and outer cities, and the two armies fired at each other against the wall, but they could not meet each other in a short manner.

What the Jin army wanted was to charge and take Gaizhou City in one fell swoop, rather than confronting the Song army in the city.

Half an hour later, the inner city wall was broken, and the Jin army rushed into the inner city, only to find that the Song army had withdrawn to the center of the city again, and another wall appeared in front of them.

Since they knew that the Song army was invincible, the Jin army had no reason not to continue to pursue, and did not hesitate to attack the second city wall.

Half an hour later, the second wall was breached, and the Jin army crossed the city wall and found that the Song army had retreated again and fled behind the third wall, and the Jin army pursued again.

In this way, after two hours, the Jin army broke through a total of five inner walls.

The more they chase, the higher their morale, although the battle damage is not small, but the people who survive don't care, because they know that after this battle, everyone will be rewarded.

After the fifth inner wall was breached, the sixth inner wall appeared in front of them again, and not only that, but they also saw the fleeing Song army, which further stimulated their fighting spirit to pursue.

The fleeing armies were demoralized and vulnerable.

Sure enough, the sixth inner wall was breached in less than two quarters of an hour, and the Jin army rushed in, and saw the Song army running to another wall not far away in a panic, and quickly closed the door, just like the previous ones, they didn't even have time to take their crossbow weapons with them.

In more than two hours, the Jin army that rushed into the city has exceeded 10,000 people, and according to the size of Gaizhou City and the distance between the six consecutive inner walls, after the seventh inner wall is breached, they can see the south gate of Gaizhou City.

It would be a great honor to capture Gaizhou City in the presence of the Emperor, and everyone did not hesitate to rush to the last inner wall in a frenzy, and breaking through it would completely expel the Song army from Gaizhou City!

However, what they didn't expect was that the seventh inner wall was stronger than the previous six inner walls, and the slashing and axe could only leave a white mark on the wall, and at most a broken stone the size of a finger would be broken.

The door also does not move, it cannot be cut, it cannot be split, it cannot be pushed.

I wanted to climb over the wall, but I found that the top of the wall more than a foot high was covered with iron spikes three or four inches long, and if I wanted to climb the wall, I would immediately pierce the palm of my hand, and I wanted to cut off the spikes on it with the weapon in my hand, but I found that they were like growing out of the wall, so strong that they could bend them, and I couldn't eradicate them.

So outside the seventh inner wall, the Jin army encountered a problem, unable to climb over, unable to break through the wall, and unable to open the door.

In fact, the Jin army had no intention of opening that gate, because they couldn't open the first six gates, and the reason why they were able to come here was because they used brute force to break through the wall more than two feet thick.

Just as the Jin army was violently attacking the seventh wall in front of them with the swords and guns in their hands, near the first inner wall behind them, several black objects suddenly flew up behind the buildings near the outer city wall and landed near the north city gate.

The thing shattered when the clay pot hit the ground, and the black juice inside suddenly flowed to the ground.

Just when the Jin army didn't know what was going on, more clay pots fell from the sky and fell all over the northern city, at the feet of the Jin army, and on the top of the head.

In a short time, the flying clay pot began to move rapidly from the north of the city to the south of the city, and the black juice flowed all over the ground under the feet of the Jin army, and the nearby buildings were also splashed everywhere.

The general of the Jin army immediately realized that this might be a conspiracy of the Song army, but before he could open his mouth to remind everyone to be careful, he saw a fireball fall from the sky and fall to the ground, instantly igniting the black juice on the ground.

"Retreat! There is an ambush! ”

An exclamation was made, and everyone was shocked.

But it was too late, and he had just turned around, and before he had taken a few steps, he saw the north gate plunged into a sea of fire, and the flames rose into the sky, and quickly spread from north to south.

"Quick! Get out of town through the South Gate! ”

The screams and howls from the north of the city soon came out, and Jin Jun instantly understood that the black juice under his feet was probably flammable, so they ran to the place where the black juice had not spread, or squeezed to the south of the city.

But whether they dodged or ran, they had nowhere to dodge as the fireball arrived.

In a short time, the entire fire spread from the north to the south of the city, and continued to the front of the seventh inner wall.

They failed to break through this wall, and the fire behind it had spread, and it was still a fire in the whole city, which was obviously arranged by the Song army in advance, and now they had no other way but to escape.

Behind him is a fire, the wall in front of him cannot be broken, and there are iron spikes on the top of the wall, which can be said to have no way to go to heaven and no door to enter the ground.

In a hurry, a general grabbed one of the people next to him and threw it on the top of the wall.

The man screamed, and was pierced by the spikes beneath him, and hung firmly on the top of the wall, and the man struggled violently for a moment, and soon stopped moving, apparently having pierced his heart and lost his life.

Something was on his feet, and the general jumped up, grabbed the soldier hanging on the wall, and quickly climbed over the wall.

The others inside the wall saw it and hurriedly scrambled to be the first.

However, the location is limited, the fire behind them is approaching, everyone has to flee for their lives, who is willing to escape the opportunity to escape first, so they all grabbed the trouser leg of the person at the top of the wall, and they were about to climb up.

The man on the top of the wall was dead, and the corpse was hung on the top of the wall by the spikes under him, the strength of the corpse was limited, where could it withstand the pulling of five or six people at the same time, and after a short time, it was disemboweled, and it slid down beyond recognition, and there were blood stains flowing down the wall.

The corpse slid down, everyone was stunned, and just when they didn't know how to flee for their lives, someone had an idea, took off his clothes and threw them on the top of the wall.

The others immediately understood and followed suit.

Moments later, someone climbed to the top of the wall and walked over the wall before the fire could burn.

Although the soldiers of the Jin Army in front of the seventh inner wall found a way to climb the high wall, the fire spread extremely fast, coupled with nervousness and fear, it was impossible to successfully climb the wall at one time, and there were hundreds of people waiting to escape for their lives on the wall, and the result can be imagined.

According to later statistics, in the first battle of Gaizhou, nearly half of the 30,000 elite soldiers of the Jin army were killed, except for a few who died during the siege, most of them were burned to death in the city.

After this battle, the most elite troops stationed in Liaoyang Mansion and Dongjin all the year round were greatly damaged, and they were almost unable to participate in the next battle.

After Yan Yong's personal expedition, although the Song army retreated in the first battle of Gaizhou and avoided the sea, they did not completely withdraw and may land again at any time, so this battle was not a victory.

Gaizhou was destroyed, the Song army retreated, and Wan Yanyong returned to Chenzhou to watch the future.

A few days later, the scouts reported that the Song army had not retreated, they had landed fifty miles south of Gaizhou, and had already built a camp, possibly for a long time!

Hearing the news, Wan Yanyong immediately ordered the army to attack again.

Vowed to completely wipe out this Song army, drive all the Song troops into the sea, and smash the Song army's attempt to attack Liaoyang Mansion!

Just when Yan Yong led the army and the Great Song Dynasty naval army to fight on the Liaodong Peninsula, Yang Congyi had already commanded the army to complete the encirclement of Yanjing.