The weapon used by Chen Xun was a large knife about five feet long.

The knife is long and sharp, using Hebei high-grade iron, forged by famous teachers, the blade is thick and slightly curved, which is conducive to chopping, if you ride a horse and hold it, with the help of the impact of the horse galloping, wipe the neck and cut the head that is easy.

Even if there are no horses, they are held in their hands during foot fighting, and with Chen Xun's huge arm strength, they dance like a windmill spinning, and they still have strong lethality.

A Mongolian soldier climbed up the simple long ladder from the top of the city, and as soon as his head was exposed, Chen Xun's long knife fell from the sky, accompanied by a thunderclap-like roar of the word "death", and the blade slashed from the Mongolian soldier's heavenly spirit cover, splitting the head wearing the iron helmet in half.

Blood splattered out, red and white.

The corpse of the Mongolian soldier fell straight down and hit the two men behind him, and the two unlucky men fell from the city screaming, not knowing whether they were alive or dead.

Chen Xun was a little out of breath, and took a few deep breaths with his long knife, he couldn't remember how many people he had killed.

"It's still the second day of the Mongols' siege, and it's a shame to break the city." He thought to himself.

Fiercely slammed the long knife on the ground, Chen Xun stood up, slashed the long knife horizontally, and wiped the neck of the Mongolian soldier who climbed up from another long ladder.

"Brothers, the time has come to fight hard!" Chen Xun shouted in a hoarse voice, he kept roaring from Ximensha in Shangjin City to the East Gate: "There is still hope for life in desperate death, and there is only one way to die if you are afraid of death!" The city is dying, and the city is broken, and everyone will die! Kill them all! ”

"Kill!"

The red-eyed officers and soldiers of the city agreed loudly, and with long-handled axes, two wolf fangs, huge forks, dense bows and arrows, and dead and heavy rolling wood and stones, they desperately greeted the besiegers attached to the long ladder, and the arrows flew above and below the city like locusts, accompanied by screams and blood flowers, and the sound of fighting resounded on every section of the city wall of Shangjin City.

Seven or eight pontoon bridges made of boats and wide planks were erected on the wide Qian River, and the black and crushed flow of people rushed across the river from the pontoons, filled the trenches under the city walls with bags full of earth, and erected long ladders, like a wave hitting a high reef, attacking the city walls.

The defenders on the city wall are resisting, Shangjin City is not big, the circumference is four or five miles, the Mongol army is attacking indiscriminately, besieging the city on all sides, and the attack is the most ferocious in the direction of the north gate.

Kublai Khan and several 10,000 households were on the dirt slope five miles away from the north gate of Lema, where the range of the crossbow at the head of the city was limited, and they watched the progress of the siege from afar.

Kublai Khan seemed to be a little dissatisfied, and there was a hint of black gas floating on his broad face.

Wanhu Shi Tianze was a little red-faced, holding his breath and constantly giving orders to the soldiers around him, and as time passed, he gave orders more and more frequently.

The other few Wanhu looked at it calmly with a lively expression, whispered a few words from time to time, glanced at Shi Tianze a few times, and his eyes were full of smiles.

"There are 4,000 guards in the city, right? Two thousand Song soldiers, two thousand Fan Yongji's soldiers, right? "Seeing that the sun was in the middle of the day, and it was almost time for lunch, Kublai Khan finally spoke, and he was silent all morning, like a wooden sculpture.

Shi Tianze wiped the sweat on his head, peeked around, and realized that everyone else had no intention of answering, this question was obviously asking himself, so he had to answer nervously: "Yes, I heard that there are thousands of young people who have withdrawn into the city." ”

"Then count it as 10,000." As he spoke, a javelin-like crossbow arrow shot from the tower of the north gate of Shangjin was inserted under the dirt slope with a scream, and the long arrow shaft hit the front of a shield cart, penetrating the wooden shield, and the arrow shaft was inserted on the shield surface and trembled, Kublai Khan glanced at it and said calmly.

"10,000 people, Master Shi, your 50,000 soldiers have been attacking for a day and a half, and they haven't even gone up the city wall."

The people on the dirt slope are all nobles, at least more than 1,000 households are qualified to stand up, Kublai Khan said this in front of them, which made Shi Tianze feel like he was looking for a crack in the ground to get into.

"Please wait a moment, Your Highness, I will bring someone up in person immediately!" Shi Tianze gritted his teeth and bowed down: "I can't take Shangjin before sunset, I'll see you with my head!" ”

"Master Shi, you misunderstood, I'm not blaming you." Kublai Khan waved his hand, and with the whip of the horse whip in his hand, he lifted Shi Tianze, who was bowing down, and said warmly: "The Song people are good at defending cities, we all know that the Great Mongolia has been at war with the Song people in recent years, and we know this matter very well, so I don't blame you." ”

Shi Tianze secretly breathed a sigh of relief, he understood that the Mongols were the most courageous in war, and if Kublai Khan blamed him for not being attentive enough and reluctant to invest troops, it would be troublesome.

However, Shangjin City is indeed tenacious, Kublai Khan said that several ten thousand households who fought with him took turns to fight, who contributed the most and contributed the highest credit in the future Han canonization, whose territory was the largest, Shi Tianze finally fought for the first battle, and wanted to make a head, but he didn't expect that the small city of Shangjin was so difficult to do, the Song soldiers inside were killed and did not surrender, and the city was guarded bravely and resolutely, so that he invested all his strength but could not open the situation, so embarrassing.

If Kublai Khan really blamed him, he would have to personally lead someone to climb the ladder to prove his innocence.

"The Song people are good at fortified cities, just like my Great Mongolian State is good at field battles, it is a long-term study of the ability, you can't beat it in a short time, it's not that you are incompetent, but the Song people are good at this, and we are not very good at attacking cities." Kublai Khan said in a deep voice: "Master Yao once said that the Song people have a saying, which is called that the ruler is short and the inch is long, but each has its own ability. ”

He turned his head to look at the generals and smiled: "I have expected this kind of thing since I came over with Helin, I watched the battle for two days, and I can see that it is about three more days for Lord Shi to besiege it, and this Shangjin City can also be taken, but that is too long." ”

Shi Tianze hurriedly said: "Your Highness, it won't take three days, and you will definitely be able to capture it tomorrow." ”

"The arrows at the head of the city are fierce, and the defenders are not waste that can be easily defeated, even if you take it, it will cost the lives of the soldiers in vain, and you can't make it." Kublai Khan shook his head.

Shi Tianze expressed his loyalty: "For the sake of the Great Mongolia and His Royal Highness, our soldiers have long put life and death aside. ”

Kublai Khan looked at him, seemed to be smiling, and continued to shake his head: "Master Shi, you are wrong when you say that. Your soldiers are not your property, they are the property of the Great Mongols, and their lives should be used in the right place and thrown under the city walls, which is not worth it. ”

As soon as these words came out, not only Shi Tianze, but everyone on the slope was stunned.

Not worth it? What do you mean? Not a siege?

Seeing that they were stunned, Kublai Khan became proud, his smile became thicker, he raised a hand and made a gesture to the Mongolian soldiers beside him.

The Mongolian soldiers received the order, raised the horn on their waists, whined and blew, and the horn sound of the horn rolling through the steppe was as low as spring thunder, spreading into the distance.

Behind the dirt slope, there was a large formation of the rear army, and with the sound of the trumpet, several huge wooden tower-like things towering like clouds slowly emerged from the rear formation, and with them, there were many vehicles made of wood, which were pushed along.

"It's ...... Siege ladder?! ”

"Lu Gongche, it turned out to be Lu Gongche, and now you can still find a craftsman who can make Lu Gongche?"

"That's a crash!"

An exclamation was shouted, shouting from the mouths of the crowd, these things are all city-breaking weapons, many of which were improved in the Tang Dynasty, and they actually appeared in the hands of the Mongols.

"Fighting a war is a combination of courage and wisdom, and relying on brute force alone will not become a reckless man?" Kublai Khan smiled coldly and pointed at Shi Tianze: "Allocate these to your soldiers, within two hours, I want to see the heads of the guards in the city, as for the others in the city......

He set his gaze on the head of Kamitsu Castle, where black smoke was billowing out, and there was a cruel light in his slender eyes.

"It's all slaughtered, and there is no need to leave a single one."

(End of chapter)