Chapter 10023: The Great Siege of the City (I)
Hejian Province, a fleet of hundreds of tugboats is slowly moving south along the Yongji Canal, because it is downstream, there is no need for slender men, but there are 1,000 soldiers on each side of the river to closely guard, this is the third round of the Ji army to transport grain and grass materials.
Two miles away on the west bank, a Song Dynasty scout team composed of ten people was monitoring the fleet south, at this time, night had quietly fallen, but the fleet did not show signs of resting on the shore, still sailing in the river, this is also because the Jin soldiers went south, but they did not carry much grain and grass, Gao Qingyi must prepare enough grain and grass as soon as possible to prevent the Jin soldiers from running out of food and grass, and finally Wan Yan also blamed himself.
Seeing that the fleet was not resting, the Song army scouts of the squad immediately increased their speed and rushed south.
The Song army had been eyeing this fleet for five days, and Li Zhen led five hundred elite scouts, always looking for an opportunity to attack.
Li Zhen finally placed the ambush in the southernmost town of Dalong Town, which was once a large town that flourished due to the business opportunities brought by the canal, but now it is abandoned, and the whole town originally had more than 200 households, but now only a few remain, most of the houses are empty, and the yard is overgrown with weeds.
Li Zhen took a fancy to this place for two reasons, one is that there are many abandoned houses in the town, which is easy to ambush, and the second is that the road by the river is very narrow, only one foot wide, and people must walk sideways, so when the soldiers pass through the town, they cannot walk along the river, but must go around the town, this section is about five hundred steps long, which is very suitable for the layout of the Song army.
More than 20 water ghosts were already lurking in the river with oil bags on their backs, patiently waiting for the arrival of the fleet, and around the clock, the fleet finally came, and the soldiers guarding the town also knew the characteristics of the town, and walked around the town one after another, temporarily breaking away from the convoy.
The water ghosts moved quickly, they silently swam towards the fleet with fire oil bags on their backs, the fleet only had a dozen boatmen in the big boat at the head, who were responsible for controlling the direction, and the tugboats behind were all flat-bottomed boats of five hundred stones, tied together with iron chains at the end and end, and there was generally no need for boatmen, and the boats were piled with high grain and grass, firmly covered with tarpaulins, and although a thousand soldiers on the east bank could see the ships, they could not see the other side of the ships.
The water spirits moved very quickly, they did not climb onto the boat, but climbed the side of the ship, slashed the tarpaulin with a sharp dagger, poured some of the oil into it, and then slid into the water to attack another ship, and dealt with about a hundred ships.
At this time, there was a sudden scream from the periphery of Dalong Town, which was the scout cavalry in ambush in the town to a thousand escort soldiers, they shot down more than 200 enemy soldiers with horned crossbows, and then killed them, 500 elite cavalry against more than 700 ordinary Ji soldiers, and the balance of war completely fell to the Song army.
The guards on the east bank immediately panicked, the commander blew the horn, and the soldiers began to assemble rapidly.
War is the signal, the water ghosts began to light the fire on the ship, one after another the ship was lit by the torch, the fire borrowed the wind, the oil fueled, the fire burned very quickly, several water ghosts with torches bent over the ship to run, directly lit the fuel cloth, especially the ship carrying the forage, was quickly ignited.
"Dock! Dock! The East Coast soldiers shouted loudly.
A dense stream of arrows whizzed towards the water ghosts on the ship, and several water ghosts were hit by arrows one after another, screaming and falling into the water, at this time, the ship began to slowly approach the east shore.
Seeing that the situation was not good, and nearly half of the ships had not been ignited, he shouted, "Follow me!" ”
Several of his men followed him into the water, and suddenly, 'Wow! The first general jumped up to the bow of the boat and slashed the boatmen who were holding the boat off the boat, and the rest of the boatmen jumped into the water in fright and swam to the shore.
The general grabbed the bamboo pole and struggled to hold the boat in the opposite direction, preventing the fleet from approaching the east shore, and everyone struggled to hold the boat together, and the boat began to approach the west shore.
At this time, the soldiers on the east bank were furious, and they fired arrows one after another, shooting at several water ghosts who were holding the boat at the bow of the ship, and one of the water ghosts screamed, and was shot in the back by an arrow and fell to the bow of the boat.
"Get down!"
The general came down in a hurry, and he and several soldiers lay down, but their hands did not stop, and they continued to hold the boat towards the west bank.
More and more ships were burning, seventy percent of the ships had been set on fire, but there were still more than fifty ships that had not yet been ignited, at this time, dozens of soldiers rushed from the shore to help the battle, they directly threw the oil barrels on the ships that had not yet burned, and then the rockets were fired, and the fire immediately burst into flames.
The effect of the oil barrel was immediate, and in just a moment, more than fifty large ships were all set on fire, and the entire river was on fire, forming a long fire dragon, and the soldiers on the other side shouted and scolded, but there was nothing to be done.
But considering the serious consequences of the burning of the fleet, quite a few soldiers began to abscond.
At dawn, hundreds of ships were burned and sunk, and only some blackened wreckage remained on the river, and the soldiers on the east bank were gone, and I don't know whether they were deserters overnight, or went to the Daimyo's Mansion to report their guilt, but the commander of the army abandoned his troops and fled in the middle of the night, and hundreds of ships were destroyed.
At the fifth watch, when the last ship sank into the river, the Song army all withdrew, but they still had the task, that is, to monitor the main force of the Jin soldiers, and the five hundred cavalry galloped south and disappeared at the end of the plain.
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There were dark clouds over the Daimyo's Mansion, and a heavy rain seemed to be coming at any time, and in the camp of the Golden Soldiers, the fierce drums were still beating 'Bang!' Boom! At the sound of the sound, 15,000 golden soldiers rushed like a frenzy and came to the Daimyo Castle, which was already the third siege of Wanyan Xian in two days.
In the first day of the tentative attack, the Jin soldiers failed to break through the dense arrow rain of the Song army, and nearly 1,000 people were killed and wounded.
As a result, Gao Qingyi's army was blown up by the Song army's earth-shattering thunder and suffered heavy casualties, killing and wounding more than 5,000 people.
After two temptations, Wan Yan Xian also understood the Song army's defense routine, far away with the divine arm crossbow and bed crossbow, and close to the city defense bow and earth-shaking thunder.
At this time, Wan Yanxian finally got the news that the 20,000 gold soldiers in Xuzhou had been wiped out, which made him heartbroken, but he was helpless.
He is now more worried about the situation of the 30,000 golden soldiers led by Wanyan Zonggan, among those 30,000 people, there are 20,000 Jurchens, and there are nobles like Wanyan Zonggan, if the whole army is also wiped out, he really can't explain it to the wolf lord.
Wan Yan Xian has no other choice now, he can only get in touch with the intelligence point in Lin'an if he takes the Daimyo's Mansion as soon as possible.
But at the same time, Wan Yanxian also sent a few spies to smuggle across the Yellow River on a small raft to see if he could get in touch with the Jin soldiers in Yunzhou.
In the drumbeat of the rumbling attack, the 15,000 Jin soldiers army was divided into three phalanxes, and together they advanced towards the walls of the Daimyo's Mansion, and the number of people was dense, and from the heights, the black Jin soldiers were densely packed, like ant colonies, covering the land outside the Daimyo Castle.
"Forward!" In the sound of drums, Wanyan Sosuke, the deputy marshal of the Jin soldiers who commanded the operation, shouted,
"Take the lead in killing the head of the city and reward 10,000 sheep!"
Under the heavy reward, Jin Bing was particularly energetic and murderous.
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"Forward!"
In the roar of rolling thunder, the army of Jin soldiers advanced towards the famous city like a sea of mountains, this time the Jin soldiers did not use many siege weapons, the most important thing was the ladder.
This is a kind of simple siege ladder, that is, several large trees are nailed together with giant nails, these large trees are poplars cut from the nearby forest, straight and long, each big tree is four or five feet long, only its main trunk is retained, and after nailing them together, it becomes a temporary siege ladder.
Not only did it allow the Jin soldiers to cross the moat, but it also allowed them to mount the city, and the hundred gold soldiers ran against a row of ladders, and it was also able to resist the bows and arrows of the Song army and the bed crossbows.
At the head of the city, the Song army was ready, and sixty heavy fire cannons at the head of the north city creaked open, and an eighty-pound giant earth-shaking thunder was placed in the launch slot.
In addition to the cannons, the Song army also cleared out hundreds of bed crossbows from the warehouse, and after repairing them, they were put into battle, this kind of bed crossbow is four feet long, with a range of 500 steps, and a killing range of 300 steps, which can shoot through the war horses of the golden soldiers, and the power is very powerful.
The Jin soldier army is getting closer and closer, and has entered the four hundred step line, and the Song general who is responsible for commanding the bed crossbow is Zhang Damu, who is also a practical general who has stepped into the position of general step by step by a small soldier, he was originally a general of the crossbow camp Hua Rong, with sharp archery, and was selected to participate in Yan Qing's army this time.
Zhang Damu watched the wave of Jin Bing's attack approaching the city step by step, and the front of the army had reached three hundred paces, he shouted, "Shoot!" ”
The bed crossbows of the Song army were shot together, and five hundred four-foot-long arrows were shot out intensively, and they were shot at the Jin soldiers in one volley, and the Jin soldiers were shot down by nearly two hundred Jin cavalry, and the powerful bed crossbows shot through their bodies, and some of the bed crossbow arrows also shot two people at the same time.
The strong desire to attack tempted Wanyan Sosuke, and he was not seen from time to time to the casualties of the soldiers in front of him, and a huge antler horn was in his hand, which was an order to retreat.
If the horn does not sound, the Jin soldiers will move forward bravely until they die, but this 15,000 army is also a mixed army, including 5,000 Jurchen infantry, 5,000 Bohai infantry and 5,000 Khitan infantry, all of them are fierce warriors, although the number is not much, but the combat effectiveness is very strong.
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