Chapter 503: Storming the City on a Rainy Night
Under the eastern city wall, more than 500 trebuchets were placed there, and countless huge stones were smashed towards the city wall.
At this moment, the Jurchen defenders in the capital city have also come to the city wall, and the big stones were thrown in the dark night, and suddenly the Jurchen defenders were smashed.
Some of the Jurchen soldiers fell to the ground, their legs and feet had been broken by the boulders, and they were screaming incessantly, but there was no one to rescue them.
Under the city wall in the south, nearly 100,000 Song troops launched an attack on the city, all of them holding Song crossbows in their hands, and at this moment arrows flew towards it like rain.
The Jurchen soldiers above are also fighting back, but the Jurchens are mainly riding and shooting, and the bows and arrows in their hands are also horse bows, and the range is far inferior to the Song crossbow!
In a short period of time, a large number of Jurchen soldiers above have fallen! Many Jurchen soldiers held shields in their hands to resist, but there were still people who kept falling.
Under the city wall in the west, after a burst of bow and crossbow attacks, countless Song soldiers climbed towards the city wall with cloud ladders.
At the position of the west gate, the soldiers of the Song army carried a huge log and slammed it against the west gate, the west gate trembled constantly, and the Jurchens were firmly holding on inside.
There was no battle in the north, but the cavalry of the Song army loomed, and the Jurchens did not dare to slack off at all, so they could only send people to defend above.
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The rain kept falling, and for the whole night, the Song army was frantically attacking the city.
The hundreds of thousands of Song troops seem to have been thrown into the siege.
By daybreak, the city walls were littered with Jurchen corpses. There are also corpses of the Song army under the city walls, but the corpses of the Song army are much fewer than those of the Jurchens.
Jin Wushu was covered in blood at the moment, and he had just led his soldiers to block a new wave of attacks by the Song army on the western city wall, and it seemed that the Song army was about to launch a second wave of attacks.
At this time, Wan Yanchang, Guo Yaoshi and others came over from a distance.
"What are the casualties here?" Wan Yan Chang said.
"The casualties are very heavy! The Song army is extremely powerful! I originally thought it was just the Song army in Datong that was powerful, but I didn't expect the Song army everywhere to be equally powerful! We are not good at defending the city, and there are not many materials in Zhongjing City to defend the city, so it is even more difficult to resist the Song army. Jin Wushu wiped the blood off his face, took a deep breath, and said.
It has been many years since the rise of the Golden Soldiers, but since the rise of the Golden Soldiers, they have always been attack-oriented, and they rarely take the initiative to defend the city! They had little experience in defending the city, and they did not expect that the Song army would take the initiative to go north, so the materials prepared by Zhongjing City to defend the city were also extremely limited.
There are only a few dozen trebuchets in the entire Zhongjing City, and there are no crossbows to defend the city, nor are there things to defend such as wood and boulders, and Jin Wushu, Wan Yanchang, and Guo Yaoshi don't know how to defend the city more effectively.
The Song army below launched a second wave of attacks, and the Jin Wushu had already hurriedly urged the Jin soldiers to continue to block it.
"Can we stop the Song army?" Wan Yan Chang said.
"If the Song army keeps attacking like this, I'm afraid that Zhongjing will be broken within a few days! Taishi, I think we might as well take the soldiers out and fight the Song army in the field. "Golden Vulture Dao.
"Field? There are still so many Song cavalry in the north, and our strength is far inferior to theirs, and if we go out, there is only a dead end. Pharmacist Guo sneered.
"How did the situation in the world become like this?" Wan Yanchang stomped his feet.
He didn't expect that in just a few years, the situation in the sky would change greatly! Especially since the beginning of this year, there was a great rebellion in Liaodong, and now the Song army has fully entered the northern grasslands! If the Zhongjing urban agglomeration is lost, the chaos in Liaodong cannot be restored, and the Jin Kingdom will almost be destroyed! At this time, Wan Yanchang felt that the strength of the Jin Kingdom was indeed not as strong as they imagined! The population of the Jin State is limited, and the victory has been enough to deter the Khitans or other ethnic groups in the country in the past, but now once defeated, they are not even qualified to turn the book.
"I can only hope that Yelu Dashi will go south soon! Moreover, the Song army fought all night, they must have been extremely tired, and they also had to rest! "Golden Vulture Dao.
However, on September 26, for a whole day, the Song army did not rest, and they continued to attack the capital fiercely.
In the morning, the attack on the west side was the most violent, and by noon, the attack on the east side became fierce, and the eastern city wall was almost knocked down by the Song army, and more than 10,000 Jurchen soldiers died on the eastern wall.
In the afternoon, the Song army in the north finally launched an attack.
Han Shizhong personally led the 120,000 infantry of the Datong Military Region to launch a fierce attack on the northern city wall, and he personally climbed the cloud ladder and went up! Jin Wushu immediately led tens of thousands of Jin soldiers to arrive, and they transported all the materials in the city to defend the city, and it was not until late at night that they blocked the Song army, but this time they suffered more casualties!
"It's been so long, Song Jun is definitely leaving now!" Seeing the Song army descending from the city wall like a tide, Jin Wushu breathed a long sigh of relief.
"Fourth Prince, Song Jun must be very tired now! They had come all the way from Yuzhou, and they were already very tired, and they would not attack again tonight, so we could rest and discuss how to defend the city. A captain next to him said.
"Not bad." The Golden Vulture nodded.
However, in the middle of the night, the Song army's attack still did not stop.
This time, however, the scale of the attack was much smaller.
Hundreds of thousands of troops of the Song army were attacking the city before, but there were only more than 100,000 soldiers and horses attacking the city this night!
These more than 100,000 soldiers and horses mainly attacked with bows and crossbows, and only occasionally they would suddenly launch a fierce attack on a certain part of the city wall, and they would carry a ladder towards a certain part of the city wall.
This night, the Jin soldiers still could not rest, so they could only continue to guard the city wall.
When they woke up in the morning, they found that there were countless camps around Zhongjing City.
Last night, the rest of the Song army rested in the camp tent.
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In the early morning of September 27, the heavy rain that had been going on for several days finally stopped, and the sun rose in the east to shine on the grasslands.
The scenery is beautiful, more than 100,000 Song troops retreated, the Jin soldiers above just breathed a sigh of relief, and more than 100,000 Song troops who had rested all night began to participate in the siege!
Jin Wushu didn't rest last night, and seeing so many people from the Song Army arriving at this moment, Jin Wushu felt that his scalp was a little numb.
"If the Song army is allowed to attack like this, their number of soldiers and horses is much more than ours, and their siege weapons are much better than ours, and there is only one way to die at that time! Even if we don't die in battle, we will be exhausted to death! Come and quickly call out all the clansmen in the city, so that all the clansmen can participate in the defense of the city. "Golden Vulture Dao.
In the morning, 60,000 or 70,000 Jurchens in Zhongjing City came to the city wall to participate in the defense of the city.
Most of these Jurchens were old men, teenagers, and occasionally women, who took weapons from the soldiers and fended off the Song army.
On this day, the Song army's attack was still the same as last night, mainly with siege weapons such as bows and crossbows, stone throwers, etc., and every half an hour they would suddenly launch a fierce attack on a certain part of the city wall!
When the sun set, countless Jurchen corpses were piled up on the city wall.
"Wushu, we can't stop the Song army." Wan Yan Chang said.
"We're going to call everyone in the city and get everyone to participate in the defense of the city!" Jin Wushu gritted his teeth.
"The people in the city have already come out!" Wan Yan Chang said.
"In addition to our clansmen, there are also Khitans and Han people!" Golden Vulture Dao.
"This ...... The Khitans and Han people in Zhongjing City have already entered the new annex army, and the rest are some listless people who do not have much strength, most of them are hungry all year round, and they cannot participate in the defense of the city at all. "Wan Yan Chang said.
"There's no way around it, it's the only way to do it now!" Jin Wushu gritted his teeth.
Zhongjing City once served as the capital of the Liao State for hundreds of years, and the population here is large, but since the Jurchen invasion, the population here has dropped greatly, and now there are only more than 100,000 Khitans and Han people living here.
On the night of September 27, the Song army once again changed a group of soldiers and horses to participate in the siege! This time, in addition to the 100,000 regular army, 100,000 militiamen participated in the attack! The militia of the Song army were all the best in the production and construction corps, each of them was in the prime of life, and they often trained in the past, but they did not participate in real wars. Now that the Song army has an absolute advantage, it is just right for them to participate in the war, and if necessary, they can also be converted into regular troops.
The ordinary people of Zhongjing City who were driven to the city wall frantically fled down at the beginning of the battle, and the Jurchen soldiers kept intercepting them, but few people were willing to stay at all! In the end, it was still the Jurchen soldiers and the Jurchens who defended the city.
The Jurchen soldiers and Jurchens were already exhausted, and some of them did not rest for several days, and the number of Jurchens who died that night was even higher.