Chapter 893: Bloody City Gate
Before the siege of the city, Liu He had already made a clear division of labor, Wang Yanlong was responsible for leading the army to cover up from behind, taking the opportunity to seize the city gate, leaving the future Hu'er to lead an army of 3,000 to guard the city gate to prevent the Jurchens from escaping; At the south gate, Wang Yanzhang and Xu Huang divided into a road, and after the city gate was breached, Wang Yanzhang attacked the inner city, and Xu Huang was responsible for guarding the city gate to prevent the Jurchens from escaping from here.
At the north gate, it was Zhou Dewei and the veteran Huang Zhong, who waited for the city to break through, and then attacked the inner city with Zhou Dewei, and Huang Zhong was responsible for guarding the city gate to prevent the Jurchens from escaping.
Only the strength of the West City Gate is relatively weak, and the two generals are Gao Xianzhi and Wang Xiaojie respectively, but Liu He only gave them the task of guarding the city gate to prevent the enemy from escaping, which was relatively easy.
In order to be able to complete the task, Gao Xianzhi and Wang Xiaojie discussed and established a defense along the moat, and laid down bows and crossbows, as long as the enemy rushed up, they would immediately fire ten thousand crossbows in unison and shoot them into hedgehogs.
Of course, even so, the pressure on the West City Gate will definitely be greater than that of the other City Gates, because the other City Gates are directly opened from the outside to the inside, and even if someone escapes, it must be only a small part, but the West City Gate has never been attacked, and the number of people who have escaped is naturally more than the other City Gate.
However, there are a total of 20,000 or 30,000 Jurchens, and the number of people who were annihilated by the Han army must account for at least more than half, and then remove those who fled to other city gates, and the maximum number of people who came to the east city gate was only tens of thousands.
So Gao Xianzhi and Wang Xiaojie cooperated with each other, calmly and calmly responded to the battle, and resolutely sniped at the Jurchen soldiers who dared to rush over.
Among them, the biggest role is naturally the crossbow arrow, the Han army soldiers lined up in a neat formation, with bows and arrows, waiting for the battle, as long as the enemy dares to show their heads, they will immediately greet with bows and arrows, just two rounds of feather arrows down, have shot three or four hundred Jurchens.
However, these were only the Jurchen soldiers guarding the city gate and the city, and when they heard that the city gates in the other three directions had been lost, the Han army had already invaded the inner city, and the Jurchen commander Murhaqi was leading the army to resist to the death, they knew that the general trend had gone, so they gave up their guards, opened the city gates, put down the drawbridge and prepared to escape.
However, after walking out of the city gate, they found that the nightmare had just begun, and the crossbow arrows of the Han army penetrated into their bodies like poisonous snakes, devouring their lives and making them daunted.
But the threat of death made them crazy, and now moving forward is death, and retreating is also death, and the probability of death backwards is ten out of ten, but there is still a certain amount of vitality in moving forward.
Therefore, all the people frantically flocked to the West City Gate, and they relied on the advantage of the large number of people to block the crossbow arrows of the Han army with their flesh and blood, and then rushed forward little by little.
Although the crossbow arrows of the Han army are sharp, the city gate hole and the drawbridge are so wide, which also means that there are so many people killed and injured at the same time, plus some Jurchens are holding shields and even rushing forward against the corpses of the people killed in front, which makes the threat of the Han army's crossbow arrows smaller and smaller, and the killing and wounding are becoming less and less.
What is especially deadly is that the Han army's crossbow arrows are not much, more than an hour has passed, although the Han army has killed and injured two or three thousand Jurchen soldiers, but the crossbow arrows have been shot out of ten six or seven, and the remaining feather arrows can kill and injure hundreds of people to the sky, but now the Jurchens who are flocking to the city gate are still increasing, I believe that when their bows and arrows are used up, there will still be thousands of people rushing over, even if the Han army soldiers are lined up again, I am afraid that it will be difficult to stop the crazy impact of those Jurchens at that time.
So now Gao Xianzhi and Wang Xiaojie are all frowning, thinking about how to deal with it.
After a while, he suddenly saw Wang Xiaojie's eyes light up, and said to Gao Xianzhi: "General Gao, the last general thinks that our task today is not to kill and injure many people, but to ensure that no one escapes, and now the reason why the Jurchens are crazy to break here is nothing more than because the road here is unblocked, as long as we find a way to make the road clear, so that they can't pass, they will naturally have to find another way." ”
"The road has changed into a moat? This is a good idea", Gao Xianzhi, as the main general, nodded when he heard this, and said with a smile: "What does the general mean?" Break the drawbridge and make the Jurchens lose hope? ”
"Yes, it is necessary to take the opportunity to destroy the drawbridge and make them impassable, and as long as they are impassable, they will lose hope, and naturally they will not rush here desperately, and then we will shoot them from a distance with the remaining bows and arrows, which will cause them to panic, as long as it is messed up, we will succeed." Wang Xiaojie followed Gao Xianzhi's words and said with a smile.
"General Wang really has a good idea", Gao Xianzhi praised, and then said with a smile: "Before dark, Your Majesty gave me two large barrels of fire oil, let me take it with the army, saying that it is likely to be used at night, originally I didn't know what it meant, but now it seems that everything is in His Majesty's clever calculation, haha, today we will use these two barrels of fire oil to make contributions." ”
"Kerose? That's great. It is said that this fire oil will be ignited when it encounters fire, and it is believed that it will be able to establish miraculous works, and now the west wind is blowing, and it is the best time for us to set fires, so without further ado, we will do it immediately. Wang Xiaojie clapped his hands and laughed.
Gao Xianzhi nodded, and immediately ordered the sergeant to carry the two barrels of fire oil, and then poured the fire oil on the suspension bridge, and then lit the fire, and in an instant, he saw the flames boiling, and quickly rushed towards the direction of the city gate, devouring the Jurchen soldiers on the suspension bridge.
"Ahhh......h
A moment later, only a loud bang was heard, and the drawbridge was burned and then fell into the moat, which made the Jurchens completely desperate, and although they were unwilling, they could only turn around angrily and flee in the direction of the other city gates.
However, at this time, too many people had gathered outside the city gate, and there were still people who were constantly pouring in from the city to the outside of the city, which caused the city gate to be blocked by the Jurchens coming in and out, and the order was chaotic for a while, and after a while, the Jurchens who had lost their patience began to wave the blades in their hands and slash at the clansmen in front of them, so that they could kill a passage and escape smoothly.
One person took the lead, and many more followed suit, and for a while, the Jurchens killed each other and became completely chaotic.
And at this moment, only a sharp sound of breaking the sky was heard, and the feather arrows of the Han army flew again, attacking the fleeing Jurchens from behind, which brought more sense of crisis to the Jurchens, and they could only slaughter others more frantically in order to escape for their lives, so that they could escape.
As a result, the situation became more and more chaotic, and many Jurchens did not die at the hands of the Han Chinese, but died at the hands of their clansmen, and for a moment the blood flowed like a river, staining the city gates red.