Chapter 352: Xu Wei's worth
The person is Guiyu, who guarded Pingyang in his prime years, and he was seconded by Xu Shi from the family army to ask for Zhu. It is precisely because he is "a small robe made of robes." Two moats and three walls. 's advanced defense ideas have turned Cai Pingyang into an impregnable fortress. This time, the Yongxing army of 20,000 kinds of family troops returned to Xu Wei, and he became Xu Wei's subordinate. Although both of them were at the rank of Chengxuan envoy, because Xu Wei had the false title of "General Zuo Xiaowei", he was half a level higher than him and became a chief.
Thanks to the praise of the marshal, the humble duty should live up to the expectations of the marshal, Wang Yu hugged his fists and smiled, and then added, "Naturally, you can't disappoint the prime minister of Dajin Kingdom." ”
Xu Wei laughed when he heard this, he liked this kind of person who is two and two is two, and he will not be false and polite. At that moment, the two led a group of generals to inspect the city defense. Chang'an City, although it has suffered many natural disasters**, Shaanxi also had an earthquake a few years ago, and his emaciated Luo Zhu was bigger than Ma, how to say that it is also the ancient capital of several dynasties in China. Needless to say, the tall and sturdy city wall, such as the watchtower, the enemy tower, the arrow tower, the female wall, and the horse face, do not need to mention, what makes Xu Wei feel down-to-earth is the complete urn city system in Chang'an.
The urn city is to use a square or half-mother city wall to enclose the city gate. Because the city gate is the weakest city defense, the most vulnerable place to attack. The urn city not only protects the city gate, but also the scene inside can be garrisoned, and the city gate of the urn city will never be in the same straight line as the city gate of the main city, which is very conducive to defense.
In addition, the moat of Chang'an is also quite wide, the Jin army wants to seize the city, the first thing to solve is how to cross the moat, if the other party uses a trench bridge to rush, then once it is shot down, the end is no better than falling into the moat, water and fire are the most ruthless, and Beiyi is not much water.
"Robes made of robes" made Xu Wei a little worried, the robes and carts equipped by the Song army were pulled and shot by manpower. A multi-robe often occupies hundreds of soldiers, Chang'an City is so big, just the robes arranged at the four city gates, the number of troops occupied is quite amazing! Fortunately, defending a city is different from a field battle, and there is basically no need to leave any reserves. It's really a matter of life and death, and there are still hundreds of thousands of ordinary people here, archery fighting is not good, and pulling the tip of the robe is not a problem.
Xu Wei walked on the broad city wall, and the commanders at all levels saluted him from time to time. Seeing that Wang Yu's eyes were red, he really didn't have the same life, he was at least one round older than Zijin Tiger, but what could he do, he was in his twenties, and he was the pacification envoy of Shaanxi's largest road, and he was also the prefect of Shaanxi Mansion.
On the enemy platform of a protruding city wall, more than a dozen bed crossbows are arranged here, although they have the same number of large long-range sharp weapons as the god arm bow, but the arrows shot by the bed crossbow are not short and thin crossbow arrows like the god arm bow at all, with a "gun." It's more appropriate to describe it. Each arrow was more than five feet long and the size of an egg, and this thing was originally used to nail the city wall, and if it was used to shoot people, it would usually be nailed to the ground.
At the moment of the great enemy, Jiang Yu was in a good mood, came to a bed crossbow, pushed away the crossbowman, and used a pair of fleshy palms to pull the bowstring, his feet were one in front and one back, and he bowed his waist, and the hands were even more powerful than a winch, and he pulled the bowstring to a creak, and slowly buckled the crossbow machine.
When the soldiers on the left and right saw it, they all applauded! Power! Power! Wang Yu laughed, stood up straight, clapped his hands, and turned his head sideways to Xu Wei: "Dashuai, try?" ”
Xu Wei shook his head and said with a smile: "Ben Shuai doesn't have the strength of the two arms and four elephants of the Zhengchen brother, so he doesn't dare to be ugly." ”
"Let's try!" A majestic voice behind him suddenly spoke. When Wang Yu looked over, he saw that the man's face was thin and thin, and his body was eight feet long! The eye sockets are sunken inward, highlighting the height of the eyebrow bone, he doesn't say angry, even if he laughs, his face is full of anger! This person was originally a subordinate of Yao Pingzhong, surnamed Yang Zaixing, in the battle of Danzhou Python Mountain, in order to cover Yao Pingzhong's retreat, he led his troops to break off, and when all his subordinates were killed, he fought his way out of the encirclement. After being rescued by the people and sent to Dingrong, Xu Wei ordered all efforts to treat him, and until now, the injury improved, but after all, the sores did not heal, so he stayed in Chang'an and did not go to Shaanzhou with Yao Pingzhong.
When he was in Pingyang, Wang Yu had seen his peerless martial arts, and knew that he would be able to pull this giant crossbow, and when he was laughing dryly, Xu Wei had already said: "If you have not healed from the battle, you will not be strong." ”
When Yang Zaixing heard this, he bowed and said no more. When Wang Yu saw this, he no longer showed off. At this moment, an exclamation was heard, and everyone looked down from the enemy platform. After such a while, Jin Jun has been pushed closer to the line of sight. No amount of people coming like a tide is enough to describe the prosperity of the Jin army. Put it this way, you stand on the head of the city, and look out, but everywhere you can see, all the fucking heads are moving, as if you had stabbed an ant's nest. There are many people, relying on Chang'an to be so strong, they are not scared at all. And in this sea of people, the equipment that towers like hills is the biggest test of city defense. The two generals of King Xu took a cursory look, the goose cart, the cave house, and the giant robe, just these three large instruments, what the eyes can see, I am afraid there are thousands of them. In particular, a "city-breaking hammer" is quite bluffing, with a huge bottom sitting on it, fixed with a building-like bracket. Hanging a log with an arm-thick iron cable on it that I am afraid that no one can hold up. The front of this log is wrapped in an iron shell. When attacking the city gate, this thing was pulled and put away, and I didn't know that the city gate could withstand several hits.
The noise came like a wave, and two or three miles away, the soldiers on the head of the city ...... I can't quite hear Qingwei looking at the cry with a solemn expression, in piece ten. He firmly believes in "offense" and admires the phrase "offense is the best defense". But now, after experiencing the defense of Pingyang, he believes that "defense is also an effective offense," and that under the condition that there is a gap in the overall strength of the Song and Jin armies, relying on cities, mountains, and rivers to carry out defensive operations must cause greater damage to the enemy than field battles. Because you can't expect every battle to be like Dingrong's victory, can you?
Just as Xu Wei and the others were peeking at the enemy through the city, their enemies were also observing the city defense.
Sticky Han was dressed in iron armor, with a scimitar, and instead of wearing a pointed leather hat of the traditional Jurchen style, he wore an iron helmet and two bows hanging from his saddle. From his posture, it is not difficult to see how much attention is paid to this battle.
Lead dozens of horsemen to leave the army, run to Chang'an City about two miles before the stop, overlooking the ancient capital of several dynasties in China. The prime minister of the Dajin Kingdom exhaled a breath, and the war horse under his crotch didn't know if he was frightened by this magnificent city, and he didn't listen to the call. So much so that Sticky Han pulled the reins while turning his neck to take a closer look.
The city is more than three zhang high, surrounded by a moat, and the supporting facilities of the city body are extremely perfect. In the urn city, there are many enemy platforms, horse faces, enemy towers, arrow towers, and gate towers. On the enemy tower in Dongcheng, a military flag danced defiantly, and Ma Wu told him that it was the battle flag of the Purple Golden Tiger.
Fighting such a city is extremely challenging. No wonder Yelu Ma Wu repeatedly said that Chang'an is a big city, a big city that has never been seen before! But the city is big, although it is necessary to let the attacking side use more troops, but in the same way, the defensive side is under more pressure. It is preliminarily estimated that this Chang'an City is on all sides, and it is definitely about twenty miles in circumference. With such a long defensive area, how many troops does the Purple Gold Tiger have to use to ensure that nothing goes wrong?
When he told these words to the generals of all ethnic groups around him, these people felt that Chang'an was not so difficult to fight. Yelu Ma Wu poured a basin of cold water at this time: "Prime Minister of State, there is a saying that in the front, if you are fighting an offensive and defensive battle with the Purple Gold Tiger, the role of the equipment must be discounted." "What does Ma Wu mean by this?" Although Sticky Han asked in his mouth, his eyes were still fixed on the city.
"I dare to assert that behind the walls of this fortified city must have been erected robes. In the last battle of Pingyang, our army has seen it. The range of the Song army's various robes is not inferior to mine, and when our army robes the city, it will also be hit by the Song army's robes. On the side, although the Chang'an defense line is long, Xu Wei can be described as flexible in his use of troops. "Right here, he pointed to the head of Chang'an City." Please see that Xu Hu'er mainly concentrated his forces in the enemy's horse face and other places, although there were few defenders between the two enemy platforms, this distance was within the range of the opponent's bow and crossbow. Moreover, in the last battle of Pingyang, the Song army fired firearms with robes and cars, and the soldiers were all afraid, as expected, once our army began to capture the city, the Purple Gold Tiger would inevitably repeat its old tricks. This hand, a blow to morale,"
Before he finished speaking, Mu Han had already cut it off: "You don't have to be majestic for Zijin Jiachang." I drove 200,000 people, and Chang'an was an impregnable wall. I'll step on it too! ”
"Prime Minister of State, the sages said that ten will surround it, five will attack it, and double it will fight. Today, the strength of our army is at most five times that of the other, and Chang'an City is so large that it is impossible to besiege the city and trap it, and it is inevitable to attack it. But in this way, "Ma Wu still insists on his own proposition, hoping that Sticky Han can change his mind and give up attacking Chang'an."
But the more he spoke, the sticky Han didn't like to listen, and turned around. stared at him and said loudly: "In the city of Chang'an, there are only two possibilities. Either our army will break the city! Or Xu Wei surrendered! "This is tantamount to saying that no matter what, the Jin army will also take Chang'an!
Ma Wu saw that he was displeased, his eyes were like torches, and he could only swallow back the words behind him. However, he was as violent as sticky, and in the face of his extreme reliance on the generals, he still did not scold after all, but turned the conversation around and joked: "If the Purple Gold Tiger is willing to surrender." I'd rather give up the Yenching Privy Council to him! ”
The current military system of the Jin State is to set up a marshal's office to command all the armies. Under the Marshal's Mansion, there were originally two privy councils in Yunzhong and Yanjing, which were in charge of the eastern and western armies attacking the Song Dynasty. After the second prince became immortal, Sticky Han annexed the Yanjing Privy Council and took sole control of the military. Now, he claims that he is willing to give up the Yanjing Privy Council to Xu Wei, although it is a joke, it is not difficult to see that the Purple Gold Tiger is at least still a weight of Li Zhi and others. Moreover, after the defeat of the Weisu army, Sticky Han personally led the army south. It is nothing more than to earn back face for the Western Route Army and prevent Wushu from retaking the Yanjing Privy Council.
The generals laughed when they heard him, because everyone knew that from the first attack on the Song Dynasty, Xu Wei was the mortal enemy of the Jurchen! How could he have surrendered? Take 10,000 steps back and say, if he really falls. Who would dare to keep him?
Han Chang, the commander of the Han army, probably didn't understand the Tao here, and asked: "If Xu Wei really surrenders, does the country really want to assign Yanjing Privy Council to him?" ”
Sticky Han looked up to the sky and laughed, and suddenly the laughter stopped, and he said: "If the tiger really falls, I will shoot it to death as soon as possible!" ”
Han Chang was stunned for a while, the minister hated Xu Wei so much? At this time, the Wanyan living girl next to her said: "A person like Xu Wei, who responds to every call and can fight habitually, is a scourge to stay." Even if he comes alone, he will be killed! ”