Chapter 444: Xiongguan is like iron, why not be afraid of Hu'er
Zhi Jimin is only 35 years old this year and died young. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
The successor to the position of the prefect of Fuzhou is the son of Zhi Jimin, named Zhi Kerou, who is just 14 years old this year, a few months younger than Wang Ningze.
Of course, there is no need to worry about someone bullying orphans and widows, the inheritance of the Zhe family is longer than that of the Great Song Dynasty, and before the death of Zhi Jimin, he entrusted his son to his brother Zhi Jizu. In order to maintain the foundation of the Zhe family, Zhe Jimin even intended to promote his brother to succeed him as the prefect, but Zhe Jizu pulled out a dagger on the spot and put it on his chest.
If the eldest brother says another word to let him succeed to the throne, it will be regarded as suicide, and he will never hesitate!
Zhe Jizu cut off a little finger, swore to the sky that he would definitely assist his nephew, and led the crowd to kneel down on one knee and support Zhe Kerou to succeed him.
Those who want to see the jokes of the folded family are all dumbfounded, they have miscalculated!
But even so, the Zhe family is not chaotic, but what can a teenage child do, in the next ten or eight years, the Zhe family army can only recuperate and regain its strength.
Without the Folding Army, the only thing that can be used in the northwest is the breeder, who has tens of thousands of horses in his hands, and is definitely a ruthless man, but his situation is not good.
At present, it is Pang Xianggong who is in charge of the military affairs in the northwest, he is not in line with the plantation family, the generals are not in harmony, and all the pressure in Western Xia falls on the plantation family, and the cultivation has no time to take care of him.
Western Xia was able to draw at least 100,000 people to deal with the Great Song Dynasty, and Yelu Renxian's 80,000 people also came to life, and the pressure on the front line of Juyong Pass and Bauhinia Pass also increased.
The whole situation was very, very bad, Zhao Zhen was shocked when he got the news of Ji Min's death, and dropped out of the dynasty for a day to show his condolences, and then immediately sent Di Qing to Yan'an Prefecture to preside over the battle to defend Western Xia.
Zhao Zhen saw very clearly that if something went wrong in the northwest, Yan'an Prefecture, Taiyuan and other places would not be protected, and the Western Xia army would drive straight in, and Luoyang would not be safe.
It made sense to set Luoyang as a companion at the beginning, after all, it was not a long-term solution, and Zhao Zhen couldn't help but set his eyes on the northeast.
"Wang Qing, you must defend it, Youzhou will be the capital of the Great Song Dynasty in the future!"
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From the first snowfall, a large number of Liao soldiers appeared outside Juyong Pass.
Yang Wenguang stood on top of the tall enemy tower, pressed his sword in his hand, and looked to the west, where heaven and earth converged, there was a group of small black dots that jumped together, and soon gathered into a large area, black and pressing, towards Juyong Pass.
"Pass the order, and the whole army will go to the city to fight!"
Yang Wenguang's face was expressionless, as if it was not tens of thousands of Liao soldiers, but tens of thousands of ants!
Starting from Juyong Pass, Bauhinia Pass, Gubeikou, and Xifengkou were all caught in the flames of war, Wang Ningan and Ouyang Xiu sat in Youzhou, and there were battle reports from the front at every moment.
Some asked for help, some asked for food, grass, ordnance...... They have almost no time to rest, they continue to transfer to various places, and urge Hejian Mansion and Hebei and other places, they are extremely busy, Ouyang Xiu has long forgotten his identity as the leader of the literary world, he scolds people when he opens his mouth, and sprays his subordinates on the face at every turn, and when he is in a hurry, the old master will also beat people, and he is more vulgar than Wufu.
Everyone is not elegant, including Da Su, Er Su, and Zeng Gong and others, all of whom will be ranked among the eight major families in the future, looking at their appearance of shouting and scolding, no one will regard them as the merry leaders of the literary world through the ages.
It's Wang Ningan, he likes the feeling of dragging others into the water, the bigger the figure dragged into the water, the more thorough it becomes, the more proud he is...... This is also a rare fun in the complicated work.
As for the whole situation, he attaches more importance to Shanhaiguan, and obviously, this is the most important thing.
The task of defending Shanhaiguan was given to Liu Yu and Wang Ninghong, Liu Yu led 8,000 infantry, and in the city, Wang Ninghong led 1,500 heavy cavalry, plus 5,000 light cavalry, and 500 mysterious soldiers, a total of 7,000 people, responsible for responding outside the city.
It is worth mentioning that Wang Ningze is also in his cousin's army.
This kid can't wait to show his skills, he doesn't want to watch his father and brothers fight anymore, he hides at home to enjoy his happiness, since he is a man of the Wang family, he should go into battle to kill the enemy!
In the midst of knives and guns, show your true colors as a man!
It's just that the battlefield is far from being as simple as Wang Ningze thought, Yelu Hongji has been rectifying for more than half a year, and the big move he held back is not small!
From the very first moment of the war, it was extremely tragic.
It took Wang Ning'an less than three months to build the Shanhai Pass, and Yelu Hongji was greatly shaken. But he didn't believe it, Wang Ningan was treacherous, what if this was a bluff?
Yeluhonki sent 3,000 men and horses to launch the first wave of attacks.
Holding clairvoyance in his hand, he can see every face of the other party clearly, Liu Yu's hand is trembling, and his handsome facial features are distorted!
"Yelu Hongji, you are a shameless coward!"
Liu Yu scolded, the first wave of killings was not the official Liao soldiers at all, they were all wearing tattered clothes, the early winter was cold, they were only wearing single clothes and straw sandals, their faces were frozen and blue, and the weapons in their hands were even more tattered, and some simply only had a wooden stick. There are even many women and children, crying while running!
That's right, these are Han people, after more than a hundred years, not only Yanyun has a large number of Khitans, but also many Han people in other places.
Yelu Hongji gathered all these people together and served as his cannon fodder!
"My lord, what shall we do?"
The generals under him asked anxiously, Liu Yu closed his eyes in pain, and in the next second, he opened them instantly, and in a short moment, his heart seemed to be torn open a hundred times, dripping with blood!
There are poor people out there, how can you do anything to them? But let them rush to the city, in case the Liao soldiers hide in it, wouldn't it cause a catastrophe!
Liu Yu only thought of one person at the moment, and that was Murong Qingchen!
If he was in command, he would definitely give the order without hesitation.
Alas, I am not Murong Qingchen, but I have to learn from him, Brother Murong, I don't dare to look down on you anymore!
Liu Yu became hideous, and roared loudly: "Crossbow arrows!" ”
The sound of a bed crossbow cutting through the air was heard, and thick arrows passed through the dense crowd, and even with thick armor, the bed crossbow could penetrate two or three people, let alone the people who did not even have cotton clothes. The fist-sized wounds, limbs, internal organs, tendons and bones were all shattered and splashed on the ground, leaving a hideous red!
Liu Yu was very painful, but it had to be like this, three rounds of shooting in a row, and six or seven hundred people fell, and at this time, from the crowd, people gradually gathered.
They were in tattered clothes on the surface, but they were more than twice as large as ordinary people, and these guys were all wearing armor and weapons, hiding in the crowd, trying to take the opportunity to approach Shanhaiguan.
Their wishful thinking failed, and the gang raged and rushed towards the city.
As they entered within 200 paces, the power of the bed crossbow was greatly reduced, and they were unscrupulous and rushed quickly, rushing the people to the ground, and their parents screamed.
"Sure enough, it's a game!"
Liu Yu waved his hand, and there were suddenly 20 more trebuchets on the city.
"All the charges, aimed at these brutes, release!"
At the sound of an order, 20 trebuchets threw out 20 black spheres the size of watermelons.
It is said that the largest trebuchet can throw 900 pounds of objects 300 steps away, and it takes 500 people to operate together.
Just imagine what a behemoth it must be, and it's no wonder that many cities can't withstand the repeated beating of trebuchets.
But the trebuchet in Shanhaiguan is very interesting, it does not pursue weight, it can only throw 50 catties of things at most, and it does not pursue range, as long as it is 150 steps.
One by one, black balls fell from the sky, and the Liao soldiers didn't take it seriously at all, so they just had to dodge it.
They continued to move forward, but who knows, after these iron balls hit the ground, they quickly exploded, splashing iron filings and fire oil, and blooming in the crowd.
Someone had half of his head cut off by an iron shell, his brain and blood were mixed together, and he splattered all over the ground, but his body didn't have time to fall, and he stood strangely upright, like a horror movie.
Someone has a cut in the belly, a large mass of internal organs is flowing out, the person is not dead, the pain is crazy, running back and forth on the ground, screaming, Shura hell, that's it.
More Liao soldiers were stained with fire oil, and their whole bodies burned, even if they rolled on the ground repeatedly, it was useless. The iron armor was burned red, and the cotton wool and cowhide inside followed. Before they had time to take off their armor, many Liao soldiers were burned alive into charcoal, twisted and grotesquely lying on the ground, fully showing the torment and pain of life!
Many Liao soldiers who were burned by the fire oil simply committed suicide with the weapons in their hands, and some people couldn't do it, so two people faced each other, waving their weapons together, and killing each other at the same time!
The whole scene is similar to the Shura Hell, which is very terrifying.
Yelu Hongji looked at him from a long distance, and the corners of his mouth twitched.
This is the first time he's seen it, but it's not unfamiliar.
During the Battle of Shunzhou, Yelu Yixin's men and horses encountered this thing, but at that time they were fired with bed crossbows, and this time they were replaced with trebuchets, which had better effects and stronger lethality.
Speaking of shame, Wang Ningan made gunpowder for a long time, but he had no clue how to make guns and artillery, so he could only order the Hundred Workshops to study it carefully.
But based on the existing weapons, such as bed crossbows, such as trebuchets, the craftsmen of the Great Song Dynasty have come up with many things with good lethality, and even madness!
Liu Yu projected three rounds of fire oil in a row, and the city of Shanhaiguan had become a sea of fire, and only a dozen of the 300 people sent by Yelu Hongji retreated, and the rest all lost their lives.
Their corpses were so strange that the people who had been taken away fled in fright, and ran in all directions, and after a while the fire outside the city was extinguished.
Liu Yu stood proudly and shouted loudly outside the city: "Hu'er, do you dare to fight again?" ”
"Hu'er, do you dare to fight again?"
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The other soldiers roared together, stop using the common people as cannon fodder, come up directly if you have the ability! Let's see, the dignified Khitan Emperor, what's the big deal!
Song Jun's tone was full of strong arrogance and self-confidence, and the hundred-year-old phobia of Liao was swept away, and they were no longer afraid of Liao Kou!
Come on! Fight to the end!
Yelu Hongji gritted his teeth and spit out only two words: "Siege!" ”