(Well, this big battle is coming to an end, and next, it's time for Lian Zining to play.) The art of war is cloudy, ten is to surround it, five is to attack it, and if it is doubled, it will be fought, and the enemy will be able to divide it, and if it is less, it can be escaped, and if it is not, it can be avoided. The Northern Expeditionary Army has an army of 200,000, and the Jurchen soldiers in Xishenwei are only 10,000 people, how can they not be defeated?

Thinking that the lost territory occupied by the Jurchens of the Ming Dynasty was about to be recovered in his own hands, Xu Pengju felt a burst of fire in his heart.

There are more than 55,000 soldiers of the Ming Dynasty, of course, it is impossible to climb all of them, in fact, only a small part of them climb the ladder. Underneath their wriggling bodies were the most elite warriors in the Ming Dynasty's Jingwei, who took off their bows and arrows behind their backs, stretched out their bows and arrows, and shot towards the city!

Although the soldiers of the Ming army are not as strong as these Jurchen warriors who grew up on horseback and fished and hunted between mountains and rivers, they are also extraordinary. And the victory lies in the large number of people, tens of thousands of people draw bows and arrows together, and tens of thousands of feather arrows turn into a dense rain of arrows, which overturn the sky and overturn. I could only hear a huge buzzing sound between the heavens and the earth, and arrows like flying locusts flew up to the city, and some of the bluestone walls were built on the city, stirring up pieces of stone chips, and sharp metal arrows rubbed against the bluestone, stirring up pieces of sparks. More feathered arrows flew into the air and landed on the city, killing many soldiers in the city.

Arrows rained down, and there were already soldiers who had set up a thick wooden roof on the place where Amin and other Jurchen generals had built, and there was a sound of shattering, and I don't know how many arrows were nailed to the shed, but they could not penetrate.

The Jurchen archers also continued to draw their bows and arrows and fight back, and the two sides came and went, and the Ming army also began to inflict casualties on the Jurchens, not as before, they could only be beaten passively.

In the rain of arrows coming and going, Amin personally braved the arrows and stones to give command, and shouted loudly: "Give the order, all the soldiers, throw stones and trees!" ”

After receiving his order, the Jurchen soldiers in charge of various sections of the city wall picked up the sassal wood and boulders that had been placed around them a long time ago, and smashed them downward.

Boulder sassalwood, which is a necessary reserved item in the offensive and defensive battles of the Chinese national city, is usually staged when the besieging side begins to climb the city wall, is about to climb up, and the two sides start a tragic hand-to-hand fight. Xishenwei as the first bridgehead in the south of the Songhua River to guard against the Jurchens, the defense is naturally very strict, and all kinds of city defense measures are also extremely abundant, there are mountains and forests near Xishenwei, all kinds of big trees, and I don't know how many stones and sassals on the city wall.

The stones are not very big, the size of the human head is enough, and it is extremely powerful to smash it at a height of tens of meters. The top was naturally directly chopped into a ball of meat sauce, and when I fell from a height of more than ten meters, I basically broke my tendons and fractures, and lay on the ground moaning in pain.

The wood also began to be carried up and thrown down by the soldiers, compared to the stone, this kind of wood is more terrifying, it is made of a whole large wood, more than two zhang long, a hug thick, weighing hundreds of thousands of catties. More than a dozen Jurchen soldiers carried the sassagne wood, and rolled down the ladder that the Ming army leaned on, and the place where the sassal wood rolled down in front of it was simply irresistible, and the Ming soldiers were hit by the sassafrost, and they only had time to let out a scream, that is, they were run over from their bodies, and immediately turned into a pile of red meat sauce. Rolling down the ladder cleared a path full of flesh and blood. The sassal wood fell into the crowd below the city, and it was stoned to death.

Even some of the ladders were directly broken by the rolling logs, and the whole ladder broke from it and fell to the ground with a bang, and the people on the ladder also screamed and smashed to the ground, not only killing themselves, but also killing the robe.

The Ming army's wolf-like offensive was immediately contained by the Jurchen soldiers, and the scene was completely suppressed.

The Ming army died in large numbers, but because they could not attack the city, the Jurchen soldiers suffered very few casualties, and so far, more than 100 people have been shot dead.

The battle loss ratio between the two sides reached a terrifying more than 100 to 1.

The generals around him were all beaming, but Amin was frowning, his face was sinking like water, he knew that this was just a beginning, although the Jurchens now seemed to have the advantage, but the difficult moment was still to come.

Thousands of meters away, Xu Pengju also frowned at all this, but his face was quite relaxed, in his opinion, all these casualties were within an acceptable range.

No matter how many rolling stones and sassalwoods there are, there will be a time when they run out, when the last piece of sassalwood rolls down and kills dozens of Ming soldiers, there is no more stone and a sassale on the head of the city.

And at this time, the casualties of the Ming army had reached nearly 20,000!

But despite this, the Ming army still had a huge number of nearly 50,000 people, while the Jurchen defenders at the head of the city were only 6,000 people.

That's almost a tenfold difference in numbers.

The Ming army erupted in an angry roar again, and climbed up the ladder.

This time, there was no obstacle, and in front of them were just Jurchen soldiers.

With Amin's order, the Jurchen soldiers all stood behind the battlements with their own weapons, and the mound with feather arrows was now their foothold, which made them condescending to face the Ming soldiers who climbed up - don't underestimate the height of less than half a meter, such a condescending distance can determine life and death.

Finally, the Ming army climbed up, and countless Ming troops and Jurchen soldiers collided fiercely.

A Ming soldier pressed his left hand on the top of the ladder, and then kicked hard with both hands, and the whole person rushed out like a vigorous leopard, and the waist knife in his hand slashed from the bottom to the top towards a Jurchen soldier standing at the battlement of the city.

A hideous smile appeared at the corner of the Jurchen soldier's mouth, and the iron bone in his hand smashed down fiercely, smashing on the waist knife, and immediately flew out of the waist knife, and then smashed it downward, which was smashed on the head of the Ming army. The Ming army didn't even let out a scream, and his head was smashed into pieces like rotten watermelons, red and white poured out together, and fell down the ladder.

The robe behind him was stunned, and taking advantage of the Jurchen soldier's lack of strength, he quickly filled the position, and the knife in his hand slashed heavily at the neck of the Jurchen soldier, and suddenly the Jurchen soldier's neck was cut with a huge wound, and almost half of his neck was cut off. Even so, he still did not die, he fell on the mound, his hands tightly covered the wound on his neck, blood splattered out in large quantities, staining his clothes and armor, staining his hands red, and after a while, his eyes lost their lustre.

The Ming soldier who killed him was hit in the chest by another Jurchen soldier who used a mace, and immediately his entire chest was dented, Bai Sensen's bone stubble pierced out of his chest, and he also fell from the ladder.

Such a scene is staged in every corner of the battlefield, only more cruel.

In all fairness, picking up the single combat effectiveness, the Ming soldiers are not as good as the Jurchen soldiers, these hunters, hunters, fishermen, and Jurchens, a few decades ago, they were or their parents, proud of the mountains and forests, and lived a primitive life of drinking blood. A lot of exercise, a lot of meat supply, hard life, so that their physique is extremely strong, their average height is only about 1.6 meters, slightly taller than the Fusang people, but much shorter than the Ming people. But they all developed horizontally, and the tendons and flesh all over their bodies were like thick tree stumps.

Their strength is far stronger than that of ordinary Ming soldiers, and most of the weapons they use are heavy weapons such as maces and iron bones, and the Ming army will either be killed or injured as long as they fall down.

Ordinary Ming soldiers fought with them, and they were basically killed by one or two faces, not opponents.

Soon, the Jurchen soldiers blocked the onslaught of the Ming army and did not let a single Ming army rush to the city.

But the number of Ming troops was too much.

One person is not an opponent, then two people, three people, five people, countless Ming soldiers swarmed up the ladder, and the Jurchen soldiers found that the robes around them were constantly dying, but the enemies were more and more.

Finally, someone rushed to the top of the city. With the first, there was a second one, although most of the Ming soldiers who rushed up were exhausted and had wounds on their bodies, and even some of them were exhausted after climbing up to the top of the city, leaving a bloody handprint, or they were cut down by the Jurchen soldiers who had been prepared for a long time. However, the number of the Ming army exceeded the defenders by nearly ten times, and the commander of the six guards also knew Xu Pengju's surname, and knew that if this battle could not be won, this master would really kill people, so they did not leave any room at all, all the senior officers were with the supervision team to supervise the battle in the back, as long as they saw a soldier who fled or even was lazy in battle, he was immediately slashed.

The military regulations of 17 beheadings and 54 killings set by Emperor Taizu of the Ming Dynasty are not for fun.

Although the Jurchen soldiers can be trained to become excellent warriors in a short period of time, but in a corner of the northern country, they actually do not have many opportunities to fight, and many soldiers have not experienced large-scale battles, so they can't help but feel a little flustered at this time, and the movements in their hands are also deformed.

And the elite of these six guards are all elite soldiers who have survived a hundred battles.

The gap between the number and experience of the two sides and the tactical literacy gradually reflected, the arrow rain at the head of the city became more and more sparse, and the Jurchen soldiers, who were getting smaller and smaller, began to be unable to withstand the counterattack under the city, and were forced to retreat, and every step back, the counterattack of the Ming army became more and more ferocious, under the cover of the archers under the city, more and more Ming soldiers climbed to the top of the city, and began to fight to the death of the Jurchen soldiers.

At first, it was only one or two gaps, and soon, the Ming soldiers who climbed up were driven back again, but gradually there were more and more, from a few people in small groups, more than a dozen people, gradually expanded to dozens, more than hundreds, and the time in the city was getting longer and longer. And as soon as there are many people, the excellent tactical literacy of the Ming soldiers is displayed, and they cooperate with each other quite tacitly, and even a few people will form a small battle formation, which is difficult to solve with the Jurchen soldiers.

Amin's side are all the elite of the Jurchens, and their combat effectiveness is strong, because this place has not been affected, just a dozen steps away from him, there are countless Jurchen soldiers and Da Ming soldiers fighting against each other, and there are tragic fights everywhere, with severed limbs and stumps everywhere, and blood and water flowing.

It's like hell on earth, and it's terrible to the extreme.

But such a cruel scene did not make Amin half moved, he just pursed his lips tightly and frowned, but the corners of his eyes twitched from time to time, revealing his mood.

When he received the order of the resolute general, he was ordered to defend the Xishen Guard. He knew that what he was about to face was an extremely tragic war, but he didn't expect that there were so many Ming soldiers, so strong, and so difficult to deal with!

He originally expected that there would be no problem in holding out for the next three days, but the first wave of attacks turned out to be so critical.

In such a situation, as long as there is another half an hour, the Ming soldiers can establish a solid position at the head of the city, protect the robes outside the city and climb the city one after another, and then kill under the city, open the blocked city gate, and the whole army will pour in, completely defeat the Jurchen army in the street battle, and completely occupy Xishenwei.

"Lord Amin, let's change to the second team! Our sons can't resist it. A general beside him suddenly came out and shouted.

Amin shook his head slowly: "It's not right, now the Ming army has not done its best, even those who came to attack the city, and most of them have not consumed their strength, only waiting under the city, let's replace the second team now, and when those people in the Ming army come to attack the city, who should they send?" ”

What he said was reasonable, but some people naturally didn't listen to it, and the general who spoke was one of them.

He is a deputy Wanhu of Jianzhou Jurchen, most of the current soldiers at the head of this city are his subordinates, at this time, seeing that his subordinates were killed and injured so heavily, he immediately surged with blood and anger, and yelled at Amin with a red face: "Amin, don't take others for fools!" You are wishful thinking, and what you say is good, but why don't you transfer your subordinates, just consume our soldiers? ”

After finishing speaking, he looked around defiantly and said loudly, "Everyone, do you think you?!" ”

The other Jurchen generals also had different expressions on their faces.

Erle and Ze waved the big axe in their hands and said angrily: "Zanertai, are you looking for death? Master Amin is the commander set by the general, we all have to listen to him! Do you dare to disobey military orders? ”

Amin only felt a chill in his heart, a burst of indescribable disappointment and discomfort, the Jurchen has only been founded for so many years, and everyone said that they have just passed a better life, do they have these thoughts?

"I'll tell the general about this later." He waved his hand weakly and beckoned to his soldiers: "Take Zantai down and lock him up!" ”

"You dare!" Zantai said angrily with his eyes wide open.

"Why don't you dare?" Erle and Ze wrapped their arms around his neck, twisted his hands behind his back, and several of Amin's own soldiers came over and escorted Zantai down, scolding all the way.

Amin sighed, looked around, and said in a deep voice: "Ladies and gentlemen, the task given to us by General Fortitude is to use Xishenwei to make the Ming army suffer heavy casualties, if this goal is not achieved, you and I, all of us, will be punished by General Fortitude!" Ladies and gentlemen, this is the battle of my Jurchen national fortunes, and I hope that you will cooperate sincerely, and there is nothing to think about! ”

The generals looked at each other twice, and then they all said in a mess: "Lord Amin, let's all listen to you!" ”

At this time, the situation above the city has become more and more critical.

Because at this moment, Xu Pengju and others, who were watching the situation at the head of the city from a distance, also felt this opportunity, and the Jurchen defenders of the city head were not afraid of casualties and fought to the death, which had brought him great shock and horror. It is rumored that the Jurchen soldiers are brave and good at fighting, and they are not afraid of death, which is really worthy of their reputation. This also made him realize that if he couldn't capture the city in one go, if he wanted to make a difference, he would have to pay an extremely tragic price, so he sent his cronies to inform the senior generals and leaders of the six guards, and asked them to urge their subordinates to attack desperately, and they must make persistent efforts to break the city in one battle.

Under his strict order, the Ming soldiers are more and more brave to kill the enemy, up and down the city wall, the black pressure is densely packed with the Ming soldiers, desperately rushing towards the city, at this moment, I don't care about what formation is advantageous, and even swarm in one place, one person falls, often ten people rush forward.

Under such a fierce attack, the Jurchen soldiers at the head of the city were already slowly unable to hold on.

The bad news also kept reaching Amin's ears.

So far, the Jurchen soldiers have suffered more than 2,000 casualties, one person in 1,000 households, 13 in 100 households, and countless other middle- and lower-ranking officers have been killed and wounded in battle.

Xi Shenwei, under the impact of the fierce wave of the Ming soldiers, is already crumbling.

To tell the truth, this time the Northern Expeditionary Army attacked the city, which was quite uncharacteristic of the East.

Only using human lives to fill in is a stupid thing that only Westerners will do, and in the East, which has developed to a peak in the field of urban defense, the appearance of the strongest shield also means that the strongest spear will definitely appear, and all kinds of engineering equipment emerge in an endless stream, which has constituted a huge system in the Song Dynasty. The Ming Dynasty, as the central country in the East, is the richest and most powerful, and the machinery is also the most powerful and diverse country, with a complete siege theory system and complex machinery.

But today, the Northern Expeditionary Army of the Ming Dynasty did not crash, there was no arrow tower higher than the city wall, more than 15 zhang high, no goose cart to cover the advance of the infantry, no huge six-story Lu bus that could accommodate hundreds of people covered with thick wet soil and bed crossbows could not shoot through, and there was no kind of giant arrow full of the thickness of a big tree, an incomparably powerful siege crossbow, and not even a necessary trebuchet.

There is nothing, there is nothing but the simplest method of ascending the city and the stupidity of constantly filling it with human life.

And in this case, such a huge result can be achieved, which almost forced the Jurchens into a desperate situation, and it is inseparable from the elite combat qualities of the six guards. From the middle of the battle to the present near noon, more than an hour has passed, and the Ming Dynasty can almost see the dawn of victory.

(To be continued)