With dozens of warriors of the same tribe, Surunu galloped outside the county seat of Yifang. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

Like their team, the knights of the Zahu tribe were also divided into groups of military horses, scattered and scattered around the city wall of the county, and went back and forth on the crossbow shooting range line on the city wall. From time to time, all kinds of strange shouts were heard, shocking the defenders at the head of the city.

Although Yifang County is the south gate of Taiyuan Mansion, it is also considered to be the location of the hinterland in Hedong Road, and there are many dangerous passes in the north to protect, so the county city wall is neither majestic nor high, it is a small city with a circumference of more than two miles.

The rammed earth city wall has not been covered with bricks, and the battlements have collapsed a lot, so they can only erect wooden pillars next to the sign to think that the defenders are covering on the city wall, and the moat is not wide, and it also leads out channels to irrigate the fields outside the city, the water level in the moat is only up to the knee, and the banks on both sides collapse to form a gentle slope, forcing the moat to be shallow and narrow, and can hardly become an obstacle, as for the auxiliary defense facilities such as the sheep and horse wall, they are basically useless.

Since the founding of the Great Song Dynasty, it has never been willing to build a strong and strong city near the left side of Taiyuan Mansion, and even Taiyuan New Town is surrounded by many built-up buildings and alleys, which is almost impossible to defend.

If there is a strong town in Hedong, the threat to Bianliang is too great, and the hinterland of Hedong Road has been peaceful for more than a hundred years, so that the city defense system that is not very good is even more desolate and decaying, even if Han Yue is close to Hedong, the operation in the past two years is just to repair the defense system of the walled fort city fortress on the edge of the border, and it is far from the time when it can take into account the left near the city defense of the heart of Taiyuan.

But such a Yifang city defense is still a moat for Zahu light cavalry.

Although thousands of horsemen and horses were running and jumping around Yifang County, there were bursts of arrows from time to time, and there were thousands of horsemen in the back of the clumsy dismount array, forming one after another scattered formation, in the array, there were also rough long ladders that were hurriedly built overnight, and the Zahu generals who were holding this array after array stood nervously in front of the array, just waiting for the order to attack.

Su Lunu scolded fiercely in his heart, isn't this just to let them send these grassland men to death!

Under the city wall, the pile of accumulated corpses is proof that this city cannot be conquered, these corpses are scattered everywhere, crooked and twisted and dead in different shapes, all of which are the essence of the grassland and the beard. Seventeen or eighteen long ladders fell crookedly under the walls, burning to the point that there was still a little charred wood left. At this moment, there are still wisps of green smoke.

This time, if you hit it again, you will lose a hundred and ten lives!

After two days of siege battles, the Zahu coalition army, which followed Yinkeshu south, was hit on the head again under the county seat of Yifang, leaving three or four hundred corpses, and the number of wounded was about the same, but except for adding a piece of feather arrow shaft to the rammed earth city wall, nothing was caught.

Normally speaking, with such a large area of rural towns and towns as the Lan army from Lanzhou, how can there be so many undefended places, so many places that are a hundred times richer than those on the grassland, if it is a Su Lunu, he will be insane to gnaw on the Yifang County that the Song people insisted on, not to mention the formidable strong army of the Southern Dynasty in this city!

It is long overdue to scatter the Zahu light horsemen, slaughter and plunder, and after being satisfied, return to their hometown in the north.

But now, these miscellaneous military horses have to surround this city and attack desperately in pain!

There is no other reason, when two days ago Su Lu Nu was shocked and retreated, Yin Keshu led the brigade, and rushed to the rear, when he learned that hundreds of pioneers outside Yifang County were slaughtered, and Su Lu Nu and others retreated without a fight, suddenly thundered and angry.

Under the great command of Yin Keshu, seven or eight hundred knights who retreated in defeat, including Surunu, who was very valued by Yin Keshu, all knelt on the ground, and the two Jurchen plotted to defeat the armor and the sword was wound out of the sheath and bow, and among the seven or eight hundred defeated soldiers who knelt down, they just selected a hundred people at random, all of them were carried on sacks, and then ordered the miscellaneous beards to get on their horses, and thousands of horses galloped, and the hundred miscellaneous beards that were selected at random were trampled into meat puree!

In the defeated army, who lives and who dies, in front of the ruthless Jurchen generals, it is completely a matter of luck, when Surunu tremblingly mounted his horse and stepped on the children of his clan, he still felt that he had not woken up in a nightmare.

Follow these Jurchens to fight south, although they can do whatever they want on the land of the Southern Dynasties, and loot to the point where they have never seen anything in their lives, but the Jurchens are so fierce that they don't know how long they can withstand the consumption of the six or seven thousand strong people made up by dozens of tribes in the south of the desert!

The courage to resist the Jurchens was naturally absent at this time, the Liao Empire collapsed in front of the Jurchen army, and in addition to a strong army in the Southern Dynasties, in other places, the Jurchens roamed at will.

This turbulent tide has been spreading to the south, and the power of the Jurchens' military front is at its peak, and Mo Nan Zahu is only rolling all the way with this Jurchen rag, Yin Keshu gritted his teeth and was about to take down this Yifang County, so the Mo Nan Zahu tribes could only fight for their lives!

I don't know how many Jurchen armies are coming, and all the Mo Nan Zahu, including Surunu, they have no choice.

The offensive of these two days is based on the siege level of the Zahu tribes, which is naturally extremely ugly, but if the city is only firmly guarded, it is just that, send a surveillance, maybe it can bypass here, and go straight to the city of Taiyuan, but on the first night of the city, hundreds of horsemen in the city opened the door and suddenly killed, and ravaged the Zahu camp that forced the city to be under the wall.

If it weren't for the Jurchen Mouke array, which was close enough to kill the elite cavalry of the Southern Dynasty and forced them back to the city, I don't know how much damage would have been greater.

There is a force to attack in the city, this is a key pass that must be attacked, Su Lunu also accepted his fate, and he was shot by the Song people's crossbow one day, just want to die happily, don't be like some tribal children, with a three-edged mouth on the body, tossing and moaning, how much pain will be swallowed!

Thousands of horsemen ran around the city wall repeatedly, in order to lure the defenders on the city wall to fire their arrows early and consume their strength, but except for the shields on the city wall, not a single figure was missing, and no arrow was issued. It's like an empty city.

But Surunu knew that when the miscellaneous beards of the lower horse infantry battle rushed up with a long ladder, the side of these side cards would flash the figure of the southerner defenders, with strong bows and hard crossbows shooting like flying locusts, and even throwing stones like rain, and there was boiling oil under the city wall, and the ash bottle was splashing, and these grassland men who were immediately as vigorous as wolves died like ants on the southerner city wall.

Thousands of horsemen rolled up a round of smoke and dust, around the city wall for a long time, from the early morning array, galloping to lure the enemy has been almost an hour now, the already fat heavy mount has been a little gallop still, people also shouted smoke in their throats, draw bows and arrows so that their arms are sore.

Su Lunu couldn't help but look back at the location of the Yinkeshu Great Tower on a mound in the southwest of Yifang County, but the siege order never sounded.

Su Runu sighed in his heart, but he didn't dare to complain at all, and continued to ride his horse around the city wall, and the smoke and dust were always being rolled up, surrounding Yifang County for a long time!

On the city wall, Zhou Tai sat on an unloaded saddle, leaning on a side card behind his back, still holding a straw stick in his mouth, and humming a little song leisurely.

On the left and right, behind the side signs, there are soldiers defending the city who are hurrying to rest. Each sergeant was assigned two men who were responsible for winding the crossbow machine or desperately smashing the stone ash bottle down when the besieging enemy approached.

Every fifty paces, there is a large cauldron, the bottom of the pot is smoldering, and the boiling oil in it is foaming finely, emitting bursts of burnt fragrance. The enemy pounced and stabbed the fire, or it would be enough to burn the skin and flesh of a person in a moment.

Feathered arrows and arrows, bundles piled at the head of the city, are enough to shoot for a day, not to mention that the city can be replenished at any time. Most of the Great Song Dynasty army is absolutely in ruins, but the Great Song Dynasty ordnance manufacturing system has been operating steadily for more than 100 years, no matter whether the quality is good or bad, whether it can be used or not, in Bianliang, in Guanxi, in Hedong, in Hebei, these important places, the arsenal is piled up.

Even if Yifang County received a small part when Yang Ling transferred a large number of ordnance to Hedong, it was enough to support the number of thousands of military horses in a battle.

These soldiers and men who defend the city, most of them are local people in Yifang, Zhou Tai only allocated a small part of his own soldiers to think that the backbone, the first Zahu attack was still a little nervous, the bow and crossbow were desperately radiated, all kinds of guards were desperately smashed down, there were as many as 100 broken bows and crossbows, too many stone ash bottles were smashed, how many people's arms were swollen, and there were also those who fell off the city.

But after two days of defending the city, and Zhou Tai's strong army went out of the city to camp, these local soldiers and civilians are actually looking like veterans who have been battle-hardened at the head of the city at the moment, and they can still get together to talk and laugh in a low voice, as long as they don't leave the battle position, don't make loud noises, and no army will take care of them in the future, and it's better to relax in battle than to be nervous and overwhelmed.

Although they can leave the protection of the city wall and let them go into battle in the field, they will be able to reveal their prototype immediately, but it is more than enough to defend the city according to their current state.

After scanning the scene at the head of the city, Zhou Tai's sitting posture on the saddle was even more relaxed, just as baskets of cakes and hot soup in buckets were carried under the city. If you stay at the head of the city all day, from day to night, I am afraid that you will have to send food four or five times.

A fat-headed and big-eared man who was born as a cook in a restaurant somewhere in the city came straight to Zhou Tai with a basket covered with tung oilcloth, and opened the oilcloth with a smile and felt out two large oily cakes.

"Zhou Jiangye, this is the villain's own hand, there are chickens in it, and it uses good oil, Zhou Jiangye works hard, hurry up and use some!"

Zhou Taizheng felt a little hungry, he opened his eyes before dawn and went to the city, half a catty of corn and pickle gnocchi as if he had never eaten it, took these two oil cakes each weighing a catty, and went in half of the big mouth. The entrance of oily chicken and chicken fragrance is a boost to the spirit, but for the generals who can fight with perseverance, the amount of food is the capital, and the amount of food is the body.

Zhou Tai munched and asked vaguely: "Is there enough food to eat?" ”

The cook was originally the owner of the small restaurant, and he was also a small person in Yifang County, and he could also write and calculate, and after staying in the city to help the people, Zhou Tai entrusted him to assist in the food and material matters in the city.

The moment is just a smile: "How is it not enough?" Although it is now a season of green and yellow, it can be from last year. Henan grain can't live in the Taiyuan Mansion, Taiyuan can't be loaded, Yifang has a lot. Now there are few people in the city, and it is enough to eat for four or five months, not to mention people, now it is those horses brought by Zhou Jiangye, and they all eat the best ingredients! ”

Before Zhou Tai could speak, he saw Han Shizhong, who was thin and weak, striding over from one end, and it was the return of a week from patrolling the city. Zhou Taiyang threw another piece of oil cake over with his hand: "Old cow, it tastes good, pad your stomach first!" ”

Zhou Tai is a strong man who is full of energy, when his energy and physical strength are at the peak, his body bones are polished to be strong and tough, although he has eaten enough hard all the way, but after a long sleep, he can immediately lead the troops out of the city and step on the Hu camp at night.

Niu Gao is not much worse, and it is hard to command the garrison and patrol the city every day, and there is little rest, but at the moment, his face is very ugly, and he doesn't eat the oil cake, he just frowns and asks: "What's going on with this tartar today?" ”

Hearing the two generals talking about the military situation, the cook and the man bowed down with a smile, which was not flattering at all, but admired the two from the bottom of his heart.

Niu Gao Zhou Tai kept attacking and helping day and night, breaking the enemy in the field and moving forward, if there were no two generals, Yifang County would have become Shura Hell long ago!

Zhou Tai glanced outside the city, today the Tartars did behave strangely, marched in line early in the morning, and galloped outside the city for an hour, so that the people and birds were upset, but they never refused to attack.

Zhou Tai didn't bother to speculate about what these Tartars were up for.

Since I have entered the city, my life is still there, I am just nailed here, there are Tartars to kill the Tartars, there are no Tartars to eat and sleep, as long as I don't die, I will not let the Tartars fall into this Yifang County! Now that there is food, soldiers and ordnance, just fight it, why do you care so much?

He patted his side and beckoned, "Sit down and eat!" The Tartars can't get around this Yifang County, just such a bird road that can pass through the army, surrounded by mountains. ”

"I don't have to be vegetarian in the city, and I want to bypass us to fight Taiyuan, and I repeatedly attack, and I hit them until they jump! And there is a road down from Xianzhou behind it, and with our stronghold, General Han can fight when reinforcements come. ”

"The Tartars went deep into Taiyuan, and if they were cut off, they would be sent to death, and they had to grit their teeth and knock us down here! No matter what tricks you play, you always have to attack the city, Niu Gao, you always have a heart like this, when you fall, I still have to kill the Tartars, and I don't have that time to give you a flag! (To be continued.) )