Chapter 131: Unite to catch a turtle in an urn
Although the Jin soldiers at this time in the gap of the strength of the Song army is a lot more, but at this time the advantage of this kind of strength has become a burden to them, after all, the gap is not big, no matter how many of them are, the number of people engaged in the battle is only the front of these people, the Song army is not much, but it is quite tacit, the pikemen assassinate again and again, the axe hand is around them and the two wings to cover, for them to solve the scattered Jin soldiers, a small area has formed an absolute advantage, so that the Jin soldiers can not be deployed, let alone break into the city, This melee made Jin Bing really die in a nest, seeing that his advantages could not be brought into play at all, and he was still killed and injured in the gap.
The effective resistance of the Song army in the city made the already desperate soldiers and civilians in the city rekindle hope again, including those Song soldiers who had been stunned on the city wall, and began to take the initiative to copy the guy and gather towards the gap, no matter what they copied, just slam down on the Jin soldiers who were crowded in the gap, and stones, rolling wood, shuttle guns, bows and arrows splashed on the heads of the Jin soldiers crowded in the gap like rain.
In addition to being beaten, the Jin soldiers couldn't advance or retreat, and some of the Jin soldiers were even dead, and they were squeezed into it by the dense crowd around them, and they couldn't even fall down the corpses, and the battle situation was so strange that people couldn't accept it.
Even Gao Huaiyuan himself didn't expect such a stalemate, and felt that it was too incredible, was Jin Bing so bad? How could such a super-imbecile error occur? This is not like the work of a famous general like Fusan Anzhen!
But whether he believed it or not, it happened like this, and Jin Bing made this kind of low-level mistake and messed himself up.
This is also to blame for the Aru who supervised the battle in front, and blamed him for an order he gave after the bombing of the city just now, because after he saw the collapse of the city wall, he shouted, whoever broke into the city first, rewarded one hundred taels of silver, and as a result, a large number of golden soldiers rushed madly towards the gap, and several soldiers and horses wanted to attack the city first, so they blocked the gap, so that the Song army picked up the big and cheap in vain.
After Jiang Fang woke up from the initial fright, he also saw that Gao Huaiyuan's relatives led the Chinese army to block the Jin soldiers at the gap, so he immediately gathered a large number of people in the city, used everything that could be loaded with earth and stones, rushed to load sandbags and earthwork, and began to gather towards the gap.
But they also encountered a problem, that is, the Song and Jin armies were entangled in the gap at this time, and the Song army suppressed the Jin soldiers so that they could not attack the city, but they were also tightly glued to the gap, and they did not dare to retreat half a point, and the Jin soldiers did not retreat, and they could not retreat, otherwise, the efforts made just now would be wasted, and the Jin soldiers would pour into the city like a flood.
Gao Huaiyuan is also anxious! He also saw this embarrassing battle situation, there was no such way of fighting in the war, and no military book said how to deal with this situation, while he was supervising the battle, his brain was running rapidly, trying to find a suitable way to solve this kind of problem.
Time waits for no one! He now only has these five hundred elite soldiers on hand, although he temporarily suppressed the Jin soldiers, but it does not mean that they will be unscathed, while killing and injuring a large number of Jin soldiers, they are also constantly paying the price, killing three thousand enemies and losing eight hundred, this strange battle situation, he may not be able to last long, once his five hundred men are killed and wounded, he will have no way to stop the Jin soldiers from entering the city.
For a time, a large number of people carrying dirt and sandbags gathered near the gap, waiting to rush up to plug the gap, but the two armies were entangled, and they could not work, so more and more people gathered here.
Gao Huaiyuan's sweat was dripping down urgently, what should I do? Is it just a desperate struggle? Until they're completely gone?
While commanding to block the Jin soldiers from attacking the city, he nervously scanned around with the corner of his eye, and suddenly a flash of inspiration flashed in his mind, and loudly ordered Zhang Gongming to take over his command to continue the battle, temporarily retreated, and pointed to the surrounding houses near the city wall to Jiang Fang, who rushed over, and shouted: "Lord Jiang, quickly lead the people, based on these houses, surround this place with sandbags on all sides, pile up a temporary city wall, form an urn city, we will give the Jin soldiers an urn to catch turtles!" Remember to leave a retreat passage for our army, and be ready to block it at any time with a knife cart and a straw cart! Do it quickly! ”
Jiang Fang didn't understand the battle of the soldiers, he had no idea at this time, he could only passively listen to Gao Huaiyuan's orders, he had no idea at this time, as soon as he heard Gao Huaiyuan's instructions, he knew what to do, so he immediately asked his subordinates to greet the people who had gathered, and used these houses on the spot, and began to build a pass wall centered on the gap.
Unity is strength! When the people work together to do something, the speed is indescribable, and the people who have been instructed are also crazy at this time, and the long queue will start piling up all kinds of sandbags and earthwork, and no matter what looks good or not, they will drop the sandbags and run, and then carry more things over.
When the sandbags are used up, the sheets are used, the sheets are used up and the clothes are used, and when the clothes are used up, they directly carry the stones and bricks, and when they don't even have these to use, some people simply don't even want a house, and start to pick up houses nearby, and use bricks and tiles as earthwork to build a wall. ,
At first, thousands of people walked back and forth through the streets, the scene was very chaotic, and it was easy to cause crowding, but soon people found a solution themselves, and then they simply formed several manual conveyor belts directly from person to person, passing all kinds of earth and stone from a distance, and seeing a pass wall and ants moving like they were erected, the speed was simply unbelievable.
Gao Huaiyuan looked at this scene with some dumbfounded, feeling like a dream, seeing this temporary urn city appear in front of his eyes like this, it was incredible to the extreme, and he didn't even have the kung fu to marvel!
At this time, Anzhen also saw that something was wrong in front of him, and the horsewhip in his hand pointed at the gap in the city wall and scolded Aru for being stupid, he could have fought a very beautiful assault battle, but he was stunned by this guy to become a stalemate, such a battle situation even he didn't expect it to happen, this is simply a shame!
That Aru was also crowded in the crowd outside the city at this time, unable to advance or retreat, crying and laughing, he didn't expect that he would actually fight like this bear, he has never fought such a nest battle since he was a soldier! He had the intention to retreat again, adjust his troops, and attack again, but at this time, the troops were in chaos, and he couldn't even convey his orders, and he was about to be squeezed out.
Susan Anzhen didn't know what to do, should Mingjin withdraw his troops or continue to attack? If Ming Jin withdrew his troops, he was afraid that his previous efforts would be wasted, and let the Song army in the city use this opportunity to block the gap in the whole army, then they would lose a great opportunity in vain and attack the city again with stupid methods! However, if the troops are not collected and the offensive is readjusted, the chaotic army will be crowded inside and outside the gap, and the advantage of troops will not be brought into play at all, and it will still be passively beaten.
He had already figured out why this situation had happened at this time, he really didn't expect that in such a fierce siege battle, the Song army actually left a reserve in the city, and it was this reserve that blocked his army in the gap, otherwise, there should not have been such an embarrassing situation anyway.
Just when the people in the city were frantically building the city, Gao Huaiyuan brought reinforcements from the other two city walls, and once again put into the blocking battle, at this time the Jin army focused all its attention on this gap, but the other two city walls did not cooperate with the feint, so that Zhou Hao had the opportunity to organize a team dominated by Daye people to rush to reinforcements.
So there were hundreds of more fresh troops here, standing on the house and violently firing arrows at the golden soldiers, who were blocked in the mouth, and their names were cut down piece by piece like grass mustard.
Aru wasted the strength of the two tigers, and finally drove away the Jin soldiers crowded at the gap, evacuated the density of the Jin soldiers, and strengthened the suppression of the Song army on the city wall.
And at this time, Gao Huaiyuan also began to feel the pressure obviously, the blocking array formed began to withstand the organized impact of the Jin soldiers, and the casualties of his reserve team began to increase, knowing that the Jin soldiers had woken up from the initial chaos, looking at the mountains of Jin soldiers' corpses in front of him, he knew that everything he could had already done.
"Retreat slowly, retreat to the city to rest, and continue to defend against the enemy!" Gao Huaiyuan ordered, and he saw that the simple urn city in the city had gradually taken shape, and the height of the walls had reached more than a zhang high, which could effectively provide defense.
So these Song troops who blocked the Jin soldiers began to slowly retreat in groups, under the cover of the archers, separated from the Jin soldiers, and retreated into the city towards the reserved two openings, they paid more than 100 lives in this time, but in exchange for the slaughter of more than 1,000 Jin soldiers, it is enough to be proud!
The Jin soldiers braved the fierce rain of arrows and rushed into the city, but unfortunately, at this time they could only be turtles in the urn, waiting for them was a city wall built with various materials, and they were not able to follow the retreating Song army and attack the city in one fell swoop.
After these Song troops withdrew, some people immediately blocked the two openings of various vehicles full of firewood and grass that had been prepared, blocking the pursuit of the Jin soldiers, and some people poured some fire oil on the firewood and grass carts, and when the Jin soldiers began to rush to the front of the firewood and grass carts and tried to pick up the openings, the smoking torches were thrown on the firewood and grass carts.
After the fire, the firewood and grass cart immediately ignited a raging fire, completely blocking the Jin soldiers in the urn city, which has completely formed an inner urn city.
A large number of Song troops began to climb the walls of the temporary urn city, and launched a second slaughter against the Jin soldiers who crowded the urn city.
The Jin soldiers finally broke into the gap, but they never expected that they got into an urn, but they still couldn't enter the city, and the angry Jin soldiers were helpless to scream, so they could only brave the arrows in the urn city and attack again.
This time the Jin soldiers were chaotic again, and they went one after another to cross the corpses of many of their companions, poured into the urn city, and then were blocked inside, and really became a turtle in the urn, bearing the rain of arrows from all directions, and there was not even a place to hide, so the casualties naturally needless to say, because no matter which side of the shield they blocked, the other three sides were still exposed to the range of the Song army's bow and arrows, and when they rushed into the gap, it was impossible to bring a ladder at all, and when facing the wall of the urn city even if it was only more than one zhang high, It was not easy for them to climb up, and the back-attack became an unattainable nightmare for them.
So the soldiers and civilians in Huangzhou City saw this situation, and their morale was greatly boosted again, and even the common people climbed the wall of the urn city, and beat the gold soldiers inside with bricks and tiles, even if the gold soldiers were wearing armor and could not kill them, but they also smashed their tendons and bones and broke them, and they were unable to fight anymore.
The whole gap is like a boiling pot, the golden soldiers outside don't know what is happening inside, they still keep opening into the gap, thinking that they can enter the city to burn and loot the addiction, so the number of golden soldiers in the urn city is increasing, so that the archers of the Song army are happy, every arrow shoots out, even the aim is not used, the iron can definitely shoot a golden soldier, even the blind man can throw a stone to smash the golden soldier, the battle became a one-sided slaughter.
Aru also held a shield and broke into the gap, after seeing the situation in front of him, he almost fainted, he couldn't figure it out, how in a short time, the Song people surrounded such a broken wall in the city, and they were blocked here again.
I don't know who came up with the idea of damaging the home, and transported the fireballs of various rattan weaving piled up on the city to the gap of the city wall, and then ignited in large quantities, pushed down the gap, and for a time the gap ignited a raging fire, these rattan fireballs were filled with straw, sulfur, *, croton and other things, which was regarded as a primitive chemical arson weapon, after being dropped, a large amount of poisonous smoke came out, and the golden soldiers inside and outside the city coughed more than once, and the combat effectiveness was greatly reduced, and the fire also blocked the golden soldiers inside and outside the city into two sections, It made it impossible to take care of each other, and blocked a large number of Jin soldiers outside the city from entering the city.
The golden soldiers who had rushed into the city had no way to retreat, so they could only brave the Song army's arrows and stones to storm the pass wall, but in the absence of any siege equipment, they only climbed the wall with their hands and feet, and wanted to rush up, how difficult it was!
Even if the Jin soldiers erected the human wall and sent their companions up, under the desperate resistance of the soldiers and civilians in the city, they were still killed and fell down one by one, and after repeated fierce battles, more than half of the Jin soldiers who entered the city were killed and wounded, and they were no longer able to launch a fierce offensive.
After this hard battle, the sky gradually began to darken, and the long day was finally coming to an end.
Looking at the ruined city wall in front of him, Anzhen's heart was gloomy, this was one of the hardest and most difficult battles he had fought in his life, seeing that he was only one step away from victory, but he couldn't take this step anyway, according to his morning arrangement, it was time to collect the troops and retreat, but he couldn't end this siege battle, because he still had a team of soldiers and horses, and he was still fighting hard in the city, he could now be said to be in a dilemma, and he couldn't attack, and he couldn't retreat.
Gao Huaiyuan also saw the dawn of victory, at the end of this day, he was under tremendous pressure, and led the soldiers and civilians in the city to repel countless attacks by the Jin soldiers, although the soldiers and civilians of Huangzhou City paid a heavy price, but what made him happy was that Huangzhou City was still under their control, who would dare to say that the Song people were weak and incompetent? This battle must have left a deep impression on the servants outside the city! As long as the Song people are united, they are not necessarily the opponents of the enemy.
At this time, he didn't care about what the Jin soldiers outside the city were doing, his main energy was all on besieging and annihilating the Jin soldiers who entered the urn city, and commanded the army and civilians to fiercely attack the Jin soldiers trapped in the city again and again, and the gold soldiers in the urn city were bloody, and the corpses were covered with the ground in the urn city.
Alu's face was covered with blood, surrounded by several pro-soldiers, blocking the arrows of the Song army with a shield, and someone fell beside him at any time, he had fallen into complete despair, and wanted to fight a beautiful battle in front of the marshal, but he led the troops into the ambush circle of the Song army, and thousands of gold soldiers were brought into a desperate situation by him, and now after the Song army's repeated killings, they have lost most of them, and they are no longer able to capture the urn city, they have really become the turtle in the urn, and now there is no way to go to the sky, and there is no way to enter the earth.
"Disarm or kill! Our general has an order, so that you will not be killed! Lay down your weapons or kill them all!" At this time, the cries of the Song people sounded in all directions.
The trapped Jin soldiers were already completely desperate, so they timidly slowly retreated together, gathered around Aru, and the attack on them came to a temporary halt.
Aru looked up, the surrounding city walls were full of Song soldiers and civilians, an hour ago, he was still overjoyed to lead the army to slaughter these people, but in a blink of an eye, they became the object of slaughter by the other party, this kind of psychological gap is so big that ordinary people can't understand.
Until this time, he still hadn't figured it out, how could the Song army build such a damn urn city in the gap in such a short period of time and block them here, is this something that human power can do?
"Hurry up and disarm and don't kill! Otherwise, we're going to have to shoot the arrows! The call for them to surrender was louder, and at this time, he even saw the Song army bring a fierce fire oil tank and set it up above them, as long as the Song army gave an order, they would get angry and burn these golden soldiers in Weng City into roast chickens.
Aru sat in a pool of blood in despair and hugged his head, this is still the lives of thousands of people! What should he do? Is that really it?
At this time, I don't know who was the first to drop the weapon in his hand, and shouted to the Song army around him: "I surrender!" Don't kill me! ”