Chapter 157: A New Kind of War
The sun has passed noon, and Yeluhong, the guard general in Qingzhou City, is still wondering, why Xiaoshan, who led the team to sea today, has not returned, and he should have been sitting in the city drinking at this time in the past.
Just as Yeluhong was wondering, a scout hurried into his yamen and reported that King Wu Yue of the Great Song Dynasty had defeated all the Khitan naval forces and had landed in the port, and was marching towards Qingzhou City with his army.
When Yeluhong heard this, he was shocked at first, and then he settled down, what kind of virtue is the Great Liao Water Army, he also knows that it is not strange to be defeated by the Song Dynasty's water army, as long as he can hold this Qingzhou City, the fault of the water army's failure will not be blamed on his head.
So he hurriedly asked the scouts how many people had come to attack the city, and Yeluhong, who had learned that Zhao Weiji had only brought about 3,000 people to attack the city, was amused by this number.
Historically, the besieging side should have been much more numerous than the defending side, and even with the aid of siege equipment, there has never been a case of siege warfare being able to win more with less.
Although the current defenders of Qingzhou City are less than 4,500, the other side only has about 3,000 people, isn't this a send.
Yeluhong, who couldn't stop laughing, continued to ask: "Who is this King Wuyue?" Is the head show funny? More than 3,000 people dared to come and attack the city. ”
Although the main general laughed wildly, the scout did not follow suit, he just added cautiously: "This King Wu Yue seems to be the King of Wu Yue, the King of Wu Yue of the Song Kingdom who once defeated Tai Yue." ”
"Defeat the Taiyue?" With that, Jeluhon was a little impressed.
The Yu Yue in their mouths naturally refers to Yelu Hugo, who has just passed away for less than two years, and coincidentally, when Zhao Weiji and Yelu Huge fought, this Yelu Hong happened to be one of the many clan leaders under Yelu Huge's account, although it was a small tribe.
He had seen with his own eyes the blow that Zhao Weiji inflicted on the Khitan army with strange tactics at that time. He was still a little afraid of Zhao Weiji from the bottom of his heart.
"Didn't that King Wu Yue say that he was banished overseas? Why did he come back at this time? "When I heard that it was Zhao Weiji on the other side. Yeluhon had to brace himself and put away his contempt.
After so many years of the Liao-Song War, there were not many generals of the Song army who really impressed the Liao State, and Zhao Weiji happened to be one of them.
The scout thought for a moment, then repeated to Yeluhong what he had heard Zhao Weiji say in the harbor.
After listening to the scout's report, Yeluhong was still very puzzled, this Bianjing City is now surrounded by the Great Liao Iron Cavalry, and the Emperor of the Song State has found time to send an order to Zhao Weiji, who is far overseas, asking for help.
However, at this time, he couldn't manage so much, and defending the city was the first priority, so he immediately ordered the soldiers in the city to enter a state of readiness.
When he led the soldiers up the tower. Zhao Weiji's troops also gathered under the city, judging from the scale, the scouts did not deceive themselves, and the other party did only have about 3,000 people.
And the three thousand or so men were dressed in a very strange way, with only about a thousand armed with bows and arrows, and two thousand remaining, a thousand carrying swords, and every twenty men around a cylinder made of iron. The remaining 1,000 were holding a strange-looking stick in their hands.
There were no more siege engines other than the cylinder, and the cylinder didn't look like a siege engine.
Yeluhong can be regarded as having been on the battlefield for more than ten years, although his position has never been high. But I've seen a lot of battles big and small, just three or two cats. Coupled with some strange equipment, the siege team came to tell the truth, and he saw it for the first time.
Just when he was still wondering, Zhao Weiji began to shout: "Listen, the Khitan general on the city tower, I will give you a stick of incense to consider whether to open the city and surrender, and I advise you to choose the best choice." Otherwise, the only fate that awaits you is a river of blood. ”
After saying this, Zhao Weiji asked people to bring out a table with an incense burner on it, and a freshly lit incense stick was inserted in the incense burner.
Seeing this scene, the Khitan soldiers at the head of the city were crazy, they had fought with the Song for so many years, and they had never seen such arrogant Song army generals, your sister only had about 3,000 people, and it seemed that they dared to propagate that we would bleed rivers without any equipment.
So all the soldiers and generals asked Yeluhon to fight, vowing to take the head of the other side.
Although Yeluhong was also angry because of Zhao Weiji's words, he did not lose his cool like other generals, he experienced the battle between Zhao Weiji and Yeluhuge, and he knew the terrible thing about Zhao Weiji, this thing never played according to the convention, God knows if those strange things he put on the battlefield will be some mysterious weapons.
But just standing on the head of the city for a stick of incense, doing nothing is not a solution, this is too big a blow to morale.
Eventually, Yeluhon let his most trusted general take the lead and take a thousand men out to see what those strange things were.
Before his subordinates left, he repeatedly told him that he must be careful, once things are wrong, he will turn back immediately, the other party is a general who defeated Yu Yue, and there is no shame in losing.
However, his words didn't seem to have any effect, and his subordinates heard that the other side was the general who defeated Yu Yue, not only did not have any vigilance, but burned a fighting spirit, vowing to take down the opponent's head and become famous.
When he rushed out of the city gate with a thousand men and horses with a lot of blood, he saw that the thousand people standing at the front of the formation on the opposite side had become two columns.
The first line raised the stick in his hand, and then he heard a continuous thud, thump, thump, thump, and with the sound the soldiers at the front of his team either fell from their horses or their horses suddenly fell to the ground.
Before the general could react to why the soldiers on his side had an accident after a few sounds, the first line of teams on the opposite side pushed to the second line, and the second line of teams came up, and then made the same actions as the soldiers in the first line just now.
Then there was another bang, bang, bang, and another attrition on my side.
At this time, he finally realized that something was not quite right, and hurriedly stopped the team, and just as he was about to give the order to retreat, another thud came from the side of the Song army, and after this sound, there was a hole in the general's head, and then he fell from his horse, and fell straight to the ground without moving.
The sudden death of the leading general made the Khitan cavalry, who had already been killed, completely panicked, and everyone had only one thought in their hearts at the moment, hurry up.
It's just that their fate is no longer in their own hands, and just as they turned their horses' heads, the demonic thud and thud rang out again.
At the head of the city, Yeluhon watched his men fall with bang, bang, bang, bang, and then again, and finally no one could continue to stand on the battlefield.
When his men were all slaughtered by Zhao Weiji's army, Zhao Weiji walked to the center of the battlefield again, and with him came out with two soldiers carrying the bookcase just now and two soldiers holding shields.
Zhao Weiji, who walked to the center of the battlefield, spoke again: "Although you did not choose to surrender, but sent troops out to die, but this king has a large number, and he is giving you a chance, do you see the pillar of incense?" Half of the incense has already been burned, and in the remaining half of the incense time, you better hurry up and make your choice. If I can slaughter a thousand of you unscathed, I can continue to kill your remaining three thousand five hundred. Choose!! ”
At this time, I heard again that the soldiers on the head of Zhao Weiji's Hanhua city no longer had the anger just now, and the anger in their bodies had been replaced by fear.
It's just that there is one person who doesn't think so, and this person is Yeluhong, and although he is also frightened at this time, he is more angry with renunciation.
Carried away by anger, he took a bow and arrow to the bottom line, and Zhao Weiji, who was standing in the middle of the battlefield, was an arrow.
Although his arrow flew directly to Zhao Weiji's head quickly and accurately, Zhao Weiji seemed to have expected him to do this, and the two soldiers with shields beside him had already stood in front of Zhao Weiji with shields at this moment, blocking the arrows that flew by.
After the arrow was blocked, Zhao Weiji walked out from between the two soldiers as if nothing had happened, and then shouted at the city: "It's immoral to hurt people with dark arrows, but it's not rude to come, and you can also take my move." ”
Saying that, Zhao Weiji lifted the rifle in his hand, the rifle in his hand was different from that of other soldiers, he added a telescope to his own rifle, making his rifle the most primitive sniper rifle.
He raised his gun, looked at the sniper scope, took aim, pulled the trigger, and after another thud of gunshots, the lieutenant next to Yeluhon was shot and fell to the ground.
After firing this shot, Zhao Weiji returned to the formation with the soldiers who followed him without looking back.
The Khitans, who were completely overwhelmed, were left looking at the body of the deputy general in a daze at the head of the city.
At this moment, the pillar of incense was almost burned, and Zhao Weiji, who saw that there was still no reaction at the head of the city, ordered all the cannons to be loaded with ammunition.
At the moment when the incense was burned, Yeluhong, who was still looking at the corpse of his deputy in a daze, suddenly heard a loud noise, and then his body felt a violent shaking. Immediately afterwards, the Song army was heard beating the charge drum.
Yeluhong, who couldn't figure out what was going on, saw a small soldier rushing up to the city, saying that the city gate had been blown open by the Song army for some reason.
And at this time, the Song army had already entered the city. (To be continued......)