[140] Offense and defense change hands
The biggest difficulty in siege warfare is to break through the defense of the city wall and the city gate, but now these two problems have been successfully solved by Zhou Yi, although Shi Mo Zude is a great general, he has a set of troops and generals, but the so-called heroes can't stand the crowd, and under the tide of the Song army, the Liao army is still defeated and retreated.
At the end of the day, the Song army finally broke through the city gate and entered the city of Ulzhou, losing the advantage of opening the city gate of one husband and ten thousand people, the Liao army had no support, morale plummeted, and the Song army accelerated the speed of advancement. Despite all the lessons he had learned, he was unable to recover his decline, and his soldiers were defeated one after another.
Yi Yingfeng was covered in blood, these blood came from the enemy, it was not the first time he participated in the war, such a scene not only did not make him feel uncomfortable, but ignited the passion in his heart, waving the big knife in his hand, the more he fought, the more brave he became, as if killing a god. A hundred-man squad centered around him was like a meat grinder, but all enemies who stood in their way were mercilessly slain.
Shi Mo Zude has never been so desperate as today, the sudden Song army and the inexplicable explosion made him have no time to react at all, and what he has learned in his life is even more useless, he can only rely on his own instinct to delay the speed of breaking the city, waiting for the arrival of reinforcements, he has a long scar on his face, which was cut by a knife just now, if he hadn't dodged quickly, his head would have been split in two. Now the carrion rolled out, and blood covered his entire cheek, making him look hideous.
Even when a large number of Song troops poured into the city of Ulju like a tide, Shi Mo Zude did not choose to give up, and he led his soldiers to use the streets of the city. Street fighting ensued. Because of unfamiliarity with the terrain. The Song army was easily attacked by a Liao army that suddenly rushed out of nowhere. Casualties have also increased.
But this did not stop the Song army's attack, which made Shi Mo Zude despair, as if he wanted to build a dam only to find that he could never dry up the river, and no matter how hard he tried, he could not achieve his goal.
Finally, as noon approached, Shi Mo Zude chose to give up resistance, and if this continued, the people of Ulju City would be killed by these Song troops. It is better to surrender first, avoid the edge for the time being, and wait for reinforcements to arrive before organizing a counteroffensive. He is undoubtedly a brave general, but he is also a wise general, knowing that reinforcements will arrive soon, it is better to save some of his strength first.
It is true that if the reinforcements have arrived outside the city now, then he will definitely defend it to the death, shout some bold words such as vowing to live and die with the city, and then cooperate with the reinforcements. But in fact, it is. He didn't know when reinforcements would arrive, and sent out several groups of people to break through. None of them succeeded, and all contact with the outside world has been severed.
"We surrendered, we surrendered." Shi Mo Zud had already made up his mind, so he immediately shouted loudly, and the soldiers around him stopped their movements when they heard him say this.
Yi Yingfeng also stopped, according to the tradition of the Great Song Dynasty, it was impossible to kill after the enemy surrendered. So after Shi Mo Zude shouted out, Yi Yingfeng felt that he should report the situation to Tong Guan or Zhou Yi and let them decide.
When he looked back, what he saw was a steady stream of Song troops pouring into the city, and it was impossible to get out.
What now? He didn't know, he hadn't experienced it. He thought that maybe Huang Peng and Huang Jiawei would have a better idea, so he led his men to find the two.
As a result, the three of them discussed it, and they still didn't go out to report the surrender of the Liao army - returning from more than 100,000 people could cause unpredictable consequences, such as beating themselves to death by mistake as an enemy - after all, everyone was covered in blood, and Yi Yingfeng passed by Huang Jiawei three times before he recognized him.
Yi Yingfeng shouted to Shi Mo Zude not far away, "Do you want to surrender? If you surrender, tell your men to lay down their arms. ”
Shi Mo Zude hurriedly threw away the big knife in his hand, and the people around him also put down their weapons one after another, and more and more Liao troops understood the situation and began to put down the weapons in their hands. Yi Yingfeng took out a bull horn, and a dull voice came, hearing this voice, Song Jun knew that it was time to stop. Then there was Huang Peng and Huang Jiawei, which meant that the confrontation between the Liao army and the Song army had come to an end.
After Zhou Yi returned to the barracks, the military doctor pinched him and poured decoction, and finally woke him up.
When he opened his eyes, Zhou Yi still felt that the world was spinning, and he wanted to stand up, but he didn't have any strength at all, his legs and stomach were weak, and he couldn't even support him to sit up.
"Young Master, you're awake." Wang Er breathed a sigh of relief.
Zhou Yi rubbed his head and asked, "What's the situation now?" Is it still playing inside? ”
"It's noon now, and I'm still fighting, but I seem to have heard the horn of Mingjin just now, so I should have won." Wang Er said.
Zhou Yi breathed a sigh of relief, a smile appeared on his face, and said: "That's about the same, calculate the time, it's been half a day, and it should be over, if more than 100,000 people can't win a fight against tens of thousands of people, then I really should apologize with death." ”
After all, he still won, and Zhou Yi also experienced the cruelty of war for the first time. In war, what is truly reflected is that human life is like a mustard, and every moment someone falls, and the living life is lost.
If there is a choice, Zhou Yi will definitely choose to live in a peaceful and prosperous world now, be a playboy, be a leisurely farmer, and let him hell with any achievements and successes.
But the truth is very helpless, he traveled from a world that seemed peaceful but not peaceful to the Great Song Dynasty, which was caught in a chaotic world, and God never thought of giving him a peaceful life.
Young people, after all, have to struggle, no matter how difficult or reluctant this struggle is, there will always be some people, some things, promoters, you have to do.
Zhou Yi is very reluctant to kill, and he doesn't want to watch others being killed, but the reality is that if he doesn't kill people, then he may be killed in the future. In order to ensure that you don't die, you can only let others die.
Tong Guan also got the news of the surrender of the defenders at the first time, he was very happy, Ulzhou fell into his hands, this is one of the sixteen states of Yanyun, although the road ahead is long, but this is a good start.
He led the army into the city, and Shi Mo Zude knew that the general trend was gone, and he also cut off the idea of resisting on the spot, and handed over the Ulzhou print to Tong Guan's hands.
The Song army got another city, and it was a big city, which was a great victory, and in the good news written to Zhao Ji, Tong Guan did not skimp on his pen and ink, and praised his behavior.
There was a jubilant atmosphere in the court, and Zhao Ji held a grand celebration for his great and correct decision to announce the dispatch of troops, including but not limited to a day trip to Banzai Mountain.
Of course, this is a later story, not to mention it for the time being, and to say that this Ulzhou, Shi Mo Zude announced his surrender, and then handed over the Great Seal, the disposal of these people will be a big problem. Not killing prisoners is a universally recognized norm, and it is considered inhumane, otherwise there would not be a thing that has been talked about for thousands of years after Bai Qikeng killed 400,000 Zhao soldiers.
Tong Guan thought that these people should be imprisoned and sent to the capital as trophies, as evidence of the invitation to merit - of course, the last sentence was in his heart.
But Zhou Yi believes that there is a great safety hazard for all these people to be sent to the capital, and the most important thing is to waste food. He advised Tong Guan to let the men out of the house, disarm them and then expel them from the city. As for escorting the capital or something, you only need to press the generals over, and there will be no moths on the way.
This was a compromise method, which not only satisfied Tong Guan's basic appeal for escorting the hostages to Beijing, but also avoided defection due to the large number of enemies on the way, and more importantly, it could save a lot of food rations.
As for whether those people who were released from the city would become a member of the Liao army that counterattacked, Zhou Yi didn't think too much, he thought that once he became the party defending the city, he would definitely be better defended than this Liao army.
In this way, after the count, the remaining 6,533 Liao troops were forced to touch all the armed equipment on their bodies and were driven out of the city. More than a dozen major leaders, including Shi Mo Zude, were tied up and thrown into the prisoner car, and went back under the escort of a team of 200 people to avoid seeing Zhao Ji.
Now the time is very tight, Zhou Yi sent all the hundreds of scouts out, he knew that after he conquered Ulzhou, Yelu Yanxi would not be able to move, and it was very likely that he would be attacked by the Liao army in the next period of time. According to his philosophy, it is necessary to send scouts to find out information so that decisions can be made as soon as possible.
After counting, the Song army still had more than 193,000 people and more than 6,000 deaths, which was within an acceptable range and could be regarded as a great victory. After cleaning up the scene, Zhou Yi's security notices have also been pasted everywhere, declaring that he does not take a stitch from the masses.
After cleaning up the scene, Zhou Yi was going to prepare for the next defense of the city, he hoped to be able to consume a large amount of the strength of the Liao army in the defense of the city, at least kill tens of thousands of people and hundreds of thousands of people.
The city gate was quickly rebuilt, and instead of installing the door, it was directly ordered by Zhou Yi to build a wall with stones. In other words, Ulju became a city without a gate.
Of course, this is the next step, in fact, before the construction of the city gate, the open space outside the city was already covered with all kinds of traps, there were deep pits with sharp bamboo, and there were large pits filled with quicklime, in addition, there were also trigger-type bamboo rows, and iron pimple formations specially to hinder the cavalry, etc.
Everyone looked at Zhou Yi's arrangement, and they couldn't help but feel a chill in their hearts, there is no doubt that being Zhou Yi's enemy is really a tragedy in life. Tong Guan was also secretly frightened in his heart, Zhou Yi was young this time, but he didn't expect to be a ruthless character. (To be continued......)