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The real wise men on the battlefield are the soldiers and the commanders at the grassroots level. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

They are at the forefront of the battlefield, and their observation and understanding of the situation are to a certain extent much deeper than those of the generals behind them. The main thing is that the life that is threatened always brings out their greatest wisdom.

This method is very simple, but Wen Yanbo immediately knew that this was the best way after hearing it, and it was very practical.

It didn't take long for them to dig a tunnel to the bottom of the trench, and five or six Song soldiers got down from the tunnel and pulled out all the bamboo spears underneath. While they were finishing this work, there were Song soldiers next to them pretending to continue to fill in the soil to attract the attention of the Liao.

After clearing a safe enough area, more than twenty Song troops went down, and this time they had to do pile-driving!

It was not until the piles below were driven that the Liao people at the head of the city saw the clues, and it was too late to make any remedies at this time. Song Jun put the prepared planks on top of the wooden stakes, and a simple bridge was built immediately.

The Liao people at the head of the city looked a little panicked, and Yelu Shiya originally thought that if the Song Dynasty army wanted to cross this first trench, it would at least wait until it was dark tonight, or until all their armies came, and they had an overwhelming long-range advantage to succeed.

However, it took only two hours for these Song pioneers to turn this trench into a smooth road, and by the time they began to demolish the low wall, the follow-up army of the Song army was still nowhere to be seen.

Even though the army had not arrived, the grain and grass had not arrived, and the supplies had not arrived, Wen Yanbo still continued to let the vanguard advance forward. He knew that this battle was a matter of time, and the Liao people were all cavalry, and they must be waiting for their troops to clean up after they hit a broken head and bleed under the city of Nanjing.

Therefore, Wen Yanbo tried his best to break his head, and he also wanted to knock down Nanjing City within the time expected by the Liao people!

This is forced by the situation, and the battle here is very critical for the Song and Liao sides, whoever can grasp the time will be able to grasp the node of the war!

Of course, Yelu Shiya also understood this truth, and when he saw that the Song army was constantly expanding the bridge deck above the first trench, and at the same time began to use the same method to prepare to fill his second trench, Yelu Shiya was angry in his heart: "This Wen Yanbo is too deceitful! ”

The Liao generals next to them also said: "General, these Song pigs will only shrink into the city like them, let us go out and kill for a while, and give them a little bit of power!" ”

Yelu Shiya thought for a moment: "Okay, prepare 3,000 cavalry, listen to my orders, and you will rush out as soon as the city gate is opened." ”

The Liao people in the city began to prepare, and Wen Yanbo looked at the Liao battle flag fluttering at the head of Nanjing, and a hot emotion in his heart rose rapidly, making him not notice the danger facing the Song army.

More than 30 Song Dynasty soldiers with good water surnames had jumped into the trench, and hundreds of people next to them took the tools needed to build the bridge, hiding under the cover of the shield bearers of the Song army. The progress was so smooth, although the Song army in the trench suffered very heavy casualties under the bow and arrow shooting of the Liao, but when a Song soldier was shot, there would always be someone next to him who jumped down.

The piles of the bridge were slowly being laid, and everyone knew that they were getting closer and closer to the city, and their hearts were filled with excitement and joy.

"That's it!"

The Song army in the trench shouted, and the heads on the shore were very happy: "Build a plank!" ”

Dozens of Song soldiers rushed over with several long planks, put the planks in place, fixed them, and waited for the siege!

"Bang!"

Several planks were put down at the same time, and before those Song troops had time to cheer for their victory, the city gate of the Liao people on the opposite side suddenly opened.

Three thousand Liao cavalry slaughtered out like a wind.

This sudden change woke up the Song Dynasty soldiers who were silent in victory, the distance was too close, and even the Song Dynasty crossbowmen behind did not have time to support, and the hooves of the Liao people stepped on the wooden planks that the Song army had just laid.

At the same time, hundreds of Liao people jumped into the trench and attacked the Song soldiers who were doing earthwork.

At the same time, due to the limitations of the terrain, the troops covering them were simply unable to form an effective formation to resist the Liao cavalry.

Wen Yanbo was greatly alarmed: "Come back!" Get them back! ”

It was too late, the shield bearers of the Song army only resisted for a moment, and the Liao people broke through the already incomplete formation, and more than 2,000 Song troops were crowded in a small area, especially those soldiers with shovels, who had no ability to resist at all, and let the Liao people slash and kill them.

"Brothers! Fight with the Liao people! ”

A handful of soldiers were lucky enough to run back, but most of the Song army was in a situation where there was no way out, and in this case, they bravely brandished their shovels and short knives against the spears of the Liao.

The Song army in the back was limited by the terrain and couldn't go up at all! Under such circumstances, Wen Yanbo made a very wise choice, that is, to abandon all the soldiers before the first trench and ensure his results to the greatest extent.

Wen Yanbo's order doomed those soldiers on the front line to write a tragic color before victory with their lives, and only more than 100 of the more than 2,000 Song troops escaped, and the rest were all killed by the spears of the Liao State between the two trenches.

The Liao people won the first battle, but they did not dare to rush over and fight the Song army again, and soon retreated to the city. Then, the earth-shattering cheers of the Liao people resounded on the top of the city, and the heads of many Song soldiers were hung on the high city wall.

Wen Yanbo looked at the heads that were still dripping blood, his facial muscles trembled, and he said in an unusually firm voice: "Set up camp and send someone to persuade you to surrender." ”

It wasn't until he was sure that he couldn't go any further before the arrival of the army that he began to fulfill some of the formalities that he had to go through before the battle.

Seeing the Song army retreating, the cheers of the Liao people were even louder, and even some Liao soldiers made some insulting movements against the heads of those Song soldiers on the head of the city, and shouted frantically: "Song pig, come and kill me!" You have the ability to come up and kill me! ”

The eyes of the Song soldiers stared at the arrogant Liao people on the city, and Fu Yongji's chest rose and fell sharply: "My lord, didn't we bring two cannons?" Give them two shots and let them know how awesome! ”

Wen Yanbo shook his head: "No, what's the use of you giving them two cannons?" ”

Fu Yongji also knew that it was useless, they were carrying the latest artillery of the Song army, the kind that already had a certain accuracy. The lethality of the shells also increased a lot, but they marched in a hurry, and only brought two such artillery, even if they fired all the shells they carried, except for killing a few Liao soldiers on the head of the city, it really did not help the siege.

He just thinks that even if it is to scare and scare the people of Liao, it is good, so that they should not be so arrogant.

Wen Yanbo said: "Pacify the soldiers and wait for the arrival of the army. ”

In the face of the humiliation and abuse of the Liao people at the head of the city, Fu Yongji couldn't even appease himself, but there was no way, he was a general, and this was what he had to do.

In the evening, the large army of the Song army finally arrived. Wen Yanbo obviously suffered from the bird's spirit of the Liao people, and did not consider that it was dark and the troops needed to rest, so he immediately launched a new offensive.

He has an army of more than 300,000 people, and there is nothing to rest in the face of the more than 30,000 Liao soldiers in the city. The preparations for the siege of the city began immediately, Yelu Shiya at the head of the city frowned, and a Liao general next to him said: "General, this Song people can't wait like this, I think I am in a hurry." ”

Yelu Shiya suddenly smiled, and said in a loud voice: "Haha, of course they are in a hurry, the army of long live is threatening Hejian Mansion, and it can be broken at any time." Their hometown is almost gone! Moreover, as long as we hold out for ten days, not much, ten days is enough, our cavalry will definitely be able to encircle and annihilate these Song people under the city of Nanjing. ”

The Liao people knew that Yelu Shiya was boosting morale, and said very cooperatively: "General rest assured, the material reserves in the city are sufficient, don't say ten days, even a hundred days The Song people can't beat it!" Besides, when we attacked just now, everyone saw that these Song people are still like pigs! Hahaha! ”

Their conversation made the Liao people feel a lot more relieved, and their morale was unprecedentedly high.

Jereshi thought that morale was useful, and that such a high morale would be very useful in a city battle, but their high morale would soon be hit.

Under the city, more than 500 of the latest artillery pieces of the Song army were waiting for them, and with Wen Yanbo's order, those cannons let out an angry roar together, and the iron shells that were more than 20 catties heavy one by one, rained cannonballs smashed into the city wall of Nanjing!

This is the heaviest artillery attack in the world in this situation.

The Liao people at the head of the city had not yet gotten rid of the small victory just now, and the entire city head was plunged into a sea of fire. They were very unlucky, and directly faced the world's first such high-intensity, high-density artillery attack, and the Liao [***] team was blown up and fell into a brief chaos.

Yelu Shiya was also stunned by the Song army's methods, he had long known that the Song army's artillery was powerful, but he never expected that when hundreds of guns were fired together, it would be so powerful, and there was no way to release people on the city wall.

However, after getting rid of the initial shock, he also found that although he was surprised by the artillery attack of the Song army, he could not win the war by relying on this alone.

Artillery had not yet developed to the point where it could decide the outcome of the war, and if the Song army wanted to win, they had to rely on their soldiers to climb the walls to fight themselves as before.

Yelu Shiya hurriedly withdrew some people, leaving only a small number of soldiers at the head of the wall to monitor the movements of the Song army.

Sure enough, after the Song army found that the Liao people had withdrawn, the artillery attack immediately stopped, and more than 20,000 Song troops rushed up with those siege equipment.

Yelu Shiya hurriedly remobilized the men who had just been withdrawn, and after a brief panic, the Liao soldiers regained order, and they relied on the height of the city wall to shoot the charging Song army with their precise arrows.

At the time of this charge, the equipment of the Song Dynasty was very complete, and those crossbowmen climbed the high arrow tower to suppress the Liao soldiers, and the two sides had not yet begun to engage in close combat, and the screams echoed under the city of Nanjing.

(To be continued)