In the north of Yixian County, the sound of killing shook the sky.

Standing at the head of Yixian County and looking north, you can see the camps of Jurchen military horses spread all over the land, and the cavalry teams that came out of the camps galloped in all directions. And one after another, the auxiliary armies of various ethnic groups also came out in turn like a never-ending wave, pushing and dragging all kinds of attacking tools, and rushed forward.

And in almost every hilly high place in the north of Yixian County, there are banners set by Jurchen army generals, who can't help but pass orders back and forth, mobilizing such a huge army and horses, and launching an attack on Yi County.

After the Jurchen Eastern Route Army surged south, it spread out its army from the north and the east almost without stopping. Thousands of Jurchen iron cavalry completely controlled the battlefield, and then the brigade of infantry troops caught up and began to build siege equipment. After the first batch of siege equipment was produced, these auxiliary tribal armies were mercilessly driven by the Jurchen iron cavalry to pounce on the defenders' defensive lines.

In this siege war, from the very beginning, the Jurchens put on a posture to destroy miè qiē.

And the follow-up military horses are still joining this battlefield in a steady stream. Standing at the head of the city and looking north and east, there is an endless array of infantry troops attacking during the day, and at night it is a bonfire that fills the whole line of sight, burning until the end of the day.

The Jurchen East Route Army concentrated at least forty or fifty thousand military horses in front of Yi County, among which the real Jurchen Iron Cavalry was at least more than 10,000 horsemen!

Such a formation made the Yi County garrison fall into the most difficult situation from the beginning.

In this short period of time, Liu Baozhong has strengthened the urban defense system of Yi County as much as possible. There are acropolis gates on the north and east sides, and there are military fortresses that can support each other. And to the south. Two more fences were set up, sandwiching a passage road to the Beiyi water. Keep the rear waterway clear. Baggage transported from the Ansu Army and the Guangxin Army. You can pass through the Guò Juma River and turn into Yishui, although you have to cross the Jurchen crossbow can control the river, and you can't break through it without fierce fighting, but it is also a supply route that can barely be used.

The outer defenses were like this, and the walls were repaired as much as possible. The city had also stockpiled two months' worth of grain - there was no time to replenish it. All kinds of garrison equipment and military equipment have also been supplemented to a certain extent as much as possible.

The defenders in the city were based on the more than 2,000 elite cavalry of the Dragon Guard brought by Liu Baozhong, supplementing the defeated army and the strong people in the south of Yandi by two or three thousand. Before the arrival of the Jurchen army. The Tianwu Army also had two infantry commanders who entered the city of Yixian as reinforcements sent by Yu Jiang.

The city of Yi County is not very large, and it is more than enough to garrison it with such troops.

Although the offensive launched by the Jurchens was like a storm from the beginning, Liu Baozhong was not surprised.

As a general, he is not afraid of hard battles. I'm afraid of fighting a bitter battle with no hope.

The Jurchens did not know why they concentrated their main forces under the city of Yixian, suggesting that the Jurchens could exert less pressure on other parts of the northern rim of the river.

The longer you hold out in Yi County, the longer you will have to fight for King Yan. When the time comes, when King Yan solves Zong Han's department, he will be able to free up his hands to deal with this Eastern Route Army!

Xiao Yan gave the old military number of the Shenwu Changsheng Army to Han Shizhong's department. The Dragon Guards held their breath from top to bottom. In that case, let us fight the toughest battles. When the time comes, let's take a look at the Dragon Guard Army and the Shenwu Ever-Victorious Army, who is the strongest army under King Yan!

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An army formation composed of one or two thousand cangtou bullets. It is approaching the military village in the north of Yixian County.

There are a total of six military villages in the north of Yixian County, all of which are huge wooden walls, and six-foot deep trenches are dug out. The large military village can accommodate half of the commanded infantry army, and the small military village can barely accommodate about one.

These six military fortresses are like chains, firmly guarding the north gate of Yi County. If you don't break through here, don't think about attacking the city wall of Yixian.

After a few days of offensive, the first two days were tentative and can be ignored, and the official assault began yesterday. At the end of the day, the Jurchens consumed at least five or six hundred people with casualties.

Generally speaking, there is such a large consumption of people in the siege of the city, so why should it be slowed down a little. But this time, the Jurchens did not stop at all, and today the sky was bright, and they drove the brigade into battle again.

The 2,000 cangtou bullet pressure is the largest of the six military villages, and the remaining five military villages are each contained by hundreds of men and horses. Such a formation has already filled the battlefield in the north of Yi County.

The infantry army pushing towards the main village pushed forward one by one. The shape of the oar-car is made of rows of wood, nailed into the door panel, and the wooden wheels are installed to push forward. The green bark on these woods is still there, and it is precisely because of this that it was made.

In this offensive, fifty or sixty oars were lined up, and behind each roof was a group of pale heads. The people in the front row are holding bows and crossbows, ready to flash out to suppress the wall when they are close to the range, the second row is the people carrying the soil sac, which is to fill the trench with the soil sac, and then the back row of those cangtou bullets are carrying thick ropes and hoes, ready to use the bow and crossbow to cover the fence with ropes, and then loosen the base soil, so as to pull down the fence with force.

After these cangtou bullets, groups of Jurchen iron horsemen waited silently under their respective banners, if these infantry troops could fill in the trenches and pull down the fence. These iron horsemen are about to roar straight into the military village!

There was not much time left for Liu Baozhong to operate the city defense of Yi County, and the surrounding trees had no time to cut down and clean up. At this time, the Jurchen army was numerous, and it was quick and convenient to make siege equipment. In addition to these simplest carts, in the camp of the Jurchen army, you can also see the semi-finished products of stone throwing machines, and the craftsmen of all ethnic groups in the Jurchen people are still desperately trying to make such big killing weapons used to break the city.

Dozens of big drums rang loudly, and in the midst of the drums, fifty or sixty oarcars slowly moved forward. Because of the rugged terrain and the haste of the preparation, from time to time a cart or wheel fell off, or got stuck between the ravines, and could no longer move forward. After the carriage, those pale bullets did not dare to pause at all. Quickly joined the other vehicles. Go ahead and move forward.

Don't say backwards. Once you come to a standstill. The Jurchen Iron Cavalry who supervised the war was going to slash them mercilessly!

The rest of the carts could not cover the infantry as soon as possible, so these northern infantry troops could only hold bows and crossbows and all kinds of equipment, and continue to move forward with fear.

On top of the wall, a conductor watched as the array of rooks slowly approached. Hundreds of crossbows had been erected, and behind each archer was a soldier with a long soldier and two strong men who wound the crossbows. Behind the military village and between the city wall of Yixian County, you can still see two or three hundred armor soldiers with flaming helmets and red horses also waiting silently in formation, ready to help everywhere at any time.

The commander is a member of the Dragon Guard. Hebei dare to be a warrior. To defend here is to defend the Hebei countryside in the south.

His eyes widened, and his lips squirmed, just talking about distance.

Seeing that the cart was pushed to a range of 100 paces, he had not yet given the order. Amid the beating of drums in the Jurchen army, the cart continued slowly until it reached a trench sixty paces from the wall.

The width of the trench was six feet, and the depth was six feet. There is still stagnant water in the ditch, which cannot be crossed by either the infantry or the cavalry.

Dozens of oars stopped in a trembling manner. Suddenly, there were heart-rending shouts from countless people. After the carriage, hundreds of shooters flashed out at once, and the bowstrings were full. It's going to be radiated!

The commander shouted in a Hebei accent: "Shoot these dog Tartars!" ”

The sound of the bowstring trembling violently tore through the air, and in an instant, in front of the military village, countless feathered arrows came and went, intertwining into a dense net in the air!

The screams erupted again. The Song army was strong, and shot a short arrow of Mu Yu at a distance of sixty paces to break the iron armor, even if the Jurchens obtained the Liao family's belongings, they could even wear iron armor and half of their own blue head bullet pressure. But under the strong crossbow of the Song army, it is still constantly falling!

And the Zhaizha on which the Song army relied was only more than one person high. The archer stood on a mound of earth platforms and shot with a crossbow. But it is this fence that is enough to take advantage. I saw that on the fence, in a blink of an eye, it seemed that a cluster of arrow feathers had grown.

Every Song army archer wore a heavy scarf, and the feathered arrows that could not be covered by the fence hit the sparks on the sparkle and kept flying away. In the rear, the long-armed infantry warriors and the people who wound the crossbow machines could also effectively avoid the feathered arrows that crossed the fence under the cover of the grass factory.

Even though there were sporadic archers who were unlucky and injured by stray arrows, all the other archers still stood steadily, facing the rain of arrows, everyone's eyes widened, and they couldn't help but take the well-wounded crossbow machine, and then pull the tooth hair, shooting out one arrow after another!

The Hebei commander stood even more straight in the rain of arrows, walking around behind the archers' array with the sword at his waist, and kept urging the people to wind up faster, so that the rhythm of the archers was more stable. The feathered arrows that were thrown over the fence fell, and the commander either bowed his head or turned sideways, dodging carelessly, as if this rain of arrows in the sky was just real rain!

And outside the long trench sixty paces away, the muffled screams of the flashed carts desperately drew their bows and arrows, trying to suppress the barren bar, and the sound of muffled screams never stopped. In the array, from time to time, someone fell to the ground softly. The short arrow of the wood feather pierced deep into the armor, and the blood spilled everywhere. In the blink of an eye, I don't know how many enemies I have shot.

The bullets that flashed out of the cart were inflicted heavy casualties, and in the sound of drums and screams, a large group of auxiliary troops carrying the soil bags rushed out and threw the soil bags into the trench.

The bullets that were fired at each other had been shot to pieces, and the remnants of the people were desperately shrinking in the direction of the cart, and when the auxiliaries were preparing to fill in the trenches, they could no longer play the role of cover. The Song army archers immediately turned their attention to these auxiliary troops who were burdened with dirt and filled the trenches, and on the edge of the trenches, there were bursts of screams one after another. The dirt sacs and the human body rolled down the trench together, even if some people were only slandered, and after falling into the trench, they still wanted to climb up, but more dirt sacs were desperately falling like rain, pressing them back again, only to hear the screams in the trench, which was also high and low!

Relying on the crossbow machine that can't help but turn up, it always maintains the shooting density with a steady rhythm. Bundles of wooden feather short arrows accumulated in the grass factory were opened, and then consumed rapidly. Splash death incessantly on the Jurchen auxiliaries gathered in front of the trenches.

Along the line of the trench, the corpses of the Jurchen auxiliary army were piled up, and dozens of carts were almost completely trapped in the pile of corpses, and they could not retreat. But in the Jurchen rear, dozens of big drums were still beating all the time. Squad after squad of infantry continued to drive up.

Seeing that the auxiliary armies such as the Cangtou bullet pressure of the headquarters were still unable to suppress the wall, and only relied on desperate lives to rush into the village, a large number of tribal troops were also ruthlessly driven to the battlefield by the Jurchens.

These tribal armies were originally assembled into an army by hundreds of northern tribes under the rule of the Liao, constituting the main armed force except for the elite leather room palace branch army of the Liao people. Now it has been transferred to the banner of the Jurchens, and the strong ones are selected as the bullet pressure of the cangtou, and the second-class ones are still gathered as soldiers, and they still have to charge into battle for the new master every time they are in battle, and pay the heaviest casualties!

These tribal armies were dressed in tattered leather armor, and they did not carry any blades, and each of them carried dirt bags, and their only task was to fill the trenches!

In the rain of arrows, these tribal troops rushed out of the trench with great difficulty, and then crossed the corpses all over the ground with one foot high and one foot low, and threw a large number of earth bags into the trench in the face of the rain of arrows. After each batch of advance and retreat, the corpses on the ground had to be covered by an additional layer.

Outside the trench, the smell of blood was so thick that it was impossible to breathe. I don't know how many of the wounded were struggling and howling in the blood-stained dirt. In the midst of the battle array, the place where the corpses stand. Especially the key points of the strong attack, the consumption of human lives, is so cruel!

Under the ruthless drive of the Jurchens, who did not care about the losses of the auxiliary army and the tribal army, the storm of arrows that could not stop splashing out of the fence finally slowly eased and stagnated.

One crossbow after another broke the tooth hair, or broke the string and broke it. The people who helped the winding were so tired that their backs were broken, the winding speed was getting slower and slower, the rain of arrows was getting slower and slower, and more and more dirt bags were thrown outside the trenches. Finally, in this long trench, hundreds of lives and countless soil bags were used to fill in the passable Yuliang roads!

The dozens of carriages have become like hedgehogs at this moment, and the dense layers on them are all wooden feathers and short arrows. The corpses were piled up so that most of the wheels were covered, and they could no longer be pushed.

The hedgehogs gathered outside the trench and were no longer in formation, like a nest of ants and a crush of the tribal army, let out a cry like a beast, crossed the trench, and rushed straight to the bottom of the fence!

During this period of time, the Jurchens drove the infantry troops to the battlefield, and there were at least three or four thousand of them just concentrated outside the main village!

The enemy who crossed the trench swooped down like a huge wave, and everywhere he looked, there were surging human heads. The commander dropped the damaged crossbow in his hand, picked up a spear, and roared angrily: "Knock these dog tartars down!" ”

The infantry warriors stepped forward with spears, and the archers stepped back to catch their breath. Some of the archers did not move with the team, but also took up their spears and stood with the infantry warriors. Countless spears were placed on the fence, flashing with cold light, making this military village like rows of sharp fangs!

Waves of people rushed in and crashed into the fence. For a while, these crazy bullets and tribal armies did not divide into any formations. It is to use all the qiē in his hand to cut and stab this fence, to push, to shake, and I can't wait to tear this fence to pieces!

The drums of dozens of big drums are still shaking the earth, and the strong drummers have changed a batch, sweating profusely shirtless. And before the Jurchen Iron Cavalry stood by the array, many headless corpses had fallen. These corpses were all those who hesitated to go into battle, or were frightened by the heavy casualties of arrows in the village. The Jurchen Iron Rider cut off their heads without hesitation.

These corpses are placed here, which is the whole reason why these auxiliary armies and tribal armies are so crazy to crash into the wall!

Under this Yi county, the Jurchens showed the greatest determination from the beginning, and it seemed that no matter how many casualties they paid, they would take this city. The battle with the Jurchen East Route Army reached a climax at once when the Jurchen East Route Army approached the edge of the Hebei River! (To be continued......)

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