After listening to Geng Xun's report, Liu Qi was overjoyed and immediately made his third arrangement:

Liu Qi sent people to take out a large amount of poison prepared in advance, and scattered it in the upper reaches of the Yinghe River and in the grass outside the city overnight, and issued a military order: "Although you die of thirst, do not drink the water in the river, and if you violate the order, your family will be destroyed."

In addition, Liu Qi ordered Huotoujun to cook a sufficient amount of heatstroke relief decoction and steamed a large number of soybeans.

It was already mid-June, and in the middle of summer, it was necessary to cook a decoction to relieve the heat; But what is the purpose of steaming soybeans in large quantities?

Everyone was inexplicable, and only after the soybeans were ripe, poured into thousands of bamboo tubes, distributed to the soldiers, and explained the usage, everyone suddenly realized.

On June 11, the tenth year of Shaoxing in the Southern Song Dynasty, the famous Battle of Shunchang began.

On this day, the weather was clear and cloudless, the sun was hanging in the sky early, and the view was very good. Wanyan Wushu was very satisfied with this, because he clearly saw the city defense equipment on the head of Shunchang City.

Wanyan Wushu almost laughed.

What kind of city is this? Not only are there no conventional city defense equipment, but even the city walls are pitifully short, and there are even many places where things such as window frames and door panels removed from private houses are used to piece together and barely play the role of protective gear.

But it's hard to blame Liu Qi, with only seven days of hard work, what can he do? Even if there are deep mountains nearby, and you go to the old forest to cut big logs, you don't have time to transport them back and process them into war weapons.

At this time, Liu Qi made the last pre-battle preparations: he placed a complete set of armor on the southern city wall, and asked the soldiers to touch its temperature from time to time

Jin Bing set off very early.

When I came to the Yinghe River, I saw that the Han people had really built five pontoon bridges. Although the bridge deck is a little narrow. And the weight is not too much. However, the Nanren are already a little thin, and these pontoons are barely usable.

As a result, the 130,000 elite soldiers of the Jin Kingdom carefully crossed the Yinghe River along the five light pontoon bridges built by the enemy for free, preparing to attack the city.

You know, where in the world will there be a real free lunch.

The result of Wanyan Wushu's greed for small and cheap is that Jin Bing got up early in the morning, but he caught up with a night market.

When the 130,000 golden soldiers crossed the Yinghe River by these five pontoon bridges. It was about ten o'clock in the morning.

It took another half an hour to reorganize the lineup, and at a few moments before noon, the Jin soldiers finally began to attack.

130,000 golden soldiers attacking the city at the same time, this kind of scene, how spectacular! Even when the tide of the Qiantang River is at its strongest, it is nothing more than that.

With 20,000 people holding on to the lonely city, what is the way to resist the attacks of the Jin soldiers wave after wave?

No one is optimistic about this battle to defend the city, except for Liu Qi himself.

However, the development of things was somewhat unexpected, and the Song army in Shunchang City actually withstood the first few rounds of Jin soldiers' charges. Stay up until the end of the day, that is, when Jin Bing eats lunch.

Helpless. The Jin soldiers had no choice but to withdraw the troops, the soldiers ate and drank water, and the war horses ate grass and drank water.

Someone once commented on the battle within an hour: the initial attack of the Jin soldiers was blocked because of the lack of large-scale siege equipment, and the reason why these weapons were lacking was because Wanyan Wushu was bewitched by Cao Cheng, and second, because the five pontoon bridges that Liu Qi gave to the Jin soldiers lacked load-bearing and could not be transported.

No wonder the ancients always said: Don't be greedy if you're cheap!

Of course, the obstruction of the Jin soldiers is most directly related to the stubborn resistance of Shunchang City. Previously, Liu Qi mobilized so many women's families to participate in sharpening knives and feeding horses, and it turned out that he wanted to start a national war.

But in this extremely dangerous situation, Liu Qi still had to hide his strength, he always left the most elite 5,000 soldiers on the second line, and said that he would not send anything.

Whether this is the traditional style of play of the Northwest Army, this question should not be answered.

Because people still vaguely remember that it was this trick that Wu Jue used in the monk a few years ago, and he made the Yan Wushu miserable; After that, Wu Phosphorus used it again before the Immortal Pass, and made the Yan Wushu want to die; Now it's Liu Qi's turn to come again?

The process of the golden soldiers eating lunch collectively is the process of taking poison collectively.

In less than a stick of incense, the Jin soldiers and the war horses they rode were all poisoned in a large area. The generals on the city wall saw it clearly, and one by one they rubbed their hands and asked Liu Qi when he would fight.

Liu Qi was not in a hurry, but just asked his own soldiers: "Is the armor hot?" ”

The soldier quickly ran back and replied, "It's not too hot yet. ”

Liu Qi shook his head, stopped the generals' invitation to fight, and continued to watch the battle at the head of the city.

The generals pondered for a while before they understood Liu Qi's intentions.

In the Song Dynasty, according to the records in the "General Essentials of the Wujing", the Buren armor consisted of 1,825 armor leaves, with a total weight of 29 kilograms, while the armor of the Jin cavalry was heavier.

Imagine what would become of a person wearing a 30-kilogram armor wrapped tightly in the sun for half a day in the middle of summer in the sixth month of the lunar calendar?

Not to mention fighting, even ordinary walking has become extremely difficult.

After another stick of incense, the soldiers reported to Liu Qi: "The armor on the wall is too hot to handle!" ”

Under the same sky, the same sun, the armor on my wall is already very hot, and the armor on your golden soldiers shouldn't be much cooler!

So, Liu Qi ordered the general Liu Ni to lead 5,000 elite soldiers out of the south gate and kill in the direction of Wanyan Wushu

On that day, Wanyan Wushu, like every Jurchen soldier present, was dizzy under the poisonous sun of the June summer, and took a sauna in the hot armor.

When the gates of Shunchang City suddenly opened, and the five thousand Song army infantry rushed towards him, Wanyan Wushu did not feel any sense of crisis at all, because in front of him were the most elite troops of the Jin Kingdom—on both sides were kidnapping horses, and in the middle was Tiefutu.

Kidnapping horses and Tiefutu, these two types of troops represent the highest level of force in the Jin Kingdom. Since the Jurchens raised their armies. The Liao and Song Dynasty have always maintained a complete victory record on the battlefield.

Of course. This also requires the exclusion of certain special terrains, such as in front of the abominable Great Dispersal Pass.

Therefore, it is completely understandable that Wanyan Wushu is full of security.

According to the "History of the Song Dynasty? According to the biography of Liu Qi, as soon as the two sides fought, Liu Ni ordered the soldiers to cut off the bamboo tubes that had been prepared and sprinkle them on the ground along with the ripe soybeans inside. Jin Bing's horses were so hungry that they could smell the beans and bow their heads and chew them. And "most of them are rolled by bamboo tubes, and they can't be grounded under their feet."

So the Song army waved a big sword and a heavy axe, and every time a horse was broken, the golden soldiers were all servants; For every one person who is slashed, several people fall together.

In other words, the soybeans have abducted the horses, and the bamboo tube has leveled the Tiefutu.

Liu Qi's whimsical ideas make people sigh lightly!

Although the losses were heavy, the Jin soldiers were many after all, and the formation was not completely scattered. Fighting until Shen Shi, Jin Bing's physical strength was difficult to support. Fang slowly retreated.

Wanyan Wushu's on-the-spot command ability is really not blown.

But something strange happened again: instead of chasing, the Song army, which had the upper hand, surrounded itself in a circle with a horse rejection stake and sat on the ground to rest.

Just when the Jin soldiers were looking at each other, not knowing what the Song army was going to do, the city of Shunchang suddenly beat drums and opened the city gates.

The Jin soldiers were taken aback, thinking that there was another large army in the city, and hurriedly formed a formation to deal with the charge of the Song army.

Who knew that there were only a few hundred soldiers who came out of the city, with tents and baskets, to give Song Jun Song food and summer soup to the Song army in the horse rejection pile.

The soldiers of the Song army sat on the ground and ate, "Youyou leisure as usual", and ate and drank in large gulps.

Faced with this kind of scene, the vast number of Jurchen warriors were simply stunned.

If you fight a war, you can fight a war, why do you want to bully people like this?

In this environment, all the Jin soldiers breathed a sigh of relief.

You see, Song Jun has begun to eat. Since it's a meal, why don't you eat for an hour! It is recorded in traditional Chinese medicine that chewing slowly is good for health. In that case, we should also take a break, right?

Whether the above is Jin Bing's mental activity, no one knows. However, watching the Song soldiers eating and smelling the aroma of their food, no Jin soldier was able to maintain the vigilance, attention, and physical strength that he should have during the war.

To put it simply, the golden soldiers collapsed.

Friends who have played endurance sports such as triathlon or marathons must know how important that breath is when playing these endurance events.

As long as that breath can still be supported, no matter how far away from the goal, the whole person still has the motivation to continue to move forward; On the contrary, when that breath is vented and there is a thought of giving up in my heart, even if I am very close to the goal, it is difficult to move forward

The expression on Jin Bing's face and the various body language on his body were clearly seen by Liu Qi in Shunchang City. To be honest, Liu Qi spent so much effort and took so much risk, in fact, just for this moment.

Liu Qi took the lead, brandishing the bright silver spear in his hand, leading all the soldiers of the Bazi Army who could still walk, shouting loudly while rushing towards Wanyan Wushu.

Seeing Liu Qi's momentum and appearance when he left the city, Wanyan Wushu suddenly recalled the Liu Laohu he met in the Battle of Fuping.

Could it be that this Liu Qi and that Liu Laohu are the same person?

In the blink of an eye, a wide road had appeared in front of Liu Qi, which was particularly conspicuous in the crowded crowd.

Of course, in front of Liu Qi, there were six neat marksmanship, and there were still wisps of blood interspersed.

Wanyan Wushu recognized that this was the standard gun technique of the Song Dynasty: "Riding the Dragon and Dancing Flowers, the Great Wind and Hot Wheels"

For this move, Wanyan Wushu met Zhang Shuye's son Zhang Zibo once under Bianliang City; I saw Yue Fei use it once in Jing'an Town, Jiankang Mansion; I saw Liu Qi use it once in Fuping.

Therefore, without thinking about it, he turned the horse's head and ran away after turning the horse's head...... (To be continued......)

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