Chapter 1357: Difficult to attack and defend

But there are two real reasons for being able to resist until now, one is the elite joining Dongjiang Town on Phi Island on the way, and the other is that there has always been an intermittent import of personnel and materials in Shandong.

Although Dengzhou Mansion has been controlled by the Zhao Army, and although Denglai Town on this side has long been dismissed, there are a large number of soldiers and civilians from Liaodong here, and there are also resolute and enthusiastic people who are willing to rush back to Liaodong to participate in the war, and some people are willing to donate military funds and grain to help the war, and even willing to raise their own ships.

With the acquiescence of turning a blind eye and with the help of "enthusiastic people", the Ming army in Jinzhou has been maintained.

But now, they can't stand it, the previous insistence was because the Jianzhou Jurchens didn't pay attention to this side, but if the Jianzhou Jurchens got serious, they immediately became difficult and difficult.

"Let the people who rotate behind come up! The second wave of Tartars is coming! ”

"Brothers, don't be soft, you are the one who dies if you are soft, you can still live if you kill someone, if you don't kill everyone, you will die!"

Some generals ran in the crowd and shouted and cheered, the city wall of Jinzhou has been broken, the moats under the city wall have been filled, and even the corpses and siege equipment have flooded the bottom of the city wall, but looking at the clothes and hair styles of these corpses, they are all Han people, and in the distance, the Jurchens in Jianzhou are driving a large number of crying Han people and rushing forward.

The terrain here is much wider and flat than Phi Island, so the Jianzhou Jurchens can constantly throw prisoners into the front to die.

"The Tartars are already in a hurry, they have been on the real Tartars these several times, and the brothers can't stop it!" Liu Xingzhi roared with a dirty face and said, after the battle of Dongjiang Town, everyone has a new understanding of the combat power of the Jianzhou Jurchens, as long as they are on the real Tartars, no one can stop the fierce and brave except for the people of Xuzhou.

Liu Xingzuo and Liu Xingxian were brothers, and naturally understood what Liu Xingzhi wanted to say, Liu Xingzuo said in a sullen voice: "There is still a boat now, get on the boat and go to the island, the Tartars will definitely not be able to catch up, the grain and grass here in Jinzhou can't support the army, and we will come back when the Tartars withdraw!" ”

"Useless bastard, do you want to escape? Now you're going to run, what did you do with it! Hearing this, Kong Youde on the side suddenly became furious, and he was about to do it when he came up.

Among the young people, Kong Youde is stronger than others, and his martial arts skills are also outstanding, as soon as he wants to do it, the Liu brothers hurriedly greeted each other, and some people put their hands on the handle of the knife, and the individual subordinates not far away also began to gather.

"Bastard, the enemy is currently in power, do you still want to fight among yourself!" Chen Jisheng shouted angrily.

Chen Jisheng is a deputy general in Dongjiang Town, after coming to Jinzhou, his original status was only slightly higher than that of Zhang Pan, the general soldier of Jinzhou, but some time ago, when he was fighting with the Jianzhou Jurchens, he captured the Han army of the other party.

As a result, when the city was defended and fought fiercely, this group of recruited prisoners of the Han army, who claimed to be repentant and rehabilitated, were on the verge of rebellion, if it wasn't for Chen Jisheng's arrangement, the defense would collapse if it was not done well, but because of the arrangement, it took advantage of it, because of this matter and Chen Jisheng's status in the past, this can be anti-guest and grasp the overall situation.

Regarding the dispute between the Liu brothers and Kong Youde, Zhang Pan had another opinion, and he said very openly: "The current situation is like this, what I don't want to leave is to be loyal to the Ming Dynasty, and what I want to leave is to leave some seeds for our Liao Town, anyway, there is a boat, and I don't force you"

"I can't go, the brothers escaped from Phi Dao, and then fled from this side, then there is still the face to see Mao Shuai, and there is no face to see the dead thousands of villagers!" Chen Jisheng said sharply that when they withdrew from Phi Dao, they already knew that they could not do anything, and they also expected the fate of tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians in Dongjiang Town, Phi Dao.

In the past few days of coming to Jinzhou, every Phi Dao person who escaped can't sleep, and often wakes up at night, either angry or sad and crying, all full of guilt, because of this mentality, no one wants to escape a second time.

"Chen Ye is right, let's withstand it, kill a few more Tartars, worthy of Mao Shuai, worthy of the villagers in Liaodong!" Kong Youde roared angrily, Zhang Pan's subordinates around him also nodded, and the Liu family brothers muttered a few words, but they didn't speak.

"Are they all gathering long hair over here? The Tartars are coming up, go and kill the enemy! Zhang Pan shouted, and everyone dispersed.

The Jianzhou Jurchen soldiers and horses under the city did not drive the Han people to rush regardless of it, they also knew that it was a waste of casualties, and all the defenders at the head of the city could see were shield carts, nailed into an inclined plane with wooden planks and wooden frames, and people pushed forward behind, and some wooden planks were placed on sandbags and quilts.

Under such protection, bows and arrows and wood and stones are difficult to hurt, and you can't judge, the Han people below are the Han people, and the Jianzhou Jurchens are below, and even whether they will mix with each other and pretend, although they rush to the city, they still have to abandon the shield car to attack the city, but without the damage along the road, the siege force will easily gather under the city wall, making it very difficult for the defenders to deal with.

Moreover, if the tug-of-war continues again and again, the wood and stones that can be thrown at the head of the city will be consumed enormously, and firearms and bows and arrows will have to be saved, and sooner or later they will not be able to hold on.

"The Tartars have gone to the port!" Someone shouted at the top of their voices, the defenders all looked indifferently, and then continued to face the enemy, the ships on the port left one after another, every time the battle was fought, the Jianzhou Jurchens would block the port, but every time the battle stopped, they had to retreat, because the room for maneuver near the port dock was too small, and the reinforcements on the ship and the defenders in the city could not resist it at all.

There are docks suitable for mooring near Golden State, but there are more gravel tidal flats, such terrain is very inconvenient for war, and the reinforcements on the ship often rush upwards in chest-deep water, and there is no vital terrain to block and intercept.

"The Tartars are digging a ditch and camping over there again!" Someone shouted again, the reaction of the defenders at the head of the city was also very indifferent, the Tartars naturally knew that this line on the sea was the key to maintaining the defenders of Jinzhou, and they had tried to set up fortifications there several times to cut off, and they were scattered by the sea and the city several times, but the defenders of Jinzhou fought more and more difficult each time, and the casualties paid were getting bigger and bigger.

The defenders of Jinzhou naturally know that the coast is important, but they can't keep the coast and keep Jinzhou City, that is a total annihilation, everyone knows how to choose, although everyone has seen many ships leave the port, but in the last few times, everyone has not expected the people on the ship to come back, the people from Dongjiang Town are all in Jinzhou City, the power on the ship is purely the righteous army, and others help righteously, so you can't ask too much.

The shield cart has already reached the city, there is almost no pause, the Jurchen archers flashed out from the cover of the shield cart, and shot arrows directly at the head of the city, Jinzhou City is not a high wall and deep ditch, and it is not difficult to shoot arrows at the head of the city, although the defenders have subconsciously

Even if you raise your shield and look for cover, you still can't do 100% defense against the rain of arrows shot below, and there is a scream at the head of the city, but the defenders as a whole do not move, but the bows and arrows below stop for a while, and the top immediately begins to counterattack, but the Jianzhou Jurchens also have their own response, and they sent more archers this time.

This perceived pause was a trap, and when the defenders at the head of the city were just about to counterattack, and a dense rain of arrows came up below, this time the screams also became dense, and some people even planted directly from the city.

"The ladder of the Tartars is coming up, go up!" Some people shouted angrily, in the shield workshop, some people began to hold ladders and all kinds of siege equipment to rush up, the defenders at the head of the city also didn't care about any bows and arrows, so they came out and dropped wood and stones and javelins, relying on the height of the city wall, the very primitive weapons also had enough damage, and the Jianzhou Jurchen soldiers who were shooting arrows below moved quickly after retracting the shield car, and were smashed a little slower.

But on the contrary, when the probe came out, the defenders who were not afraid of life and death suffered even more casualties, and a large number of people were shot and planted from the city screaming.

There were roars and angry scoldings, but it was Jinzhou that opened the city gate facing the north, and from inside there were nearly a thousand Ming officials and soldiers rushing out, these officers and soldiers were led by more than 20 strong men wearing heavy armor, and the others were also somewhat covered, holding big swords and spears in their hands, and rushed towards those shield carts.

Seeing this team rushing out, the Jianzhou Jurchens had already prepared, and immediately a team of men and horses rushed up to meet them, and the soldiers in this team were holding heavy blunt weapons in their hands, or sledgehammers and long axes, or the iron bones used by the Jin State at the turn of the Song and Jin dynasties, these weapons were used for armor piercing.

It's just that the armored Ming army at the head leaned close to each other, the spears in their hands were pushed forward, and there were archers and other soldiers behind them, so they pushed over, making it difficult for people to move forward, the Jianzhou Jurchen team shouted angrily, but there was no way to move forward, and they were anxious to throw out the heavy weapons in their hands, but these weapons were either picked up by spears, or dodged, if they really smashed on the armor, they only shook their bodies, and they couldn't stop it at all.

In addition to these, the Jianzhou Jurchen soldiers are still shooting arrows with bows, but in the face of the Ming army wrapped in armor all over their bodies, even the marksmen are embarrassed, when did the Ming army have such armor, the whole person is like an iron bucket, but until now, the Jianzhou Jurchens also understand that the Ming army has more than 20 sets, or brought from Phi Dao, and the next set will be less than one.

There are also archers in the nearly Qianming army that rushed out, such a combination of far and near makes the Jianzhou Jurchens a headache, the battlefield under the city is not so spacious, the large army can not be piled up, the shield cars used as shelter and the remnants of the battle are even more fragmented to divide the battlefield terrain, as a result, the nearly thousand Ming army opened the way with excellent armor, but the shield cars under the city were overturned one by one, without the shield car to cover, those Han people who were forced to attack the city ran first, and the new attached Han army with a weak will to fight also fled, and the Jianzhou Jurchen archers were not strong in melee combat, didn't dare to hold on, this wave of attacks could only retreat.