However, before the two sides engaged in a contact battle, Zhou Jun first experienced the terrible feeling of "the end of the world":

The battle formations of the two sides were only about 20 meters apart, but the difference between the lowest and highest two meters from the head of Shouzhou City became an insurmountable gap for the Zhou army for a while: as long as someone dared to show their heads behind the siege vehicle formation, the small trebuchets, ballistas and archers on the head of the city immediately formed a three-dimensional blocking net, and they were injured immediately when they hung up, and they were at least seriously injured when they hit it!

Zhao Kuangyin was not convinced, and tried to show his body with two big shields, but was immediately hit back by stones and crossbow arrows, and after being so angry that he fell back and threw the shield onto the dirt bag, he scolded hatefully: "How big is the head of Shouzhou City, where did so many stones and arrows come from?!" ”

At the head of the city, Lin Feng spent a good time directing the soldiers to transport the stones and arrows that were hoisted from under the city to the trebuchet and ballista, while carefully observing the movements of the enemy camp.

Li Gu personally ran to the siege vehicle formation and observed for a while, knowing that the road is now hard to let the soldiers die, so he had to order the soldiers to continue to take stupid methods, through the earth dragon to continue to raise the ramp, but because of the loss of slope, the effect is not good, so he had to turn to the siege towers on both sides to throw, but because of the distance, he had to use a very small dirt bag to throw, and the progress was quite slow.

Li Gu ordered two small trebuchets to be transferred from the rear, but as soon as he smashed out the two dirt bags, he was tracked to the location by the trebuchet at the head of the city, and came to a continuous fixed-point attack, quickly smashing the two trebuchets.

However, no matter how sharp the attack is, there are times when it relaxes. By the end of the night, the siege ramp had been basically completed, but there was still a two-meter-wide and one-meter-deep tunnel near the head of the city that had not been filled. The morale of the Zhou army was even stronger, the cheers continued, the drums continued, and piles of bonfires were lit, and they took out the momentum of preparing to attack overnight.

At the head of the city, Lin Feng took the binoculars and observed for a long time, but turned his head and said that there would be no official attack by the enemy army tonight, and ordered everyone to take turns to rest.

Sure enough, the Zhou army, who had been shouting for a long time, saw that the city was calm as usual, so he slowly gathered his strength and returned to the camp to rest.

In the early morning of November 27, as soon as the sky was polished, the Zhou army had already finished lining up in the cold and gloomy morning, and the first batch of elite soldiers besieging the city moved to the rear of the siege vehicle formation through the "safe passage". However, when Zhao Kuangyin took the lead in leaning out to observe the situation of the ramp, he found that a thin layer of ice had formed above the ramp, needless to say, this was the water that the Shouzhou defenders poured on at night.

Zhao Kuangyin scolded a few times, pulled two straw ropes from the dirt bag next to him, wrapped them around his boots a few times, and tightened them hard. With a change of hands, he pulled out two more straw ropes and handed them to a young and capable forbidden soldier on the right side next to him, signaling him to wrap his feet around to prevent slipping.

The young forbidden soldier nodded gratefully and replied, "Xie Lu, General Zhao!" He bowed his head and tied his shoes tightly.

Zhao Kuangyin smiled and patted the forbidden army on the shoulder and asked, "What do you call a brother?" ”

"Don't dare, go back to General Zhao. The small one's name is Yang Guangyi, a native of Tokyo. The janissary replied, a little flattered.

"You and my brother have the same name, both are called Guangyi! However, he is still at the age of mischief when he goes to the house to uncover the tiles! Zhao Kuangyin scolded slightly, and then smiled at several forbidden soldiers around him with a smile, "A few of us can attack the city together, and we are already brothers in life and death!" Where are there any generals here, if you don't dislike it in the future, you can call me Brother Zhao, Brother Zhao, or call me Kuang Yin!

"Xie Lu, General Zhao!" Including Yang Guangyi, several forbidden soldiers replied with a laugh in unison.

Zhao Kuangyin couldn't help but shake his head and smile, seeing that everyone had already wrapped their feet, straightened up, and commanded softly: "Everyone remember!" Always remember to protect yourself with a big shield, and once the attack doesn't go well, retreat, don't fight hard for nothing! ”

Yang Guangyi and the others nodded in unison.

Zhao Kuangyin looked at the five forbidden soldiers around him again, carried a shield in his left hand, and grabbed a handle of the heavy wooden board behind him with his right hand, and roared softly: "Brothers, let's go!" We will be the first heroes to rush to the top of the city! ”

The six people worked together to lift the more than 200 pounds of "work" shaped plank.

The moment this strange-shaped plank rose from above the siege vehicle array, it immediately became the target of the key attack, but the wet plank, which was nearly thirty centimeters thick, successfully blocked the fierce attacks from all directions of the city.

Although stone bullets and crossbow arrows rained down, Zhao Kuangyin and the six people shouted in a low voice, slowly but firmly pushing the "Gong" board forward.

It's close! It's close!

Zhao Kuangyin saw through a small hole in the wooden board that the city wall was already near, and immediately shouted loudly: "Ready-release!" Protect! ”

It was already smashed full of pit marks, and the "work" board that pierced the whole body with arrows and crossbows immediately fell heavily, and the one on top was successfully placed on the pheasant, making a loud noise, just filling the pit at the head of the city.

At the moment when the word "work" board just fell, Zhao Kuangyin's big shield protected his body, rushed up along the inclined wooden board, and rushed straight to the head of the city.

With the loud sound of "bang", the forward team composed of large shields behind the ramp also accelerated suddenly, rushing towards the city.

Hand-to-hand combat has begun!

Zhao Kuangyin was like a wolf and a tiger, and he threw himself into the defenders of Shouzhou, the shield collided, and the spears in front of him were knocked away one by one, and the steel knife that had just been drawn out stabbed in the air, but it was blocked one after another.

Zhao Kuangyin was in a certain shape, and he stood back to back with Yang Guangyi, who was close behind, and only then did he quickly observe the situation in front of him, and found that the head of Shouzhou City was not at all as he imagined, and there was no taste of panic at all: on the side opposite the ramp, there were two rows of crossbowmen on the outer city wall, followed by a two-person battle team to protect them, and a three-person battle team facing him. In the north and south directions, there are spear arrays, arrow arrays, knife and axe arrays, and the last few rows are strong men with unusual heights, with only a pair of eyes left on the body, and the thick handle of the knife neatly exposed on the right shoulder.

Zhao Kuangyin felt a chill in his heart, no wonder it was so easy for him to go to the city, it turned out that Lin Feng had planned to slaughter his own elite in the city!

Although he realized it, the fierce offensive that came to Zhao Kuangyin didn't even have a chance to give a warning!

Only one of them looked at each other, and the remaining four forbidden soldiers had all been settled, and their bodies were kicked and thrown under the pheasants on the outer city wall by the combat team against them, and then thrown under the city by the other Shouzhou troops.

The other Zhou troops rushed forward and were immediately separated by these battle groups, these people cooperated very tacitly, and those Zhou army masters had no chance to block the third knife at all, so they were chopped down.

What makes Zhao Kuangyin even more chilling is that these combat teams as a whole are still slowly rotating to the north at the same time, and the personnel between the adjacent teams will suddenly be misplaced and filled, and they will sneak attack those Zhou Jun masters who are engrossed in fighting against the team in front of them, and those brothers will be slashed by two or three steel knives at the same time for a moment, and they will fall to the ground immediately.

"Ahh Yang Guangyi, who was behind him, let out a painful cry, and his back next to Zhao Kuangyin was loosened and immediately closer.

"Withdraw!" Zhao Kuangyin roared loudly, the sword and shield danced wildly at the same time, knocked away several knives, and pushed Yang Guangyi to move in the direction of the ramp with his back force, and several Zhou army masters who were still fighting immediately converged on the ramp.

Those Shouzhou battle squads were still in a good position, quickly approaching, and constantly cutting down those retreating Zhou army masters. However, with a shout of "attack the No. 3 part" in the direction of the city, the direction of those Shouzhou masters was no longer the neck, chest, belly and other vital parts, but all ran to the arms, thighs and other places.

"A1, A2 three-wheeled arrows; Stop for three seconds, B1 and B2 are a round of crossbows; Stop for three seconds, C3 No. 7 stone! Another series of strange shouts sounded, and this time, Zhao Kuangyin heard that it was Lin Feng's voice, and couldn't help but glance in the direction of the city tower.

At this time, Yang Guangyi behind him snorted coldly again, stumbled under his feet, and his body was soft again.

Zhao Kuangyin's eyes only glanced at a group of figures in the direction of the city tower, and he didn't have time to take a closer look, the shield shook slightly and knocked the arrows flying away, and with a flick of the knife in his right hand, Yang Guangyi was picked up, and sent directly to the ramp outside the city, and joined together with the other two Zhou Jun masters on the left, covering several injured brothers to rush onto the pheasant.

A good hand of the Zhou army stood on the pheasant, and was about to run down, a cold arrow flew over, nailed to his scalp that was inadvertently exposed on the edge of the shield, this good hand roared bitterly, and as soon as his right hand was released, the shield fell, and immediately several arrows jumped in, nailed him to his face and neck, and nailed his roar of pain to break!

Zhao Kuangyin covered the last three good hands to board the pheasant, and then pulled a brother with a thigh injury with his right hand, and the person shrank behind the shield and retreated backwards.

Arrow feathers, crossbow arrows, and stone bullets chased all the way, nailing Zhou Jun in Zhao Kuangyin's right hand, and a tricky stone bullet slipped on the Zhou Jun and hit Zhao Kuangyin's left shoulder.

Zhao Kuangyin snorted coldly, his body was faster, he jumped behind the siege vehicle, pulled back his right hand to take a look, only to find that the Zhou army was already dead, so he had to put the brother down hatefully, and gently closed his round eyes with his right hand.

Standing up covering the wound on his left shoulder, Zhao Kuangyin found that the first batch of five hundred siege warriors in front of him only came back, and only six of them were injured by the forbidden army, Yang Guangyi's right arm and left leg were stabbed, and his head was covered with sweat.

Zhao Kuangyin endured the pain and hugged his fists: "This is Yang Guangyi, the brother of the forbidden army, under Zhao Kuangyin, I don't know how many brothers in life and death have their surnames?" ”

A black and black strong man was the first to say in a rough manner: "Li Jixun, a native of Yuancheng (now Damingdong, Hebei), is the commander of the former division of the palace. ”

"Shi Shouxin, Kaifeng Junyi people, the forbidden army guards Du Yuhou." A slightly thin white-faced young man replied with a fist.

"Wang Xianqi, a native of Luoyang, the cavalry in front of the palace!" Another brawny man with a wound in the thigh replied.

"Han Chongyun, a native of Wu'an, Cizhou, is the same as Brother Wang, the cavalry in front of the palace!" A young man with a face like a heavy jujube said, but his voice was very sharp.

"Liu Guangyi, a native of Tokyo, the commander of the right wing of the Guards Division!" A man with blood on his face said in a dumb voice, wiped it with his hand, smeared the blood all over his face, and said with hatred in the direction of the city.

Zhao Kuangyin clenched his fists again, and before he could speak, a herald ran over and shouted loudly: "General Zhao, Li Shuai has a life, you wait for your injuries to be recuperated!" ”

Zhao Kuangyin glanced at the other brothers who were preparing to attack in the whole team, holding Yang Guangyi, who was seriously injured, and walked back slowly. Several wounded warriors also shook their heads helplessly and followed.

When passing by Shuaitai, Zhao Kuangyin hesitated slightly, and wanted to go over and tell the emperor Guo Wei and the commander Li Gu what he heard in the city, but when he thought of those strange numbers and orders that he didn't fully remember, Zhao Kuangyin really couldn't make a decision.

At this time, Yang Guangyi's body was soft again, and he hummed in his mouth, Zhao Kuangyin had to endure the pain and carry him towards the camp.

"Zhao Kuangyin, Yang Guangyi, Shi Shouxin, Li Jixun, Wang Xianqi, Han Chongyun, Liu Guangyi (Liu Tingrang), these seven heroic people who met in Shouzhou City, plus Liu Qingyi, Liu Shouzhong, and Wang Zhengzhong, who Zhao Kuangyin had known for a long time, are the very famous 'Ten Brothers of Taizu Yishe' in the future, and it is also the backbone of Zhao Kuangyin's mutiny in the future and Zhou Jiansong!

These ten people were originally put into the privy envoy Guo Wei as a subordinate in the Han Dynasty, and after Guo Wei ascended the throne, they were all just low-level officers or ordinary soldiers, and their status was roughly the same. However, according to Bensuo's inference, these people were injured and recuperated at the same time during the Shouzhou War, which may be the most critical time for the 'Ten Brothers of the Righteous Society' to worship, and the Shouzhou War must have played a non-negligible role in this matter! ”

——Excerpt from "The History of the Great Song Dynasty" by Anonymous