Chapter 52: The Battle of Tongguan (19)
The ladders exploded and scattered in the fireworks, and together with the soldiers on the ladders, they fell to the ground with a bang, and more ladders were erected and vertically headed for the city.
Although these ladders were poorly made, or even tied with wooden segments, as long as they reached the city, a group of golden soldiers swarmed up the simple ladder.
Swords and axes chop, arrows rain down.
Under the pressure of the Song army at the head of the city, a group of golden soldiers either attacked or found a gap in the city defense and climbed up. It's just different from last time, after breaking the first line of defense of the Song army at the head of the city, after the regular forbidden army and the box army, there are also people with spears and iron spears, they are not arranged to the front line to resist the Jin soldiers who ascend the city, but stand behind the forbidden army, and every dozens of people accept the command of a forbidden army, At the sound of an order, hundreds of iron spears poked into the past, and the golden soldiers who went to the city sporadically did not have time to react, and they were picked off the city again.
In this way, the golden soldiers are more and more difficult, there is no equipment to climb the city between the cang, and the bottom to the top, and can not completely suppress the crossbowmen at the head of the city, against the rain of arrows to go to the city, you have to face the forbidden army wearing heavy iron armor, pass this level, but also have to face the spearhead like a forest, a few contacts, the city head has been a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood, heavy casualties.
The situation at the head of the city is like this, Wan Yan Sali made up his face pale, and ordered one after another, only saying: "No pause, no retreat, no retreat, if the soldiers retreat, they will kill the soldiers, if they retreat, they will kill the soldiers, and if they retreat, they will kill the soldiers!" ”
On this expedition, he was the oldest qualified Wanhu, and Zong Bi ordered the generals to listen to his moderation. If he fails, he has the greatest responsibility, and with his determination, even if he kills all the soldiers of Sanmeng'an under him, he will not order to take half a step back.
The smoke was billowing and the war drums were like thunder, and under the strict order of Wanyan and the resignation, the nearly 10,000 soldiers under his command kept rushing to the generals, rushing straight to the city, and did not dare to hesitate or retreat slightly.
Such a strong attack. The damage was huge, and the officers in front felt sorry for the damage of their subordinate soldiers, so they couldn't stop riding horses and rushed to Wan Yan Sa to make up for it. The plea was wailed: "Lord Wanhu. Leave us some manpower, if we continue to attack like this, I'm afraid that even if we take Chang'an, there won't be a few of your henchmen left. ”
Although they burst into tears, they were unmoved, just grim-faced. angrily reprimanded: "Defeating Chang'an is the business of all Jurchens, even if my son-in-law dies, the world is ours!" ”
"I'm afraid that others don't think so!"
The oldest of his subordinates, Meng An, said angrily: "Look at it, except that our Jurchens are still attacking desperately, how did Han Chang's department fight." Procrastination and slackness, refusing to really work hard, we have several opportunities. It's all because they don't want to attack hard, in the city that the Han army is attacking. The Song people had the least pressure, and they sent a lot of soldiers and horses to other areas, this Han Chang was a Han general in the end, in my opinion, he was fundamentally towards the Song Emperor in his heart, and he was unwilling to really contribute. ”
Wanyan Sali knew in his heart that in fact, in addition to his troops and horses who had been attacking fiercely and suffered the most damage, only Wanyan Huonu was the same, and the rest of the people were not so desperate, but were trying to minimize the losses of their subordinates, so only he and Wanyan Huonudi suffered the greatest losses.
It's just that they are also Jurchen Wanhu, and these generals under their command are also slippery and refuse to directly reprimand, and Han Chang is a Han army Wanhu, although he is actually quite hardworking, but he is still accused by the Jurchen generals of being at both ends of the head and mouse, and he refuses to take his efforts seriously.
He weighed it a little in his heart, and knew that he had no way to take the Jurchen Wanhu, so he stopped the generals' words first, just summoned the herald officer, and instructed him: "You have informed Han Chang in the past and asked him to work harder, if you are still slacking off like this, I will definitely report to Marshal Du, and punish him for his crimes in the future!" ”
After that, he let out a sullen breath, and strictly ordered his generals to go to the front to supervise the battle, and they must enter Chang'an in this battle.
Han Chang's Han army is only more than 6,000 people, which is the least among all the departments, since the crossing of Longkou, the forward is him, the queen is him, these two days to prepare to board the city, do the most chores are also his soldiers. Originally, when he was under the tent of Yan Zongbi, because he had followed the Jurchens for a long time, many generals even wore Jurchen robes, spoke fluent Jurchen language, and their combat effectiveness was extremely high, and there were many people and soldiers captured in the army, so there was no need for elite cavalry troops like him to do these hard work. In this way, he was extremely resentful in his heart, and he was extremely dissatisfied with Wanyan and other Jurchen households.
In today's decisive battle, he has the smallest number of people, but the area in charge is very large, and it is near the Song Juncheng Tower, what kind of crossbow. Trebuchets, crossbows, fire oil bombs, 10,000 enemies, and rolling stones all beckoned to the heads of his subordinates, and they were badly wounded and suffered great losses. When the war was unfavorable and the troops retreated to rest, he checked the men and horses, and actually lost more than 1,000 people, the most and worst among the various departments. He went to find those Jurchen Wanhu theories, but he couldn't stand the fact that there were many people on the other side, and he didn't turn his face with him, he just laughed and laughed, and he didn't take his Wanhu seriously, which made him feel even more tight.
Although the pressure was greater in the afternoon siege, and the enemy's methods were more ruthless, he ordered his subordinates to attack desperately.
When Yan Sali's messenger arrived, Han Chang was too close to the city, and a quilt drenched with fire oil floated straight down his head, and the smoke was billowing for a while, although the fire was not big, it was quickly extinguished by the soldiers around him, but Han Chang's hair and beard were burned off a lot, and he looked extremely embarrassed.
The Jurchen officer didn't take him seriously, seeing this Wanhu like this, he actually smiled and didn't hide it, and when Han Chang came back to his senses, he knew that the other party knew the Jurchen language, but he still used half-baked Chinese to explain the words of Wanyan Sa word by word.
Seeing that Han Changtie blushed and didn't speak, the officer didn't take it to heart, just smiled and saluted, while carefully dodging the arrows shot from the city, while hurriedly beating his horse and galloping backwards.
Han Chang hadn't spoken yet, but the leader of his own soldiers was angry, and said angrily: "Dashuai, this Jurchen dog is really not a thing, deliberately giving the order like this, it is intended to humiliate you, if Dashuai just signals, let's drag him off the horse and whip him hard!" ”
Han Chang only didn't speak, first retreated, and only after feeling a little safe, did he say with a gloomy face: "He didn't mean to insult me, he should have realized the meaning of Wanyan and made up for it, so he deliberately acted like this." ”
When he said this, he refused to share his thoughts and thoughts. As a family of Yan generals, he has been a general for generations since his ancestors, and his father has also served as a general of the Liao State and the ten thousand households of the Jin State. As the chief general, if he tells the story of his loss, he is afraid that his reputation and the majesty of the general will be greatly damaged.
On the one hand, he ignored the losses and fought desperately, and on the other hand, he sent people to accuse him of being unfavorable in the war. In this way, no matter whether Chang'an can be broken or not, he can explain to a few marshals, and he can not offend the rest of the Jurchen households.
He understood the other party's plan in his heart, although he was extremely angry, there was no way at this time. Several marshals themselves also have contradictions, this Wanyan Sa Libu and Wanyan Yinshu are both Wanyan Zonghan's henchmen, and they have followed Zong Han many times, and they are not very convinced by Zong Bi. is really Zong Bi's confidant, and there are only two people in front of him. Thinking of this, he shook his head and smiled bitterly, although Wanyan Huonu is the son of Wanyan Lou, she does not have the wisdom of her father at all, although she fights hard at this time, she has no rules, and she has no sense of strangeness in the army, but she is often instigated by Wanyan and others to get along with herself, and she is really stupid.
Originally, I wanted to be perfunctory with these Jurchens for the time being, and in the future, I would see Zong Bi and say something else, who expected the other party to act like this, and the battle was not over yet, so he planned to plot against himself first.
Han Chang sneered, seeing a few Jurchen soldiers ascend to the top of the city, there was a cheer below, and several spears stabbed obliquely, picking those Jurchens down from the city, and after a few muffled sounds, the three armies were depressed.
He made up his mind that he knew how to fight, even if he fought the city, he would have to fight the army in his hands. Since the other party has blamed himself for not attacking the city effectively, it is better to preserve his strength, and he will still have the capital to speak in the future. It would be foolish to attack at this time regardless of casualties.
Determined to make up his mind, he quietly ordered his troops and horses not to attack the city too quickly, the first wave of troops to the city were too heavy in casualties, and they could withdraw first to rest.
As soon as the military order was given, it was a change in appearance, not only those troops with too many wounded soldiers retreated, but the rest of the troops who were attacking the city were also hesitant, and immediately stopped, just mechanically blocking the rain of arrows at the head of the city, dodging the fireworks and stones, and seeing that many soldiers retreated, even those who were not injured began to quietly move their steps and retreat.
"The time has come!"
Yu Yunwen at the head of the city naturally didn't know about the intrigue and conspiracy tricks of the other party's senior generals, but he had a keen sense of smell, and he had already found that after the change of formation at the head of the city, the enemy began to be unable to withstand the pressure, not only could not land in large numbers, but a small group of enemy troops could not hold down the position, and began to show signs of retreat.
The enemy's army is unstable, and it will not come out at this time, but it will wait for when.