Chapter 1169: Let them go and die

The Great Song Dynasty in history had many enemies, the Khitan, the Jurchen, and the Mongols were all their enemies.

Therefore, Zhao Hongyu said that the Jurchens outside the city were his enemies, and he was not wrong.

It was precisely because of this reason that Eunuch Xue didn't pay much attention after listening to Zhao Hongyu's words.

In fact, this was all thought out by Zhao Hongyu early on.

"Let's go, let's go up and have a look."

Groups of soldiers shuttled by, their expressions very serious and frightened.

In such an environment, Zhao Hongyu was still indifferent, as if the Jurchens who were attacking outside the city were not taken to heart by him at all.

The Jurchens outside the city are attacking, and there will be a big battle here in a while, isn't this crown prince afraid?

After Eunuch Xue looked at Zhao Hongyu's expression by the light of the fire, he thought secretly in his heart.

The son of a daughter does not sit in the hall, such a dangerous place, but anyone with a little status will not come.

But this crown prince from the Americas has to come to such a place, doesn't he know that the Tao is powerful?

Although Eunuch Xue complained in his heart, he couldn't influence Zhao Hongyu's decision.

Therefore, Eunuch Xue could only be personally risked by Zhao Hongyu.

If something really goes wrong at that time, it has nothing to do with Daming, which Eunuch Xue also said to Zhao Hongyu.

And Zhao Hongyu, of course, also clearly expressed his understanding.

The 100,000 defenders in the capital seem to be a lot, but they are distributed in the long city, which seems to be a drop in the bucket.

At this time, the city wall of Jingshi was much larger than that of another time and space, and it had not undergone all kinds of random demolitions.

For example, in the south of the city, the Ming garrison stationed here is only 3,000 people.

However, the Jurchen army that attacked outside the city was as many as 8,000 people.

So. This battle is definitely fought.

The Jurchens were superior in their numbers and concentrated on attacking a section of the city.

The Ming army won in the high and thick city defense, relying on such a strong city defense, it was not so easy for the woman to attack.

"Everyone's cheering up! There is nothing to be afraid of the Jurchens, the big guys have seen it carefully, they also have a head, a nose and two arms, and they have nothing more than us. Today, the Jurchens are attacking, and if they succeed, none of us will survive......"

On the city wall, the lieutenants stationed in this section of the city defense. The soldiers were cheering up loudly.

It's a pity that he hid behind the battlements with his weapons and watched the soldiers slowly approaching the enemy under the city, but he didn't have the heart to pay attention to this general.

"Oil! Throw wood! “

"Rush!"

The Great War has finally begun.

As the Guishun army approached the city wall, it suddenly changed from slowly approaching to running.

A group of soldiers carrying the ladder quickly came to the city wall and leaned the ladder up.

"Push the ladder out of the way! Hurry up and push away! “

The defenders at the head of the city also began to respond.

Whoosh!

Wow!

Rows of arrows shot down from the city. Because it was dark, the attacking Guishun soldiers could not see clearly, so they had to live in small shields in the hope that they could avoid the arrows at the head of the city.

But even so. There are still a lot of people who have been shot to the ground.

Although the war in the era of cold weapons is not as powerful as the modern battlefield, its bloodiness is not far behind.

"It seems impossible for these Guishun troops to take this wall, they are simply sending them to their deaths." In the rear of the Guishun Army, the chief and deputy commanders who were responsible for suppressing the formation of the white flag looked at the battle in front of them, and the two shook their heads again and again.

They're all salvage fighters. So how could it not be clear about this?

When they were fighting against the Liaodong Army, they did not fail to conquer cities. But when facing those cities in Liaodong, the Jurchens will also feel a headache.

And the city on the other side of Liaodong is obviously not as tall and thick as the Jingshi city.

Moreover, it is also said in the art of war that the siege battle must be at least five to ten times more powerful than the opponent to attack, and less than this number of troops will not succeed at all.

Now outside the city of Jingshi, their Jurchen army is only more than 60,000 people, and it is obviously impossible to conquer the Jingshi garrisoned by 100,000 people.

Moreover, it is impossible for the Jurchens to devote all their forces to siege warfare.

Because they can't afford it.

At this time, the total population of the Jurchens was only about a million people, and this million people also included the old, weak, sick and disabled, women and children.

The number of adult males who can fight is just over 200,000 people.

In today's Houjin Kingdom, the men who can hold knives and guns are basically soldiers.

But even so, they didn't dare to really compete with the Ming Dynasty.

The death of hundreds of thousands of people in the Ming Dynasty will not hurt the muscles and bones, but the death of thousands of people in a great war of the Jurchens will be very distressed.

No way, who made their population small.

If a large number of men are lost, then there is little hope for the Houjin Kingdom.

Now after Jin Guo, the total number of troops is only in the early 220,000s, and this is all the men of their Jurchens.

This number is also very large, and Jurchen males under the age of sixteen and over fifty are counted in it.

The real young and middle-aged people are just more than 100,000 people.

Otherwise, Huang Taiji would not have adopted Fan Wencheng's strategy to capture some Ming people from Liaodong to fill the population of the Houjin Kingdom, and also made something to return to the Shun army.

Therefore, every time the Jurchens fought with the Ming army, they would act very cautiously.

Before the war, they would try to think as carefully as possible to keep their soldiers alive.

Therefore, the old people on the side of Liaodong all know that the Jurchens attach great importance to battle damage.

Whether their generals are excellent or not depends mainly on the wealth gained in each battle and the number of soldiers damaged in battle.

The more wealth the better, of course, and it proves that you are capable.

And the number of battle losses, the less, the better.

This shows that you are an excellent general, and the big guys will fight with you, and your life can be guaranteed to a large extent.

However, the Jurchens were not afraid of war for this reason. Cowardly as a mouse on the battlefield. On the contrary, they dare to fight and kill on the battlefield, and they are extremely fierce.

It is with such a fierce momentum that the Jurchens will rise between the black mountains and white waters in a few decades and begin to compete with the Ming Dynasty.

In addition, the Later Jin kingdom established by the Jurchens had begun to expand their influence to Goryeo and Eastern Mongolia, and the momentum was also very rapid.

The Ming Dynasty, on the other hand, had nothing to do about it.

The Jurchens are not producing, they are getting every year. Basically, they all relied on plundering from the Ming Dynasty.

It can be said that if there is no war, the Jurchens will have nothing to eat and use.

It is precisely for this reason that the Jurchens regard war as a kind of daily life, a very ordinary thing.

Although this 'profession' is very dangerous, if you don't do it well, you will lose your life.

But for the Jurchens, looting and killing to get a better life is also a way to prove themselves.

For such thinking, the Ming Dynasty is incomprehensible.

Later Jin Guo was a true Jurchen. and false Jurchens.

Needless to say, the real Jurchens are the native Manchus of the Later Jin country, and they include all the Jurchen tribes.

The fake Jurchens were after the establishment of the Later Jin State. The Ming, Goryeo, and Mongols who began to plunder from the Nurhachi era.

They were captured and returned to the Later Jin Empire, where they engaged in the most menial work, and most of them became slaves of the powerful in the Later Jin Empire.

After a long time, these people slowly changed their thinking. Eventually, he began to call himself a Jurchen.

There are not a few people who have such a change in thinking and have been arrested in the post-Jin Dynasty.

But no matter how they call themselves Jurchens, they are all lowly in the post-Jin country.

A real full man. They didn't treat them as human beings at all.

It's just that when the policy eased a little, in order to let them work for the Houjin State and reduce the real Manchu war losses, they acquiesced in the fact that they claimed to be Manchus.

But the Manchurians acquiesced, and they admitted it without it.

In private, the Manchurians also have a lot of complaints about these people.

It's just that with the existence of the Guishun Army composed of these people, the number of real Manchu people killed in battle is indeed much less.

After seeing the benefits, the Jurchens faced up to the existence of the Guishun army.

It's just that such a serious face is bought in exchange for human life.

The soldiers of the Guishun Army, who were used as cannon fodder, were assigned the most dangerous tasks or had to deal with the most enemies every time they appeared on the battlefield.

Just like now, in the battle that they knew was impossible, they still had to rush forward frantically and did not dare to retreat. It can be said that the life of the Guishun army is not easy either.

It's just that compared to other Han people living in the Later Jin Kingdom, this kind of life is not bad.

At least they were cannon fodder in the Jurchen army, but when the Jurchens won the battle, they were able to get a little benefit.

Moreover, the harsh military law of the Jurchens made them even more afraid to disobey orders.

Some people say, why don't they flee from Houjin?

In fact, this is also the reason for the existence of the Shun Army.

Their hands were stained with the blood of their compatriots, and it can be said that everyone, no matter what the reason, became evil.

As for this person, once he makes a head, then he will also break the jar.

The soldiers in the Guishun army are basically in this situation.

Hey!

The white flags of the Jurchens in the rear all sneered: "Just let them go to death, and besides, the lives of the Han people are not as expensive as our people." If they don't go up, it's going to be our turn to be full of people, so I think it's better to let them do it. (To be continued......)