Chapter 81: Fighting

Jing Si, the captain of the Crane Military Academy, was hit by a crossbow arrow, and he only broke the shaft of the arrow outside, gritting his teeth and fighting bloodily. Even Cai Hanqiong himself went into battle in person, and under the escort of the pro-soldier gate, he specialized in solving the elite of the Tang army who still had the strength to resist.

Song Deming didn't expect this group of hundreds of Song troops to be so strong, not only could he not drive them out of the city, but the soldiers he brought over were about to be killed and wounded, fortunately, the soldiers who followed him were all veterans of the Tiande Army, although the combat strength was quite inferior to the Song army, but he still gritted his teeth and fought fiercely, quite ruthless to the last man.

The Tang soldiers he grabbed casually were only two or three hundred soldiers, and after fighting with the Song army for a while, they gradually couldn't support it.

Seeing that the torches of the Song army in the distance were gradually approaching like the tide of Qiantang, and the momentum was fierce, as if the waves were coming, and the bones of the Southern Tang Army at the head of the city were gently swept away, Song Deming gradually despaired in his heart, and secretly thought: "Lord Hu, Deming's life is still with you today." "Regardless of the situation on the battlefield, the Song army with good martial arts is not to be killed.

At this critical moment, hundreds of Tang troops poured out from under the city wall, not to mention joining the battle group, but they were the guards of the Water Gate next to the east gate, and Lu Zhonglin, the eldest son of Lu Zhen, led his own soldiers to come to reinforcements. Lu Zhonglin has his father's brute courage, the Tang army and the Song army who are fighting on the rubble are not very distinguishable at this time, everyone is in poor armor and covered with blood, so he ordered his soldiers to shoot a volley of arrows on the rubble pile first, and then roared, and led people to kill, whether it is the Song soldiers or Tang soldiers, they will kill people when they see them, and they have the posture of killing all the people on the rubble.

Many of the Lu family Lingbo army are Huainan bandits, the origin of the two lakes water thieves, the sky can't control it, the earth can't control it, but they only obeyed Lu Jiang's chivalrous pride, so when the northern army invaded the territory, they didn't go anywhere else, but they took refuge in General Lu, who had also been a prodigal scoundrel and a thief and bandit. But this kind of chaotic war like a street scoundrel is what he is good at, and the charlatans have nothing else, and some are the experience of fighting in a crowd of blood and people. This shareholder has a southern bloodline, inheriting the former Chaobei Mansion and the elite soldiers of the Yue family, and is a fierce pawn that is not inferior to the athletes of the North.

With the addition of the elite of the 500 Lingbo army led by Lu Zhonglin, the Song army, which had been fighting for most of the day, was caught off guard, and the battle on the rubble pile came to a stalemate. The long hours of fighting for their lives have dulled the senses of many soldiers, and in order to survive to the end in this flesh mill, many people have begun to distinguish between friend and foe, and strive to fight before the people around them can slash and kill them.

The indiscriminate killing made the battle-hardened soldiers feel chills, and more and more soldiers had gone crazy in the end, not distinguishing between the enemy and the enemy at all, blindly slashing and chopping at the people around them, even if they fell to the ground, they had to draw cold and give people who were still standing to get a beat. Those who have lost their blades will pick up half of their short swords, spear heads, bow backs, and even clods of rubble and continue to fight. Even the soldiers who fell to the ground with severed hands and feet hugged their opponents' legs and feet and bit through the flesh with their teeth, as if crazy. At this moment, no one dares to hold a torch to recruit people.

And at this moment, a round of golden hooks in the sky is like a cold eye ignoring this round of slaughter in the world.

In previous years, the early spring nights in the south of the Yangtze River were originally filled with the fragrance of earth and new shoots, and the biting chill revealed the sultry moonlight. Tonight, under the dim moonlight, the rubble of the collapsed city wall seemed to turn into a Shura hell.

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When the fierce battle was in full swing at the gap in the city wall, the Song army that had previously broken into the breakthrough was led by the vanguard envoy Cao Han, although they were wearing Song army clothes, but they did not raise the banner, and the Tang army night patrol sergeants along the way dared to come forward to interrogate were quickly resolved. When he didn't rush all the way to a wide road intersection, Cao Han couldn't help but gasp, and he ran head-on into the thousand-day German army led by Wu Yingying to aid Dongcheng.

Hu Ze was reckless and rude, but after being transferred to Jinling, he was very favored by Cai Yu, and there were Wenchen who ridiculed Hu Ze in front of Cai Yu for not knowing Wen Mo, Cai Yu smiled and relieved him and said: "Zhongqing but feel that General Hu is vulgar and ridiculous, but he feels that he is pure and has his own charm." "After the black clouds went out of the city, out of the need to balance the armies, the Tiande army recruited new soldiers from the Zhuyi army, all of them were tall, and even dignified, and the weapons and armor required were the best rations in the treasury, plus Hu Ze's training has always been known for his iron-faced selflessness, and this thousand elites are even more tooth troops, so it looks extremely clean, although there is still a lack of a bloody slaughter for the rest of his life, that is just how much he participated in the battle.

In ancient times, there was a so-called art of looking at qi in military science, which was actually to judge the strength of the enemy army according to its spiritual temperament, equipment, formation, and momentum exuded. Cao Han and his three hundred Song soldiers are all people who have survived a hundred battles, and the Central Plains Forbidden Army has fought all over the world, and has experienced many opponents, although they may not know what the art of looking at qi is, but most of them can judge the strength of the enemy army in front of them at the first time. Seeing that the elite enemy of the brigade was difficult to deal with, the captains did not give Cao Han's order, and immediately mobilized the soldiers to form a defensive circle behind the main general, with spears in front and swords and axes behind, ready to fight to the death with the Tang army rushing over. This is the difference between the army of a hundred battles and the newly established army, the whole army is like a living thing, there is no need for the lord to order everything, and the lord will maintain this tacit understanding with the middle officer, and will not be blamed for making arbitrary claims. The entire army will respond correctly from top to bottom in the first place, based on experience and confidence. In war, the speed and composure of this quarter of an hour can determine life and death.

Wu Yingying saw that there was actually a small group of Song troops before breaking into the palace city, his heart was even more worried about the situation on the east city wall, he knew that the five thousand elites of the Black Cloud Capital had entered the palace city, and it was effortless to eliminate this Song army. He made a decision in his heart for a moment, and ordered: "This group of enemy troops is left to the black clouds to clean up, and we will rush to the aid of Dongcheng Tower." In this way, a thousand Tang troops passed quickly in front of the Song army, which was waiting for the battle, leaving Cao Han, who was stunned, only to feel a cold sweat slowly flowing down his back. Decades later, when Wu Yingying was in power and gathered thousands of honors in one, when he recalled the past, he was still heartbroken and regretted for the decision at this moment. And Cao Han privately called this the luckiest moment of his life.

When Wu Hero arrived at the east city wall, Song Deming and Lu Zhonglin led their soldiers and Song soldiers to fight fiercely at the gap in the collapsed city wall, and the Song army team approached to seize the city under the personal supervision of Cao Bin, but the gap was not big, more than 1,000 soldiers were crowded together to fight and could not be turned, although the Song army was outnumbered, but still could not move forward, seeing that the Tang soldiers were gradually scarce, and it was expected to break the city, Wu Yingying led the 1,000 days of German soldiers and soldiers arrived in time. Seeing that the battle had come to this point, Wu Yingying immediately sent all the swords and gunners in his hands to join the meat grinder of the melee, and ordered the three hundred crossbowmen who came with him to grab the walls that had not collapsed on both sides, and aimed at the rear team of the Song army to release arrows without stopping, and sent fifty heralds to various military camps in the city to find a way to pull the sergeants and soldiers of other battalions to fill the gap.

After arranging all this, Wu Yingying also led two personal soldiers into the battle group. He can also be regarded as a person who has been on the battlefield for a long time, relying on the fact that the combat strength of himself and his two personal soldiers is higher than that of the average Song soldiers, and he will never stay in a certain position in the battlefield for too long, but wander around, specializing in solving those Song soldiers who are stuck in the battle with the Tang army. The day before yesterday, when patrolling the city, most of the Tang soldiers had met with him, knowing that Wu Jiedu personally came to save his life, after the Song army was killed, the Tang soldiers automatically gathered around him to fight hard, so that after a while, the Tang army gathered nearly 100 people around him, and where he killed, the Song soldiers collapsed.

After the Song army entered the city alone, although there were many fierce generals left to defend, but there was no way to convince the public in the status and prestige of the army, the captains of the forbidden army did not belong to each other, and most of them were new young generals after Zhao Kuangyin's cup of wine released the military power, although the veteran Cai Hanqiong was qualified, but it was not possible for him to fight so bravely and ruthlessly to Wu Yingying, so for a while there was no way to take Wu Yingying, the Tang army actually had the upper hand in the battle at the gap, and gradually squeezed the Song army outward, and the two armies became a short front with the Tang army inside and the Song army outside。

After the battle stabilized, Wu Yingying got out of the short-handed encounter, relying on the title of Jiedu envoy and the prestige accumulated by Su Ri in the army, arranged for the strong men of various departments who came one after another to form a reserve behind the battle line, and replaced the tired Tang army on the front line to rest in waves, and the old and weak carried stones and tiles, and built a camp fortification on the top of the rubble pile every second, and pulled hundreds of strong crossbows from other city walls to guard behind the camp.

Outside the city, the western camp of Shengzhou in the Great Song Dynasty was deployed Cao Bin observed the battle at the gap with an unkind face, seeing that the wide and tall city wall of Jinling was really blown open a gap, as if he stretched out a finger again, this strong city would bend his knees, but the Tang army that came from nowhere actually blocked his own death edge outside the city. In order to achieve the suddenness of the siege, the Song army ambushed outside the city did not carry too many siege vehicles, building vehicles and other equipment, and was shot to death outside the city by the crossbowmen one by one, and it is estimated that the number of casualties has exceeded the sum of the month.

This is a battle that can't afford to lose, Cao Bin can't stop cursing in his heart, what is the first fierce general in the army, when the battle is the most intense, Cao Han, where are you?