Chapter 12: The Scorching Winter
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ββ¦β¦ Real person, although the current Jingshi has cleared up and no longer snows, it is still cold and freezing, dripping into ice. The officers and men of the officers and soldiers were frozen all day at the head of the city, but due to the isolation of transportation inside and outside the city, there was a great shortage of firewood and charcoal for heating, and it was also difficult to raise stone bullets for trebuchets...... In addition to demolishing houses and logging trees in Genyue, our army can only demolish people's houses and disturb the people......"
On the dusty "Genyue Demolition Site", Zhang Shuye said to Guo Jing solemnly with a solemn expression of compassion, "...... In the past few days, many soldiers on duty at night have frozen at the head of the city, and some people have clashed with the people when they are demolishing their houses to collect wood. The official was already overwhelmed, so he begged the real people to have mercy and reopen Gen Yue so that the soldiers of the forbidden army could get what they needed...... and at the same time bent down to the end.
- Alas, this upright guy, although he looks quite shrewd, was still fooled by those veterans of the forbidden army.
Wang Qiu and others had no opinion on the forbidden army's wasteful practice of shooting Taihu stones as ammunition -- these stones would not sell for a price in the modern world anyway. But if you watch these soldiers chop up the best wood and make it on fire, it is a little heartbroken and reluctant.
Not to mention that as an old fritter in Bianliang City, Guo Jing could clearly see at a glance the dirty plans of the forbidden officers and soldiers to "continue to make money" in this royal garden - the property in this garden is all the money of Doraemon with a debt of 300 billion yuan, how can it be moved lightly? If you agree in a vague way, wouldn't it be tantamount to putting the rat in Mitun and throwing the weasel into the hen's coop?
Of course, if you refuse directly, it doesn't seem appropriate, and you have to bear the charge of sabotaging the war of resistance...... Fortunately, Wang Qiu is always very good at reverse thinking at some times, and from time to time he can think of using some strange tricks to jump out of the chessboard to break the game in one fell swoop.
ββ¦β¦ Doraemon, can you take out your [weather control device] and use it again? β
Wang Qiu suddenly patted Doraemon on the back and whispered to him.
ββ¦β¦ Well, of course! What are you going to do with it, though? Doraemon replied with a wink.
ββ¦β¦ Of course, it's to solve the difficulties for the frozen forbidden army on the city wall! Your [weather controller] should be able to directly adjust the temperature! Since they have always thought that the weather is too cold, as long as we adjust the temperature to a high level, there is no need to burn things to keep warm? β
ββ¦β¦ That's right! Doraemon suddenly realized," ...... That's a good idea, I'll take it out and give it a try! β
So, after a while, Guo Jing and Guo Daxian, who were secretly notified, gave Zhang Shuye a jaw-dropping reply:
ββ¦β¦ Bachelor Zhang, the officers and soldiers guarding the city are suffering from the cold, and the poor road already knows. But after all, burning a fire to keep warm is a palliative, not a cure. Since there is a shortage of firewood in the city at present, instead of chopping wood and burning fires, it is better to set up altars in poor roads to make the weather hot...... I wonder what you think? β
Next, Uncle Zhang was even more crying and laughing, and the Dharma done by Guo Jing and Guo Daxian was ...... It seems to be working a little too well:
In the afternoon of the same day, the temperature in Kaifeng jumped from minus 18 degrees Celsius to minus 42 degrees Celsius, soaring by as much as 60 degrees Celsius!
-- In the blink of an eye, the bitter winter turned into a scorching heat, the cold wind turned into a heat wave, and the Song army defending the city and the Jin army besieging the city were all stunned.
Then, in this rolling heat wave that reversed the solar terms, thousands of unlucky people fell from heat stroke one by one......
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The cold winter wax moon, the scorching sun, the heat wave turned the sky.
This kind of strange weather, which is ridiculous no matter how you look at it, has now appeared inside and outside the Great Song Dynasty Jingshi Bianliang City.
Even the Song people in Bianliang were already sweating and dizzy -- such a temperature could be used to heat people alive even in the so-called "furnaces" of Chinese cities in later generations, and I am afraid that only Indians could be calm in a heat wave of more than 40 degrees.
As for those Jurchens who grew up between the white mountains and black waters, and have always been tolerant of cold and heat, they feel as if they are in purgatory all of a sudden!
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On the outskirts of Bianliang, the camp of the Jin Army in Qingcheng Walled City.
In the early morning, Wanyan Zongwang, the commander of the East Route Army of Jinguo, woke up from his sleep, only to feel hot and sweaty, and every part of his body was wet.
It was just morning, and the air in the tent was already so hot and humid that I was sweating when I sat still, and I felt stuffy even when I breathed. And the buzzing mosquitoes that came out of nowhere made him extremely irritable all night, and he couldn't sleep restlessly, and now he probably has dark circles under his eyes.
As a Jurchen warrior who has experienced a hundred battles, Wanyan Zongwang never imagined that the sky in November would be so hot!
For example, in Huanglongfu, the hometown on the bank of the Songhua River, it is already the time when the water drips into ice, and the spit will turn into ice beads when it falls to the ground; And just two or three days ago, there was still a snowy northern scenery outside Bianliang City, and even the Yellow River was frozen.
Looking at the appearance of those cowardly Song people shivering with cold on the head of the city, the eyes of every Jurchen warrior were full of contempt and disdain.
But now?
The clear sky is cloudless, the scorching sun hangs overhead, there is not a trace of wind, the sky and the earth are like a huge steamer, the damp air makes it impossible to sweat, and there is a poisonous fire burning in the internal organs...... If it is the Li and Miao people in Lingnan, and the big cannibals riding camels in the desert of the Western Regions, they may be able to move freely under the hot sun. But the Jurchens who were born in the north did not have this ability to adapt.
-- Many Jurchen warriors who had been alive the day before were now unable to get up as soon as the heat wave came.
As for the unlucky ones who died directly from heat stroke and dehydration, there are countless more in the Jin Army.
Even Wanyan Zonghan, the commander of the Western Route Army of the Jin Kingdom, was unlucky, and the injuries he had suffered on the battlefields of Hebei and Hedong had not yet fully healed...... Although the Song doctors who were arrested had already prescribed prescriptions and poured him bowls and bowls of bitter medicine juice, the heat was so hot and dry that no matter how much he ate, he couldn't get better.
It is as difficult to make these men who live in the far north adapt to the sweltering heat of the south as it is for polar bears to immigrate to the tropics.
Due to the fact that the officers and men of the whole army were generally fighting in the streets in the scorching heat, the siege operation of the Jin army had to be suspended -- on the afternoon when the temperature had just soared, the Jin army even organized a siege of the city, and as a result, the besieging troops withstood the unprecedented heat of 60 degrees Celsius, and only ran a few steps before they fainted in the heat of half. And the war horses and the healthy cattle pulling the siege vehicles have also refused to obey the call...... In the end, he could only withdraw his troops.
From then until now, the Jin army has not been able to make any further attacks.
After waking up, Wanyan Zongwang simply washed up, and then looked at a table of sumptuous breakfasts, but he had no appetite, and he felt so hot that he could barely put on clothes, so he had to pour a few large bowls of water bare-chested, and then he felt better.
It's a pity that Wanyan Zongwang's good mood only lasted until the next moment, and someone made him uncomfortable with new bad news.
ββ¦β¦ Reported to His Highness, more than a thousand horses in the army fell ill...... The veterinarians still can't think of a solution......"
-- This sudden terrifying heat wave not only made the Jurchen warriors in the Jin army, the Bohai and Mongolian miscellaneous soldiers, and the newly surrendered Yanyun Han'er all dazed and uncomfortable all day long, but even the sturdy war horses that accompanied them all over the Central Plains also fell ill in large numbers due to the sudden heat...... Contrary to what some people imagine, the war horse is actually a very expensive animal, which is not only easy to eat bad things and suffer from indigestion, but also easy to get sick due to rain and cold. Serving his mount is a difficult task for every knight.
But no matter how good the Jurchens are at raising horses, they are helpless against such a strange weather that soars by 60 degrees Celsius a day.
As a result, the war horses of the Jin army fell ill and died in hundreds of people in the steaming heat...... The Jurchen knights who lost their mounts were grieved.
What's even more terrifying is that many of the corpses scattered on the Bianliang battlefield before could not be buried. If it's freezing like the other day, it's okay for the time being. But now this cold winter has suddenly turned into a scorching heat, and the corpses of people and livestock are quickly rotting and stinking, which soon detonates the epidemic of YanzhΓ²ng. In this midst of the chaos, the Jin army, as an invader, could not raise medicinal materials and doctors at all, and could only watch the situation deteriorate sharply.
Helplessly waved his hand to rebuke the attendants who came to report the war horse epidemic, raised his head and squinted at the bright sunshine outside the tent, Wanyan Zongwang couldn't help but sigh faintly, and his face gradually showed a thoughtful look.
-- The Second Southern Expedition of the Jin Army has been fought so far, and it has been extremely richly captured, but it has also reached the point of being sleepy and lacking horses.
Especially a few days ago, I saw the Song army at the head of the city casting a demon spell, conjuring countless big stones carved into the shape of words and throwing them over to smash people; Recently, the weather has changed drastically, and it has changed from winter to summer, causing the Jin army to fall ill countless times...... Although Wanyan Zongwang had gathered shamans and Buddhist Taoists as much as possible, these gods and gods couldn't come up with any countermeasures to the current drastic changes in heaven and earth.
In such unheard-of hot weather, the slightest movement will make you panting and sweating, and I am afraid that it will be impossible to attack the city again.
In addition, with the rapid spread of various epidemics with this strange high temperature, the fighting spirit and morale of the Jin army quickly fell to the bottom.
It can be seen from this that the battle of Bianliang is afraid that it will not be able to be fought. To be on the safe side, it's better to take it when you see it.
However, at present, Dajin has swept Hedong and Hebei, and sent a partial division to attack Luoyang, cutting off the rescue route of the Song army in Guanxi. Only Bianliang's last kick was enough to kick the Song Dynasty into the abyss of ruin...... And now it's going to come to an abrupt end, which is really a little unwilling!
Moreover, even if you can't capture Bianliang, if you go back empty-handed, you will be laughed at by the women and children in the family as waste. So no matter what, I have to extort a sum of gold and silver silk from the weak and incompetent Great Song Dynasty official again, as the "hard work" of the Jurchen Iron Rider to go south!
However, even if Jin Jun planned to accept it when he saw it, he had to teach Song Jun a heavy lesson. Otherwise, how could it be possible to intimidate the Song people in the city and allow Dajin to squeeze a large amount of money and grain from Bianliang City as the spoils of this southern expedition?
However, the Song people are all shrunk in their thick tortoise shells at the moment, and the Bianliang city wall is so tall and strong, and the current weather is so hot and unbearable, there is a danger of heat stroke and death if you move a little, and the siege war is really difficult to fight......
Wanyan Zongwang thought about it like this, constantly deliberating on the next plan of action, and he didn't know how long the time had passed, but he felt that his whole body was almost soaked in sweat. He drank another bowl of tea and was about to take a nap, when suddenly there was a chaotic commotion from outside the tent.
ββ¦β¦ What the hell is going on? Could it be that there is some kind of mess again!
Wanyan Zongwang scolded and walked out of the tent, followed the source of the noise, looked from the Chinese army camp to Bianliang City, and then was very surprised to see that the East Water Gate, which had been closed these days, suddenly slowly pushed open from the inside!
Seeing that the invincible Jin soldiers had become plague cats under the scorching heat wave, the relatively heat-resistant Song people suddenly had the idea of picking up cheap - the soldiers of the Song Army, who had already held their breath, finally had a chance to relieve their anger after a long time.
As the order to attack was passed down layer by layer, the horn of Bianliang City sounded, the war drums were beating, and the flag was raised! Groups of Great Song forbidden troops poured out of the city gate like a tide, with spears in front, bows and crossbows in the back, infantry in the center, and a small number of cavalry on both wings, forming a huge phalanx.
At the same time, relying on an astonishing number of divine arm bows and bed crossbows, bows and arrows rained in front of the Jin army's camp.
ββ¦β¦ Straight sissy thief! Wanyan Zongwang, who hurried to the front line to supervise the battle, drew his sword and opened a flying feather arrow, and scolded viciously.
-- Due to the haste of the matter, the arrogant Jin soldiers were taken by surprise, and the advance of the Song army once broke into the Jin army camp and slashed many of the Jurchens and Yanyun Han soldiers who could not climb up because of heat stroke.
But the problem is that the situation that the Song army expected to be defeated in one blow did not appear - as a victorious army galloping all over the world, the resistance of the Jin soldiers was unexpectedly tenacious, even in the scorching heat that was difficult to move. Although the sneak attack of the Song army once caused the Jin army to be in chaos, it seemed to be stuck in a quagmire, and in the siege of more and more Jin troops, it became a small piece of their own battle.
Then, the situation on the battlefield became a stalemate, and the two sides continued to fight hard. The soldiers and horses of the Jin army were of course stunned by the scorching sun in hundreds of times, and then trampled alive into flesh. But Song Jun stood on the hot ground with a temperature of more than 40 degrees Celsius, standing on the hot ground where the temperature could bake eggs, and he was also sweating like rain and struggling...... Not to mention that their physique is generally inferior to that of the Jin soldiers, and they are covered with heavy full-body armor.
The most critical problem is that the Jin army besieging the city has 150,000, but the Song army that attacked the city is less than 5,000.
Therefore, over time, although the combat effectiveness of the Jin army had been weakened by Yan zhΓ²ng, it still relied on the superiority of troops to gradually regain the upper hand.
ββ¦β¦ Kill! Kill them all! A lesson for these cowardly Song people! β
Grunting and pouring a large bag of water, and wiping the waterfall sweat flowing on his forehead, Wanyan Zongwang, whose face was flushed with the scorching sun, looked hideously bare-chested, stretched out his hand and raised his war knife, turned to those Jurchen warriors who were panting hot.
ββ¦β¦ We are uncomfortable with this ghost weather, and the Song people are also uncomfortable - Jurchen warriors, continue to kill! Don't let the cowardly Song people underestimate us! β
He was answered by thousands of bloodthirsty and terrifying roars.
ββ¦β¦ Kill!! β