Chapter 573: No Return
Guo Yaoshi's victorious army originated from the resentment army of the Tianzuo Emperor of the Liao State, when the Tianzuo Emperor was full of face and raised troops against Liao, and the Liao State raised troops to counterattack, but unfortunately the current Liao army is not as strong as it was at the beginning of the founding of the country, so it has been defeated repeatedly and suffered heavy casualties. Therefore www.biquge.info Emperor Tianzuo ordered the recruitment of the descendants of these dead soldiers and some displaced ordinary people to serve as soldiers, so they formed a resentful army, hoping to use their hatred to eliminate the Jurchens.
It's a pity that these people not only did not become the help of the Liao State to suppress the Jurchens, but instead made the Liao State carry a huge burden, in addition to the massive military salary, the resentful army also often robbed homes and houses, committing chaos, which made the Liao court very headache; Later, they were simply moved from the north to Zhuozhou in the south to resist the attack of the Northern Song army, so as to avoid being attacked by the enemy.
Although the military discipline is loose, but the combat effectiveness is not to be underestimated, has repeatedly defeated the Song army in Zhuozhou, since the Song and Jin sea alliance, Tong Guan led 200,000 troops to the north, the situation in the land of Yanyun changed suddenly, the Jin Dynasty army in the north of the Liao country is victorious, the south of the Song army is huge, has been under the city. Guo Yaoshi, the leader of the Changsheng army, knew that Yanshan Mansion was difficult to defend, so he led his troops to surrender to the Song Dynasty, which directly cut off the last hope of the Liao State.
After some contention between Song and Jin, Zhao Ji listened to Tong Guan's prejudice, and exchanged the rich people and craftsmen of the Han nationality in the six states of Yanyun with the Changsheng army, and regarded this capricious army as the hope of defending the Jin soldiers; Under the support of the Great Song Dynasty, the strength of the Changsheng Army grew rapidly, and soon increased from 10,000 to 50,000 when it first surrendered, and the armor and equipment were replaced with sophisticated weapons provided by the Great Song Dynasty, and its combat effectiveness was also better than that of the vast majority of Song troops except for the Western Army.
The highly favored Chang Shengjun not only did not become loyal to the Great Song Dynasty because of this, but became arrogant and unscrupulous, wantonly oppressing the people in the Yanshan area, making the people miserable, and the Great Song Dynasty not only cared about their strength, but also hoped that they could help the Great Song Dynasty block the Jin soldiers, so they could only let them do so.
However, when the Jin army went south, Wanyan Zongwang led the army south to invade Yanshan Mansion, Zhang Linghui, a senior general of the Changsheng Army, and others surrendered without a fight, and then Guo Yaoshi also led his troops to betray the Song Dynasty, on the other hand, another marshal of the Jin army, Wanyan Zonghan, was blocked in Taiyuan, and the superiority between the two was judged.
This time the soldiers besieged Bianliang City, in fact, Guo Yaoshi had already smelled a trace of ominous premonition, if the Jin soldiers could quickly capture Bianliang and destroy the Southern Song Dynasty, then these victorious troops under him would be useless, and Wanyan Zongwang had never had a good impression of them, and he would strictly deal with the victorious army after the war; And if the war enters a stalemate, they will be forced to act as cannon fodder and consume the strength of the Song army, just like now.
Guo Yaoshi wanted to repeat his old tricks, but the Jin people were not as good as the Liao and Song people, and they had a robbed army, which was enough to dispose of them when the Changsheng army had a slight change, so Guo Yaoshi didn't dare to throw himself into the Great Song Dynasty at all, and could only watch the Changsheng army being consumed, maybe losing these troops, the Jin people saw that he was no longer a threat and could still give him a way out, so after seeing the cannon fodder being cleaned up by the Song army, Guo Yaoshi gritted his teeth and sent the elite of the Changsheng army, Hoping to exchange their lives for themselves for a way out.
Seeing that all the elites of the Chang Sheng Army came out, Wan Yan Zongwang nodded slightly, he had already planned to dispose of these capricious guys after this battle, so as not to let the Jin State repeat the mistakes of the Liao State and the Great Song Dynasty, but now it seems that Guo Yaoshi is worthy of being a hero who can live in the troubled times for so long and can live better and better, the decision at this time is very decisive, Wan Yan Zongwang has already made up his mind, if the Chang Shengjun can achieve its goal this time, then he may be able to consider leaving Guo Yaoshi alive after the war, Introduce him into the court to hang up his current position, and show their generosity a little, so as to attract more Song people to surrender.
"Wait until you see it clearly, the following is the capricious villains of the Chang Shengjun! The imperial court provided them with countless money and grain, and gave them the Yanshan area, but they treacherously voted for the Jinren! Uncle Zhang shouted impassionedly at the head of the city, the Song people have always despised this kind of untrustworthy villain, and soon aroused the Song army's common hatred.
The feather arrows on the head of the city were densely numbered, and Zhang Shuye had already seen that the Chang Sheng army that was about to run on the city wall was far more powerful than the cannon fodder before, so he immediately summoned the supplementary troops who were still resting to go to the city to assist in the defense, and they relied on the defense of the city wall to shoot deadly arrows at the Chang Sheng army behind the battlements; The Divine Arm Archers, who had been resting just now, also began to exert their strength, and the Banzhi guards of the Dragon Crossbow also joined the battle, and they under the command of Zhang Shuye and the Dragon Bow and Arrow Zhi put the target on Jiang Xiao in the Changsheng Army, in addition to the Eight Bull Crossbow and the Trebuchet also aimed at their respective targets.
The form on the battlefield immediately became intense, the degree of tragedy was far more than the previous several times, although the character of the victorious army was unbearable, but the combat effectiveness was indeed not to be underestimated, they attacked the city and immediately divided into several waves, a wave of raising heads and bows and the Song army on the city to shoot, another wave of rapid ladders, grappling hooks on the head of the city and began to climb the city, and a wave of transporters hit the city hammer, pointed wooden donkeys to attack the city gate, as for the rear there are trebuchets to throw a piece of deadly boulders to the city head.
The casualties of the Song army in the city surged, and people continued to die under the arrows and stone bullets of the Changsheng army, Zhao Huan's face turned white again, if it wasn't for Li You staying by his side, maybe he would have abandoned the city and fled.
Uncle Zhang's beard was all over the night, constantly running around the city and shouting loudly, commanding the Song army in the city to launch a counterattack, and the spear-like arrows flew towards the trebuchet of the Changsheng army, and there were constantly soldiers who operated the trebuchet were strung into sugar gourds by this giant arrow, and occasionally the arrows hit the trebuchet, destroying this threatening weapon.
Every time the rolling wood and stones, the yakshas, and the wolf's teeth fell, the victorious army that climbed the city fell down the city wall with a wail, and before they could get up, a scoop of foul-smelling gold juice poured on them, and the hot gold juice not only made their skin open and fleshy, but also brought about a fatal infection, and even if they could go back, it would take them an extra day or two at most.
The combat effectiveness of the Song army at the head of the city was completely beyond the expectations of Guo Yaoshi and Liu Yanzong, looking at the Changsheng army and the Liao army that were constantly declining and dusty, their hearts seemed to be dripping blood, and now they had no return.
Wanyan Zongwang and Wanyan Zonghan in the rear were even more angry, because until this time they still hadn't seen the appearance of the "Heavenly Soldiers". (To be continued.) )