Chapter 894, a bloody battle under the city
The Ming cavalry launched several more rounds of assaults, all of which were defeated and retreated under the intensive artillery fire and arrows of the Khitan army. After noon, the sound of golden bells sounded in the Ming army, and hundreds of thousands of Ming troops slowly retreated. The Khitan soldiers at the head of the city couldn't help but cheer loudly when they saw the Ming army retreating. The good news immediately spread throughout the city, and the gentry and nobles couldn't help but be greatly excited. Led by Xiao Jinglun, the courtiers and nobles of all families took out hundreds of thousands of silver taels of generals, and released a reward, taking the head of a Ming soldier and rewarding ten taels of silver, cutting off the head of a Ming officer, rewarding fifty taels of silver, if it is cut off the head of a Ming general, it is a reward of one thousand taels of silver. As soon as this reward was released, the morale of the Khitan army was greatly boosted, and everyone was gearing up to compete with the Ming army.
Maybe it was the Ming army in the morning when it suffered a big loss from the Khitan army's artillery fire, so although there was no way to take the capital, but the Khitan army sentry outside the city was angry, one afternoon knew that at night, the Ming war cavalry attacked from all sides, strangled the Khitan army sentry outside the city, the Khitan army sentry horse suffered heavy casualties, and the remaining sentry horses fled back to the city. Outside the city gradually fell silent.
The Khitan army was worried that the Ming army would attack at night, so they all defended it on the city wall, and did not dare to slack off.
Before you know it, the night passes, the sun peeks out from the far reaches of the sky, the darkness quickly recedes, and the earth brightens.
One of the sentries woke up in a daze, and when he looked up, he seemed to see countless huge objects lined up not very far from the city walls. The sentry was surprised, rubbed his eyes, and continued to look, and saw that the huge objects lined up not far from the city were all swarthy cannons! The thick cannon muzzle is facing the wall on this side! The sentry was horrified and hurried to wake up the gong! The loud noise of Dangdang instantly broke the tranquility of the early morning! The soldiers of the Khitan army have woken up from their sleep!
At this moment, a loud rumbling sound suddenly came from outside the city, which was earth-shattering! Almost at the same time, the three walls of the east, west and south seemed to have been suddenly attacked by a storm, the stones were swarming, the flesh and blood were flying, the fire oil on the walls was smashed by the whistling cannonballs, and the cannons on the forts were torn apart under the onslaught of the opponent's artillery fire.
Sosuke hurried up to the city wall and asked urgently, "What's the matter?" What's wrong? When even an officer rushed over and pointed out of the city, he shouted: "The enemy has suddenly launched a surprise artillery attack!" ”
Ye Yu Zongfu looked out of the city, and saw that he didn't know when, the Ming army actually pushed their cannons not far outside the city! At this moment, the Daming cannon outside the city fired another salvo, and the whistling cannonballs swooped down on a fort not far from the location of Ye Yu Sosuke! In an instant, the earth shook and the wreckage flew wildly, and the cannons on that one fort were swept away almost instantly!
Seeing this, he couldn't help but be horrified, and hurriedly ordered all the batteries to open fire.
The artillery of the Khitan army withstood the fierce artillery fire of the Ming Dynasty and began to return fire with the artillery that had not yet been destroyed. The projectiles flew outside the city one after another and fell into the Ming artillery position, stirring up a lot of dust, but the damage to the Ming artillery was very limited. The fierce artillery fire of the Ming Dynasty continued, and the artillery of the Khitan army was suppressed by the Ming artillery fire from the beginning, and the losses were heavy, and even one-tenth of yesterday's power could not be exerted. Until this moment, the Khitans finally understood the intention of the Ming army's action yesterday. The Ming cavalry assault was basically to let the Khitans expose the location of the battery, and the later action of strangling the sentry cavalry was to cover the actions of the artillery team. The reason why the cannons of the Ming Dynasty were able to be deployed not far from the city without realizing it was because the sentry cavalry of the Khitan army was wiped out and driven away by the Ming cavalry yesterday.
The heavy artillery fire of the Ming Dynasty destroyed most of the artillery positions of the Khitan army, and then concentrated fire on the city wall. All of a sudden, the sky was shocked, the city wall shook violently, the wall was peeled off, the Khitan soldiers hurriedly retreated from the city wall to hide, and the retreating Khitan soldiers were beaten by the whistling cannonballs.
The bureaucrats and aristocrats in the city felt that today's movement seemed to be completely different from yesterday's, and they couldn't help but get nervous.
The Ming Dynasty's giant python cannon was extremely powerful, and under the bombardment of concentrated fire, it didn't take long for a city wall to be unable to support it, and the whole collapsed. All of a sudden, the rumbling sound was incessant, and the dust was surging and flying.
The Ming artillery fire then turned and concentrated fire on a wall on the other side of the city gate, and at the same time, a 10,000-strong Ming infantry army had already poured towards the collapsed wall.
The sentries who remained on the city wall to observe immediately reported the movements of the Ming army. Ye Yu Zongfu made a high report, only felt that the situation was serious, and did not care about the fierce fire of the enemy's artillery, so he urgently ordered one soldier to go to the wall, and at the same time ordered another army to rush to the gap to line up and wait for battle, and then ordered another army and horse to hurry to seal the gap.
Tens of thousands of Khitan soldiers rushed to the city walls on both sides of the gap, bending their bows and arrows to block the rushing Ming army. The arrows flew away like locusts, and the Ming soldiers fell to the ground one after another. Immediately, the Ming soldiers with big shields rushed forward and used the big shields to form a shield curtain to cover all the soldiers. Although the general's arrows flew all over the sky, they all hit the shield, crackling into a piece, as if a torrential rain hit banana leaves, but although the Khitan army's arrow rain was violent, it could not cause any damage to the Ming army hiding behind the shield.
The soldiers of the Khitan army pushed a bed crossbow to the edge of the wall and aimed at the approaching Ming army under the cover of the shield curtain. With the sound of a huge bowstring, hundreds of huge guns and arrows roared out of the city! With a loud bang, a huge spear and arrow slammed into the shields that were next to each other and shot in, piercing three Ming soldiers in the instant! Other spears and arrows also made contributions, and in an instant, the tight shield curtain was pierced by these nearly 100 huge spears and arrows! The Ming army suffered heavy casualties!
However, the Ming army quickly adjusted to make up for the loopholes caused by guns and arrows, and continued to use the shield curtain as a cover to approach the city wall.
The Khitan soldiers hurriedly turned the turntable and reloaded the arrows, preparing to attack again.
At this moment, a sharp whistling sound suddenly reached the ears of every Khitan soldier. The soldiers of the Khitan army were shocked, and almost at the same time, a dense rain of bullets and thunder crashed heavily into this piece of city wall! When he landed, it was like a storm crashing on the shore, the sky was shocked, the bed crossbow was smashed to pieces by the huge force, and the human body was lifted into the air by this huge force! The Ming artillery bombarded the city head alternately with three firing sections, and the Khitan soldiers on the city head suffered heavy casualties and fled towards the city in a hurry.
The Ming attack troops took the opportunity to rush to the moat in front of the breach, and quickly began to operate, pouring mud, sand and gravel into the river.
When Sosuke received the report, he was very anxious, and immediately ordered his 5,000 cavalry to attack and counterattack the enemy.
The drums of war in the city were loud, and at the same time, the city gate was opened, and 5,000 Khitan army cavalry poured into the city gate to try to attack the Ming army, which was filling the river.
The Ming army, which was filling the river, immediately stopped the operation, searched together, and formed a circular defensive formation with a shield as the outer protection.
Five thousand Khitan army cavalry fired arrows at the Ming army with riding and archery skills, and the arrows kept flying, but they were all blocked by a strict shield curtain!
The Khitan army cavalry rushed to the front of the Ming army's formation, and immediately separated the two sides and passed around the Ming army's formation. At this moment, the Ming army behind the shield suddenly stabbed out a spear, and the Khitan army cavalry that was galloping close to the Ming army was stabbed down a lot! Immediately, the Ming army array rotated and moved, and the huge military array composed of spears and shields immediately turned into a killing machine that harvested life.
Faced with this situation, the Khitan army cavalry couldn't help but have a crazy attack, and they all waved their scimitars and howled and rushed up, trying to break away from the Ming army formation! However, such blood and courage are useless at all, and the Khitan army cavalry that keeps rushing up keeps falling under the Ming soldiers, and the corpses are full of blood and heavy casualties!
At this moment, the Ming war cavalry came out of the battle, went straight to the rear of the Khitan army war horse, and attacked fiercely, killing the Khitan army war horsemen on their backs in an instant! The Khitan army cavalry turned over and fought, but they couldn't help but stifle the offensive of the Ming cavalry, and they were rushed to pieces by the other party in a bloody battle! Seeing that there was nothing to be done, the Khitan army cavalry quickly fled into the city. The Ming cavalry tried to take the opportunity to pour into the city gate, but the captain of the Khitan army at the city gate was quick and closed the city gate without waiting for all his soldiers and horses to come in, which made the Ming war cavalry fail to succeed.
The Ming cavalry retreated, and the Ming infantry continued to fill the river.
Seeing the successive defeats of the various armies, Sosuke was very anxious. Worried about the loss of the city's defenses, he hurriedly sent someone to report to Yehu Hugo and ask for support.
The urgent report of Ye Yu Zongfu reached the hands of Ye Hu Hugo, and before that, the urgent report of Xiao Lou and Xiao Zonghan had already reached the hands of Ye Hu Xiu Ge. Seeing that the east, west, and south sides were already in a hurry, Yehu Hugo was anxious, and immediately sent troops to reinforce everywhere, and on the other hand, he issued a strict order to order the soldiers everywhere to strictly defend it.
It took less than half an hour for the Ming attack force to fill in all the moats near the gap. Immediately, the war drums in the Ming army roared, and the 20,000 Ming elites rushed towards the gap with the 3,000 Mo sword army led by Yang Jing as the vanguard, the troops were menacing, and the smoke and dust were billowing!
Yang Jing led the Mo Sword Army to the top of the wreckage first, and suddenly a dense rain of arrows flew in front of him, only to hear a clanging clang, which was the sound of arrows hitting the heavy armor! Although the Khitan army's arrow rain was fierce and abnormal, it was completely useless to the Mo Dao army wearing Xuantian armor. Yang Jing shouted, raised a pair of plate axes and slashed into the current Khitan army battle array, and the soldiers of the Mo Sword Army followed closely, wielding a big sword and a bold axe to move forward, as brave as a tiger descending the mountain! The heavy infantry of the Khitan army tried their best to stabilize the formation, but they couldn't hold on at all, and the formation was disrupted in an instant, and the two sides were scuffled!
The heavy infantry of the Khitan army brandished a broadsword to attack the Ming army, but the broadsword slashed on the armor of the Ming army, and the blade was blocked by the thick armor with only a sonorous sound, and it was difficult to hurt the body of the Modao army; And the Ming army's bold slash came, and the Khitan soldiers fell to the ground screaming with blood and water, and the heavy armor on their bodies could not be stopped at all. The Ming army wielded a big sword and a bold axe to move forward, like a tiger killing a group of wolves, although the wolves were fierce, but under the knife and axe of the Mo Dao Army, they kept splashing blood and fell to the ground, especially that Yang Jing, howling and screaming, a pair of plate axes flew up and down, and the Khitan soldiers in front of him flew and fell to the ground. The Khitan army tried its best to resist, but felt that the power in front of them was like a surging tide, and it was unstoppable, and the army kept retreating in the face of the huge and unstoppable power of the Ming army.
Seeing that the battle situation was critical, Yeyu Zongfu continued to send troops to reinforce, and more and more Khitan soldiers gathered at the gap, and the offensive of the Ming army was gradually blocked. Yang Jing and the Mo Dao Army slashed wildly, and the corpses at the scene accumulated blood, but the enemy army was more and more as if they could never be slashed and killed. Yang Jing led his soldiers and horses to use all their strength to break through the enemy, the scene was full of flesh and blood, but the enemy was not afraid of death, the front continued to pour up, Yang Jing They only felt as if they had fallen into a huge quagmire, no matter how hard you tried, you just couldn't break free!
Seeing that the offensive of the Great Ming Army was contained, Ye Yu Sosuke couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.
At this moment, the heavy artillery fire of the Ming Dynasty began to bombard another city wall. Sosuke hurriedly followed the prestige, only to see a dusty and crumbling city wall in the distance on the other side of the city gate, and he couldn't help but become worried, and hurriedly mobilized an army to wait near the city wall.
Soon after, the wall crashed with a loud bang and collapsed in the smoke and dust that rose into the sky. Ye Yu Zongfu's heart tightened, and then he heard the sound of killing outside the city, and a 20,000-strong Ming elite rushed in under the leadership of the fierce general Yang Xiong, and fought with his own army blocked in the gap. I saw that Huyan Chijin, the fierce general of the Ming Dynasty at the head, wielded a big sword, and he was invincible and invincible, and his bravery and ferocity were not inferior to Yang Jing. Sosuke was worried that the army would not be able to resist, so he quickly transferred two more troops.
At this time, 100,000 soldiers and horses on both sides were blocked in the gap and sacrificed their lives to fight, the sound of killing shook the sky, flesh and blood flew sideways, the elite of the Ming Dynasty tried to break into the city, and the Khitan soldiers sacrificed their lives to resist. Although the Khitan army is much larger than the Ming army that launched the attack, it can only maintain an invincible and undefeated situation, looking at this scene, it is almost impossible for the Khitan army to drive the Ming army out.
Sosuke looked at these two battlefields, thinking about his opponent's next move. Suddenly, one of the soldiers next to him pointed to the city and exclaimed, "Enemy! ”
Ye Yu Zongfu was startled, and hurriedly looked towards the city, and saw that the city was crowded, and he didn't know when many Ming troops had boarded the city. Sosuke Yari's head exploded, and he didn't know what to do for a while. It turned out that when the Khitan army was trying its best to resist the Ming army that broke in from two gaps, the Ming Imperial Concubine Ye Yu Guanyin personally led an elite team to climb the city wall with a cloud ladder.
Like a messenger to the Khitan army in the city, Ya Yin shouted: "Bow and crossbow shooting!" The Ming soldiers at the head of the city shot with bows and crossbows, and the arrows were like flying locusts in an instant, only to see the Khitan soldiers fall down with arrows, and even Ye Yu Zongfu was almost hit by an arrow, and was escorted by his own soldiers and hurriedly retreated into an alley.
The officers and men of the Khitan Army, who were blocking the Ming Army at the two gaps, suddenly noticed a dense rain of arrows falling overhead, and couldn't help but panic. The momentum of forgetting life and death was reduced by more than half.
Huyan Chijin and Yang Jing found that the momentum of the Khitan army in front of them was overwhelming, and they immediately brandished their blades and roared forward, and the officers and soldiers behind them also fought bravely to be the first. The Khitan army was already panicked, where could it withstand such a ferocious attack by the elite of the Ming Dynasty, and the army began to retreat, as if it was about to be unable to resist! However, the Khitan soldiers still gritted their teeth and insisted, the officers and fierce generals kept howling and fought back bravely, one after another, as if they had completely put life and death out of the way, Huyan Chijin and Yang Jing no longer knew how many Khitan generals they had killed! Yang Jing slashed at the enemy generals who kept rushing up, and scolded: "Fucking dog paws are hard enough!" Lao Tzu doesn't believe that you can't cut you! The flying blood made Yang Jing's face even more hideous, Yang Jing at this time really deserved the title of heavenly killing, the double axe wielded to harvest life, as if it was a demonic beast from the underworld, even with the bravery of the Khitan army, in the face of such a terrible Yang Jing, he couldn't stand the fear and subconsciously escaped.
Just when the Khitan soldiers were struggling to support at the gap, the soldiers under the command of Yelu Guanyin had already annihilated the Khitan officers and soldiers at the city gate and opened the city gate. The Ming army, which had been waiting outside the city for a long time, shouted and rushed in.
At the same time, the Khitan officers and soldiers who were desperately resisting at the gap could no longer resist and collapsed. As if the flood water that had finally broken through the embankment, the Ming army instantly overflowed into the streets and alleys. The South City Gate was lost, the East City Gate and the West City Gate were also lost one after another, and part of the Khitan army still resisted desperately, while most of the Khitan army quickly fled towards the inner city.
Speaking of which, by the way, I would like to introduce this Shangjing City, which was the capital of the Song and Liao dynasties. The inner city is much smaller than the outer city, the outer city is inhabited by ordinary people and ordinary nobles, and the residents of the inner city are often the emperor's relatives and distinguished officials, according to the current words, the inner city lives in the upper class people.
The Ming army broke through the outer city in one fell swoop, and wanted to break into the inner city in one fell swoop, but did not want to be desperately resisted by some Khitan soldiers and soldiers and could not achieve the goal, so they had to give up the plan to break into the inner city in one fell swoop, and went all out to kill the Khitan soldiers who stayed in the outer city to resist.
In the streets, in the alleys, the fierce fighting shows no signs of abating. Dozens of Khitan soldiers and soldiers in a team, more than 100 people, scattered in the streets and alleys to fight with the Ming army. The Ming army was aroused by these brave Khitan troops, and killed the Khitan army circle by circle, without mercy. The soldiers of the two sides fought and fought each other, and there was flying blood everywhere, and there were roars that were more terrible than beasts.
A Ming officer led a group of soldiers under his command in an alley and suddenly encountered a group of Khitan soldiers, and the two sides immediately roared and killed each other, and the melee became a mess. Swords and spears fought, axes and swords stabbed, and the flesh and blood of the soldiers on both sides flew sideways, and they fell in a pool of blood. When the fierce battle finally ended, the Ming officer glanced around, and saw that more than 100 soldiers of the Jin Army had all fallen in a pool of blood, and there were less than ten of the sixty or so soldiers under his command, and the rest were all killed! One of the Khitan soldiers and a Ming soldier knelt on the ground relative to each other, the long knife in the hand of the Ming soldier pierced the chest of the Khitan soldier, and the scimitar in the hand of the Khitan soldier cut deeply into the chest of the Ming soldier, and both of them stared at each other with round eyes, as if they were still roaring.
On the other side, a group of dozens of Ming soldiers had just annihilated a small group of enemy troops, and then chased a few fleeing Khitan soldiers into a compound. Suddenly, hundreds of Khitan troops rushed out from the surroundings and fiercely besieged the Ming army, and the scene was like a pack of wolves suddenly pouring out! The Ming soldiers were not afraid, and immediately fought desperately with the enemy, and the two sides fought together! Even if the Ming officers and soldiers were seriously injured, they still fought frantically, and they greeted the enemy with the blades in their hands like crazy! A Ming soldier was already seriously wounded, but he threw a Khitan soldier to the ground with a roar, and the two sides rolled on the ground! The Khitan soldier stabbed the scimitar into the abdomen of the Ming soldier, but the Ming soldier still strangled the neck of the Khitan soldier, his eyes were round, and his crazy and fierce expression made a Khitan soldier known for his bravery also panic. Several Khitan soldiers rushed behind this Ming soldier with swords and guns, and the flesh and blood of this Ming soldier's back were blurred at once! However, the claws of this Ming soldier were like iron tongs and strangled the neck of the Khitan soldier.
When a Khitan soldier saw that he didn't let go, he immediately shouted, swung his knife down, and cut off the head of this Ming soldier with a click! However, his fingers still grabbed the neck of the Khitan soldier under him. Other Khitan soldiers hurriedly cut off his hands again. Only then did the crowd discover that he was already dead. Everyone's hearts trembled. When I looked at the pinched companion again, I found that his eyes were rolling and he had already been strangled to death.
Dozens of Ming soldiers were all killed in bloody battles. Although this Khitan army won a small victory, its losses were far more than those of the Ming army. The Khitan army commander felt that it was not suitable to stay here for a long time, so he hurriedly led the remaining men and horses out of the compound and prepared to retreat into the inner city. Who knew that as soon as he came out, he bumped into a large group of Ming troops. When the Ming army saw the sudden appearance of the enemy, they became excited, and with the captain's order, hundreds of Ming officers and soldiers rushed up, and a bloody melee killed this group of Khitan officers and soldiers.
The fierce fighting in the outer city gradually stopped, and the streets and alleys were full of corpses, blood and water were flowing like water, and they overflowed the ditches, and the air was filled with a disgusting smell of blood.
Ye Yu Guanyin and Yang Jing rushed to Yang Peng, and Ye Yu Guanyin reported: "The battle in the outer city is basically over, and the enemy soldiers are rushing to annihilate them!" Yang Jing on the side couldn't help but say: "The Khitan people are really powerful!" Tens of thousands of them were killed, and we lost more than 10,000 people! His grandma's! ”
Yang Peng said: "It is not a fluke that the Khitan people have risen rapidly in the past 100 years, and their courage and good fighting are the biggest secret of their success!" Although our army has the upper hand, we must not be careless! ”
After all, what happens next, let's see how it will be broken down next time.