Chapter 230: Jin Guo's Letter of Persuasion
The high-level of the Jin army soon found out that the defenders were changing their defenses, so they stepped up the offensive again, and for a while several sections of the city wall had a tendency to be taken by the Jin soldiers. Among them, the small branch of Fang Tian's painting halberd in Lu Fang's hand was accidentally hooked by the enemy's weapon, and he couldn't take it back for a while, and a golden soldier took advantage of this gap to break through its blockade violently, and killed Song Jiang, who had a clear armor and a very high status at a glance.
Seeing this, Song Jiang hurriedly pulled out the long sword on his waist, blocked it in front of him, and soon collided violently seven or eight times with a sword, Song Jiang also played at a super level this time, blocking all of the Jin soldier's attacks, and then took advantage of the opponent's strength to use his old age, and when he had to retreat, he raised his right foot and kicked it fiercely in his lower abdomen.
The Jin soldier was kicked by Song Jiang and fell to the ground, his buttocks hurt, and because he was wearing heavy iron armor, he couldn't get up again for a while, Song Jiang rushed up and stabbed his neck with a sword, and then grabbed the hilt of the sword with both hands to cut his neck hard.
The Jin soldier screamed in pain, and then grabbed the sword with both hands, even if his palm was cut bloodied, he didn't let go, and the two sides couldn't help but stalemate for a while.
In the end, it was because the Jin soldier lost too much blood and weakened his strength that Song Jiang finally succeeded in cutting the opponent's neck with a sword, and then drew the long sword back.
As a result, when he pulled the long sword back, he found that the long sword had just been distorted because of the wrestling with the other party.
"Brother Song, let's withdraw first!"
After Guo Sheng and Lu Fang repelled this wave of attacks by the Jin army, they stepped forward and said to Song Jiang.
"Yes! Lord Shangshu, it's too dangerous here, you better withdraw first! Many of Song Jiang's personal soldiers also opened their mouths to persuade at this time, after all, they all knew that this eldest brother was born as a civil servant, and his force value was really not good!
However, Song Jiang didn't listen to the persuasion of these subordinates at all, and he was also rarely aroused by anger and murder at this time, who had just watched the blood of several old brothers on Liangshan spill the battlefield.
I saw that the big leader of Liang Shan Shuibo threw the long sword in his hand that had been bent to the ground, and shouted at the pro-army beside him: "If these golden soldiers don't retreat, this official won't retreat, take my sword!" ”
Song Jiang didn't want to withdraw, and the others didn't dare to forcibly take him down, and a Pu knife made of dark alloy with a golden dragon pattern on it was quickly carried by a personal soldier.
This Pu knife was also given by Song Jiang after joining the Qinglong Empire, and Ye Tianlong, the emperor, saw his hard work and high achievements, and specially tailored it for him.
It's a pity that after obtaining this imperial sword, Song Jiang has never used it to kill the enemy! The most common thing to do is to hang a decorative sword around your waist.
However, it seems that today's Pu knife is finally about to see blood, after Song Jiang grabbed this Pu knife from the hands of his own soldiers, the Jin army also happened to launch a wave of onslaught again, at this time, the soldiers who changed shifts have not all been able to climb the wall, which makes many places on the city wall have defensive gaps.
So Song Jiang was surrounded by Guo Sheng and Lu Fang, two pro-army captains and dozens of pro-soldiers, and killed one of the gaps.
As soon as a Jin soldier climbed the wall, he was cut off by Song Jiang, who rushed over, and the headless corpse rolled down from the cloud ladder, and smashed down a lot of Jin soldiers.
However, soon many Jin army crossbowmen under the city wall fired arrows at Song Jiang, although Song Jiang quickly retracted his sword, but there were still seven or eight arrows hanging on his body at once.
"Brother Song, it's okay!" Seeing this, Guo Sheng and Lu Fang hurriedly stepped forward and asked worriedly.
Song Jiang felt it carefully and found that none of these arrows actually pierced his armor, so he waved his hand as if he didn't care at all, pushed away the two worried captains, and replied with a full heart: "It's okay!" A few arrows in this mere can't hurt the official. ”
In order to prove that what he said was true, Song Jiang quickly rushed forward again and beheaded several Jin soldiers in a row.
And seeing that Song Jiang was really fine, Guo Sheng and Lu Fang could finally lead their own soldiers and those Jin soldiers who were constantly pouring up the city wall to fight with confidence.
After more than an hour of fierce fighting, as the sky gradually darkened, the sound of Ming Jin's retreat finally came from the Jin army's array.
Those soldiers of the Jin Army, who were also very tired from fighting, couldn't help but feel like they had been pardoned after hearing the sound of gold, and quickly retreated one by one.
The soldiers on the side of the Blue Dragon Empire were also so tired that their hands and feet were sore, and they couldn't muster any strength to chase and intercept the retreating Jin Army soldiers.
Only Li Kui, a war maniac, was still waving the two plate axes in his hands, cutting down the Jin soldiers who passed in front of him.
After the Jin army finally withdrew, this guy still leaned out of the wall, wanting to see if there were any Jin soldiers under the city wall who were not dead to cut him.
"Iron Bull, come back! Save some energy, I'll have to fight again tomorrow! When Song Jiang saw this scene, he shouted at Li Kui.
Li Kui still listened to the words of this eldest brother very much, and when he heard this, he immediately came to Song Jiang with his two plate axes that had been completely dyed dark red, and said to Song Jiang with an amazed expression: "Brother, you actually killed yourself today!" Didn't get hurt, did you? ”
"With Guo Sheng and Lu Fang to protect me, I didn't get hurt! It's just that I'm tired, those golden soldiers really don't look like people! The strength is terrifying! Song Jiang sat on the corpse of a tall Jin soldier, raised his hand and rubbed his sore shoulders and replied.
"Haha! I think those golden people are almost like monsters, so naturally they can't be considered human! Li Kui sat aside with a smile when he heard this, and then wanted to take off the armor on his body to cool off.
Seeing this, Song Jiang hurriedly stopped Li Kui, to be honest, he is also hot now! After fighting with Jin Bing for such a long time, Song Jiang felt as if his whole body had been half steamed, and he felt even more wet and uncomfortable under the thick armor.
However, Song Jiang had heard that many generals had died from this unarmouring wind, so he would not remove his armor immediately after the battle was over, and at this time he also stopped Li Kui from doing so.
After Li Kui explained to Song Jiang, he also understood that it was easy to have problems if he took off his armor just after the battle, making his body hot and cold. So he also endured the stuffiness with Song Jiang and did not immediately remove his armor.
Just as Song Jiang and Li Kui were talking, suddenly a bowstring cracked into the ears of the two of them, and then hundreds of arrows suddenly shot from outside the city, some of which landed on the city wall, and some of which landed inside the city.
As soon as Lu Fang and Guo Sheng heard the sound of the bowstring ringing, they immediately pulled two shields from the hands of the soldiers beside them and blocked them in front of Song Jiang, so as to prevent the eldest brother Song Jiang from being attacked by the enemy's cold arrows.
However, after these arrows landed, Lu Fang and Guo Sheng found that these arrows were actually tied to each other.
Song Jiang stepped forward and picked up an arrow, took off the letter paper on it, spread it out and browsed it, and found that it was actually a letter of persuasion from the Jin people.
In order to be able to make the defenders in the city surrender, those golden people are carrots and sticks together, which not only gives those defenders who are willing to surrender with rich bounties and official positions, but also threatens the soldiers in the city, if they continue to choose to resist and refuse to open the city and surrender, then once they capture the city, they will slaughter the city and kill everyone in the city.
After Song Jiang read this letter of persuasion, he couldn't help but chuckle out loud, and the people around him asked him why he was laughing, Song Jiang smiled and explained that through this letter of persuasion, he had already seen that those Jin people were poor in donkey skills, and today's whole day of siege, the Jin people definitely suffered heavy losses, but they did not achieve any obvious results, so those high-level Jin people must not be very optimistic about the prospects of this battle, and felt that they could not capture this Zhendingfu City before the reinforcements of the Qinglong Empire arrived.
Therefore, these golden people began to persuade them to surrender unusually, using money and official positions to find ways to tempt the defenders in the city. In the past, those golden people never played persuasion to surrender, and in the face of any enemy army, even if the enemy was outnumbered, these reckless men dared to charge directly, and finally relied on their strong force value and tenacious will to fight, and often achieved the final victory in the battle. So in this case, how could those golden people ever think of persuading the enemy to surrender!
It's just that this time they finally met an opponent who had all their strength and didn't have the confidence to win, so they resorted to this extremely clumsy persuasion plan in Song Jiang's opinion.
However, although he felt that this strategy was very clumsy, in order to avoid distracting the soldiers who had been very tired from fighting for a day, Song Jiang still asked Lu Fang and Guo Sheng to take those personal soldiers to collect and burn all the persuasion letters that the Jin people had just shot into the city.
After resting for about half an hour and feeling that he had regained some strength, Song Jiang returned to the city with his group of men and prepared to go to dinner.
Because he also personally went into battle to cut people today, Song Jiang was also very hungry at this time, and he ate up a large bowl of rice in less than ten minutes.
After eating, Song Jiang originally wanted to go back to his room to lie down and rest first, but he ran into Wu Yong at the door, and it seemed that the other party had been waiting here for a while.
Song Jiang saw that the other party should have something to say to him, so he opened the door and asked Guo Sheng and Lu Fang to guard the door, and no one was allowed to come in without his order.
After the door was closed, Wu Yongcai took out a piece of letter paper from his cuff and put it on the table in front of Song Jiang.
Song Jiang looked down and found that this was not the letter of persuasion from the Jin people that he had asked his subordinates to collect and destroy not long ago!
"Master Wu, what do you mean by showing this to this official?" Although Song Jiang already had some guesses in his heart at this time about Wu Yong's idea of coming to see him today, he still pretended to be confused and asked in order to be completely sure.
Wu Yong faced Song Jiang's inquiry, and said with a solemn expression: "Brother Song, you know that after just one day of fighting, five of our leaders in Liangshan were killed, and seven or eight leaders were seriously injured!" The soldiers below have suffered more than 5,000 casualties, and if we continue to fight like this, we will be exhausted in a few days! I think it's better to pretend to agree to the surrender of the Jin people first, save your strength, and wait until the domestic reinforcements arrive before striking back! ”
After listening to Wu Yong's words, Song Jiang was so angry that he slapped the table hard, then stood up and replied with an angry face: "Shut up!" Wu Yong, do you know what you're talking about, those Jin people are foreign barbarians, how can we surrender to these barbarians, the brothers are lost on this anti-Jin battlefield, that is also to sacrifice their lives for the country, and they died as they deserved! But if I surrender to those golden people now, won't I let them die in vain! ”
To tell the truth, Song Jiang was really angry this time, after all, he originally thought that this Wu Yong should be regarded as one of the few smart people on Liangshan, but he didn't expect that such a smart person was actually moved by a letter of persuasion from the Jin people, and he also came to him to ask him to surrender to the Jin people together, as for what the other party said when the reinforcements came and then fought back, then just listen to it, how could those Jin people not be guarded after they surrendered! It is estimated that when the reinforcements come, they will not even have the power to fight back, where can they lead the soldiers under their command to fight back!
Wu Yong saw that Song Jiang was unusually angry, and he also knew that he had played a faint move this time, so he hurriedly got up and admitted his mistake to Song Jiang, saying that he was confused for a while.
But in fact, Wu Yong was also wronged! After all, in the past, his eldest brother, for his own interests, was used by all kinds of evil means, just like the thunderbolt Qin Ming, if it wasn't for Song Jiang to impersonate Qin Ming to massacre civilians and cut off his way out, how could Qin Ming be a thief if he was a good officer!
This time, Wu Yong saw that his men and horses had indeed suffered heavy losses in the battle with the Jin people, so he felt that his eldest brother should also be distressed, and then he happened to pick up a letter of persuasion from the Jin people, so he came over and gave Song Jiang an idea to surrender to the Jin people. He thought to himself that his eldest brother was not at all soft-hearted even for the sake of his own Han compatriots in the past, and this time in order to preserve the strength of the Liangshan Group, it should not be unacceptable to temporarily surrender to the Jin people. As a result, I didn't expect that my eldest brother was extremely excited this time, and even blushed with himself rarely.
After getting up, Wu Yong also happened to see a flag hanging in the house by his eldest brother, with the four big characters of 'Loyal to the Monarch and Protecting the Country' written on it. Originally, Wu Yong thought that this new slogan was used to shout and fool the soldiers below with the previous 'Acting for the Sky', but now it seems that his eldest brother may really have recognized Ye Tianlong, the new lord, and is ready to swear allegiance to him.
And Song Jiang also seemed to feel that his tone was a little heavy at this time, so he opened his mouth to explain to Wu Yong: "Master Wu, I was a little excited just now!" Don't mind! However, this surrender of the Jin people, I am not allowed to mention it again in the future, I expect that the reinforcements will arrive in two or three days, even if those Jin people continue to storm down in the next few days, relying on these soldiers and horses in our city are completely able to defend, so you must not think about it again in the future, so that you will do something foolish to make the relatives and enemies happy! ”
"Brother Song, little brother understands, this is quit!"
Wu Yong, who had thoroughly understood Song Jiang's thoughts, immediately nodded when he heard this. Then he didn't continue to stay here to disturb Song Jiang to rest, and soon retreated lightly.