003 Break the city and grab the merit!
The 11th day of the first lunar month.
Seeing that there was no longer a row of people standing on the city wall of Caizhou, the Song-Mongolian coalition army immediately began to launch a final decisive battle against the Jin army in the city.
In this operation, the 20,000 elites of the Song army were the mainstay, supplemented by 5,000 Mongolian troops. In the midst of the uproar, the final battle began.
Today, Zhang Han and his team members got up on the fourth watch day to fully equip their armor. After Wu watchday and other Song soldiers finished breakfast, they marched to the city of Caizhou.
A coalition force of tens of thousands quickly surrounded Caizhou City.
The soldiers began to line up in an orderly formation amid the shouts of their commanders. Crowds of men also shouted trumpets and carried huge siege equipment from the rear of the army to the front of the army.
Tensions on the eve of the war quickly spread in and around the city.
Zhang Han followed the commander to stand behind the crossbowmen array at this time, and the corners of his mouth were tightly pursed. The whole body straightened, immersed in the atmosphere of solemnity.
To be honest, he is still quite apprehensive now. After all, this is the first time since the crossing to participate in such a large-scale siege battle, and my heart is pounding uncontrollably, and my palms are sweating with nervousness.
As a squad leader, or a crossbowman captain, he generally doesn't have to fight the enemy hand-to-hand.
His duty is to always observe the orders passed by the Lingqi, urge his men to attack, and hold down the position to prevent the soldiers from fleeing. Only when the soldier loses the ability to attack does he need to step forward to fill the gap.
So no matter what kind of battle it is, as long as his side is not broken by the enemy, his survivability on the scene is still quite high.
But this can't be counted as an accident and its own bad luck. After all, tens of thousands of people are fighting, and injuries are inevitable, and even if you are particularly unlucky, you may lose your life.
However, compared to other arms, crossbowmen, as a long-range strike force, have a considerable probability of survival on the battlefield.
That's pretty good already.
Just when Zhang Han was thinking nonsense in his mind, the time had come.
"Woo~~Woo~"
Suddenly there was a loud trumpet sound in his ears, and the sound was desolate and murderous. Ripples quickly rippled in the neat array.
As if a conditioned reflex, Zhang Han immediately set his eyes on the handsome platform in the distance.
He vaguely saw that a general in bright silver armor, at the moment when the horn stopped, pulled out the sword at his waist and pointed at Caizhou City in front of him, opened his big mouth and shouted.
Immediately after that, the standard-bearer beside him, as if his hands were wound up, immediately began to wave a huge flag with the word "handsome" written on it.
After Zhang Han accepted the memory of the original body, he could naturally understand the meaning of this banner, which was very simple;
"Attack now!"
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Then he saw the personal soldiers of the chief officer hurrying behind the crossbowmen, giving orders;
"Wound the bolts, ready to fire! Bolts are wound and ready to fire! β
Hearing the order, Zhang Han did not dare to slack off at all, and hurriedly conveyed the order to prepare behind his subordinates.
"Prepare for the launch action, alternately forward and prepare."
The rapid running footsteps made the blades on his armor rattle and collide.
"Wow! Wow! Wow! β
Zhang Han watched his men wind the crossbow arrows one by one neatly and prepared, and Zhang Han nodded with satisfaction.
Then he also pulled out the crossbow arrow from his back and inserted it into the arrow slot. With a focused expression, he waited for the order to attack.
"Knock knock ......"
After a while, a rapid drum sound reached the ears of everyone in the marching formation, and the soldiers' eyes gradually turned red under the infection of the rapid drums, and they unconsciously clung to the weapons in their hands.
"Attack!"
As the words continued to be passed through the military formation, the huge war machine rumbled and sprang into action. Tall siege engines were erected high, and locust-like bows and crossbows obscured the sky above the city.
The shouts, shouts, and angry scolding made this pot of hot oil in the battlefield boil directly!
The decisive battle of Song, Mengjin and Caizhou has officially begun!
"Whoosh!"
As waves of arrows rained down the city, the soldiers of the Jin Army on the city head snorted from time to time, and they were suppressed to the back of the city wall and did not dare to rise up.
"Withdraw!"
After the Song army fired four or five waves of crossbow arrows in a row, Zhang Han ordered his subordinates to begin to retreat alternately, leaving the battlefield to the melee troops.
When the enemy on the wall saw that the enemy had stopped firing arrows, they stuck their heads out of the battlements and looked around.
"Mom!" "Eh~"
Immediately after that, he was so frightened that he screamed and crawled towards the rear.
It turned out that the soldiers at the head of the city thought that the other party would start to enter the city after the rain of arrows, ready to fight a wave of counterattacks! Unexpectedly, the other party actually continued to use a huge catapult and a bed crossbow to shoot a giant crossbow and a boulder at the city wall.
Bang bang bang!
The giant crossbow that was launched, the boulder carried the sound of breaking wind and smashed fiercely on the strong city wall in front of the Jin army, smashing the broken stones in the gap of the city wall. Let the Jin army, which was already a little chaotic, directly reach the level of turmoil.
"Don't retreat, go up! Take a step back and kill without mercy! β
Seeing this, the Jin army guards at the head of the city began to urge the soldiers to defend with all their might. But at this time, the defenders of the Jin State, who were already exhausted, no longer had the slightest will to fight under the successive blows.
Even if he took a few of his own soldiers up and slashed at several defeated soldiers, he couldn't stop the overall rout.
Seeing this, General Jin had no choice but to reluctantly put down the knife that had been cut bloodied. Then he looked at the sun that had just risen in the east, and sat down on the ground with a gray face.
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After being hit by heavy fire from the city one after another, there were almost no people standing on the southern city wall of Caizhou.
Seeing this, the siege troops of the Song army under the city rushed up. Then the city of Caizhou, which had been held for several months, was quickly captured by the Song army like a papier-mΓ’chΓ©.
The city wall that the Jin Kingdom had high hopes for was breached almost without any effect, and the southern gate was completely opened in front of the Song army.
The Song army, who did not participate in the battle of the city, immediately looked like a group of sharks that smelled fishy. Hulahula, along the narrow city gate, continued to pour into the ruined city.
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After Zhang Han's team finally squeezed into the city with difficulty, Zhang Han immediately stopped his subordinates from looting in the city with other troops. Instead, he led more than a dozen people under his command and hurried towards the west gate.
Zhang Han is a traverser, and after knowing this history, he naturally knows what will happen next.
If history doesn't go wrong, as the city is breached, Wanyan Zhongde, the prime minister of the Jin State who received the news, will then take the last more than 1,000 Jin soldiers in the city to fight a brutal street battle with the soldiers of Song and Mongolia.
At this time, Jin Aizong was probably already hanging himself in his residence, and Wanyan Yonglin, who had just succeeded to the throne for less than an hour, would also die in the chaos of the army.
And his body will be snatched down desperately by the remnants of the Jin army, and he will withdraw from the West Gate with his corpse and go to the last city of the Jin Kingdom ~ Gongcheng.
Although the Song and Mongolian coalition forces were able to eat the Jin Kingdom in this operation, the corpses of the two emperors of the Jin Kingdom in the city, according to history, they did not get one in the end.
Among them, Jin Aizong confessed to the soldiers to burn their bodies before their deaths to prevent them from falling into the hands of the enemy and being desecrated.
Wanyan Chenglin's body was carried out by several remnants.
Although these soldiers were exhausted, they would still run to Jingchuan day and night, and buried his body in the ~ Dustpan Bay behind the Sanli Village Ridge in Taiping Township in later generations.
Now that he knew what was about to happen, Zhang Han naturally wouldn't be like other soldiers, stupidly taking people to fight the remaining Jin army.
He had planned it last night. After entering the city, he quickly ran to the west gate with his men as soon as possible. After snatching Yan Yonglin's body, he took this great credit into his arms.
As for the corpse of Emperor Jin Ai, there is no need to think about it. By the time they get there, they'll probably all be charcoal.
So after entering the city, Zhang Han immediately took his subordinates and quickly ran towards the west gate.
Although his subordinates did not understand his approach, the instinct of obedience and the character he had deliberately created in normal times played a role at this time. They all obediently obeyed the order and followed him to Simon.
Along the way, their Song army team constantly encountered scattered routs and civilians. When others saw that they were dressed as Song Jun, they were so frightened that they hurriedly ran around. At this time, Zhang Han and the others also pretended to turn a blind eye to these people, and more than a dozen people just rushed towards the west gate with their heads bored.
Two quarters of an hour later.
Galloping all the way, Zhang Han, who was already tired and out of breath, finally saw the open West City Gate. As far as the eye could see, the soldiers of the Jin Army who were supposed to defend the city on the city wall were nowhere to be seen.
Zhang Han's eyes were sharp, and he saw at a glance that in the city gate cave, several remnants of the Jin Army were about to leave the city gate carrying a corpse.
After secretly saying a fluke in his heart, he immediately shouted to his subordinates behind him;
"See the remnants of the soldiers carrying the corpses out of the city gates? Hurry up and grab the body. That's the corpse of the Emperor of Jin, we're going to get rich! β
When the brothers behind him heard this, they first paused, and they were collectively stunned. Then they were overjoyed!
Qi Xiu's rough voice instantly shouted so that his voice was deformed;
"Wuhu! The emperor's corpse, how much credit is this? Brothers, the time has come to make great contributions, follow the captain! β
After speaking, he took the lead in catching up with Zhang Han and quickly chased after the golden soldiers at the city gate.
Seeing this, the others also hurriedly followed.
At this time, the huge pie that fell from the sky directly smashed Zhang Han's group of subordinates into a daze.
In their eyes, what kind of corpse was carried by the remnants of the Jin Army? That's at your fingertips, golden coins, heavy military exploits!
At this time, a remnant of the Jin Army who had just left the city gate had his ears moved, and he vaguely heard someone shouting behind him.
Looking back suspiciously, his face changed instantly. Looks horrified.
In his eyes, more than a dozen strong men of the Song army holding bows and crossbows, carrying waist knives, and wearing armor all over their bodies, were hurrying towards him.
The other party's red eyes seemed to be like a hungry wolf that had been hungry for several days, ready to eat several of them alive.
"Song Song ...... Song dog, Mom! Run, Song Dog is catching up! β
After the remnant said this, he didn't care about the emperor's corpse, and threw the weapon in his hand directly. Spread his long legs and ran forward with a cigarette.
The rest of the remnants also heard the words of their companions, and at the same time quickly turned their heads to look behind them, and in an instant, everyone changed color.
I saw that the one who took the lead in the front was raising his bow and crossbow and shooting at him. The arrows shot out quickly enlarged on the retinas of the crowd.
"Poof".
The arrow went straight into the chest of his companion. The man who was hit by the arrow immediately stiffened, spit out a large mouthful of blood, and saw that he could not live.
Everyone was shocked, and then Yan Yonglin's body was thrown to the ground by the frightened Jin Bing.
"Run!"
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At this time, all the golden soldiers were so frightened that they were terrified, and their exclamations rang out. ran wildly, wishing that my parents had two less legs.
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When Zhang Han and the others chased to the gate of the city, except for the golden soldier who was shot by a crossbow arrow, lying on the ground and convulsing constantly, the rest of the people had already run a hundred meters away, and they couldn't catch up.
"Huhu~~ These bunnies, like they have hair on their legs, they can slip fast enough!"
Li Xiaohu panted and stopped beside Zhang Han, and complained to the remnants of the Jin Army who had run a hundred meters away.
Zhang Han rolled his eyes at him and said angrily;
"And what about others, when it's your turn to run for your life, you must run faster than them!"
"Hey~~"
Everyone felt that Zhang Han was reasonable, and couldn't help but look at Li Xiaohu jokingly.
Li Xiaohu had to touch his head awkwardly and squeeze out a smile.
"That's, that's! Run for your life, don't stumble! Hey~"
"Haha! β¦β¦β
His words completely aroused everyone's laughter.
Zhang Han didn't have time to listen to their jokes, the most important thing now is to confirm the identity of the corpse and see if the other party is Wanyan Yonglin? If the goods are not right, they will be busy.
Bending down and reaching out to quickly grope on the corpse, he took out a bronzing waist card from the corpse's waist, and Zhang Han fixed his eyes to see that it was the belongings of the Emperor of Jin.
"That's right, this credit is not running!"
Zhang Handa, who got the identity certificate, breathed a sigh of relief. At this time, the mood is very happy.
Then he handed his identity card to his subordinates, and everyone looked at it one by one with amazement.
"Good knock! It is worthy of the emperor's use, this gold is really pure! β
Qi Xiu's focus always seemed to be so different, maybe in his heart, an emperor's corpse was not as attractive as a large piece of gold.
The most hateful thing is that his words have also been recognized by many people. Seeing this, Zhang Han couldn't help but shake his head.
Next, just as a few people were discussing how to go back and hand over the corpse to receive the reward, a change suddenly occurred!
"Who are you?"
Everyone was suddenly awakened by a loud shout in the distance. They all looked up at the place where the voice came from.
It turned out that it was a Mongolian general with a Han face who spoke. At this time, the other party was rushing towards the city gate with hundreds of Mongolian cavalry......