Prince of the Song Dynasty

Chapter 70: Victory and defending the city

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Hundreds of guards behind the head guard of the Jin army rushed to go immediately and surrounded Zhao Zhentuan. However, the head of the Jin Jun guards saw that there were already a lot of Song Jun near Wan Yan Lie's handsome banner, and they were in danger, so he took the other Jin Jun guards to Wan Yan Lie.

When Zhao Zhen saw these guards coming up, she surrounded herself, and didn't say much, but jumped up directly from the horse, swiping and pumping the steel spear in her hand. He stabbed a guard of the Golden Army who had not had time to react and fell off his horse by stabbing him in the throat.

Seeing dozens of swords, guns and maces coming towards him, Zhao Zhen stepped on the back of the dead Jinjun guard's horse and jumped again, kicking down another golden guard guard behind him, twisting her body. Then he landed firmly on the horse that was kicked off his horse.

The whole action was completed in one go, and the other golden soldiers who were watching couldn't help but open their eyes, secretly surprised by the strength of the opponent. Zhao Zhen, who fell on the horse, kept turning the horse's head, and then stabbed the horse under the hip on the hip. The horse was in pain and screamed, and then rushed forward frantically.

An ordinary warhorse, with a shot from Zhao Zhen, throws away more than a hundred Golden Army guards in just a few breaths. Halfway through, I met several guards and soldiers of the Golden Army who had intercepted them, and they were not the one generals of Zhao Zhen, and they were stabbed down by Zhao Zhen. Soon, Zhao Zhen had already caught up with the Wanyan Liedi head guard and others who had already traveled a certain distance, and it was obvious how fast he was.

Zhao Zhen rode Wanyan Lie’s three hundred guards and did not find herself running quickly. He shot again and again behind the guards of the Golden Army. A steel gun was superb, jittering and stabbing a little bit of stars, and she would fall into the last dozen or so. The guards of the Jin Jun stabbed the heart one after another and solved them one by one.

A guard of the Golden Army heard the movement behind him and looked back. The guard of the Golden Army who had been behind him did not know when he had become the enemy's main commander. And the enemy leader is holding a steel gun to stab him. The guard of the Golden Army couldn't help being taken aback, shouting: "Help..." He was stabbed off the horse before the last "ah" was uttered.

The advancing guards of the Golden Army looked back after hearing this. When the head of the guard saw Zhao Zhen chasing him up again, he said angrily: "Stop him!" After finishing speaking, he led people to rush forward. Seeing that they left more than a hundred people to stop him, Zhao Zhen did not entangle with them, reined in the horse, and shot the warhorse in the crotch. Then he rushed out diagonally, leaving the gold The military guard had no choice but to chase after him wildly.

In this way, the head of the guards in the front led the people to run, Zhao Zhen chased after him, and a large group of golden guards chased Zhao Zhen in the back.

At this time, Zhao Xiaodao and the group of them, because they all fought their lives, actually rushed the blocking Golden Soldier into a gap. At this time, the distance between Wanyanlie and Wanyanlie's guards who were only blocked by Zhao Zhen alone was almost the same. The two people looked at each other as they were approaching Yan Lie, and they urged the horses lifelessly. Because whoever reaches Wan Yanlie one step ahead of time will be the winner of this battle.

But the large number of golden soldiers couldn't stop Zhao Xiaodao and others, but Zhao Zhen alone dragged Wan Yanlie's guards. Zhao Zhen, who was catching up, tried his best to kill her.

Wan Yan Lie saw that his guard was unable to return for a while, but as Zhao Xiaodao and others approached, he had to urge his hip horse to flee away.

Behind Wan Yanlie, a Jin Jun raises the flag bearer, that is, the Jin Jun guard who has been holding the Jin Jun banner. As soon as he saw his leader running away, wherever he dared to stay where he was, he followed up with the handsome flag and ran.

Therefore, when Jin Bing saw Shuai Qi running, he thought it was Wan Yan Lie who had a problem, and he got into a mess at that time, and ran back after Shuai Qi.

After a while, the golden soldiers, which were all cavalry, ran away, leaving only the Xin Wang Yijun on the battlefield and corpses all over the floor. At this time, Wan Yanlie couldn't control his army anymore, in order to avoid the Song army from chasing after them. So they retreated to camp five miles away. Watching Jin Bing run away, Zhao Xiaodao shouted to chase him, but fortunately, Zhao Zhen stopped him and didn't chase him out. At this time, the scarred horse that Zhao Zhen was riding had reached its limit, and she couldn't afford to fall with a "puff". Zhao Zhen, who had been prepared for a long time, had already jumped off the horse and walked towards the generals.

When Zhao Zhen saw that Zhao Xiaodao was covered with blood, she was injured when she finished charging Yan Lie's banner. He hurriedly asked with concern: "Knife, how are your injuries?" Zhao Xiaodao barked his teeth and said with a strong smile: "It's okay, it's all minor injuries." He patted his chest as he said, but he didn't think that such a movement would get on his body He couldn't help taking a breath from the wound.

Zhao Zhen looked at Zhao Xiaodao's straightforward and toothy grin, followed with a chuckle, guessing that he must be fine, and hurriedly ordered everyone to count the wounded.

After a while, the casualties were reported. It was a service. There were originally more than 4,000 soldiers, but now there are only less than 3,000 people left, and 300 of them were seriously injured, and everyone was slightly injured. Have. The casualties of the Jin soldiers were about 1,500.

After burying the bodies of the dead soldiers in a hurry, Zhao Zhen took the rest of them and drove almost one person on three horses to Zhongtiao Mountain.

Zhao Zhen led his army to retreat to the city of Xiezhou. It was Li Yanxian's general Shao Yun who defended the city. As soon as Shao Yun saw Zhao Zhen's soldiers and horses, he immediately opened the city and let people in. As soon as Zhao Zhen's soldiers and horses entered the city, tens of thousands of gold troops came from outside the city to pursue them.

It was no one else who came here, but the golden general Shiguduo who commanded ten thousand soldiers. It turned out that Wanyanlie defeated the battle, and the army was broken a lot. When he gathered the army, there were only less than 2,500 men left. After he saw Shiguduo, he didn't have the face to say more, but the general told Bianjian to hide in the rear camp. Shi Gu Duo laughed at the other party secretly.

I saw the pioneer cavalry of the Golden Army who rushed to the city under Shiguduo's tent, and the horses did not stop when they reached the city. They ran sideways along the city wall and shot the arrow in their hands toward the city head while walking forward and slanting at the same time.

Relying on the speed of the horses, the strength of the Golden Army’s bows and arrows, and the strength of the Golden Army soldiers’ arms, the range of the Golden Army’s arrows turned out to be farther than that of the condescending Song Army. Not far from the soldiers, only one or two occasionally can shoot all the golden soldiers. But at that time the lethality of the arrows had already dropped to zero, and there was basically no threat to the golden soldiers. The golden cavalrymen generally wore heavy armor, and the golden soldiers could only be shot off the horse unless they were shot in the face.

However, the arrows of the Golden Soldiers could shoot far away to the top of the city. In addition, they shot up diagonally, not oncoming, because the area where the city was attacked was larger. For a while, arrows rained down the city. Although there were shields blocking it, the screams of the Song army guarding the city, the militiamen and the young men carrying supplies still lingered.

With a shield on Zhao Zhen's head, she felt distressed when she heard the sound of'dong dong' from time to time. At this time, Zhao Xiaodao roared and asked Zhao Zhen on the side: "General Gao, what should I do? You can't always be beaten with a broken shield like this!" Zhao Zhen didn't speak, and Shao Yun on the side shouted: "Don't worry, waiting will let you have a long experience!" While speaking, I felt that the sound of'dong dong' above the head became smaller, but this wave of Jin Bing's attack passed.

Shao Yun threw the shield in his hand and stood up straight and shouted: "Come on, push up our darlings!" The Song Army soldiers next to him hurried into the city gate. After a while, three big iron guys who were covered in darkness and the size of a water tank were pushed out one by one. Before Zhao Zhen had time to see what it was, another arrow rain fell, and everyone hurriedly raised their shields above their heads again.

After finally weathering this rain of arrows, the soldiers of the Song Army began to get busy again, lifting a few large boxes from the tower. Zhao Zhen didn't know what it was, but there was a familiar smell in the box—the smell of gunpowder!

Astonished, Zhao Zhen looked up at the shapes of the big guys again, and suddenly understood that this is not a primitive artillery. At this time, I don't know whether it is a cannon made of copper or iron when I look at the potholes in the casting ground. Zhao Zhen smiled slightly. After being beaten by the Golden Arms firearms, he finally saw Da Song's firearms and cannons this time. But with this workmanship, can this thing work

At this moment, Zhao Xiaodao on the side was surprised: "Ah, isn't this... General Pilihuo!" Seeing Zhao Xiaodao's surprised look, Shao Yun said proudly: "It is General Pilihuo, this is what I beg Li for. The general several times before he assigned me three doors. This was left when the Northern Army retreated, and we took it back from the Golden Army."

At this moment, the soldiers looking at the city head shouted: "My lord, the golden soldiers are here again!" Shao Yun was no longer proud, and hurriedly ordered the guards to start filling ammunition. Seeing the scrambled appearances of several guards, Zhao Zhenxin said: "Such a rough cannon will not explode in a while!" Thinking of this, he hurried back a few steps.

Finally, when Jin Bing rushed again and started shooting arrows at the head of the city, General Shao Yun's ammunition was finally filled, and Shao Yun shouted: "Back, everyone back!" Seeing everyone leave When it was far away, he waved his hand and ordered: "Ignite!"

Seeing the sneer and white smoke from the fuse, the people around couldn't help but widen their eyes, all wanting to see the power of this great Song Dynasty General Shao Yun.

"Tom, tom, tom!" With three loud noises, the entire city wall trembles, and the top of the city gate is instantly covered by thick smoke, not even Zhao Zhen, who had prepared to take a few more steps back. I was spared the heavy smoke and was choked with coughing. After a long pause, only Shao Yun in the dense smoke cursed: "Blast your golden dogs to death, cough cough!" There was also a violent coughing sound from the surroundings who responded to him.

When the smoke dissipated a little, the dark-faced people couldn't care too much, so they stomped on the wall and looked down. I saw a few large pits on the ground about a mile away, and the bodies of some golden soldiers and war horses were scattered beside them.

At this time, Jin Bing came again. In fact, these artillery pieces were nothing to the Jin Bing. They had seen a lot better when they attacked Liao, and they had also captured a lot. Although there was a panic just now due to a momentary unpreparedness, it was quickly attacked under the organization of the Jin Army generals.

Seeing the Jin Bing coming again, and even the Jin Army infantry rushing over with the ladder, Song Sergeant soldiers on the top of the city immediately took up their bows and arrows to shoot down the city.

Originally, Zhao Zhen, who was thinking of taking a good look at the power of the Great General of Fire Thunder, waited for a long time but didn't hear anything. Looking back, I saw some soldiers surrounded the three artillery pieces with shields on their heads. I don't know what they are doing. Zhao Zhen looked over, but it was a group of soldiers crouching under the shield and rushing to clear the debris in the barrel.

Seeing that the debris that was cleaned out was actually some broken stones, Zhao Zhen knew that the ammunition of ancient artillery was stones, and the function of gunpowder was only to push the stones out of the barrel. But when I really saw this scene with my own eyes, I still couldn't help being a little funny. He thought: When our cannon is built, it must be much better than this stone cannon!

Without waiting for Zhao Zhen to think too much, the three generals of the thunderbolt fire generals cleared them. Then there was another cumbersome loading procedure, and when Jin Bing rushed to the city and started to erect the ladder, these big guys rang.

Looking at the open ground under the city in front, several golden cavalrymen were overturned by three artillery shells to the ground again, and there was another cheering at the top of the city. But this time, because of preparations, Jin Bing did not retreat one step, and still shot arrows at the head of the city to cover the infantry attacking the city. As for the Song Army, because the Golden Soldiers under the city had already started to erect the ladder, they had to brave the arrow rain to throw stones down the city to stop the Golden Soldiers' attack.

As a result, the casualties increased, and within a short while, nearly a hundred people fell to the ground with arrows, and some were directly carried down the city.

As the casualties continued to increase, some timid soldiers slowly began to retreat. Shao Yun who saw this situation immediately picked up his riding whip and rushed forward to beat others. While beating, he cursed: "If anyone dared to retreat, Lao Tzu cut him off!" The soldiers who were so frightened that they retreated did not dare to take a step back.

Then Shao Yun yelled at the guards who were working on the great generals of Shenwu: "What are you guys doing? Hurry up and fire!" A lieutenant in charge of the firing hurried over and said with a grimace." My lord, you can't fire any more guns. Those generals are not hot anymore. If you keep checking the hours, they might blow up!"

Shao Yun had heard that General Shenwu had this problem, but watching his soldiers fell to the ground with arrows, he was really anxious, frowning and asking: "Can't it be impossible to fire a shot?" The lieutenant obviously knew the power and performance of the artillery, and he shook his head and said: "It really can't be used anymore. If you use it again, not only will your precious lumps be scrapped, brothers will probably explode to the sky."

Shao Yun stomped his feet in annoyance. At this moment, a general behind him walked over and said, "My lord, there are still crossbows in the city, why don't we use them." Shao Yun said, "Then you take someone. Get the crossbow up."

Seeing this subordinate ran down the city with someone, Shao Yun stopped directing, and took a stone with his hand and threw it down the city wall. Then Zhao Zhen also brought her subordinates to follow up to help.

As soon as Shao Yun went up, the generals who had been hiding behind commanded also ran forward and picked up the stone and started to smash it down. For a while, the morale of the Song army defending the city rose again. Li Yanxian himself took the lead and influenced a large number of his men, so Li Yanxian was able to defeat the Jin Jun many times.

After a while, the general Song Jun, who was going to carry the bed crossbow, ran away for a while. Hundreds of soldiers shouted and pushed dozens of heavy bed crossbows on the wall one by one, and then walked on the wall every dozens of steps. Place one. When the crossbow was ready, the soldiers in front hurriedly stepped out of a passage. With the general's wave of the hand, those specially made huge crossbow arrows with a thickness of two and a half meters pierced the air with a buzzing sound. The Golden Cavalry under the city. A dozen crossbow arrows fired at once, and the effect was really extraordinary. It was obvious that a dozen soldiers from the Golden State who were outside the range of ordinary bows and arrows were shot through in an instant.

Many crossbow arrows penetrated three or four golden soldiers in a row, like a bunch of candied haws. Zhao Zhen looked at it and couldn't help thinking in her heart: It seems that in this era, the bed crossbow is better than the artillery!

Although with the addition of the bed crossbow, the arrows shot by the golden soldiers towards the city were reduced. But the Jin army is still like a rainbow, climbing and siege. From time to time, Jin Bing appeared on the wall with a ladder. Fortunately, there were so many soldiers in Song, bending forward to chop them down one by one, and this did not allow the Jin Bing to attack the city.

The Jinjun not only used a ladder to attack the city, but also a tall opponent. All are covered with iron, which can withstand stone and fire. Especially the most powerful siege firearms at that time, with a wide variety and strong attack force. However, Shiguduo led the army to march in haste, so he did not bring firearms.

At this time, the Jin army attacked the city, first covered the nurses with arrows, and then filled the trenches with earth and firewood. At this time, Jin Jun also pushed the opposite building and began to climb the city. Each pair of upstairs carries more than 80 soldiers from the Golden Army. In the face of the Jin Jun's sophisticated and skilled siege methods, the Song Jun, who had always been good at defending cities, also found it difficult to deal with.

In addition to the constant attacks on the city wall, the city gate also began to be attacked, but the heavy crash of Jin Bing arrived. I saw dozens of golden soldiers braving the stones that were constantly thrown down from the city wall, pushing the crashing car and starting to smash the city gate desperately. At this time, although the city gate was hit, it remained motionless. It turned out that the Song Army had already put down the iron gate, and the siege crash could not break it for a while.

The Golden Soldiers who came to hit the door a few times were killed and wounded by the bow and arrow, and the remaining few Golden Soldiers had no choice but to ran back with their heads in their arms. After a while, another group of golden soldiers rushed under the city gate, pushed the crashed car and started to hit the gate.

Just like this, the entire siege went on for about half an hour. Although the Song Army suffered heavy losses, the Jin Bing did not attack the city head. Instead, nearly half of the 1,000 people responsible for the siege were left behind. The body ran back. And because of the addition of the bed crossbow, even the cavalry responsible for cover in the distance also killed and injured more than 100 people. When the infantry ran back, they had no choice but to retreat.

Shi Gu Duo, who had been watching the entire process of siege from the rear, saw that he had paid the price of six or seven hundred people. However, the defenders on the top of the city were still surging, and there was no sign of reduction at all, and his determination to attack the city was somewhat shaken.