Wanyan Zongbi (Wu Shu) said with full confidence, but he exaggerated it. First of all, Jiankang City cannot be won in one or two days. Moreover, from Jiankang to the resistance of the Song army in various places in Yangzhou and the city defense in various places, no matter how powerful the Jin army is, it will not be able to win all within a few days.
After all, Song Jun is not all the stubborn surrender faction. For example, Zhang Jun, who is currently guarding Jiankang, has made Jin Jun a bit of a loss. Although the battle loss rate was higher than that of the Song Army defending the city, the Jin Army was not even more powerful than the Song Army. Being able to defend Jiankang City even after four fierce attacks, it can be seen that Zhang Jun, the city's defender of the Song Army, is no longer a fuel-efficient lamp.
In fact, if Wanyan Zongbi (Wu Shu) is willing to go all out and send his elite army up, it is very likely that he will attack Jiankang at a high price. However, it is impossible for him to send elite soldiers. That kind of loss is too great, and the loss is not proportional to the profit.
"Tomorrow, if I launch a fierce attack, I will definitely swallow the Song people's troops." Shi Jianu said triumphantly, shaking his fat head.
Wanyan Zongbi (Wu Shu) smiled and said, "Tomorrow, if you can wipe out about three to five thousand Song troops like today, then the day when Jiankang City is captured will be just around the corner."
Shi Jianu said: "The commander can rest assured. Although my troops have lost some, we still have more soldiers and a lot of Han Chinese cannon fodder. They are fully qualified for the task of siege. They just need to add a day's arrows to the city. I, tomorrow I will shoot all the arrows out, and I will be able to suppress the Song army and attack the city in an all-round way."
Wanyan Zongbi (Wu Shu) immediately smiled and said, "There is still some preparation. I wish the general a victory tomorrow and we will be stationed in Jiankang as soon as possible."
In the middle of the night, after it was finally determined that the enemy would not launch an attack again, Zhang Juncai dragged a heavy body back to his military account under Jiankang City. It must be said to be heavy, his armor is still draped, and the guard on one side wanted to remove his armor, but Zhang Jun refused. The armor on them, especially good armor, is very troublesome to wear. Often it takes a long time just to wear it.
That's how Zhang Jun's armor is. To wear it well, two people must be present and spend more than a quarter of an hour. This is fairly fast, and sometimes, half an hour is normal when it is slow. At that time, the armor was woven with animal tendons, and the work and wearing were very complicated.
In the military tent, Zhang Jun could finally breathe the fragrant smell, which allowed his nose to say goodbye to the bloody smell of the city. In a few cases, there was food, and there was still heat, which was made for him by the soldiers.
A soldier brought clean water and asked Zhang Jun to wash his hands, then Zhang Jun started eating. After eating two bites, someone shouted at the door: "Lieutenant General Li Yungui, please see me!" Zhang Jun's head guard looked up and wanted to speak. Zhang Jun knew what he was going to say. It was nothing more than letting himself finish eating and asking Li Yungui to wait outside, but he disagreed and said bluntly: "Please come in!" Zhang Jun's personal guard sighed and hid back. Aside.
Although Li Yungui looked bad when he came in, he was surprised to see Zhang Jun's appearance under the candlelight.
The Zhang Jun he saw was even more embarrassed than his appearance during the day, and Zhang Jun at this moment would naturally not look radiant. In fact, since the defeat in the First World War in the northern suburbs of Jiankang, the Jinbing army besieged Jiankang, and Zhang Jun has eaten less and worked more for several days and nights. Daily military affairs and worries about the future have caused white silk to appear on the sideburns of this patriotic general. You know, Zhang Jun is still far from his old age, but judging from the appearance, his cheekbones are high with his shrunken cheeks, and his under-eye bags are darkened by fatigue, and his hair is tangled out of his head. Did not take care of it. Only that eye, after being covered with bloodshot eyes, gleamed all the time.
Li Yungui was about to salute, Zhang Junxian waved his hand and said, "Okay, you don't have to be polite if you and I meet alone. Sit down, there is no outsider here, don't be so restrained."
Li Yungui paused and sighed: "Du Chong, this bastard, has hurt the master, but he threw such a mess to the master, but he ran away."
The current Du Chong's surrender to the enemy is still unknown. Therefore, Li Yungui's remarks are extremely rude, which is tantamount to saying that they are not the boss of the two. But these words cannot be said in front of others, but they can be said in front of Zhang Jun. Even Zhang Jun's heart is moved, and his eyes became cloudy. He said, "Stop talking..."
Afterwards, Zhang Jun slowed down for a while, and then said: "Today's battle, can the people in the city be considered safe?" Li Yungui smiled slightly and said: "Controlling adults, rest assured, nothing will happen in the city." Zhang Jun nodded and said to He has lost his confidence in everything in the city. So Li Yungui arranged for tomorrow's defense and preparations for retreat.
Speaking of retreat, Zhang Jun is also very helpless. After all, Jiankang can't stay for long. It's better to stay here if there is no firewood to take the army out, and then take revenge than to stay here and be annihilated by the Jin army.
After talking about military affairs, Zhang Jun suddenly said: "I heard that Gao Pang, Li Yanxian and others who guard Zhongtiao Mountain in the north are not very safe? Annoyed your Majesty?"
Li Yungui wondered: "How come? They have done a great job..." Then he clapped his hands and said, "Yes, it is said that they are the people who believe in the king." "The people who believe in the king? Why are they the people who believe in the king? How is this possible?" Zhang Jun seemed to ask casually.
Li Yungui, who didn't know what the other party meant, didn't have much to say. After Zhao Gou appointed Zhao Zhen as the Marshal of Hebei Soldiers and Horses, and Ma Kuo left the barracks of thousands of old and weak troops assigned to him by Zhao Gou on his own initiative. Zhao Gou has always shown an extremely repulsive and unhandling meaning to Zhao Zhen. Moreover, after Xin Wangjun sent envoys to the south, Zhao Gou flatly refused to support supplies, and even proposed the ridiculous practice of exchanging horses for food, which only treats foreign policies.
I don't know if this informer is like Zhao Gou who hates the king. Li Yungui did not dare to express any kind words about people who believe in the king. He said: "I heard that Gao Pang is a general of the Xinwang Army posing as Li Yanxian's subordinates. It is said that there are still troops of the Xinwangjun reinforcements in Li Yanxian's Zhongtiao Mountain. The Xinwangjun is very powerful, and the training is only half-old children. In general, generals don’t want half-aged children to train, and believe that the king’s thousand years old is a lot. It is said that what boy scouts have been established! I heard that in the battle between the north of Zhongtiao Mountain and the south of Yanchi, the Jin army has ruled the Yanlou room before and after more than 40,000 people were killed. It's defeated..."
Zhang Jun thought for a while, and said, "But it is true. This man Xin Wang Qiansui does have a good hand in training people and training soldiers... I didn't expect it! If he hadn't been captured by the Jin army... he would be fine... It's a pity... "Only then did Li Yungui hear that the other party is just like himself, and in his heart he is inclined to the faithful king Zhao Zhen, who has been insisting on resisting gold in the north.
Before dawn, the golden soldiers blew their trumpets and assembled to attack. Hearing Jin Jun's misty horns, Zhang Jun hurried up to the city. He saw that many of the soldiers around him fell asleep, and he couldn't help but be furious, and he repeatedly scolded them, finally making the officers move. More than a dozen generals stood in the top armor, yelling at their subordinates.
The Million Rebel Army and the army defeated Du Chong. Yue Fei, Li Gui, Wang Gui, Ding Jin and others successively believed in Wang Zhaozhen from Beitou. They took away their elite fighters, so now the Song Army except Han Shizhong who is guarding Zhenjiang Outside the army, Da Song had almost no elite soldiers.
The army defeated Du Chong, so most of these soldiers built the army hastily, and there was a lack of training time. Even if Zhang Jun strengthened the training, how did they go through such a battle? If it weren't for Zhang Jun's headquarter but for the fact that there were a few combat-powered troops, the Jin army would have broken the city and invaded it as early as yesterday.
At this time, the generals at the commanding level of the Song Army were almost either Beitou Xinwang or leaving Jiankang south, so there was no generals at the commanding level in Jiankang as a whole. As Vice-General Zhang Jun, Li Yungui naturally took over the role of commander. He brought the sword and led the guards because of his martial arts background and good health. Although in reality, he worked harder than Zhang Jun, but he didn't have the hard work of Zhang Jun. Compared with Zhang Jun, who had white hair on his temples, he was more energetic.
The generals of the Song army gathered on the city wall. At this time, they looked down from the female wall and watched the dense army of the golden kingdom rumbling in the distance. After a whole night of repairing and busy, the Jin Army rushed to make many siege equipment such as ladders, goose carts, sky sedan and so on. Jin Jun is full of people, and in the endless city, Zhang Jun also saw the firearm camp where Jin Jun had just emerged. Looking at the muzzle of the dark thunderbolt artillery in the distance, the chill was pressing.
As the country where gunpowder originated from the Song Dynasty, all the generals knew how great the threat to the defense of the city wall with the power of the thunderbolt artillery was once launched! Under Zhang Jun's order, Song Jun also pushed General Perak out on the city wall, and started loading gunpowder to shoot.
At this time, the earth-shaking "dong dong dong dong..." ground battle drum sounded loudly. At this time, Li Yanxian, the head coach of the Golden Army camp, closed his eyes and said to Shi Jianu: "Go!" Shi Jianu got the order, drew out his sword, and yelled, "Kill..."
"Kill...!" The soldiers of the Golden Army echoed in unison, roaring like thunder, and the momentum was like a rainbow. For a time, the soldiers flowed like a wave.
With the sound of rumbling cannons, a black gunpowder filled with the two camps of the Song Army, and the thunderbolt artillery on the city wall began to counterattack. In this era, the firearms used in the Song and Jin wars were the most advanced firearms in the world. Although both sides use artillery that sprays and shoots stone cannonballs or thunderbolt-throwing carts, they are also powerful.
The first batch of more than one hundred ladders crossed the river quickly under the frenzied sprint of the siege soldiers and was quickly erected. In addition to suppressing firearms, the Jin Army also sent a team of cavalry who were good at archery to shoot arrows around Jiankang City and suppress the Song army on Jiankang City.
The Song Army in the city was suppressed by the arrows of the Jin Army. Soon, the first group of siege sergeants, after paying hundreds of deaths and injuries, finally got under the city wall. The golden soldiers set up the ladder and began to climb the ladder, and the goose carts and sky cars were loaded with the golden soldiers and soldiers began to touch the city wall. Under the cover of shield soldiers, a part of the Golden Army archers quickly approached the moat and began to shoot at the city wall at close range to cover the army crossing the river at close range. Dense arrows shot upwards on the Song Army's city wall. After a night of preparation, the Jin Army can use more arrows and crossbows.
At this time, Zhang Jun personally supervised the battle, his eyes fixed on the last long arrow of the golden army in the sky. Watching it draw a beautiful arc in the air, and then fiercely nailed to the blue brick on the top of the city wall, the long arrow bounced high, and then fell straight to the ground covered with a thick layer of arrows. After all, the wall of Jiankang City was tall and the moat was also very wide. Although the Jinjun was good at shooting, most of the arrows did not hit the wall.
At this moment, Li Yungui leaped up, raising his sword and shouting wildly: "Archer, shoot... Shoot me..." Song Jun archers rushed to the edge of the wall at the fastest speed, aiming at the enemy soldiers gathered on both sides of the moat. Fierce shooting was launched. This batch of 100,000 arrows was the last foundation of the Song Army. Although Jiankang City had a lot of armaments, arrows were used continuously on the front line of Jiankang North Bank before the city defense war. As a result, their arrows are lacking, and they will not last long.
The sound of war drums, shouts, fighting, and screams resounded through the wall, countless long arrows flying in the air, bloody sabers roaring in the wind, huge stones raging under the wall, heavy and spiked. Mu Xie descended from the sky with the sound of wind and thunder.
As the recruits of the Song Army adapted to the first day of fighting, and under the encouragement of generals such as Zhang Jun and the example of the pioneers, morale began to rise. In the stubborn resistance of the Song Army, the soldiers of the Jin Army suffered heavy casualties. The banks of the moat were soon full of dead soldiers. The bodies of enemy soldiers floated on the river, and the river water was quickly stained red with blood.
Seeing that the first round of attack failed, Shi Jianu immediately ordered the cavalry to approach the moat and continue to fire a new round of fierce shooting at the wall without waiting for the army to be withdrawn by the moat. This group of golden cavalry is composed of Mongolians, Jurchens, Bohai, Xi, and Khitan who are good at bow shooting. Their archery skills are more powerful than infantry archers who are mostly Han Chinese. Song Jun's defenders were caught off guard, and suddenly fell a large area in a rain of arrows.
At this time, the loss of the Song Army on the city wall was also huge. Li Yungui's several lieutenants immediately led a large number of Song Army second echelon to support the city wall, and commanded the archers to shoot arrows to block the Golden Army.
The second group of Sergeant Jin who attacked the city also began to brave long arrows all over the sky and began the second round of storming. This time the number of the golden army siege was increased. After a lot of goose carts and palanquins approached the city wall, Sergeant Jin began to successfully board the city wall. The fighting between the two sides became more and more fierce, and the Jin army's offensive became more and more fierce, pressing step by step, and broke through several Song army defenses.
At this time, Zhang Jun, Li Yungui and other generals personally led the guards to support them all around, beheading all the enemies that broke through the defense one by one on the wall.
There were more and more ladder bridges on the moat, and the siege ladder leaned against the high wall one after another, and the siege soldiers launched a simultaneous attack on the attack surface hundreds of steps away.
Seeing that it was midday, Shi Jianu ordered Mingjin to retreat and take a rest. He only launched two small-scale attacks on Jiankang within two hours. His task is to loosen first and then tighten, the purpose is to contain the defending forces, so the attacking rhythm is very slow.
But just two attacks, Zhang Jun, Li Yungui and others led the tribe with great difficulty to repel them despite heavy losses.
At this moment, Zhang Jun, with a bloody iron sword in his hand, was sitting on the wall panting. The Jin army's subsequent offensive was very fierce, and they were able to successfully break through the city defense every time. Zhang Jun took the lead, and led his guards to intercept and block the Jin army, fighting fiercely. At this moment, he was covered with blood and his armor was broken in many places, and he was exhausted.
He has been in battle for a long time, and turned a blind eye to the remains of the bloody soldiers that can be seen everywhere in the city. For him, who had fought countless bloody battles with the Golden Army before, this bloody scene before him was nothing. He swallowed the dense and bloody air, and the fighting spirit in his heart became more and more high.
A group of people who sent water and food swarmed the tower. Zhang Jun bit his lower lip and saluted a citizen who was up to the city. He deeply knew that many people here did not have enough water and food in their homes, but they took the last thing to the city. Army soldiers. They are defending the warriors in their homeland, but Zhang Jun also knows that he can't stop the golden soldiers with these soldiers.
Thinking of this time, Zhang Jun's heart is like a knife twist. Zhao Gou is so disappointing. The Jin army is close at hand. Why doesn't Zhao Gou send troops to support? Although he knew that Zhao Gou's temperament would only run away, he would never send troops to reinforce him. But seeing these simple people, Zhang Jun still felt very painful.
In the afternoon, Shi Jianu led the army and began a full force attack. Jin Jun coach Wanyan Zongbi (Wu Shu) is personally responsible for the front command.
This time the attack was very fierce. Wanyan Zongbi (Wu Shu) attacked health from all sides at the same time. Nearly hundreds of cloud ladders were raised together, and countless golden soldiers shouted endlessly. The allocated golden troops. The siege troops went on schedule and began a fierce attack. At the same time, the Golden Army deployed cavalry archers on all sides, and the 30,000 cavalry archers were scattered. In terms of power, it may be less, but the lethality played should not be underestimated.
Wanyan Zongbi (Wu Shu), regardless of all costs, launched a full-scale war in this way. The Song army, who had suffered huge losses, was exhausted, lacked supplies, and had no external reinforcements, had begun to lose morale.
The sound of the drum rumbling through the sky, countless Jin Guobing will roar and rush towards Jiankang, who was defending by the Song Army. The morale was low and the soldiers were in chaos, Song Bing hurriedly killed the enemy. There was chaos on all sides, this time even Zhang Jun himself was dispatched. He personally led the guards, fighting everywhere, and even shot two arrows in his body. Fortunately, the city wall is too high, his armor is very good, the arrow does not penetrate deep into the flesh, and it is not poisonous, and it will come off as soon as it is pulled, not even into the flesh.