Great time travel

Chapter 33, Hot Winter

"...Really, although the weather in the capital has cleared up and there is no more snowfall, it is still freezing and the weather is freezing. The officers and soldiers are freezing at the top of the city all day, but due to the isolation of traffic inside and outside the city, they have to burn the fire. The charcoal needed for heating is very scarce, and the stone bombs needed for the trebuchet are also difficult to raise for a while... In addition to demolishing houses and logging in Genyue, our army can only demolish houses and harass the people..."

On the dusty "Genyue Demolition Site", Zhang Shuye solemnly said to Guo Jing with a solemn and compassionate expression, "...for the past few days, many soldiers on duty at night have been freezing at the top of the city. Some people clashed with the people when they were dismantling houses to collect wood. This official is too disturbed, so I beg the real person to show mercy and reopen Genyue so that the soldiers of the Imperial Army can get what they need..." At the same time Bend down and give a bow to the end.

——Sigh, although this upright guy looks shrewd, he was still fooled by those veterans of the Forbidden Army.

Wang Qiu and others have no objection to the wasteful practice of the imperial army firing Taihu stones as ammunition—anyway, these stones cannot be sold for a price in the modern world.But if I just watched these soldiers chop up the best wood and set it on fire, I would feel a little heartache and reluctant to part with it.

Not to mention, as an old fritter in Bianliang City, Guo Jing saw clearly at a glance the dirty plan of the officers and soldiers of the Forbidden Army to "continue to make a fortune" in this royal garden-the property in this garden is Doraemon with a debt of 3000 billion How can you move lightly for the money you buy for your life?If he agreed in a muddle-headed manner, wouldn't it be the same as putting the mouse in Mitun and the weasel in the chicken coop?

Of course, it doesn't seem appropriate to refuse directly, and you have to bear the crime of sabotaging the War of Resistance... Fortunately, Wang Qiu is always good at reverse thinking at certain times, and from time to time he can think of using something that jumps out of the chessboard. Weird tricks, to break the game in one fell swoop.

"... Doraemon, can you take out your [weather controller] and use it again?"

Wang Qiu suddenly patted Doraemon on the back and whispered to him.

"...Well, of course! But, what are you going to use it for?" Doraemon blinked and replied.

"...Of course it is to solve the problem for the frozen forbidden army on the city wall! Your [weather controller] should be able to directly adjust the temperature! Since they always think the weather is too cold, as long as we adjust the temperature to a higher temperature , isn’t there no need to burn things to keep warm?”

"...That's right!" Doraemon suddenly realized, "...This idea is good, I'll take it out and give it a try!"

So, after a while, Immortal Guo Jing, who had been informed secretly, gave Zhang Shuye a jaw-dropping answer:

"... Zhang Xueshi, the guards and soldiers of the city are suffering from the cold weather, the poor Taoist already knows. But burning a fire to keep warm is a temporary solution, not the root cause. Since there is a shortage of firewood in the city, it is better for the poor Taoist to set up an altar instead of chopping firewood for the fire." , let the weather become hotter... I don't know what you want?"

Next, Zhang Shuye was even more dumbfounded when he discovered that the ceremonies performed by the Great Immortal Guo Jing...seemed to be overly effective:

In the afternoon of that day, the temperature in the Kaifeng area jumped from minus 42 degrees Celsius to minus [-] degrees Celsius, soaring as much as [-] degrees in one breath!
——In the blink of an eye, the harsh winter turned into a scorching heat, and the cold wind turned into a heat wave. The Song army defending the city and the Jin army attacking the city were all stunned.

Then, in the heat wave that reversed the solar terms, thousands of unlucky people fell down from heatstroke one by one...

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In the twelfth lunar month of winter, the sun is scorching, and the heat wave is overwhelming.

This kind of strange weather, which is absurd no matter how you look at it, has suddenly appeared inside and outside Bianliang City, the capital of the Great Song Dynasty.

Even the Song people in Bianliang City were already sweating profusely and dizzy from the heat—this kind of temperature, even in those Chinese cities known as "stoves" in later generations, can be hot to death. I am afraid that only Indians In order to be calm in the heat wave above [-] degrees.

As for those Jurchens who grew up between the white mountains and the black waters, and were always resistant to cold and heat, they felt as if they were in purgatory all of a sudden!
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On the outskirts of Bianliang, the camp of the Jin Army in Qingchengzhai.

In the early morning, Wanyan Zongwang, the commander-in-chief of the Eastern Route Army of the Kingdom of Jin, woke up from his sleep, only feeling hot and sweaty all over his body, and every part of his body was wet.

Just in the morning, the air in the tent was already extremely hot and humid, one would sweat outside while sitting still, and even feel stuffy to breathe.And the buzzing mosquitoes that came out of nowhere made him extremely irritable all night, and he couldn't sleep peacefully all the time. He probably had dark circles under his eyes right now.

As a Jurchen warrior with many battles, Wanyan Zongwang never thought that the weather in November would be so hot!

For example, in Huanglong Mansion, my hometown on the banks of the Songhua River, it is already the time when dripping water turns into ice, and spitting on the ground will turn into ice beads; and just two or three days ago, there was still a snowstorm outside Bianliang City Diffuse, wind blowing northern scenery, even the Yellow River is frozen.

Seeing those cowardly Song people shivering on the top of the city, the eyes of every Jurchen warrior were full of contempt and disdain.

But now?

The sky is clear and cloudless, the scorching sun hangs high above the head, there is no wind at all, the space between the sky and the earth is like a huge steamer, the damp air makes it hard to sweat, and the internal organs are like a poisonous fire ... If it was the Li people and Miao people in the south of the Lingnan, and the big cannibals riding camels in the deserts of the Western Regions, they might still be able to move freely under the scorching sun.But the Jurchens who were born in the north did not have this adaptability.

——Many Jurchen warriors who were alive and well the day before, rushed to the street when the heat wave came, and have not been able to get up until now.

As for the unlucky ones who died directly from heatstroke and dehydration, there were countless of them among the Golden Army.

Even Wanyan Zonghan, the commander-in-chief of the West Route Army of the Kingdom of Jin, was unlucky. He hadn't completely healed from the injuries he suffered on the battlefields of Hebei and Hedong, but when he was forced by the heat wave, he fell down again... Those Song doctors who were arrested had already prescribed prescriptions, and poured bowl after bowl of bitter medicine for him, but the heat was so hot that no matter how many heat-clearing and fire-relieving things he took, he couldn't get better .

It is as difficult for these men living in the extreme north to adapt to the sweltering heat of the south as it is for polar bears to immigrate to the tropics.

Due to the general rush of the whole army to the streets in the scorching heat, the Jin Army’s siege operations had to be suspended—in the afternoon when the temperature had just soared, the Jin Army even bit the bullet and organized a siege. Facing the unprecedented high temperature soaring to [-] degrees Celsius, I only ran a few steps before being half-passed out from the heat.And the horses and the bulls pulling the siege engines are no longer in control... In the end, they can only withdraw their troops in anticlimactic fashion.

From then until now, the Jin army has not been able to launch any offensive operations.

After waking up, Wanyan Zongwang just washed up briefly, and then looked at the sumptuous breakfast on the table, but he had no appetite, and felt so hot that he could barely put on his clothes, so he could only gulp down a few cups with his shirtless arms. A big bowl of water made me feel better.

Unfortunately, Wanyan Zongwang's good mood only lasted until the next moment, when someone made him feel uncomfortable again with new bad news.

"...Report Your Highness, more than 1000 war horses in the army have fallen ill... The veterinarians in the army still can't think of a solution..."

——This sudden and terrifying heat wave not only made the Jurchen warriors in the Jin army, the Bohai and Mongolian miscellaneous soldiers, but also the Yanyun Haner who had recently surrendered all day long and miserable, and even accompanied them all over the place. The vigorous war horses in the Central Plains also fell ill in large numbers due to the sudden high temperature... Contrary to what some people imagined, war horses are actually quite precious animals. Get sick in the rain and catch a cold.For every knight, taking care of his mount is a difficult job.

But no matter how good the Jurchens were at raising horses, they were helpless against the weird weather that soared [-] degrees Celsius in one day.

As a result, hundreds of war horses of the Golden Army fell ill and died in the sweltering heat... the Jurchen knights who lost their mounts were deeply saddened.

What is even more frightening is that many of the corpses scattered on the Bianliang battlefield were not buried in time.If it was as cold as it was a few days ago, it would be fine for the time being.But now this cold winter has suddenly turned into a scorching heat, and the corpses of people and animals are rapidly decomposing and smelling, which soon detonated a serious epidemic.And in this chaos, the Jin army, as an invader, couldn't raise medicinal materials and doctors at all, and could only watch the situation deteriorate rapidly.

Reluctantly waving away the attendants who came to report the war horse's epidemic situation, Wanyan Zongwang couldn't help but sighed faintly as he looked up and squinted at the bright sunlight outside the tent, his face gradually revealed a thoughtful look.

——The second Southern Expedition of the Jin Army has been fought so far, and it has obtained extremely rich captures, but it has also reached the point where people are exhausted.

Especially a few days ago, I saw the Song army at the top of the city using demon magic, throwing countless big stones carved in the shape of characters to hit people; recently, the weather has changed drastically, abruptly changing from winter to summer, making The Jin army fell ill countless times... Although Wanyan Zongwang had summoned shamans and Buddhists as much as possible, these nagging guys couldn't come up with any countermeasures for the current drastic changes in the world.

In such an unheard-of hot weather, if you move a little, you will be panting like a cow and sweating profusely. I am afraid that it is really impossible to attack the city again.

In addition, the various diseases that spread rapidly with the strange high temperature caused the fighting spirit and morale of the Jin army to quickly fall to the bottom.

It can be seen from this that the battle of Bianliang may not be able to continue.To be on the safe side, it's better to accept it as soon as it's good.

However, now Dajin has swept Hedong and Hebei, and sent partial divisions to attack Luoyang, cutting off the rescue route of the Kanxi Song Army.Only Bianliang's last kick could have kicked the Song Dynasty into the abyss of destruction... But now it is about to come to an abrupt end, which is really a bit reconciled!
Moreover, even if Bianliang could not be captured, if he went back empty-handed, he would be laughed at by the women and children at home and turned into trash.So no matter what, I have to extort a sum of gold and silver silk from that weak and incompetent Song Dynasty official, as the "hard work" of the Jurchen cavalry going south this time!

However, even if Jin Jun intends to accept it as soon as it is good, he must teach Song Jun a heavy lesson.Otherwise, how could it be possible to intimidate the Song people in the city and allow Dajin to extract a large sum of money and food from Bianliang City as the spoils of the Southern Expedition?

However, the Song people are all shrunk in their thick tortoise shells at the moment, and the Bianliang city wall is so tall and strong, and the weather is so scorchingly hot right now, that there is a danger of heat stroke and death if you move the city. It's really hard to fight...

Wanyan Zongwang was thinking like this, constantly deliberating on the next action plan, and he didn't know how long it took, but he felt that his whole body was almost soaked in sweat.He drank another bowl of tea and was about to take a nap when suddenly there was a messy noise from outside the tent.

"...What the hell is going on? Could something be wrong again!
Wanyan Zongwang walked out of the tent cursing, followed the source of the noise, looked from the Chinese army camp to Bianliang City, and was very surprised to find that the East Water Gate, which had been closed these days, was suddenly slowly pushed open from the inside!
Seeing the invincible Jin soldiers become plague cats under the scorching heat wave, the Song people, who are relatively heat-resistant, immediately thought of taking advantage of it—the soldiers of the Song Army, who had already been suffocated for a long time. After gearing up for a long time, I finally had a chance to relieve my anger.

As the attack orders were handed down layer by layer, the horns of Bianliang City were blared, the drums were beating, and the flags were raised!Teams of Imperial Guards of the Song Dynasty poured out of the city gate like a tide, with long spears in front, bows and crossbows in the back, infantry in the center, and a small number of cavalry on the two wings, forming a huge square formation.

At the same time, relying on an astonishing number of god-arm bows and bed crossbows, rainy bows and arrows flew all over the sky in front of the Jin Army's camp.

"...Zi Niang is a thief!" Wanyan Zongwang, who hurried to the front line to supervise the battle, drew his sword to block a flying feather arrow, and cursed viciously.

——Due to the haste of the incident, the arrogant Jin soldiers were caught off guard, and the forwards of the Song army once broke into the Jin army's camp, and the Jurchens and Yanyun Han soldiers who could not climb up due to heat stroke were like chopping melons and vegetables Generally hacked a lot.

But the problem is that the situation that the Song army expected to be defeated by one blow did not appear. is also like this.Although the Song Army's sneak attack once rushed into the Jin Army's position, it seemed to be trapped in a quagmire. In the siege of more and more Jin Army, it became a small piece of each piece.

Next, the situation on the battlefield became a stalemate, and the two sides continued to see-saw and fight hard.Hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses of the Jin Army were sunburned by the scorching sun, and then trampled into flesh.However, Song Jun was standing on the scorching sun with a temperature of more than 40 degrees Celsius, standing on the hot ground with a temperature that can bake eggs, and he was sweating like rain, and it was difficult to move...not to mention that their physique is generally not as good as that of Jin Bing, and they wear heavy clothes Full body armor.

The most critical problem is that the Jin army that attacked the city was at least 15, but the Song army that attacked the city was less than [-].

Therefore, with the passage of time, although the combat effectiveness of the Golden Army has been severely weakened, it has gradually regained the upper hand by virtue of its superiority in strength.

"...Kill! Kill them all! Teach these cowardly Song people a lesson!"

Gulu gulu poured down a large bag of water, and wiped the sweat flowing from the waterfall on his forehead. Wanyan Zongwang, whose face was flushed by the scorching sun, was bare-armed with a ferocious face, stretched out his hand and raised his saber, and turned to face those hot people. The Jurchen warrior gasping for breath scolded.

"...We are suffering from this horrible weather, and so are the Song people—Jurchen warriors, keep killing! Don't let the cowardly Song people underestimate us!"

He was answered by thousands of bloodthirsty and terrifying roars.

"...Kill!!!"

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