Great Song Pirate

Chapter 701

After Xu Yi's Jinghai army arrived at Huangyaguan, he already knew that Huangyaguan was the only pass in Jizhou City. Only after taking Huangyaguan could he reach Jizhou City, and because of this , Huangyaguan has always been a battleground for military strategists.

But after he arrived at Huangya Pass, looking up at the pass, he still couldn't help but gasp. On the east and west sides of Huangya Pass, there are steep and majestic mountains.

Although there are not many Jin troops stationed here, only about [-] people, but because of the terrain, although the number of Fubo troops is more than ten times that of the Jin army, they cannot attack Huangya Pass at the same time. There is no room for how many soldiers and horses to attack the pass.

If it was another army, seeing this situation, I am afraid there is no way to do it except to send soldiers to attack fiercely, but unfortunately, it was the Fubo army who came to attack this time.

After looking at the terrain, Xu Yi stood on a high hill with a smile on his face, pointed at Huangya Pass with his whip, and asked Li Bo with a smile, "Li Bo! In your opinion, is it possible for us to take down Huangya Pass?" How long will it take for the Yaguan?"

Li Bo put down the binoculars in front of him, smiled and stretched out a finger to Xu Yi, and replied: "The general is confident that he will win Huangya Pass within a day!"

The two looked at each other and laughed at the same time.

"According to what you said, tomorrow morning I will personally observe the enemy's formation and see if you can take down Huangya Pass in one day!" Xu Yi laughed.

"Li Bo dares to take the head of the item as a guarantee, and if he can't take Huangya Pass in one day, Li Bo will come to see the lord with his head!" Li Bo replied confidently.

Xu Yi immediately shook his head and said: "I don't want your head! It's better to put it on your neck. I just need to pass Huangya Pass tomorrow night. Let's go down and have a good rest tonight. The attack will start tomorrow morning." Bar!"

Looking at the large number of Fubo troops appearing outside the pass, the golden general guarding the pass felt his head was as big as a bucket. He had already seen that this time the Fubo army attacked Huangya Pass, at least [-] troops came, and there were still ambush troops behind. The soldiers and horses of the Polish army continued to march here.

But the number of soldiers he can use is only about [-]. Although Huangya Pass is dangerous, but for so many years, because it has been located in the hinterland of the Liao Kingdom, it has lost its role, so no one is there anymore. Pay attention to this, so that the Guancheng and the city walls have been in disrepair for a long time, and the thatch is everywhere, which is no longer as strong as when it was first built, and it looks dilapidated.

Unexpectedly, today, there will be a big battle here. He was also ordered to be stationed at Huangya Pass in the face of danger. The order above was that he must stand here for at least ten days and not let Fubo The army broke through Huangya Pass to buy time for the army behind to deploy defenses around Jizhou City.

But after arriving here, he discovered that the defensive facilities here at Huangyaguan were already dilapidated, and many places had already collapsed. It was basically an impossible task to resist the Jinghai army for ten days.

So after he led his troops to Huangyaguan, he immediately turned the whole army into engineering soldiers, started civil engineering, urgently repaired the broken gaps everywhere, and blocked a large number of earthworks and stones in the closed gate. It was completely blocked, and hundreds of young and strong people were recruited from the surrounding area to deliver them rolling logs, stones and other defensive objects.

But the Fubo Army came too fast, and they didn't have time to complete all the repairs and arrangements. The vanguard of the Fubo Army was out of Huangya Pass.

The Golden Army guarding the pass, after seeing the Jinghai National Army in purge outside the pass, each of them was panicked, not knowing that they could survive this battle. Many of them were Liao people, and they were forced to help Now, those who just went out to fight with the Jin army, they are not willing to throw their lives in this breakout, but they have nothing to do now, their fate is up to them, they have no choice but to block the Fubo army Well, if they abandon the pass and run away, there will be a large number of golden troops watching them, so where can they go?
After the soldiers and generals in the audience had spent a sleepless night restlessly, just after dawn, they saw a group of Fubo troops slowly leaving the camp and approaching the pass step by step.

Moreover, these soldiers of the Fubo Army pushed cars that they had never seen before, one after another, they walked a stone's throw away from the front of the pass before stopping, and placed these strange-looking cars in front of the pass , Sword and shield hand, crossbowman, and spearman stood behind these vehicles in an array, each holding his own weapon tightly in his hand, staring at the Golden Army defenders at Huangya Pass.

A young general went out to Huangya Pass. Many Jin soldiers raised their arms nervously and put their bows and arrows on the strings.

The young officer of the Fubo Army didn't take them seriously at all. After standing still, he shouted: "Our King Jinghai has an order to order you to put down your weapons immediately and come out and surrender. We don't have to kill you, but give you a Good future! If not, we will start attacking immediately, and we will no longer accept surrender if you want to surrender at that time! If you are sensible, quickly disarm and surrender. If you are desperate and want to resist, come and see us! Let Lei Gongpao agree or not!"

As he spoke, he turned around and waved at the Thunder Cannons behind him.

The golden soldiers on the city stretched their necks, nervously looking at the so-called Thunder Cannon he was pointing at, but I don't know which soldier was too nervous, and as soon as he let go of his hand, he shot an arrow with a sound. Fortunately, the arrow was shot very accurately, and after drawing an arc, it went straight to the young officer of the Fubo Army and fell down.

And this young officer obviously didn't notice that the enemy army would attack him suddenly. When he realized that the arrow came, it was too late to dodge, and he was shot in the chest immediately, but the arrow got stuck on his armor. An officer of the Polish Army, inflicting minor injuries.

The officer snapped off the arrow in front of his chest, and cursed at the closed golden army: "You don't know how to live or die, since you want to fight, let's show you how powerful our Fubo army's Lei Gong Cannon is! Fire me!"

Following his order, several Leigong cannons ignited the gunpowder in the fire gate at the same time, and there was a roar in the sky and earth.

The officer of the Fubo Army immediately turned around and ran back to his own formation, scolding his ears with his fingers: "Damn! You wait until I come back before firing! I almost deafened my ears! "

An artillery officer said with a smile: "Aren't you trying to show your prestige? Today, brother, I will give you face. It was you who asked us to fire the cannon, so we set it on fire. You can't blame us! Hehe, brother, what happened to your injury?" How is it?"

The officer who came out of the battle squinted at the artillery officer, and replied angrily: "It's nothing, it's nothing! Brothers, listen to me. Today I have made a guarantee in front of General Li, guaranteeing that we Make sure to take down this barrier today, raise your shield! Follow me!" As he spoke, he pulled out his saber from his waist, stepped forward under the cover of the artillery, and headed towards the closed door.

Many sword and shield hands raised their shields at the same time, raising the shields in their hands above their heads, and then formed a roof composed of shields, covering the figures of the soldiers under the shields, and forced them towards Huangya Pass step by step.

Under their shields, a ladder, with their cover, was carried by the soldiers in heavy armor, and followed them towards Huangyaguan.

Under the bombardment of the Fubo army's artillery, a cloud of smoke and dust rose from the gate of Huangyaguan, and the broken stones flew up and down. The golden soldiers who closed the gate were stunned, and they all crouched down to find places to hide.

The guard of the Golden Army saw that his soldiers were frightened into such a virtuous behavior, sweat dripped from his brow, and he himself was frightened to death. This was the first time he had seen such a siege method, and he didn't know how to deal with it at all. , but he knew that if Huangyaguan was breached, he would be the first to die, whether it was Fubo Army or Wushu, he would be killed!

"Stand up for me! Hurry up and shoot the arrows! Stop them, our door is blocked, they can't open it! Hurry up and fight back! Shoot you idiot, stand up and shoot the arrows for me..." He kept closing the door Running back and forth above the city, kicking those soldiers who dared not show their heads with their big feet, he couldn't care about other things at the moment.

Driven by him, these golden soldiers finally stood up tremblingly. At this time, the shield array of the Fubo army was close to their city wall, so they quickly started to shoot arrows.

The arrows were nailed to the shield and made a sound, but overall they couldn't cause much damage to the Fubo army under the shield. Only a few arrows shot into the shield formation from the gaps in the shield. The Fubo soldiers let out a muffled groan after being hit by an arrow, but most of the arrows could not penetrate their armor, so only a few unlucky guys were shot in the vitals and fell to the ground.

Under the cover of the artillery, several shield arrays braved the rain of arrows and rushed towards the city wall step by step. After reaching the bottom of the city wall, the Jin army replaced them with rolling logs and stones, and smashed at their shield arrays, which was considered to be a real creation for them. got into trouble and caused some casualties.

But when they were just beginning to cause some damage to the Fubo army, the artillery of the Fubo army saw that they could not open and close the door, so they immediately turned the muzzle and aimed it at the top of the city. Several blast cannons were deployed to increase the density of firepower. Under the bombardment of such dense iron sand, the Jin army on the city immediately suffered heavy casualties, and was suppressed on the top of the city, unable to lift their heads.

At this time, the crossbowmen of the Fubo Army also took advantage of the suppression of the artillery and joined the fire suppression. The bows and arrows swayed on the city wall like locusts.

The fighting spirit of the Jin army was not high at first, and they were suddenly overwhelmed by such a blow, and they were unable to fight back. Moreover, Huangya Pass was originally a deserted pass, and it was not operated by anyone. There were not even a few residents here, let alone any decent heavy weapons , even the basic defensive equipment is insufficient, under such firepower suppression, it can be said that there is no power to fight back.

A ladder was quickly erected on the wall of the pass, and the fighters with sharp knives filed up. At this time, the chief general of the Jin army guarding the pass went crazy, roaring and driving the frightened men to resist.

The golden soldiers were really helpless, so they had to stand up and fight against the Fubo army. Suddenly, there was a sound of shouting and killing on the city wall, and flesh and blood flew across the wall.

After such a hand-to-hand encounter, the soldiers of the two sides became entangled. In order to prevent accidental injury, the artillery of the Fubo Army had lost its effect, and everything could only be relied on by the soldiers themselves.

The Fubo army attacked from bottom to top, and suffered a great loss in the terrain. After a few soldiers managed to break through the city wall, they were soon besieged and killed by the mad golden soldiers on the top of the city, and their bodies fell to the ground. The city wall caused new casualties below, and the soldiers of both sides fought together on the city wall of Huangyaguan.

And Xu Yi watched the battle situation in the back from a distance, and he was in a pretty good mood. From the present point of view, the quality of his soldiers is not weaker than the Jin army, and it can even be said to be much better than the Jin army. At least in terms of morale, they have a huge advantage, which Xu Yi feels very relieved.

But at the same time, he was a little worried. Huangyaguan is easy to defend and difficult to attack. If the attack continues, the casualties will be quite large. After closing the gate and being bombarded by artillery, they will know that the inside has been blocked by golden men. It had been blasted away by their cannons a long time ago, so it caused a great hindrance to their attack. He really wanted to see what method Li Bo could use to take down this dangerous pass within a day.

After a fierce battle, the commando of the Fubo Army was finally withdrawn by Li Bo Mingjin after suffering a lot of casualties. After hearing the sound of Mingjin, this siege force immediately gave up those ladders. Under the cover of the shield array, they withdrew all the way back.

The Jinren immediately poured kerosene on these ladders and ignited them, thick smoke billowed immediately above the Guancheng, and the ladders crackled like several large torches.

The artillery started to ring again at this time, and after a burst of heavy rain, the Jin army on the city was immediately killed a lot, but the general of the Jin army was very pleased to be able to repel the attack of the Fubo army. , at least in his opinion, he still defended Huangya Pass, but what he was worried about was that he didn't know how long he could hold on to such an attack, so he hurriedly ordered his subordinates to go to Jizhou quickly and seek help from Wushu , if it all depends on his two thousand soldiers, it is estimated that it will be completely consumed by the Fubo army in two days, ten days?He asked himself that he didn't have the ability.

The fierce battle between the two sides this morning cost hundreds of casualties, but the Fubo Army failed to break into Huangya Pass, but they managed to defeat the siege soldiers during this morning. Under the cover of the city wall, a hole was dug at the foot of the city wall.

"Don't worry, my lord. Let the brothers rest. We will attack the city for the second time in the afternoon. We will definitely win Huangya Pass this time!" Li Bo said confidently to Xu Yi after looking at the pass with his binoculars.

Xu Yi also saw this situation, so he immediately knew what Li Bo's plan was, and said with a smile: "This method is not bad. When we start to attack the city later, let the brothers be careful, so as not to hurt our own people! Follow-up The troops must be ready to connect and take Huangya Pass in one fell swoop in the afternoon!"

After the soldiers had a full meal, amidst the sound of golden drums, the second wave of the Fubo Army's offensive started again. This time it was basically the same as in the morning. After the artillery was suppressed, the soldiers would use shield formation Cooperating with the archers, the attack on Huangyaguan was launched again, but this time there were a few more people in the team, carrying bags of gunpowder.

Under the cover of the siege operation, these people quickly piled up these medicine packages in the hole dug in the city wall in the morning, and laid a long lead wire.

After a burst of clattering gold, the Fubo Army retreated from Huangya Pass again, and another group of trapped fighters immediately took their place and lined up in front of the pass.

"The Fubo army is nothing! Brothers, you don't have to be afraid of them. As long as you block them, the commander will reward you! Work harder!" The general of the Jin army lay on the crenel and watched the Fubo army retreat, a little smug in his heart. In his opinion, although the Fubo Army's artillery fire is sharp, their combat effectiveness is not necessarily much higher than theirs. At least they have defeated them in two battles today, so they feel at ease for the time being.

It's a pity that he couldn't be happy for long, because he didn't see at all that there was a rope-like thing under the city wall, which was smoking green smoke and burning rapidly.

After an earth-shattering loud noise, Huangyaguan shook violently a few times, and suddenly a puff of smoke rose from the wall of the pass. City bricks and soil were mixed in the thick smoke, and rose into the sky, mixed with Some human bodies were flying and spinning in the air, and finally fell down.

Looking at the golden soldiers on the city wall, they have already turned into gourds rolling on the ground. At this time, there was a collapsed gap of tens of meters across the tattered wall. The gap was surrounded by the corpses of the Jinjun who were killed by the bombing. Some Jinjun were even buried alive in the ruins on the spot. How miserable it is.

The golden general was still secretly happy just now, but now he couldn't be happy anymore. After struggling to climb out of the rubble, his helmet had been smashed to nowhere, and he opened his eyes with blood on his head. Go, his heart sank to the bottom of the valley, and after a wail, he knew that today's battle was basically over.

A group of Fubo troops who had already prepared to stop followed the sound of the soaring roar, and under the leadership of the officers, they let out a loud roar and rushed towards this gap like a torrent...

As soon as Wu Shu arrived in Jizhou, he heard the news that Fubo's army had arrived at Huangyaguan, so he immediately ordered the generals guarding the pass to block Fubo's army for ten days. In his opinion, Huangyaguan's terrain is dangerous. When the gate is closed, there is no problem at all for two thousand soldiers to guard for ten days and half a month.

After all, he has never really seen the sharpness of the Fubo army's artillery fire, so he still looks at such things with conventional thinking. When he heard the news that Huangyaguan was lost, he took the case on the spot and scolded the guard for his incompetence. The guard was tied up and pushed out to beheaded to show the public, but after asking, I found out that the guard of Huangya Pass had died in the chaos of the army, and now he is under the control of Lord Yan, and is no longer his general. , this is the end.

The rapid fall of Huangya Pass caught Wu Shu by surprise, and he had no time to arrange the defenses around Jizhou before Xu Yi's army arrived.

But Xu Yi, based on the principle of the speed of soldiers, did not stop at Huangya Pass after taking down Huangya Pass. The army set out, crossed Huangya Pass immediately, and stormed towards Jizhou City.

Although the Jin army organized several interceptions along the way, under the sharp offensive of the third corps, they were basically defeated at the first touch, which made the progress of the three corps very fast. In two days, the troops went straight to the city of Jizhou , and the Wushu army set up a battle formation outside Jizhou City.

It can be said that Jin Wushu was not mentally prepared for the rapid arrival of the Fubo Army. Although he already knew the power of the Fubo Army, his deep-rooted contempt for the Song people made him underestimate the combat power of the Fubo Army.

The Fubo army he was facing was no longer the army dominated by Song people at the beginning. After the Fubo army captured the Liaodong and Zhongjing Road areas, after several times of military expansion, the main members of the army were actually mainly northerners. Among them are not only Song people, but also northern Han people, Khitan people, Bohai people, Mongols, and Dangxiang people. It can be said that they have long been a hodgepodge of ethnic groups, and the fundamental reason why these people joined the Fubo Army is Xu Yi's policy of establishing the country due to.

Before the founding of the Jinghai State, it preached the equality of ethnic groups verbally, and the military should not discriminate against soldiers of ethnic minorities. Moreover, after the testimony of important generals of ethnic minorities such as Xiao Jianfeng and Zhi Zhipeng, many people of ethnic minorities also joined Therefore, the combat effectiveness of the Fubo Army is no longer what it used to be. Whether it is cavalry or infantry, it is not weaker than the Jin Army.

The Fubo Army's offensive made it very difficult for Jin Wushu to adapt. For a long time, he followed the Zongwang Army and had always played offensive warfare. They attacked others, and when few others attacked them, it was like this when they fought against the Liao Kingdom, and it was still the same when they fought against the Song Dynasty. Many of his generals have difficulty adapting.

As a result, there was a call for an attack in his army, and he wanted to start a decisive battle with the Fubo army outside the city of Jizhou, and Wushu himself was inclined to this method of warfare, but at this time, there was another bad news. Arrived in Wushu handsome tent.

"What? Pingzhou fell? Another army of Fubo army appeared in the direction of Pingzhou?" Wu Shu stood up in surprise after hearing what the reporter said.

"Commander! A navy of the Fubo Army suddenly landed again from Pingzhou, and there were very few troops in Pingzhou. The city of Pingzhou was destroyed by the Fubo Army last year, and it could not resist the attack of the Fubo Army. Attack, now the navy of the Fubo Army has taken control of Pingzhou! And they are sending troops in the Pingzhou area, and they are heading towards Jizhou!" A scout, covered in sweat, reported to Wushu in the big tent .

(End of this chapter)