Five Dynasties River Mountains Fengyue

Wang Shenqi was very nervous. The Liao army rarely attacked the city, but it didn't never attack. Looking at the camp opposite, there were at least [-] troops under the city. It was very questionable whether they could defend.

The tense confrontation and preparation continued until noon.

With the sound of desolate horns in the Liao army in the distance, the confrontation was broken, and the Liao army's full-scale offensive began.

A large number of Liao troops lined up in phalanxes, carrying all kinds of siege equipment, slowly advanced in front of the long wall for several miles. Wang Shenqi and Dong Zunhui kept running around the city, loudly reminding everyone Soldiers in the city section.

"Take care of the enemy in front of you, don't look around, keep in front of you!

Don't care how many thieves there are elsewhere, there will be someone there to deal with it.

Don't be distracted! "

After the expansion of the Crane Army, some new recruits, in this kind of battle, just looking at the crowds of people on the other side, may be frightened and panicked, not knowing what to do, and losing their lives if they are confused. Most need reminder.

Many soldiers at the top of the city were breathing heavily due to nervousness. There were too many Liao troops under the city. Under the city wall that stretched for several miles from east to west, to the riverside and the other side of the river one mile behind, there were Liao soldiers everywhere. tent.

Just looking at such a situation, many people are already so frightened that their legs are weak. If the general does not set an example to appease the soldiers, I am afraid that many people will flee in battle.

Below, the Liao people are slowly advancing.

At the top of the city, dozens of temporary three-bow bed crossbows are ready, and the long city wall that is several miles long cannot be fully coordinated. Once there is a fight, one side roars and the other side knows nothing.

The same is true for the Liao army. On the long front, some places will soon stand out, and some places will lag behind. It is not a single line moving forward.

The Liao army in the east walked in the forefront and became the most prominent part, and soon advanced about [-] steps down Daocheng.

A sound from the east section of the city was accompanied by a burst of strings resounding through the city, and black shadows roared towards the Liao army in the distance. It was the bed crossbow at the city.

In front of the Liao army, the soldiers holding their shields couldn't withstand such injuries at all. They were shot down in a large area while screaming, and they were directly pushed to the ground, and some unlucky ones were directly pierced into blood gourds.

There are also a lot of misses, those with bad angles drag a large cloud of smoke and dust on the ground, jump and roll, making a loud impact sound, and some directly penetrate deep into the ground.

One point started, and immediately the whole section of the city wall was filled with firing sounds one after another, and the sound of huge bed crossbow strings resounded all over the city, and they became one piece, causing quite a commotion for the Liao army.

However, although the bed crossbows were powerful, there were only dozens of them. On the long front of two or three miles, they could not stir up too much waves at all, and the damage they caused was also very limited for the huge Liao army.

The most important thing is that the bed crossbow is powerful and slow to reload.

After firing once, two powerful soldiers need to quickly turn the winches on both sides of the tail to slowly pull apart the three huge bow arms, and then put arm-sized crossbow bolts on them to launch the next shot. The process is very slow.

After firing several times, the Liao army was within a hundred steps of the city. At this time, the Liao army in the rear had already started throwing a large number of arrows towards the city with bows and arrows in their hands.

Buzzing like a plague of locusts recurring, the blackness covered the sky and the sun.

Zhou Jun's veteran company approached the parapet, and dragged the somewhat ignorant recruits under the parapet, and soon the sound of clanging and crashing filled the city, and dense arrows were everywhere behind the city wall.

Many of them were thrown into the mud behind the city wall. In just a short while, the mud behind was like a paddy field that had just been planted. , was shot to the ground and wailed, and was dragged to the female wall or sent to the top of the city by his comrades.

Soon, the Zhou army at the top of the city also began to counterattack the Liao army at the bottom of the city with crossbows in their hands.

Immediately, arrows flew across the city and above the city, and dense black spots, like buzzing mosquitoes, filled the area between the city head and the city.

Zhou Jun's condescension is even more advantageous, and Zhou Jun's crossbows are powerful, but unlike bed crossbows, the effectiveness of bows and crossbows gradually declines in the face of a large number of shields.

However, this section is still the most destructive to the Liao army. The Liao army left many corpses and transported many injuries to the rear. The archers in the rear continued to shoot arrows at the city. The army finally pushed most of the long front two or three miles long to the city of Yijin Pass.

A large number of follow-up siege equipment gradually came up.

Wang Shenqi hid behind the parapet and watched the movement of the Liao army below, feeling very nervous. The Liao army came over much faster than he imagined!

At the foot of the city, there is a trench dug by the Zhou army, and there are a large number of sharp wooden stakes. The trench is to prevent the enemy from erecting various large siege equipment, and the sharpened wooden stakes are to prevent the enemy from approaching the city wall.

However, Wang Shenqi found that the Liao army was not a vegetarian. The Liao army had also conquered the north and south to expand the territory in the past few decades. From Liaodong to Hetao, and then to the grasslands in the north, they also fought in all directions and had rich experience.

They already had sheepskins and curtains to hold a lot of earth and rocks. Because the auxiliary army behind them transported them, they were even behind the main army. As soon as they approached the corner, they made way for the auxiliary army behind to come forward. They threw sheepskins and linen into the ditch. A large number of archers in the elite army are facing the city.

Some generals of the Zhou army realized that the situation was urgent, and went out to shoot and kill the Liao army who filled the trenches with bows and crossbows. As a result, they were shot into a sieve in an instant. .

Wang Shenqi was very anxious. Originally, he didn't dig these trenches to use these things to stop the Liao army.

Unexpectedly, the Liao army had been prepared for a long time and brought a large number of auxiliary soldiers behind. It was not prepared to let the elite in front fill the trenches from the beginning.

When the trenches were almost filled, many tall and strong men wearing several layers of armor and holding giant axes came out from the front army and kept chopping down the sharp wooden stakes in the city.

The defenders at the top of the city harassed them with bows and crossbows, but many of them were still standing still with their bodies full of arrows. They swung their big axes and quickly chopped down the sharpened wooden piles under the city.

Wang Shenqi was in the middle of the city wall, and both sides were still shooting arrows. Looking at the strong man of the Liao Army who was wearing armor several times below, he took out his strong bow, switched to the protruding right side of the city wall, and took a deep breath. Draw the bow and set the arrow from the side, aim with holding your breath, and release the arrow instantly.

The arrows whizzed past, and after fifty or sixty steps, they hit the eyes of the strong man of the Liao army who was covered in arrows. He fell down with a wailing cry, and suddenly the middle part of the city cheered loudly, and the morale of the army was uplifted.

But soon, many arrows roared and shot towards Wang Shenqi's position. He quickly lay down on the wall and moved slowly against the wall before moving to a safe position.

Wang Shenqi pierced Yang's arrow with a hundred steps, which greatly boosted the morale of the Zhou army in the middle section. Many Zhou army soldiers braved the arrow rain and started throwing logs and rocks down. Many strong men from the Liao army who came forward to chop wood piles in several layers of armor were crushed to death on the spot.

The Liao army in the middle section was frightened and began to move back slowly, but soon resumed the offensive again.

The two sides came and went, and the long-distance confrontation between the city and the city lasted for half an hour. A large number of arrows and rolling logs and rocks were thrown on the front two or three miles away, and the shouts of killing continued.

After an hour of hard work, many wounded were transported to the rear, leaving many corpses behind, and finally pushed to the bottom of the city.

With the joint efforts of everyone, the ladders were put on the top of the city, and many of them were pushed down by Zhou Jun.

The defenders have a special fork for pushing down the ladder, but they have to watch the timing. When the ladder just stands upright, before it is placed on the top of the wall, once it is on the top of the wall, it is too late to push it.

This is a test of the experience of the soldiers, and they are usually veterans.

However, the Liao army had a large number of people, and soon there were still many ladders on the top of the city, and the siege vehicles behind slowly pushed over.

Wang Shenqi hurriedly shouted: "Shoot the crossbow on the bed at the tower!"

In the chaotic and noisy city, some people still heard his voice. Several bed crossbows turned around and fired at the building carts that were pushing over. The huge power shot through the front baffle in an instant, and the Liao soldiers on it screamed loudly. Flesh flew everywhere.

The arm-thick crossbow arrows hit one after another, and quickly smashed the upper floor to pieces. The soldiers inside suffered heavy casualties. They jumped down crying, and the huge siege vehicle also slowly stopped.

However, there are six other siege engines approaching the city wall on the long front.

Wang Shenqi even nodded to the people next to him and said: "The building car on our side is destroyed, you take people from the two capitals to the east to reinforce, there are many people there."

They were all head-to-head, and immediately greeted people to pass.

Wang Shenqi paid close attention to the overall situation, and soon the Liao army began to climb the city. The hot oil and golden juice prepared by the Zhou army finally came in handy. Duandu poured it on the edge of the city, screaming for a while, the stench was suffocating, and the nose was pungent. The smell of roast meat mixed with the smell of anxiety was strange and disgusting, and a large number of Liao soldiers fell from the ladder.

The golden juice is to collect the excrement and urine of the soldiers and boil it. Pouring it on the body will not only cause burns, but also cause the wounds of the wounded soldiers to infect and fester. It is almost incurable and very vicious.

Although the Zhou army had a strong city, the city wall of Yijinguan was too long, and there were too many places to defend, so the troops were scattered, and the advantages of the large number of Liao soldiers could be fully utilized.

Soon there were also Liao soldiers who climbed up to the top of the city, but waiting for them were Zhou army warriors armed to the teeth with a giant axe in their hands, and when they lay down on the top of the city, their fingers were chopped off by the giant axe, and they fell down the city screaming. head.

The next person who climbed up to the top of the city was immediately opened by a big axe, and his flesh and blood flew everywhere. Many people can't rush up.

The front is temporarily safe, but after a while, soldiers with bloodstained faces came to him for emergency: "General, there are too many people in the east of the city, and the bandits have killed the top of the city!"

Wang Shenqi's expression remained unchanged: "Is it blocked?"

"It's blocked, but there are still people coming up from behind!"

Wang Shenqi immediately said to the army beside him: "You go to transfer troops, transfer a battalion of the reserve team in the city, and immediately reinforce the east of the city."

The soldiers got the order and went to transfer troops with the blood-stained soldiers.

The shouts of killing became louder and louder, and there were still a large number of Liao troops moving slowly towards the city wall below.

Zhou Jun's rolling logs and stones kept falling down, and the arrows on the top of the city were like swarms of black locusts, and they kept throwing down. Under the city wall for two or three miles, there were dense ants-like figures everywhere.

A large amount of smoke rose into the sky, forming black clouds above the battlefield and circling over the battlefield. The sound of gongs, drums and horns mixed with the shouts of both sides resounded through the wilderness outside Yijin Pass. The smell of blood became stronger and stronger. The battlefield is filled with an unpleasant smell of burning...

Wang Shenqi became more and more calm, and with more than [-] messengers and personal soldiers, he sat in the center of the city, no longer went to the outer periphery, and constantly dispatched the reserve team in the city to supplement the emergency, and finally drove all the Liao army from the city.

The battle continued, from noon to afternoon, the sun began to set.

The first wave of the Liao army's siege lasted for more than an hour, and then the horn of desolation came from behind, and the Liao army began to retreat in an all-round way, leaving behind stumps, broken arms and broken flags all over the ground, and a large number of wounded soldiers were dragged back by their comrades.

After a long battle, the soldiers on both sides were bloodstained and exhausted. The generals of the Zhou army gasped for breath against the city head full of corpses and blood.

Wang Shenqi didn't give them a chance, and after watching the Liao army retreat to the river, he immediately ordered: "Everyone stand up, don't rest, hurry to the city to rest now, and replace the second batch of reserve troops.

If someone doesn't move, he must be driven down! "

The messenger listened to the order and immediately went to convey the order.

There were nearly 3000 troops in the city, and he divided them into three batches of about [-] people each. The first two batches rotated to defend the city, and the third batch served as the general reserve team to support the city.

Taking advantage of the time when the Liao army retreated to rest, Zhou Jun also quickly completed the defense change, replacing the soldiers who had been fighting fiercely for more than an hour, and replaced them with the second batch of reserve troops who had rested for half a day.

When the Liao army launched an attack again after resting for a quarter of an hour, they found that the situation was completely different.

In the previous time, several places had been killed on the top of the city. Although they were besieged by the Zhou army in the end, they were either hacked to death or retreated, but in general, the confidence of the Liao army was greatly increased.

One siege has already reached the top of the city, and several more times of breaking the city are just around the corner, and the Zhou army's rolling logs and rocks are almost consumed, and the further they go, the better they will fight.

Yelujing and others who have been watching the battle in the Chinese army also thought so, but they did not expect to recharge their batteries and launch a full-scale attack again, but it would be more difficult than the first time.

This siege lasted until the sun began to set in the afternoon, but the top of the city was never captured!The Liao army is worthy of a full withdrawal.

Yelujing was so angry that he killed a supervisor and siege leader, but it still didn't help.

After a day's siege, the Liao army killed more than 800 people and injured more than [-] people. They suffered heavy losses, but they were still unable to attack the city.

That night, Yelujing couldn't bear such a loss, so he ordered two cavalry to go south and cross Yijin Pass to the south.

Chapter 236, The Battle of Three Levels ([-])

As the night darkened, a large number of bonfires were lit with iron pots at the top of Yijinguan City. The entire city was as bright as day, and night shifts were also required.

Temporary tents were set up in the crosswalk at the back of the first street under the city. There was a strong smell of blood. Many wounded soldiers were placed here, and the wailing of injuries and sickness was everywhere. Those who were seriously injured were basically able to survive.

Wang Shenqi was a man of few words, so he always acted more when doing things. Dong Zunhui and Xiang Xun set up night defenses at the top of the city, and he never took off his armor at night, patrolling and visiting the wounded soldiers.

Most injuries need to fight against the sky. If you can endure the fever without having a fever, or if you can survive the fever, there is a high probability that you can survive. If you can't, you have no chance.

There are also some seriously wounded soldiers who have been injured in vital parts and can only wait to die in pain.

Sixteen wounded soldiers who were dying were carried out of the camp and placed outside. When Wang Shenqi walked over, the doctor accompanying the army came over and bowed to him, then shook his head helplessly.

Wang Shenqi suddenly understood that when he walked over to see the wounded soldiers lying on the ground, most of them had lost consciousness or fell asleep, and a few were dying and wailing.

"Give them a ride." Wang Shenqi said.

The doctor nodded, and then he and several of his apprentices took out a special chisel and small hammer from the medical box. They skillfully chiseled the back of the wounded soldier's head, which could instantly penetrate the back of the skull and make people lose consciousness. Died without a sound.

This is nothing new in the army. The doctor and his few apprentices are skilled, and everyone seems to be used to it.

Wang Shenqi said: "It's a good burial, the weather is hot these two days, so go to the ground as soon as possible."

"No!" The surrounding auxiliary soldiers agreed.

He didn't say any more, but asked the adjutant beside him, "How are the casualties today?"

"310 people were killed in battle, and thousands of people were injured." The adjutant said as he walked.

Wang Shenqi said worriedly, "This is only the first day, so many people have been lost..."

"The thieves lost even more."

He shook his head: "We can't think of a solution from them. There are [-] defenders in the city. They lost so much on the first day. It won't work in the long run.

The commander-in-chief asked me to hold this place to wear out the enemy division. We must be prepared to defend it for at least a month. "

"One month...General, there are so many Liao soldiers, I'm afraid they won't be able to defend for that long."

Wang Shenqi was unmoved: "It's always right to prepare for the worst.

The news here must be reported to the commander-in-chief every half an hour, without interruption.

Prepare well tonight, the rolling logs, stones, arrows and golden juice must be sent to the city tonight. If the attack starts tomorrow morning, it will be too late, and the guard cannot be relaxed at night, the Liao army may attack at night. "

After explaining a lot, Wang Shenqi didn't go to rest in the big tent until midnight. Many soldiers slept in the street under the eaves, covered with tung oil cloth and covered with thick linen.

Hundreds of people crowded in the narrow streets, snoring like thunder, smell of sweat, smell of feet, mixed with the smell of blood is very strong, but no one cares at all, and the loud snoring can't affect them. Tired, sleep on the floor.

The conditions of war are such that most people are unwilling to go to war if they are not compelled to do so.

Wang Shenqi was a little better, sleeping in a room on the side of the street. There was a spacious mansion in Yijinguan City, which was the original residence of Liao Dynasty Guard General Tinghui of Yijinguan.

After Wang Shenqi took over, all the generals under his command persuaded him to live in, but he refused, and asked people to use the mansion of the final court emblem as a warehouse for the army to stock up food, supplies, ordnance, etc., while he and his soldiers lived on the side of the street.

Wang Shenqi's explanation is that the mansion of the final court emblem is located in the middle of the city, close to all sides, and the surrounding roads are wide, which can be delivered to the top of the city in time. It's settled.

.......

When he dragged his body exhausted into the room and was about to fall asleep, he suddenly found a figure sitting beside the bed, so he subconsciously held onto the handle of the knife.

When I looked closely, I found that it was a young and beautiful woman.

Wang Shenqi's complexion suddenly turned bad: "Who are you, and who let you in."