Fenghou

The soldiers are very curious, and many people come to see it every day. The gravity clock has changed the lives of ordinary people in a subtle way. In the past, all kinds of timers were used by wealthy people. Ordinary people can only know the approximate time, and the specific time can only be guessed. , With the public big clock, everyone can use this as a standard to arrange their daily life and do many things.

There are still hundreds of large ships moored on the Sanggan River, and many craftsmen are modifying the large ships, mainly installing small trebuchets and fierce oil fire cabinets. Soldiers generally use manual oil spray leather bags, which are completely sufficient, but For some precise strikes, such as dealing with catapults and bed crossbows on the top of the city, it is necessary to spray the fuel tank accurately and then ignite it.

Chen Qing and several major generals stood on a five-foot-high observation wooden platform, observing the situation on the top of the city. The observation platform was one mile away from the city wall, and the enemy's longest ranged crossbow could not be shot, so it was absolutely safe.

Liu Qiong pointed to the top of the wall and said, "Your Highness, those soldiers wearing leather armor should not be the Jurchen army, but the Yan army?"

Chen Qing shook his head, "There is no Yan army in the city, it should be the militia they recruited, the people in the city."

Liu Qiong also saw clearly, he was taken aback and said: "There will be so many people?"

Chen Qing sighed slightly, "This is Yanshan Mansion! Why did Tong Guan's army lose so badly back then? Didn't it just not get the support of the people in Yanshan Mansion? This is also the reason why I don't want to break through the city early. All the people in the city may share the same hatred with the Jin soldiers, and we will suffer heavy casualties, and even have to retreat from the city.”

Niu Gao said in a low voice: "To be kind to them, you can't just be gentle, you should use an iron fist, so don't have the slightest bit of mercy."

"you're right!"

Chen Qing said lightly: "The combination of kindness and power is the kingly way!"

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Inside and outside Daxing City, both sides are preparing for the battle in full swing. Time passes by, and two days later, a big battle will begin.

The first thousand and 360 chapter four Daxing ([-])

In Yuguan, Wanyan Zonghan led a [-] support army to the outside of the pass, but Wanyan Zonghan never thought that Yuguan had fallen into the hands of the Western Army.

This made him very shocked and worried. The shock was the speed of the Western Army. The Pingzhou Army rescued Daxing City. In just two or three days, the Western Army seized this opportunity and occupied Yuguan.

The worry is whether Yanshan Mansion is still in their hands?Can Wanyan and Lisa still hold Daxing City in the central capital?

But no matter how worried he was about Yanshan Mansion, the Yuguan in front of him gave him a headache. How many Western troops are there in the pass?How should he seize it?

Yuguan Guancheng is about two feet five feet high, tall and strong, and the city wall is about three miles long from east to west. It is actually a small city with four walls, but the only advantage is that there is no moat.

However, the Western Army dug a deep trench in front of the city wall and pulled up a suspension bridge. The suspension bridge is equivalent to a shield, and it is impossible to directly hit the city gate with a battering ram.

Wanyan Zonghan had no choice but to order the army to cut down trees and make simple siege ladders.

Twenty thousand Jin soldiers felled trees nearby, and captured a hundred craftsmen from nearby counties and ordered them to make siege ladders.

The craftsmen could only make a very simple and heavy siege ladder according to Jin Bing's requirements, and weave a raft out of tree trunks. Wooden sticks, pedaling and climbing have a place to focus.

Thousands of golden soldiers also made raft ladders together, first fixed them with iron nails, and then tied them together firmly with leather ropes.

This kind of raft ladder is simple and practical, because it is heavy and not easy to be overturned. Overnight, Jin Bing made [-] raft ladders. Some rafts were used as bridges across the trenches, and the rest were used as siege ladders.

Wanyan Zonghan's only hope now is that the number of Western troops on the city wall is small, about two to three thousand. Even if he pays the price of thousands of people, he can still capture Yuguan.

Before dawn, Wanyan Zonghan impatiently ordered to attack the city. Ten thousand soldiers rushed towards the city wall carrying rafts and ladders, and the five thousand soldiers of the Western Army on the top of the city fired arrows down together. Some soldiers were shot down by arrows, but they still couldn't stop the Jurchen soldiers from charging forward frantically.

The rafts were put on the ditch and became bridges. The soldiers carried the big rafts across the ditch, lifted up hundreds of raft ladders, put them on the top of the city, and began to climb up crazily.

Arrows were shot at the soldiers on the ladder of the raft like a storm. The Jurchen soldiers kept getting hit by arrows, screaming and rolling down the raft, slowing down the enemy's climbing speed, but there were still a large number of Jurchen soldiers holding their shields and climbing up cautiously .

Several soldiers pushed the raft ladders with iron forks, but the raft itself was too heavy, and there were Jurchen soldiers standing on it, and they barely overturned several raft ladders, but this was too time-consuming. Army soldiers fought fiercely together.

Seeing that the time was ripe, Tang Huai ordered decisively, "Use fire oil!"

The kerosene of the water army is filled with thin-skinned pottery pots, each weighing [-] catties, which is convenient for projecting onto enemy ships and neatly placed under the wall. The altar shattered, and a large amount of kerosene poured down. After the torch was lit, the raft ladder quickly turned into a sea of ​​flames, and the fire quickly spread downward with the flow of kerosene.

The Jurchen soldiers on the ladder of the raft panicked and jumped off the raft one after another. Immediately after, kerosene jars fell like raindrops, and the fire burned rapidly below the city. Bundles were thrown down the city, and the fire became more intense. The soldiers overturned more than 100 raft ladders, and the raft ladders fell into the fire and burned.

Wanyan Zonghan was very anxious, and ordered: "Send the order to retreat!"

"Dang! Dang! Dang! Dang!"

The bell for retreat rang, and the Jurchen soldiers who were attacking the city retreated like a tide. The soldiers of the Western Army on the top of the city took the opportunity to fire crossbow arrows behind them. More than 1 people retreated, and more than [-] people were killed.

Wanyan Zonghan had no choice but to wait for the fire to go out before launching a second attack.

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In Daxing City, a large-scale siege battle also kicked off. At two o'clock in the night, thirty large ships of five thousand stone sailed from the Sanggan River into the moat, which immediately alarmed the defenders all over the city.

"Dang! Dang! Dang!"

The alarm bell rang on the top of the city, and the soldiers sleeping on the top of the city were awakened one after another, and they immediately got up and prepared to fight.

Wanyan Helisa is also a seasoned veteran. More importantly, he understands Chen Qing's tactics and knows that Chen Qing likes to fight at night. Therefore, even at night, he deployed [-] troops on the top of the city, allowing soldiers to Sleeping on the top of the city, but once there is an enemy situation, you must get up and fight immediately.

The distance between the moat and the city wall was about ten feet, and it was impossible to directly build a shipboard city. However, the Western Army was not in a hurry to enter the city. They needed to use siege warfare to consume the enemy's vital strength.

As the ship entered the moat, the paddles on both sides turned and rumbled. The height of the ship's side was almost at the same level as the city wall. Jurchen soldiers hid behind the battlements and fired arrows. A soldier of the Western Army squatted behind a firing hole.

Arrows from both sides rained down like rain, and the sound of killing was loud. The distance between each other was too close for the catapults to be effective. However, the distance between the kerosene bags of the soldiers of the Western Army was just right, and strands of kerosene were sprayed up the city like arrows, and were thrown over immediately. The torch was lit, and there was a raging fire on the top of the city. The firefighters on the top of the city immediately rushed forward and poured sand on the fire, and the fire that had just ignited was extinguished immediately.

The Jurchen soldiers on the top of the city did not show any weakness, and threw small clay pots weighing several kilograms onto the big ship. The surface of the small pots was already ignited by fire, and when they hit the ship, the pots burst and the kerosene burned immediately. , but was also put out by soldiers of the Western Army with wet quilts.

As all thirty large ships sailed into the moat, the battle intensified.

The casualties of the Western Army have also increased, mainly due to the threat posed by the bed crossbow. Jackdaw iron arrows can shoot through the ship's bulwark, which poses a huge threat to the soldiers hiding behind the ship's bulwark. Soldiers of the Western Army continue to be hit by arrows Falling down, the Jackdaw Arrow's penetrating power is too strong, and almost all of them are fatal injuries.

Similarly, the top of the city also suffered heavy casualties. The casualties were mainly fire extinguishers. They became the targets of the crossbowmen of the Western Army while running. When the powerful crossbow arrows were fired, some people screamed and fell down immediately.

At this time, fifty heavy-duty trebuchets entered the field, all of them were not in the north of the city, they were lined up in a row, and the burning kerosene tanks were thrown out one after another, streaks of red flames were drawn in the air, and they passed the big ship with extremely high accuracy. High, only two of the fifty kerosene cans hit the city wall, and the rest all hit the top of the city. The [-]-jin kerosene tank shattered on the ground, splashing a large piece of kerosene, ignited by burning pottery, and burned immediately In one piece, the firefighter ran forward tremblingly, but was shot mercilessly by the crossbow arrows of the soldiers of the Western Army, fell into the fire, and instantly turned into a fire man.

The fire at the top of the city was raging, and the thick smoke billowed into the air, choking the Jurchen soldiers unbearably. They hid under the battlements. Although they could escape the fire, they couldn't escape the thick smoke. They didn't know that they had to cover their mouths and noses with wet towels to escape quickly. But the strong smoke made people unable to breathe, and the soldiers had to get up and run for their lives. Many soldiers fell down while running, were choked by the smoke, passed out, and finally died of suffocation.

The heavy-duty trebuchets of the Western Army did not stop, and they threw burning fire oil tanks at the top of the city one after another. The top of the city was reduced to a sea of ​​flames, and thick smoke and fear filled the city together.

The first thousand and 360 eight chapters Daxing (four)

As the sky gradually dawned, the warships and trebuchets of the Western Army had all been withdrawn, the fire was finally extinguished, and there was still some curling smoke. The city was in a mess above and below the city, and there were charred corpses everywhere on the top of the city.

The trebuchet threw dozens of rounds, but they couldn't control their aim at the back. Most of them passed the city and hit the city. One even hit his own big ship and burned the cabin of the big ship. Because of this, Chen Qingcai ordered Withdrawal.

In the city, hundreds of private houses close to the North City were also ignited by the fire, and burned to a piece of white ground. The owners of the houses fled their homes when the war broke out. They stood in the distance and watched the huge fireball fall from the sky. Not only they saw the fire, but almost everyone in the city saw it. The scene of a huge fireball falling from the sky shocked everyone's heart.

Only then did they realize how powerful this siege army was, and it was not the Song army at all.

On the ruins, some people fell to the ground crying and lost their homes, but more people were silently looking for the surviving things at home. They carried valuable items with them, but after all, they fled in a hurry, and there were still many belongings that were too late to take away. The old man picked up a broken teapot, sighed softly, threw it aside and continued searching.

"Grandpa, the food is still there, it hasn't been burned!" A teenager shouted.

"Great, take out the food first, be careful!"

The grandparent and grandson carefully carried out three bags of wheat from a cracked wooden cabinet. They were overjoyed. With the food, they would not have to worry about food.

At this time, the corpses on the top of the city were cleaned up, and more than [-] charred corpses were carried down from the top of the city. Half of them were civilians who put out the fire. The oil ball burns into coke.

Every Jurchen soldier has a bronze medal around his neck, which is the only way to distinguish soldiers from civilian husbands with charred corpses.

Under the city wall, tens of thousands of family members of the folk husbands were extremely anxious. When they saw the charred corpses, they could not identify their identities at all. Everyone knelt on the ground and wailed, distraught, but did not reflect on themselves, why did they go to To assist Jin Bing in combat?

In the fierce battle overnight, more than [-] Jurchen soldiers were killed, most of them were choked to death by thick smoke, and then their bodies were burnt. Many soldiers were shot by arrows and burned to death because they could not escape.

Almost all the materials at the top of the city were burned, including hundreds of large catapults, nearly a thousand bed crossbows, 20 arrows, more than 1000 barrels of kerosene, and soldiers' weapons, etc., and suffered heavy losses.

But is that the end?No, to destroy the will of the enemy, not only burn the head of the city, but also continue to burn the city.

That night, the alarm bell on Nancheng sounded, and fifty large ships sailed into the moat and attacked the head of Nancheng. There were no catapults or bed crossbows on Nancheng, only [-] Jurchen soldiers were engaged in bow and arrow battles with the Western army.

But there was no accident. Not long after, [-] heavy-duty trebuchets had been repaired and fired again. Huge fireballs roared down from the sky, which was suffocating. The city and the city were ignited again, and the people in the south of the city retreated in panic.

A big fire burned all night, and three thousand Jurchen soldiers died under the bows and smoke.

Immediately following the third, fifth, and seventh days... for more than ten consecutive days, the Western Army attacked the city every two days. After seven or eight attacks, the Jin soldiers suffered nearly 2 casualties, and the people in the city were also burned. There were thousands of houses and tens of thousands of people were burned to death. The fear of war finally overwhelmed the people in the city. All the peasants fled and no one wanted to support the Jurchens.

The shadow of failure hangs over the hearts of every Jurchen soldier.

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"Boom! Boom! Boom!"

Under Yuguan, the drums of the Jurchen army were beating loudly, and [-] Jurchen troops rushed forward like a tide. The soldiers of the Western Army Navy removed a thousand bed crossbows from Dachuan Mountain and deployed them at the top of the city. Thousands of jackdaw arrows shot into the crowd powerfully. The powerful arrows pierced through the shields and armors, and the soldiers fell one by one. Not long after, the second gurney crossbow shot out...

The tide of the Jurchen soldiers' offensive was only fifty steps away from the city wall. Hundreds of small wooden barrel fire mines were suddenly thrown from the top of the city, exploding above and below the crowd's heads and feet. A poisoned iron nail flew forward, and countless soldiers were shot by the poisonous nail. They were terrified. They all saw the tragic state of the soldier's poison attack, lying on the ground, crying and rolling. Many soldiers lost in pain, even if they survived, they would die. Falling disabled.

Thousands of people attacked the city and set up rafts and ladders. The Western Army was too lazy to fight them, so they threw down thousands of bundles of lit wheat straw and thousands of altars of kerosene, and the scene of hell on fire happened again.

Wanyan Zonghan urgently ordered the withdrawal of the troops. The bell for the withdrawal of the troops rang, and the soldiers ran for their lives as if the tide was ebbing. They all carried shields to prevent the Western Army from shooting arrows from behind. Unfortunately, this time they were facing Jackdaw Arrows, and a thousand Jackdaw Arrows were fired together. , Five thousand arrows shot at the fleeing soldiers like a storm. The iron arrows pierced the shields and armors, and shot through the bodies. The soldiers who ran slower were shot down by the iron arrows, crying.

Yuguan has sieged the city four times, this is the fourth time, more than 5000 soldiers were killed and injured, and a total of 5000 people have been killed in battle, but Yuguan is still standing tall, Wanyan Zonghan is helpless, and his confidence is gradually lost .

At this time, Wan Yan Zonghan got the news that their rations could only last for two days. Seeing that the rations were almost exhausted, 5000% of the soldiers were killed, and only [-] of the [-] army were left. They were all Jurchen soldiers. How could he explain when he went back?

More importantly, he has been unable to rescue Daxing Jinbing, nor can he explain to the emperor?

At night, Wanyan Zonghan was very depressed and drank alone. His son Wanyan Xiebao persuaded him: "Father has tried his best. We didn't expect that Yuguan would be captured by the Western Army. We didn't have much preparation. Fifteen thousand people were killed in battle. It shows that the father has gone all out, and the emperor and the court will understand."

Wanyan Zonghan drank the wine in his hand and sighed: "I just got the news from Haiyang County. This Song army landed in Haiyang County. There are 3 to [-] people. I will say why they appeared today. The bed crossbow turned out to be Chen Qing's navy, no wonder we couldn't attack Yuguan."

"Chen Qing was very well prepared, thoughtful, and considered every detail, but we were not prepared at all. We couldn't defend Yanshan Mansion, and we couldn't attack Yuguan. sharp."

Wanyan Zonghan pondered for a while and said: "Back then we destroyed the Northern Song Dynasty like a rotten one, but now we are beaten back steadily by the Western Army. Each of our soldiers is so brave, but we are no match for the Western Army. Xiebao, what do you think it is? reason?"

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"Boy, I heard some Han ministers say that the main reason is that our national strength is not as good as the other party's?"

"national power?"

Wanyan Zonghan shook his head and said, "I have plundered all the national power of the Northern Song Dynasty, so am I not as good as the Western Army?"

"Father, this is the difference in our understanding of national power. We plundered gold, silver, copper coins, jewelry, jade, porcelain, calligraphy and paintings from the Northern Song Dynasty, thinking it was national power, but a large amount of this wealth is still sealed in the palace treasury, and it has hardly played any role. My child understands , the real national strength should be land and population, we just pay the least attention to population, and the plundered population is almost dead, so that now the source of soldiers is exhausted, and only the old, weak, women and children are left in each tribe."

"You are right. Our understanding of wealth is completely wrong. If we don't find a way out, our Jin Kingdom will perish!"

Wanyan Zonghan drank a jug of wine, threw the jug away, and ordered in a sharp voice: "Pass my order, the whole army retreats back to Liaodong!"

The [-] Jurchen cavalry retreated overnight, and Jin Guo's rescue officially declared a failure.

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At night, the Western Army once again launched a fire attack on Daxing City. This time they no longer attacked the city walls, but directly attacked the city with trebuchets, and the warships no longer sailed into the moat. Only fifty heavy trebuchets continued to attack the city. Constantly throw fire oil clay pots into the west city.

Huge fireballs with bright red flames whizzed down from the sky, and immediately ignited raging flames when they landed. The west city had already experienced an attack. Hundreds of residential houses were burned down, and the people fled.

But this attack had a longer range and caused new losses. Hundreds of residential buildings were set ablaze. Looking at the fireballs in the night sky in horror, they flew towards the city across the line of fire.

The powerful momentum of the fireball landing made the people in the whole city uneasy. They thought of their own fate. If the Western Army entered the city, would they plunder and slaughter the city?

The camp of the Jurchen army is in the west city, but there are still more than 300 steps away from the place where the fireball landed, basically it will not reach the camp, but tens of thousands of soldiers have also come to the west of the camp fence, holding long contradiction cards in their hands, ready to fight.

At this time, no one thought that the real danger was inside the city. On the east side of the barracks, several black shadows quickly approached the barracks.

Several black shadows chopped off a barracks fence with an axe, and two skinny men got in through the gap. Not long after, more than a dozen large tents caught fire, and the two skinny men who set fire rushed back, and the black shadows quickly disappeared. In the dark night.

A fire broke out in the camp in the east, and the fire spread rapidly with the help of the wind. In just one cup of tea time, hundreds of large tents caught fire, and the fire spread even faster.

The soldiers in the barracks were in a mess and fled out of the barracks one after another.

Wanyan and Lisa rushed out of the tent of the Chinese army, and asked sharply, "What's going on?"

The soldier pointed behind him and shouted: "Marshal, the camp is on fire!"

When Wanyan Helisa turned his head, he was stunned. At least a thousand large tents burned, forming a terrible sea of ​​flames. The Western Army's fire attack for more than ten days made all the Jurchen soldiers afraid of fire. Now The fire was burning in front of them, and they were even more terrified. No one thought about putting out the fire or dismantling the big tent, but scrambling to escape from the camp.

Wanyan Lisa's soldiers ignored his orders and dragged him to flee outside the camp. Soon, Wanyan Lisa's tent of the Chinese army was also engulfed in flames.

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It was finally dawn, and the western army's trebuchets retreated, and the city was in chaos. Pucha Ahu hurried into the official office, and whispered to Wanyan and Lisa who was sitting in a daze by the window: "Marshal, the losses have been calculated. .”

"What result?"

"More than [-] people were burned to death, all of whom were burned to death in their deep sleep. Eighty percent of the big tent was burned, and the warehouse was not affected. However, all the personal belongings of the soldiers in the big tent were burned, which seriously affected morale."

"How did the fire start?" Wanyan Helisa asked again.

"I have done an investigation. The fire started from the camp in the east, while the western army's catapults were attacking the western army. In short, someone set the fire. Someone cut down the camp fence and entered the camp to set fire."

"who is it?"

"I don't know. It may be the spies of the Western Army, or it may be the people who are dissatisfied with us. Too many civilian husbands died. It may also be a scoundrel who came in to steal things and set fire. It may even be a soldier who went crazy inside. There is no evidence for his humble position."

Wanyan Helisa sighed and said, "General Ahu, do you think it is necessary for us to stay in Daxing City?"

Pucha A'hu pondered for a while and said: "Marshal, I'm sorry to say bluntly, if the Western Army wanted to capture Daxing City, they should have been able to break it long ago. For example, last night, there were no soldiers at the head of the Western City, but they did not attack the city. The humble official thought , The Western Army just wanted to force us away."

"why?"