One Piece of Song Dynasty

In the next few days, Li Xin taught songs in the city, and the two armies were fighting fiercely near the city wall. In such continuous fierce battles, although the Song army caused heavy casualties to the Jin army, the main casualties on the Jin army were overwhelming. Some of them were signed by the northern Han people and the Khitans. The losses to the main force of their headquarters were not great, but for the Song army, the consumption of war materials was very huge.

In just ten days, nearly % of the projectiles, arrows and other items stored in the city have been consumed. Even the Tiger Crouching Cannon they relied on was under high-intensity shelling, and many of its barrels collapsed. , but fortunately, Li Xin brought a lot of spare tiger squatting cannons when he went on an expedition to prevent this situation. In fact, artillery and gunpowder were not enough to worry Li Xin. What Li Xin was most worried about was the problem of arrows. The daily consumption of arrows is too large. In addition to hundreds of crossbows, there are also crossbows in the hands of soldiers. Although there are temporarily built workshops in the city, the daily output is far behind the consumption, and the arrows are made It is still a technical job, and there is also the problem of insufficient raw materials for making arrows.

Of course, Li Xin also prepared the final trump card for the Jin Army - kerosene. Those several thousand kilograms of kerosene were specially prepared by Li Xin for the Jin Army. Of course, Li Xin would not use them until the end.

However, after more than ten days of fierce fighting, the casualties of the Song Army were not too few. The Jin people frantically built thousands of catapults outside the city and kept bombarding the Song Army's defense line. Every time a battle started, the Jin Army's artillery Stones fell on the Luzhou city wall like a heavy rain, causing considerable casualties to the Song army. Even the Song army's thunder chariot counterattack could not stop the Jin army's catapult attack.

As a result, the advantage of the Song Army was gradually weakened, while the strength advantage of the Jin Army was gradually strengthened. Under the ebb and flow of one thing and the other, the situation became more and more serious for the Song Army in Luzhou.

At this time, the rescue army led by Han Shizhong was still on the way. They set out from Chuzhou on July st to reorganize the army. On July rd, they walked for two days and arrived at Tianchanggang. The -strong army that came from Yangzhou is now continuing on its journey. It is about kilometers away from Luzhou. According to the marching speed of to kilometers per day, Han Shizhong still needs five or six days to reach Luzhou, which means that The troops in the city must hold on for at least another five or six days.

On July th, it rained heavily again in Luzhou City. However, this time Jin Wushu did not order the army to stop the attack. Instead, he urged the army to strengthen the attack on Luzhou City, because such weather made it difficult for the army to stop attacking. The artillery of the Song Army was basically ineffective, and the failure of long-range anti-personnel weapons gave the Jin Army a great advantage. While they were bombarding the Luzhou city wall with heavy artillery fire in the rain, they concentrated their forces in the north of the city and tried to climb the city wall.

Having lost the firepower advantage of the Tiger Crouching Artillery, the Song Army's defensive firepower was greatly reduced, which really allowed the Jin Army to attack the Luzhou City Wall for the first time. Yang Yizhong, who was in charge of the north wall, saw the Jin Army scaling the city wall and personally led the people forward. To plug the gap, the two sides launched the first fierce close battle.

Both sides invested a considerable amount of troops on the north wall of Luzhou City. One side wanted to completely break through the city wall defense line and drive the Song army into the inner city. The other side wanted to stick to the city wall defense line to the death and try to drive the Jin army out.

And Zhao Chun was on the north wall. At this time, he was like a bloody man, holding a knife and rushing towards the Jin soldiers who climbed up the city wall with his companions, slashing left and right. At this time, Zhao Chun had already forgotten that he had just seen the Jin soldiers. The fear at that time seemed to have turned his eyes red.

After Li Xin learned that the Jin Army had climbed to the North Wall for the first time, he immediately rushed to the foot of the North Wall with a well-trained band, Zhao Ding and others.

Rushing to the north wall, Li Dong immediately asked Li Dong and others to get ready. After a while, Li Dong cupped his fists and said, "Your Majesty, my subordinates are ready."

Listening to the killing cries on the city wall, Li Xin ordered, "Let's start."

Then Li Xin, Zhao Ding and others stood aside, and Wang Shu asked, "Your Majesty, there is a battle ahead, what are we going to do?"

Li Xin closed his eyes and said, "Wang Shangshu, have you ever heard of King Qin breaking the formation?"

Wang Shu frowned and said, "I've heard of it. It's the military music of the Tang Dynasty. Are you planning to perform King Qin's breaking formation music live?"

Li Xin nodded and said, "It's true that it was performed live, but it is not the music of King Qin breaking the formation. Doesn't Wang Shangshu think that our army of the Song Dynasty also needs a military song? During this time, I compiled a military song and performed it live today to inspire everyone." You can also appreciate the morale of the army in killing the enemy."

Soon the prelude of "Serving the Country with Loyalty" began to play, which was played by guqin, guzheng and pipa. After the prelude, the powerful singing voices of Li Dong and others rang out, which suddenly attracted the attention of everyone around, even the people on the city wall. The soldiers on both sides who were fighting became unresponsive when they heard the singing.

Yang Yizhong, who was directing the soldiers to fight on the city wall, was stunned when he heard the singing. When he saw that the soldiers were affected, he quickly commanded, "Don't stop, continue to kill, and drive the gold thieves off the city wall."

When the soldiers heard the order, they all reacted and continued to fight the Jin army soldiers. Yang Yizhong breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that the soldiers reacted. Only then did he have time to listen to the song carefully. The more he listened, the more he felt in his heart. The blood was boiling, not only for Yang Yizhong, but also for many soldiers fighting on the city wall. Since Li Xin took over the Song Dynasty, he has attached great importance to the education of military culture. As long as the soldiers who join the army will learn to read, there will be The cultural soldiers could hear the meaning of the song. At this moment, they all felt that there was a burst of breath in their hearts. They had been holding this breath for too long. To say the least, they had been holding it in for more than ten or twenty years since Jingkang. Years old, to be honest, this anger has been held in for more than a hundred years. First it was Liao and Xia, and now it is Jin. They have been the targets of bullying for more than a hundred years, and now they feel that they It seems that he has never been so powerful as he is now, and his body is full of power.

This is not only true on the city wall, but also under the city wall. The soldiers on standby under the city wall and the onlookers were all affected by the songs of loyalty to the country. Some were silently wiping their tears, some were singing along in a low voice, and some were eager to Now rush up to the wall and join the fight.

Not to mention Zhao Ding and others standing next to Li Xin. Zhao Ding was relatively calm but silent, while Wang Shu was already in tears, and Zhang Jun's tears were already welling up in his eyes.

Wang Shu wiped his tears with his sleeves and said, "This song is so well sung. It makes me want to pick up a sword and rush forward to fight the golden man. Your lord, Rong Chen, may I ask, does this song have a name?"

Li Xin closed his eyes and nodded, "Yes, this song is called Serving the Country with Loyalty."