Fu Song

Chapter 604 Six hundred four: Xiayi
"Attack!" Wei Wu waved his hand and gave the order to attack.

The drums sounded like thunder, and groups of soldiers armed with various siege weapons slowly advanced towards the distant city of Xiayi.

It has been five days since I arrived in Xiayi.

Huang Hai didn't run away, but he didn't want to go out of the city to compete with Wei Wu in the field battle.

He tried it, and on the first day the Baiyu army arrived in Xiayi, he personally led his troops to attack the unsteady Baiyu army.

After a great battle, Huang Hai, who had the superiority in military strength, was defeated and lost.

The [-]-step rider who left the city was beaten into a mess by the [-] white feather vanguard.

As the main force of the White Feather Army arrived on the battlefield, Huang Hai had no choice but to cut off his tail to survive, abandoning the rear army that was bitten by the White Feather Army, and fled back to Xiayi City under the support of the deputy general.

Xiayi is an important military town, and there are a total of [-] Zhao troops stationed in this area.

But together with the battle, the Baiyu army, which took the lead in attacking, moved too quickly, and the Zhao army stationed in various places either couldn't help fighting, or surrendered in anticipation. Almost half of the army disappeared inexplicably.

What made Huang Hai even more angry was that many Zhao Jun, who were his subordinates before, changed their banners, and now they turned into Song Jun who besieged Xiayi.

Now, there are almost seven or eight thousand soldiers of the Song army under the city of Xiayi.

The White Feather Army itself has only [-] people.

In other words, after the Song army launched its attack, thousands of Zhao troops surrendered and became the pioneers of the Song army.

This can't help but make people hate it.

In fact, it's no wonder that these people have made fools of the wall and swayed on both sides. It is indeed the so-called Zhao country, which is really not very popular.

Bianliang Zhao Song was dead, but Jiangning Xin Song was established extremely fast, and it was a perfect successor to Song Guo Zuo. This made many Song people have some expectations and hopes in their hearts.

After all, the people of the Song Dynasty have been working for so many years, and they suddenly changed to the flag of Zhao Guo, so there is no cohesion at all.

What's more, in less than two years, Zhao Guo has already changed a king.

Cui Ang was slaughtered, and Qu Zhen took over.

What you want to say about loyalty is a joke.

More, it is only the involvement of interests, a kind of inertia of obedience, and the deterrence brought by severe punishments and laws.

However, if he blindly enforces strict regulations, he will harm his wife, children, and family at every turn, and also makes many people dare to be angry and dare not speak out.

But this kind of dissatisfaction, if there is an opening to vent, it is very likely that it will be out of control.

Just like those troops stationed abroad.

After changing the flag, they did not hesitate to attack their former boss.

Of course, what is different from the past is that Wei Wu paid them a full month's salary as soon as they surrendered. Before going into battle today, those who dared to be the vanguard were rewarded with the usual money.

Not to mention heavy rewards, but for Zhao Jun, who has become a habit of owed wages, Wei Wu seemed too generous.

Qu Zhen, Huang Chun and others, who are military generals themselves, are naturally aware of the importance of things like salary arrears.

They also want to pay in full!
But it's hard for a clever woman to cook without rice!

Where does the money come from?

The army of the Liao people left, but when they left, they took over the territory of the Great Song Dynasty they occupied, as if they were passing through it with a grate.

What Cui Ang took over was a dilapidated mess.

After Qu Zhen took over, the situation became even more dire.

In any case, Cui Ang was still a husband-in-law, and he always has some means when it comes to governing. He has never eaten pork, and he has seen pigs run away.

But Qu Zhen couldn't do it.

He is a military general, and he has completely black eyes on how to govern, how to develop the economy, and how to develop people's livelihood.

What was even more annoying was that when the Liao army left, they almost plundered all the officials in Tokyo. This made Qu Zhen want Corporal Lixian to ask some people to help him, but he couldn't find anyone.

Therefore, those who can stand up and reassure Qu Zhen are some warriors.

So the guys who got on the horse to manage the soldiers and got off the horse to manage the people made a mess of the place.

The easiest way to make money is to scrape land.

But after scraping the ground layer after layer, it will eventually dry up.

At this time, he can only stick to his confidants first.

The other troops with a farther relationship can only let them find their own way to survive and go to find a way to make a fortune by themselves.

There is no pay and no food, why should people work for you?
Now that he hasn't worked his life out, Wei Wu has already handed out a lot of money.

And in the few days after arriving in Xiayi, Wei Wu really didn't plan to treat these surrendered troops as consumables, but cut down and collected a large amount of wood, and began to make various siege equipment.

It's like the trench filling trucks pushed by these descendants now.

Many siege parties are too lazy to spend time building such things as trench filling vehicles. The simpler method is to drive the surrounding people to fill the city with soil. As for how many people with little protection ability will die for this, the probability is It is not within the consideration of the commanding general.

When the Liao army attacked the city of Tokyo, they sent soldiers and horses to drive a large number of people from the surrounding area as pioneers to attack the city. This is one of the important reasons why the soldiers in Tokyo have no fighting spirit.

Most of the Tokyo Imperial Army were called from the Gyeonggi area. Their families either lived in the city or were nearby. A considerable part of the people who were driven out were the families of the Tokyo Imperial Army.

You said that you want these people to shoot arrows at their family members, pouring boiling oil and golden juice, I am afraid that most people will not be able to do it.

But now the Northern Expedition of the New Song Dynasty, consciously took the moral high ground, and wanted to recover the homeland and rescue the fallen people, so naturally such measures could not be taken.

So spending some time building a trench filling vehicle has become a must.

Of course, Wei Wu is unhurried, and has more considerations for the overall strategy.

Xiayi is just a breaking point in the whole big chess this time.

Detonate this war, but the point is not here.

Therefore, Wei Wu is not in a hurry.

But his inadvertent action made the soldiers who had just surrendered a lot.

After all, I am willing to spend time building trench filling vehicles, nesting vehicles, and use leftover scraps to create some wooden shields for many soldiers without shield armor. When attacking, holding this guy to cover arrows is always better than naked Be strong.

If you are really going to be killed by a strong crossbow, let alone a wooden shield, even if you hold a big iron shield, you can still be killed by a crossbow.

This is a matter of probability.

After all these years of fighting, how many people died on the crossbow!

With the sound of drums and the fluttering of flags, just looking at these soldiers who are approaching the city, it is hard to believe that this is an army that surrendered only a few days ago.

Of course, they couldn't help but cheer up now.

After all, these days since the surrender, Wei Wu has treated them quite well. What's more, behind them are the soldiers of Wei Wu's headquarters with white feathers on their heads.

No one wants to taste the kind of crossbow arrows that are dense like a swarm of locusts.

The speed of the impact accelerated, and when they reached the edge of the trench, they squatted halfway on the ground, erected their iron shields or rough-made wooden shields to resist the arrow feathers from the city, occasionally someone was lucky enough to be shot, and one fell headlong Falling down the trench itself also made the material for filling the trench.

After the war, these trenches would naturally have to be filled, which saved the need for digging graves.

The trench-filling truck behind him was finally pushed up. With the sound of rumbling, the trench-filling truck was pushed into the ditch, and the upper part was unfolded one by one. A wooden bridge appeared on the ditch that was one or two feet wide.The boards on the wooden bridge were nailed sparsely, but this did not prevent the soldiers from stepping on it to quickly cross the ditch.

The screaming Song soldiers ran forward quickly. This is a road to death, because this distance is completely covered by feather arrows, it will be safer to run under the city wall.

On the other side of the trench, the Baiyu army raised their crossbows in unison and shot at Zhao Jun on the city wall.

Up and down the city, people were shot and fell down from time to time.

Zhang borrowed the shield, bent his waist, and led a hundred people under his command to charge forward quickly.

He was from Huiting Town, and when the White Feather Army attacked Huiting Town, the battalion commander wisely chose to surrender.

But the wisdom of the battalion general seemed to stop there.

He glanced back at the battalion generals who were left behind, a trace of disdain flashed in his eyes.

It's already at this time, there is still an egg to be greedy for life and afraid of death!
On the battlefield, either you die or I die. Could it be that now you still expect your former colleagues to show mercy to you?

Really a joke.

At this moment, there is no other way, but to step forward bravely, if you can make credit, or you can still climb up.

My family members are all in Huiting Town, so what else can I think about, if I mess around at this time, I'm afraid not only I will die, but my family will also be hurt.

"Stop!" He withdrew his thoughts, and after a loud shout, all the hundred people under his command stopped abruptly.

Most of these one hundred people are from the township party of Huiting Town, which is why they have a strong cohesion.

"Lift!" Accompanied by his cry, twenty crossbowmen out of a hundred people raised their crossbow arrows in unison.

At this time, there was a sudden rollover on the seemingly flat ground, and a group of Zhao troops emerged from the ground, swinging their knives and charging at them, the attackers who had crossed the trench.

"Shoot!" Zhang shouted angrily.

Twenty crossbow arrows shot towards the opposite side with a buzzing sound. The distance between the two sides was only twenty steps at this time, and almost none of the feather arrows missed.

"Kill!" Without any hesitation, Zhang Jue held a shield in one hand and a knife in the other, leaped vertically, jumped over the shield in front, and rushed into the group of Zhao troops ambushing under the city.

The city fell into a melee.

On the entire attack surface, Huang Hai ambushed about [-] elite soldiers. Not to mention, this surprise army immediately caused a lot of casualties to the besiegers. No one thought that there were still people hiding under the city.

That is to say, when Zhang borrowed from them, because of his advance rebellion, he gained the upper hand.

Zhang Bian, who forced the Zhao Jun in front of him back, suddenly heard a buzzing sound in his ear, almost subconsciously, he shortened his body and put the shield on his head.

Swish Swish Feather Arrows fell, almost filling his surroundings.

"Son of a son of a bitch!" Zhang Ting scolded angrily.

The upper part of the city actually shoots indiscriminate coverage of the lower part of the city, and now there are so many of them themselves!
With the fierce counterattack of the white feather army in the distance suppressing the arrow rain on the city, Zhang took the opportunity to gather his men.

There were nearly twenty people missing all of a sudden, which made his eyes red.

"Captain, captain, General Hu Ying was shot!" Someone shouted.

"If you die, you die!" Zhang Ting shouted angrily, "I will listen to you from now on!"

The battalion general who was afraid of death finally died at the front.

Zhang Jie knew that there were Tibetan soldiers under the city wall because he had served in the Hebei army, and the Liao army had dealt with them in this way.However, the Liao army did not dig pits in the ground. Those Liao troops opened many secret doors on the city walls. When the Song army attacked the city, these secret doors that only allowed one man and one horse to enter and exit opened, and the cavalry inside jumped out and launched an attack. Charge, such a blow, is extremely fatal to the siege infantry.

And these cavalry didn't go back to the city. After they raided for a while, if they didn't die, they would beat their horses and drive away.And Song Jun couldn't catch up at all.

Of course, after a successful blow, these secret doors will be filled to death immediately, without giving the attacker any opportunity to take advantage of it.

Just now Zhang Jue just subconsciously defended himself, but Huang Hai actually ambushed a soldier under the city.

It's just that the Liao army used this move because they were cavalry, and they could break through the siege after a surprise attack, and the troops under Huang Hai were almost dead. Zhang Jue didn't believe that Huang Hai dared to open Open the city gate and let these people flee back to the city.

There were only five hundred people. Although they caused some losses to the besiegers, they were immediately surrounded and killed by the besiegers who had stabilized their positions.

The sound of Mingjin suddenly sounded from behind, Zhang Teng was taken aback by it, this was just the beginning, why did Mingjin withdraw his troops!

An attack like this one can barely be regarded as warming up the whole body!
But a military order is a military order, and Zhang Jue feels that retreating now is not a bad thing.

Because they played forward this time, they should switch to another battalion next time.

It would be best if his own brother could not die or die less.

"retreat!"

Zhang Tie is quite prestigious in this camp. Under his organization, this army covers each other, retreats each other, and fights steadily. It is in stark contrast to the swarms of bees in other places. .

If it weren't for the Baiyu Army who was waiting on the opposite side of the trench, maybe the Yellow Sea in the city would really dare to open the city gate to charge for a while.

But Huang Hai didn't dare.

Because this retreat was somewhat beyond everyone's expectations, the defenders were also worried that there was a fraud.

Zhang, who had retreated back, saw that the trench they had just rushed over had basically been filled.

However, he looked back under the city wall,
There was also a section of trench dug there, although it was not deep, but it was a slope on my side, and if I wanted to attack the city, neither the nest cart nor the ladder could be erected.

Huang Hai, the second generation of the army, is not useless!
"Huang Hai is quite capable!" Wei Wu smiled and looked at the lieutenant Zhou Guang beside him, "This round of offense and defense has a good appearance, and there is a counterattack that is beyond my expectations. what!"

"I've never eaten pork, but I've seen pigs running!" Zhou Guang murmured, "Maybe there are smart guys in the city."

"That's right, by the way, the camp on the west side performed very well just now, later you call me their chiefs! Those who are capable, we will reward." Wei Wu said.

"understand!"

"Take back the troops and go back to the camp. Everyone fought well today. Tonight, the brothers who fought today went to battle, slaughtered pigs and sheep, do you have any wine? Only fermented glutinous rice is fine. It's not a problem to get a bowl for each of you!"

(End of this chapter)