Fu Song

Chapter 710
Chapter 710: Attack
It was expected that Yelu Chengcai would attack aggressively.

But it came so fast, but it still made Zhang Ren and others a little surprised, a little anxious.

It is not an easy task to organize the evacuation of the people of the whole county.

Yongqiu is adjacent to Chenliu, and the people here have heard of the tragedy there.

Especially the words of dedication of those Chenliu people who just escaped made everyone feel urgent to leave. Even if some old people didn't want to leave, they were carried out by the children of the family without any explanation and threw them on the car. I have to go too.

But the problem of leaving has been solved, but the vast majority of people are still reluctant to part with the bottles and cans at home, they don't want to leave anything behind, they want to take everything away.

This time, it will be slow.

On the tenth day, when the enemy's scouts appeared on the border again, the last group of people had just left their homes.

It's still far away from a safe place!

But what annoyed Zhang Ren and other generals the most was not these troubles, but the fact that the scouts found out that among the main force of the Liao army, there was actually the banner of King Song.

Who is King Song?

The former Supreme Emperor of the Song Dynasty!
Yelu Chengcai brought this guy here, not at random, what should he do if this guy stops next to the city and shouts a few times?

"How can a person be so shameless!" Ren Zhong angrily knocked on the table with a knife, "We are guarding the country of his Zhao family!"

"We are defending the country of the common people!" Zhang Ren said coldly: "This Supreme Emperor is a fake. The court said that the real Supreme Emperor is dead. This must be an impostor to disturb our army's morale."

"Of course we can think so, but what about the soldiers below? Commander, this will undoubtedly have a great impact on the soldiers! Even half-believing is still an annoying thing."

Zhang Ren thought for a while, and suddenly asked someone to bring a pen and ink, and scribbled a portrait of a character on a piece of paper. He looked at the two and said, "Look, does it look like the Great Song Taizu?"

Both Ren Zhong and Wu Zheng looked at Zhang Ren with wide eyes. Of course they had seen the portrait of Taizu, but they didn't expect Zhang Ren to be good at Dan Qing, which was exactly the same as the portrait they had seen before.

"Draw a big portrait of Taizu Taizong and place it on the city tower." Zhang Rendao: "Didn't that son of a bitch King Song say that he is Zhao Suo? I want to see if he will order the troops to attack the city." Throwing stones on the head of one's ancestors, shooting feather arrows? If he dares, it's a fake. If he doesn't dare, hahaha..."

"He doesn't dare, Yelu Chucai dares!" Ren Zhong said.

"Then it doesn't matter, as long as you prove that you are a Xibei product. The Liao people are shameless, and they even found someone to pretend to be the emperor of our Great Song Dynasty. Although he is a prodigal emperor, this makes people very angry, doesn't it?" Zhang Ren said proudly.

"Not to mention, I think this method will work!" Wu Zheng said.

"That's it!" Zhang Ren said: "Ren Zhong, you take all the cavalry out of the city and defend the city. You don't need your cavalry. In addition, Yelu Chengcai made a big attack, and our people have not gone far. The Liao people's cavalry Maybe they will bypass us to attack and capture these retreating civilians, you guys, you still need to cover these civilians to evacuate."

"Yes!" This is the assignment of combat missions, Ren Zhong didn't say anything, and took the order directly.

Under the current situation, there is no safer place outside or in the city.

"For the combat mission of the cavalry, you can act according to your own camera!" Zhang Rendao: "It is better to reduce the pressure of defending the city. If not, we must preserve our strength. When we retreat, we can also form a boost. Under the nose of the enemy Retreating is more difficult than defending the city!"

"Understood!" Ren Zhong nodded.

"Wu Zheng, except for combat, I will leave all the rest to you." Zhang Ren said: "It has just entered October, and we have to persist for at least half a month before we can retreat. Food, ordnance, medicine, etc., we must always Keep your morale high."

"Commander, don't worry!"

Yongqiu County is not big, but after all the people in the city have evacuated, it still looks empty.

There are only more than [-] soldiers and hundreds of medical staff and assistants left in the city.

Ren Zhong took away the remaining [-] cavalry. They will swim outside to fight, so as to cover the retreating people, and secondly, to contain the enemy who is attacking the city.

No matter how much they can contain, as long as they exist, the enemy will have to spend part of their strength to pay attention to them.

Wu Zheng led people to demolish the house.

All the houses near the city wall have been demolished, and stones and wood have now become tools for defending the city.

He ordered the collection of feces and urine from several public toilets in the city.

This thing is boiled, poured down when the enemy is attacking the city, the lethality it brings is more painful than a sword, and it is extremely difficult to cure.

Zhang Ren was busy leading people to erect two huge portraits.

The frame for the portrait was built with bamboo, and white paper was pasted on it, and Zhang Ren drew the painting himself.

Ordinary soldiers didn't know who the two people in Zhang Ren's painting were, but when Zhang Ren told them that they were the Taizu and Taizong who founded the Song Dynasty, everyone couldn't help but be in awe.

Because without these two people, naturally there would be no Da Song.

Think of the source when you drink water!
As for why these two statues were erected, Zhang Ren told everyone that this time we are facing a strong enemy, and the founding ancestor of the Song Dynasty will bless everyone in the sky.

Three days later, as the vanguard, Zhou Shuguang's troops arrived outside Yongqiu County first.

Facing the opponent who began to build a camp in the distance, the city of Yongqiu was peaceful, no one went out of the city to attack the opponent, and the opponent was allowed to build a camp almost against the wall of Yongqiu.

Five days later, Yelu Chengcai's main force entered the camp.

"All the [-] Liao troops stationed in Tokyo have come. Yelu Chengcai really doesn't move, but he wants to give us a crushing blow!" Zhang Ren said after counting the flags on the opposite side.

"The Liao army is not the most troublesome." Wu Zheng frowned deeply, "Did you see those people outside the camp?"

"prisoner!"

"How can there be so many criminals? They are just ordinary people captured by the Liao people during the march!" Wu Zheng said: "Once the city is attacked, these people will definitely be expelled by the Liao people as pioneers!"

Zhang Ren glanced at Wu Zheng. "Anyone who attacks my city wall is an enemy!"

"That's what I said, but when faced with such a situation, it's still very difficult to make a move!"

"I'm afraid General Wu has to explain this to the soldiers first! When the two armies confront each other, any kind of shameless means will be used. Either you die or I die. If they don't want to die, they can only do it. !"

Wu Zheng nodded silently.

Yelu Chengcai seemed impatient.

On the day after arriving at Yongqiu, the mist covering the world had just dissipated and the golden sun was about to shine down when the rumbling drums pierced the peace between the world and the earth.

First, countless cavalry poured out from both sides of the camp, and after gathering in front of the camp, they rushed towards the city like two dragons, one left and one right, circling back and forth continuously after a distance of more than a hundred steps.

Behind them, groups of infantry walked out of the camp amidst the sound of drums and began to form infantry.

Yelu Chengcai's camp was built very close to the city wall of Yongqiu. For them, they could basically line up and prepare to attack as soon as they left the camp.

Half an hour later, the Liao army finished forming.

Behind the infantry, heavy weapons such as huge trebuchets and eight-ox crossbows also showed hideous faces one by one.

The Liao army has always used cavalry to frighten the world, and it is also the most headache for the Song army. If they can beat it, they will fight, and if they can't beat it, they will run away, so that even if the Song army wins, they will not gain any results.But if you lose, the consequences will be serious.

This makes the infantry of the Liao army ignored, and many people think that the infantry of the Liao army is very poor.

actually not.

Although they were inferior to the heavy infantry group of the Song Dynasty, the Bufu of the Liao Army was still a strong force in the world.And in these years, because Xiao Chuo kidnapped the entire craftsman from Tokyo, a large number of generals of the Song Army surrendered to the Liao Kingdom, making the Liao Army's infantry no matter in terms of combat awareness, combat ability, or equipment , are not inferior to the Song Dynasty Heavy Infantry Group.

"King Song, it's your turn!" Yelu Chengcai on the horse looked at Zhao Suo on the carriage with a smile on his back, "It's a great achievement to be able to call down the city of Yongqiu. The queen mother will be very happy."

Zhao Suo's complexion was naturally not good-looking.

But how can a person not bow his head under the eaves?

After the initial loss of the courage to resist, it is basically impossible to muster up again.

With Yelu Chengcai's whip waving, the resplendent carriage began to move forward, and the guard of honor of King Song also began to accompany him.

As for whether the Song army in the city would attack the carriage, it was not within the scope of Yelu Chengcai's consideration.

Yongqiu County was also quiet, and did not attack Zhao Suo because his carriage had already entered the attack range.

This made Zhao Suo feel confident. It seemed that his identity was very deterrent to the soldiers of Song Dynasty above the city.

The carriage stopped, Zhao Suo stood up and cleared his throat.

When he was about to speak, he suddenly saw two huge portraits rising from the ground on both sides of the city.

Two lifelike portraits wearing crowns appeared in front of his eyes.

That appearance is so familiar.

It is the founding ancestor of the Song Dynasty that he worshiped since he was a child.

Song Taizu!
Song Taizong!
Zhao Suo's face turned pale in an instant, and he sat back down with a bang, tears streaming down his face, but he couldn't keep shouting these words no matter what.

"Go back, go back!"

He stomped his feet in a gaffe, and yelled at the coachman frantically.

Yelu Chengcai, who was in the distance, watched this scene, and couldn't help but flatten his mouth. The Song general who guarded the city was really cunning enough to come up with such a trick.

Well, Zhao Suo's move probably won't work.

The key is that Zhao Suozhen yelled from below, and no one above probably would believe it.

"Get ready to attack!" He said flatly, "If there is a way to heaven, you will not go, but you will come to hell if there is no way. I am really annoyed, and it will take a lot of effort."

The sound of drums suddenly sounded. As Wu Zheng expected, it was not the Liao army who rushed out first, but the criminals. These people held simple sticks, forks, and carried ladders in their hands. Driven by the cavalry, they headed towards the city wall. rushed.

And when these impacts were launched, the trebuchet on the opposite side also made a whistling sound.

On the top of the city, Zhang Ren's face changed slightly when he looked at the things with sparks thrown out by the trebuchet in the air, and he shouted angrily: "Everyone, enter the Tibetan soldier cave!"

These people who were forcibly driven to attack arrived at the city wall almost at the same time as the medicine bags.

Most of the medicine packs exploded on the city wall, some even crossed the city wall and exploded inside the city, and some of them fell down because of insufficient throwing distance, and exploded among the attackers.

No one paid any attention to those who died under their own firearms, the ladder was erected, and the people yelled frantically and climbed towards the city.

Because of the emergence of gunpowder weapons, the defense of the city has changed a lot compared to the past. For example, the caves for hiding soldiers to avoid artillery fire have now become common existence.

After the first round of artillery fire, the soldiers rushed out of the cave and rushed to their combat posts.

"Fire ready!"

A door that had been filled long ago was pushed out of the cave, and the fuse was lit, and there was a bang.

An ax was chopped heavily on the iron hook in front of the ladder, and then the push rod was pressed against the ladder. A group of people worked together to push the ladder far away.

A well-known archer rushed to the edge of the city wall with a well-stringed divine arm bow, shot the feather arrow in his hand at the people below, and then quickly retreated to make way for the second group of people.

Some enemies rushed up, they screamed frantically, and raised the crude weapons in their hands to attack the fully armored Song army, and were easily hacked to death by the Song army, stabbing them to death on the city wall.

Another medicine bag flew over, but this time the Song Army could no longer hide it, because there were enemies climbing up everywhere on the city wall.

In the sound of the explosion, the enemy and the enemy died together.

"Bowball, crossbow, destroy their trebuchet!" Zhang Ren shouted wildly.

The thick crossbow bolts of more than a dozen crossbow machines were tied with explosive packs. After the fuses were ignited, they flew towards the Liao people's catapults in the distance with a huge whistling sound.

There was a loud bang and smoke rose.

Some hit the target and blew the Liao army's trebuchets into a pile of logs, while some missed, but fell into the infantry crowd, within a radius of several feet, almost no one could stand anymore.

Yelu Chengcai's commanding flag has retreated far beyond the range of the artillery fire. Hearing the sound of huge explosions from time to time, and seeing the people and things being blown into the air by the air waves, his brows are frowned. It was deeply wrinkled.

The full use of gunpowder weapons gave the weak Song State the capital to fight against the mighty Daliao.

The power of the powerful cavalry is being weakened.

Moreover, the Song people obviously had more experience than Daliao in the use of gunpowder.

No wonder the Empress Dowager Chengtian wanted to attack at all costs.

(End of this chapter)