The Happy Life of Small Officials in Northern Song Dynasty

() The Xixia soldiers who rushed up later moved simple long ladders. They seldom climbed high to attack the city, but now they climbed clumsily to the wall of the stronghold. Without the threat of bows and arrows, they didn't take Song Jun seriously at all.

Song Jun on the wall of the village picked up the stones prepared on the top of the wall and smashed them down desperately. The time was short, and the stones prepared were actually not many, and every time he probed down and smashed the stones, he was caught and dragged off by sharp claws. The danger of the wall could not stop Xia Jun's offensive at all.

"Commander Ge, use kerosene, it's almost unstoppable." A personal guard rushed to Ge Huaimin's side and shouted.

Ge Huaimin stretched out his feet and kicked a ladder away from the wall, and three or four Xia soldiers on it, together with the ladder, overturned and fell into the crowd; After being broken through, Xia Bing climbed up the wall of the village and fought with Song Jun from time to time, and it would not take a while to be unable to defend.

"Okay, pass on the order, light a kerosene bottle and smash it into the crowd, and burn these bastards to death." Ge Huaimin shouted loudly, and waved the long sword in his hand to chop a protruding Xia Jun with his helmet in two Half.

The guard got the order and shouted loudly: "Brothers, Commander Ge has an order to smash down the kerosene bottle and burn these bastards to death."

The soldiers of the Song Dynasty on the top of the city were in high spirits when they heard the words, and they took out small earthen jars from the holes in the wall inside the wall like magic. Shangdeng picked up his hands and smashed it down under the wall of the village. The earthen pot hit Xia Bing's helmet and armor with a bang, and it was smashed to pieces immediately. Although the quantity was not large, even a few drops of kerosene would burn vigorously on the body. In a short while, bright flames sprang up from Xia Bing who was crowded below.

First, nests of flames ignited, and then they spread like a plague to each other, and soon burned into one piece. The soldiers of the Xia Army screamed in panic and hid, some slapped the flames that rose from their bodies, some They fell on the ground and rolled around, and some cried and ran into the crowd, hoping that others could help them put out the fire.

The soldiers of the Xia Army who hadn't been burned hurriedly dodged. Seeing other people covered in fire rushing towards them, they kicked away without thinking, and some directly swung their knives to kill them; The fire immediately became the nightmare of the Xia soldiers. Dozens of horses were covered in fire and trampled everywhere. It was nothing more than trampling to death and injuring people. What was even more frightening was that they would quickly spread the fire to other soldiers and horses.

From the throwing of the fire oil tank to the sea of ​​flames under the wall, in the short tea time, the soldiers of the Xia Army who were attacking around the wall have fallen into purgatory, hundreds of people's bodies are burning, hundreds of horses Fleeing around with whirring flames, hoarse cries, sad hissing of horses, sizzling of burning flesh, dying sighs filled the eardrums, and a pungent burnt smell at the end of the nose, Mixed with the disgusting smell of meat, the heat wave brought black smoke straight into the nostrils and into the lungs, making people almost suffocate.

Everyone on the wall was dumbfounded. Xia Jun didn't expect it, and Song Jun didn't expect it. When Ge Huaimin set off, Su Jin insisted that he bring ten kerosene and thousands of earthen jars for backup. is a nuisance; kerosene is useful, but in too little quantity.

If the ten pokes of kerosene were directly poured down and ignited, it would not have much effect at all, but according to what Su Jin said, it could be divided into kerosene tanks and then dispersed, and it could cause such a huge effect. No wonder Su Jin warned him that these Fire oil tanks are used to save lives, and they can only be used at critical times. If used properly, the enemy will be in chaos, and it is time to evacuate.

The fire was still spreading under the wall of the village. The cavalry who rushed up after seeing the tragedy under the wall of the village hurriedly turned their horses and ran back. Dozens of crazy horses on fire galloped down the hillside. Bow and shoot them with arrows on the way.

Yeli Wangrong was stunned watching from behind, muttering cursing with livid face, this fire burned at least 2000 people to death and injured at least 3000 people, he himself saw Yuan Dezhong driving more than 1000 cavalry to attack, but now he is running back There were at most [-] people, and all of them lost their helmets and armors, some even threw away their weapons, and some were naked. Obviously the fire spread to their bodies, so they stripped off their armor and clothes in order to survive.

"Incompetent waste, tell Yuan De to retreat quickly, and tell him to come see me." Yeli Wangrong scolded through gritted teeth.

The personal guard cavalry rushed to deliver the order, and after a while Yuan Dezhong, whose face was blackened, was brought to Yeli Wangrong.

"Your Majesty, the Song army is so cunning...they have prepared such expensive supplies as kerosene. If you give me a little more time to burn incense, the general will definitely take this stronghold, the final general..." Yuan Dezhong rolled his saddle and got off his horse. He kept shouting loudly.

"Give me back time? More than an hour has passed, and the meal time you promised has been taken. How is it now? You have less than one thousand cavalry left in your [-] troops. What are you going to use to take this village? Incompetent waste."

"Your Majesty, it's not that you haven't seen that the Song Army seems to have been prepared for a long time. How can there be so many Song Army guards in a small wild village, and how can there be kerosene equipment... The last general was beaten. I was caught off guard, I beg the king to give the last general another chance..."

"You are stupider than a pig on the prairie. Why didn't you find out the situation before the battle? A small Dingchuan village, even if it is a fortified wall, would not be so difficult to capture. In the final analysis, you are incompetent. Come on! Take this incompetent The generation dragged aside and whipped eighty times, deprived of all official positions and demoted to ordinary soldiers."

Yuan Dezhong exclaimed: "No, my lord, because the general has followed you for many years, and for the sake of the general's loyalty to you, the general has hard work without credit. You can't treat the general like this, my lord." Ah." Exclaiming in surprise, he knelt and climbed up to hug Yeli Wangrong's calf and shake it.

Ye Liwangrong kicked him somersaults and cursed: "I'm still talking about friendship with my king, I tell you, if you hadn't made meritorious deeds before, how could you have received such a light punishment? You lost the first battle, which severely damaged the morale of our army. , you should have been beheaded immediately, if you yell again, don't blame me for being rude to you."

Yuan Dezhong sobbed and got up and fell to the ground crying loudly. He wanted to get the first merit, but he was misunderstood by his cleverness. It's ruined today.

"Don't cry, General Yuan, don't you thank the king for your kindness? You really are, since you don't have that ability, you might as well just stay in your own place, but you want to be the first to show off. What's the result?" Someone didn't know whether it was persuasion or gloating.

Ye Liwangrong said: "General Tuoba Qingshou, you take the headquarters to take down this stronghold, if something goes wrong, I will chop off your head to show the public."

A bald general with a beard immediately stepped forward and shouted: "The last general obeys his orders and will definitely take down this stronghold in one fell swoop."

Ye Liwangrong said indifferently: "The arrows and strength of the Song army have been exhausted before. If you can't take it again, you don't have to come back. You can die in front of the battle or kill yourself."

Tuoba Qingshou yelled and took the order to leave, poor Yuan Dezhong was making wedding clothes for others, and was pulled aside by the guards, stripped off his clothes and began to whip him, he was so frightened and angry that he passed out after only twenty whips I don't know about personnel.

Xia Jun finally retreated, and the Dingchuan village was in a mess under the wall. The steaming corpse twitched and trembled from time to time, shaking off the burnt black shell, revealing the red cooked meat inside. People gag.

The soldiers of the Song Army had no time to take care of this. They all collapsed on the top of the wall and gasped for breath. The three souls lost two and a half. More than 400 people, and dozens of people were killed by the Xia army who attacked the wall, and the casualties have reached nearly [-]%; this is still under the situation of occupying the ground, if there is no fire oil to help out, I am afraid that half of the casualties will already be there , Song Jun is obviously not Xia Jun's opponent in hand-to-hand combat.

At the foot of the mountain, a cavalry force of 6000 to [-] men was marching in. It was obvious that the Xixia Army was organizing a new round of attack. Now there was no fuel oil, no bows and arrows, and no stones on the wall of the village. The walls aren't strong enough, maybe it's time to evacuate