She Song

Chapter 227 Battalion Commander, fight or not!

Like a vicious wolf, the Jin Army fierce Angude stared at the military doctor of the Zhenguo Army rebandaging his broken leg.

He didn't quite understand why the other party treated him since he had seriously injured him.
Waves of stinging pain came through him, and he held back his words without saying a word, but looking at his shortened calf, he became inexplicably angry.

The damn Southerners actually broke their own legs with ghostly cannons. They could no longer fight on horseback. All their glory and future were gone.

Even if he does not die, he will be disabled when he returns to Beijing. As is the Jurchen custom, a disabled person has no rights. His family property, wife and children will definitely be divided up by other generals.

damn it!You have ruined me and my family!
But he lost too much blood and his energy could not support him. After the military doctor sutured and bandaged as much as possible, he told the nurse what to pay attention to and left.

The nurse brought rice porridge and water, but he didn't move. Rather than become a cripple and live on crutches for the rest of his life, it would be better to die cleanly.

Then he considered that the Zhenguo Army's preferential treatment to him was just to get information about his own army.

You want me to give in and dream!

Gude thought like this and gradually fell asleep.

Five miles away from Pingzhou City, inside the Jin Army's tent.

The generals who retreated in embarrassment looked extremely ugly. They didn't even get in for three hundred steps before they lost a fierce Angude. If it weren't for Wushu's extraordinary bravery, Zong Wang, the commander-in-chief of the entire army, would have died.

Recalling the sound of the shells hitting the ground and the dust thrown out, everyone believed that Wu Shu had not exaggerated before.

King Han Pao is indeed domineering!

Zong Wang, who had narrowly escaped death, was not at all depressed or panicked. He looked at the map calmly, as if he had never been to Pingzhou City.

After a while, Zong Wang cut a piece of horse meat from the plate and started chewing it. He seemed to remember something and smiled at the generals: "If you want to eat it, do it yourself. Don't talk on an empty stomach!"

Seeing this, Xiyin also smiled and said: "I am really hungry when I come back from running around!" He sat down cross-legged, took out his pocket knife and cut a piece to eat.

There were a total of five Meng'an following Zong Wang south this time, and the remaining four probably couldn't hold their breath. After taking two bites, one of them had a golden ring in his nose, and Meng'an couldn't help but ask for a fight.

"Second Prince, Gude and I are as close as brothers. We can't just stay in Pingzhou for nothing. Let me lead my troops to crush Pingzhou and chop off the head of King Zhenbei!"

Zong Wang stopped eating and drinking and asked, "Nuochi, how do you want to fight?"

Nuo Chi was not a reckless man, and said: "The Fourth Prince is right, the southern artillery is really powerful, but there is no light at night, and the artillery fire will not be effective if it is not accurate! With the skill of the men's horses and steps, one can If we attack ten southerners and charge to the city, Pingzhou will be destroyed!"

Zong Wang asked directly: "Do you want to attack at night?"

Nuo Chi nodded: "Exactly. At the moment, there are no artillery on the north and south walls of Pingzhou, so night attacks will cause minimal damage."

Zong Wang turned to Wushu and asked, "Wushu, tell me!"

Wu Shu was already convinced that there were at least twenty artillery pieces in Pingzhou. Judging from the total number of artillery pieces of the Zhenguo Army, there was no doubt that the defense of Pingzhou City had been strengthened several times.

Combined with the flag and the decisive firing, it can be proved that even if there is no Han Xiaoyao in the city, there must be the leader of the Yanyun Legion.

As a long-range weapon, the line of sight is definitely very critical. Nuochi is right, siege at night can shorten the time of being bombarded by artillery, which can naturally reduce casualties.

"The Zhenguo army not only has artillery, but also continuous crossbows. The Yanyun Army is heavily guarding Pingzhou. It may not be easy to conquer it in one fell swoop!"

Nuochi didn't like hearing this anymore. He turned to Wushu and asked: "Fourth Prince, others have always been afraid of us. How can the Jurchens be afraid of the southerners? I don't believe that we can't defeat a mere Pingzhou City." ."

"Let's talk about things. What's the point of arguing?" Seeing that the two of them were about to quarrel, Xiyin took over the topic and said, "The Zhenguo Army is different from other Song armies. It is not only prepared for long-term defense, but also dares to attack me." The army may even deliberately lure us to attack Pingzhou... Without thinking carefully, do you just go to fight in a muddle?"

Zong Wang nodded and said: "It is definitely impossible to attack the city with light cavalry, but the shortcomings of artillery must be understood. Therefore, Pingzhou still needs to be attacked. Night attack... I can try it, but there is no rush."

Xiyin asked: "What?"

Zong Wang pointed at the map and said: "Since they are hiding in the city, they can fight at any time no matter day or night. When the news from Jingzhou, Luanzhou, and Yingzhou is confirmed, send more people to collect southern women and children for later use!" "

Xi Yin's eyes lit up and he said: "That's right. Their artillery is also newly built. I guess apart from important places such as Yanjing and Pingzhou, there may not be many other cities..." Wu Shu also confirmed Xi Yin's Judging, based on the opponent building five cannons a day, the maximum number is a hundred cannons. However, as a new thing, gunpowder and artillery may not be able to keep up.

Without artillery, the Jurchen cavalry could kill all the Zhenguo troops with their eyes closed.

Zong Wang shook his head and said: "You can't use fire to light cannons if it rains. You can't use them if you can't see them at night. The cannonballs can only hit a line, but they can't hit if they are too close... So as long as you attack the city, you should rely on The sword speaks!”

When everyone thought about it, it did make sense, and they felt a little less afraid of artillery.

At night, the scouts from each team came back to report that the city walls in Luanzhou and Yingzhou were also fortified and the wilderness was cleared. However, on the outskirts of Jingzhou, the scouts were blocked and driven away by two or three thousand Xi cavalry and could not conduct further investigation.

Xi people?

One of the two pillars of the Liao Kingdom was also the target of the Jin Army's annihilation.

Xiyin was surprised: "Why did the Xi people appear in Jingzhou? Could it be that they joined forces with the southerners to deal with us?"

Wu Shu looked at Xi Jun's position and saw that it was only seventy or eighty miles away. He would definitely be able to get there in half a day.

"Second Prince, I will take my headquarters over to see what is true."

One thousand Jurchens can defeat two thousand Xi troops, and they are sure to win.

Zong Wang thought for a while and then agreed. At the same time, he told his fourth brother to place the scouts five miles away to avoid being ambushed by Song artillery, especially not to attack Jingzhou at will.

Early the next morning, Wu Shu led more than a thousand cavalry from his headquarters and marched towards Jingzhou.

After a day and night of hunting, the Jin army still captured more than a thousand old, weak, women and children from various villages outside Pingzhou City.

Zong Wang looked at Pingzhou City and waved his hand. Hundreds of Jurchen warriors armed with swords and guns drove the civilians into the city.

One thousand steps, six hundred steps, until three hundred steps, there was no movement from the artillery at the top of the city.

Xiyin curled his lips, Southerners are all kind to women, so they blinded such powerful artillery in vain!
"Those who bear soil three times today will live!"

Nuochi, who personally supervised the civilians, drew his long knife and pointed at the moat not far away.

The common people realized that the Jurchens were asking them to fill the moat with earth, and they had to fill it three times.

After the city is broken, they know what will happen, and the defenders will probably not show mercy to the fillers...

"If you cower, kill!"

Nuo Chi chopped off the head of an old man with a knife, and then slashed a young man diagonally. When he approached the crowd with a bloody knife, and when blood spattered on the people around him, the fear of blood and death erupted.

In panic, more than a thousand civilians took off their clothes and wrapped them in mud, then ran to the moat and threw the mud in their arms, while loudly begging to the city.

"Sir, please be kind and allow us to fill in three bags of soil!"

At the top of Pingzhou City, Han Shizhong gritted his teeth and stared at the civilians filling the soil, but could not utter a word.

Su Ge, an old subordinate, asked anxiously: "Batalion Commander, the soil has been filled, do you want to beat it?"

Han Shizhong had no strength but nothing to do.

If he had to kill a hundred Jurchens, he wouldn't even blink an eye, but it was really difficult to choose between unarmed civilians and his own people.

Seeing the Jin Army soldiers laughing and joking, killing old people and children who were running slowly, Han Shizhong was so angry that he punched the crenellation.

These bastards of Jurchen beasts!

(End of this chapter)