She Song

Chapter 231
Following Xi Yin's story, generals such as Zong Wang and Wu Shu had to accept the fact that the Jurchen cavalry was defeated by Pingzhou.

Because, the scouts discovered that more than ten thousand Song troops on foot and cavalry from the direction of Pingzhou were heading towards Jingzhou.

The Song army attacked Xiyin at night. After succeeding, they did not withdraw to Pingzhou, but instead marched towards Jingzhou in the wild.

This doesn't make sense?
Zong Wang, who had suffered two losses, learned the lesson. He first suppressed his subordinates who were eager to go to war and asked, "Who can tell me what the King of Zhenbei wants to do?"

The opponent led his troops out of the city and must have had high morale after annihilating Xi Yin's troops. Now that they are chasing after them, what else can they do? They must want to defeat Zong Wang in a grand battle.

Wu Shu was outspoken and said: "After a few days, the equipment and morale of the Zhenguo Army are very good, much stronger than the Liao Army and the Xi Army. In addition, the scouts around Jingzhou have been attacked by them. I guess they want to By making us deaf and blind, does that mean he is surrounding us?"

Even though Nuo Chi and Xi Yin's troops were lost, Zong Wang still had more than 8000 troops in his hands.

According to Zong Wang's judgment, with these eight thousand cavalry, there is no problem in hitting the horizon. Even if the Zhenguo army has 10 people, they can't even think of surrounding themselves.

Zong Wang laughed, and then the generals also laughed.

Wu Shu was a little unconvinced and asked: "Second Prince, we are fighting in an enemy country. Weird things happen to Han Xiaoyao one after another. Please don't be careless!"

Zong Wang waved his hand and said: "I'm not laughing at what you said, but I admire his courage more and more. Ten thousand cavalry are probably all the troops in Pingzhou, right? But he actually wants to eat our eight thousand cavalry? Just because Artillery and repeating crossbows?”

This is when Meng An suddenly said: "Are they here to save Jingzhou?"

Zong Wang shook his head, Pingzhou was obviously more important than Jingzhou, and Han Xiaoyao and Zhang Jue were dispatched together, unless the emperor came to Jingzhou City.

Xi Yin suddenly said: "According to the distance calculation, they will arrive tomorrow at the soonest. It is better to take Jingzhou first and open the road to the west. Then it will not hinder Yanjing or fight with it."

This is the original battle plan with established ideas.

Zong Wang thought about it and felt that this suggestion was safer. At least the food problem should be solved first, otherwise he would be without food in another day.

So, the Jin army began to prepare for the attack. In fact, Jingzhou City was not big. Not long after the fierce battle between the Zhenguo Army and the Xi Army, the urgently reinforced city defense was one level behind Pingzhou.

Therefore, Zong Wang decided to attack the city from the north and south at the same time and defeat the defenders as quickly as possible.

Since there were no artillery at the top of the city, the Jin army was only 3000 steps away from Jingzhou. Wushu led 5000 men to attack the south city, and Zongwang led [-] men to suppress the formation in the north.

The movements of the Jurchen army had long been known by the Zhenguo Army's investigation.

Yuan Shishi knew that the strategic purpose of attracting Zong Wang had been achieved. The next step was to test the defensive ability of the first division to see whether it could hold back the Jin army and kill the opponent in large numbers.

"It seems that Zong Wang plans to have two sides. Lao Sun and Lao Tu will lead the second regiment to defend the south city, while Xiao Dong and I will defend the north city! Lao Guo, you are in the middle to support us!"

This was the arrangement in the plan. Everyone did their own thing and had no objections, but Xiao Qian asked: "What about us?"

Yuan Shishi smiled and said: "You guys line up behind Lao Guo, and you can come up after we've beaten them all!"

Xiao Qian knew that the Zhenguo Army was much stronger than his men. Once the Jurchens launched an attack, it would be extremely brutal at the beginning, so it was well-intentioned to put them at the end of the order.

There were eight thousand Jurchens gathered outside the city, and there would never be any disagreements at this time.

Finally, Yuan Shisi warned: "Remember, our mission is to hold Zong Wang back so that other troops can encircle him. First, let's beat down their arrogance and then slowly wear them down. If they can't bear it anymore, it'll be fine. Retreat to the houses." Street fighting, grind it out bit by bit!”

"Yes!" Everyone immediately rushed to their respective posts.

When the Jurchens blew the horn, 500 siege teams were dispatched from the north and the south at the same time. At the same time, the Jurchen Qingqi began to throw bows and arrows at the top of the city, and the defending officers and soldiers of the Zhenguo Army immediately fired back with bows and crossbows.

The Jurchen cavalry galloped to the bottom of the city wall at high speed and jumped onto the top of the wall using inertia. However, the defenders calmly picked up their spears or repeating crossbows and methodically killed and wounded all the enemy troops who appeared at the crenellations.

However, accidents always happened on the [-]-step city wall. The Jurchens quickly rushed to the north and south city walls and started a melee with the First Division.

After nearly half an hour of fierce fighting, both the north and the south were in emergency. The Jurchen siege troops rushed towards the gap with all their strength. Jingzhou's defense line was about to collapse. Yuan Shisi and Sun Zhi coincidentally used secret weapons.To the north of Jingzhou, Zong Wang and Xi Yin were watching the progress of the siege troops.

So far everything is normal, and the situation is extremely favorable to our side. As long as a hundred or so people come up, we can break the city.

Suddenly, a white package flew down from the top of the city, and it happened to land among the Jurchen soldiers who were swarming onto the city.

For the siege soldiers, it was not strange to throw anything on it at this time, such as stones, swords and shields, rolling logs, boiling water... But this package seemed to be a bedding filled with sand, and there was no harm at all except smoke, so they continued to climb without any trouble. People understand.

Sun Zhi also threw a "package" and watched as the fuse "squeaked" into the package. He covered his ears and shouted: "Be careful, it's about to explode!"

Before he finished speaking, there was a loud "Bang!" and fire shot up into the sky. The red flames instantly covered dozens of people climbing towards the "gap". Even the golden soldiers who were four or five steps away were also hit by the shock wave of the explosion. After being pushed out seven or eight steps, most of them had bleeding from their mouths and noses, or even fainted.

Then, every once in a while, packages like this were thrown into the dense area of ​​golden soldiers under the city.

"Boom~"

Bright firelights rise and fall, like fireworks twinkling in the night sky.

After being suddenly bombarded by the "explosive package", the Jurchen soldiers finally understood that this thing was extremely powerful and would be dead once it landed on top of their heads.

As a result, the tidal wave of attacks quickly stalled.

The Zhenguo army blocked the Jurchens and sent more troops to the city. As a result, the Jin soldiers who boarded the city were isolated and helpless. They were frightened by the huge power of the "explosive packs" and were driven off the city in panic.

The first wave of Zongwang's attack was defeated.

Only Wu Shu had a rough idea that it looked like an enlarged version of the gunpowder pack in the barrel, but he had never thought that gunpowder could be used in this way!

Zong Wang ordered the attack again with a firm look. This time he sent 1000 people. Those who could not break the city would be beheaded by all who led the team to defeat it!
As a result, the Jurchens began to go crazy, howling and continuing to attack the city wall.

After Jingzhou was bombed twelve times, the First Division could no longer produce any powder packets.

Wu Shu guessed the real situation. At this time, he jumped up on the city wall and wielded his giant ax to kill the defenders.

Sun Zhi knew Wu Shu, and when he saw him coming to the city, he immediately pointed at him and shouted: "Kill him, this guy is the fourth prince of the Golden Dog Emperor!"

Wow~ The fourth prince of the enemy country has an extraordinary status. If you can get a gold medal for catching or killing Wanyan Zongwang, you can at least get a silver medal for killing Wu Shu!

As a result, many soldiers rushed to kill Wanyan Wushu. Wanyan Wushu, who was wearing two layers of armor, was almost invulnerable to swords and arrows. He only held a giant ax and focused on killing the Zhenguo army in front of him.

When Wanyan Wushu was rampaging through Nancheng like no one was around, Jiang Queer was leading a special force to quickly reinforce Sun Zhi.

Similarly, the first regiment of the first division, led by Chen Liang, quietly moved behind Zong Wang.

In the farther west of Jingzhou, Zheng Liang received an order from Yuan Fourteen to quickly block all the Jurchens' retreats from west to east.

Sun Zhi and Tu Xiong failed to withstand Wu Shu's crazy attack and were forced to retreat from the city head to residential areas in the city.

Before Zong Wang had time to be happy, he suddenly received a report from the scouts. He found large groups of Song troops gathering from the north, south and west.

Xiyin couldn't help but feel anxious.

After fighting for a long time, although Nancheng was conquered, the Zhenguo army was hiding in the houses of the people, fighting for each house house by street. The Jurchen warriors, who had always been galloping like flying, had never encountered such a weird street fight, so they suffered every loss in the battle. Point to point rises.

It is impossible to give up halfway when the siege of a city is over, not to mention the issue of food and grass is particularly important.

Zong Wang waved his hand and ordered: "The whole army assaults and takes Jingzhou!"

(End of this chapter)