Prince of Song Dynasty

Chapter 6 Jinyang Situation

Dark clouds overwhelmed the city, the wind was rumbling, and the city of Jinyang was already in panic.

At this time, Guo Wuwei, the prime minister and assistant prime minister who was supposed to be the backbone of the Northern Han Dynasty, disappeared mysteriously.It also caused turmoil in the Northern Han Dynasty and felt that the country was about to be destroyed.

Fortunately, Liu Jiye, a famous general of the Northern Han Dynasty, showed his talents when he was in danger, commanded the army, and presided over the overall situation.Only then was the confrontation in Jinyang City formed.

This is a battlefield of blood and fire. There are soldiers charging and shouting to kill the sky everywhere, and there are dead bodies lying in pools of blood and will never get up again.

Not long ago, these dead bodies were still living men. Among the thousands of troops, they were just insignificant pawns, but in their respective homes, they were husbands who were a head taller than the sky, and stronger than the king. The father, who is the most important, is the pillar of every family, but now he is just a corpse that no one cares to take a second look at.

If there were Northern Han soldiers looking down from the top of the city, they would be able to see patches of red tassels on top of their caps below the city, flying like flames, and converging into a sea of ​​flames, which is frightening.That was the Fan Yang cap on the heads of the elite soldiers of the Imperial Guards of the Great Song Dynasty.

More than [-] troops are boundless, what's more, there are more than [-] soldiers and horses under the city at this time, and more than [-] troops are dispatched to attack the city at the same time. The huge momentum of the military order, such as the collapse of a huge mountain and the cessation of a river, is enough to shock the hearts of any mortals. .

In fact, at this time, if the defenders at the top of the city were not impatient with life, they would never look up and watch this spectacular scene. It was pouring upwards, and under the violent blow like a storm, there were more than a hundred stone-throwing machines, which smashed stone bullets weighing hundreds of catties towards the head of the city. Every boulder fell down, and there was a loud noise. A cloud of yellow and white smoke that wasn't too thick blasted the capital of the Northern Han Dynasty into a mess.

The construction of Jinyang city is made of local materials, and it is made of extremely viscous loess on the Loess Plateau. This kind of viscous loess, mixed with glutinous rice, is as strong as cement after being rammed, and it is stronger than cement. With a certain degree of toughness, it has been a common method of building cities in Northwest China since the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms.

Now, it has become a better support than a city built with stones.If the city wall was built of masonry, it would easily shatter and collapse under the bombardment of such a huge boulder.

The northern Han army at the top of the city was also fighting back tenaciously at the Song army at the bottom of the city. Rows of sharp arrows squeaked like locusts and attacked the Song army at the bottom of the city like locusts.No less than the huge stone bombs thrown by the Song army, they slowly rotated in the air at a speed visible to the naked eye, and hit the ground with a bang, smashing out three-foot deep pits and mud waves, and rolled forward quickly. With a distance of tens of feet, boulders rolled over, flesh and blood all the way...

The two sides have been deadlocked in this city for nearly ten days.At the same time that Zhao Kuangyin sent troops to cut off all the states and counties outside the capital of the Northern Han Dynasty, he had personally led the army to attack the heart of the Northern Han Dynasty.In the past ten days, the losses of both sides have been extremely heavy. In comparison, the Northern Han army in the city suffered more losses than the Song army in the city.

Although they occupy a favorable location, the soldiers are not lacking in bravery in a desperate battle, and there are sufficient grain, rice and weapons in the treasury of the capital, but compared with the army of the Song Dynasty, which was personally conquered by the emperor this time, there is still a fatal weakness. , That is the few soldiers.

In fact, if Liu Jiye, the famous general of the Northern Han Dynasty, hadn't seen the opportunity wrongly, he decisively gave up all the prefectures and counties in the Northern Han Dynasty except the capital, and withdrew all the main force to the capital to preserve his troops, the current situation of the Northern Han Dynasty would only be worse.

However, even so, the Song army that attacked the city was still several times that of the Northern Han defenders.Moreover, they have inexhaustible weapons and equipment, and a mountain of grain and rice supply, and the follow-up grain and fodder are still being transported in a steady stream, while the city consumes less.

Even, in ten days, in terms of arrows, they had to pick up the arrows shot by the Song army into the city in order to meet the needs of the defenders at the top of the city.The contest of war is to a large extent the contest of national power between the two sides. How can the current national power of the Northern Han Dynasty be compared with the flourishing Song Dynasty?

In this battle, Song Emperor Zhao Kuangyin was thinking that he must win, but what was the result?Ye Chen knew, others naturally didn't know.

(End of this chapter)