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Volume 1: Yan Yun Chaos Volume 3: Bending the Sky Chapter 114: Killing and Swallowing (4)

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    In the north of Yi County, the sound of killing shook the sky.  ¡Ù¡Ù, Standing at the head of Yixian City and looking to the north, you can see the Jurchen army and horse camps covering the ground, and the cavalry teams coming out of the camps are galloping in all directions.  And one after another, the auxiliary troops of various ethnic groups came out in turn like an endless wave, pushing and dragging all kinds of attacking tools and rushing towards the front.  And on almost every hilly height in the north of Yixian County, there are flags set up by Jurchen generals. The guards are constantly passing orders, mobilizing such a huge army and horses to attack Yixian County.  After the Jurchen East Route Army surged southward, it spread out its army from the north and the east almost without stopping.  Thousands of Jurchen cavalry completely controlled the battlefield, and then large groups of infantry caught up and began to build siege equipment.  After quickly producing the first batch of siege equipment, these auxiliary tribal troops were mercilessly driven by the Jurchen cavalry to rush towards the defenders' defense line.  From the beginning of this siege, the Jurchens set out to destroy everything.  And the follow-up troops are still joining this battlefield in a steady stream.  Standing at the top of the city and looking north and east, during the day there were endless formations of infantry troops advancing to attack, and at night there were bonfires filling the entire field of view, burning until the end of the sky.  The Jurchen East Route Army concentrated at least 40,000 to 50,000 troops and horses to press in front of Yi County. Among them, the Jurchen cavalry numbered at least 10,000 or more!  Such a formation put the Yixian defense in the most difficult situation from the beginning.  Liu Baozhong has strengthened Yixian's urban defense system as much as possible during this short period of time.  There are guard gates on the north and east sides, and military strongholds that can support each other.  And to the south.  Two more stockades were set up, sandwiching a passage leading to the Beiyi River.  Keep the waterway behind you open.  Baggage transported from Ansu Army and Guangxin Army.  You can transfer to Yishui through the Juma River. Although it has to cross a river that can be controlled by the Jurchens' crossbows and cannot be broken through without a fierce battle, it is still a barely usable supply channel.  The external defense system is like this, and the city walls have been repaired as much as possible.  The city has also stocked up with enough grain to last two months - there is no time to transport more.  Various defensive equipment and military equipment have been replenished to a certain extent as much as possible.  The garrison in the city relied on the more than 2,000 elite Dragon Guard cavalry brought by Liu Baozhong as the base to supplement the 2,000 or 3,000 defeated troops and strong civilians from Yan's south.  Before the arrival of the Jurchen army.  The Tianwu Army also had two infantry commanders entering Yi County as reinforcements sent by Yu Jiang.  The city of Yi County is not very large, and it is more than enough to defend it with such a force.  Although the offensive launched by the Jurchens was like a storm from the beginning, Liu Baozhong was not surprised but overjoyed.  As a general, you are not afraid of hard battles.  I'm afraid of fighting a hopeless battle.  "The Jurchens don't know why they concentrated their main force under the city of Yi County, which shows that the Jurchens can exert less pressure on other parts of Hebei's edge.  The longer you persist in Yixian, the longer you can buy for King Yan.  By then, when King Yan has dealt with Zong Han's troops, he will be free to deal with this East Route Army!  Xiao Yan still gave the old military number of the Shenwu Changsheng Army to Han Shizhong.  The Long Guards were all holding their breath.  In this case, let us fight the most difficult battle.  Then let¡¯s take a look at the Dragon Guard Army and the Shenwu Changsheng Army. Who is the strongest army under King Yan?  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~  A military formation composed of one or two thousand Cangtou bombardment.  They are heading towards the military stronghold in the north of Yi County.  There are six military villages in the north of Yi County, all of which are made of huge trees and dug into trenches six feet deep.  A large military stronghold can hold half of the command's infantry, while a small military stronghold can barely hold an army or so.  These six military strongholds are like chains, firmly guarding the north gate of Yi County.  If you don't break through here, you can't even think about attacking the Yixian city wall.  After several days of offensive, the first two days can be regarded as tentative and can be ignored. The official offensive started yesterday.  At the end of the day, the Jurchens had lost at least five to six hundred people, both dead and wounded.  Generally speaking, attacking a city at the cost of human lives is so expensive, so we should slow down a little.  But this time the Jurchens did not stop at all. Today, when the sky was bright, they drove a large group of infantry into battle again.  The two thousand Cangtou attack was directed at the largest of the six military villages. The other five military villages were each restrained by hundreds of men and horses.  Such a formation has already filled the battlefield in the north of Yi County.  The infantry pushing towards the main village pushed the oars forward one by one.  The oar cart is shaped like rows of wood nailed into door panels, with wooden wheels underneath to push it forward.  The green bark on these pieces of wood is still there, and they were just made in a hurry.  This time, fifty or sixty oars were lined up for this offensive.Behind the oar, there were groups of Cangtou suppressing them.  The people in the front row were holding crossbows, and when they were close to the shooting range, they fired quickly to suppress the wall of the village. The people in the second row were carrying earth bags to fill the trenches, and those in the back row were suppressing them with their cannonballs.  Carrying a pickaxe with a thick rope on his back, he planned to use a bow and crossbow to secure the fence with a rope, and then loosen the foundation soil so that he could pull down the fence with force.  After these Cangtou suppressed, groups of Jurchen cavalry waited silently under their respective flags, if these infantry troops could fill the trenches and pull down the fences.  These cavalry are about to roar in and charge into the military stronghold!  Liu Baozhong did not have much time left to manage the city defense of Yi County, and there was no time to cut down and clean up the surrounding trees.  At this time, the Jurchen army was numerous and powerful, so it was quick and convenient to make siege equipment.  In addition to these simplest oars, in the Jurchen army camp, you can also see the semi-finished products of trebuchets. The Jurchen craftsmen of all ethnic groups are still working hard to make such large trebuchets for city destruction.  Killer weapon.  Dozens of large drums were beating loudly, and amid the sound of the drums, fifty or sixty oars moved forward slowly.  Due to the rugged terrain and the hasty rush, from time to time the oars or wheels fell off or got stuck in ravines, making it impossible to move forward.  The Cangtou suppressors behind the oar car did not dare to stop at all.  Quickly joining other vehicles.  Keep going.  Don¡¯t say you are retreating.  Once you stand still.  The Jurchen cavalry supervising the battle will kill them mercilessly!  The remaining oars and carts could not cover the infantry as quickly as possible, so these northern infantry troops could only continue to move forward in fear, holding crossbows and various equipment.  On top of the village wall, a commander watched the array of oars approaching slowly.  Hundreds of powerful crossbows have been set up, and behind each archer there is an infantry soldier holding a long soldier and two strong civilians who are loading the crossbows.  Behind the military stronghold and between the city walls of Yixian, two to three hundred soldiers with red helmets and tassels could be seen waiting silently in formation, ready to provide reinforcements at any time.  The commander is a member of the Dragon Guard Army.  Hebei dare warrior origin.  To defend here is to defend the Hebei countryside to the south.  His eyes were wide open and his lips were moving, talking about the distance.  Seeing that the oar was pushed to within a hundred paces, he had not yet given the order.  Amidst the beating drums of the Jurchen army, the oar car continued to move forward slowly until it reached the trench sixty steps away from the village wall.  The trench is six feet wide and six feet deep.  There was still water in the ditch, and neither the infantry nor the cavalry could cross it.  Dozens of oars shuddered to a halt.  Suddenly, the heartbreaking shouts of countless people rang out.  Hundreds of archers appeared immediately behind the oar, their bowstrings fully drawn.  It's going to radiate!  The commander shouted with a Hebei accent: "Shoot these dog Tatars to death!" The sound of the bowstring vibrating violently tore through the air. In an instant, in front of the military camp, countless arrows and arrows came and went, intertwining into a sheet in the air.  Secret network!  The screams broke out again.  The Song army's strong crossbows can shoot wooden feather short arrows at a distance of sixty steps, enough to break through iron armor. Even if the Jurchens obtained the Liao people's property, they could even wear half of their own iron armor to suppress it.  But under the strong crossbows of the Song army, they continued to fall!  And the stockade on which the Song army relied was only as high as one person.  The archer stands on the piled earth platform and shoots with a crossbow.  But just this village gate is enough to take advantage.  It was as if clumps of arrow feathers were growing on the stockade fence in the blink of an eye.  Every archer in the Song Army wore a heavy bag, and the arrows that could not be protected by the fence hit the bag and splashed with sparks, which could not help but fly away.  Under the cover of the grass farm, the infantry soldiers holding long rifles and the civilian men loading the crossbows at the rear could effectively avoid the arrows thrown over the stockade fence.  Even though there were a few archers who were unlucky and were injured by stray arrows, all the other archers still stood firm. Facing the rain of arrows, everyone's eyes widened, and they couldn't help but take over the strung crossbow, and then  Twist the teeth and shoot out arrows one after another!  The conductor who was born in Hebei stood up straight in the rain of arrows, holding the sword on his waist and walking around behind the archers' formation. He kept urging the civilians to wind the string faster to let the archers adjust their rhythm.  More stable.  The arrows that were thrown over the fence fell. The commander either lowered his head or turned sideways, dodging casually, as if the rain of arrows in the sky was just real rain!  And outside the long trench at a distance of sixty steps, the oars and carts flashed out and they desperately drew their bows and fired arrows, trying to suppress the people in the village fence. The muffled screams continued one after another.  In the array, someone fell to the ground from time to time.  Mu Yu's short arrow penetrated deeply into the armor, and blood spilled everywhere.  In the blink of an eye, I didn¡¯t know how many enemies I had shot down.  The Cangtou bombardment soldiers who stepped out of their oars and fired at them suffered heavy casualties. Amidst the sound of drums and screams, a large group of auxiliary troops carrying earth bags rushed out and threw the earth bags into the ditch.     ThatThe Cangtou bombardment soldiers who were shooting at each other had been shot to pieces. The remaining people shrank desperately towards the oar car. When the auxiliary troops were preparing to fill the trench, they could no longer provide cover.  The Song Army archers immediately turned their focus to the auxiliary troops who were filling the trenches with soil. Another burst of screams could be heard from the edge of the trench.  The bags of earth rolled down the trench together with the bodies of the people. Even if some people were just injured and tried to climb up after falling into the trench using their hands and feet, more bags of earth were falling like rain, pushing them back down again. Only the sound of the trench could be heard.  Among them, there were also screams that were high and low!  Relying on the crossbow machine that could not stop flipping up, the shooting density was always maintained at a stable rhythm.  Bundles of wooden feather short arrows accumulated in the grass plant were opened and then consumed quickly.  The Jurchen auxiliary troops gathered in front of the trench were sprayed with death.  Along the line of the trench, the bodies of the Jurchen Auxiliary Army were piled up like mountains. Dozens of oar carts were almost completely stuck in the piles of corpses, making it impossible to retreat.  But in the Jurchen rear formation, dozens of big drums were still beating all the time.  Group after group of infantry continued to advance.  Seeing that the auxiliary troops such as the Cangtou bombardment sent from the headquarters were still unable to suppress the Zhai Zha, they could only rush into the military stronghold at the risk of their lives. A large number of tribal troops were ruthlessly driven to the battlefield by the Jurchens.  These tribal armies were originally formed by hundreds of northern tribes under the rule of the Liao people, and formed the main armed force in addition to the elite Pishigong branch of the Liao people.  Now they have switched to the Jurchens' banner, and the strong ones are selected as Cangtou to suppress them. The inferior ones still gather their clans as soldiers, and they still have to charge into battle for the new master every time they face a battle, paying the heaviest casualties!  These tribal troops wore tattered leather armor and did not carry any weapons. Everyone was carrying earth bags, and their only task was to fill trenches!  Amidst the rain of arrows, these tribal troops rushed out of the trench with great difficulty, then jumped over the corpses on the ground with one foot high and the other low, and threw a large number of soil bags into the trench in the face of the rain of arrows.  After each group advances and retreats, there will be one more layer of corpses on the ground.  Outside the trench, the smell of blood was so thick that it was hard to breathe.  I don't know how many injured people were struggling and howling in the blood-stained soil.  In the battle formation, there is a place where corpses stand.  Especially when attacking key points, the cost of human life is so cruel!  Driven by the Jurchens¡¯ ruthless drive to disregard the losses of the auxiliary tribesmen, the storm of arrows that continued to pour out of the village fence finally slowly eased and came to a standstill.  One after another, the crossbows were damaged due to broken teeth or broken tendons and strings.  The civilians who helped wind the string were so tired that their backs ached. The winding speed became slower and slower, the arrow rain became slower and slower, and more and more earth bags were thrown outside the trench.  Finally, in this long trench, hundreds of lives and countless earth bags were used to fill in the weir beam roads that were passable!  Those dozens of oars have become like hedgehogs at this moment, with dense layers of wooden feathers on them.  The pile of corpses covered most of the wheels, making it impossible to push them any further.  The hedgehogs gathered outside the trench and were no longer divided into formations. They were like a nest of ants, pressing down on the tribesmen. They let out a cry like a wild beast, crossed the trench, and rushed directly to the stockade fence!  During this period of time, the infantry of the Jurchens who rushed to the battlefield were concentrated outside the main stronghold, and there were at least three to four thousand of them!  The enemies who crossed the trench rushed towards them like huge waves. Everywhere they looked, there were surging heads.  The commander dropped the damaged crossbow in his hand, picked up a spear, and roared again: "Kill these dog Tatars down!" The infantry warriors stepped forward with spears, and the archers also retreated.  Take a breather.  There were also archers who did not move with the team, but took up their spears and stood with the infantry soldiers.  Countless spears were placed on the stronghold fence, flashing with cold light, making the military stronghold seem to have grown rows of sharp fangs!  A wave of people came with a roar and crashed into the stockade fence.  For a time, these Cangtou Pai and tribal troops who came forward frantically were no longer in any formation.  He used everything he had in his hands to chop, stab, push, and shake the fence, hoping to tear it into pieces in one go!  The sound of dozens of large drums was still making an earth-shattering sound, and the strong men playing the drums were replaced by a new batch, and they were sweating profusely while beating bare-chested.  In front of the waiting array of Jurchen cavalry, many headless corpses had fallen.  These corpses were those who hesitated to move forward when they were driven into battle, or were frightened by the heavy casualties under the arrows in the stronghold and retreated.  The Jurchen cavalry chopped off their heads without hesitation.  These corpses are placed here, which is the whole reason why these auxiliary troops and tribal troops crashed into the village wall so crazily!  Under this Yixian city, the Jurchens showed the greatest determination from the beginning. It seemed that they would win this city no matter how many casualties they incurred.  The battle with the Jurchen East Route Army reached a climax when the front of the Jurchen East Route Army approached the edge of Hebei Province.?!  (To be continued, please search Piaotian Literature, the novel will be better and updated faster! ps: I still have water during the day and code at night. The back of my hands is bruised and painful when typing on the keyboard. The monthly ticket ranking is getting more and more dangerous, please support me!  u
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