Fenghou

Chapter 366
The god of luck also favored Wanyan Wushu. It took them only three days to complete the return journey. On the last day when the dry food was exhausted, they also walked out of the rice warehouse road. The moment they walked out of the rice warehouse road, they were completely Yan Wushu led [-] golden soldiers to kneel on the ground, thanking Changshengtian for his protection.

The Micang Road was blocked, so the Jin soldiers had to take the Jinniu Road to attack Bashu. At this time, the battle for the Jinniu Road also reached its climax, and the offense and defense of both sides were very tragic.

Xicheng County, guarding the entrance to the east line of the Jinniu Road, had been captured by Wanyan Helisa at the cost of [-] dead.

After clearing the obstacles on the Jinniu Road, Wanyan Holisa began to attack the Jinniu Road. He learned the lesson from last year and stopped advancing blindly. He personally carried a large amount of food and supplies and slowly moved south.

Three days later, [-] Jin soldiers arrived at Jianmen Pass. At this time, the Song and Jin armies had a spectacular scene. Transported to the front line of combat.

To the south of Jianmen Pass, there also appeared a large camp of the Song army, which was more than ten miles long, and the battle of life and death would be decided at Jianmen Pass.

The Jin soldiers will also use large siege weapons. Unfortunately, there is no battlefield on the mountain road, so only two large trebuchets can be used. They transported the parts into the Jinniu Road and assembled them temporarily. Although there are only two trebuchets, they are I am afraid that this is the first time in the history of Jianmenguan that it has encountered large-scale siege weapons.

Before it was dark, Jin Bing launched a tentative attack. The leader of Jin Bing was Han Chang. He looked at the tall sword pavilion and shouted: "Launch!"

The two trebuchets launched at the same time, one in front and one in the back, 'Boom!Boom! ! With two loud bangs, two burning fire oil balls soared up and rushed straight to the Jianmen Pass above. One of them was slightly larger, passed directly above Jianmen Pass, and fell into the cliff.

The other one hit the city wall of Jianmen Pass, the clay pot inside shattered, black kerosene flowed down the wall, and then a raging fire ignited.

The Song army laid five defensive lines at Jianmen, two of which had been broken by the Jin soldiers, leaving only three defensive counties at Jianmen Pass. The first defensive line was the ice slope, and the Song army poured a lot of water Layers of ice formed on the stone steps, and finally the stone steps were covered with a thick layer of ice, which was so smooth that it was difficult for Jin Soldier's leather boots to walk on it.

The second line of defense is the bed crossbow array in front of the pass. The Song army deployed fifty bed crossbows to attack the enemy with powerful bed crossbows. The third line of defense is Guancheng. The city gate was built dead, and the Song army outside could only come back along the soft ladder on the city wall. The Guancheng was built of huge stones, tall and strong, easy to defend and difficult to attack, it can be called a natural danger.

Just like Shibao City in the Tang Dynasty, a few hundred Tubo people can withstand the attack of tens of thousands of Tang troops.

Today's Jianmen Pass has become the last barrier to defend Sichuan. Wu Jie personally led [-] troops to defend the pass, while Wu Ling led the main force to station in the rear, and the camp stretched for more than ten miles.

While launching the fire oil ball, Han Chang was also cracking the Song Army's first line of defense, the ice slope.

Two hundred soldiers are crawling on the ice slope and climbing up little by little. Each of them is dragging a big bag. The bag is made of sand. The method is very simple and effective. As long as a layer of sand is spread on the ice slope, the soldiers can directly rushed up.

There were burning giant logs rolling down from above, and the soldiers lay tightly on the ground, allowing the giant logs to roll over their heads and backs, and then continued to climb up.

The giant log rolled down rumblingly, smashing towards the trebuchet aggressively, and finally smashed heavily on the mudbag wall, which was the protective wall of the trebuchet.

Fire oil balls were continuously thrown upwards, and a big fire was ignited inside and outside the Guancheng.

Han Chang squinted at the creeping soldiers, and suddenly realized that this was a good way to attack Guancheng!The bed crossbow couldn't hit them, and the rolling wooden boulder didn't do much harm to them. They could climb up to their eyes and then jump up to fight the Song army.

Why didn't I think of this good way before?
"Master Wan, be careful!"

A soldier threw Han Chang down, only to hear a strange whistling sound. It turned out that the Song army fired dense bed crossbows. Two hundred bed crossbows whizzed towards them. The targets were two heavy catapults, and a catapult behind them The two belts of the trebuchet were shot and broke immediately, and the ten-foot-high trebuchet fell apart. Several Jurchen soldiers were unable to dodge and were hit by the falling giant log.

Han Chang stood up and ordered: "Up to three hundred people, climb up for me and kill the opponent's bed crossbow!"

The long ramp was full of Jurchen soldiers, and as they climbed up little by little, random arrows were fired from the top of the city, shooting high into the sky, but the arrows fell down and kept hitting the Jurchen soldiers on the ramp.

Wu Jie could see clearly from the top of the city. The arrows couldn't stop them from climbing up, but unfortunately they didn't have kerosene. He pondered for a moment and ordered: "Throw the straw bales down, and prepare the trebuchet!"

Although Wu Jie did not have kerosene, he also had something to set fire to. He prepared thousands of straw bales, each weighing dozens of catties, tied into a square.

The soldiers threw straw bales one after another, and the straw bales rolled and scattered on the hillside. Dozens of straw bales scattered, and soon formed a sea of ​​flames. A dozen trees were also thrown out, and the whole The ramp was engulfed in flames.

Hundreds of Jurchen soldiers scrambled and crawled down to flee for their lives, but they were shot from behind by a storm of crossbow arrows, and more than two hundred people fell down immediately.

Han Chang was annoyed, but there was nothing he could do. At this moment, a soldier shouted: "Be careful of the top of your head!"

Han Chang looked up, only to see a boulder roaring from the sky, "Boom! ' A loud noise hit the trebuchet behind Han Chang, and the trebuchet fell down.

Coming out of Ziwu Valley, Chen Qing led [-] cavalry into Hu County to rest and recuperate. There were no guards in the city, and the old soldiers guarding the city gate did not dare to stop them, so they rushed to report to the magistrate that Song troops had arrived.

Chen Qing saw that every house in the city was decorated with lanterns and festoons, filled with a festive atmosphere, as if it was a festival.

Chen Qing was stunned for a moment, then turned around and asked, "What day is today?"

Everyone laughed, Gao Ding said with a smile: "Didn't you feel it? Today is New Year's Eve!"

"Ah! Today is New Year's Eve?"

It was really beyond Chen Qing's expectation. He hurriedly said to Hu Yanyun, the logistics supervisor, "Take more brothers to buy pigs, sheep, chickens and ducks. You can buy as much as you can. If you don't want to sell, you can pay twice the price. Buy some black beans, but you are not allowed to take them by force, you know?"

"Humble job understands!"

Hu Yanyun led thousands of soldiers into the city.

At this time, Xu Yunhui, the county magistrate, came to meet Chen Qing with a large group of officials.

"So it's General Chen!"

Xu Yunhui recognized Chen Qing, shivered in fright, and quickly said: "The next official is Xu Yunhui, the county magistrate, welcome General Chen to Bixian County!"

Chen Qing saw that a group of county government officials showed fear on their faces, probably because of his moniker of monsters that frightened them.

He said to a group of officials: "Xuzhi County, magistrates, today is New Year's Eve, my subordinates and I need a good rest, we will leave tomorrow, we will not infringe on your interests, but if you go to Jingzhao to report, Triggering a war between the troops, forcing me to kill people, the consequences are unimaginable, I hope everyone will cooperate!"

Xu Zhixian hurriedly said: "We dare not, invite the army to enter the city, there are some vacant rooms in the east of the city, we can let the army rest!"

Chen Qing led the army into the city, and immediately ordered the city gates to be closed. The county officials vacated hundreds of rooms for the soldiers to rest, and took out hundreds of shi of grain and hundreds of catties of mutton from the warehouse to the Song army.

But where the food needs to be arranged by them, Chen Qing ordered the soldiers to transport all the several thousand catties of frozen mutton to the army and distribute them to the soldiers.

At this time, Hu Yanyun bought hundreds of pigs and sheep and a large number of chickens and ducks. Chen Qing ordered the army to kill pigs and sheep, make a sumptuous dinner, cook soup and roast meat, and let the tired soldiers have a delicious New Year's Eve dinner. They also cooked hundreds of stone black beans and fed them to the horses, so that the war horses also enjoyed the atmosphere of the Chinese New Year.

Jiang Yan hurried back from the warehouse, clasped his fists to Chen Qing and said with a smile, "It's not bad. There are a thousand shi of grain in the warehouse and [-] dans of hay, which are enough for us to go to Fengxiang Mansion."

Chen Qing said with a smile: "Let the brothers rest first, have a good meal, drink a little wine, don't get drunk!"

That night, [-] cavalrymen of the Song Army gathered for dinner in the county seat. The soldiers let go of their stomachs, ate meat and drank wine, and celebrated the fourth year of Shaoxing together.

(End of this chapter)