Fenghou

Chapter 603 Unfavorable
In the night, [-] cavalry rushed towards the moat like lightning. Each cavalry carried two bags of soil. The intention was obvious. They wanted to fill the moat with soil. The cavalry were all hiding on the sides of their horses, and even with shields they couldn't block the penetrating power of the jackdaw's iron arrows.

The cavalry rushed to the river, and immediately sprinted to the side, throwing down two bags of soil. In the darkness, there were soldiers screaming and horses neighing, and I don't know how many were shot by arrows.

[-] cavalry dropped [-] bags of soil, but it was still far from filling the moat. Wanyan Yinkeshu called off the second round of river filling. More than a hundred people, after a few rounds, wouldn't thousands of people die in battle?The price is too high for them to afford.

Wanyan Yinkeshu stared at the city wall in the distance for a moment, and shouted: "After dawn, take the peasants up to fill the river!"

After speaking, he turned his horse's head and went back to the camp to rest.

This time the Jin soldiers forced [-] civilian workers to carry logistics supplies for them. After crossing the Yellow River, the luggage was carried on large leather rafts in the Qingshui River. There was no need for so many civilian workers. Most of the civilian workers were sent back home. Leave [-] more robust civilian men as spares. In case Fushi County cannot be captured, they will use carts to carry the luggage on the road again, and these civilian men will be used again.

It is these [-] people who are digging and bagging the soil. Of course, they don’t need to fill the river for the time being. They need to continue digging and bagging the soil until dawn. Like a mountain.

The peasants thought they could go back to rest, but no one expected that the Jin soldiers began to threaten them to fill the river, and the peasants started to quarrel. Their heads and headless corpses were hung up, and they sternly said: "Whoever doesn't go will end up like this!"

Under the intimidation of the golden soldiers with swords and axes, each peasant was forced to run towards the moat carrying a bag of dirt.

"Don't shoot arrows, we are Han Chinese! Be merciful, don't shoot arrows!"

The peasants cried loudly, stumbled and ran, and the [-] peasants crowded as far as the eye could see. The Jurchen cavalry drove them away with whips and maces, and there were [-] sword-axe cavalry in the formation.

On the top of the city, everyone looked at Niu Gao, Niu Gao sighed for a while and said: "No one is allowed to shoot arrows! Let them fill the river."

Lieutenant General Wang Qingfang said urgently: "Control, what if they continue to pile up the city walls with mud bags?"

Niu Gao calmly said: "Even if they pile up mud bags, in front of the raging fire, everyone will be afraid of death!"

The Song army didn't fire any arrows, and threw bags of soil into the moat. It took only three rounds, and the moat on the east side was completely filled.

Wanyan Yinkeshu could see clearly from behind, and immediately ordered: "Let the civilians continue to carry mud bags and pile up the city wall!"

The [-] men started the fourth round of running and piled piles of sandbags on the city wall. Niu Gao shouted: "Set fire!"

Buckets of kerosene poured down and burned instantly. The people below exclaimed and ran back one after another, forming a sea of ​​flames under the pile.

The soldiers threw more than a dozen bundles of wheat straw into the fire, making the flames raging and making the fire even more frightening.

Wanyan Yinkeshu looked at the blazing fire, his eyes narrowed, and every time he poured oil like this to burn, he wanted to see how much oil the other party had?

When the flames subsided, the Jurchen cavalry behind forced the peasants to pile up sandbags. The sandbags gradually extended backwards, gradually forming a gentle slope of sandbags that was two feet wide and about a hundred paces long. , it is necessary to continue to fill in the city wall.

But the Song army no longer gave the civilian husbands a chance. They filled the sandbags with dense spears, and the civilian husbands could not get through even if they carried the sandbags.

"General Niu, look!" A soldier pointed to the sandbag slope and shouted.

Niu Gao stepped forward quickly, looked over the crenel, and saw the sand flowing down the edge of the slope. It turned out that the sand dug from the Qingshui River was filled in bags instead of yellow mud, and the sacks containing the sand were burned. Most of the time, the river sand could not be held, and the river sand flowed down from the edge, and the edge had already begun to collapse.

This is a good thing!Sooner or later it will all collapse.

"Ugh-"

The horns of the Golden Soldiers sounded, and the [-] civilians began to withdraw. Wanyan Yinkeshu suspected that they could not play a role and hindered the army's attack. If they were not needed to carry food and grass, Wanyan Yinkeshu would have ordered them to be driven away The city is under siege.

The civilian husband retreated like a tide, Wanyan Yinke waved his saber, "Siege the city!"

"Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!" The war drums rang violently.

The [-] infantry who had been waiting for a long time shouted and rushed to the city wall. The [-] siege troops were [-] Donghu troops, [-] Korean troops and [-] Bohai troops. , the Qi army attacked first, followed by the Han people's assisted army to attack the city, and then the Donghu army. Among the Donghu army, the Koreans and Bohai people charged first, then the Khitan people and Xi people, and finally the Jurchens.

This time the main force did not have the Qi army and the Han people to join the army, and all the East Hu troops were the first to bear the brunt.

This is also due to the difference in the style of the commander-in-chief. Wanyanchang likes to use a large number of Qi troops, but Wanyan Yinkeshu doesn't like to use Han people to assist the army. It will reduce his offensive efficiency and damage morale. He would rather lead the Jurchen army and Donghu The army is the main force.

Although he didn't like to use the Han people's association to join the army, Wanyan Yinkeshu ordered Guo Tu, the capital of the Han people, to lead a [-] association army to attack Pujin Pass in an attempt to open the road into Guanzhong from the south road.

Amidst the rumbling drums, the Donghu army gradually approached the city wall with two hundred siege ladders. The soldiers held up their shields to resist, but their shields were not strong, and their leather armor was not thick. Not to mention the jackdaw arrows that could pierce golden cracked stones, even the crossbow arrows of the god arm could not resist. The soldiers fell one by one while running, rushing through By the time the moat was closed, more than [-] people had been killed or injured.

Soldiers from Donghu surged across the filled moat, hung siege ladders on the top of the city, and galloped up. In the dense crowd, a violent explosion exploded, the poisoned iron nails scattered and shot, and a gunpowder barrel exploded, and dozens of people were affected, whether they were directly blown down or shot by poisonous nails, there were screams and wailing sounds. one slice.

But the tough Donghu soldiers rushed to the top of the city and began to fight desperately with the soldiers at the top of the city. Soldiers on both sides were killed and fell down.

There were also a thousand soldiers of the Goryeo Army attacking on the slope of the sandbag. They rolled and crawled to avoid the arrows and kept pushing forward. The spears inserted in the sandbags were pulled out one by one.

At this time, the sandbags collapsed, hundreds of people were buried, and a gap of Zhang Xu wide appeared on the slope near the wall, and the soldiers of the Korean army could not pass through.

Seeing that the time was ripe, Niu Gao ordered: "Light it up!"

The defenders smashed out [-] barrels of kerosene, and the black kerosene flowed over the siege ladders, filled with sandbags, splashed the soldiers all over, threw out hundreds of torches, and turned the city into a sea of ​​flames.

The Donghu army was burned miserably, especially the soldiers of the Koryo army who were on the siege ladder, basically turned into burning men, screaming and jumping off the siege ladder, running wildly.

On the top of the city, the Song army was still throwing barrels of kerosene, another two thousand barrels of kerosene, and a thousand bundles of wheat straw. The city was filled with black smoke and flames, and it became a purgatory on earth.

It was the first time for these East Hu soldiers to fight against the Western Army. The soldiers in the city were too dense. Once the defenders offered fierce fire oil, most of them would not be able to escape. Most of the soldiers were choked by thick smoke and burned to death.

The same thick smoke filled the top of the city. The soldiers of the Western Army had already prepared, covering their mouths and noses with wet towels and squatting on the ground.

Wanyan Yinke was stunned, it was the first time he encountered this kind of blazing fire defense tactics, it was too shocking, why didn't Wanyanchang tell himself?
He turned his head abruptly, staring at Wanyan Lisa and Han Chang as if his eyes were spitting fire. The two of them must have known about it, but neither of them told him.

Han Chang had a normal expression on his face. He really despised Wanyan Yin's skill in his heart. Didn't the Song Army use kerosene to stop the civilians from piling up sandbags?Now pretending not to know again, who do you want to blame?
Wanyan Helisa avoided the commander's gaze with a guilty conscience. Wanyan Yinkeshu had indeed asked him about the tactics of the Song Army's defense of the city, but for some reason, he somehow avoided this part.

"Marshal Lisa, why didn't you tell me that the Song army would use fire oil to defend the city when I asked you about it?"

"This is something that everyone knows. I thought Marshal Du already knew about it."

"I have no idea!"

Wanyan Yinkeshu snorted heavily, and ordered: "Retreat!"

'when!when!when! 'The bell to withdraw troops rang, but not many soldiers fled back.

Wanyan Yinkeshu turned his horse's head and headed towards the camp full of anger.

(End of this chapter)