The rise of the prince

Chapter 587 Bloody Battle + Great News
Guo Yaoshi pushed hard from his side, he felt a sharp pain in his shoulder, although he couldn't see it, he knew that the point of the spear had pierced his armor, he gritted his teeth and pushed forward desperately, Zhang Linghui and others around him took the opportunity to squeeze forward and hacked with an axe. On the front row of Liao soldiers.

One of the arms holding the spear was chopped off with only a little flesh, and he ran back screaming, and two of them were hit by axes on the face and chest. The Liao soldiers only wore leather armor, which might have a defensive effect on swords, but Not worth mentioning in front of the axe.

The Liao soldiers behind hurriedly pulled them out of the city cave, blood flowed all over the ground, and long bloodstains were wiped on the ground.

Guo Yaoshi endured the excruciating pain in the back of his shoulder and looked at both sides. The wet liquid was left along his arm, and his right arm gradually lost strength in the excruciating pain, which was out of his control. He switched the knife to his left hand.

Their condition is not good either. He is the only one among the five people in the first row who can stand still. A piece of flesh was wiped off Zhang Linghui's leg by a spear, and his flesh is bloody. The hole is already lying on the ground with blood and water, accumulating into a small pool.

The people behind hurriedly made up for it, and the Liao people withdrew from the city gate to let everyone breathe a sigh of relief, but Guo Yaoshi knew that this was a worse thing, and without their people in the city cave, they could use bows and crossbows
He hastily asked someone to pull the corpse from the cave over, trying to build it up to avoid arrows, but the corpse was too heavy, and before it could be dragged over, the Liao people had dispatched more than ten archers to shoot arrows at the cave.

In the darkness, there was the sound of arrows and wind. He quickly squatted down and covered his head. He was dressed in iron armor and was not afraid of arrows.

Several arrows hit his iron armor, and there was pain in his arms and feet. He must have been hit by an arrow, and the screams of his brothers came from around him.
The Liao people were also in a hurry, hastily fired two arrows and rushed in desperately. He led the crowd to repel another wave of Liao people's attack.

After the Liao people temporarily retreated this time, there were 21 of them, only four or five of them were still standing in the city cave. pile.

The Liao people took a breather, and immediately organized another group of Liao soldiers armed with spears to enter the city cave cautiously.

Facing the dense spears, Guo Yaoshi was almost desperate.

Suddenly, the sound of wind rang in my ears, and against the backdrop of the fire, the Liao soldiers who were approaching fell down like cutting wheat.

"General Guo!" He heard someone shouting his name behind him, turned his head slightly, and behind him were the people led by Tong Guan and Yang Hu.
Armed with strong crossbows, swords and shields, panting, they finally arrived after running for a mile!The Liao soldiers who rushed into the city cave were all spearmen without shields. Facing the sudden close-range crossbow shooting, they screamed and fell down in an instant.

Guo Yaoshi heaved a sigh of relief, unable to hold on any longer, and fell into the pile of dead people at his feet. When he fell, the sky became dark for an instant, and he vaguely heard someone calling his name, and there were loud shouts of killing, but everything was getting worse and worse. The more blurred, the more distant.
When he woke up again, he found that he was sleeping on the bed, which was temporarily laid on the ground at the top of the city.

"General!" The soldiers beside him said excitedly when they saw him wake up.

"Where is this?" He asked, his body moved slightly, his whole body was in severe pain, and it was almost impossible to move.

"Nanjing City Head, General, this is Nanjing City Head!" the soldiers said happily.

Guo Yaoshi was in a trance, "Did we win?"

"Win the general!" The soldiers said excitedly: "After Yang Hu and Tong Guan came in, they immediately occupied the south gate, and the reinforcements of General Yang Jianye also approached behind, stood firm, and captured the east gate by surprise.

Now General Yang Hu is leading people to attack the North Gate, General Yang Jianye is attacking the West Gate, and General Tong is leading people to surround the palace of the Liao Emperor. "

Guo Yaoshi nodded in relief, he could vaguely hear the shouts of killing coming from all over the city: "How many brothers survived?"

The soldier hesitated to speak, and stopped the smile on his face, "In addition to the general, there are three more.

Originally, I found eight angry people at the beginning, but most of them couldn't survive, and they lost their breath before they could be rescued.One brother survived, but he was cut off by the Liao people and his lung was cut, so he was released. "

Guo Yaoshi was stunned for a while, then nodded slightly, not knowing what kind of emotion it was.

"The general also had more than a dozen wounds on his body. Several places on his back directly pierced the bones. If it weren't for the iron armor, he would have died. The military medical officer said that it would take a hundred or ten days to recover. Fortunately, several vital parts were blocked by the iron armor. It's just flesh and blood. Injured." The soldier said with lingering fear.

"Where's Zhang Linghui?" he asked.

"Commander Zhang also survived. He was still alive when he was found out from the dead. The injuries on his body were not serious, much lighter than the general's. The medical officer said that he might have been beaten on the head by the Liao people during the chaotic battle. So fainted."

"It's good if you don't die." Guo Yaoshi said, he finally breathed a sigh of relief. Only in this way can a surrendered general like him truly gain the trust of Jingguo and gain a place in the new country.

Slowly, he closed his eyes heavily again and fell asleep.
The fierce battle lasted from the night of that day to the afternoon of the next day. Not only the city, but also the streets and alleys became battlefields.

By the afternoon of the second day, Jing Jun had completely controlled the four city gates of Nanjing, leaving more than 200 defenders at each gate. It can be said that Jing Guo had completely controlled Nanjing City!
Subsequently, the remaining several hundred people of the Jing army blocked the entrance to the temporary palace and surrounded Khan Yeludun of the Liao Kingdom.

In the scattered cities of the Liao army, even the remnants of the Liao army did not dare to wear Liao army uniforms, let alone bring weapons. The resistance in the south of the city had basically collapsed.

However, because there are hundreds of imperial guards with green beast masks around Yelu Dun, all of whom are the elite of the Liao army, and they are loyal and defend the imperial city to the death, so they can't attack for a while.

But Jing Jun was not in a hurry at all, he just closed the gates and waited for the army to go north.

The news gradually spread, it is estimated that the Liao soldiers in the two battalions outside the city have completely lost their positions.

Sure enough, on the second day, the two large battalions of Liao soldiers gathered thousands of people and clamored outside the south gate of Liao to attack the city. The defenders at the top of the city closed the gate and did not answer. They had no way to take a fortified city like Nanjing. , After clamoring continuously for a day and a night.

The Liao soldiers from the two battalions began to flee on their own and collapsed. Behind them was the city of Nanjing, which could not enter. The main force of the Liao army was heading north and would soon reach the outside of the city. At that time, they would be attacked by the enemy. Many people were afraid. , began to flee for his life along the Yu River.

This dangerous and strange move succeeded!
In the large tent of the Chinese army, Yang Hongzhao was overjoyed when he received the letter from the front, and laughed from ear to ear.

The Liao people probably never expected that they would use such a surprise and winning method to control Nanjing City in one fell swoop.

If you want to set up a battle and fight slowly, as long as there are a thousand defenders in a strong city like Nanjing, plus two large camps outside the city to support each other, the most optimistic estimate will take several months, or even a day. A year and a half.

Now it takes only two days to win it.

Yang Hongzhao ordered the army to go north quickly to join Guo Yaoshi and the others, but suddenly it occurred to him that there were still two battalions of Liao people outside the city. What if they did not give up and used Nanjing as a bait to set up an ambush on the way to attack the Chinese army that was rushing north?
Yang Hongzhao has always been prudent and cautious. He has been leading troops like this all his life. After much deliberation, he finally ordered the army to advance slowly, steadily and steadily, and not to advance rashly.

On the other side, they sent people to the south quickly, eight hundred miles away, to bring back the good news of controlling Nanjing City to Beijing, and report it to the emperor.

"General, the food and grass in the army is almost exhausted, and there is still no news from Wu Zhengqing." Qian Bi said to Yang Wenguang with a sad face.

Yang Wenguang thumped heavily on the table in front of him, and there was silence in the lobby. This is where the state capital of Yuzhou, Liao Kingdom, is located, and also where the command center of the West Road Army is located. Outside the rammed earth wall that is as high as one person in the courtyard, many soldiers with torches come and go Often, the fire dragon stretches over from the gray mountain foot in the distance.

The battle situation in the west is based on this as the center and extends outward.

Along the way, the West Route Army with the Yang Family Army as the main force fought a lot of battles. There were about twenty times in total, beheading more than a thousand levels, but there was no decisive battle at all.

There was a time when they marched eastward from Weizhou, copied the back road of Zhuozhou, and encircled the Changsheng Army. Surrender
But there is still a chance. Nanjing is the ultimate goal of this war. If you can't win Zhuozhou, let's fight Nanjing.

As a result, we got information this afternoon that the forwards of the Central Route Army took control of Nanjing City with a surprise attack.
Although Yang Hu of the West Route Army is here, the credit still belongs to the Central Route Army. From the strategy to the most critical Guo Yaoshi, they are all members of the Central Route Army.
The East Route Army defeated Yizhou, and the Central Route Army defeated Nanjing. They were the only West Route Army with some scattered and small results. Compared with the other two routes, they were not enough.

The house leak happened to rain overnight, but at this time, the army did not have enough food and grass
Wu Zhengqing, the transshipment envoy of Chengdu Fu Road, hated Yang Wenguang for not accepting his request, so he named his son in the army, and used various reasons to procrastinate and neglect the transportation of grain and grass. Until today, it has been more than a month since the battle began, and the West Route Army still hasn't got a single grain. grain in shu
The food for the army comes from Hedong Road, and Taiyuan Mansion, and it can no longer hold on. If this continues, the only option is to retreat, or to put it nicely, to collect food and grass from the people of Yuzhou, and to put it bluntly, to rob the people of Yuzhou
"General, let's make a decision as soon as possible." Qian Bi said again.

Yang Wenguang was silent for a long time, pacing continuously, his shadow under the candlelight was flickering, erratic.

"The battle is not over yet." About a quarter of an hour later, he finally sighed helplessly and said leisurely.

Qian Bi opened his mouth. He understood what General Yang meant, but he didn't stop him: "Most people in Weizhou are Khitan people, but there are also a lot of Han people. Then what should we do?"

"Let's ask the Liao people first. At least it makes sense. If you can offend less, you will offend less." Yang Wenguang rubbed his forehead: "It only takes one month, and another month's supply of food and grass, to wipe out all the remnants of the resistance, and the Central Route Army can also fully control it." Nanjing."

"Although we have nothing to do with the great battle, we should not dereliction of duty when it comes to our duties."

Qian Bi nodded: "Once this happens, I'm afraid the people will be angry."

"Then we have to hold on. The Liao Kingdom is not only Nanjing, but also the Zhangde Army and the Liaoxing Army. Once we retreat, if someone goes to Weizhou from the west of Nanjing and attacks the flank of the Chinese Army, it will cause serious trouble." Yang Wenguang is serious. road.

Qian Bi had no choice but to grit his teeth and said: "Wu Zhengqing, the dog, let him look good when he goes back this time!"

Yang Wenguang glanced at him, knowing that his old man was just talking, the most powerful family in the Wu family in Shu, the nephew of Empress Wu Zhengqing, if he went back, what would happen to him?

In mid-April, the Wangfu received good news. The first boring head was polished, and it was made by the craftsman of the Wangfu, Tie Niu. After all, compared with the craftsmen from other places who came here for the bounty, the craftsmen of the Wangfu started work earlier.

Qiu'er's first steam engine is also working. Although there are still many defects in terms of lifespan and power, Kekouzi has already been opened.

Then there is the boring machine experiment, a solid iron pipe is firmly fixed on the lathe, and then a boring knife drill is installed at one end of the steam engine, and then driven by the steam engine to break through the iron pipe.

The quality of the gun barrel and gun barrel obtained by this processing method will have a qualitative leap, but unfortunately it did not succeed.

When boring to one-third of the time, the hole began to shift obviously. It is not that the lathe is not fixed tightly, but that the first generation steam engine not only has the problem of broken service life and low power, but also has particularly large vibration and noise, which will greatly Affecting the machining accuracy, this level of machining cannot be realized at all.

Better guns can only be hoped for in future generations of steam engines.

The first-generation steam engine has only one function, which is to bore the cylinder bore, which will improve the quality of the cylinder, thereby realizing the second-generation steam engine with higher power and longer life.

The first generation will stop production after the second batch, that is to say, the first generation steam engine is for emergency use, in order to break the surface, and only three will be produced in the end.

The appearance of the first boring knife brought Wangfu Steam Power into the 2.0 era.

And Zhao Si, who had been studying in the yard for a long time, after much deliberation, came up with the same solution to ballistic stability as the craftsmen in his previous life, that is boring thread!
After hearing about his idea, many craftsmen in the palace were stunned, because it would be a arduous and lengthy project to rifle the shells by hand, and it would take at least three to six months to rifle a cannon. It's just unreasonable.

In half a year, with the strength of a palace, more than [-] new cannons can be made, which are used to pull the string of a cannon barrel!just kidding
As a result, something even more unreasonable happened. King Pingnan approved Zhao Si's plan not only to provide financial support, but also to allow him to use the craftsmen in the palace. Everyone's jaw dropped.

Two flowers bloomed, each with a branch. The technology of the palace was changing with each passing day. While constantly exploring and improving, in late March, a big political surprise came from the north.

The surrendered general Guo Yaoshi used a surprise army to help the vanguard of Jingguo, and took control of Nanjing City in just two days!

If the succession of victories in the north before is an encouragement, this is a real surprise!

The important town of Nanjing in the Liao Kingdom, I thought it would last for a year and a half, but now it was brought under control within two days. If Nanjing is here, no one can stop Jingguo from recovering the lost land!

Guo Yaoshi led 21 warriors to cheat open the city gate, and then fought to the death without retreating, controlling the city gate until most of the Jing army invaded. In the end, there were [-] people, and only four survived. Such a heroic story also made many people regard Guo Yaoshi as a hero. Jingguo hero.

When the emperor heard about it, he was very happy and named him General Zhongwu at that time.
Li Xingzhou was also very happy when he got the news, but he was happy. Now that he is a member of the Privy Council, he is still clear-headed. Although Jing Jun is [-]% sure of controlling Nanjing City, he still cannot take it lightly.

Because the vanguard only entered the city with more than 1000 people, we had to wait for the Chinese army to arrive and completely control Nanjing before we could feel at ease.

Although the pioneers of the Jing army occupy four gates, they have been unable to separate out manpower to completely deal with the Khan of the Liao Kingdom in the temporary palace. Only by catching or killing him can the matter be settled
(End of this chapter)