Great Song Super Scholar

Chapter 680 Night Battle at Jingxing
It was cloudy tonight, thick dark clouds covered the sky, and it was dark inside and outside the Guancheng. Yeluna also stood on a big rock, watching thousands of troops slowly going up the mountain road.

The mountain road is about one mile long and less than two feet wide. The slope is about 45 degrees. There are cliffs on both sides. If there are rolling logs and rocks falling on it, there is almost no way to escape. Passed a catastrophe.

There were about 3000 Liao soldiers in the night attack. This is the experience summed up after two failed attacks by the Liao army. Too many people made it inconvenient to advance and retreat. They were simply massacred by the Song army. People are the most suitable number. Since the number of attacks can be guaranteed, half of the space can be left below.

Holding their shields, the soldiers stepped up cautiously, trying not to make any noise, so as not to be heard by the defenders at the city gate.

Just three hundred steps away from the top of the city, several soldiers suddenly let out screams at the same time.

"Ah—" The shrill scream broke the quiet night.

"What's going on!" Liao Jun asked angrily.

"There are thorns on the ground!"

Immediately afterwards, another soldier screamed, and several other soldiers also stepped on the thorns, and the long spikes pierced the soles of their feet. The severe pain made them unbearable.

At this time, soldiers of the Song Army shouted from the top of the city, and the general of the Liao Army saw that there was no way to hide, so he waved his sword and said, "Kill me!"

"Kill!" Three thousand soldiers of the Liao army jumped up and rushed towards the city gate.

'Boom!Boom!Boom! There was loud drumming on the top of the city, and the soldiers who were resting on the top of the city got up one after another, stretched their bows and set up arrows to shoot into the darkness, and the rolling logs and stones also fell like raindrops.

'Boom!Boom! 'In the sound of the impact, there was a scream.

"Stop shooting!" Yao Sheng shouted, and all the soldiers stopped shooting.

Yao Sheng turned his head and said to several soldiers: "Fire an iron fire mine!"

The ballista had already been wound up, and two soldiers held a [-]-jin iron fire mine and placed it on the trough. Everyone moved away, and one pulled out the thunder cap and ignited the matchlock inside.

The fire rope sizzled and gradually burned to the mouth of the bottle, and the inside of the iron fire thunder still burned for a while, but as long as it was guaranteed that it would not be extinguished by the impact, it could be launched.

"Launch!" The brigade commander next to him gave an order, and the soldier pulled the hanging knife below.

'Boom! 'With a muffled sound, Iron Fire Thunder was projected out.

In the darkness, iron fire and thunder fell to the ground, and Gu Lulu rolled down the mountain. All the soldiers on the top of the city squatted down covering their ears.

However, the Liao army took advantage of the short-term opportunity of the Song army to stop shooting, and rushed up, less than a hundred steps away from Guancheng.

At this time, a large black ball emitting white smoke smashed into the crowd, and several soldiers were hit and fell to the ground in a hurry to dodge.

Before the soldiers of the Liao army responded, the iron fire thunder shot out a bright red light, and exploded in the dense crowd.

The powerful air wave lifted dozens of soldiers into the air, and the nearest dozen soldiers were blown to pieces when they got close to the iron fire thunder. The shock wave shocked the farther soldiers to death. Injured by nails, more people were deaf in both ears, lying on the ground in pain.

The soldiers on the mountain road were too dense to dodge, and a single iron fire thunder killed and injured more than [-] people. The soldiers behind were scared out of their wits and turned around and fled down the mountain.

The gunpowder smoke gradually dissipated, and the air was filled with a pungent bloody smell. Even the city a hundred steps away could smell this disgusting smell.

At the foot of the mountain, Yeluna was also dumbfounded as he watched the Liao soldiers return in defeat. He couldn't help but sighed, and turned to the soldiers and said, "Pass my order to General Yelu Xinfeng. First, don't feed the horses with black beans; , send 5000 men to the valley to search for everything that can be eaten; third, the horses that died in battle can be used for food."

He had to consider the most serious food problem.

On the chessboard deployed by Fan Ning, in addition to the three-step chess of Donghai, Xixing, and Taiyuan City, there are many small chess games, such as capturing Loufan Pass, capturing Juehua Island, starting to build Ningyuan City, and counting The ten thousand-stone ships arrived in the sea off Pingzhou, showing signs of preparing to land in Pingzhou.

Xiao Susa, who stayed behind in Nanjing, knew that [-] troops were buried in the Bohai Sea. He was terrified. His first consideration was to protect the passageway for retreating north, lest the Song army cut off the connection between Youzhou and Liao, and urgently dispatched [-] troops from Nanjing Road to defend Pinglu. Youzhou line.

Just when the defense line of Nanjing Road was shrinking, and the garrisons from all walks of life were transferred to Youzhou and Pinglu, another move began to be quietly made.

An army of 1 people, under the leadership of Wang Qigong, the governor of the capital, crossed Baigou and was secretly marching westward along Yishui.

Fan Ning's goal in the first stage is to regain Youyan. In order to achieve this goal, he must drive a stake in Youzhou in advance, which is also a springboard.

After thinking for a long time, Fan Ning still locked his eyes on Yi County. On the one hand, Yi County has relatively good defense conditions, which is easy to defend and difficult to attack. On the other hand, Yi County is close to Zhuozhou, and can take Fanyang County, the southern gate of Youzhou The third reason is that the Liao army did not have many troops stationed in Yi County, and most of the troops went to attack Yanmen Pass. After the defense crisis on the eastern front, Xiao Susa, who stayed behind in Nanjing, transferred the [-] Liao troops who attacked Yanmen Pass to Pingzhou.

However, there are only 1000 defenders left in Yi County. With these 1000 people, Yi County cannot be defended. What's more, when the Song Army withdrew from Yi County, it had deliberately left a loophole for the next attack on Yi County.

[-] soldiers hid in a hidden valley in Yizhou for eight days. Just when they were running out of food and had to return to Hebei, this afternoon, the chief general Wang Qigong got the news that the [-] Liao troops who besieged Yanmen Pass Retreat east from Yi County.

This news made Wang Qigong extremely excited, he punched hard on the stone wall, and survived the desperate situation!The strategy of coercion on the Eastern Front succeeded.

Wang Qigong immediately ordered: "The whole army set off and go to Yi County!"

The [-] troops marched rapidly towards Yi County, fifty miles away, with the last two days of dry food. The team arrived in Yi County just after dark.

A few miles away, Wang Qigong stared at Yi County, which was halfway up the mountain in the distance. He unfolded a blueprint, which could be seen clearly under the moonlight.

The water source of Yi County is mountain spring water flowing down from a high place, which gathers a stream running through the whole city, flowing in from the north of the city, flowing out from the south of the city, and finally flows into Yishui.

The stream is about one foot wide, not very deep, about three feet, and flows out from the south city.

Like all cities, the Xihe River in Yi County opened a waterway under the north and south city walls, and then installed thick iron fences. The end inserted into the water was extremely sharp, making it difficult for the Song army to enter the city by diving.

But the Liao army guarding the city didn't know that after Yang Wenguang occupied Yi County, he tampered with the water channel for the next capture of Yi County. Sprinkle gravel, it looks the same as before, but as long as the stone slabs are removed, soldiers can sneak directly into the city from the waterway.

Yang Wenguang chose to choose Beicheng because there are piles of rocks outside Beicheng, and the cliffs are just a few dozen steps away. It is also difficult to come to support in time.

A hundred elite soldiers were ready, and they were standing close to the city. There were a few defenders patrolling back and forth at the top of the city, but they seemed very slack, more like a routine patrol.

Just at the corner of the city wall, three thousand soldiers led by Chen Hua, the leader, had assembled here. At this time, Chen Hua had a new idea.

The secret passage left by Yang Dutong was only used in extreme cases, that is, when the top of the city was tightly defended, making them useless.

But now Chen Hua found that there were almost no soldiers patrolling the east city, and they could directly climb up the city, so why bother to take the waterway?
Chen Hua had the right to act on the fly, so he immediately stopped the hundreds of soldiers who were about to dive, and quickly hung up more than a dozen pairs of rope ladders. Thousands of soldiers quickly climbed to the top of the city along the rope ladders.

The top of the city was quiet, except for soldiers patrolling above the two city gates. Soldiers of the Song Army swarmed up and were immediately spotted by the patrolling soldiers.

The soldiers who heard the alarm bell in the barracks rushed out of the barracks in panic, but a dense rain of arrows shot at them head-on. The soldiers of the Liao army screamed and fell down. The remaining soldiers retreated to the barracks. Song Jun shoots at each other.

At this time, under the cover of more than a dozen soldiers, an extremely strong man appeared outside the wall of the barracks. He held a [-]-jin iron fire thunder and threw it into the barracks. There was an earth-shattering explosion, thick smoke filled the air, and the counterattack of the Liao army disappeared instantly. Thousands of soldiers rushed in and rushed into the barracks.
(End of this chapter)