Pingyang Fu of the Red Chamber

Chapter 16 Cruel Siege War
Great Wu Empire,

In the 55th year of the Dawu calendar, October 10rd, autumn.

Pingyang County City,

"Ohh Ohh ohh!"

The dreary trumpet sounded again,
"The front is ordered, the whole army charges!"

"Kill!"

"The second part has it. The Great Khan has an order. The first person to climb the city will seal up a thousand households and reward a thousand slaves and ten thousand taels of silver. Those who retreat will be beheaded. This time, Pingyang must be taken down once. The whole army obeys the order and kills!"

"Come on!"

Another army formation, carrying a ladder, rushed over.

"Kill!"

"All archers, prepare, aim above the city wall, throw, let go!"

"Next column, go ahead, let it go!"

"Quickly, put up the big shield, beware of enemy archers!"

"Reserve team, hurry up, come up to support,"

"Hold it, hold it, shoot the gunman, let it go!"

"Second team, go ahead! Let it go!"

As soon as the sky cleared, there was no warm-up battle between the two sides, and it was a fierce battle.

The first wave of attacking infantry held leather shields, carried ladders, and waved scimitars. They were densely packed like ants, braving the arrows flying overhead. The 10 army was divided into three echelons and stormed from three walls. Soon they rushed under the city wall.

After setting up the ladder, they climbed up like crazy, but the soldiers guarding the city wall also acted quickly, throwing the prepared rolling logs, kerosene, and gold juice down the city wall, and smashed them on the head of the climbing Jurchen. There were screams in an instant, and the Jurchen suffered heavy casualties.

Immediately afterwards, the main force of the second wave of attack swarmed in from the east. This time the Jurchens took out siege weapons, siege vehicles, ladder vehicles, and arrow tower vehicles, all of which were used, causing heavy damage to the defenders, especially The arrow towers on the city wall are very threatening, and they still use the attack method of ants attached to the three walls, causing great oppression and shock to the defenders.

Zhang Jinyu was also shocked, and also a little puzzled, is this how wars are fought?

Huang Jitai only studs when he comes up, how can other people follow him, how can there be such a fight, it doesn't look good.We have to call all the people up and wait until we get through the first wave.

"Ningbyon, hurry up, notify the 6th Battalion to support the East City, the 7th Battalion to prepare, the 8th Battalion to support the North City, the 1th Battalion to support the South City, and the [-]th Battalion with [-] infantry to go to the West City to stand by!"

"Yes, my lord!"

Huang Jitai, seeing that the siege had reached a fever pitch and the defenders were already exhausted, he brazenly ordered the only 10 cavalry, and asked 5 of them to dismount and join the siege infantry.

He ordered more than 5 cavalry to run around the periphery, forming a rain of arrows to cover the charge of [-] dismounted cavalry.

The 5 Jurchen cavalry dismounted. After dismounting, some even took off their armor, roared loudly, and rushed frantically into the main battlefield of Dongcheng with scimitars in their hands.

Under the east wall,

The Jurchens bravely rushed to the bottom of the city wall wave after wave and kept erecting the ladder to climb up. The siege vehicles also repeatedly hit the gate of the east gate, and part of the city wall around the gate was shaken. There was some shaking, and the door also made a "squeak, squeak" sound.

as a last resort,
Zhang Jinyu ordered to aim the heavy weapons at the opponent's siege weapons and give up attacking the infantry. The pressure on the defenders suddenly increased.

Especially the 5 dismounted Jurchen cavalry who rushed under the city wall, with bare arms, staring blood-red eyes, biting a scimitar in their mouths, braved the stone, wood, boiling oil and gold juice dropped by the defenders on the city wall. , Climbing up crazily, all risking their lives, no one flinches.

Finally on a city wall, after an hour, the dismounted Jurchen cavalry finally broke through the defense and attacked the city wall, causing cheers from all the Jurchen soldiers below the city.

In the sky above Pingyang County, there was a continuous morning of shouting and killing. The ordinary people inside were staying at home quietly. When they suddenly heard the cheers outside, their expressions immediately changed, showing deep fear. Could it be The city is broken.

But in just a moment, the Jurchen cavalry who had just boarded the top of the city were beheaded by the reinforcements.

The soldiers defending the city wall were also red-eyed at this time, completely ignoring their own casualties, braved the rain of arrows and poured down crossbow arrows, rolling logs, stones, kerosene, and gold juice. A few spearmen guarded In a crenel, the assassination action was repeated, and the corpses of the Jurchens were picked off.

But in such a fierce battle, there must be negligence, and Jurchen soldiers will climb up the city wall in a hurry. At this time, as long as a Jurchen breaks through the defense and rushes to the city wall, the sword and shield soldiers who assist in the defense will raise their long swords without hesitation Rushing forward desperately, even jumping off the city wall with the enemy in their arms, and they all died together. The scene was extremely tragic.

Everyone knew that once the enemy Jurchen successfully charged up the city wall and stood firm, it was time to break the city.

According to the customs of the Jurchens, it would be worse than death at that time.

"Order, the Seventh Battalion will go up to support, leave 2000 people in the west city, and send 3000 people from each to the other two walls to support, tell the brothers, victory belongs to us."

Zhang Jinyu also gave orders to the guards calmly on the surface, but in his heart he was actually panicked. Seeing that Lord Hou was so determined in command, everyone was full of confidence.

"Yes, Lord Hou, this subordinate will go now!"

under the city,

Looking at the ever-expanding casualties of his tribe, Huang Jitai was expressionless, his eyes were only on the warriors standing on the city wall.

Huang Jitai personally led the last guards of the headquarters of ten thousand people to supervise the battle at the end, no matter who retreated, he would be killed on the spot.

However, the confidant generals Hu Yanhan and He Lianchen continued to order the stragglers who had suffered heavy casualties to regroup on the front line, and ordered General Qianhu to personally lead the team to organize another attack.

The already terrified and exhausted Jurchen soldiers mustered up their courage again, and followed their leader to swarm up without risking their lives.

Under such an eager attack, the defenders could not breathe, and some places were gradually unable to support,
On the east wall, at the north end, several thousand households gathered together and stormed one place. Seeing an opportunity, three thousand households jointly boarded the ladder and jumped up. The guarding soldiers rushed up immediately when they saw it.

But there were a few Qianhu's opponents, who were all killed after a few rounds. Three Qianhu stood back to back, guarding the crenel so that the Jurchens soldiers behind could come up safely. There were more and more people.

Zhang Jinyu could see clearly from the attic,
Seeing that this place might fall, he ordered immediately;

"Ningbian, gather the guards, go to the northern end with me, and kill those wolf cubs!"

"Master Hou, it's too dangerous, I'll just take someone there!"

"Listen to orders!"

"Yes, Lord Marquis, the whole army must be assembled and set off."

Zhang Jinyu took the 1000 guards of the general's mansion straight to the gap, and the three thousand households who were happily killing did not care about the movement in the inner city.

It wasn't until Zhang Jinyu was about to arrive that he realized it. Seeing Zhang Jinyu in luxurious armor, he knew it was a high official. They glanced at each other and swung their knives together to kill him.

"Ningbian and I go together! The others deal with the Jurchen soldiers!"

The following guards immediately pulled out their blades and rushed towards the Jurchen soldiers on the city wall. Zhang Jinyu pulled out his precious sword, knowing that he was strong and not fancy, so he slashed at him with a single blow.

But Zhang Jinyu really didn't know how strong she was. Jurchen Qianhu immediately swung her knife to block, Zhang Jinyu's precious knife cut decisively, the opponent's knife broke into two sections, and the person was cut in half.

Zhang Jinyu was taken aback by looking at the two sides who were still fighting all around. It felt like it didn't take much force. Could it be because of the strength of the two together.

The remaining two thousand households looked at this picture of Jinyu in disbelief, a look of fear flashed across them, and then fiercely killed them from left to right,
"Master Hou! Be careful."

Ning Bian came out from behind and slashed at Qianhu who came from the right. Zhang Jinyu naturally slashed at the person on the left, but the Jurchen on the right did not defend, but tried his best to slash at Zhang Jinyu's chest and abdomen.

"Pfft!"

one sound,
The sound of a knife piercing flesh came,
The four people's knives slashed at each other at the same time. Unexpectedly, the two Qianhu were ready to exchange their lives for their lives, but in the end they saw their knives blocked by the enemy general's armor, and their bodies were directly pierced.

eyes widened,
"you you,"

Before he could finish speaking, he died without dying.

Pingyang County City,

At the north end of the East City Wall,

The guards in the general's mansion quickly killed the Jurchen soldiers who climbed to the top of the wall, leaving nothing around them, and the killing method was clean, quick and neat.

It turned out that most of these palace guards were brought by Mrs. Wang in her early years, and the elite guard battalion of the original White Lotus Sect was all the strength of the Xiangzhu.

Zhang Jinyu and Ning Bian didn't notice any abnormalities, they just felt that the guards in the mansion were well-trained and really elite.

Under the city, Huang Jitai not only sent soldiers to reinforce the northern end, but also used the northern section to attract the attention of the defenders, so that Hu Yanhan led people to storm the southeast corner, and the offensive and defensive battle here became more intense.

Under Hu Yanhan's order, the Jurchen soldiers never stopped.

The speed of the Jurchen soldiers' climbing has never stopped, and they attacked the top of the city several times, and Hu Yanhan also personally led the people to rush a few times.

After Zhang Xiaolin saw it, he personally brought his personal guards to guard the place. Hu Yanhan and Zhang Xiaolin also fought head-to-head several times, but the two sides were evenly tied, neither of them got an advantage, but this position has remained unmoved.

In this way, the northern end and the southern section fell into a stalemate again. This fierce battle continued until the sun was about to set in the afternoon. Both Jurchen and Dawu paid a heavy price, but the battle situation was always stalemate. The army remained silent for a long time.

"Sweating profusely! It's getting dark!"

Withdrew from the front line, He Lienchen reminded out of breath.

"Mingjin retreat!"

Following Huang Jitai's order, Ming Jin remembered that the Jurchens also quickly left the battlefield and retreated to the camp when they heard the sound of retreating.

On the city wall, seeing the enemy retreat, many soldiers relaxed their minds and leaned against the wall to barely stand, some were paralyzed on the ground, and some even fainted on the ground.

Looking at the densely packed corpses under the city, Zhang Jinyu's scalp was also numb, with mixed feelings.

"Ningbian, let all the people from West City come over to help treat the wounded and tidy up the ordnance. Stay vigil after finishing."

"Yes, Lord Hou!"

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(End of this chapter)