Pingyang Fu of the Red Chamber

Chapter 4 The first battle was shocking
"Ohh Ohh ohh!"

The desolate sound of the horn resounded throughout the sky inside and outside the city of Pingyang County.

Zhang Jinyu led all the soldiers to wait on the east wall. Looking at the serious faces of many soldiers, not to mention the excitement in his heart, he touched the armor on his body again, and felt a little comforted in his heart.

Zhang Jinyu looked up at the Jurchen camp outside. Seeing the army formed by so many people, he was shocked and numb to the point where he couldn't describe it in words. This was the first time he saw a real battlefield with cold weapons in the feudal era.

Especially the Jurchen cavalry, I had only seen it on Blue Star TV before, but never saw the real thing, only then did I realize that the real Jurchen cavalry is indeed mighty and ferocious.

Only then did Zhang Jinyu understand what a nation on horseback is. The nomadic cavalry is indeed the chosen one!

On the vast grassland, a well-trained elite cavalry can easily achieve the state of unity of man and horse. It is simply incomprehensible. From their casual riding movements, one can tell how skilled they are. They are indeed Jurchen cavalry The famous warrior on the grassland.

Thinking back to the time when the blue star cavalry in the pass and the cavalry outside the pass in the past, it seems that they didn't win a few times.

This is really troublesome!
This is not a hasty battle like Zhang Jinyu thought before. It seems that Huang Jitai wants to take down Pingyang County, and then slowly eat away at Luoyun Plain, establish a hegemony, and establish an empire to compete with Dawu.

"Ningbian, let the guards communicate and let Zhang Wenqing's fourth battalion and Zhang Mingzhe's seventh battalion prepare. I'm afraid it will be troublesome today. Jurchen has spent a lot of money this time. Tell the brothers to use bows, crossbows, arrows and other weapons to defend the city. Give me Greet them well."

"Yes! General."

Immediately arrange the guards to deliver the letter.

Outside the city, the Jurchen Khan Huang Jitai gathered his troops without any hassle. In addition to the 5 troops left behind, the 20 troops came to Pingyang City with the overwhelming force of Mount Tai, and also showed the defenders the strength of their elite army. strength.

Last time, the commander who ambushed the reinforcements of the Dawu army, although some broke through, almost wiped out all the cavalry. I believe that the elite defenders without the command of the commander are soulless. This is a godsend opportunity.

The huge army array also stopped 2 miles outside the moat, which is the distance beyond the effective shooting distance of the bed crossbow in the city.
Huang Jitai stood in front of the team and looked at the wide moat in front of him. It really deserves to be the strongest city in Luoyun Plain.

Immediately, with a wave of his hand, the shrill horn sounded again in the army formation;

"Ohh Ohh ohh!"

Hearing the signal of the attack, the army array in front of the Jurchens moved.

The infantry in front directly put down their weapons and picked up the sand belt that had already been filled, and then each of them rushed to the river with sand bags on their backs, launching the first wave of landfill operations.

The team at the back dug and bagged the soil with shovels and sandbags. The dust was flying and the work was in full swing. It was like following a construction site. It was still not environmentally friendly. If he was in Blue Star, he would immediately report him and make him so arrogant.

Huang Jitai was still dissatisfied with the speed of the landfill, so he asked the cavalry to put down their weapons and form a transport brigade. The cavalry picked up sand bags and put them on horses to form a pack horse team, and then rode to the river to throw the sand bags into the river. Withdraw quickly, so that the speed is much faster than the infantry.

In addition, Huang Jitai arranged for the Jurchen soldiers to stand in front of the moat and hold up their shields, and the Jurchen soldiers behind them held up their longbows, and shot intensively at the city wall on the east bank of the moat as a cover attack, hoping to disturb the sight of the defenders and reduce the losses of the soldiers.

The time when the moat was buried was the time when the city was attacked with the most deaths in the past dynasties, because this time period is a situation of being passively beaten, no matter how anxious you are, it is useless.

Yesterday, only a small road was buried, and the loss was so heavy. Now it is necessary to fill up the moat section on a large scale, and I don’t know how many more casualties will be caused?

Most of the key path was dug up last night!
Huang Jitai directly ordered his confidant General He Lianchen to lead his troops and horses to supervise the battle. Anyone who retreats will be killed, and the moat must be filled today.

On the city wall, the generals and lieutenants at all levels of the defending army have already completed their preparations, orderly ordering the soldiers in their headquarters to stand in formation, line up and raise their arm crossbows and longbows, aiming at the enemy and shooting the crossbow arrows , row after row without interruption,
"Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!"

The crossbow arrows kept falling on the Jurchen landfill team outside the moat, causing heavy damage to the dense team. After a while, there was a blank in the black shadow of the team.

In particular, the lathe crossbow has also been added to the attack sequence. The huge long arrow, more than one meter long, can cause terrible piercing injuries. One shot can cause a lot of damage to the enemy's team. Several people are pierced together, which is extremely bloody.

Every time I saw many soldiers here, they would be frightened and hesitate to move forward. At this time, the Helenchen Supervisory Team would come over, but if they stayed for only a while, they would be directly killed by the Supervisory Team behind them.

So no matter how many casualties there are, the speed of landfilling has not decreased at all.

Zhang Jinyu, who was standing on the city wall, saw the situation outside, her face turned pale, and she tried her best to endure something!
This is really dead, the red, white, and yellow, I can't help but want to vomit, hold back, hold back,

"vomit, vomit,"

Still unable to hold back, Zhang Jinyu knelt down and vomited a few mouthfuls.

"General, are you alright?"

Zhang Jiawu and Ning Bian asked concernedly,

"It's okay, I'm okay, I just got a little cold and feel a little uncomfortable!"

Zhang Jinyu replied stiffly, seeing that the Jurchens outside the city were not affected at all,

"Jiawu, the speed of the enemy's landfill has not slowed down at all, think of a way?"

"Then use the trebuchet now and directly attack the army formation behind. It is a little bit more to kill."

"Okay, concentrate on the area where the Jurchen army is densely packed behind, and don't worry about the front."

"It's the general."

Zhang Jiawu returned to the city wall and arranged for the deputy general to direct the soldiers to prepare the trebuchet.

"Prepare to throw stones, let them go!"

Following an order, stones of different sizes were thrown high and accurately fell into the camp behind the Jurchens, causing huge inertial ejection damage.

The Jurchen cavalry who were hit were all dead or injured, and the wounded basically couldn't save their lives.

This is not counted, especially the infantry phalanx, the dense formation gives the catapult damage bonus,
The soldiers who were directly knocked down in the army formation were bloody and bloody, one piece at a time, a few, a dozen people together, all fell to the ground, not knowing whether they were alive or dead, blanks appeared in the neat formation.

Huang Jitai's heart ached when he saw it, and he quickly asked the army to retreat 4 miles before stopping. Seeing the gaps in the army formation, the corners of his mouth twitched.

This retreat does not matter, the distance between the main force and the front has been opened, which directly caused the speed of the landfill to drop sharply, and the casualties also increased.

Hu Yanhan and other Jurchen generals also had haze on their faces,

The first day of the siege resulted in such a huge loss, it is worthy of being the number one fortified city in the north of Dawu. It would be great if it was captured and made into our Jurchen Khan City.

The whole morning passed quickly, and when the sun in the east had risen to its highest point, the Jurchens' call to retreat finally sounded, and the soldiers on both sides breathed a sigh of relief.

The Jurchen's army has already buried pots and cooks directly behind, and it seems that they are not going to return to the camp to stop fighting.

After Zhang Jinyu saw the Jurchens retreating, she also asked Zhang Jiawu to take them down to eat.
In the afternoon, Zhang Jiawen was asked to bring reserve soldiers to replace the soldiers who defended the city this morning.

The intention is very simple, that is, fueling tactics plus wheel warfare, and soldiers with good physical strength use city defense facilities to maintain their combat effectiveness and lethality.

In the afternoon,

Just finished changing the city defense on a large scale,

The Jurchens started their siege operations as in the morning again,

Fearless to die to fill the moat, looking down from the city, the moat was buried at a speed visible to the naked eye,
The Jurchens completely disregarded casualties and were truly a model of dedication, which Zhang Jinyu had to admire.

But still have to stop,

"Zhang Jiawen, increase your attack power!"

"It's the general,"

"In the first row, focus on projectiles, and then follow up in the second row, with 15 breath intervals in one round."

"First row, get ready, let go!"

"Second row, get ready, let go!"

After several rounds, combined with the attack of the trebuchet and the bed crossbow, more than half of the people on the opposite side were emptied, and the opposite side immediately couldn't organize an effective formation.

Huang Jitai looked gloomyly at the opposite side who shot and killed the warriors under his command unscrupulously, as if the anger was about to burst from his eyes,
"Hu Yanhan, Ming Jin retreats!"

"Khan, we're organizing one,"

Hu Yanhan hadn't finished speaking yet, when he saw Dahan's gloomy face, he immediately swallowed back what he hadn't said yet,

"Hurry up, Mingjin is withdrawing his troops. Withdraw all the people."

After hearing the signal to retreat, the Jurchens' soldiers quickly retreated without any reluctance to fight. They quickly left the dangerous area and gathered on both sides of the main force.

Each thousand households simply rectified the headquarters of the soldiers and horses, and then slowly withdrew to the camp, with skillful and calm movements.

Standing on the tower, Zhang Jinyu also sighed when she saw the Jurchens trained well.

Sure enough, the reputation is well-deserved, the Jurchen soldiers are well-trained, tenacious in combat, and the strict discipline of superiors and subordinates is amazing!
With such a strong army, Huang Jitai, it is no wonder that he has won many battles, which caused headaches inside and outside the court.

The siege battle was the same as before. When Huang Jitai didn't fill in the moat, the Jurchen didn't want to fight face to face.

After counting, there are still more than 2000 casualties. After checking the wounds, they were all directly thrown by the Jurchens' bows and arrows, and shot through the weak points of the armor. The critical ones died on the spot, and the others were slightly injured .

Zhang Jinyu asked the doctors and military doctors in the city to concentrate on treating the wounded soldiers.

Don't be afraid of wasting medicinal materials, you will use all kinds of golden sore medicine, and the cost will be paid by the general's mansion.

After this order came out, all the soldiers were secretly grateful.

(End of this chapter)