Judgement

Chapter 240 Eight Days Like Years

Chapter 240 Eight Days Like Years

War is cruel and has no humanity at all.Facing the opponent's butcher's knife, your knife is not fast enough, and you are destined to be annihilated in the loess.Peace is relative, only when two knives are as fast, there will be a temporary pacification when there is no winner or loser.Jin Wushu borrowed the way of Chuzhou Prefecture, and the coalition army Wan Yanchang was about to pull out this thorn in the flesh embedded in the Jin army's southward movement. In his view, Zhao Li was just a lifeless ant. He didn't expect that he would do it for a few dead bodies. And put all his eggs in one basket to open the city to tease Jin Jun.The big battle was triggered early, which made Jin Wushu a little unexpected.Looking at the sea of ​​flames and hell outside the Chuzhou Mansion, Jin Wushu ordered the vanguard of the surrendered army to retreat first, and instead shot crossbow arrows at the Song army defending the city.

Crossbow arrows are generally not liked by marching cavalry because of their bulkiness, but their power should not be underestimated. They can smash a person's head into a ball of plasma from a hundred meters away.Hundreds of crossbow arrows were placed outside the city by the Jin soldiers, and the retreating vanguard waited for an opportunity to attack Chuzhou Prefecture at any time.The fire outside the city was gradually swallowed up by the torrential rain left on the ground yesterday. Before Zhao Li had time to rejoice at repelling the vanguard of the Jin soldiers, he saw thousands of hardwood crossbow arrows as thick as a child's arm and nearly ten feet long. The laser city head.The crossbow arrows are equipped with sharp iron gun heads, and sparks burst out when they hit the city wall. The bluestone outer wall of Chuzhou Mansion has been eroded by water vapor for many years.The defenders of the Song Dynasty were completely suppressed by the crossbow arrows and couldn't lift their heads.

Zhao Li is well aware of the power of the crossbow, the Han army in the Central Plains used it to smash the Huns' walls.The crossbow bolts are made of iron and wood as the frame and the tendon as the string, which is unstoppable and powerful.It is the first time that foreigners have used it to attack the cities of the Central Plains after hundreds of years. Maybe this is the reincarnation that is destined in the dark.The infantry of the Jin army under the city rushed towards the Chuzhou government like a surging tide with the crossbow attack. The success or failure of the battle on the battlefield is often changing in an instant.It may be a gust of wind, it may be a rain that can turn the tide of battle.The soldiers defending the city in the Song Dynasty heard the thunderous shouts of killing from below the city, heard the wooden ladders of golden men climbed up the city wall, and heard the golden strikes of swords, guns, swords and halberds hacking at the city gate, but they couldn't reach out to fight back...

Jin Wushu proudly said: "Tut laziness, I dare say that before the sunset today, the Chuzhou Mansion will be destroyed. Let that old-fashioned guy Zhao Li die along with the Chuzhou Mansion!" Hahaha..." Wan Yanchang looked at Jin Wushu and didn't expect that he would carry so many crossbow arrows when marching and fighting, no wonder he would attack Shandong as if there was no one there.It would be a terrible thing to meet such an opponent. It seems that Chuzhou Mansion cannot be saved, and Zhao Li will also be doomed...

The morale of the Jin people reached an unprecedented high, and they began to climb the city ladder one after another. In their eyes, Chuzhou Mansion was already a plaything between applause.Jin Wushu was afraid that the crossbow would hurt the Jin soldiers ascending the city and ordered the crossbow to be changed into a feint attack, also because the crossbow bolts are really not easy to make, one is shot here and one is missing, the city is full of chaos There are densely packed crossbow arrows.

Zhao Li pushed aside the crossbow beside him and shouted: "Golden Dog is about to come up, the brothers have no way out behind us. Burn them to death with kerosene, and the Golden Dog will never break the city!"

The soldiers were already suffocated by the crossbow arrows of the golden man. Hearing that the general gave orders, all the guarding soldiers mercilessly threw ceramic crocks to the people below the city, and the city immediately became a purgatory on earth again.The dense crowd of Jin people crying for father and mother disrupted all the Jin people's infantry, and Jin Wushu had no choice but to let the soldiers withdraw from the fire.He ordered the crossbow arrows to strengthen the attack and must shoot through the city wall of Chuzhou Prefecture. The crossbow arrows swept in like a storm, and the sound of bluestone bursting was endless.The thousand-year-old city wall of Chuzhou Prefecture has become a target of public criticism. Zhao Li and the soldiers guarding the city can only pray to God for mercy that the city wall of Chuzhou Prefecture can block the surging crossbow arrows of the Jinmen...

This day seems to be slower than any other day. After noon, Fang Zichou, who was leading the Song soldiers guarding the city gate, shouted: "The general is not good. The side gate of the south city was shot through by golden crossbow arrows. The golden infantry has assembled." It's over, and it's about to cover up and kill us."

Zhao Li just got up and wanted to see the movement of the golden men in the city, but unexpectedly a crossbow arrow galloped through Zhao Li's shoulder, and the arrow pierced through his body and nailed to the wall behind Zhao Li. "General, be careful!" Zhao Li was still gasping for breath in pain, when he was rushed to the top of the city by the soldiers behind the battlements, and a crossbow arrow shot the soldiers on Zhao Li's body in two.The golden soldiers under the city had already begun to attack from the side door, the sound of arrows piercing through the air, and the clanging of swords came to Zhao Li's ears. There were only 2000 guards in the city, how could they resist the golden troops of tens of thousands of people? Army infantry!

Zhao Li shouted with a sword in his hand: "The defenders at the top of the city obey the order, the outer city has been broken. All the soldiers are divided into two groups. One way retreats to the inner city and prepares to block the gate of the inner city with big stones, and the other side follows me. Under the city, General Fang killed the golden dog." Zhao Li raised his sword and ran down the city, the five or six hundred people at the top of the city immediately divided into two groups and followed Zhao Li quickly down the city.The side gate under the city had already been broken into by Jin men, and Fang Zichou was leading his troops to fight with the Jin soldiers. The Song soldiers suffered heavy losses due to the outnumbered enemy, and there were already many dead soldiers lying at the gate of the city.The side gate of the south city has completely fallen into the hands of the Jinren. Zhao Li held his sword with one hand and killed someone with a sword when he saw someone coming in from the side gate. The big man of the Song Army who hung from his shoulders beheaded seven or eight people.The Jin people and the descendants of all ethnic groups were stunned, and the brave men who met on the battlefield were born.I've seen desperate fights, but I've never seen a style of fighting for life without defending. The golden infantry was forced back a few steps by Zhao Li, who was covered in blood.

Seeing that Zhao Li was desperately fighting, the defenders of the Southern Song Dynasty immediately raised their morale.Everyone regards death as one as ten, and the killed Jinren infantry retreated step by step. Many Han descendants in the Jinren army were also infected by Zhao Lishe's life-and-death struggle.Turning the sword in his hand, he killed the golden man who was supervising the battle. Thousands of infantrymen who surrendered were thrown into chaos. The golden army outside the city didn't know what happened in the narrow side door.All I knew was that a messy group of people was retreating, and they heard their companions shouting: "The southern barbarians rebelled, the southern barbarians rebelled..."

The side gate of the south city was finally recovered by Zhao Li, and no matter how many Jin soldiers outside the city crowded in front of the gate, they were hacked to the ground by the army soldiers.Jin Wushu and Wan Yanchang watched the movement of the battle in Chuzhou Prefecture for a while, and Jin Wushu drew his sword and pointed to the sky, and the golden cavalry began to attack.As long as the descending troops can break through the gate, the Jinren's iron cavalry can rush in and open the south gate, and Chuzhou Mansion is at your fingertips!

Zhao Li had been fighting at the front, and when he saw the battle flag fluttering in the Jinren's camp and the sound of horses trampling like thunder, he knew the Jinren's intentions.It is difficult for the generals and soldiers of the Song Army to stop the golden cavalry with their flesh and blood. Now the lives of Song soldiers are too precious.Without them, the city will be occupied by the Jin people, and the Song Dynasty will also... Zhao Li shouted: "General Fang listened to the order and led his troops to count the casualties. The soldiers immediately retreated to the inner city. There must be no mistakes! The Left Route Army As I stay here to stop the Jin soldiers, if we hold the Jin soldiers for a while longer, General Fang will be able to save more wounded soldiers and return to the city. Brothers, the time has come to fight for the Song Dynasty, for the wives and children!" Fang Zichou led two 300 people to hear Zhao Li's order knew that when it was not time for impulsiveness, the Chuzhou government must not make mistakes.Fang Zichou ordered his soldiers to support the wounded soldiers, lifted them up and retreated into the inner city in a hurry.

When the golden cavalry rushed to the city gate and didn't understand what was going on, they heard wild rumors among the infantry that the Nanman Han army had rebelled.The cavalry of the Kingdom of Jin has always been the elite division of the Jin people, and they have always regarded surrendering troops as human beings.As soon as I heard from my own people that the southern barbarians surrendered their troops to rebel and rebelled, they swung their machetes and chopped down when they saw the Song people surrendering their troops. Thousands of cavalry hacked and killed the surrendered soldiers, which immediately aroused the resistance of the surrendered soldiers, and they became a mess in the chaos ...

As soon as Zhao Li saw the opportunity, he ordered the left army to shoot at the cavalry, and more than [-] cavalrymen of the Jin people were shot dead on the spot.Jin Wushu and Wan Yanchang, who were watching the battle, looked at each other, wondering what's wrong?Mutiny in the army is a taboo for military strategists, and Jin Wushu no longer had the leisure to watch the battle of the surrendered army break through and attack the city, so he quickly blew the horn to retreat.When Zhao Li waited for the Jin people to retreat, they organized another surprise attack. After killing dozens of Jin people, they retreated into the inner city with the left army and some Song soldiers who had surrendered to Zhao Li.

Jin Wushu killed more than a dozen surrendered soldiers in a rage, and the army's morale was finally stabilized, but when he looked up, he saw the sky and the sun was slowly setting to the west.If he couldn't break Chuzhou's mansion within two hours, then Wan Yanchang would definitely be made a laughingstock.Jin Wushu jumped on his horse and drew his knife to personally lead the team to attack Chuzhou Mansion, intending to chop off Zhao Li's head and show it to Wan Yanchang.Interested, Wan Yanchang followed Jin Wushu on his horse and headed towards Chuzhou Mansion. After Jin Wushu entered Chuzhou Mansion, he secretly groaned.In order to prevent Wan Yanchang from attacking the city, Zhao Li demolished all the houses in the outer city, not even a single tree remained.The walls of the inner city looked much stronger than those of the outer city, and the infantry and cavalry had no advantage at all in attacking the city in this flat plain.The only way to break the Chuzhou government is to attack by force. Otherwise, after sunset, a hundred thousand troops will not be able to take down even a small city.

When Zhao Ligang returned to the inner city, he faced tens of thousands of expectant eyes. They had already suffered from wars.Some of them were already homeless after fighting against Yan Chang, and stayed at the homes of relatives and friends to wait for the war to pass before rebuilding their homes.But anyone with a little money had already moved south when the Jin people attacked Shandong, and only these people who had nowhere to go stayed in Chuzhou Prefecture.Zhao Li couldn't make any promises to them, and now he could only wait for the imperial court to send troops to rescue them...

"Woo..." The golden man's horn sounded, and the soldiers on the top of the city shouted: "General, the golden soldiers are about to attack again!"

Zhao Lida shouted: "We have no way to retreat, quickly block all the inner city gates with big stones. We will do our best to keep the city gates intact until the end of the battle!"

"Yes, fight to the death! Fight to the death! Fight to the death..." The soldiers following Zhao Li shouted loudly, but Zhao Li hurried up to the top of the wall without bandaging his bleeding shoulder.

"Shao Bing, how is the Jinren doing now?" Zhao Li was asking Fang Zichou before reaching the top of the wall.

Fang Zichou shook his head and said, "Golden Dog is desperate. The north and south gates of the inner city have been blocked. They will definitely attack the south gate. I really don't know if the south gate can be sealed before the Jin men break through. ?”

Zhao Li looked at the tens of thousands of Jin Bingchang who poured in under his feet and sighed: "It will be dark in two hours, today is too long..."