Pirate Song

Before Hu Luci even came, he thought that it might not cost a single shot or a shot. As long as the army arrived and frightened the Huangzhou defenders, these weak Song troops might open the city and surrender, but today it seems , His expectation has been completely defeated, and even the surrendered general of the Song army who was sent to persuade him to surrender was killed on the spot by an arrow shot from Huangzhou City.

From the current point of view, he still underestimated the resistance of the Huangzhou defenders of the Song Dynasty a little bit, so he raised two broom eyebrows, his thick lips were tightly pursed, and he stared at the advancing troops. , There has been no words.

After the war between the two armies, because of the distance, the Jin army continued to attack the first trench repeatedly, paying a considerable price, but such efforts finally began to pay off when the battle was approaching noon. , a large number of golden soldiers kept transporting sand bags and wood, etc., and finally filled up several passages in the first trench, opening up several advancing passages for the subsequent golden soldiers.

A large number of golden soldiers immediately crossed these passages and rushed towards Huangzhou City at a closer distance.

"Pull up the leather curtains and cloth tendrils, the crossbowmen pay attention to protection, put up the wooden stand, suppress the enemy's archers, and prepare the cannons! Order the city to continue to transport arrows to the city!" Gao Huaiyuan stood calmly behind the battlements, observing the city. When he saw that the Jin army had broken through the first ditch, a large number of Jin army archers and shieldmen cooperated through the ditch and approached the city wall, he immediately issued a new order.

His composure also infected the soldiers of the Song Army guarding the city. From the tension at the beginning, they gradually stabilized, and after receiving his order, they immediately set about putting cloth vines, leather curtains, and wooden plaques on one side of the city. They were erected one after another by the defenders, covering them on the city wall.

Speaking of these things, the cloth curtain is actually a kind of horizontal cloth banner made of thick linen. After being lifted up with a horizontal bar, the linen above is soaked in water, which can effectively block the enemy's arrows, while the leather curtain Even simpler, it is a curtain made of raw cowhide. After being hung, it can also be used to prevent arrows. As for the wooden stand, it is actually a giant wooden shield with a top and a bottom. There are poles behind it. Or something to resist enemy artillery stones, but it is much larger than ordinary shields!

These things were immediately lined up on the crenels of the city wall, covering the soldiers of the Song Army on the crenels, and the temporary cannons placed on the city walls began to be loaded at this time, and the selected young and strong Xiangyong They don't know how to use bows, but it's not a big problem to do this. They stepped forward to grab the hemp rope on the gun barrel, stood behind the gun mount, and nervously waited for the new order to be issued.

Each stone cannon was assigned a soldier of the Song Army to command, and there was also a special person to set the cannon. When they heard the firing order from not far away, these civilians followed the command of the cannon commander and pulled their hands together. The thick hemp rope, so the gun barrel made of logs was dragged by them and suddenly raised, and the leather pocket hanging on one end of the gun barrel was immediately pulled into the air. After reaching the fixed height, the leather pocket was released. The stones contained in it immediately flew out towards the city.

The whistling stones gradually grew in size in the sky, and then with tremendous force, they stirred the air and smashed heavily into the golden army outside the city.

For such a blow, no matter who it is, it can't stop it. The golden soldier who was shot didn't even have a chance to scream, and he was smashed into a pile of flesh and blood immediately. The reduction continued to roll forward, and the damage continued to expand. A golden soldier's leg was broken by a stone, and he fell to the ground holding his thigh twisted at a strange angle, making a pitiful scream, and another golden soldier The soldier's waist was pressed down by a stone, and while screaming, he pushed the stone on his body with both hands in vain. Seeing the intestines gushing out of the ruptured wound, he had no choice but to let out a miserable howl. Until the sound gradually decreased...

Every stone fell, although I dare not say that it will hurt the golden soldiers, but such a blow still has a considerable impact on the morale of the golden soldiers, so the pace of the golden soldiers' attack immediately began to slow down. The golden soldiers who rushed through the trench looked up at the sky in horror, for fear that they would become victims of the next stone at any time.

"Adjust to the left! The stone is sideways!" After observing the landing point of his own stone cannon, the person who set the cannon immediately turned around and shouted at the person who operated the cannon.

So the folks immediately lifted the heavy gun mount, adjusted the stone cannon, and quickly moved the gun mount to the ideal position.

"Continue to shoot! Everyone pull hard together! Let it go!" The gunner who directed the shooting immediately ordered, shouting to command Min Zhuang to pull the rope.

Then another round of stones began to fly out of the city wall with a buzzing sound, and smashed heavily on the ground outside the city, splashing clusters of blood.

"Shields go forward to defend against arrows! Archers line up to fight back! Hold down the archers of the Song Army, and the rest wait for me to continue charging!" At this time, a general of the Jin Army rushed out of the Jin soldiers, waving his waist knife and ordered road.

So the golden soldiers lined up outside the city one after another, and began to draw their bows and arrows. Under his command, they raised their arms and began to counterattack towards the top of the city. There were a large number of archers in the golden army. On the top of the city, one after another fell on the opened cloth curtains and leather curtains, as well as the wooden standing signs, making intensive popping sounds.

The archers of the Song army hid behind the parapet and these protections, braved the arrow rain of the Jin soldiers, and still shot arrows continuously, and shot at the Jin soldiers outside the city, but even so, the counterattack of the Jin soldiers was still a blow to the Song soldiers on the city. The army caused some damage, and when the unlucky Song army got up to release the arrow, he was just shot by the arrow of the golden soldier, and immediately wailed and fell on the city wall.

At this moment, the defenders of Huangzhou finally shed their first drop of blood. Only at this point did the battle really become bloodier.

"Don't panic! Get on the stretcher! Rescue the wounded and go to the city for treatment. The rest of the people can't stop waiting, and continue to shoot arrows to suppress the Jin soldiers' archers! Give me a hard lesson for the Jin soldiers!" Gao Huaiyuan loudly agitated the soldiers on the city wall Once these Song troops suffered casualties, some timid soldiers began to slow down their shooting speed, which weakened the firepower on the city wall. How could Gao Huaiyuan just ignore it.

While screaming, he took a step forward, took his big bow from Li Ruohu's hand again, buckled the arrow, and aimed at the city. The head of a hundred households of the Jin army fell backwards in response, and was shot in the chest again, and died on the spot.

"Listen up, crossbowman! Shoot at the officers of the Jin army and disrupt them!" Gao Huaiyuan immediately ordered loudly to the soldiers with hard crossbows on the city wall after he was hit by an arrow.

At this time, the situation outside the city was quite chaotic. After the golden soldiers rushed through the trench, their formation was rather scattered, and they had not yet formed an effective command in front of the refusal carbine. This was what Gao Huaiyuan valued. He asked the crossbowmen to focus on the golden army This can effectively disrupt the pace of Jinbing's attack.

The Song army has always attached great importance to the equipment of crossbows, so there is never a shortage of hard crossbows in the army, and crossbows are much stronger than ordinary bows in terms of range and accuracy, and are easier for Han people who are not good at archery to train and master. The Song Army in Huangzhou City did not lack this item, and there were hundreds of powerful god-arm crossbows among them.

After receiving Gao Huaiyuan's instructions, the soldiers of the Song army in the city suddenly came to their senses. The crossbowmen set up their crossbows on the crenels one after another, and began to search for the officers of the Jin soldiers among the crowd of Jin soldiers, and then singled them out to strike. .

Although the battlefield is chaotic, it is not too difficult to find their officers among the crowd of Jin soldiers. The second reason is that the officers of the Jinbing Army are better equipped with armor, and most of the officers above ten commanders have various feathers on their helmets. In addition, most of the officers command at the front of the queue, so it is much more convenient to find them.

With Gao Huaiyuan's poisonous move, the crossbowmen in the city had a strong purpose in firing their arrows. They only picked out those with bright armor in the front of the Golden Army team, especially the range and power of the god arm crossbow. They are all very large, and it is completely possible to carry out quite accurate direct aiming at this distance. In this way, the golden soldiers discovered that something was wrong after a short time. Many ten and centurion commanders were shot like hedgehogs and fell to the ground in such a daze. Even a thousand commander who led an army to attack the city was shot in the face, was seriously injured and was robbed. .

As a result, the golden army that had just broken through a line of defense suddenly became confused, because the officers suffered a lot, and their counterattacks could not be organized, and they could no longer effectively cooperate with the attack, so a large group of golden soldiers just like this The chaos began to crowd together, and the situation became more and more chaotic.

For these things that happened ahead, Hu Luci, who was commanding in the center, had already seen them from a distance, but he didn't know why the orderly attack suddenly became chaotic, and his siege troops became more and more disorganized. He was also quite experienced. Rich, immediately sent an order to call for gold and withdraw troops.

Immediately, there was a rush of sound of gold ringing in the middle of the golden army, and after reaching the front of the two armies, all the golden soldiers stopped advancing and began to swarm and retreat from the front of the first trench.

Seeing the golden soldiers retreating hastily, there was a burst of cheers from the city immediately, and the tense nerves of the defending soldiers suddenly relaxed, and they all climbed to the crenel and raised their arms loudly and shouted.

"The golden soldiers have retreated! The golden soldiers have retreated! We have repelled the attack of the golden soldiers!..."

After the cheers from the soldiers on the top of the city spread into the city, the folks in the city who were busy transporting supplies to the city were stunned for a moment, and then began to cheer, and the sky-shattering roar immediately rang out in Huangzhou City. Cheers.

Gao Huaiyuan looked at the retreating Jin Bing, and still felt a little regretful. He lacked an attacking force. If he took this opportunity to open the door and chase the Jin Bing, at least it would cause a lot of damage to the Jin Bing. It's a pity. ah!

"My lord! The golden soldiers have retreated! We have won!" Everyone ran over excitedly and reported to Gao Huaiyuan.

"Well! This officer has seen it, everyone has worked hard! Pass down the order, let our soldiers rest in place and wait for the battle! Treat the wounded as soon as possible, arrange the remains of the fallen soldiers, and speed up the replenishment of the loss of arrows! Everyone counts the losses and reports as soon as possible. My lord!" Gao Huaiyuan nodded with a smile, this time they played relatively well in the contact battle, relatively speaking, there was no problem in the organization, and they were still under his control, but he did not dare to take it lightly, after all, Jin The actual losses of the soldiers were not large, and this first battle could only be regarded as a tentative attack. Jin Bing would never give up just because of this failure.

However, repelling the golden soldiers this time is of great benefit to the defenders of Huangzhou City. Most of the soldiers are in the battle for the first time and are inexperienced, so they are easily affected. The military spirit has great benefits, and the confidence of the soldiers and civilians of Huangzhou to hold on to the city has begun to be sufficient. Compared with killing those golden soldiers, this gain is the greatest.

When the golden soldiers gathered their troops and regrouped outside the city, the losses of Gao Huaiyuan's north wall were also counted. In this contact battle, they hunted and killed nearly two hundred golden soldiers, but their own losses were very few. He only paid the casualty price of more than 30 people in the area. Gao Huaiyuan was basically satisfied with the result, but he knew that the next battle would be even more cruel, so he didn't dare to neglect, walked back and forth on the city wall, and continued to encourage the soldiers. morale.

At this time, Jiang Fang, the number one leader in Huangzhou, came up from the city, and when he saw Gao Huaiyuan, he showed an excited expression, and pulled Gao Huaiyuan to thank him again and again.

"Gao County Lieutenant is really powerful, the soldiers and civilians of Huangzhou can be saved now! It seems that the golden soldiers are nothing more than that, but we were too nervous before!" Jiang Fang looked at the bodies of the golden soldiers that had been thrown on the ground outside the city. , So I started to relax a little bit.

Gao Huaiyuan took a look at Jiang Fang, invited him into the tower, turned back to the left and right, and said to Jiang Fang seriously: "Jiang Qianju, to tell you the truth, this is just a tentative attack by the enemy, and the next battle will be It's even more cruel, and you must not relax in the slightest. Gao will continue to stare at this place, and I hope that the adults will stabilize the emotions of the people in the city as soon as possible. It is best to take these people who are close to the city wall away from the city wall. The bombardment of golden soldiers and artillery stones is to minimize our casualties!

In addition, please arrange to send meals to the soldiers. The fierce battle for more than half a day has already consumed a lot of their physical strength, and the fight will be more intense next time. Your Excellency must take care of yourself! "

Seeing Gao Huaiyuan's solemnity, Jiang Fang was a little embarrassed. Only then did he realize that things were not as simple as he thought. It turned out that this was just the beginning!So he quickly nodded and said: "What Lieutenant Gao said is that I have underestimated the enemy! Please rest assured, I will take care of these things right away!"

After finishing speaking, Jiang Fang immediately turned around and came out. After greeting the happy-looking soldiers on the city wall for a while, he hurriedly turned and walked down the city wall.

After Hu Lu stabbed his troops back, he reorganized his team, raised his eyes and glanced at the not-so-big Huangzhou City standing in front of them, with a cruel grin on the corner of his mouth, and said to himself: "Huangzhou City really gave me a big blow." Surprise! You can resist so tenaciously! Not bad! I want to see how long you can last!"

"Your Majesty, the soldiers and horses have been rearranged. Shall we continue to attack the city today?" A lieutenant galloped up to Hu Luci and asked for instructions.

Hu Luci straightened his back on the horse's back, glared and said, "Nonsense! It's still early, why don't you continue to attack the city? Send me an order to cover the stone cannons and push them closer to the Huangzhou city. Use cannon stones to bombard Huangzhou City! Before dark, the refusal horses outside the city must be demolished!

In addition, Aluguan is ordered to attack Huangzhou City together from the east of the city. This time, let the Song Army in the city know how powerful our Jin Army is! "

After his order was issued, the sound of drums and trumpets sounded again outside the city. After reorganizing the team, the golden soldiers changed their strategy this time, with the big shield hand as the guide, and the archers on the left and right, forming a square. In the middle of the formation, guarding a frame of stone cannons, they pushed steadily towards Huangzhou City step by step.

After the golden soldier's large shield was erected, a shield wall was formed in front of the queue, and the subsequent golden soldiers were blocked behind this shield wall, and the golden army's round shield was also on top of their heads, densely clustered together, moving slowly Then, pushing a huge stone cannon forward.

After seeing the golden soldiers moving again, the atmosphere in the city became tense again. The defenders who were resting on the spot stood up one after another, once again holding the bows and crossbows in their hands, and setting up their arrows one after another. On the bowstring, the crossbowmen put their crossbows on the ground, stepped on the iron ring at the front of the crossbow body with one foot, clasped the strings with both hands, hung the heavy crossbow strings on the crossbow machine with a heavy force, and hung the heavy crossbow strings on the crossbow machine again. The arrow was placed in the chute of the crossbow body, and the arrow on the crenel pointed at the golden army outside the city.

Gao Huaiyuan looked at the actions of the Jin army, and was slightly worried. The Jin soldiers attacked Huangzhou this time, and it should be said that they were well prepared. They launched so many stone cannons on the first day, and from a distance, most of these stone cannons They are relatively heavy double-tipped cannons or five-tipped cannons, which can throw stones ranging from 25 to [-] catties fifty steps away. There are also some light vehicle cannons and whirlwind cannons. Limited, but very fast, for their defenders, the threat is quite large.

Since the Kingdom of Jin occupied half of the Han people, after absorbing the skills of the skilled craftsmen of the Han people, its siege ability is getting stronger and stronger, especially in the application of stone cannons, and it has accumulated quite a lot of experience. In the Northern Song Dynasty, when they attacked Bianliang City, they organized thousands of stone cannons, threw stones at Bianliang City day and night, and finally broke Bianliang City. No worse than Song Jun.

Seeing the Jin soldiers approaching the first ditch gradually, the defenders on the city became a little nervous and tried to get up and shoot arrows, but they were stopped by Gao Huaiyuan immediately.