Prince of Song Dynasty

Chapter 827 Six Costinins

Compared with the Liao army, who was the attacking party, who could build ladders anywhere outside the city, the stone steps on the upper and lower walls inside the city were often fixed.When the fighting intensity above the city wall is too high, the defense equipment needs to be replenished at any time, which leads to a large number of people crowded on the stone steps, and they often become victims of flowing arrows or stones.

But other than subconsciously dodging on the spot or finding a piece of wood to support them, there is no other way to evacuate, because once their work stops, the defense on the city wall will be in jeopardy, which may directly lead to a section of the city wall being breached by the Liao people. .

In fact, the crazy attack and amazing combat power of the Liao army have already scared some of the people who helped. If it were not for a staff officer in charge of transporting the supplies, he decisively ordered the killing of the first few people who fled, and most of the people would have died. The birds and beasts are scattered.

From noon yesterday to noon today, for a whole day, on the defense lines of the city walls around Xiaoxiaohekou County, the strings of defense were always tightly stretched. People dealt with everything hastily and dizzily. collapse.

But... it never collapsed.

Crossbow arrows, crossbow guns, feather arrows, and gunpowder packs never stopped. Rollers and stones were thrown from the city wall like raindrops. Fuel and hot water were mixed with them. The barbed yaksha beat, and the soldiers wielding the long fork were occasionally shot by arrows and fell into a pool of blood, while the people of Hekou County who came up to deliver things occasionally picked up the fork and yelled and waved it.Trying to stop the Liao people coming up from the ladder, the fiery and turbulent shouts and the sound of fighting were mixed in the wind and snow all over the sky, spreading across the entire city wall.

A large number of wounded were carried down and sent to hospital for treatment.The weather was too cold, and yesterday's injured quickly contracted the wind and cold due to the decline in body resistance.The weak are dying anytime and anywhere, not only the doctors in the hospital, but all the people in Hekou County who know some medical skills have been mobilized or forcibly recruited. Like the soldiers guarding the city, they have almost never had the slightest rest for a day and a night. , everyone was exhausted to the extreme, and they were in a state of embarrassment, with other people's blood on their foreheads and faces, desperately and numbly treating every wounded soldier.

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Outside Hekou County, on the thin snow, Xiao Dage was riding a horse, looking at the fierce battlefield ahead from afar.The three colors of red, white and scorched black almost filled everything in front of them. At this moment, their army line spread from the southeast into the gap in the city wall that was smashed by the catapult. The defenders in black armor began to fight fiercely, which lasted for a short time, and the gap where the Liao people finally attacked the city was captured by the defenders.

This is not the first time this has happened. Xiao Dage found himself ignoring a very serious problem after his subordinate Erlang attacked the city wall for the first time and was easily killed. Three thousand are black cavalry, and five hundred are dark guards.These 500 people are obviously much stronger than ordinary troops.The Liao army has always been famous for its fierce hand-to-hand combat in field battles. The Liao army has always believed that as long as they attack the city and fight hand-to-hand, they will be able to quickly expand the results of the battle.Now it seems that their ideas are ridiculous.

After three and a half days of fierce fighting, the 3-strong army that the Liao people used to attack the city suffered more than 2000 casualties, and there were more than [-] wounded who had basically lost their combat effectiveness.It is conceivable that after one day of fighting, the casualties of the Liao army were probably more than half.Xiao Dage and Shi Fat had never thought of such a fierce fight, and with such a heavy casualty, they didn't know how long they would have to fight before they could see the signs of victory.

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The fighting in the night gradually stopped, and the smell of blood and scorched smell filled the air.The defender sat down inside the city wall. There was sticky blood on the city wall, but it had basically begun to freeze.

Hekou County, with only 5 to [-] people, is no longer the hustle and bustle of the past in this winter.Separated by a wall, the blood and corpses under the city wall gradually turned into hideous ice sculptures. At this time, together with the Liao people's camp in the distance, they also became quiet.

In the thick and towering city walls, gray and white colors render everything, and the occasional flame red does not look bright.The entire Hekou County was immersed in the sorrow of death and could not recover. The men of the military households in the city died, and the crying of women and children continued.Some people who helped also died, and the family crawled under the city wall and wept miserably.

Ye Chen stood on the top of the city wall, listening to these cries, watching some people looking for their own men among the corpses, the coldness that he had never felt before gradually gathered in his eyes, like two extremely deep cold pools.At this moment, if Ye Chen felt something, he looked up and saw a black shadow swooping down from the sky and landed somewhere in Hekou County.

Not long after, Hu Sanguang rushed towards Ye Chen, his face beaming with joy.Although the Liao army besieged the city for the past few days, it was difficult for spies and messengers to enter the city, but it could not completely cut off the connection between Hekou County and the outside world.That's right, the black shadow just now was Hai Dongqing.

"Your Majesty, all the [-] bandits in Huanglong Mountain have been controlled by Miss Shangguan and Bai Zixuan. They have gathered the bandits and started to attack Daxia Pass." Hu Sanguang said while saluting.

Ye Chen also heaved a long sigh of relief. Whether his plan of closing doors and beating dogs with himself as a bait can be successful depends on whether Daxia Pass can be regained.However, Xiangfu has no extra troops to retake Daxiaguan, and the 5000 bandits in Huanglong Mountain are the only troops.According to the early report of the spies, the Liao army in Daxia Pass only garrisoned [-] people.The [-] bandits are indeed a rabble. If they just attack Daxia Pass openly and aboveboard, given that Daxia Pass is easy to defend and difficult to attack, even if there are twice as many bandits, they will not be able to attack it. Just like the method used by the Liao army to attack Daxia Pass, Daxia Pass The key to Guan's loss is internal response, not frontal attack.In this regard, Ye Chen has great confidence in Shangguan Bingyun and Bai Zixuan, because they are the two people who play tricks the best in Xiangfu Kingdom, especially Shangguan Bingyun has never disappointed Ye Chen.Ye Chen believed that it would not be difficult for Shangguan Bingyun to send some people into Daxia Pass, or get some internal support.

"Send an order to Bai Canghai and Huang Dongqiu to lead their respective soldiers and rebels to prepare. Once the Liao army starts to retreat, do everything possible to slow down the Liao army's marching speed."

"Send an order to Yang Jiye and Zeng Shangfei to prepare for a counterattack. Once the Liao army fighting with them starts to retreat, don't rush to chase and kill the enemy at first, just kill their respective opponents."

"Let Li Guangshun and Zhe Yuxun tell them to go out of the city to fight the Liao tribal army in due course, and give Zhan Xiongwu as much time as possible to retreat back."

"Order Zhan Xiong Wu, no matter where he goes, he will immediately withdraw his troops from Wuzhou, Liao Kingdom after receiving the order."

"Order Deng Chongxuan and Zhang Dawei to hold off the Liao army as much as possible in Zhenxi Fort and Zhenbei Fort, and kill as many enemy troops as possible. But don't go out of the city to fight in the field."

Hu Sanguang wrote down one by one, and then respectfully said yes.

Not long after, six Haidongqings from the security department flew up into the sky one by one, flying in six directions.

Ye Chen looked up and watched Hai Dongqing gradually disappear from his sight, and muttered to himself: "Since we have formed a death feud with Song and Liao, we can only live in peace for a few years if we scare them all at once. Now the monarchs and ministers of the Song Dynasty have been terrified by two major wars. This time, Xiao Dage's 20 army was wiped out, and Zhan Xiongwu's invasion of Wuzhou in the Liao State gave the Liao people fear, as well as Zhenxi Fort and Zhenbei. Fort let Liao Kingdom's most elite [-] leather troops return home with heavy losses. Presumably it will seriously damage Liao Kingdom's vitality. The most important thing is that Liao Kingdom will not dare to lightly start a war with Xiangfu Kingdom in the future."

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On November 27th, that is, the fourth day when the Liao army began to attack Hekou County.

After sunrise, the air above the city was still filled with the scorching smell of burning torches.The dust in the air dyed the clear blue water on the zenith a few days ago with a layer of ambiguous turbidity.

The defenders in the city closed their eyes, leaning on the battlements and dozing off.After a night battle, everyone in the city was exhausted.Although the strength of the Liao people is still two to six to seven times that of the defenders in the city, they stayed up all night last night, and no one could rest.Not only were the defenders in the city tired enough, but the enemy troops under the city did not continue to attack in the second half of the night.

A staff officer reported last night's losses to Ye Chen Bing: "270 people died in battle last night, and now there are 140 people left in our army, but there are more than 400 wounded soldiers, and they cannot go back to battle in a short time. "

After hearing this, Ye Chen's face was as gloomy as the sky above his head. Now he can no longer use the new Gu worms to control others, and every person who has been controlled by the Gu worms dies will be one less.The black cavalry lost nearly a thousand in the last battle with Song Dynasty, and this time they lost more than 1000 again. After this battle, most of the black cavalry controlled by Gu worms are less than two thousand.The black cavalry can be said to be the elite of the elite. The most important thing is that Ye Chen can completely trust them, turn them into human bombs at critical moments, and entrust the safety of the palace, Yu Qingyan and Han Ke'er to them.Unexpectedly, the loss was so terrible.

Ye Chen closed his eyes, the staff officer didn't know what he was thinking, he hesitated, and his voice stopped.

"Why didn't you say it?" Ye Chen asked, opening his eyes.

The staff officer hurriedly continued to Ye Chen: "There are still 700 crossbow arrows, [-] feather arrows, [-] crossbow guns, and more than [-] gunpowder packs. In addition, the giant crossbow guns and catapults Nearly half of the machine was damaged."

Ye Chen nodded and said, "It's enough. Order Tang Xingwu to lead the three thousand fast crossbowmen he trained these days to the city wall and serve as the main force of the city defense, with the army to assist and support."

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(End of this chapter)