Chapter 768: The First Battle
The so-called sassal wolf smoke stick, to put it bluntly, is to nail two sharp nails on the logs, and the spiky logs of about two zhang roll down from a high place, and its power can be imagined.
The soldiers of the Xia Army who climbed up the ladder and threw the deadly hook were swept to the end by the spiky rolling log, and the bloody body under the spur wood was nailed like a butterfly specimen in later generations, and the terrible thing was that they would not die for a while, but just screamed for help, waving their hands and feet and crying.
The soldiers of the Xia Army on the side hurriedly went to carry away the wolf's tooth sassavel, but found that the people under the sassavel wood were poked through, as soon as they lifted the sassavel, a series of small springs suddenly burst out below, which was a terrifying blood fountain formed by blood bursting out, and the soldiers were soft in their hands and feet, and they endured the horror to lift these obstructive things aside.
After hundreds of maces were dropped, hundreds of ladders were destroyed, and the ladders were the most crowded places up and down, and this was good, a stick was seven or eight people killed and wounded, and under each ladder was a slaughterhouse full of flesh and blood, and this big stick attack alone killed and injured two or three thousand soldiers of the Xia Army.
Coupled with a round of fierce outburst of ordinary sassal wood and stone bows and arrows, the arrogance of the Xia soldiers who were attacking the city was suddenly beaten down, the place where the ladder was erected was the key target, not only people, the ladder was also greatly damaged, the ladder was immediately destroyed 600 frames, and the remaining hundreds of planes could not form a huge siege scale, under the elimination of the other, the morale of the Song army on the head of the city was greatly boosted, and they roared and smashed the stones and pieces of wood down one by one, and smashed the Xia soldiers only at the root of the wall with shields. From time to time, the shield broke, and the people below did not smash the head of the rat crying and calling for the mother.
The left and right army commanders who supervised the battle in the distance, Ye Li Yuqi and Ye Li Wangrong brothers, saw it in their eyes, and understood in their hearts that this round of simple and rough siege was a failure, and they wanted to take advantage of the advantage of numbers, and use thousands of ladders to attack and attack, only need to break through more than a dozen city walls to make the Song army in the city have no time to take care of it, and if it is broken, it will be broken everywhere, but I really didn't expect that the Song army not only defended the number of people beyond the original imagination, but also fully prepared, and the rolling wood and stones on the city head rained down, and it has not stopped since the siege.
Now that most of the ladders have been destroyed, there is only a temporary retreat, and the besieging army must not be beaten under the city without being able to ascend the city.
The Yeli brothers glanced at each other, helplessly ordered people to blow the horns of the retreating soldiers, three long horns in a row echoed on the battlefield, the soldiers of the Xia army were like hearing the sound of immortals outside the sky, and turned around and fled without waiting for the commander to give an order, just like the ebb and flow of the sea, although the momentum was fierce when attacking, and it was not too much to let go when retreating, although most of the people had no horses, but the speed was still amazing, and they had escaped dozens of steps away in the blink of an eye.
"Dogs are going to run, shoot arrows." Pan Jiang stared at the beads of his eyes and shouted.
The Song army in the city didn't have time to catch his breath, picked up the bow and arrows and shot indiscriminately, and before the Xia army withdrew from the range, he suffered at least three rounds of arrow rain on his buttocks, leaving countless corpses and fleeing in embarrassment.
At the same time, the Xia army's trebuchets began to roar again, throwing the rubble into the city again, and before the Song soldiers could celebrate, they were pressed back behind the battlement wall.
Su Jin gave the order to evacuate the city, he understood that the trebuchet bombardment at this time was more with the intention of revenge and cover, rather than a precursor to the attack, the Xia army suffered a big loss, and it was definitely impossible to attack continuously, and it was time for the defenders of the city to go down to the city to rest, drink, drink and eat.
The soldiers braved the gravel to evacuate the city wall, leaving only hundreds of soldiers on the city tower who were not attacked by stones to monitor the movements of the Xia army, and the others gathered in the Beicheng school field to rest and wait for the battle, the Xia army attacked early in the morning, and now it is almost the end of the hour, nearly two hours of bloody battle, everyone is tense and forgets about hunger and exhaustion, this retreat to rest, suddenly tired, tired and hungry, all the people are a little dizzy and turn their stomachs to tendons.
Su Jin took Jingtai Pan Jiang and others to the school ground, and the soldiers who were sitting on the ground saw Su Jin and others struggling to get up and salute, Su Jin hurriedly stopped them and asked them to rest well.
"Hurry up and count the number of casualties, the wounded must be treated as much as possible, and the lightly injured should also be wounded, it seems that the consumption is really not small, and the number of people must be replenished quickly, this time the Xia army has suffered a loss, and the next attack must be more ferocious than this time, so be psychologically prepared." Su Jin walked with everyone around him.
Jingtai nodded and said: "What my lord said is that what I am afraid of now is that the Xia army will come to the wheel war, if the Xia army of 120,000 people attacks in turn, we will not be able to bear it, we have to go all out to prevent each battle, if we attack the city day and night, we will be tired and tired." ”
Su Jin frowned, and he was quite worried about this problem, but Su Jin was actually not worried about this, what he was most afraid of was that the Xia army would pour into the nest, and the 120,000 army would attack the city on all sides, and the 40,000 people defending the city would definitely not be able to defend it after the defense of the four cities, and it was still somewhat sure to defend a city wall with all his might, because even if it was a million horses attacking the city, the battle surface that could be attacked was just a city wall, and there were more people who could only line up in the back.
Su Jin didn't want to think about it, at least for now, he was victorious, and his morale could not be shaken, and thinking too much at the moment would be harmful.
Su Jinyue got off the horse stone, and the soldiers who were colorless in front of him said loudly: "Brothers, this battle was fought beautifully, and the prestige of our Weizhou army and people was played, we roughly estimated that in this battle in the morning, nearly 10,000 Xia troops were eliminated, and I suffered less than 3,000 casualties, which shows that our soldiers in Weizhou are all good men with one enemy and three enemies, and I am deeply proud of you, and the meritorious personnel in this battle will be heavily praised, and the commander of Pan will be given double pay later, and another 171 soldiers will be promoted to the position of team leader, Thirty-seven soldiers will be appointed as the head of the capital, and all those who are resolute and tenacious in battle will be promoted by virtue of the Battle of Weizhou; The government is looking forward to how many civilian generals will be born after repelling the attack of the Xia army; You should take the command of Yanzhou Di Qingdi as an example, and it will take a year or even less to go from an ordinary soldier to a fierce general in the army. ”
The emotions of the tired soldiers were mobilized, especially the mention of Di Qing's name, which was a living example, although fighting is not a good thing, but since it is impossible to avoid the bloodshed on the battlefield, why not take advantage of it to fight for more things.
"A soldier who doesn't want to be a general is not a good soldier, you brothers should regard this battle as an opportunity to be promoted, and as an opportunity to change their fate.
Su Jin agitated like a spring tongue to mobilize the enthusiasm of the soldiers, morale is definitely a wonderful thing, after an army loses morale, it is simply unable to resist the attack of an enemy army with several times its number of people.
"Master Su, don't worry, we won't let the West Thief please me this time."
"So...... After this battle, we are all generals? Haha, that's good, my wife is looking forward to the day when I will be famous, and she hopes that one day I can become a general, ride a tall horse home and let her see, happy. ”
The soldiers were talking a lot, each looking forward to the future, and although they didn't know if they would survive the war, it was always a positive attitude to give themselves some hope.
"Master Su, can you let me wait until the temple is full, the western thieves of the dog day came too early, and we spent the morning with them hungry." Some people are quite practical and ask real questions.
Su Jin laughed and said: "Yes, yes, yes, the Five Organs Temple is going to be offered, don't worry, you look at the south entrance, Li Da is here to treat you with good food and vegetables, it is said that the food prepared today is oily scallion oil white flour cake, fragrant wild boar stewed white potato, and white rice and mung bean porridge, I can't say it, and the saliva of this house is going to flow out." ”
All the soldiers smiled and leaned back, not to mention Lord Fuzun, and everyone's mouths began to drool.
Li Zhong took hundreds of people to carry hundreds of fragrant meals stride, lined up in the middle of the North Gate School Field, the soldiers lined up to receive meals, each person had two large bowls of white rice plus a large bowl of vegetables, and there was a boar bone soup to drink after eating, this boar was a few days before the arrival of the Western Xia Army, the old hunter Lu Laosan took hundreds of people to Longshan to come to a big encirclement and suppression, almost swept away the wild things on the southern slope of Longshan, although Lu Laosan was not willing to do the dry and fishing, but in order to fight in the city, to ensure that the soldiers have enough strength, Lu Laosan was also desperate.
Su Jin saw the two petite figures in the team of men who helped serve the food at a glance, and his heart was moved; Xia Siling and Xiao Sui'er both tied their heads with green cloth, wrapped all the green silk, wore ordinary peasant skirts, and their faces were red and fluttering with a few gray and black, obviously helping together when cooking, Xiao Sui'er was fine, Xia Siling was the eldest lady who came to the northwest with her hands to open her mouth, and this time she followed herself to the northwest, she was both frightened and suffered, but she always faced it calmly, which made Su Jin look at Xia Siling with admiration.
Su Jin stood in line in the line, and after a while, it was his turn, so he shouted at Xia Siling: "A bowl of white rice, and a bowl of bone broth." ”
Xia Siling was startled, and when she looked up, she saw that it was Su Jin, and immediately laughed embarrassedly.
Su Jin looked at each other warmly, her lips moved, and she said softly: "Lady, thank you." ”
Xia Siling's eyes bloomed with a shy light, peeked left and right, and whispered: "Husband, it's polite." After saying that, he gave Su Jin a meal and handed it to him, Su Jin was very happy, and left quickly with a bowl.