"I'm so exhausted, I'm dying..."
In the evening, Liu Ran leaned against the city battlement.
The brick wall against which his back was leaning was dripping with blood. The blood seeped into his military robe and felt sticky and cold against the skin on his back.
But Liu Ran was so tired that he didn't want to change positions at all.
Next to Liu Ran were Liang Hu and Zhang Pingliang, both of whom also looked exhausted.
All three of them had arrows stuck in their bodies. Fortunately, they were not the heavy arrows used by the Mongols. All three of them were protected by leather armor, and they were not seriously injured. Liang Hu's shoulder was struck by a knife, and the entire shoulder armor and a large piece of flesh were cut off. Half of his chest and arms were stained with blood, but he didn't care.
These three people are all veterans. The year before last, when Linhuang Mansion fell into Luizi's hands, more than 70 military fortresses along the border trenches were lost. Most of the more than 40,000 defenders were killed, and only a few people escaped.
They met up with defeated troops from other places along the way and fled all the way to Zhongdu Road. Then he was recruited by Marshal Shuhu Gaoqi here in Pingzhou and made a living again. Later, he was transferred to the command of Wulin Daqizhu, the military envoy to the east of Zhongdu.
These defeated soldiers were very unconvinced by the defeat at first. They all felt that although they had defeated the battle, the responsibility lay with the incompetence of the generals, so they made noises every day, hoping that the court would reorganize the troops and take them back to fight back and rescue their families who had fallen into the hands of the Mongols. Family members.
This is of course wishful thinking, and no general will respond to them.
Therefore, many defeated troops left one after another, either to join other generals in Zhongdu, or to Beijing Road to join Wanyan Chengyu who was left behind in Beijing.
Now it seems, what difference does it make where you go?
Liu Ran sighed. In the end, they would all fight with their heads covered, or be killed with their heads covered.
Around the three of them, there were corpses of the defenders. Some were shot through the skulls by arrows, some had half of their bodies smashed to death by stones, and some were hacked by the enemies who rushed up to the city. dead.
At Liu Ran's feet, there was the corpse of an enemy in black armor.
This man was a Han, and like Liu Ran, he was a defeated soldier who had escaped from the Qingzhou area in northern Xinjiang. When the two were fighting, they shouted in exactly the same accent, and their offensive and defensive moves were all the same. Thinking about it, when Liu Ran fled to Pingzhou, this man fled from Qingzhou to Jinzhou, took refuge with Jinzhou tycoon Zhang Jing, became an officer of the "Black Army", and now became a subordinate of the Mongols.
This man can be considered a warrior among the black army. He climbed up the city along the ladder and slashed to death several defenders with a sword.
Later, Liu Ran and his companions surrounded him, and Liang Hu came around to the back and pierced his back with a spear. The man roared several times, struggled towards Liu Ran, and slashed with his knife. Liu Ran resisted several times, and his hands almost went numb. Only then did the man fall to the ground, vomiting blood from his mouth, and died.
At this time, a guard soldier walked slowly over the wall, collecting discarded arrows and weapons along the way. When he saw the body of the officer in black helmet and black armor, he looked at Liu Ran first, and then rushed forward to peel off the armor.
As soon as he squatted down, Liu Ran said in a hoarse voice: "The armor and helmet are coated with black paint and cannot be wiped off. If you are not afraid of being killed by your own family, just wear it."
The soldier was stunned for a moment, then hesitantly let go and went to the other side of the city wall. ….
He walked so fast that Liang Hu wanted to ask him for some water, but he had to give up at this time.
Liu Ran continued to stare at the black-helmeted body. He felt that his heart was in chaos. The Great Jin Kingdom was like this, with incompetent officials and cowardly and greedy generals. Seeing the Mongols coming again, those who were driven to be the vanguard were actually their old companions. He didn't know what to do, let alone what the world would become.
"Are you going to eat or not?"
Qian Zheng Ke stood in front of the three of them and asked in a loud voice.
Although this man was Liu Ran's boss, Liu Ran had always disliked him and felt that his personality was too fierce and violent.
After the enemy troops who had just attacked the city retreated, this man walked around the city and snatched dry food and water from several people. The common people were afraid of the threat of the Mongols to massacre the city, so they demolished their houses and carried earth and rocks to the city to help in the battle. But Zheng Ke, holding a knife in his hand, threatened to kill people and robbed them of their last rations.
But Zheng Ke doesn’t care about his subordinates.
Bad, he put these rations in leather bags and distributed them along the way.
When he walked up to the three of them, Zhang Pingliang was a little hesitant. Liu Ran thanked Qian Ji, took out the dry food for three people in his leather bag, and took the water from Zheng Ke's personal soldier.
Liu Ran broke off a piece of cake and handed it to Zhang Pingliang.
Zhang Pingliang hesitated for a moment, swallowed, and grabbed it.
The three of them had just swallowed a few mouthfuls when they felt the world spinning and their feet trembling.
Hundreds of steps away, someone shouted: "The black *** broke the wall!"
Pingzhou City has been abandoned for a long time. The current city wall is still from the Liao Dynasty. There are traces on the wall left by Dajin when he attacked the city. There are several parts of the city wall that don't look like much from the outside, but there are cracks nearly a foot wide inside that could fit a child into.
At this moment, this cracked wall finally collapsed after being thrown dozens of times by boulders.
The scope of the collapse was not very wide, about twenty steps. There was smoke and dust rising in the air, and loose and broken clods of soil on both sides were still falling. Broken bricks and broken walls piled up on the ground.
The enemy troops attacking the city roared loudly and stepped over the rugged ground, trying to charge into the city. There were also soldiers climbing along the walls on both sides, trying to kill the defenders' archers who were standing on top of the city and shooting. The defenders, including Liu Ran, shouted in unison and rushed to the gap for reinforcements.
Countless people crowded around the gap, and everyone made a roaring noise. The noisy people were confused and their ears were constantly buzzing.
The person who led the soldiers to attack this city wall was Genghis Khan's newly recruited general Shi Tianying.
He was also the one who provided many siege equipment to the Mongolian army. Previously, with the tacit approval of Genghis Khan, he attacked and killed two brothers, Zhang Jing and Zhang Zhi, and seized control of the elite "Black Army" of the Han army.
This operation, if done by anyone else, would definitely cause a commotion.
But Shi Tianying himself was born in the Black Army. He gained the support of the people of Xingzhong Prefecture because of his bravery and skill in fighting, and he became independent from the Black Army. All the black army generals are aware of his reputation, and generally feel that it is a good thing for everyone to have a leader who has the trust of the Mongol Khan.
However, if Shi Tianying wants to gain the Khan's continued trust, he must fight on the battlefield. After he attacked and killed the Zhang brothers, he took nothing of his property, but used it all to reward the soldiers and encourage them to fight. After many siege equipment came into play, he put on heavy armor and went into battle himself. ….
Shi Tianying was born into a military family in Northern Xinjiang, and he had outstanding martial arts passed down from his family. Only then could he become a wealthy man in the Xingzhong Prefecture where the folk customs were fierce.
He held a long and heavy sword and fought fiercely in the gap. The defenders were almost invincible. The long knife was swung like a whirlwind. Wherever it went, severed limbs flew up and heads rolled down; blood spattered from the broken wounds, forming waterfalls one after another.
As Shi Tianying charged, the soldiers in black helmets continued to advance, controlling more and more territory.
From this, we can see another boldness of Shi Tianying: he arranged all his cronies in the rear to control trebuchets and other equipment, and those who followed him to the city to fight were all new subordinates from the Black Army.
Most of the members of the so-called Black Army came from the defeated troops along the trenches along the northern border of the imperial court. After the road to Linhuang Mansion was not secure, tens of thousands of broken troops moved south with their families and families. Along the way, they were recruited by local powerful men. Zhang Jing recruited the largest group of them, with a total of 12,000 people. Everyone of this generation went into battle with They wear black flags, wear black armor, wield long swords and halberds, and are brave and good at fighting.
As a local tycoon, Zhang Jing had the courage to call himself the King of Linhai County, and he relied on this elite army. This is not really arrogant. After all, the northern border trench was where the elite of Dajin was when it was strong. Now Guo Ning, the Dinghai navy, who is running sideways in Shandong, and Miao Daorun, Zhang Rou and others who all control considerable power in China, rely on It's all this power.
However, Zhang Jing's own talents are not enough to control this powerful army. Only stronger warriors can intimidate warriors.
At this time, the general of the black army first received a generous reward from Shi Tianying, and then saw him marching forward bravely. They all followed him bravely, shouting for a fierce battle. For a while, the momentum was like a wind and a lingering cloud.
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It’s convenient to continue reading, and I look forward to the exciting continuation!
