"Dong dong dong dong..."
The sound of the urging drums echoed in the early morning rain, tearing apart layers of white morning mist and rain, announcing the beginning of another round of soil-laden siege.
Outside the Zhanggong Embankment in Yuncheng, a tall long mound of earth has been built, and it is about to be connected with the Zhanggong Embankment. As the mound gradually approached Zhanggong Embankment, the confrontation between the Song and Jin armies above and below the embankment also became fierce. Therefore, the Han'er Army and Ali Xitie Army of the Jin Army, who were responsible for escorting the people to carry straw bags to mound the earth, now also used The carriage and the nest carriage are gone. The cart is just a large wooden board mounted on an ordinary grain truck, which can resist arrowheads.
The nest truck is much more complicated. It is a large wooden frame erected on a four-wheel or six-wheeled cart, and then a wooden house with two shooting ports is built, and the wooden frame is hoisted with ropes. Arrange a few archers in the wooden house and you can shoot arrows from a high position.
Of course, the people pulling these carriages and nest carriages were also captured Han people, including men, women, old and young. They were all hungry and scared, wearing soaked clothes and shivering from the cold. Even without the defenders on Zhanggong Embankment firing arrows, people would fall to the ground from time to time and never get up again. Those who were still alive for the time being, under the urging of Han Erbing and Ali Xibing, struggled to push the carriages and nest carriages forward, waiting for the arrowheads that might be shot down at any time to end their suffering.
But they waited for a long time, but they didn't see an arrow shot down from Zhang Gong Embankment. There were no shouts or golden drums. Standing behind the wall of women's heads on the embankment, only a head with a bamboo hat was exposed. The defenders were even more motionless, as if they had been hit by a immobilization spell.
At this time, the archers on the chao car had already started to fire arrows. One after another, the feather arrows were shot out from the small house of the chao car, and they hit the heads of those wearing bamboo hats accurately and hard!
But an unexpected scene appeared. Those whose heads had been hit by arrows remained motionless, their moods were stable, and they were not noisy, as if nothing had happened!
"Wushu, have you seen it? The heads of those Song soldiers are not afraid of arrows... Are these real heads?"
The person who asked this question was Wanyan Wushu's half-brother Arubu. Of course he was not stupid, he just liked to joke.
Wanyan Wushu, who was ordered to supervise the battle on the front line, laughed and said: "This Gao Qiu is really smart. He knows that it is impossible to stop my tens of thousands of Dajin's heavenly soldiers with such a small broken city... He must have abandoned the city by now. And to escape, he made some dummies to fool people on the high embankment. But where can he escape? A dragnet has been set up around Liangshanbo. He has already spread his wings and cannot escape. He can only hide in Liangshan and do mountaineering in Liangshanbo. It’s a thief!”
Another brother of Wanyan Wushu, Wanyan Alu, also joined in and said: "Wushu, since Gao Qiu has withdrawn his troops, let's let our Meng'an attack... Don't be cheap. Liu Yanzong and Han Chang."
Wanyan Wushu was the head of ten thousand households, and there were three Meng'an subordinates to the ten thousand households he led. He led one himself, A'lu had one, and A'lu had to make up for one.
Today, Wanyan Wushu is in charge of the formation. So Wushu, Alu, and Alubu's Meng'an all sent out troops. Some of the regular soldiers were behind Han Chang and Liu Yanzong's Han'er army, and some of Ali's troops Xi Ze mixed with Han and Liu's Han soldiers. Another group of about 5,000 people (including Zhengbing and Alixi) lined up in front of the ramp leading directly to the dam.
Of course Wanyan Wushu wanted his people to make meritorious deeds. He nodded with a smile and said, "Alu, Alubu, be careful. That Gao Qiu is so cunning and deceitful."
"Wushu, don't worry. Arubu and I are also battle-hardened and won't fall for Gao Qiu's tricks."
"Yes, now that things have happened, what other tricks can Gao Qiu have? Is there any trick in the world that can defeat our 5,000 soldiers?"
Wu Shu smiled and nodded, waved his hand and said to the two brothers: "Stop talking nonsense and show your true skills. If Gao Qiu doesn't run away yet, someone will capture him!"
"Got the order!"
Wanyan A'lu and Wanyan A'lu received the military order with a smile, then climbed on their respective horses and directed their 5,000 soldiers to advance up the slope.
And just when the 5,000 soldiers began to climb up the slope one by one, Han Chang and Liu Yanzong, two Han people who were commanding the Han soldiers on both sides of the slope, also realized that something was wrong. ——The enemies on Zhanggong Embankment have fled, leaving only some dummies to fool people. And they also discovered that the Jurchen soldiers under Wu Shu had begun to rush up the slope.
Now Han Chang and Liu Yanzong couldn't sit still - their ten thousand households had been working under the Zhanggong Causeway for several days, with no credit but hard work, and now they were able to eat meat, but Wanyan Wushu let It's a bit unethical for his men to grab the credit.
However, Han and Liu would not be polite to the "master" Wanyan Wushu, because the Kingdom of Jin did not talk about humility at all. Credit must be taken. Whoever does not take the credit will have nothing to eat, and whoever takes it is the one who has the ability. ...You are not allowed to complain to someone who didn't grab it, otherwise he will look down on you.
Therefore, Han Chang and Liu Yanzong also felt ordered to attack. However, their men did not have any ready-made ramps to use...the six mounds of earth were not yet connected to the high embankment!
Fortunately, Han and Liu had already asked their men to prepare many long ladders. Now, why don't they just go up with the ladders and shields?
As tens of thousands of households led by Wu Shu, Han Chang, and Liu Yanzong launched their attack one after another, the west and north sides of Zhanggong Embankment suddenly became a spectacular scene of thousands of troops competing for the lead. If you look down from a high place, you can see the tide of golden soldiers, howling and rushing towards the silent embankment. In just a blink of an eye, a breakthrough has already been made.
The first ones to break through were of course Wanhu commanded by Wushu himself who rushed up the slope. Under the command of Wushu's two brothers Alu and Alubu, these 5,000 gold soldiers fought hard with 2,000 yellow-headed soldiers on foot. The army and the Bohai Hard Army were the vanguard (there were also some Alixi among them), and they used 3,000 kidnap horses and Tiefutu to suppress the formation, and soon rushed to Zhanggong Embankment.
The Song army guarding the embankment had previously left an entrance and exit at the connection between Zhanggong Embankment and this ramp. Instead of sealing it with a female head wall or fence, they only blocked the road with horse-repelling guns and gate-stopping knives.
If there are armored soldiers on guard, it is enough to use bows, crossbows and spears to reach the attacking enemy, coupled with the horse rifle and Semen knife.
But now there is nothing behind the horse guns and gate knives. When you get closer, you can only find some straw men wearing bamboo hats and raincoats...Song Jun has indeed run away!
Who wouldn’t be excited to get the credit for nothing? The yellow-headed warriors (yellow-headed Jurchens) who rushed to the front were certainly full of energy. They immediately moved away the horse-repelling guns and gate-blocking knives blocking the road, and then rushed up to the embankment.
After rushing up the embankment, the group did not stay on the dam for long, nor did they follow the embankment to the southeast of Yuncheng. Instead, they rushed directly along the ramp on the other side of the embankment to the west gate of Yuncheng.
Wanyan Alu and Wanyan Alubu also followed their men towards the west gate of Yuncheng. The two brothers were both riding horses. They stretched their necks to look while rushing forward. They soon discovered that the west gate of Yuncheng seemed to be a big one. It was opened, and the suspension bridge on the moat was also lowered.
How is this going?
There seemed to be defenders on the west gate tower, and many flags were erected, one of which was a white tooth flag - this was the flag of the general who commanded the army!
There is also a huge recognition flag standing next to this white tooth flag, with four big characters tattooed on it - Taiwei Gao Qiu!
And there are people underneath these two flags and flags! Humans who should be quite alive... are still active!
However, the number of these living people was not large, only one or two dozen. One of them was wearing a turban on his head, a feather fan in his hand, and a Taoist robe. He should be Gao Qiu, right?
Wanyan A'lu and Wanyan A'lu were confused. Neither of them had watched "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms", so of course they didn't know that this was an empty city strategy. But they also knew that this matter was quite fishy, and it was probably a scam!
Not only did they know that, but the Yellow-headed Hard Army and the Bohai Hard Army who fought first also saw that something was wrong... Most of them were veterans who had experienced battles for a long time. Of course they knew that the enemies were very cunning! And what the enemy wants them to do is usually not good for them. So when they saw the open door, these hard-line soldiers couldn't stand up and stopped advancing.
Wanyan Alu reined in his horse and asked his brother Alu: "Alu, what is this Gao Qiu doing? Is there an ambush in the city?"
Wanyan Alu twirled his beard and had a profound look on his face. He thought for a while and said to his left and right: "Send the order to the hard-line troops in front and ask them to shoot arrows... shoot the guy wearing the big turban to death!"
His move is even more powerful than Sima Yi!
The hard-line soldiers who had received the order had not really started to shoot. They had just taken out the large Jurchen bows wrapped in oilcloth (waterproof, it was raining!), and the "Gao Qiu" who was fanning himself coolly in the cold spring rain on the city tower "I was so frightened that I almost started crying, "It can't be done, it can't be done, the golden thief is going to shoot an arrow! Sister Gao, can our family evacuate?"
This Gao Qiu turned out to be fake, played by Liang Fangping - Liang Fangping was also unlucky. Last time he was shot by Guo Tiannv and turned into a "white-haired zombie". He thought he was going to die, but when he returned, he found that there was no big problem and he was a little better. The medicine will be fine.
After he recovered, he was taken to Yuncheng by Zhao Kai and continued to play Gao Qiu. This time, Gao Qiu's goddaughter Gao Tiannu (Guo Tiannu) was escorted to the city gate of Yuncheng to play the "Zhuge Liang" version of Gao Qiu.
When Guo Tiannu saw the Jurchen soldiers below trying to shoot arrows, of course she didn't dare to resist... She didn't wear armor herself, so she couldn't withstand the shooting!
So she grabbed Liang Fangping and ran along the city wall towards the horse crossing. As soon as "Zhuge Liang" fled in panic, he was seen by the two "Sima Yi", and he immediately became energetic.
Wanyan Aru immediately ordered: "Beat the drums, advance the troops...capture Gao Qiu alive!"
Wanyan Arubu also said: "Those who get high status will be rewarded with millions of dollars (literary) and promoted to the third level!"
A group of hard-line soldiers immediately became more courageous, and headed towards the west gate of Yuncheng with howls. After entering the gate, they discovered that there was actually water in Yuncheng, and the water did not even reach their calves... ....
