Tang Dynasty Mingyue Song Dynasty Pass

Chapter 606
Outside the city of Runzhou, Wu Yue soldiers surrounded them on all sides. After forming an array, the team was mighty and mighty.

Boom boom boom!
The war drums were thundering, the horns were blasting, and Wu and Yue soldiers were all in all directions, launching a strong attack on Runzhou City.

I saw the dark Wuyue soldiers rushing towards the Tang army. Wherever they passed, the sky seemed to become heavy and dark in an instant, and a murderous aura blew towards the city of Runzhou, and the black clouds pressed down on the city to destroy it!

As long as any city or gate is lost, Runzhou City will not be protected.

This time, the commanding generals of Wu Yue's army, in addition to the chief general Song Chengli, the supervising army Ding Deyu, and the deputy Lu Yanzhu, even the old general Sun Chengyou and Chen Man, the camp envoy, also came to besiege Runzhou together.

Su Chen personally sits at the south gate of the city, because the enemy army has the largest number of troops here, and there are three gates in the city, namely Dehua Gate, Renhe Gate, and Helin Gate.

For the rest of the city, there are only two city gates, and the troops are relatively weaker. He arranged for Ma Xiong and Zhao Sheng to continue guarding the Laiyuan Gate, Lishe Gate, and Dingbo Gate in the north. There are many soldiers and horses, so there are only more than 1 enemy troops outside the city, and they concentrate on attacking Lishemen and Dingbomen.

Wang Chuanjun and Zhang Qiao guarded Fengtian Gate and Chaojing Gate in Xicheng.Yan Yan and Ma Chengcheng guard Qingyang Gate and Xinkai Gate in Dongcheng.

These main backbone generals were all assigned by Su Chen to garrison at the four city gates, commanding the Tang army to fight against the Wuyue soldiers and horses outside the city.

At this time, due to the division of troops, it is obvious that there is a shortage of defenders at each city gate. There are at most 8000 to [-] people. The weapons and equipment and arrows deployed must be used sparingly, which will bring more pressure to the defense. .

"Kill!"

The Wu Yue soldiers attacked the city frantically, and the Tang army on the city took advantage of the thickness of the city wall to condescend, and used arrows, gravel, rolling logs, and golden soup to fight back.

In this way, Wuyue soldiers braved arrows and stones, rolled wood to scald oil, and poisonous smoke from stone powder to attack the city gate.

Some Wuyue soldiers used long boards and shields to block the flying arrows. At the same time, several rows of archers also began to shoot at the Tang army indiscriminately, trying to cover the soldiers from climbing the city.

This kind of battle continues every day, and many soldiers have become numb.

One day is fine, but if it lasts for many days, the soldiers will become mechanical.

What exactly are you fighting for?Many people have been unable to distinguish clearly, some because of hatred, some because of defending their home and country, or the dignity of soldiers, the glory of soldiers, etc. In short, tragic fighting is happening every day.

In a blink of an eye, more than ten days have passed, and the city gate has not been breached.

Tang Jun also used various means, including poisonous smoke, and put it into use again, but this time the effect was not as good as before.

Wu Yue's soldiers seemed to know how to deal with it. They covered their mouths and noses and retreated immediately. The soldiers behind covered their faces with wet towels, replaced those without wet towels, and continued to attack.

Although the interference of this kind of poisonous smoke has slowed down the siege side to some extent, it has not had much impact. It is no longer like the first time, causing a large area of ​​fainting and casualties.

It became more and more difficult to defend the city, Su Chen had no better way to retreat from the enemy for the time being, so he could only stick to the original plan, gritted his teeth and persisted in the fierce battle, as long as he dealt with it carefully, he would engage in a war of attrition and a protracted war with the enemy forces outside the city.

Wu Yuebing wanted to conquer the city in a short time, but there was no cleverness available. The strategy that should have been used earlier had already been used, and the Runzhou defenders would not be fooled again.

Within Wuyue's army, there was a dispute. Some suggested that Runzhou City was very close to the Yangtze River, and that a dam and ditch could be dug to divert the Yangtze River to submerge the entire Runzhou, and the city must be conquered.

Of course, some generals objected: firstly, the amount of the project is too large. In addition to digging dikes and dams, ditches must be repaired along the way to draw more water from the Yangtze River. If only relying on canal water, it has flowed smoothly for hundreds of years. Unobstructed, it is difficult to increase the amount of water.

It is necessary to open a gap from another location and build a channel to join the canal to complete the diversion of water to fill the city, but it will take at least half a year of work, which is too time-consuming and labor-intensive.Moreover, this move is against the harmony of nature. Even if the Yangtze River is really used to irrigate the city, flooding Jinshan and Runzhou, hundreds of thousands of residents will be drowned, including old and young, women and children, which is too tragic.

Even though they had some grudges against Tang, they were all from Jiangnan after all. It was too cruel to do so, and most of the generals still couldn't bear it.Unless it is absolutely necessary, this extreme method will not be used.

Su Chen also has a trump card, which is black powder. He has secretly developed many pottery pots and fuses, and put many iron pieces, iron beads, etc. in them. As long as the fuses are ignited and thrown out, they will explode, and then produce a huge explosion. Explosive power, and the iron pieces inside burst out to hurt people.

But the current production is limited, and it's a big killer. Su Chen doesn't want to use it so soon. He plans to reserve it for a period of time and take it out at the most critical time. Only then will it have a miraculous effect and turn the world around.

A month later, although Runzhou City was on the verge of danger, like a small boat in a storm, it still stood there without overturning.

On this day, Su Chen sat in town as usual, guarding the city for a day. After the Wuyue soldiers retreated at dusk, Su Chen planned to go to the grass market, intending to see with his own eyes whether the commercial life of the people and the state of the market were still operating normally.

There are two grass markets in Runzhou, which are large markets in the city, namely Dongcao Market and Xicao Market.

Su Chen went to Dongcao Market. Back then he had sold candied haws here. A year later, everything changed.

It was still dark, and the vendors hadn't closed their stalls yet. They were selling all kinds of goods. As the so-called Prophet of the Spring River Plumbing Duck, through the type and quantity of the merchants, one could more or less see the current living conditions in the city and the degree of scarcity of supplies.

Su Chen took a stroll around, and found that the current types and quantity of grass market transactions are less than half of what they were at the beginning, which shows that the commercial system in Runzhou City has been greatly affected.

There is even a situation of bartering things. The common people are worried that the city has been trapped for a long time, there will be a serious shortage of supplies, the price will rise, and the copper coins will depreciate. Therefore, many traders are willing to exchange items.

Su Chen frowned, stopped, and looked at the situation of the two vendors' transactions, showing some worry.

"Brother Chen, what's wrong?"

"It's okay, life in the city is difficult." Su Chen sighed softly, and continued to walk.

At this moment, a trader suddenly pulled out a simple knife from under the stall, jumped out, and shouted: "Kill the dog official!"

"Kill him, he is the one who made our people miserable!"

In an instant, twenty or thirty figures jumped out with their knives drawn, intending to attack Su Chen.

"There are assassins!"

"Hurry up and protect General Su!"

Some guards shouted and drew their knives forward to protect.

However, many vendors on both sides turned into assassins at this time, some overturned the table, some shot hand crossbows and hidden weapons, and some pushed out a wooden cart with hay on it, which was set on fire. Block the guards from approaching, so as to give them enough time to sneak attack on Su Chen.

Although danger came, Su Chen remained calm in the face of danger.

Because he also has martial arts, he doesn't rely entirely on other servants, let alone standing beside him, there is Peng Qingqing.

"Bang bang bang!"

Sure enough, Peng Qingqing took the lead and kicked over two or three approaching assassins.

"My lord, take the saber!" Jing Yun, who was following Su Chen, immediately handed Su Chen's saber to the young master.

Su Chen took the saber, calm and composed, and his confidence was also improving.

"Let's go together and kill the dog officer!"

The assassins held weapons, some of them blocked the guards, and the rest attacked Su Chen and Peng Jingjing.

"Qiang——" Peng Jingjing also drew out her sword, staring coldly at the assassins around her, and attacked with her sword.

(End of this chapter)