Great Song Super Scholar

Chapter 683

The bloody battle at Niangziguan has been going on for the seventh day, the beasts are fighting fiercely, and the Liao army is also red-eyed. They gave up the idea of ​​breaking out from Hebei, but decided to break out from the west, so the pass is easier than Niangziguan. As long as we seize Niangziguan, Guguan is no problem.

They have a hundred thousand cavalry, as long as they get out of the narrow passage of Jingxing, the sky is high and the birds are flying.

Seizing Niangziguan became the only chance for the Liao army to escape. In order to survive, the Liao army spared no effort to survive, regardless of casualties, and attacked the city on a large scale day and night, without giving the Song army any respite.

"Boom! Boom! Boom!" Before the gunpowder smoke cleared during the day, the war drums sounded again in the night.

Ten thousand Liao troops began to gather quickly, and the battle curtain was about to begin.

The Song army on the top of the city had just been replaced, and the [-] soldiers during the day had suffered more than [-] casualties. They were all exhausted and retreated to rest.

Di Qing did not underestimate the enemy either. He wrote a pigeon letter to Yang Wenguang in Taiyuan, imploring Yang Wenguang to send troops to support Niangziguan. The condescending favorable terrain has been able to completely withstand the crazy attack of the Liao army.

Cao Wenjing stood on the high peak fire platform, watching the Liao army at the foot of the mountain. The beacon tower is the tallest building in Niangziguan, and has the widest view. It was temporarily used as a combat command platform. Commanding the battle, but standing on the command platform, he can control the overall situation. If there is not enough troops on one side, he will immediately reinforce him. If the defense supplies are running out, he will immediately replenish them. After the battle, he will repair the city walls and gates. This is his general. duty.

It's just that Cao Wenjing hadn't closed his eyes for three days, his eyes were bloodshot, and his voice was hoarse. Just now he wanted to take a nap, but the drums at the foot of the mountain were beating again, forcing him to deal with it forcefully.

"General Cao, if the commander of this battle asks me to come, go down and rest!" Lieutenant General Yang Chun suggested.

Cao Wenjing sighed and said, "Let me sleep now, but I can't sleep either. I will command another battle tonight, and leave it to you tomorrow. You go to rest and come to pick up my post tomorrow morning."

Seeing that the general insisted on not going down to rest, Yang Chun could only sigh and go down by himself.

The 3000 Liao troops were divided into three groups of 1000 to attack, and the other [-] were supervising soldiers. They held sharp axes, and any soldiers who fled down the mountain without authorization would be hacked to death mercilessly.

"kill--"

The leading general roared, and led 3000 people to rush up the hillside.

There are about [-] steps from the starting point to the top of the mountain. The first [-] steps are controlled by the Liao army and there is no danger, but the last [-] steps are the road to death.

Three thousand soldiers rushed forward with shouts, and the second batch of three thousand soldiers followed slowly.

On one side of the road to Niangziguan, there are cliffs, and on the other side is the abyss of hundreds of feet. The road is only two feet wide, which can only allow a small group of soldiers to charge. Except for the soldiers, the rest are on the Great Wall on the right, and their bows and arrows can also shoot on the official road.

The [-] Liao soldiers finally rushed to the [-]-step mark. The corpses piled up here were piled up like a mountain, but they were thrown into the ravine by the Song army as quickly as possible. These days, wild wolves screamed excitedly.

As soon as we reached two hundred paces, we heard a loud bang, bang, bang, and dozens of rolling logs smashed down. The dozens of soldiers running in the front were frightened out of their wits. Run, but there are all soldiers behind, so there is no room for running.

There was a sound of screams, and seventy or eighty soldiers were hit by the rolling giant log. Some were smashed to the bone, some were simply thrown off the cliff, and more than a dozen people were smashed to the ground and died on the spot.

The remaining hundreds retreated one after another, and many wounded soldiers didn't even care about them. They had to groan and climb down by themselves. die in time.

Too many people died, and the soldiers were numb. No one cared about the life and death of the wounded soldiers. Many wounded soldiers were crushed to death in the second round of rolling.

In the second attack, hundreds of soldiers crawled on the ground and climbed up cautiously, but the Song army unexpectedly stopped the attack.

When they climbed until they were still sixty steps away from Guancheng, they saw a flame spreading rapidly downwards. The soldiers were so frightened that they jumped up and fled downwards.

At this time, hundreds of rolling logs roared after them and ruthlessly hit hundreds of Liao soldiers from behind. The soldiers were smashed off the cliff one after another. They could only scream in despair as the oil swallowed them up.

The first batch of 2000 soldiers was wiped out in less than half an hour, and the second batch of [-] soldiers went up again. The first batch rushed up again, and the second group of [-] soldiers joined in. The Liao army paid the price of [-] dead and used the corpses in front as cover and stepping stones. They finally rushed to Guancheng within a hundred steps of Guancheng, and began to counterattack Song Dynasty with bows and arrows. military.

At this time, the ballista on the Guancheng was fired, and three iron fire thunders shot out and rolled into the crowd. The soldiers were so frightened that they fell to the ground one after another. One of them rolled down the cliff and exploded halfway. Two bombs exploded among the crowd. Amidst the earth-shattering explosion, dozens of soldiers were blasted into the air, their bodies were shattered, flesh and blood flew everywhere, and the mountain road was filled with gunpowder smoke.
This night battle lasted from dark to early morning of the next day. The Liao army killed more than 4000 people, and the Song army also suffered hundreds of casualties. However, the pass remained motionless and was firmly controlled by the Song army.

The gunpowder smoke has cleared, and the air is still filled with the pungent smell of blood. The mountain road is full of corpses lying in disorder. Hundreds of Song Army soldiers came out from the pass to clean up the corpses on the mountain road and throw them all down the cliff. , and sprinkled a lot of quicklime to prevent the corpse from causing the disease.

In fact, there are hidden dangers in throwing the corpse off the cliff, but the soldiers of the Song Army can only deal with it in this way, and they cannot be moved back to Guancheng to be burned.

The Guancheng was also very quiet. Cao Wenjing couldn't bear it anymore and went back to sleep. A new batch of [-] soldiers replaced the soldiers who fought fiercely last night, led by Lieutenant General Yang Chun.

The Song army camp is also at the foot of the mountain, consisting of two thousand large tents, covering an area of ​​over a thousand acres.

In the big camp, soldiers cut down a large number of trees from a distant mountain, and removed the branches and leaves, leaving only the trunks. They sawed the trunks into countless sections of rolling logs. Tens of thousands of soldiers lined up in two long lines, from the foot of the mountain to the Guancheng was relaying the rolling logs up the mountain. After a while, thousands of rolling logs were sent directly into Guancheng.

At this moment, the Liao army camp once again sounded fierce battle drums, and a new siege was about to begin.

At the same time, the battle for Loufan Pass was also going on fiercely. Thirty thousand Liao troops from Datong Mansion were also attacking Guancheng, and they wanted to go south to Taiyuan Mansion to rescue the Liao army who were besieged in Jingxing Pass.

Unlike the Jingxing Liao army who traveled southward with light equipment, this time the Liao army who traveled southward from Taiyuan Prefecture carried all kinds of heavy equipment. Dozens of medium-sized trebuchets fired one after another, sending cans of ignited kerosene or porcelain bottles of fire thunder to Guancheng. Throw away.

Flames erupted inside and outside the city, and there were constant crisp explosions.

Hundreds of steps in front of Guancheng, the Song Army built a low wall with sandbags as the first line of defense. Thousands of Song Army soldiers hid behind the mud wall and kept firing arrows. The Liao army, on top of his head, fire oil tanks roared continuously, the fire oil tanks fell to the ground and shattered, the fire oil flowed all over the ground, and burned quickly.

More than a hundred soldiers, in groups of three, carried baskets filled with soil. Once the fire oil tank fell to the ground, they rushed forward to cover the flames with soil.

Under the cover of the trebuchet, two thousand soldiers of the Liao army held up their shields, formed a shield wall, and approached the sandbag wall step by step. The arrows of the Song army had no effect on them.

At this time, the Liao army's catapult suddenly stopped projecting, and the war drums blared loudly. Amid the rapid war drums, two thousand Liao army soldiers shouted and ran, rushed to the sandbag wall, and stabbed the Song army soldiers with their spears. A fierce fight broke out in the narrow passage.

(End of this chapter)