The Happy Life of Small Officials in Northern Song Dynasty

The so-called wolf smoke sticks, to put it bluntly, are logs that are nailed with sharp nails at both ends, and a large log about two feet full of spikes rolls down from a high place, and its power can be imagined.

The soldiers of the Xia army who were climbing up the ladder and throwing the deadly hook were pushed to the bottom by the spiky rolling log, and the bloody body under the log was nailed like a butterfly specimen of later generations. The terrible thing is He won't die for a while, but just screams for help, waving his hands and feet and crying.

The soldiers of the Xia army on the side hurriedly carried away the wolf tooth tree, but found that the people under the tree were pierced through. As soon as they lifted the tree, a series of small springs burst out from below, which was blood bursting out. The terrifying blood fountain formed by the shooting, the soldiers were limp, holding back the horror and lifting these things that were in the way.

After hundreds of wooden maces were thrown down, hundreds of ladders were destroyed. The upper and lower parts of the ladders are the places where the crowds gather most. This is a good thing. Seven or eight people were killed or injured with one stick. In the bloody slaughterhouse, just this one big stick attack killed two or three thousand soldiers of the Xia army.

Coupled with a round of violent eruption of ordinary wood and stone bows and arrows, the arrogance of the soldiers of the Xia army who were rushing to attack the city was immediately beaten down. The place where the ladder was erected was the key target of attack, not only people, but also the ladder Huge damage, [-] ladders were immediately destroyed, and the remaining hundreds could no longer form a massive siege scale. Under the ebb and flow, the morale of the Song army on the top of the city was greatly boosted, and they roared angrily to attack the city. Pieces of rocks and pieces of wood were smashed down, until the soldiers of the Xia Army could only hold up their shields at the bottom of the wall to suffer. From time to time, the shields were broken, and the people below ran around crying for their parents without hitting them.

Yeli Yuqi and Yeli Wangrong, the commanders of the left and right armies who supervised the battle in the distance, saw it in their eyes and understood in their hearts that this round of simple and crude siege failed. They wanted to use the advantage of the number of people to attack with a thousand ladders With a fierce attack, it only needs to break through a dozen or so city walls, and the Song army on the city will have no time to take care of it, and if one is broken, it will be broken everywhere. But I did not expect that the Song army not only defended more people than originally imagined, but also prepared well. The rolling logs and stones on the ground have been falling like rain, and it has not stopped since the time of the siege.

Now that most of the ladders have been destroyed, we can only retreat temporarily, and the attacking army must not be beaten under the city without being able to climb the city.

The Yeli brothers looked at each other, and helplessly ordered someone to blow the horns for retreating. Three long horn sounds echoed on the battlefield. It was the ebb and flow of the sea, although they were aggressive when attacking, they did not give way when retreating. Although most of the people had no horses, their speed was still astonishing, and they had already escaped dozens of steps away in the blink of an eye.

"You idiots have to run and shoot arrows." Pan Jiang shouted, staring at the balls of his eyes.

In the city, Song Jun had no time to catch his breath, so he picked up his bow and arrows and shot randomly. Before Xia Jun exited the range, he was hit by at least three rounds of arrow rain on his buttocks, leaving countless corpses, and fled away in embarrassment.

At the same time, Xia Jun's trebuchets roared again, throwing broken stones to the top of the city again. Before the soldiers of the Song Army had time to celebrate, they were suppressed behind the walls and shrank again.

Su Jin gave the order to evacuate the city. He understood that the trebuchet bombardment at this moment was more of a retaliatory and cover intention than a precursor to an attack. It's time for the defenders at the top of the city to go down to the city to rest, drink water and eat.

The soldiers braved the gravel to retreat from the city wall, only the hundreds of soldiers on the top of the city tower who were not attacked by the stones were watching Xia's movements. At the end of the nearly two-hour bloody battle, everyone tensed up and forgot their hunger and exhaustion. When they retreated to rest, they felt tired, tired and hungry all of a sudden.

Su Jin brought Jingtai Panjiang and others to the school grounds. The soldiers sitting on the ground saw Su Jin and others struggling to get up and salute. Su Jin quickly stopped them and asked them to have a good rest.

"Hurry up and count the number of casualties. The wounded should be treated as much as possible, and the wounds should be wrapped up if they are slightly injured. It seems that the consumption is really not small. We must quickly replenish the number. This time Xia Jun suffered a loss. The next attack must be better than this time." It's more ferocious, so you have to be mentally prepared." Su Jin said to the people around him as he walked.

Jingtai nodded and said: "My lord said that what I am afraid of now is that the Xia army will come to fight in rounds. If the Xia army's 12 people attack in turn, we will not be able to bear it. We have to do our best to defend every battle. If it is day and night The non-stop siege has exhausted us to death.”

Su Jin frowned, and was quite worried about this issue in his heart, but Su Jin was actually not worried about this. What he was most afraid of was that Xia's army would attack the city in all directions. After defending the four cities, it is definitely impossible to defend, but it is still a bit sure to defend a city wall with all its strength, because even if a million people attack the city, the contact area that can be attacked is only a city wall, and there are too many people. Line up at the back.

Su Jin doesn't want to think too much, at least right now he has won, and his morale can't be discouraged, thinking too much at this moment will be harmful instead of beneficial.

Su Jinyue put a dismounting stone on his body, and said loudly to the soldiers who looked pale: "Brothers, this battle was fought beautifully, and it showed the prestige of our Weizhou soldiers and civilians. Let's make a rough estimate. In this morning's battle, Xia's army will be wiped out." Nearly 170, but my casualties are less than 37. This shows that all of our soldiers in Weizhou are heroes with one enemy and three. I am very proud of you. Those who have made meritorious service in this battle will be rewarded heavily. Commander Pan will come later Double salaries will be distributed, and another [-] soldiers will be promoted to the position of team leader, and [-] soldiers will be appointed as capital heads. All soldiers who fight bravely and tenaciously will be promoted by virtue of the Weizhou battle; I look forward to how many civilian generals will be born after repelling the Xia army's attack; everyone should follow the example of Commander Di Qingdi in Yanzhou, and it will take a year or less from an ordinary soldier to a strong soldier in the army. Will."

The emotions of the exhausted soldiers were mobilized, especially the mention of Di Qing's name, which is a living example. Although war is not a good thing, since blood on the battlefield cannot be avoided, why not take this opportunity to fight for more things .

"Soldiers who don't want to be generals are not good soldiers. Brothers, you should take this battle as an opportunity to be promoted, and as an opportunity to change your destiny. If students change their destiny by entering the imperial examination, the opportunity for us soldiers There is only one, and that is war."

Su Jin mobilized the enthusiasm of the soldiers with his tongue like a tongue. Morale is definitely a wonderful thing. After an army loses morale, it simply cannot resist the attack of an enemy army whose number is several times that of itself.

"Lord Su, don't worry, we will definitely not let the Xi thief please me this time."

"So... After this battle, we are all generals? Haha, that's great. My old lady is looking forward to the day when I can make a name for myself. Her old man hopes that one day I can become a general. Ride home on a tall horse and let her have a look, she will be happy."

The soldiers chattered a lot, each looking forward to the vision of the future, although they don't know whether they can survive this war, but giving yourself some hope is always a positive attitude towards coping.

"Master Su, can you let me wait until the Temple of the Five Viscera is filled first, the thieves came too early, and we spent the morning with them hungry." The problem.

Su Jin laughed loudly and said: "Yes, yes, the Temple of the Five Viscera needs to be supported, don't worry, look at the entrance to the south, Master Li is here to reward you with good food, it is said that the food prepared today is I can’t say more about the oily white flour pancakes with scallion oil, the fragrant boar pork stewed with sweet potatoes, and the white rice and mung bean porridge, besides, my mouth is watering.”

All the soldiers were laughing, let alone Mr. Fu Zun, everyone's mouths started to drool.

Li Chong came striding forward with hundreds of peasants carrying hundreds of loads of delicious food. They lined up in the middle of the North Gate school grounds. The soldiers lined up to receive the food. Each person had two big bowls of white rice and one large A bowl of vegetables, after eating, there is wild boar bone soup to drink. This wild boar is a few days before the arrival of the Xixia Army. Although Lu Laosan was unwilling to do the fishing in the dry lake, but in order to fight in the city and ensure that the soldiers had enough strength, Lu Laosan was desperate.

Su Jin saw the two petite figures in the team of cooks helping to serve the food at a glance, and his heart was moved; Xia Siling and Xiao Sui'er both wore green cloth baotou, wrapped all their heads in black silk, and wore ordinary peasant clothes. Ru Qun, her face was flushed red with several spots of gray and black, she was obviously helping out while cooking, Xiao Sui'er was fine, Xia Siling was the eldest lady who stretched out her hands to eat and opened her mouth, she followed her this time Coming to the northwest, he was frightened and suffering, but he always faced it calmly, which made Su Jin look at Xia Siling with admiration.

Su Jin stood in line in line, and after a while it was his turn, so he yelled at Xia Siling, "A bowl of white rice, and a bowl of bone soup."

Xia Siling was startled, and when she looked up, seeing that it was Su Jin, she smiled embarrassedly.

Su Jin looked at each other tenderly, her lips moved, and said softly: "My lady, thank you very much."

Xia Siling's eyes shone shyly, she peeked left and right, and said in a low voice, "Husband, you're so polite." After finishing speaking, she quickly gave Su Jin a meal and handed it to him. Su Jin was overjoyed and held the bowl walk away.