Prince of Song Dynasty

Chapter 519 Attack and Defense of Ten Mile Fort ([-])

At this time, Tuoba Zhenli and the other leaders of the Six Departments of the Party are actually a little depressed, because they failed to surround Ye Chen in the wild, and now they are facing a siege, which means that things may not be successful, and even if they succeed, they may have to pay. A lot of casualties.

In addition, although the people in the temple have repeatedly guaranteed that the Northwest Frontier Army of Gyeongju, the Zhejia of Fuzhou, and the Yang family of Linzhou will not come to support the Song army in Ten Mile Fort at least two days later.But things have developed to the current situation, and several leaders of tribes who have suffered at the hands of the Northwest Frontier Army in the past few years have retreated.But at this moment, a group of people suddenly appeared, and this group of people brought them extremely sophisticated siege equipment, which made these party members re-determined and prepared to start the siege.

After all, as long as they kill the imperial envoy of the Song Dynasty from Kaifeng, they can become like Li Guangrui in Xiazhou in just one or two years. lure.Now the 'peaches' are waiting for them to pick them in the army stronghold. As long as they break through the city, in their view, the imperial envoy can be easily killed.Looking back at the pair of bright eyes in front of him, Tuoba Zhenli knew that the morale of the army was available, he flicked his horsewhip, and ordered: "Your ministries will send out 700 people first, and our Tuoba clan will send out 800 people, and a total of 5000 people will get off the horse and prepare Attack Ten Mile Fort!"

Because the party members on the attacking side are fighting for time, and the defending side is determined to fight, so this offensive and defensive battle has been extremely tragic from the beginning.The number of casualties on both sides is increasing in a straight line. Although the party who attacked the city killed many more people than the Song army, they themselves were four or five times more than the Song army, and the ratio of the two sides remained roughly the same. .

Ye Chen did not interfere with the specific command of the defense of the city, but handed over the full power to Liu Shijun, the defender of Shilibao who is most familiar with the walls of Shilibao and the party members.Of course, the people in the Huaxia Weifu will not just watch, they will also kill the enemy.Even Ye Chen's hands were itchy to see, and he shot several times himself.

For example, at this time Ye Chen was holding a three-stone hard bow, the highest prepared in the army, and was shooting the enemy with an action that could be called art or almost Taoism.

Opening the bow and setting the arrow, the bow and the arrow flew out, which normally takes two or three breaths to complete, but in Ye Chen's hands, it suddenly accelerated several times, as if the passage of time became faster.The time for the long arrow to hang on the bow is only a blink of an eye. You can only see the string trembling, hear the sound, and white lights flash through the air, but no one can tell how the arrow flew out.

Arrows rained like rain, even with a shield, they couldn't block the arrows that were as precise as poisonous snakes spitting out letters. When they landed, the screams were joined together, and dozens of mouths played a mournful movement together.Ye Chen alone is worth a team of outstanding archers.The rain of arrows shot from his hand completely suppressed the enemy troops rushing towards the city gate, so that very few arrows shot back from under the city.

The other archers of the Song Army also shot repeatedly, and the party soldiers who were blocked under the city finally waited for the signal to retreat, and retreated like a tide.Just like shrimp and crab shells on the beach after low tide, they left more than 500 dead bodies and the same number of wounded below the city.

In the sound of the horn of the Seventh Department of the Party, there was a burst of applause from the top of the city. The officers and soldiers of the Song Dynasty defending the city applauded the imperial envoy's sharp shot, and all their eyes on Ye Chen were full of admiration.Ever since the Dangxiang people started attacking the city in the afternoon, although Ye Chen didn't make many moves, he always made a move at the most critical moment, regardless of Hu Sanguang, Huang Louping, Liu Shijun and others kneeling down to dissuade him. Standing at the forefront, he has already broken five or six longbows, but no matter how accurate the arrows shot by the party members from under the city are, Ye Chen can always dodge easily while swinging from side to side. No arrow can Can hurt him.So in the end, neither the Huaxia Weifu nor Liu Shijun marveled at Ye Chen's mysterious body skills and superb arrow skills, and at the same time, they no longer prevented Ye Chen from killing the enemy like he was enlightened by arrows.

With Ye Chen's current status, the enemy is coming at him again, and his safety itself is far more than this small ten-mile fort. If he is not completely sure, he will naturally not risk himself.The reason why he did this, besides killing the enemy by the way and boosting the morale of his own side, was to take the opportunity to comprehend the art of archery.

For countless years, no one has practiced arrows to a level similar to Dao like Ye Chen.Ye Chen has a faint feeling recently that he has reached a very mysterious realm in the field of archery, but there is still an opportunity for him to see through something.He needs to shoot arrows again and again to comprehend the true meaning or some kind of arrow path that no one has ever realized.

As soon as the party members retreated and rested, and Ye Chen didn't need to worry about it, Liu Shijun ordered people to come up to clean up the wounded soldiers on the city wall.Several military medical workers ran to the top of the city with the organized civilians, carried down dozens of wounded soldiers who were unlucky and shot with arrows on simple stretchers, and sent them to the Northwest Frontier Military Hospital in the military village. The branch of Shilibao.The military medical system established by Ye Chen in Kaifeng the year before last has been implemented in the Song army in the past two years.Now there are not only military Chinese hospitals, but each of the military (one commanding five capitals, each with 100 people.) has a trained medical worker, plus the Northwest Frontier Military Hospital is staffed here. , Now that the Song army is fighting with foreign enemies, the treatment and treatment of wounded soldiers is very different from before and compared with foreign enemies.This alone, the improvement of the morale of the troops is already unimaginable.

Relying on these medical workers, Liu Shijun doesn't have to worry about the first aid in the field at this time, not to mention that although the branch of the Northwest Frontier Military Hospital is not very big, it has all the essentials, medicinal materials, and doctors in the center of the city.And with this similar to a field hospital, many lightly wounded returned to the team voluntarily after treating their wounds, unlike the past where it was necessary to send special personnel to force the lightly wounded one by one to fight.

Relying on being able to maintain the high morale of more than 4000 soldiers under heavy siege by the enemy, Liu Shijun firmly guarded the Shilibao whose city walls were somewhat dilapidated.This small city, which could only be classified as a fort in the Great Song Dynasty, had been attacked by four rounds of party members in one afternoon, and the originally low city wall had been dilapidated.But the foundation of the city wall was so solid that only a white mark was left when the knife was scratched.

From the ground to the chest, the color of the wall is also different from that of the upper half.As long as you have a little understanding of Northwest Zhaifang, you can see at a glance that Shilibao, a small castle, was built on the basis of the old city of Sui, Tang and Five Dynasties.And the city wall with a circumference of only [-] steps also shows that this city was just a large post station that was the most common border area in a previous dynasty, and it also served as a beacon and guarded the main traffic road leading to Hengshan.

Ye Chen looked at the enemy army in the distance, and on the wall beside him, there was a circle of hideous heads.This is not the beheading of those who were left behind when the party members attacked the city wall outside the city.But just in the afternoon, when the Dangxiang people attacked the city most violently outside the city, nearly a hundred people who did not know when sneaked into the city, pretending to help carry the defense utensils, suddenly passed by the city gate, and the Song army at the gate began to raid. These people are highly skilled, and there are even five first-class masters among them.At that time, if Lian Jicheng hadn't led fifty Huaxia Weifu masters to guard the side in advance, the gate of the city had already been breached from the inside, and the Dangxiang cavalry had rushed into the city.

Therefore, every time Liu Shijun thought of Ye Chen's foresight and the strength shown by Lian Jicheng's leadership of fifty Huaxia Weifu masters, Liu Shijun admired Ye Chen's five bodies.He had only heard of Ye Chen's reputation before, but now that he experienced it personally, he naturally felt another way.

The masters of these temples were killed by the masters of the Huaxia Weifu and Song Jun in a stick of incense time, and their heads were all hung on the city wall.In winter, it is cold and freezing in the northwest, so I am not afraid that these heads will rot in a short period of time and emit a foul smell.

It's just that Ye Chen's nose is too sensitive, and the slight stench that others can't smell enters his nose, but it's uncomfortable.But after a long time, it is easy to ignore this disgusting smell.

There are many things that give Ye Chen headaches and worries.Although I don't know when the reinforcements will come, but the food is enough to support the party members to retreat, and because Shilibao was originally built by the stream, there are several ancient wells left by the old dynasty, so there is no need to worry about the water source.What worries Ye Chen the most is that there are not many arrows left in Ten Mile Fort.

The Song army relied on bows and crossbows, and the most commonly used method to fight the enemy was to shoot ten thousand arrows at once, and shoot the enemy into a group of hedgehogs in the future.An arrow basically costs seven or eight cents from the arrow cluster, the shaft to the feather, and a commanding array on the battlefield can shoot all the arrows worth tens of sticks.Among the countries in the world today, only the extremely rich Southern Tang and the relatively wealthy Song Dynasty can allow soldiers to shoot desperately as if they don’t need money when they are fighting.Even if the army of the Liao Kingdom, a great northern country, goes into battle, they must try to save money, not to mention the party members who are too poor to eat.

It is because of the habit, and at the beginning, everyone considered that the party members would not continue to attack the city for a long time, and because there were not many arrows in Shilibao.After a long time, most of the arrows have been shot. At this time, on average, there are only ten arrows left in each person's quiver.Now the defenders in the city can maintain their morale because they are not injured much, but if there is no bow and arrow, and they fight face to face, the situation will probably be quite different.After all, the number of people differs by four or five times.

Another horn blast interrupted Ye Chen's train of thought.Looking up at the enemy army who was stirring again in the distance, he casually pulled the longbow in his hand, and then it was time for it to appear again.

(End of this chapter)