Prince of Song Dynasty

Chapter 824 The means that invaders will use
Not long after, Gao Wuyang left the woods and saw Xu Bowen under the moonlight. The killer company of the special brigade was gathering, and someone sent him wound medicine. Coming to the end...

Bai Canghai finally gradually lost interest, feeling that the game was boring, so he pierced Iron Palm Shituo's eyebrow with his sword.Killer even kills everyone.

That's right, everyone.In this battle, none of the more than 100 Liao masters could escape.During this period, after Tang Mochou, Zhong Sanhe killed three more people, resulting in four heads.Just now the captain of the special brigade, the legendary killer king Bai Canghai personally asked him if he wanted to join the special brigade. He hesitated for a while, but didn't immediately agree, and the killer king didn't like it at all.

The sky is getting brighter.

In Hekou County, the Liao people did launch their last offensive before dawn, but they were defeated by the vigilant crossbows, giant guns, crossbows, and gunpowder packs.

The two bazaars in the east and west of the city were all scorched black, leaving only wisps of smoke on the ruined walls blowing in the wind.The initial offensive of the Liao army was launched from here, but now there are not many corpses to be seen. They may have also been burned into black charcoal, or they may have successfully evacuated after the fire broke out.The possibility of the latter is far greater than the former, otherwise there should be a large number of suffocated corpses in open spaces such as courtyards and roads.

Ye Chen turned around and smiled at Tang Xingwu, and said, "You really guessed it right."

At that time, Tang Xingwu and the other three staff members were inclined to believe that the Liao people might use the buildings outside the city to sneak into the city.

"According to His Majesty's arrangement, it doesn't really make much difference whether the subject guesses correctly or not." Tang Xingwu smiled wryly and shook his head.There is no point in guessing right or wrong.The defensive measures in the city were originally planned to deal with the attack from all fronts, how could it be affected by the strategy of the Liao people?
However, there was a price to be won in the first battle. During this night, more than one-fifth of the arrows stored in Hekou County were consumed, and nearly [-]% of the bows and crossbows were damaged.With the same scale of defense, the city can only last for another five days at most, and the next thing is to fight with human lives.

However, it is not known whether the Liao people can persist in the onslaught for five days without retreating.One only needs to look outside to see that in the battle last night, the Liao people suffered heavy casualties. 5000 people came to attack, nearly half of them died, and the rest did not know how many were injured.

You must know that most of the Liao army who came to attack last night were wearing armor. Since the Liao army was not fully armored, they were probably the elite under Xiao Dage's command.Although the overall strength of the Liao army is small, it is definitely a painful loss for the Liao army outside the city.

In addition, there are those who are injured but still have the strength and luck to climb back, the number will only be more than those lying under the city.On the Xiangfu side, only four defenders were injured.In fact, the injuries of these four people were regarded as accidents. Three of them were hit by stray arrows.

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Xiao Dage obviously knew that his side did not have a good rest last night, and the defenders of Hekou County also did not have a good rest. Moreover, the Liao Army only dispatched 5000 people in the First World War last night, but the defenders of Hekou County must have all been on the city. Defense, all without rest.Therefore, the Liao army began to attack the city again early in the morning.

Because this offensive and defensive battle revolved around His Majesty the Emperor of Xiangxing Kingdom from the very beginning, the Liao army on the attacking side was fighting for time, and as long as they broke through the city, the rewards would be unimaginable, while the soldiers and civilians of Hekou County on the defending side were extremely determined to fight.

Therefore, this offensive and defensive battle was extremely tragic from the very beginning.The number of casualties on both sides is increasing, but the Liao army who attacked the city died more than the defenders. On the first day, the ratio was roughly 15 people to one, but they themselves also had eight more people than the defenders. Nine times, it seems to be beneficial to the defenders, but Ye Chen and others know that such a casualty ratio is because the city has one crossbow, one hundred giant guns and crossbows, fifty catapults and crossbows, feathers, etc. Arrows, crossbows, guns, gunpowder packs are the result of almost unrestrained use.It is conceivable that the ratio will be closer to the latter, and the casualties of the Liao army will be reduced, and the defenders will increase relatively.

Ye Chen decentralized the specific command of the defense of the four walls, and he only grasped the overall strategy.Sometimes it was itchy to see, and I shot several times myself.

However, every time he took a shot, he used earth-shattering archery skills. Either he killed nearly a hundred people at one time, or he directly shot to death the general in charge of the siege of the Liao army who was three hundred steps away.This boosted the morale of the defenders and the blow to the Liao army who attacked the city was unparalleled.After all, such divine archery has surpassed the level of mortals in the years of ordinary people.

The first wave of offensive and defensive battles lasted for nearly two hours, and the soldiers of the Liao army who were firmly 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 almost the same number of wounded below the city.

In the sound of the Liao army's horn, there was a burst of cheers for a temporary victory from the top of the city.

Once the Liao people retreated and rested, Ye Chen didn't need to worry about it. Staff officers, officers at all levels, and county magistrates arranged for people to come up to clean up the wounded soldiers on the city wall.Several military medical workers ran up to the top of the city with the organized people in the city, and carried down dozens of wounded soldiers who were unlucky and shot with arrows on simple stretchers. In the case of wearing a low-brow helmet, it is indeed bad luck to be injured by the arrows of the Liao army who have never climbed to the top of the city.

These wounded soldiers will be sent to the Hekou Military and Civilian Hospital in the city.After Ye Chen established the country, he implemented the medical system he established in Song Dynasty in Xiangfu.Now there are not only military hospitals, but also every company in the army has a trained medical worker, coupled with the manpower in the hospital, now the defenders are fighting with foreign enemies, the treatment and treatment of wounded soldiers and the serious injuries of the Liao army, etc. Compared with the tragic wounded who died or were slightly injured depending on luck, there is a huge difference.This alone, the improvement of the morale of the troops is already unimaginable.

Relying on these medical workers, Ye Chen doesn't have to worry about first aid in the field at this time, not to mention that although the hospital branch 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 army voluntarily after treating their wounds, unlike the Liao army that needed to send special personnel to force the lightly wounded one by one to fight.

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The defenders rely on bows and crossbows, and the most common means of fighting the enemy is to shoot all the arrows, shooting the enemy into a group of hedgehogs.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 relatively wealthy Song Dynasty and Xiangfu Kingdom can allow soldiers to shoot as if they don't need money when fighting, and today's Hekou County is the best among them.Although the Liao Kingdom is a big country in the north, when the army goes into battle, it must try to save money.

Ye Chen knew very well that the defenders in the city could maintain their morale because they were not injured much, but without the fast crossbows, bows and arrows, giant guns, crossbows, and powder packs fired by catapults, the situation would be much worse if they fought face to face with the Liao army. Most likely it will be very different.After all, the number of people differed by eight or nine times.

Another horn blast interrupted Ye Chen's train of thought.Looking up at Liao Jun who was stirring again in the distance, he thought how strong Xiao Dage and Shi Fat's desire to kill or capture him was.

Just thinking like this, when Ye Chen saw the enemy formation on the opposite side clearly, his face suddenly became extremely ugly.Although he knew that invaders would use this tactic when attacking the city since ancient times, and he had discussed countermeasures with the people below these days, but now when this scene actually happened, Ye Chen was still very angry.

Liao army cavalry, infantry, and groups of rebel troops who suppressed the civilians and prisoners of Xiangfu Kingdom captured these days gathered here in Hekou County.

Looking from the city wall of Hekou County, in front of the Liao army formation, a large number of civilians from the Xiangfu Kingdom were gathered. From time to time, Liao cavalry in charge of guards passed by and waved their whips at the crowd.He even swung the steel knife away, bringing flesh and blood to the men and women in the crowd.While weeping, the black mass was like a huge herd of cattle and sheep.

Staggering elderly people, pale-faced children, women in swaddling clothes, young men covered in blood, and even corpses of dead people were all pulled by ropes piece by piece.Wealthy businessmen, officials, rebels, and civilians are all in the dark ranks.One by one, those in ragged clothes let out low sobbing sounds.Due to the scolding and beating and killing by the Liao army, not many people dared to cry loudly.Occasionally, one or two were shot to death by a nearby Liao army archer.The wailing from large swaths of cries still merged into a miserable sound wave, which spread to the wall of Hekou County.

The defenders on the city wall could only watch all this silently. If His Majesty the Great Emperor was not in the city, there would still be some soldiers in the army who would rush out of the city to save people. But now that His Majesty is in the city, these people are innocent, but How can it compare to His Majesty's safety? This is the self-comforting and natural voice of all civil and military officials in the city at this time.

The commanding platform of the Liao Army was on a hillside, Xiao Dage looked at the surrounding situation, and then waved his hand.

"Attack," he said.

The Liao army sounded the horn.

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The severe pain now seems to have gradually become numb, and the cold chill has descended on his body, as if he has no feeling at all. When the noise rang out, he was dragged to stand up and squeezed forward.The air was filled with mist, and in the distance was the city wall of Hekou County. The voice of the Liao army came from behind.

His name is Gao Shuda. He is a farmer near Hekou County. He is 39 years old. Not long ago, he had a wife and a daughter who was about to marry as an adult, but now he is gone.

(End of this chapter)