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Chapter 852 Grinding Wheel (1)

Chapter 852 Wheel ([-])

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Huge boulders cut across the sky, accompanied by a rain of arrows that covered the sky, slammed into the towering city wall after crossing a distance of several dozen meters.The stone collapsed and fell, and the city wall was shaking. Some stones crossed the top of the wall and fell into the city full of soldiers, causing appalling casualties. On the city wall, people launched artillery and ignited with shouts. With the fuse, the shells fell towards the positions outside the city.

In the ninth year of Wu Jianshuo, at the beginning of September, the altar of hell had already absorbed the blood of the sacrifices, and finally officially opened the door to harvest.

Jurchen's fourth southern expedition, in an atmosphere where everyone was tacit and suffocated, advanced to the moment of war.The one who blew the horn at this moment was the Daming Mansion on the way south of the Jurchen East Route Army.

Before that, all possible efforts had been made. Wang Shanyue's Guangwu army and Zhu Biao's black flag defeated Li Xizhi's nearly 20 people, and made a massive clearing of the surrounding area.But the killing of the Jurchens represents a completely different meaning from before. Even though Daming Mansion has already made a gesture of breaking the boat, no one knows whether the isolated city of Daming Mansion can survive the Jurchen's fierce first blow. down.

Back then, the Liao Kingdom’s Shangjing was also known as an important town that could stand for several years. Under the leadership of A Guda, the Jurchen fought more with less, and the myth of the siege of the city appeared in only half a day. Of course, the battlefield situation was changing rapidly, and the Jurchen was the first. In the second southern expedition, Qin Shaohe led the soldiers of the Wu Dynasty who were not as good as the Liao army to defend Taiyuan, and finally dragged the time for a year.In any case, when the Jurchen arrived, the main event kicked off, and all the members came to the stage with trepidation, waiting for the verdict.

On the [-]th day of the eighth month, the evening sky silently engulfed the western sky. Jurchen's "Fourth Prince" Jin Wushu, the vanguard cavalry of Wanyan Zongbi, arrived in Daming and set up camp in the north of Daming Mansion. Afterwards, the main force of the Jurchen was , craftsmen, and logistics personnel came one after another, and then, the puppet Qi army that could be mobilized near Daming Mansion drove away the civilians who could not escape, and flocked to this lonely city on the north bank of the Yellow River one after another. .

The tents, flags, and the weeping people who were driven over were densely packed and stretched endlessly, forming a terrifying and infiltrating ocean tide in the field of vision. Every morning or evening after that, the wailing or weeping in the crowd. The sound made the people above the city couldn't help clenching their fists and crying.

The war has not yet started, and the cruelest things have been foreshadowed.Since more than ten years ago, it has been the practice for Jurchen to drive civilians to siege the city. After the third southern expedition to drive the Wu Dynasty out of the Central Plains, this piece of land nominally belonging to the pseudo-Qi has been dominated by Jurchen for many years.But this time, in the face of the obstruction of the Daming House, Wanyan Zongbi still classified all the Han people in the vicinity as chaotic people.

"...The Wu Dynasty lost its virtue in the world. The land in the Central Plains has belonged to Daqi for many years, and is no longer owned by the Wu Dynasty! I, Dajin and Daqi, are brothers, and you and others are Daqi people and live here. It is justified, and now there are these thieves of the Wu Dynasty, who are occupying the city! Remember, your good days were disturbed by these thieves of the Wu Dynasty—"

On the one hand, people were selected to enter the city to persuade them to surrender. People who came to the city either begged or cursed, which was just an uncomfortable appetizer before the war.When their pleas for surrender were rejected, the people who were sent out of the city, along with their families, were arrested and flogged to death in front of the city.At the same time, in the Jurchen barracks, the construction of siege equipment continued non-stop.

On the morning of the fourth day of September, the crowd was driven to Damingfu. People crying and begging walked away from the first wave of landmines that were hastily laid outside the city. Some people also carried ladders for the Jurchen army and tried to rush forward. the city, to seize a chance of life.Jurchen's military team lined up in the rear, and the Han people faced the Han people. Shortly after entering the range, the first wave of arrows arrived as promised...

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War has never been a place where the weak can stop. When the war has been going on for more than ten years, the people who have been tempered have already understood this.

Tongyun reddened the sky, and the color of blood was faintly dipped.The Daming Mansion on the north bank of the Yellow River has been submerged in blood.On the fourth day of the ninth lunar month, the first day of the Jurchen siege, under the city of Daming Mansion, over [-] Han Chinese were driven dead and injured. Driven by the Jurchen butcher knife, the entire moat was almost filled with corpses.

Amid the overwhelming rain of arrows, boulders and explosions, some people set up cloud ladders and tried to climb the city while shouting and crying.And stones were thrown from the city.

No one knew where the Jurchen soldiers were mixed up.

During the fierce attack and defense, the Jurchen army launched three consecutive raids on the city defense of Daming Mansion. The defenders above the city wall were not negligent, and each time they responded to the Jurchen raid in a timely manner.At noon, there was even a Jurchen pioneer who briefly climbed the city wall, and was then beheaded by Hu Sanniang, who was nearby, to force the attack back.

The Jurchen is not willing to lose too many troops in the Daming Mansion, but the lives of the Han people in the city are not valuable. In order to encourage these people to try their best to climb the city, the Jurchen’s arrows and stone throws greeted the upper and lower parts of the city, such a high intensity The battle lasted for a day, until that night the fighting stopped a little, and the soldiers in the city slowed down a little, and they all felt out of strength.As for the city below, there are countless corpses. The wounded are rolling among the corpses, wailing, moaning, weeping, and blood. It is an unbearable human tragedy.

Wang Shanyue led the reserve soldiers to rotate with others to count the wounded soldiers.In the middle of the night, the slingshots of the Jurchen camp moved and launched another round of attacks. The civilians below were driven away, carrying the ladders on their backs and continuing to mount them, crying to let the people in the city let go of their lives.People threw stones from the city with red eyes.

The next day, the fierce fighting continued as usual. Soldiers in the city threw down leaflets with the words "If there is any movement, run east." On the third day, a brutal siege was going on, Wang Shanyue mobilized the soldiers on the city to shout: "Go west! Go west!" The people who had been forced by the pressure of death for three days to mutiny They got up and rushed towards the west. Then, the cannons of the Jurchen in the west rang out, and the shells passed through the crowd, blasting people's limbs. , even if someone stopped at the front, countless people were still running. This riot pushed the relatively weak defense line of the Jurchen west out of a hole. About tens of thousands of people rushed out of the hole and fled desperately. Forest in the distance.

On the fourth day, thousands of these tens of thousands were driven back and continued to participate in the siege of the dead.

From the first Bianliang defensive battle to the present, the cruelty of the war has never changed in more than ten years.Xue Changgong ran on the city wall of Daming Mansion, supervising the defense operation of every part of the 48-mile-long city wall.Defending the city is a difficult and long-lasting task. With a length of 48 miles, every place visible to the naked eye must be commanded and responded to by sufficiently awake generals. Guarding during the day and at night, at the most intense time, It is also necessary to leave a new force and take turns with it in the subsequent gaps.Compared with the emphasis on martial arts and bravery when attacking, defending the city has to test the generals' meticulous thinking and watertightness. Perhaps this is also the case, Taiyuan will finally stick to it for a year under Qin Shaohe's command.

In the brutal defense of the city like more than ten years ago, there are some things that have only appeared in these years.Up and down the city, in the gaps before and after each war, the soldiers would sit together and whispered about their own affairs: their life in the Wu Dynasty, the changes after the Jin people were killed, the humiliation they suffered, their dead relatives, Their voices and smiles.At this time, Wang Shanyue either came from the rear, or just pulled down from the city wall, and he would often participate in such discussions one after another, talking about the affairs of the Wang family, and talking about the people who were full of people. Heroes, the widow of a family, and the feeling that he would rather eat people than admit defeat.

This change was brought about by Wang Shanyue.It originally came from the Bamboo Notes of the Demon of the Heart. Since Wang Shanyue established the Guangwu Army, meetings like Yikusitian have often been held.The culture on this land is often introverted, and a man does not reveal his past too much to outsiders. Xue Changgong is also introverted in temperament. When he first saw it, he felt a little inappropriate, but Wang Shanyue didn’t care, he said. His grandfather, speaking of him, he can't beat others, but he is the only man in the Wang family, so he has to support the whole family. He eats people just to make people feel scared, but to make people scared, he doesn't care about biting the enemy Death - After getting along for a long time, Xue Changgong realized that this man who looked like a woman might have been reluctant to talk about this to others at first.

However, speaking of it, it is quite useful for the army.Some clumsy men may just say: "I want to avenge the child." But after talking to others, the spirit and spirit are indeed different.Especially in the desperate situation of the Daming Mansion, the newly joined soldiers are often embarrassed when they talk about these things, but after they have said it, the meaning of the death in their eyes is stronger.

After the Guangwu Army and the Huaxia Army defeated Li Xizhi together, people with lofty ideals came to vote in nearby places such as Huangshe Village and Huishan Village.Although these foreign soldiers have some ambitions, they always have their own bandit spirit in terms of deployment and quality. Even if they join in, they often seem to have their own ideas.On the second day after the war, the owner of Hui Shanzhai, Yan Kan, told people about his family. He was considered a wealthy family in the Central Plains at the time. His daughter was raped and murdered by the Jin people. Later, he was arrested by the government, and he was beaten [-] times. He was beaten to the point of death. Most of his family property was scattered, and only one life was left.

These things were revealed to everyone, and the old village owner in front of him wept in front of everyone, and then scattered a few capable people under his command into the Guangwu Army, and never did his own thing.On the third day of defending the city, Yan Kan led the team to rush to kill and repelled a group of Jurchen raids. Fortunately, he did not die. After the battle, half of his body was covered in blood.

In fact, over the years, after the Central Plains became a great one, who joined the Guangwu Army, who didn't have the slightest sadness?Even if there are no relatives, at least they have seen the death of their comrades and friends with their own eyes.

Listening to them talking about this, Xue Changgong occasionally thinks of his dead wife He Leier, and the moment when she was so timid and fearful, but she ran down the city wall more than ten years ago and was finally hit by an arrow... Over the years, he has been terrified Due to the strength of Jurchen, he did not dare to leave children in this world, but he did not feel that he was really affectionate towards his wife - why would a husband be without a wife?But when I think about it at this moment, I can often see the woman's voice and smile appear in front of my eyes.

Either way.

He thought, woman, anyway, I never thought that I could live forever...

He is a general, but he can't say these relatively dejected words, but when he occasionally looks at the tragic scene outside the city and the surging crowd, he can laugh every time.In the city, Wang Shanyue is also encouraging and brainwashing people step by step.

"...Yeah, the Wu Dynasty is nothing special, but compared to the Jurchen, how much better... Look at those people outside the city, they are miserable, but what if we surrender? The whole world surrenders Now, shall we live well? All slaves—the Jurchens are not gods, they used to...just have nothing, now we hold it, know why...now we have nothing..."

"...We can't defeat them, we can't rely on us... But even if their teeth are broken, we still want to keep them here... Wanyan Aguda is dead, Wu Qimai is about to die, we drag on, They are about to fight among themselves, and the Wu Dynasty will fight back... If we drag on, the Black Banner Army will fight back... Those more than 1 black flags, that Zhu Biao, as long as we can hold back, they can fight back , brothers... the city is not easy to defend, and we are not easy to live. I don't know if I open my eyes tomorrow, any of you will be gone, or I will be gone..."

"...But we have to hold on. I want to live, and so do people outside the city. If Jurchen doesn't die, no one wants to live... So even if I die, I will pull them and die together."

"...die together..."

The beacon smoke was swept up by the strong wind, the city wall was smashed into potholes by boulders, the corpses gradually began to stink, and all the people who lost all stood still on the Jedi...

At the beginning of September, the Jurchen East Route Army went south to destroy Nanwu in the first battle. Facing the Daming Mansion guarded by more than [-] people, Wanyan Zongbi once made a plan to destroy the city for a maximum of three days. Three days later, the city was almost submerged in blood in the first round of the attack, and until mid-September, the Daming Palace remained motionless in this sea of ​​corpses and blood.At the beginning of the construction of this city, it was used to guard the Yellow River and resist foreign enemies. Once the soldiers in the city could grit their teeth and endure it, it was not easy to defeat the city defense from the outside.

At this time, Wu Qimai had had a stroke for nearly a year, and the change of times was imminent. The two brothers Zongfu Zongbi could not have imagined that the first battle in the south would be gnawed on such hard bones. Flag, the Han people in the south have gradually begun to have such bones.

In the west, Wanyan Zonghan crossed Yanmen Pass and set foot in the Central Plains.

(End of this chapter)