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Chapter 613 Torrent

Chapter 613 Torrent

On the night of the fourth day of August, Shi Jin and others turned all the way back to Xinzhou, crossing mountains and ridges.In the early hours of the morning, more and more Jurchen scouts passing by in the mountains and fields gradually increased, which meant that they had crossed the mountain where tens of thousands of Jurchen troops were temporarily stationed. , can vaguely see the light of the bonfire rising into the sky, and leaning down on the ground, can feel the buzzing sound that tens of thousands of horses can still bring at night.

There was even a faint cry in the air.

In the early morning of the fifth day of the lunar new year, they had already arrived in Xinzhou. At this time, the north gate of Xinzhou City was closed and the south gate was open. Soldiers entered and civilians were released.The news that the Jurchen army was heading south had also reached Xinzhou at this time. Shi Jin and the others entered Xinzhou almost at the last moment when the city was closed. At this time, the city was already in chaos.

The sudden southward movement of Jin's army has caused huge waves throughout the Wu Dynasty, but for ordinary people, the information they can get is often various and varied.Even though the Jurchens had already broken through Yanmen Pass and went all the way south, most people still couldn't understand the meaning of it. Some were willing to leave, and most of them were unable to make the decision to flee with their families in a short period of time. They waited anxiously in their hearts. With the development of the situation, and due to the panic caused by the influx of a large number of refugees, tens of thousands of troops, and the departure of some original residents, a large amount of ecology in the city is rapidly tilting in the direction of disorder.

Refugees poured into the city and began to ask the government for food. Seeing the residents fleeing, some people began to occupy the vacated houses. The friction in the panic led to a large number of fights, and the secret conflicts between several gangs in the city began to intensify.The army only cares about keeping the city from chaos, but they don't care about the details. They requisitioned a large number of houses in the north of the city, and began to demolish the houses near the city wall to make rolling logs and stones. Supplies for the defense of the city.

Qian Fei still has some connections in the nearby places. He quickly found acquaintances in the government, and arranged Shi Jin and Chen Xiuqing into the team of civilian husbands defending the city. , unable to move quickly, Tang Zuhan had to take care of his companions, and the two left the team with Shi Jin and others.The rivers and lakes gather and scatter like duckweed. After this time, it should be difficult for everyone to see each other again.

It was too late to do too many things. Shi Jin and others helped demolish the houses and strengthen the defense in the ranks of civilian husbands. On the sixth day of the lunar new year, the first batch of Jurchen troops arrived on the hillside in the northwest of Xinzhou. After that, the cavalry, infantry, Batches of Yisheng troops, holding down the civilian captives, gathered here from all directions in the north towards Xinzhou City.

Looking from the city wall of Xinzhou, in the fields and hillsides opposite, groups of figures gathered gradually became tens of thousands of people, stretching all over the mountains and plains.In front of the Jurchen army formation, a large number of Wu Dynasty civilians were gathered. From time to time, a horse team in charge of guards passed by, waving whips at the crowd, and even swiping steel knives, bringing flesh and blood to the men and women in the crowd. Come.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.Rich businessmen, officials, soldiers, civilians, in the dark crowd, one by one in ragged clothes let out low weeping voices—due to the Jurchen’s shouting and beating, not many people dared to cry loudly, occasionally one or two , and was shot to death by a nearby Jurchen archer—however so, the crying of the large swaths of the scene merged into an extremely miserable sound, and spread to the city wall of Xinzhou.

The defenders on the city wall could only watch all this in silence, and this afternoon, there was a moment of commotion in this part of the outer city. It was a young general who wanted to lead the attack, but was scolded by the general who defended the city. go back.Shi Jin was preparing to roll logs at a corner of the city wall, and was watching all this silently.

The Jurchen army and the Liao people who originally formed the Yisheng Army are still gathering, and the number of civilians who have been arrested and driven over is also increasing.That night, the Jurchen army outside the city didn't even set up large-scale tents. They were preparing the ladders to attack the city in the mountains behind the army formation, and they were waiting for the equipment brought by the follow-up army, while a large number of Jurchen troops just slept in the field like that. , On the hillside, rest your arms and wait for the next day.

The flames continued, and the Jurchen troops gathered in batches from beginning to end that night. The cavalry scouts walked around the city holding torches, simply preventing the Wu Dynasty army from attacking.In the early morning of the next day, when there was still mist in the air, Wanyan Zonghan looked at the surrounding situation on the hillside, and then waved his hand.

"Attack," he said.

The Jurchens blew their horns.

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The severe pain seemed to have gradually become numb until now, and the chill had descended on his body, as if he had lost all feeling. When the loud noises sounded, he was dragged to stand up and squeezed forward.There was mist in the air, and far away was the city wall of Xinzhou, and the voice of the Jurchen came from behind.

His name is Wu Cheng. He is a farmer near Dai County. He is 35 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.

He... always felt that everything that happened in front of him was an illusion, and maybe he could wake up at some point...

Two days ago, a team of Zongyi Shengjun rushed into his village. They were arrested. He saw a group of people raped his wife and daughter, then killed them, and broke one of his hands. Another stone was thrown on his head.

When he woke up, he was tied up and led in the team. Once his broken right hand was pulled, he felt unspeakable pain. He staggered forward, trembling all over, and only his wife flashed in front of him. He kept thinking back to that moment when he and his daughter died, regretting why he didn't find a hoe or a rake, or... There was a kitchen knife not far from him at that time, but he didn't know why he didn't get it.

In front of him was a fat woman whose clothes were ripped apart and barely covered. She was about 50 or [-] years old and was crying all the time.His severed hand was pulled, and the pain caused him to fall down continuously. Because the clothes and pants on his body were not very good at all, the waistband of the trousers was broken, and when the pants fell, he tripped him to the ground. After a beating, the team walking back and forth dragged him in the muddy water. After that, he didn't even have any pants on his lower body, so he was dragged along in the team just like that.

It's hard for him to figure out what it means for a middle-aged man to be pulled all the way without his pants.All the way forward, without stopping, many people in the crowd had feces and urine in their pants, and the stench rose while walking. There was no food, and they were only allowed to drink water when they passed the stream.After two days of marching, they were gathered under the city of Xinzhou.Then this past night, Wu Cheng was pulled to walk.

Why not desperately... He thought in his heart, but there were people who were crying and had no choice but to move forward. It seemed that someone had been killed in the rear, and the voice of the Jurchen became more and more ferocious.In the blurred field of vision, Wu Cheng knew that the Jurchens were driving them towards Xinzhou City.On the city wall was the flag of the Wu Dynasty, and there were densely packed officers and soldiers. Wu Cheng thought that they might come down to save people.But a certain understanding and fear in his heart became deeper and deeper. Surprisingly, he knew in his heart that a war was about to happen.

The force of the pull made him stagger forward a few steps, the voice of the Jurchen was getting closer and closer, and then someone passed by him and cut the rope with a knife, but it was also those Jurchen soldiers in strange clothes, they were mixed in the crowd, He raised his bow and arrow towards the city wall.

Amidst the noisy voices, someone shouted from behind: "Go! Run! If you don't go, you die!" There were occasional screams, and the rope binding Wu Cheng's arms was still there, but it no longer connected the front and rear. However, Wu Cheng was still being pushed and squeezed forward. In front of him was the Jurchen who was already short and walking forward with a bow and arrow. Wu Cheng wanted to go up and bite him, but it seemed like Some kind of repulsion prevented him from doing so, and the scene of his wife and daughter being insulted flashed before his eyes again. The daughter was torn off and screamed in the crowd...

With a swipe, the Jurchen soldiers in front let go of their bowstrings. Arrows flew towards the city wall of Xinzhou. Not far from the side, there was a long ladder walking.

Suddenly there was greater chaos in the advancing formation, Wu Cheng's ears were disturbed by countless voices, he was pushed to the ground, and someone stepped on him, and when his gaze recovered, he howled not far away. It was the fat woman who used to walk in front of him. She was crawling on the ground, half of her body was bloody, crying frantically, one of her calves was broken by someone, and it was twisted badly. When the bone was broken, when a Jurchen rushed to this side, she desperately put her hands on the ground, trying to crawl to the side to avoid him.

Why don't you try your best... This thought came to Wu Cheng's mind again, but he was in severe pain all over his body and his hand was broken, but he thought, he could still hit a person with his body, bite him to death, thinking like this, He struggled to stand up, but suddenly, a greater thrust pushed him to the ground, and an arrow from the city wall shot into his neck.

Wu Cheng was nailed to the ground and died forever.

Around the corpse, countless people were screaming, running, and shouting. The Jurchens drove the civilian captives, shot bows and arrows, and carried ladders, rushing towards the three-foot-high city wall of Xinzhou City...

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Shi Jin poured a pot of boiling oil and stood there, watching the Jurchens rushing madly.

He studied under Wang Jin, the instructor of the 80 imperial army, and later joined Liangshan, and also fought against the officers and soldiers. He has seen some things in the world, and he probably understands what it is like to attack and defend a city.Although it is not clear how many officers and soldiers the Wu Dynasty has prepared in Xinzhou at this time, based on his general visual inspection, the defense preparations should be quite sufficient.

The Jurchens hardly prepared much for the siege equipment. They gathered under the city of Xinzhou, but it took a day. They could be transported from places like Yanmen Pass and Dai County, or made from local materials. It is nothing more than a simple object like a ladder.They don't have any large equipment like catapults.But they still launched an attack like this.

Arrows covered the upper part of the city wall, and the defenders of the Wu Dynasty responded immediately. Among the turbulent crowd below, most of them were civilians who originally belonged to the Wu Dynasty.However, at this moment, no one has the power to choose.When the Jurchens drove them over, their fate was almost decided.

Then, the ladder was erected, followed by the dancing hook rope.

The Jurchen set up a ladder and pulled the rope, and then bravely and crazily climbed up.The defenders above put down the rolling logs and stones, put down the mace with barbed iron spikes and the Yaksha hammer to defend, and in Shi Jin's eyes, the Jurchen even had obvious signs of weakness during the rapid climb. Dodge moves.

"What are you doing! Don't die! Get down!"

Seeing Shi Jin standing at the station, the Wu Dynasty officer next to him suddenly rushed over and pulled Shi Jin. It was a young officer. Shi Jin hurriedly dodged to the back and was told by him to go down and move the stone. He also took out a small iron pan-like breastplate from his pocket and threw it to Shi Jin.

The other party shrank behind the parapet and gesticulated and shouted: "Put it on your head! Put it on your head!" Perhaps he regarded Shi Jin as a stupid big man.

Shi Jin rushed down the city wall, and when he came up for the second time, he saw the little officer with an arrow stuck in his head, lying in a pool of blood and not moving.He untied the bow and arrows carried by the little officer, and shot a few arrows down the city wall, one of the arrows also brushed his cheek, and a Jurchen archer saw him in the crowd, Shi Jin He also returned an arrow, but this arrow missed the opponent, and killed a civilian a little ahead, and the opponent shot another arrow, Shi Jin dodged it, and when he pulled the bow down with all his strength, the small bow slammed. broken.

The Jurchens were crazily climbing up the entire stretch of the city wall. They avoided the sweep of maces, yakshas, ​​etc., and even cut off the ropes of these defensive equipment.Farther away, the Jurchen cavalry was rapidly expanding in two directions. Most of the knights on these cavalry carried bows, arrows and hooks, and wanted to pose a threat to the city walls in other directions of Xinzhou.

In the past, Shi Jin had heard about the siege of the Jin people. In the most powerful news, Wanyan Aguda led an army to conquer Shangjing of the Liao Kingdom. It took only three hours, which is almost unbelievable.However, the moment he witnessed the offensive of these Jurchens, he suddenly understood that this statement might not be surprising.

When the arrows covered the city wall, the defenders of the Wu Dynasty hardly dared to raise their heads. However, under the city wall, those tall and fierce Jurchens came up quickly along the ladders and ropes. It was cut off and fell into the moat, but the moat had already been filled with the blood and corpses of Wu Dynasty civilians. If these people were not dead, they rushed out and started the second round of climbing.With the city wall as the boundary, in the midst of huge conflicts and chaos, the No. 1 Jurchen soldiers rushed to the top of the wall less than half an hour after the start of the battle. Stepped up.

Shi Jin gritted his teeth, ran down the city wall, and rushed to a nearby blacksmith shop that had been demolished. The blacksmith had been called by the army to make weapons, but there was something that the army didn't want. It was an iron rod hidden in the ruins. , Shi Jin pulled it out, and rushed to the top of the city again.Huge chaos is ringing out on the other side of the city wall, while on Shi Jin's side, a Jurchen climbed up the wall, was swung on top of his head by Shi Jin, the whole head burst like a watermelon, and fell down .

Surrounded by flying arrows and countless screams of fighting, Shi Jin hid by the parapet wall, when another Jurchen soldier rushed up, he rushed over and killed him, while another not far away On the side, the sound of fighting sounded, a tall Jurchen man rushed up, brandished a steel knife and killed two soldiers of the Wu Dynasty like chopping melons and vegetables. The man fell to the ground, swung the steel knife horizontally, and cut off a soldier's calf before being stabbed to death on the ground.

More Jurchens rushed towards the city wall...

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First one, two, three, then five, six, seven, eight, nine... When the fifth person was killed, "Iron Hook" Chen Xiuqing also rushed up and motioned to Shi Jin, and when the seventh person was killed, Shi Jin Replaced the iron rod with a spear.

The blood on his body was rolling, and the palms of his hands became hot.On such a battlefield, one's energy and spirit have been condensed to the peak, and the flying arrows may take his life at any moment, but in such a situation, he still needs to kill the enemy without error, every blow The power contained in it has reached its limit, and many previous combat experiences are not applicable here.

In the martial arts competition in the green forest, there are virtual and real moves. The reason why there are false and real moves is because you make a move at the opponent, and the opponent will dodge it seeing that it is powerful.In many moves in the past, it was necessary to pre-calculate the opponent's dodge. You make a false move, pretending to attack his vitals, and he dodges, and you greet him with a more powerful move.You must go all out for every move, the opponent will hardly care about your false move, if he pounces with a knife, you can't kill someone, you will die.

In the past, when Shi Jin faced enemies, whether they were officers, soldiers or bandits, he swung an iron rod and ran around, beating people with limbs and feet. The opponents fell to the ground and howled, and then lost their fighting power. More people would even fight. Frightened away by his bravery.And at this moment, if you break the other party's knee, the other party may cut you even worse.It's similar to stabbing someone's stomach with a knife, and he may slash your head with a knife without smashing his intestines.This life-and-death situation happens on the city wall every moment...

An hour after the battle, the battle line on the city wall was like a violently fluctuating water line. The Jurchen's offensive was simple and direct, and her strong fighting will and personal fighting skills became a reality, and she directly pushed up the city wall forcefully. Shi Jin had never Having seen such a solid battle, even in the heyday of Liangshan, it was impossible to fight like this.

He could only use a long spear or a steel knife to hit the opponent's vitals with each blow. When he killed about ten people, Chen Xiuqing was killed by the Jurchen soldiers in a pool of blood.And Shi Jin got an arrow on his shoulder and two stab wounds on his body. Fortunately, he was very skilled in martial arts, and these were minor injuries. However, the pressure brought by the fierce and crazy battle directly reflected on everyone on the city wall. Every time Shi Jin killed a person, he could feel the intense exhaustion of his mental strength.The Jurchen's offensive was almost endless, and they kept shooting on this rock. The city wall was rushed up from time to time, and even broke through the obstacles. Then the Wu Dynasty guards mobilized soldiers to force them down the city.But the whole situation is still declining at a speed almost visible to the naked eye.

For the generals of the Wu Dynasty, whether Yanmenguan, Shuozhou, Daixian, or Xinzhou, every batch of guards may have heard rumors about the Jurchens before, but most of them have heard rumors about Jurchens. It is also the first time to confront the Jinren head-on.In the battle of defending the city, they were more or less rational and confident at the beginning, but perhaps every time, their self-confidence was quickly shattered in the madness of the Jurchen.

In the Battle of Xinzhou, the Wu Dynasty gathered 8000 defenders to fight against the 1 Jurchen cavalry commanded by Wan Yan Zonghan and the more than [-] Yisheng Army. The Jurchens began to drive the civilians to fight in the early morning. The place is the south gate of Xinzhou.

In this battle, it was the city wall in the northwest of Xinzhou that was really attacked by the Jurchens. More than 1 Jurchen soldiers and the Yisheng Army who were originally Liao people drove the same number of civilians to attack here. Continuously attacking, at the same time, two teams of Jurchen cavalry walked around the city.

The speed of the Jurchen cavalry was extremely high, but the defenders on the city wall might not be able to be so fast. Near noon, they made a feint attack on the east wall.Then they quickly concentrated near the south gate, and launched an extremely violent attack with bows, arrows, and hooks. The entire city was broken in less than a cup of tea.The Jurchens who rushed into the city opened the city gate, and the south of Xinzhou fell into street fighting. At the same time, it cut off the possibility of the Wu Dynasty defenders and residents from escaping.

About an hour and a half later, the North Gate was stormed and broken, Xinzhou's defenses were forcibly defeated, and the crazy and tragic street fighting in the city began...

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The setting sun spread in the sky, the smoke column rose with the flames, and countless screams and screams rang in the ears. When the horse rushed over, the man put the end of the spear on the ground and sank his feet.

Suddenly, there was a clattering sound, the corpse of the war horse pushed him, and the Jurchen rider fell to the end of the alley, and then knocked down a wooden frame.Amidst the dust, the Jurchen rider staggered to his feet. He identified things in the dust, and then a spear tip pierced his neck.After he fell, another dangling figure came out from the dust while holding on to the wall.

Half of his body was already covered in blood, his bruised chest and back were exposed from the ragged clothes, and the dragon tattoo was clearly revealed on that figure.

It's over...it's over...

Looking at the restless city in the midst of destruction, this thought flashed in Shi Jin's mind. During this day, he participated in the whole process of the battle, and he really saw what it means to be overwhelmingly strong.In front of the golden soldiers, even if they defend the city, they can only fight to this extent, let alone what it will be like to fight in the wild.

In the end... I forgot what I was going to do here...

He was watching the fleeing people in the county seat, and originally wanted to run away, but after hearing Qian Fei's discussion with them, he also wanted to come and have a look.As a result, at this time, several people were scattered and scattered, and he might be dying now...

He took out a piece of dry food on his body, took only a small mouthful, tried to breathe evenly, and regained his strength.When the footsteps of another group of soldiers came, he climbed over the wall, and then ran in a direction.

Several key places outside the city are said to have been controlled by the Jurchens. At this time, tens of thousands of troops and the same tens of thousands of civilians were divided in this city. The resistance and fighting were still fierce, but most of the resistance and fighting were not It happened in a state of collapse, and sooner or later it will be annihilated. Xinzhou is really doomed, and he doesn't know if he can survive.When rushing to a courtyard in this way, there was blood all over the wall, and he suddenly met five Jurchen soldiers who had just killed someone.

The two sides were stunned, and the other side raised a knife to kill. Shi Jin turned and ran, passing through the hall and room. When he rushed to the front, he collided with another Jurchen soldier. When he hit the wall, Shi Jin drew his knife backhand and slashed open the man's throat. Blood flowed out, and the rest of the people had already surrounded him.

In the light of the waving knife, Shi Jin slashed a person's throat, and his arm was also stabbed. At this time, the sound of breaking wind came, and someone rushed into the room, swung a big knife, and slashed at the remaining Four Jurchen soldiers.Shi Jin took the opportunity to behead one person, the sword killed one person, and the other two Jurchen soldiers fell down immediately after being hit by a dart in the back.

The one wielding the big knife was a burly and tall man, while the one who threw the dart outside was a middle-aged woman. The two had also experienced fierce fighting, and there was a lot of blood on their bodies.The three of them looked at each other for a while, and the big man said: "A brother on the road? You are very skilled, do you want to come with us?"

Shi Jin just looked at them, and the woman raised her head: "You are good at martial arts, follow if you want to come." She turned around and left.The tall and strong man raised his hand: "Come on, everyone is better than you alone."

Shi Jin nodded, and followed suspiciously. The woman in front was extremely fast, and the big man also followed quickly.The woman in front of her was obviously very skilled, and she might not be inferior to Shi Jin, and she had a long pulse, and she still had enough strength. Every time she moved forward, she noticed that there were Jurchen soldiers in front of her, so she quickly changed her course.Seeing that Shi Jin's martial arts skills are really strong, the big man with a knife in the back clasped his hands and said in a low voice: "Peng Dahu in Xiashuanglian Mountain, what is the brother's way?"

"Shanye people, Shi Jin." At this time, he no longer had to conceal his identity, and while running, he bowed his hands and returned the salute, "Where are you going?"

"Go see Grandmaster Zhou." Peng Dahu said.

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