Rebirth: Overthrow Song Dynasty

Chapter 503: Rainy night siege

Under the east city wall, more than five hundred trebuchets were placed there, and countless huge stones smashed against the city wall fiercely.

At this moment, the Jurchen garrison in Zhongjing City had also arrived on the wall. The big stone was thrown down in the dark, and the Jurchen garrison was hit immediately.

Some Jurchen soldiers fell to the ground, their legs and feet were broken by huge rocks, they were screaming constantly, but no one came to rescue them.

Under the city wall to the south, nearly one hundred thousand Song troops launched an attack on the city. All of them held Song crossbows in their hands. At this moment, arrows were flying toward the top like a rain of arrows.

The Jurchen soldiers above are also fighting back, but the Jurchens are mainly riding and shooting, and the bows and arrows in their hands are also horse bows, and the range is far inferior to the Song crossbow!

In a short period of time, the Jurchen soldier above has fallen down! Many Jurchen soldiers held shields in their hands to resist, but there was still a constant fall.

Under the city wall to the west, after a burst of crossbow attacks, countless soldiers of the Song Army climbed towards the city wall with a ladder.

At the location of the west gate, the soldiers of the Song Army carried the huge wood and slammed it towards the west gate. The west gate was trembling constantly, and the Jurchens held it firmly inside.

There was no war in the north, but the cavalry of the Song army was looming, and the Jurchens did not dare to slacken their efforts. They could only send people to defend.

The rain kept falling, and Song Jun was madly besieging the city all night.

The hundreds of thousands of the Song Army seemed to be all involved in the siege.

By daybreak, the corpses of Jurchens were everywhere on the wall. There are also Song Jun corpses under the city wall, but Song Jun’s corpses are much smaller than those of Jurchens.

Jin Wushu was covered in blood at this moment. He had just led the soldiers to block the new wave of Song Army offensive on the west wall. It seemed that Song Army was about to launch a second wave of offensive.

At this moment, Wan Yanchang, Guo Yaoshi and others walked over from a distance.

"How about the casualties here?" Wan Yanchang said.

"The casualties are very heavy! The Song army is extremely powerful! I thought it was only the Song army of Datong who was powerful, but I didn't expect that the Song army everywhere was the same! We are not good at defending the city. There are not many defense materials in the city of Zhongjing. , It’s even more difficult to resist the Song Army.” Jin Wushu wiped the blood off his face, took a deep breath, said.

The rise of the Golden Soldier has been for many years, but after the rise of the Golden Soldier, it has always been mainly attacking and rarely defends the city! They had almost no experience in defending the city, and they did not expect that the Song Army would take the initiative to go northward, so the materials prepared by Zhongjing City for defending the city were also extremely limited.

There are only dozens of trebuchets in the entire Zhongjing City, and there are no city-defending crossbows, nor are there any defensive objects such as wood or boulders. Jin Wushu, Wanyanchang, and Guo Yaoshi don’t know how to defend the city more effectively. .

The Song Army below launched the second wave of offensive, and Jin Wushu hurriedly urged the Jin Bings to continue to block it.

"Can we stop Song Jun in the end?" Wan Yanchang said.

"If the Song army keeps attacking like this, I'm afraid Zhongjing will be breached within a few days! Taishi, I think we might as well take the soldiers out and fight with the Song army." Jin Wushu said.

"Field battle? There are still so many Song army cavalry in the north waiting for work. Our strength is far inferior to them. If we go out, there is only one dead end." Guo Yaoshi sneered.

"How did the situation in the world become like this?" Wan Yanchang stamped his feet.

He didn't expect the sky to change drastically in just a few years! Especially since the beginning of this year, first the Liaodong riots, and now the Song army has fully entered the northern grasslands! If the Zhongjing urban agglomeration is lost, and the chaos in Liaodong cannot be restored, the Kingdom of Jin will almost perish! At this time, Wan Yanchang felt that Jin Guo's strength was indeed not as strong as they thought! The population of the Kingdom of Jin is limited. Victory in the past was enough to deter the Khitans or other ethnic groups in the country, but once they are defeated, they don't even have the qualifications to recap.

"Only expect Yelu Dashi and them to go south quickly! Moreover, the Song Army fought all night, they must have been exhausted to the extreme, they also have to rest!" Jin Wushu said.

However, on September 26, the Song army did not rest for a whole day, and they had been violently attacking the city of Zhongjing.

In the morning, the attack on the west was the most violent. By noon, the attack on the east became fierce. The east wall was almost beaten down by the Song army, and more than 10,000 Jurchen soldiers died on the east wall.

In the afternoon, the Song army in the north finally launched an offensive.

Han Shizhong personally led the 120,000 infantrymen of the Datong Military Region to launch a fierce attack on the northern city wall, and he personally climbed the ladder! Jin Wushu immediately led tens of thousands of golden soldiers to arrive, and they transported all the city defense materials. It was late at night that they blocked the Song army, but this time they were more deadly and injured!

"It has been so long, Song Jun must leave now!" Seeing Song Jun descend from the city wall like a tide, Jin Wushu breathed a long sigh of relief.

"Four princes, Song Jun must be very tired now! They came all the way from Yuzhou, they were already very tired. They will not attack again tonight. We can rest and discuss how to defend the city." Qianfu said.

"Not bad." Jin Wushu nodded.

However, late at night, the Song army's offensive still did not stop.

But this time the scale of the offense was much smaller.

Before the Song Army had hundreds of thousands of troops attacking the city, only a hundred thousand soldiers and horses were attacking the city this night!

These hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses mainly attacked with bows and crossbows, but occasionally they would suddenly launch a fierce attack on a certain wall, and they would raise a ladder toward a certain wall.

That night, Jin Bing still could not rest, and could only continue to guard the wall.

When they woke up in the morning, they discovered that there were countless camps around Zhongjing City.

Last night, the rest of the Song army was resting in the camp.

In the early morning of September 27, the heavy rain that lasted for several days finally stopped, and the sun rose from the east to shine on the grassland.

With a beautiful scenery, more than one hundred thousand Song troops retreated. The golden soldiers above just breathed a sigh of relief. Another one hundred thousand more Song troops who had rested overnight began to participate in the siege!

Jin Wushu didn't have a rest last night. At the moment, seeing the arrival of so many people from Song Jun, Jin Wushu felt that his scalp was a little numb.

"If the Song Army is allowed to keep attacking like this, they will have much more soldiers and horses than us, and their siege weapons will be much better than ours. At that time, there is only one dead end! Even if we didn't die in battle, we would be exhausted. Come, call out all the clansmen in the city quickly and let all the clansmen participate in defending the city." Jin Wushu said.

In the morning, the 60,000 to 70,000 Jurchens from Zhongjing City came to the wall to participate in the defense of the city.

Most of these Jurchens were old people, young people, and occasionally some women. They took weapons from soldiers to resist the Song army.

On this day, the Song Army’s offensive was still the same as last night, with siege weapons such as bows, crossbows and stone throwers. Every half an hour they would suddenly attack a certain wall!

When the sun went down, there were countless Jurchen corpses on the wall.

"Wu Shu, we can't stop Song Jun." Wan Yanchang said.

"We want to call everyone in the city over, so that everyone can participate in defending the city!" Jin Wushu gritted his teeth.

"The clansmen in the city have already come out!" Wan Yanchang said.

"In addition to our clansmen, there are also Khitan and Han people!" Jin Wushu said.

"This... the Khitans and Hans of Zhongjing City have entered the new affiliation with strong bodies. The rest are people who are listless and do not have much energy. Most of them are hungry all year round and cannot participate in the defense of the city. "Wan Yanchang said.

"There is no way, it can only be done now!" Jin Wushu gritted his teeth.

Zhongjing City used to be the capital of the Liao Kingdom for hundreds of years. The population here is large. However, since the Jurchen invasion, the population here has dropped greatly. Now there are only more than 100,000 Khitans and Hans living here. All the Khitans and Hans are thin. The bones lingered, one by one listless, their expressions were also very dazed, and they didn't know how to resist.

On the night of September 27th, the Song Army once again changed a group of soldiers and horses to participate in the siege! This time, in addition to the 100,000 regular army, 100,000 militiamen participated in the offensive! The militias of the Song Army are all outstanding in the production and construction corps, and each is in their prime of life. In the past, they also trained regularly, but they had not participated in a real war. Now the Song Army has an absolute advantage, just in time for them to participate in the war, and they can be converted into regular troops when necessary.

The ordinary people of Zhongjing City who were driven to the city wall frantically fled below when the battle just started. The Jurchen soldiers kept intercepting, but few people were willing to stay! In the end, Jurchen soldiers and Jurchens were still defending the city.

The Jurchen soldiers and Jurchens have long been exhausted, and some of them have not rested for a few days, and the number of Jurchens who died this night is even greater.

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