It was getting daylight, the Western warships and trebuchets had all been withdrawn, the fire was finally extinguished, and there was still some thin smoke. The city was in a mess, and the top of the city was littered with charred corpses, scattered beyond recognition.
The trebuchets threw dozens of rounds, but they could no longer control their accuracy. Most of them passed over the city and hit the city. One of them even hit his own ship and burned the cabin of the ship. Because of this, Chen Qingcai ordered
Withdraw troops.
In the city, hundreds of houses close to the north city were also ignited by fire and burned to ashes. The owners of the houses fled their homes when the war broke out. They stood in the distance and watched helplessly as huge fireballs fell from the sky and burned after landing.
Not only did they see the fire, but almost everyone in the city saw it. The scene of a huge fireball falling from the sky shocked everyone's heart.
Only then did they realize how powerful this Western Army was, and it was completely different from the Song Army back then.
On the ruins, some people were lying on the ground crying, grieving to lose their homes, but more people were silently looking for the surviving belongings of their homes. They took all their valuable items with them, but after all, they escaped in a hurry, and many of their belongings were not taken away in time. One person
The old man picked up a broken teapot, sighed softly, threw it aside and continued looking for it.
"Grandpa, the food is still there and has not been burned!" a young man shouted loudly.
"Great, take out the food first and be careful!"
The grandfather and grandson carefully lifted three bags of wheat from a broken wooden cabinet. They were overjoyed. With the food, they no longer had to worry about eating.
At this time, the corpses on the top of the city were cleared, and more than 7,000 charred corpses were carried down from the top of the city. Half of them were civilians who put out the fire. They were injured or killed by the crossbow arrows of the Western Army, and were immediately killed by the fire.
The oil balls burn into coke.
Each Jurchen soldier had a bronze medal around his neck. This was the only way to distinguish the burned corpses from soldiers and civilians.
Under the city wall, tens of thousands of family members of the civilians were extremely anxious. When they saw the burnt corpses, they could not identify them at all. Everyone knelt on the ground and cried loudly, grief-stricken, but they did not reflect on themselves, why they went there.
Assist the Jin soldiers in fighting?
In a night of fierce fighting, more than 4,000 Jurchen soldiers were killed. Most of them were choked to death by the thick smoke, and then their bodies were charred. Many soldiers were injured by arrows and were burned to death because they could not escape.
Almost all the materials at the top of the city were burned down, including hundreds of large trebuchets, nearly a thousand crossbows, 200,000 arrows, more than a thousand barrels of kerosene, and soldiers' weapons, etc. The losses were heavy.
But is this the end? No, to destroy the enemy's will, we must not only burn the city head, but also continue to burn the city.
That night, the alarm bell rang on the south city, and fifty large ships sailed into the moat and launched an attack on the head of the south city. There were no trebuchets or crossbows on the head of the south city. Only 8,000 Jurchen soldiers were engaged in bow and arrow battles with the Western army.
But there was no accident. Not long after, fifty heavy trebuchets were repaired and fired again. Huge fireballs roared down from the sky, which was simply suffocating. Raging fires ignited again at the top of the city and inside the city, and the people in the south of the city retreated in fear.
A fire burned all night, and another three thousand Jurchen soldiers died from bows and arrows and thick smoke.
Then on the third, fifth, and seventh days for more than ten consecutive days, the Western Army attacked the city every two days. After seven or eight attacks, the Jin soldiers suffered nearly 20,000 casualties, and countless houses of the people in the city were burned down.
Thousands of people were burned to death. The fear of war finally shocked the people in the city. All the civilians fled, and no one wanted to support the Jurchens anymore.
The shadow of failure hangs over the hearts of every Jurchen soldier.
"Boom! Boom! Boom!"
At the foot of Yuguan, the war drums of the Jurchen army beat loudly. Ten thousand Jurchen troops rushed forward like a tide. The Western Navy soldiers removed a thousand bed crossbows from Dachuanshan and deployed them at the top of the city. The bed crossbows were fired, and five
Thousands of jackdaw arrows shot powerfully into the crowd. The powerful arrows penetrated shields and armor. The soldiers fell one by one. Not long after, the second round of crossbows was shot out.
The offensive wave of Jurchen soldiers was only fifty steps away from the city wall. Hundreds of small wooden barrel fire thunders were suddenly thrown from the top of the city and exploded above and below the crowd. The explosion roared and smoke billowed. Although the explosion was not powerful, it was
The poison-quenched iron nails flew forward, and countless soldiers were hit by the poison nails. They were suddenly frightened. They all saw the tragic situation of the soldiers suffering from the poison, lying on the ground wailing and rolling. Many soldiers lost their lives in pain. Even if they survived, they would
Become disabled.
Thousands of people attacked the city and set up rafts and ladders. The Western Army was too lazy to fight them and directly threw down thousands of bundles of ignited wheat straw and thousands of jars of kerosene. The scene of the fiery hell happened again.
Wanyan Zonghan urgently ordered the withdrawal. The withdrawal bell rang, and the soldiers fled for their lives like a retreating tide. They all carried shields to prevent the Western Army from shooting arrows from behind. Unfortunately, this time they faced jackdaw arrows, and a thousand jackdaw arrows were fired at once.
, five thousand arrows were shot at the fleeing soldiers like a storm. The iron arrows penetrated the shields and armors, and penetrated the bodies. The soldiers who ran slower were shot down by the iron arrows one after another, and they wailed.
Yuguan has been attacked four times, and this is the fourth time. There have been more than 5,000 dead and injured soldiers, and the cumulative number of casualties has been 15,000. However, Yuguan still stands. Wanyan Zonghan is helpless and his confidence is gradually losing.
Almost exhausted.
At this time, Wanyan Zonghan got the news that their army rations could only last for two days. Seeing that the army rations were running out, 30% of the soldiers were killed, and there were only 35,000 people left in the 50,000-strong army, all of which were Jurchen soldiers. What should he do if he was asked to go back?
More importantly, he could no longer rescue Daxing Jinbing, nor could he explain to the emperor?
At night, Wanyan Zonghan was extremely depressed and drank alone. His son Wanyan Xiebao persuaded him: "Father has tried his best. We did not expect that Yuguan would be captured by the Western Army, and we did not have much preparation. Fifteen thousand people were killed.
It also shows that my father has tried his best, and the emperor and the court will understand."
Wanyan Zonghan drank all the wine in his hand and sighed: "I just got the news from Haiyang County. This Song army landed in Haiyang County, with a total of 20,000 to 30,000 people. I asked them why they showed up today.
The bed crossbows turned out to be Chen Qing's navy, no wonder we couldn't capture Yuguan."
"Chen Qing is very well prepared and considers every detail. However, we are not prepared at all. It is reasonable that we cannot defend Yanshan Mansion and cannot capture Yuguan. We are not incompetent, but our opponents are really too powerful."
sharp."
Wanyan Zonghan pondered for a moment and said: "Back then, we destroyed the Northern Song Dynasty with overwhelming force, but now we are being beaten back by the Western Army. Every one of our soldiers is so brave, but we can't defeat the Western Army. Xie Bao, what do you think this is?