The fire at Monk Yuan burned for three days and nights before it was extinguished. It burned the entire camp to a white ground. This fire burned all the food and grass supplies that Wanyan Wushu had mobilized 300,000 people and spent a year preparing.
Thousands of Jurchen soldiers were also killed in the flames.
Although Wanyan Wushu transported some of the grain and grass to Dashanguan, the grain and grass could only last for half a month at most.
In desperation, Wanyan Wushu ordered the army to attack the city day and night at all costs, and must capture Dasan Pass within ten days.
If Monk's original camp was burned, the Wolf Lord would definitely hold him accountable. Only by taking Dashan Pass could he offset the serious consequences of the burning of the back camp.
But if we fail to win the Great Sanguan within ten days, the consequences will be serious.
At the same time, Wanyan Wushu ordered Fengxiang to stay behind Wanyan Salihe to try to raise a batch of grain and grass, and also transport all the military supplies in stock to Dashan Pass.
That night, the Jin soldiers began a full-scale attack on the city.
'Boom! Boom! Boom!' The sound of war drums was earth-shattering. Waves of golden soldiers attacked Dashan Pass crazily. The siege ladders were constantly erected, covered with enemy troops, but they were constantly overturned. Countless
The soldier screamed and fell down.
The dense arrows formed a large net in the sky, and the black arrow cloud seemed to cover the sky and the earth.
Thousands of Jin Bing's siege ladders and heavy siege engines were burned to ashes in the camp. In desperation, Jin Bing could only cut down trees temporarily to make siege weapons. The simple ladders were still barely usable.
But the crudely made heavy trebuchets were almost useless and broke after being used two or three times. The key was that they were fired more than twenty times, and almost half of them smashed huge boulders into their own soldiers.
Buckets of kerosene were continuously poured down on the city, and torches were thrown down. The fire burned fiercely, causing the golden soldiers to scream. Many people were covered with fire. They fell down while running wildly, and their bodies were curled up in the fire.
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Wu Jie even ordered a thousand crossbows to be set up and fired at the dense enemy troops under the city. The crossbows rained down like rain, and the golden soldiers' armor was unable to withstand them. The golden soldiers who were shot piled up like mountains.
In just eight days of fierce fighting, both sides suffered heavy casualties. However, the casualties of the Jin soldiers who attacked the city were eight times that of the Song army. The Jin soldiers suffered more than 40,000 casualties, and the Song army also suffered nearly 5,000 casualties. By this time, both sides had already
Beaten to exhaustion.
Wanyan Wushu was eager to see what happened, and every day he looked forward to the urgent delivery of backup supplies.
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On the Wei River, on a temporary pontoon bridge, thousands of mule carts were driving towards the south bank. Under Wanyan Wushu's forced order, Fengxiang Mansion did everything possible to raise a batch of grain and grass, about 100,000 dan of grain and 30,000 dan of fodder.
The so-called "trying every possible means to raise money" is actually just robbing the people. This batch of food and grass has almost robbed all the people in Fengxiang Mansion.
Grain, grass and various materials have been transported to the south bank by more than a dozen large ships. However, there is still a distance of seventy or eighty miles from the south bank to Dashanguan. It must be transported by carts, but Fengxiang Mansion's carts have already been transported.
After being completely plundered, Wanyan Sali, the captain of ten thousand soldiers left behind, ordered the Qi army in Jingzhao to raise a thousand carts and send them to Fengxiang Mansion within three days.
In the old camp on the south bank, mountains of food and supplies were piled up. Captain Semutatsu led 3,000 cavalry to guard the camp, while General Wanyan Salihe led 5,000 cavalry on the north bank to urge the large convoy to cross the river immediately.
Hundreds of large vehicles have already arrived one after another, and nearly 600 large vehicles are crowded and slowly moving forward on the pontoon.
At this moment, the pontoon bridge near the north suddenly exploded with a loud bang, thick smoke rose into the sky, and a ten-foot-long section of the pontoon bridge was blown to pieces. More than a dozen carts overturned and fell into the water. The Jin soldiers on both sides were stunned with shock.
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Before the Jin soldiers on the south bank could react, several violent explosions occurred on the pontoon bridge close to the south bank, which also destroyed the pontoon bridge more than 20 feet long. The six hundred carts jammed on the pontoon bridge were in chaos.
The mules and donkeys panicked and jostled on the narrow pontoon, causing nearly a hundred carts to fall into the water.
Almost at the same time as the explosion sounded, dozens of small boats came quickly from upstream. The boats were filled with raging fire and thick smoke. They hit the pontoon and quickly set it on fire.
The soldiers on the south bank were desperately scooping up water to put out the fire. At this moment, a cavalry of about 3,000 people came from the east and fired arrows at random. The dense arrows hit the Jin soldiers who were putting out the fire.
In the chaos, Captain Semuda shouted urgently: "It's the Song Army, fight! Come and fight!"
More than two thousand Jurchen cavalry hurriedly mounted their horses to fight. What they faced was the three thousand cavalry led by Chen Qing. Chen Qing took the lead and brandished Fang Tian's painted halberd to attack the captain of ten thousand men, Semuda. Semuda roared and waved the wolf.
The tooth stick swept towards Chen Qing, followed by his son Lai Qi, also holding an equally strong mace stick.
The mace club is actually a long-handled copper hammer with long sharp iron nails. It can be used for hammering and stabbing. It usually weighs thirty or forty kilograms. It is the favorite weapon of Jurchen generals.
Semuda was also a strong Jurchen general. He and his son Seqi were both enemies of the Jurchens. They once led an army to sweep across Hebei, massacring cities in one county after another. Their hands were full of blood debts, and they killed countless people. It was unknown how many Han women were murdered.
They spoil and then kill.
Unfortunately, the father and son met the Demon King Chen Qing today. Chen Qing rode his horse to avoid a sweeping attack. With a flick of his hand, the blade of Fang Tian's painted halberd accurately chopped off the ears of the enemy's war horse. The horse was bleeding profusely and hurt its front hooves.
It was raised high, and with a faint roar, Semuda was caught off guard and was knocked off his horse.
"Father, beware!"
Seki yelled in panic, but it was useless even if he shouted a hundred times. A cold light flashed across Sekida's head, and Sekida's head was split more than ten feet away, and blood spurted out from the neck cavity.
Seeing his father's tragic death, Lai Qi's eyes turned red. He roared, raised the mace high and hit Chen Qing with all his strength, intending to smash Chen Qing and his horse to pieces with one blow.
But the stick was missed because he used too much force and almost lost his balance. If a master uses his moves, once the flaw is revealed, there will be no chance again.
Lai Qi suddenly felt a sharp pain, and then he realized that the tip of the halberd had pierced his neck from the side. His vision went black, and the head flew up and rolled together with his father's head.
At this time, the drums were beating loudly, and Zheng Ping led five thousand soldiers to attack from the west. The more than a hundred Jin soldiers guarding supplies and food could not resist, and most of them were killed by the rushing Song soldiers, and the remaining dozens of Jin soldiers were killed.
The soldiers fled in panic.
"The Tatars are really killing Jurors!"
Zheng Ping roared angrily, and five thousand soldiers, holding spears in hand and shouting, attacked the Jurchen cavalry from behind.
The main and deputy generals of the Jurchen cavalry were both killed in the battle, and the morale of the army was in chaos. They were already defeated by the Song army, but unexpectedly a new force came from behind and attacked them from both front and rear. They could no longer resist and were quickly defeated.
Chen Qing led his army in pursuit for more than ten miles and killed more than a thousand people. When he saw that hundreds of defeated soldiers had fled far away, he stopped pursuing and ordered: "Burn the grain and grass, and put the supplies on carts and transport them away!"
The soldiers poured kerosene on the grain and grass and lit the fire. At this time, the pontoon bridge on the Wei River was almost burned, and all the carts fell into the water and were swept away by the river.
Chen Qing led the army to quickly evacuate to the southeast with the wounded and dead Song soldiers, as well as more than 2,000 boxes of various supplies and 400 carts, and quickly evacuated to the southeast...
The sneak attack battle along the Wei River came suddenly and ended quickly. It ended in less than an hour. More than 2,400 Jurchen cavalry were killed, a thousand carts were damaged or robbed, and 100,000 shi of grain and
Thirty thousand dans of fodder were burned, but its impact was huge and became the last straw to overwhelm the Jin soldiers of Dashan Pass.
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Chen Qing's camp is located in a valley east of Monk's Plain, which is called Hentian Valley. The mountains on both sides are high and steep, as if the gods split the valley with an axe.
The bottom of the valley is only one mile wide but more than ten miles long. It is full of lush trees. If Wanyan Wushu knew that Chen Qing's army was hiding in this valley, all he had to do was block the valley and set a fire, and Chen Qing's army would
All were buried in the valley.
But Chen Qing would not give Jin Bing this chance if nothing happened. There were hidden sentries on the cliffs on both sides of the valley entrance. If Jin Bing got close, he would be able to spot him from more than ten miles away.
In addition to Chen Qing's cavalry army, there are also Zheng Ping's 5,000 troops, all of which have been formally converted into the Song army.
Food was also abundant, thanks to Zheng Ping's army. When they retreated, they opened the Jin soldiers' sheep and horse pens. Hundreds of thousands of fat sheep escaped from the sea of fire, but unfortunately they became military rations for the Song army.
In the valley, the Song army opened two thousand large wooden boxes that they had looted. They were filled with weapons, heavy shields, iron armor, crossbows, crossbow bolts and other military supplies. Among them, Chen Qing discovered that in one hundred large boxes,
They bought 500 bed crossbows. These were Song army bed crossbows captured by the Jin soldiers in the war and shipped from Taiyuan, as well as 30,000 jackdaw iron arrows.
There are also twenty small trebuchets, but they are all parts and need to be assembled.
Unfortunately, this batch of supplies did not contain the kerosene and gunpowder that Chen Qing wanted. Jin Bing's kerosene and gunpowder were all destroyed by fire in the monk's original camp, leaving Fengxiang County with no inventory.
Chen Qing's own kerosene had been exhausted at Jiwangpo, leaving only more than sixty barrels of gunpowder.
The lights were brightly lit in a military tent, and Chen Qing summoned everyone to discuss the next move.
"Wanyan Wushu won't be able to hold on any longer after the supplies and food are robbed this time, and he will inevitably withdraw his troops. We'd better block them in the Shenchagou Canyon, and finally force them to flee to Huangniupu.
There will be no more cavalry, and when they come out over the mountains and ridges, they will be the prey of our cavalry."
Zheng Ping raised his hand and said: "Commander, I heard that Wanyan Wushu sent tens of thousands of soldiers to dig a road in the mountains over Huangniupu three months ago. It is said that a narrow road has been opened so that the cavalry can pass."
"Don't worry, even if they can leave, they won't be able to escape many troops. The key is that Wanyan Wushu has deployed heavy troops in front of the Shenchagou Canyon. How should we seize the entrance of the valley?"
