Wanyan Wushu proudly looked at the fire in the middle of the city. Although the Song army burned his trebuchet, which dashed his hope of using the trebuchet to attack the city, he still had a hand. He selected three hundred tall men.
The strong Bohai Jurchen soldiers asked each of them to carry a bag of kerosene.
This kind of bag is the sheepskin bag they use to store milk wine. It can hold twenty kilograms of kerosene at a time. When using it, squeeze the bag directly to spray the kerosene out, which can reach as far as three feet away. Standing in the middle of the siege ladder,
Then you can spray fire oil on the city.
At the critical moment, three hundred soldiers successfully sprayed fire oil, catching the Song army by surprise.
This is also the advantage of the two-person siege ladder. When one person is spraying fire oil, the person next to him can climb up without being affected.
Wanyan Wushu immediately ordered Wanyan Helisa next to him: "General Helisa can lead 10,000 Jurchen soldiers to attack the city and seize Ganquan Fort!"
"I humbly obey orders!"
Although Wanyan Jiuli Saling had some grudges against Wanyan Wushu, he hated Chen Qing for stealing his wife and concubines, and he must skin Chen Qing with his own hands.
"Bang the drum!"
'Boom! Boom! Boom!'
Amidst the earth-shattering sound of war drums, Wanyan Helisa led 10,000 Jurchen cavalry and rushed towards the city!
On the top of the city, Yang Zaixing and Niu Gao each led 500 men in a fierce battle with more than 600 Jurchen soldiers who rushed to the top of the city. Both sides suffered heavy casualties and were littered with dead bodies.
There were raging fires all over the city. The soldiers tried their best to cover the flames with yellow sand and wet quilts, but fire oil kept spraying up from the bottom of the city.
"Throw the kerosene barrel!" This was the voice of the general Chen Qing.
The situation was very critical, and the general Chen Qing also went to battle in person. He led 300 of the most elite Song troops to fight along the edge of the city.
The soldiers pried off the lids of the kerosene barrels, poured barrels of kerosene down, and threw dozens of torches down. Flames suddenly burst out under the city, and the Jurchen soldiers and the puppet Qi army were in chaos.
But in the chaos, there were still more than 2,000 powerful Jurchen soldiers climbing to the top of the city under the command of Han Chang, and one after another they joined the team that captured the city.
Now both sides are fighting for time. The Song army is desperately throwing fire oil down to let the fire spread to the entire city. The Jin soldiers must seize the city before the fire engulfs them. Both sides have equal opportunities. It depends on who can seize the last one.
Chance to win.
Chen Qing also realized this serious problem and took action himself. He was the coach and his vision was deeper than anyone else. He saw the key to the problem.
This is like blocking the Yangtze River when its embankment bursts. The embankment breach must be blocked, which is the enemy's access to the city.
There are too many soldiers on both sides of the city and they are too dense. It is impossible to kill them from the middle. You have to go from the side.
Chen Qing was like a butcher cutting an ox, forcibly cutting out an extremely narrow passage from the side, wielding the Fangtian painted halberd to kill more than a dozen Jurchen soldiers, and finally broke through an opening. He turned around and shouted, "Cover me.
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He jumped up onto the battlements, and dozens of his soldiers rushed up immediately, using their big shields to block the enemy troops on the city wall for him. Chen Qing ran for several steps, wielding Fang Tian's painted halberd to attack, while two Jurchen captains controlled
At the entrance to the city, Jurchen soldiers rushed up to the city from between the two of them.
Fang Tian drew his halberd as fast as lightning, and a captain suddenly realized something was wrong, but it was too late, 'poof!' A human head flew out, his body tilted, and he fell down the city.
The captain standing opposite saw Chen Qing and recognized his weapons. He was so excited that he could be crowned king by taking Chen Qing's head!
At this time, he threw all dangers and missions out of his mind. All he could think about was mountains of money, the crown on his head and a hundred beautiful women. In his eyes, Chen Qing was like a plucked bird.
He can catch a pheasant that has lost its feathers and twist off its head.
The captain roared, took two steps forward and swung his mace at Chen Qing, but he blocked the passage to the city.
Chen Qing saw the excitement and madness in the captain's eyes. Of course he understood what he was thinking, but it was a pity that he would not sacrifice his beauty as a man.
Fang Tian made a flash of his halberd. The mace was still in the air, but the tip of the halberd had already pierced the commander's throat. The moment the commander died, money, crowns, beauties, all the good things disappeared, leaving only
Falling down into the endless dark abyss, he screamed silently and fell down the siege ladder. His huge body knocked over five or six soldiers in a row.
Chen Qing waved Fang Tian's painted halberd, which knocked away several cold arrows aimed at him, and jumped down from the city wall. His men swarmed up, blocking the enemy's access to the city, and poured more than a dozen barrels of kerosene down the city wall.
The siege ladder suddenly turned into a sea of fire. Dozens of Jurchen soldiers on the ladder were covered in fire and jumped to the bottom of the ladder with howling like ghosts and wolves.
The morale of the Song army at the top of the city was greatly boosted, and they became more and more courageous as they fought. The hundreds of Jurchen soldiers on the top of the city became fewer and fewer, and finally they all died on the top of the city.
Yang Zaixing stepped forward and saluted with clasped fists, and said with a look of shame on his face: "My humble duty and incompetence have put the commander-in-chief in danger!"
This section was his defense area. The defense was originally very tight, but he did not expect that the opponent used kerosene to open up the situation and create a passage. The entire situation was out of control. If the coach had not arrived in time and cut off the enemy's access to the city, the consequences would have been
It's simply unimaginable.
Chen Qing patted his arm and said in a deep voice: "Summary experience and learn lessons. This is how each of us came through."
"In this humble position, I will bear in mind the teachings of Du Tong!"
Chen Qing nodded and returned to the command tower with 300 soldiers. At this time, all the fires on the top of the city were extinguished, but the bottom of the city became a sea of fire. The Song Army dropped more than 400 barrels of kerosene.
Weighing more than 20,000 kilograms, the Jurchen soldiers suffered heavy casualties and were forced to retreat hundreds of steps away.
The bell for withdrawing troops from afar has sounded, and the Jin soldiers who fell short began to retreat towards the main camp. Everyone looked depressed. They really almost captured Ganquan Fort today.
The aftermath was also being dealt with on top of the city. The wounded soldiers were carried to the east wall for treatment and bandaging. The dead Song soldiers were also put into cloth bags and carried down to the city. Body bags were neatly placed in the open space below the city.
The rows look shocking.
The food delivery truck rolled up and delivered hot soup and big steamed buns to the soldiers.
Chen Qing sighed softly. In this battle, at least 1,500 or 600 people of the Song Army were killed. Although the enemy's death toll was much higher than that of the Song Army, he and everyone on the city wall were not happy.
Today, more than a thousand enemy troops rushed to the city. Ganquan Fort was already on the verge of being breached. It was only because the soldiers fought desperately and died with the enemy regardless of the cost that Ganquan Fort was saved from the edge of being lost. I don't know.
Will they have such luck next time?
"Capital! I think we should send out a surprise force to attack Yanzhou and get all the kerosene back!"
It was Zheng Ping who spoke, and his suggestion resonated with the surrounding generals. Indeed, if they did not have kerosene today, they would have to flee for their lives with their wives and children.
"We'll talk about Qibing later, but I want to know how much kerosene was consumed today?" Chen Qing asked.
Yang Yuanqing said quickly: "We picked up 500 barrels of kerosene from the warehouse, and now there are still 30 barrels left."
In other words, there are still 2,500 barrels in the warehouse, which sounds like a lot, but in fact it is consumed very quickly. They burned more than 400 barrels in half an hour.
Chen Qing nodded and said: "Although I have said before, try not to use kerosene unless it is critical, but I would like to add today that when you need to use kerosene, you must use it without hesitation. For example, today,
Everyone should learn this lesson, including myself!"
There is indeed a lesson learned today. If I hadn’t ordered the use of kerosene, I’m afraid everyone would still be hesitating.
Chen Qing's lesson is that he should hand over the decision-making power before battle to the generals so that they dare to give orders and cannot rely solely on himself.
At this time, Wanyan Wushu was also painfully introspecting in the tent. He clearly had a chance to seize the city today, but why did he fail in the end?
"I was still too conservative. I only asked 300 people to carry kerosene. If I asked 3,000 people to carry kerosene, the entire city could be set on fire, and tens of thousands of troops could attack the city."
Fan Gong sighed and said: "Actually, Chen Qing also thought of this. He destroyed our trebuchet first to prevent the city from burning down. But he didn't expect that Marshal Du would ask people to carry kerosene. I'm afraid next time
He was on guard."
"That's why I regret that I wasted an excellent opportunity and lost more than 7,000 people. Ten thousand people were killed in two fierce battles. I let the soldiers down so much."
After saying that, Wanyan Wushu let out a long sigh.
At this time, Fan Gong said again: "I am afraid that I have found the weakness of Ganquan Fort."
"What's the weakness?" Wanyan Wushu asked anxiously.
Fan Gong raised a finger and said, "Just one word, water!"