Song Wen was still playing with girls on the rolling grass, hunting and resting, while waiting for the leader of the Nadahai Grassland to be elected... But a large war broke out in an earthen city southeast of the capital city in the Liao Dynasty.
Lingyang County is not big, with an area of seven to eight miles at most, and it can only garrison three to four thousand troops. But now there are nearly ten thousand enemies surrounded outside Lingyang County.
There are only three thousand Jurchen warriors, and the rest are some Semu cavalry who have taken refuge with the Jurchens, some Bohai people, and other Jurchen branch tribesmen who came out of the dense forests in the northeast. There are even many Han and Korean people mixed in.
Why do these Jurchen armies want to besiege this small Lingyang County? Because the city contains most of the food and supplies of the Liao bandit suppression vanguard army...
The Jurchens of the Liao Dynasty were aggressive in their eastern expedition. As a result, the Jurchens attacked in separate attacks and bypassed the well-prepared Liao vanguard army, and then directly attacked the arrogant Pishi Army, the main force of the Liao Army, and several major forces in Xiajunzhou!
After defeating the Pishi Army in the battle, they launched a pursuit of the main army that had fled...
This battle caused heavy losses to the Liao Kingdom. They directly lost a large area of land east of Zhongjing City. In addition, most of the northeastern region had already been occupied by the Jurchens. It can be said that it was a real loss.
The vanguard army that directly attacked the Jurchens in the northwest of Liaoning was suddenly stunned. He just rushed all the way, but the main force in the rear was killed! How can we fight this?
As a result, the Jurchens easily returned and attacked, and the Liao vanguard army, which had lost its military morale, instantly collapsed, leaving behind a large number of corpses, horses and equipment and fled in all directions.
Those Semu people, Mongols, and Han people can all escape, but what about the Khitan nobles? If they escape before the battle, the Liao court will regard them as a shame to the Khitan people... The entire family will be implicated and cannot hold their heads high!
The person guarding Lingyang City is none other than Yelu Shange’s eldest brother, Yelu Shanmin, who was appointed the third general of the Pioneer Army from the palace guard!
As the eldest son of the Emperor of the Liao Dynasty, the Nanyuan King of Nanjing Guards, he was more than enough to be the third general of this vanguard army. When the Pishi Army was originally dispatched, everyone in the Liao Dynasty thought that this battle would definitely defeat the arrogant and domineering Jurchens.
Go back to the white mountains and black waters to the north of the northeast... Yelu Shanmin was originally very upset that he failed to charge forward, but now he is only glad that he did not sink into the sand with the 20,000 vanguard troops.
But life is not easy these days!
The Tokyo garrison was still mobilizing troops and generals, unwilling to fail, and three urgent military orders were passed to Yelu Shanmin... He was strictly ordered not to leave his post without authorization, and to stick to Lingyang County and wait for reinforcements to counterattack! Never allow food and grass supplies to fall to the Jurchens
in the hand.
But everyone can see that this is just a desperate struggle of the bandit-suppressing general who is stationed in Daliao's Tokyo Prefecture and is unwilling to fail. Even the Pishi Army has collapsed. Who can we expect to defeat the Jurchens? Those Han infantry? Or is it?
Those seductive people with heads and rat ends?
Yelu Shanmin was not willing to wait for death. He sent people to Tokyo several times to ask for help. Even if he was allowed to burn the food, grass and baggage and break out of the encirclement, would it be okay?
Daliao's general who conquered the east ignored him and even ordered Yelu Shanmin not to take a step back and to live or die with Lingyang County!
Tens of thousands of servants have besieged Lingyang County for a day and a night. Fortunately, the Jurchens' siege equipment was in a mess, and there were no trebuchets, heavy crossbows, or chariots. Otherwise, the less than three thousand defenders in the city would have been destroyed.
Scattered and collapsed.
At dawn, the Jurchens called for gold and retreated their troops. The motley army led by a small number of Jurchens quickly retreated, leaving nearly a thousand corpses dumped under the city.
There were also many casualties on top of the city. Corpses were randomly thrown behind the parapet wall. The Jurchens had accurate shooting skills. They killed at least two to three hundred Khitan defenders several times when they reached the top of the city.
The blood gurgled on the city wall, and was quickly absorbed by the dry rammed earth wall, leaving only a sticky dark trace.
Yelu Shanmin gasped and slumped down on a shield. Fortunately, there was enough food and grass, weapons and arrows, otherwise... the Jurchen army would have captured the city wall and started massacre.
These damn Jurchen Tatars...why are they so crazy in fighting? Even the servants are fighting with high morale and blood. Have the Khitan warriors of the Liao Kingdom really lost the bravery in their souls?
Buddhism is now popular in the Liao Kingdom, and the nobles all like to eat fast, chant Buddha's name, and cultivate their moral character. Shouldn't the Buddha favor his followers? Why did he fail again and again?
There was also a small commotion in the Jurchen camp in the distance. Before Yelu Shanmin could rejoice, he saw seven or eight generals of the Jurchen servant army being cold-bloodedly dragged outside the camp gate by Jurchen swordsmen, and then the sword flashed.
Blood spilled all over the floor.
The generals of the servant army who failed to attack were all beheaded in public display!
Yelu Shanmin smiled bitterly... Now that it was over, the Jurchens felt that they had lost face and were afraid that they would take action.
Sure enough, at the end of Chenshi... nearly five thousand servants from the Jurchen camp rushed out, and then a Jurchen army of about a thousand people rushed straight to the city gate.
The most powerful Jurchen army was dispatched.
Yelu Shanmin watched helplessly as the fierce and brave Jurchen soldiers abandoned their horses, wore thick armor, carried flails, axes and copper hammers on their backs, and drove a group of servants carrying long ladders and wooden poles towards the city wall with shouts and shouts.
A group of cavalry rushed out from the village gate again, shouting and galloping into two teams and approaching the battlefield from both sides. The knights on the horse were wearing iron leather armor on their upper bodies, holding heavy horn bows, and the feather arrows that had been attached to the bow strings were thick...
A Khitan centurion on the city wall hurriedly shouted: "Jurchen's kidnap horse... everyone, raise your shields! Guard against heavy arrows... raise your shields..."
Yelu Shanmin sighed, it's these guys again... Guaizima, most of the casualties on the city wall were caused by the heavy arrows shot by these fast-moving Guaizima!
Suddenly, Yelu Shanmin felt a thrill in his heart... Since Guaizima was responsible for covering, then the more than a thousand Jurchen soldiers in heavy armor following the servant army would not... not be the ones who were defeated in the battle outside Zhongjing City.
The iron pagoda of Daliao Pishi Army, right?
Arrows rained down, and heavy arrows fell down, some of which could even directly penetrate the iron-clad wooden shields! Most Khitan warriors could only lower their heads and hide under the crenellations of the city wall, not daring to raise their heads at all... But once this happened, the defenders
The defense and surveillance under the city wall were lost!
The servants wearing leather armor and carrying long wooden poles were driven under the city wall by the Jurchen army. Hundreds of people were lost in the process, but there were still two to three hundred long wooden poles that reached the bottom of the city wall.
The five servants worked together to hug one end of a wooden pole, and a Jurchen warrior wearing heavy armor was hanging on the other end...
Amidst the shouts, the five servants gritted their teeth and tried their best to lift up the wooden pole, and lifted up to the top of the city with the Jurchen heavy armor soldiers on the end of the wooden pole!
The Khitan people were so frightened that they no longer dared to pay attention to the flying arrows, took up their bows and started shooting at the servants holding up wooden poles below... because it was useless to shoot the Jurchen soldiers wearing heavy armor, and the thick armor
It is enough to withstand most of the crossbows of the Khitan army! Only rolling logs, stones or heavy weapons can deal with them...
The remaining rocks were smashed down by a few red-eyed Khitan soldiers. The two heavy armored soldiers were smashed down without saying a word, but the cavalry patrolling the outside immediately threw a shower of arrows at them... several
All the Khitan soldiers were shot to death on the crenellations on the wall!
There were still about two hundred Jurchen heavy armored soldiers fighting to the death. Yelu Shanmin commanded his men to rush to the city with more than a dozen precious heavy crossbows... "Shoot, shoot those kidnapping horses! Fight them.
Shooting..."
Dozens of huge bed crossbows were Yelu Shanmin's last trump card. Originally, he planned to use this thing to sneak into the city gate and find a way out for himself to escape to heaven... but the Jurchen army was dispatched and he had to advance in advance.
Damn it.
Thick crossbow arrows flew out with a whistling sound. Dozens of the arrogant and domineering Jurchen Kaizi horse cavalry were immediately shot to death by the powerful crossbow arrows! Some of them were even nailed to death together with their men and horses... The remaining Kaizi horse cavalry subconsciously
He started to dodge, but Yelu Shanmin immediately shouted: "Defend the city wall and smash rocks! We must not let the heavy armored soldiers come up..."
The living Khitan soldiers gritted their teeth and climbed up, ready to fight for their lives. Seven or eight Jurchen heavy armor soldiers had already climbed up. The flails, big axes and copper hammers in their hands were swung like the wind, smashing the brains of some Khitan soldiers around them and breaking their bones and tendons!
Yelu Shanmin gritted his teeth and roared, urging all the guards behind him to kill him. If these heavy armored soldiers were to kill him, he would have to return to the underworld today...
Five hundred guards wearing fish scale armor roared and rushed forward. Yelu Shanmin also pulled out his scimitar and gritted his teeth... Suddenly, there was a dull banging sound at the city gate. Yelu Shanmin felt nervous, and he had been
Thinking of breaking out, they left the two southern and western city gates unblocked with earth and stones. They just blocked them behind the city gates with gate jammers, carts and horses... Did the Jurchens find that there was an emptiness behind the city gates?
Yelu Shanmin hurriedly ran towards the south gate. Before he reached the top of the city gate, a sudden commotion and shouting made him break out in cold sweat... "Oh no, the Jurchen Tatars have broken down the city gate..."