Great time travel

Chapter 28, Another day

Looking down from the top of the city, although the Jin people temporarily withdrew from the base of the city wall, they erected countless catapults one after another. Whisk the winch, the loader yelled loudly, and loaded a huge stone into the bamboo basket at the long end of the catapult.Just waiting for an order, these cannon stones the size of a millstone were thrown towards Bianliang City without hesitation.

——It’s funny to say that the original Jin army marched thousands of miles from Youzhou and advanced all the way to the city of Bianliang. They acted hastily and did not carry heavy siege equipment at all.Unexpectedly, Wen Tian and Wu Xi of the Great Song Dynasty, who were ruled by the Lord Harmony faction, have been procrastinating and not preparing for war.As a result, when the Jin soldiers approached the city, Song Jun only had time to close the Bianliang city gate, but left hundreds of catapults and a lot of heavy ordnance just built in the suburbs... So, as soon as the Jin army arrived at the Bianliang city, A large number of ready-made siege equipment was seized, which happened to be used to deal with the Song people in the city... For the Jin army who conquered the Song State in the south, this situation was really "no food, no clothes, and the enemy sent them , no guns, no cannons, the enemy made it for us!

And around these catapults, rows of Golden Army soldiers sitting on the ground could be vaguely seen. Their armors were all placed in front of them, and they were neatly arranged into a low wall.The long spear in his hand was also placed by his side, and it was blown by the howling cold wind... It really is an elite teacher!
Looking at the well-groomed and high-spirited golden soldiers outside the city, and then looking at the swaying, two-way wars, and even the imperial guards of the Song Dynasty on the city wall, recalling the smoky situation above the court, Zhang Shu Ye couldn't help feeling even more desperate.

Although the scholar-bureaucrats of the main battle faction high in the court at the moment are full of heroic words of loyalty to the emperor and patriotism, and swearing against thieves and captives, they are not much worse than the soft bones of the main peace faction when it comes to harming the country and the people—— The defense of the city is already in danger, and this group of lunatics actually want the court kings to go out of the city to meet them, and take the Jurchen iron cavalry head-on, so as not to fall into the prestige of the heaven and the kingdom... The question is, do these useless bans in the city have such great skills? ?
According to Zhang Shuye's own calculations, if these forbidden troops were trapped in the city and had no way to retreat, then it is estimated that they could barely squeeze out a little courage in the battle of defending the city, and probably a few people could be used as one.But if they were to go out to fight in the city...then they wouldn't be defeated at the first touch, but they would just run away!

——It’s not that the Imperial Army had never attacked before. For example, Wang Zongyi, the commander of the front of the palace, took advantage of the arrival of the golden soldiers and had not yet established a firm foothold. The tens of thousands of imperial troops who boasted of being "elite" only briefly fought with the Jin people at the gate of their house, and then broke up and fled without a trace.Thousands of golden soldiers took the opportunity to rush into Nanxun Gate, Zhang Shuye and the capital inspector Fan Qiong tried their best to defend, and then they barely repelled the golden soldiers.

Next, someone in Shandong raised [-] volunteers to come to serve the king, and they were easily wiped out by a small group of Jin troops on the outskirts of Bianliang.

It can be seen from this that it is very difficult for the current Song Dynasty officials to be able to defend the city, and as for field battles, they are simply dying!
It's a pity that the scholar-bureaucrats over there thought they could reprimand Fang Qiu after reading a few books on the art of war, but they couldn't see this at all. He went to the doctor in a hurry and put his hope on a monster named Guo Jing!They even messed around with a bunch of idlers in the market, insisting that they were "Liujia Shenbing", hoping to rely on them to kill 15 Jurchen cavalry! !

Alas, this is really "when a country is about to perish, evildoers must be born"!Divine soldiers... The Kuiguan family can figure it out, if there are really gods in this world, and the Jin people invaded, we just need to burn incense and chant scriptures, why bother to send troops to meet the enemy?

—— Zhang Shuye, a traditional Confucian general, doesn't really believe the anecdotes about Guo Daxian who cast beans into soldiers and call the wind and rain.

Just as Zhang Shuye was sighing because of this dangerous city, he suddenly heard a long voice in the distance:

"...Doctor Wu Lue, Inspector of Yanzhou, the Imperial Protector Guo Daxian has arrived~~~"

After Zhang Shuye heard the sound, he couldn't help being taken aback—eh?Why did I just think of this, and the boss came here?

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"...Doctor Wu Lue, Inspector of Yanzhou, the Imperial Protector Guo Daxian has arrived~~~"

Accompanied by a full-fledged roll call, Guo Jing held a whisk and led Wang Qiu and others to approach the East Water Gate of Bianliang City calmly.

Generally speaking, as a generation of immortals who are famous in Bianjing, Guo Jing's appearance is still very good - red face, white teeth, high spirits, a pair of bright eyes under a sword eyebrow, and a solemn and holy demeanor, really a fairy The air is strong, as if it is not stained with a little bit of human fireworks.

Moreover, as the saying goes, people need clothes, and Buddhas need gold clothes. At this time, Guo Jing was wearing a Taoist robe, which was also extremely gorgeous and luxurious. The Taoist robes of the Northern Song Dynasty were quite different from those of later generations.The modern style of simple Taoist robes is the style of the Ming and Qing Dynasties.As for the Taoist robes of the Northern Song Dynasty, there is also a Xiapei that looks like a short cape on the back, embroidered with Yunxia patterns, which is very gorgeous and beautiful, and looks like a master at first glance.In particular, Guo Jing's taoist robe is a purple robe bestowed by the emperor. The embroidery, decorations, and pendants are all beautiful and show a sense of wealth.

Of course, that was the treatment that Guo Jing and the Great Immortal Guo had. As for Wang Qiu and his "followers", they could only wear plain long gowns.

At the beginning, Wang Qiu took a pair of armor and wanted to try to put it on, but when he mentioned it, his face changed: this armor is made of a series of pieces, like tiles. Stacked up layer by layer, you can tell that the weight is quite terrifying - this is the stepper armor of the Song Dynasty, which was changed from the Zhajia of the Tang Dynasty. It is composed of 1825 armor leaves, with a total weight of more than 50 catties!How can the delicate body of modern people bear it?

——Although Wang Qiu exchanged reward points for physical enhancement in the infinite space, with the collapse of the main god system, he has already returned to the real world and restored it to its original state. Now it is the physique of an ordinary college student, so he will naturally respond to such a heavy Armor scratched his head.

So, in the end, Wang Qiu just put on a body armor underneath, put on a gown and went out.And Nobi Nobita and Doraemon didn't prepare any protective measures - anyway, with the cockroach lives of these two guys, it is estimated that they will be fine even if they encounter space monsters.

Then, on the way to the battlefield in the south of the city, Wang Qiu and others finally saw traces of the war:

Although the offensive and defensive battle of the city wall has not yet started for a long time, the catapults of the Jin army have been bombarding for many days, and tens of thousands of stones have been projected into the city, making several residential buildings in Fengqiumen and Dongshuimen It was blasted to the ground in the continuous rain of rocks, and the people fled in fright.Therefore, the closer you get to the city gate, the more desolate and dilapidated the streets and houses will be. Only a small part of them were destroyed by the catapults of the Jin army, but most of them were demolished by the defending Song army to dig bricks, stones and wood. It is used as a rolling stone and wood for smashing people when defending the city, and for burning fire to keep warm.

——Looking at those red sandalwood painting screens, rosewood coffee tables, camphor wood, ebony furniture, and golden nanmu coffins that are worth millions in later generations, they were chopped into pieces and set on fire by the officers and soldiers of the imperial army who burned pianos and cranes. Feeling so heartbroken, he quickly instigated Doraemon to snatch it under the banner of Immortal Guo... and now the Doraemon, who is carrying a huge debt of 3000 billion, had to temporarily abandon his integrity and ask the Imperial Army for things.

Fortunately, the banner of Immortal Guo is very useful in Bianjing now. Wang Qiu and the others just bluffed a few times, and the imperial guards obediently offered them all kinds of furniture and wood carvings made of precious wood—these clumsy wooden utensils Although they are expensive, they are not gold, silver, pearls and jade. In the peaceful days of the past, ten thousand gold might be hard to come by. Now that they are in the siege of war, they are not worth much money. It is better to sell them to Guo Zhenren.

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Walking all the way to the base of the city wall, I saw that the imperial army had built a row of simple thatched sheds on the inside of the city wall, for the officers and soldiers to take turns sleeping and resting, as well as for the wounded—this was a common practice in ancient times. It's just that it's freezing cold and snowflakes are flying, and most of the refugees and beggars hiding in the ruined temples froze to death, forcing them to drill into the sewers in Kaifeng: regardless of the smell, they just want to keep warm.

Pity those wounded soldiers, who were bloody and dying, but were thrown in the shacks with air leakage on all sides, lacking medical treatment and care.If you are lucky, you can still huddle around the fire to keep warm. If you are unlucky and get squeezed to the side, you are really in danger of freezing to death——Wang Qiu saw with his own eyes several zombies being thrown out of the shack. When I lifted it out, there were icicles hanging on my hair and beard, and my skin was even blue from the cold...

A gust of cold wind blew, and Wang Qiu couldn't help shivering, as if he was soaked in a bucket of ice water, and his internal organs were covered with icicles.

"...the temperature is minus eighteen degrees... oh my god! It's already dripping into ice! How can this place in Henan be so cold?"

While no one else was paying attention, Wang Qiu took a peek at the electronic thermometer he carried with him, and was immediately shocked.

Even those soldiers who were not seriously injured and rested in shifts, although well equipped, all looked shaky and sluggish.

——It has to be said that although the Song Dynasty was known as weak, it attached great importance to the army, and did not hesitate to spend 80% of its annual income on raising soldiers.Thus, creating a full [-] professional imperial troops fully supported by the imperial government's finances is a masterpiece that has never been seen in previous dynasties.The ordnance and equipment of the Song Army can also be called luxurious and sophisticated.During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, soldiers had to prepare their own weapons and dry food when they went out to fight.In the future, the wonderful military household system of the Ming Dynasty directly degraded soldiers into serfs, so that street soldiers in rags and batons were everywhere on the battlefield in the late Ming Dynasty.

As for the Great Song Dynasty, I dare not say it elsewhere, at least the forbidden army in Kaifeng is all armored, and the soldiers are quite tall and strong-after all, as early as the founding of the country.Song Taizu, who was very aware of eugenics, said: "The wives of all classes take the elders of the women, and want their children and grandchildren to be outstanding, and they will never cease to be guards." Therefore, the officers and soldiers of the Imperial Army in the Northern Song Dynasty Marrying tall women as wives from generation to generation, all kinds of high-quality genes have been accumulated from generation to generation, and each of them looks very tall and burly, not inferior to Wang Qiu, a modern man with a height of 1.8 meters.

It's a pity that these forbidden soldiers are tall and muscular, just like the bodybuilders of the later generations, but they can't see the evil spirit and bloodiness—well, speaking of it, from the day the Northern Song Dynasty was established, The continuous foreign wars have never stopped. Fighting the Liao Kingdom, fighting Xixia, and now the Jin people. If you change to other dynasties, you have already fought an iron-blooded army and a group of fierce people.But things are so strange, until the fall of the Northern Song Dynasty, there was a wind of appeasement and extravagance among the people.Isn't too rich a life a good thing for the country?

Just as Wang Qiu was standing under the city wall, complaining silently from the bottom of his heart, the city guard, Zhang Shuye, had already shaken the mud spots on his body, and walked down to greet him—although he didn't think much of Guo Jing, who pretended to be a ghost. "Monster", but Zhang Shuye will not lack the most basic etiquette.

And Guo Jing also restrained his whisk, nodded slightly, "...Poverty has met Zhang Xueshi."

(Zhang Shuye has just been named a Bachelor of the Zizheng Palace, acting as the Privy Council, and in charge of the military affairs of the capital.)
Seeing the modest and polite attitude of the protector of the country, Zhang Shuye couldn't help but heaved a sigh of relief, "...now the Jin people are attacking the city in a hurry, the capital is terrified overnight, and the official is also in armor and can't leave his body at all times... ... I don’t know why the real person came here?”

——Although the words are very polite, the meaning of alienation is very clear: the front line is already in danger, so you should stop adding trouble.

"...Naturally, it is to help the scholars." Guo Jing completely ignored Zhang Shuye's resistance, but continued to say calmly, "...Since the impoverished man has received a generous gift from the imperial court, he will naturally contribute to the imperial court. .At present, although the preparation and training of the Liujia Shenbing has not been completed, they cannot go out of the city to meet the Tartars and relieve the worries of the Holy One. But seeing the people displaced and the capital in danger, how can the poor be at peace?"

"...The real man's words are very kind, but I don't know if the real man has any spells to help me?"

——Although he didn't really believe the ghost's nonsense, Zhang Shuye still pretended to be listening attentively.

"... Zhang Xueshi, it is well known in the city that Bianjing is currently snowing heavily and extremely cold. Jin people grew up in the north and have never been afraid of cold winters. Cotton clothes to keep out the cold, but people still often freeze at night, or freeze their fingers alive. The situation is very miserable. From this, it can be seen that the snow all over the sky is really not conducive to our army defending the imperial capital..."

Guo Jing raised his whisk and said with compassion on his face, "...Poverty Dao will do a little trick here to let the heavy snow dissipate and bring back a clear and sunny day, so as to relieve the difficulties of our Song soldiers in the wind and snow... I don't know What does Xueshi Zhang think?"

Regarding this, although Zhang Shuye still had a look of disbelief, the officers and soldiers of the imperial army who firmly believed in the way of immortality cheered loudly.

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Relying on the great help of the officers and soldiers defending the city, and taking advantage of the moment when the Jin army suspended the siege, Guo Jing commanded the "magic soldiers" he brought to do it together, using them to bring various ceremonial equipment with them, and soon A simple dojo was set up under the East Water Gate.

On the top of an altar with a radius of only three feet, there is a banner with bright yellow brocade and black border, which reads "Nine Heavens Inductive Communication and Micro-manifestation, the real person descends into the world and manifests himself to give eternal peace and health to all generations."On both sides of the altar, dense cigarettes filled the air... Several court officials who admired the way of immortality rushed over after hearing the news, all of them combed their hair in buns, wore vanilla crowns, and wore wide avenue robes, and said loudly: "Welcome the immortals to come into the world!" !"

According to the usual practice, Guo Jing should have loosened his hair at this time, waved a mahogany sword, danced on the altar, or foamed at the mouth, and pretended to be a god... But as a Bolshevik with firm beliefs, Guo Jing’s political commissar Obviously lacking interest in pretending to be gods and ghosts, so he just bowed his hands to many fans, took out a small card with a sun symbol, and inserted it into a weird-looking machine in the center of the altar.

——clank!There was a loud noise in the sky, and Doraemon's magical prop [weather controller] debuted!
The appearance of this thing is a large radio with a radar antenna installed, and a slot in the middle.As long as you insert cards with various weather symbols drawn on them, you can forcefully change the weather immediately. If it wants to rain, it will rain, if it wants to be windy, it will be windy, and if it wants to be sunny, it will be sunny!

When Doraemon was at Nobi’s house, he used this thing to be lazy and cheat—for example, when it was raining and he was too lazy to collect his clothes, he turned the weather into a sunny day; After the arrival of Doraemon, the weather in Tsukimidai, Nerima District, Tokyo is always very weird. It often snows in summer from time to time, the temperature soars to 30 degrees in winter, and the cherry blossoms bloom N times a year...etc. wait.

In short, in the next moment, all the lead clouds in the sky dissipated, and the bright sun shone on the earth in an instant.

The dazzling light that seemed to come from heaven suddenly sprinkled over Bianliang.

——Whether it was the Jin army who attacked the city, the Song army who defended the city, or the citizens of Bianliang, they all raised their heads, looking up in surprise at the sky that cleared instantly, and the fiery sunshine pouring on the earth.

Looking up at the clear sky at this time, I saw the blue sky, cloudless, just like when the autumn is high and the air is refreshing.

Only dots of snowflakes are still falling in mid-air, reflecting the light of the day, telling people that it was still windy and snowy just a moment ago.

And the heart of Confucian scholars and bureaucrats of Zhang Shuye, a scholar of Zizheng Palace, who "respect ghosts and gods and keep a distance", also collapsed in an instant with the pouring down of the bright sunshine, and immediately fell down tremblingly, mouth He kept nagging "...God bless, please forgive the crime of being disrespectful..."

Well, I believe it won't be long before there will be a large number of devout disciples of Immortal Guo Daxian, the protector of the country.

It is a pity that although the golden army outside the city was also very shocking, they did not cooperate with Master Guo to create a religious atmosphere.

"...the golden man! The stone cannon (catapult) of the golden man is coming!"

——Accompanied by someone on the top of the city screaming in panic, hundreds of boulders suddenly roared through the air!

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