Back to the Song Dynasty as a tyrant

"Three? Three is not enough, send ten!" Li Cheng said affirmatively.

"Didn't Du Tong say that Wan Yan Ba ​​Li Su would not come to support us?"

"Whether he supports or not is his business. I have to let him know the current battle situation. If he knows it, but he still doesn't act, it will be difficult for him to explain it to the King of Wei. If you don't tell him, he will be in trouble later." would say he didn't know."

Hearing this, Gao Yingyi suddenly realized that political struggle was involved.

"I'm going to send more people, my subordinate."

Just as Gao Yingyi was about to leave, he turned around and said in doubt: "But I still have a doubt. The Song army just raided our army, which has a certain influence on our sergeants. It stands to reason that we should attack the city in one go. But until now, Song Jun didn't move at all."

Yi Libu smiled and said: "How do you let the Song army attack the city now? With such a cold winter and the long journey, those Song troops are probably huddled in the barracks to warm up, and they will never come out again!"

While Yi Libu was speaking, the flesh on his face was trembling, and he continued: "If our army's morale hadn't been temporarily low due to the surprise attack by the Song people, I would have to take people out now and take advantage of the Song army coming from afar, and kill them all. Do not stay behind!"

Li Cheng didn't say anything.

The current situation is that both sides are very tired.

The Jin army has been staying in Liaoyang. Although their physical strength has not been exhausted, their psychological torture has greatly reduced their combat effectiveness.

A collective is not an individual. Individuals who are frightened can recover within half a day, but collectives cannot.

It takes a lot of energy to mobilize a collective.

Therefore, in ancient marches and battles, it has always been mentioned that attacking a tired army can win, or that it can be said to fight after a truce, or to recharge its batteries.

Song Jun didn't take any action, Li Cheng also felt relieved, and was ready to fight the Song people after he calmed down the army.

In the evening, Wu Lin had just finished his dinner and walked out with someone.

He personally inspected the tents of the army, and saw that they were surrounded by fences and barbed wire, so he was relieved.

He also encouraged the sentries who stood guard in such weather, emphasizing many times that they must prevent the Jin people from attacking the camp at night.

Of course, after doing these things, he met the soldiers of the Firearms Battalion tonight.

Yan Pei said: "Wu Shuai, the explosives have been prepared. After dark, it will be difficult for the Jin people at the top of the city to act against us."

Wu Lin nodded, and looked at the gradually sinking night, his eyes began to become sharp: "We must prepare enough explosives, and we must blow up this Liaoyang City in one go."

"I brought all the explosives, and I'll use them up in one shot. You'll know how much you can blast!"

After speaking, Yan Pei commanded the firearms battalion to get ready.

"Get your cannons ready too. After the city wall is smashed down, fire a wave of cannons into the city." Yan Pei shouted in a low voice.

"It's late at night, Manager Yan, are you sure you want to set off the cannon?"

"You can bomb as much as you can, anyway, there is enough gunpowder!" Yan Pei said nonchalantly, "Night is a good time to cause panic."

"Yes!"

Night fell quickly, and the visibility in the snowy night was still very strong.

There is a torch on the top of the Jinren city, shining some light, and the Jinren's scouts are also active nearby, reporting the movements of the Song army to the city at any time.

With the cooperation of a group of infantry, the firearms battalion transported the explosives down the city.

The Jin people at the top of the city were immediately surprised when they saw Song Jun approaching.

This is to attack the city?

How can there be siege in the middle of the night?

Just in case, the Jin army at the head of the city got ready immediately.

Crossbow archers and crossbow archers, as well as various stones and wood, are all ready.

When the Song army got closer and closer, the Jin army above began to use bows and crossbows.

The arrow shot down suddenly, Song Jun hid behind the wooden boards of the cart, and the surrounding infantry held their shields.

"The Song army has attacked the city!"

The head of the city shouted loudly, which immediately caused an uproar.

At this time, Li Cheng was inspecting various military camps in the city, comforting the soldiers, and said some encouraging words, hoping that the soldiers would quickly recover from the panic during the day.

Now both sides are fighting for time.

When he suddenly heard that the Song army was attacking the city, he couldn't help being surprised: "Attack the city at night?"

"It's absolutely true, a group of Song troops were found outside Nancheng."

"how many people?"

"The number is unknown, no less than a thousand!"

Everyone looked at each other in blank dismay, did the Song people go crazy and attack the city now?

Yi Libu couldn't help laughing out loud: "Do people in Song Dynasty naively think that they can break the city at night?"

Chapter 1415 Breaking Through the Liaoyang Defense Line (Second Change)

Obviously, everyone didn't quite believe that Song Jun could take Liaoyang City at night.

Don't talk about night, it's the same during the day!

Let's take a step back, is there someone who attacked the city at night?

There seems to be an example in the Three Kingdoms period. At that time, the city walls were all rammed earth, and the attack was on a small city.

Since the bricks were used to force the city wall, the rules of war in China have undergone tremendous changes.

Not to mention brick city walls, in the era of rammed earth city walls, no one would come to attack the city at night when they were full.

After all, there was no electricity in ancient times, and lighting relied on fire.

In the ancient times when there was no light source, the snowy night was a little brighter, and the rest of the time, except for the moon night, it was all black and white.

Siege in broad daylight is already a matter of extremely high command requirements, and it is unimaginable at night.

Out of caution, Li Cheng decided to take a look around the tower.

He will never allow such a critical moment to go wrong.

"Li Dutong, you are completely worrying too much."

Along the way, Yi Libu said hehehe: "In my opinion, tomorrow the boys will have a rest. Early in the morning, I will take the vanguard to attack the Song camp, and make them regret coming here!"

"I also think it's impossible to attack the city at this time." Gao Yingyi said.

At this time, there were many people in Liaoyang City, most of them were soldiers and signing troops.

The signing army of the Kingdom of Jin is the logistician.

Some of these people are warming up, and some are transporting equipment to the tower.

The old, the weak, the sick, and the disabled are all huddled at home, and they can't come out to do something in such a cold night.

Everything is normal, at least in the eyes of the Jin people, the city is slowly recovering from the panic during the day.

Moreover, the recovery effect exceeded Li Cheng's expectations. Maybe tomorrow he could really launch a striker out of the city to fight the Song army.

After all, the Song army came from afar, and the exhausted army would be gone if they missed this opportunity.

Just when everyone thought it was normal, suddenly there was a loud noise from the direction of Nancheng.

boom……

It was as if a thunderbolt suddenly descended from heaven and hit the ground, cracking the earth.

Half of the people in the city felt the shock under their feet, and they all jumped in shock. Some people even collapsed on the ground with their legs limp in fright.

The children in the house were frightened and cried loudly.

The horses in the barracks were frightened and rushed out, and the soldiers who had just fallen asleep sat up straight away.

Li Cheng's horse was also frightened, struggling violently, and even galloped uncontrollably on the narrow street.

The sound spread to the surroundings in the night, accompanied by the crashing sound of the city wall collapsing.

"what happened?"

"God sent thunder to punish the bad guys!"

"It came from the south of the city!"

"..."

Many people knelt on the ground and kowtowed towards the south of the city: "God, please be angry! God, please be angry!"

"What happened?" Li Cheng managed to control the horse and asked loudly.

No one answered his question.

The sound of the collapse of the city wall continued, and the huge sound was like ripples, still rolling in the night, making everyone in the city feel suffocated, as if they were being pressed on their shoulders by the mountains.

Those who didn't know were lucky, but the soldiers of the Golden Army on the part of the city wall that was blown up in the south city were much more miserable.

At that time, they saw Song Jun put a bag of things under the city wall, but they didn't know what it was, thinking that Song Jun planned to pile up a step to climb up the city wall.

They even thought Song Jun's behavior was funny.

They never thought that the wall they were standing on would collapse immediately.

The moment the city wall collapsed, their brains were blank, and then their feet were empty, their eyes went dark, and there was nothing left.

"Report! Wu Shuai! The city wall has collapsed!"

Wu Lin quickly asked, "How much did it collapse?"

"At least thirty feet or more!"

"Have you used up all the explosives?"

"It's all used up!"

Boom boom boom...

At this time, the sound of artillery came from the front.

The artillery placed in the snow, right in front of the collapsed city wall, erupted tongues of flame in the night, and the dense iron beads rushed in and disappeared into the night ahead.

There was a scream from inside, but not much.

Song Jun behind took a torch and threw it inside.

In the distance of the fire, the light source is weak, but some people can be vaguely seen.

Those were the ones the artillery bombarded, but not many.

Yan Pei immediately said: "Change to a solid cannon!"

"Change to a solid cannon!"

Although the iron ball has a wide range of damage, it is small in size and light in weight, so it does not hit buildings.

Since you can't see many people, hit the building to create a sense of oppression.

Under the double blow of explosives and artillery, the soldiers on the wall that hadn't collapsed had already fled in fright, and the towers of the southern city fell into panic.

Not only on the tower, but also the Jin army behind the tower, like ants on a hot pot, completely messed up.

Groups of crossbowmen quickly advanced to a distance of 20 meters below the city wall while the defense on the city wall was in chaos.

"Crossbow arrows shoot arrows!"

Following the order, more than 1000 flaming arrows soared into the sky in the night and flew towards the city.

The rockets fell in the city, some fell on the ground, some were nailed to the buildings, and some fell on the soldiers of the Golden Army.

The rockets fired one wave after another, twenty waves went in, and there was already a bright fire coming from inside, obviously a house was set on fire.

It was even more chaotic near Nancheng.

After an unknown amount of time, Yan Pei stopped the artillery bombardment.

He sent dozens of infantry in, and found that apart from the collapsed bricks, the corpses of the Jin army were all around.

Only then did the first batch of strikers be ordered to enter the city.

Holding a torch and wearing iron armor, the forward quickly pushed in after entering the city.

"Report! Wu Shuai! The striker has already entered the city!"

"Understood." Wu Lin responded, walked back, took off his coat, sat by the fire and started to warm up the fire.