Poor Family Chapter 680

  Chapter 680 Defense of the East River

East Road is today's Shanxi area. The Yellow River separates Shaanxi Road to the west. The famous Qin-Jin Grand Canyon is even more dangerous. Although the Yellow River is frozen in winter and the Yellow River is lost, it is formed by the Yellow River in other seasons. On the west side of the military division line, Taihang Mountain separates Hebei West Road, and connects Hebei and the hinterland of the Central Plains through Taihang Baxing.

There are many mountains in the territory of Hedong Road, such as Mount Heng, Wutai Mountain, Taiyue Mountain, Zhongtiao Mountain, Luliang Mountain and other mountain ranges, which divide Hedong Road into several large areas and several small basins in Yanbei, Jinzhong, Jinnan and Southeast Shanxi. In the north of Taiyuan , Hengshan Mountain and Wutai Mountain form a horizontal barrier from east to west and become a natural defensive barrier. The first defensive line on the East Road suggested by Prince Zhao Huan refers to this defensive barrier.

Along this defensive barrier, the Song Army has built dozens of large and small villages and passes over the past century, the most famous of which is Yanmen Pass. With the extremely dangerous terrain, it can be said that one man guards the pass, and ten thousand men cannot open it. In addition, there is a mound pass in the west, which is the Loufan Pass in the Sui and Tang Dynasties. This is the throat pass of the famous Mayi Road.

In the south of these two passes, there are still many military camps, but after nearly a hundred years of truce between Song and Liao, these military camps are basically in one form, most of them have no defenders, and they are no different from being abandoned. There are only two dangerous military villages, Tudun Village and Yanmen Village, which maintain the garrison. This is also the first line of defense that the Jin soldiers will face when they attack Hedong Road.

At this time, the 100,000 troops from the western front of the Kingdom of Jin had already gathered in Datong Mansion, led by Wanyan Zonghan. Wanyan Zonghan originally led the East Route Army to attack Yanshan Mansion, but considering that he had defeated the Xixia Army and had a strong deterrent effect on Xixia, Jin The wolf lord of the country changed his plan again, and still appointed Wanyan Zonghan as the commander of Xilu Jinbing.

  The West Road Golden Army is composed of 100,000 troops, mostly cavalry, including Jurchen, Khitan, Xi, Turkic, Dangxiang, Xianbei and other tribes. The core is 30,000 Jurchen elite cavalry, commanded by Wanyan Zonghan himself.

  Shortly after the Kingdom of Jin officially declared war on the Song Dynasty, Wanyan Zonghan ordered Yinshu to lead an army of 10,000 as the vanguard to attack Yanmen Pass.

Yanmen Pass is located on Gouzhu Mountain, which was originally a part of the Great Wall. Wutai Mountain runs from northeast to southwest, stretching for hundreds of miles with cliffs and cliffs. Only at Yanmen Pass, there is a slightly lower pass called Xixing. Cavalry can pass through here. Passing through the pass, the Qin army built a majestic pass city on the top of the pass, named Xixing Pass, which is today's Yanmen Pass.

Yanmen Pass actually runs east-west, with Yanbei Great Wall to the west and Daizhou in the Song Dynasty to the east. More than a hundred years ago, the Yang family general was in charge of guarding this majestic Yanmen Pass. The current Song general guarding Yanmen Pass is called Chen Su. He was originally a general of the Zhongshi Division, and he led 2,000 soldiers to station in the military stronghold at the foot of the mountain. At this time, the vanguard of the Jin soldiers had arrived outside Yanmen Pass. On the Great Wall.

   At this time, 10,000 Jin soldiers had set up a camp outside Yanmen Pass three days ago, but the Jin soldiers did not immediately go into the siege battle, but what were they waiting for?

   "General, is Jin Bing waiting for reinforcements from Yizhou?" one of his subordinates whispered.

Before the Song Dynasty, if the Yanmen Pass was guarded, Daizhou was basically guarded, but this was not the case in the Song Dynasty. Daizhou in the Song Dynasty had to guard against the enemy troops coming from the east, because Yanshan Mansion was controlled by the Liao Kingdom. , The Liao army can go from Yizhou to Feihuxing and enter Daizhou along the Laishui River Valley, and the back of the Song army at Yanmenguan is exposed in front of the enemy.

In order to prevent the Liao army from entering Daizhou from Feihuxing, the Song Army built five military villages near the exit of Feihuxing, Meihui Village, Magu Village, Pingxing Village, Baoxing Army Village and Yixing Army Village. Five hundred soldiers were stationed in Pingxingzhai, and the other four villages were all abandoned. Pingxingzhai is also a famous pass, later called Pingxingguan, named because it looks like a bottle, and it is the most important exit valley road for Feihuxing.

Chen Su was also really worried. He heard that Yizhou had been occupied by Jin soldiers. If the Jin soldiers from the east and the west joined forces, Daizhou would be in danger. He pondered for a moment, and immediately ordered: "Send a letter to Taiyuan quickly, asking Taiyuan to strengthen the bottle shape. defense of the fort."

  Just as night fell, the Jin soldiers outside the Yanmen Pass were finally dispatched. The closed Song Army sentries immediately discovered the enemy's movement, and sounded the alarm bell, 'Dang! when! when! The rapid alarm bells echoed on the pass. At this time, the soldiers were having dinner in the army camp. When they heard the alarm bell, the soldiers put down their rice bowls one after another, picked up their spears and crossbows, and ran along the mountain road to the pass. Not long after, the chief general Chen Su also went to the head of Yanmen Pass.

   "Look, general, the enemy is coming!"

  Chen Su also saw that there were countless black shadows at the foot of the mountain about 400 steps away, and he immediately ordered: "Shoot a fireball!"

  The fireball is made of wheat straw, soaked in kerosene, and has a diameter of eight feet. It is generally used as a kindling during siege or ambush, but at Yanmen Pass, it is used as a flare.

The huge fireballs were placed on the three huge stone cannons and shot out by the stone cannonballs. Three soldiers ignited the three huge fireballs. With an order, the three stone cannons suddenly fired, and the three huge fireballs flew away. , rolled towards the foot of the mountain, and rushed into the crowd of enemy troops in an instant, and at the same time illuminated the range of the enemy army. Chen Su could see that there were about two thousand enemy troops, which was the limit of the number of troops invested in an attack. It seems that the enemy is going to attack the city on a large scale.

   "Dump fire oil!"

  Chen Su gave the second order, one by one kerosene barrels were thrown down and fell heavily on the mountain road, the wooden barrels were instantly torn apart, and a large amount of kerosene was spilled out and flowed all over the ground.

  At this moment, the drums at the foot of the mountain were loudly beating, and two thousand pioneer soldiers of the Khitan nationality rushed frantically to the top of the mountain along the mountain road.

When they were two hundred steps away from the Guancheng, the battle drum was also sounded on the top of the city, and hundreds of rolling logs flew into the air. The dozens of soldiers in the front couldn't dodge, and they were thrown out one after another, **** and bloody, and died instantly. On the mountain road, the soldiers behind were so frightened that they fell down one after another, but there were still rolling logs hitting the enemy soldiers, and the screams kept coming and going.

  But the rolling wood subsided a little, and two thousand soldiers climbed up one after another, shouting and rushing to the top of the mountain.

   "Archery!"

Guancheng and the walls on both sides suddenly fired arrows. The Song army used all god-arm crossbows. The killing distance was 200 steps, but it could shoot through the enemy's armor within 150 steps. For decades, it has been The Song Army's sharpest weapon against the Liao Army and Xixia Army.

The arrows were dense like rain, and shot into the crowd of enemy soldiers on the mountain road. The enemy soldiers were killed and wounded everywhere, but after attacking the enemy army for a long time, they changed their offensive tactics. They raised large shields in front, left and right, forming a three-sided shield. The wall withstood the sharp bows and arrows of the Song army, and then another round of hundreds of rolling logs rolled and smashed. The attacking soldiers shouted and crawled on the mountain road one after another.

  These Khitan soldiers are specially selected elite soldiers, well-trained, and the death rate is greatly reduced.

  At this time, Chen Su shouted: "Launch a thunderbolt!"

  After the battle of capturing Yanjing, the powerful explosive thunderbolt gradually spread to the whole army, especially the frontier army was basically equipped with it. It is not only an offensive weapon, but also a defensive weapon.

  Two soldiers put a 50-jin thunderbolt on the stone cannon. The fireman ignited the fuse, and the fuse sizzled and burned. When it reached the mouth of the pot, the fireman shouted, "Shoot!"

'boom! With a muffled sound, the thunderbolt weighing fifty catties flew away, drew an arc in the air, landed on the mountain road sixty steps away, and continued to roll and smash towards the crowd. Just after rushing into the crowd, there was only an earth-shattering explosion, strong flames burst out, thick smoke filled the air, and a dozen mutilated corpses flew into the air, flying dozens of steps away.

  The shocking thunder killed all the soldiers within ten feet of the explosion, and nearly 200 people were killed or injured. The soldiers behind were scared out of their wits and turned around and fled to the foot of the mountain.

  Amidst the chaos on the mountain road, five Khitan soldiers ran against the road, holding their shields high and rushing towards Yanmen Pass.

   "Kill them!" The soldiers at the head of the city pointed at the five soldiers and shouted.

  Arrows were sent like rain, and two soldiers fell down in response, while the other three rushed towards Guancheng without stopping.

  Chen Su sneered, he knew what these soldiers wanted to do, they must want to blow up the door with a thunderbolt, how could it be so easy?

  Chen Su waited for the enemy to rush within a hundred steps, and immediately ordered: "Set fire!"

  Dozens of rockets were fired at the enemy, and the ground was already full of kerosene. A raging fire suddenly ignited on the mountain road, engulfing the three Khitan soldiers in an instant. Chen Su shouted: "Get down!"

  The soldiers squatted down one after another, only to hear a deafening explosion. The thunderbolt carried by three Khitan soldiers exploded when they were about sixty steps away from the pass.

Jin Bing's Thunderbolts came from Xixia. They seized hundreds of Thunderbolts made by Xixia in the battle for Xijing with the Xixia Army, and they also began to use them in siege battles. However, the dangerous terrain of Yanmen made Jin Bing's Thunderbolt is useless.

  Wanyan Yinshu in the distance can see that the siege failed, he couldn't help but sighed, and ordered: "Send the troops to withdraw!"

'when! when! when! ' The bell for withdrawing troops rang, and the last hundreds of soldiers on the mountain path withdrew back like a tide, and the pass city was filled with cheers!

  (end of this chapter)

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