Poor Family Chapter 796

  Chapter 796 Late Night Sneak Attack

As soon as the night fell, the 10,000 golden soldiers quietly advanced towards the west city under the cover of night. Most of the houses in the western outer city were not demolished, so that the golden soldiers had a shelter, and the 10,000 golden soldiers scattered on the streets of the western outer city. In the alley, there are 30,000 cavalrymen of the Kingdom of Jin in the outer city who are also ready. They are commanded by the general Wanyan Loushi. They hide behind a hill outside, about five miles away from the inner city. Under the darkness, the inner city The Song army could not see them.

This is a reenactment of the attack on the outer city. Wanyan Zongwang was rather nervous. They only had 50 Thunderbolts left. An hour ago, Wanyan Zongwang received an order from Marshal Du to destroy the city, ordering him to repeat the same trick, using the cover of night to blow open the city gate with a thunderbolt.

Wanyan Zongwang was immediately at the gate of Xiwazi in the Outer City Prefecture. He watched the guards on the top of the city. Based on his previous experience in breaking through the West Outer City, the Song Army would pay attention to the city walls on the north and south sides, while facing the east and west. Slightly neglected, the top of the city was very quiet, and no patrolling soldiers could be seen. Perhaps the Song army thought that they would not attack the city for the time being during the negotiations, Wanyan Zongwang thought secretly.

  At this time, a soldier rushed forward and reported in a low voice: "Qi, the deputy commander, is ready and ready to go!"

  Wanyan Zongwang looked at the top of the city, and then at the night. The night was thick enough, so he nodded and said, "Let's do it!"

A hundred soldiers in black were divided into three teams and marched towards the city wall. There was also a moat under the inner city, and houses were not allowed to be built within a hundred steps of the city wall. But this was also in Wanyan Zongwang's plan. Three groups of golden soldiers rushed out from the alley, and immediately crawled on the ground, using the cover of weeds on the ground, slowly crawled forward, and there were three people behind them holding long wooden boards. Prepared for building a bridge over the moat.

  Hundreds of golden soldiers approached the city wall silently, but they didn't expect that right at the top of the city, a pair of indifferent eyes were watching their every move.

Special night watchers have already been deployed on the top of the city, consisting of more than a hundred soldiers with excellent night vision. They are responsible for keeping an eye on the movement of the outer city at night, so when 10,000 golden soldiers entered the outer city quietly, they were caught A few Xicheng Nightwatchers found out and immediately notified the chief general Li Yanqing.

Li Yanqing had already seen the soldiers who were crawling on the ground, and he admired Wan Yan Zongwang's mind for repeating the old trick, and it was still the West City, only turning the West Outer City into the West Inner City, when everyone thought it was impossible to happen again Wanyan Zongwang did exactly that when he breached the West Outer City.

  Li Yanqing picked up an iron fire thunder at random, and at this moment, Zhou Lin, the general stationed in the west city, stepped forward quickly and whispered: "Dutong, the water is ready!"

Li Yanqing turned his head and saw that more than a thousand civilians each carried a load of water to the castle, and three drainage barrels had been placed under the battlements, and there were more than two thousand barrels densely packed. Everyone has done a lot of work on the water. Since this morning, the east, west, north, and south sides of the city have been filled with buckets of water, as many as tens of thousands of buckets of water.

  Li Yanqing shook his head with a smile, two thousand barrels of water is too much, at most twenty or thirty barrels would be enough, but he didn't say it out, and laughed again: "Then there is the crossbow!"

"Already prepared!"

  I saw two thousand soldiers holding crossbows in their hands and ready to go.

   "Have the reinforcements arrived?" Li Yanqing asked again.

   "Already here, just waiting at the bottom of the city."

Now that it has been judged that Jin Bing is going to attack Xicheng, it is not just a simple surprise attack. If the surprise attack fails, it is likely to attack on a large scale. Li Yanqing must be prepared to deal with it. In addition to Xicheng's own 5,000 troops, Li Yanqing also 5,000 people were transferred from the North City and the South City, and 30,000 militiamen were transferred to prepare for the battle.

   "Get everyone ready to listen to my orders at any time!"

  Hundreds of Jin soldiers had already reached the moat, and there was still no movement on the top of the city at this time, so they put a long wooden plank on the moat, ran over the wooden plank, and pressed their bodies against the city wall.

Jin Bing had the experience of blowing up the outer city gate for the first time. They cooperated tacitly, and soon the three teams merged into two teams, distributed on both sides of the city gate, one south and one north, with about 60 people from the south and 40 people from the north. Carry ten thunderbolts.

Today Jinbing is going to deal with Liangmen, which is one of the main gates of the West City. There is also Zhengmen in the south, but because Zhengmen enters the Bian River, it is a natural barrier to the cavalry, so Jinbing set his target. On the beam gate.

The blasting by the Hundred Golden Soldiers was very methodical. It was exactly the same as blasting the west gate of the outer city for the first time. The first bomb was blown up first, and after the first thunderbolt loosened the bricks next to the gate, ten more thunderbolts were placed. In this way, even if the copper gate cannot be blown open, the structures on both sides of the copper gate can be blown up, causing the copper gate to fall completely. As for bringing twenty thunderbolts, it is because Liangmen is an urn city, and they still need to blow open the inside A city gate, but that city gate is much easier, and a thunderbolt can solve the problem.

  The headed centurion beckoned, and two soldiers rushed up. They placed a thunderbolt on the joint between the bronze gate and the city wall with ease, and the next step was to ignite it.

At this time, Li Yanqing nodded, and immediately a dozen soldiers picked up buckets and poured them down. The buckets of water suddenly poured down like a waterfall from the sky. In addition to moisture penetration, Zhentianlei was also affected by the water, turning into a wet mine.

The golden soldiers below were taken aback. At this moment, an iron fire thunder was thrown down, and it happened to land among several golden soldiers who were close to the city wall. The iron fire thunder suddenly exploded. up.

The sudden splash of water and explosion scared hundreds of soldiers out of their wits and jumped into the moat desperately, while a dozen soldiers holding Zhen Tianlei ran towards the small bridge. shoot arrows.

All of a sudden, the arrows rained down, and the golden soldiers screamed and hit the arrows one after another. More than a dozen golden soldiers who had just run to the board with Zhentianlei in their arms were also overturned by the random arrows, and fell into the river together with Zhentianlei. Twenty or so soldiers who had just climbed ashore could not escape the rain of arrows, and they fell to the ground and died. In just a moment, more than a hundred soldiers of gold were all killed under the rain of arrows, and no one survived.

At the same moment when Tie Huo Lei exploded, Wanyan Zongwang knew that their surprise attack had failed. It was not the explosion of Zhen Tianlei, but it was under the city wall. He clenched his fists with hatred, but he quickly relaxed. It is normal for a surprise attack to fail. They used a surprise attack to break through the outer city, and of course the opponent would be on guard.

  Wan Yan Zongwang immediately ordered coldly: "Pass my order, retreat back to the camp!"

  They did not carry siege weapons and could only retreat.

  The 10,000 troops quickly withdrew to the north, and the 30,000 cavalry in the distance also received the retreat order and quickly retreated towards the camp.

Jin Bing's northward retreat was no longer concealed, black shadows surged, horseshoes sounded like thunder, and thousands of troops retreated northward. The soldiers on the top of the city saw Jin Bing's plan tonight, and many people broke out in cold sweat. This turned out to be a big battle.

  Zhou Lin stepped forward and asked puzzledly: "Since the preparations are so well prepared, but they are withdrawn, it is puzzling!"

  Li Yanqing smiled slightly, "Perhaps they didn't think of the need to climb the wall to enter the city!"

  Zhou Lin was stunned for a moment, but couldn't help laughing out loud.

In the marshal's big tent, Wanyan Zongwang reported to Marshal Du Wanyanxie's defeat tonight with trepidation. He thought that Wanyanxie would also be furious, but he didn't expect that Wanyan Xie also didn't speak, but appeared Restless, as if he was waiting for something, Wanyan Zongwang was a little skeptical, Marshal Du almost didn't listen to his report.

   "Marshal, what happened?" Wanyan Zongwang asked cautiously.

  Wanyan Xie also waved his hand. He was very annoyed and didn't want to explain. Instead, he paced back and forth anxiously. Wanyan Zongwang didn't dare to ask any more questions, so he could only accompany him quietly waiting for some news?

   At this moment, there was a sound of running outside, and a soldier almost rushed into the big tent, "Marshal, the diagnosis is true!"

"ah!"

  Wan Yanxie also yelled immediately, swept the things on the table across the ground, kicked the table over, he suddenly pulled out his sword, angrily left the big tent and left.

  Wan Yan Zongwang was stunned. Seeing Marshal Du walking away, he quickly grabbed a soldier and asked, "What happened?"

   "Don't the deputy commander know? The plague has spread."

   "What!" Wanyan Zongwang was taken aback, and asked anxiously, "What's going on?"

The soldiers smiled wryly and said, "Both Dongzhai and Xizhai suffered from vomiting and diarrhea last night, but these soldiers were afraid of being sent to the isolation camp, so they concealed their illness. As a result, there was news tonight that the Dongzhai People died on the border, and all the soldiers died. According to preliminary statistics, thousands of people in Dongzhai and Xizhai had diarrhea symptoms. The commander asked the military doctor to diagnose it. The deputy commander also heard the report just now. It's all plague."

  Wanyan Zongwang suddenly felt cold all over. He knew very well what the outbreak of the plague meant to a densely populated army.

  (end of this chapter)

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