Chapter 503 Rainy Night Siege
Under the city wall to the east, more than 500 catapults were placed there, and countless huge stones were smashing hard towards the city wall.
At this moment, the Jurchen defenders in Zhongjing had already arrived on the city wall. The big rocks were thrown down in the darkness, and the Jurchen defenders were immediately hit.
Some Jurchen soldiers fell to the ground, their legs and feet had been broken by huge rocks. They kept screaming, but no one went to rescue them.
Under the city wall to the south, nearly 100,000 Song troops launched an attack on the city. All of them were holding Song crossbows in their hands, and arrows flew towards them like rain.
The Jurchen soldiers above were also fighting back, but the Jurchens mainly used riding and shooting, and the bows and arrows in their hands were also horse bows, and the range was far inferior to Song Crossbow!
In just a short time, a large number of Jurchen soldiers on it had fallen down! Many Jurchen soldiers held shields in their hands to block it, but there were still some that kept falling down.
Under the city wall to the west, there was also a wave of crossbow attacks, countless Song soldiers climbed up the city wall with ladders.
At the location of the west city gate, the Song soldiers carried huge wood and hit the west city gate hard. The west city gate kept trembling, and the Jurchens were pressing firmly inside.
There was no war in the north, but the cavalry of the Song army was looming, and the Jurchens did not dare to slack off at all, so they could only send people to defend on it.
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The rain continued to rain, and the Song army was sieging the city for a whole night.
The hundreds of thousands of Song army seemed to have all been put into the siege.
When dawn came, the city walls were filled with the bodies of Jurchens. There were also the bodies of Song Jun under the city walls, but the bodies of Song Jun were much less than those of Jurchens.
Jin Wushu was covered in blood at this moment. He had just led his soldiers to block the new wave of attacks of the Song army on the west city wall. It seemed that the Song army was about to launch a second wave of attacks.
At this moment, Wanyan Chang, Guo Yaoshi and others came over from a distance.
"What are the casualties here?" Wanyan Chang said.
"The casualties are very heavy! The Song army is extremely powerful! I originally thought that the Song army in Datong is powerful, but I didn't expect that the Song army everywhere is equally powerful! We are not good at defending the city, and there are not many supplies to defend the city in Zhongjing. It is even more difficult to resist the Song army." Jin Wushu wiped the blood from his face, took a deep breath, and said.
The Jin soldiers have been rising for many years, but after the Jin soldiers have always been attacking, and they rarely take the initiative to defend the city! They have almost no experience in defending the city, and they did not expect that the Song army would take the initiative to go north, so the city defense materials prepared by Zhongjing City are extremely limited.
There are only dozens of stone-capping machines in the entire Zhongjing City, and there are no crossbows to defend the city, nor are there any woods, huge stones and other things to defend against. Jin Wushu, Wanyan Chang and Guo Yaoshi don’t know how to defend the city more effectively.
The Song army below launched a second wave of attacks, and Jin Wushu had already urged the Jin soldiers to continue to block them.
"Can we block the Song army?" Wanyan Chang said.
"If the Song army had been attacking like this, I was afraid that Zhongjing would be defeated within a few days! Grand Tutor, I think we might as well take the soldiers out and fight the Song army in the field." Jin Wushu said.
"Field battle? There are so many Song cavalry in the north waiting for their work. Our troops are far inferior to them. If we go out, we will have a dead end." Guo Yaoshi sneered.
"How could the situation in the world become like this?" Wanyan Chang stomped his feet.
He did not expect that in just a few years, the situation changed drastically! Especially since this year, there was a great chaos in Liaodong, and now the Song army has fully entered the northern grassland! If the Zhongjing urban agglomeration is lost and the chaos in Liaodong cannot be restored, the Jin Kingdom will almost perish! At this time, Wanyan Chang felt that the strength of the Jin Kingdom was indeed not as strong as they imagined! The Jin Kingdom's population was limited, and it was enough to shock the Khitans or other ethnic groups in the country to win, but now if they lose, they are not even qualified to make a comeback.
"I can only look forward to Yelu Dashi and the others going south soon! Moreover, after the Song army fought overnight, they must have been extremely tired, and they also need to rest!" Jin Wushu said.
However, on September 26, the Song army did not rest for a whole day, and they were attacking Zhongjing City fiercely.
In the morning, the attacks encountered in the west were the most fierce. At noon, the attacks in the east became fierce. The city wall in the east were almost defeated by the Song army, and more than 10,000 Jurchen soldiers died on the city wall in the east.
In the afternoon, the Song army in the north finally launched an attack.
Han Shizhong personally led the 120,000 infantry in the Datong Military Region to launch a fierce attack on the northern city wall. He personally climbed the ladder! Jin Wushu immediately led tens of thousands of Jin soldiers to arrive, and they transported all the city guarding supplies in the city. It was not until late at night that they blocked the Song army, but this time they were even more injured!
"So long has passed, and the Song army must leave now!" Seeing the Song army descending from the city wall like a tide, Jin Wushu breathed a sigh of relief.
"Fourth Prince, the Song army must be very tired now! They came all the way from Yuzhou and were extremely tired. They will not launch another attack tonight. We can rest and discuss how to defend the city." A thousand-man next to him said.
"Not bad." Jin Wushu nodded.
However, late at night, the Song army's attack did not stop.
However, the scale of the attack this time was much smaller.
Before, hundreds of thousands of Song army were sieging the city, but only more than 100,000 troops were sieging the city that night!
The more than 100,000 soldiers and horses mainly attacked by bows and crossbows, but occasionally they would suddenly launch a fierce attack on a certain city wall, and they would hold a ladder toward a certain city wall.
That night, the Jin soldiers were still unable to rest and could only continue to guard the city wall.
When they woke up in the morning, they found that there were countless tents around Zhongjing City.
Last night, the rest of the Song army rested in the tent.
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On the morning of September 27, the heavy rain for several days finally stopped, and the sun rose from the east and shone on the grassland.
The scenery was beautiful, and more than 100,000 Song troops retreated. The Jin soldiers above had just breathed a sigh of relief. More than 100,000 Song troops who had been resting all night began to participate in the siege!
Jin Wushu didn't rest last night. Seeing so many more people coming from the Song army, Jin Wushu felt his scalp numb.
"If the Song army kept attacking like this, their number of troops would be much more than us, and their siege weapons would be much better than us. At that time, there would be only one way to die! Even if we didn't die in battle, we would be exhausted to death! Come quickly call out all the tribesmen in the city and let all the tribesmen participate in defending the city." Jin Wushu said.
In the morning, all the Jurchens from Zhongjing City came to the city wall to participate in defending the city.
Most of these Jurchens were old men, teenagers, and occasionally some women. They took weapons from the soldiers to resist the Song army.
On this day, the Song army's attack was still the same as last night, mainly siege weapons such as crossbows, stone throwers, etc. Every half an hour they would suddenly launch a fierce attack on a certain city wall!
When the sun sets, countless Jurchen corpses piled up on the city walls.
"Wu Shu, we can't stop the Song army anymore." Wanyan Chang said.
"We want to call everyone in the city over and let everyone participate in defending the city!" Jin Wushu said gritting his teeth.
"The tribe members in the city have already come out!" Wanyan Chang said.
"In addition to our tribe members, there are also Khitans and Han people!" Jin Wushu said.
"This... the Khitans and Han people in Zhongjing City have all entered the new affiliated army. The rest are some listless and lacking strength. Most of them are hungry all year round and cannot participate in defending the city." Wanyan Chang said.
"There is no way to do this, now it can only be done!" Jin Wushu gritted his teeth.
Zhongjing City once served as the capital of Liao Kingdom for hundreds of years, with a large population here. However, since the Jurchen invasion, the population here has dropped significantly. Now there are only more than 100,000 Khitans and Han people. All Khitans and Han people are thin and lonely, and they are listless. Their expressions are also very confused and do not know how to resist.
On the night of September 27, the Song army changed a group of troops to participate in the siege! This time, in addition to the 100,000 regular troops, there were 100,000 militias participating in the attack! The Song army's militias were the best among the production and construction corps, each of them in their prime. In the past, they also often trained, but they had not participated in real wars. Now the Song army has an absolute advantage, just to let them participate in the war, and they can also be converted into regular troops when necessary.
The ordinary people in Zhongjing who were driven to the city wall fled down to the bottom at the beginning of the battle. The Jurchen soldiers kept intercepting them, but few people were willing to stay! In the end, they were still Jurchen soldiers, and the Jurchens defended the city.
The Jurchen soldiers and the Jurchens were already exhausted, and some people had not rested for several days, and there were more Jurchens who died that night.
Chapter completed!