Chapter 143 Reinforcement
Wanyan Huo's woman looked at Zhang Jun not far ahead, and her eyes were blazing fire. This Song general was really difficult. It has been two days since Wanyan Huo's woman still couldn't grasp his marching rules. After the lesson I learned last time, she didn't dare to chase him to death, and she felt a lot of fire in her heart.
Zhang Jun divided the army into three parts, and brought less than 200 people to deal with Wanyan Huo's girl who came out to drive out. The other two departments, each with more than 200 people, led by Chai Biao and Jiang Qing. They were all hidden in the mountains near Shanzhou. They saw the opportunity and suddenly came out to help Shanzhou defend the city. As soon as the Jin army sent troops to siege, they immediately fled to the mountains.
It has been two days since he returned to the outside of Shanzhou City. Zhang Jun could see clearly that it was very difficult to defend Shanzhou. The city walls had been damaged in many places. Almost every day, the Jin army broke into the city and was forced out by the Song army inside. No one knew how long Li Yanxian could defend.
In the city of Shanzhou, Zhang Chi hugged his steel knife tightly, leaned against the wall, looking at the sun in the sky, and was a little dazed. He had never thought that war was like this. After entering the city for six or seven days, he had seven broken steel knives, all of which were rolled up. Wang Xiaoliu's military weapons were carefully made. His steel knife was like this, and others could be imagined.
At this time, Li Yanxian's deployment was the former Shanzhou troops defending the city, and Zhang Chi led his 300 subordinates to assist the places that were broken through by the Jin army at any time. It was fine in the previous few days, but in the last three or four days, Zhang Chi had almost fought bloody battles day and night.
Kang Yi licked his lips and rubbed his steel knife. Suddenly, he said to Zhang Chi on the other side: "Commander, it's been seven days since we arrived in Shanzhou. There have been many people killed in the past two days, and I suddenly miss my hometown very much."
Zhang Chi nodded: "Yes, I miss my parents too. On New Year's Day, our army set out, and my father and brother went to Xinye City to see me. As a result, I didn't even meet each other, so I followed the command on New Year's Day. I don't know if I can go back to my hometown after leaving—"
"The east of the city is broken! Go quickly-"
Zhang Chi suddenly jumped up from the ground, dragged his long knife, and shouted loudly: "Kill!" He ran to the east of the city first.
When they arrived at the east of the city, they saw more than 30 Jin soldiers who had already stepped down the city wall and came along the long street. Most of the Song people nearby climbed up the roofs and uncovered the tiles and threw the Jin soldiers below. There were Jin soldiers with bows, bent their bows and arrows, and people were shot and dropped from time to time.
Zhang Chi took his subordinates and pushed his sword to fight towards the Jin army. Now, everyone didn't even want to say anything, just tried to fight. With just a cup of tea, all the more than thirty Jin people were chopped to the ground.
Zhang Chi ordered the soldiers to help the people. He walked in the pile of corpses with a knife, and stabbed them until they were breathless. There was no food in the city of Shanzhou, and the Jin army could not keep a living.
Li Yanxian on the city tower looked like a bone, with only a pair of bright eyes. Seeing Zhang Chi in the city killing for a while, checking the battlefield, and sitting at the base of the wall in groups of three or three, Li Yanxian sighed.
These are people who have joined the army for one year, or even less than a year. When they enter Shanzhou, they face the most cruel war at once. Li Yanxian could see that some people inside were afraid, some were unwilling to face blood, and there were all kinds of people. But when they were opposite to the enemy, they never retreated. When they needed to stand up, they took the knife and went up. If they needed to fight, they would fight desperately.
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Zhang Jun said: "Since three or four days ago, the Jin army would break the city every day. However, the people in the city were really tenacious. If the Jin army attacked in, they would drive them out. The city walls on both sides of the east and west were already broken, but the people in the city had no energy to repair them. If there was no army coming, I guess Shanzhou would not be able to defend for five days. Even if there was a bad luck, there would be nothing strange about breaking the city tomorrow."
Shao Ling couldn't help frowning after hearing this: "You can't help defending the city if you are outside with your cavalry?"
Zhang Jun smiled bitterly: "Without me, the thousand cavalry, the Jin army would have captured Shanzhou long ago. Now my cavalry is divided into four parts. Some are led by Zhang Chi in the city to help Li Guan defend the city. Some are led by me to attract the Jin army to attack. There are two more, scattered in the mountains outside the city, and they will harass the Jin soldiers who will attack the city whenever they have the opportunity. Moreover, our army's food and grass have been cut off and we can't hold on for a few days."
Shao Ling nodded, without saying a word for a moment, and was thinking quietly. After a while, he said, "It seems that the situation in Shanzhou is worse than I guess. I originally thought that the Jin army was too tight to siege the city and there was only a shortage of food in the city."
Zhang Jun shook his head repeatedly: "It's not just that? The Jin army has been sieging the city day and night since many days ago. It's not that Li Zhan is dedicated to the country and guarding the city tightly, how can someone else defend until today? Now, the city is exhausted."
Shao Ling stood up, paced back and forth a few steps. He turned around and said to Zhang Jun: "If you are Lou Su and you meet my army, what should you do? Should you withdraw your troops immediately, or will you continue to attack the city and fight with me?"
Zhang Jun said without hesitation: "Of course, he will attack the city and send troops to fight you."
Seeing Shao Ling's incredible look, Zhang Jun said: "Brother think about it carefully, there is nothing strange about this. Since last autumn, the Jin army's army's army's army's middle road and east roads have gone south, and the troops headed straight to Liangzhe and Jiangxi. The tens of thousands of troops outside the city of Shanzhou are almost all the troops that Lou Su can mobilize. There is more than a month and a half of the siege, how could he give up halfway? As long as there are not enough troops coming, he will not give up Shanzhou."
Shao Ling nodded and didn't say anything for a moment. The situation in Shanzhou was much worse than his estimate. Originally, Shao Ling thought that if his five thousand troops arrived, the Jin army should withdraw. It was nothing more than in Pinglu or somewhere, confronting him. As long as he could resist, when Wang Xiaoliu's army came later, the two sides fought to the death. Surrounding Shanzhou City, although there was a possibility of breaking the city, it was also possible to be attacked on both sides. But according to Zhang Jun's opinion, his five thousand troops were not enough to relieve Shanzhou.
Shanzhou is located on the main road between Jingzhao Prefecture and Luoyang. When Lou Su attacked, he considered attacking aid. Unfortunately, Shaanxi did not send troops, Zhai Xing's strength was not enough, and Lou Su had a large army but no place to use his skills. Not to mention Shao Ling's 5,000 men, Wang Xiaohun's 25,000 men were all here, and Lou Su might not withdraw his troops easily.
Chapter completed!