Of course Xiaota Lan Wanyan Yuying wanted to get out alive, and he soon figured out that this must be because of the different heights of the inner and outer walls. It was not a magic trick, but a very simple but practical trap. Once he understood the principle,

After getting rid of the fear in his heart, Meng An, the youngest member of the Jin Army who has a strong desire for expression and survival, naturally wants to work hard to crawl back.

The two simplest ways are to call other soldiers who have fallen into the trap to build a ladder for you, and the other is to carefully carry and stack the corpses yourself, and create as much footing space as possible under the wall.

Wanyan Yuying chose the second method because the former would expose his identity as a frontline general and easily attract the attention of the Song Army's crossbowmen on the city wall, while the latter seemed much more mundane... at least that's what many people did.

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However, things still had some difficulties. Firstly, most of the corpses slipped to the bottom of the ditch, making it difficult to transport them. Secondly, the gap between the inside of the sheep and horse wall and the trench was very narrow, which made it difficult to pile up the corpses.

After several failed attempts, Wanyan Yuying, who was already pierced with seven or eight crossbow arrows in his armor, like a hairless hedgehog, noticed the escape route of others - dozens of steps away from him, there was an obvious person.

He is a young man who is a "robust civilian husband" under Zhang Yu, and he is trying an escape route that seems very feasible.

This person was also stacking corpses, but he was not stacking them at the bottom of a narrow wall, but at the bottom of an inner trench... Because there was a ladder beside him, it was obvious that this person was going to use the corpse to make the ladder stable on the ice.

It's easy to climb the ladder and climb the wall to escape back.

Wanyan Yuying did not hesitate and directly chose to cooperate with this person.

A young Jurchen nobleman, and a young Han citizen who may have been from somewhere in the west of Beijing, were working together under the Song army's city wall, amidst the sound of wails and arrows piercing the air, to carry whether they were Jurchens, Han Chinese, or others.

The corpses of ethnic groups in order to escape back to the Jin Army camp... There is nothing more absurd, yet more reasonable, than this in the world.

This is the powerlessness and helplessness of an individual in a total war.

The silent cooperation between the two parties was very smooth. They quickly successfully erected the ladder. But at the moment when the ladder was erected, the nearest tower on the city noticed the movement here. With the commander's command,

The shouts came, and their probability of escape was greatly reduced.

Ever since, on the noisy battlefield, Wanyan Yuying did not hesitate to slap his former collaborator on the ice at the bottom of the ditch, and climbed up the ladder first, preparing to escape before the upcoming shooting...

The latter climbed up in embarrassment and hurried to follow. However, as the two climbed up the ladder together, the lower plate of the already unstable ladder suddenly slipped and it seemed to be out of control.

Wanyan Yuying was furious, so he went directly to the ladder and reached for the knife at his waist, ready to chop the man behind him to death on the spot. However, before he could reach for the knife at his waist, he felt pain under his armpits... This golden man

Jun Meng'an turned around and realized what he was doing.

It turned out that the young man at the back was keenly aware of Wanyan Yuying's intention, and then he took the lead and snatched the strange white blade hanging from the opponent's waist from below, and then directly inserted the knife into the gap in the opponent's armor from the side.

Wanyan Yuying was still patient when the knife was thrust out, but this Han'er was the first to panic, and actually gave up fighting for the ladder. In panic, he chose to jump off the ladder and lie down behind the pile of corpses on the ice.

Relatively speaking, the severe pain stimulated Wanyan Yuying, and the Han'er's retreat also made him no longer need to worry about the stability of the ladder. With a strong desire to survive, the man continued to crawl hard, but the pain in his armpits made him His movement was severely hampered, but he managed to climb another three or five steps before it became difficult to move again. Just as he stopped, multiple arrows flew towards him in a targeted manner, at least four of which successfully penetrated his protection. The weakest arm position caused significant damage.

Under the superimposed severe pain and the location of the wound, the man finally could no longer hold on to the ladder, but turned over and fell onto the pile of corpses.

Han'er, who was holding his head at the bottom of the ladder, saw this and realized the opportunity. He actually picked up the knife on the ground for the second time, jumped on the opponent's back, and stabbed the white blade in his hand into the opponent's neck, and then just Under the subtle gaze of the Song Army's crossbowmen on the city, he ran up the ladder and climbed over the fatal sheep-horse wall.

As for Wanyan Yuying, who was stabbed twice and hit by four arrows, he did not make it out alive in the end.

According to original history, this man lived seventy-four years. As a rare long-lived clan general in the Jin Kingdom, he experienced the rise of the Jurchens, civil strife, and all the wars and uncertainties of the Song-Liao War and the Song-Jin War. , and finally with the same military rank as Da Talan, that is, the title of deputy marshal of the Jin Kingdom; with a similar prominent position as his father, that is, as a left-behind in Xijing, he died at the end of King Sejong's most prosperous period.

But now, at the age of twenty-three, he died under Nanyang City, under his uncle's sword, and because of a ditch and a wall, because of his strong desire for expression and survival. Under the resistance of a Han'er supplementary soldier of similar age...

Nothing could be more reasonable than this.

Otherwise, as the war has progressed to this point, who should we look to for justification for the millions of lives that have been lost on this land?

Even in the afternoon, when the Jin army retreated and the Song army went out of the city to clean the battlefield inside the sheep and horse wall, no one of the Jin army generals who already knew the situation in the inner trench behind the sheep and horse wall asked why Wanyan Yuying did not leave. Returning? Not to mention that this young Meng An was stripped naked by the unknowing Song Army. Even the crossbow arrows that were hit were snatched away with all his strength. In the end, like other Jin Army soldiers, he was thrown naked from the sheep and horses. The wall has become the peripheral obstacle of this wall.

Of course, everyone has thought of similar possibilities, but most people don't care very much... It is as if the Jurchens have never died before the generals. Wanyan Agu defeated his own relatives and risked his own life to win the battle. Is it fake?

As for how Wanyan would explain to his brother when he returned home, that was his own business and had nothing to do with anyone else.

In fact, after Wanyan Wushu and others, the generals of the Jin army had a brief discussion after figuring out the reason for the failure to seize the city, but they were only more concerned about two things in today's battle:

First, the casualties were somewhat high;

Secondly, Nanyang city defense does have some tricks, and it can be seen that the people who defend the city have some routines and foundations.

And the two things eventually combined into one thing, that is, should we continue to maintain this intensity of siege until a sufficiently large and sufficient stone cannon cluster is set up?

The answer is unquestionable. The fourth prince Wanyan Wushu has already made a conclusion. He wants all the Song people in the city to breathe again in one day.

But if this is the case, it would be a bit unworthy to risk the lives of the Jurchens, or the main force of the Jin Army, to explore the way to the city.

As a result, Zhang Yu was naturally promoted. He was now the governor of Henan Province in the Jin Kingdom, and was given a large amount of weapons and food. Wanyan Wushu also allowed him to form a new 'new army' of 10,000 people.

!That's not all, the fourth prince also promised that in the future, if Nanyang is broken, in Henan, Jingdong will build a Qi State, with Tokyo City as its capital, and Henan will build a Zheng State, with Nanyang City as its capital. This southern expedition

Even if a powerful person is said to be a loner, it is not necessarily a bad thing.

Of course, Zhang Yu was overjoyed about this. After thanking the fourth prince for his great kindness, he swore that he would do his best to capture Nanyang City for the fourth prince and capture Cangzhou Zhao Jiu alive.

The Fourth Prince was also rarely comforted by a smile.

However, when this man returned to his eastern camp and entered his military tent, his face suddenly turned dark again. After a long while, he summoned his sworn brother and trusted lieutenant Li Dayin, and went back to the rear tent.

The author explained everything.

"This means letting our brothers die!" After hearing this, Li Dayin fell down in the tent and looked helpless. "Today, the three Jurchen Meng'an came together to help in the battle, but they only lost their troops and couldn't even cross the sheep and horse wall.

...If this continues, how many days will it take to break through the sheep and horse wall? How many days will it take to fill in the inner trench? And then there is the city wall!"

"You said we have to wait until they finish firing the cannon!" Zhang Yu replied with a dark face while playing with the dagger in his hand. "We may not need to break down the city wall."

"Fire up the artillery?" Li Dayin couldn't help but sneered. "The Jurchens must not be fools. After knowing that there is a way to defend the city today, they must bring out enough artillery carriages. In my opinion, the golden man will not do it without two hundred artillery carriages."

There may be three or four hundred artillery carriages, but now there are only fifty artillery carriages in the camp... By then, I'm afraid all our brothers will be dead!"

Zhang Yu also sneered, but said nothing for a while.

"Brother, are you fooled by the phrase 'called a lonely Taoist and a widower'?" Li Dayin suddenly remembered something and asked him seriously.

"If I had been fooled by them, I wouldn't have come to see you today." Zhang Yu glanced at the other party and shook his head repeatedly. "My family knows my own affairs, how can I have the life of that noble family? Isn't it because I am surrounded by golden people?

, were you driven all the way here?"

Li Dayin breathed a sigh of relief and explained again: "It's not that brothers are overly worried, it's actually that they are being controlled by others now, and they just feel guilty..."

"No need to say more." Zhang Yufu shook his head again. "I asked you to come here, but I just asked you to think of a way to have an account with the Jurchens and save as many troops as possible... In fact, my brother is just like you.

It's as if someone is holding a knife to your neck. I feel uncomfortable all over. In this battle, I don't expect any reward or future. I just hope that I can survive the war safely and still have thousands of soldiers in my hands.

Ma, we brothers can find a remote corner and live happily for a few years!"

Li Dayin nodded repeatedly, stood up and proclaimed his orders, and then left the tent... He was a carpenter by trade, and was later captured as a young man. He was a gunner when he defended Tokyo City, and he also defended Huazhou before. The matter of city defense is

A good hand.

Seeing Li Dayin going to work, Zhang Yu didn't say much. After a little preparation, he took off his armor. Regardless of the cold winter, he went out of the tent bare-chested and only carried a dagger.

The 'one-stick man' who came back from the battlefield was driven out together with the 'new soldiers', preparing to continue to expand his troops.

But it is obvious that, like Zhang Yu and Li Dayin, after experiencing today's tragic siege, many people in this special unit have doubts about the prospects of the war, at least their own opinions in this war.

prospects, giving rise to doubts and wavering.

"What did you say?"

After a period of silence, under the afternoon sun, Zhang Yu, shirtless and with a red flower tattooed on his chest, turned over and sat on the railing high up in the camp. Then he smiled and asked the middle-aged man who was the first to speak. "No."

I’ve asked you to be a stickman, and you’re still not happy?”

"Captain." This middle-aged man who was obviously elected quickly kowtowed to Zhang Yu and explained carefully. "Captain gives you a face, and we are naturally grateful..."

"Captain." Zhang Yu fiddled with the dagger in his hand and corrected him nonchalantly. "The fourth prince just promoted me to the post of Commander of the Henan Army and Horses...where did he come from?"

"Yes, Dujian!" The middle-aged man continued to kowtow. "We are naturally grateful for the honor given by the Dujian, but we are not soldiers. We are mostly businessmen and farmers. We can neither use knives nor swords.

If you don't know how to kill, wouldn't it be a waste of your life if you go into battle? It would be a waste of your life, but I'm afraid it will delay the war and delay the future of the prisoner Jinren."

Zhang Yu raised his eyebrows slightly when he heard this, as if he was thinking about something.

Seeing this situation, the crowd inside the fence seemed to have received some kind of encouragement. Under the recommendation of another group of people, another person came out, but he had been promoted to a supplementary soldier, and he set off today carrying the ladder.

, a young man who then came back alive.

Unlike the middle-aged man on the ground who looked careful but was actually quite at ease, this young man visibly flinched for a moment, but still reluctantly kowtowed to the ground: "Prisoner, we... we actually want to go back and be civilian husbands... today we will go out with the ladder.

, a team of 100 people, only about 80 came back alive, and a dozen more were injured by arrows. If this continues, they will not survive with only a piece of wood. And if they are civilians, they will look at the city officials.

On the contrary, the army will raise its hands and let them go."

Zhang Yu turned his head to look at the dazzling sun, then touched the tattoo on his chest, and then turned around and nodded: "What you said is reasonable and true... When going into battle, the officers and soldiers will naturally follow the soldiers and release arrows first, and then

Even if he was a farmer or a businessman and became a soldier, he really couldn't kill anyone. Even if he carried the ladder to the top of the city, he would only be cut off by a knife from the army."

The two people below kowtowed repeatedly, and together with the two large groups of people behind them who saw hope, they knelt down and kowtowed.

"But there's nothing we can do." Zhang Yu suddenly sighed loudly. "If you were sergeants at the beginning, wouldn't it be enough if you knew how to kill people? Or if you were craftsmen, you wouldn't have to go into battle and you could still eat and drink well... But you are just farmers.

With businessmen! In this world, farmers and businessmen have nothing to do with each other?"

The two people below were about to speak, but Zhang Yu suddenly became serious again: "I have a way to make you sergeants quickly. If you don't shrink from going into battle, you may still be able to make contributions and become officers... These two leaders,

Surround us together!”

The two people below looked at each other, and in an instant, dozens of soldiers came out to surround the two leaders. They were obviously familiar with the road. At the same time, everyone on the periphery also retreated hastily, but soon they

There were also soldiers hiding from behind.

"Get up!" Zhang Yu didn't pay attention to this, but raised his hands and shouted to the two people in front of him.
To be continued...