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Three to 4000 people are already a lot for the Jurchens, and even more for them.

In the city, the people are all running away in disorder at this moment, running towards the nearby houses.

A dozen or so ordinary people were unlucky, and were directly shot to death on the street, and blood immediately flowed out, staining the loess red.

Seeing this scene, some relatives burst into tears, but they didn't dare to go out in the rain of arrows.

Arrow Rain shot for more than ten minutes before stopping for a while.

Qi Shizhong glanced outside, then immediately shrank back.

This glance immediately made his complexion even more ugly. There are really three or four thousand Jurchen people from outside.

With so many people, there are only five hundred people on their side, this battle is not easy to fight at all.

"Get ready, the enemy is approaching!"

Qi Shizhong took a slight breath, and shouted at the subordinates beside him, it's already reached this time, and no matter what, he can't back down.

Otherwise, they will die if the city is broken.

Thanks to the city walls, the armaments are all ready.

The people picked up their bows and arrows, leaning on the angle of the female wall and started shooting at people who were already visible.

The parapet has a certain angle of inclination, so that soldiers can shoot arrows completely behind the parapet.

The mutual inclination angles directly form a shooting range without dead ends.

The rain of arrows started to shoot towards the Jurchens outside the city. The gates below the city had been completely closed after seeing the Jurchens.

Facing the gate that opens inward, soldiers can hide behind the gate when closing the gate, avoiding enemy fire and closing the gate easily.

Chapter 6 and Nine

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The arrows shot at both sides in a staggered manner. Many people from the Jurchen clan fell to the ground, but many veterans on the guard side also fell to the ground.

Of course, hiding behind the parapet gave them a great advantage.

However, the Jurchens outside the city are particularly good at riding and shooting. After approaching, they saw the veterans who were a little exposed. The arrows shot by the backhand were extremely accurate, and they shot and killed three or four veterans in a few strokes.

Jurchen's shooting skills directly pushed back the veterans on the city wall.

Then, seeing these Jurchens yelling, they climbed up the city wall with ladders.

Seeing this scene, Qi Shizhong suddenly felt something was wrong.

Why did these Jurchens give him an extremely crazy look?

Actually, Qi Shizhong didn't know.

At the age of last year, the Jurchens and Tartars joined hands to go south.

It is also necessary to bring some rations when going out to fight, especially if it is a large-scale and long-term battle.

At that time, the Jurchen tribe brought a lot of rations, and brought out their family wealth.

The result was good. After the lone army went deep, they did not wait for the Tartars, but heard the news that the Tartars were annihilated.

Hearing this news, the Jurchen clan fled in fright. They had gone deep alone, and they didn't know why the Tartars were defeated.

But I just feel that so many armies of the Tartars have been defeated. If the people of their tribe don't leave as soon as possible, they will definitely be buried here.

So some things should be thrown away, just make sure you are alive.

After fleeing in embarrassment, he finally ran back to his own tribe.

But it also brought some serious consequences. Instead of grabbing any food, they took their own family property into it.

One winter passed, and I don't know how many people starved to death.

I want to plunder, but I don't dare to think that the Tartars have been defeated, let alone it is winter, how to go out?

Now that spring is coming, I heard that there is a huge caravan passing through their territory and stationed in Yanran City.

At this moment, Husal couldn't bear it anymore, and rushed forward with his clansmen.

His idea was to take down the city in front of him by the way, and the food in it would also belong to him.

I haven't looked at this Yanran City very much. I just feel that there is not much oil and water in this city. In addition, the soldiers here are a bit hard-boned, and I feel that the gain outweighs the gain.

But things are different now.

Even if this bone is difficult to chew, he will chew it off.

Even if many clansmen died, that was just right.

Originally, there was not enough food in the tribe. If more tribesmen died, the food in the tribe would be enough when the time comes.

He made a good plan, he can get a lot of rations if he hits here.

At the same time, it will reduce a lot of the population on its own side. With such an increase and decrease, the tribe will have a way to survive.

What he thinks, his people naturally don't know.

They only knew that when Husar brought them here, he told them that as long as the city was destroyed, they would have food and drink, and the people would not starve to death, nor would their children.

Having such a news is enough for them.

Therefore, when they started attacking the city, they seemed to be going crazy and kept climbing towards the city wall.

This kind of reckless attitude easily made Qi Shizhong feel something different.

At this moment, he couldn't help but his face changed slightly, feeling the difference in the other party.

"kill!"

At this time, Qi Shizhong had no other choice. Seeing that the enemy was about to climb up the city wall, he could only draw his sword and kill the enemy below the city wall.

The veterans on the side heard the sound and responded in unison, killing the Jurchen tribe below.

Fortunately, these people are about to climb the city wall, and the people in the distance don't dare to shoot arrows at will.

In this way, the two sides began to enter the time of short-handed handover.

The sound of sharp knives piercing flesh, or the sound of weapons clashing, rang out.

There were shouts of killing on the battlefield.

The Jurchen people seemed to be crazy, raised their scimitars, and slashed at the Han people one by one.

A few veteran soldiers had just cut down the enemy in front of them, and then they were slashed by the Jurchens on the side, and then stabbed in again.

Immediately, blood froth flowed out from the corner of his mouth.

"Put fire oil, put fire oil!"

Seeing that something was wrong, Qi Shizhong hurriedly shouted.

They don't have a lot of kerosene reserves here, so it can be said to be extremely precious. He will not easily release kerosene unless it is absolutely necessary, but at this time, if he doesn't let it go, the enemy will all attack. up.

When a veteran heard this, he immediately turned around and took some buckets, dumped them without saying a word, and threw all the buckets down at the end.

The pungent smell of kerosene began to radiate. Some Jurchens felt that the situation was not good, and ran towards the city wall in a frenzy. They knew that only by running up now could they survive.

It's just that the veterans above, who will give them this opportunity, are desperately blocking the front.

Finally, a torch was thrown down.

In mid-air, when it touched the ladder already stained with kerosene, it exploded with a bang, and the flames began to spread down the mountain from the middle.

The Jurchen, who was splashed with fire oil, screamed and scratched around, and fell down with the people around her.

At this moment, there was already a sea of ​​flames under the city wall.

It is not so easy to get rid of the kerosene stain on the body.

Partially raw kerosene burns quickly and is not easy to extinguish.

The Jurchens below the city wall directly killed nearly a hundred people.

Seeing the flames under the city wall, Husar waved his troops and retreated, but he did not go far, but stationed in the distance, as if he was preparing to attack the city tomorrow.

Seeing this, Qi Shizhong frowned, feeling that the situation was not good, or that the situation was very bad.

Seeing the other party like this, he is already ready to fight him to the death.

This was bad news for him. There was only a little kerosene in total, and he had used it on the first day. What about the second day and the third day?

Without these kerosene, can they still stop the opponent?

This Jurchen person, this time the siege was particularly crazy. When they fought with them before, they had never seen such a scene.

Qi Shizhong turned his head and looked at the veterans who had died in battle, his face became even more gloomy.

They didn't take much advantage of this battle.

A rough look shows that nearly 50 veterans died on their side.

This is only the first day, and there are still so many opponents, how should we fight next?

Chapter 6

In Yanran City, Qi Shizhong commanded the delivery of the wounded, and the soldiers who died in battle were also sent down together.

The fire outside the city hadn't been extinguished yet, but Qi Shizhong did not neglect, and still let a few people monitor the Jurchen clan.

However, the Jurchen clan outside seemed to have no intention of attacking, and just rested in place.

Dusk gradually came, dyeing the city outside the Great Wall a bit golden, and also a bit like a hero's twilight tone.

"General, the Jurchens outside are not so easy to retreat. We have only a few soldiers now. If we don't ask for help, we won't be able to defend at all."

The standard bearer He Qi wiped his face, and said to Qi Shizhong.

Qi Shizhong also frowned, he felt that those Jurchens outside were not so easy to let go.

"Let's go, let's ask the people in the caravan."

Qi Shizhong thought for a while, and took the lead to find the caravan.

There is only such a small place in the city, it is too easy to find the other party, within a short time, Qi Shizhong led the people to find the other party.

"Master, what are you?"

Seeing Qi Shizhong, the young man outside felt his heart tense immediately, but his face remained calm, and he asked quite enthusiastically.

"I'm looking for your shopkeeper and let him come out."

Qi Shizhong waved his hand, and was too lazy to talk nonsense to the person in front of him, so he asked him to come out.

"Master, can you tell me what happened?"

The boy was a little uncertain about their purpose, and he was still a little nervous.

Qi Shizhong frowned, looking impatiently at the other party.

"It's polite to ask you to call someone out, and you want us to break through the door directly?"

The young servant was startled when he heard the words, he didn't dare to ask any more questions, he quickly bowed his head, nodded, turned and entered the room.

A moment later, a frail-looking woman in a Kezi skirt and a hosta on her head came out with lotus steps.

"Meet a few military masters."

The woman looked quite delicate, but she was still very polite when she saw a few people, and she was very polite.

This kind of attitude made the rough old men on the side swallow their saliva after seeing it.

I have been here for a long time, and I have never seen such a beautiful woman.

Qi Shizhong was very calm, but seeing that the person who came out was a woman, he couldn't help being somewhat surprised.

"You are the shopkeeper of this caravan? You are actually a woman. There are no gentlemen in your family?"

Most of the commercial convoys like this are headed by men, and there are no women.

This is not discriminating against women or anything, it is entirely about the convenience of movement and the consideration of handling things.

It's inconvenient for a woman to be in the caravan.

"The little girl is indeed the treasurer of the caravan. My father fell ill a month ago. This time the caravan has to leave again. There is absolutely no reason for the little girl not to accompany her."