All the Jin army archers aimed at Zhang Shixun, and they could only target him.
Because he was the only one standing on the wall looking so proud.
Arrows flew towards him like raindrops.
Seeing the arrows flying towards him like a swarm of locusts, even though he had super strong protection, he did not dare to be careless and quickly hid behind the parapet.
Although his face was protected by a visor, there were two holes at his eyes and a gap at his neck. If an arrow penetrated through these weak points, it would take his life.
After a round of arrow rain, the city wall where he was was densely packed with arrows.
Even more arrows flew over the ice city wall and shot into the village.
When Zhang Shixun saw these arrows, he grinned.
Most of these arrows can still be used after being pulled out.
I was just worried that I didn’t have enough arrows.
The Song Dynasty also had strict control over arrows. In order to stockpile enough arrows, Wang Dong spent a lot of money, a considerable portion of which was purchased from the Military Equipment Bureau by Gao Yanei through his connections.
Of course it was done secretly. If the court knew about it, it would definitely be another crime.
Zhang Shixun now had a new amusement. He would appear in the west from time to time, shoot an arrow, and then hide behind the parapet again. When he appeared again, he had moved to the east.
Every time he appeared, he attracted a rain of arrows.
The Jin soldiers also took this opportunity to push more than a dozen snowballs under the ice city wall.
When the Jin soldiers began to retreat, Zhang Shixun gave an order and all the archers appeared from behind the battlements, aimed at the retreating Jin soldiers and fired a hail of arrows, and then hid.
Pharmacist Guo ignored the dozens of bodies lying on the battlefield and ordered expressionlessly, "Keep snowballing."
The officer who had made the suggestion to him looked at the snowballs under the ice city wall and finally realized that his idea was a bad one.
He hurried to Pharmacist Guo and said, "General, this method doesn't seem to be working. Should we stop immediately?"
"Hmm?" Pharmacist Guo turned to look at him. "Zhen Wuchen, you were the one who came up with this idea, and you were the one who said it wouldn't work. Are you kidding me?"
Zhen Wuchen hurriedly said, "The snowball has grown too big, it's as tall as a person. It's almost impossible to pile more on top of it."
Pharmacist Guo was stunned for a moment, then he understood.
But I feel a little reluctant to stop here.
"Keep going. This time, make the snowball smaller... Hmm! About half a person's height."
Zhen Wuchen said with a bitter face: "If the snowballs were small, they wouldn't be enough to block the arrows, and the casualties would be great."
"There are always casualties in war. It's just a big deal, I can't care less about that."
Zhen Wuchen looked around and whispered, "General, when we surrendered to the Jin Kingdom, we had tens of thousands of soldiers. After a year of struggle, we are now less than 10,000. This is just the little we have left. If we continue to lose more, our position in the Jin Kingdom will be..."
A muscle on Pharmacist Guo's face twitched, and he said helplessly, "Wu Chen, I understand what you mean, but do we have any way out? Before we set out, Jie Mu forced me to sign a military order: if I fail to capture Zhang Xiaozhuang, I will bring my head to you."
Zhen Wuchen's expression darkened, and he complained in his heart: You only care about your own life, but don't care about the lives of your brothers. Following you is a waste of my eyes.
In order to annihilate the Jurchens, Emperor Tianzuo of Liao recruited starving people from Liaodong and established the Yuan Army.
The so-called "grudge army" means to avenge the Jurchens.
It was divided into eight camps with 28,000 people, namely Qianyi Camp, Houyi Camp, Qianjin Camp, Houjin Camp, Ganying, Xianying, Ganxiandaying and Yanzhou Camp. Guo Yaoshi was the leader of Houjin Camp.
Zhen Wuchen was the leader of Xianying and had the same status as Guo Yaoshi.
Later, due to various changes, the resentful army was reduced to four battalions, and the two were the leaders of two of the battalions.
When the Liao Dynasty was about to be destroyed, Guo Yaoshi saw that the situation was not good and immediately took the lead in surrendering to the Song Dynasty. He submitted a very emotional surrender letter, expressing his strong national identity with the Song Dynasty.
After seeing the surrender letter, the ambitious Zhao Ji praised Guo Yaoshi highly and gave him an official title and made him a promise.
Although Zhen Wuchen was also given an official title, his ability to flatter was too poor, so his official position was far below that of Guo Yaoshi.
With this, the resentful army was in the hands of Pharmacist Guo.
During his time as the co-magistrate of Yanshan Prefecture, Guo Yaoshi, relying on the emperor Huizong's favor, acted arrogantly and did whatever he wanted. He sent his subordinates to various states within Song territory to do business, earn money, and recruit soldiers, expanding his army to 50,000.
Seeing the powerful Jin Dynasty, he immediately surrendered to the Jin Dynasty despite the opposition of most of his subordinates.
Compared with the Song Dynasty, the Jin Kingdom was not so friendly to him. Whenever there was a war, it always let the resentful army be the vanguard.
Although the Song army was not strong, after a few battles, the resentful army suffered heavy losses.
Now, the Army of Resentment truly lives up to its name and becomes a team of complainers.
This time when the Jin Dynasty attacked the Song Dynasty, Wuliebufen sent Guo Yaoshi to attack the unknown Zhang Xiaozhuang, but only let Guo Yaoshi lead half of the team, and the remaining half was prepared to be used to attack the city.
It is conceivable that regardless of whether Kaifeng can be captured or not, the other half of the resentful army will suffer heavy casualties and there will not be many left.
As for this side, Zhen Wuchen did not hold out any hope of capturing Zhang Xiaozhuang.
So far, Zhang Shixun has only appeared on the top of the city wall and has not used any magical powers except shooting arrows.
It was obvious that the attack of the resentful army did not pose any threat to him, so he disdained to use his magical powers.
Once you piss him off, this beast will show no mercy.
Under the command of Pharmacist Guo, the second wave of snowballs began to roll towards the ice city wall.
This time the snowball is much smaller than last time.
Not surprisingly, as Zhen Wuchen had expected, the snowball was too small to provide shelter for the brothers pushing it, so there were heavy casualties. More than half of the men had been killed before they even reached the Ice City.
Zhen Wuchen couldn't help but beg, "General Guo, please stop. If this continues, our brothers will suffer too many casualties."
Pharmacist Guo remained unmoved. He said coldly, "Five ministers, kindness does not suffice in commanding an army. Wars are bound to be fought without casualties. Stop making such noise, or I will be rude."
Zhen Wuchen had no choice but to step aside and watch the soldiers of the resentful army fall one after another.
After suffering heavy casualties, Snowball was finally pushed under the ice city wall.
Suddenly, a National Protection Army soldier on the city wall held a tin trumpet and shouted loudly: "Brothers of the Yuan Army, stop working for the Jurchens. We are all Han people and share the same ancestors. Why do we have to kill each other?"
"Brothers of the Resentful Army, surrender quickly. The National Protection Army will treat prisoners well."
"Brothers of the Yuan Army, Han people don't fight Han people."
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"National Protection Army?"
Pharmacist Guo turned to look at Zhen Wuchen, "I seem to remember there was a Song army in Taiyuan. How did they get here?"
Zhen Wuchen smiled bitterly and said, "The National Protection Army was originally founded by Zhang Shixun. It's not surprising that it appears here."
"I see." A trace of worry appeared on Pharmacist Guo's face, but it disappeared in an instant.
He looked up at the sky, waved his hand and said, "Let's stop here for today. Let's withdraw."
As soon as the order was issued, a loud "boom" was heard from the east.
The two were startled and turned to look to the east.
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