Salihe nodded, still sitting still, but raised his hand for the second time, untied the sword from his waist and gave it to the other party: "This sword was given to me by my great grandfather, Gu Chipi, you use this sword to kill the three leading Mouke (centurions), and let each of them, Puliyan (centurions, deputy Mouke), take over the command of the army."
Gu Chipi followed the order and went, but met the fleeing soldiers. After a brief exchange, he returned without killing anyone, holding the knife given by Aguda, and reported in public: "Sir, the three Moukes and the three Puliyans were all shot dead on the mountain..."
Salihe was slightly startled, not knowing whether to be happy or worried... He was happy that this collapse was caused by all the officers being shot to death, which was partly due to luck, after all, it was not because his own troops were inferior to Tuhesu's troops; he was worried that the Song army's Shenbi bows and Chuangzi crossbows performed amazingly in this terrain, which was really frightening.
But no matter what, Salihe barely stood up and carefully took a look at the terrain that he had been observing for the entire afternoon. Then he came to the same depressing conclusion as before - apart from taking a detour, if he wanted to break into this city, he had to honestly take over the military camp on the hill.
And if he really had to take a detour, why would Lou Shi let him take three days to complete it?
The weather was getting hotter and hotter, and the men and horses were gradually unable to bear it. The battle could not be delayed and they had to quickly move south to the Wei Plain. Time was extremely precious.
Therefore, in desperation, Salihe, who knew the situation well, gave orders again, which was to reorganize the second wave of attack and send additional officers to participate in it in advance.
But it was not unexpected that this attack still ended in failure.
Moreover, the Jin soldiers who escaped back this time clearly told Gu Chipi, who came to enforce military law, that they had already approached the Song army formation within a few dozen steps, and had definitely succeeded in killing and wounding the Song army crossbowmen on the front line. Although the Song army crossbowmen were in a panic, no one retreated!
It is obvious that after the Song army won several battles yesterday and today, its morale and military discipline have indeed been strengthened, and we can no longer use conventional means to boost the Song army.
Therefore, although the summer evenings were extremely long and the weather was gradually getting cooler, after hearing the reply, Salihe remained silent for a moment and still chose to retreat.
Then he launched a night attack at three o'clock that night.
But still failed.
The Song army had been well prepared. There were torches and braziers everywhere on the city walls and on the mountain roads. Combined with the summer Milky Way starry sky, the open space in front of the mountain was illuminated as if it were daytime... Under such circumstances, the surprise attack was discovered early.
Moreover, although the efficiency of the Song army's long-range strikes at night was reduced by more than one level, the Jin army was not immortal. Compared with the daytime, their organizational ability was significantly reduced at night, so they still could not rush up the hillside.
Even after the Jin army retreated this time, they returned to the small camp three miles away and found that many people had suffered close combat injuries... Obviously, in order to ensure the safety of the camp, the Song army chose to actively counterattack after the long-range suppression took effect, and in order to ensure the safety of the position, they chased into the dark night and engaged in hand-to-hand combat with the lagging Jin army.
It was just that most of the Jin army had already withdrawn at that time, and due to the cover of night, the battle did not seem too intense.
At dawn the next day, Salihe, who had not slept all night, ordered the front-line troops, whose morale had dropped to a very low level, to withdraw, and asked the troops in Huagou Camp to replace them, and prepared to continue the attack according to the strategy.
However, when this cold-faced man came to the small hill that could serve as shelter again, he lost his composure and became furious, no longer showing the same demeanor he had yesterday... It turned out that after the Song army won another victory last night, they knew that this was the most likely place where the Jin army officers were before the battlefield, so they transported dozens of buckets of feces and urine from the cesspool behind the military camp on the mountain overnight, so that the entire side and rear of the hill were smelly.
After becoming furious, Salihe ordered the newly arrived troops to advance slowly with shields and launch an attack, while at the same time he had his soldiers chop down trees and dig the earth, build trenches and build fences on the road in front of the mountain, as if he was preparing to use civil engineering work all the way to the foot of the mountain... Of course, this was also to make it easier for him to leave the hill and command from the front.
That was not all. Salihe sent a messenger back to the Hekou camp to look for Lou Shi and ask for reinforcements from the Han army who were good at archery, so as to prepare for a shooting match.
In addition, the Jin army commander did not forget to send a small group of troops to try to cross the mountains in the north and launch a surprise attack from behind the mountain stronghold.
In short, after a series of defeats and humiliation, Salihe was so furious that he was determined to use all his tricks and launch an unprecedented offensive at all costs, trying to capture this mountain, this stronghold, and this city.
Of course, an unprecedented offensive also meant unprecedented casualties. The Song army won battle after battle and suffered heavy casualties. Their morale was no longer what it was at the beginning. Facing the Jin army's comprehensive actions, there was no sign of hesitation on the mountains or in the city, and they began to fight the Jin army at all costs.
The stronghold continued to concentrate on killing the Jin soldiers who came to attack the mountain. Although the shields effectively blocked some arrows, when they got to the foot of the mountain, they were still stretched to the limit facing the Shenbi bow, the most effective killing weapon of the Song army... The wooden shields were completely unable to block the Shenbi bow, and the few Jin soldiers holding metal shields did rush to a very close distance, but facing the decisive counterattack of the Song army, which was no longer in its previous state, the few of them were basically doomed to die.
After a charge, hundreds of shields were seized by the Song army.
The crossbows on the city wall, especially those fixed on the city wall, had long given up on killing the Jin army soldiers and instead concentrated on attacking the earthen ramparts and wooden boards erected by the Jin army across the river, trying to prevent the Jin army from building something like a tunnel along this road... The crossbow had a range of five or six hundred steps, which was farther than a cannon cart. Often, if it hit the target, it would directly shatter the hastily built fortifications of the Jin army and cause splash injuries to the Jin army soldiers and auxiliary troops near the fortifications.
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