However, before the two sides engaged in a contact battle, Zhou Jun first experienced the terrible feeling of "a stone's throw away":

The battle formations of the two sides were only about twenty meters apart, but the gap between one meter and the highest two meters was one meter away from the head of Shouzhou City, which became an insurmountable gap for the Zhou army: as long as someone dared to show up after the siege car formation, the small catapult, crossbow chariot and archers on the city immediately formed a blocking net, and it would be injured when it was hung, and at least seriously injured when it was hit.

Zhao Kuangyin was dissatisfied and tried to expose his body with two big shields. He was immediately hit by a stone and a crossbow arrow. He retreated so much that he fell back and threw the shield onto the earthen bag, cursing, "How big is the city of Shouzhou? Where did so many stone arrows come from?"

On the top of the city, Lin Feng was leisurely commanding the soldiers to transport the stones raised from the pulleys from the city and arrows to the catapults and crossbows, while carefully observing the movements of the enemy camp.

After running to the siege car formation in person, Li Gu observed for a while, and knew that fighting hard now was to let the soldiers die, so he had to instruct the soldiers to continue to take stupid methods and continue to raise the ramp through the earth dragon. However, because the slope was lost and the effect was not good, he had to turn to the siege towers on both sides to throw it. However, because the distance was remote, he had to throw it with extremely small earth buns, and the progress was quite slow.

Li Gu ordered two small catapults to be transferred from the rear. As a result, two earthblocks were smashed out, they were tracked to the location by the catapult on the top of the city. They attacked them continuously and fixed-point attacks quickly. They quickly smashed the two catapults. While Zhou Bing was so angry that he cursed, he was also more heartbroken about the fact that the Shouzhou Army could adjust the range of the catapults at will.

However, even the sharpest attacks were still slackening. Until the night of the night, the siege ramp had basically been completed, but there were still two meters wide and one meter deep tunnels near the city. Zhou Jun was even more motivated, cheering and drums continued, and piles of bonfires were lit, and he took out a posture of preparing to attack overnight.

On the top of the city, Lin Feng watched with a telescope for a long time, but turned around and said that the enemy would not have a formal attack tonight, and ordered everyone to take turns to rest.

Sure enough, Zhou Jun, who had been shouting for a long time, saw that the city was as calm as usual, slowly retracted his strength and returned to the camp to rest.

In the early morning of November 27, the sky had just been cleared, and the Zhou army had already formed a formation in the cold and gloomy morning. The first batch of elite soldiers who siege moved to the rear of the siege vehicle array through the "safety passage". However, when Zhao Kuangyin first leaned forward to observe the situation of the ramp, he found a thin layer of ice on the top of the ramp. Needless to say, this was the water poured on the Shouzhou defenders at night.

Zhao Kuangyin cursed a few times, pulled two straw ropes from the soil bag next to him, wrapped them a few times around his boots, and tightened them tightly. After turning his hands, he pulled out two straw ropes and handed them to a young and capable imperial guard on the right side next to him, indicating that he would also wrap his feet around for anti-slip.

The young imperial guard nodded gratefully and thanked: "Thank you General Zhao." He lowered his head and tied his shoes tightly.

Zhao Kuangyin smiled and patted the imperial guards on the shoulder and asked, "What do you call me brother?"

"I dare not, go back to General Zhao, the youngest is Yang Guangyi, a Tokyo native." The imperial guard replied a little flattered.

"You and my brother are named Guangyi, but he is still a traitor." Zhao Kuangyin rebuked slightly, and then smiled at the imperial guards beside him, "We can attack the city together, and they are already brothers of life and death. There is no general here. If you don't dislike him in the future, you can call me Brother Zhao, Brother Zhao, or Kuangyin.

"Thank you General Zhao." Several imperial guards, including Yang Guangyi, replied with a smile.

Zhao Kuangyin couldn't help but shook his head and smiled. Seeing that everyone had wrapped their feet, he straightened up and whispered: "Everyone remember, always remember to protect yourself with a big shield. If the attack is not smooth, withdraw and don't fight hard."

Yang Guangyi and others nodded together.

Zhao Kuangyin looked at the five imperial guards around him again, held the shield in his left hand and grabbed a handle of the heavy wooden board behind him with his right hand, and shouted: "Brothers, let's go, we will be the first group of heroes to rush to the top of the city."

The six people worked hard together to lift the "巴"-shaped wooden board weighing more than 200 kilograms.

The moment this strange-shaped wooden board rose from above the siege vehicle formation, it immediately became the target of key attacks. However, the wet wooden board nearly thirty centimeters thick successfully blocked the fierce attacks in all directions of the city.

Although stone bullets and crossbow arrows arrived like rain, Zhao Kuangyin and his six men shouted in a low voice, slowly and firmly pushing the "gong" board forward.

It's approaching, it's approaching.

Zhao Kuangyin saw through a small hole on the wooden board that the city wall was close to him, and immediately shouted loudly: "Prepare, let go, protect."

The "gong" board, which had been smashed with pit marks and had been pricked, fell heavily immediately. One end on the top was successfully placed on the pheasant slap, making a loud noise, just filling the tunnel at the top of the city.

The moment the "gong" character board fell, Zhao Kuangyin protected his body with a big shield, rushed up along the tilted wooden board and rushed straight to the top of the city.

With the loud bang, the sudden team composed of large shields behind the ramp also accelerated suddenly and rushed towards the top of the city.

The hand-to-hand combat has begun.

Zhao Kuangyin rushed into the Shouzhou defenders like a wolf and a tiger. His shields collided, knocking away the spears in front of him one by one. The steel knife he had just pulled out was stabbed hard, but he was held one after another.

Zhao Kuangyin had a certain figure and stood back to back with Yang Guangyi, who was immediately following him. He had time to quickly observe the situation in front of him and found that the head of Shouzhou City was not as good as he imagined, and there was no smell of panic: On the opposite side of the ramp, there were two rows of crossbowmen on the outer wall, followed by two combat teams guarding them. The three-person combat team he faced was in the north and south directions, in order of spear formation, arrow formation, knife and axe formation, and the last few rows were strong men who were different from ordinary people. There were only a pair of eyes exposed on their body, and the right shoulder was neatly exposed with thick knife handles. It should be the Mo Dao Hand that made everyone frightened.

Zhao Kuangyin felt cold. No wonder he was so easy to get to the city. It turned out that Lin Feng had planned to massacre his elite troops on the top of the city.

Although he realized it, the fierce attack connected gave Zhao Kuangyin no chance to speak out for early warning.

With just one meeting, the other four imperial guards had all been in the tent. The bodies were kicked and thrown under the pheasant certificate of the outer city wall by the fighting team that was against them, and then thrown to the city by other Shouzhou troops.

The other Zhou troops rushed up and were immediately divided by these combat teams. These people cooperated with each other incredible tacit understanding. Those Zhou soldiers had no chance to block the third sword and were chopped down.

What made Zhao Kuangyin even more heartbroken was that these combat squads were still slowly rotating to the north at the same time. The personnel between adjacent squads would suddenly be misaligned and replaced, and attack those Zhou army masters who were concentrating on the battle against the squad in front of them. When those brothers were stunned for a moment, they would be chopped on their bodies at the same time by two or three steel knives and fell to the ground immediately.

"Ah." Yang Guangyi, behind him, exclaimed in pain, and his back, which was close to Zhao Kuangyin, loosened and immediately approached tightly.

"Retreat." Zhao Kuangyin shouted loudly, and the sword and shield danced wildly at the same time. He knocked away several swords and pushed Yang Guangyi into the direction of the ramp. Several Zhou army masters who were still fighting immediately gathered at the ramp.

The Shouzhou combat teams were still in a state of chaos and quickly approached, constantly cutting down the retreating Zhou army's good men. However, with the shouting of "attacking the No. 3 position" in the direction of the city, the direction of the Shouzhou masters' swords was no longer the neck, chest, belly and other vital parts, all rushed towards arms, thighs, etc.

"A1, A2 three-wheeled arrow; stop for three seconds, B1, B2 one-wheeled crossbow; stop for three seconds, C3 No. 7 stone." Another strange shouting sounded. This time, Zhao Kuangyin heard that it was Lin Feng's voice and couldn't help but glance at the direction of the city tower.

At this time, Yang Guangyi, who was behind him, snorted coldly again, his feet tripped, and his body became soft again.

Zhao Kuangyin only glanced at a group of figures in the direction of the city tower. He didn't have time to look closely. The shield swayed slightly to knock the arrow flying away. He grabbed Yang Guangyi with his right hand and rushed to the ramp outside the city. He joined forces with two other Zhou soldiers on the left to cover several injured brothers and rushed to the pheasant.

A Zhou Jun expert stood on the pheasant and was about to run down when a cold arrow flew over and nailed to his scalp that was accidentally exposed to the upper edge of the shield. The handsome hand roared, loosened his right hand and the shield fell. Several more arrows rushed in, nailed hard to his face and neck, breaking his roar.

Zhao Kuangyin covered the last three good men and boarded the pheasant. He pulled a brother with his right hand and thigh injured. He hurried behind the shield and retreated quickly.

Arrow feathers, crossbow arrows, and stone bullets followed him all the way, nailing the Zhou army in Zhao Kuangyin's right hand all over his body. A tricky stone bullet slipped on the Zhou army and hit Zhao Kuangyin's left shoulder.

Zhao Kuangyin snorted coldly, his figure was faster. After evacuating the siege car, he pulled his right hand back to see that the Zhou army was already dead. He had to put the brother down with hate and gently closed his wide eyes with his right hand.

He stood up with the wound on his left shoulder, and Zhao Kuangyin found that the first 500 siege warriors in front of him had only returned six of the injured imperial guards. Yang Guangyi was stabbed in his right arm and left leg, and his head was sweating.

Zhao Kuangyin endured the pain and clasped his fists: "This is Yang Guangyi, the brother of the Imperial Guard. In Zhao Kuangyin, I don't know how many brothers live and die with their surnames."

A black and strong man said harshly: "Li Jixun, a native of Daming Yuancheng (now Daming East, Hebei), is a commander of the hall front office."

"Shi Shouxin, a native of Junyi in Kaifeng, and an imperial guard, Du Yuhou, a slightly thin, white-faced young man replied with a fist.

"Wang Shenqi, a native of Luoyang, is a cavalryman in front of the palace." Another strong man injured in his thigh replied.

"Han Chongyun, from Wu'an, Cizhou, is like Brother Wang, and is in charge of the cavalry in front of the palace." A young man with a face of a heavy date said, but his voice was very sharp.

"Liu Guangyi, from Tokyo, commander of the right wing of the Guards." The last man with blood on his face said in a hoarse voice, and wiped it with a slut, covering his face with blood, and glaring at the head of the city and saying hatefully.

Zhao Kuangyin clasped his fists again. Before he could speak, a messenger ran over and shouted loudly: "General Zhao, Li Shuai is destined to wait for you to get back to his nutritional injuries."

Zhao Kuangyin took a look and said that the other brothers who were preparing to attack were holding Yang Guangyi, who was seriously injured, and slowly walked backwards. Several injured warriors shook their heads helplessly and followed behind.

When passing by the commander-in-chief, Zhao Kuangyin hesitated for a moment and wanted to go over and tell the emperor Guo Wei and commander Li Gu that he heard on the top of the city. However, when he thought of the strange numbers and orders that he had not completely remembered, Zhao Kuangyin could not make any decision.

At this time, Yang Guangyi's body softened again and he kept humming. Zhao Kuangyin had to endure the pain and help him walk towards the camp.

"Zhao Kuangyin, Yang Guangyi, Shi Shouxin, Li Jixun, Wang Shenqi, Han Chongyun, Liu Guangyi (Liu Tingrang), these seven brave men whom Zhao Kuangyin had known before, and Liu Qingyi, Liu Shouzhong, and Wang Zhengzhong, whom Zhao Kuangyin had known each other for a long time, were the "Taizu Yishe Ten Brothers" who were very famous in the future. It was also the main force that Zhao Kuangyin launched a mutiny in the future and replaced Zhou Jiansong.

These ten people were all subordinates of Guo Wei, the Privy Councilor of the Han Dynasty. After Guo Wei ascended the throne, they were all low-level officers or ordinary soldiers, with similar status. When they formed the "YiShe Brothers" and who were originally led, it is unknown. However, according to my inferred that these people were injured and recuperated at the same time during the Shouzhou War, perhaps the most critical time for the "YiShe Ten Brothers" to become sworn. The Shouzhou War must have played an important role in this matter."

,, Excerpted from "The Unofficial History of the Great Song Dynasty" written by Anonymous
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