Chapter 42: Defending the City
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Undoubtedly, after recapturing Bianliang City, Han Qing's reputation reached a new high, and the soldiers and civilians in the city also believed that Han Qing could lead them to drive away the Jin people and escape the danger.
The hour of You.
Zhang Shuye sent accurate news to Han Qing: "The Jin people are about to attack the city."
Zhang Shuye also said: "The terrain of Bianliang City is high in the northwest and low in the southeast, and looks like a lie-off cow. In terms of city defense facilities, the northwest is relatively solid and the southeast is relatively simple. Shanlimen is located at the head of the bull, Xuanhua Gate is located at the oxen neck, and Tongjin Gate is located between Shanlimen and Xuanhua Gate. If the Jin people attacked the city, they would choose these three gates as the key attack place."
Han Qing really doesn't understand what Zhang Shuye said.
However, one of the advantages of Han Qing is that he is not conceited, so he never underestimates anyone.
Therefore, Han Qing adopted Zhang Shuye's judgment and focused the reserve team on Shanli Gate, Tongjin Gate, and Xuanhua Gate.
Although Zhe Yanzhi lost his reputation without fighting in the battle to defend the Yellow River, he still has a lot of combat experience.
Seeing that the southeast city defense was weak, Zhe Yanzhi personally went to the city to command the enemy.
Zhe Yanzhi had his own set of defending the city. After he went up to the city wall, he caused hundreds of bundles of hay to accumulate under the city. When he found that the gold man sieges the city, he ignited the police, so that he could prevent the gold man from attacking. The thick smoke from the hay would also interfere with the gold man's attack.
Zhe Yanzhi also accepted the suggestion of the staff of the Fen Army, placed dozens of unconscience-free cannons on the east wall, and arranged a large number of wolves.
The siege begins.
The Jin army mainly attacked the east wall.
Zhe Yanzhi personally came to the front line to command, and cleverly used the conscience-free cannon and wolf slut, and repelled the attacks of the Jin people many times. The key point was that Zhe Yanzhi made the thick hay smoke rolling and the Jin army couldn't even open their eyes, so they really couldn't attack.
Seeing that the east wall was strong in defense and poor in offensive environment, it was difficult to break through, the Jin people then used the south wall as the focus of the siege.
After the main attack on the south side, the Jin people attacked Shanli Gate, Tongjin Gate and Xuanhua Gate.
Because Han Qing had a warning in advance, he said that the Jin people might focus on Shanlimen, Tongjinmen and Xuanhuamen.
Yao Zhongyou then used Wu Ge to guard Tongjin Gate, Fan Qiong to guard Shanli Gate, and Zhe Yanwen to guard Xuanhua Gate. He personally led the 12 Fen Army to respond in the center.
Tongjinmen has two Guaizichengs in the north and south.
Yao Youzhong built two other round doors on the two Guaizichengs.
Specifically, Yao Youzhong ordered the craftsmen to build a brick and stone wall about thirty steps away from the horse's face, then opened a small round door in the middle of the wall, and used a gang board to make a gate, just like a city gate, and then built a daughter's wall around.
When facing the enemy, the Song army entered and exited through the Yuanmen. If there were too many Jin soldiers, they would put down the Gange board, and it would be another city of Gunzi.
In this way, the soldiers of the Song army can effectively attack the enemy and fully protect themselves.
In addition, the construction surface on the Xuanhua Gate Tower is too wide and the activity space is too large. Therefore, once the Jin people climbed up the city wall, they would soon accumulate, which was very unfavorable to the defense of the Song army. Yao Youzhong then added a virtual shed and a daughter wall on the city wall, and set up two small doors next to the daughter wall, just like the city gate. If the enemy goes to the city, because there is a gap, it can not only limit the activity areas of the enemy's army to climb the city, but also become a barrier to the Song army to kill the Jin army.
If the Jin army wants to get close to the city wall, they must first pass through the moat, namely the Long River.
It is early March and the weather has warmed up a little, but the water of Hulong River is still frozen.
But before the war started, Zhang Shuye, Zhe Yanzhi, Yao Youzhong, and Wang Qiong all sent the dead soldiers to go down the city to tear the ice surface of the Dragon Guarding River and restored the defense function of the Dragon Guarding River.
Now, although the Dragon Hunlong River has frozen again, the ice layer is not too thick and will break as soon as people go up.
This forced the Jin people to choose to build a bridge on the Hulong River.
The method of the Jin people to build bridges is to first use wooden signs to float on the water surface, then use "holes" as cover, and transport a large amount of firewood and soil to fill the moat.
The so-called cave is that a large cart is loaded with giant trees, built into the shape of a house, covered with raw cowhide, and wrapped with iron sheets, so that even the arch of the divine arm cannot penetrate it.
This kind of equipment is similar to the armored vehicles of later generations. People hide in caves and push carts forward. The car is loaded with moats, divided into three layers. At the bottom is a bracket tied with big branches, a fine straw mat in the middle, and the uppermost layer is soil.
In this way, the moat will not disperse and can slowly sink into the river.
This continuous process can fill the moat.
In fact, the Jin people were filling the moat with things and creating a road to siege the city.
During the day, the Jin people had already built this road (it had a foundation before) and sent troops to protect it.
The Song army once shot arrows and artillery on the city, and even smashed them with catapults, but they could not destroy the bridge.
On the south side of the bridge is the Jin army camp.
Looking at the night, the lights are bright, like daylight.
Soon, the Jin man pushed the fire escape, cloud ladder, bridge weaving, goose cars, holes, bumping poles, poles and other siege tools.
Among them, the fire ladder, cloud ladder, and bridge are all as high as the city slalom, and some are higher than the city slalom, which can be used to burn the tower slalom.
The cloud ladder and bridge are built on the city wall, and the soldiers attack the city.
All three types of equipment have axles to be used below.
The Jin people forced the captured men to transport sand and soil, piled them into earth beams, and placed the stones needed by the stone thrower.
The stone thrower was called a skein by the Jin people, and is a kind of stone cannon.
This kind of stone cannon is very powerful and is also a powerful tool for siege.
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These activities of the Jin army have been done since the daytime.
But the Song army on the city had no choice but to stare at these activities of the Jin army, because they were all moving outside the range of arrows and cannons, and even the crossbow could not even shoot them.
After the war started, Tongjinmen was indeed the key attack of the Jin people. Their arrows were like rain and shot into the city walls, like hedgehog hair. They bombarded the city walls with big cannons. Bullets as big as millstones fell on the city from time to time, and many towers were destroyed.
However, Wu Ge used Yao Youzhong's method of defending the city, and used conscience-free cannons and defensive wolf sils, which made the Jin people never break through Tongjin.
Seeing that Tongjin Gate was difficult to break through for a while, the Jin people temporarily stopped attacking. They quickly mobilized their forces to speed up the renovation of cannon racks and other siege tools, and continued to prepare for the siege.
Soon, the Jin army launched another attack on the city and continued to attack Shanli Gate, Tongjin Gate and Xuanhua Gate.
However, this time the Jin army was mainly attacking Xuanhua Gate. A large number of Jin soldiers crossed the bridges on the Hulong River, which was very meaningful to attack Xuanhua Gate.
Xuanhua Gate was in a hurry soon.
When Yao Youzhong learned the news, he personally led the 12th Army to provide support.
Yao Youzhong climbed to Xuanhua Gate and saw that the Jin soldiers had already stacked more than half of the bridges on the Hulong River.
Yao Youzhong and Zhe Yanwen quickly selected elite spiritual arm archers and powerful crossbowmen, used the magic arm archers, bed crossbows and Jiuniu crossbows to shoot at the Jin soldiers, and used conscience-free cannons to suppress the Jin army.
The Song army's arrows were like rain, and the artillery fire shook the sky, and the Jin soldiers could not resist them at all.
On the other hand, because Yao Youzhong was very well prepared on the Xuanhua Sect, the damage caused to the Song army by the Jin people was very limited.
In this way, the two sides fought for nearly an hour, and the Jin army could not advance in an instant, so they had to give up the bridge stacking and retreat.
Later, when Fan Qiong saw that the Jin people blatantly set up camps in the south of the city, transporting soil to fill the river, and actively preparing for war, he was so arrogant that he asked Yao Youzhong for his orders and went down to the city to destroy the Jin people's arrogance.
Yao Youzhong agreed.
Fan Qiong then led more than a thousand elite troops under his command to break out of the city and go to war with the Jin people.
Yao Youzhong also ordered Wu Ge to launch a crossbow in Guizi City, Tongjinmen, and to provide support.
Unexpectedly, as soon as Fan Qiong led his troops out of the city, he ambushes and the arrows were like rain, and the Jin people launched a fierce counterattack.
A powerful general under Fan Qiong fought bravely and died heroically.
Seeing that the situation was not good, Fan Qiong hurriedly led his army to retreat.
Wu Ge led the generals and school to supervise the battle under the city of Guaizi, and confronted the Jin people several times. Both sides suffered casualties and were not judged.
Soon, it was dawn.
Without the cover of the night, the Jin army was soon defeated by the Song army, which was gathering more and more.
As a last resort, the Jin people had to call the Jin and withdraw their troops first...
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Chapter completed!