The rumbling drum sounded again, and two hundred catapults appeared behind the Song army brigade. This was a new catapult developed and built by the Jingzhao Army for many years. It was huge in size and had six wheels on loads, but it only took ten people to throw it, but it could throw a hundred-pound stone to 250 steps away.

Although this catapult seems a bit bulky and not fast, it can exert great power in cluster combat. In particular, the Jingzhao Army craftsmen have improved the uniformly burning fuse, which has an extremely important impact on the control distance and time of the thunder, making the throwing of the thunder more accurate, and the killing effect of the thunder can be doubled.

‘If you want to do a good job, you must first sharpen your tools!’

The thunder of the sky was not invented by Li Yanqing in history. It was a weapon invented by the Song Dynasty firearmers decades later after innovating and improving gunpowder based on the thunderbolt cannon. It played a decisive role in the later battles between the Song and Jin and Song and Yuan dynasties.

Especially for the Northern Expedition Song Army, the absolute leading firearm technology became their greatest advantage, and the thunder of the sky became the biggest killer weapon that the Song Army could never fail in fighting.

The Jin army was still relatively backward in defending the city, mainly using bows and arrows and rolling wood and stones, as well as the Song army's close-knit battle. Their sharpest weapon was tinder oil, and there was almost no firearm. After countless failed tests, the Jin Dynasty had almost given up the development of the thunder.

Historically, the Jin Dynasty also acquired a large number of gunpowder craftsmen because of its breakthrough in Bianjing, making their firearms of no less than that of the Song Dynasty, and even surpassed the Song Dynasty in terms of practical combat.

The six-wheeled catapult slowly drove in the wilderness, and the pulling war horse made it dusty, covering the sky and the sun. The momentum of two hundred catapults coming together shocked the Jin soldiers on the top of the city to amazement. Two hundred catapults stopped about 250 steps away from the city wall.

The Song army on both sides had tightened the winch, and a dark red flat round thunder was placed on the pillow, ready to go, dragging a two-foot-long slow fuse, and a Song army lit the lead.

There are scales on the leads, ranging from 300 steps to 250 steps, but the chariots are not so accurate. In order to prevent the thunder from shooting to the city to prevent it from being blown up too early, and being extinguished by the enemy with water or cutting off the fuse, a craftsman invented a special design and made an iron cover on the thunder so that the leads of the last thirty steps can burn inside the iron shell.

Each thunderbolt has a sign with the name of the manufacturing craftsman engraved on it. When the sign is fired, if a dumb thunder appears or explodes in advance, the craftsman will be held accountable.

This kind of accountability is not only used on important firearms. All the weapons of the Song army are engraved with craftsmen to facilitate commendation or accountability. This ensures that craftsmen work diligently in manufacturing every weapon. The strict and complete system and assembly line-like division of work are truly effective management and quality assurance.

The fuse was burning with a sniffle, and there were bursts of white smoke. Song Jun, who was responsible for the launch of the trencher, narrowed his eyes. The fuse had already reached a scale of 250 steps. He pulled the handle hard, and the winch was filled with power and burst out.

The powerful force shot out the dark red thunder. A sound of "Click!Click!Click!" was a "Click!Click!Click!" and two hundred thunders emitting white smoke drew a series of parabolas and shot towards the top of the city.

Most of the two hundred thunders hit the city. Only a deafening explosion sounded at the city wall, which shocked people's hearts almost stopped beating. The thunder exploded one after another, and red flames burst out, and black smoke rose into the sky, gathering into a huge mushroom cloud.

A large section of the city wall was blown up, and the dense crowds on the top of the city were gone. Countless gravels and bloody flesh were scattered. The air was filled with choking smoke and disgusting blood. Screams of death and screams of extreme fear came one after another, just like the tragic phenomenon in hell.

More than 100,000 Song soldiers from miles away were also shocked by the powerful power of the sky-shaking thunder. Although the power of this giant sky-shaking thunder was powerful and they were all prepared, the effect of 200 explosions caused by the landslide and earth-shaking caused by the Song soldiers also felt a chill.

The city was already silent. In a powerful explosion, thousands of Jin soldiers disappeared, and all Jin soldiers were shocked. Everyone felt a sense of despair, as if the god of death had captured their hearts.

At this time, Wang Gui and Liu Qi issued an order at the same time, "Siege the city!"

The sound of drums that shook the sky and the earth sounded again. Hundreds of nest cars and ladders had been assembled and began to rumble towards Yanjing City. Hundreds of Song soldiers rushed up like a tide.

Although the Song army already had the most advanced and sharp weapons, people were fighting. The Song army needed to hone themselves with blood and fire. They needed to grow up in death and become the most powerful army in the world in the baptism of war.

Twenty thousand reserve Jin soldiers rushed up from the city and barely defended the city, but they were still shrouded in fear of a huge explosion that was shocking and their morale was very sluggish.

The Song army was very motivated. A ladder was erected onto the city. The Song army soldiers climbed up to the city. Arrows on the city were like rain, and rolling woods and stones fell like hail.

A Song soldier was smashed to pieces and fell down from the city screaming. Another soldier rushed forward bravely and fought with the Jin soldiers on the top of the city with his spear.

Under the city, 20,000 Song soldiers fought back with strong bows and crossbows. The overwhelming rain of powerful arrows made the Jin soldiers on the city unable to look up. The Jin army suffered heavy casualties and suffered heavy casualties, and soldiers kept falling into the city by arrows.

At this time, the fifty nesting chariots of the Song army finally arrived by the city wall. A roller was installed under the nesting chariot. Hundreds of soldiers pushed it forward. The walls of Yanjing City were not high, and the nesting chariots were just the same as the top of the city. There were two hundred soldiers in each nesting chariot. The iron plates of the city were pulled up by iron chains to resist the bows and arrows of the Jin army.

‘Boom!’ There was a loud noise from the ground, and the iron plate hit the top of the city, smashing the gravels and flying. Two hundred Song soldiers shouted and rushed out of the nest cart, waved their swords and spears, rushed to the top of the city, and rushed into the group of Jin soldiers, fighting with them.

As the ten thousand Song troops in the nest car drove up the city one after another, the Song army who were climbing the ladder got a chance. They rushed to the city one after another, with strong fighting spirit and high momentum, and shouting for killing. However, the Jin army still sank in the clouds of explosion that had just shook the sky and was unable to extricate themselves. Their morale began to disintegrate, their morale was sluggish, and they were killed by the Song army step by step.

At this time, the city of Yanjing became a cage of the Jin army, making it difficult for them to escape.

Seeing that the gate of Yanjing City was open, there were Song soldiers in the city waving the Huanglong military flag. He immediately pointed at the gate with a sword and ordered the 20,000 most elite cavalry: "Winning into Yanjing City, the resistance will kill you!"

The horse's hooves rolled and the momentum was striking. The 20,000 cavalrymen rushed into Yanjing City like the highest wave.

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The battle in Yanjing City ended in a bloody storm. The Jin army was unwilling to surrender, and either fought streets with the Song army in the city, or rushed out of the city and fled in scattered areas. The Song army was cruelly killed. More than 20,000 Jin army were killed, and in the end, less than 500 people fled to death. The main general Wanyan Xiyin was shot and killed by the Song army when he broke through.

Deputy General Guo Yaoshi was desperate, and he was also desperate, so he had to sigh to the sky and commit suicide by lying on his sword in the mansion.

Killing 3,000 enemies and 800 of them were killed and injured. The Song army also suffered nearly 6,000 casualties. Compared with the glorious victory, this casualty and injury was nothing. The Song army won the battle of Yanshan Prefecture as scheduled and seized the land south of Yanshan.

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When the news of the capture of Yanjing came, Li Yanqing was inspecting Chenzhou.

Several southern Kaifeng prefectures, including Chenzhou, Caizhou, Yingzhou and Yingchang Prefecture, were also ravaged by the Jin army invasion.

However, it is much better than these prefectures in Hebei. At least most of the villages are inhabited. Although many people escape, as long as they can return to their homes, they can recover their vitality in just a few years.

Li Yanqing walked along the east bank of the Ying River, and accompanied him to inspect the new governor of Chenzhou, Lu Yihao. After quelling the coup, Lu Yihao was removed from his post as prime minister and ordered to reflect at home.

But he was deeply connected and had good abilities. More importantly, he was very determined in his anti-Jin attitude, so he soon rejoined and was appointed as the doctor of the Ministry of Revenue and served as the governor of Chenzhou. At the same time, he was appointed another former prime minister, Mr. Zongyin, who served as the governor of Haizhou.

If they perform well in office, they can be transferred to the court to serve as high-ranking officials in a few years. After all, the qualifications are enough, but if they want to become prime minister again, then Li Yanqing must agree that the prime minister's appointment and removal power is in the hands of Li Yanqing.

Lu Yihao pointed to a village in the distance and said to Li Yanqing: "Your Highness, that is Wanggezhuang, and he was swept away by Jin soldiers. At the worst, there were only three families left in more than one hundred families. Now some families are coming back one after another."

The reason why Li Yanqing paid attention to this village was because his personal soldiers' home was here. He learned that the personal soldiers' parents returned from Ezhou, so he also wanted to take a look in person.

"Let's go! Look."

Li Yanqing urged his horse to get off the ridge of the field and walked towards the village several miles away.

As soon as I arrived at the entrance of the village, I heard a barking of dogs. More than a dozen slim dogs ran out and barked at them. Several soldiers rushed up and drove the slim dogs away. Li Yanqing then walked into the village. Many people did move back. Li Yanqing counted and at least fifteen families were moving.

At this time, Bao Zheng from the village hurried over, knelt down and bowed, "The villain Wang Yu is Bao Zheng from the village. Pay a visit to His Highness the Regent!"

"Please get up! Don't be too polite."

At this time, Li Yanqing saw an old man moving items from the car and walked into the yard. When the old man saw many people coming in, he was stunned, "What are you?"

Bao Zheng hurriedly ran forward and whispered to the old man with his ears. The old man's face changed drastically, and he quickly knelt down and kowtowed, "I don't know if the regent is here, I'm guilty!"

Li Yanqing asked, "Brother-in-law, please get up quickly. If you don't disturb me, let's talk."

"Don't disturb! Don't disturb! Please sit in the room."

"Just in the yard! It's cooler under the big tree."

The old man quickly took out a few stools and asked his wife to boil water and tea. Li Yanqing asked with a smile: "Master-in-law's surname?"

"I am not allowed to live here for the rest of my life, and I am a villager."

"Did the father-in-law move back because he couldn't bear to leave his hometown in love?"

The old man sighed, "That's right, but not exactly!"

"You may as well talk!" Li Yanqing was really interested.
Chapter completed!