At night, the offensive and defensive battles in Taiyuan City were extremely fierce. Looking from the city, the whole sky was red like a fire. Huge fireballs crossed the sky and threw them into the city from outside the city. Against the background of the dark walls, it looked particularly bright and terrifying, as if the end of the world was coming.

On the top of the city, thiefs like giant beasts kept waving their arms and throwing them, smashing the hugely powerful thunder at the attacking Jin soldiers. A series of earth-shaking explosions came from outside the city.

The residents of the city couldn't sleep all night. The woman held the child tightly and cried in a low voice amid the explosion and the shouts of killing. The man stood in front of the window with his fists clenched, staring helplessly at the fireball passing by the sky in the distance.

All of them have been demolished within a hundred steps of the city wall. Li Yanqing had previously ordered a foot of digging, compacting the land, and filling it with water to form a shallow pool surrounding the city.

Many people don’t understand the reason for doing this, but now they finally understand that the fireballs splashed with water after they landed on the ground, but they were buffered by the water and could not be bounced up again. Dozens of civilians immediately rushed forward and held the fireball with a long wooden fork, allowing it to slowly extinguish itself in the water.

But no one expected that digging shallow pools had another important function, which could effectively defend against enemy troops from digging holes outside the city into the city.

The fierce night battle did not last long. At the first update, the fireballs in the sky no longer appeared, and the explosions outside the city gradually disappeared.

The war that lasted for several days finally stopped, and the violent night became quiet.

In the early morning, a ray of sunshine shone through the clouds on the top of Taiyuan city. A magical and dazzling golden light flashed on the tall and solid city walls. If it were in the Jin Kingdom, the Jurchens who believed in shamanism would definitely think that this was a auspicious sign from the gods and worshiped them. However, the cruel war has made them temporarily forget their faith, and only killing and blood remain in their eyes.

But if you move your eyes toward the city wall, the golden light gradually disappears, and what comes into view is a hellish land, with corpses everywhere, broken cloud ladders falling on the soil, only half of the nest cart is left, but more are soldiers who died in battle, some are curled up with pain before death, some are missing their heads, their bodies are incomplete, and some are shot into hedgehogs by arrows, and their flesh is blurred. Under the scorching sun, the pungent smell of blood and the smell of corpses are mixed together, making people feel nauseous.

Shortly after the night ceasefire, Li Yanqing accepted the request from the commander of the Jin soldiers to collect the body. More than a thousand Jin soldiers were sent to deal with the bodies after the night war. Most of them were transported to the open space to accumulate and burn. After the Jurchens died, they would usually be cremated. At the same time, there would be shamans who would save their souls.

The city was also particularly quiet. Tens of thousands of Song soldiers were wrapped in simple blankets, crowding each other, leaning against the wall and falling asleep. They were all exhausted. After fighting fiercely for days and nights, most of them had not closed their eyes for several days and were already exhausted.

Hundreds of female soldiers were extremely busy on the city. Most of them were not asleep, and they tried their best to rescue the wounded soldiers. At this time, the soldiers were all asleep, but the female soldiers were still busy and stopped the bleeding and changed the medicine for the wounded soldiers, cleaned the wounds, and tied the broken soldiers to splints. Many female soldiers fainted from exhaustion, but after waking up, they continued to save lives and heal the wounds.

They moved thousands of soldiers with their actions and reversed the negative generals of countless soldiers. Even Liu Qi, who was most resistant to female soldiers, admitted that the female barracks played a huge role in the defense battle. Their timely treatment of the wounded soldiers reduced the death rate of the injured soldiers by at least half.

On the northern city wall, among the dozens of soldiers who were crowded together to fall asleep, Li Yanqing also slept with the soldiers. At this moment, there was no distinction between the chief general and the soldiers. After the three days of fierce battle to defend Taiyuan City, everyone was enjoying this extremely precious nap.

Hu Sanniang led a team of female soldiers to check the wounded soldiers on the top of the city. When passing by Li Yanqing, a female soldier suddenly recognized Li Yanqing and pointed at him in surprise, "It's the commander-in-chief!"

Hu Sanniang quickly shrew to the female soldiers and stopped their exclamations. She picked up a piece of sheepskin that had slipped off the ground, gently covered Li Yanqing, and stared at him silently for a moment, then led the female soldiers to leave quietly. At this time, a group of more than a hundred men carried the hot buns and broth and quickly walked up to the city.

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But the precious truce did not last long. When the morning light began to turn blood red, the scorching sun blew into the ground again with a hot breath, the drum sound of the Jin soldiers' camp sounded, "dong!dong!dong!dong!dong!" The huge drum sound woke the Song soldiers from their sleep one after another. Li Yanqing jumped up, rubbed his eyes, and lay on the battlements to look into the enemy camp in the distance.

This time, what he saw was the large-scale mobilization of Jin soldiers. The enemy troops in the entire camp were mobilized, and enemy groups from all directions were gathering, gathering into pieces of black square formations, gradually forming a overwhelming offensive momentum.

"Send my order quickly!"

Li Yanqing turned around and ordered: "The First Army and the Second Army are all put into battle!"

He turned around and stared at the overwhelming enemy army. The amount of enemy troops invested twice as much as the previous two days. He immediately understood that Wanyan Zonghan must have been under tremendous pressure and had to attack the city at all costs.

‘Dang!Dang!Dang!’

The bell to summon the army was ringing, and teams of Song troops rushed to the corridor and quickly gathered towards the city. The First Army and the Second Army had a total of 18,000 people, commanded by Liu Xia and Wang Gui, and another 15,000 civilians also entered the battle. They were mainly responsible for operating catapults, fire cannons, and bed crossbows.

The ten-mile-long northern city wall was densely covered with Song army, with shiny swords and spears and bows and arrows. The Tenglong army flag with black edges and yellow bottoms of the Song army fluttered in the sun.

Outside the city, the overwhelming Jin soldiers had already completed the line. With the eight-day siege, nothing was found. With the successful completion of the Hebei Battle, the wolf lord of the Jin Kingdom publicly stated that it was necessary to change generals in Taiyuan, which brought great pressure to the main general Wanyan Zonghan.

Wanyan Zonghan has been forced to have no way out. He also issued a death order to five ten thousand men. If the 50,000 army cannot take over Taiyuan City today, all generals above thousands of men will be dismissed from office.

In order to win, Wanyan Zonghan simply invested 50,000 troops at one time, which was more than twice as many as the 20,000 people who attacked the city at a time. At the same time, he put all the 200 ladders and 50 nest cars in stock into the battle and concentrated on attacking the North City.

He stared at the suspension bridge raised high outside the North City Tower with cruel eyes. The suspension bridge was bombed by several bombings of thunder and was already shaking. He turned around and looked to the back camp. A huge siege ram had appeared in the military camp behind him. This was the new siege weapon they had just created. The thunder and thunder could not shake the city gate made of pig iron. Then use this 10,000 kilograms of siege ram to break open the enemy's gate.

"Attack!" Wanyan Zonghan waved his sword and hissed.

The drum sounds in the Jin soldiers camp began to become tighter. This was the drum sound of attacking. Fifty thousand Jin soldiers surrounded 200 ladders and fifty nest cars and rushed towards Taiyuan City like a tide, like a huge black carpet, covering the entire wilderness.

After a night of emergency repairs, the catapults on the city were restored to fifty, and long arm poles were thrown out one after another. More than a dozen thunders were hit by the enemy group like ants. Each thunder exploded in the crowd, and a gap appeared, with flesh and blood flying everywhere, thick smoke filled the world, and wailing sounds resounded through the field, but the gap closed in an instant and was flooded by the attacking enemy group.

The Song army could no longer guarantee that all the catapults would throw thunderstorms. The catapults would be damaged continuously, making the throwing of the thunderstorms an unusually dangerous. On the fourth day, a serious accident occurred. The belt of a catapult was broken, causing the throwing pole equipped with the thunderstorms to fall into the city. The thunderstorms exploded in the city, killing more than a hundred logistics civilians on the spot.

Li Yanqing had to change his strategy and only chose a trencher in good condition to launch a thunder. A trencher in bad condition would launch a huge rock to prevent another self-destruction tragedy.

The killing effect of the thunder in the sky was not as powerful as the original one, and the Jin soldiers gradually mastered the practical method to deal with the thunder in the sky, which was to quickly cover their ears and lie on the ground. When the thunder in the sky fell to the ground, the soldiers around them quickly lay down and covered their ears tightly.

In this way, except for dozens of people in the explosion center, other soldiers will not suffer secondary damage from shock waves and splashing iron sheets, causing more than 100 casualties to the first thunder. So far, only more than 20 casualties, and the casualties have been reduced by five times.

With a 'boom!', a nest car was hit by the thunder of the sky. The thunder of the sky exploded violently in the nest car. Suddenly, wooden blocks splashed everywhere, giant trees collapsed, and dozens of soldiers on the nest car were all blown to death.

The tall nest car is specially tailored for Taiyuan City. The nest car has one meter long and three meter high. It is made of giant wood and is covered with cowhide. The structure is very simple. The nest car is hollow and has a staircase that leads to the top. At the top is a wooden platform, which is full of fifty Jin soldiers. The front end of the platform is a thick wooden board covered with cowhide, which can resist the bows and arrows of the Song army.

There are four wooden wheels underneath, dragged by fifty oxen cows, and hundreds of soldiers are pushed on both the left and right and behind. As long as this nest car is not hit by a huge rock, it can send soldiers to the top of the city, which is sharper than a ladder.

The bottom of another cloud ladder was hit by a huge rock, and a wooden wheel took off. The cloud ladder suddenly tilted, shaking, and gradually lost its center of gravity. The soldiers on both sides shouted and ran away. Amid the shouts, the cloud ladder fell down.

But these were just local losses of the Jin soldiers. The 50,000 troops attacked like a tide. The huge rocks and thunder that were shot out in turn were like waves splashing in the ocean. They were instantly flooded by the crowd. The enemy troops, like crazy, gradually approached the city wall.

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The frontal battle has entered the most cruel stage. Arrows on the city are like raining rain, and people are constantly being shot and falling down. The 20,000 soldiers charged in the front are definitely not the Jurchens, but the Khitans and Xi people, and even the Song army surrendered by Yanshan Prefecture. They need to lay the foundation for the charge army behind them.

First, the cleanup of the thorns on the ground was so the Jin soldiers could no longer use tools to clean it up, so they drove the soldiers to trample it, and the second was to fill the moat. After eight days of battle, the moat outside the North City and the East City had been filled with hundreds of thousands of mud bags by the Jin soldiers, so that the ladders and nest chariots could directly reach the city.

Tens of thousands of crossbowmen fired together on the top of the city. The dense defensive arrows fell straight from the city like raindrops, bringing great lethality. Generally, leather armor cannot resist, and even the shield is easily penetrated and broken by the arrows, causing attacking soldiers under the city to be shot into arrows, and the soldiers who siege the city suffered heavy casualties.

This is the natural advantage of the defender of the city. They have condescending potential energy and can easily turn ordinary weapons and items into weapons with powerful lethality. The former is like a bow and arrow, while the latter is like a rolling wood and stone.

However, the Jin Kingdom was not stingy with the casualties of the army. They had hundreds of thousands of surrendered Khitan and Xi soldiers, as well as a large number of servants. They used their casualties to exchange for victory in the siege. For the Jin Kingdom, it was a very cost-effective battle. Among the more than 30,000 people who died in the previous battle, almost no casualties of the Jurchens were killed, all of them were Khitans, Xi people, Bohai people and Goryeo people.
Chapter completed!