The grain transport army went north with difficulty. Two days later, it finally arrived in Jiexiu County. The population of Jiexiu County was not large, with only more than 30,000 people. The Jin soldiers drove all the county people to the south of the city, divided the north of the city into a warehouse area, built a high wall, and built thousands of large tents, and all kinds of food and supplies were piled up in the large tent.

The army guarding Jiexiu County was composed of five thousand Han troops and one thousand Jurchen soldiers. After the food and supplies were unloaded in the square in front of the warehouse, the grain transport team immediately left the county town. Han soldiers moved the food and grass into the military camp. Ordinary people were not allowed to approach the warehouse. The Jin soldiers drew a red line a hundred steps away from the high wall, and no one was allowed to cross this red line, otherwise they would kill them.

In a private house in the south of the city, Yan Qing and ten subordinates sat in the room to rest. Yan Qing gave the old man five taels of silver. The old man had already thanked him for leaving. The old man had actually guessed Yan Qing's identity, but he protected him to enter the county town.

At this time, a subordinate quickly walked into the yard. Yan Qing came forward and asked, "How is it, have you found a fellow villager?"

This subordinate was named Wang, from Jiangzhou. He had a villager in the Jin army as a battalion general. Yan Qing considered joining the Han army and infiltrated the warehouse as a Jin army.

The subordinate bowed and said, "I found someone, and he promised me that I could bring three people to the army. He said that the Jin soldiers were very strict and that the Han generals were not allowed to recruit soldiers without authorization. The Han soldiers must be recruited by the Jurchens, and he could only arrange four people at most."

Yan Qing nodded, "Four people are enough."

He turned around and said to Deputy General Li Ying: "General Li brought the three of them to the Jin soldiers, so be sure to get into the Cangcheng."

Li Ying agreed, and he asked in confusion: "I heard that the warehouses inside are all big tents. In fact, even if you don't have to join the Jin soldiers, you can burn them with one fire. It doesn't take so much effort!"

"This is the command of the general, we must execute it!"

After pausing for a while, Yan Qing felt that his tone was a little stiff, and explained with a smile: "This time the governor captured Taiyuan, mainly to use Taiyuan to restrain the Jin soldiers from going south, so that Taiyuan City will become the main battlefield for consuming the Jin soldiers' vitality, attracting Jin soldiers to continue to support, restrain the Jin soldiers from going south, and to gain time for the army in the south. Therefore, this governor asked us not to destroy the Jin soldiers' logistics for the time being, and to avoid the Jin soldiers making decisions that they had to give up Taiyuan."

Li Ying hurriedly bowed and said, "I understand, thank you for solving my doubts!"

Yan Qing smiled again and said, "Maybe when the Taiyuan war is a little difficult, the governor will order us to destroy the enemy's logistics."

Li Ying nodded, "If an order is issued, Bei Zhi will attack at any time!"

Three days after the Jin soldiers encountered a sneak attack trap, Wanyan Chang finally slowly walked out of extreme depression. He also knew that if he didn't take any action, his morale would continue to decline, and a fierce battle was undoubtedly an effective means to increase morale.

As soon as dawn was dawn, 30,000 Jin soldiers appeared outside the East City. At the front of the team, two teams of ten thousand people were full of murderous aura. The armor reflected a dark bloody luster in the sun. The spear was as dense as a forest, and the spear tips were shining.

One platoon was a Han army soldier from Yanshan Prefecture, led by Liu Yanzong, the commander of the Han army, while the other platoon was a Khitan army, commanded by the Jin army general Alihu.

Wanyan Chang stared at the catapult on the city with complicated eyes. He no longer had his initial confidence. Wanyan Chang began to worry that his army was too small and he could not put the Jurchen cavalry into the siege. In this way, the siege army he could only have 27,000. Wanyan Chang began to consider whether to transfer all the Han soldiers from various prefectures of Hedong Road to Taiyuan. In addition to the 5,000 guarding Jiexiu County, he could use another 10,000 siege soldiers.

"Deputy Commander, the time is almost over!" A general whispered to Wanyan Chang.

Wanyan Chang nodded and ordered: "Beat the drum!"

One hundred powerful drums were beaten with a 'dong!dong!'. The drum was 100 meters in diameter and was mounted on a large cart. It was shocking when it sounded, and it was extremely infectious.

The drum sound was the order for attack. Twenty thousand troops were launched. They carried hundreds of siege ladders and shouted and ran towards the city. The soldiers were overwhelmed and stirred up dust.

Li Yanqing stood on the head of Dongcheng and looked coldly at the Jin soldiers getting closer and closer. The Jin soldiers did not make much progress in protecting the thunder of the sky. They only knew to fall to the ground and hug their heads, but they did not know that the Song army's thunder of the sky was also keeping pace with the times, and there were countermeasures against the Jin soldiers' thunder of the sky.

The Jin soldiers had entered within 150 steps, which was the range of killing of heavy catapults. Li Yanqing immediately ordered, "Cater attack!"

Eight soldiers on each side pushed the winch, and the four-meter-long throwing rod creaked down. A three-meter-high wooden platform was built about four meters behind the city wall, which was slightly lower than the city wall. There were 120 soldiers standing on it, that is, one person stood behind each trencher. They specially placed magnifying stones or thunder in the trencher's trencher's trencher's trencher's trencher, and were responsible for ignition and ordering launches.

There were three soldiers pulling the hanging basket with pulleys below and transporting the thunder or a huge rock to the wooden platform. The forty-pounding thunder weighing thunder was put into the pillow. The soldier then lit the fuse with a fire fold. The fuse burned quickly. When it reached the red scale mark, the soldier shouted, "Let it go!"

The throwing pole on the top of the city suddenly swung out, throwing 120 thunderstorms toward the heads of the Jin soldiers one after another. There was a special thunder-looking hand among the Jin soldiers. When they saw the thunderstorms shooting towards the heads, they shouted: "Let's go down!"

The soldiers around them fell to the ground and blocked their heads with shields, but the Song army's decisive thunder had improved their defense methods against the Jin soldiers. The decisive thunder exploded violently in the air about one foot from the ground. There were hundreds of poison-tempering iron pieces in each thunder. When the decisive thunder exploded, the poison-tempering fragments shot in all directions.

When the shock wave and the shell fragments of the thunder themselves were unable to kill the enemy, the Song army relied on the poison-tempered iron sheets filled in the thunder body to be able to exert their strength, especially in the air explosion, and the attack range of the fragments expanded to within ten meters.

The broken iron sheets are everywhere and have extremely strong penetration. They penetrate the protective leather armor. The Jin soldiers lying on the ground were hit by the broken iron sheets, and they screamed in pain. Of course, if the fragments are just skin injuries, the impact will not be great, but this is a poisonous iron sheet. Venom enters the body with the iron sheets. This toxicity will not be exerted immediately, but it flows into the whole body with the flow of blood. It often occurs after running hundreds of steps, making people weak and they don’t even have the strength to run.

When the explosion ended, the Jin soldiers stood up one after another and continued to rush toward the city. At this time, the second round of thunder flew over the head of the Jin soldiers again, and exploded in the air ten feet above the ground. The dense poison-tempered iron sheets flew towards the surrounding Jin soldiers.

When the three-wheeled thunder exploded, the Jin soldiers siege entered within fifty steps. Ten thousand crossbowmen on the top of the city raised the large bows to defend the city. Arrows nearly four feet long were placed on the large bows. The bow strings were full, and the three-edge edges were flashing with cold light, and dense arrows shot down the city like raindrops.

The range of this city-guarding bow is not far, only sixty or seventy steps. The soldiers kneel on one knee in the middle of the city, and the arrows are shot down the city in parabola. Although the arrows are not far away, the arrows are very heavy and are shot from a high place. The lethality is no less than that of the divine arm crossbow, and they can shoot through the leather armor of the Jin soldiers.

The thunder continued to explode above the heads of the Jin soldiers, black smoke enveloped the battlefield, the soldiers on the city were as dense as rain, and the bloodthirsty Fengdi shot at the enemy group ruthlessly. The Jin soldiers siege the city suffered heavy casualties. At this time, the toxicity of the soldiers began to occur, and they knelt on the ground with soreness and powerlessness, and they were not even able to stand up. They were so scared that they shouted in fear, or struggled to crawl towards their positions, but without crawling a few steps, they were shot through their bodies by the soldiers and nailed them to the ground.

Han general Liu Yanzong discovered more and more signs of soldiers being poisoned. He immediately rushed to Wanyan Chang and said, "Deputy Marshal, the soldiers seem to have abnormalities, let's withdraw their troops first!"

Wanyan Chang said coldly: "Don't lose all your efforts. Keep attacking the city for me and go to the city at all costs!"

"It's just that the unnecessary casualties are too heavy, so it's necessary to retreat first."

"It is normal for casualties in wars to go back, beat the drum!"

Wanyan Chang had no expression on his face, and there was no trace of pity or sympathy in his tone. He was like facing the life and death of a group of ants.

Liu Yanzong felt a chill in his heart. Why didn't Wanyan Chang let the Jurchen soldiers attack the city? He didn't care about the life and death of the Han army at all. He knew that begging for mercy was useless, so he had to retreat with regret.

The sound of the spider drum sounded again. Wanyan Chang forced the army to continue siege, and siege ladders were placed on the top of the city. However, before the soldiers rushed up the ladder, two black shadows flew down from the city, hitting the siege ladders, and quickly wrapped around the ladder beam. With a bomb explosion, the siege ladder was immediately blown into two sections. A group of Jin soldiers who were about to go up the city were stunned and panic.

The war was carried out in high confrontation and high-speed maneuver. The Jin soldiers raised their shields to resist Feng Di on their heads, and at the same time looked for opportunities to climb the city. When the road to climbing the city was blocked, they had almost no time to consider and turned around and retreated one after another.

Li Yanqing's eyes were like a torch. The chaos of the Jin soldiers under the city gave him the opportunity. He immediately ordered: "Shot the sky thunder with his hands!"

This is a tactic that the Song army had practiced many times. They also tested it. The sky-shaking thunder could not blow up the thick ice shell on the city wall, but it had great lethality to the soldiers under the city. Five hundred soldiers lit five hundred sky-shaking thunders and threw them down to the city. The Song soldiers on the top of the city squatted down and covered their ears tightly.

At this time, hundreds of thunders fell into the panicked crowd at the city. The Jin soldiers in the chaos had no time to lie down. In a series of earth-shaking explosions, the earth shook, and thousands of Jin soldiers fell down in the explosion. Even though they were not affected by the explosion, thousands of poisoned iron sheets splashed everywhere, and none of the Jin soldiers within a hundred steps near the edge of the city were spared.

Wanyan Chang's face was pale. They lacked powerful siege weapons. Under the attack of the Song army's sharp defensive weapons, the siege turned out to be a one-sided massacre.

Wanyan Chang sighed helplessly, "withdraw the troops!"
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