Chapter 689: Siege

Ye Qing's heart is like a mirror, he knows better than anyone how hard Xuzhou City is.

Therefore, since the two feints, from the moment he really began to attack the city, Ye Qing's cold cheeks have been calm, and in order to stabilize the morale of the army, so that the firmness and determination in the heart of the commander of the first army can be experienced by the Fifth Route Army on Huainan East Road, and Ye Qing, who is fully armored, finally inspected the Fifth Route Army in the camp before the real siege.

With a deep and majestic expression and firm and resolute confidence, Ye Qing didn't know if he could make the morale of the Fifth Route Army on Huainan East Road stronger and the fighting spirit high, but at least, as long as he had a cold face, Li Zhixiao and Hong Zun, who were the same commander and deputy commander, did not dare to point fingers at the siege of the city, and they were busy adding chaos.

Because of Li Zhixiao's identity as a superintendent of the imperial history, when Ye Qing was the commander of the Imperial City Division, he had several contacts, and Ye Qing at that time was obviously more terrible and difficult in Li Zhixiao's heart than Ye Qing now.

As for Hong Zun, he is a real person who has suffered at Ye Qing's hands, not to mention that the two of them have also served as Shaoqing in Dali Temple, and their understanding of Ye Qing's temper can be said to be three points, and he also knows that Ye Qing at this time is not easy not to provoke.

In the sky above the majestic and fierce Chinese military tent, a huge banner fluttered in the wind, and the huge leaf characters above reflected each other with the thunderous and deafening war drums and shouts of killing in the distance, making the solemn meaning between the whole heaven and earth even thicker.

The tall and solid city wall of Xuzhou in the distance, like a black dragon, entrenched at the end of heaven and earth, vibrated the eardrums with the sound of war drums, and pierced the sky and soared into the sky with the shouting and killing sound in the sound of war drums.

Above the head of Xuzhou City, the sharp arrows like a dark cloud in an instant, as if to suppress the sound of war drums and shouts of killing that resounded in the sky, pierced the dignified and murderous air, and roared towards the Song army besieging the city under the city.

"Shield ......." As if tens of millions of people were shouting, the Song army under the city was obviously more stable and calm than at the beginning in the face of the rain of arrows falling from the sky at this time, after having the momentum of capturing the city and plundering the military heart of the three golden cities.

The hoarse voice of shouting through the throat continued to break the military order in the middle of the army, and the shields instantly blocked the arrows above the head like dark clouds, and the legs and hands that were still trembling finally turned into a bloody and high-spirited battle spirit at the moment when they touched the arrows that fell on the shield.

The screams began to sound in the ears, and the soldiers of the Song army who were besieging the city, after waves of arrows and rain baptism, began to rush towards the tall and solid city wall again.

The watchtower car slowly stepped on with Ye Qing, and began to rise slowly under the reinforcement of the winch, and the ladder, Haoqiao, and bed crossbow also waved with Ye Qing's order, as well as the big flag in the hands of the herald next to him, and finally began to launch the first real offensive towards the city of Xuzhou.

The two feints were enough for the Song army to sweep away the iron thistles, antler wood, horse rejecting pistols and other blocking facilities under the city of Xuzhou that delayed the siege of the city

As soon as possible, he immediately flew on his horse and ran in the direction he had set.

"Ignition...... Besiege! Before Xin Qiji's people arrived, the sound came first, and as Xin Qiji jumped off his horse and ran to the herald's side, he saw a torch instantly ignite the earth-shattering thunder that Ye Qing named the Western Regions Cannon.

Mixed with the iron thistle wrapped in a boulder, and the most important thing is the earth-shattering thunder of the Western Regions cannon, at the moment when a heavy hammer raised by three people at the same time struck the machine, the other end of the huge Western Regions gun carriage boom frame, after the long pole bars made a sharp buzz through the air, roared towards the distant city wall.

In the snap of a finger, the iron thistle wrapped in the boulder and the thunderous Western Regions cannon sounded like thunder on the head of Xuzhou City, and when the huge boulder smashed into the city head and made a loud noise, it was only three or five breaths of time, and a loud rumbling sound that was enough to make the entire Xuzhou City tremble immediately followed.

"Boom, boom, boom......." As fifty huge Western Regions cannons intensively threw earth-shattering thunder and boulders at the Xuzhou city wall, the entire earth seemed to tremble under their feet, and the rumbling sound completely covered out the fierce and murderous war drums, as well as the Song army's high-pitched shouts of killing.

Looking at the lethality of the explosion of the Western Regions cannon on the city wall of Xuzhou City, the corner of Ye Qing's mouth on the watchtower car finally showed an imperceptible smile, condescendingly, with the continuous firing of the fifty Western Regions cannons, Ye Qing on the watchtower car could even feel that the Song army besieging the city under his feet was three points higher than the morale just now.

The Western Regions Cannon, also known as the Hui Cannon, but compared with these two names, for the Southern Song Dynasty, he has a name that the people of the Southern Song Dynasty hate: Xiangyang Cannon!

It was precisely because of the later battle of Xiangfan in the Song and Yuan dynasties that the Western Regions cannon obtained by the Yuan army from the Western Regions was named Xiangyang Cannon in the records of the Southern Song Dynasty history books.

Ye Qing, who was in the watchtower car, looked at the Jin defenders at the head of Xuzhou City, and when they were already in a hurry, screaming, and chaotic under the cover of the huge lethality of the Western Regions cannon, he decisively ordered again.

As the flag in the herald's hand waved again, Li Zhongfang, who had been arranged to break through the city gate, roared and immediately led his troops to rush towards the gate of Xuzhou City.

The city gate, which had already been nailed to the honeycomb by the bed crossbow, could barely withstand the impact of Li Zhongfang and the others, and the huge city gate slowly fell down with a painful squeak like an old man in the middle of the wind and candle.

Outside the tent of the Chinese army, under the guards of the pro-army, Li Zhixiao and Hong Zun, who were looking up at Ye Qing on the watchtower, looked pale at the moment, and looked at Ye Qing with some frightened eyes from time to time.

The thick black smoke was mixed with a huge rumbling sound, and the ground under his feet seemed to have just regained its calm from the first loud bang to the present, or was accustomed to the deafening thunder, and the sound of war drums and shouts of killing once again took over.

Unconsciously, the two moved their dry and fiery throats almost at the same time, swallowed their saliva, and looked at each other with a look at each other, the situation on the battlefield was completely beyond their expectations, originally thought that it would be a war in which the Jin people had the upper hand, but they didn't want it to become a siege victory battle in which the Song army had an overwhelming advantage.

Looking at the faint Song army who was in a hurry at the head of the city, and was scurrying because of the lethality of the Western Regions cannon, the hearts of the two of them didn't know whether to be happy or sad for a while.

Originally, I thought that once Ye Qing could not capture Xuzhou City, they would just take the opportunity to seize the military power, so as to lead the Fifth Route Army of Huainan East Road to continue to go north, and no longer stay in Xuzhou.

But who would have thought that Ye Qing ...... There is even a killer weapon hidden in it, and there is a gold man...... No, even anyone, not even the solid and heavy city wall of Xuzhou, could not stop the killer feature, which made it easy for him to break the Jin people's defense line at the head of Xuzhou City with the help of the Western Regions cannon.

Wanyan Zheng couldn't believe everything in front of him, the city was chaotic with a group of golden soldiers with no combat power, at this moment, no matter how he led his pro-army to kill a few cowardly people on the spot, but the golden soldiers in front of him were still not afraid to flee from him to the city.

As the royal family of the Dajin Kingdom, in the east and west roads of Shandong, the most trusted and relied on general of the imperial court, Wanyan Zheng is definitely qualified to guard Xuzhou, the Xiongcheng closest to the Song court, and it is precisely because of his surname Wanyan that the imperial court will hand over the entire Xuzhou to him to guard with confidence.

But who would have thought that the city of Xuzhou, which he originally thought was impregnable, would not survive even an hour under the siege of the Song people, and it had already been scattered and defeated by people on the head of the city.

"My lord, the gates of the city are broken." The subordinates ran to Wan Yan Zheng's side, their pupils dilated, and they said with a nervous and blank face.

"My lord, the northern wall can't be defended, let's withdraw to the city ......." The general guarding the northern city wall, with a limp leg and messy armor all over his body, ran a little comically and hurriedly said.

"Song Jun...... Storming the city? Wanyan Zheng asked a little calmly.

"Your Excellency...... We...... We can't stop their fierce onslaught, so please punish you. The general who defended the city knelt down and said.

"How can this be ......?" In Wanyan Zheng's bitter and helpless tone, there was more puzzlement as to why the Song army suddenly became so strong that he was able to capture the city of Xuzhou he was guarding in less than an hour.

Even when the Song army appeared under the city of Xuzhou, he was really taken aback, even if the appearance of the Song army caught him off guard, but two days was enough for him to deploy troops to defend Xuzhou City in the future.

Can......

"What the hell is that whistling? Did Song Jun's catapult ever be so powerful? Wanyan Zheng was not in a hurry to walk down the city wall, even if he was standing at the west city wall now, he could already clearly see the Song army that was fighting bravely after rushing up the city wall.

"It was like thunder, and the whole city wall trembled......." Wanyan Zheng's god was thoughtful, ignoring the subordinates beside him who were hurriedly urging him, and continued to murmur: "Back in Wuzhou, Song Chen Ye Qing once annihilated three thousand of my Dajin elite iron horsemen with a mere 100 people, it is said that ...... In the first battle of Wuzhou, there was an explosion like thunder...... Defeated. ”

"My lord, even if the Song army captures the city wall, we still have people ......." The guard general looked at the down-and-out Wanyan Zheng, and he admitted defeat so easily, and hurriedly persuaded.

"The word Ye on the huge banner has already explained that the person who attacked my Xuzhou City today is Ye Qing. Don't resist in vain, ...... Surrender. After finishing his face and Zheng Shen, it was difficult to hide the pain and disappointment, and under the sunset, he looked extremely depressed and desperate on the city wall.