With great expectations, the next step is to prove yourself, once the city is broken, then everything will be in vain, this does not need Zhang Bofen to talk too much, the five are in charge of how to fight this battle.

Zhang Bofen opened the city defense map of the eastern city of Bianliang City and said: "The defense of the eastern city, I mean this, let's demarcate the area, implement the regional contracting responsibility system, and divide the eastern city into five regions, all five of you are in control, and each person is responsible for one area." In terms of fighting, you are more experienced, I will not be a layman to command an insider, I am only responsible for dividing the area, responsible for logistics, the real bloody battle, or rely on the five of you, do you have the confidence to win the defensive battle of Dongcheng? ”

"Yes." The most feared thing about the five capital commanders is that the layman commands you insider, and now Zhang Bofen takes the initiative to take charge of logistics support, and they are more confident in defending the city.

Zhang Bofen divided according to the real strength of the five capitals, and Pan Ji, who was the strongest, was responsible for defending Chaoyangmen in the center, so that when there were loopholes in the defense of Xincao Gate and Tongjin Gate, he could go to help. And it is Zhang Yong who is responsible for defending Xincao Gate, and Chen Biao is responsible for Tongjin Gate. Huo Sanjue defended Shanli Water Gate, and Ma Wansan, who was the second strongest, defended Shanshan Water Gate.

These five capital systems not only have to defend the city gate, but also to defend the city wall, it can be said that the city wall and the city gate are linked to defend, this kind of military plan for sub-regional defense is Zhang Bofen's own originality, and there is no military strategy to follow. Whether it is a bad chess game or a good trick still has to be tested on the battlefield.

Finally, Zhang Bofen said: "We have three water gates in Dongcheng, and the water gate is also the biggest defensive shortcoming, I hope you will bother more." ”

Ma Wansan was originally not going to speak, but now that Zhang Bofen said so, he said: "Bianliang City has experienced several dynasty changes, and the problem of Watergate's defensive shortcomings has always existed. Of course, the shortcomings do not mean that the Jin Army can be easily overcome, as long as we do a good job of careful deployment, the shortcomings can still become the nightmare of the Jin Army. ”

"I want to hear about it." Zhang Bofen is really inexperienced in defending the city, and Ma Wansan grew up in the alley in Shangshan Water Gate, played in Shangshan Water Gate since he was a child, and collected taxes in Shangshan Water Gate for many years when he grew up, it can be said that no one is more familiar with Shangshan Water Gate than him.

Ma Wansan said: "The reason why the water gate is a short board is because the water gate is a fence, and the solidity of the defense cannot catch up with other city gates, and if the enemy is full of fire oil on the ship, it is easy to burn the fence gate, and then the enemy can take advantage of the weakness to enter, and this drawback has not been well mitigated." ”

"Yes, Watergate has this problem, and I also have a headache for this." Huo Sanjue also felt that it was more difficult to defend the water gate, and his own defensive pressure was also very high.

Ma Wansan said: "If the Han army attacks, I really have no way to solve this problem, but in the face of the Jin army, which is not good at water warfare, there is still a way." The water gate has one thing in common, that is, it is not conducive to the development of the offensive formation, no matter how many soldiers are arranged, it is useless, and even if it is killed, it is difficult to really seize the city gate, as long as we lay a strong bow and a hard crossbow and do a good job of defense. In addition, from the head of the city, prepare more rolling wood and thunder stones, smash the ships of the Jin army, and let the soldiers in the fence, responsible for interception, responsible for extinguishing the fire, you can solve the defense problem of the water gate. After all, there is no way to use a battering ram to attack the Water Gate, and if the fence cannot be burned, it will be difficult for the Jin army to conquer the Water Gate. ”

"Very good, then deploy like this, this officer will demolish more houses and provide enough rolling wood thunder stones for Watergate to ensure that you can destroy the ships attacked by the Jin army."

Since the Jin army had been besieging the city for more than three months, the defense of Bianliang City had already been fully prepared, and enough rolling wood thunder stones, bed crossbows, and trebuchets were placed at the head of the city, waiting for the Jin army to attack.

The low sound of the bull's horn pierced the silent sky, and the brutal and bloody siege battle finally began, and the giant trebuchets began to wield power, and one by one nearly a hundred catties of boulders were thrown out.

When the boulder fell from the sky, the soldiers defending the city still had a certain degree of panic, and many soldiers were stoned to death. The bloody scene frightened the timid soldier's legs and his unsteady footing.

The boulder smashed into the female wall at the head of the city, smashing the female wall and collapsing, splashing up small stones and small bricks scattered and flew out, many soldiers were hit and injured, and the bloody scene looked very scary.

Pan Ji had already led the soldiers to take precautions, most of the soldiers were hiding, and there were only a few who were really injured and stoned to death, but despite this, he could clearly see the nervousness of the soldiers.

"Don't panic, the launch of the trebuchet won't last too long, and there won't be too many casualties, don't panic, get ready, the Jin army's siege will be the real test in a while."

Pan Ji knew that the Great Song army was all this urine, and he had long been frightened stupid by the Jin army, so he could only keep cheering up, and he shouted loudly: "The Han army outside will attack the Jin army at any time, as long as we fight toughly, we will definitely win the final victory." If we are cowards, then we can only be slaughtered by others, and our status, family, brothers and sisters will suffer behind us. ”

In fact, there is no need to mobilize, most of the families of these soldiers are in the capital, they are fighting for the Great Song Dynasty, and even more for themselves.

Sure enough, after a few rounds of trebuchet attacks, the Jin army began to really kick off, led by five thousand cavalry, they rushed forward first, suppressed the Song army at the head of the city with cavalry, and covered the siege equipment to cross the moat, because the moat of Bianliang City is connected with the Yongji Canal Bianhe River and the Cai River, plus it is relatively deep, relatively wide, with more water and fast flow speed, so that the Jin army can not fill the moat, but the bridge has already been built, so that the siege equipment can slowly cross the moat.

The cavalry of the Jin State is unparalleled in the world, which is not even comparable to the brave and warlike Han army, they are obviously the attackers, facing the tall city walls, facing the dense Song army to let go should be very disadvantaged. However, the cavalry of the Jin State took advantage of the swiftness of the cavalry and moved quickly, and even relied on cavalry to kill the Song army at the head of the city to cover the siege equipment to cross the moat.

The Jin cavalry can control the movement of the war horse with both legs, and then shoot at the head of the city with a bow and arrow, and the running position of the war horse is also very broken, so that the five thousand Jin cavalry can suppress the Song army at the head of the city. This is the most obvious manifestation of the difference in strength between the two sides, the Jin army can attack unscrupulously, and the Song army's defense is very passive from the beginning.

Attack, the best defense is offense, and the siege Accord does not need to defend, Wanyan Yinshu can hold back his strength, and he has to invest all of it on the first day, hoping to take Dongcheng in one fell swoop. He knew that the Song army was still very afraid of the Jin army, and as the war progressed, the fear would gradually disappear, and the consumption of siege warfare would gradually increase. Instead of spending months attacking the city, it is better to go all out on the first day, even if you can't take the East City, you must plant the seeds of fear in the hearts of the Song army, let them live in the fear of death, and eventually lose the city.

At the beginning, every time the city was attacked, it can be said that it is invincible and invincible, and those generals who defended the city couldn't bear it on the first day, and opened the city gate and surrendered. This time, Wanyan Yinshu is the old trick again, but this time it is facing the largest city in the world, and it has also invested heavy troops, and almost all the siege equipment has been pulled out, and this siege has a backhand, and the ferocious attack is to cover the attack on the water gate, otherwise it would not be so fast.

This time, Wanyan Zongbi and Zhang Shuye coincided, the four main generals of the four city gates were fighting separately, and the lord would formulate a siege plan by himself, no matter which side attacked the city, it was a victory. For the defender, no matter where the fall is, it is a failure, so this kind of four main generals fighting separately is beneficial to the attacker, and it is not better for the defender. After all, after a city wall was conquered by the Jin army, the entire Bianliang City could not be defended, which was the poor combat effectiveness of the Song army and the defeat of the Jin army.

If the Han army defended the city and a city wall was overcome, then a brutal street battle would follow, and it was unknown whether the attacking Jin army could win. The Han army will always be that sentence, use me in the first battle, use me to win, the Han army is invincible, sweeping the world. The strength of the Han army does not lie in attacking the city and plundering the wall, but in the spirit of the bright sword of the brave who meets on a narrow road.

5,000 cavalry used cavalry to suppress the Song army at the head of the city, and 10,000 gold soldiers slowly crossed the moat under the cover of siege equipment and began to attack the eastern city.

The attack of the Jin army was like a rain of mercury, and from the top of the city, it was densely packed like a pack of wild beasts.

The defense of Dongcheng is under the control of the five capitals, and the five people have different understandings of the war, and the interpretation of the Jin Army's attack is different, and there are five different defense methods.

Pan Ji saw that the Jin army rushed over like a flood of beasts, in this case, he was ready to show weakness first, and attract the Jin army to his side as much as possible, after all, the Chaoyang Gate he guarded was the main gate of Dongcheng, as long as Chaoyang Gate was conquered, then the entire defense line of Dongcheng would collapse. The more gold troops are attracted here, the less pressure there will be on the other four defenses.

Ma Wansan, coincided with Pan Ji, and the two did not immediately launch a counterattack, but continued to strength, waiting for the time to attack. And Zhang Yong, Huo Sanjue, and Chen Biao launched a counterattack at the first time, and the trebuchet and bed crossbow at the head of the city were launched to attack the Jin army.

The Jin army's attack was temporarily blocked in the face of the strong counterattack of the Song army, and at this time, the attacking Jin army found that the defense of Chaoyangmen and Shangshan Water Gate was relatively weak, so under the command of Wanfu Wanyan Ridge, the focus of the Jin army's attack began to bias towards Chaoyangmen. And the commander Shan Xiao, who was responsible for attacking the water gate, also began to focus his attack on the Shangshan Water Gate.

Seeing a large number of Jin troops covering the siege equipment towards Chaoyangmen, Pan Ji knew that the moment of the fierce battle was coming, he didn't care much about those arrow towers, Linchong Lu buses, and nest cars, but he was worried about the giant siege vehicles that were more than ten zhang long, if this guy advanced to the city gate, then the city gate of Chaoyang Gate would suffer a severe test. In this case, he ordered that the trebuchet should not be exposed as soon as possible, and that he should be prepared to use the trebuchet against the siege vehicle later.

This giant siege vehicle was still made in the Liao Kingdom back then, and it had never been used, and this was the first time it was thrown into the battlefield. This kind of huge siege vehicle, there is only one in the whole world, although this time the four sides attacked at the same time, but Wanyan Zongbi still did not hesitate to hand over this giant siege vehicle to Wanyan Yinshuke.

There were more than 20 wheels on both sides of the giant siege vehicle, dozens of bullocks in front of them, hundreds of soldiers in the back pushed them, and the bulls in front of them were thrown into armor to prevent them from being shot by the Song army. Dozens of wooden mantle wagons covered the giant siege vehicles in front of them, for fear of being hit by trebuchets. It can be said that this giant catapult is the treasure of the Golden Army, and the defense has been almost armed to the teeth, but despite this, the advance speed is still slow.

Wanyan Ridge knew that if the Song army at the head of the city could not be suppressed, once the giant catapult approached the city, it would be a live target, in this case, he ordered the Yiyun car, the Linchong Lu car, the cloud ladder, and the hook car to open the way in front, and first suppress the Song army at the head of the city.

Seeing that the Jin army was constantly approaching, and even the heavy ballista was slowly approaching the city wall, Pan Ji knew that he couldn't wait, if the Linchong Lu bus and the ladder approached the city wall, then the Jin army began to climb the wall, and the casualties would be infinitely magnified at that time, so he ordered a counterattack.

The shield soldiers of the Song army raised a huge shield with a high martial power to cover the Song army next to the catapult, and asked them to throw stones, lighted fireballs, and lit oil cans.

The catapults at the head of the city are generally medium-sized, small, and the projection distance is no more than three hundred steps, and when the Jin army can enter this field, it begins to attack quickly, which is the most dangerous area in siege warfare. In this area, the war really entered the white heat, and the attacking soldiers, no matter how fast or slow, were within the range of the defender's suppression, so they could only sprint in the rain of arrows overhead.

The small trebuchets at the head of the city, the bed crossbows, began to exert their might, mainly attacking the siege equipment of the enemy army, while the archers defending the city began to shoot at the attacking Jin army.

Bed crossbows are generally not easy to use, unless siege equipment is within the range of fire, but trebuchets are powerful in advance, and those lit fireballs and ignited oil canisters are thrown out, bringing huge casualties to the attacking Jin army.

When those lit fireballs are ejected, they will roll far on the ground due to inertia. Whether it is hitting the Jin Army or hitting the siege equipment, the lethality is very huge, the attack area is very large, and the lethality is extremely strong. When the lit oil tank hits the ground, the oil flows out and forms small fire balls. And these fireballs are quickly connected by ignited fireballs, eventually forming a sea of fire.