The news of the defeat of the Duke of Qin spread like wings all over the country, and of course it also reached the capital.

There will always be a day when myths will be broken, and defeat is not a shameful thing, and it is not without losses to the soldiers, but only small ones. It's nothing to change to someone else, but not in Qin Guogong, this news is infinitely amplified, of course, 90% of the rumors in the outside world are false, and countless people add fuel and vinegar and adapt them at will. But no matter how it is arranged, there is one thing that remains the same, that is, Liu Zhenglong was injured by a woman, but by a stunning beauty, which is enough to make countless people think about it.

If the undefeated God of War is defeated, who is the happiest, it must belong to Zhao Huan, the emperor of the Great Song Dynasty, this guy hates and hates Liu Zhenglong in his bones. After hearing the news, His Majesty the newly enthroned emperor was a little carried away, so that the Jin Iron Cavalry had already crossed the Yellow River, and the forward troops were less than 100 miles away from the capital, if it weren't for Yue Fei and other generals fighting bloodily on the front line, the Jin army would have arrived in the capital long ago.

Although it is not as famous as Hejian Mansion, Zhongshan Mansion and Zhending Mansion, it is not easy to break through this city, which is related to the special terrain of the local area. Although it is located on the plain, the city is not very suitable for cavalry sprinting, and fighting here, the mobility of the cavalry is greatly reduced. Yue Fei didn't know this at first, but after he was stationed, he understood why the lord arranged for him to come to Lanzhou.

Yue Fei has asked Dong Xian to lead the cavalry to Mu Huogang to escort the war horse to Xijing Luoyang, and now there are only 10,000 forbidden troops and 20,000 Xiang troops left in the entire city of Lanzhou, and it is obviously unrealistic to go out of the city to resist the forbidden army, but he is still very confident in defending this easy to defend and difficult to attack city.

The Jinshui River and the Majia River, these two rivers surround the city of Lanzhou, forming a natural moat, which is destined to make it almost impossible for the Jin army to dig tunnels into the city. The most important thing is that both rivers are within the coverage of the strong crossbow, and if the Jin army wants to build a bridge, it is destined to suffer heavy casualties. As for filling up the river, that's just hehe.

Between the river bank and the city wall, there have long been many arrow forts, ballistas, and small trebuchets, and large trebuchets are all on the city wall.

Many people don't understand, why put a battle formation between the river bank and the city wall, Ma De, the prefect of Lanzhou, is very resistant to this behavior, if it weren't for the tension of the war, he would definitely not help this military general. You must know that fighting a war is the business of military generals, but organizing young people to provide logistics is a civilian business.

Not only did the civilian officials resist, but in fact, the generals also had some opinions, but they didn't dare to refute them. Normally, if the military generals are located, Yue Fei will not take it to heart, but if Wang Jing, the commander in charge of logistics, is confused, he has to explain.

Wang Jing organized the young man to carry things outside the city, and saw Yue Fei coming over from a distance, so he hurriedly greeted him and saluted: "Lord Yue, are you here to inspect?" ”

"There's nothing, just a few simple words to talk to you."

"My lord, please come here."

Wang Jing invited Yue Fei to the camp tent and asked the soldiers to hurry up and serve tea.

Yue Fei is not a good talker, and he doesn't like to go around in circles, he said straight to the point: "It is only seventy or eighty miles from Lanzhou to the capital, and it can be said that it is the last line of defense for the capital to resist the Jin army, so Lanzhou is known as the 'key to Beishuo', that is to say, once the Jin army conquers Lanzhou, then it is equivalent to getting the key to the north gate of the capital, therefore, we must stick to Lanzhou and try to win more time for the imperial court to prepare for war." ”

In Wang Jing's view, these are all words without nutrition, and now almost everyone knows what it means to be in Lanzhou, otherwise, they would not actively prepare for war, where is this useless explanation needed.

Yue Fei saw Wang Jing's impatience, so he said coldly: "The biggest disadvantage of Lanzhou is that the city is too low, once the ladder of the Jin army is pushed under the city, then the difficulty coefficient of defending the city will increase a lot. However, the river is very wide, the water flow is also very fast, the Jin army can not fill the river to attack, can only build a bridge to force the river, so we have deployed defenses under the city before, can maximize the impact of the enemy's arrogance, this on the surface is to maintain two or three more days, to defend the city is not of much significance, in fact, can greatly enhance the confidence of the army and people to defend the city. Today General Ben is not explaining anything to you, nor is he asking you what to do. It's a word, if you can't hold out for two days, you don't have to go into the city. ”

Wang Jing didn't expect Yue Fei to be so domineering, and when he wanted to explain something, Yue Fei walked away.

Although he was dissatisfied, Wang Jing knew that Yue Fei had always been strict in governing the army, and if he didn't hold out for two days, then he really didn't have to go back to the city. But the Jin army is like a wolf and a tiger, and it is not easy to hold on. Wang Jing finally chose to give in to the people and seriously arrange the defense work, after all, he was a native of Lanzhou, and he was born in a wealthy family, and in terms of mobilizing resources, it was even more convenient than Zhizhou Ma Deyou.

The northernmost part of Lanzhou is the Majia River, the river surface is more than five zhang wide, not very wide, but the water is turbulent, and the river is very deep, the silt at the bottom of the river is at least seven or eight feet deep, and the south bank of the river is three or four feet higher than the north bank, there is no difference on weekdays, but if the river is forcibly crossed, then the problem will come out. Moreover, there are many trees on the south bank, and soldiers can hide behind trees to shoot the Jin army.

The pros and cons of things are twofold, you can shoot the enemy with crossbow arrows from behind the trees, but once the enemy occupies them, you can use the trees as siege equipment, which is extremely disadvantageous for defense.

As for the stones, the stones suitable for battle have long been moved to the city for defense, and the rest are some large boulders that are not suitable for siege purposes, but can block the advance of siege equipment.

In the seventh year of Xuanhe, on the ninth day of October, Wanyan Xiebao led an army of 50,000 to the north bank of the Majia River, crossing the river with a face, the seemingly simple problem is not simple, the river is not wide enough, the boat is not useful, the sheepskin raft seems to be a good choice, but what is the actual effect?

Wanyan Xianbao looked at the river that was only about five zhang wide, and he smiled and said to Gao Dashou, the general of the Song army: "This is your opportunity to make meritorious contributions, you will lead your soldiers to cross the river tomorrow, and after you enter the city, you will be allowed to set up troops for a day." ”

Gao Dashou was on the north bank of the Yellow River, but Xuanfu made Liang Fangping escape, and this guy led his men to surrender, plus the Song army that was captured later, he already had 10,000 soldiers and horses, and the other 30,000 troops were under the command of other Song army generals. Among these four people, he seems to want to be the general the most, and in fact he is the most grassy.

Hearing Yan Xianbao say that he was allowed to set up soldiers for one day, Gao Dashou couldn't help but cry out in his heart, after all, he was a general of the Song Army, and he was still very resistant to the robbery of the army.

Resistance is conflict, and the battle still has to be fought. The next day, after breakfast, Gao Dashou led the soldiers to start crossing the river. But this time, Xinran crossed the river differently than usual. The upper reaches of this Majia River are between two mountains, and these two mountains look like two horses, which is the origin of the name of the Majia River, and the downstream is not very suitable for crossing the river due to the topography, and the most suitable place is only two or three miles wide.

The distance of five zhang is very annoying for the attacking side, and the nasty thing is still to come, that is, there are arrow towers on the opposite bank, crossbow carts, and small trebuchets, which make Gao Dashou feel a headache, and the most terrible thing is that the defenders have woods as cover, and it is difficult for them to launch a long-range attack on their side, but if they can't attack and suppress the defenders from a distance, the casualties of forcibly crossing the river are very large.

The Jin army really brought trebuchets with them on this expedition, but they were all large trebuchets, and it was impossible to launch an attack on the bank of the river, and if they were used, they would have to withdraw far away, but in this case, the crosshairs would be very poor. Then again, trebuchets have no crosshairs at all, purely large-area, indiscriminate attacks to achieve all-round coverage, otherwise the maximum is deterrence, and lethality is almost impossible to talk about at this time.

In order to avoid unnecessary casualties, Gao Dashou transferred twenty large catapults and began to have soldiers install them when they were two hundred paces away from the south bank of the Majia River.

Wang Jing saw the scene on the other side of the river clearly through the clairvoyant mirror, and when he saw the enemy installing a large trebuchet, he smiled and said: "Idiot, what threat can this catapult have, it is a pure waste of time. ”

1,000 soldiers, 3,000 young men in charge of helping with transportation, fifty small trebuchets, ten bed crossbows, and eight arrow towers, such a configuration to hold on for three days is simply a fantasy, but Wang Jing still firmly believes that he can complete the task, because he has a secret weapon. has its own killer feature, now it's up to the other party to see how stupid they are.

Wang Jing knew about Gao Dashou's straw bale, but he also knew that if this idiot couldn't come over on the first day, he would definitely change his command on the second day, so he had to try his best to let some soldiers rush over on the first day to give the enemy some hope.

Before the trebuchet was installed, Gao Dashou had already ordered an attack, and the first team of two thousand soldiers crossed the river on a sheepskin raft, which seemed to him to be only five zhang away, and this kind of sheepskin raft for two people could cross the river in an instant.

When the first sheepskin rafts crossed, Wang Jing did not order an attack, but the first group of defenders had already prepared. After these soldiers rushed to the riverbank, they ran forward desperately, but before they could run out, many soldiers fell to the ground, one by one, wailing, as if their feet had stepped on the thistle.

The dense thistle terrestris had already been arranged, and when the soldiers who stepped on the thistles were in their favorite, countless arrows shot over, and in a blink of an eye, two or three hundred soldiers died in a daze, and they did not gain a firm foothold on the river bank at all.

Gao Dashou had 10,000 soldiers in his hands, and the death of two or three hundred was almost negligible. But after the second and third groups of soldiers crossed, the problem came out, the dense arrows continued to shoot, it can be said that this kind of cramming attack can only increase casualties, and there is no use at all.

About half an hour after the enemy's attack, when there were more than 1,000 casualties and there was still no way to gain a foothold on the other side of the river, Gao Dashou knew that something was wrong, and if this continued, even if all the 10,000 soldiers in his hands were killed, he would not be able to cross the Majia River.

Only bridging is the most reasonable. At this time, the large trebuchet had already been assembled, and under the cover of the trebuchet and the bow and crossbow, the second team of soldiers began to build a pontoon bridge, after all, it was only five zhang wide on the surface of the river, and it was very fast to build a pontoon. And with the cover of crossbow arrows, there will be no great casualties when building a bridge.

Yes, when the bridge was built, the casualties were not very large, at least in Gao Dashou's opinion, the casualties were indeed not large. Nearly thirty pontoon bridges were erected in less than an hour.

Countless soldiers began to cross the river from the pontoon bridge, but just as the dense soldiers crossed the river through the pontoon bridge, Wang Jing gave the order to attack, the bed crossbow began to wield, and the small trebuchet began to throw, not only stones, but also lit canisters filled with kerosene, and not only that, but also ignited crockpot mines.

Crockpot mines, this batch of crockpot mines are the most shameless weapons, there are a lot of broken iron pieces in it, once it explodes, countless broken iron pieces will be scattered and exploded, and the lethality is very great.

Soon, the Jin army on the pontoon bridge exploded, countless soldiers fell into the water, countless soldiers were blown up and burned to death. Soon these thirty pontoon bridges were burned down, and the soldiers were killed and wounded.

Fortunately, in less than two hours since the start of the war, the casualties have exceeded 4,000, which makes Gao Dashou feel a lot of pressure. What should I do, and how can I get by?

Although Gao Dashou was a straw bale, he still thought of a way to cross the river, and he finally chose a boat to cross the river, so he sent soldiers to loot the people's boats.

The ships were connected by iron chains, this time Gao Dashou had a long heart, this time it was covered by bows and arrows in all directions, and this time the attack was slower and more cautious.

A strange thing happened, the pontoon bridge was quickly destroyed, but the boat boat was not destroyed, as if the Song army on the opposite side had retreated, or that the Song army had no bows and arrows, no stones that could be used for trebuchets, clay pot mines, fire oil cans, in a word, the Jin army crossed the Majia River logically. And nearly two thousand soldiers have passed this time, and in Gao Dashou's opinion, this is equivalent to gaining a firm foothold, so he is ready to attack with the whole army.

Countless soldiers crossed the Majia River in boats, but suddenly there was a loud bang, and the boats that were chained exploded, and the soldiers were trapped on the other side of the river.

Gao Da Shouzi knew that he was finished at this moment, he lost the courage to fight, and he wanted to surrender, but Wang Jing'e did not dare to accept the surrender of the other party, after all, this group of guys was numerous, and it would be difficult to control it once the water was reversed.

"Kill." A thousand archers began to shoot the enemy troops in a frenzy.

After Gao Dashou was shot, the group of soldiers scattered and fled, and the whole army was wiped out.

On the first day, with more than 5,000 casualties, it did not cross the Majia River, a small river that could almost be called a moat. This made Wan Yan Xianbao angry like thunder, he had no patience and the enemy to wear down, so he ordered the Song army to surrender to Zhao Ben and Li Hammer the next day to find a way to cross the river, and if they lost again, they would all be executed.

Li Hammer and Zhao Ben are not as stupid as Gao Dashou, and it seems that such a small Majia River is difficult to cross, which may have something to do with the narrow terrain.

Li Hammer still has a brain, he said to Zhao Ben: "This river is very annoying, it is obviously a small river ditch, but it is difficult to cross, it is better for our soldiers to divide into two roads, you lead a group of soldiers to bypass the two mountains upstream, and go straight to the west of Lanzhou City, as long as you can gain a firm foothold outside the West Gate." In that case, we can destroy Wang Jing's bastard, and as long as we gain a foothold on the other side of the river, then the siege will be a matter of course. ”

"Okay, that's it."

There is really no good way to cross the river, of course, if you want to force the river, there is still a way. The army led by Li Hammer still made pontoon bridges, but did not do so much, but only built two giant pontoon bridges under the cover of the boats, and sent soldiers into the water to prevent the enemy's sailors from blowing up the boats, as for the enemy to attack with trebuchets, this problem was also solved.

The trebuchet and the enemy's trebuchet fought against each other, after all, the trebuchet on the Jin army's side was large and covered a large area, and it was indeed suppressing the Song army to the death.

Wang Jing also knew that it was impossible to block the enemy on the other side of the river all the time, after all, the Jin army could bypass it, and in fact, this kind of defense was useless, just delaying the Jin army's attack.

Sure enough, when he saw the giant pontoon bridge being built little by little, Wang Jing knew that it was not good, it seemed that the hard battle was coming, and it was obvious that he couldn't use the old method to destroy the pontoon bridge, but he didn't panic too much, after all, this kind of scene had already guessed.

Come on, come on. After crossing the river, it was a bloody battle.

Bloody battles do not mean that there must be too much sacrifice, this is Wang Jing's countermeasure, this guy has already prepared a grave for the enemy army, dug a lot of pits underground, and buried a lot of explosives, waiting for the arrival of this group of Jin troops.

Arrow Tower, the previous Arrow Tower was not as simple as archery at all, it was to store explosives, this time Wang Jing spent a lot of money, anyway, these gunpowders were provided by Yue Fei, and they didn't cost money.

At the same time as the rumbling loud sound, the bed crossbow once again wielded, but this time it was shot out and the arrow was directly ignited, and the target was the pontoon bridge and boat for the interview.

Looking at the fire on the river, Li Hammer was dumbfounded, he knew that it was over, and it seemed that it was difficult to cross the river today. However, Li Hammer did not feel too desperate, as long as Zhao Ben could go around Wang Jing's back, then he could still win the final victory.

The truth is often more cruel than imagined, Zhao Ben did lead 5,000 soldiers around the hills, but he did not gain a firm foothold, because Niu Gao had led the army to wait for a long time, and the two sides started to tear apart.

Zhao Ben, the unlucky ghost, was quickly killed, and the five thousand soldiers immediately collapsed and fled in all directions.

On the second day, the Majia River was still not crossed, and on the third day, it was not until the fourth day that the Jin army blocked the upper reaches of the Majia River and waited for the river to dry up before forcibly crossing the river.