If you say that you are unlucky to the extreme, it must be Han Dapeng, this guy can be said to be the most unlucky one in the Great Song Dynasty Forbidden Army. Before, it was just a small commander, and then by bribing Wang Tongguan of Guangyang County, he finally mixed up with an army commander and was responsible for guarding Wuzhou, but less than half a year after taking office, the Jin army attacked Wuzhou, and this guy led 30,000 soldiers and horses to surrender directly.

Not to mention surrendering, his wife and sister have become the playthings of the generals of the Jin Army, this guy can be said to want to cry without tears. Now he has to sign a military order, which is the end of Han Dapeng's life, he regrets that he shouldn't have surrendered in the first place, Kang Ke has no regret medicine in the world, so he can only knock out his teeth and swallow it in his stomach.

Wang Yu didn't know Han Dapeng's situation, he just knew a little, Lu Yundi left, it would indicate that the curtain of the war would be reopened, and the Jin army would take the most fierce siege, this time it would be more dangerous than the previous six, whether this battle could be withstood was related to the fate of the entire Taiyuan City.

Wang Yu, who did not dare to be careless at all, approached the prefect Zhang Chunxiao and discussed with Wang Wei how to deal with the siege of the Jin army the next day.

The prefect Zhang Chunxiao said concisely: "Defend the city, you are the king, and we will fully cooperate." What do you need us to do now, you can order it directly, and Wang Tongzhi and I will definitely cooperate with you. No matter how ferocious the Jin army's attack is, we will fight the Jin army to the end. ”

Tongzhi Wang Wei continued: "Yes, this battle will definitely be fierce, but for us, no matter how fierce the Jin army is, we will never want to conquer Taiyuan City." I believe that it won't be long before there will be reinforcements in Taiyuan City? ”

"Reinforcements?"

Generally speaking, the biggest difficulty in defending the city is that the loss can not be replenished in time, and in the end it is basically exhausted before the city is broken, in fact, as long as the defender is not a waste, hold the city, it is difficult for the attacker to break the city. Although the Taiyuan Mansion is now well prepared, it is difficult to replenish the casualties in time, the head of the city is smashed by trebuchets and is in tatters, and the city gate has been repaired several times, and it is not as strong as before. If there is no way to add it, it is only a matter of time before the city is broken.

As soon as they heard that there were reinforcements, both Wang Yu, the director of soldiers and horses, and Zhang Chunxiao, the prefect, were very excited, and the two looked at Wang Wei directly, wondering what was going on.

Wang Wei said: "There is nothing surprising, my second brother is the commander of the forbidden army in the capital, and he flew a pigeon to pass the book, saying that the king of Han counterattacked and suppressed the official family from public opinion." In the end, when the official family was forced to be helpless, he issued an order to call on soldiers and horses from all over the world to come to the aid of Hejian Mansion, Zhongshan Mansion, and our Taiyuan Mansion. You must know that our Taiyuan Mansion is not very far away from the powerful Western Army, and the famous generals such as Planter Dao, Planter Zhong, Liu Fa, Liu Yanqing, Liu Zhongwu, and Qu Duan will definitely come back to aid Taiyuan, and we will definitely achieve the final victory. ”

Since the king of Han counterattacked, it means that the king of Han was under house arrest is just a rumor, as long as the king of Han presides over military affairs, then the Jin army will not be able to jump for a few days, and there is no need to hide the battle to defend the city, and it can be completely open to fight a tough battle with the Jin army, so that the Jin army can taste the bitter fruit of defeat and defeat.

At this moment, Wang Yu was full of confidence, and he said: "Wang Tongzhi, you are responsible for contacting the eight major families and asking them to pacify the people in the city, just say that the reinforcements will come soon, and give the people a certain amount of economic compensation, after all, they have been working hard to defend the city, and they will slack off after a long time." In addition, the family members of the eight major families should also go to the city to kill the enemy, they were not forced to do so before, mainly because we have enough soldiers, and now more than half of them have been killed, and there are loopholes in the defense. If you don't add it, you're afraid of making mistakes. ”

"Okay, I'll do that."

It is not a simple matter to persuade the families of the Eight Great Families to go to the city wall, it is the last straw for the Eight Great Families, once it is lost, the safety of the Eight Great Families will not be guaranteed. If it weren't for this kind of last resort, Wang Yu would not ask people to do this, this kind of thing can only be done by Wang Wei, a fellow acquaintance from the Wang family, and even the prefect Zhang Chunxiao can't do it.

Wang Yu continued: "Governor Zhang, mobilize the young people in the city to quickly hollow out the underground in the urn city, buy fire oil, gunpowder, and must be done before dawn tomorrow." ”

"That's too much work, isn't it?"

"So you have to worry more about Governor Zhang, in addition, you must take fire prevention measures in the city, and leave the matter of defending the city to me, no matter how fierce the seventh siege of the Jin army is, I will let them return in vain."

Wang Yu's decision this time is to break the cauldron and sink the boat, and he has to make a desperate bet, after defeating the Jin army's fastest siege this time, at least he can exchange for a month or two of peace, which is conducive to rest. However, this time the Jin army should be pressed by the army, and it will be extremely ferocious.

The outer city wall of Taiyuan City is specially built to resist the Jin army, in order to protect the inner city of Taiyuan City, so there are only four gates in the whole city, and the east gate Changle Gate, the West Gate Anding Gate, and the north gate Xuanwu Gate inside the gate are all welded to death, it is extremely difficult to break through, only the south gate is a trap door, of course, it has long been bolted to death, and it will not be easy for the Jin army to conquer.

The reason why the three dead doors and one trap door are arranged in this way, instead of only repairing one door or sealing all four gates, is all foreshadowing for the final battle.

If there is no city gate in the entire outer city, then when the Jin army attacks, it will go all out to attack the city, which will invisibly increase the difficulty of defending the city, and the casualties will be infinitely magnified.

If the four gates are all dead gates, it is obviously inappropriate to not be able to get out of the city in the first place, and the final killing move in the second is not useful. This trap door is the killer move arranged by Wang Yu. Between the outer city wall and the inner city wall is a fifty zhang long open space, which forms a natural urn city, which is of course the best place to kill the Jin army, provided that the Jin army can kill it, otherwise everything is nonsense.

There is no communication between the four sides of the clearing, and there is a block in the middle, and if you want to force a breakthrough, you have to endure the bloody baptism of the archers, so after entering the living gate, it is not the end of the siege, but the beginning of the prelude.

On the south gate of the inner city wall, small trebuchets were arranged, but this time instead of stones, pots filled with fire oil and fire thunder were thrown. The small trebuchet was only 50 feet long, so it could be said that it covered all the open spaces in the outer city. This kind of small trebuchet is easy to operate, one person can set up and dismantle, when used, a soldier operates, a soldier is responsible for loading, if the two are skillful, they can send seven or eight times in a quarter of an hour, which is already high efficiency, it is simply a mortar in the Song Dynasty.

The low-level stone cannon was also ready, and it was placed at the south gate of the inner city, which was left before the departure of the king of Han, and at that time it was emphasized to Wang Yu that it could not be used unless it was absolutely necessary, and there was only one chance to use it. After all, a battle of annihilation like this, which allows the Jin army to enter the urn city, will only happen once, and the Jin army will definitely not give it a second chance.

There are barriers on all sides of the clearing, and each barrier is an easy-to-defend and difficult wall of arrows, all of which are carefully designed, and the archers hide in them to shoot the invading enemy, and since this tactic can only be used once, this time the lethality must be maximized. The barrier was densely packed with crossbowmen, and this group of cold weapon kings was ready for the final kill.

The barrier can be moved flexibly, there are rows of wheels underground, and it is not very laborious to push, but there is a mechanism placed below, which can only be pushed forward, not backwards, which will not worry about being pushed away by the Jin Army when compressing the living space of the Jin Army.

These barriers are made of metal, which is very defensive and extremely easy to operate, and the soldiers do not know how long they have been drilling, so to speak, in preparation for the final bloody battle.

This day, the fifteenth day of the first month of the first year of Jingkang, is destined to be an extraordinary day, it should be a festival today, the family is happy, but because of the war, almost all the young and strong are engaged in the defense of the city, women help take care of the wounded, cook, and even teenage children help to help.

On the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, this day was a rare good weather, after being gloomy for more than half a month, it finally cleared, this day was a good weather for the attacking Jin army, or for the Song army defending the city.

Under the gaze of the Sun Father, the cruel and bloody siege battle once again kicked off. It's already the seventh time, and it can be said that the previous tricks have been used up, and now they are familiar with the road, everyone is familiar with each other's routines, and there is no need to hide it. It's purely a duel of strength, without any stratagem or strategy to speak of. Under the crushing of absolute strength, it is difficult for any conspiracy to succeed.

On the fifth watch, the lights outside the city were bright, and the city was also very lively, there was no doubt that both sides were firing and cooking, so that the soldiers were well fed, and the power to fight, even if they died in battle, they could not be starving ghosts.

When the sky was just brightening, the Jin army camp began to stir, countless siege equipment were slowly pushed out, and the mobile arrow tower as high as four or five zhang was pushed out, and the existence of this behemoth was to suppress the defenders at the head of the city. Due to the previous six battles, the stones in the city have been exhausted, the large catapults have been destroyed, and the bed crossbow has no arrows, which indicates that the mobile arrows will not be attacked from a distance, and there is little danger, which will bring great trouble to the Song army defending the city.

The reason why it was not built before the moving arrow tower was because although this behemoth deliberately worshipped moving, its speed was slow, and once it was put into the battlefield, it would become a live target for trebuchets and bed crossbows, and it was difficult to exert its power. Besides, the formation is troublesome, once it is destroyed, it will be completely abolished, and in this case, Yan Zonghan did not order the soldiers to form and install.

After the first six sieges, there was no long-range attack equipment on the city, and this kind of mobile arrow tower could be regarded as put into the battlefield. Parts have been available before, as long as they are assembled directly.

The mobile arrow tower is four zhang high, five zhang high, depending on the height of the pillar in the middle, the arrow tower is not very wide, that is, about one or two zhang, and below is the wheel, dragged into the battlefield by a dozen bulls armed to the teeth. There are three layers of shooting beds above, on which dozens of archers are shooting, condescendingly shooting at the head of the city.

Moving the arrow tower will bring more than a dozen board, the front end of the board has a hook, once it is placed on the head of the city, it is difficult to move, plus the weight of the siege soldiers, the defending soldiers can only watch the siege soldiers fall from the sky, and can only use bows and arrows to kill and intercept, in fact, once it is at this time, the role of the bow and arrow is much weaker, after all, the arrow tower will be ten thousand arrows to cover the siege of the soldiers.

It can be said that the mobile arrow tower is Wanyan Zonghan's secret weapon, which is to be used at this most critical moment. Due to the difficulty of obtaining materials, the Jin army made thirty of them with great effort, and all of them were thrown into the battlefield, and this time they were all placed on the attack at the south gate.

After the first six attacks, the Jin army found that only the south gate was a trap gate, which could be killed, and the other three gates were all dead doors, and it was difficult to attack them.

Thirty mobile arrow towers are lined up one after another, and once they are close to the city, the boarding board is set up behind the city, as if forming a passage for siege, and the soldiers of the Jin army will descend from the sky to kill the city.

With the sound of the low horn, siege engines, battering rams, arrow towers, climbing ladders and other siege equipment slowly pushed towards Taiyuan City, but the trebuchet did not go to the battlefield.

The trebuchet was not used, not that the Jin army did not have trebuchets anymore, but that the trebuchet attack was basically no longer used after the first three sieges. The role of trebuchets became smaller and smaller, on the contrary, the stones thrown at the head of the city became a tool for the Song army to defend the city, and the Jin army was of course reluctant to send shells to the enemy, so they did not use trebuchets.

The moat had long since been filled in, replaced by seven moats, except that the moats had the exact opposite effect of the moat. The moat was to protect the walls from enemy attacks, while the moat was to prevent the defenders of the city from leaving the city and to prevent the city from being attacked by the army.

Planks were placed on the trenches and the siege equipment could pass slowly, and soon they were within range of bows and arrows, at which point the soldiers raised their shields to fend off the crossbow arrows that came down from the city.

The war is about to break out, and the first to bear the brunt is Han Dapeng's 30,000 signing army, you must know that when this guy was in Wuzhou, he claimed to be 30,000 horses, but in fact, it was 145,000, and most of them were empty salaries. However, after taking refuge in the Jinren, the soldiers and horses suffered countless casualties, but there were more and more soldiers and horses.

Basically, there is no problem with Han Dapeng's 30,000 full men, which has something to do with the surrender of a large number of Song troops, and the death of generals after a large number of Song troops surrendered. Of course, this can be regarded as a reward after cuckolding. Han Dapeng is not a mortal, his wife, sister-in-law and Wanyan Zong slept with him, and he slept with the wives of his generals by the way. This time in the siege, are the three cuckold sycophants playing an important role in the siege?

Han Dapeng, the green hat prince, led 15,000 soldiers to attack the south gate, the east gate is the brother-in-law Cui Haozhi, the west gate is the brother-in-law Huang Sanpao, and the north gate is the brother-in-law Nie Zhiyun. But today is not a good day, it is a nightmare.

The night before, Han Dapeng told his three brothers-in-law that if they couldn't attack Taiyuan City in this battle, everyone would be executed, and the three guys were so scared that they didn't close their eyes all night. However, today is still in battle, and it is always a gamble whether you can kill it.

Han Dapeng is full of confidence, after all, Wanyan Zongzhi still gives this green hat king certain support, this time more than half of the siege equipment in the Jin army has been pulled out, plus the previous six sieges, Taiyuan City is no longer a monolith, lack of trebuchets, bed crossbows and other long-range attack equipment, soldiers are also seriously insufficient, this siege is still very good.

The reason why Wanyan Zongzhi pulled out so much siege equipment was not because he slept with Han Dapeng's wife and sister, the most important thing was that he himself was the commander of the second echelon of the siege, if he couldn't attack the city this time, Wanyan Zonghan, his cousin, would definitely not be merciful.

Han Dapeng is also bound to win this time, what he lost can only be found in Taiyuan Mansion, and now since it is a siege, of course he must go all out.

This time, Wanyan Zongwang handed over the full power of the siege to his cousin Wanyan Zongzhi, of course, there are requirements, if this battle is lost, although he will not cut off this guy's head, but in the future, he will never think about leading troops again.

The first to bear the brunt is the improved version of the Linchong Lu bus, which is the secret weapon of the Jin Army, three zhang high, two zhang wide, and three zhang long. There are twelve wheels underneath, six in a row. Generally, the Linchong Lu bus is a five-story high siege tower, the bottom is pushed by soldiers, and the other four layers are filled with soldiers in battle. But this modified version is not, there are only two layers, the top layer is actually installed with stone cannons, these stone cannons were snatched from the hands of the Song army, the first six sieges were not used, this time it was finally pushed to the battlefield, and the lower layer is to store ammunition.

The ten Linchonglu buses were pulled forward by sturdy bulls, each of which was clothed in armor to resist arrows, so that they could move forward unscrupulously. These stone cannons were not easy to come by, and the reason why they were not used before was because the Song army defending the city had long-range weapons, and Wanyan Zongwang was afraid that these modified Linchong Lu buses would be destroyed, so they had been useless.

The most lethal is still the battering ram made of a giant wood that is more than ten zhang long, like a centipede that moves slowly, and is covered with a thick iron sheet, so that it is not afraid of the Song army's rocket attack, once it is close to the city gate, it is definitely a big killer

There was no catapult in this battle, because Wanyan Zongzhi didn't want to send stones to the Song army, and after six sieges, everything that could be destroyed with a trebuchet was basically destroyed, and the Song army's defense became more and more tight, even if it was thrown at the fireball, it still had no effect.

The latest folding ladder car has also been sent, this kind of ladder car is still pulled by a bull, the ladder is folded into three parts, it does not look very big, but once it is close to the city wall, it will be quickly unfolded, and the lead is set up at the head of the city, which can echo with the mobile arrow tower and build the most powerful siege channel. It makes it very easy for the Jin army to climb the city wall as if it were on the ground, of course, the premise is to send it to the city wall.

In the past, the Song army had countless bed crossbows, trebuchets, these large siege equipment did not want to get close to the city wall, but today is different, although these siege equipment is not advancing very fast, but it is still advancing slowly, and the Song army defending the city has not many ways.

Just because there are not many ways doesn't mean there is no way. In the days of the armistice, Wang Yin was thinking about what means would be used by the seventh Jin army to attack the city, and of course he was also thinking about countermeasures.

There is no doubt that the Jin army will take advantage of the lack of long-range attacks in the defense of the city and use large siege equipment, after all, although the lethality of this thing is very large, the target is too large and easy to attack. The key is that it is very complicated to manufacture, and the Jin Army will not use it easily unless it is absolutely necessary.

The seventh siege, it is obvious that when it is time to use it, Wang Yin has made his own precautions against these large-scale siege equipment.

In the middle of the night, he quietly opened the city gates, dug a trench at a distance of thirty feet from the city wall, and then buried gunpowder and oil. It continues all the way to the bottom of the city walls, and each section is not connected, so it will not turn the city into a sea of fire all at once. In that case, the Jin army will most likely choose to attack after the fire is extinguished, and it will be useless. Basically, there will be ambushes every two zhang, which can delay the Jin army's attack to the greatest extent and destroy the large siege equipment to the greatest extent.

With the sound of the horn, the 30,000 troops began to attack from all sides, and this time, these 30,000 soldiers were also covering the advance of the siege equipment while besieging the city.

Wang Yin watched the situation of the Jin army through the clairglass, and when he saw that the Jin army was attacking with the whole army, he knew that the Jin army was bound to win this battle, and the hardships and sincerity of this battle were far greater than the sum of the previous six battles. This battle is destined to be a vicious battle, whether you can hold Taiyuan City, to be honest, only God knows, fortunately, there is an outer city recommended by the King of Han, otherwise this battle can basically be declared lost, and it is impossible to stop it at all.

In this battle, Wang Yin was mentally prepared to release all the bows and arrows, and he shouted loudly: "The Song army that surrendered to the Jin army is attacking the city below, but they have surrendered to the enemy and treason, and they are no longer our brothers in Paoze, but our enemies, and there is no mercy for these people." ”

"There is no forgiveness for killing, there is no forgiveness for killing." The Song army at the head of the city shouted, and 10,000 people shouted in unison, which was really deafening.

The speed of the signatories was not very fast before they reached two hundred paces from the wall, but once they were two hundred paces away, they were in range, and the signatories began to sprint.

"Launch."

With Wang Yin's order, the offensive and defensive battle at the south gate officially kicked off, and thousands of arrows were fired at the head of the city, and the dense flying arrows were overwhelming, flying like locusts to the signing army.

Behind is the Jin Army's Supervisory Team, retreating is death, these signing soldiers ran forward lifelessly, after the soldiers in front fell to the ground, the soldiers in the back stepped on the corpses of the soldiers in front and continued to advance.

The signings in the sprint are not worried about the traps in front of them, there are thistles terrestris, these methods have been used in the first six times, and the power that should be exerted has already been exerted, and now they only need to attack with all their might.

Under the sunlight, the weapon emitted a blinding cold light. Countless signatories fell, but many more continued to rush forward. Going forward and one after another, the death is that the signing army is getting bigger and bigger, but there are more rushing to the front, so to speak, stepping on the corpse in front of them.