Chapter 370: The Crisis of the Bloody Battle of Bianliang

"Use me in the first battle, use me to win, the Han army is invincible, sweeping the world." At first, one person shouted, followed by more and more people, and finally this slogan resounded throughout the city.

This slogan sounded at the head of the city, and it was getting louder and louder, almost to the extent that it shook the heavens and the earth, and the Song army defending the city forgot its fear, as if it had really become an invincible Han army, and it could easily crush the Jin army. They fought valiantly, repelling the attacks of the Jin army again and again, and the battle for the city of the two sides fell into a stalemate.

The bloody battle at the head of the city has entered a state of stalemate, which is obviously the rhythm that the Jin army wants, but it is not a good thing for Ma Wansan, the attack of the Jin army looks fierce, but in fact, the result of this attack is impossible to conquer the city, it is obvious that this is just a smoke bomb, in fact, the real killing move is still behind, it is obvious that the attack is aimed at Shangshan Water Gate, and the Jin Army is doing this, there must be a preparation for a blow to hit, the bloody battle has not yet kicked off, the siege of the entire Dongcheng, the heaviest is still Shangshan Water Gate.

After Ma Wansan, who took the lead, led the morale of the Song army, he no longer rushed forward, and he asked his younger brother Ma Wanwu to stick to the city and go down to defend Shangshan Water Gate by himself.

Ma Wanwu is the most sturdy in this era, the strong giant does not perform much on weekdays, after all, his thoughts are relatively simple, but the whole person is more than two meters and one zero, and his weight has reached nearly three hundred catties.

Heavy armor, Ma Wanwu is wearing more than 100 pounds of heavy armor, able to fight for a long time, this is strong, it feels like a hairless giant beast, the mountain opening giant axe in his hand can easily cut the ladder, which is only very rare in siege warfare, you must know that Ma Wansan holds a giant axe and wants to cut off the ladder, at least seven or eight times, or even more, but Ma Wanwu can solve the problem at once.

Due to his relatively simple mind, Ma Wanwu is just a small capital, and there are only one hundred and ten people under him. Things gather by like, people by groups, Ma Wanwu is a giant with infinite strength, he selected the 100 people under his command among 10,000 people, the largest and most powerful. It was simply a giant bear leading a herd of wild boars, and they fought valiantly to defend the city to the death and prevent the Jin army from ascending the city.

Because Ma Wan's five heads were too big, this guy suddenly became the target of the Jin army. The target shot by the Jin army on an arrow tower in the distance was aimed at Ma Wanwu.

Although he was wearing heavy armor, he couldn't make it airtight, and he still had an arrow on Ma Wanwu's body, and the injured Ma Wanwu was simply a raging giant beast, and he was even more heroic. Those men began to raise their shields and even use their bodies to help Ma Wanwu block the arrows.

There are at least seventy or eighty golden troops on the entire arrow tower, and seventy or eighty flying arrows are shot at one time, and the targets are all aimed at Ma Wanwu, so the danger is getting bigger and bigger.

The one hundred and ten men under Ma Wanwu formed a strong 'giant shield', and they used their flesh and blood to block those flying arrows, and if one died, another would follow. Death, for these soldiers, is not a nightmare, but an honor.

Tragic, unprecedentedly tragic, there are constantly soldiers dying for helping Ma Wanwu resist flying arrows. At this time, Ma Wanwu's biggest drawback of simple-mindedness came to the fore, he only knew how to kill the enemy bravely, but he didn't think about how to get rid of that damn arrow tower.

Seeing that more and more brothers were dying around him, Ma Wanwu was full of liver and gall, and he roared angrily while frantically killing the Jin army. The trapped beast was still fighting, and at this moment, Ma Wanwu burst out with unprecedented combat power, desperately preventing the Jin army from ascending to the top of the city. Blood stained the placket red, tiger eyes turned red, and heroic tears infected every soldier.

One, two, three 'brothers' died more and more, Ma Wanwu became more and more violent, and under his leadership, the momentum of the Jin army's siege was completely suppressed, and at this time, the crisis was gradually lifted.

At this time, Dutou Zhang San also reacted, he lit the crossbow arrow of the bed crossbow, and then shot towards the arrow tower. Once, twice, three times, finally hit the arrow tower.

The arrow tower was set on fire, and all the Jin troops on it were burned to death.

After the bed crossbow is lit, the archery building provides a new idea for the defense of the city, which is a good thing for the defense of the city.

The giant Ma Wanwu was born out of thin air, holding the head of the city to the death, no matter how fierce the Jin army rushed to kill, it was never able to gain a foothold in the city, the more fierce the attack, the greater the death, and the situation of the entire defending the city developed in the direction favorable to the Song army.

The crisis at the head of the city has been resolved, but the bloody battle of Shangshan Water Gate has just begun.

Ma Wansan knew that the Jin army must have come prepared, and if he stubbornly guarded the Shangshan Water Gate, he would definitely not be beaten passively, and it would be difficult to guarantee that nothing would go wrong. In order to defend the Shangshan Water Gate, he finally chose to take the initiative and personally led the team.

Ma Wansan asked the soldiers to slowly pull up the sluice gate, and then he led five hundred soldiers to quietly swim out of the water and decided to intercept the Jin army's warships outside.

The gates are open to the left and right, but the water gates are not, like jack gates, slowly pulled up with a winch, and then lowered, a third of them are in the water, and the rest are in the air. Ma Wansan led 500 soldiers to put on the most primitive diving suits, such as 'water leather covers', and then quietly advanced in the water.

More than a dozen boats of the Jin army slowly approached from the Bianhe River towards the Shanshui Gate, and on both sides of the river bank were the Jin cavalry as cover, which was to prevent a sneak attack by the Song army.

Ma Wansan's group of water ghosts shouted a thin pipe more than a foot long, which was about two inches long when exposed outside, used to breathe fresh air from the outside world, and then slowly swam towards the Jin army's boat, the speed was very slow, for fear of being discovered by the Jin army on the riverbank. You must know that at this time, they do not have any tools on them that can attack, and their speed in the water is slow, and once they are discovered by the Jin army, they will definitely die.

Soon, Ma Wansan and the others got under the bottom of the ship, and then used a special steel drill to chisel the bottom of the ship, which was very slow, very slow, because they didn't dare to make a movement, which would expose it.

After digging out more than a dozen small holes in the bottom of the boat, Ma Wanwu and the others slowly swam back. The hole is small, and the water enters the cabin very slowly, in this case, it is not easy to find, and by the time it is discovered, it is too late.

The Jin army was going to use a boat to burn the fence of Shanshui Gate, because there was only one Jin army and a Han boatman on each boat, and even if there was a hole in the bottom of the boat, there was no way to deal with it.

When the ships were still some distance away from the Shangshan Water Gate, the ships began to sink, and although the Jin army took the necessary precautions, they still could not stop the ships from sinking.

The plan to borrow a ship to burn the fence of the Shangshan Water Gate failed, but these were normal, and the commander of the Thousand Commanders did not think that it would be easy to burn the fence of the Shangshan Water Gate. Shanxiao had already prepared a second-hand plan, that is, after the failure of the ship-burning plan, the Song army's defense would be somewhat relaxed, and the Jin cavalry rushed to Shangshan Water Gate as fast as possible, and then went to destroy the fence.

These fences are made up of wrist-thick sticks and thumb-thick iron bars, which were difficult to destroy in the era without hacksaws. However, after all, this is not as easy to destroy as the city gate, at least the Jin army has prepared several plans.

The first plan is to use war horses to force them, after all, these fence gates are not very strong, but in this case, these war horses will become live targets and are easy to be attacked by the Song army, and the casualties will be very large.

The second option, and the preferred option today, is to tie the prepared gunpowder to the fence and then blow up the fence gate, of course, this is a strong dialogue between crossbowmen, because the Song army and the Jin army are on both sides of the fence gate, it is impossible to face each other head-on, the only thing to do is to suppress each other with bows and arrows.

Ma Wansan had long thought that after the warship was burned, the Jin army would choose this plan with relatively large casualties, and he stationed the front crossbowmen below, and used all the divine arm bows, just to suppress the Jin army to the death.

Comparatively speaking, the pressure on the Song army as the defending side is greater, after all, the Jin army can use rockets, which is more effective, but the fire is a nightmare for the Song army, once the fence gate is ignited, it is definitely not a simple matter to extinguish the fire.

The Song army did a good job of defense early, they used props, the defense is very layered, on both sides of the Bianhe River are divided into upper, middle and lower three levels of defense, the bottom Song army uses carved arrows to shoot at close range, because they have protective measures, basically not afraid of the Jin army shooting. The Song army in the middle used armor-piercing arrows, which were powerful and heavy, with great lethality, of course, they also consumed the arm strength of the soldiers, and the soldiers needed to be constantly replaced, and the requirements for the arm strength of the soldiers were very strict, and the rotation speed of the soldiers should be fast to ensure that the arm strength could be restored, rather than fatigue in combat. The Song army at the top is using a special forehead cloud-piercing arrow for long-range shooting, this kind of arrow has a long range, but the lethality is average, and it is more to delay the Jin army's advancing ground firing speed, but in fact, the effect is not very large.

In addition to the defense of the Song army on the bank of the river, there were hundreds of soldiers shooting in the water, and in front of them were wooden planks to play the role of shields.

The Jin army finally approached the Shangshan Water Gate, and the confrontation between the two sides kicked off.

The Jin army is good at cavalry shooting, and foot shooting is also very powerful, but in comparison, this kind of shooting, the Song army is more powerful, after all, it has been pressed and beaten by the Liao cavalry for hundreds of years, and without war horses, it can only continue to work on the bow and crossbow.

For more than 100 years, the Song army has always had an advantage in the bow and crossbow, especially the divine arm bow is a killing weapon to defeat the enemy, but as the Song army was crushed by the Jin army, so that the divine arm bow was lost, so that the Jin army also had it. In terms of weapons, the two sides came to the beginning of unification, and the Song army did not have the advantage of bows and crossbows in the past.

In the case of counter-shooting, when both sides shoot at each other, the lethality of both sides is very large, and the casualties are also very large. In this small space, the arrows on both sides are back and forth, the space is small, and there is almost no room to dodge.

In the case of no dodge space, you can only carry it hard, in this case, it is the willpower of both sides, and this is the strongest place of the Jin Army, but it is the most lacking of the Song Army, in fact, at the beginning, the Song Army was very passive, almost pressed and beaten by the Jin Army.

After all, the Jin army is outside the Water Gate, and when they attack, they have more offensive routines, unlike the Song army. Moreover, the Jin army is a combination of mounted archery and foot shooting, long-range attack and short-range attack, which can constantly change the shooting routine, and they occupy the initiative of the attack and press the Song army to fight.

Ma Wansan was very worried about the situation in front of him, but he did not panic, although he was pressed and beaten, but the biggest advantage of the defenders was that they were constantly replenished, quickly replenishing the vacancies of the wounded, and ensuring that they met the enemy when they were full.

While Ma Wansan dispatched troops to shoot at the Jin army, he ordered the defenders at the head of the city to hurry up and attack the Jin army outside the city gate. Only the attack of the city head can really suppress the Jin army, after all, it is difficult to shoot arrows from the ground to the city head.

The rolling wood thunder stone at the head of the city has long been prepared, and with an order, it began to throw towards the Jin army under the city, but this kind of attack is very lethal, but it is only in momentum, in fact, as long as the Jin army is scattered, in fact, the lethality is not very large, it is difficult to cause damage to the Jin army, but it can easily disrupt the rhythm of the Jin army's attack, and reduce the defensive pressure on the defenders of Shangshan Water Gate.

Under the cover of the Jin army's archery, there began to be a Jin army's death squad holding shields to approach the fence gate, and they began to tie fire to the fence, but they ushered in the ruthless shooting of the Song army, although these Jin troops were brave and not afraid of death, but it was not easy to tie gunpowder to the fence.

One by one, the warriors of the Jin Army were indeed not afraid of death, but they were quickly shot and killed, and they couldn't get close at all.

Leakage, at this time, the most cruel and bloody side of the Jin army was revealed, several Jin army warriors pushed the Jin army's corpses forward, and even more cruelly tied gunpowder to these corpses.

This scene frightened the soldiers of the Song army, but at this time, it was not time to be afraid, and the Song army began to think of a way, saying that they could not let these gunpowder be tied to the fence. However, Jin Jun pushed the corpse forward, and it was obviously useless to shoot arrows.

What to do? Ma Wansan quickly came up with a plan, which was to find a long ash pole to pass through the fence gate to block the progress of the corpses. In this way, you come and go, and both sides push the corpses around while shooting each other.

The situation is at an impasse, and it is clear that it is impossible to distinguish the winner from the loser for a while. It can only be said that it is a vain increase in casualties on both sides, and when this kind of casualties gradually increases, the two warring sides begin to change their thinking, after all, this kind of competition can only increase casualties in vain, and it is difficult to change the entire battle situation.