The sky was bright, and a soldier stood up from under the battlements of Chenqiaomen with sleepy eyes, his head was still a little drowsy, but he first looked outside the city a few times, and then poured cold water on his head, his face was shocked, and there was no trace of sleep.

"Get up, get up, ......" hurriedly called out to his comrades on the left and right, and at the same time pounced on the alarm bell, and after a while, the loud bell rang at the head of the city.

But I don't know when, a large number of soldiers of the Northern Army have gathered outside the city, escorted by infantry cavalry, and a large number of soldiers wielding iron picks and shovels are digging trenches.

It really scared this soldier a lot.

It has been three or five days since the northern army was outside the city, but they have been working outside the Weizhou Gate and the Suojube Gate, and when did they come to their Chenqiao Gate?

This is the easternmost city gate in the north of the outer city of Tokyo, it is the post road of the Liao people, there is a Fengqiu gate in the east, and then along the east is the sour jujube gate and the Weizhou gate, which has been targeted here, and it can be seen that the northern soldiers are going to make a big move.

At this time, outside the Weizhou Gate, horns were everywhere, and teams of iron armor rushed out of the barracks, neatly lined up and marched. At the same time, a large number of tall equipment were also pushed out of the camp one by one.

Several light horsemen galloped from the barracks and rushed straight to the dragon river.

These people are all skilled archers and horses, and when they reach the outside of the dragon protection river, they only shoot arrows at the head of the city, and there are naturally archers on the head of the city. And behind these people, large forces of cavalry converged, sometimes charged, sometimes retreated, galloping back and forth, attracting everyone's attention.

Judging from the shouts they shouted when they galloped, most of them were Khitans and Xi people.

There were more and more people watching from the top of the city, and the soldiers looked at each other with ugly faces.

This is not to say that they stood at the head of the city, with walls and war tents to lean on, and could not shoot the cavalry outside the city. But the northern soldiers acted like this, clearly telling them that the siege was about to begin.

It didn't take long for Tokyo Bianliang City, which had just woken up, to boil.

King Yan is going to do it, King Yan is going to do it.

Whether it was the gentry, wealthy businessmen or ordinary people, they all thought of the two sieges of the Jin people in the past. The first feeling was not very deep, but when it came to the second siege of the Golden People, the days when the taste of despair surrounded my heart were really fresh in my memory.

The local people and gentry all have a very intuitive understanding of the war, and every household in Tokyo has been stockpiling firewood, rice, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar and tea in the past few days, and stockpiling all the means of subsistence.

The last time the Jin people besieged the city, if it wasn't for Zhao Gou's timely arrival, not to mention the price of grain in the city, even the firewood would have been exhausted.

That's the big population base.

But what is very unexpected is that although the prices of various daily necessities in Tokyo have skyrocketed a lot, there has not been a sky-high price of three or five taels of silver per bucket of rice. The reason is that no one can be sure of the duration of this war on both sides.

The Northern Army has a thunderstorm in hand.

Don't look at the fact that there are so many horses in Bianliang City, but everyone knows what the morale is.

The Zhao official family who ran to Huainan did not want to take many soldiers and horses from the imperial camp of the Beijing division to the south, but he knew very well that there would not be many soldiers in the forbidden army of the imperial camp who were willing to go south with him.

Because of the forbidden army in Bianliang City, many people's homes are in Bianliang, so they will not abandon their families and businesses for Zhao Huan, and abandon their wives and children.

As soon as the earth-shaking thunder sounded, it was only five or seven days before the Bianliang City changed the banner of the king at the head of the city.

In addition, King Yan's army went south, and in the counties of Zhuzhou that were conquered, not to mention that Qiu did not commit any crimes, but he was also a faction of kings, and there was no obstacle to them. It is different from the Jurchens who have always burned, killed and looted.

When the latter army arrived in Tokyo, everyone knew that a catastrophe was coming. But with the Northern Army outside, the people in Tokyo don't think they will be in trouble. Although they were worried about the war that came in front of them, they were not really afraid, and even had a curious mentality, looking at the city one by one.

"To say that this Nine Kings is really powerful, such a vicious Jin people have been beaten out, not to mention, they easily recovered Yanyun, among the many leaders of the Great Song Dynasty, they can be called the first."

"Nonsense! King Yan is all due to the earth-shaking thunder, what else can he do without the earth-shaking thunder? ? ”

"Since there is a sky-shattering thunder, why don't you use it? Why don't you tell the barbarians of the north to give up their horses? ”

That makes sense. There is that earth-shattering thunder, why don't you use it? Can that secret be kept for a long time? ”

"Speaking of which, that King Yan is really good. It's been so long, whether it's the official family or the barbarians outside, I didn't get the prescription. I heard that there are people in Zhending Mansion who want to cut off their heads every day. ”

The topic naturally turned to the earth-shattering thunder. Even if it is a small person in the market, it knows the weight of earth-shaking thunder.

There is a lot of talk about it, and most of it is something that I have heard recently, and most of it is not detailed.

But it's hard for you to hear a word from them that says something bad about Zhao Gou.

The reason is very simple, Zhao Gou led the army to relieve the siege of Bianliang, which was their great savior.

Qin Hui had already dressed up and rushed to the Weizhou Gate on horseback, and he was going to see Zhao Gou again. The previous boundary of the Great Song Dynasty was divided into two in the Yellow River, and Wang Zongwei didn't try it little by little, and directly put out the final conditions, it depended on whether Zhao Gou was willing or not.

If you want to, this Bianliang City can surrender without a fight; If he doesn't want to, then he just has to worry about it.

And Qin Hui is also happy to report to the new master as soon as possible and report his work progress and some experiences. What just made him speechless was that after the others entered Hanfang Garden, they were told that King Yan hadn't gotten up yet, so they told him to wait for the time being.

The army outside has set up a battle, and the commander of the army has not yet risen, which is really absurd.

Qin Hui was speechless for a while, and when he came back to his senses, he could only sigh the incomparable confidence of King Yan in the battle array.

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Wang Zongwei didn't wait for Qin Hui's turn at all, and the crossbow guns had already been fired first. The explosion thundered and exploded.

It was impossible for Liu Tao to watch the eight bull crossbows under the city approach the city step by step and be indifferent.

Wang Zongwei still dared to stay in the city, and fled down the city in a panic.

After that, the entire north wall of the outer city of Tokyo was not idle at all.

Corpses and wounded soldiers were sent down the city, along with the remains of a large number of eight-oxen crossbows and stone cannons, and only bundles of crossbows and guns were brought to the city.

Of course, the damage is all corresponding. The defenders at the head of the city have losses, how can the northern army outside the city be unharmed?

This siege is a collision of hard power.

The confrontation between the two sides is a step that no one can skip.

When Qin Hui returned to Bianliang City in the evening, he felt that there seemed to be a pungent smell of gunsmoke in the air.