"It's a pity for the villagers' houses!"

Brigade commander Zuo Zongyou put down the clairvoyant mirror and said to Qu Ye, the political commissar beside him: "The soldiers who forcibly attacked suffered heavy casualties, so they could only use artillery fire to open the way first!" ”

Political Commissar Qu Ye also put down the clairvoyant mirror and said, "Let's open the cannon!" When the Jin soldiers are defeated, we will rebuild new houses for the people! But I want to try to use a psychological offensive to bring the captured Khitans over and make them shout after the shelling! ”

Zuo Zongyou asked: "Political Commissar Qu, is it the best use?" Don't work hard in vain! ”

Qu Ye said: "If you don't try it, how can you know if it's top or not!" As far as I know, in order to strengthen the control of the Liao army, the Jin people mixed some Jin soldiers in the middle of the surrender troops, and the small leaders are almost all Jin people, and it is estimated that the Liao soldiers have to look at the eyes of the Jin soldiers in peacetime. The purpose of the psychological offensive is to keep them in turmoil, at least most of them will not resist when we attack. ”

Zuo Zongyou said: "That's good! Give you half an hour, lest you have too many dreams at night! ”

A burst of artillery fire covered the village, and some of the golden soldiers on the roof were blown over, and the golden soldiers inside the house trembled with fear. The sound of artillery stopped, and Xiao Qi took a few captive soldiers with a loudspeaker and kept shouting according to the prompts of Qu Ye's political commissar.

"Brethren! The Autonomous Region treats the prisoners preferentially, come out and surrender! Otherwise, the next shelling will turn you to ashes! ”

"Brothers of the Khitan tribe! The Jurchens destroyed our Da Liao and are our enemies, and we should not give them our lives! The Great Song Dynasty and the Great Liao are brothers and friends, and their friendship has lasted for more than 100 years, so how can we help the enemy fight their own brothers? Grab your knives and guns, and come to surrender with the head of a Jurchen dog! ”

"Brothers! The invasion of the Song and Jin soldiers will be defeated this time, and it is wise to surrender now! Don't die for the golden people, it's not worth it! ”

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The repeated shouting made the golden soldiers in the village panic.

One of the five golden soldiers in ambush in a certain house was a Jurchen, and after hearing this, he stood up vigilantly, kicked down the Khitan who was listening to the side and scolded: "Dog, listen to what, be careful that the master solves you with a knife!" ”

The four Khitans were angry, and one of them said: "The Jurchens are really not as good as pigs and dogs, we are desperately fighting for you, and you still treat us like this." Brothers, kill him and surrender to the Song people! ”

After saying that, he waved his knife and stepped forward, and the other three also drew their knives and slashed at Jin Bing. The golden soldier was cut down in an instant, and his head was cut off with another knife.

"We surrender! We surrender! The four of them carried Jin Bing's head and ran towards the entrance of the village.

Immediately, many Liao people in the house walked towards the entrance of the village with the heads of the Jin people, or the prisoners of the Jin people, and surrendered nearly 2,000 people one after another.

Zuo Zongyou couldn't help but look at Political Commissar Qu differently, he couldn't imagine that the psychological offensive was so powerful, more useful than hundreds of shells. They shouted for a while, and when they saw that no one came out, they inquired about the situation inside and learned that the rest were the dead diehards among the Jin people.

The moat under Taiyuan City was finally filled in a section in the follow-up of the Jin soldiers, and then the Jin soldiers crossed the river and protected it with a river filling vehicle, filling the moat for a long time.

The offensive is about to begin. This time the Jin soldiers attacked the city very differently from the past, they prepared advanced siege equipment, and the era of climbing the city wall with a long ladder may be gone forever, thanks to Wanyan Zonghan. Wonderful Pen Court

Although Wanyan Zonghan was rude, he was good at thinking and learning, and he especially liked Han culture. After the first Taiyuan Battle ended in failure, he thought about using advanced equipment to attack the city and reduce casualties. After consulting with many Han and Khitan generals, he recruited skilled craftsmen from the former Liao State everywhere, drew drawings of siege equipment, made real objects, and brought these skilled craftsmen to the army after testing. Now that he has entered Taiyuan again, he can come up with many weapons to attack the city first, such as the river reclamation vehicle that was used before.

In the stage of river reclamation, a large number of skilled craftsmen brought by Wanyan Zonghan were not idle, they were making the first attack equipment, and they had already built more than forty ladders, seven or eight siege towers, and three or four rushing vehicles.

The bottom of the ladder is equipped with wheels, shielded on all sides by sheds, reinforced with raw cowhide and iron leaves on the outside, and the personnel push carts in the shed, which can effectively resist the stones, bows and arrows thrown by the enemy from the city walls.

The ladder is divided into the main ladder and the auxiliary ladder, the main ladder adopts a fixed device, simplifies the ladder erection procedure, shortens the ladder erection time, and the active auxiliary ladder greatly reduces the height of the ladder before engaging the enemy. During the siege, it is only necessary to stop the main ladder under the city, and then erect a secondary ladder on the main ladder to "sleep on the city", so as to reduce the danger and difficulty of setting up the ladder in front of the enemy, and at the same time ensure that the ladder is not too early to approach the edge of the city before ascending the city, so as to avoid being destroyed by the defenders.

Siege towers are buildings that can be moved. Each siege tower was huge, protected from flames by moist animal skins, and was divided into several tiers, each connected by a staircase, and the top of the tower contained a certain number of archers to deal with the defenders at the head of the city.

The tower moved slowly due to its large and heavy size, and a lot of wheels were installed at the base of the tower to relieve the pressure on the soldiers pushing the tower. The obvious disadvantage of siege towers is that they are easy to sink into the earth, and thick planks must be laid on the land as a road surface to make it easy to move. But now is a good time to use siege towers, because the weather is cold, the ground is frozen hard like steel plates, how can the tower be trapped.

When the siege tower moved close to the bottom of the city wall, a ladder plate was lowered from the top of the tower to the top of the wall, and the archers at the top of the tower shot arrows at the defenders at the head of the city, and the soldiers hiding behind the tower ran down the stairs from the bottom to the top floor, and then rushed to the wall through the ladder to fight the defenders hand-to-hand.

Rushing cars are used to quickly crash through city gates. It is generally made of wood, and the overall structure is in the shape of a wooden house, equipped with six wheels, covered with cowhide or sheepskin, to prevent the defenders from destroying the arrows and stones. In order to prevent fire, mud is often poured on it. The interior of the theme is hung with a rope or iron chain from a large log, with a metal cap on the back and a metal head in the front, mostly in the shape of a sheep's head.

Wang Yu stood at the head of the city and pondered, it seemed that there would be a fierce battle today. He instructed the soldiers to prepare more stones, wait for the siege equipment of the golden soldiers to come under the wall, and use the stones to smash the auxiliary ladder of the ladder and the ladder board of the siege tower, as long as this part is broken, half of their equipment will be wasted. Behind the city gate, many boulders were directly used to resist it, and even if the golden soldiers smashed the city gate with a rushing car, they would not be able to enter.

At this time, the deputy general Gan Guangzong stepped forward and said: "General Manager Wang, why don't we take out those gunpowder weapons left by the head of the autonomous region when he left last time and deal with the siege equipment of the Jin soldiers." Tie up three or four grenades into a bunch and throw them on the ladder or siege tower of the Golden Soldier, and the general will at least blow them up. And those few light artillery, didn't Regiment Commander Liu fire the cannon horizontally last time and blow up one of Jin Bing's arrow blocking cars! ”

Wang Yu remembered this and hurriedly asked, "Will anyone use it?" ”

Gan Guangzong said: "When Commander Liu left, he taught the last general and a few soldiers, because there was no such gunpowder weapon in the city, the last general and others had not practiced. However, despite being half-baked, the last general feels that it is still possible to deal with the golden soldiers! ”

Wang Yu said: "Then you quickly go and move the gunpowder weapons to the city!" ”

When Gan Guangzong arrived at the head of the city, the trebuchet at the head of the city was throwing stones, and it didn't look good. Gan Guangzong asked those soldiers who could use gunpowder weapons to quickly prepare to tie a few grenades into a bunch and prepare the cannonballs, and then he said: "After a while, the Jin soldiers will go to the city wall and throw the grenades on it, pay attention to bring the masks, the arrows of the Jin soldiers will look for our faces, and don't blame me for not reminding you if you are injured for a while!" ”

At this time, the ladder and the rushing car were close to the city, and the siege tower was still some distance away. For the first time to use gunpowder weapons on the battlefield, soldier Liu Dongxing was a little excited, and he said loudly to Gan Guangzong: "General Gan, I'll try artillery first to see if I can blow up the siege tower of the golden soldiers!" ”

Gan Guangzong said: "Don't you say that I forgot to use artillery. Yes! Just let your kid put the first shot, but don't put the empty cannon, there are not many cannonballs! ”

"Don't worry!"

Liu Dongxing happily picked up a lightweight cannon and said, "Fat girl! Get out of the way when the cannonballs are dropped, and don't blow you up. ”

A delicate-looking fat guy said, "I know, look at what you can!" Yes, Commander Liu said that the barrel of the cannon will be hot, and it should be padded with thick objects. ”

Liu Dongxing stuck out his tongue, took the cotton gloves and put them on. He placed the cannon horizontally, with the end under his shoulder, and threw the shell into the barrel, aiming it at a siege tower in the distance. There was a loud bang, and the cannonball hit the top floor of the siege tower, causing sawdust to fly on it, killing several archers hidden on it.