Liaodong, Tangchi Fort in the northeast of Gaizhou.

Jerod was wielding a sledgehammer and striking it a piece of iron pipe that was gradually taking shape.

He is 15 years old and is an iron slave.

Yelu Jingang is a Khitan people, and the Khitan people once served as iron slaves for the Turks who ruled the steppe, so they have the reputation of the iron people.

After the Khitans established their own country, Daliao, it was also once known as the country of iron.

Now that the Great Liao is gone, the Khitans have become the iron slaves of the former Jurchen slaves.

These peoples outside the Guan, who are called barbarians by the Han people, have always been like this, all kinds of ethnic groups have risen and perished, and it is normal for anyone to be a slave to whom, and it has been like this before, and it will probably continue in the future.

Probably.......

Woo~~~!

Suddenly, there was a desolate conch horn in the air, and Jere, who was beating the barrel of a gun, looked up in surprise and looked in the direction from which the sound came.

It was a simple wooden watchtower with a young Jurchen blowing a trumpet desperately.

"The thieves are coming! The thieves are coming! ”

Several old Jurchen men howled with big mouths with missing teeth:

"Go back to the castle! Just go! ”

The people who were busy outside the fort began to run towards the gate, most of them were women and children, as well as a few old people.

Among them, of course, there was also Yelu Jingang, and this kid was running and thinking, 'How did the thieves come to Gaizhou?' Which way is the thief? ’

In the case of the Wakos, the place they used to go to most often was Lushun. If it was the Han Chinese, it seems that they should go to Fuzhou first.

"Get in! Hurry! ”

A few armored soldiers stood at the door and kept urging loudly, and some thin figures with walking bows began to appear on the wall—they were some half-grown children, and they were the only strength that Tangchi Fort could rely on now.

Yelu Jingang, who was carrying a hammer, was about to enter the fort, but was grabbed by the arm by a soldier: "You go up to the wall!" ”

"I'm not a strong man yet." Jerodra argued.

The Jurchen armor soldier didn't say a word, and slapped him directly: "An Aha dares to talk nonsense!" Dare to say more, Lao Tzu directly beheaded you! ”

Jeremijra really wanted to smash this guy's head with a hammer.

However, he still bowed his head to the city wall, and if he wanted to say more, that guy might really give him a knife.

'Lao Tzu is not Ahha! ’

Jerod King Kong held the hammer and thought indignantly.

On the wall, there were less than 200 defenders in total, most of them were Aha slave soldiers, and the real Jurchens had less than 60, and there were a large number of old men and children who were not even half a ding.

Such a power may also be able to be used against thieves.

The defending Tartar naturally knew this, and after letting most of the people enter, a Zhuanda gave an order, and the gate of the wall was closed, and some people who did not have time to enter were anxiously shouting for help under the wall, but Nazhuanda was not moved at all, and strictly ordered no one to open the gate again.

Yelu Jingang stood on the wall, listening to the desperate cries for help below, and looked out nervously.

On the horizon in the direction of Gaizhou in the west, a group of cavalry suddenly jumped out.

Yelu Vajra's eyelids jumped wildly, and those cavalry seemed to have more than a hundred people, and the leading one was armed with a tall riding spear, and a red flag fluttering in the wind hung at the head of the barrel.

"It's a Han dog!"

Zanda howled in despair.

He had reason to despair, Tangchi Fort itself was a fort with only wooden walls, and its defense capability was very low, far worse than the dock fort in the Han Dynasty.

Moreover, there were not enough defensive troops in the stockade at the moment, and any regular army with more than a hundred numbers could easily conquer this fort.

"Listen to Lao Tzu!"

As if he wanted to struggle, he howled with red eyes:

"Now it's the Han dog from Qi Province! They can't wait to eat all our golden warriors raw! If they attack the fort, you will all die! Your mother-in-law will be snatched away by Han dogs! This wall must be defended! Keep the past today, and give all the proceeds to you minions, and the master doesn't want it at all! ”

At the same time, there was a loud shout of Chinese from the city, and all the cavalry who came to attack dismounted and lined up in a long formation, and there were people behind who dragged out two small cannons and deployed them on both sides of the formation.

"Made, why do all the cavalry have cannons?"

Seeing this scene, Zhuanda became even more desperate.

Cannons are now famous in the Jin Kingdom, especially after Wanyan Zongbi assassinated the former Great Khan with a cannon, the terrifying power of the cannon has spread throughout the territory of the Jin Kingdom, and it has even been exaggerated a lot.

Therefore, after seeing the cannon, even the Zhuanda who was in charge of defense felt a little desperate.

……

Looking at the thin wooden wall and listening to the desperate cries of the Tartars, Xu Shizhen felt a sense of relief in his heart.

"The screams of the Tartars are so good." He said to himself.

"What are you talking about, company commander?" Standing beside him, the soldier in charge of holding the company flag asked.

"It's nothing, hurry up and take this fort, we'll rest here today."

"Okay." The flag soldier smiled: "It's just that the Tartar lady is too ugly, otherwise you can have fun today." ”

The flag bearer had been a bandit before, and his personality was much more cruel than that of a soldier from a peasant background.

However, Xu Shizhen reminded: "Don't be stupid, you want a woman, when you go back, you can buy a Tartar mother-in-law with military salary, you can toss it, now it's a war, if you dare to mess around, don't blame the soldiers for giving you a knife!" ”

Xu Shiyang doesn't mind robbing the enemy's woman, but he must restrain the soldiers on the battlefield, not for reasons such as mercy, simply because this is also a kind of military discipline, if you can't control the soldiers at this point, there will only be more and more things that you can't control in the future, and eventually lose control of the army.

Just like Xu Shiyang, it is a truth that the soldiers of the New Army are not allowed to loot casually.

"Haha, I'm just joking." The flag bearer smiled awkwardly.

In the new army, the suppression soldiers are equivalent to the gendarmes, and their rights are broad and large, and they really have the right to directly execute soldiers, and soldiers who are executed for violating discipline may also sit with their families and have all honors and benefits revoked.

This is a punishment that no one wants to accept.

"If you're joking, let's talk about it after the stockade is built."

Xu Shizhen is colorful:

"Tell the artillerymen, fire!"

Boom!

Two 2-pound cannons were ejected and smashed straight into the wooden gate of Tangchi Fort.

Xu Shiyang attached great importance to the construction of the cavalry artillery team, because he was not at ease with the combat effectiveness of his cavalry, and the Qi cavalry had to rely on sufficient firepower support to be able to confront the Tartar cavalry.

However, Xu Shiyang's horses were small in number and low in quality, so the cavalry artillery for the Jingyuan battalion could not be too heavy, and he could only rely on the small power of the divine machine cannon to make up the number.

It was too breath-holding, and the cannonballs weren't heavy enough to be powerful against the walls, but it was no problem to hit the wooden gates.

Due to the fact that the enemy's defenders' counterattack firepower was basically zero, the two cavalry guns were directly within 50 paces, and they fired two shots at the Zhaimen.

The wooden gate was poked out of two holes like a piece of paper.

Two more solid bullets followed, and the gate could not withstand the blow and collapsed.