One of the most important reasons why Datong Province was able to become a military center was because of the Great Wall.

The Great Wall here refers to the Great Wall of the Northern Wei Dynasty, the Northern Qi Dynasty and the Sui Dynasty, due to the imperial army pressing the border, so the Jin State also sent people to repair this part of the Great Wall, adding chimneys, beacons, forts, and moats, and some sections of the earth walls were changed into stone walls, and they were connected together.

It can be said that this change is a bit embarrassing, as we all know, the Great Wall was originally built by the Central Plains Dynasty in order to guard against foreign races in the north, so the Great Wall of Datongfu and Zhongdu are in the north of the town, and now the Jin people need to guard against the imperial army attacking from the south.

Naturally, the Jin Kingdom was also aware of this problem, so they demolished some auxiliary buildings on the south side of the Great Wall, and at the same time built the Great Wall and the towns on the south side into an overall defense system.

In fact, it can already be seen from this move of the Jin State that this emerging and powerful country that destroyed the Liao and Song Dynasty has turned from prosperity to decline.

The most powerful thing in the Jin State is their cavalry troops, which used to gallop across the country, and it was their advantage to run thousands of miles away if they missed a single blow, and they had no choice but to defend, but it has always been the work of the Han people who lacked cavalry in the Central Plains.

Now the Jin State intends to rely on the strong defensive line of the Great Wall to defend against the imperial army, which has given up the advantage of its own cavalry to be extremely mobile, and it has to be said that this is a wrong move.

The Central Plains Dynasty lacked horses for many periods, and the imperial army had no cavalry troops when it was from Zhennan, and it had been relying on infantry to kill all sides all these years, but the Jin Kingdom now wants to rely on defense to resist the imperial army, which is really a bit ridiculous.

After Hai Dongqing, which the Jin people used to scout, was eaten by the two dragons as snacks, the army commanded by Wanyan Zongbi completely lost its eyes and ears.

Faced with this situation, Wanyan Zongbi could only order the whole army to raise its vigilance, and the beacon tower to send additional manpower, and once the enemy situation was discovered, it was necessary to quickly warn and prepare to hold this line of defense.

After the imperial army was silent for a few days, suddenly several legions appeared outside the Jin defense line at the same time, and just when all the Jin soldiers were in full array, Li Nan personally came to Hunyuan County in Datong Prefecture.

This county seat belonging to Datong Mansion is not large, and only more than 1,000 Jurchen native troops, more than 3,000 Khitan troops, Han troops and a small number of prison army are stationed.

The forest is big, there are all kinds of birds, and any nation also has people of various personalities, so when he saw the black oppressive imperial army attacking, the Jurchen guard general of Hunyuan City, the young patriarch from the Pucha Department, ran away directly with the soldiers and horses of his headquarters......

The young patriarch of the Jurchen Pucha Department dared to run, but the Khitans and Han people did not dare to run, knowing that their families were all in the territory of the Jin Kingdom, and if they fled from the battle, they would definitely implicate their relatives. Therefore, these abandoned soldiers immediately lit the wolf smoke beacon fire, and relied on a large number of defenses outside the city to fight fiercely with the imperial army.

The Imperial Army chose Hunyuan City as a breakthrough in the first battle, in fact, according to the information from the Imperial Intelligence Bureau, they knew that the defender here was a cowardly guy.

The information was very accurate, and the young patriarch of the Pucha tribe did run away at the first time, but no one expected that the Khitans and Han people in the city would resist to the death.

Under the cover of thick shields, the Imperial Army sappers methodically cleaned up the defenses outside the city, such as horses, barbed wire, deep ditches, etc., and when the distance was close enough, several loud Imperial soldiers began to shout at the city, hoping that they could open the door and surrender.

It's a pity that the soldiers and civilians in the city have no intention of surrendering, if it weren't for the fast running of these imperial soldiers, it is estimated that they would have been killed by gunpowder arrows fired from the city.

Looking at the guys on the city wall who were loudly laughing at the imperial soldiers, Li Nan put down his binoculars and ordered with a cold face: "These stubborn people have no value in existence, let's attack the city!" ”

Han Shizhong now knows the siege method of the imperial army, he pointed to Hunyuan City and said with some unbearable: "Your Majesty, there are basically Han people in this city, isn't it too cruel to do this?" ”

"Han Chinese?" Li Nan shook his head and sighed: "It has been too long since Yanyun left the Han Dynasty, first the Liao Kingdom, and then the Jin Kingdom. As the saying goes, 'Yi Di into China is Huaxia, and when Huaxia enters Yi Di, it is Yi Di', they are no longer Han people, attack! ”

After all, Han Shizhong was also born in the army, although he had pity for his fellow clansmen, but he knew the cruelty of the war, so he had to sit and watch the battle.

The Imperial Army did not send infantry to forcibly attack the city, but to the sound of war drums, more than a dozen square chariots appeared from the military formation.

The exterior of the chariot was covered with thick steel plates with long spikes on the outside, which were enough to withstand the bullets of gunpowder arrows, firebirds, and muskets fired from the city, as well as killing and wounding enemies in close proximity.

And even the iron cannons on the head of Jin Guocheng can't do anything, and only the gunpowder shells thrown by the trebuchet, the shock wave after the explosion, will have some damage to the soldiers hiding in the chariot.

This chariot was not an idea provided by Li Nan, but was inadvertently created by Karina, the Imperial Chancellor of the Exchequer and currently working on the steam engine, in cooperation with the Ministry of Military Industry.

Natasha, who was in the Qiyuan State Arsenal, also offered some advice, originally they wanted to make a chariot similar to the tanks of later generations, but unfortunately Karina's steam engine has not been fully successful in using it on trains, and it is not feasible to use it in chariots at present.

The empire has many skilled craftsmen, and now the empire has extremely generous rewards for all kinds of inventions, which stimulates their creativity.

A few of the Shogun's craftsmen who had been deceived from Tokyo decided to abandon the design of the chariot powered by the steam engine in favor of a war elephant, a highly weighted animal.

Although elephants are not very adapted to the northern climate, they can survive as long as it is not winter with careful care.

Named the 'Elephant Tank', the interior was powered by two elephants, equipped with a new gun, and ten Imperial soldiers, including one elephant soldier, two gunners, two loaders, and five musketeers who could attack at close range.

The cannon mounted on the two-wheeled vehicle, dragged by two elephants, and the baskets containing shells on either side of the elephant's body, make up a complete elephant tank.

When he first saw this nondescript elephant tank, Li Nan couldn't stop laughing, but after seeing its outstanding defensive power, he was still quite amazed.

This clumsy conceptual tank still has no solution in this era, and the only drawback is that it is afraid that the enemy army will get close and hurt the elephant's four-legged legs, but when the enemy army does not dare to go out of the city, there is no need to worry about this.

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