The rumbling drum sounded again, and two hundred trebuchets appeared from behind the Song army brigade, which was a new type of trebuchet developed by Jing Zhaojun for many years, which was huge in size and had six wheels to carry weight, but only ten people needed to throw, but it could throw a hundred catties of stones to two hundred and fifty paces away.

Although this trebuchet is a bit bulky and not fast, it can exert great power in group combat, especially the Jingzhao army craftsmen have improved the evenly burning fire rope, which has an extremely important impact on the control distance and time of the sky-shaking thunder, so that the throwing of the earth-shaking thunder becomes more accurate, and the killing effect of the trebuchet can be doubled.

'If you want to do a good job, you must first sharpen your tools!' ’

The earth-shaking thunder is not an invention of Li Yanqing in history, it is a sharp weapon invented by firearms craftsmen in the Song Dynasty decades later after innovating and improving gunpowder on the basis of thunderbolts, and played a decisive role in the later Song-Jin War and Song-Yuan War.

Especially for the Northern Expedition of the Song Army, the absolute leadership of firearms technology has become their greatest advantage, and the earth-shaking thunder has also become the greatest weapon of the Song Army's invincible conquest.

For the defense of the city, the Jin army is still relatively backward, mainly with bows and arrows and rolling wood and stones, and the Song army to carry out hand-to-hand combat, their sharpest weapon is fire oil, and firearms are almost none, after countless failed tests, Jin has almost given up the development of the earth-shaking thunder.

Historically, the Jin State also obtained a large number of gunpowder craftsmen because of the breakthrough of Bianjing, so that their firearms level was not inferior to that of the Song Dynasty, and even surpassed the Song Dynasty in terms of actual combat.

The six-wheeled trebuchet drove slowly in the wilderness, and the horses that pulled it made it dusty and obscured the sky, and the momentum of two hundred trebuchets driving together stunned the Jin soldiers at the head of the city, and the two hundred trebuchets stopped when they were about two hundred and fifty paces from the city wall.

The Song army on the left and right had tightened the winch, and a dark red oblate earth-shaking thunderbolt was placed on the throwing pocket, ready to go, dragging a two-foot-long slow-speed fire rope, and a Song soldier lit the fuse.

There is a scale on the lead, a distance of 300 paces and 250 paces, but the position of the chariot is not so accurate, in order to prevent the earth-shaking thunder from shooting prematurely on the head of the city and not exploding, being doused with water by the enemy or cutting the fire rope, a craftsman invented a special design, made an iron cover on the earth-shaking thunder, so that the last thirty steps of the lead can burn inside the iron shell.

Each Sky-Shaking Thunder has a plaque engraved with the name of the craftsman who made it, and when it is fired, the plaque is taken off, and if there is a dumb mine or an early explosion, the craftsman will be held responsible.

This kind of accountability is not only used in important firearms, all the weapons of the Song Army have craftsmen engraved with their names, so as to facilitate recognition or accountability, which ensures that craftsmen are conscientious in manufacturing every weapon, and the strict and perfect system and assembly-line division of labor are the real effective management and quality guarantees.

Trequebus! The fire rope had burned to a scale of two hundred and fifty paces, and the winch burst into full power and exploded.

The powerful force threw out the dark red earth-shattering thunder, and a 'click!'Click!' Click! Click! Two hundred earth-shattering thunderbolts emitting white smoke drew a parabola and shot towards the city.

More than half of the two hundred earth-shaking thunderbolts hit the city, only to hear a deafening explosion sound at the city's head, which shocked people's hearts and almost stopped beating, and the earth-shaking thunder exploded one after another, red flames burst out, and streams of black smoke rose into the sky, converging into a huge mushroom cloud.

Large sections of the city walls were blown flat, the dense crowd at the head of the city was gone, countless rubbles and bloody flesh and bones were scattered in all directions, the air was filled with choking gunpowder smoke and disgusting bloody smell, only the screams of dying and the screams of great fear came one after another, like a miserable scene in hell.

The hundreds of thousands of Song troops thousands of miles away were also stunned by the powerful power of this earth-shaking thunder, although this giant sky-shaking thunder was powerful, and they were all prepared, but the two hundred exploded together, and the kind of landslide-like effect it caused still made the Song soldiers also feel a chill.

The city was already silent, and in a powerful explosion, thousands of Jin soldiers disappeared, and all the Jin soldiers were shocked, and a sense of despair arose in everyone's hearts, as if death had taken their hearts away.

At this time, Wang Gui and Liu Jian issued an order at the same time, "Siege!" ”

The earth-shattering drums sounded again, and hundreds of nest cars and ladders had been assembled, and began to rumble towards Yanjing City, and 100,000 Song army soldiers rushed up like a tidal wave.

Although the Song army already has the most advanced and sharpest weapons, it is people who fight, and the Song army needs to temper itself with blood and fire, they need to grow up in death, and they need to become the most powerful army in the world in the baptism of war.

Twenty thousand reserve soldiers rushed up from under the city, barely holding the city, but they were still shrouded in the fear of the huge explosion of the earth-shaking thunder, and their morale was very low.

The morale of the Song army was high. A number of ladders set up the head of the city, the soldiers of the Song army climbed up the city, the arrows on the head of the city were like rain, and the rolling wood and stones fell like hailstones.

One Song soldier was smashed to pieces and fell down from the city screaming, while another soldier bravely stepped forward and fought with his spear against the Jin soldiers at the head of the city.

Under the city, 20,000 Song troops returned fire with strong bows and crossbows, and the overwhelming rain of powerful arrows pressed the Jin soldiers on the city to be unable to raise their heads, and the Jin army suffered heavy casualties, and soldiers kept falling from the city with arrows.

At this time, the fifty nest cars of the Song army finally arrived at the city wall, the nest car was installed with rollers, hundreds of soldiers pushed it forward, the city wall of Yanjing City was not high, the nest car was just level with the city head, there were two hundred soldiers in each nest car, and the iron plate of the city was pulled up by the iron chain, which could resist the bow and arrow of the Jin army.

'Boom! With a loud bang, the iron plate hit the head of the city, smashing the gravel and flying, and the two hundred Song soldiers rushed out of the nest cart with a shout, waved their swords and spears, rushed to the head of the city, and also rushed into the group of Jin soldiers, fighting with them.

As the 10,000 Song troops in the nest car successively killed the head of the city, the Song army who climbed the ladder got the opportunity, they rushed to the city one after another, the fighting spirit was strong, the momentum was high, and the sound of killing was loud, but the Jin army was still sunk in the explosion cloud that shook the sky just now, and it was difficult to extricate themselves, their military spirit began to slacken, their morale was low, and they were killed by the Song army and retreated.

At this time, Yanjing City became a cage for the Jin army, making it difficult for them to escape.

Wang Gui saw that the gate of Yanjing City was open, and there were Song soldiers waving the Yellow Dragon Army flag in the city, he immediately pointed his sword at the city gate, and ordered the 20,000 most elite cavalry: "Kill into Yanjing City, and those who resist will be killed!" ”

The horse's hooves were rolling, the momentum was overwhelming, and the 20,000 cavalry were like the highest wave, killing into Yanjing City.

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The battle of Yanjing City ended in a bloody storm, the Jin army was unwilling to surrender, or in the city and the Song army to start a street battle, or rushed out of the city and scattered, was brutally killed by the Song army, 30,000 Jin army was killed more than 20,000 people, and finally desperately escaped less than 500 people, the main general Wanyan Xiyin was shot by the Song army when he broke through the siege.

The deputy general Guo Yaoshi was desperate, and he was also desperate, so he had to look up to the sky and sigh, and commit suicide with a sword in the mansion.

Killed 3,000 enemies, 800 self-inflicted losses, the Song army also had nearly 6,000 casualties, relative to the glorious victory, this casualties are nothing, the Song army won the battle of Yanshan Fu as scheduled, and fully seized the land south of Yanshan.

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When the news of the capture of Yanjing came, Li Yanqing was inspecting Chenzhou.

Several southern Kaifeng prefectures, including Chenzhou, Caizhou, Yingzhou, and Yingchang, were also ravaged by the Jin invasion.

However, it is much better than the capitals of Hebei, at least most of the villages are inhabited, and although many have fled, as long as they can return home, they can recover in just a few years.

Li Yanqing traveled along the east bank of Yingshui, accompanied by the new governor of Chenzhou, Lü Yihao, who had been dismissed from his post as minister after quelling the coup d'état and ordered to reflect at home.

But after all, he has deep connections, and his ability is also good, and more importantly, he is very resolute in his anti-gold attitude, so he soon rejoined the company and was appointed as the governor of Chenzhou, and at the same time he was appointed as another former prime minister, Fan Zongyin, who served as the governor of Haizhou.

If they perform well in office, then they can be transferred to the imperial court as high-ranking officials in a few years, after all, the qualifications are enough, but if they want to re-enter the prime minister, then Li Yanqing must agree, and the appointment and dismissal power of the prime minister is in the hands of Li Yanqing.

Lu Yihao pointed to a village in the distance and said to Li Yanqing: "Your Highness, that is Wanggezhuang, which has also been swept by the Jin soldiers, and at the worst time, there were only three of the more than 100 families left, and now there are people coming back one after another." ”

The reason why Li Yanqing paid attention to this village was because the home of one of his relatives was here, and he learned that the parents of the soldiers had returned to their hometown from Ezhou, so he also wanted to see it in person.

"Let's go! Look at it. ”

Li Yanqing urged the horse down the ridge and walked towards the village a few miles away.

As soon as I arrived at the gate of the village, I heard a dog barking, more than a dozen thin dogs ran out, barking at them, several soldiers rushed up, drove the thin dogs away, Li Yanqing then walked into the village, indeed many people moved back, Li Yanqing counted, at least fifteen families have moved.

At this time, the Baozheng of the village hurriedly ran over, knelt down and saluted: "The villain Wang Yu, it is the Baozheng of the village, please meet His Royal Highness the Regent!" ”

"Get up, please! Don't be too formal. ”

At this time, Li Yanqing saw an old man removing items from the car, so he walked into the yard, and the old man saw many people coming in, and couldn't help but be stunned, "You are?" ”

Bao Zheng hurriedly ran forward and whispered a few words to the old man, the old man's face changed in fright, and he quickly knelt down and kowtowed, "The little second child didn't know that the regent had arrived, he was guilty!" ”

Li Yanqing made a false gesture, "Uncle, please hurry up, if you don't bother, let's talk." ”

"Don't bother! Don't bother! Please sit in the room. ”

"It's in the yard! It is relatively shady under the big trees. ”

The old man hurriedly took a few stools out, and asked his wife to boil water to make tea, Li Yanqing asked with a smile: "May I ask my father-in-law's surname?" ”

"Your surname is Hou, a native of this village, who has lived here all his life."

"Did my husband move back because he was emotionally reluctant to his homeland?"

The old man sighed, "Yes, but not quite!" ”

"Brother-in-law might as well talk about it!" Li Yanqing was really a little interested.

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