"Qiyu is unified, there are eighteen trebuchets outside the East City!"

"There are twenty-five trebuchets outside the West City!"

Soldiers kept coming to report, Li Yanqing nodded, in addition to the southern city, there were bed crossbows deployed on the east and west city walls, and he immediately ordered: "Order the bed crossbow to be fired at will, don't wait for my order, and tell the main general, pay attention to the fire extinguishing at the head of the city!" ”

Several messengers rushed away, and Li Yanqing's attention turned to the outside of Beicheng, where eighty giant trebuchets were placed in a row three hundred steps away, ready to be projected.

Li Yanqing immediately ordered: "Bed crossbow fire!" ”

The bed crossbow is the only long-range weapon that can be attacked three hundred steps away from the city, this time the bed crossbow has been improved, and some of the big crossbow arrows have a gunpowder cartridge tied to the front end of the arrow shaft, so that the bed crossbow big arrow has become a gunpowder arrow, but the explosive power of this gunpowder arrow is very weak, mainly suitable for ignition, of course, the Song army is also targeted, Li Yanqing has long expected that today's Jin soldiers will definitely focus on fire attack.

The red flag waved, the five hundred bed crossbows on the head of the north city began to fire, the powerful crossbow arrows whizzed to the trebuchet, making a piercing sound of breaking the air, at this time the trebuchet was still preparing before launching, the sudden crossbow arrows made the Jin soldiers a big chaos, dozens of gold soldiers were pierced through the chest, died tragically on the spot, two crossbow arrows with gunpowder cartridges shot into a pile of fire oil barrels, burst into flames, two fire oil barrels were ignited suddenly, the gold soldiers were in a hurry, the fire oil barrels were moved, at the same time, three trebuchets were shot off the belt, collapsed.

Wan Yan Lou was furious and shouted: "Launch!" ”

The Golden Soldier's trebuchet began to fire, and in a 'boom! Boom! Seventy-seven barrels of fire and oil rose into the air and flew towards the city.

This time, Jin Bing made full preparations, in order to make the fire oil barrels accurate, they specially rebuilt a batch of special oil barrels, the wooden shell is very thin, each barrel of oil weighs 45 catties, can accurately fall 300 steps away.

Of course, the Jin soldiers launched in the north city to attack the city, before that, they had already burned in the north city once, and it would be meaningless to shoot into the city again.

A small black dot swept through the air and shot towards the city, the golden soldiers came prepared, and the landing of the oil barrels was very accurate, although not all the oil barrels fell on the city, but at least seventy percent of them hit the target.

For a while, the city was full of broken wood chips and fire oil on the ground, and Zhang Qing was so anxious that he shouted, "Quickly cover it up with dirt!" ”

The soldiers immediately dumped bags of mud and sand on the oil stain, and before it was finished, the second round of attack by the Jin soldiers came, but this time it was a fireball, and the Jin soldiers obviously wanted to ignite the city first, and then continue to fire the oil, and the huge fireball hit the city head, and immediately shattered into a ground, and there were fine fire points everywhere.

This is Wan Yan Xian also when he saw the fireball of the Song army when he was piling up a hill, the fireball of the Jin soldiers was captured from the hands of the Liao State, it was wrapped in layers of oilcloth, and soaked in fire oil, just like a big ball with excellent elasticity, the range was only two or three hundred steps, but the fireball could pop out a mile away, it was a sharp weapon for attacking the camp, but it was not good to attack the narrow city, and the fireball had not had time to ignite the oil, so it bounced into the city.

All the Jin soldiers learned this kind of fragmented fireball from the Song army, which was made of hay, and immediately shattered after landing, no longer bouncing, which was very suitable for fixed-point ignition.

Although the defenders of the city covered the oil as quickly as possible, several spills were ignited, and seven or eight places on the head of the city were on fire.

"Cover it with dirt!"

Zhang Qing was so anxious that he stomped his feet, he knew that Jin Bing's fire oil would come immediately, and at the same time, he was also secretly glad that if the mud and sandbags were placed under the city, it would really be too late, thanks to the experience of the commanders, otherwise the consequences would be serious.

"Order the city to send sandbags immediately, the more the better!" Zhang Qing realized that the sandbags might not be enough, and he immediately ordered the militia to deliver them.

Tens of thousands of militiamen immediately rushed to the city with mud and sandbags, at this time, the third round of trebuchets of the golden soldiers fired, but the fire oil was shot, and again more than 50 barrels of fire oil smashed on the city, a fire point on the west side of the city wall did not have time to extinguish, and the flames spread rapidly.

"With a tarpaulin, hurry up!" One of the generals yelled in a hurry.

Dozens of soldiers dragged a roll of oilcloth and rushed towards the flames, covering the flames with oilcloths three zhang long and one zhang wide, and the soldiers covered them with mud and sand like crazy, and finally extinguished the fire that was about to spread.

After the initial hurry, the Song soldiers gradually gained experience, and the cooperation began to tacitly understand, the Jin soldiers continued to shoot several rounds of fireballs and oil projections, although the city was thrilling and abnormal, but the city was controlled by the city soldiers, and the scene that the Jin soldiers wanted to see the city head was engulfed by raging fire did not happen.

However, a fire broke out in the city, and trebuchets shot balls of fire oil with excellent elasticity into the city from both sides of the city at the same time, and the area near the city wall was mainly slums, with many wooden and thatched houses, which were first hit by fire-oil balls and burned, and the dense number of houses caused the fire to spread rapidly.

Hundreds of thousands of people in the city carried wooden barrels and wooden basins, pouring water in the slums to put out the fire, but the fire was too fierce to be suppressed for a while, and the smoke billowed from the east and west of the entire inner city near the city wall, and the outer city also burned a fire, which was caused by the fire caused by the fire oil ball hitting the city wall and bounce back, and then rushing into the houses.

Although the city was in full swing inside and outside the city, Wan Yan Xianye's gaze became more and more cold, and more than a dozen rounds of fire oil and fireballs had been launched, but there was no fire on the city, Wan Yan Xian also knew in his heart that the Song army had broken his fire attack, and he immediately said coldly: "Project two earth-shattering thunders, and then attack the city!" ”

In last night's sneak attack, twenty earth-shaking thunders fell into the moat and were destroyed, and at present, there are still thirty sky-shaking thunders left in Jinying, and these thirty sky-shaking thunders are to be sent back to Jin Country for research, but Wan Yan Xian also finally detained ten sky-shaking thunders for today's decisive battle, and the remaining twenty sky-shaking thunders He has sent someone to Yanjing Mansion.

Seeing that the fire attack was unfavorable, Wan Yan Xian also decided to throw two earth-shaking thunderbolts to boost morale, two earth-shaking thunderbolts were put into the throwing pocket, two golden soldiers lit the fire rope, the fire rope sneered, and when it reached the red scale, the commander shouted, and the two earth-shaking thunders flew towards the city in the fireball.

The goal of the Jin soldiers was aimed at the city tower, and the two earth-shattering thunderbolts flew towards the city tower one after the other, Li Yanqing was standing in front of the city tower, and several of his personal soldiers suddenly found that something was wrong, and Li Yanqing was overthrown in the corner of the wall, and several people pounced behind him together.

'Bang! A thunderbolt exploded in the air about ten feet from the head of the city, and the huge shock wave and deafening explosion caused the soldiers near the tower to suffer deeply, dozens of soldiers were overturned to the ground, and many soldiers squatted on the ground in pain with their ears covered.

The second earth-shattering thunder drilled into the city tower, and exploded in the city tower, suddenly black smoke filled the air, and broken wood flew wildly, this earth-shaking thunder was extremely powerful, blowing up half of the city tower, and a piece of wood fell, smashing heavily on the back of one of Li Yanqing's personal soldiers.

After a while, the smoke cleared, and several soldiers hurriedly rushed up and helped Li Yanqing up, and two of the three personal soldiers who protected him fainted, one was stunned by the shock wave, the other was knocked unconscious by a piece of wood, and was also hit by a piece of iron in his leg, and one was lucky and unharmed.

Li Yanqing hurriedly ordered the soldiers to carry the two fainted soldiers down to the city for treatment, while the other soldiers in the city were busy extinguishing the fire.

At this moment, a low horn sounded under the city, Li Yanqing was stunned, and immediately shouted: "Beat the battle drum, the enemy is going to attack the city!" ”

'Boom! Boom! Boom! The drums sounded loudly at the head of the city, and this was also the drumming of the assembly at the head of the city, and the soldiers immediately turned from their state of defense against the fire attack, and began to take up their arms and stand at the head of the city, and the militia in charge of the trebuchets also took their places.

The golden soldiers did stop the fire attack, but changed to a catapult boulder, the golden soldier trebuchet under the blow of the bed crossbow, there was still half of it, but the forty trebuchets were still fierce, and the boulders flew and smashed strongly towards the city, and the soldiers at the city head shouted and squatted down one after another.

'Boom! A boulder smashed on the battlements, the gravel flew wildly, and the boulder bounced high, over the heads of the soldiers, and smashed into the city, and there was a faint exclamation from below the city, tens of thousands of militiamen were basically concentrated at the foot of the wall, and the golden soldiers did not have the earth-shaking thunder, otherwise the earth-shaking thunder fell into the city, and the militia would definitely suffer heavy casualties.

'Click! Then there was the sound of a log breaking at the top of the city, and the soldiers of the city shouted and dodged on both sides, and the pole of a trebuchet was struck by a boulder, and it broke instantly, and the long pole rolled down the city.

At the same time as the Jin soldiers launched a fierce stone attack, the drums in the Jin soldiers' large array were loud, and in the sound of shouting and killing, 20,000 Jin soldiers carried siege ladders and rushed towards the city like a sea tide.