The grain army went north with difficulty, and finally arrived at Jiexiu County two days later, the population of Jiexiu County was not large, only more than 30,000 people, the Jin soldiers drove all the county citizens to the south of the city, divided the north of the city into a warehouse area, built a high wall, and built thousands of big tents inside, and all kinds of grain and grass materials were piled up in the big tents.

The army guarding Jiexiu County consisted of 5,000 Han soldiers and 1,000 Jurchen soldiers, after the grain and grass materials were unloaded on the square in front of the warehouse, the grain transport team immediately left the county seat, and the Han soldiers carried the grain and grass into the barracks, and the ordinary people were not allowed to approach the warehouse.

In a private house in the south of the city, Yan Qing and ten of his subordinates sat in the room to rest, Yan Qing gave the old man five taels of silver, the old man had already thanked him and left, the old man had actually guessed Yan Qing's identity, but he covered him into the county seat.

At this time, one of his subordinates walked into the courtyard quickly, and Yan Qing stepped forward and asked, "How is it, have you found your fellow villagers?" ”

This subordinate was surnamed Wang, a native of Jiangzhou, and one of his fellow villagers served as a battalion general in the Han army of Jin Bing, so Yan Qing considered joining the Han army and blended into the warehouse as a Jin soldier.

His subordinates saluted and said: "I found someone, he promised me that I could bring three people to join the army, he said that the Jin soldiers were very tightly controlled, and the Han generals were not allowed to recruit soldiers without authorization, and the Han soldiers must be recruited by the Jurchens, and he could only arrange a maximum of four people." ”

Yan Qing nodded, "Four people are enough." ”

He turned back to the deputy general Li Ying and said, "General Li took the three of them to join the Jin soldiers, and they must be mixed into the cangcheng." ”

Li Ying agreed, and he asked a little puzzled: "I heard that the warehouses inside are all big tents, in fact, even if you don't need to join the Jin Bing, you can burn it down, you don't need to work so hard!" ”

"This is the order of the capital, and we must carry it out!"

After a pause, Yan Qing felt that her tone was a little stiff, so she explained with a smile: "This time, Dutong captured Taiyuan, mainly to use Taiyuan to contain the Jin soldiers to the south, to make Taiyuan City the main battlefield to consume the Jin soldiers' vital strength, and to attract the Jin soldiers to continue to support, contain the Jin soldiers from going south, and buy time for the army to assemble in the south, so this time the capital will let us not destroy the logistics of the Jin soldiers for the time being, so that the Jin soldiers will not make a decision to abandon Taiyuan." ”

Li Ying hurriedly bowed down and said: "I understand my humble position, thank you for the general's doubts!" ”

Yan Qing smiled again: "Maybe when the battle in Taiyuan is a little difficult, the capital commander will order us to destroy the enemy's logistics." ”

Li Ying nodded, "If there is an order, the lowly will attack at any time!" ”

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Three days after Jin Bing encountered a sneak attack trap, Wan Yanchang finally slowly came out of his extreme depression, and he also knew that if he didn't take any action, his morale would continue to decline, and a fierce battle was undoubtedly an effective means to improve morale.

As soon as the morning dawned, 30,000 golden soldiers appeared outside the eastern city, and at the front of the team, two 10,000-strong teams were murderous, their armor reflected a dark blood luster in the sun, and the spears were as dense as a forest, and the tips of the spears were shining.

One team was a Han army soldier from Yanshan Province, led by Liu Yanzong, the commander of the Han army, while the other team was a Khitan army, commanded by Ali Hu, a general of the Jin soldiers.

Wan Yan Chang looked at the trebuchet on the head of the city with complicated eyes, he no longer had the initial self-confidence, Wan Yan Chang began to worry that his army was too small, and it was impossible for him to put the Jurchen cavalry into the siege battle, so that the siege army available in his hands was only 27,000 people, Wan Yan Chang began to consider whether to transfer the Han soldiers from all the states on the Hedong Road to Taiyuan, in addition to the 5,000 people who guarded Jiexiu County, the siege soldiers he could use could be increased by 10,000.

"Vice Marshal, the hour is almost up!" A general reminded Yan Chang in a low voice.

Wan Yanchang nodded, and shouted: "Drum!" ”

100 majestic drums'Boom! Boom! This kind of drum has a diameter of one zhang, and it is erected on the cart, and the sound of the drum shakes the world and has extremely infectious power.

The sound of the drums was the order to attack, and the 20,000 troops were launched, carrying hundreds of siege ladders, shouting and rushing towards the city, and the soldiers were overwhelming, stirring up a cloud of dust.

Li Yanqing stood on the head of Dongcheng, coldly looking at the Jin soldiers who were getting closer and closer, the Jin soldiers did not make much progress in protecting the earth-shaking thunder, they only knew that they fell to the ground and hugged their heads, but they didn't know that the Song army's earth-shaking thunder was also advancing with the times, and there were also countermeasures against the Jin soldiers who fell to the ground with their heads in their hands.

The Jin soldiers had already entered within one hundred and fifty steps, which was the killing range of the heavy trebuchet, and Li Yanqing immediately ordered, "The trebuchet attack!" ”

Eight soldiers on each side pushed the winch, and the four-zhang long throwing rod creaked and pressed down, and a wooden platform with a height of three zhang was built behind the city wall, a little lower than the city wall, and there were one hundred and twenty soldiers standing on it, that is, one person standing behind each trebuchet, who was specially designed to install magnified stones or earth-shaking thunder in the trebuchet's throwing pocket, and was responsible for igniting and ordering the launch.

In addition, there are three soldiers who pull the hanging basket with pulleys below, and transport the earth-shaking thunder or boulder to the wooden platform, and the forty-pound earth-shaking thunder is put into the throwing pocket, and the soldier immediately ignites the fire rope with a fire fold, and the fire rope burns rapidly, and when it burns to the red scale mark, the soldier shouts, "Release!" ”

The throwing pole on the head of the city swung out violently, and one after another threw one hundred and twenty sky-shaking thunderbolts to the top of the golden soldiers' heads, and among the golden soldiers were special thunder lookers, and when they saw the sky-shaking thunder shooting overhead, they shouted: "Get down!" ”

The surrounding soldiers fell to the ground one after another, blocking their heads with shields, but the Song army's earth-shaking thunder has been improved against the defense methods of the golden soldiers, and the earth-shaking thunder exploded violently in the air about a zhang from the ground, and there were hundreds of quenched broken iron pieces in each thunder, and when the earth-shaking thunder exploded, the quenching fragments shot in all directions.

When the shock wave and the shell fragments of the earth-shattering thunder itself could not kill the enemy, the Song army counted on the quenching iron pieces filled in the thunder body to exert their left and right, especially when they exploded in the air, and the impact range of the fragments was expanded to a radius of ten zhang.

The broken iron piece is pervasive, the penetration is extremely strong, and it penetrates the protective leather armor, and the golden soldiers lying on the ground are hit by the broken iron piece, and they scream in pain, of course, if the fragment is just a flesh wound, the impact is not big, but this is a quenched iron piece, the venom enters the body with the iron piece, this toxicity will not be exerted immediately, but it enters the whole body with the flow of blood, and it often occurs after running hundreds of steps, making people weak, and even have no strength to run.

When the first round of explosions was over, the golden soldiers stood up one after another and continued to attack the city, at this time, the second round of earth-shaking thunder flew towards the top of the golden soldiers' heads again, and exploded in the air one foot above the ground, and dense quenched iron pieces flew to the surrounding golden soldiers......

When the three rounds of earth-shattering thunder exploded, the siege soldiers entered within fifty steps, and the 10,000 crossbowmen at the head of the city raised the big bow to defend the city, and a nearly four-foot-long arrow mounted the big bow, the bowstring was full, and the cold light flashed on the three-edged blade, and the dense arrows shot down the city like raindrops.

The range of this kind of big bow to defend the city is not far, only sixty or seventy steps, the soldier is in the middle of the city head on one knee to fire, the arrow is a parabola shot to the city, although the range of the arrow is not far, but the arrow is very heavy, and it is thrown down from a high place, the lethality is no less than the crossbow of the divine arm, and it can completely shoot through the leather armor of the golden soldier.

The earth-shattering thunder continued to explode above the heads of the golden soldiers, black smoke shrouded the battlefield, the arrows of the city head soldiers were as dense as rain, and the bloodthirsty blades shot mercilessly at the enemy group, and the siege of the golden soldiers suffered heavy casualties, at this time, the poison of the soldiers began to attack, and they knelt on the ground with soreness and weakness, and they didn't even have the strength to stand up, they shouted in fear, or struggled to crawl towards their positions, but they didn't climb a few steps, they were shot through the body by the arrows, and they were nailed to the ground.

Han general Liu Yanzong found more and more signs of soldier poisoning, and he immediately ran to Wan Yanchang and said: "Deputy marshal, the soldiers seem to have an abnormality, let's collect the troops first!" ”

Wan Yanchang said coldly: "Don't fall short, let me continue to attack the city, and go to the city at all costs!" ”

"It's just that the senseless casualties are too heavy, and it is necessary to retreat first."

"War casualties are normal, no retreat, drums!"

Wan Yanchang's face was expressionless, and there was no trace of pity or sympathy in his tone, he was like facing the life and death of a group of ants.

Liu Yanzong felt a chill in his heart, why didn't Wan Yanchang let the Jurchen soldiers attack the city? He didn't care about the life and death of the Han army at all, and he also knew that it was useless to plead for mercy, so he had to retreat with hatred.

The leather drum rumbled again, Wan Yanchang forced the army to continue the siege of the city, and a siege ladder was set up on the city, but before the soldiers rushed up the ladder, two black shadows flew down from the city, hit the siege ladder, and quickly wrapped around the ladder beam, only to hear an explosion, the siege ladder was suddenly blown into two sections, and a group of Jin soldiers who were about to go to the city were suddenly stunned and panicked.

The war was fought in a highly confrontational and high-speed maneuver, and the golden soldiers raised their shields to resist the blades above their heads, while looking for opportunities to climb the city, and when the road to the city was blocked, they barely had any time to think about it, and they turned around and retreated.

Li Yanqing's eyes were like torches, and the chaos of the golden soldiers under the city made him see the opportunity, and he immediately shouted: "Hand throws the thunder that shakes the sky!" ”

This is a tactic that the Song army has practiced many times, and they have also tested, the earth-shaking thunder cannot blow up the thick ice shell on the city wall, but it has a huge lethality to the soldiers under the city, five hundred soldiers ignited five hundred earth-shaking thunder, and threw them together to the city, and the Song soldiers on the city squatted down one after another, covering their ears tightly.

At this time, hundreds of earth-shattering thunderbolts fell into the panicked crowd under the city, and the golden soldiers in the chaos did not have time to lie down, in a series of earth-shattering explosions, the ground shook, and thousands of golden soldiers fell down in the explosion, even if they were not affected by the explosion, but thousands of poisonous iron pieces splashed in all directions, and none of the golden soldiers within a hundred steps near the edge of the city were spared.

Wan Yanchang's face was pale, they lacked powerful siege weapons, and under the attack of the Song army's sharp defensive weapons, the siege turned out to be a one-sided massacre.

Wan Yanchang sighed helplessly, 'Withdraw the troops! ’

'When! While! While! The bell of the withdrawal finally rang, and the golden soldiers retreated like a tide, and in this siege battle, more than half of the 20,000 besieging gold soldiers suffered casualties, and the losses were very heavy.