Chapter 609: Song Jin Zhengyan (4)
The low sound of the horn resounded through the field, and the boundless army of the Jin Kingdom was like a black wave, surging towards the eastern city wave after wave, the spears were dense like a forest, murderous, and the huge footsteps were neat and powerful.
The army of 20,000 was arranged into four phalanxes, each with a distance of hundreds of paces, like four huge black carpets, undulating on the earth, the morale of the army was high, and the murderous spirit was soaring, they approached the city wall from three miles away, the drums were like thunder, the trumpets were in the sky, the flags covered the sky and the sun, the spears were like forests, the shields were like mountains, and they were shining with the black of death in the sunlight.
Wanyan Zongwang, the main general who directly commanded this siege, rode on the war horse and pointed at the city with his war knife, "Advance!" ”
"Woo~~"
The low sound of the horn resounded through the heavens and the earth, and more than a dozen wooden doumeng were erected in the middle of each team, which was used to resist the flying stones in the city, accompanied by the huge sound of the wooden doumeng, as well as nearly a hundred nest cars and ladders, and the 20,000 army killed Yanjing City three miles away with an unstoppable momentum.
At the same time, forty large trebuchets on the head of the east city creaked apart, two feet high, three zhang long, the stones could be thrown up to 200 paces away, as long as thirty people could pull them, and the swarthy forty trebuchets stood at the head of the city, like forty giant beasts.
The Song army did not immediately use trebuchets and cannons, they needed the enemy to get into the killing range as soon as possible, and then kill the enemy in a big way.
At this time, the forty-pound earth-shaking thunder had already been put into the bomb pocket, and the thirty people were pulling ten arm-thick belts, patiently waiting for the order to launch.
In the middle of the battlements, five thousand soldiers held longbows and arrows, and one by one foot and five inches long thick pole arrows had been put on the bowstring, and the bows and arrows used for defense were different from the bows and arrows used for peaceful battles, and they did not need to shoot far with arrows, but they must be heavy, so that the arrows could rely on their own gravity to shoot through the armor of the enemy, so they generally used large arrows, finger-thick arrow shafts, sharp arrow tips were streamlined, and there were bloodletting grooves on the four sides.
Of course, it is also possible to use the Divine Arm Crossbow, but the Divine Arm Crossbow is very physically demanding, and the winding speed is slow, and the same killing effect can be achieved with the arrow, so there is no need to use the Divine Arm Crossbow.
But it was the bed crossbows that were the first to be shot, and Li Yanqing deployed a thousand bed crossbows on the city wall, operated by 2,000 soldiers, to deal with the enemy's nest carts and trebuchets.
As the giant trebuchet of the Jin soldiers rumbled close to 500 steps, the Song army's bed crossbow was suddenly launched, the bed crossbow was used to use a four-foot arrow, this kind of big arrow is used to attack heavy objects extremely sharp, used to attack the city can be until the wall stone cracks, the city tower collapses, the range can reach 1,000 steps, the killing range is 700 steps, and the destruction range is 500 steps.
As a thousand bed crossbows were fired at the same time, a thousand large arrows were rapidly shot towards the trebuchet of the golden soldiers, and the force was extremely strong, only to hear the "click!" from afar. Nearly eight trebuchets were hit by large arrows, and the wooden frames cracked, and they lost their combat power, but the rest of the trebuchets continued to move forward.
When it was still three hundred steps away from the city, the fire suddenly appeared, and the first few Jinguo trebuchets were launched violently, and six huge fireballs rolled in the sky, roaring towards the city, and the six fireballs all crossed the city and smashed directly into the city.
With a loud bang, several houses were hit by fireballs, the roof collapsed, the fireballs rolled over, and the room quickly burst into flames, and the flames and smoke rushed out of the roof.
"Extinguish the fire!" One of the generals was so anxious that he stomped his feet and shouted.
These houses near the city were temporarily requisitioned for military use, and a lot of military supplies were stored in them, and even dozens of earth-shaking thunderbolts were stored in one room, if they were ignited, everyone would be finished, and the soldiers were also anxious, and rushed into the house with buckets.
At this time, the second round of bed crossbows of the Song army was fired, and another thousand big arrows were fired, 'Bang! Boom! At this time, there were only five trebuchets left in the first step of the Jin Army, and five huge fireballs roared over the city again, tumbling into Yanjing City, this time a fireball hit the big tent where the grain was stored, and the big tent was ignited, and the sky-high flames were connected into a piece.
Nearly 1,000 Song soldiers were desperately fighting the fire, the first fireballs ignited the fire had been extinguished by the Song army, and this time they switched to earth, hundreds of people threw baskets of dirt into the big tent, and soon formed a soil layer, burying the grain under the soil, and the rest of the Song army had already dismantled all the tents around the fire to stop the spread of the fire.
At this time, Li Yanqing shouted, "Shoot again!" ”
Li Yanqing knew very well that if he was shot at the head of the city by the enemy's fireball, he was afraid that it would cause an explosion of earth-shattering thunder, and he had to get rid of this hidden danger first.
Another thousand large arrows were fired intensively at the last five trebuchets, only a rumbling collapse and the screams of the Jin soldiers when they were hit were heard, and the last five trebuchets were all destroyed.
At this time, Wanyan Zongbi Pegasus galloped over and said to his brother Zongwang: "It's a little strange! ”
Wanyan Zongwang watched as the twenty trebuchets and five nest carts were all destroyed by the enemy's big arrows, his eyes were red in a hurry, and he turned around and shouted regardless of it, "What are you talking about? ”
Wanyan Zongbi was stunned for a moment, and said urgently: "Second brother, calm down." ”
Wanyan Zongwang restrained his anger, nodded and said, "Say it!" What's strange? ”
"Don't you think it's strange? We've almost reached the city, why hasn't the trebuchet on the city been fired? ”
A trace of doubt also flashed in Wanyan Zongwang's eyes, but this trace of doubt couldn't suppress the anger in his heart, and he said coldly: "What the hell are they doing, don't you know if you go to the city?" ”
Wanyan Zongwang waved his sword and shouted, "Attack the city for me!" ”
Although the bed crossbow of the Song army temporarily eliminated the trebuchet's offensive, it could not stop the attack of more than 30,000 troops, and as the drums of the Jin army's camp accelerated, the soldiers of the four phalanxes ran up and rushed towards the city overwhelmingly.
The moat was covered with wooden planks, which had long lost its obstruction function, and one by one the ladders and nest carts crossed the moat and landed on the city wall, and tens of thousands of soldiers of the Jin Army climbed up the ladder like an ant colony, climbing the ladder in one hand, holding a shield in the other, biting the war knife in their mouths, and struggling to climb upwards, arrows fell on the top of the city like rain, stones and rolling logs fell down like hail, and a piece of soldiers were hit and shot, screaming and falling down the city......
Li Yanqing squinted his eyes at the enemy army under the city, in addition to the 5,000 troops of 5,000 supporters, the 15,000 troops had entered within 300 steps, and the time was ripe.
Li Yanqing turned around and ordered: "Trebuchet launch!" ”
Cao Xuan was already holding back and was about to explode like earth-shattering thunder, Li Yanqing's order was like igniting his fire letter, he immediately roared in a hoarse voice, ignited and launched! ”
The Song army's long-standing counterattack suddenly broke out, forty black balls rose into the air, green smoke rose from the balls, and flew straight above the heads of more than 15,000 people under the city, the golden soldiers all looked up and looked at these balls strangely, they were obviously not stones, what could it be?
But Jin Bing never thought about what kind of demon they were facing, this demon had been tepid since it appeared on the battlefield more than a hundred years ago, and it was not until Li Yanqing's arrival that they finally revealed their hideous colors.
When forty balls emitting green smoke fell into the dense golden soldier team, in the blink of an eye, I saw dozens of blazing bright lights burst out in the golden soldier team, a series of earth-shattering explosions, a large number of soldiers were blown away, broken bones, flesh and stumps scattered in all directions, a large puff of black smoke rose into the air, the originally dense soldiers disappeared into the air, broken bones and flesh covered the earth, and a large number of soldiers were shocked to death, and the whole battlefield was mixed with gunsmoke and bloody gas, which was disgusting.
The explosion spread for miles, killing and wounding thousands of people, and the entire battlefield was stunned, only the war horses were so frightened that they kept neighing, dragging the dead cavalry spirits to run, their long manes flying in the smoke of gunpowder, like ghost horses from hell.
Although Wanyan Zongwang was five hundred steps away, he was still overturned by the strong qi wave and fell off his horse, his ears were buzzing, and he couldn't hear anything, and after a long while, he knelt on the ground and couldn't help but cover his head with his hands and shouted: "Immortal heaven! ”
More than 2,000 people were killed on the spot by 40 earthquakes, and many more were injured, lying on the ground groaning in pain.
But Li Yanqing waited for the order now, it was not just a charge, he wanted those strong Jin soldiers to always remember that although the Song people did not have their beast-like murderous aura, they had wisdom that they did not have, and killing people did not have to rely on knives, but also on their brains.
"Launch again!" Li Yanqing gave the second order in a firm tone.
Forty more sky-shaking thunderbolts rose into the air and flew towards the heads of the golden soldiers under the city who had not yet reacted, and forty sky-shaking thunderbolts exploded again.
The earth trembled with the earth-shattering explosion, and the demon of death roared, spewing flames, mixed with quenched iron sand and iron flakes, and devoured everything around it with impunity.
On the battlefield, whether it was on the head of the city or watching the battle from a distance, the golden soldiers stumbled and stood unsteadily, or covered their ears and screamed and fell to the ground, when the second huge black mushroom cloud rolled into the sky, the two phalanxes of the golden soldiers had disappeared, and the power of the continuous concentrated explosion of eighty black powder in the earth-shattering thunder was the first time in history, and the five thousand Bohai soldiers on the battlefield became the sacrifice of this war demon.
The Jin soldiers who had not yet been injured finally reacted, they shouted and shouted, desperately turned around and fled, scrambling to flee to the camp, and the 20,000 army was defeated like a mountain, but it was a pity that the Song army could not open the city to pursue, but this was it, the Song army still felt greatly encouraged, and the city was full of jubilation.
However, the cascading effect brought by the explosion of eighty earth-shattering thunders was something Li Yanqing did not expect, and Wanyan Aguta, who was standing a few miles away and watching the battle from afar, also had an accident, and the huge explosion made the Jin Bing's war horses frightened one after another, and they ran to the east desperately with a scream, and the eighty horses pulling the large platform were also disturbed by the strong explosion sound, contrary to their usual docility, they were so frightened that they screamed, turned around and galloped.
The wooden platform was pulled by the horses and shook violently, and the wooden wheel on the right left the ground and tilted, and Wanyan Agu, who was just standing on the edge of the wooden platform to watch the battle, was caught off guard and fell from the wooden platform, and then, more than a dozen war horses turned around and stepped directly on him.
The ministers behind immediately panicked, and rushed up together and shouted: "Wolf master! Your Majesty! ”
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