At night, the offensive and defensive battle of Taiyuan City is extremely tragic, looking from the city, the whole sky is as if the fire is reflected red, a huge fireball crosses the sky, from outside the city into the city, in the background of the black city wall looks particularly bright and terrifying, as if the end is coming.

At the head of the city, the beast-like trebuchet kept waving its arms and throwing, smashing the powerful earth-shattering thunder towards the attacking crowd of golden soldiers, and earth-shattering explosions were heard one after another outside the city.

The city's inhabitants couldn't sleep all night, women clung to their children, cried low to the sounds of explosions and shouts of killing, and men stood in front of the windows with their fists clenched, staring helplessly at the fireballs passing in the distant sky.

All the 100 steps against the city wall have been demolished, and Li Yanqing had ordered to dig a foot into the ground, tamp the land, and fill it with water, forming a shallow pool around the city.

Many people don't understand the reason for this, but now they finally understand that after the fireballs hit the ground, they splashed a splash, but they were buffered by the water and could no longer bounce up, and dozens of people immediately rushed forward and used a long wooden fork to resist the fireball, allowing it to slowly extinguish itself in the water.

But no one could have imagined that digging a shallow pool would have another important role, as it would effectively prevent enemy troops from digging holes outside the city to enter the city.

The fierce night battle did not last long, and at the end of the hour, the fireballs in the sky stopped appearing, and the explosions outside the city gradually disappeared.

The days of fighting finally ceased, and the violent night fell silent.

In the early morning, a ray of sunlight shines through the clouds on the head of Taiyuan City, and the tall and strong city walls flicker with a magical golden light, if it is in the Jin country, the Jurchens who believe in shamanism will definitely think that this is a good omen descended by the gods, so they bow and worship, but the cruel war has made them forget their faith for a while, and they only have killing and blood in their eyes.

But if you move your eyes under the city wall, the golden light gradually disappears, and you see a hellish land, corpses are strewn all over the field, broken ladders fall on the dirt, and only half of the nest car is left, but more are soldiers who have died in battle, some are curled up, with the pain of dying on their faces, some are missing, the corpses are mutilated, some are shot into hedgehogs by random arrows, the flesh is blurred, under the scorching sun, the pungent smell of blood and the smell of dead corpses are mixed together, which is disgusting.

Shortly after the armistice at night, Li Yanqing accepted the request of the commander of the Jin soldiers to collect the corpses, and more than 1,000 Jin soldiers were sent to dispose of the corpses after the night battle, most of them were transported to the open field and piled up and burned.

The city was also exceptionally quiet, tens of thousands of Song soldiers wrapped in simple blankets, crowded with each other, leaning against the wall and falling asleep, all of them were exhausted, day and night fierce battles, most of them had not closed their eyes for several days, and they were already exhausted.

Hundreds of female soldiers are very busy in the city, they also have not slept for most days, desperate to rescue the wounded, at this time, the soldiers are asleep, but the female soldiers are still tired and busy, stop the bleeding and change the dressing of the wounded soldiers, clean the wounds, tie splints to the broken soldiers, many female soldiers are so tired that they faint, but after waking up, they continue to save the wounded.

They have touched thousands of soldiers with their actions, and also reversed the bias of countless soldiers, and even Liu Kuang, who was the most resistant to female soldiers, admitted that the female barracks played a huge role in the defense of the war, and their timely treatment of wounded soldiers reduced the death rate of wounded soldiers by at least half.

On the north city wall, among the dozens of soldiers who fell asleep together, Li Yanqing also squeezed together with the soldiers and fell asleep, at this moment, there was no distinction between the main general and the soldiers, after three days of fierce battles to defend Taiyuan City, everyone was enjoying this incomparably precious nap.

Hu Sanniang led a team of female soldiers to check on the wounded soldiers at the head of the city, and when they passed by Li Yanqing's side, a female soldier suddenly recognized Li Yanqing and pointed at him in surprise, "It's the capital system!" ”

Hu Sanniang hurriedly shushed the female soldiers, stopped their exclamations, she picked up a sheepskin that slipped off the ground, gently covered the sleeping Li Yanqing, and looked at him silently for a moment, then led the female soldiers to leave quietly.

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But the precious truce did not last long, and when the morning sun began to turn blood-red, and the scorching sun spewed its hot breath to the earth again, the drums of the golden army camp sounded, 'Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! The huge sound of drums woke the Song soldiers from their sleep, and Li Yanqing jumped up, rubbed his eyes, and lay on the battlements to look at the enemy camp in the distance.

This time, what he saw was the large-scale mobilization of the Jin soldiers, the entire battalion of enemy troops were mobilized, and the enemy groups from all directions were gathering, gathering into a black and oppressive phalanx, and gradually forming an overwhelming offensive momentum.

"Send my orders quickly!"

Li Yanqing turned around and shouted: "The first army and the second army are all into battle!" ”

He turned his head and stared at the overwhelming enemy army, the number of enemy troops invested was twice as large as in the previous two days, and he immediately understood that Wanyan Zonghan must be under great pressure and was about to attack the city desperately.

'When! While! While! ’

The bell was ringing to gather the army, and a group of Song troops rushed up the road and quickly assembled at the head of the city, the first and second armies totaled 18,000 men, commanded by Liu Jian and Wang Gui, and 15,000 people also entered the battle, who were mainly responsible for operating trebuchets and cannons and bed crossbows.

On the ten-mile-long north city wall, the Song army was densely covered, the swords and spears were shining, the bows and arrows were dense, and the Song army's black-edged and yellow-bottomed dragon flag fluttered in the sun.

Outside the city, the overwhelming Jin soldiers have been lined up, with the eight days of siege to nothing, with the successful completion of the Hebei Campaign, the wolf lord of the Jin State publicly stated that it was necessary to change generals in Taiyuan, which brought great pressure to the main general Wanyan Zonghan.

Wanyan Zonghan has been forced to have no way out, he also issued a death order to the five commanders, if the 50,000 troops cannot take Taiyuan City today, all the generals above the commander will be dismissed on the spot.

In order to win the victory, Wanyan Zonghan simply invested 50,000 troops at one time, more than twice the 20,000 people who attacked the city at one time, and at the same time put all the 200 ladders and 50 nest cars in the last inventory into battle, focusing on attacking the northern city.

His cruel gaze stared at the suspension bridge raised high outside the North City Tower, the suspension bridge was bombarded by several earth-shattering thunders, and it was already crumbling, he turned to look at the back camp, a huge siege ram had appeared in the military camp behind him, this is a new siege weapon they had just created, and the earth-shaking thunder could not shake the city gate made of pig iron, so use this 10,000-pound battering ram to break open the enemy's city gate.

"Attack!" Wanyan Zonghan waved his sword and roared.

The drums in the Jin Bing camp began to become tight, this was the drumbeat of the attack, and the 50,000 Jin soldiers surrounded 200 ladders and 50 nest carts and slaughtered Taiyuan City like a tide, like a huge black carpet, covering the entire field.

After a night of emergency repairs, the trebuchets on the head of the city were restored to fifty, and a long arm pole was thrown out in turn, and more than a dozen earth-shaking thunderbolts accompanied by dozens of boulders smashed into the dense enemy group like an ant colony, and each sky-shaking thunder exploded in the crowd, and there would be a gap, flesh and blood flew sideways, thick smoke was filled, and the wailing sound resounded throughout the field, but in an instant the gap closed, and it was drowned by the attacking enemy group.

The Song army has been unable to guarantee that all the trebuchets throw the earth-shaking thunder, the trebuchet continues to be damaged, so that the earth-shaking thunder throwing becomes extremely dangerous, on the fourth day there was a serious accident, a trebuchet belt was broken, resulting in the throwing rod equipped with the earth-shaking thunder fell into the city, the earth-shaking thunder exploded in the city, killing more than 100 logistics people on the spot.

Li Yanqing had to change his strategy, and only chose trebuchets in good condition to launch earth-shaking thunders, and trebuchets in poor condition all fired boulders to prevent the recurrence of self-explosion tragedy.

The killing effect of the earth-shaking thunder is no longer as strong as it was at the beginning, and the golden soldiers have gradually mastered the practical way to deal with the earth-shaking thunder, that is, to quickly cover their ears and lie on the ground, when the earth-shaking thunder lands, the surrounding soldiers quickly lie down and cover their ears tightly.

In this way, except for the dozens of people who were killed at the center of the explosion, the other soldiers would not suffer the secondary damage caused by the shock wave and the splashing iron, so that the initial earth-shattering thunder caused more than 100 casualties, and now only more than 20 people have been killed or wounded, and the casualties have been reduced by five times.

'Boom! With a bang, a nest car was hit by a sky-shaking thunderbolt, which exploded violently in the nest car, and suddenly wooden blocks splashed everywhere, giant trees collapsed, and dozens of soldiers on the nest car were all killed.

The tall nest car is specially tailored for Taiyuan City, the length and width of the nest car are one zhang each, three zhang high, made of giant wood, the whole body is covered with cowhide, the structure is very simple, the nest car is hollow, there are stairs leading to the top, the top is a wooden platform, full of fifty Jin soldiers, the front end of the platform is covered with a thick wooden board covered with cowhide, which can resist the bow and arrow of the Song army.

Equipped with four wooden wheels underneath, towed by fifty healthy oxen and propelled by hundreds of soldiers to the left, right and rear, this nest cart can send soldiers up to the top of the city as long as it is not hit by boulders, sharper than a ladder.

The bottom of another ladder was hit by a boulder, a wooden wheel came out, the ladder suddenly tilted, swayed, and gradually lost its center of gravity, and the soldiers on both sides shouted and ran, and in the shouting, the ladder fell down.

But these were only partial losses of the Jin soldiers, the 50,000-strong army attacked like a tide, and the boulders and earth-shaking thunder that were shot out in turn were like waves splashing in the ocean, and they were instantly overwhelmed by the crowd, and the enemy army like a frenzy gradually approached the city wall.

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The frontal battle has entered the most brutal stage, the city is like a rain of arrows, people are constantly falling from arrows, and the 20,000 soldiers who charge at the front are by no means Jurchens, but Khitan and Xi people, and even the Song army that surrendered in Yanshan Mansion, they need to lay the foundation for the charging army behind.

One is the cleaning of thistles on the ground, the golden soldiers have been unable to clean up with tools, so they drive the soldiers to trample, followed by filling the moat, after eight days of fighting, the moat outside the north and east cities has been filled by the golden soldiers with hundreds of thousands of mud bags, so that the ladder and the nest car can directly reach the city.

At the head of the city, tens of thousands of crossbowmen fired together, and the dense defensive arrows fell straight from the city head like raindrops, bringing great lethality, and the general leather armor could not resist, even if the shield was easily penetrated and broken by the arrows, so that the attacking soldiers under the city were hit by arrows, and the siege soldiers suffered heavy casualties.

This is the natural advantage of the defenders, who have a condescending potential energy and can easily turn ordinary weapons and items into powerful weapons, such as bows and arrows, and the latter like rolling logs and stones.

But the Jin State was not stingy with army casualties, they had hundreds of thousands of surrendered Khitan and Xi soldiers, as well as a large number of servant troops, using their deaths in exchange for the victory of the siege, for the Jin State, it was still a very cost-effective battle, among the more than 30,000 people killed before, there were almost no Jurchen casualties, all of them were Khitan, Xi, Bohai and Goryeo.

After paying thousands of casualties, the Jin soldiers finally attacked the city.