The results of the investigation of the Lin family's grocery store finally disappointed Li Gang, dozens of soldiers almost demolished the grocery store, and still couldn't find any evidence related to the fine work, even the three generations of the young man's ancestors have been checked, and they can only conclude that he has nothing to do with the fine work, and he really doesn't know the whereabouts of the shopkeeper Ding.

But Li Gang was not reconciled, he firmly believed that as long as there was a carrier pigeon, there would inevitably be a second and third time, and he would definitely find out this deeply hidden intelligence point of the Jin Kingdom.

Soon, ten more days had passed since the first tentative attack, and in the early morning of the eleventh day, the long-lost drums of the Golden Camp sounded again, the muffled sound of trumpets echoed in the field, and the rapid alarm bells sounded above the city.

In the previous ten days, the soldiers have been fully rested, this is also the Taiyuan Battle brought Li Yanqing experience, the next many days will be a high-intensity war, the soldiers' physical strength will be a huge test, only enough rest, can adapt to this kind of war.

There were not many defenders on the city every day, only 2,000 people, which mainly played a warning role, so when the enemy showed signs of attack, the Song army also began to enter a combat state and began a comprehensive defense.

Groups of soldiers rushed up to the city, including the main battle soldiers with spears in their hands, the grenadiers who were responsible for throwing rolling wood and iron fire thunder, the crossbowmen who carried the longbow and the crossbow of the god arm on their backs, and the van soldiers who were responsible for controlling the trebuchets and fire cannons, and the people who carried the rolling wood and stones up the city.

Nearly 20,000 soldiers, one hundred and twenty trebuchets and five hundred cannons were deployed on the entire northern wall.

In addition to the north city, other cities also have soldiers rushed up, the south city is inconvenient to attack the city because of the terrain, the rest of the east and west city walls will be attacked by the Jin soldiers, Li Yanqing is deployed on the east and west sides of each 15,000 main battle soldiers and 10,000 auxiliaries, the south city also has 10,000 troops as a precaution, in this way, the Song army has invested almost all the troops in the defense of the city.

In the past ten days, Li Yanqing seized the time to train the people, and successfully turned 50,000 people into auxiliaries, each with armor, an iron helmet, and a war knife and a pair of bows and arrows, the auxiliaries are not the main battle soldiers, as the name suggests, they are auxiliary main battle soldiers in combat, carrying items, throwing rolling wood and stones, manipulating trebuchets and cannons, etc., which is basically equivalent to the function of the van army, but the auxiliary soldiers have too little training and cannot be put into battle.

'Woo-' the muffled horn of the antlers drew closer.

The overwhelming golden soldiers finally appeared, a full army of 100,000 people, covering the sky and the sun.

This time it was the official siege of the Jin soldiers, and they were very well prepared, and the big killing weapons prepared by the Jin State for this southern expedition also appeared, including fifty giant trebuchets, which were heavy weapons seized from the Liao State, huge in size, as high as three zhang, and the throwing rod alone was as long as five zhang, which could throw a hundred-pound boulder four hundred steps away, which was much more powerful than the large trebuchet with a range of only about two hundred and fifty steps on the city.

In addition to the giant trebuchet, there are hundreds of nest cars, nest cars are also a kind of ladder to the city, shaped like a boot, there are stairs inside, you can rush up to the city through the stairs, and the nest car itself hides dozens of soldiers, as long as the nest car is close to the city wall, the soldiers can immediately go to the city.

The nest car itself is also as high as three zhang, made of giant wood, covered with thick cowhide all around, there are two pairs of large wooden wheels below, pushed forward by a hundred soldiers, the biggest feature of the nest car is that there is an air bridge at the top, it is a thick wooden board five feet wide and one zhang long, which can be set up at the head of the city, and the attacking soldiers can rush up through the ladder in the nest car, and rush directly from the air bridge to the head of the city.

In addition to the giant trebuchet and nest car, there are also a large number of double-hook siege ladders, as well as battering rams, and the equipment of the soldiers is also different from the last siege Khitan soldiers, the last siege of the Khitan soldiers wore leather armor, holding wooden shields, and today's siege army includes 30,000 Jurchen soldiers, they wear iron armor, holding copper shields and spears, and their defense and combat effectiveness are very strong.

The 100,000 siege army stopped advancing three miles away, and today Wanyan Xian was also in charge in person, but the specific attack command was still in charge of Wanyan Zongwang.

Wanyan Zongwang looked at the tall and majestic city wall in the distance, and coldly ordered: "On the trebuchet!" ”

Although there was an interval of ten days, Wanyan Zongwang did not have a day to rest, not only to train the army to avoid the earth-shaking thunder, but also to formulate a detailed combat plan and various emergency response plans.

Today's battle plan was formulated by Wanyan Zongwang and approved by Wanyan Xianye, and Wanyan Zongwang will be officially implemented at this time.

Fifty giant trebuchets were equipped with wooden wheels, and began to slowly advance under the pull and push of a hundred soldiers and twenty healthy oxen, Wanyan Zongwang of course had to give full play to their advantages, their advantage was that these fifty giant trebuchets had a range far greater than the trebuchets at the head of the city, that is, they suppressed the Song army in long-range throwing weapons.

It's not that the Song Dynasty couldn't build such a trebuchet, in fact, the giant trebuchets of the Song Dynasty were more powerful and refined than them, but it was just that such a giant trebuchet could not be installed on the city, so that the Jin soldiers took advantage.

"Oil drum ready!"

Soon a cart transported barrels of fire oil, each barrel of fire oil weighed 100 catties, Wan Yan Zongwang's plan was very targeted, he first considered that it was to destroy the trebuchet and fire cannon at the head of the city, so that it would be difficult for the other party to launch a very threatening earth-shattering thunder.

The earth-shaking thunder is not invented by Jin Bing, but designed by Li Yanqing and several top firesmiths, Li Yanqing is responsible for the gunpowder formula, and the firesmith is responsible for the design of the shell and inner core, which seems very simple, but in fact, it relies on the Song Dynasty's hundred years of firearms manufacturing experience to be successfully manufactured, especially the ignition head is designed with reference to the ingenious structure of the snail shell.

Jin Guo in terms of ideas, design, or manufacturing technology greatly backward, so that the Jin imitation of the earth-shaking thunder is far inferior to the Song Dynasty, at present can only be used as a fixed blast, and can not be used as a throwing weapon, they did a very failed fuse, either they can't control the burning speed, so that the earth-shaking thunder explodes instantly, or the fuse will loosen and fall off after the heavy impact on the ground, so that the earth-shaking thunder becomes a dumb mine.

Jin Bing has used trebuchets to test many times in a row, and can only succeed at most three times out of ten, and the others will either blow up the trebuchet or be dumb mines, and it is precisely because he is not very successful that Wan Yan Xian was forced to give up the plan of throwing earth-shaking thunder with trebuchets and use trebuchets to throw fire oil instead.

The trebuchet and artillery of the Song army can be destroyed with the same fire oil, this is beyond doubt, but the cost is relatively large, I am afraid that only two or three barrels of ten barrels of fire oil can hit the head of the city, but the Jin soldiers captured more than 100,000 barrels of fire oil in the Liao State and the Western Xia army, and this price is nothing to them.

The five-zhang long throwing rod creaked open, and the thick oil barrel was placed in the throwing pocket, and everything was ready, just waiting for the order of the commander........

On the city wall, Li Yanqing stared at Jin Bing with a stern gaze and launched fifty giant trebuchets, like a monster squatting on the field, which was a bit unexpected to him, Jin Bing actually had the upper hand in long-range throwing weapons, but he was not without a countermeasure, and there was also a weapon whose range exceeded that of a giant trebuchet.

Li Yanqing immediately turned around and ordered: "Quickly go to the warehouse and transfer a hundred bed crossbows to the city!" ”

The bed crossbow has a maximum range of 1,000 paces, a lethal range of about 700 paces, and a sabotage range of 500 paces, which is enough to deal with the enemy's giant trebuchet.

At this time, Liu Jian quickly stepped forward and whispered: "Dutong, I suspect that they will throw earth-shaking thunder and fire oil!" ”

It is impossible to shake the sky, Jin Bing did not use the earth-shaking thunder to throw when he was in Taiyuan, Li Yanqing witnessed the earth-shaking thunder shell that the Liao State was about to develop successfully in Yanshan Mansion, and the shell was still far from the technical level, and it could not meet the throwing standard, and even the Western Xia could not do this, let alone the rising star Jin Guo.

However, it is very possible to use fire oil, Li Yanqing pondered for a moment, and then immediately ordered: "Move all the earth-shattering thunder, iron fire thunder and fire oil down the city immediately, lock the stone house on the head of the city for me, and send an order to transfer 30,000 people to carry the sand and soil!" ”

At this time, Wanyan Zongwang gave the order to launch, fifty long arms waved, fifty barrels of fire oil rose into the air, and flew towards the north of the city, where the soldiers were urgently carrying the earth-shaking thunder, iron fire thunder and fire oil down the city, and the soldiers were extremely busy and nervous.

'Bang! Boom! Boom! A series of crashing sounds, part of the oil barrels hit the city wall, and suddenly shattered, a large amount of oil flowed down the city, and some of them were thrown into the city, but still twelve barrels of oil hit the city, the oil barrels shattered on the floor tiles at the head of the city, and the black oil spilled out, flowing all over the ground, and the soldiers immediately used cloth balls to push the flowing rain gutter all over the ground, and the black viscous oil flowed down the hole in the wall to the city, and some of the soldiers scattered bags of sand and soil, covering the oil stains on the ground, and the soldiers cooperated very skillfully, only for a moment, The first round of the oil crisis was resolved.

At this moment, the second round of trebuchets was launched, and another fifty barrels of fire oil rolled in the sky, roaring and smashing towards the city.

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[Today, Lao Gao is going out to drink wine, and the second chapter may be a little later, so I'll tell you about it, and try to update it on time. 】