The war against Jinling was the largest siege battle fought since the Song army conquered Chu in the south, and even since Dai Yan took charge of the Song State.

There is Xuanwu Lake in the north of Jinling City, Zhongshan Mountain in the east, and Qingliang Mountain in the west, and the only convenient place to attack is the south. Today, most of the siege weapons and armies of the Song army are concentrated in the southern city, while a small number are arranged in the east and west for surveillance.

At this time, on the position of the Song army in the south of Jinling, Tang Ying looked at the head of Jinling City in the distance with a resolute look. Then he turned around and said loudly to the more than 100,000 Song soldiers behind him: "Ladies and gentlemen, there is now a strong city standing in front of us, and our goal is to take this city.

Taking such a fortified city may cause many brothers to disappear forever. However, if we can't take this city, then the battle of our Song Kingdom will be lost, and all the results of the southern expedition will be lost forever! At that time, what face will we have to see our brother who has died on the road?

Since the accession to the throne of our Song Kingdom, the country has been under great governance, the people have lived and worked in peace and contentment, and the country has been thriving. However, you should know that if today is a world of great strife, the nations are like boats sailing against the current, and if they do not advance, they will retreat. In the past, when the Wei State Wenhou and Wuhou were in power, the Wei State was Qi in the east, Chu in the south, and Qin in the west, what a scenery! However, less than a hundred years have passed now, and the Wei State has been beaten by the Qin State to the point where they can only parry, and they have no power to fight back. After the Wei State lost its status as a powerful country, the people who have lost their land in the country can only run around, and even fall into our Song State. Do you hope that in the future, you will also suffer the same fate as the Wei people? ”

In the Song army, when any general gave a speech in public, there would be a special person who would speak loudly in different places, so that all the soldiers could hear the general's words. At this time, hearing Tang Ying's question, all the Song soldiers shouted loudly: "I don't want to!" ”

Seeing the high morale of the soldiers, Tang Ying also nodded, and then continued to say to the soldiers of the Song army: "I don't want to, that's right!" Destiny Xuanniao, descend to give birth to business! We are the descendants of the noble Xuanniao, and seven hundred years ago, our ancestors were the rulers of the world. When Zhou destroyed the merchants, our ancestors had no place in the world, so they could only wander around and make a living from business, how could we endure such a day again!

And now, we have ushered in a wise lord who will let me re-rise the Song Kingdom, and it is time for me to wait to restore the glory of my ancestors! As we all know, the land of our Song Dynasty is narrow and densely populated, and the people are poor, although there are Mo families and peasant sages who have made many improvements in technology, making agriculture more efficient, and can barely let the people have enough to eat. However, the problem of lack of arable land in the Song State remained unsolved. Before we waited, we were farmers, craftsmen, and rangers in the Song Kingdom, but now we are soldiers. Our duty is to use the sword in our hands to obtain enough arable land for the plough of our Song Kingdom! ”

The soldiers of the Song State, after so many years of accumulation, have all been made up of people with compulsory education. As soon as these people heard Song Jun's goals and their own responsibilities, they all began to boil with enthusiasm!

Subsequently, Tang Ying did not forget to continue to add: "This battle of Jinling is the last battle of our war against Chu, and it is also the most critical battle. As long as we take this city, we can wait for the war with Chu to end, and we can go home safely.

Now I declare the reward for this battle: in this war, any spoils of war that a soldier takes from the hands of the enemy will belong to himself; Any soldier who has made a meritorious service in this battle will be counted according to the reward of our army; The first soldier to climb the head of Jinling City was directly given a third-level ......"

When all the rewards were announced, the morale of the Song army was even stronger. None of the soldiers expected that the rewards for this war would be so high. As long as you can make some gains in this war, you can get promoted and make a fortune!

Originally, after pacifying the land of Wu Yue, Le Yi left most of the Wu army in Wu and Yue to help the Song State control the place, and only a few ambitious Wu heroes still took the initiative to ask Ying to follow Le Yi to participate in the Battle of Jinling.

The soldiers of the Wu army were all natives of Jiangnan, and they were familiar with the terrain of Wu and were more suitable for fighting in the field. However, when they heard about such a high reward this time, they didn't even care about the high casualties during the siege, and they all began to take the initiative to ask Tang Ying to join the first batch of siege troops!

Tang Ying only thought a little before agreeing with Wu Jun's behavior, in his opinion, the more such troops with strong subjective aspirations, the more likely they are to achieve fruitful results in this war, and of course he must send them to the most important posts!

When the morale of the army was also mobilized, under the orders of Tang Ying, the Song army's attack on Jinling City began.

The first to attack Jinling City was the catapult that the Song army spent more than 20 days to complete. Under the control of a special gunner, many catapults located under Jinling City began to be test-fired.

Because the catapult has many parts that are from the local area, and the distance between each catapult and Jinling City is different, so the test firing of each catapult needs to be debugged separately. Every time the catapult fires a stone projectile, the cavalry of the Song army will run to the vicinity of Jinling City in full armor to determine the approximate landing location of the stone projectile and create conditions for the next throwing to be more accurate.

Each catapult was test-fired several times before it was finally commissioned. When the commissioning was finally completed, Tang Ying personally stood near the catapult to show that this place was where the commander of the Song army was, and from this place on, no Song army could retreat without his order!

Subsequently, under the command of Tang Ying, all the catapults of the Song army began the first round of salvos!

Nearly forty stone projectiles slowly rose into the air from the Song army's position, and began to fall on the head of Jinling City with a beautiful parabola. At this moment, the entire battlefield suddenly resounded with an amazing sound of stone crashing!

Then, the soldiers of the Song army who were below saw the head of Jinling City in the distance, and there were stone debris splashing everywhere. And when the debris and dust at the head of the city were gone, all the soldiers of the Song Army who saw the scene at the head of the city couldn't help but gasp!

Whenever the head of the city is hit by a stone bullet, the female wall used for defense is directly smashed, and the blood stains can be clearly seen flowing out of the city!

Obviously, these blood were left by the soldiers of the Chu Army who were hiding behind the female wall. The impact of the stone bullet can be directly hidden behind the female wall to kill all the soldiers, it is incredible!

Although these stone bullets were debugged, several of them did not fall to the city, and some smashed behind the wall and flew directly into the city; And some smashed into the city walls. The stone bullets that hit the wall behind the wall are not easy to say because of the power of the invisible distance, but the stone bullets that fall on the city wall are quite powerful.

Any stone projectile that hits a wall will crack that wall! One of the stone bullets, even hit the wall, and it was embedded in the wall and did not fall off immediately! You must know that the walls of Jinling were not made of bricks made of clay like other cities of this era, but were made of stones!

Even the stone walls could not withstand the attack of this seemingly slow stone bullet, and all the soldiers asked in their hearts: Is this still the strength that humans can have? However, as soon as they thought that this kind of power belonged to their own side, the soldiers of the Song Army became more and more excited!

is completely different from the elated situation of the Song soldiers, at the head of Jinling City, the Chu army, which was attacked by the Song army's slinging cannons, saw their comrades hiding behind the female wall, and they were all smashed into meat sauce, and they were all frightened.

The witch wind in Chudi is strong, and when faced with incomprehensible things, it will immediately associate it with ghosts and gods. At this time, most of the Chu troops located at the head of Jinling City believed that the Song army under the city must have received the blessing of the Eastern Emperor Taiyi in order to have this supreme power!

How can man contend with God? Everyone thought so in their hearts, under the attack of stone bullets, no one dared to go out again, and even some of them were cowardly, so they ran down from the city and returned to the city.

However, as soon as these people walked down the city, and before they left the range of the city wall, a bunch of soldiers immediately appeared around the city wall, and when they saw these soldiers coming down, they directly drew their swords without saying a word and killed them one by one!

Such a bloody scene immediately frightened the Chu army at the head of the city. Before they could ask an angry question, they saw a one-armed general emerge from the city, and everyone immediately fell silent.

This one-armed man was naturally Zhao Hua, the commander of the Chu army, and at this time he had already walked out of the defeat in the previous battle of Yunyang. He had already lost many times in the war with the Song army, and now this time he really couldn't fail again!

Zhao slid up to the top of the city, ignoring the fact that the Song soldiers below the city were still bombarding the city walls with catapults. He said to the Chu army at the head of the city: "The siege weapons used by the Song army are not the power of the gods, but are just thrown by trebuchets. I've been studying their various weapons for a long time! ”

Hearing Zhao Hua personally admit that this siege weapon was not the power of the gods, the Chu army at the head of the city suddenly became afraid.

Then Zhao Hua said to the Chu army at the head of the city: "Ladies and gentlemen, my Chu State has always been friendly with the Song State, but the Song State has wolf ambitions, and now when our country is facing war with Qin, Wei, Han and other countries, it is a despicable sneak attack on our country, which is a villain's act!" Now our army is weak, and we have been defeated by the Song army in various battlefields, only now Jinling is still in our hands. As long as this city does not fall for a day, the Song State will not be able to control the land of Wuyue in the south of the Yangtze River, and when our country comes back to its senses and fights with the Song State, it will definitely be able to defeat the Song State!

However, if we lose this war, then the entire land of Wuyue will no longer belong to our country, and our hometown will also be invaded by the Song army. Think about your family, think about your fathers and fellow villagers, do you want them to fall into the hands of the Song people and be driven by the Song people?

Now, even if the Song army has advanced weapons and we are at a disadvantage, we must not retreat, and we must not be defeated! Behind us is the State of Chu, which is our hometown! In order to defend the state of Chu and defend my hometown, I will personally supervise the battle at the head of the city, the Song army will not retreat, and I will not go down to the city! ”