。 Two whole days. The city of Chang'an was under intensive artillery bombardment by the Jin army. : At the beginning, the defenders gave the Jurchens a dismount, and the "earth-shattering thunder" made the Jin soldiers extremely panicked. Lined up on the battlefield, regardless of his arrows raining down and spears like a forest, the Jurchen warriors were not stunned. But this thing is so scary, like thunder, it will blow up all at once. And the one that exploded overhead before it landed, and the earthquake shook you half to death. However, the Jin army has accumulated rich experience in long-term siege battles, and has also cultivated a group of generals who are good at attacking cities. Han Chang, the commander of the Han army, was one of the representative figures, and when his cash army's artillery trucks were mostly arranged at the city gate, he decisively ordered that all the artillery groups within the dense attack range of the Song army's artillery trucks should be removed and bombarded in a special space. After two days, the Jin army threw everything that could be thrown into Chang'an City, and the cannon stones were difficult to find, so they demolished the houses, and finally the houses were almost demolished, so they cut down the big trees. In this case, the defenders were faced with a constant stream of artillery fire almost at any time. Even if it's eating, there is a "whoosh" flying stone stake above the head. There were no casualties and no casualties, but the damage was not negligible. More than half of the enemy towers and arrow towers protruding from all over the city were destroyed, and even the main tower of the eastern city was destroyed by half of the Jin army. As for the houses in the city, that's not to mention. In this era, it is not fashionable to use currency to calculate losses, Xu Wei roughly estimated, in just two days, the losses caused by the Jin army to his own side are probably hundreds of thousands. By the eighth day of the eighth month, after the Jin army stopped shelling, all kinds of stones and wooden blocks were fired into the city, which literally blocked the road. The envoys everywhere were not in a hurry, they used the people assigned by the commander, collected the stones and stakes, and waited for the Jin army to approach the siege city, and then took these to the Jurchens to fight back.

On the afternoon of the eighth day of the first lunar month, the siege equipment of the Jin army began to be transported to the forefront. Xu Wei temporarily summoned the envoys from all over the city to discuss and predict the enemy's siege tactics. Most of the generals believed that now that the water in the moat had dried up and turned into a moat, most of the Jin army would still erect trench bridges for troops and equipment to pass through. Xu Wei himself estimated so, but Wang Yu and Wang Zhengchen had different opinions.

"Marshal, colleagues, look outside the city." Wang Zhengchen stood up, walked behind a stack of teeth, and pointed out.

A group of senior generals of the Yongxing Army Shuai Division who were squatting on the ground followed suit and stepped forward to look out of the city. But seeing that the dense goose carts, cave houses, rushing cars, and moat bridges were already approaching the moat, the Jin army was fully detaining the city and was about to explode.

"Have you noticed?" Wang Yu turned back to the crowd and asked.

"What?" Zhang Xian stared at the bottom, and didn't see the reason. Not only him, but almost all the Tiger Jie generals didn't see the clues.

But there is a "Commander" is a commander of the family army, and after seeing it, he nodded: "Yes, it is exactly the same as my military equipment." ”

Wang Yu explained to Xu Wei: "Marshal, the equipment used by the Jin Army to detain the city this time is completely different from Pingyang. Almost all of them are built according to the standards of our army's apparatus. Take the goose car as an example, in the battle of Pingyang, the Jin Army's goose car was no more than three zhang high, but this time it was obviously built for the height of the Chang'an city wall. With such heavy equipment, the trench bridge was designated to be unable to hold it. One crushes and one collapses. ”

Xu Wei glanced down a few times and asked, "What does Brother Zhengchen mean?"

The king of the trenches judged with great certainty. There is only one way to go, filling in the trenches. ”

Trenching? This is not a small-scale project, the Chang'an moat, the widest part reaches about 100 steps, and the narrowest part also has "Thinking of this, Xu Wei's heart moved, and he hurriedly held the stack teeth and looked down. The moats are almost the same in depth, but they vary greatly in width. In particular, the section of the river in front of the city gate is only a dozen steps wide because of the suspension bridge for access. If the Jin army wants to fill in the trenches, they will undoubtedly choose the section of the river in front of the city gate.

At this point, Wang Yu went on to explain: "Generally speaking, it is necessary to fill the trenches by manpower. Jin Jun did the same before. small

Manpower? Isn't this looking for death? The city gate is a key protective part of our army, equipped with heavy weapons and sharp weapons, he dares to use people to pile up, how many Lao Tzu collects, and shoot him with his eyes closed.

This is the idea of many generals, but Wang Yu suddenly changed his words: "However, the defection of Lang Yan, it is estimated that the Jin army has mastered the manufacturing method of our army's equipment. In this sea of people, there must be a trench cart hidden. Sticky Han pushed the large equipment of the goose cart cave house to the front, but it was just a pretense to scare us. Once started, it is estimated that the trench filling truck will still be used to fill the trench

Xu Wei had seen a trench filling vehicle, which was a flatbed four-wheeled vehicle, with a wide and straight baffle at the front end, which was used to defend against the attack of arrows. The cart could be loaded with earth and rock, and the soldiers pushed the vehicle to the edge of the trench, put the earth and rock into the trench, and then pulled it back the way it came. However, due to the weight of the earth and rock, the trench filling truck usually does not fit much. If the trench was to be filled, hundreds of instruments had to be used to continuously throw earth and rock into the same trench section. In the Song army's previous siege warfare, while the trench filling troops were operating, the bow and crossbow troops would generally suppress the counterattack at the head of the city. But the Jin army may not be able to do this, their bows and arrows are not yet within range.

"Come on, come on, I'm waiting for him in the group of artillery cars! He'll smash him into a pancake! Yang Yan took a broken bowl and drank the bitter and salty well water and said.

Several Hujie generals next to him laughed, but Xu Wei shook his head: "It's not that easy," Shaking the Sky Thunder. There wasn't much left, and they couldn't get out of the hospital for a while. Once the gun carriage was replaced with a cannon stone, the range could not reach the other side of the moat.

Hearing this, Wang Yu nodded and said, "The words of the great commander are reasonable, and this is what the lowly post is worried about. If he builds a trench bridge and rushes, the battle will be easy to fight, but if he fills the trench truck, it is really difficult to deal with, only the divine arm bow and bed crossbow can reach

"But the problem is, you can't necessarily penetrate the armor of the trench cart with the Divine Arm Bow and the Bed Crossbow. Even if it penetrates, it is useless, there are so many city gates, if the gold thieves fill every place, with the number of equipment of our army, I am afraid that they will not be able to contain the other party. A member of the Seed Army said.

Yang Yan glanced at him and sneered: "I still don't believe it, I can't do anything about that broken car?" "I can't complain that he is arrogant, the generals of the Hujie Army, all of them have fought with the Jurchens, and they know that the Jurchens are fierce enemies, but they are not afraid.

When the generals of the family army heard him say this, it was not easy to refute it, because they all knew that Yang Yan was Xu Dashuai's fellow countryman, a playmate who played small, and he followed left and right from the beginning of the army.

Xu Wei glanced at him, and said: "When it comes to attacking and defending the city, it is naturally the elder brother and you who are more veteran. The general of the Hujie army is used to fighting with the Jurchens in the wilderness, and when he enters the city, he has to listen to others. (To be continued)

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