The soldiers and civilians of Taiyuan have been looking forward to the imperial court reinforcements for a long time, and in the second half of the first year of Jingkang, they did not wait for reinforcements, but waited for the will of the imperial court. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 On the day of the second half of the first month, after the Song court and the Jin soldiers reached a peace, the Jin soldiers on the East Road had not yet withdrawn from Kaifeng, so the Song court sent the minister Lu Yundi to Taiyuan to proclaim that he wanted to teach the Taiyuan soldiers and civilians to get out of the city.

After Lu Yundi arrived in Taiyuan City, Zong Han gave up a passage and sent him to the city, and Wang Yu sent someone to hang the road into the city with a hanging basket. On the Kaiyuan Gate in the south of the city, Lu Yundi read the holy decree to Zhang Xiaochun, the chief administrator Wang Yu, and the soldiers and civilians defending the city.

The soldiers and civilians in the city were dumbfounded and listened to this humiliating will, Lu Yundi just read it, Wang Yu immediately stood up with his sword, and shouted: "The monarch should protect the country and love the people, and the subjects should be loyal to the monarch and keep righteousness. The soldiers and civilians in the city all held weapons in their hands, raised their arms and shouted: "We are willing to stick to Taiyuan with the king, coexist with the city, and never retreat!"

All the soldiers and civilians glared at Lu Yundi and his entourage, and Lu Yundi was ashamed and went down the city. The Song court not only sent envoys to Taiyuan this time, but also sent envoys to the two towns of Zhongshan and Hejian, which were also ceded, but the result was the same, and the soldiers and civilians of Zhongshan and Hejian also rejected this humiliating decree.

After the Jin army outside the city heard the news, Wanyan Zonghan, who was annoyed and angry, waved his army to attack Taiyuan on the same day, and the Taiyuan army and civilians fought a bloody battle with the Jin soldiers, repelling the Jin soldiers several times. Seeing that the defenders were united, the Jin Dynasty West Route Army, which had been out for nearly half a year, was increasingly tired and lacked food and grass at this time, Wanyan Zonghan used the "city lock method" to build heavy fortifications to surround Taiyuan, leaving the general Yinshu to continue to besiege the city, and he led the main force to withdraw to Datong.

After Yan Zonghan returned to the north, the fierce general Yinshuke swept away the outer prefectures and counties of Taiyuan, and successively captured Wenshui, Xidugu, Qi County, Taigu, and Yu County with partial divisions, and defeated Fan Kui, Shi Xu, Gao Feng and other local troops of the Song army who rescued Taiyuan. Subsequently, the Jin army built a fortress along the city in a place where arrows and artillery stones could not be fired outside the city, cutting off internal and external communications, making Taiyuan City an isolated city.

In mid-February, seeing that the Jin army locked the city and cut off the internal and external communications of Taiyuan, Zhang Xiaochun and Wang Yu went to the city on this day to look far away, only to see the entrenchment walls outside the Jin army city extended, and there was no trace of reinforcements around Taiyuan, Zhang Xiaochun couldn't help but sigh and said: "The situation is so far, you and I may have to repay the country with death, but only pity the lives of the soldiers and civilians in this city." ”

When Wang Yu heard this, he said: "The prime minister must not be soft-hearted, at this moment, the army and the people are all defending the city with a righteous spirit, if they take care of their lives, they are afraid that this anger will be discharged." Zhang Xiaochun smiled bitterly: "It's just a casual remark, now not only is the traffic cut off inside and outside the city, but even the news can't be sent." A few days ago, Lu Yundi came to issue an edict, and the imperial court has negotiated peace with the Jin people, and it seems that there will be no reinforcements. The lonely city is trapped, the victory and defeat have already been scored, and it is just a day to be able to hold out for a day. ”

Wang Yu frowned when he heard this, he heard that Zhang Xiaochun's Xuanfu envoy was a little timid, and he had the idea of quitting the army, and when he was about to persuade, he heard a burst of cannon fire from the west of the Fenshui River, and both of them were taken aback, and hurriedly turned to the west of the city to overlook.

I saw that on the Fenshui River in the west of Taiyuan City, dozens of large and small warships sailed over, all of which were one-color Great Song military flags, but unlike the ordinary Great Song Dynasty red flags, this Great Song Dynasty naval flag was wrapped with blue piping.

Seeing the arrival of this naval army, Zhang Xiaochun, Wang Yu and the soldiers and civilians at the head of Xicheng were all overjoyed, they all cried with joy, and ran to tell each other, and even the soldiers and civilians bowed to Fenshui at the head of the city and said: "God is pitiful, finally the imperial court has sent reinforcements." ”

When the soldiers and civilians of Taiyuan in Chengtou were in a surprise meeting, they saw that the naval army was struggling to march against the water upstream of Fenshui, and on the other hand, they kept firing artillery on the boat, and they saw that the Jin army camp on the shore continued to explode and catch fire, and the Jin army on the shore was panicked.

It turned out that this naval army was the Liangshan Song Army Zhang Shun's naval army, and on the same day, the land soldiers and horses of Lin Chong's division pulled out the camp north to rescue Taiyuan, and after Lin Chong's division crossed the Yellow River, it met with the middle of the Song army's division, according to the imperial court's will, that is, Lin Chong's division was in front, and the middle of the division was behind. So Lin Chong and Zhang Shun discussed, the navy took the waterway to transport grain and grass and baggage first, and Lin Chong's department went north to Yushe by land.

The Song Dynasty generals marched west from Jingcheng, Hebei, and joined the other two Song Dynasty generals, Yao Pingzhong's adoptive father Yao Gu and Zhang Xiaochun's son Zhang Hao, who went north from Changzhi and Fenzhou respectively, and the three armies were horns for each other to relieve the siege of Taiyuan.

After Lin Chong's troops led his troops to the north, he quickly recovered Yushe, but because the troops of the seed division, Yao Gu, and Zhang Hao did not keep up, Lin Chong, who had lost his strategy, led his troops to be stationed in Yushe in order to avoid going deep alone.

The land army and horses were delayed, Zhang Shun flew the pigeon there to pass the book and contacted Lin Chong, Lin Chong sent Liu Tang and Li Kui two generals to the bank of the Yellow River with more than 1,000 barbarian soldiers, first rendezvous with the navy, more than 1,000 military horses took the navy warship, and went to Taiyuan by water.

Zhang Shun's naval army headquarters waited for the naval reinforcements led by the two brothers Tong Wei and Tong Meng on the Yellow River, and this trip transferred more than 100 warships from Shandong Road, and Zhang Shun had more than 200 large and small warships, plus Zhang Shun brushed civilian ships along the way, and got more than 100 civilian boats, a total of more than 300 large and small warships.

At that moment, Zhang Shun ordered Tong Wei and Tong Meng to lead the main force of the navy to escort the heavy grain and grass, and he and Liu Tang and Li Kui led 80 large and small warships, and transported more than 1,000 barbarian soldiers, and went north first, opening the way for the navy to be the vanguard of the navy.

After Zhang Shun's forward navy entered Fenshui, there were already Jin army sentry scouts who discovered the Song army's water division, and the Jin people also knew that their water combat strength was weak, so they were the Jin army's general Yinshu could have already pulled five iron locks across the river above the Fenshui, and arranged three pontoon bridges between the iron cables, and the bows and crossbows and military horses were arranged on the pontoon bridges, and the two ends of the iron cables and pontoon bridges were set up on the shore to protect the iron cables and pontoon bridges, and dozens of stone throwers were arranged at the mercy of the camp on the shore to prevent the Song army sailors from breaking into Fenshui to rescue Taiyuan.

It is the Yinshu that can be arranged like this, it is that the other naval armies of the Song Dynasty did not come to the rescue, but when they encountered the iron lock across the river, they could not break through the arrangement of the Jin army on the water, and they went against the water, and they were all defeated and retreated under the Jin army's pontoon bridge, arrows and artillery stones on the shore.

But this time it was replaced by the Liangshan Zhang Shun Naval Army, Zhang Shun had already sent a sentry ship to find out the layout of the Jin Army, to say that the arrangement of the Jin Army was indeed difficult to break through for the general Song Army Naval Division, but for Zhang Shun's Naval Army, it was a piece of cake.

After discovering the deployment of the Jin army on the same day, Zhang Shun waved his army upstream, and when he arrived in front of the iron cable pontoon array, a few miles away from the shore, outside the range of the Jin army's artillery and stone arrows, Zhang Shun's naval army headquarters dropped a heavy anchor. After all stopped, Zhang Shun ordered the artillery and rockets on the ships of the Great War to shoot at the Jin military camp on the shore.

For a time, there was a sea of fire in the Jin military camp on the shore, and the first round of rocket attacks were all used in the incendiary warheads, and the Jin army camp was suddenly on fire, and dozens of stone throwers on both sides of the strait were all wooden, and they were soon burned down.

The artillery is concentrated on attacking the front pontoon bridge and iron cable, the artillery of the Liangshan Song Army is not the kind of fireworks-type artillery of the Song Dynasty Army, Sanniang ordered the craftsman to improve the formula of black powder, whether it is push or explosive, it has reached the best formula of black powder, and it is to hit far away with Liangshan artillery, and the power is huge.

After a random bombing, there were no more crossbowmen of the Jin Army on the three pontoon bridges, and they all fled back to the two banks. After Zhang Shun sent a sentinel to spy on the small boat, he ordered the navy to move forward. Zhang Shun's naval war ships were all loach boats invented by Ye Chun under the command of Captain Gao.

The largest loach boat is flanked by 24 waterwheels, which can accommodate hundreds of people, and each waterwheel is driven by 12 people; Externally covered with bamboo fences, which can avoid arrows; Crossbow towers were erected on the deck of the ship.

Sanniang thought that in Ye Chun's original design, half of the waterwheel was exposed in the air, which meant that half of the work was in vain.

If you want to go forward, there is a bang on the battlement, twenty-four waterwheels, step hard together, the boat is like flying, plus the sails are arranged on the ship, the wind and manpower are together, and the boat is also lucky to fly against the current!

And this trip Zhang Shun attracted all medium loach boats, which only used twelve waterwheels on both sides; The ship can accommodate 100 people; The front and the rear tail are all nailed with long nails; There are also crossbow towers on both sides, still with sheltering fences, and 20 artillery pieces and 10 rocket launch racks are arranged on both sides of the bow of the ship. In order to prevent the rocket tail flame from burning the deck of the ship, the deck was covered with iron sheets. This ship has a flat bottom, but it is a small port in shallow water, and it will not run aground.

It was when Zhang Shun used artillery and rockets to repel the Jin army, and then waved the army against the water, and the speed was not slow at all. Before getting close, Zhang Shun sent water ghosts into the water, chiseled five iron cables, installed explosives to blow up the pontoon bridge, and the boat stepped forward to widen the water.

As a result, in less than half a day's effort, the general of the Jin Army spent a lot of money and manpower on Yinshu, and the Fenshui defense line that took half a month to lay out was broken. Zhang Shun's water army marched all the way to the surface of Fenshui outside Taiyuan City.

After seeing the Taiyuan city wall, Zhang Shun saw that the shore and outside the city were all trench camps arranged by the Jin army, during which the cavalry of the Jin army came and went like the wind, surrounding the Taiyuan city.

Seeing this, Liu Tang and Li Kui stepped forward and said: "Second Brother Zhang, you can put our barbarian military horses on the shore, and we will first occupy the place on the shore, build a barracks, and repair the water camp wharf to facilitate the water army to dock and station!" ”

Zhang said by the way: "Wait for our army to use artillery and rockets to open the way for your army first." So the Liangshan water army began to fire artillery at the Jin army on the shore, which alarmed Zhang Xiaochun and Wang Yu in the city.

The Liangshan Water Army and the Army have already practiced this kind of landing operation, but most of them are above the sea, and the wind and waves are even greater. So after the rockets and artillery on the ship exploded indiscriminately, a gap was blown open in the defense line of the Jin Army on the shore, and then the small boats of the navy came out together, carrying the army barbarians straight to the shore.