Looking at the continuous throwing of dirt from the back of the wooden cart, Zhang Qing also knew what the Jurchens were going to do.

The place chosen by the Jurchens could not be attacked by fire thunderers, and the bow and arrow could hit, but they could not kill and injure the people under the wooden cart.

"Attack with a stone cannon."

It was still quite difficult for the gunner to aim at a wooden cart three or four feet in size, and many stone cannons hit the ground, only splashing a puff of snowflakes.

However, there were still some wooden carts that were hit, and the five-pound stone cannon smashed down, and the wooden carts immediately fell apart, and the people inside were also smashed to the bones and tendons.

As soon as one cart was broken, another cart was replaced.

The golden soldiers lined up outside the range of the fire thunderers and dug forward in five points.

Under the threat of the stone cannon whistling overhead, the people who were drilling in the wooden cart dug quickly, and soon dug a hole enough for people to hide, and hid in the hole one by one to continue digging.

The stone cannon can break the wooden cart above, but it is difficult to hit the person in the hole.

Zhang Qing saw that the stone cannon could not make a contribution, so he ordered the gunners to stop attacking.

A lieutenant said: "The subordinates are willing to take people out of the customs and dig trenches to stop them." ”

The most common way to dig tunnels is undoubtedly to dig a trench under the city walls, and the enemy will be exposed when they dig into the trench, and then the defenders can use many methods to attack the tunnelers.

Zhang Qing said with a smile: "It's too laborious to dig a trench, the military department has a new way to break the tunnel, just send a team of people out to dig a few holes, the hole is two feet away." ”

Yue Fei said strangely: "What method?" ”

Zhang Qing said with a smile: "It is said that if the artillery is thrown into the ground, it can directly shock the people underground to death." The news that has just come from the Ministry of War is now being conveyed by me. ”

After Yan Zongwang saw the Liang soldiers and horses out of the city with a telescope after the battle, he originally thought that the Liang soldiers would dig a trench, but he didn't expect that he would find a few points to dig down like digging a tunnel.

The telescope has long been sold in the mirror shop, and Jin Guo also bought a lot of it at a high price for the generals who led the troops.

Wanyan Zongfu was also puzzled: "What are the Han people planning to do?" Wouldn't it be faster to line up the trenches? ”

Wanyan Zongwang shook his head in confusion and said, "I can't figure it out, could it be that the Han people have invented some new way to crack the tunnel?" Just wait. Should know soon. ”

The soldiers of the Great Liang first burned the ground with fierce fire oil and dug down, and the soldiers kept changing, and even then it took an hour to dig more than five deep holes.

The people of the Kingdom of Jin wanted to enlarge the hole and dig it more slowly.

The red sun gradually set in the west, and the evening breeze continued to blow, bringing the moisture of the sea to the east, and frost began to form on the armor of many soldiers in the city.

Zhang Qing had the non-commissioned officers and pawns of Guan start to rotate early, and Guan Shang only retained 1,000 people.

The Jin army couldn't stand it either, so they collected their troops and returned to the camp. It's just that a team of soldiers and horses is left to monitor the people, and it seems that the people want to dig tunnels day and night, anyway, the tunnels need lights during the day. As for the cold, it won't be much colder at night than during the day in the tunnels.

Zhang Qing saw that Jin Guo actually planned to dig a tunnel overnight, and he didn't have the patience to wait, although the people who listened still did not report that the tunnel dug by Jin Jun was close to the city wall.

Let's try the new method of the Ministry of War.

Yue Fei saw Zhang Qing ordering artillery, and suddenly said: "General, slow down, let the people listening below rest first, otherwise I'm afraid that they will be the first to die." ”

Zhang Qing also thought of the people lying on the ground listening below. They amplified the sound through the water tank buried in the ground, and if they could really shake the people in the tunnel, the people listening would have died even worse.

"It's good that you reminded me, otherwise I'm afraid I'll hurt my own people by mistake again."

Zhang Qing asked people to inform the people listening below to take a break. After being rewarded, the cannon was lit and thrown into the hole under the wall.

Although the artillery is much heavier, the name of the featherless arrow is not for nothing. The cannon landed precisely into the hole. Exploded.

A puddle of dirt shot up into the sky, and the sound was a little louder, but it didn't seem to be enough to kill people.

Of course, this is the feeling of the person who closes it. The people who had almost dug up to the city wall were like thunderstorms in the sky falling to the ground, some were directly stunned, some were bleeding and became stupid, and the people at the back were also staring at Venus.

Everyone could only see that the hole under the gate had been blown up, but they could not see the results of the battle.

Zhang Qing thought for a while and said, "Let the people listening listen to it again, and see if there are still people digging tunnels?" ”

The listeners listened to the sound of the artillery, and they were curious to lie down on the water tank buried in the ground and listen.

It was as silent as death, and the sound of digging was gone.

When Zhang Qing heard the report below, he swallowed his saliva and said, "It's not really all shocked." ”

Yue Fei thought for a while and said, "If you don't die, you are probably injured, and your voice can't be dispersed underground." I remember playing in the cellar when I was a kid and screaming so hard that my ears hurt. ”

Zhu Tong said: "Wait, if no one comes out and no one digs the soil, most of them will be shocked to death." ”

The soldiers on the city wall also looked curiously at the holes in the distance.

Wushu was young and vigorous, and he also led a team of personal soldiers to personally supervise the battle, and at the same time protect the people, lest a team of soldiers and horses suddenly come out of the city and cut them down.

After seeing the Liang soldiers throw a cannon into the hole they dug, he also wondered and asked a few people to go up to see the situation.

Since the minfu drilled into the tunnel, the defenders did not attack the replacement minfu behind, and it was difficult for the stone cannon to hit the moving wooden cart, and the catapult operation was very attritional. Later, when some of the men found that the archers did not attack them, they simply threw away the wooden cart and ran within the range of the archers.

The Liang soldiers have not released arrows, and their arrows are nothing more than letting the people push the wooden cart to move, which has no meaning.

It can be said that both sides are waiting for the big beam to crack the method of Jin Bing digging tunnels.

The selected few people rushed to the mouth of the tunnel and jumped into the hole, the hole had been dug down to a depth of one person, and the horizontal tunnel was also three or four feet wide, and the people could kneel into it and keep digging forward. There is not one person in a tunnel, but a row of people, with the people in front digging forward and the people behind carrying out the earth.

When the man jumped into the hole, he saw a person in front of him kneeling in the tunnel.

"Hey"

The man shouted, and the people in the tunnel moved, trying to turn around, but they were stuck in the tunnel.

"Stupid donkey."

The man cursed, leaned in, grabbed the man's leg, and pulled it out.

The man fell at the mouth of the cave. Sitting up, with blood hanging from the corners of his eyes and nose, he stared blankly at the person in front of him.

"Ahh

Minfu screamed in fright at the man's appearance, and almost jumped to the ground.

After a while, seeing that the man was motionless, he stretched out his hand and shook it in front of the man, seeing that the man did not react, and wondered: "Stupid? ”

The man leaned in and looked into the tunnel again, and the people inside were also motionless. I didn't dare to stay any longer, and climbed up the ladder erected at the entrance of the cave. I saw that a man next to him also crawled out and asked, "Is the person below alive?" ”

The man dragged a man up from the ground, and he was also bleeding from his nose and eyes, and he was dazed.

"It's the same with my side."

The two of them were stunned when they saw that the people below were dumbfounded, and their legs trembled suddenly, for fear that the Jurchens would drive them to dig tunnels again. But they can only bite the bullet and go back to the errand.

The people who were huddled together to protect themselves from the cold saw the two of them coming back with a stupid man with bleeding from his mouth and nose, and they all whispered.

The two men came back, knelt down in front of the Wushu horse, and said tremblingly: "The people in the tunnel are all stunned. ”

Wushu saw the folk man standing behind the two of them. His face also became very ugly.

I didn't expect the Han artillery to explode so powerful underground, and listening to the movements of the people next to him, he also knew that it would not be easy to drive them to dig tunnels.

Wushu didn't speak, and the two kneeling folk didn't dare to get up.

There was silence for a while. The last three minmen came back, and they dragged out more minfu from the tunnel.

Watching the seven holes bleeding and stunned companions come back, the people who were recruited were about to blow up their nests.

"The people inside are all dead, and the people outside are also stupid."

Wushu heard the three people who came back from behind relay the authentic things. After a moment's hesitation, he ordered everyone to be on standby, and he hit his horse and ran towards the barracks. He ran out of ideas. I can only go back and ask Yan Zongwang.

Wanyan Zongwang had just entered the big tent with his front foot, and when he saw that his foot chased in after the vulture, he frowned and said, "What's wrong?" ”

Wushu said: "The Han people threw artillery into the hole they dug, and the people in the tunnel were dumbfounded. ”

Wanyan Zongwang was stunned, sighed and said, "Let them all come back, they can't fight, I hope it's still too late to retreat." ”

Wushu was unwilling to say: "Just quit the army like this? ”

Wanyan Zongwang said helplessly: "If Da Liang lets us retreat like this, it will be fine, I'm afraid that Da Liang will gather troops and horses to counterattack." We also have to hold on here in case the girder counterattacks from Yuguan. I will ask the emperor and the other Bo Jilie to discuss the matter of sending troops, and from now on we must be careful of the counterattack of the Liang army. ”

Wushu said: "Then Muhan died in vain? ”

Wanyan Zongfu said: "If the fight continues, more people will die, and maybe the Jin Kingdom that my father defeated will be defeated." It's so troublesome to fight a Yuguan, and there are so many cities behind it, and each city is so difficult to fight, we can't fight with Daliang at all. ”

Wushu is not a fool, seeing that the second brother and the third brother all said this, they had to go out to pass the order.

Not long after, a group of people left the camp and headed north.

The next day, Zhang Qing did not wait for the Jin soldiers to attack, but waited for reinforcements.

Chao Yong personally led the Hua Rong Department to the north, preparing to completely wipe out the Jin State.

Zhang Qing welcomed Chao Yong into the pass, and he couldn't wait: "The Jin soldiers attacked the city for two days, but we blocked it with artillery and fire mines. They don't seem to have any sharpness, and they didn't come to attack the city today. Prince see when we can counterattack? ”

Chao Yong shook his head and said, "The main force of this attack is not us. ”

Zhang Qing thought for a while and said, "Do you want to let the barbarians on the grassland be the main force?" ”

Chao Yong nodded and said: "After the establishment of the Grassland Road, almost all the men in each department will be vassals, if it weren't for the Ministry of War to let Dong Ping strictly limit the age, I don't know how many vassal troops there would be on the Grassland Road." The monthly salary of these 100,000 vassal troops of the imperial court is also hundreds of thousands, so naturally they have to be used, and the imperial court must not let them support them in vain. ”

Zhang Qing said with a smile: "What the prince said is that the Jurchens are ferocious, and it is just right to let the grassland barbarians deal with them. ”

Chao Yong nodded and said: "After Dong Ping led the grassland road soldiers and horses to defeat the Linhuang Mansion, he will directly attack the capital of the Jin Kingdom, and then the Jin soldiers will inevitably come back to help, and that is when we will pursue." ”

Only 10,000 people from the Shixiu Department held Gubeikou, but in addition to a large number of artillery and fire mines allocated by the military department, they also got some secret weapons. Although there were only 10,000 people, no one was worried that the Jin army would break through Gubeikou.

Shi Jin was promoted to deputy general because of his meritorious service in killing Jin Guobo.

Wanyan Gao's road was mostly mountainous, and the heavy snow had just passed, so the march was very slow, and Wanyan Zongwang had already turned to the defensive. Wan Yan Gao had just led his troops to the Iron Gate Pass.

Seeing that the iron gate wall they had built earlier had been blown down, all the golden people were so angry that they screamed, if it weren't for Wan Yan Gao's prestige, I am afraid they would not be able to suppress those angry savages.

Early the next morning, the Jin soldiers came to Gubeikou with great momentum.

Shi Jin saw that the golden soldiers under the city had arrived two miles away, and couldn't help but say: "General, they are in the range of artillery, do you want to give them a dismount first." ”

Shi Xiu observed Jin Bing with a telescope, saw that Jin General's Daxu was still behind, shook his head and said, "Don't worry." Let's see if we can catch a few big fish. ”

When Shi Jin heard this, he had no choice but to hold his temper.

Ten black cannons next to them squatted on the city wall, and the barrels of one zhang long pointed obliquely at the sky, like fierce beasts roaring in the sky.

This is the latest research result of the Gun Bureau, and the firing range can reach two and a half miles. This time the troops were sent from three directions, and only Gubeikou got real artillery, but their task was to hold on, not to attack, and of course they also had the strength to attack. Therefore, Shi Xiu was reluctant to expose the power of artillery too early.

This time to sweep away the Jin State, Chao Yong only brought 10,000 people from the Huarong Department, and did not mobilize domestic soldiers and horses on a large scale.

Most of the domestic soldiers and horses could not adapt to the severe cold of the Northeast, and the Jurchens were ferocious. If the domestic soldiers and horses were to be mobilized, even if they could win, the casualties would be very large. When Chao Yong encouraged the Han people to expand, he was also unwilling to lose a large number of young adults.

Chao Yong has already said that Chao Gai will be moved. Let Chao Gai make a will, and the people give birth, all of which are funded by the court to hire a stable woman. Twins. The imperial court subsidizes ten times, three sons, and the court subsidy is twenty times. If there are more than five children, the court will reward 100 acres of land.

This policy can not only encourage the people to have more children, but also solve the situation that some people who do not want to move to the border areas have no land to cultivate.

Of course, there is another reason that the household department does not understand the establishment of the vassal army of the military department, and the vassal army of Ningxia Road and Grassland Road has almost no effect, but the vassal army of the two roads together consumes nearly one million yuan of silver per month, and it is 10 million yuan a year.

Although the treasury is sufficient now, when the income of the mirror store begins to decline, the military expenditure of the Ministry of War will make the treasury tight, so the Ministry of Household also recommends that the Ministry of War control military spending.

Chao Yong did not want to cut military spending, so he wanted to let the vassal army reflect their value. Of course, Chao Yong also hoped to reduce the number of strong men in each department through war, so as to speed up their assimilation.

Gubeikou and Tiemen Pass are both in the valley, and it is impossible to put many soldiers and horses, so Wan Yangao can only let the front army swing between the valleys, and then send a team of Bohai Navy to come up to test.

Wan Yan Gao also brought a bunch of savages to the front to watch the battle situation, so as to formulate a plan for attacking the city.

In their opinion, about two miles is a safe distance, although the bed crossbow can also shoot here, but as long as you pay attention, you can completely dodge. Nothing can traverse a distance of two miles at once.

The Bohai Navy was the earliest foreign soldiers and horses established in the Jin Kingdom, and they fought many victorious battles with the Jurchens, and their momentum was also very strong, and they rushed to Gubeikou with a cloud ladder.

"All artillery is aimed at the front of the Golden National Formation."

Shi Xiu kept looking at the front of the Jin army with a telescope, and saw more than a dozen Jin generals wearing well-armored armor, including two Jin generals who were dressed in fierce furs, and gave a decisive order.

The guns were operated by gunners who had been experimenting in the Gun Bureau for two years, and they adjusted the guns one after another.

"Boom"

"Boom"

……

There was a muffled sound, and a burst of fire erupted from the muzzle of the cannon, and then a violent explosion began in front of the Jin army.

Wan Yan Gao heard the sound of the wall and saw something spraying fire, and then one by one black dots rushed straight to him, and just about to hit the horse to dodge, one after another firelight had already exploded in front of him.

The people who closed the telescope on the wall were holding binoculars and observing the front of the forbidden army, where the shells fell, and the smoke and dust were everywhere, but they still could not hide the splattered flesh and blood.

The gunner did not stop attacking, but kept adjusting the barrel of the gun, from near to far, constantly bombarding backwards.

Shells spread from the Jin army's front and back, and the valley, which could only accommodate one car, was completely covered with artillery.

Seeing that the soldiers and horses in front of them were inexplicably blown to pieces, as if there was witchcraft, the place where the explosion spread backwards, and the Jin army finally couldn't suppress the fear and fled back.

The Bohai Navy, who had not yet rushed to the pass, saw that the Jin army behind them had fled, and they did not dare to attack again, so they threw down the ladder and fled backwards in embarrassment.

The artillery bombarded for a while, and there were no more golden troops in the range, and then it stopped.

All the soldiers on the gate were also shocked, this is the artillery, the farthest in the past catapult is to hit a mile, and it also needs hundreds of people to fire the cannon, and this iron cannon only needs three people, as if one person can also operate, the range can also hit more than two miles, and the speed of firing is much faster than that of the catapult.

After standing for a while, Shi Xiucai said: "With these ten artillery pieces, there are a thousand soldiers and horses who can defend Gubeikou." ”

Shi Jin walked obsessively to a cannon and reached out to touch the jet-black cannon.

An artilleryman hurriedly shouted, "Be careful with hot hands." ”

The reminder was still a little slower, Shi Jin had already touched it, and the hot feeling also made Shi Jin immediately retract his hand, and said with a smile: "Good thing, how many artillery guns have been made by the Gun Bureau?" ”

The craftsman in charge of tracking these ten cannons said: "Sixty cannons were made, and fifty of them were transported to Dengzhou to be loaded on the Prince's fleet, and only ten of them were transported to Gubeikou." ”

Shi Jin sighed with emotion: "This artillery is a sharp weapon, with artillery, who can lay down the city of the beam." ”

Shi Xiu also calmed down, shook his head and said: "Not necessarily, this valley is where the artillery is powerful, if there is a flat river outside, ten artillery can't cover much place." ”

Shi Jin thought for a while and said: "What General Shi said is also true, but with artillery, our Gubeikou is a one-shot pass, and we don't know who was killed just now." ”

Shi Xiu said with a smile: "There must be a few of them, maybe there are still Bo Jilie, and when the Ministry of Intelligence verifies it, we can ask for credit." (To be continued......)

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