Although Amin had taken advantage of the special terrain conditions of Xishenwei to force the Ming army to attack only the southern wall, thus reducing its numerical disadvantage to a minimum, the number of the Ming army was too much, and it was still attacking strongly.

"Let's go to the second team!" Amin commanded in a deep voice.

The second team, which was resting under the city wall, heard the order and ran up the city wall along the galloping road under the leadership of their respective officers.

The input of these 6,000 new forces immediately temporarily reversed the situation on the city wall, and the 6,000 brave Jurchen warriors were divided into teams to attack the section of the city wall occupied by the Ming soldiers.

Soon, the area occupied by the Ming soldiers on the city wall was only a fifty or sixty meters long, and within this range, the Ming army had almost opened up both sides of the city wall, completely squeezing the Jurchen soldiers into a little area close to the inner city wall. Moreover, on both sides of this section of the city wall, the Ming army has used the corpses of soldiers killed on both sides to build a simple line of defense, and no matter how the Jurchen soldiers attack, they will not be able to drive down the more than 1,000 Ming soldiers entrenched here.

Here, a steady stream of Ming soldiers poured up.

Here, it immediately became the biggest threat to Xi Shenwei.

"Let the Iron Float be slaughtered!"

Seeing that he was still unable to clear all the Ming troops even after the second team was invested, Amin didn't expect it, and had no choice but to give an order to let Tiefutu come forward.

As soon as he heard this, Erle and Ze immediately became excited, and he replied loudly: "Amin, don't worry, I will definitely lead Tiefutu to drive these Han dogs down!" ”

After that, he rushed into the city tower, and soon, he strode out from the inside, but behind him, there were groups of soldiers. These soldiers were dressed in a very different way from ordinary Jurchen soldiers, and they were all wrapped in thick black heavy armor. These heavy armors are not like the traditional armor styles such as fish scale armor from Middle-earth, but are closer to Western plate armor. They were all smashed with large pieces of steel plates, and they looked extremely heavy, cuirass, shoulder armor, leg armor, iron boots, and iron gloves. Helmets, also known as hoods, are readily available. The whole person was wrapped in thick steel, and it looked like a steel can, with only two eyes exposed.

In their hands with iron gloves, they held a long-handled axe, the surface of which was the size of a washbasin, the back of the axe was very heavy, and the blade was shining with a faint and cold cold light, which looked extremely sharp.

The heavy armor on their bodies, plus the big axe weapons in their hands, must weigh at least more than 100 catties!

What's even more bizarre is that each of them is connected to each other by thick chains.

Seeing them come out, the Jurchen soldiers who were originally crowded in a crowd spontaneously made way of a way, allowing these steel cans, which numbered about five hundred, to pass through, and the steel canned door was silent, just holding a big axe and following Erle and Ze towards the city wall that was still controlled by the Ming army.

These canned steel Jurchen soldiers are naturally Tiefutu.

Decades ago, Jianzhou Wei commanded the envoy Wanyan Chen Monk (uh, now it is the Haixi Jurchens who are fighting with the Ming court, and Amin and others should be the three heroes of Haixi...... A certain sad pear has been busy lately, and her head is funny, sorry, sorry, change it in the future. I'm sorry) led the three surnamed Jurchen Reading Power and called himself the Jurchen Great Khan.

This Wanyan Chen monk Great Khan had great plans and lofty ambitions, and he was bent on attacking the Ming court in the south and restoring the glory of his ancestors in the past - he was a descendant of the Jurchen Golden Family who established the great Jin Kingdom and smashed the Central Plains of the Zhao and Song dynasties. At the beginning, the people of the Wanyan tribe were not left and right to go to Bianliang and went to the Central Plains, and there were still many Wanyan tribesmen who stayed between the white mountains and black waters, and when the rest of the Wanyan tribe were killed by the Mongolian iron horsemen, they escaped a surname, but since then they have fallen silent again, returned to the primitive, and lived a life of fishing and hunting.

Before Wanyan Chen, their family was incognito in order to avoid trouble, and in his generation, in order to show the nobility of his bloodline, he not only restored his surname, but also gave himself the name of the last general of the Jin country.

Determined to restore the glory of his ancestors, Wanyan Chen monk also moved closer to those ancestors, after the establishment of the Jurchen state, he invaded the south and plundered a lot of Han people, among which there were not a few craftsmen. The land north of the Songhua River occupied by the Jurchens is bitterly cold, but the land is fertile, and all kinds of minerals are also extremely rich, with a lot of coal and iron deposits, and they are all rich ores that are shallow and conducive to mining. Monk Wanyan Chen specially modeled the Ming Dynasty to set up an ordnance bureau to specialize in the mining and smelting of iron ore.

After decades of development, it has become a scale, and Jurchen is the only country among the four countries in the north that does not need to rely on the Ming Dynasty to import iron pots, salt and other utensils.

This is also one of the reasons why the Jurchen armor weapons are not weaker than the Ming Dynasty.

And since Monk Wanyan Chen wants to aspire to restore the glory of the Golden Kingdom, there are two things that are indispensable.

He ordered each of the three Jurchens to select 2,000 elites who were brave and brave enough to gather in the Khan's court and set up their own Praetorian Guards, Tiefutu and Kidnappers.

The Iron Float is a hoplite, and the Kidnapper is a heavy cavalry.

These two arms of the army were established in imitation of the Jin State at that time.

Many descendants think that Tiefutu is a heavy cavalry, in fact, it is not so, the reason why there is such an erroneous argument, is because it comes from the record of Song history - "History of the Song Dynasty" records, the Jin army connected the iron cavalry with leather ropes, used to attack the storm, known as "Tiefutu" and "kidnapping horse", invincible, and then defeated by the Song generals Liu Qi and Yue Fei with long knives and big axes.

It's just that this argument has been broken in the Qing Dynasty.

It was none other than the descendants of the Jurchens, Qianlong. This prolific poet, who claims to be a perfect martial artist and a perfect old man, has written more than 100,000 poems in his life. When compiling the "Imperial Approval of the General Collection", he pointed out very sharply: "The northerners make horses, only to control and convenient. If the three horses are connected, the horsepower is uneven, and it is bound to be the same; And the three people are connected, or the courage is uneven, and the brave are burdened by the cowardly, which is easy to understand. …… The situation is skillful in the battle formation,...... Will you be bound to your own horses so that you may be controlled by others? At this time, they marched together and were invincible, and the Song people saw that they were unstoppable, so they added their names in vain. ”

The refutation of the old theory in this passage can be said to be to the point and very convincing, and it is the conclusion of the coffin based on the subsequent speculation of the Tiefutu.

In fact, the Iron Floating Slaughter is a heavy infantry, and the middle is indeed connected by iron cables, which is to maintain the formation and enhance the protective force, and the iron chain is used on the infantry, which is indeed possible, because people are emotionally controllable creatures, and it is not difficult for them to maintain a certain stride. But the cavalry is not good, because it is too difficult to keep the stride of the war horse consistent, there are too many factors that affect the war horse, and sometimes, a slight movement of the rider may cause the war horse to slow down or accelerate, and if the three horses are really connected, then one war horse is finished, isn't it the other two that are finished?

Therefore, the abducted horses are heavy cavalry, and they are not connected by three horses, but they are all heavily armoured.

Since ancient times, heavy infantry and heavy cavalry are extremely money-burning troops, that is, the rich and powerful Central Plains nation, it is not easy to be armed, the ethnic minorities in the north have never lacked tall and vigorous war horses, there is no shortage of brave and good soldiers, but lack of equipment. And if Monk Wanyan Chen didn't have quite a solid accumulation, he wouldn't be able to arm these two troops.

During the Jin Kingdom, the Tiefutu and the kidnapping horses were all two-layer foot heavy armor, and the protection was extremely strong, and they were full of feather arrows. Monk Wanyan Chen learned from the experience of imported Western missionaries, and changed the fish scale armor to plate armor, the heavy armor on these Tiefutu warriors is similar to the plate armor of the West, weighing sixty catties - don't think this weight is very scary, the weight of the original set of standard step armor in the Great Song Dynasty was fifty-nine catties and six taels as determined by Emperor Gaozong Zhao Gou! How much does a two-layer step man weigh? One hundred and twenty pounds!

Compared with their predecessors hundreds of years ago, the weight of these Iron Floating Slaughter has been greatly reduced, and the big axe in his hand is only one hundred and twenty catties, and his mobility ability has been greatly improved, but his defense power has not decreased. After all, the defensive power of plate armor is recognized as the first in the world in the era of cold weapons.

Tiefutu and Abducted Horses are the Praetorian Guards of the Jurchen Great Khan, and they are usually stationed in the large lush grassland on the bank of the Heilongjiang River where the Jurchen Khan's court is located, but the resolute general also has some face in front of the Great Khan.

And Fortitude gave the 500 Iron Floating Slaughter to Amin.

Soon, the soldiers of the Ming army who occupied that section of the city wall found that the enemy in front of them had been replaced.

Seeing these enemies wrapped in heavy steel armor and like steel cans brandishing big axes and silently rushing towards this side, the eyes of the Ming soldiers inevitably showed a touch of horror - this has nothing to do with guts, it is the instinctive reaction of human beings after seeing a strong enemy.

The Iron Floaters held their axes high and slaughtered into the array of the remaining Ming troops, and the Ming army also met them without fear, they were also elites, so they naturally would not be afraid.

A Ming soldier swung his knife and slashed at a Jurchen Iron Float in front of him, this Iron Float did not dodge or dodge, but just raised his arm to block, and let the waist knife slash heavily on his upper arm, the sharp waist knife made by the Ming Ordnance Bureau slashed fiercely on the arm of the Iron Float, but it only provoked a spark, leaving a white mark on the thick shoulder armor. And the big axe of Tiefutu has fallen on his head fiercely, and suddenly the Ming soldier split his head in half, red and white splashed on his body, this Tiefutu was unharmed, his eyes showed a bloodthirsty cruel light, and he pounced on another Ming army.

The Ming soldiers soon found that they had nothing to do with the opponent in front of them.

For hoplites with heavy armor, they can only be protected from advancing by using long weapons such as spears and halberds, or they can also be used with heavy and powerful weapons such as axes, maces, and giant hammers, and struck through the armor to shock them to death.

And now in the hands of the Ming soldiers, there is only a waist knife.

In just half a cup of tea time, the Ming army had already suffered more than hundreds of casualties, and the remaining Ming army was compressed into a small pitiful area.

An iron float did not pay attention to his feet, tripped over a corpse, he fell down like this, the whole person was wrapped in sixty pounds of iron armor, and he couldn't get up at all, not only that, but also the two iron floats tied together with him with iron chains also fell to the ground, and the three people rolled together, struggling to move their limbs, but they couldn't get up at all.

When the surrounding more than ten Ming soldiers saw this scene, they immediately rushed up, poking their eyes and slashing their necks, and the protection of plate armor could not cover all their bodies after all. The necks of these Iron Floaters were all cut off, blood splattered out, and their heads were cut off alive.

Tiefutu finally suffered casualties for the first time.

A hundred households of the Ming army shouted: "Brothers, the soles of these monsters are weak points under their feet and necks, put them down, cut off their necks, and gouge out their eyes." ”

It's a pity that it's too late, the Tiefutu people paid attention to their feet, and soon, they pounced again, and the rest of the Ming army was immediately crushed in the torrent of steel.

On the city wall, there was no longer a single Ming army.

Seeing all this from afar, the situation on the city wall took a sharp turn, and Xu Peng slammed his fist on the railing in front of him.

Xu An, who had just returned, was sent out again to tell the senior officers of the Six Guards to start the next round of siege immediately.

At this time, seeing that all the Ming troops on the city wall had been driven back, and the second team of fresh troops reoccupied the city, Amin looked down, the Ming army was already preparing to attack the city, and obviously it would never give up if it could not be defeated today.

He rubbed his teeth and commanded a general behind him in a deep voice: "Get the golden juice!" ”

"Yes, Lord Amin!" The general answered, and led some soldiers out of the city, and in a few moments the smell of ambergris wafted from the city, and the smell pierced everyone's noses.

Soon, the general sent by Amin came up with hundreds of soldiers, each with a large iron pot in his hand, which was filled with an extremely viscous light brown liquid, which was tumbling and steaming, and the strong smell of ambergris came from it.

Gold juice was originally a medicine.

The coldest day of winter every year, generally the winter solstice, take the feces of healthy men, dilute it with water, stir it into juice, filter it with cotton paper gauze, add a little loess, put it into the urn, cover and seal it in a thick bowl, bury it in the ground for at least one year, and it will be good for a long time. Its juice is slightly yellow (such as light brown), viscous and stretching, extremely hanging spoon, non-toxic and tasteless, and extremely effective in treating heat and dampness.

There is no trace of when the gold juice was first used to defend the city, and before the gold juice, the defenders poured boiling hot water down to cause damage. In one of the pumping of the city, the water source of the defending side was cut off, and as a last resort, hundreds of large urns of gold juice buried in the ground were raised and boiled for defense. The results have proven to be excellent.

Since then, gold juice has been widely used to defend the city.

Compared with boiling water, the gold juice is viscous and hangs on the spoon, with the special surname of caustic soda, when encountering ordinary armor, whether it is leather or cloth, a drop of gold juice falls on it, and it can erode half a layer of thickness of the leather armor in an instant, the boiling point of gold juice is much higher than that of water, and the heat carried in a small drop of gold juice is not something that humans can bear.

Naturally, there is a lot of gold juice in Xishenwei, and Amin originally regarded these things as a killing weapon at the bottom of the box, and was going to wait until the second day or even later, which was really precarious and could not be defended before using it.

Unexpectedly, as soon as the defense of the city began, it had already fallen into almost the most dangerous situation, and these gold juices had to be taken out and used.

The gold juice has been transported to the back of the docks, and the gold juice holds a lot of heat without fear of cooling.

The soldiers all handed down a big spoon with a long handle, and when Amin gave the order, they scooped a spoonful of gold juice with a spoonful, with a cruel smile on their faces, just like the old peasant pouring dung on the field in the middle of the sky, and poured it towards the Ming army under the city.

They don't need to pour a lot, in fact, if they want to kill a soldier, a small tablespoon of gold juice poured on his face is enough to kill him, and Master Amin has already ordered that it should be poured slowly, carefully, and evenly, so that it is not wasted.

The golden juice fell on the face of the Ming army below, as long as it was poured on the soldiers, when it was poured on the face, it immediately made a sneering sound, as if it was corroded by strong acid, and the position where it was poured was immediately the muscle depression, blackened, disappeared, and spread to the surroundings. And when it falls on the body, the cotton armor can resist it, but the effect is not good, and it is quickly corroded out of a hole, and then the skin on the body is burned. In an instant, countless soldiers let out a terrible scream, and they reached out to cover the part of themselves that were burned and burned, but their hands were also stained, and the skin and flesh on their hands began to shrink, and they were burned to the bones in an instant.

The pain-like pain kept coming, making these elite warriors unable to resist, they screamed and rolled on the ground, and the surrounding robes were helpless against it.

The soldiers of the Ming Dynasty can face knives and guns, face the boulder and fight desperately, but when they face this kind of thing and see their robes being burned to death one by one, and when they are in pain, the panic and fear in the team inevitably appears.

The gold juice poured down on the city wall is almost endless, and the soldiers directly below the city wall are almost all affected, tens of thousands of people are burned to death and poisoned, and more people are splashed, rolling on the ground in pain, and scurrying all over the ground.

A smell of burnt meat from human flesh, mixed with the smell of ambergris, is disgusting.

(To be continued)