"Don't release arrows, it's just a waste to release arrows at this time, pass on my general order, order the bed crossbow to prepare, and give me the stone cannon aimed at each golden soldier, be sure to be accurate!" Gao Huaiyuan immediately ordered.

Immediately the operators of several bed crossbows that were transported to the north city wall began to get busy, compared to the stone cannons used by the Jin soldiers, the bed crossbow of the Song army seemed to be sharper, after all, the stone crossbow in this era still relied on manpower to operate, and the bed crossbow was the use of mechanical force, compared to the bulky stone cannon, the bed crossbow was much lighter, placed on the city wall, covered by battlements, and basically did not notice their existence from below, which was also the reason why Gao Huaiyuan did not use the bed crossbow for the first time just now, Don't look at the weight of the arrows fired by the bed crossbow, but the range is much farther than the stone cannon, and the accuracy is not comparable to the stone cannon, so when he saw the existence of the stone cannon in the golden soldier array, he deliberately hid the defender's bed crossbow, and this time it seems that it is time to use them!

The defenders who operated the bed crossbow threw off their thick armor and clothes, and went into battle shirtless to pull the winch on the bed crossbow, and after the creaking sound, the huge bow fixed to the bed crossbow slowly opened, and finally made a crisp click, and the thick crossbow string hung on the bracket.

"Aim with a hammer arrow!" Gao Huaiyuan strode over to a bed crossbow and shouted at the operator.

So a spear with a huge hammer at the front end was put on the chute of the bed crossbow, and the officers and soldiers pushed the bed crossbow to slowly make the Wangshan above trap the golden soldiers who were moving outside the city. Put me the bed crossbow! ”

With his order, the strikers who had already prepared immediately waved their mallets and smashed them on the crossbow of the bed, and then a dull buzz sounded on the city wall, and several black dots flew out like black lightning, that is, in the blink of an eye, they flew into the array of golden soldiers, and smashed heavily into the crowd of golden soldiers, causing a blood-colored ripple in it.

Gao Huaiyuan immediately lay on the battlement of the city wall, looking out to see the effect of the launch, after watching, he felt a lot of regret in his heart, because of the lack of training, the first round of firing basically did not achieve the expected effect, after several hammer arrows were issued, none of them hit the moving stone cannons, so that his plan to kill the golden soldiers stone cannons fell in the empty space.

But fortunately, the formation of the golden soldiers is dense, and it has become the best target, the huge round hammer arrows have fallen into the crowd of golden soldiers, the hammer is stuck everywhere is broken and fractured, and the corpses are flying around, even if the hammer arrow is unstable, it still maintains a terrifying lethality, and the sweeping arrow shaft and the broom generally rage in the crowd, even if it is swept by the arrow shaft, the result is not much better, the golden soldiers on the side all fall on all sides, and they are injured without death after landing, and every arrow has caused huge damage to the golden soldiers, There was an exclamation from the crowd of Jin Bing.

"Shoot the arrows!" Gao Huaiyuan immediately seized this favorable opportunity, as soon as the formation of the golden soldiers was chaotic, a large number of gaps appeared in the shield formation, which was an opportunity that their archers could take advantage of.

Hundreds of crossbowmen immediately released their arrows together, and the rain of arrows once again enveloped the heads of the golden soldiers, and the golden soldiers who were hit by the arrows screamed and fell to the ground one after another.

Hu Lu, who was watching the battle from a distance, suddenly straightened up on the horse's back, his two hands holding the reins and the whip were clenched at the same time, and his eyes widened, but then he relaxed, and still did not speak.

One of the lieutenants beside him exclaimed, "Damn it! There's even a bed crossbow in the city! ”

"Don't be impatient, the Song army is good at making crossbows, and it's not surprising that Huangzhou City has such weapons, continue to beat the drum and advance, without stopping!" Hu Lu thorn shook the horsewhip in his hand and ordered.

So the drums in the Jin army continued to sound, more urgently, and after reaching the battlefield, the Jin soldiers immediately marched towards Huangzhou City again under the command of their respective generals, and no longer paid attention to the bed crossbows at the head of the city.

"Calibrate your goals and keep winding! Equipped with hammer arrows! Gao Huaiyuan waved his hand to give the order.

There was another rush in the city, and the soldiers struggled to operate the bed crossbows, once again loaded with hammer arrows, and took careful aim, and once again shot down the city.

In a short 100-meter road, the Jin army left a large number of corpses, such a blow for the Jin soldiers but there is no power to fight back, can only secretly pray to the gods and Buddhas, hoping that the next time the person who is hit by the arrow must not be himself, and finally after paying a considerable price, once again marched into the first trench, but after three rounds of firing, the experienced bed crossbow operators, or successfully destroyed several stone cannons carried by the Jin army, the cannon frame that was hit was broken on the spot, fell in the crowd, and smashed to death and injured some Jin soldiers, It was a big blow to Jin Bing.

But at this time, the two sides entered the range of mutual shooting, after the first failed experience, the Jin soldiers learned a lot this time, with the big shield as a cover, the Jin soldiers archers have opened their bows, and the Song army on the city launched a confrontation, the arrows of the two armies are constantly staggered in the air, the sky is full of the shadow of arrow feathers, the swishing sound is endless, both sides have damage, but because the Song army on the city has the cover of many defensive equipment, the casualties are obviously much smaller than the Jin soldiers.

A large number of Jin soldiers took advantage of the mutual attack between the two sides, flocked to the outside of the city to resist the horse, with the round shield in their hands as a cover, covering the arrows that were constantly being fired, desperately dismantling the horse in front of them, and opening the last passage for the advance of the stone cannon.

The Song army began to shoot arrows at these golden soldiers under the command of Gao Huaiyuan and other generals, and constantly shot the golden soldiers in front of the rejection horse, but the arrows could no longer withstand the golden soldiers who came like a tide at this time, and gradually the rejection of the horse began to be dismantled, and more golden soldiers poured in front of the rejection horse and joined the horizontal column of dismantling the rejection of the horse.

"Bed crossbow replaced with jackdaw arrows! Shoot at the golden soldiers in front of the rejection, the crossbowmen suppress the archers of the golden army, don't be idle with the artillery carts, try to kill and wound the enemy as much as possible! Gao Huaiyuan ran back and forth on the city wall, constantly issuing orders one after another, commanding the Song army on the city wall to give full play to the power of long-range weapons as much as possible, killing and injuring a large number of enemy troops.

So under his instigation, the Song army on the city wall began to release all the weapons that could hunt the enemy army under the city more frantically, arrows, stones, rockets and other weapons that could get the golden soldiers, they all began to go into battle, but even so, the rejection of the horse was still under the continuous demolition of the golden soldiers, and began to sparse down.

A large number of archers continued to fire arrows at the head of the city, which caused a lot of threat to the Song soldiers who defended the city.

However, fortunately, most of the Song army had armor to defend themselves, and most people were slightly injured after being hit by arrows, as long as it was not in the middle of the door, many Song troops also fought bloody, and they could not get off the city wall with minor injuries, and continued to fight.

Gao Huaiyuan looked at the golden soldiers under the city, knowing that it was not a way to go on like this, but he still did not transfer the other team of defenders who were resting on the city wall at the moment, because he knew that this was far from the most critical moment, and he had to maintain enough reserves to deal with the more brutal battle in the future.

"Keep it up, everyone! It's getting late, and Jin Jun is also a human being, and they will be tired, so hold on until it gets dark and change you to rest, everyone work hard! Gao Huaiyuan loudly agitated the soldiers who were fighting the enemy, at this time he suddenly became alert, dodged an arrow that came straight to him on one side, and with a wave of the waist knife in his hand, he flew the other one and escaped a catastrophe.

There is no too safe place on the city wall now, under the fierce counterattack of the golden soldiers outside the city, the city is densely covered with arrows, many wooden standing cards and leather curtains are pierced like hedgehogs, some cloth curtains are torn into pieces by the arrows that shoot up, if you are not careful, you may be hit by arrows, many Song soldiers began to hang colors, but they still insist on putting arrows, and the enemy shoots.

After nearly a day of fierce fighting, these Song soldiers have begun to adapt to the cruelty of this war, blood seems to be in the eyes of people, and it no longer looks so dazzling, they can even ignore the comrades who are standing beside them and fall, and don't even look at them, people are such things, once numb, nothing is no longer so easy to impress them.

After some replacement parts, the bed crossbow was replaced with a bag, and a bundle of arrows was directly filled into the bag, and then under the operator's fire, it flew out of the battlements like a swarm of bees and scattered to the enemy group below, so that the firepower on the city suddenly increased several times, and suddenly shot a large number of the golden soldiers and archers under the city, so that the suppressive firing of the golden soldiers suddenly slowed down a lot.

But what happened next began to develop in a worse direction, because at this time Gao Huaiyuan learned that the Jin soldiers also began to attack the city on the east side of the city, where there was no time to set up trenches and reject horses outside the city, just spread some thistles and dig some traps, the defense ability is weaker than the north, and the moat is relatively narrow in the east of the city, the Jin soldiers began to attack in the east of the city at this time, and undoubtedly want to take advantage of the situation to break through the defense of the east of the city, Gao Huaiyuan couldn't help but start to worry a little about the Daye Township soldiers in the east of the city.

After all, among these group of villagers, the vast majority of them have not experienced the test of the battle formation, and they have not even had time to carry out any combination exercises, and they have only used these two or three days to teach them some imperial defense strategies, whether they can withstand such a test, Gao Huaiyuan is really uncertain, but he can't get out to check the battle situation at the moment.

Because at this time, the golden soldiers had already removed the rejecting rifles outside the city, and began to move the remaining stone cannons to the outside of the moat, and under the cover of the golden archers, they began to reload and prepare for firing.

A group of golden soldiers carried the boulder to the city on their shoulders, and put the stone into the leather pocket of the stone cannon, and many golden soldiers began to drag the rope of the stone cannon, and under the command of the officer, they dragged the rope with great effort.

"Everyone, be careful! Watch out for the cannons flying up! Gao Huaiyuan saw that things were not good, and immediately shouted again.

As soon as his words fell, huge stones flew over with the sound of the wind, some of the stones crossed the city wall and fell heavily in the city, and some of the stones smashed directly on the city wall, and suddenly there was a rumbling sound, after the boulder fell, the broken stones up and down the city wall flew wildly, and after seeing a house in the city being hit by a big stone, a huge hole appeared in the roof with a bang, and then the house shook a few times, and then collapsed.

There is also a big stone between the two battlements, a section of the daughter wall smashed on the spot collapsed, the gravel splashed everywhere on the city wall like a bullet, the two Song soldiers hiding behind this section of the daughter wall, only had time to scream, they were hit by the stone and flew out, the body flew out of the distance, rolled directly to the inner wall, fell into the city, and the screams stopped abruptly.

"Concentrate all your firepower on the artillery trucks under the city! We can't let them continue to do their bidding! Rocket! Prepare the rocket! Attack with fire! Gao Huaiyuan angrily grabbed the head of the capital who was firing arrows not far from him, and ordered them loudly.

The Song army, which received the order, immediately turned its bow and crossbow, and immediately concentrated all its firepower on the stone cannons of the golden soldiers under the city, and the arrows were like flying locusts, and they fought hard to kill the golden soldiers who operated the artillery, and the golden soldiers also pushed the shield soldiers up, and struggled to cover the stone carts to continue to bombard, so that the siege battle on the first day reached a peak.

The Song army quickly lit the rocket in the brazier prepared on the city wall, and focused the rocket on the artillery mount under the city to fire, the rocket was nailed to the gun carriage and immediately began to burn, but the effect was not very good, because the gun carriage of the large stone cannon was made of solid wood, and the wooden frame was very strong, although the rocket was hit, it was difficult to destroy them for a while.

And with the erection of the cannon, soon the follow-up Jin soldiers covered the wet cowhide on the gun carriage, not only blocking the rockets of the Song army, but also covering a large number of gold soldiers who operated the artillery, so in addition to the bed crossbow, it was almost impossible to cause effective damage to them, only a large number of Jin soldiers were shot near the gun carriage, but the number of Jin soldiers was too much more than the Song army, and they rushed up one after another, and continued to shoot boulders into the city.

Everyone constantly felt the vibration under their feet, every time a big stone was placed on the city wall, it would be scattered and scattered, and the city wall would shake with it, under such a fierce bombardment, the originally neat arrow buttress daughter wall on the city wall was smashed into the old lady's gum general, and the daughter wall in many places was destroyed, which caused a great threat to the Song army in the city, so that it also lost part of the effective defense.

Even some of the makeshift stone cannons erected on the city were destroyed by this blow, causing great casualties to the people who operated the artillery.

This situation made the soldiers and civilians of Huangzhou on the city wall can't help but start to be a little frightened, and the speed of counterattack began to slow down as their physical strength decreased.

Even some large rocks fell into the city, and the houses near the city wall collapsed, and the voices of the common people were constantly heard in the city.

"Phew! What is this? Keep firing arrows at me, the officer wants to see how long the Jin soldiers can last, give me all the artillery stones and bed crossbows to use against these damn enemy artillery, kill them and I'll see what else the Jin army can do to deal with us! Gao Huaiyuan stretched out his head and released another arrow, nailing a Jin Army Commander who was directing the firing of artillery stones to the top of the artillery frame.

At this time, he felt that it was dark in front of him, and secretly screamed that it was not good, and immediately turned over and rolled out on the spot, just turned out not far away, just now the section of the daughter wall where he was was hit by a stone, and suddenly collapsed, and the flying stones clanged on his armor, making him secretly stick out his tongue and scream so dangerous, he boasted that he had great strength, but if he was hit by such a stone, it would still turn into meat puree, angry he scolded and got up, struggled to release a few arrows, and hunted a few unlucky golden soldiers.

Looking at the dense rain of arrows shooting up from under the city, Gao Huaiyuan patted his head and hurriedly ordered: "Quickly push the prepared wooden girl's head to the gap to block the arrows!" Try to shoot as many golden soldiers as you can! ”

So the wooden girl head that had been prepared was hurriedly pushed up the city wall, placed in front of the destroyed daughter wall, and became a temporary arrow stack, effectively blocking the bows and arrows of the Jin soldiers, and the two sides shot at each other like this, and fought fiercely until it was dark, only to hear the sound of gold in the Jin army array, and then everyone could not see the opponent clearly, just a waste of arrows in vain.

So the Jin soldiers immediately began to retreat like a tide, the first day of the offensive and defensive battle was declared over, the Jin soldiers paid the price of hundreds of people, but basically cleared the fortifications outside the city, and when the Jin soldiers collected their troops, they took advantage of the night to snatch back the bodies of the fallen soldiers on the battlefield of the corpses, and the battlefield was temporarily silent, but the artillery carts of the Jin army were still standing under the city, and they did not retreat for the time being.

When he saw the Jin soldiers gradually retreating, Gao Huaiyuan also breathed a long sigh of relief, the intensity of the attack and defense battle of a city like this far exceeded the last battle he experienced in Qifang Town, the two sides fired at least more than 10,000 arrows in one day, and the city and the city were densely covered with arrow feathers, and the white arrow feathers looked white under the firelight.

The moaning of the wounded seemed so abrupt in the night at this time, but Gao Huaiyuan had long been accustomed to this kind of scene, and only ordered the city to be cleaned up, to clean up the remnants of the bricks and rubble that had been destroyed during the day, and at the same time to collect those scattered arrows for the next battle.

And at the end of the battle on the north wall, news also came from the east of the city, the Jin soldiers stormed the east city, and now they have already stopped fighting and retreated, after a day of fierce fighting, the Song army counted the casualties, the overall is acceptable, the number of dead is not much, most of them are arrow wounds, and the number is not too large, so the first day of the battle, the defender has taken a lot of advantage.