Even before Hu Lu stabbed here, he had thought that he might not need to use a knife or a shot, just as soon as the army arrived, to scare the defenders of Huangzhou, these Song troops who were not strong in combat might open the city and surrender, but today it seems that his expectation has been completely disappointed, and even the Song army generals who sent to persuade him to surrender were killed on the spot by an arrow shot from Huangzhou City.

And from the current point of view, he still underestimated the determination of the Song people Huangzhou defenders to resist a little, so he twisted two broom eyebrows, pursed his thick lips tightly together, stared at the advancing troops, and did not speak.

After the two armies started the war, because of the distance, the Jin army continued to launch a reciprocating impact on the first trench, and paid a lot of price, but such a payment finally began to have a harvest when the battle was almost noon, a large number of Jin soldiers kept transporting sandbags and wood and other things, and finally filled out a few passages in the first trench, opening up several passages for the follow-up Jin soldiers.

A large number of Jin soldiers immediately crossed these passages and rushed towards the closer distance of Huangzhou City.

"Raise leather curtains, cloth vines, crossbowmen pay attention to protection, erect wooden signs, suppress enemy archers, and prepare for cannons! Order the city to continue transporting arrows to the city! Gao Huaiyuan calmly stood behind the battlements, observing the battle situation under the city, and when he saw that the Jin army had broken through the first trench, a large number of Jin army archers and shield bearers cooperated to pass through the trench and approach the city wall, he immediately issued a new order.

His composure also infected the soldiers of the Song army defending the city, and from the tension at the beginning, they gradually began to stabilize, and after receiving his order, they immediately began to erect a cloth vine, leather curtain, and wooden standing sign by the defenders one after another, covering the city wall.

Speaking of these things, the cloth curtain is actually a kind of horizontal cloth made of thick linen, after being picked up with a crossbar, the linen cloth on it is soaked in water, which can effectively block the enemy's arrows, and the leather curtain is simpler, it is a curtain made of raw cowhide, after hanging up, it can also be used to prevent arrows, as for the wooden stand, it is actually a giant wooden shield with a tip and a bottom, and there is a pole behind it, which is also used as a kind of thing to defend the city against arrows or to resist the enemy's artillery, but it is much larger than the general shield!

These things were immediately lined up on the battlements of the city wall, covering the Song soldiers at the battlements, and the improvised cannons placed on the city wall also began to be filled at this time, and the selected young and strong villagers did not know how to use bows, but there was no big problem in doing this, they stepped forward and grabbed the hemp rope on the cannon shaft, stood behind the cannon rack, and waited nervously for the new order to be issued.

When they heard the firing order not far away, these people followed the commander's command, and together they struggled to pull the thick hemp rope in their hands, so the cannon made of logs was dragged by them and suddenly raised, and the leather pocket hanging at one end of the cannon was immediately pulled up and flew, and after reaching the height of the fixed point, the leather bag was freed, and the stones contained in it immediately flew out towards the city.

The whistling stones grew larger in the sky, and then, with the force of ten thousand jun, stirred the air and smashed heavily into the Jin army outside the city.

For such a blow, no matter who it is, it can't be stopped, the golden soldier who was shot didn't even have a chance to scream, and was suddenly smashed into a pile of flesh and blood, and after the stone landed, it continued to roll forward with unabated momentum, so the damage continued to expand, a golden soldier's leg was broken by the stone, and he fell to the ground holding his thigh twisted into a strange angle, making a tooth-barring scream, and a golden soldier's waist was pressed under the stone, while screaming, he pushed the stone on his body with both hands in vain, Seeing the intestines gushing out of the ruptured wound, there was nothing he could do but let out a miserable howl until his voice gradually became quieter......

Every stone fell, although I dare not say that it hurt the Jin soldiers, but such a blow still has a considerable impact on the morale of the Jin soldiers, so the pace of the Jin soldiers' attack immediately began to slow down, most of the Jin soldiers who rushed through the trench looked up at the sky in fear, for fear that they would become victims of the next stone at any time.

"Adjust to the left! The stone is off! After observing the landing point of his stone cannon, the keeper immediately turned around and shouted to the man who operated the cannon.

So the people immediately lifted the heavy gun mount, adjusted the stone cannon, and quickly moved the gun mount to the ideal position.

"Keep launching! Let's pull together! Put! The cannon commander who commanded the firing immediately gave the order, shouting to command the people to pull the rope.

Then another round of stones began to fly out of the city wall with a buzzing sound, and slammed into the ground outside the city, splashing clumps of blood.

"The shield hand comes forward to defend against arrows! Archers line up to fight back! Suppress the archers of the Song army, and the rest of the people will continue to charge me! At this time, a Jin army general rushed out of the Jin soldiers, waved his waist knife and ordered.

So the Jin soldiers lined up outside the city, began to draw their bows and arrows, under his command, raised their arms towards the top of the city and began to counterattack, the Jin army archers were numerous, with their counterattack, a large cloud of arrows drifted to the city, and landed on those open curtains and leather curtains, as well as wooden stands, making a dense popping sound.

The archers of the Song army hid behind the daughter wall and these protections, braved the rain of arrows of the golden soldiers, and still continued to release arrows, and the golden soldiers outside the city to shoot, but even so, the counterattack of the Jin soldiers still caused some casualties to the Song troops in the city, and when the unlucky Song army got up to release the arrows, they were just shot by the arrows of the Jin soldiers, and immediately wailed and fell on the city wall.

At this moment, the defenders of Huangzhou finally shed the first drop of blood, and the battle really became more bloody at this time.

"Don't panic! On a stretcher! Rescue the wounded and go down to the city for treatment, and the rest of the people are not allowed to stop, and continue to release arrows to suppress the golden soldiers and archers! Give me a hard lesson! Gao Huaiyuan gave the order, while loudly agitating these Song troops on the city wall, once their own casualties, some timid soldiers began to slow down the speed of arrows, so that the firepower on the city wall began to weaken, how could Gao Huaiyuan look at it.

In the midst of his rapid shouting, he stepped forward, took his big bow from Li Ruohu's hand again, wound the arrow, and struggled to open the bow and aim at the city.

"The crossbowman listens! Shoot at the officers in the Jin Army and disrupt them! After Gao Huaiyuan hit the arrow, he immediately ordered loudly to the soldiers with hard crossbows on the city wall.

At this time, the situation outside the city was relatively chaotic, after the Jin soldiers poured through the trenches, the formation was relatively scattered, and they had not yet formed an effective command in front of the horse guns, Gao Huaiyuan valued this point, he wanted the crossbowmen to pick the officers of the Jin army, which could effectively disrupt the offensive pace of the Jin soldiers.

The Song army has always attached great importance to the equipment of crossbows, so there is never a shortage of hard crossbows in the army, and crossbows are much stronger than ordinary bows in terms of range and accuracy, and they are easier to train and master by Han people who are not good at archery, so the Song army in Huangzhou City does not lack this thing, and there are hundreds of powerful crossbows, which is a big killing weapon of the Song army, and it is a pity not to place it.

When the soldiers of the Song army in the city were instructed by Gao Huaiyuan, they suddenly came to their senses, and the crossbowmen opened their crossbows on the battlements one after another, and began to search for the officers of the Jin soldiers in the crowd of Jin soldiers, and then singled them out.

Although the battlefield was chaotic, it was not too difficult to find their officers among the crowd of Jin soldiers, firstly, because although the Jin army poured through the trenches, the formation basically maintained its original structure, and secondly, because the officers of the Jin soldiers were equipped with better armor, and the officers above the commander of ten had various feathers on their helmets, and the officers were mostly commanding at the front of the queue, so it was much more convenient to find them.

With Gao Huaiyuan's poisonous move, those crossbowmen in the city have a strong purpose when they release their arrows, and they pick out the people with distinct armor in front of the golden soldier team, especially the range and power of the divine arm crossbow are very large, and they can carry out quite accurate direct aim at this distance, so that after a while, the golden soldiers will find that something is wrong, as long as their officers come up, they will immediately attract a large number of arrows flying like locusts, and many ten-captains and centurions were shot into hedgehogs and fell to the ground in such a daze, and even a thousand-man commander who led the army to attack the city was hit by an arrow, was seriously injured and robbed.

As a result, the Jin army, which had just broken through a defensive line, suddenly began to be confused, because the officers suffered great losses, their counterattack could not be organized, and they could no longer effectively cooperate with the attack, so a large group of Jin soldiers began to huddle together in such a chaotic manner, and the situation became more and more chaotic.

For these things that happened in front, Hu Lu Thorn, who was in the middle of the command, had seen it from afar, but he didn't know why the orderly attack suddenly began to be chaotic, and his siege troops were becoming more and more out of order.

Immediately, a rapid sound of gold sounded among the middle of the Jin army, and after reaching the front of the two armies, all the Jin soldiers immediately stopped their pace of continuing to advance and began to retreat from the front of the first trench.

Seeing the hasty retreat of the golden soldiers, a cheer immediately sounded in the city, and the tense nerves of the defenders suddenly relaxed, and they all climbed to the battlements and raised their arms loudly.

"Jin Bing has retreated! The golden soldiers have retreated! We've repelled the attack of the Golden Soldiers! ……”

After the cheers of the soldiers on the head of the city entered the city, the people who were busy transporting materials to the city in the city first shook for a while, and then began to cheer, and the earth-shattering cheers immediately sounded in Huangzhou City.

Gao Huaiyuan looked at the retreating Jin Bing, and still felt a little regretful, he now lacks an offensive force, if he takes this opportunity, he can open the door to pursue the Jin Bing, at least it can cause great losses to the Jin Bing, it's a pity!

"My lord! The golden soldiers have retreated! We've won! One of them ran over excitedly to report to Gao Huaiyuan.

"Hmmm! This official has seen it, you have worked hard! The order goes down, so that the officers and men of our army rest in place and wait for the battle! Treat the wounded as soon as possible, place the remains of the fallen soldiers, and speed up the replenishment of the loss of arrows! Count the losses and report them to the official as soon as possible! Gao Huaiyuan smiled and nodded, this time they fought more beautifully in the contact battle, relatively speaking, there were no problems in the organization, and they were still under his control, but he didn't dare to take it lightly, after all, the actual loss of the Jin soldiers was not large, this first battle could only be regarded as a tentative attack, and the Jin soldiers would never give up because of this failure.

However, this time to repel the Jin soldiers, for the defenders of Huangzhou City, but the benefits are great, most of the soldiers are in battle for the first time, inexperienced, easily affected, when this victory is obtained, it has great benefits for stabilizing the morale of the army, so that the confidence of the Huangzhou army and people to hold on to the city began to be sufficient, compared to killing those Jin soldiers, this harvest is the greatest.

When the Jin soldiers gathered their soldiers and horses and re-arrayed outside the city, the losses of the north city wall where Gao Huaiyuan was also counted, this contact battle, they hunted and killed nearly 200 gold soldiers, and their own losses were very few, only paid the price of more than 30 casualties, Gao Huaiyuan was basically satisfied with this result, but he knew that the next battle would be more cruel, so he did not dare to slack off, walking back and forth on the city wall, and continued to boost the morale of the soldiers.

At this moment, Jiang Fang, the number one leader in Huangzhou, walked up from the city, and when he saw Gao Huaiyuan, he showed an excited look on his face, and grabbed Gao Huaiyuan and thanked him again and again.

"Lieutenant Gao is really powerful, this time the military and civilians of Huangzhou can be saved! It seems that Jin Bing is nothing more than that, but we were too nervous before! Jiang Fang looked at the corpses of the Jin soldiers who had been lost outside the city at this moment, so he began to relax a little.

Gao Huaiyuan glanced at Jiang Fang, invited him to the city tower, retreated left and right, and said to Jiang Fang: "Jiang Xuan, don't tell you, this is just a tentative attack by the enemy, the next battle will be more cruel, don't have the slightest slackness, Gao will continue to stare here, and hope that the adults will stabilize the mood of the people in the city as soon as possible, it is best to take these people near the city wall away from the city wall, it is estimated that the city may be bombarded by gold soldiers and stones for a while, and minimize our casualties!"

In addition, please arrange for the soldiers to send food, more than half a day of fierce fighting, has consumed a lot of their physical strength, the next will be more intense, adults themselves should take care! ”

Looking at what Gao Huaiyuan said solemnly, Jiang Fang was really a little embarrassed, he knew that things were not as simple as he thought, it turned out that this was just the beginning! So he hurriedly nodded and said: "What Lieutenant Gao said is that it is the official who underestimates the enemy!" Please rest assured, these things will be done by the official! ”

After saying that, Jiang Fang immediately turned around and came out, and after greeting those soldiers with happy faces on the city wall for a while, he hurriedly turned around and walked down the city wall.

After Hu Lu collected his troops, he reorganized his team, raised his eyes and glanced at the not too big Huangzhou City standing in front of them, a cold smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, and he said to himself: "Huangzhou City really gave me a surprise!" How stubbornly would they resist! Not bad! I'm going to see how long you can last! ”

"Lord Dushi, the soldiers and horses have been reorganized, will we continue to attack the city today?" An adjutant general rode his horse to Hu Lu Thorn and asked Hu Lu Thorn for instructions.

Hu Lu spurted his waist on the horse's back, and his eyes glared: "Nonsense! It's still early, so why not continue the siege? Pass my general order, mainly archers, cover the stone cannon to push closer to Huangzhou City, and bombard Huangzhou City with artillery stones! Be sure to dismantle the rejection horses outside the city before it gets dark!

In addition, Aluguan was ordered to attack Huangzhou City from the east of the city, and this time he wanted to let the Song army in the city know the strength of our Jin army! ”

With his order issued, a drum and trumpet sounded outside the city again, and the Jin soldiers after reorganizing the team changed their strategy this time, with the big shield hand as the lead, and the archers on the left and right, forming a phalanx one by one, protecting a series of stone cannons in the middle, and steadily pushed forward to Huangzhou City step by step.

After the golden soldier's shield was erected, a shield wall was formed in front of the queue, and the subsequent golden soldiers were blocked behind this shield wall, and the round shield of the golden army was also on top of their heads, densely clustered together, moving slowly, pushing the huge stone cannons forward.

After seeing the golden soldiers act again, the atmosphere in the city began to be tense again, the defenders who were resting on the spot stood up one after another, once again held the bow and crossbow in their hands, and put the arrows on the bowstring, the crossbowmen put the crossbow against the ground and stepped on the iron ring at the front of the crossbow body with one foot, buckled the crossbow string with both hands, and hung the heavy crossbow string on the crossbow machine with a heavy squeak, and placed the crossbow arrow in the chute of the crossbow body, and pointed to the Jin army outside the city in the arrow mouth on the battlement.

Gao Huaiyuan looked at the actions of the Jin army, slightly worried, the Jin soldiers attacked Huangzhou this time, the preparation should be said to be relatively sufficient, the first day launched so many stone cannons, and from a distance, most of these stone cannons are relatively heavy double-tip cannons or five-tip cannons, which can throw twenty-five to fifty catties of stones out of fifty steps away, and there are also some light car cannons and cyclone cannons, although the weight of these cannons is limited, but they are very fast, for their defenders, the threat is quite large.

Since the Jin country occupied half of the Han people's rivers and mountains, in the absorption of the Han people's skilled craftsmen's skills, now the siege ability is getting stronger and stronger, especially for the application of stone artillery, has accumulated quite a wealth of experience, when the Northern Song Dynasty was destroyed, when attacking Bianliang City, they organized thousands of stone cannons, day and night to throw stones at Bianliang City, and finally broke through Bianliang City, so in terms of siege technology, the Jin army is not worse than the Song army now.

After watching the Jin soldiers gradually begin to approach the first trench, the defenders in the city began to get a little nervous, and tried to get up and release arrows, but they were immediately stopped by Gao Huaiyuan.