Gao Huaiyuan's words suddenly boiled blood, although they were also shocked by the strength of the Jin army, but after listening to Gao Huaiyuan's words, suddenly everyone was arrogant, the big husband came to this world to walk once, and it was a good ending to be able to sacrifice his life for the country, so everyone immediately hugged their fists together to receive the order, and then saw that the panic on everyone's faces at this time had disappeared, and everyone showed a face of passion.

Gao Huaiyuan only said so many things, so he dismissed everyone, returned to the place on duty, and began to make final preparations, while he himself immediately rushed to the city, found Jiang Fang, who was busy with the crowd, and asked Jiang Fang to supervise the transportation of materials in the city at night, and received a positive reply from Jiang Fang.

Batches of rolling wood and stones, bundles of arrows, barrels of pine resin fire oil and other things were continuously transported to the city wall by the people in the city, and hoarded at the city wall, which can be used on the city wall at any time.

After two days of preparation, the craftsmen in the city also used their strength to eat milk, took local materials, and successively built dozens of throwing carts, and transported them to the city wall at night, placed in the position designated by Gao Huaiyuan, together with various stones as ammunition, were also transported to the designated place, after two days of preparation, the city defense of Huangzhou has undergone great changes, and greatly enhanced the ability of the defenders of Huangzhou to resist the enemy.

Because Huangzhou will become the target of the Jin army's main attack this time, Zhao Fang of Ezhou on the south bank also did not dare to take this matter lightly, after sending Gao Huaiyuan, he sent nearly 1,000 township soldiers from all over the country to Huangzhou in two days, and once again improved the strength of the Huangzhou garrison, and transported a large number of materials for Huangzhou in two days, and also strengthened the garrison of Huangzhou.

Taking advantage of the fact that the ships were coming and going on the river, Jiang Fang wrote a written report on the situation in Huangzhou and submitted it to Zhao, which was affirmed by Zhao, agreeing to their deployment of troops in this way, and sending a message telling them to hold on to the shore and wait for reinforcements, and to support the troops and horses to rush to Huangzhou.

In the past two days, many materials sent from the Ezhou camp have also greatly enhanced the strength of the Huangzhou defenders, among which the sharpest weapon is the twenty bed crossbows, which were immediately arranged by Gao Huaiyuan to the most dangerous position on the city wall, and became the most powerful guard in Huangzhou.

It was not until the second half of the night that Gao Huaiyuan had the opportunity to personally walk the east city wall and check the defense of the east city wall here, while Zhou Hao, as his deputy, together with Guo Liang, also stayed up all night, constantly patrolling back and forth on the city wall to check the preparations of the villagers.

Although these villagers from Daye County experienced such a battle formation for the first time, under the encouragement of their officers, they did not panic too much, but slept in their clothes under the city wall according to the instructions, and everyone was ready to fight at any time.

After looking at the situation on the east wall, Gao Huaiyuan was somewhat relieved, this time he could say that he basically brought most of the elite of Crouching Tiger Village, once he lost this battle, even if he could escape, it would be a huge loss for him, so he was determined to keep Huangzhou City no matter what, otherwise, he would lose a lot!

"Big brother, you can rest assured here, with the younger brother here, as long as there is still a breath of air, the east will never be lost! It's just that you're on the north side, so be careful! After Zhou Hao checked the situation on the city wall with Gao Huaiyuan, he whispered to Gao Huaiyuan.

"Hmmm! You are actually the most reassuring place for me here, with you people here, our townspeople in Daye will not be too seedy! But you should also be more careful, the Jin army is coming this time is the elite troops of Fusan Anzhen, it is not easy to deal with, let us brothers pay attention to protection, I hope you can all go home with me alive! I'll leave it to you people! Be careful! Gao Huaiyuan whispered to Zhou Hao and the others.

When the light of day gradually brightened, Gao Huaiyuan took a nap on the seat of the city tower for a while, recuperated his spirits, and when he heard the sound of war drums outside the city, he immediately stood up, strode to the outside of the city tower, and raised his eyes to look out of the city.

He has always wanted to meet the legendary Jin Kingdom's most powerful general, Anzhen, and this day has finally arrived! After looking at the group of Jin military formations outside the city gradually advancing to the outside of the city, Gao Huaiyuan waved the flag and shouted: "Positioning arrows!" ”

A team of archers stepped forward, with the order of the officers, struggled to press the bow down, suddenly opened the bow and raised his arm, pointed out of the city, and then released the arrow, a row of white arrow feathers at a fixed distance fell a hundred steps outside the city, which became a marking line in front of the Jin army, as long as the Jin army crossed this line, it entered the killing range of the Song army's bow and crossbow, which meant the beginning of the war.

After the Jin army fired with the positioning arrow of the Song army in the city, it immediately stopped the pace of continuing to advance, and set up a position outside the city, forming a coercive trend against Huangzhou from afar.

With the sound of the horn of the Jin army, a fast horse rushed out of the Jin army array, galloped to the city of Huangzhou, and immediately sat an officer in the armor of the Song army, and went straight to the front of the marking line formed by the positioning arrow, only to restrain the reins of the horse, and the war horse circled back and forth outside the city, no longer moving forward.

"Damn traitor!" I don't know who whispered a curse in the crowd, and there was immediately a disdainful insult on the city wall, and some people even spat at the Song army general under the city, expressing their disdain for him!

"Silence! Let's listen to what this guy has to say! Gao Huaiyuan raised his hand to stop the impulsiveness of these soldiers on the city wall, and told them that there are many routines in war, and before a siege like this, the Jin army will inevitably send people to persuade them to surrender, which is not surprising!

At this time, the general of the Song army, who had rushed out of the Jin army, began to shout loudly to the city: "The brothers in the city have listened! I am Zhang Tianxiang, the defender of Macheng, and I am hereby ordered by the generalissimo of the Jin Kingdom to persuade you brothers to surrender!

Now Huangzhou has been surrounded by the Jin Army, and my Great Song Dynasty is mediocre and incompetent, and even the country can't protect itself.

If you are willing to settle in the Central Plains with the army, your Excellency Marshal is welcome, even if you do not want to settle in the north, the marshal will promise not to block your way, as long as you lay down your arms, you can leave this place, and promise not to hurt your lives! You brothers are just eating soldiers' rations, so why bother to lose your lives here for the faint officials of the Great Song Dynasty? ”

This guy's voice is really not small, and the voice actually spread all over the northern city wall of Huangzhou City, so that everyone can hear it clearly, and wantonly belittles the court of the Great Song Dynasty, and encourages the soldiers and civilians in the city to surrender the city.

Gao Huaiyuan sneered, stretched out his hand and whispered to Li Ruohu who was standing behind him, "Take my bow!" ”

The bow body of the two stones and five buckets of hard bows, as Gao Huaiyuan pulled the bowstring, made a slight squeak and was slowly opened, and as if poured in Gao Huaiyuan's hands, there was no swaying, and it was steadily aimed at the Song army general who was shouting under the city, and the sharp arrow of the three-edged armor-piercing arrow buckled on the bowstring flashed with a trace of cold light.

"Don't hesitate, this is your last chance to live, the generalissimo said, as long as you surrender the city, you will be given a heavy reward, once the time comes, the sword and gun have no eyes, and then you want to surrender to the ......" This Song army will continue to stand in the city and shout loudly, but suddenly his voice seems to be blocked in his throat, and the screaming stopped abruptly.

Looking at the Song general's chest again, there was suddenly something more, he looked down in disbelief at the arrow feather on his chest that was still trembling, only to see that the entire arrow only showed a short tail in his chest, most of it had already entered his body, and the other end had come out of his body, he realized that he had been shot through by an arrow, but how could this be possible? He was so far from the walls that who could shoot him with an arrow?

Unfortunately, the sharp pain that followed interrupted his train of thought, and he barked wildly on his horse, and fell under the horse with his back to the sky, and rolled in the dust without a sound.

"Song Jun doesn't have scum like you, Da Song Erlang would rather die standing than live on his knees! The golden soldiers outside the city listened! Hugh is going to do this boring thing again, if there is any way for you to do it! A very loud voice sounded in the air, like spring thunder outside the city, so that the Jin army was also surprised, I didn't expect that there were such brave people in Huangzhou City.

Especially the Song general who was persuaded to surrender just now was far away from the range of an ordinary bow and crossbow, and he was actually pierced by an arrow shot from the city, which can only be achieved by a super strong hard bow, which shows how powerful the arm strength of the Song army who shot this arrow is!

And Gao Huaiyuan's arrow suddenly attracted a cheer from the Song soldiers who were watching on the city wall, they saw Gao Huaiyuan's archery for the first time today, and actually hunted and killed the Song army generals who persuaded him to surrender at such a distance, so the morale of the city head that had just been affected was encouraged again.

At this time, Hu Lu, the forward officer of the Jin Army, sat on his horse, glanced at Huangzhou City, who was cheering, and ordered in a deep voice with an expressionless face: "Siege the city!" ”

Several long pipes were blown at the same time, making a dull sound of horns, and then the war drums were also beaten, and the rumbling drums rolled on the battlefield, and a group of golden soldiers immediately began to move again, raising their shields, carrying ladders and other things, and advancing towards Huangzhou City.

This time the Jin army attacked Huangzhou City, has been prepared in advance, with the army brought a lot of ladders and other siege equipment, only the artillery portable to bring dozens, at this time was also formed outside the city, by a large number of Jin soldiers escorted to the city wall of Huangzhou City, ready to bombard the city with artillery, support the Jin army siege.

This kind of regular siege warfare can be said to be completely unsophisticated, it is the morale of both sides and the skill of attack and defense, and either side must pay the price in order to achieve the results they want in the war.

With the action of the Jin army outside the city, the atmosphere of Huangzhou City suddenly became solemn, and a group of defenders ran up the city wall, prepared all kinds of defensive equipment, and prepared for the battle.

For this kind of urban offensive and defensive warfare, Gao Huaiyuan has long been aware of the chest, in this regard he can be said to have made great efforts, carefully studied the various tactics of urban offensive and defensive warfare, especially in-depth study of the Northern Song Dynasty Shenzong Zeng Gongliang's martial arts classics, so when he saw the Jin soldiers attacking, he was not very nervous, the battlefield was the soldiers to block, the water to flood, he wanted to see what new tricks the Jin army could play this time.

Although Jiang Fang's defense work in Huangzhou during this period was not done properly, but he was not idle, and had already organized soldiers outside the city in advance to set up a few fortifications for the delayed Jin army, in addition to the moat of Huangzhou City itself, he also organized people to set up a horse gun outside the moat, and dug a trench, in which sharp antler wood was placed, although there is still some distance from the degree of perfection, but for the enemy, it should also play a considerable role.

At the very least, if the Jin soldiers wanted to get close to the city walls, they had to climb over these obstacles, and these obstacles were all within the range of the bow and crossbow, and if the Jin soldiers wanted to attack the city without paying a little price, it was simply impossible.

Sure enough, the Jin army still adopted a steady and steady strategy, after the army began to advance, the first thing to solve was to solve the first trench in front of them, so a large number of Jin soldiers under the cover of shield soldiers, carrying wooden planks and a large number of sand bags shouted to rush to the first trench covered with antler wood, in order to use wood or sand bags to fill the trench, at least to open a few passages forward.

And Gao Huaiyuan calmly watched the movements of the Jin army, and when he saw a large number of Jin soldiers stepping over the positioning arrows they shot and entering the range of the bow and crossbow, he immediately waved the command flag and ordered: "Bow and crossbow together!" ”

Hundreds of Song troops with bows and crossbows immediately stepped forward, came to the side of the city wall behind the parapet, and then struggled to open the bow, or use the crossbow, raised their arms and pointed in the air, as the officers shouted an order, they released the bowstring, or pulled down the bracket, so a cloud of arrows immediately floated up from the city, floating to the ranks of the Jin army, and then crossed an arc in the air, with a strong wind and whistling sound sprinkled in the Jin army.

The launch at this distance is not enough for the archers to use the direct aiming method, all the crossbowmen are using diffuse, using the dense formation of the Jin army, using the rain of arrows to kill and injure the enemy, when the arrows fall, they are basically falling from top to bottom, and the Jin army can only raise their shields to block the rain of arrows, so as soon as they see the arrows released on the city, the first few rows of gold soldiers immediately raised their shields above their heads, and then there was a dingdong sound on their shields, and some of the arrows were blocked by the shields, However, there were still some arrows that crossed or passed through the shield and nailed to the Jin soldiers, so the offensive and defensive battle of Huangzhou began, and a group of Jin soldiers screamed and fell on the way forward with arrows stuck in their bodies.

Although Jiang Fang was not good at commanding battles, there were always people who knew how to be responsible for things like digging trenches, so the distance of this trench excavation was quite appropriate, just so that the Song army's bows and arrows could shoot into the Jin soldiers close to the trenches, and the archers of the Jin soldiers could not carry out effective counterattacks because of the backfire, so that the Jin army could only defend passively before breaking through this trench, and only took the part of being beaten, but there was no room for counterattack.

Gao Huaiyuan will never waste such a God-given opportunity, he ordered continuously, ordered the Song army crossbowmen on the city wall to keep releasing arrows, as much as possible, to give the Jin army a large number of kills, for a time the archers on the city were raining arrows, to the city attacking the Jin soldiers fired a large number of arrows, here is almost no stop, immediately in front of the trench shot more than 100 gold soldiers, but also injured a lot of people, the first time to take a lot of advantage.

When Song Jun saw that Jin Bing was deflated, his morale soared, and he was still a little nervous at first, but after a few arrows were shot, he stabilized his mood, and you rushed to speed up the arrows.

This caused a considerable delay to the attack of the Jin soldiers, but after all, there were a large number of Jin soldiers, and after the Jin army paid a certain price for casualties, finally the large group of soldiers began to approach the trench, and the shield hand gave way to the passage, and the Jin army that followed immediately rushed forward, threw the wood and sand bags on his shoulders into the trench, and began to fill the trench, but under the dense rain of arrows fired from the city, the Jin soldiers who had just rushed to the front of the trench lost the protection of their shields, and many people lost the protection of their shields, although many people dropped the things on their shoulders, but they had no time to retreat, Immediately the arrow rolled and fell into the trench, the sharp antler wood at the bottom of the ditch immediately penetrated their bodies, piercing them to death at the bottom of the ditch, and the wounded golden soldiers let out a near-death howl at the bottom of the ditch, but at this time, no one could rescue them out of the trench again, and could only become a stepping stone for the follow-up Jin soldiers, which was the cruelty of war, and no one had the opportunity to sympathize with their fate.

Hu Lu Thorn is a member of the general in front of the servant San Anzhen tent, with the servant San Anzhen in the south and the north of the war made a lot of achievements, for such a loss he did not even blink, expressionless immediately held a knife, stood in the middle of the Chinese army, raised his eyes to observe the situation of the battlefield, this time into Huangzhou, the servant San Anzhen gave him 8,000 soldiers and horses as a vanguard, so that he could conquer Huangzhou City as soon as possible.

Before coming, through the interrogation of the Song prisoners of war, he had learned that the Song army in Huangzhou City was weak, and the number of soldiers was only more than 1,000 people, even if he got some reinforcements these days, there would not be too many Song troops stationed in Huangzhou, so Hu Lu Thorn could be said to be bound to attack Huangzhou this time, because his number of men and horses had greatly exceeded the number of Song troops, and his command were all elite soldiers and horses who had been in battle for a long time, and compared with the Song army in Huangzhou, he had an absolute advantage.