In the north of Yixian County, in the Jurchen army array, nearly twenty catapults have been erected high.

These powerful siege equipment had long been in the hands of the Liao Empire in the north, and after the Jurchen destroyed the Liao and fully inherited the Khitan heritage, this siege method was also inherited by the Jurchen army without hesitation.

Among the Jurchen East Road army that went south this time, there were at least four or five thousand craftsmen who were good at making various attacking tools. This mixed camp of craftsmen was under the strict protection and surveillance of the Jurchen military horses.

Compared with the auxiliary armies such as the cangtou bullet pressure in the Jurchen army, there are also tribal armies that go south to fight. These artisans were treated far more than them, not only by having enough food, but also by the women they had taken captively to vent their desires.

However, the strict military laws of the Jurchen military aristocracy also hung high over their heads, and if they could not make enough attacking equipment within the time limit, they would be beheaded. The attacking equipment created is not strong and durable, and it is also cut.

Under such a threat, this artisan battalion can always produce a large number of attacking tools that meet the requirements in the shortest possible time.

For example, when besieging Danzhou, more than 20 catapults were used to smash the city wall, and finally the city was trapped. And in the time and space without Xiao Yan, when the Jurchen army besieged Bianliang, together with the stone cannons of the captured Song army, surrounded Bianliang City, and a total of hundreds of catapults were erected, bombarding the Bianliang city wall every day!

At this moment, these more than 20 catapults, with three tips and five piggybacks as the most, and two or three particularly tall seven-tip cannons, stand in the Jurchen army array, like wooden towers.

On the left and right of each catapult, there is an ant-like crowd around the operation, and the coarsely polished stone bullets are carried into the pockets of strong men. Dozens of shirtless men pulled the cords with all their might. Shouting the horn to the limit, then suddenly release. Large and small stone projectiles were ejected. Cut an arc through the air and land on the target.

Or it can fall on the clearing, splashing dirt and dust. Or if you smash it on the fence, you can see the broken wood splashing, and you can see the smashed human limbs flying around, and the screams suddenly rise. The stretching fence was suddenly blasted out of a gap. And there are always people pouring out of the village, using the wooden stakes prepared in advance, and then smashing them into the earth. Repair the fortifications.

The Jurchen brigade infantry was in front of these catapults to prevent the defenders of the city from destroying these valuable attack tools. And the Jurchen Iron Rider pressed further behind. Be ready to support these infantry troops.

Relative to the size of the Jurchen army, there were not many military horses that went out to protect these catapults. And more Jurchen military horses or rest in the camp to recuperate some of the army horses that have been tired and fattened since they went south. Or they went out and plundered the grass and valley, and every day there were Jurchen knights who carried the raw food of the large brigade and the grain from the plunder into the camp.

More than 20 catapults bombarded unhurriedly, slowly destroying the fortifications. And in the Jurchen army, there are more catapults being built.

And the defenders of Yi County also calmly coped with such a blow. The city of Yixian is small, and the defenders and people are at least six or seven thousand. This means that there are enough manpower, whenever the outside of the city is bombarded out of the gap. There are always people in the village who repair the village defense in time. And the lost manpower can also be replaced. The tired defenders can be replaced.

Between the outer fortification and the city wall, the defenders also dug two deep trenches, and the excavated earth was transported into the city, and an inner wall was built along the city wall.

A real siege war should have been fought like this. The attackers use a variety of long-range tools to destroy the defensive line, consume the city's materials, and exhaust the defenders. And the army surrounded it, plundered the four directions to see the army, and took turns to rest and recuperate to strengthen the army. Eventually, the city grew more and more exhausted, and could no longer maintain and repair the defensive line, and finally broke it with a large army.

And the previous fierce attack of the Jurchen army and horses as soon as they arrived, although it seemed ferocious, if the defenders in the city were firm enough to fight, it was the least fearful way for the defenders. The defenders defending the city can play a good enough casualty exchange ratio in such an offensive, and in the end, what can't be consumed is the attacking side!

Such an offensive seems to represent that the Jurchen East Road army has woken up from the previous frenzy and finally returned to normal. But still put the main force in front of Yi County, and firmly want to destroy the city of Miè!

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Liu Baozhong walked around in his own office, and for a veteran general in the army, this slightly anxious appearance was rare to see.

Hundreds of casualties can be seen in every battle, and what else can move a veteran on weekdays?

Liu Baozhong's so-called government office is actually just a military tent set up in the original state office. Originally, all the houses in the city were demolished, and these bricks, tiles, wood and stones were stored as materials for repairing the city defense and walled defense. Even Liu Baozhong didn't leave a more comfortable room for his family.

Even if it is this cowhide tent, Liu Baozhong rarely sets foot in it these days. During the Jurchen siege and storm, Liu Baozhong set up a home in the enemy tower on the city wall, and when he was sleepy, he just found a place to squint for a while. It wasn't until the Jurchens slowed down their offensive and put on a posture of long siege and slow attack that Liu Baozhong could return here, ready to temporarily unload his clothes and armor, find some water to scrub it, and then sleep soundly to nourish his spirit.

This battle seems to have to be fought, and the veterans have experience, so it is not possible to blindly tighten up and break down. Catching a little bird, you can sleep on a mountain and shake the ground, which is also a skill that has been trained!

But this calculation, after getting the latest military information, immediately disappeared. Liu Baozhong sent all the guards around him out to find Yang Zaixing, and he was in the military tent, walking back and forth, rubbing his hands uncontrollably, so excited that he couldn't help himself!

In the past few days, Liu Baozhong has been pondering one thing. Why are the main forces of the Jurchen East Route Army pressed on the left side of Yixian, and what are their intentions? Could it be that he wants to take Yizhou, and then send troops to Feihu to support Zonghan's Western Route Army? This doesn't make sense.

And if not. Such a long line of defense on the northern edge of the river. The strength of the Jurchen Eastern Route Army was sufficient. It is enough to launch a powerful offensive in multiple locations in order to break through the border defense line on the northern edge of the river, why so many military horses are diverted to the Yizhou line, and it is a red-eyed and wasted life attack at the beginning, which is really a bit unreasonable.

Firmly attracting the main force of the Jurchen East Route Army in the direction of Yizhou is naturally something that Liu Baozhong likes to see. But what Liu Baozhong was worried about was how long he could attract the Jurchen East Route Army!

If the latest military information obtained by the family is true, then maybe it is really possible to firmly drag the Jurchen Tartars on the front line of Yizhou and give it enough consumption. Cover the north direction of the river for as long as possible, until the king of Yan solves the Zong Han department in the east of the river!

A general of the Dragon Guard Army was also in the tent at the moment, looking at Liu Baozhong's eager appearance as he walked around, his face was full of joy.

He brought the latest military information just now, and this general was a commander who was in charge of the northern defense line of the city in shifts. After repelling a Jurchen Tartar attack, he captured a general from the Jurchen infantry army. This military general is still a mature woman in Liaodong, although because of the same clan and has been recruited into the army by the Yan Department to command more than 100 cangtou bullet pressure, but this mature female real military general is a former cross-border Bohai and the Great Song Dynasty Hebei East Road-side people to do fur Dongzhu medicinal materials and other businesses, and speak a good Chinese language. And the spirit is very awake.

Once this person was captured alive, he spoke Chinese to make friends. But there is a question. All of them answered.

The commander immediately asked why the Jurchen East Route Army suddenly moved south, and the front of the army was directed at Yizhou, and it carried out a fierce attack at any cost at the beginning, what was the intention.

From the mouth of this mature real general, I got a shocking news. The Jurchen army has been spread all over the country, and this time the army hurriedly set off from Danzhou and Yanjing, gathered a turbulent south, pointed directly in the direction of Yizhou, and at the beginning also red-eyed and attacked the southerners to strengthen the city defense at any cost. The reason is that a Nanren general sent by Yizhou, with a team of sentry cavalry scouts, went deep into the left of Yanjing, bumped into a few Jurchen masters who came out to have fun, and killed them cleanly!

This mature Jurchen general is obviously quite popular among the Jurchen army, and the news he has discovered is quite detailed. can even say that the little Jurchen master who will be killed by the Nanren army, including the son of Wanyan Zongwang, the commander of the Jurchen Eastern Route Army, and the descendants of the Jurchen noble Qi army of the Eastern Route Army Wanyan Zongfu, Wanyan Zonggan, Wanyan Zongpan and others are all among them!

And the general of the Nanren has been identified in a few days of fighting. It is to lead the cavalry to counterattack several times, and each battle must be the first horse. A big gun is unmatched, and several Jurchen fierce generals tried to capture him but were picked off in the melee. In the vertical and horizontal array, it is like killing a god, and it is in Yixian County at this moment!

The commander who learned of this important military situation immediately went to Liu Baozhong to report as if he had burned his buttocks, and Liu Baozhong immediately jumped up when he heard it. Can this person be someone else? Isn't it Yang Zaixing's house!

No wonder when he returned that day, he was chased by many girls and real military horses, and finally the elite iron cavalry in Yixian County snatched him down. Then there was a lot of girls and the real army came later, and attacked Yi County with red eyes for a few days, and only sobered up in the past few days and did not fight for anyone's life, but still nailed to the city under Yi County, and rushed to build siege equipment to continue to attack.

It turned out that it was all caused by Yang Zaixing!

Thinking that King Yan personally led the army, Han Yue and Han Yue were both handsome, and it took a lot of effort to kill Zong Han's son Shehema. But this guy went out to investigate, but he killed a bunch of sons of Jurchen nobles! Shehema is only the grandson of the Minister of State, but the one who is killed in this fight is the descendants of Jurchen emperors like Aguta Wu Qimai!

How to reward such an achievement, this is not something that Liu Baozhong or even Yue Fei and others can decide, it must be decided by King Yan himself.

How to reward him, this is not what Liu Baozhong really cares about, Yang Zaixing's house, as long as he is allowed to fight in front of the enemy, it is better than giving him any high-ranking officials.

What Liu Baozhong really thought, but this is exactly why the main force of the Jurchen East Route Army firmly nailed Yi County, and how to use this opportunity to drag them more firmly!

With Yang Zaixing, it was really just because he didn't want to bury the grain and grass in the back camp, and Liu Baozhong was ready to wipe his ass for how much trouble Yang Zaixing would cause. Unexpectedly, Yang Zaixing brought him such a big surprise with a good heart!

Liu Baozhong, who came and went, didn't know how long he had been walking back and forth in the tent, and the commander who was standing on the side was dizzy. Finally, the sound of bags and boots came from outside, and Liu Baozhong's personal guards opened the curtain. I saw Yang Zaixing go straight in.

All the way from Yanjing to fighting and coming back. Without respite, he led the cavalry to carry out many counterattacks in the defense of the city. Put it on someone else. Now I'm tired and tired. But Yang Zaixing, a natural fighter, is more and more energetic the harder he fights.

When he entered the tent, he saw that his clothes and armor were full of wounds and bloodstains, and when he walked, he still had a straight back and a tiger's footsteps. What flashed in his eyes was still the arrogance of his opponent. It's just that the smell of blood emanating from his body is ten times stronger than before!

So fighting. Seeing that after so many battles, he will gradually be sharpened into a peerless divine soldier. Although it is not possible to command the armies. But give him an iron horse, any kind of big array, he dares to assault. And he can always capture the flag and open a channel to victory for the commander!

The admiring look in Liu Baozhong's eyes flashed away, and he raised his face and shouted: "You guy, send you to Yanjing Sentinel to ride a hard detective and pick up your own military horses, what did you do?" ”

Yang Zaixing immediately shook his head like a rattle: "I didn't do anything!" Honestly went straight to the south of Danzhou, and saw after the fall of the city. After answering a little bit, he honestly retreated. How do I know that the Jurchen Tartars are staring at me? General, I dare to gamble! ”

Liu Baozhong just looked at him with a calm face. The commander next to him just held back a laugh. At this time, he didn't bother to mention Yang Zaixing, he made such a big contribution, it was really hot-eyed, and he was scared by Liu Jiangzhu, what is it?

The arrogance that Yang Zaixing carried with him finally disappeared under Liu Baozhong's forced gaze. Standing there uneasy, feeling like there was nowhere to put my hands and feet. After a stalemate, Yang Zaixing finally couldn't hold on, his whole face collapsed, and he honestly confessed in frustration.

“………… When I was returning south from Yanjing, I ran into a group of Tartars who were killing people and setting fire to them in the valley. I didn't hold it for a while, so I rushed up to kill............ These Tartars were not beaten, and most of us were killed. In the meantime, there were a dozen or twenty little Tartars, who were guarding and fleeing for their lives, but they were all killed by us. I think it's an important figure among the Tartars............ Ever since we left the valley, the Tartar rangers have been biting us like crazy. It wasn't until it was close to Yi County that he was rescued by the master Ma. Then the Tartar army besieged Yi County............ Lord, this is not a bad thing! Who knew that killing these little Tartars would stab a hornet's nest? And Thirteen also killed these little Tartars, and if there is any punishment, he can't avoid it! ”

At this moment, Yang Zaixing lost the slightest sense of righteousness, he really thought that the lord hated him and attracted the Tartar army to attack Yi County. For fear that Liu Baozhong would send him back and escort the grain and grass, he hurriedly dragged Thirteen out of the top tank. Yang Zaixing also knows that there is the support of the Guo family behind the thirteen, and he can't say that he has more affection than his own family in front of the general.

Liu Baozhong was still bursting there, and the commander next to him couldn't hold back any longer, and slapped Yang Zaixing with envy and jealousy: "Straight lady thief, you have made a great contribution here!" killed a bunch of children and grandchildren of the Jurchen Emperor, and firmly attracted the main force of the Jurchen East Route Army to Yixian County. Thief bird, how come I didn't have a good life like you? ”

Yang Zaixing was still stunned, but Liu Baozhong finally laughed out loud. Yang Zaixing, although he is reckless, has always had one thing to say, and he disdains praise the most. Now that he has finally admitted to killing a bunch of little Tartars, this thing is very true. In this way, you can take advantage of this situation to hit the Jurchen Tartars hard again, and attract them more firmly under the city of Yixian!

Yang Zaixing finally reacted that this was not a crime of looking for his own family, but a merit, and couldn't help but ask: "General, if this is a great achievement, how much reward should there be?" ”

For Yang Zaixing, the official title is very light. As long as you can go into battle and fight, it will be successful, but it will not be good when the official is older. But rewarding goods and goods is not polite, this is in exchange for good horses, good armor, good blades and good wine, there are many rewards, and I am also ready to wear two bodies, wear one collar and throw one collar!

Liu Baozhong waved his hand with a straight face to drive people away: "What reward?" Take you out of the back camp to fight, what reward can't be worthwhile? And even if you are rewarded now, where will you spend it? After a few days of continuous fighting, today the Tartar has stopped a little, and I will go down and sleep a little! ”

Yang Zaixing muttered and prepared to retire, and the content of the muttering was nothing more than talking about Liu Baozhong's stinginess.

Liu Baozhong stopped him again, and looked at Yang Zaixing: "There may be a big war in the coming day, and a certain general will use you as the vanguard to kill the Jurchen Tartars for a while, and beat them a little more painfully." You are now a bitter enemy for the Jurchen Tartars, and when you go into battle, you don't know how many girls and true Tartars want to capture and kill you quickly, so like this, do you dare to be a pioneer? ”

Yang Zaixing snorted, still looking like his nostrils were facing the sky: "Why don't you dare?" ”

The tent finally quieted down, and Yang Zaixing and the others were all sent out by Liu Baozhong. Liu Baozhong still did not take off his armor and rest, but he unfolded the wooden map and fell into contemplation, and only after a long time did he talk to himself.

"Now you can rest assured that Yu Jiang's reinforcements will come up, straight lady thief, you have to beat the Jurchen Tartars more painfully, so that their eyes will be redder!"

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In the north of Yixian County, hundreds of Jurchen guards stood silently on a high hill, surrounded by two heavy generals looking at the battlefield in front of them.

On the Youyan Plain, the Jurchen military tent seemed to unfold endlessly in sight, and the Jurchen banner covered the sky and danced.

The area is easy to water, meandering in the south. The city wall of Yixian, which is not high, is coiled in the south of Yishui like an earthen embankment.

From this distance, more than 20 trebuchets looked like toys, and they kept throwing small mud balls like stone bullets. Fall to the ground and splash a little bit of smoke.

It was this city that had been attacked for a few days, losing one or two thousand lives in vain, but it still did not even break through the defense outside the city. The Nanren general, who shot and killed many young girls and noble children, is still alive and well.

It was now certain that the city was defended by a determined and capable army. To defeat this city, although the Jurchen East Route Army is powerful, it doesn't know how much time it will consume!

One of the two Jurchen generals was Wanyan Zongwang, the commander of the Eastern Route Army. The other person participated in the battle of Danzhou as a deputy general, and he was also the fourth brother of Wanyan Zongbi, who was very much loved by Wanyan Zongwang.

I don't know how long I watched it, but Wanyan Zongbi finally said softly: "Brother, I can't delay here any longer." Please lead a military horse, test on the edge of the north of the river, find the weak place of the southern army to attack it, if it can't open the way for the army, then let the brother deal with it! When we have laid down Bianliang, are the defenders here afraid that they will not be able to free up their hands to clean up? The Nanren general who injured his nephew, along with the good and cheap people in the city, all killed them all to avenge his nephew! ”

What answered him was Wanyan Zongwang's firm shaking of his head. And Wanyan Zongwang, who commanded the commander of the 100,000 Jurchen East Road army, still had his eyes dead on Yixian County.

Wanyan Zongbi finally hid the words of advice in his heart, but he had a trace of doubt.

Is this brother with the talent of a commander really carried away by the tragic death of his nephew? Since this is the case, let's accompany my brother to fight. In any case, let's level this city first! (To be continued......)

PS: The cold is finally getting better, and I feel that the code word state has come up a little today.

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