Chapter 194: Offensive and Defensive Game
The north gate of Bianliang City was the focus of the Jin soldiers' attack, and Emperor Qinzong naturally transferred Zhang Shuye, the most capable of fighting in Bianliang City, and his headquarters to the north gate to defend. Now the person in charge of the upstairs in Beicheng is the two brothers Zhang Zibo and Zhang Zhongxiong.
Seeing the situation of the Jin soldiers, with a posture of attacking with all their might, Zhang Zibo sent people to inform the emperor and the Privy Council on the one hand, and on the other hand, beat the drum to warn, and made all kinds of preparations to defend the city.
I have to praise that the fortifications of Bianliang City are indeed very practical and reliable, and they can be called stable as a rock.
On the one hand, as the capital of the Song Dynasty, after a hundred years of continuous construction and reinforcement of successive emperors, the entire Kaifeng Mansion Bianliang City, whether it is the solidity of the city wall, all kinds of city defense equipment, etc., is absolutely second to none at that time, and there is no city that can compare.
On the other hand, the previous Dazai Li Tsunade also served as the envoy of the four walls of Bianliang Castle. Li Gang worked steadily and conscientiously, not only re-strengthening and updating the defensive fortifications and various equipment, but also adding thunderbolt cannons to the city walls on all sides; Among them, the north gate is the most installed, with a total of 36 doors.
These thunderbolt cannons were originally from the hands of Ling Zhen, a hero of Liangshan.
Ling Zhen is ranked fifty-second in Liangshan and is the axis star of the seventy-two earth-shattering stars. After returning from the conquest of Fangla, because he made a good artillery, he was awarded the title of "Wu Yilang, the commander of the capital", and was appointed in the imperial camp of the Jingshi Gunpowder Bureau, becoming one of the few heroes in Liangshan who had to enjoy a good death.
Although Ling Zhen's artillery was good, after all, it was labeled as Shuibo Liangshan, and it was not reused by Cai Jing and Tong Guan, who were in power at that time, and the artillery made could only lie silently in the warehouse of the Gunpowder Bureau. Wait for your chance.
Unexpectedly. These cannons have been waiting for years. By the time Li Gang dragged them out of the warehouse, Ling Zhen had already traveled outside and knew where he was.
When the Jin soldiers first besieged Bianliang City, these artillery pieces did not come in handy; After all, Li Gang was born as a civilian official, and he was a little unaware of these gunpowder equipment.
Now that these artillery pieces are in the hands of Zhang Shuye, the situation is naturally very different.
Zhang Shuye had a deep relationship with Liangshan back then, and the father and son were very familiar with the heroes of Liangshan, and even that Zhang Zhongxiong officially worshipped Zhang Qing, the "feather arrow", as a teacher. Those treasures of Shuibo Liangshan. Nowadays, no one can know more than Zhang Shuye and his son
"Dudutu", in the distance of the north gate of Bianliang City, a long horn sounded, and the golden soldiers attacked!
I saw that the cavalry of the Jin Kingdom in the first phalanx on the left were all in unison, and they suddenly rushed to a distance of fifty steps from the city wall, and fired arrows into the sky above the city wall; Then turn around and retreat.
Immediately afterwards, the cavalry of the Jin Kingdom in the first phalanx on the right made a concerted effort, and suddenly rushed to a distance of fifty paces from the city wall, and fired arrows into the sky above the city wall; Then turn around and retreat.
If so, 50,000 Jurchen elite cavalry. Divided into ten phalanxes, five on the left and five on the left. Take turns shooting arrows into the sky above Bianliang City
This shooting method of Jin Bing has a famous name, called "Wheel Arrow Array"; In fact, this is a practice of Jin Bing out of desperation.
The strength of the Jin soldier's bow and crossbow was far inferior to that of the Song soldier.
The maximum range of the Golden Soldier's crossbow is only 150 paces, while the effective killing range is only 120 paces, and the best shooting distance is 80 paces away.
With the height of Bianliang City, if the Jin soldiers did not use the "Wheel Arrow Array" and used the momentum of the war horses, even if the bow and arrow hit Bianliang City, they would only become weak and powerless, let alone have no lethality
Now that the cavalry has been dispatched, the infantry has also rushed forward.
Looking down from the walls of Bianliang City, countless figures, with small iron shields on their heads, flying claws in their right hands, ropes wrapped in their left hands, and machetes pinned to their waists, flooded like a tide in the gap between the horse roads.
As soon as they reached the bottom of the wall, these golden soldiers would hook the edge of the wall with their flying claws and climb up with their desperation.
In the midst of the crowd, there were hundreds of simple ladders, swimming towards the city wall like small water snakes.
In the middle of the simple ladder, there was a huge crashing car, like an extremely ugly monster, opening its bloody mouth towards Bianliang City.
A little further back, there are several rows of huge, watchtower-like ladder trucks and siege vehicles, step by step along the direction of the crowd, approaching Bianliang City.
The front of the ramming vehicle, ladder truck, and siege vehicle were all inlaid with heavy baffles, and a layer of soaked animal skin was attached to the baffles, whether it was long arrows or rockets.
Once these vehicles approach the edge of the city walls, the ramming vehicles will destroy the city gates; The ladder car and the siege vehicle have long ladders to cross the city wall, and what follows is the hand-to-hand combat that the Song soldiers were most afraid of before.
There are also a variety of stone throwers behind the siege engines and ladder trucks.
It's a pity that the range of the catapult is too short, only fifty to eighty paces away. So for these stone throwers to come in handy, they had to be moved ten steps forward in front of the moat
Use the bows and arrows of the light cavalry as cover, use the flying claw soldiers and simple ladder soldiers as cannon fodder to attract the attraction of the Song soldiers, use the ramming car to break through the city gate, use the stone thrower to attack and destroy the defenders and related defensive facilities on the city wall, and use the siege vehicle and the ladder car as a cover, and finally attack and occupy Bianliang City.
The above is the ground-to-air three-dimensional attack plan that Wanyan Wushu wants to implement today.
Now that it is a harsh winter, the wide and deep moat of Bianliang City has formed a thick layer of ice, which also provides convenience for this three-dimensional attack plan of Wanyan Wushu
At this time, Zhang Shuye and the two flag officers had already climbed the highest sentry tower at the north gate of Bianliang City, and they could see at a glance the movements of the golden soldiers under the city tower.
Fifty drummers in the depths of the tower saw the red flag on the watchtower raised, and followed the command of the commander, and slammed the drum together.
With a huge drum sound, a net of arrows intertwined with 20,000 long arrows swept towards the golden soldiers under the city tower.
After three breaths, the drum beat for the second time, and it was another net of ten thousand arrows.
"But when I hear the sound of drums, I don't feel the sound of bows and arrows!"
If Yue Fei was present, he would find that the group of Dengzhou soldiers under Zhang Shuye's command were skilled in bows and arrows and well-trained, and they were not much weaker than the archers and crossbows in the division.
What was given back to the Song soldiers was the sound of screams and wails coming from under the city walls.
Although the golden soldiers are downwind, plus the speed of the war horse is multiplied, after all, it is shot from the bottom to the top; In addition, in order to make room for infantry and siege equipment, only 5,000 cavalry released arrows at a time, and suffered a lot of losses.
And the Song soldiers shot down from a height, and the number of people who shot each time was several times more, so the bows and arrows of the two sides were fired two rounds, and the Song soldiers took advantage of it.
The Jin soldiers had already lost two or three thousand casualties, while the Song soldiers had not yet been killed, and the battle losses of the two sides were disproportionate.
Of course, the victory or defeat of the entire battle was not determined by this small local contest...... (To be continued......)
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