Chapter 82: The World Is Unpredictable

This time, Han Li and Zong Han led the army to join forces under Bianjing, and Zong Han sent elite soldiers to capture Tongguan to prevent the elite of the northwest from coming to the rescue in the south, and could counterattack Hedong after capturing Bianjing, without having to borrow Fengshengzhou, which was all in the plan, and the premise was that Bianjing City must be taken.

Zong Han was originally a belligerent hawk, and last time he was separated from one of them and won the jackpot, he had already had the intention of catching up with the competition, so the superintendent attacked Bianliang, expecting his army to be the first to break the city. For Zong Han's desire to fight for merit, he can't see through it. Under his influence, he did not dare to be idle, and the superintendent attacked unremittingly.

The Jurchens are a nation that is good at learning, and while they are attacking cities and plundering land, they pay attention to collecting military books and classics, improving combat methods, and making various offensive and defensive equipment, and those Khitan and Han officials who have reduced their gold have become their best teachers. Under their guidance, the Jurchens coerced the Song craftsmen who had captured and plundered the Song people day and night to make all kinds of siege equipment, and Bianjing City was not only a battlefield, but also a huge open-air workshop, and soon the Jin army fire ladder, cloud ladder, braided bridge, ramming rod, goose cart, cave horse and other siege ordnance were all available.

And the Jin army also learned the same way, followed the Krup army to learn artillery preparation, first of all, the enemy fire surprise attack, hundreds of stone cannons fired at the same time, although there is no explosion of artillery explosion and dazzling fire as shocking, but the scene of simultaneous firing is also magnificent, such as rain of flying stones smashed into the city wall, falling into the city, but also people next to the bones and broken tendons, the house is the house collapsed.

The stone monuments, stone mills, tombstones, stone sheep, stone horses, and stone tigers in front of the tombs of the eunuchs can all be turned into cannonballs, and the cannons of the Jurchens can be turned into cannonballs. Firing every day is like a shotgun. The range of the attack was very large, and it caused great damage to the Song army defending the city.

After a bombardment. The Jurchens fired thousands of arrows again, and the Song army defending the city could only retreat behind the city. If you are a little careless, you will either be hit by a cannon stone or killed by a random arrow. At the same time, the opposite building of the siege was promoted, and the ladder of clouds and fire began to ascend the city. The top was not afraid of the fierce attack, and the bottom was not idle, and the Jurchen "sappers" took turns to play, using the hole car to dig the corners of the wall, trying to dig down the city wall.

For things like fire ladders, cloud ladders, and braided bridges, the Song people only need to use a battering rod to deal with them. The striking rod is to select a few zhang long wood, and use a short wooden hole in the middle to penetrate it, so that everyone can grasp it. After the Jurchens put the fire ladder, cloud ladder, and bridge on the city wall, the Song army locked them with the iron hooks on the "ramming rod", so that the Jurchens lost their ground in advancing and retreating, and could not advance and retreat, and there was no place to retreat, and then the ladder and bridge were completely destroyed. People also fall to the ground.

The trouble is the hole car, this thing is like a modern road with wheels, the length of the car can reach more than 30 zhang, and the short one is also more than 10 zhang. It was wrapped in raw cowhide and iron sheets, and there was no way to penetrate it with rolling wood and stones, and strong bows and crossbows. People come and go in it, and it's very safe.

The field Song army was no match for the Jurchens. But defending the city is much more experienced than them. The Song army had its own way to deal with Dongche, and they drooped from the city with thistles. Hitched on a cave car, it's like a modern demolition. After hooking, he stirred the roller and pulled the cowhide and iron sheet on the roof of the hole. Some of the Song soldiers who were waiting on the sidelines threw torches, and some poured oil into them, turning the cave car into a train.

As for the tunnel tactics, the Song army's technical level gave the Jurchens a good lesson, they dug a long ditch horizontally in the city wall and waited for the Jurchens to come to the door, and found that after the hole was opened, they smoked it, burned it with charcoal, and there were earthen poison gas bombs to greet them, and the Song army saw the move, relying on rich experience to strictly defend and block the Jurchens' attack, so as to prevent Bianjing City from being captured at the first time...

The Song army was able to fight so well in attack and defense, in fact, it has to thank a few people:

This first one is Zong Han and Han are inseparable brothers, they did not use the fire attack tactics that the Jin army is best at in siege warfare, of course, this is in their selfish intentions, they don't want to burn Bianjing City to white ground and turn it into ashes, so they will run away for nothing. Otherwise, if the city of Tokyo had nothing to do with itself, it would have become a fire cave long ago, and of course we should be grateful to the ancestors who created the 'fire patrol shop' system, with such a professional team, a small fire can be quickly extinguished.

The second person who should be thanked is Liu Yanqing, a famous general in the northwest who has suffered repeated defeats since the invasion of Liao. Although he was ineffective in commanding and mishandling the battle to recover Yanyun, he was not executed for this. It is precisely because of sparing him that he did not die that he actually played a backbone role in this defensive battle of Bianliang. Although he has been in the military for decades and is not good at strategizing, he is an expert in how to defend and fight. The defensive combat experience accumulated in the past years of fighting with the Xixia people came in handy today in the Beijing Division, and under his dispatching and command, Bianliang City was temporarily preserved, and its contribution was indispensable!

The third one who should be thanked is the Emperor Zhao Ji, who spent countless manpower and financial resources to build the unparalleled Genyue, which was originally not just for his own fun, but to leave an ammunition depot, granary and fuel supply base for future generations.

During the battle, there are people in the city who offer to put the "Nine Ox Cannon", this cannon is easy to feed, the requirements for cannonballs are not very high, all kinds of stones in the city can be used, and the production is relatively simple. After a try, it was really powerful, and the cloud ladder that dealt with the Jurchens attacking the city was the nemesis. Zhao Huan was overjoyed when he heard the news, and he was named "General Protector of the Country".

It's just that the Jurchens attacked the city fiercely, and soon the shells ran out. When Zhao Huan heard this, the stones in Genyue were inexhaustible, and he ordered people to destroy the mountain stones as cannon stones. As soon as the edict came out, the people in the city rushed to tell each other, and they took hammers and axes and rushed into Genyue. The beautiful scenery that was built in less than a few years was ruined, and the strange stones that Zhu Mian had collected from the southeast after a lot of hard work came in handy, and these valuable Taihu Lake stones became Feilai Peak, which fell from the sky and smashed on the heads of the Jurchen soldiers, and the cost was really not low.

Due to the siege of the Jin army and the heavy snowfall, there was a lack of firewood in the city, although there was still some food, but there was a lack of meat, which was solved together. All kinds of rare birds and beasts raised in the garden have become the people's meal, and the exotic flowers and plants have turned into curling smoke in the people's stoves! So there's so much to predict about things, as long as you use them in the right place... (To be continued......)