"Divine arm bow, step armor, as well as knives, halberd knives, phoenix knives, ring guns and other weapons......"

Chu Tian plundered the arsenal of the Northern Song Dynasty, as well as looted the equipment of the Song army, and obtained a batch of divine arm bows, foot armor, and a bunch of miscellaneous soldiers.

Chu Tian personally put on a pair of step armor, with the armor body as the main body, adorned with a shawl, subordinates hanging legs, and the head of the head was extremely heavy.

Soon Chutian found out the problem.

The infantry armor of the Northern Song Dynasty was too heavy, which was not conducive to maneuvering, and it required extremely high physical strength of soldiers.

In other words, if a battle lasted too long, the physical strength of the Song heavy infantry would decline rapidly, and eventually they would run out of physical strength and be defeated by the enemy. Even if you win, it will be difficult to hunt down the enemy and expand the results.

However, if the Song State did not use heavy infantry, it would not be able to block the cavalry onslaught of Liaojin and Western Xia.

"This kind of armor is suitable for defensive hand-to-hand combat, not for offense."

Le Yi commented on the Northern Song Dynasty's Burenjia.

The heavier the armor, the better, and it should be analyzed on a case-by-case basis.

Even in the Northern Song Dynasty, not all armor was complete step armor. A complete set of step armor is expensive.

The versatility of the step armor is poor, and the more practical is the divine arm bow.

The Divine Arm Bow is a kind of crossbow weapon, and the lowest quality is the gold level, and the best ones can reach the king-level quality.

Chu Tian divided up eight thousand Divine Arm Bows, most of which were gold-level Divine Arm Bows, and a few were platinum-level.

"My lord, here are two drawings."

Joan of Arc led the troops to participate in the raid of the north and south workshops and the bow and crossbow courtyard, and took out two drawings from her bosom.

Chu Tian took the drawings and was stunned.

One of them is a blueprint for the manufacture of a gold-level divine arm bow, and the other is a blueprint for the manufacture of a three-bow bed crossbow (eight-cow crossbow).

Chu Tian inspected the finished product of the manufacturing drawings of the Divine Arm Bow.

[Name]: Standard God Arm Bow

[Quality]: Gold level

[Effect]: Fixed attack power of 30 (decreases with distance, regardless of class attack power), with armor piercing effect (medium)

[Evaluation]: Do you think it's a bow? Actually, it's a crossbow.

"The standard Divine Arm Bow?"

That's a good thing.

What Chu Tian needed was actually this kind of weapon that could be mass-produced to equip the crossbow legion.

The higher the quality of the weapon, the more expensive it is, but it may not be practical, and the cost of crafting an emperor-level weapon may be enough to create hundreds of standard divine arm bows.

Chu Tian looked at the attributes of the Eight Bull Crossbow again, which was a large instrument that could be used to siege and defend the city. Before the advent of artillery, the Eight Bull Crossbow was already one of the top siege machines!

[Name]: Eight Bull Crossbow (Large)

[Level]: Level 8 siege/defense equipment

[Attack]: 200+50*6 (Release 7 arrows at the same time, attack decreases with distance)

[Evaluation]: It is said that Xiao Tzu Rin, the chief general of the Liao army, once received a crossbow arrow from an eight-ox crossbow on his forehead, and was defeated and killed.

Chu Tian already had a double-bow bed crossbow, but compared to the eight-bull crossbow, the damage was relatively low.

After possessing the Eight Bull Crossbow, Chu Tian had even more terrifying siege weapons.

"Did you find any manufacturing drawings for the Walker Armor?"

"Nope."

"With these two drawings, it's enough. As a bonus, you can return to France shortened by one month. ”

Chu Tian was very satisfied with the two drawings, so he generously shortened the time for Joan of Arc to return to France.

But Joan of Arc didn't seem very satisfied.

In addition to weapons such as the Divine Arm Bow and the Infantry Armor, two drawings that were more expensive than equipment, Chu Tian also divided a batch of gold and silver as a commission to help Song Qinzong expel the Jin soldiers.

At this time, the treasury of the Northern Song Dynasty was no longer rich after many fiascos, and in fact, Chutian did not divide much gold and silver.

Chu Tian's territory in the main world was richer than the territory owned by Song Qinzong.

After seizing a batch of Divine Arm Bows, Chu Tian asked Yan Jiashi to replace them with Divine Arm Bows, and the rest of the Divine Arm Bows, Chu Tian was going to bring them back to the main world and replace them with Liang Hongyu's Jianyan crossbowmen.

For Yan Jia, the improvement of replacing the Divine Arm Bow is not large, but the improvement of the Divine Arm Bow to the Jianyan crossbowman is very large.

And Bu Ren Jia, which is used to stick to the defense, but lacks flexibility, Chu Tian is hesitating whether to let Yan Jia change, sacrificing mobility in exchange for defense, this approach has advantages and disadvantages.

The rest of the princes also received a batch of high-quality equipment from the arsenals of the inner city and the imperial palace.

More than 100,000 Han troops have changed their equipment, and their combat effectiveness has become stronger!

In addition to the equipment above the gold level, there are also a bunch of slightly inferior weapons or some strange-shaped miscellaneous soldiers, which are enough to arm 100,000 armor militia.

"We can recruit 50,000 Song troops and 200,000 armor militia to conduct drills and improve their ranks. A month later, the troops split up to attack the Jin army on the outer city wall to provide us with cover. Then, we gathered our forces and drove the golden soldiers off the outer walls in one fell swoop. ”

"Let Song Qinzong issue an order to call on civilians to participate in the drill."

"Le Yi, Xie Xuan, Chang Yuchun, Sun Jian, can train 250,000 soldiers."

The various princes tried to squeeze the war potential of Kaifeng.

Since it is impossible to recruit troops, it can only call in 50,000 Song troops, as well as gather all the armed forces in the city, and expel the Jin soldiers in one fell swoop.

All this must be in the name of Song Qinzong in order to be justified.

At present, Song Qinzong, Song Huizong and a group of ministers, they are locked in a small black room, locked the wooden door with iron cables, and reflect on it.

Song Qinzong witnessed that the Heavenly Master Guo Jing was killed by the Heavenly General on the main hall, and he was already a frightened bird, and he did not refuse to accept the requests of the princes.

"It's not enough, that's it, it's not enough, we have to create panic. You set fire to the city, disguised yourself as a golden soldier, and threatened to slaughter it. ”

Chutian asked Li Guang to pretend to be a Jin soldier, and at night, he set fire to the outer city of Kaifeng and shouted to kill.

The news began to circulate in the city that the Jin soldiers were going to burn the whole city and slaughter the people of the city, and for a while, everyone in Kaifeng City was in danger.

At this time, Qinzong ordered to recruit 200,000 civilians, conduct training, and serve as auxiliaries to counterattack the Jin army!

The holy purpose spread wildly in Kaifeng City, and the people of Kaifeng City, who had long been angry, were completely enraged, and the crowd was like a black dragon, gathering towards the Xuande Gate of the Imperial Palace.

To make civilians work for themselves, you have to make them angry and afraid.

Xuandemen is crowded with people, and the water is impassable, and a total of 300,000 civilians have been obtained!

The Han princes excluded the old and the young from the 300,000 civilians, leaving only 200,000 civilians, including women with kitchen knives.

The princes of the Han army issued weapons to the young and strong among them, and then conducted a month-long simple training, mainly to let them learn to order and prohibit, and put pressure on the Jin army.

Most of them are armor guards, and Chu Tian doesn't even expect them to go to the battlefield, as long as they attract the attention of some of the Jin army when they counterattack.

According to the plan of the princes of the Han army, they want to turn the entire outer city of Kaifeng into a battlefield, fight to the death with the Jin army, and defeat the Jin army in one battle!

In addition to the Jin army guarding Tongguan, the rest of the main force of the Jin army has come to Kaifeng, if the main force of the Jin army is severely damaged, the national Zuo of the Great Song State can be extended for a period of time.

The soldiers and horses in the city were nervously drilled, while the Jin army on the outer city wall fell into panic.

The situation in Kaifeng City took a turn for the worse, and according to the returning Jin envoy, the defenders in the city actually kidnapped their emperor and openly cleared the king's side.

Even the Jurchens, who were born in remote places, knew that there was no difference between the Qing monarch and rebellion.

After the emperor was placed under house arrest, the Jin army was no longer able to negotiate directly with the Song emperor, because the Song emperor could no longer promise them anything. They could only negotiate with the Han princes.

It's just that with the strength of the Han army princes, is it possible for them to negotiate peace and make compensation?

Wanyan Zongwang has been observing the situation in the outer city recently, and he is faintly aware that the civilians in the outer city are organizing the construction of fortifications, arranging horses, sandbags, and bricks on the streets.

If the civilians in the past only spontaneously resisted the Jin soldiers, then behind the current civilians, there is a group of people directing them.

The princes of the Eastern Han Dynasty had a very strong ability to mobilize civilians to participate in the war, and the civilians could use it well, and they could also play a miraculous role.

Wanyan Zongwang felt uneasy in his heart, he had already realized that the defenders were holding on, and at the same time they were accumulating strength for a counterattack.

The defenders of the city no longer negotiated with the Jin army outside the city, or the negotiations between the two sides had broken down, and the only way to fight each other was to fight each other.

"They are training the armor militia, and the people in the city are complaining about us, we can't sit idly by!"

Finally, Wanyan Zongwang saw through the strategy of the Han army princes.

The hearts of the people of Kaifeng City are available, this is a force that makes the Jin army afraid!

Wanyan Zonghan said: "It's better to destroy the outer city and kill all the people in the city." ”

Jin Wushu shook his head: "Slaughtering the city will lose the support of the people, it will be difficult to convince the people, and it will be difficult to enter the Central Plains in the future." ”

Wanyan Zonghan disagreed: "For the resisters, only by slaughtering the city can we deter the remaining Song army." ”

Jin Wushu still disagreed.

The generals of the Jin army were also divided into two factions, and there were constant disputes.

The Western Route Army had been blocked by the Song Army in Taiyuan for nine months, so it advocated the slaughter of the city and the collapse of the Song Army's will to resist, while the Eastern Route Army generally advocated Huairou in order to enter the Central Plains in the future.

In the end, Wanyan Zongwang rejected the proposal of the Western Route Army to slaughter the city, and chose to attack the inner city in a conventional way.

"Carry the bed crossbow into the city and engage in street fighting, while continuing to send envoys to pressure the defenders to surrender. Otherwise, we set fire to the outer city and raze it to the ground. ”

Wanyan Zongwang has a group of generals above the level of pseudo-king, who are confident in the combat effectiveness of the Jin army and are ready to attack.

The Song army camp was still training its soldiers and horses in an orderly manner, using the main force of the Han army to defend Longjin Bridge and other important places, and fighting with the Jin army in the outer city to gain time and at the same time hit the morale of the Jin army.

Outside Kaifeng, Zhao Gou, the ninth son of Song Huizong, was appointed as the generalissimo of the world's soldiers and horses, and Zong Ze and Wang Boyan were deputy marshals.

Deputy Marshal Zong Ze had no choice but to lead the troops to support Kaifeng alone.

During this period, Zong Ze sent a letter to the governor of North Province, the Xuanfu envoy of Hedong North Road, and the Zhixingren Mansion, asking for a joint army to rescue Kaifeng, but these people thought that Zong Ze was arrogant and ignored it.

Zhao Gou, the generalissimo of the world's soldiers and horses, did not completely send reinforcements, his main force did not dare to move forward, but divided a partial division, so that the former army of the marshal's mansion commanded Liu Hao, and he went south to the direction of Weizhou and Huazhou (probably near Liyang and Yecheng during the Three Kingdoms period) as a suspicious soldier to aid Kaifeng.

In the area of the Imperial Forest in Huazhou, a cavalry team of 300 people belonging to Liu Hao's department galloped, and the military general who led the team was only more than 20 years old, calm and silent, and came to reconnoiter under Liu Hao's order.

It is said that the national capital Bianjing has been besieged by the Jin army, and the soldiers and horses of Hebei are not far from Bianjing, and Zhao Gou, the generalissimo of the world's soldiers and horses, gathered a large number of righteous troops, but hesitated.

A scout cavalry made an urgent report: "My lord, there is a golden army ahead!" ”

The young general's voice was low and affirmative: "Kill it!" ”