Yue Fei put his hand on the battlements, looked at the morale of the Jin army condescendingly, smiled disapprovingly, looked sideways at his henchman Zhang Xian, and said: "Let Wang Gui prepare the catapult, and when the general gives an order, he will immediately launch the first round of stone throwing attacks on the Jin army." ”

"Yes."

Hearing this, Zhang Xian nodded to the herald on the side.

The heralds retreated.

Wang Gui built a high platform with a height of more than three zhang on the inner side of the city wall, and then ordered people to erect all the catapults on the high platform, so as to increase the vision and range of the catapults.

During the Song Dynasty, after hundreds of years of development and improvement, the range of catapults has reached seven or eight hundred steps.

Wang Gui was standing silently on the high platform at this time, holding a pergola with his hands, looking at the Jin army coming slowly, and suddenly saw the herald coming on horseback, and was immediately overjoyed, and said: "The general's military order has arrived." ”

The herald marched in front of Wang Gui, rolled the saddle and dismounted, and went straight to the point in a concise and concise manner: "Take the order flag as the number." ”

Wang Gui nodded silently and looked in the direction of the herald's finger, only to see a commanding flag soldier holding aloft the commanding flag, waiting for Yue Fei's further instructions.

About half an hour or so passed.

Suddenly, seeing that the banner soldier began to wave the flag in his hand rhythmically, the herald soldier saw this and hurriedly nodded to Wang Gui.

Wang Gui immediately pulled out the saber at his waist, raised it high above his head, and shouted an order to the soldiers operating the catapult behind him: "Load the stone bullets." ”

"Ready."

Wang Gui's voice lagged behind, and a creaking sound immediately sounded on the high platform with a radius of nearly 100 acres behind him.

Wang Gui saw that the five hundred catapults were all ready to be projected, so he waved his knife and pointed forward, saying, "Release." ”

After Wang Gui's voice lagged behind, there was a violent tremor from the high platform behind him, and the next moment, five hundred boulders the size of a millstone rose into the sky, crossed the city, and with a burst of wind, roared straight to the Jin army outside the city.

Looking at the roaring boulder, Wanyan Yinshu suddenly pulled out the saber at his waist and ordered in a loud voice: "Keep the formation, don't dodge, but those who break away from the military formation will be killed immediately." ”

"The formation is not allowed to be chaotic."

"The formation is not allowed to be chaotic."

The same words kept coming out of the Jin Army's formation, and all the generals and colonels were trying their best to stabilize the formation.

At this time, the Jin army is still nearly 800 steps away from the north gate of Xingyuan Mansion, if you charge at Xingyuan Mansion at this time, when a group of Jin troops march to the city of Xingyuan Mansion, they will immediately be tired into soft-footed shrimp, and at that time, it is very difficult to break through the city, and even climb the ladder.

The ancients are not as good as modern people, the diet of the ancients is not very reasonable, Rao is a well-trained soldier, it is still difficult to get enough nutritional supplements, and the ancients had to wear unusually heavy armor when fighting, dozens of catties of armor on the body, not to mention 800 steps, even running 200 steps will be tired and out of breath, let alone 800 steps.

Therefore, Wanyan Yinshu can only stubbornly command the Jin army to carry the roaring boulder and advance steadily, as long as it can maintain the formation and successfully enter the land of one stone, then it will be able to give full play to the huge combat power of the Jin army.

When the boulder landed, looking at the boulder with a smooth surface like a pebble, Wanyan Yinshu was so angry that he almost scolded his mother.

Hundreds of boulders are obviously deliberately polished by people with intentions, and the surface is extremely smooth, so that the friction with the ground can be greatly reduced, so when the boulder lands, it is like a leather ball, sliding straight forward for nearly 100 steps, and where it passes, a trench about a foot deep is plowed out, and on both sides of this nearly 100 steps of trench lie at least a dozen Jin soldiers who have no time to dodge, wailing in pain in a pool of blood.

Because the accuracy of the catapult is really limited, it is difficult to bring a large area of collective damage to the Jin army, 500 boulders, only a few or 20 fell into the Jin army's array, so this first round of stone-throwing only brought less than 400 casualties to the Jin army.

The catapult's greatest effect is to deter the enemy army and cause it to demoralize, rather than to kill or injure the enemy's living force.

The steps of operating the catapult are extremely cumbersome, far from being as in the film and television drama, from preparation to projection, it takes at least nearly a quarter of an hour of preparation time to complete a round of projection.

Therefore, when the Jin army carried a round of stone-throwing attacks, the soldiers of the Jin army who were lucky enough to escape finally breathed a sigh of relief, and then under the leadership of Wanyan Yinshuke, they slowly advanced to the north gate of Xingyuan Mansion in an orderly manner.

Wang Gui urged his soldiers to carry out a second round of stone-throwing attacks on the Jin army outside the city very hastily before the Jin army entered the land of a stone, and as a result, the second round of stone-throwing attacks that were quite hasty almost failed to bring any substantial damage to the Jin army.

Just as Wanyan Yinshu could show a smug look, the general next to him raised his hand to the head of Xingyuan Mansion with a shocked face, and said, "He... How did he end up here? ”

After hearing this, he couldn't help frowning, and then looked in the direction of the general's finger at the head of Xingyuan Mansion, but saw a wooden cage hanging from the head of the city, and there was a person in the cage, who was curled up naked in the cage.

Although the man in the cage had an unkempt face, Wanyan Yinshu still recognized him at a glance.

"Zong.... Zongwang! ”

Wanyan Yinshu hurriedly ordered someone to summon the herald, and said, "Quick, go and inform Marshal Yu of this." ”

About a quarter of an hour or so passed.

Wanyan Zonghan and Wanyan Xiyin personally stepped forward to check, and after confirming that the person who was hanging at the head of the city was Wanyan Zongwang, Wanyan Zonghan suddenly felt a tingling scalp, and he finally experienced the taste of a rat thrower.

"For the sake of today, what can I do?" Wanyan Zonghan looked sideways at Wanyan Xiyin.

When Wanyan Xiyin heard this, he shook his head helplessly, and sighed: "For today's plan, the only way to do this is to divide the troops." ”

"Only a few elites can conquer Xingyuan Mansion." Wanyan Xiyin said lightly.

The current situation is that no matter where the main force of the Jin State appears, the cage where Yan Zongwang is imprisoned will appear, so the Jin army can only display all the main forces at the north gate, in order to attract the main force of the Song army, and then attack the other city gates with a small number of elites, so that the numerical advantage of the Jin army will be eliminated immediately.

Wanyan Zonghan would never dare to ignore the existence of Wanyan Zongwang, so as to issue an order to the whole army to storm Xingyuan Mansion, if it was known by the Jin State Sect that Wanyan Zonghan ignored Wanyan Zongwang's life and death, at that time, Wanyan Zongwang died at the same time, Wanyan Zonghan's fate would definitely not be much better than Wanyan Zongwang.

Wanyan Zonghan endured the anger in his heart, stared at the head of Xingyuan Mansion and gritted his teeth: "The Jin army is invincible in the world, and the Jin army will attack the east gate in this battle, let the Liao army go to the west gate to contain the living force of the defenders, and let the Han army line up outside the north gate." ”

Hearing this, Wanyan Xiyin nodded silently, as if he was cheering himself up, and said, "The Jin Army is invincible in the world." ”

The north gate of Xingyuan Mansion.

Yue Fei smiled and patted the cage where Yan Zongwang was imprisoned, and said: "The official Shengming, the enemy is expected to be the first, thinking that Yan Zonghan is by no means easy to match, he left a big killing weapon for us in advance, if this battle can be won, I need to thank His Royal Highness the Second Prince." ”

Looking at Wanyan Zongwang, who was stuffed with a stinky and dirty footwrap in his mouth, Yue Fei smiled slightly and said, "I'll wronged you for the time being, and after this battle, I'll change a cleaner footwrap for you." ”

Yue Fei was worried that Wanyan Zongwang would bite his tongue and commit suicide under the condition of being humiliated in every way, so he deliberately borrowed a pair of foul-smelling footcloths from a soldier who often did not wash his feet, and then stuffed it into Wanyan Zongwang's mouth.

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