Chapter 60: Driving the People and Attacking the City
Wanyan Lou did not continue to answer Wanyan Zonghan's words, he was a relatively pure soldier in the Jin Army, unlike Wanyan Zonghan with a strong politician atmosphere.
As a soldier, he thinks more about the interests of his sons in the army, because he has fought too many hard battles, Wanyan Lou knows the consequences of heavy losses in a battle, so he is unwilling to raise troops in anger.
But this time, he felt that Fan Zhuoyuan was the biggest threat, and no matter whether he could win Yandi in the end, Fan Zhuoyuan must be eliminated.
Otherwise, according to his intuition, the Kingdom of Jin will never be at peace in the future.
After all, he is the first Song general to win more with less and break the myth of the invincibility of the Jurchens, no matter how overestimated.
In Tongzhou County, Fan Zhuoyuan gathered his troops at this time and hurriedly arranged the city defense.
At present, Fan Zhuoyuan has five partial generals, each of whom usually leads 2,000 soldiers and horses, namely: Chang Fu, He Lubu, Gu Huaizhen, Zhang Jin, Wu Yu, and a military judge Fu Yan, who has a strong and unsmiling personality, commands a 1,000-strong law enforcement team.
With his establishment, he is almost the same as a private soldier, otherwise under normal circumstances, it is impossible for these subordinates to be appointed by him, and it can only be said that Tong Guan did give Fan Zhuoyuan a lot of private equity authority before.
When arranging city defense, the first consideration is naturally how to defend artillery, the amount of gunpowder stored in Shanhaiguan will not be less, and Liu Yanqing left a brain to the Jurchens when he ran, resulting in a very passive situation today.
After Fan Zhuoyuan thought about it, he asked people to prepare a large number of burlap bags filled with sand and soil, and hang them on all sides of the city wall with ropes. At the same time, sacks of sand and burlap were spread all over the city.
Only in this way can the impact of the projectile be slowed down as much as possible.
This matter was called on the army in the city to deal with it, and it was busy all night, and every household of the people had to contribute, and the laying was quickly completed.
Then the artillery in the city was pushed out, erected on the head of the city, and the enemy was-for-tat, and at the same time rushed to make trebuchets, prepared wolf tooth slappers and other city defense equipment, just waiting for the other party to attack the city, will give the Jin people an unexpected surprise.
The next day, the Jin army of 150,000 horses, plus more than tens of thousands of civilians driven in, were pushed and driven to Tongzhou County.
Most of these people came from Jizhou, except for some who were sent to Liaodong as slaves, and some of the old, weak, sick and disabled who did not want to besiege the city.
Everyone stood at the head of the city and saw this, they all hated it so much, most of the soldiers defending the city were Yan people, and many of the people below were related to the soldiers in the city.
At this time, the Jin army was mixed among the people, and it was naturally impossible to open the city to save people, otherwise the city gate would be very easy to lose.
However, Tongzhou County has a single defense, and there is no urn city, once it is lost, the consequences will be very serious.
Fan Zhuo saw that the Jin army had not yet begun to besiege the city in the east, so he had a plan not to let the Jin army use the people to consume his morale in this way.
He ordered the cavalry to prepare, 3,000 cavalry went around the north gate, ready to go out of the city to fight at any time, 3,000 infantry rode to the south gate, and the remaining 2,000 infantry stayed at the city gate and also entered the Tibetan cave.
Then he ordered the eight artillery pieces placed on the head of the city to be ready, which were dragged from Yanjing City overnight, all of which were heavy cannons of 2,000 catties.
Fan Zhuoyuan used his mathematical knowledge to calculate the elevation angle, let people change the specific elevation angle bracket, and aimed at the Jin army formation behind the people.
At the sound of an order, eight artillery salvos were fired, and at this time the Jin army had not yet formed a formation, and the formation of 150,000 people was relatively close when marching.
Eight cannonballs cut an arc in mid-air, flew out of seven or eight miles, and smashed heavily into the marching array of the Jin army.
The sprinting and tumbling projectile, with the kinetic energy that mortals cannot resist, smashed into the cheese like a glass ball, and Zilala's plow out five bloody alleys!
Jin Jun was frightened and wanted to dodge, but after the projectile landed, the angle of the projectile that smashed on the ground and sputtered out could not be predicted at all, obviously looking at the cannonball to shoot to the middle, but it hit the ground but bounced to the left!
Following the Jin army that dodged to the left was equivalent to hitting the projectile directly, and even if he was wearing thick armor, he was torn to shreds in an instant.
Eight iron balls stopped in pools of blood, but there were already a dozen dead bodies and seven or eight completely crippled soldiers in their path.
Wanyan Zonghan and Wanyan Lou were separated by several miles, and at this time, they had already seen the damage caused by the five shells, and their hearts were shocked.
The artillery captured in their hands has a conventional range of seven or eight miles, but it will definitely not be able to hit the target on the city wall, and its lethality will be much weaker.
The opponent occupies the advantage of the height of the city wall, not only hitting far, but also hitting accurately, which is extremely threatening.
Both men unanimously ordered the advance to be halted, and only cavalry and some infantry were mixed in with the people, looking for an opportunity to seize the city gates.
Wan Yan Lou slapped the saddle and said angrily: "The Song Kingdom has developed such a brutal weapon of war, if they are allowed to continue to develop, how can we have a place to live in the future?!" ”
He had previously discussed with Wanyan Zonghan, and he had thought about continuing to go south to bleed the Song State, but now it seems that he really wants to fight for a long time, and when the Song State becomes stronger and stronger, they will not be opponents sooner or later.
Now taking advantage of the advantage, and the emperor and ministers of the Song State are all cowardly and cowardly, they should eliminate the heroes of the Song State as much as possible, only in this way can the Jin State really defeat this behemoth in the future.
And at present, after Tong Guan leaves, these people who can still hold on to Yandi are all heroes of the Song Kingdom, even if they kill one, they will be earned!
Wan Yan Lou's expression became gloomy, and not long after, he heard eight more cannon shots, and his face changed in shock.
This time, after Fan Zhuoyuan had the gun chamber cleared, he shifted the muzzle of the cannon and bombarded the area where Wanyan Zonghan and Wanyan Lou's chamber were located.
That's really easy to aim, after all, where the main general is located, there must be a big flag, and you can see it clearly from a few miles away.
These eight projectiles were directed at them separately, and they were most likely to cause turmoil in the hearts of the army.
Sure enough, a projectile with an erratic trajectory is actually more deterrent than a projectile that hits accurately, because no one knows if looking at the projectile floating to the left will suddenly turn to the right without a head and no brain.
And after landing, will it turn to the left again after ejecting?
There are many martial arts masters in the Jin army, and in the face of such unstoppable firearms, they can't help but be afraid, and they have persuaded the two main generals to retreat quickly.
On the way to withdraw the army, the most taboo is chaos, the main general Daxu Banner can retreat, but not too quickly, must command the troops to cover each other and retreat, so as not to give the enemy pursuers an opportunity.
Wanyan Zonghan and Wanyan Lou were both veterans of a hundred battles, and when they saw the shells falling into the crowd, although they were also shocked in their hearts, they still followed the law, commanding the army to cover alternately, while slowly retreating.
At this time, Fan Zhuoyuan's cavalry and cavalry infantry stationed in the north and south had already left the city, and their task was originally to isolate the main force of the Jin army and cover the troops in Dongcheng to rescue the fleeing people.
But if there was chaos when most of the Jin army retreated, Fan Zhuoyuan would naturally not let go of such an opportunity.
It is a pity that under the command of the famous generals of the Jin army, the various units of the Jin army took cover alternately, and the retreat was orderly, and there was no flaw at all.
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