The next day, early in the morning.

"Quick, get up, all go to the wall!"

With the sound of frightened screams, the soldiers around Wang Yue, who had listened for half the night, woke up from their sleep one after another.

"Quick, go to the city wall!"

A young officer on horseback shouted in front of them.

The soldiers stood listlessly and walked towards the walls with their weapons.

"Brothers, be careful!"

Wang Yue said in a low voice with the bow of the divine arm.

Several soldiers around showed a knowing expression, after a night of bewitchment by this guy, they had already made their goal clear, as soon as the Chang Shengjun landed in the city, they would flee immediately.

"What are you talking about?"

The officer said warily.

In fact, there is no need for Wang Yue to run to confuse during this time, there are a lot of various news about the north in the city, of course, including the spread of Wang Yue's subordinates, so the officials also attach great importance to this issue, and there are special secret agents in the city every day to arrest those who are bewitching the public.

"Back to Master Xiucai's words, this brother asked the little ones to be careful not to be injured by the arrows of the thieves."

A soldier hurriedly said with a smiling face.

Obviously, the title of Xiucai was very useful to the officer, and he just snorted coldly and urged the horse to leave, and the soldier motioned for Wang Yue to hurry away......

"Is this guy a showman?"

Wang Yue looked at the officer's back and said.

"The student of Zhou Xue, named Li Qiong, somehow hooked up with Wang Boyan of Zhizhou, saying that he was a Wen Tao Wu strategy, and it happened that Wang Boyan was not at ease with our Tian system, after all, Tian Tong was under Liang Fangping in the past, and he was afraid that he would have any different intentions in the war, so he made him a supervisor in the army. Be careful of this guy, although he is a scholar, he is ruthless, kills people without blinking, and has found excuses to kill several brothers Liwei these days. ”

The soldier said.

Wang Yue nodded.

Li Qiong, this is also my golden general!

"Brother's surname?"

He went on to say.

"Little brother Xu Qing, Tangyin people."

The soldier said.

"Brother, do you recognize Yue Fei?"

Wang Yue said.

"Well, Pengju and a fellow villager, originally Wang Boyan wanted him to be an official this time, but Pengju resigned with filial piety, how did Brother Yang recognize Pengju?"

Xu Qing said.

"He had a lot of contacts when he was in the army before, why didn't he come, it is said that his filial piety has also arrived."

Wang Yue said.

He changed his name to Yang Qing at this time.

He said that no matter what the king of Zhongshan did, he was still the prince of the imperial court after all, and as long as the officials had not issued an edict saying that the king of Zhongshan was plotting rebellion, then no matter what they did, it was not a reason for these local officials to go to war with the king of Zhongshan, and these officials and gentry would eventually be suspected of rebellion according to the right reason. In fact, I don't want to come, but I covet the military salary of five times a month, and if I don't join the army, I have to pay the loyalty and donation to the government. ”

Xu Qing said.

The loyalty donation is the additional tax collected by Wang Boyan, the governor of Xiangzhou, for the formation of this mercenary army.

The gentry took the lead in handing over, and then forced the poor ghost to hand over, as for whether it was three or seven points, I don't know.

In fact, most of the officials and gentry in various places do this, they can't really pay all their own money, that is, donations in various names in various places, and then apportioned to everyone's heads, it is really not enough for the gentry to pay some, and there is even no shortage of officials who take the opportunity to make money, especially Wang Boyan, an official from the south, I am afraid that he has long been ready to flee at any time, if he does not take the opportunity to make money, there will be ghosts.

He is not from Hebei.

Even some Hebei gentry are estimated to be preparing to run away.

They supported Zhan Du in a decisive battle with Wang Yue in Xiangzhou, the purpose was actually to solve it in a battle, and if Zhan Du was defeated, they would not be stupid enough to resist city by city.

At least not north of the Yellow River.

The rest may be the Daimyo's Mansion will resist a wave in the Daimyo's Mansion, after all, the city is too big, and the gentry there are too rich, they may resist another wave for this, but the battle north of the Yellow River is really determined, and this is exactly the result Wang Yue wants.

By this time they had already walked up to the city walls.

Under the still cloudy sky outside, you can see that the victorious army is pouring out of the barracks and then running in formation, under the banner of Rulin, one by one heavily armed soldiers, like a steel city wall, and behind them are huge trebuchets and ladder carts, Lu Gong and the like are slowly moving, like monsters under the clouds. This scene immediately panicked the defenders on the city wall, after all, most of these are recruits who have not experienced the flames of war, and the Chang Shengjun is prestigious, this is the real elite who can defeat the Jurchens miserably, kill an emperor and capture an emperor alive.

"Don't be afraid, we're on the wall!"

Li Qiong rode a horse and shouted.

The food delivery man behind him carried a basket of large meat buns and distributed them one by one.

"Everyone is well fed to fight, everyone has a reward for repelling the thieves, brothers, behind us is the land of Sangzi, and we must not let these traitors scourge them."

Li Qiong continued to shout.

"Ma, the scourge is the landlord's old wealth and not the old man!"

Wang Yue nibbled on the meat bun and whispered.

Xu Qing and the soldiers on both sides also nibbled on the meat buns, and nodded with deep sympathy.

Fortunately, Li Qiong was entering the state, speaking heroically, and did not hear this guy's gossip to confuse the public.

The big meat buns did boost morale, after all, this thing is still rare to eat, although those panicked soldiers are still panicked, but at least they are no longer trembling, and then their commander Tian Shi also appeared on horseback and began to arrange various defensive measures. Zhang Jun's son-in-law was not Zhang Jun's son-in-law at this time, he was married to Zhang Jun's widowed daughter-in-law, Zhang Jun's son died early, leaving a widowed daughter-in-law, even if it was Zhang Jun's daughter.

As for the ...... between Zhang Jun and this widow and daughter-in-law,

No one knows about this.

And Lao Tian was Liang Fangping's subordinate before, and later became an officer in the scumbag forbidden army in Hebei, and this time he didn't know how to be taken by Wang Boyan.

They are only a part of the defense on the city wall, and at this time, on the north wall of the entire outer city of Zhending, 50,000 mercenaries from almost half of Hebei are all led by the civil and military officials who led them, Confucian scholars, and maybe even bribed bandits, gnawing meat buns and silently looking at the opposite side. They watched as the 10,000 victorious army completed the formation and began to move forward, and watched as the siege equipment was also pushed by the people in front of them, slowly moving among the soldiers, and the sound of war drums and bugles and neat footsteps resounded through the wilderness of early winter.

The soldiers on the walls trembled again.

But soon the victorious army stopped less than half a mile away, and the counterweight trebuchets pushed to the front, and the following shield carts quickly formed a shield wall on both sides, and the soldiers behind the shield wall were busy, and then one by one their long arms were raised, and there were more arc-shaped falling smoke traces in the sky. However, none of this landed on the city walls, because the range was not enough, and all of them fell on the other side of the moat, and then the balls visible to the naked eye hit the ground with sparks that spewed out and splashed mud.

Then one by one they turned into exploding flames.

There was a scream of terror on the walls.

"Don't be afraid, it's just a thunderbolt, we have it too!"

Li Qiong shouted.

They do have it, but the quality of gunpowder is poor and the power is tragic, but there are indeed them, after all, Wang Yue has used it many times, and the gentry of Hebei are not unable to make it.

Behind them is the largest iron-smelting base in the Great Song Dynasty!

Even the city wall even has a three-eyed gun, and there are 10,000 enemies, many of which are actually sold to them by those merchants of Kaifeng Commune, of course, with the permission of the King of Zhongshan, a hundred thousand enemies and a hundred thousand, and the cost is less than five, why not do such a good business? The three-eyed guns are fifty each, and those gentry don't care about the price at all in order to be able to get these legendary good things, since they are willing to pay for it, of course King Wang is also willing to make money......

Very selling nooses to hang their own capitalist fan.

During this period, because of the sale of arms to the gentry of Hebei, the tax revenue of Kaifeng Commune skyrocketed, and the tax revenue in the first half of the year alone exceeded 2 million.

Then he gave Wang Yue a million.

This is not counting the money earned by Wang Yue's industries, and the military expenses of the previous fierce war with Muhan were basically paid by the Hebei gentry.

In order to overwhelm the momentum of the opposing side, 60,000 enemies were immediately thrown down on the city wall.

"Brothers, don't be afraid, we also have firearms, and there are 10,000 enemies who are afraid of what they will do!"

Tian Shizhong also said excitedly.

The mood of the defenders on the walls was somewhat more stable.

But the trebuchet on the opposite side made this round, and then stopped firing, and behind the trebuchet six huge Lu carts began to move forward, this behemoth was higher than the city wall, and even had iron plates on the front, and the base was longer than the top, so that it could be easily installed with enough wheels. After all, the weight of this thing is beyond the bearing capacity of the ground at this time, so the wheels must be as many as possible, and in the middle of the wheels is an iron sleeve, which is relatively labor-saving with castor oil, and there is no need to use a bunch of cattle to pull the cart.

People can push it.

Under the protection of the shield wall, the people in front of the branch shouted and pushed forward like six moving castles.

"Bed crossbow, shoot rockets!"

Li Qiong shouted.

A bed crossbow on the city wall immediately aimed at these Lu buses and shot iron feather arrows.

But the iron feather arrows of the bed crossbow are useless, because the front of the Lu bus is equipped with iron plates, and these five-millimeter-thick wrought iron are mounted on the frame of wood, and the iron feather arrows cannot be shot through at all, and even if they are shot through, they can only be nailed to them, although the iron feather arrows are all in front of them with burning tarpaulins, but all the soldiers inside need is to lift the iron plates and then pour water upwards.

In short, despite the continuous firing of iron feather arrows from the bed crossbow here, the six Lu buses were not disturbed in the slightest, and still moved forward slowly but firmly.

Then he stopped twenty feet away.

The soldiers on the city walls looked at the moving castle with puzzled eyes, which could not be pierced by these iron-feathered arrows......

"Let's take a look, without our labor, the grain will not drill out, the cultivation and hoeing are all our hard work, five watches, sleep in the middle of the night, a grain of grain and a drop of sweat, the landlord does not work, the grain is piled up into a mountain......"

Singing suddenly came from these castles.

(Two watches, happy Dragon Boat Festival)