After Chai Jin led people into Cangzhou, he took over the defense of Cangzhou City. He asked Shi Yuzhu (the commander of the soldiers and horses), Li Gon, Ye Hongyan, and Duanmuxiu to each bring 4,000 soldiers, 2,000 people, and 500 musketeers to guard the four gates in the southeast, northwest, and northwest, and he and Li Kui, Shi Jin, Li Zhong, Zhou Tong and others led 12,000 cavalry to maneuver.

More than 30 small guns were brought, and four were placed on each side of the tower. Now, under the arrangement of Wen Depin, Chai Jin and others, Cangzhou City has strong walls and is ready to fight against the Jin people.

At noon on August 20, Muhan's 100,000-strong army arrived in Cangzhou and besieged the city like an iron bucket. In the afternoon of the same day, after a short rest, the Jin people began to attack the city.

The soldiers of the Jin people are all cavalry, and only the logistics soldiers are infantry. Therefore, the Jin people are good at field warfare but not good at siege.

Facing the first high city with thick walls, the Jin people still took advantage of the riding and archery. The cavalry galloped seventy or eighty paces outside the city, and a pair of golden cavalry rode from left to right, firing arrows as they ran.

Thinking of taking advantage of the cavalry and archery advantage to hold the defenders at the head of the city, he asked the Jin people who dismounted behind him to change into infantry and rush to the city, and climbed up to the city by taking a ladder. Along the way, the county towns they conquered were conquered in this way.

But this time, the golden people are doomed to disappointment.

When the cavalry of the Jin people shot arrows back and forth outside the city, most of the defenders of the four gates sat behind the arrow stacks to rest and chat, only the musketeers, archers and artillerymen wearing the special armor and masks of the Wantong Chamber of Commerce turned a blind eye to the stray arrows in the sky, and the musketeers leaned their flintlock pistols against the city wall and fired freely at their own targets, and the archers did not hurry to aim at the enemy cavalry and shoot at the enemy.

The north gate is the main direction of the Jin people's attack, and the Jin people's attack is very fierce from the beginning. Chai Jin was afraid that Shi Yuzhu would fight the Jin people for the first time and had no experience, so he asked Shi Jin to change the 2,000 cavalry into infantry to assist in defending the city.

Shi Jin and Shi Yuzhu walked back and forth on the city wall like a walk, cheering everyone up. Shi Jin said: "Shoot people first and shoot horses." When the golden man moved quickly, the brothers who were not sure to aim at the man shot at their horses. If the horse is injured and the Jin man is taken off the horse, he will be trampled to death by the horse behind him, and it will also cause casualties to the Jin man. ”

After saying that, he took the bow and arrow from the archer beside him and said, "Watch me shoot that yellow horse." As the words fell, the yellow-waisted horse, which had been running in front, was struck by an arrow in the neck, and the horse was so frightened that he jumped and fell to the ground. The Jin soldier on horseback was controlling the strings and drawing the bow, and was immediately lifted off the horse, and was stepped on the head by the horse behind, and most of them could not live.

Everyone applauded in unison for this handsome young general. After most of the archers and musketeers changed to shoot horses, sure enough, the casualties of the Jin people increased, and the Jin general Yinshu, who was in charge of the command of the north gate, saw that the archers at the head of the city had no major casualties, and they did not dare to send infantry to attack the city. An hour and a half later, the Jin people saw that they could not take advantage of it, and lost more than a thousand horses in vain. After listening to the reports from all sides, Sticky Han ordered the offensive to be suspended.

This is the first time that Sticky Han has been caught off guard since he led his troops into the Great Song Dynasty. After returning to the tent of the commander of the Chinese army, Mu Han was sullen and drank sullenly. Ha Mi Chi on the side persuaded: "Victory and defeat are a common thing in soldiers. The main thing is that we don't have enough shields, and a small number of shields were handed over from the Song people some time ago. There were no siege equipment such as ladders and siege vehicles, and it was too difficult to storm this high city. ”

Mu Han said: "Then we won't attack such a big city?" ”

"The big city will definitely be attacked, but we have to suspend it for two or three days, and let the soldiers go to find the carpenters among the captured Song people to make ladders and wooden shields, and after the ladders and wooden ones are done, we can attack the city without cavalry suppressing the city."

"What if no one wants to admit that they are carpenters?" ”

Sticky Han said: "I personally took the pro-military camp to arrange." ”

After speaking, Ha Michi personally took five hundred soldiers from the pro-military battalion to the place where the refugees were guarded to select people. He said to the soldiers in the barracks: "Go and tell the captured slaves that whoever knows how to do carpentry work, as long as he is willing to come out and help us make ladders and wooden shields, we will release his family in front of him and let them go home." And during the work period, all the carpenters ate and lived together with the officers and soldiers of our Jin people, and ate a full meal. ”

Seeing that the refugees had such favorable conditions, the carpenters were naturally reluctant to lose the opportunity to save their families, and some bold young adults, even if they did not know carpentry skills, also stood up and said that they knew carpentry. In this way, more than three thousand carpenters were quickly found from among the refugees.

Ha Mi Chi asked the pro-camp to take these people to cut wood and make things.

The next day, Mu Han listened to the report of the detective cavalry, and all the villages within a radius of 100 miles of Cangzhou City were deserted except for Crouching Tiger Villa. Only the Crouching Tiger Villa is full of smoke and crowds, and there are no less than 50,000 or 60,000 people. However, the wall of the villa is only higher than the wall of Cangzhou City, and I am afraid it is not easy to fight.