In winter, the soil is hard, and it is not easy to dig trenches.

The number of people who came to the city with the army was not very large, and they didn't dig much in half an afternoon.

Towards evening, smoke began to rise in the camp, which was the Ming army cooking in a pot.

Wanyan Zongwang suddenly launched an attack, not allowing the Ming army to eat with peace of mind, nor allowing the Ming army to calmly dig trenches and build fortifications.

The cavalry of the Jin State was still in a team of fifty people, cruising back and forth on the periphery of the Ming army's chariot array and firing arrows. The archers and crossbowmen of the Ming army also relied on the chariot formation and fence wall to counterattack those golden horsemen.

Except for the trenching activities of the delayed people, neither side had any results to speak of.

In the afternoon, the Jin infantry and the Hebei Han army rushed from Zhaozhou and set up a camp on the west bank of the sleeping water, facing each other diagonally across the river from the Ming army camp.

Wanyan Zongwang stood on the city wall, looked at the Ming army camp in the distance and said: "Prince Zhu dared to set up a large camp outside the city, and he was afraid that our army would rob the camp, so he asked the soldiers guarding the periphery to sit in a formation without taking off their armor and spend the night. Fighting like this will make the soldiers tired in a day or two. ”

Wanyan Yan's mother said: "I always feel that Prince Zhu is hiding something. ”

"What else can he hide? It's nothing more than firearms. Wanyan Zongwang said.

At night, Wanyan Zongwang still sent cavalry to attack and disturb, so that the Ming soldiers could not rest normally.

"Boom, boom, boom!"

In the middle of the night, there was a sudden burst of artillery fire on the east bank of the sleeping water.

Of the 210 iron cannons brought by Zhu Ming, two-thirds belonged to the less powerful tiger squat guns, but one-third were field guns with a range of more than two miles.

The Jin infantry and the Hebei Han army arrived from Zhaozhou and set up camp on the west bank of the river, and they fell asleep for a while before they were fired by the Ming artillery on the other side of the river.

Not to mention the killing, because the distance was too far, there were no shells that even entered the camp, but it caused great chaos to Jin Bingda.

The Han army of Hebei, which was nervous and unwilling to fight, only heard bursts of artillery fire, and then there was a camp roar after waking up.

"Prince Zhu is here, run!"

Wanyan Zongwang, who had already crossed the river from Manuscript City and returned to the camp, was about to explode his lungs. Fortunately, the distance between the enemy and our camp is very close, and tonight both sides are sleeping, and the Jin soldiers will immediately be able to pick up their weapons to maintain order.

Braziers were lit everywhere in the Jin camp, and the Jin cavalry rode around the camp, ordering the Hebei Han army to return to the camp, and those who disobeyed were immediately executed on the spot.

Before the two sides could fight fiercely, the Jin soldiers slaughtered hundreds of Han soldiers by themselves, and the Jin soldiers' camp was still in local chaos.

"The camp is still too close."

Wanyan Yan's mother returned from maintaining order and despaired of the low morale of the Hebei Han army.

Wanyan Zongwang asked, "Have all the battalions been pacified?" ”

Wanyan Yan's mother said: "I have killed many crazy Han soldiers, and some Han soldiers have escaped from the camp, and I have sent cavalry to chase them back." When the two armies are in a decisive battle, they should not bring these Han troops to fight, they have no other use except to consume grain and grass. ”

Wanyan Zongwang was uneasy, and personally led a group of cavalry to the shore of the water to investigate the situation.

"Bang bang bang!"

As soon as he had not gone far, another burst of gunfire was heard.

Several light horsemen rushed to report: "Marshal, the Ming army is destroying our army's pontoon bridge, and Puchawanhu was injured when he sent troops to stop it!" ”

The pontoon bridge and the camp of the Jin soldiers were not directly facing the camp of the Ming army, but were located in a more southerly place.

Puchahu Baru was the lazy son-in-law of Wanyan Tart, and he led his cavalry across the river tonight to harass the tired Ming army. Just as he was running and shooting arrows, he received a report from the light cavalry that the Ming army was attacking the pontoon defenders.

Immediately the men sounded their trumpets and gathered together all the cavalry that had been scattered.

Before he could get back to the pontoon, he saw the stars by the river—the ramie ropes of the musketeers were shining.

Without much thought, Puchahu Baru rushed over with his cavalry, and took the lead with great bravery.

Approaching dozens of paces, two thousand muskets fired a salvo.

Another salvo of two thousand muskets.

Another salvo of two thousand muskets.

At the end of the three volleys, the pikemen, crouching on the ground, stood up and raised their guns to protect the musketeers who were reloading.

In the darkness of the north, more than 3,000 cavalry of the Ming Army suddenly killed under the leadership of Li Yanxian.

The cavalry of the Jin Kingdom, which was caught off guard by the third stage of the musket, was attacked by the Ming cavalry from the flank, and was so frightened that they hurriedly fled further south.

The cavalry of the Jin Kingdom was scattered at night, and neither flank was attacked, more than 6,000 bullets were fired, and only less than 200 horsemen were killed or wounded.

On the contrary, Li Yanxian led the cavalry to pursue and killed more than 100 Jin cavalry who could not escape.

After a short time, Puchahu Baru fled back from the pontoon bridge further south, and after crossing the river not far away, he fell off his horse with a pop.

He was carried back.

Wanyan Zongwang held up the torch to inspect and found that the armor on Puchahu Baru's chest had been pierced, and the wound was a small pit of flesh and blood.

The projectile is not big, but the wound is so big that it can almost be stuffed into a ping pong ball.

The military medic arrived, first checked the pulse before he died, and then cleaned the wound. One rib was broken, the bullet was stuck in the rib cage and was removed, and then the ointment was applied to bandage.

Puchahu Baru woke up once in pain while fetching the projectile, and finally fell asleep after moaning for two hours, and the next afternoon he began to develop a fever.

Wanyan Zongwang checked the situation after dawn and found that the pontoon bridge built by the Jin soldiers had been destroyed by the Ming army at night.

The Jin soldiers guarding the bridge did not even dare to stand on the west bank, because the sleeping water was only forty meters wide, and the Ming musketeers could shoot across the river.

In the evening of the same day, Wanyan Tart lazy led the army to arrive, and the strength of the Jin State increased again.

Wan Yan said lazily: "I have ordered to abandon Qianmin Town, Nanxinzhai, Shijiadian, Yangjiaguan, and Taohuadao, and move all the people in these places to nearby cities. He also dispatched the cavalry of the cities along the Panhai Road, and brought them all here for a decisive battle, and only let the foot soldiers defend the fortified city. The military rations also no longer take the Panhai Road, but the old way. ”

"Nanxinzhai can't be guarded?" Wanyan Zongwang exclaimed.

Wan Yan tart lazily explained: "The enemy general who crossed the sea is called Li Bao, and this person should rank first in the Ming Kingdom. The Ming army attacked and harassed everywhere by boat, and the officers and men of our army were exhausted, and two grain transport teams were also robbed. After the fight, Li Bao intensified his efforts, and actually set up a village on Juehua Island, and also recruited the Jiangnan naval army that had taken refuge in the Liao State! ”

Wanyan Zongwang: "......"

The Liaoxi Corridor has been abolished by Li Bao, and the Jin soldiers dare not go out of the city at all.

The two salt farms and a number of walled cities and small towns were all given up by Wanyan Tart lazy, and the Jin soldiers could only retreat into the city and defend it.

The only Jiangnan naval army there were all Khitans and Han Chinese. Seeing that Li Bao's fleet could not be defeated, Yelu Yu came forward to surrender, and the entire naval division of the formation surrendered together.

After being silent for a while, Wanyan Zongwang said, "Your son-in-law may be dying." ”

Wanyan Tart was lazy and immediately ran to visit Puchahu Balu, and found that his son-in-law had a high fever and was talking nonsense in a daze, and there were Jurchen sorcerers doing it next to him.

After inquiring in detail about the recent battle situation, Wan Yan asked lazily: "How do you plan to fight?" ”

Wanyan Zongwang said: "Build more pontoon bridges next to the draft city, and you can quickly cross the river to rescue the defenders in the city." A pontoon bridge was also set up farther downstream, which was convenient for the Dajin cavalry to go around the rear of the Ming army. Prince Zhu should be attacking the city, we will first use the defense battle to consume the Ming army, and when the enemy's morale is low and the soldiers are tired, then launch a general attack on both sides. ”

Two days later, Zhu Ming used more than 20,000 soldiers to guard the camp in situ, and pulled out 20,000 soldiers to officially start the siege.

This time, there are a large number of upgraded versions of the nest car - the watchtower car, the Song army used this thing to make a watchtower, but Zhu Ming built it bigger. Each watchcar could hold five musketeers, slightly higher than the enemy's walls.

3,000 heavy infantry, 3,000 infantry soldiers, and 4,000 musketeers were placed on both sides to cover the advance of the besieging troops.

All artillery is placed in the direction of the city wall and on either side of the besieging force.

The Jin cavalry urgently crossed the river from the north and south, and hundreds of horsemen were the first to charge towards the marching siege troops.

These hundreds of gold horsemen rushed from west to east along the city walls. The north side is the city wall, the south side is the Ming army camp, and the east side is the Ming army siege troops.

"Boom, boom!"

"Bang bang bang!"

Dozens of tiger squat cannons on this side of the camp fired shotguns from the south. The two thousand musketeers covering the siege troops also fired a salvo from the east.

Artillery muskets, cross-fire.

Although the formation of hundreds of golden horsemen was scattered, most of them fell on the spot.

Wanyan tart stood at the head of the city and saw it clearly, and instantly turned pale, and said to Wanyan Zongwang: "Except for the various departments defending the city, the rest are all going around to the south and east to attack the enemy camp. Take advantage of the Ming army to attack the city, and break their camp from the rear! ”

Batch after batch of Jin soldiers, a few miles to the south, crossed the river on a pontoon bridge, and even those Hebei Han soldiers were brought.

The Ming army in the camp took the initiative to shrink.

The camp of the Ming army within a radius of several miles was all abandoned on the periphery. Only then did Yan Zongwang find out that the Ming army vans on the periphery of the camp had all been included in the camp last night.

Not only that, but the Ming army's digging trenches and fortifications on the periphery was just a cover. After digging for a long time and giving up, Wanyan Zongwang thought that he had sent troops to attack and harass it worked. In fact, the Ming army was within the barracks, and with the help of the cover of military tents, the amount of work was greatly reduced after secretly digging ditches and building fortifications, and shrinking the defensive circle.

To the east and south are the main attack directions of the Jin soldiers, and a trench two meters wide and three meters deep has been dug inside the Ming army camp on these two sides.

The excavated earth was used to build a barrier, which had been covered with grass until now. Because the distance is too far to see the truth, Wanyan Zongwang looked at the city wall, and thought that it was all the forage of the Ming cavalry - if the Jin people were expected to have a long shot, the Ming army would have been exposed.

The Jin soldiers attacked the camp in a big way, breaking through the perimeter with a momentum like a rainbow, and only when they entered did they find trenches and barriers.

20,000 Ming troops and thousands of civilians guarded the line of defense after the contraction, and the Jin soldiers had to fill it with human lives if they wanted to break through.

Outside the southern wall of the city, large watchtower carts carried musketeers forward. There are also siege equipment such as ladders, women's walls, and rushing cars next to it.

The Golden Guards were already shooting rockets outward, aiming at the ladder and the Lady Wall.

The watchcar stopped twenty meters from the city wall, and the musketeers, standing inside, began to prepare for free fire towards the city.

Hua Rong fought in person, such a short distance, let alone hitting people, the flying eagle can hit!

He had already observed through his binoculars, learned of Saariho's location, and ordered the soldiers to push him closer.

Sariho was commanding the troops to defend the city, standing behind the female wall, and his own soldiers raised shields to protect him, but his head was completely exposed.

Under normal circumstances, such a position could not be dangerous.

"Bang!"

A gunshot rang out, and Saarijo fell in response.

The future Prime Minister of the Left of the Jin Kingdom and Marshal of the Left died of bullets in a daze.

"Bang bang bang!"

As Hua Rong's gun rang out, the rest of the musketeers also fired one after another.

The golden soldiers who were defending the city began to fall in large numbers.

Wanyan Zongwang is also in the city, but he has avoided the siege site, otherwise this guy may also capsize.

Hearing the sound of gunshots and screams, Wanyan Zongwang turned his head to look, only to see that no one was standing on the golden soldiers on the city wall in the distance. Not to mention the people who were shot, those who were not shot also squatted down and hid behind the women's wall out of fear.

Several golden soldiers rushed over: "Marshal, all of them are gone!" ”

Wan Yan Zongwang was dumbfounded.

(End of chapter)