At the same time, the battle to attack Beicheng was at its most intense moment. Wanyan Zongbi did a lot of homework in advance, especially fearing the Flying Fire Thunder of the Song army. He listened to the advice of the Song craftsmen and nailed wooden boards under the siege ladder, so that the Flying Fire Thunder could no longer be wrapped around the pillars and beams. This way, the most critical battle point of the Flying Fire Thunder was broken. The Flying Fire Thunder itself was not strong. If it were not close to the Siege ladder, its violent force would not be able to destroy the ladder.

Siege ladders hooked the battlements, and the Xi soldiers climbed up bravely, fighting fiercely with the Song soldiers guarding the battlements. Soldiers on both sides were constantly stabbed by guns and spears, and screamed and fell down from the city.

Amid the fierce shouts of killing, the Song army's flying fire thunder failed one after another, and the general Yang Wenyi urgently reported the situation to Li Yanqing.

"Try again!" Li Yanqing pointed to a siege ladder.

Immediately, a fire thunder hand waved the copper rod, and the flying fire thunder flew towards the siege ladder, hitting the siege ladder with great accuracy, but the flying fire thunder could not entangle the ladder and fell directly, exploding on the ground, but the siege ladder was intact.

"These bastards have learned to be smart!"

Li Yanqing cursed and immediately ordered: "Transfer my order to stop the attack of flying fire and thunder, and use tinder oil to burn it!"

Burning with tinder oil is also a way to deal with siege ladders, but it is not as good as flying fire thunder. Even if the ladder is burned, it will not be easily burned.

In addition, bombing with the thunder of the sky is also a good way, but this consumes too much money on the thunder of the sky. The Song army has consumed nearly a thousand thunder of the sky to date, and the inventory is less than 500. Most of them are used to deal with the long nail thunder of the nest truck and the 80-pound city-burning thunder. Only a hundred ordinary throwing thunders are left.

The supplies from Jingzhao Prefecture were not delivered for a long time, and the Taiyuan City lacked saltpeter and could not be built by itself. In this case, Li Yanqing could only try not to use the thunder in the sky easily, and could use the city guard bow to shoot the enemy troops under the city.

In front of a siege ladder, several Song soldiers pushed a fierce Xi warrior down the city, and the enemy below had not yet been taken up. At this time, a gap appeared at the top of the siege ladder. The Song soldiers who had been waiting aside poured a bucket of siege oil down and poured the soldiers below and the siege ladder together with the black siege oil.

The turtle oil of the Song army came from Yan'an Prefecture. The turtle oil here is of high quality, few impurities, easy to burn, and can also burn on the water surface. It was used for lighting during the Sui and Tang Dynasties, which was the famous Gaonu Oil. During the Five Dynasties, this turtle oil was simply filtered and started to be used in large quantities in war.

The Jin soldiers on the siege ladder were poured with tiny oil and immediately screamed in horror. At this time, the Song army threw down the torch and immediately ignited the tiny oil. The two soldiers suddenly became igniters and screamed and jumped off the city desperately.

At this time, two more barrels of turbulent oil were poured down from the city, and the entire siege ladder was ignited. The siege ladder accumulated on the ground and burned wildly, and gradually the siege ladder was swallowed up.

Wanyan Zongbi was watching the battle from a distance. His siege ladder broke the opponent's flying fire thunder, which made him secretly proud. However, the Song army immediately used turbulent oil to burn the ladder, which soon caused the Jin soldiers to fall into decline. Wanyan Zongbi shook his head and ordered: "On the nest car!"

The low horn sounded, and the ten nest cars standing behind the trench began to rumble. The nest cars were not brought from Zhending Mansion, but were made by craftsmen brought by Wanyan Zongbi in Taiyuan Mansion. The nest cars were as tall as three meters tall and huge as a skeleton. The outside was simply wrapped with wooden boards. Four large wheels were installed on the huge chassis below. There were straight ladders inside the nest cars, which could go directly to the city.

More than twenty Jin soldiers stood on the roof of the nest chariot. In front of them was a thick wooden board with a hole in it. They could not only see the situation on the city, but also defend against the arrows of the Song army. When they approached the city, they put down the long wooden board and put it on the city, which became a very convenient overpass to the city.

After all, these nest cars were made by Song craftsmen, and they reflected the wisdom of Song craftsmen in many details. For example, according to the standard nest car manufacturing process, two layers of cooked cowhide should be covered outside. However, the craftsmen could not find the cooked cowhide for a while, so they sawed the log into two and nailed half of the log on the front of the nest car. In this way, even a large crossbow arrow could not penetrate the nest car.

The ground outside the northern city of Taiyuan was flat, and the original wheat fields had already been trampled firmly. The nest car drove rapidly on the flat ground and quickly entered within a hundred steps. At this time, the Song army's crossbow began to fire, and big arrows roared at the nest car, but the effect was not great, and the big arrows could not penetrate thick wood.

When the first nest car entered fifty steps, the artillery suddenly fired, and a scattered laser was shot towards the nest car. This is the long nailed thunder that the Song army specially deals with warships. It is the long nailed thunder that the two ships are fired when they meet. The three long thorns on its shell can be firmly nailed to the hull, but the Song army has not used it in water battles so far. Instead, the similar structure of the nested thunder and the hull has made it play twice.

However, the Jin soldiers could not see the launch of the long nail thunder from behind, nor could they see it being nailed to the body of the nest car. They thought that the sky-shaking thunder fell into the inside of the nest car from the top. Of course, when the nest car approached the city wall, they could use this trick to find strong soldiers to throw the sky-shaking thunder directly into the nest car, but Li Yanqing would not give the nest car the chance to get close to the city wall.

The thunder of the sky hit the front of the nest car accurately. The long iron pierced into the wood. The thunder of the sky did not land, and the fuse had already burned into the iron thunder. When the thunder of the sky took two more steps forward, the thunder of the sky exploded in shock, and the wood suddenly burst into pieces. More than 20 people on the top were blown to the sky by violent shock waves. When the smoke of gunpowder dissipated, more than half of the first thunder of the nest car was blown away, leaving only the base and a small half of the nest car. The Jin soldiers who stood in the thunder in advance were also killed.

Immediately afterwards, the nine-seater nesting car behind them was also done and was blown up one after another. Wanyan Zongbi was stunned and sighed for a while: "Send an order to withdraw the troops!"

The bell of 'Dang! Dang! Dang!' rang, and the Jin soldiers who were sieging the city retreated like a tide. At this moment, Li Yanqing issued a firing order. Eighty artillery of the Song army chased out eighty giant city-knocking thunders. The giant sky-knocking thunder fell into the crowd and exploded. The Song soldiers on the top of the city covered their ears and squatted down. The explosion of the giant sky-knocking thunder made the city wall sway. The violent explosion made the soldiers' hearts stop beating. Thousands of Jin soldiers died in the last round of explosions.

Wanyan Chang of Dongcheng was incompetent in siege and was forced to order the withdrawal of troops.

The Taiyuan siege, which took place on the first day of the first lunar month, ended with heavy casualties of the Jin soldiers. In this battle, from the early morning to the dusk, more than 9,400 Jin soldiers attacking the Beicheng suffered casualties, while 14,000 Jin soldiers attacking the Dongcheng suffered casualties. The injured were difficult to cure and most of them died, but Taiyuan was still firmly controlled by the Song army.

However, the clouds that were not conducive to Taiyuan City also appeared quietly. The Song army defending the city could not receive supplementary military supplies. The thunder that showed its power in several major wars has been exhausted, which means that the later battles will become more and more tragic.

The afterglow of the setting sun shrouded the earth, and the crystal clear ice walls of Taiyuan City looked even more magnificent and dazzling under the sunset. On the top of the city, female guards were busy rescuing the wounded. In fact, during the fierce battle of the war, their figures appeared and transported the seriously injured soldiers down the city and sent them to the temporary medical camp for treatment.

Today's fierce battle, the Song army also suffered more than 2,000 casualties. Hundreds of people in the East City were injured by thunder and thunder. The enemy's bows and arrows were also injured by hundreds of people. The casualties of soldiers in the North City mainly came from fierce battles with the Jin soldiers at the top of the city, with thousands of casualties. However, compared with the casualties of the Jin soldiers, it seems insignificant.

After the Jin soldiers withdrew back to the barracks ten miles away, the Song army opened the city gate. Niu Gao led more than 3,000 soldiers to clean up the battlefield, mainly to concentrate the bodies of the Jin soldiers of the dead and burn them deep to prevent the occurrence of epidemics. At the same time, collect armor and weapons and recover arrows.

After the fierce battle of the day, Li Yanqing was really exhausted, but he still forced himself to come to the temporary military camp to visit the wounded soldiers.

The temporary medical camp is located next to Jinyang Street in the north of the city, about 500 steps away from the city wall. It was originally the training camp of the Taiyuan Xiangjun, covering an area of ​​more than 50 acres. Now the Song army has built more than 100 large tents in the schoolyard, which can accommodate up to 5,000 wounded soldiers. However, now there are only more than 1,000 slightly injured soldiers receiving treatment, and the wounded soldiers do not seem to be crowded.

More than thirty military doctors were busy treating the wounded soldiers. Most of the wounded soldiers were injured, including arrow injuries, knife injuries, etc., but some soldiers died. When Li Yanqing walked into the wounded camp, he happened to see Hu Qing'er carrying a dozen female soldiers out with five stretchers. The soldiers on the stretcher were covered with white cloth, which means that the soldiers had been killed. However, Li Yanqing found that these five people seemed to be female soldiers.

"Qing'er, what's going on with them?" Li Yanqing stepped forward and asked.

Hu Qing'er shook her head and said sadly: "These five sisters were injured in the fierce battle. One was pierced by a spear and was seriously injured. The other four were seriously injured in the same explosion of the sky-shaking thunder. The three were too fragments on their bodies and could not stop bleeding. Another one was not injured. It was probably because of the explosion that shattered the inner organs. Many soldiers on the city were shocked to death on the spot. She had a breath at that time and was sent soon after she was sent."

"How many wounded soldiers are dead now?"

"So far, with the five of them, there are a total of 64 people, all of whom are seriously injured and unable to be rescued."

These five female soldiers followed Hu Qing'er when they were in Liangshan. They were usually like sisters. They lived and trained together for many years and had a deep relationship. They saw that they were still fine in the morning, but now they were separated by life and death. Hu Qing'er's mood seemed low. Li Yanqing stared at her for a moment and said softly: "Bury them well!"
Chapter completed!