At Yuguan, Wanyan Zonghan led a 50,000 support army to the outside of Guancheng, but Wanyan Zonghan never expected that Yuguan had fallen into the hands of the Western Army.
This made him very shocked and worried. What shocked him was the speed of the Western Army. The Pingzhou army rescued Daxing City. In just two or three days, the Western Army seized this opportunity and occupied Yuguan.
The worry is whether Yanshan Mansion is still in their hands? Can Wanyan Helisha still be able to defend Daxing City in Zhongdu?
But no matter how worried he was about Yanshan Mansion, the Yuguan in front of him gave him a headache. How many Western troops were there in Guancheng? How should he capture it?
Yuguanguan City is about two feet and five feet high, tall and solid, with a city wall about three miles long from east to west. It is actually a small city with four walls, but the only advantage is that there is no moat.
However, the Western Army dug a deep ditch in front of the city wall and pulled up a suspension bridge. The suspension bridge was equivalent to a shield. It was not possible to directly hit the city gate with a battering ram.
Wanyan Zonghan had no choice but to order the army to cut down trees and make simple siege ladders.
Twenty thousand gold soldiers cut down trees nearby, and captured a hundred craftsmen from nearby counties and ordered them to make siege ladders.
The craftsmen could only make a very simple and heavy siege ladder according to Jin Bing's requirements, and weaved tree trunks into rafts. Fortunately, there were many tall and straight pine trees around, so it was easier to weave rafts, and then nailed thick and wide wooden rafts to the rafts.
Wooden bars provide strength for stepping on and climbing.
Thousands of gold soldiers also worked together to build raft ladders, fixing them with iron nails first, and then tying them together with leather ropes.
This kind of raft ladder is simple and practical. Because it is heavy, it is not easy to be overturned. Overnight, the Jin soldiers made 500 raft ladders. Some of the rafts were placed across the trench as bridges, and the others were used as siege ladders.
Now Wanyan Zonghan's only hope is that there are not many Western troops on the city, about two to three thousand people. Even if he pays a price of several thousand people, he can capture Yuguan.
Before dawn, Wanyan Zonghan impatiently ordered the attack on the city. Ten thousand soldiers carrying rafts and ladders rushed towards the city wall like a tide. The five thousand Western soldiers on the top of the city fired arrows downwards. The arrows were like raindrops.
Some soldiers fell down after being hit by arrows, but they still could not stop the Jurchen soldiers from charging forward crazily.
One after another, the rafts were put on the trenches and became bridges. The soldiers carried the large rafts and rushed across the trenches. They lifted up hundreds of raft ladders, set them up on the top of the city, and began to climb crazily upwards.
Arrows shot at the soldiers on the raft ladder like a storm. The Jurchen soldiers were hit by arrows constantly and rolled off the raft screaming, which slowed down the enemy's climb. However, there were still a large number of Jurchen soldiers holding shields and climbing up cautiously.
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Several soldiers used iron forks to push the raft ladder hard, but the raft itself was too heavy and there were Jurchen soldiers standing on it. They managed to overturn a few raft ladders, but this was too time-consuming. Enemy troops had already rushed to the top of the city, and the West
Army soldiers fought fiercely together.
Tang Huai saw that the time was ripe and decisively ordered, "Use kerosene!"
The navy's kerosene was filled with thin-skinned clay pots, weighing thirty kilograms each, so that they could be easily thrown onto enemy ships. They were placed neatly under the wall. The soldiers raised the kerosene jars and smashed them against the wooden raft ladders.
The altar shattered and a large amount of kerosene poured down. After the torch was ignited, the raft ladder quickly turned into a sea of fire. The fire spread rapidly downwards with the flow of kerosene.
The Jurchen soldiers on the raft ladder panicked and jumped off the raft one after another. Then jars of kerosene fell like raindrops, and the fire burned rapidly under the city. The soldiers also dropped a large amount of wheat straw, which was dry wheat straw bought from Pingzhou.
Bundles were thrown down the city, and the fire became more intense. The soldiers overturned more than a hundred rafts and ladders, and the rafts also burned after they fell into the fire.
Wanyan Zonghan was very anxious and shouted: "Send the order to retreat!"
"Dang! Dang! Dang! Dang!"
The retreat bell rang, and the Jurchen soldiers who were attacking the city retreated like a tide. The Western soldiers on the city took the opportunity to fire crossbows from behind. Countless soldiers were hit by arrows and fell down. Ten thousand people attacked the city, and in the end only less than
More than 6,500 people retreated, and more than 3,500 people were killed.
Wanyan Zonghan had no choice but to wait for the fire to go out before launching a second attack.
In Daxing City, a large-scale siege battle also kicked off. At two o'clock in the night, thirty large ships of 5,000 stone sailed from the Sanggan River into the moat, immediately alerting the defenders all over the city.
"Dang! Dang! Dang!"
The alarm bells sounded loudly on the top of the city, and the soldiers sleeping on the top of the city were awakened one after another and immediately stood up to prepare for battle.
Wanyan Helisha can be regarded as a veteran who has experienced hundreds of battles. More importantly, he understands Chen Qing's tactics and knows that Chen Qing likes to fight at night. Therefore, even at night, he deployed 20,000 troops on the city, allowing soldiers to
You sleep on the top of the city, but if there is an enemy situation, you must get up and fight immediately.
The distance between the moat and the city wall was still about ten feet, so it was impossible to directly build boats and planks to go up to the city. However, the Western Army was not in a hurry to enter the city. They needed to use siege warfare to consume the enemy's effective strength.
The ship entered the moat, and the paddles of the wheels on both sides turned and rumbled. The height of the ship's side was almost the same as the city wall. Jurchen soldiers hid behind the battlements and fired arrows. Western soldiers also fired arrows in the ship. There were countless shooting holes on the ship.
Behind a shooting hole crouched a Spanish soldier.
The arrows from both sides were raining down, and the shouts of killing were loud. They were too close to each other, and even the trebuchets could not work. However, the distance between the Western soldiers' kerosene bags was just right, and streams of kerosene sprayed up the city like arrows, and were immediately thrown at them.
The torch was lit, and the city was in flames. The fire extinguisher on the city immediately rushed forward and poured sand on the fire. The newly ignited fire was extinguished immediately.
The Jurchen soldiers on the city wall did not show any weakness and threw a small clay pot weighing only a few kilograms into the big ship. The surface of the small clay pot had been ignited by fire and hit the hull of the ship. The pot broke and the kerosene immediately burned.
, but was also put out by Western soldiers with wet bedding.
As all thirty large ships entered the moat, the war became more intense.
The casualties of the Western Army also increased, mainly due to the threat posed by crossbows. Jackdaw iron arrows could penetrate the ship's side wall, posing a huge threat to the soldiers hiding behind the ship's side wall. Western soldiers continued to be hit by arrows.
When he fell down, the penetrating power of the jackdaw arrow was so powerful that he was almost always fatally injured.
Similarly, there were heavy casualties at the top of the city. The casualties were mainly fire extinguishers. They became the targets of the Western Army's crossbowmen while running. When the powerful crossbow arrows were fired, some people immediately screamed and fell down.
At this time, fifty heavy trebuchets came on the scene. They were all lined up in the north of the city. The burning large tanks of kerosene were thrown out one after another, streaking bright flames in the air and passing over the big ships with extremely accurate accuracy.
High, only two of the fifty fire oil cans hit the city wall, and the rest all hit the city head. The eighty-pound fire oil can fell to the ground and shattered. The fire oil splashed into a large area, was ignited by the burning pottery fragments, and burned immediately.
In one piece, the civilians who extinguished the fire rushed forward in fear, but were mercilessly shot by the crossbow arrows of the Western soldiers. They fell into the fire and instantly became a burning man.
The fire at the top of the city was so fierce and the smoke was billowing that the Jurchen soldiers could not bear the choking. They hid under the battlements. Although they could escape the fire, they could not escape the smoke. They did not know that they had to cover their mouths and noses with wet towels to escape quickly.
But the strong smoke made it difficult to breathe, and the soldiers had to get up and run for their lives. Many soldiers fell down while running, fainted from the smoke, and finally died of suffocation.
The heavy trebuchets of the Western Army did not stop, throwing burning kerosene cans at the top of the city one after another. The top of the city turned into a sea of flames, and the sky was full of smoke and fear filled the city.