Wu Shu and others only suffered the disaster of Chiyu, but the Jin soldiers who were carrying the catapult forward were directly hit. Even if they were not hit by the explosion, their eardrums were hurt by the sound of the surrounding artillery.
Many people subconsciously run back.
When Wu Shu saw some Han soldiers escaping, he picked up his bow and arrows and shot down several of the fleeing men with a few arrows.
Wanyan Zongwang also sent a team of golden soldiers from behind to kill those who escaped.
The Han people who were carrying the catapult saw that they would die if they escaped, so they had no choice but to go back to carrying the catapult.
There is no other way, only Han people can play catapult.
The Jurchens are very strong, but it is more difficult to get a group of savages to learn how to fire cannons together than to get the Jurchens not to kill people.
The closed artillery kept throwing out, blowing up catapults one after another, and causing the sky outside the pass to be filled with snowflakes.
Finally, a catapult moved into range, and the golden soldiers immediately began to throw stones the size of human heads, trying to suppress the closed catapult.
"Bang"
A stone hit the battlement, sending the several-foot-wide battlement flying into the air. A soldier behind him couldn't escape and was crushed to the ground, screaming in agony.
As the Jin soldiers began to fire more catapults, the casualties at the gate also gradually increased.
However, the power of artillery is much greater than that of stone cannons. Unless the stone cannon hits the catapult, it will basically not damage the catapult. However, as long as the artillery falls a few feet near the catapult, it will be enough to destroy the catapult.
The confrontation lasted for less than half an hour, and all the catapults outside the pass were blown up.
Wu Shu ran back angrily and said to his second brother Wanyan Zongwang: "The Han people's artillery is powerful, but our stone cannon is not good."
Wanyan Zongwang turned his head and glanced at the mountains to the west, and said with a smile: "The Han people will never run out of artillery. I have sent people to Runzhou to recruit 10,000 people to cut down trees. The craftsmen in the camp are working day and night to pelt stones.
I don't believe that they can't use up all their artillery. That's it for today, withdraw the troops."
"I'm afraid that all our gunners will be dead before the Han people use up their artillery."
Wanyan Zongwang smiled and said: "Tomorrow we will use the Bohai Navy as gunners. We will trick the Han people into using artillery to fight back."
After saying that, Wanyan Zongwang turned his horse and walked towards the camp.
Zhang Qing watched the Jin soldiers retreat outside the pass and asked in confusion: "Are the Jin people just planning to attack the city with catapults?"
Yue Fei said: "We have artillery, and the other siege equipment was blown up as soon as it got close to the city wall."
Zhang Qing smiled and said: "If you have gunpowder to defend the city, all siege equipment will be useless. Unless they also have gunpowder."
Yue Fei said: "Digging tunnels can also collapse the city wall. Although it is difficult to dig during this season, we still have to beware of them digging tunnels."
Zhang Qing nodded and said: "I have asked people to monitor the movements underground. Okay, let's go down to the city. The Jin people should not attack the city today."
Although the battlefield has temporarily calmed down, people are rescuing the wounded, repairing catapults, and preparing artillery. The Jin people are rushing to make catapults and prepare cannon stones. Everyone inside and outside the pass is preparing nervously for war.
The next day, when the sun had climbed up the mountain, Jin soldiers swarmed out of the camp again and came to Yuguan.
In just half a day and a night, the Jin soldiers built hundreds more catapults. In fact, the craftsmanship of the catapults is not complicated. Moreover, the Han people in the North also learned from the Han people in the Central Plains to standardize their production and then assemble them. If the Jin soldiers obtained the Han craftsmen in Nanjing Road,
, it is not difficult to build thousands of catapults overnight. It is rare to train qualified gunners. The longer the range, the more people need to be dragged. And these people must be able to work together to ensure the accuracy of the gun.
After another artillery bombardment, the Jin army advanced their catapults to a distance of a hundred steps and began to throw stone cannons.
Pieces of stone the size of a human head roared up and hit the wall, stirring up clouds of dust and even more hitting the open space.
Zhang Qing and the three of them also saw something fishy.
Yue Fei looked at the Jin soldiers below the city who were firing in a panic during the artillery bombardment. He said: "They are not professional artillerymen. Most of the siege artillerymen yesterday are probably dead."
Zhang Qing said with a smile: "Such gunners may not be able to bring down the city wall even if they are allowed to fire for a few days."
Zhu Tong thought for a while and said: "Could the Jin soldiers want to consume our artillery?"
"hehe"
Zhang Qing smiled contemptuously and said: "Such gunners don't need artillery anymore. I ordered all gunners to be replaced by stone cannons."
Wu Shu was still monitoring the Bohai Navy in the front army. When he saw that the Han army suddenly switched to stone cannons and beat their horses and ran back to the central army, he said happily: "Second brother, the Han people's artillery seems to have been used up."
Wanyan Zongwang shook his head and said: "Not necessarily, it may be that the Bohai Navy put too little pressure on them. Look, not a single cannon stone has been hit for a long time. Let them push the catapult forward until the cannon stone can hit it.
Close it."
The third son of Aguda next to him, Wanyan Zongfu, was more tolerant. Hearing this, he said: "The Han archers will be able to shoot them if they go further."
However, Wanyan Zongwang was unmoved and waved his hand: "Let them go forward and try first to see if the Han people still have artillery. If there are no artillery, let the Han army fire the artillery."
Wu Shu had no mercy, so he ran to the front of the formation and shouted: "Twenty more steps forward."
The Bohai Navy, who had urgently learned how to fire artillery yesterday, couldn't help but change their expressions when they heard Wu Shu's words.
A Bohai officer boldly said: "If we go further, we will enter the shooting range of Liang Jun's archers. Uh..."
As soon as he finished speaking, Wu Shu shot an arrow in his throat and fell to the ground.
Although the Bohai navy had long been accustomed to the Jurchens' cruelty, they still showed indignation at this time.
They had just fought against the continuously exploding artillery, and they still had some hope. After all, the accuracy and density of artillery were smaller than that of bows and arrows. If they entered the range of the archers and were covered by the rain of arrows and rushed forward, they would not be able to hit even a few arrows.
You can rush over, but if you stand there and fire cannons and let the archers shoot, you will definitely die after a few waves of arrows.
When Wu Shu saw that no one was moving, he shouted: "If we don't move forward, everyone will be executed."
The Jurchens behind also raised their weapons one after another. As long as Wu Shu gave the order, they would kill these Bohai navy without hesitation.
The Bohai navy had already been frightened by the Jurchens. Seeing the ferocious appearance of the Jurchens, someone immediately compromised and pushed the catapult forward.
Once someone takes the lead, the others will follow suit and push forward.
Zhang Qing looked at the door and saw that the Jin soldiers actually pushed the catapult forward and shouted: "Archers, prepare."
The standard bow and arrow shooting range of Daliang soldiers and horses is sixty steps, but on the several-foot-high wall, the shooting range is also increased a lot.
When the golden soldiers entered the range of the archers, a hail of arrows poured down.
One by one, the Bohai Navy screamed and fell in the rain of arrows. The Bohai Navy, which could persist under the artillery attack, finally collapsed. No one wanted to stand there and accept the baptism of the arrows.
Of course, they knew that escaping to the back would be a dead end. The ferocious Jurchens would not give them a way to survive, so they all rushed forward with shouts. Those who could speak Chinese shouted surrender, and those who did not also threw away all their weapons.
Let the Han people understand what they mean.
When Wushu saw the Bohai navy escaping, he howled and ordered the Jurchen soldiers behind him to shoot the Bohai navy with bows and arrows.
Under the attack of artillery and arrows, fewer than 1,000 of the 5,000 Bohai navy were left. They were then chased by the Jurchen soldiers, and less than 300 people fled to the city. The casualties were tragic.
Few soldiers and horses can withstand such casualties. If the Jurchen soldiers had not been threatening with butcher knives, the Bohai Navy would have fled long ago. However, after realizing that there was no way to survive, the Bohai Navy finally defected.
Wu Shu was still hesitating whether to brave the rain of arrows to chase down the remaining Bohai navy. Suddenly he saw several black lights shooting at him from the city. He had no time to move his horse, so he could only jump from his horse to the ground.
"Bang"
Just as Wu Shu rushed out, he heard the war horse behind him neighing sadly and falling to the ground. He turned around and looked. An iron spear was less than a foot away from him. Two iron spears shot two bloody holes in the war horse.
Come, there are three iron spears falling on the other side.
Wu Shu knew that this was Daliang's bed crossbow. It was said that the range could reach nearly a thousand steps. So the army was arrayed two miles away. He supervised the formation in the front army and did not let his soldiers get too close to avoid being noticed by Liang Jun.
Arrive and shoot him with the bed crossbow.
I just didn't expect that this time the pursuit of the Bohai Navy got closer and they were targeted by Liang Jun.
Wu Shu didn't dare to think too much, so he got up and ran around the corner.
Wushu's soldiers also ran back and forth behind Wushu, disrupting Liang Jun's sight.
Liang Jun, who was operating the crossbow on the city wall, fired several more arrows one after another. None of them hit Wushu, but he only shot and killed two of Wushu's soldiers.
Wu Shu rolled and crawled back to the central army and said to Wanyan Zongwang: "Second brother, do you want to send someone to kill those Bohai navy?"
Wanyan Zongwang shook his head and said: "They have all hid under the city wall. If we want to kill them, I am afraid that many tribesmen will be killed or injured."
But Wu Shu hated the Bohai navy for making him flee in embarrassment, and said unwillingly: "If we don't kill them all, other Bohai navy and Han people will definitely follow and flee."
Wanyan Zongwang also hesitated. The military system of the Jin Kingdom was cruel. Not to mention the Bohai Navy and the Han Army, many Jurchen tribes had complaints, but they were all frightened by the killings of the Wanyan tribe. If he did not hunt down those people today
Bohai Navy, maybe when the war starts tomorrow, both Bohai Navy and Han Army will flee.
Wu Shu said: "Even if we send a group of people to shoot them, not many people will die."
Although Wanyan Zongfu was more lenient, he also knew that the morale of the army could not be shaken, so he said: "Send a team of heavy armored infantry to shoot them."
Wanyan Zongwang saw that his third and fourth brothers said this, so he also sent a group of heavy armored infantrymen to go up.
After the Jin State captured several cities of the Liao State and obtained steel, they obtained some heavy armored cavalry and heavy armored infantry. The ferocious Jurchens put on heavy armor and were undoubtedly demons on the battlefield. No Liao soldiers could stop their impact.
But today's heavy armored infantry is to resist the bows and arrows of the beams.
The Bohai navy who fled under the city wall saw the Jurchen heavy armor approaching and knew their purpose. They cried and begged the people who closed the city gate to open the city gate for them and let them in.
Zhang Qing waved his hand and said: "Yue Fei, take the people down, open the city gate, and escort the surrendering soldiers to the back."
"yes"
Yue Fei clasped his fists in response and strode towards Guanxia.
No one is worried that the Jurchens will seize the opportunity to seize the opportunity to close the gate. As long as the city top keeps throwing fire thunder, the soldiers and horses outside can be cut off. Unless those golden soldiers under the city can rush to the gate, but hundreds of people with bare hands want to rush to the gate.
, that is almost impossible. Especially when the father-in-law leads the troops on his own, that can be said to be completely impossible.
The Jurchens lived in a bitter cold land, and almost everyone had brute strength. Although they wore heavy armor, they did not move slowly. However, before they could enter the range of the archers on the city wall, they saw the city gate open and the Bohai Navy rushing to attack them.
They squeezed in and were escorted to the back by Daliang soldiers and horses.
When Wu Shu saw this, he couldn't help but said: "Let the heavy armored infantry try to see if they can seize the city gate. Otherwise, I don't know how long it will take to capture Yuguan."
Wanyan Zongwang also felt that the plan of playing with Daliang was not feasible. If he forced the Bohai Navy or the Han Army to go up, I am afraid they would escape directly. If the Jurchens were allowed to go up, the Jin Kingdom would not be able to bear such casualties. After a moment of thought
After a while, Wanyan Zongwang nodded and said: "Let them rush up and grab the city gate."
The Jurchen soldiers were indeed more reliable than the Bohai Navy. Although they knew there might be danger, they still screamed and charged forward.
Zhang Qing saw the Jin army charging towards them with heavy armored infantry, and said with a smile: "There is no need to close the city gate, the fire-thunder hand will block the city gate."
After the heavy armored infantry entered the shooting range of the archers, the archers fired a round of tentative shots. Most of the arrows hit the heavy armor and failed to penetrate. A few of the arrows were inserted into the heavy armor and the shots were not deep. Such injuries are not harmful to the enemy.
For the savages, it was almost negligible. Not a single savage fell under the attack of the archers.
Then came the attack of the Fire Thunder Hands. Still more than ten feet away from the city gate, the Fire Thunder Hands began to throw down Fire Thunder Hands continuously.
In the face of gunpowder, heavy armor was completely vulnerable. Those who were closer were directly blown to pieces, and those further away were directly blown to the ground. Once the heavy armored infantry fell to the ground, it was like a tortoise being turned over, struggling hard.
With.
However, the Jurchens were not completely brainless. When they saw the people in front being blown down piece by piece, the people behind them scattered and rushed forward.
Under the intensive attack of the Fire Thunder Hands, several Jurchens actually walked around to the city gate. Seeing that the city gate was close at hand, they howled with joy.
This kind of wildness alone is not comparable to that of ordinary troops. However, they were not happy for long. They saw a watermelon-sized artillery thrown down, and then each one saw only a flash of fire before being torn into pieces. The ones a little further away were torn into pieces.
I just felt a strong force coming from me, and I immediately jumped into the trapeze. Several people behind me were overturned.
The huge explosion made the soldiers of the closed Daliang really stunned, and the continuous fire and thunder attacks also came to a halt.
Zhang Qing shook his head vigorously, leaned forward and looked down.
A large crater with a radius of more than ten feet was blasted directly in front of the city gate. The middle was several feet deep.
Although the Jurchens were not afraid of death, feeling the power of the artillery at close range still made them lose all intention of winning, and each of them slowed down a lot.
The closed fire thunder hand also slowly recovered, and the fire thunder was accurately thrown at the feet of the Jurchens.
Yimou defeated the heavily armored Jurchens and wiped them out. No retreat horn sounded from behind, and the Jurchens did not run away. They just changed from running wildly at the beginning to mechanical death.
When Zhang Qing saw that all the heavy armored infantry had been wiped out, he couldn't help but curse: "What a fucking beast, meaningless death, and they didn't even withdraw their troops."
Zhu Tong said: "The Jurchens are young. If they weren't so brutal, I might not be able to defeat the Liao Kingdom."
Wanyan Zongwang looked at the annihilation of the heavy armored infantry in front of him, and his heart was bleeding. There were few Jurchens, and all the men in the smaller tribes were just one Mouke. The death of one Mouke was almost the same as the destruction of a small Jurchen tribe.
.But in order to stabilize the Bohai Navy and the Han Army, he had to sacrifice a plot to defeat the Jurchens. In the past two days, the Han Army and the Bohai Navy had suffered almost 5,000 casualties. When it was the turn of the Jurchen soldiers, they could not go up and see that something was wrong.
Take it down.
Only by being equally cruel to oneself can they be frightened.
Wu Shu, however, was heartless and said angrily: "The Han people's artillery is powerful, and we can't attack them even if we have artillery. If our catapults don't work, we can't rush in. How can we attack them?"
Wanyan Zongwang frowned and said: "Now we can only dig tunnels and collapse the city walls so that we can rush in."
Wanyan Zongfu also said helplessly: "This is the only way, let the strong men who cut wood dig tunnels."
"Well, let's go back to camp first. Bring them back and prepare all the tools. Let's start again after the ground becomes softer in the afternoon."
Even the tough Jurchens were relieved when they saw Brother Wanyan Zongwang riding back to camp. Daliang's firearms were so powerful that even those wearing heavy armor were blown to pieces. They dared to face tigers and leopards with their bare hands, but now they have
He didn't want to face Liang Jun even with swords and guns.
When Zhang Qing saw the Jin soldiers retreating, he asked the soldiers at Guan Guan to take turns to rest. Today, only one of the defenders at Guan Guan was injured. It was Zhang Qing who threw a cannon down and was cut by fragments of armor that exploded.
Just after lunch, another warning sound came from the city.
Zhang Qing rode to the gate and saw the Jin soldiers approaching in formation again. He cursed: "How dare these sons of bitches come here to die."
Just after he finished cursing, he saw a farmer behind him pushing a wooden cart wrapped in cowhide.
The captain in charge of the gunners came over and asked, "Do you want to fire?"
Zhang Qing thought for a moment and said, "Wait a moment and see what they are going to do."
Stone cannons on wooden carts that were several feet wide were not easy to aim, and it would be too wasteful to use artillery. Although the imperial court urgently dispatched many artillery pieces, they were definitely not enough to use against civilians.
Zhang Qing saw that the wooden cart had been pushed into the archer's shooting range, and shouted: "Fire the arrow."
With an order, countless sharp arrows flew from the city like locusts and rushed towards the pass.
However, the peasants immediately shrank into the wooden cart, and the arrows clinked on the cowhide cart. Many arrows were inserted into the wooden cart, and the wooden carts were nailed like hedgehogs, but the wooden carts were still drilling.
The civilians inside pushed me forward.
Zhang Qing saw that those wooden carts had entered the attack range of the thunder hand, and he was not stingy. The fire thunder was much more abundant than the artillery.
"Fire and thunder attack."
A row of fire mines were thrown down, and most of the wooden carts rushing in front were blown to pieces or overturned.
Wu Shu, who was supervising the formation at the back, saw that the wooden chariot had advanced into the attack range of the Fire Thunder Hands, so he blew the horn.
The peasants who were huddled in the wooden cart also heard the loud roar in front, and many people were frightened to the point of urinating. However, the Jurchens' butcher knives were raised behind them, so they could only grit their teeth and move forward.
They also wanted to surrender to Daliang, but before leaving the camp, the Jurchens said that one person had escaped. If they were found, the whole family would be killed. If they could not find out who escaped, all the family members of this group would be killed.
Light.
For the sake of the lives of their family members, they can only listen to the Jurchens. (To be continued...)
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