The rise of the prince

Chapter 748

The confrontation between the two sides was very calm and tense. Compared with fighting, the calm before the storm is the most unbearable.

A few days later, Jin Kingdom's follow-up supply troops also arrived. They stopped farther away, at the edge of the woods ten miles away, and could only be vaguely seen from the top of the city.

The reason why they walked slowly was because they brought big guys, catapults, bed crossbows, ladders and other heavy siege tools, and they spread all over the city of Yanshan in just one afternoon.

The Jin army lined up again, sending out earth-shattering shouts, and their morale was greatly shaken.

The Jin army did not bypass Yanshan City, and the atmosphere became extremely tense in an instant.

As a frontier army, the Guanbei Army often fought against foreigners in the north and had rich experience.

For decades, the imperial court and the Liao Kingdom have maintained peace on the surface, but conflicts at the border are commonplace.

Every autumn, when the grasslands in the north are fat and horses are strong, and when the grain in the cultivated areas in the south is ripe, the frontier army of the Liao Kingdom will organize a large army to go south most of the time, bypassing Jiancheng and looting the surrounding people.

As long as they come for looting, the army will bypass important fortresses, and they will let the people enter the city as much as possible, or take refuge in the upper places, and use small groups of troops to wait for opportunities to attack, chase and intercept the enemy troops that are wandering between the strong cities. .

After the spring of the next year, it is the time when the female animals are in estrus and the horses on the grassland are mating. This is the time when the combat effectiveness of the grassland people is the weakest.

And the areas between the borders of the two countries that neither side cares about are the worst. The Liao army went south to plunder, and would kill people to take credit, and the same was true for the Jing army going north.

This is war, a brutal war. At the border, the difference between people and animals is the smallest, and there are almost no trails. Most of the time, animals are more expensive than people.
The soldiers are not afraid of such small fights, not many people die, both sides have a tacit understanding, mainly plundering, there will be no major battles of the scale of decisive battles, and almost no one will die.

What I am most afraid of is that if the enemy army does not bypass the city, the enemy is coming to attack the city. If so, in terms of the importance of these fortresses in the north, it will be a life-and-death battle, and blood will flow into rivers at every turn.

The current situation of the Jin people for several days in a row shows that they are not like the Liao people. They took advantage of the end of summer and early autumn, when the food in the south was about to be harvested, and when the grassland war horses were fattening up, they went south to plunder. Came from the Yanshan Mansion.

"Let everyone go back to the city from the south gate as soon as possible. You don't need to send out riders. If you go, you will die." After confirming the situation, Wei Chaoren ordered, and the golden men began to approach the city, gathering at a place more than a mile away from the city.

Wei Chaoren was also nervous. This time the Jinren were not just playing tricks, but he also had his own trump card, that is, King Jin gave them thousands of muskets and dozens of cannons from the Guanbei Army.

These golden troops didn't know it, and at this time, the golden troops lined up outside the city had entered the range of their cannons, but they didn't know it.

They thought that distance was safe.

In fact, this is indeed the case, except for King Jin's cannon, such a distance is indeed safe.

A large number of golden troops continued to gather. In the front row were two rows of well-equipped sword and shield hands, wearing thick cowhide armor with iron plates on the outside. In addition to the iron helmet, the face was also wearing a veneer armor, only a pair of eyes were exposed. With such armor, bows and crossbows are almost no threat to him, but he has muskets!

Two rows of swordsmen and shields act as the forwards, with hard crossbows on their backs, to cover the light armored soldiers behind them. There are about 600 people in a very scattered formation. They are responsible for escorting the ladders under the cover of the people in front, and behind them are light armor The Climbing Warriors.

Wei Chaoren frowned.

"You're a dog! These golden men are too deceitful." Someone yelled: "You dare to attack the city with a few broken ladders!"

"General, hit his mother, give him a few cannons, the cannons given by King Jin have all been pulled to the top of the city!"

"Yes, general, let's fire!"

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The crowd was full of indignation.

It is true that ladders are useful for siege, but that is a bad idea. The most reliable is the building car. There is a wooden fence in front of the building car, and there is a curved ladder at the back for people to go up and down. Climb up, and the soldiers on the top floor can be level with the top of the city, and will not be attacked from a height.

But there is also a big problem with building cars, that is, they are too heavy, and the walls of each city are of different heights. Most of the time, they can only be made with craftsmen, and then they are made from local materials, and then smeared with mud on the surface to prevent them from being burned. It is very time-consuming. force.

I'm afraid of returning home, but these golden men are so arrogant that they want to attack the city before they even finish building the car. Do they think they are all vegetarians!

Seeing the anger of the crowd, Wei Chaoren thought about it carefully, and then said, "It's not the time yet."

"General Wei"

See everyone looking over in confusion.

"We have to be patient. They don't know that having cannons upstairs is our greatest advantage. We have to follow suit to deal the biggest blow to the Jinren." Wei Chaoren said without doubt.

Everyone looked at each other in blank dismay, as if they didn't quite understand.

"The prince's order to the old man is to defend it with the troops at hand. If they lose in Yanshan Mansion and the loss is small, what will the Jin people do?" Wei Chaoren asked back.

"Back to Shanhaiguan?"

Wei Chaoren nodded, shook his head again, and said in a heavy tone: "That's just one of the possibilities, the forward, the central army, plus the rear army, now the old man sees at least [-] gold troops under the city, maybe there are reinforcements behind, far more to us.

If the attack on Yanshan Mansion is unfavorable and there is no injury, they can bypass Yanshan Mansion and go south to attack Qigou Pass."

"But in this way, don't we just attack the golden man back and forth?"

"Oh" Wei Chaoren sneered, "How many troops do we have to flank the Jin people? Even if they leave behind more people than us, the forwards will be several times stronger than Xingping's defenders at Qigou Pass! "The man stopped talking immediately. Indeed, the ideal of flanking front and back is very fulfilling, but even if the Jin people leave an army twice as large as theirs, divide the troops to guard the various passes in the south, and then the front army will go to Qigou Pass. It is not a problem. .

This is the helplessness of disparity in military strength.

Wei Chaoren didn't say much, "Wait for my order, this time it's very difficult, if you don't fight, it's enough, if you fight, you will beat the golden man to the bone, if you can't, it's best to spend with them at the top of the city The method, after all, this way of fighting, the advantage lies in me."

Everyone shouted that the general is wise, and then retreated to the fortress at the rear of the city, because the Jin people were about to attack.

Before ascending the city, the Jin army pushed the head catapult and the bed crossbow two hundred steps away, and then began to shoot at the head of the city.

The stone catapult is completely dependent on the face, let alone two hundred steps, the ghost can throw stones beyond a hundred steps, and it is more used to scare people. To the top of the city, and it is relatively accurate. Generally, it can shoot within a radius of two or three feet from two hundred steps away. (The catapult mentioned here is not the return cannon. The return cannon was discovered by the Mongols in Persia. It has not been passed on at this time. The catapult siege power is not enough to see. The crossbow has been the main weapon of the Central Plains army since the Warring States Period, so very advanced technology)
The Jin Army used catapults and six bed crossbows to shoot at the city for about an hour, and then the army began to approach the city wall, preparing to attack. The rear catapults and bed crossbows also stopped attacking. The accuracy of the two is too poor. If you continue to attack, there is a high probability of accidental injury. .

At this time, the soldiers of the Jing army who were hiding behind the female wall at the top of the city also showed their heads one after another, and began to fight back with bows and crossbows, and the huge bed crossbows on both sides also fired towards the bottom.

The siege battle started instantly.

When the shouts filled the city, Wei Chaoren walked out of the fortress in full armor, and personally directed the soldiers to counterattack, and the battle began immediately.
Arrows from the top of the city are like rain, stones, golden water (boiling excrement, the power is very powerful, boiling oil and the like are only scalded when sprinkled on people, and boiled Shi is not only scalded, but also wound infection can be caused when sprinkled on the body. It is equal to being hopeless, so boiled shit is a very powerful weapon for defending the city, and there are records of using it in all dynasties) Keep smashing down.

The first batch of ladders were slowly erected by the engineers risking their lives. Hundreds of Jin people's bodies had already been laid under the city, but the morale of the Jin army was still high.

The striker in thick armor kept hitting back with crossbows, and most of the densely packed crossbow arrows hit the city head. A few Jingjun were unlucky and were shot, and most of them were pulled behind to recuperate, but a few fell off the city. head.

And hundreds of gold army forwards, even though they were all covered in armor, were quickly shot into hedgehogs, but because most of them were not immediately fatal, blood left from under the armor lining along their legs, and overflowed from their leather boots. The flow is all over the ground, most of them are unable to survive, but they still don't retreat a step, standing there and constantly fighting back.

This terrifying will to fight made the guards at the top of the city terrified
Wei Chaoren frowned. He heard that the Jurchens were brave and not afraid of death, but he didn't expect to be so brave. He should have thought a long time ago that the Jurchens who were able to fight all the way from Liaodong and beat the Liao Kingdom half to death, how could they underestimate them? !
Immediately, he quickly called the messenger and said: "Send someone to gather the reinforcements in the city to the north gate."

Soon, the first golden striker climbed to the top of the wall staring at his injuries, and the defenders chopped off his palm with an axe. Unexpectedly, the big golden man resisted the pain and stomped his foot. He rushed forward recklessly and was stabbed to death on the spot, but he also knocked down several soldiers of the Jing army.

Afterwards, the three golden men rushed to the top of the city by taking advantage of the gap, holding a big axe in their hands, slashing and killing, setting off a bloody storm, and killing a small factory at the top of the city at once. bigger.
(End of this chapter)