I am Da Song

Chapter 22 The prosperity of the military civilization of the Song Dynasty

As soon as Wang Zongmian finished speaking, all the monarchs and officials in the hall turned pale with fright, the Jin army was so fast.It was only a few hours since Wanyan Lou's room left, and they had completed dispatching troops and preparing to attack the city with a large number of siege equipment.

Everyone is worried. With Da Song's current preparations, can he stop the Jin army's offensive?
Zhao Huan frowned, and had a better understanding of the organization and combat effectiveness of the Jin army.From this point of view, if I want to defend the inner city, it may be much more difficult than I originally imagined.

"I went to the four walls to encourage the soldiers. All the ministers will follow the previous resolution and go to Mingtang to issue the Shuobu government to implement various decrees."

All the prime ministers stood up immediately and said: "The ministers will do their best to coordinate the army and the people to face the national calamity together. Please be careful of the arrows and stones, and take care of the dragon's body."

Under the service of Wang Zongmian, Zhao Huan quickly put on his armor.When Chengyu was marching towards Xuandemen, groups of tall soldiers were also wearing armor and running towards the city gate in a hurry.

A team of hundreds of people ran in a long line in the palace. The sound of roaring footsteps was very powerful, but they were disorganized during the march. They didn't look like the elite imperial guards of the whole country, but rather gangsters who were going to fight in the streets.

Wang Zongmian leaned close to Zhao Huan's ear and said, "The official family is Wu Ge's imperial city official."

Zhao Huan nodded. The army with such a tall body can only be a member of the Imperial City Division. As far as I can see, all the subordinates are wearing heavy armor, and their spears and swords are bright. It is obvious that Wu Ge has made a lot of money in the arsenal of bows, swords, spears and armor rich.

Seeing the official Chengyu, three people rushed out of the running crowd and stopped in front of Zhao Huan.

The leading tall and fierce general took off his pocket and revealed his face. It was Wu Ge, the commander of the Imperial City Division.

Wearing heavy armor, this fierce general did not kowtow humblely, and finally showed some mighty and majestic temperament.He cupped his hands and said to Zhao Huan: "Officials, I searched the arsenal of bows, swords, guns, and armors in the interior. In a corner of a warehouse, I found a large number of armor remnants. The falcon tails, pockets, curtain leaves, etc. were all in a mess, so the officials didn’t bother to sort them out, so they were discarded on the spot. The minister asked the relatives and officials to pick out the parts and assemble a set by themselves, and more than [-] sets have been assembled so far.”

"It's so good. Every official in the imperial city is covered with iron armor, which can at least greatly reduce casualties." Zhao Huan was quite pleased.

Although the four hundred relatives and officials were the elite selected from the best, Zhao Huan never thought of enshrining them as treasures, and was not willing to let them go to the battlefield.

Every soldier should fight in blood, shrouded in horse leather.The elite should take the lead and inspire morale.

Song Jun's current virtue, if there is no such elite as the mainstay of Huangcheng Division, it is likely to be completely collapsed by Jin Jun.

When Chengyu and the Imperial City Siqin left Miyagi in the same direction as the officials, a larger army marched in the opposite direction and entered the imperial palace.It's just that this huge imperial army, not to mention well-trained, has lost even the most basic momentum.A group of people were holding banners, more like tourists for sightseeing, chatting together in twos and threes, looking left and right, commenting on the palace.

Zhao Huan's face was gloomy. With this kind of army, can he really defend the inner city?Previously, the imperial court said in the edict that the country has been peaceful for 200 years, the military and government have been corrupted, the soldiers have no intention of dying in battle, and the generals have no merit in solidifying the city.This is by no means a lie.

The only thing that made Zhao Huan gratified was that after he abolished all kinds of redundant officials on the four walls, the appointed four-wall commander Liu Fan finally played a constructive role.The overall city defense of the Song army has begun to be efficient and orderly. When the Jin army attacked the city, it was still able to orderly rotate the army on duty and allocate personnel to the Shangshi Bureau to eat.

From this point of view, even if the city wall is breached, the entire army will not collapse instantly, and there will still be a reserve team defending layer by layer, launching a counterattack, and retaking the city wall.

When Zhao Huan arrived at the city wall, Liu Fan had already put on his armor and stood on the city wall, setting up rows of guards.

Moreover, after the battle of defending the city officially started, the soldiers quickly set up a battle shed on the city wall, densely placed female heads, and added various horse faces, which made them look awestruck.

Horse faces and female walls are very common city defense facilities, especially the horse faces protruding out of the city by no less than two feet, one every sixty steps, can form rows of concave fortifications, and the Jin army will be attacked by the front, left and right sides. The side and the right strike from three sides, giving full play to the advantages of the Song Army's crossbow artifact, the divine arm bow.

This is why the Song army in Hebei and Hedong, as long as they can defend to the death, the Jin army will suffer heavy casualties when attacking the city. In a small Shouyang City, the Jin army lost tens of thousands of people.

Seeing the guard of honor of the officials, Liu Fan rushed over immediately, with a very excited expression, and said to Zhao Huan: "The officials, when I was preparing the city defenses on the city, the soldiers and civilians in the inner city came to help enthusiastically, and hundreds of them were scattered and solid. Soldiers from the battalion spontaneously gathered in front of Suzaku Gate and asked to go to the city to build a war shed. According to Shen Shuaisi (Shen Kuo) in "Mengxi Bi Tan·Guan Zheng", this kind of war shed can be separated and reunited, and it can be set up in an instant. Greatly strengthen the defense of the inner city."

Hearing this, Zhao Huan also showed a smile, and said: "The soldiers and civilians in the inner city are eager to help each other to defend the city. If the soldiers and people are united, they will surely form a city."

After finishing speaking, Zhao Huan asked worriedly: "Is there a shortage of materials for setting up the battle shed?"

"There should never be a shortage. The ancestral law is complete, and the defense of the inner city should be solid. But corrupt officials have made the entire city defense rotten and dilapidated."

Liu Fan looked very ugly, and said: "Guanggu soldiers should have 1 commanders, a total of 3000 people, who are responsible for the defense of the entire city at day and night. The quota for the ten thousand Guanggu soldiers is actually only about 600. After the walls of the outer city fell, the soldiers dispersed, and now only about [-] people gathered in the inner city.”

"But even with these 600 people, the defense supplies in the inner city are not even enough. There is a defense warehouse every two hundred steps at the top of the city to store defense equipment. According to the law, there are not only materials for building battle sheds, but also There will be bed crossbows, nine-ox crossbows, large and small cannon mounts (catapults). But most of the anti-city warehouses are incomplete, or rotted and damaged. The annual maintenance fees allocated by the repair and governance of the capital are all corrupted by officials and have not been replaced in time Supplement, meticulously repair armaments."

Zhao Huan looked stern, and said: "The corruption is so bad, there is no excuse for repairing the capital. According to the law, the Guanggu camp should be rested at night, but the Jin army has already approached the city, and no one in the capital has reported corruption. .The officials of the department were executed immediately, and the head of the city was passed down to the guards, so as to correct the morale of the army."

Liu Fan nodded solemnly, and said: "The officials of the Xiuzhi Capital Office are of little use in defending the city at this time. Killing them can not only correct the morale of the army, but also eliminate corruption and make other military workshops in the inner city efficient and clean. As long as the Military Weapons Supervisor stops being corrupt and plays its due role, within a few days, the defense equipment in the city can be replenished."

"Where is the yamen that provided the defense weapon for Xiuzhi capital?" Zhao Huan asked.

"It is a military weapon supervisor. After Yuanfeng restructured, it set up a special supervisor and department to manage ordnance manufacturing. In Tokyo, there is a wide range of siege operations. This yamen specializes in the production of siege and defense equipment. As far as I know, the management of gunpowder and fire oil is the most complete, and the corruption is extremely low. Because gunpowder is the country's important weapon, in order to prevent technology from leaking to the north , the whole country is only allowed to produce in Tokyo. Shen Shuaisi (Shen Kuo) even personally managed the fierce fire oil production, and once asserted that this product will become popular in the world in the future.”

"In addition, there is the Imperial Armament Factory, which has 700 craftsmen at Wanquan. There are more than 150 craftsmen in the East and West workshops. There is also a weapon manufacturing institute, with tens of thousands of craftsmen in it. All of these are produced in detail. Quotas, for example, require seven people to make eight bows in nine days, eight people to make five sets of knives in six days, and three people to make 650 arrows in two days. The bow and crossbow academy needs to make various bows, crossbows, arrows, strings, and arrowheads every year Wait for [-] million pieces."

After hearing bad news for a day, I finally saw something gratifying.

Zhao Huan looked excited and said: "This is the benefit of civilization. The Jin people are barbaric and rampant. Although they can show off their power for a while, as long as they are frustrated under the city, our Tokyo city can quickly recover its strength with a strong civilization. With fierce fire oil, With gunpowder, we can even produce more than [-] million pieces of various equipment, so we can continue to arm the army with energy, and we will be able to curb the arrogance of the Jin people."

(End of this chapter)