I am Da Song

Chapter 25
The garrison in the inner city of Tokyo has been silent. The Jin army was happy to see this, and seized the opportunity to send troops forward to transport soil to fill the Caihe River.

The reason why Wanyan Shema chose to attack Baokangmen was because the direction of Caihe was from northwest to southeast.This also means that the distance between the moat in front of Baokang Gate and the city wall is the farthest, and it is safest to fill the river.

The Jin army's siege is not like the black and white swarming up like in the film and television drama, it is sending heads to the defenders.In fact, the Jin army had a complete range of equipment for attacking the city, ranging from fire ladders, cloud ladders, weaving bridges, goose carts, to caves, ramming poles, and hook poles.

At present, the main equipment used by the Jin army to fill Caihe is the cave, which can fill the road or attack the city.Its shape is like a pair of closed palms, the top is sharp and the bottom is wide, and soldiers come and go between them.It is more than thirty feet long, and the top is wrapped with raw cowhide and iron leaves, and the inside is wrapped with wet felt.

A large number of Jin troops pushed the hole close to the moat under the cover of the cannon stone, and began to transport soil to fill the river.

When the Jin army moved forward, Liu Fan's excited voice sounded: "The whole army shoots in salvo, covering the Jin army!"

As soon as the military order was issued, arrows and stones that also covered the sky and sun were thrown out in an instant, densely covering the banks of the Cai River.

Intensive screams sounded from the Jin army formation, and even two holes were broken by boulders, and the Jin army inside was exposed to the bows and crossbows of the city wall defenders, facing the Song army's arrow formation.

Song Jun's first counterattack, suppressed for a long time, achieved a record that shocked both sides.

This has a lot to do with Liu Fan's military strategy deployment. From the very beginning, Liu Fan never thought of shelling each other with the Jin army.After all, the catapults are lined up in a line, with dozens of steps between each one.The two sides are thousands of steps apart, and the probability of hitting each other is too low.

When defending the outer city, Liu Fan had already discovered that even though the cannon mounts on the city wall were fixed in one place for a long time, the Jin army attacked for days, resulting in the accumulation of stones under the city wall more than ten meters high, but did not destroy a few defensive equipment.

Instead of this, it is better to aim the gun mounts on the city at the moat to cover a large number of Jin troops who are attacking the city.With the moat as a reference, defensive equipment is easier to calibrate and has a higher hit rate.

Today's battle confirmed everything Liu Fan expected.

The gun machine can cause dozens or hundreds of casualties to both sides every day, which is not enough to affect the direction of a war.The competition between the two sides is the degree of casualty tolerance.In particular, the Jin army's artillery stone hit rate fell far short of the standard today, which further improved the Song army's victory rate in defending the city.

The generals of the Song army who thought they were blessed by Taoist ancestors were excited, and excitedly carried the defense equipment. The artillery stones and crossbow guns were fired one after another, and covered the Jin army along the Caihe River in the fastest time.

And the lazy temperament of the imperial guards on the city wall has also been reduced a bit. For Daozu's sake, the cases of stealing, cheating, being lazy and saving effort have also been reduced.

The siege Jin army lost hundreds of people in a short period of time, blood flowed everywhere on the river bank, and dead bodies filled the valley in the middle of the river.

In particular, some soldiers of the Jin army who fell into the river valley and survived struggled to survive along the dark valley, and directly ran into a large number of dead bodies of the Song army piled up in the river.

These corpses were officers and soldiers executed in batches by the Imperial City Division. They were frozen to death in the cold winter, and they still kept the hideous scene before death, which was even more terrifying under the dark background.

Above his head was a flying arrow that could kill him at any time, beside him were the remains of terrifying dead bodies, and from time to time there were all kinds of shrill screams and wailing in his ears.Since the invasion of the South, the Golden Army, which has been going smoothly, finally experienced the cruelty of war first-hand.

But no matter how frightening and fearful the soldiers at the bottom are.The high-level fighting spirit of both sides has not weakened in the slightest.

The densely packed cannon stones of the Jin army aimed at the Baokangmen tower and threw them continuously.After being bombarded by a large number of stones, the city gate tower was even smashed and collapsed, and a large number of wood and stone fragments even broke the emperor's mantle.

The dust raised by the sand covered the emperor's guard of honor for a while, causing the golden army outside the city to cheer excitedly.

But after a long time, the defenders on the city did not collapse, and the arrows and stones were still continuous.Jin Jun also noticed something was wrong, and his enthusiastic cheers froze, and the smile on his face gradually disappeared.

When the smoke cleared, the emperor's battle of Huang Hui was still flying high.Huang Huizhang, according to the Song Dynasty system, was conquered by the emperor himself, and returned to Beijing by the provincial side.

The yellow battle is flying, which means that the emperor is still standing on the tower to inspect the ten thousand troops.

In order to boost morale, the Imperial City Secretary followed the officials without avoiding arrows and stones, and held high the Long live the king flag on the left, and the Tianxia Taiping flag on the right.Around these two flags, there are 28 Zhu flags flying.

One after another, flags representing the orthodox Zhao and Song Dynasties were flying in the air, and the Forbidden Army on the city wall seemed to have seen the scene when the Song Army was in its heyday, the Xuanjia was dazzling, and the Zhu Qi was crimson to the sky.

The loyal soldiers were moved to tears.Even the numb and ignorant soldiers are moved.Although I don't understand what happened, I always feel that with so many red flags flying, the inner city should not have fallen.

Wanyan set up Ye Ma also saw the banners fluttering in the wind on the city wall.The more banners and flags fluttered on the city wall, the angrier he felt.Even though he is a barbarian, he doesn't know what this means, and he can feel the anger burning in his chest.

He yelled: "Fire me a cannon and destroy Lord Song and these flags!"

The two sides were fighting, and at the same time, arrows and stones were raining like rain. Sometimes there were even boulders colliding with each other in the sky, and the broken stones shot in all directions.

Different from Wan Yan She Yema's anxiety, Zhao Huan was very calm in his heart, because Zhao Huan knew that the Song army must win in this kind of cannon fire.After all, Zhao Huan had already confirmed the result of this kind of thing in the history books.

In addition to firing artillery, the Song army had time to send troops out of the city to meet the enemy.It's just that the Song army collapsed at the first touch in the field, no, it collapsed on the lookout.But even so, the Jin army did not gain the upper hand in the siege of Tokyo.

That's why Jin Jun took the initiative to propose a peace.Relying on the weakness of the emperor and ministers of the Song Dynasty, the lower-level sergeants in Tokyo were forced to disarm.

But now Zhao Huan is determined to fight, and will never bow his knees to discuss peace.If the two sides continue to shoot at each other, Zhao Huan will be able to defend Tokyo City forever.

But Zhao Huan's relaxation did not last long, and Liu Fan's heavy voice sounded from the side: "Officials, the defense equipment is about to run out. I plan to send troops out of the city when the enemy's formation is chaotic before the arrows and stones are exhausted. enemy."

Zhao Huan angrily punched the wall with his fist!These damned corrupt officials!

The Song Dynasty has accumulated nearly 200 years of supplies in the Fangcheng Treasury, which is not as sufficient as the Jin Army's hasty preparations in one day.

The perfect system that has assembled the crystallization of the wisdom of countless capable people and generals has completely become a decoration under the corrosion of these moths.

When the Song army went out to fight in the city, it was always hopeless.Liu Fan sent troops out of the city. Will all the achievements of defending the city today and the morale of the army that has been boosted up with great difficulty be lost in one day?
(End of this chapter)