Guide to traveling through the Northern Song Dynasty

Since the Ming Zhen brothers brought Haibin County to the Ming Dynasty, Li Bao began to strengthen the city walls here.

It won't work without reinforcement. The entire Liaoxi Corridor, Daming City, is just one city. Enemies on both sides will attack sooner or later.

Da Mingzhen and Da Mingyi surrendered because the Jin Kingdom was short of food. They also asked Li Bao to transport more food to feed the salt workers and farmers in Haibin County.

Li Bao happened to use work in exchange for relief, so that the people who had no food to eat came to build the city.

Because there were not enough civilians, soldiers also took turns to participate in the construction.

After three or four months of work, although the city wall in Haibin County was short and small, the thickness of the wall base was increased to nearly ten meters.

In terms of the thickness of the city wall, it is equivalent to that of a state city in the Central Plains.

"Bang bang bang!"

The golden soldiers fired back cannons and threw large rocks at them.

The outer layer of the city wall, which is more than three meters thick, was newly added in the past few months. It was pockmarked by large rocks and had various cracks.

On the fourth day after being hit by return artillery, a large area of ​​the outer wall even collapsed, exposing the original wall inside.

A shoddy project!

There is no other way, there is a hasty reinforcement, there are not enough manpower, and there is not enough raw materials. Moreover, there is a lack of ramming nest between the old and new walls. It was rainy some time ago, so it is normal for the new wall to be smashed.

But the accuracy of the return artillery is impressive. It is impossible to smash down the new wall and then aim at the same point to bombard the old wall inside.

After more than half a month of continuous pounding by the returning artillery, nearly half of the new walls on the east and west sides of the city collapsed, which was equivalent to destroying a large area of ​​the outer armor of the city wall.

The old wall inside was almost undamaged.

Wanyan Zongbi was afraid that the Ming army would go out to destroy the siege equipment, so he did not dare to divide his troops and set up the enemy's camp for construction. Even the return artillery was transported out of the Jinbing camp every day, assembled outside the city, disassembled and transported back to the camp in the afternoon.

Half of the time was spent on transportation and disassembly, and only two or three hours of bombardment on the city wall every day.

Wanyan Zongwang sent a telescope over, which made Wanyan Zongbi feel like he had found a treasure, and he had to hold it and observe it every day.

"The section near the due west city gate, the wall (new wall) collapsed the best," Wanyan Zongbi said, "it fell down and turned into a slope. I, the Dajin Warriors, can rush up along the slope and take a short ladder. You can climb to the top of the city."

Wanyan Tat said lazily: "If we continue to use artillery carts to throw stones, it will probably take another month or two before the old wall built by the Liao Kingdom can be destroyed. Can we attack the city after it has been destroyed?"

Wanyan Zongbi said: "Oben (Wanyan Zongqian) snatched the grain and grass from Goryeo. He transported a batch back to Liaoyang himself, and the rest was handed over to us for the war. Not only the fighting is going on here, but the Great Wall of Zhenhaikou is also fighting, and time is dragging on. It’s been too long since we’ve run out of military rations.”

Wanyan frowned lazily and said, "Why don't you focus on fighting in one place?"

"It doesn't matter whether the siege is concentrated or not," Wanyan Zongbi said, "Hainan County is too small. Even if there are 50,000 people here to attack the city, only those who can be sent to attack the city will only be able to send the rest of the troops to watch from behind."

Wanyan Talan couldn't help complaining: "Yu Liduo (Wanyan Zongfu) has not been on the battlefield for several years. He has no idea how difficult the Ming army is to deal with. It is not easy to recapture the coastal county, and he is still thinking of starting a war in two places. , take down the Zhenhaikou Great Wall as well.”

Wanyan Zongbi had not fought in three years. After thinking carefully, he said: "We will bombard with artillery vehicles for five more days, select a few city walls to attack by force, and feign attacks in other places to assist in the battle."

Five days passed in the blink of an eye.

The east and west towers were riddled with holes by the Jin soldiers' returning artillery, and several of the archery towers in the best defensive positions were also destroyed.

The siege has officially begun!

The artillery was assembled first, and stones were thrown to cover the advance of the siege troops.

The Jin soldiers were fully prepared this time and used craftsmen kidnapped from Hebei to produce many siege equipment invented by the Northern Song Dynasty.

Not many people stood on the city wall. It was not until the Jin soldiers stopped bombarding that Li Bao sent soldiers to quickly run up the city wall from the horse path to defend. Moreover, I don’t plan to use Thunder Sky Thunder for the time being, there are only 800 of them for the time being.

Trees and fallen rocks have already piled up at the top of the city.

The golden juice has also boiled into a semi-solid state, which is a mixture of feces, urine and various unknown substances. The salt worker who acted as a farmer followed up, added water to the half-dry and half-thin golden juice, then lit the firewood and began to heat and cook.

There is no preparation for hot oil. Materials are supplied across the sea. Vegetable oil is very precious.

The first ones who were thrown into the siege were all northern Han'er and Khitan soldiers. These two ethnic groups have the largest population in the Kingdom of Jin, and their social status is not high. They are used as cannon fodder for sieges every time.

The newly built outer wall collapsed, forming a rugged obstacle. Although the city wall was much shorter, it also made it difficult for the Jin soldiers' large siege equipment to approach.

For things like aerial ladders, you have to pick areas where the outer wall has not collapsed in order for the ladder to be successfully hung on the city wall.

Just as the Jin soldiers turned the winch and slowly extended the ladder, the defenders suddenly shouted in Chinese and Khitan:

"Young man of the Han family, don't sacrifice your life for the Jin people!"

"Khitan brothers, don't kill them if they throw away their weapons!"

"The Jurchen soldiers dare not attack the city, so I only let you die!"

"..."

In the past two years of cross-sea raids, Li Bao kidnapped and surrendered many Jin soldiers and civilians, and he had figured out the Jin soldiers' tactics to attack the city.

He knew that the first few groups of siege cannon fodder must be Han and Khitan people.

The soldiers of the Ming army guarding the city shouted to persuade them to surrender, but at the same time they tried to kill people.

The first to be launched were rockets, aimed at various siege equipment. Gunpowder is mixed with rosin and fired on the siege equipment to continue burning. As long as enough rockets are fired, one or two golden weapons can always be ignited.

The first offensive of the Jin soldiers was quickly repelled by rockets, falling rocks, wood and ordinary bows and arrows.

Before the Ming army had time to leave the city to destroy the equipment, the second wave of Jin soldiers' offensive came again, pushing rows of female walls and approaching quickly.

The golden soldiers hiding behind the female wall took over the previously abandoned siege equipment one after another.

This time someone approached the top of the city wall and was showered back with hot golden juice.

The fighting continued into the afternoon, and hundreds of Jin soldiers were killed or wounded.

"Linchong, there is Linchong over there, shoot all the rockets at Linchong!"

Li Bao was personally sitting at the watchtower in the city. He suddenly saw something with his telescope and quickly ordered the mobilization of nearby rocket soldiers.

Linchong was also called Lu Gongcha in the Ming Dynasty. It required twenty or thirty people to push it. It was like a mobile building with many siege soldiers hidden inside. The top was built slightly higher than the city wall.

Although the Ming army still had many rockets, the archers' arms were weak from shooting.

Li Bao was afraid of an accident, so he asked the messenger to raise the flag and transfer a reserve team over.

After thinking for a while, Li Bao said to a messenger: "You ride over and send the order, let the thunder fire soldiers go to Linchong and throw the thunder!"

Several of the Jin Bing's planes had been covered with linen cloth. At this time, the linen cloth was suddenly opened, and they were discovered by Li Bao after they had pushed out more than ten meters.

The messengers galloped on horseback, rushed up the city wall from the horse path, and shouted along the troop transport channel: "Listen, Thunder Fire Soldiers, go up to Linchong and throw thunder from the sky!"

The so-called "Thunder Fire Soldier" is the name Li Bao gave to the grenadiers.

He selected a group of powerful ones specifically for throwing thunder.

Several Linchong planes were still far away at this time, and the Thunder Fire Soldiers had plenty of time to prepare.

Wanyan Zongbi did not have Hezha Mengan in hand. In order to attack the city this time, he selected the bravest warriors, each wearing two layers of medium armor. Some were arranged in the rush, and some were hidden behind the parapet wall.

When Linchong approached the city wall, the Jin warriors behind the female wall also came out carrying a flying ladder and rushed up the slope formed by the collapsed outer wall.

The arrows landed on these golden soldiers wearing double armor, clanking incessantly, but the damage caused was extremely limited.

"Golden juice, golden juice, bring it here quickly!"

As the boiled mixture of feces and urine rained down, the climbing warriors of the Jin Kingdom screamed in agony.

Da Bian (biàn) took advantage of the fact that the Ming army had just finished pouring two waves of gold juice, and led his soldiers to leave the female wall.

This Da Bian, also known as Da, Ta Bu Ye, was born into a noble family in Bohai, Liaoyang, and was adopted as an adopted son by A Gu.

Among all Bohai people, Dazhan ranks first in terms of military merit.

He was the adopted son of Aguda, and had the support of the Liaoyang clan. He also made numerous military exploits, so he was already a member of the Jin Kingdom. Later he even became the Right Prime Minister of the Jin Kingdom, and was named Shenlu County by Wan Yanliang. king.

Wanyan Zongbi had spent a lot of money by asking ten thousand households to risk their lives to get there first.

But I saw that the big man was wearing three layers of armor, and there was a mask and collar on his helmet. This fully armed appearance was no different from that of a heavily armored soldier. But he was running as fast as he could on the rugged slope. Two soldiers helped him secure the ladder while he climbed quickly with arrows and spears in his head.

Li Bao was on the watchtower in the city and could not see the elite hidden in the female wall below the city.

The front-line commander reacted quickly and sent out thunder and fire soldiers to move elite enemy troops to several locations.

A golden soldier wearing two or three layers of armor is qualified to enjoy the thunder!

Da Bian held the flying ladder with one hand and blocked with a short weapon with the other. He was almost poked down by spears several times, but he continued to climb despite the attacks of the Ming army.

Just then, he caught a glimpse of something falling.

The round lump looked like a falling rock, but it was thrown a little crookedly and couldn't hit him at all.

Da Bian used his hands and feet again at the same time and climbed up a little further.

Just when he was about to turn over and climb up the city wall, there was a loud "boom" from below. Da Bian didn't know what happened, and he fell down because the flying ladder he was stepping on was blown apart.

Several Jin Kingdom elites below were wearing double armor, and their legs were directly broken by the thunder, because the bomb fell at their feet.

The nearby Jin soldiers were stunned by the explosion. They neither continued the attack nor forgot to escape immediately, but stood there stupidly.

Because he climbed higher, he did not suffer the impact of the explosion, and his three layers of armor also prevented sporadic shrapnel.

He fell and fell to pieces, dizzy and struggling to get up.

"Save ten thousand households quickly!"

More soldiers rushed up the slope to rescue regardless of the danger, wanting to take Da Bian away from the battlefield first.

As soon as these soldiers rushed forward, another thunderbolt fell.

"boom!"

Dabao, the adopted son of Aguda, a member of the Bohai tribe, the future King of the Jin Kingdom and the right prime minister, had one calf blown away and the other calf fractured.

A large number of the soldiers who rushed over also fell down.

"Ah...my legs!"

Da Bian was not dead until more than ten seconds later, when he felt severe pain in his legs, and then found that one of his legs was missing, and the other leg was folded towards the crotch at a strange angle.

Wanyan Zongbi was admiring the picture of the first landing with a telescope. He thought about it repeatedly before coming up with this ingenious plan to attack the city.

Wanyan Zongbi witnessed the two explosions.

"This, this, this... what is this?" Wanyan Zongbi was so frightened that he was trembling even as he spoke.