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  Chapter 801 Life and Death War (5)

The Song army is no stranger to the nest chariots. Whether it was the Taiyuan defense battle or the first Tokyo defense battle, the nest chariots posed a huge threat to the soldiers defending the city. achievements.

  Li Yanqing also attached great importance to Jin Bing's nest cart. He knew very well that when Feihuo Lei became a sharp weapon against siege ladders, the nest cart became the greatest hope and sharpest weapon for Jin Bing to capture the capital.

But just like a good spear, there will inevitably be a strong shield. Li Yanqing has suffered a few times from the nest car, and he also pays special attention to the method of defending the nest car. For this reason, he offered a reward of five hundred taels of silver in the Firearms Bureau to develop a defense nest car. effective means.

  Under heavy rewards, there must be a brave man. Just three days after Li Yanqing put up the reward, a firearms craftsman surnamed Kong thought of an excellent way to deal with the nest cart.

The firearms craftsman's idea came from thistle thorns, which are an effective means of dealing with enemy cavalry. The long spikes pierce the horse's hooves, causing severe pain and losing the ability to run. The thunderbolt can easily blow up the nest Cars, but the nest car is fully enclosed when it is moving. Only when the bridge is lowered to the top of the city, the nest car will reveal its big opening, but it is often too late by then.

Therefore, as long as the Zhentianlei can be attached to the nest car and explode, it can cause heavy damage to the nest car. The key to the Nest-breaking Thunderbolt.

The gunsmith surnamed Kong designed a kind of tribulus thunderbolt. He installed the thorns on the shell of the thunderbolt and fired it with a cannon. Within fifty steps, the thunderbolt could hit the nest car. At the same time, a few inches of thorns were nailed to the giant wood outside the nest cart, and the Thunderbolt could stick close to the nest cart and explode.

   This plan was simple, easy and reliable, and was approved by the military. The firearms craftsman surnamed Kong also won a reward of five hundred taels of silver, and was promoted to a first-class firearms craftsman in the Firearms Bureau.

With Li Yanqing's order, hundreds of militiamen brought up hundreds of boxes of Tribulus Thunderbolts from the city. The Thunderbolts are now placed in wooden boxes, one wooden box contains two Thunderbolts, and another box is wrapped outside the wooden box. Layers of fire tarpaulin, so that even if Zhentianlei is placed on the top of the city, it will not be afraid of enemy fire.

  Thirteen nest carts are getting closer and closer to the city wall. Each nest cart is pushed by two hundred soldiers and pulled by ten oxen.

The Song Army's thunderbolts continued to explode around the nest car. One thunder rolled into the lower end of the nest car and exploded. Two giant wheels were blown away, and the nest car overturned sideways. Twenty heads were affected by the shock wave and iron pieces. , All were killed, and nearly half of the two hundred soldiers were killed or injured.

At this time, the other two were also blown up by the thunderbolt, but still ten nest carts entered within fifty steps and approached the moat. Wood boards had been put on the moat, and the cattle in the nest carts had been taken away. Soldiers pushed from behind, causing the nest carts to start a little closer to the moat.

The forty cannons on the top of the city began to be replaced with thorns and thunder. The cannons were giant crossbows, about one foot three feet long and four feet wide. The stone cannon was renamed artillery and became a powerful weapon for launching thunderbolts. Now thunderbolts have been upgraded to thunderbolts, but the artillery has not changed.

  Three soldiers pushed the capstan to wind up, installed thorns on the launch slot to shake the sky, and one soldier lit the matchlock. When the matchlock burned to the red line, the other knocked down the hanging knife, and only heard 'Boom! ' With a sound, the tribulus thunderbolt was ejected, and it shot powerfully at the nest cart fifty steps away. The thunderbolt hit the nest cart accurately. After picking up the wood, the soldiers at the top of the city covered their ears and squatted down.

I only heard an earth-shattering explosion, debris splashed everywhere, thick smoke filled the air, mixed with screams, and when the explosion gradually subsided, the soldiers slowly raised their heads and saw that only half of the nest cart was left fifty steps away. The ground was full of broken wood and incomplete corpses. The soldiers suddenly jumped up and cheered loudly.

   Tribulus Earthquake Thunder is indeed very practical and effective. The other nine nest cars were also severely damaged, either blown up or overturned, and none of the nest cars could cross the moat.

Without the nest cart, Wanyan Loushi once again invested 30,000 soldiers and ordered to attack the city at all costs. The number of golden soldiers on the battlefield has reached 70,000, and more than 1,400 siege ladders have all been put into battle. Li Yanqing also All the soldiers of the New Northern Army were ordered to participate in the battle. The number of soldiers in Beicheng had reached 30,000, and Zhentianlei, Tiehuolei, and Feihuolei were used in turn.

Both sides were red-hot, the battlefield was filled with gunpowder smoke, blood flowed like rivers, both sides suffered heavy casualties, corpses were piled up above and below the city, the 20,000 gold soldiers of the Bohai Navy had been killed in battle, and there were still a steady stream of Jurchen and Khitan soldiers. The people attacked the city bravely, and the Song army on the top of the city resisted desperately. The imperial army was killed in battle and the Xiang army was on top, and the Xiang army was killed in battle and then the reserve militiamen were on top again. The Jin soldiers attacked the city seven times before and after, and were killed by the Song army seven times go down.

   This battle lasted from early morning to dusk. The two sides fought in the dark, with huge casualties, but the city wall of Tokyo still stood, and it was never captured by the Jin soldiers.

When twilight fell, the bell of Jin Bing's retreat finally rang, and the exhausted Jin Bing finally had to retreat. They withdrew like a tide, leaving corpses all over the ground. The second defense of Tokyo, Jin Bing More than 40,000 people were killed in battle, while the Song Army also killed more than 23,000 people, nearly half of the New Taipei Army was killed and injured, and the militia and the imperial guards also suffered heavy casualties.

When the Jin soldiers were forced to withdraw, the soldiers at the top of the city hugged each other excitedly, their voices were too hoarse to cry out, but they shed tears of victory. Hundreds of thousands of people waiting in the city heard that the Jin soldiers had been defeated. The whole city cheered, and the cheers immediately resounded through the sky.

But the war was not over yet. The 30,000 cavalry led by Wanyan Zonghan were still waiting outside the west city. The city wall of the west city had not been dismantled, and the city wall of more than ten miles long covered their tracks. They were patiently waiting for the success of the last secret operation of the Jin soldiers. .

The soldiers on the top of the city were extremely busy, carrying corpses, bandaging the wounded, cleaning up the sand, and transporting supplies. Li Yanqing listened to Zhang Hu's report in the old Fengqiu Gate tower. Zhang Hu led five hundred soldiers to the city to clean up the wounded soldiers on the battlefield. At that time, they got an important piece of information. When Jin Bing, a Yandi Han who was injured and could not evacuate, begged for their lives, he revealed an extremely important news to them.

   "The humble job feels that the news should be accurate, the plague broke out in the Jinbing camp!"

  Of course Li Yanqing also knew about Yan Qing's plan, but the matter was of great importance, and Li Yanqing could not draw conclusions based on just one or two soldiers' confessions.

  He pondered for a moment and said: "I also believe that the news of the plague in the Golden Camp is true. This is in line with our plan. Now I am more concerned about the severity of the plague. This is the key to whether the Jin soldiers will withdraw!"

   "Reporting to Dutong, the humble officer also arrested more than 20 slightly injured gold soldiers. The humble officer can be interrogated separately. If the confessions of more than 20 people are consistent, it can basically be judged."

  Li Yanqing nodded, "This method is fine, where are they now?"

   "Currently in Wengcheng, I heard that a plague broke out in Jinying, and the humble officials dare not bring them into the city."

   "Go to the interrogation! After the interrogation, all brothers who have been in contact with Jin Bing will be quarantined for a few days, including you, just in case, understand?"

   "The humble job understands!"

Li Yanqing sent someone to find Cao Sheng again, and said to him: "Go to the city to collect quicklime and kerosene, as much as you want, and gather them all. I will be of great use. In addition, go and tell the people in the city that the Golden Camp has broken out." The plague requires the people of the whole city to take precautions."

   "Humble post obeys orders!"

  Cao Sheng saluted and hurried away, Li Yanqing walked out of the tower with his hands behind his back, at this moment, Zhang Qing hurried over, "Dutong, there is a strange thing."

   "What strange thing?" Li Yanqing asked.

   "The water on the north and east sides of the moat river suddenly disappeared, and there was still a little water on the west and south sides."

  Li Yanqing was startled, "When did it happen?"

   "I asked about it. It should be that the water level started to drop in the afternoon, and the water disappeared just now, and it seems to have been led away."

   Li Yanqing frowned. The moat of the inner city is connected to the Bian River. Could it be that the Bian River has been cut off?

   "How is the situation in Bianhe?"

   "The humble official is also about to report, and the water level of the Bian River has also dropped a lot, only half of what it was in the morning, and it is no longer possible to return to the northern moat."

  The terrain of Bianliang is high in the northwest and low in the southeast. If the Bian River is cut off, the water to the north and west of the moat will indeed flow away quickly.

   "General Zhang, do you think other than the truncation of the Bian River, is there any other aspect that caused the moat to have no water?"

  Zhang Qing shook his head, "I can't think of any other possibility, even if it is a ground subsidence, but the water of the Bian River will still flow in a steady stream, and it will not cause the flow to stop."

   Li Yanqing thought the same thing, but what does it mean that the Jin soldiers cut off the Bianhe River?

   Flooded Bianliang? Li Yanqing shook his head secretly, the terrain is impossible, Bianliang is on a high place, not in a depression, it cannot flood the city at all.

   Are you trying to cover up something? What are the consequences of no water in the moat? Will you drill into the city along the moat? It's a joke.

   "Get into the city?"

  A thought flashed through Li Yanqing's mind like lightning, and he suddenly understood.

  (end of this chapter)