MTL - Poor Family-v2 Chapter 912 Decisive battle in Taiyuan (middle)

  Chapter 912 The Decisive Battle in Taiyuan (Part 2)

Forty soldiers pushed the winch for each trebuchet, and eighty trebuchets creaked and pulled away. The sunlight passed through the huge body of the trebuchet, casting a long shadow on the ground, and a dozen soldiers were struggling Pulling the six-foot-long throwing pole, three soldiers put a boulder weighing eighty catties into the throwing pocket. At this moment, the projected war drum sounded rumblingly.

   "Launch!" Commander Jin Bing roared.

The long throwing rods popped out one after another, and threw huge boulders weighing eighty or ninety catties towards the top of the city. Countless small black spots appeared in the air and flew towards the top of the city sharply. Crouch down to dodge.

  'Boom! '

A boulder hit the battlements, and the huge impact smashed the battlements, and the broken stones flew randomly. Several soldiers were unable to dodge, and were beaten to death by the rocks. One soldier screamed, his arm was a piece The fist-sized stone hit him, and the powerful impact immediately broke his arm bone. After hitting the battlements, the boulder bounced up immediately, with the remaining strength still alive, and flew over the soldiers' heads and flew into the city.

The impact brought by the boulder had not subsided in the hearts of the soldiers, and there was a shout not far away. A boulder hit the base bracket of a trebuchet at the top of the city, and one of the four bottom pillars was hit in two. The trebuchet suddenly became unstable and wobbled. With the shouts of the soldiers, it fell on the top of the city. The soldiers dodged one after another, but two soldiers were still unable to get up and were crushed under the trebuchet.

   Boulders flew one after another from the top of the city, or hit the wall, or flew over the top of the city, and there was a 'bang! boom! ’ and the shouts of the soldiers, the catapults were also greatly damaged, and 30% of the 120 catapults on the city head were destroyed after three rounds of boulder projection.

However, it is not so easy to hit the top of the city with a boulder. Throwing stones from the bottom of the city to attack the top of the city will not hit the top of the city from a straight line, unless it is projected at a high elevation angle and thrown in a parabola, and the force is neither light nor heavy. It is almost impossible for a few huge boulders to hit the top of the city with a large number of boulders.

The trebuchets are more powerful than the trebuchets of the Song army at the head of the city. This is the advantage of Jin Bing, and they also give full play to this advantage. This round of trebuchet battle lasted fifteen rounds, and they stopped when the trebuchets broke down one after another. .

At this time, a commander came to report the observation to the commander Wan Yanxie. Jin Bing also built three high platforms, which were slightly higher than the city wall in the distance. Standing on the high platforms, one could clearly see the destruction of the top of the city. Case.

   "Report to Dutong, at least 80% of the catapults of the Song Army have been destroyed!"

  Wan Yanxie also nodded, the time to attack was ripe, he immediately ordered: "Attack!"

'Woo—' The low-pitched horn blew, and ten thousand soldiers of the Xi tribe let out a loud roar, and began to march towards the city in an orderly manner. The team carried hundreds of large siege ladders. The city ladders were at least three times as wide and weighed hundreds of catties. The bottom of the ladders was nailed to death with wooden boards. This was to prevent the Song army from flying fire and thunder attacks. Soldiers pedal when climbing a ladder.

Among the hundreds of siege ladders, there are ten siege ladders that are quite special. A long rope is attached to the top of the ladder.

Hundreds of soldiers in the back pulled and pulled the two long ropes, and the ladder would be erected directly on the top of the city. More importantly, dozens of soldiers had already been attached to the ladder in advance. The ten soldiers immediately launched an attack on the top of the city, especially the soldiers at the top could jump directly to the top of the city, hence the name of the ladder.

  The use of this kind of flying ladder is a great progress for the Jin people to attack the city, which greatly shortens the time for the Jin soldiers to climb the city and makes the war more tragic.

After the Jin soldiers used trebuchets for fifteen rounds of attack, the trebuchets on the northern city were indeed severely damaged. At least 80% of the trebuchets were hit by boulders, with varying degrees of damage, but the Song army could no longer use the trebuchets. The machine conducts long-range strikes on advancing soldiers.

The attack starting point of the Song army was reduced from 250 steps to 150 steps, which is the effective killing range of the **** arm crossbow. Li Yanqing no longer counted on the trebuchets. , He immediately ordered Zhentianlei and hundreds of small catapults to be pushed to the south city, and the soldiers immediately took action. Thousands of soldiers pushed small carts and small catapults with wheels and ran around the city.

The height of this small mobile trebuchet is only as high as one person, about seven feet, which is equivalent to over two meters in later generations, and the throwing pole is two feet long. The giant thunderbolt weighing eighty kilograms was thrown fifty steps away.

After accumulating defense experience for many times, the Song army had already found the most lethal tactic, that is, when the enemy army attacked the city intensively, they would concentrate on using giant thunderbolts, which could kill and injure thousands of people at one time. extremely powerful,

  At this time, the 10,000 Jin soldiers of the Xi clan quickened their pace and ran, followed by the 10,000 Khitan archers and crossbow troops, but the 20,000 Jurchen soldiers still stood still.

  Xi soldiers gradually entered within 150 paces, Li Yanqing immediately ordered, "Crossbowmen shoot!"

  Three thousand soldiers with divine arms began to shoot arrows down the city, ‘Whoosh! Whoosh! ’ There was a dense sound of piercing through the air, and three thousand crossbow arrows were fired at the running Jin soldiers of the Xi clan like a gust of rain.

   Soldiers are more likely to be penetrated by powerful crossbow arrows while running, and soldiers in the team are shot down one by one, but the golden soldiers still charge forward one after another, and soon they rushed into the range of a hundred steps.

  Wang Gui said anxiously: "Dutong, order to use the trebuchet!"

Li Yanqing stared at the other two teams of 10,000 people in the distance, they were the main force of the Golden Army, he and Wanyan Xie also fought wits and bravery, since Wanyan Xie also wanted to destroy the catapult, then complete Wanyan Xie , creating an illusion that the trebuchet had been destroyed, and made Wanyan Xie invest more troops to die.

  Li Yanqing shook his head resolutely, "The trebuchet is not ready yet, pass on my order and prepare to defend the city!"

Three rapid drums sounded from the top of the city, which was the signal for the preparation of the city guard bow. Five thousand archers stood behind the city head, raised the big city guard bow, pulled the bowstring, and the arrow pointed forty-five degrees up.

   Li Yanqing squinted his eyes and watched the enemy army charge within fifty steps, and he immediately ordered: "Shoot arrows!"

  The sound of clappers suddenly sounded, and five thousand archers fired together, and five thousand crossbow arrows shot like dense locusts at the golden soldiers rushing to kill from the city.

Heavy and sharp arrows fell like raindrops, and their lethality was no less than that of the **** arm crossbow. Under the double blow of the **** arm crossbow and the city defense bow, 10,000 golden soldiers of the Xi clan were killed in just a short stick of incense. Within a short period of time, nearly 2,000 people were killed or injured, corpses were strewn all over the ground, and there were endless howls.

At this time, 10,000 Khitan golden soldiers rushed up. They were archers, arranged in several rows, and shot arrows at the top of the city together. Ten thousand arrows were fired together, forming a dark cloud of arrows and flying towards the top of the city. The rain of arrows suppressed the **** arm crossbow at the top of the city, creating an opportunity for the Jin soldiers of the Xi clan who attacked the city.

The Jin soldiers of the Xi clan fought bravely. Although they suffered heavy casualties from the powerful crossbow attack of the Song army defending the city, they still erected a series of siege ladders. The soldiers climbed up bravely. The soldiers of the Song army guarded the crenel, and the rolling logs and stones fell like raindrops, and a string of golden soldiers were smashed to the ground, but immediately there were soldiers killing them frantically, and the Song army also suffered continuous casualties, screaming and falling from the top of the city .

At this moment, there was a loud noise, and the chassis of ten flying ladders pressed against the city wall. Hundreds of soldiers roared and pulled the ropes with all their strength. It was full of soldiers, thirty or forty people, and the siege ladder was rushing towards the city wall at the fastest speed.

   "Dutong, quickly order the use of Thunderbolt!"

  Wang Gui rushed over from the east of Beicheng, and said to Li Yanqing almost beggingly: "The enemy's offensive is too fierce, and there are new siege weapons, we need to use the thunder!"

  Li Yanqing stared at the ten flying ladders, but still shook his head, "The ten flying ladders can't shake my will!"

   "But they attacked the city!"

  I saw a flying ladder leaning against the city wall, and dozens of soldiers jumped directly from the flying ladder to the top of the city. Wang Gui pointed to the flying ladder and shouted: "They are killing them!" "

  Li Yanqing grabbed Wang Gui by the collar and shouted angrily: "You're frightened by the golden soldiers, aren't you? How many of them do you have?"

Wang Gui was stunned for a moment, and his face immediately turned into a pig liver color. With a loud roar, he broke free from Li Yanqing's hand and ran towards the top of the city, "Kill me, come up and kill as many as you want!" Wang Gui's roar was heard from afar. .

  Li Yanqing shook his head, Wang Gui is already the deputy capital commander, and he has grown from a fourth-rank left Weiwei general, but his competitive personality has not changed since he was a child.

  Although the flying ladders had advantages in attacking the city, they were few in number, only ten. The more than 200 Jin soldiers who attacked the city were killed by the Song army on the top of the city in just a moment, and none of them survived.

At this time, Wanyan Xie could basically tell that there were indeed not many Thunderbolts in the city, otherwise he would not stop using them when the siege of the city was so fierce, Wanyan Xie also let go of his heart a little bit, he turned his head and sternly He ordered: "The third and fourth armies set off!"

  'Boom! Boom! Boom! '

  The thunderous drums sounded, and the 20,000 Jurchen soldiers who had been standing in front of the formation began to mobilize. They lined up neatly, holding large shields and one-handed spears, and ran towards the city with a murderous trot.

On the top of the city, Li Yanqing's eyes narrowed, and Wan Yanxie finally dispatched 20,000 elite Jurchen soldiers. Li Yanqing was well aware of the pressure that killing the Jurchen soldiers would put on the Kingdom of Jin. No matter how much they got, the Kingdom of Jin would not have the slightest pity, but the Jurchen soldiers were different. The various Jurchen tribes would put enormous pressure on the rulers of the Kingdom of Jin, and would force the rulers of the Kingdom of Jin to make some kind of change.

Fighting was still fierce on the top of the city, one siege ladder was pushed down, another was erected, arrows were shot, rolling logs and rocks fell down, kerosene was burned, all kinds of methods were used, and the golden soldiers were killed or injured. It was heavy, but he still fought one after another, fearless of death.

At this time, 20,000 Jurchen soldiers charged within a hundred steps of the city wall, and arrows rained down on them. The Jurchen soldiers raised their shields to resist, and quickly formed a sea of ​​shields. arrows hit.

   Twenty thousand Jurchen soldiers shouted and ran towards the city wall, like ten thousand horses galloping, with terrifying momentum.

  Li Yanqing looked coldly at the 20,000 Jurchen soldiers who were getting closer, and ordered: "The Thunderbolt is ready to launch!"

  (end of this chapter)