Big stock gold thief?
How big is it?
When Zhao Kai heard the news, his eyes lit up!
The Battle of Jinzhou was actually a battle of encirclement and reinforcements. Just defeating this fake fortress in Jinzhou is not enough. If they can eat another 1 or 200,000 gold thieves' reinforcements by the way, then the victory of this Jinsong decisive battle will be completely sealed.
"Pengju," Zhao Kai turned to look at Yue Fei with excitement on his face, "The gold thieves reinforcements have finally appeared. What do you think we should do? Should Wu Jie place them near Jinzhou City and then eliminate them together?"
When Yue Fei heard this, he really didn't know whether to laugh or cry. Just now, Zhao Kai said he would just take a look and leave, but at a glance he saw that the fortress in Jinzhou City was fake, and then he started to give Niu Gao instructions on how to attack the city. Now just start teaching me, the general manager, how to fight. If you like commanding so much, what were you doing in Shanhaiguan before? Wouldn't it be enough for the imperial commander to conduct the expedition himself?
Of course, what was in his heart could not be expressed openly, so Yue Fei thought about it and said, "The official's strategy must be brilliant."
Zhao Kai smiled and nodded. You, Yue Fei, won't flatter you, so you must be telling the truth. My master's clever plan will conquer the world!
Yue Fei suddenly changed the topic at this time, "But my brother thought that the gold thieves might not be fooled. Moreover, now the Thirteenth Army has established a stronghold south of Kaiyi County in Yizhou and is fighting based on the stronghold. If it retreats suddenly, it will be very difficult. It may cause chaos, which may be exploited by thieves.
Therefore, Brother Chen suggested that Jinzhou City should be surrounded by three towers. Let go of the north of Jinzhou City and not encircle it. At the same time, focus on the 10-pound cannon to destroy the three triangular forts in the south of Jinzhou City. Then let the infantry artillery carry the hot pot cannon, 10-pound cannon, and 5-pound cannon across the river, bombarding the city while blasting open the Jinzhou city wall!
Brother Chen estimates that when our people enter Jinzhou City, the defenders of Jinzhou will flee north in panic. When the time comes, we will chase them with 200,000 to 300,000 people and force them to collide with the gold thieves' reinforcements in Kaiyi County. We will definitely disrupt the gold thieves' reinforcements."
Yue Fei is indeed Yue Fei!
His fighting skills are better than those of Zhao Kai!
Zhao Kai wanted to lure the enemy to go deep, but he was not stupid. He might not go deep. Moreover, if the Thirteenth Army did not grasp the retreat rhythm well and the enemy was really defeated, the enemy's reinforcements would really come to Jinzhou City. Isn't this troublesome?
"Okay!" Zhao Kai nodded, "Just Yipengju, Pengju, Niu Gao, you take command, I'll take a look here!"
Just take a look, is this okay?
Yue Fei and Niu Gao looked at each other. If you want to see it, you can see it! Even if they want to issue an order to intervene and command, they can only obey orders!
Fortunately, this official is very good at fighting and will not give random orders, so there is no problem.
Yue Fei then said to Zhao Kai, "Guan family, it is Niu Gao who is besieging Jinzhou. My brother has nothing to do here. Why don't I accompany you to watch the battle with Niu Taiwei? When will you adjust your deployment and start bombarding Jinzhou City?"
Niu Gao said, "We can definitely start the bombardment the day after tomorrow!"
The "day after tomorrow" mentioned by Niu Gao was April 18th in the eleventh year of Hongwu.
Niu Gao's opponent, the number one sinner of the Kingdom of Jin, Zhao Kai's father-killing enemy, Marshal Youjianjun of the Kingdom of Jin, and Wanyan Zongxian, Duke of Bin Guo, already knew that the Song Army was going to launch an attack on the 18th in the afternoon before. .
Because on the afternoon of the 17th, he learned that all the Song troops blocking the main road in the north of the city had evacuated - the Song troops in the north of Jinzhou City had not all withdrawn, and North Putuo Mountain could not be let out! In addition, the west bank of the Daling River must also be blocked. The only area that is really freed is the section from Jinzhou to Yizhou.
In fact, the Song army that besieged the city did not "encircle three towers and one tower", but "encircled five towers and one tower." Jinzhou is not a square city, but a bastion with six sides and twelve corners. It cannot be missing one of three, but can only be missing one of five. ah!
However, Wanyan Zongxian will not run away from Jinzhou City just because Wu Qiyi is dead, because he will defend Jinzhou to atone for his sins!
And he also knew the strategy of surrounding three buildings. This was because Song Jun wanted to coax him out of the city!
So instead of running away from the city, he ordered the entire army to prepare for war and defend to the death!
But early this morning, he received the report that the Song Army had removed the covering on the south bank of the Xiaoling River, revealing a row of 10-pound long-barreled cannons!
The Jin soldiers who were looking at the top of the city also counted, there were 124 cannons in total!
Good guy, Song's army only had 8 10-pound cannons. With 124 guns, wouldn't it mean that 15 and a half troops came to the Jinzhou front line?
That's an army of three to four hundred thousand!
Wanyan Zongxian mentally calculated the number of Song troops besieging the city, and immediately felt desperate and helpless. Three or four hundred thousand to beat him to forty thousand, that's ten to one!
And there are so many cannons in Jinzhou, sooner or later they won't be able to defend it!
However, Wanyan Zongxian still felt that he could persist in Jinzhou for a long time, and there would be absolutely no problem if he stayed for three months.
Because the problem was not serious for the time being, Wanyan Zongxian immediately dressed up and led his soldiers to the city wall directly south of the Jinzhou Bastion. This was part of the hexagonal core fort and a rammed earth wall that was basically perpendicular to the ground. But the thickness is quite astonishing. The city wall that is two and a half feet high is actually three feet thick!
Because the city wall was thick enough, sandbags could be used to build artillery bunkers and anti-artillery walls.
After Wanyan Zongxian inspected the city wall, he hid behind a wall of women's heads and stuck his head out to look out.
He didn't have a telescope to use, so he couldn't see the target clearly two or three miles away. He could only see small forts arranged in sequence, with more than a hundred in total.
Looking at these artillery forts, Wanyan Zongxian always felt that something was wrong, but he still had to cheer himself up and murmured to himself, "It's okay, it's okay. Jinzhou is a bastion. It's very strong. Even a big cannon can't do anything to it!"
At the same time, Zhao Kai, Yue Fei, Guo Tiannu and others also went to the observation post on Jiaoshan Mountain.
They are about four or five miles away from Jinzhou Castle, and it is still very clear to observe with a crystal telescope. Moreover, the visibility is now high, the sky has completely brightened, and the morning fog on Xiaoling River has completely dissipated.
120 (there are only 120, I wonder how the Jin people counted 124?) cannons are in place, and all the muzzles are aimed at a triangular fort in Jinzhou City! Just waiting for Niu Gao's order. He is the commander-in-chief of the former enemy! He has to say the word "fire", right? Otherwise, how can we demonstrate Niu Gao's power of command on the battlefield?
Zhao Kai has been observing the cannons from a distance. The artillery bunkers are well built, the gun positions are well selected, and the artillerymen look very skilled in their operations. After all, they are professional artillerymen taught in the artillery school!
When Zhao Kai was extremely satisfied with the performance of his artillery, Niu Gao had already issued the order!
I saw a group of one hundred and twenty 10-pound long-barreled cannons shaking violently at the same time. The fire burst out first, followed by the muffled thunder-like sound of the cannon, and the smoke filled the air. In the blink of an eye, the 120-pound The triangular fortress that was aimed at with a cannon was hit until the earth and rocks flew away!
When the cannon sounded, Wanyan Zongxian also trembled and subconsciously retracted behind the wall of women's heads.
Before he left the mountain this time, he had been living an idle life for many years. Although he knew the power of artillery, he had also seen artillery fire. But he had never seen a scene where cannons were fired at the same time, especially since he was on the opposite side of the cannon.
He wanted to stick his head out and take a look, but he was afraid that a cannonball with "eyes" would hit his head impartially. When he was hesitating, his two soldiers "pounced on" in time and protected him with their bodies. Now Wanyan Zongxian stopped struggling and just hid behind the wall of women's heads.
Wanyan Zongxian didn't dare to look at it, but Zhao Kai looked at it enthusiastically and cheered while looking at it, "Okay! Good shot, at least four or five shots were hit!"
It’s really encouraging to hit the target with the first salvo! The rest of the cannonballs actually hit Jinzhou City, but they didn't hit the triangular fortress.
Zhao Kai held up his binoculars to take a closer look at the triangular fortress that had been hit by shells. He only saw several large craters appearing on the wall, and blocks of sand and mud were falling straight down!
Immediately afterwards there was another loud noise that shook the earth and the mountains, and 120 artillery shells flew like raindrops towards the triangular fortress more than two miles away.
This time more shells hit! Only seeing several huge holes appeared in the wall of the triangular fort, Zhao Kai knew that the triangular fort would probably not be able to survive this morning.
Because the walls of this triangular fortress are perpendicular to the ground, once many holes are drilled into the lower wall, it will not be able to withstand the pressure of the upper wall and will collapse.
Once the triangular fortress collapses, the artillery placed on it will slip or become tilted and unable to fire.
It looks like a solid fortress, but because it doesn't understand geometry, it turns out to be a loser.
If you don't study hard, you can't even be a fortress!
"Boom boom boom"
Several more rounds of volleys were fired, and more and more shells hit the triangular fort. There were many holes on the walls on both sides of the triangular fort, with sand and gravel falling down. The defenders on the fort seemed to I also realized that something was wrong and couldn't hide it anymore. I got up from behind the female head wall on the fort and ran back - this fort is not a fort that covers the city gate, but a fort that connects to the core fort! Therefore, the defenders above can run directly to the core fort. However, they were blocked by Wanyan Zongxian's soldiers.
How could the soldiers guarding the Triangle Fort dare to confront Zongxian's soldiers? But they didn't dare to go back to the fortress that could collapse at any time, so they had no choice but to shout loudly, "It's collapsed, it's going to collapse soon!"
This call reached Wanyan Zongxian's ears. He was startled at first, and then he snorted and shouted loudly, "This is a message to my generals. All officers and men must take up their positions. Anyone who disobeys the order will be killed without mercy!"
When the soldiers got his order and drew out their machetes and were about to chop people, there was a loud noise from the triangular fort in front of them. The sharp corners of the fort collapsed!
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