The Jin army's camel tubes continued to fire, making a dull roar. Balls weighing seven to eight were flying everywhere on the battlefield, and stone bullets fired from hot pot cannons continued to hit the Song army's camp east of Lianshan River. , it broke into pieces in an instant, and pebbles flew everywhere, causing everyone to have a bloody head. The officers and soldiers of the Song Dynasty who were guarding behind the camp wall had to crouch behind the low and thick wall to avoid the shattered and flying stones. However, some people were still injured by the stones from time to time and screamed in pain.
After the gunfire, there was a cry of killing!
The corpses of Jin Army soldiers wearing white burqas were almost covered on both sides of the mountains and rivers. On the east bank of the river, near the defense line of the Song Army's barracks, there are even more layers upon layers, which is shocking. But at this time, what came from the west bank of Lianshan River were still phalanxes of golden soldiers!
This wave of people thrown into the offensive by Wanyan Wushu were nearly 8,000 warriors belonging to the three Meng'an. They only saw that they formed three large square formations of a thousand people that were not too neat. The river at the end of the river gradually approached the Song Army camp on the other side of the river.
Wanyan Zongbi's army actually came into contact with the Song army on the mountains and rivers on April 18.
But at the beginning, Wanyan Zongbi, like Wanyan Zongpan, played more "cautiously"... He also didn't learn mathematics, physics and chemistry well, so he couldn't tell the difference between "triangle" and "triangle" ?
Therefore, he also felt that "Jinzhou Burger" could be maintained for a long time, so he was not busy trying his best. Wouldn't it be better to let Jinzhou Hamburg consume the Song Army first, and then use his strength to cross the mountains and rivers and rush to the old camp of the Song Army in Jinxi?
But on the evening of April 20, Wanyan Zongqiang protected Wanyan Liang and rushed to Wanyan Zongbi's camp east of Lianshan River. After bringing the bad news that "Jinzhou Hamburg" was about to be lost, Wanyan Zongbi had to fight for his life.
Starting from the early morning of the 21st, Wanyan Zongbi's troops began to launch a fierce attack on the Song Army camp east of Lianshan River.
However, he did not use the Fire Bull Formation, because the Song Army's camp was based on the mountains and rivers, and there were mountains and rivers in front of the defense line. If the fire bull goes down the mountains and rivers, won't it turn into a buffalo? The fire on the cow's tail was extinguished, and the frying pot hanging on the cow was soaked in water. Didn't the cow become a vegetable cow?
But Wanyan Zongbi has another trump card in his hand!
At this moment, between the three infantry phalanxes of a thousand men, there were sixteen low-carrying carriages, which were pushed into the water and pushed towards the east of the mountains and rivers with a clatter.
These sixteen "dwarf carriages" are not real carriages, but bobbin carriages! The wooden truss that looks a bit jerry-rigged can be flipped down. Once the wooden trusses are flipped down, a door and eight barrels hidden behind are revealed.
The purpose of this wooden raft is to cover the bobbin soldiers pushing the bobbin cart as they approach the enemy's position. Because the wooden rafters were relatively short, they were less likely to be hit by the Song army's artillery.
At the same time, this short wooden pillar can also provide the golden soldier behind it with a shield to block the opponent's arrowheads.
However, in the several waves of offensives carried out on the morning of the 21st, this "dwarf cannon cart" did not help the Jin army achieve a breakthrough... although they could advance to a relatively close distance from the Song army's position.
However, the power of the eight-liang balls fired by the eight-liang tube was still a bit insufficient. Even at a relatively close distance, it could not suppress the Song army who relied on the low wall made of sandbags to defend.
If you want to use the eight-liang barrel to fire iron sand, you must push the barrel further forward and enter the range of the Song Army's 5-pound cannon. This is dangerous. Even if you set up wooden poles, they can't withstand the shot fired by the 5-pound cannon!
So on the 21st, Wanyan Zongbi launched seven major offensives with a force of 10,000 people, repeatedly attacking the Song Army's stronghold on the east bank of the Lianshan River and controlling the official road leading to Bijia Mountain. Retreat, and another wave comes. But all he gained was an increasing number of casualties... Although the total force on hand was several times greater than that of his opponents, the Song army's stronghold leaning on the river and blocking the road could not be broken in a short time. of. Without breaking this stronghold, Wanyan Zongbi's large army would not be able to get around with their baggage, large tubes, and hot pots. The only ones that could get through were some lightly-armed infantry and cavalry, but with such lightly-armed troops, how could they break through the defenses set up by the Song Army in the Qili River area of Jinxi?
But if we continue to fight slowly, not to mention how many days can Jinzhou Burger last? The arrival of reinforcements from the Song Army alone could completely ruin Wanyan Zongbi's plot.
But the war has reached this point, and everyone in the Jin Kingdom has already fought hard. Even the cows carried explosive pots on their backs and launched suicide attacks. Can Wanyan Zongbi not fight to the end?
So after the offensive during the day on the 21st failed to work, he adjusted his deployment that night. Starting from the 22nd, in addition to launching assaults on the front line of the Lianshan River as usual, his army will also detach a part of its troops to ford the upper reaches of the Lianshan River and take the mountain path around to the side of the Song Army's camp to launch an attack!
However, the Song army's camp was still difficult to shake under the flanking attack and repeated attacks by the superior strength of the Jin army!
By noon on the 22nd, Wanyan Zongbi's face had turned dark, and his voice had become hoarse from shouting. He was standing on a high ground on the west bank of Lianshan with a telescope, and the only thing motionless was Staring at the battlefield ahead.
The Jin soldiers under his command really tried their best, risking their lives to fight the Song army, and launched wave after wave of charges against the opponent's fierce artillery fire. However, the Song army on the opposite side still defended in a very orderly manner. They not only attacked with artillery, bows and arrows, and thunder, but also caused heavy casualties to the attacking Jin soldiers. Moreover, when the dead soldiers of the Jin army rushed into the fence line in front of the Song army camp wall, those Song army soldiers who shot arrows and threw thunder immediately picked up their spears, axes, and long knives, formed a formation, and fought in a well-coordinated group. The Jin soldiers, whose formation had long been scattered, were repelled, and they could even launch a counterattack, driving the retreating Jin soldiers into the rivers of Lianshan River...
Obviously, after more than ten years of growth, the current Red Scarf soldiers of the Song Dynasty are no less than the Jurchen and Bohai warriors in terms of individual combat effectiveness!
Through his own monocular telescope, Wanyan Wushu once again witnessed his own offensive of tens of thousands of people being crushed by his opponent... The soldiers who were so majestic and high-spirited just now were now rolling and crawling towards them. Running through mountains and rivers.
And... he also saw two 5-pound cannons pushed up by the Song Army. The muzzles of the cannons were aimed at the densely packed Jin soldiers in the mountains and rivers, and then a ball of fire and smoke spurted out from the muzzles! The golden soldiers in the mountains and rivers were immediately cut down by flying shotguns!
Seeing this scene, Wanyan Wushu's face was a little cramped, and he gritted his teeth and murmured: "Why can't you rush forward? Why can't you beat me? Why can't you..."
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April 22nd, afternoon.
One by one, the 10-pound long cannons were slowly pushed to the gun positions on the south bank of the Xiaoling River. The muzzles of the guns were all aimed at the southern wall of Jinzhou Hamburg Harmony Fort on the other side of the river, which had lost the cover of the triangular fort! The gunners were all in place, nervously waiting for the order to fire!
On the north bank of the Xiaoling River, around the three triangular forts that were destroyed by 10-pound cannons, there were lying corpses... There were golden soldiers wearing white burqas, and some outside the iron armor. The warriors of the Song Army wearing red uniforms!
These are the corpses left over from a series of fierce battles between the two sides on the north bank of the Xiaoling River from noon on the 21st to the early morning of the 22nd around the remains of three triangular platforms.
Although these three triangular platforms have collapsed, cannons can no longer be mounted on them. But their wrecks are still piled there and can be used to cover the Song Army's hot pot artillery, so Wanyan Zongxian cannot give up those three wrecks.
In addition, since Jinzhou Hamburg is south of Xiaoling River, the Jin people omitted the trench in the south when building the fort.
If the three triangular towers of Jinzhou Hamburg's South 1, South 2, and South 3 were still there, it would be fine without trench protection, but now the three triangular towers have collapsed! And Xiaolinghe is too far from the core of Jinzhou Hamburg. The artillery mounted on the Hamburg Core Fort in Jinzhou could not reach the Song Army who was crossing the river. The Song Army built a dam in the middle and upper reaches of the Xiaoling River, blocked the river, and diverted the river water into the Nuer River, so the Xiaoling River was originally quite deep. , now it can be easily crossed.
In this case, Wanyan Zongxian had no choice but to send dead soldiers and the Song army to repeatedly fight for the remains of the three triangular forts.
However, after nearly a day and night of bloody fighting, the Jin soldiers, who were at a clear numerical disadvantage and had no upper hand in individual combat effectiveness, left thousands of corpses behind and fled back to the core fortress of Jinzhou Hamburg in embarrassment, closing the city gates tightly. Waiting for the last moment to arrive!
Zhao Kai had already sat firmly in the observation post on Jiaoshan Mountain, surrounded by a group of generals and Hanlin. Everyone was full of excitement, waiting for the troops to finally attack.
Yue Fei is also here. He has moved his Chinese army to Songshan. Now he is holding a stack of battle reports in his hand and is reporting to Zhao Kai: "Guan family, the situation should be very clear now. Except for the Jin soldiers here in Jinzhou, In addition, there are two Jinbing armies in Kaiyi to the north of Jinzhou and Lianshanhe to the west of Jinxi Camp, both with more than 100,000 people... Now these two armies want to break through our Defense comes to rescue Jinzhou!"
Zhao Kai nodded, "Pengju, how do you plan to respond?"
Yue Fei said: "Capture Jinzhou as soon as possible...then concentrate our forces to defeat the Jin soldiers in Kaiyi area, then seize Yizhou and Guangning, and go straight to Liaoyang!"
"Don't care about the gold thieves in the west?" Zhao Kai asked.
Yue Fei shook his head and said: "The official family...the gold thieves in the west will definitely flee to Dading Prefecture through the mountainous areas of western Liaoning after learning that Jinzhou and Yizhou are mines. We are not familiar with the terrain there." , even if we deploy troops to pursue fiercely, it will be difficult to annihilate the enemy. It is better to capture Liaoyang and Xianping first, and then go straight to Linhuang Mansion and raid the gold thief's lair directly!"
Zhao Kai nodded, "There are still many Khitans around Linhuang Mansion. You can let Yu Liyan calm them down... That's it! Pengju, can we start the bombardment now?"
"Okay, okay... Niu Gao will give the order to fire right away!"
