The fighting in the area along the south wall of the core fortress of Jinzhou City has reached its most brutal stage.
Because the explosive bombs and arson bombs that kept falling on the south city of Jinzhou drove the Jin soldiers there to the center of Jinzhou City. As a result, when the Song Army launched the first wave of attacks, they had no time to go to the city to fight, allowing the Song Army to take the lead. Not only They grabbed the notch created by the collapse of the city wall and also scaled other parts of the city wall. After quickly clearing the few Jin soldiers on the city wall, the Song army occupied the south wall of Jinzhou City, including the city gate tower. But before the gate tower fell, the Jin soldiers had already put down the thousand-jin gate, cut off the chains, removed the winch and threw it down from the tower. The Song army that captured the city gate tower was unable to open the city gate for a while.
After the initial panic, the Jin defenders also reacted under the command of Wanyan Zongxian and attacked desperately.
The Jin people in this era are not the Jin people in the era of "Jin Yiru died" in history. They are still quite brave and daring to fight! The reason why we withdrew from Jinzhou Nancheng before was because our flesh and blood bodies could not withstand explosive bombs and arson bombs. Moreover, the Song army did not start to attack the city at that time. Everyone was crowded in the south of the city waiting to be smashed, blown up, and scalded to death. It seems like you don’t have any wishes, right?
But when Wanyan Zongxian led everyone back to the south of the city with his own soldiers, most of the Jin soldiers still came back. When they saw the Song army rushing to the top of Jinzhou City, they did not hesitate to start a battle under the command of Wanyan Zongxian. Some of the Jin soldiers carried long ladders to block the "notch"; some rushed up along the horse path beside the city wall, trying to regain control of the city wall; and some of the Jin soldiers deployed defenses within the south gate of Jinzhou to block the The Song Army may rush in from the city gate at any time - although the Qianjin Gate is heavy, but in front of the Song Army's cannon, what does it mean?
A battle for the city wall started all over the south wall of Jinzhou City. Both sides risked their lives and invested tens of thousands of troops in a small area. The battle was extremely brutal from the beginning.
The first nobles of the Song Army to rush to the city were all grenadiers. They did not carry bows and arrows (of course they could shoot arrows), but relied on thunder to carry out long-distance attacks. After the Song army who rushed to the top of the city regained their footing, they immediately took torches and lit the match ropes they carried with them. Then they continued to throw bombs from the top of the city, causing the gold thieves who were trying to retake the city wall to flip over.
The Jin soldiers pushed many tube carts, and used the eighty-two cannons mounted on the carts to aim at the city head and the notches of the city wall and blast them, so as to cover the Jin soldiers and launch wave after wave of counterattacks. However, since the horse path to the city is not too wide, it cannot accommodate too many golden soldiers rushing together, and the notch is not too wide either.
Therefore, there were still many golden soldiers who couldn't take their turn to attack the city, so they had to line up under the city wall, take out their bows and shoot arrows at the top in waves.
Suddenly, thunder exploded on the city and hit the city in waves, as if it was free of charge!
And the feather arrows from the city were shooting towards the top of the city like locusts all over the sky, and the dull roar of eight or two cannons also came and went, ringing non-stop.
As for the 25-pound hot pot cannon placed outside the city, not only did they not cease fire, they also fired expensive copper shells again! In Jinzhou City, huge roars continued to sound, and smoke pillars and fireballs kept popping up from the ground, just like a volcano erupting. Moreover, these hot pot cannons of the Song Army were also firing arson bombs while opening the flower bombs. These arson bombs ignited many buildings in Jinzhou City, as well as stacked fodder, grain, tents, and other miscellaneous things.
At this time, the south wind was blowing again, so the raging fire took advantage of the wind to spread in Jinzhou City, and soon it burned more and more fiercely, turning Jinzhou into a city of fire!
Wanyan Zongxian no longer cared about the fire in the city. All his attention was on his own soldiers who were attacking the city wall!
Life or death, the fate of the country, depends on them!
The most intense battle was at the notch!
Although the bottom of the notch is still more than ten feet away from the ground, there is a high chance that it will break if you jump down wearing armor that weighs dozens of kilograms. But Jin Bing couldn't stand it and climbed up with a ladder by himself!
The hand-to-hand fighting between the two sides started at the notch. The soldiers of the Song and Jin families were all full of energy, rushing up the ladders on both sides of the notch, and then swung hammers, axes, and maces to fight each other. !
Although both sides are wearing armor, hammers, axes, and maces are all armor-breaking weapons! Therefore, the casualties on both sides of the war were extremely heavy from the beginning, with people falling every moment. Dead bodies kept rolling down the city wall, some rolled down by themselves, and some were pushed down. Soon, the corpses piled higher and higher under the notch of the city wall, forming an "artificial" gentle slope. The blood flowed down the gentle slope, and the sound was like a gurgling stream...
This time it was self-defeating!
Originally, the Song army could not rush into the city from the notch, but now the Jin soldiers used their own bodies to pave a road for them... If this road cannot be sealed, Jinzhou City will really not be able to defend it. !
Wanyan Zongxian could no longer sit still, but couldn't even stand. He kept running forward. If the soldiers and generals around him hadn't stopped him, he would have killed him himself! And under his urging, the soldiers of Jin Bing really fought tooth and nail, charging forward wave after wave!
Only one wave was repelled, and the golden soldiers of another wave were already shouting and pounced on them.
But no matter how hard the Jin soldiers fought, they could not block this breach, because there were too many Song soldiers!
Just as their first shock wave rushed onto the Jinzhou city wall and started fighting with the Jin soldiers, the more than 10,000 Song army officers and soldiers responsible for launching the second wave of shock were already fully armed and rushed outside the south city of Jinzhou carrying 5 kilograms of long artillery. .
Several 5-pound long cannons were pushed outside the Thousand-jin Gate of Jinzhou City Gate. At a distance of less than twenty steps, they fired fiercely at the Thousand-jin Gate!
The so-called thousand-pound gate is actually an enhanced version of a lattice-like wooden fence. Although the wood used is very rough, the interface between the wood and the wood is reinforced with metal parts. But in the face of the solid bullets fired by the 5-pound cannon, this thousand-jin gate is really worse than the one made of paper... The paper one can only make a few holes at most, while the thousand-jin gate made of these thick wood pieces is directly hit by the shells. Break it!
The smashed wood, driven by the huge force of the impact of the solid bullets, swept towards the golden soldiers waiting in line inside the city gate like shotguns, sweeping them into a large area!
However, these broken pieces of wood were not as powerful as shotguns. The golden soldiers knocked down by them were only injured and did not die immediately. They could still scream hoarsely.
The Jin soldiers' eight-liang barrels were also fired one after another. The iron sand filled inside was sprayed out at the city gate, and also knocked down many Song troops outside the city who were filling the 5-pound cannon with shotshells! But the remaining artillerymen of the Song Army did not run away, but gritted their teeth and completed loading and firing!
This is not lining up to be shot, but face to face with a cannon, one shot at a time and one shot at me!
This is really cruel to the extreme!
Of course, the 5-pound cannon's shotgun is much more powerful than the 8 or 2 barrels of iron sand produced by the Jin soldiers... Hundreds of flying lead bullets rushed through the city gate, and then swept through the Jin soldiers' battle formation, and they were all flesh and blood. Flying everywhere, there were a lot of casualties, and there were lying corpses everywhere, some of them were spitting out blood, and some of them didn't know that they were dead yet, and they were still shouting for help!
But the only response to these "quasi-dead people" was the second and third wave of shotgun fire from the Song Army's 5-pound cannon...
After three waves of shotguns, the Jin soldiers in the city gate cave had been beaten to death and wounded, and the living people were completely panicked. There was only despair in their hearts... Dajin was finished! It’s really over!
"Kill the gold thief and divide the fields!"
With a shout from the bottom of his heart, the soldiers of the Song Army who could not wait for a long time outside the city began to roar towards the city gate like tigers descending from the mountain.
What greeted them was a dense rain of arrows shot by the golden soldiers. However, the soldiers of the Song Army all wore cold-forged and hot-forged full armor... These were not armor provided by the imperial court, but the soldiers spent their own money in the weapons forging yards of Luoyang Mansion and Shuntian Mansion. If you buy and keep it yourself, the court will only provide some subsidies.
This approach is theoretically backward and cannot cooperate with large-scale production. However, it is really difficult to control the quality of armor these days. It is actually the most reliable for the armored warriors to check and accept it themselves... You are responsible for your own life!
The maintenance of armor is also very troublesome. If it is "state-owned armor", soldiers will not care about maintaining it, so it is easy for the armor leaves to rust and the leather cord to rot. But "Private A" is personal property, and it is a very expensive property. How could you not care about maintaining it?
In addition, the owners of "private armor" will carry spare nail leaves and leather ropes (also bought by themselves), and they can be replaced immediately if they are slightly damaged. If the armor belongs to the imperial court, the repair process will have to be done slowly...the armor leaves and leather cords are very expensive!
Therefore, the protection provided by the Song Army warriors in full armor is really good! Even the heavy arrows of the golden soldiers are difficult to "stop with one arrow."
As the distance between the two sides got closer and the lethality of the heavy arrows increased accordingly, the Song Army's thunderbolts were thrown over again, immediately blowing up the Jin soldiers!
Taking advantage of this opportunity, the spearmen and soldiers of the Song army who were rushing at the front all lowered their line guns and shouted loudly as they rushed towards the already chaotic array of the Jin soldiers.
At this moment, louder cheers suddenly came from the notch in the Jinzhou city wall!
Wanyan Zongxian, who was leading his men to block the Song army at the city gate, turned around and saw that a large group of Song army soldiers were passing through the notch, stepping on the body of the golden man, and pouring into Jinzhou City like a tide... Jinzhou can't hold on any longer!
Daikin’s national fortune has come to an end!
Thinking of this, Wanyan Zongxian just shouted: "I am Wanyan Saili who killed Zhao Ji in formation... Who will fight me!"
Then he brandished his scimitar and took the lead to pounce on the Song army pouring in from the city gate.
Now he no longer dares to hope for victory, he only wants to die heroically!
