The gold thief has climbed to the top of Yanjin City!
Gao Yanei's heart almost broke when he saw that the gold thief's heavily armored and hardened soldiers had already boarded the city with arrowheads, hammered stones, rolled logs, gold juice, and other miscellaneous things.
He has been working hard since the twelfth lunar month of last year. He has not had a good night's sleep in eight months, and he has not dared to indulge in a little indulgence. Everything I think about and do every day, besides defending the city, is to defend the city or defend the city... I suddenly "rolled" from a layman who knew nothing about city defense to a city defense expert!
But no matter how "rolled" he is, in the face of absolute strength, he is still a little inadequate!
Now there are not 50,000 but also 30,000 to 40,000 gold thieves besieging Yanjin City. At first, they were limited by the lack of wood and could not let go. Then they divided their forces and raided four places, captured two or three fortified towns, grabbed enough wood, grain and grass, and captured many Han people. Now the golden thief can free his hands and feet to fight!
Under the cover of the carriage, the cannons were pushed to a position near the trench of Yanjin City. Next to each cannon, there were dozens of gunners from the Han'er Army and the Song people who were forced into battle, busy operating. The large and small rocks and mud bombs were thrown at the city wall of Yanjin City like raindrops, so that the defenders on the top of the city could only huddle behind the female head wall and unable to raise their heads.
The four earth mountains stacked outside the four gates of Yanjin City have been completed long ago. The golden archers took turns going up the mountain and shooting arrows at the city wall at dawn, forcing the militiamen guarding the city to carry their shields.
The cannons and crossbows placed on the walls of Yanjin were also suppressed by the rain of stones, mud bombs and arrowheads!
The poisonous smoke fireballs and fire oil tanks that Gao Yanei obtained from Kaifeng Mansion have been used up, and the Yanjin defenders have returned to the era of cold weapons... It is not easy to use cold weapons well! Then you have to start "rolling" it from the baby, and just "rolling" it by cramming for a few months is simply not enough!
In addition, the equipment of the Yanjin defenders is not good either!
He has less than 200 infantry armors, which are only enough for a few warriors. The rest can only make do with paper armors. There are only one or two hundred divine arm bows equipped - both the divine arm bow and the superior horn bow need to use buffalo horns as materials to make the bow arms, and the manufacturing process is cumbersome and time-consuming... and it is easy to confuse the two. , shoddy goods.
Therefore, the yield rate of the divine arm bows and various horn bows stored in the Kaifeng Mansion Arms Supervision is very low. Only about 10% to 20% of the inventory can be put into use immediately, and the rest either need to be reworked or can only be scrapped. Therefore, for a place like Yanjin City to be able to get one or two hundred divine arm bows and one or two hundred superior foot bows, it would be a great honor to Captain Gao Qiu.
As for the crossbows prepared by the local minzhuang armor in Yanjin, although the quality is not bad (they paid for it themselves), they are made according to "civilian products", not "military products", and do not pay attention to armor-breaking and armor-piercing. It pays attention to accuracy, and the formats are different, and the effective range ranges from near to far. These crossbows are good against unarmored targets, but they are difficult to deal with the heavily armored Jin people.
The firepower of cannons and crossbows was suppressed, and the firepower of crossbows was insufficient. The dead soldiers commanded by Lin Chong were exhausted after more than ten days of defending the city.
So starting from the afternoon of the day before yesterday, Yanjin City "began to break down"!
Yes, city destruction is a process. Especially for a "volume" city like Yanjin.
This "Juan" city is different from the "Lianping" city. The "Lianping" city is surrounded by four walls. If they are broken, it is over. The rolls come in "one roll after another", just like rolling paper. After tearing off one layer, there will be another layer. It takes a long time to tear it off.
This process of "tearing the city apart" begins with filling in the outer trenches - this is also the time when the attacking side suffers the heaviest casualties. If they can't catch the common people to help them do this life-threatening job!
Although the gold thieves captured non-Han civilians to carry bags and fill the soil for them, they still had to send their regular soldiers and Alixi to supervise the battle. In the process, many of them were shot to death and injured by the defenders of Yanjin City with divine arm bows!
After filling up the trench with human lives and earth bags, what stood in front of the Jin soldiers was not the city wall of Yanjin, but a fork of wood and a wall of sheep and horses. You have to use an ax to chop the forked logs, otherwise you won't be able to get through!
The Han people cannot be allowed to chop down the forks and logs... If we give them the axes, who will they chop down?
This requires the Jin soldiers to fight with their own lives - when the Jin soldiers are chopping wood, the minzhuang of Yanjin City will form a formation behind the sheep and horse wall and poke out with their spears! At the same time, there were people on the city wall shooting down with bows and arrows!
What makes the "tearing the city" gold thief vomit blood is that this fork raft can also be repaired!
You risked your life and managed to cut down a few logs. You went back to take a breath, and when you looked back, you saw that the broken logs had been rejoined... and you had to cut them all over again!
This process is actually taking human lives to fill it!
Moreover, the Yanjin militiamen who "rolled up in a temporary roll" and the Jurchen and Bohai elite soldiers who "rolled up from a baby" can exchange their lives at a very cost-effective exchange ratio!
So every night after paying the bill, Wanyan Nianhan screamed in distress... But he had already been put on the shelf and there was no way to go down!
Even if you, the great prince of Jin, cannot defeat Captain Gao, how can you defeat Gao Yanei?
This Gao Yanei is Nianhan's son-killing enemy!
Moreover, Wanyan Wu did not ask him to open the Feng Mansion even though he was begging. It was clear that he wanted him to be embarrassed in Yanjin City!
So Wanyan Nianhan was heartbroken, gritted his teeth, and launched a series of fierce attacks since last night, day and night, without giving his opponent a chance to repair the wood.
And this trick really worked. By the evening of this evening, the golden thief finally "teared open" Yanjin City's "second layer" of defense, and he could finally start climbing the city wall!
In order to conquer Yanjin City in one go, which Wanyan Nianhan hated so much that his teeth were itching, Nianhan directly sent his most capable general Wanyan Loushi, and also gave his Hezha Mengan to Loushi. command.
Of course Lou Shi was very powerful. Under his command, 2,000 Jurchen warriors (including Zhengbing and Alixi) wearing two layers of heavy armor were stunned with arrows, stones, rolling logs, and gold juice. Climb to the top of Yanjin City in one fell swoop!
Seeing the five-color military flag that could only be used by Hezha Meng'an finally fluttering on the Yanjin city wall, Wanyan Nianhan finally let out a sigh of relief: "We've broken... we've finally broken the city. It's not easy!"
"Dad..." Wanyan Xiabao next to him had a bad premonition, and then he noticed his father's stern eyes, so he had to change his words and said, "Dad is right... ..Our warriors are destroying the city!”
"The city is broken", which means it is half broken!
In fact, this is the situation on the top of the city. Wanyan Loushi, who was showered with stinky gold juice, was cursing and just stepped onto the city wall. He already discovered that the "Yanjin Roll City" hadn't been finished yet!
The Song army that had imagined escaping hastily or risking their lives to win did not appear. What appeared in front of him was a fork of logs. Behind the fork of logs was a low wall. Behind the low wall were people wearing paper armor and tops. Song warriors holding shields and holding spears, bows and arrows, and crossbows.
Okay, gotta keep chopping wood again!
What makes Wanyan Lou even more speechless is that the Yanjin City wall has been blocked in sections by horse rifles and gate knives... Even though Lou's soldiers cut down all the forks and logs in one section, The Song Dynasty defenders could continue to roll up other parts of the city wall.
And when Lou Shi led his dead men to cut off a piece of fork wood and jumped onto the female-headed wall behind the fork wood, he saw an even more "volatile" scene!
Within the city wall of Yanjin City, there is actually a deep trench, and inside the trench is a high wall of about two feet... There are also countless Han people who are going crazy. Similarly, set up forks and rafts above and below the high walls, and set up cannons and bed crossbows!
Isn't this city... too "voluptuous"? Layer after layer, when will the "roll" end!
The small Yanjin is "rolled" like this, how can the big Kaifeng Mansion be "rolled" with a hundred and eighty floors?
Wanyan Loushi, who had been invincible in all battles and killed countless enemies in his life, now felt tired and powerless.
The "heartbroken" Gao Yanei was actually more exhausted and powerless than Lou Shi... The city could be rolled up layer by layer, but the soldiers and civilians defending the city were exhausted and suffered heavy casualties!
Now it all depends on the fear of the gold thieves and Gao Yanei's loyalty and love for the people!
But no matter how hard he resisted, Yanjin City's strongest defense line was now in danger... Lin Chong and Lin Tiha, whose heads and arms were wrapped in blood-stained white cloth, were held in front of him by several people. , "Old Lin Chong" couldn't speak anymore and just shook his head.
And just from the inner city construction site (not the wall that Lou Shi saw, that one is called "the inner city". There are inner trenches and inner cities in the inner city. There is also a tooth city in the inner city, which is a fortress transformed from the county government office. ) Lu Qian who came up looked like he was about to die from exhaustion. With red eyes and hoarse voice, he reported to Gao Yanei: "Don't worry, your Majesty, the inner city has been repaired... and the common people have also We’ve hid in. If we can’t defend this place, let’s retreat first!”
Gao Yanei, who was holding the girl's head on the wall and looking around, shook his head, "Push for a while longer...at least until it gets dark before withdrawing. If you push for a little longer now, you can hold on for a while longer in Yacheng in the future. Maybe there will be Way to live!"
Gao Yanei is now working hard to "roll" just to survive! He still had to guard the grave of his father, Captain Gao, as a dutiful son, but he couldn't just die like this!
Lu Qian seemed a little pessimistic and disappointed, and just sighed: "What do these gold thieves want? We are all like this, why are they not finished yet? They have been like this all over Yanjin, so Kaifeng Mansion..."
Yes, shouldn’t the golden thief who opened the sealed mansion have to work harder? Although Kaifeng Mansion is larger than Yanjin, and the outer city wall is stronger, Kaifeng Mansion is not as "volume" as Yanjin. Once the outer city wall is broken, there will be nothing inside.
When Gao Yanei heard this, his face became even more ugly, but he still encouraged Lu Qian: "Do your best and wait for the weather... As ministers and parents of the people, we can only work hard and die." It’s over!”
