In Bianjing City, the people worked together to operate the trebuchet, throwing pieces of artillery stone into the Mongolian army formation.
Zhao Tai couldn't help but feel excited when he saw such a scene.
"This is the battlefield, this is the ancient siege war!"
At present, the Mongols have not invented the Xiangyang artillery, and the artillery carriages of both armies require a lot of manpower to operate.
The people in Bianjing City hid behind the city walls and pulled the artillery carts. They did not have to worry about being attacked by the Mongolian army. As long as there were enough stones, they could continue to fire.
Zhao Tai understood the power at a glance. After the Jin regime was Chineseized, he also had a talent for defense.
At this time, Zhao Taizheng lamented that he had learned that in the future, he could also arrange artillery carts behind the city to defend the city. Suddenly, a huge boulder hit the Jin officer who was commanding on the city wall, smashing his head in an instant and killing him on the spot.
"Sir!" Several Jin soldiers were shocked and knelt beside the corpse, not knowing how to deal with it.
Wanyan Heda saw this and saw Zhao Tai not far away. He came over and ordered directly, "Brother Zhao, I now order to guard this section of the city wall! Is there any problem?"
Zhao Tai did not clasp his fists, but subconsciously put his legs together, raised his chest, and saluted: "Marshal, please rest assured and promise to complete the mission!"
Heda was stunned for a moment, and Zhao Tai also restrained himself, but Heda didn't pay attention to these details, "Okay, then I'll leave this to you. Listen carefully, he is now your Dai Meng'an, and you all must listen. His orders.”
"Yes!" Zhao Tai hurriedly clasped his fists and accepted the order. Counting Meng'an, he was equivalent to a thousand households in the Mongolian army, and he was considered a middle-level officer.
After Heda finished his instructions, he left quickly. Bianjing city was too big and there were many places to defend, so he couldn't command it.
The section of the city wall where Zhao Tai is located is far away from the Wengcheng and will generally not be the focus of the enemy's attack.
Because of the shortage of officers and troops, Heda asked Zhao Tai to take over. After all, Zhao Tai should have a lot of war experience since he was a member of the Mongolian army.
But he didn't know that this was actually Zhao Tai's first time defending the city.
Zhao Tai originally had an attitude of learning, but he didn't expect to be pushed to the front. He looked around and thought it was a huge crowd, but in fact there were less than 300 people.
This is not surprising. The Mongolian-Jinjin War has been going on for so long. The Jin army has suffered severe attrition, and there is no time to rest and replenish. Many establishments are not full.
"Baihu, you have been promoted!" Sun Li said with a hint of excitement.
When the nine subordinates heard that Zhao Tai had been appointed Meng'an, they looked at each other, their eyes lit up, and they all felt that it was right to return to Bianjing.
Zhao Tai looked at their gazes and understood what everyone was thinking, and said in a deep voice: "Defend the city well. If you follow me, you can kill the Tatars, and you will be rewarded with glory and wealth."
Ambitious bosses don’t want to make mistakes for their employees on a daily basis.
Everyone nodded excitedly, and Zhao Taize came to the city wall and looked at the Mongolian army, which was slowly approaching the city wall under the attack of cannon stones, and was about to reach the moat.
"Come here!" Zhao Tai immediately waved his hand and summoned several officers assigned to him.
"Sir!" Several officers immediately clasped their fists.
Zhao Tai glanced at them and saw that they had different expressions, some were respectful and some were dissatisfied.
Zhao Tai can understand this. He is an airborne cadre, and those who have the opportunity to become Meng'an will naturally be unhappy.
"I killed Tuo Lei with poison, and robbed the Mongolian camp with hundreds of horses. In my opinion, the Mongols are nothing!" Zhao Tai felt it was necessary to tell these subordinates what he had done, so as to scare them and prevent them from doing anything. Only those who dare to despise themselves will obey their orders.
The Kingdom of Jin suffered a disastrous defeat at Sanfeng Mountain. The army suffered heavy losses and the people in Bianjing were shaken.
In this case, any small victory will be used by Jin Guo to publicize it and use it to boost people's morale.
Zhao Tai's poisonous killing of Tuo Lei and the hijacking of the camp by hundreds of horsemen were naturally used by the Kingdom of Jin for publicity, and they were appropriately watered down and modified into a novel.
Of course, in their propaganda, Zhao Tai is not the protagonist, but the Zhongxiao Army accuses Monk Chen.
Although the focus of the publicity was on Monk Chen, when everyone heard Zhao Tai's words and knew that Zhao Tai was involved, their expressions immediately became respectful.
Seeing this, Zhao Tai immediately puffed up his chest and ordered: "How do you defend the city originally? I will assign a helper to each of you. If there is any emergency, call for help immediately."
At that moment, Zhao Tai assigned several conspirators and each assigned a subordinate, and asked Sun Li and others to follow the arrangements of the conspirators. He only had Xu Erzhu, Liu Dun and other five people left by his side, plus the man who was beaten to death, Meng An. Twenty personal soldiers serve as support.
Zhao Tai asked people to restrain the fierce body and quickly made arrangements. At this time, the Mongols were approaching the moat. A large number of Mongolians jumped directly into the water with flying boats, wooden boards and other objects to build a pontoon in the moat.
Zhao Tai saw the defenders on other walls starting to fire arrows, and immediately ordered, "Fire arrows!"
The archers at the top of the city immediately took out arrows soaked in gold juice, then bent their bows and nocked arrows, and shot down the city.
For a moment, arrows rained down, but the effect was not very good. The Mongolians' heads were supported by the wooden planks and the flying bridge, like a shield. The arrows were nailed on the top and the tail fins were shaking, but they could not hurt the people below. Mongolian army.
Zhao Tai couldn't help but widen his eyes when he saw this. This siege was completely different from his film and television works. The Mongolian army was not exposed to the arrows from the city on a large scale.
The arrow rain from the city head had limited damage to the Mongolian army, and Zhao Tai couldn't help but frown.
Although the Mongolian soldiers jumped into the water and built the bridge, their heads were exposed, but the Jin soldiers were no longer the hunters who fished and hunted in the white mountains and black waters. Their archery skills had deteriorated so much that many arrows were shot into the water and floated, without causing much damage. Kill.
At this time, a large number of Mongolian archers, with heads rising and falling, trotted to the moat. The people in front quickly erected a row of large shields on the ground to form a wooden wall parallel to the moat.
The Mongolian archers behind the large shields drew their bows and arrows, pointed their arrows diagonally at the sky, and fired an arrow in unison.
The rising arrows covered the sky like locusts, and then fell rapidly. The soldiers at the top of the city were either hiding behind the wall stacks or squatting on the wall with their shields raised.
The large number of Mongolian soldiers instantly suppressed the archers at the top of the city, allowing the defenders to shoot from the firing holes. However, the shooting holes had a blind spot and could not shoot the Mongolian troops who arrived at the city.
The defenders at the top of the city leaned out and fired arrows downwards. As soon as the man stood up, an arrow roared from the bottom of the city and hit the soldiers directly.
Zhao Tai only heard a scream, and the soldier fell down the city.
For a time, the city was suppressed, and the Mongolian army quickly set up a pontoon bridge. Zhao Tai looked at the front of his defense, where several siege towers and wells nearly four battles high were slowly approaching, and he couldn't help but take a deep breath.
Although he had no experience in defending the city, looking at these big guys who were almost level with the city and even higher than the city wall, he knew that once they got close, the city wall would be difficult to defend.
