Poor Family Chapter 884

  Chapter 884 Surrounding Wei and Rescuing Zhao

   At the second watch, the soldiers of the Song Army had rested enough time to launch an offensive. Twenty soldiers rushed towards the west city carrying a huge thunderbolt.

The so-called Tao is one foot high, and the devil is one foot high. Since the advent of the powerful Zhentianlei, the gates of many important cities have been thickened or wrapped with iron sheets. The gate of Taiyuan was thickened again last year. The one-inch-thick city gate was reduced to four inches, covered with a layer of iron sheet, nailed with nearly a hundred large round nails, and even the gate bolts were replaced with cast iron. It was no longer possible to blast open the city gate with ordinary thunderbolts.

  However, many types of thunderbolts have also been derived. For example, thunderbolts thrown on the battlefield are filled with a large number of poisonous thin iron nails, which are more lethal to soldiers and horses.

  Another example is the water battle thunder, this kind of thunder is the same as the thunder that attacks the nest car. Several sharp spikes are installed on the shell, and the artillery shoots it out directly. The thunder can be directly nailed to the hull.

There is also the waterproof thunderbolt. There is a cone on the top of this thunderbolt. The opening is like a nose. It is bent downwards, so that the match can burn in the cone. Even if water is splashed, the match will not go out. It is especially suitable Used as raft floating mines on water.

Then there is the enhanced sky-shattering mine developed for the thickening of the city gate, also known as the super-shaking sky-shattering mine. The force will be stronger, the impact force is three times that of the original, and the weight is 80 jin, which is also twice the original. This enhanced thunderbolt is designed to blast the city gates and walls.

   Today the Song Army is using this enhanced Thunderbolt, and this is the first time the Song Army has used it in actual combat.

Twenty soldiers ran across the frozen moat and walked quickly towards the city gate against the city wall. Soon, they arrived outside the city gate. Soldiers of the Song Army dug three small holes on the ground with daggers, and put the tripod on the ground. Put the three legs of his body into the pit, firmly support the front end of the city gate, and slowly place the 80-jin Zhentianlei on the wooden board of the bracket. It looks like a huge potato with a slightly rough black shell.

   At this time, the commander Guan Sheng had led a thousand soldiers slowly approaching the city gate. They were wearing white cloaks and crawling on the snow, only two hundred steps away from the city gate.

In front of the city gate, the leading soldier pulled out the fire pocket and flicked it, and the fire pocket immediately ignited. They lit the matchlock, and the twenty soldiers immediately turned around and ran along the city wall. Ears, the sound of this enhanced thunderbolt is also several times the original. During the test, many soldiers lost their hearing. It took almost half a month to slowly recover their hearing. It has become a must for all soldiers to cover their ears tightly. consensus.

   Just for a moment, 'Boom! 'An earth-shattering explosion exploded at the city gate, the ground trembled, and a thick gray smoke rose into the air, forming a mushroom cloud, and the broken sawdust flew everywhere, and the largest piece of wood flew two miles away, falling into the sky. In front of Cao Meng's war horse.

  Guan Sheng raised his head slowly, and saw a huge black hole appeared in the city gate, as if the city gate had been blown away, only half of the city gate was hanging in the air.

  He roared, "Kill!"

A thousand soldiers jumped up and rushed towards the city gate 200 steps away. Guan Sheng ran extremely fast and was the first to enter the gate. But Taiyuan is a strategic city, and every gate is an urn. That is to say, what Song Jun blasted was only the outer city, and there was also the inner city inside.

The Wengcheng covers an area of ​​about two acres, surrounded by high walls, and only two gates are connected. If the Jin soldiers can control the outer city well, even if the Song army invades the outer city, the Jin soldiers can use the advantage of defending the city to regain the situation. The most effective The method is crossbow shooting and fire attack, especially fire attack, turning the urn city into a sea of ​​​​flames, and the Song army had to withdraw.

  But it is destined that the victory tonight belongs to the Song army. The hundred Jin soldiers guarding the west city are warming up or sleeping above the city gate. The huge explosion killed half of them on the spot, and the other half were stunned.

When the Song army attacked the Wengcheng, there was not a single soldier guarding the Wengcheng. Dozens of soldiers climbed to the top of the city with ropes and opened the inner city gate. After being put down slowly, horseshoes sounded like thunder in the distance. Under the leadership of Cao Meng, 5,000 cavalrymen swept towards the city gate and directly entered the city of Taiyuan.

Cao Meng waved his sledgehammer and took the lead, but he encountered more than a dozen golden cavalry. The leading general was holding a long spear. It was the Han general Yang Ke. Cao Meng furiously said, "If you are a dog thief, you will die if you don't get off your horse!"

  He urged the horse to gallop, swung the sledgehammer and smashed it with a whine. Yang Ke saw that the opponent was coming fiercely and fast, and it was too late to stab the spear, so he had to raise the bracket of the gun and only listened to "Dang!" when! There were two loud bangs, and a pair of eighty-jin octagonal purple gold hammers hit the barrel of the gun one after another. Yang Ke screamed, his arms broke, and the spear flew out. He turned his horse and fled. With a backhand hammer, it hit the back of his head, 'pop! ' With a sound, his skull was smashed, his brains were scattered, and Yang Ke fell from his horse and died tragically.

   A dozen of his soldiers turned around and ran away, but Cao Meng overtook them, hammered them one by one, and killed them all.

   "Kill"

  Five thousand cavalry horses of the Song Army galloped on the street, their hooves hitting the bluestone slabs, the sound of the horses hoofs was more spectacular than the thunder just now, as if the whole city of Taiyuan was shaking.

  The people in Taiyuan City were awakened, and every household was talking about it, not only the surprise of the Song army's killing, but also the worry about the war.

The Jinbing camp is in the middle of the county, and the explosion of the thunder and thunder has awakened five thousand soldiers who were sleeping, but the main general Wanyan Hulu was snoring drunk and could not wake up, and the deputy general Yang Ke was missing. Jinbing had no choice but to They rushed out of the camp to fight, many soldiers didn't even have time to put on their armor, they put on civilian clothes and ran out of the camp gate. Almost all the Jurchen soldiers were bald, with two thin braids hanging down their shoulders, which were easy to identify.

Although the Han army was timid and afraid to fight, a thousand Jurchen soldiers were very strong, shouting and charging at the Song cavalry with spears in their hands, Cao Meng sneered and shouted sharply: "Fire the arrows! "

Although Cao Meng is known as the number one general of the Jingzhao Army, he was promoted to the commander in his early twenties, but not only because of his bravery, he also has a keen mind and a clear mind, and it is difficult to use cavalry in narrow streets. The advantages of high-speed maneuvering and strong impact, on the contrary, falling into the spear infantry formation will easily cause a large number of cavalry casualties.

  Cao Meng discovered the opponent's disadvantage, and most of the soldiers did not wear armor. Isn't this a ready-made archery target? He made a decisive decision and ordered to shoot arrows.

The cavalry drew their bows and shot arrows like a revolving lantern. Thousands of arrows shot at the dense crowd of Jurchen soldiers like a storm. The Jurchen soldiers had no leather armor to resist, and no shields. The soldiers were shot down, and the wailing resounded through the street. Many soldiers of the Han army behind were also shot by arrows. The Jin soldiers were suddenly in chaos. Without the main and deputy generals, the morale of the army quickly lost control. First of all, the soldiers of the Han army, they let out a cry Shout, turn around and run to the east.

However, Wang Gui led 5,000 infantry to encircle from behind and cut off the retreat of the Han soldiers. Two thousand archers lined up in three rows and shot arrows at the fleeing soldiers. They fell down one after another.

  The fierce Jurchen soldiers also collapsed in the face of heavy casualties, and the remaining 400 soldiers fled back to the barracks, and 2,000 cavalry rushed into the barracks under the leadership of Cao Meng

   Li Yanqing led an army of 20,000 and arrived in Taiyuan only one day later than Wang Gui and Cao Meng's vanguard. Li Yanqing's army arrived in Taiyuan City the next afternoon. The army did not enter the city, but set up a camp outside the city.

  In the big tent just set up, Wang Gui and Cao Meng rushed to report the battle situation to Li Yanqing.

"During the night attack on Taiyuan, 74 soldiers of the Song army were killed, 135 were injured, nearly 1,000 Jurchen soldiers were killed, more than 2,800 soldiers of the Han army were captured, and more than 1,000 were captured. In addition, more than a thousand soldiers of the Han army fled into the houses, and our army is conducting martial law searches throughout the city."

   "What important person can be caught?" Li Yanqing asked again.

   "In addition to the capture of the main general Wanyan Hulu, there are also more than a dozen Jinren civilian officials, and one of them will definitely be of interest."

   "Who is it?"

   "This person's name is Wanyan Zongya, and his Jurchen name is Hu Lubu. It is said that he is the son of Jin Kingdom Emperor Wanyan Sheng. He was ordered to inspect the Hedong Road. He happened to be in Taiyuan and was caught by us."

   Li Yanqing suddenly became interested and asked, "Where is this person now?"

   "He was imprisoned in the government office of Taiyuan. This man has a very strong temper. He tried to seek death twice, but was stopped by soldiers."

  Li Yanqing sneered, "If you really want to die, you can gossip, I'll meet him."

   Li Yanqing immediately entered Taiyuan City with hundreds of soldiers, Wang Gui and Cao Meng.

  (end of this chapter)

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