Since the Ming Dynasty Zhen brothers brought Haibin County to the Ming Dynasty, Li Bao began to strengthen the city wall here.
It won't work without reinforcement. The entire Liaoxi Corridor and the Ming Dynasty are just one city. Enemies on both sides will attack sooner or later.
Da Mingzhen and Da Mingyi surrendered because the Jin Kingdom was short of food. They also asked Li Bao to transport more food to feed the salt workers and farmers in Haibin County.
Li Bao just used work as relief, so that the people who had no food to eat came to build the city.
Since there were not enough civilians, soldiers also took turns to participate in the construction.
After three or four months of work, although the city wall in Haibin County was short and small, the thickness of the wall base was increased to nearly ten meters.
In terms of the thickness of the city wall, it is equivalent to that of a state city in the Central Plains.
"Bang bang bang!"
The golden soldiers fired back cannons and threw large rocks at them.
The outer layer of the city wall, which is more than three meters thick, was made of rammed earth, which was added in the past few months. It was pockmarked by large rocks and had various cracks.
On the fourth day after being hit by return artillery, a large area of the outer wall even collapsed, exposing the original wall inside.
A shoddy project!
There was no way, there was hasty reinforcement, not enough manpower, and insufficient raw materials. Moreover, there was a lack of ramming nests between the old and new walls. It was rainy some time ago, so it was normal for the new wall to be smashed.
However, the precision of the returning artillery is impressive. It is impossible to smash down the new wall and then aim at the same point to bombard the old wall inside.
After more than half a month of continuous pounding by the returning artillery, nearly half of the new walls on the east and west sides of the city collapsed, which was equivalent to destroying a large area of the outer armor of the city wall.
The old wall inside was almost undamaged.
Wanyan Zongbi was afraid that the Ming army would go out of the city to destroy the siege equipment, so he did not dare to divide his troops and set up the enemy's barracks for building them. Even the returning artillery was shipped out from the Jin Bing camp every day, and then assembled outside the city. In the afternoon, it was dismantled and transported back to the camp.
Go to camp.
Half of the time was spent on transportation and disassembly, and only two or three hours of bombardment on the city wall every day.
Wanyan Zongwang sent a telescope to Wanyan Zongbi, which made Wanyan Zongbi feel like he had found a treasure, and he had to hold it and observe it every day.
"The section near the due west city gate, the wall (new wall) collapsed the best," Wanyan Zongbi said, "it fell down and turned into a slope. I, the Dajin Warriors, can rush up along the slope and take a short ladder.
You can climb to the top of the city."
Wanyan Tat said lazily: "If we continue to throw stones from artillery carts, it will probably take another month or two before the old wall built by the Liao Kingdom can be demolished. Do we wait until it collapses before we attack the city?"
Wanyan Zongbi said: "Oben (Wanyan Zongqian) snatched the grain and grass from Goryeo. He transported a batch back to Liaoyang himself, and the rest was handed over to us for the war. Not only is the war going on here, but the Great Wall of Zhenhaikou is also fighting, and time is dragging on.
It will be too long before we run out of military rations."
Wanyan frowned lazily and said, "Why don't you focus on fighting in one place?"
"It doesn't matter whether the siege is concentrated or not," Wanyan Zongbi said, "Hainan County is too small. Even if there are 50,000 people here to attack the city, only those who can be sent to attack the city will only be able to send the rest of the troops to watch from behind."
Wanyan Talan couldn't help complaining: "Yu Liduo (Wanyan Zongfu) has not been on the battlefield for several years. He has no idea how difficult the Ming army is to deal with. It is not easy to recapture the coastal county, and he is still thinking of starting a war in two places. , take down the Zhenhaikou Great Wall as well.”
Wanyan Zongbi had not fought in three years. After thinking carefully, he said: "We will bombard with artillery vehicles for five more days, select a few city walls to storm, and feign attacks in other places to assist in the battle."
Five days passed in the blink of an eye.
The east and west towers were riddled with holes by the Jin soldiers' returning artillery fire, and several of the archery towers in the best defensive positions were also destroyed.
The siege has officially begun!
The artillery was assembled first, and stones were thrown to cover the advance of the siege troops.
The Jin soldiers were fully prepared this time and used craftsmen kidnapped from Hebei to produce many siege equipment invented by the Northern Song Dynasty.
Not many people stood on the city wall. It wasn't until the Jin soldiers stopped bombarding that Li Bao dispatched soldiers to quickly run up the city wall from the horse path to defend. Moreover, he did not plan to use the Sky Thunder for the time being. There were only 800 of those things for the time being.
Trees and fallen rocks have already piled up at the top of the city.
The gold juice has also been boiled into a semi-solid state, which is a mixture of feces, urine and various unknown substances. The salt worker posing as a farmer followed up, added water to the half-dry and half-thin gold juice, and then lit the firewood to start. Heat and cook.
There was no preparation for hot oil, supplies were supplied across the sea, and vegetable oil was very precious.
The first people who were thrown into the siege were all Northern Han and Khitan soldiers. These two ethnic groups had the largest population in the Jin Kingdom, and their social status was not high. They were used as cannon fodder for sieges every time.
The newly built outer wall collapsed, forming a rugged obstacle. Although the city wall was much shorter, it also made it difficult for the Jin soldiers' large siege equipment to approach.
For things like aerial ladders, you have to pick an area where the outer wall has not collapsed in order for the ladder to be successfully hung on the city wall.
Just as the Jin soldiers turned the winch and slowly extended the ladder, the defenders suddenly shouted in Chinese and Khitan:
"Young man of the Han family, don't sacrifice your life for the Jin people!"
"Khitan brothers, don't kill them if they throw away their weapons!"
"The Jurchen soldiers dare not attack the city, so I only let you die!"
"..."
In the past two years of cross-sea raids, Li Bao kidnapped and surrendered many Jin soldiers and civilians, and he had figured out the Jin soldiers' tactics for attacking the city.
He knew that the first few groups of siege cannon fodder must be Han and Khitan people.
The soldiers of the Ming army guarding the city shouted to persuade them to surrender, but at the same time they tried to kill people.
The first thing to be fired were rockets, aimed at various siege equipment. The gunpowder was mixed with rosin and shot on the siege equipment to continue burning. As long as enough rockets were fired, one or two golden weapons and equipment could always be ignited.
The first offensive of the Jin soldiers was quickly repulsed by rockets, falling rocks, wood and ordinary bows and arrows.
Before the Ming army had time to leave the city and destroy the equipment, the second wave of Jin soldiers' offensive came again, pushing rows of female walls and approaching quickly.
The golden soldiers hiding behind the female wall took over the previously abandoned siege equipment one after another.
This time someone approached the top of the city wall and was showered back with hot golden juice.
The battle continued into the afternoon, and hundreds of Jin soldiers were killed or injured.
"Linchong, there is Linchong over there, shoot all the rockets at Linchong!"
Li Bao was personally sitting at the watchtower in the city. He suddenly saw something with his telescope and quickly ordered the mobilization of nearby rocket soldiers.
Linchong was also called Lu Gongcha in the Ming Dynasty. It required twenty or thirty people to push it. It was like a mobile building with many siege soldiers hidden inside. The top was built slightly higher than the city wall.
Although the Ming army still had many rockets, the archers' arms were weak from shooting.
Li Bao was afraid of an accident, so he asked the messenger to raise the flag and transfer a reserve team over.
After thinking for a while, Li Bao said to an ordering soldier: "You ride over and pass the order, and let the thunder fire soldiers go to Linchong and throw the thunder!"
Several of Jin Bing's Linchong aircraft had been covered with linen cloth. At this time, the linen cloth was suddenly uncovered, and they were discovered by Li Bao only after they had pushed out more than ten meters.
The messengers galloped on horseback, rushed up the city wall from the horse path, and shouted along the troop transport channel: "Listen, Thunder Fire Soldiers, go up to Linchong and throw thunder from the sky!"
The so-called "Thunder Fire Soldier" is the name Li Bao gave to the grenadiers.
He selected a group of powerful ones specifically for throwing thunder.
The several approaching planes were still far away at this time, so the Thunder Fire Soldiers had plenty of time to prepare.
Wanyan Zongbi did not have Hezha Mengan in hand. In order to attack the city this time, he selected the bravest warriors, each wearing two layers of medium-sized armor. Some were arranged to be in the attack, and some were hidden behind the parapet wall.
When Linchong approached the city wall, the Jin warriors who were walking behind the female wall also came out with a flying ladder and rushed up the slope formed by the collapsed outer wall.
The arrows landed on these golden soldiers wearing double armor, making clanging noises, but the damage caused was extremely limited.
"Golden juice, golden juice, bring it here quickly!"
As the boiled mixture of feces and urine poured down, the climbing warriors of the Jin Kingdom screamed in agony.
Da Bian (biàn) took advantage of the fact that the Ming army had just finished pouring two waves of gold juice, and led his soldiers to leave the female wall.
This Da Bian, also called Da, Ta Bu Ye, was born into a noble family in Bohai, Liaoyang, and was adopted as an adopted son by A Gu.
Among all Bohai people, Dazhan ranks first in terms of military exploits.
He was the adopted son of Aguda, and had the Liaoyang clan as his backing. He also made countless military exploits, so he was already a member of the Jin Kingdom. Later, he even became the Right Prime Minister of the Jin Kingdom, and was named Shenlu County by Wanyan Liang.
king.
Wanyan Zongbi spent a lot of money by asking ten thousand households to risk their lives to get there first.
But I saw that Dabao was wearing three layers of armor, and there was a mask and collar on his helmet. He was no different from a heavily armored soldier. But he was running fast on the rugged slope, and two soldiers helped him hold him down.
Flying ladder, this person quickly climbs up with arrows and spears.
Li Bao was on the watchtower in the city and couldn't see the elite soldiers hidden in the women's wall below the city.
The frontline commander reacted quickly and sent out thunder and fire soldiers to move elite enemy troops to several locations.
A golden soldier wearing two or three layers of armor is qualified to enjoy the thunder!
Da Bo held the flying ladder with one hand and blocked with a short weapon with the other. He was almost poked down by spears several times, but he continued to climb despite the attacks of the Ming army.
At this moment, he caught a glimpse of something falling.
The round lump looked like a falling rock, but it was thrown a bit crookedly, so it couldn't hit him at all.
Dabao used his hands and feet again at the same time and climbed up a little further.
Just when he was about to turn over and climb up the city wall, there was a loud "boom" sound from below. Dabo didn't know what happened at all, and he fell down because the flying ladder he was stepping on was blown apart.
Several Jin Kingdom elites below were wearing double armor, and their legs were directly broken by the thunder, because the bomb fell at their feet.
The nearby Jin soldiers were stunned by the explosion. They neither continued the attack nor forgot to escape immediately, but stood there stupidly.
Because it climbed higher, the big gun did not suffer the impact of the explosion, and its three layers of armor also prevented sporadic shrapnel.
He fell and fell to pieces, dizzy and struggling to get up.
"Save ten thousand households quickly!"
Regardless of the danger, more soldiers rushed up the slope to rescue, hoping to take Da Bian away from the battlefield first.
As soon as these soldiers rushed forward, another thunderbolt fell.
"boom!"
Dabao, the adopted son of Aguda, a member of the Bohai tribe and the future king of the Jin Kingdom and the right prime minister, had one calf blown off and the other calf fractured.
A large number of the soldiers who rushed over also fell down.
"Ah...my legs!"
Dabo was not dead until more than ten seconds later, when he felt severe pain in his legs, and then found that one of his legs was missing, and the other leg was folded towards the crotch at a strange angle.
Wanyan Zongbi was admiring the picture of the first landing with a telescope. He thought repeatedly before coming up with this clever plan to attack the city.
Wanyan Zongbi witnessed the two explosions.
"This, this, this... what is this?" Wanyan Zongbi was so frightened that he was trembling as he spoke.
(End of chapter)
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