The Song army's rockets, rocks smashed from the city walls, and even boiling water poured down constantly blocked the Jin army's attack.

After the Jin army's trebuchets finished throwing "iron artillery", they began to throw stones. The stone cannons hit the top of the city one by one, and even hit the inside of the city.

In fact, the damage range of stone cannons is limited. If a stone falls, it will hit one person at most and hit two or three other people with the impact.

But if you were standing at the top of the city and saw stones falling from the sky, how would you feel?

In the age of fusiliers, the musketeers would flash their bayonets after shooting the cavalry. When the horses rushed in front of the bayonet team, they would not be able to help but stop.

This is biological instinct.

Similarly, when people see something falling from the sky, they will instinctively want to avoid it.

Therefore, in fact, the greater role of this trebuchet is to cause psychological pressure on the soldiers defending the city.

As for gunpowder, the content of gunpowder in the Song Dynasty was only about 50%. Its refining technology was limited and its power was also limited.

Although gunpowder has begun to be used in the military, due to limitations in technology and industrial chains, gunpowder only plays a supporting role.

Even in the Zhu Di era, gunpowder was still used as an auxiliary weapon on the battlefield, mainly as a cold weapon.

As long as the bayonet is not widely used on the battlefield, it will be a cold weapon.

In the siege of the cold weapon era, long-range weapons were used to suppress the enemy's morale and organizational ability, but one's own people still had to use ladders.

The golden army keeps falling down the ladder.

The Jin army behind immediately made up for it.

Anyone who dares to retreat will face death.

At this time, the Jin Army's trebuchet stones were almost used up, and the number was significantly reduced.

After the Jin army continued to replenish their numbers, the first batch of Jin troops came to the top of the city.

The Song army's sword and axemen at the top of the city had been preparing for a long time. As soon as the Jin army came up, axes, iron bones, and maces all came to serve them.

Some people were even knocked off the ground as soon as they climbed up, shaking and falling like a kite with its string broken, and fell to the bottom.

The war lasted for more than half an hour, and several attacks by the Jin army were suppressed.

The walls of the city were covered with corpses of Jin soldiers, and many Song soldiers died in battle on top of the city.

Wu Shu was a little shocked.

Unexpectedly, the resistance in the small city of Xuzhou could be so tenacious.

He temporarily called for gold and retreated his troops.

When they learned that the Jin army had retreated, the people in Xuzhou City were all happy. For a while, there were voices praising Yue Fei everywhere.

Wu Shu looked livid: "This Yue Fei is indeed extraordinary. No wonder he dared to attack Zongfu at night. This small Xuzhou city turned out to be so stubborn under his guard."

Wu Shu recalled that when he attacked Zhaozhou at the end of last year, he was so powerful that he quickly captured Xingzhou.

As for Cizhou and Xiangzhou, he actually has the confidence and strength to win them, but he just doesn't want to waste more time.

As for the current attack on Xuzhou City, he clearly felt that the Song army in Xuzhou was stronger than the Song army in Zhaozhou, Xingzhou, Cizhou and other Hebei prefectures that had attacked it before.

In today's siege, Wu Shu threw more than a thousand people into the city.

Han Chang said: "Deputy Marshal, the Song army has many weapons to defend the city, but the general has a plan."

"What do you think."

Han Chang told Wu Shu his idea, and Wu Shu couldn't help but nod.

Two days later, on September 23, the autumn wind brought a chill.

Early in the morning, the sky was hazy and lifeless.

The garrison at the city head who had just finished breakfast heard the sound of crying from the front. Looking over, he saw a dense crowd of people walking towards this direction.

The Jin army pushed their trebuchets over again, as well as goose carts and ladders.

The Song Army's alarm bell rang, indicating that the Jin Army began to attack the city again, and it was still the North Gate!

But this time, the defenders of the tower looked surprised.

Outside the city there were cries and pleas for mercy.

When Yue Fei learned that the Jin army had begun to attack the city early in the morning, he immediately stuffed the steamed buns into his mouth, put on his armor and led the people out. As soon as he went out, someone came to report: "Marshal, something bad has happened. The gold thieves have captured the enemy."

They gathered a group of people and drove them to the city wall. They wanted to..."

Yue Fei suddenly looked livid, and what he was most worried about happened.

"Walk!"

Yue Fei immediately led his people to the head of Beicheng.

When the people in the city learned that the Jin army was attacking again, they all came out. When everyone saw Yue Fei leading his men towards the north city, they all started talking excitedly.

When he arrived at Beicheng, Yue Fei climbed up the tower and saw the Jin army attacking in large scale.

This time the scale was larger than the day before yesterday, a large area of ​​darkness, like a torrent.

There are not only trebuchets, goose carts, and simple ladders, there are at least more than a hundred of them.

Moreover, the Jin army dispatched at least tens of thousands of people, possibly more.

Those at the front were the unarmed people.

"Shuai Yue, what should we do now?"

Yue Fei's heart sank to the bottom of his heart.

He clenched his fists tightly, as if there was a bad breath brewing in his heart.

Soon, the common people were driven towards the city.

Those who were unwilling to run were shot to death by random arrows from the Jin army behind them.

The crowd started to run.

Jin Jun followed behind.

The crowd in front ran to the gate. Under the gate, there were many corpses of the Jin soldiers who died in the battle the day before yesterday. The goose carts were also left there.

As soon as the people saw the goose cart and the ladder, they immediately instinctively climbed up, hoping to climb up the tower to take refuge.

And those Jin soldiers were mixed in.

"Shuai Yue, what should we do now?"

Everyone else looked at Yue Fei anxiously, waiting for orders.

Yue Fei seemed to have struggled for a long time, and then shouted loudly: "Set the arrows, no one is allowed to go up the tower!"

Once someone climbs the tower, the panicked refugees will inevitably cause chaos in the tower. By then, the resistance of the Jin army will be reduced to the weakest, and Xuzhou's defense will undoubtedly be broken!

"Shuai Yue, those are all..."

"Didn't you hear that? Shoot the arrow!" After saying that, Yue Fei was the first to draw his bow and arrow, and shot downward, hitting an unarmed man.

Seeing Yue Fei like this, the others burst into tears and started shooting arrows.

"Don't shoot arrows, we are our own people! Don't shoot arrows!"

"Save us! We don't want to die!"

"..."

The desperate voice made many soldiers on the tower shed tears.

But Yue Fei did not order to stop. If he stopped, the city of Xuzhou would be destroyed, and once the Jin army entered the Huaihe River, more people would die.

When Wu Shu heard the news, he sighed again: "Yue Fei is really a great general! It would be great if he could be used by me!"

The large-scale Jin army behind them began to take action.

Viewed from a high altitude, it looks like a black swarm of ants, beginning to swarm like the city of Xuzhou.

After a new round of counterattack by the Song army, many people died. The Jin army climbed up in large numbers, and bloody battles began again at the top of the city.

But this time, under the "cover" of the common people, the Jin army's siege pressure was significantly reduced, and people continued to climb to the top of the city.

More people behind quickly started climbing.

A bloody battle of unprecedented scale began.

The sounds of weapons clashing, roars and screams could be heard everywhere in the city, and people kept dying.

The two sides engaged in a bloody battle that lasted for nearly two hours, and continued until noon. There was a large pile of corpses at the top of the city. Everyone could no longer step on the ground, but stepped on the corpses and continued to fight.

Jin Wushu said solemnly in the commander's camp: "If we don't capture Xuzhou today, the commander of the forward camp will come to see you!"

More Jin troops from behind began to line up and then moved forward.

Wu Shu invested at least 20,000 people at the North Gate.

It was almost pushed here by people.

They also arranged a supervising team behind them. Anyone who dares to retreat will be killed immediately!
To be continued...