Zhang Rong put on his armor and said, "I saw it, the whole army is gathering."

A rallying horn sounded from the bow of the ship, and several messengers stood on the mast of the ship waving flags, which meant to gather troops.

How many people could a Song Dynasty ship carry?

According to historical records, large-scale sea-going ships can carry 300 to 500 people.

This carrying capacity is equivalent to the carrying capacity of the European ocean-going battleship Galen Ship in the 17th century.

Moreover, mast sleeping and mast dismounting techniques are also adopted. When necessary, the mast can be removed or lowered.

River boats also have this technology, and this situation is recorded in "Along the River During the Qingming Festival".

However, there were no warships for ocean-going expeditions in the Song Dynasty, and Song ships were mainly used for commercial services.

The development of shipping technology to this stage fully illustrates the strong commercial atmosphere of the Song Dynasty.

It is said that there were some larger boats in the Song Dynasty. People lived on them all year round in the rivers, making a living by fishing and transporting goods. They were equivalent to a small village.

However, this type of river boat disappeared after the Song Dynasty. After all, the business atmosphere in the mainland declined after the Ming Dynasty.

However, sea-going ships were further built to become larger, and there were super-large ships like Zheng He's voyages to the West.

At this time, there were 300 people on each of the ships led by Zhang Rong, making a total of 12 ships with a total of 3,600 people.

The Jin army's forward was led by Gu Lijia.

After the Jin Army cheered and cheered, the world seemed to have returned to tranquility.

The sea breeze was blowing, and the waves kept beating against the rocks on the shore.

A Jin army of about 2,000 people quickly formed a formation on the coastline to form a defense.

Not long after, Guli Jia's siege team began to advance towards the east gate of Duli City.

When they entered the range of the Song army's crossbows, a dense rain of arrows instantly burst out of the city and fell towards the Jin army, hitting their shields and armors, making a "dong-dong-dong" sound.

Some people fell to the ground screaming after being hit by arrows, but the large army still held their shields high and continued to move towards the tower.

The one rushing at the front was a huge "ox cart". The strongest group of Jin soldiers hid behind the "ox cart" and pushed it hard.

The written name of this kind of "ox cart" is trench-filling leather cart, which is included in the Song Dynasty's "Wu Jing Zong Yao".

Its original shape actually didn't look like a cow, but a square box with wheels inside. It was wrapped in cowhide to strengthen it.

Similar to ancient armored vehicles, they were specially used to attack cities.

However, in order to make it look more powerful, the Jin people built it in the shape of a big bull.

When the car arrived at the moat, the Jin army inside began to pour things into the moat.

It is basically impossible for the Song army's bows and arrows to shoot through it.

When the Jin army advanced to a certain distance, the archers hiding behind the goose cart took advantage of the gap and began to fire arrows.

Soon some people from the Song army at the top of the city were hit by arrows, but only a few.

Zhao Chen said: "The Jin people also have the same siege equipment as us?"

Zhang Qing said: "What didn't exist before is now available, and Jin people are constantly learning."

The Jin people's siege equipment was actually relatively crude. It's not that the Jin army didn't have that technology, but that after Wan Yanchang arrived in the capital in a hurried march, he used local materials nearby and built the siege equipment within three days.

To what extent?

The two sides began to confront each other across the moat.

The bows and arrows were as dense as rain, making a sharp sound.

Not long after, the Song army began to use rockets. The dense rockets pierced the cowhide and white smoke began to emit.

Others pierced the goose cart and set it on fire.

Some Jin Army soldiers hurriedly stuck their heads out, climbed up with good skills, and put out the fire while it was still small.

As time went by, the Song army stopped firing arrows. After all, the number of arrows was limited, and the amount of oil that could be burned was also limited.

But during this period, the roaring and drumming of the main force of the Jin Army did not stop.

They made huge noises to intimidate the Song army in the city.

Trench-filling trucks came one after another and finally filled in certain sections of the moat.

The large troops of the Jin Army pushed the goose cart and began to move forward crazily.

Adjutant Li Song said excitedly: "Commander Zhang, the Jin army has begun to cross the moat!"

"I saw it!" Zhang Rong looked over. His little eyes were drooped, and he always looked like he was not awake. But if you really thought he was sleeping, you might be in trouble.

"The whole army arrives at the shore!"

The soldiers on the bow shook it hard and the chains began to shrink.

Twelve large ships of the Song Army broke through the waves and advanced towards the shore together.

After closing the distance, Zhang Rong shouted: "Get ready for the trebuchet!"

The soldiers on the deck immediately lifted stones and placed them on the trebuchet.

Li Song added: "Commander Zhang, there are only two hundred stones in total, do you want to use them now?"

"Now is the decisive battle, don't you need to take me home to sleep?"

"yes!"

"Aim at the Jin Army on the shore and hit them hard! Until you finish!"

Li Song immediately went to the side of the ship to take command.

He murmured: "It would be great if there were iron artillery."

At this time, the Jin army on the coast suddenly let out an exclamation.

Jin Jun raised his head and saw rocks in the air raining down on him. He was so frightened that he immediately rolled and crawled.

"Don't even move!" a Jin Jun Muke (centurion) shouted loudly.

As soon as he finished speaking, his head was hit by a stone the size of a watermelon. Even his helmet was deformed and he fell to the ground motionless.

I saw the stones falling from the sky, pouring down towards the Jin army.

The Jin army fell into a small-scale chaos. Although it was not a major chaos, some people were already panicking.

At this time, the Song Army's ships were getting closer and closer to the coast.

Long wooden boards were put down on the deck. The Song soldiers stepped on the wooden boards and nimbly got off the ship, came to the rocks, held up their shields, and quickly formed a team under the command of the officer.

The ship fired a dense barrage of bows and arrows at the Jin Army troops in front, and began to cover the landing of the front troops and kill them.

Soon the Song army was fighting head-on with the Jin army on the coastline.

The morale of the Jin army, which had been shocked by the trebuchets before, was obviously affected to a certain extent, and was suppressed by a wave of crossbow arrows. As a result, just after fighting head-on with the Song army who rushed ashore for a while, the defense line could no longer hold up.

How did Wan Yanchang know that sea-ship tactics could be used like this?

This is simply treating the ship as a moving castle on the sea.

What Wan Yanchang expected was that the defense line on the seaside would be waiting for work, and after the Song army landed, he would take advantage of the fact that the Song army did not line up to attack them.

But he obviously lacks experience in water warfare, or really doesn't know much about the seaside.

It is difficult to form an array in the seaside reef area. It is impossible for the Jin army to form an array in this area and they can only retreat a little further away, which gives the Song army enough space to land.

After the Song army used a wave of trebuchets, they used powerful crossbows to suppress the formation, which bought the Song army a lot of time.

The collapse of the Jin Army's coastal defense line was almost completely beyond Wan Yanchang's expectation.
Chapter completed!