Qiu Muling and Zhonglian had already reached the city and commanded the remaining 10,000 mobile troops and formed a formation. When Puliuru Bosheng saw the banner at the top of the city, he commanded the various commanders in the circular formation, alternately covering, and retreated backwards.

Five commanders formed a small round formation to block the pursuit of the Jin soldiers, while the other five commanders gradually retreated to the rear. The Jin soldiers' cavalry wanted to encircle, but were restrained by Bu Luguleping.

Wu Ge looked worried when he saw the situation of the Song army. The Song army had too few cavalry, so when he retreated, he was easily intercepted by the Jin army.

Sure enough, the first group of five commands retreated stopped, listed the arrow formation, and waiting for the blocking of the five commands. The Jin soldiers quickly caught up and dragged down all the ten commands of Puliru Bosheng.

There were also two Jin soldiers who were directly embedded between Puluru Bosheng and Qiu Muling Zhonglian. It seemed that the Jin soldiers were preparing to keep Puluru Bosheng's entire army.

Wu Ge was very anxious and asked Hu Yangeng for an order, leading his headquarters to the south to participate in the war.

Hu Yangeng pondered and said, "Yifu has a strong relationship, but the responsibility of Yifu's subordinate lies in defending the east wall."

"If the East Wall is in danger, will the General Lord not rescue the East Wall?"

Hu Yangeng was about to agree, but saw Qiu Muling Zhonglian's subordinates carrying hundreds of large tree trunks and arranged them neatly. He couldn't help but be happy and muttered: "They took out all this, and they were not afraid of blowing up the chamber." Then he stopped Wu Ge: "Yifu, look at the new toys of the Sha family."

Wu Ge looked at Hu Yangeng's fingers and saw Dongjun aiming the big trunks at the Jin soldiers in front of him. Suddenly, with a loud bang, dense smoke spewed out from the trunk, and something was spread out to knock down the Jin soldiers in front. Just as the Jin soldiers shouted and neighed, the other trunks exploded like firecrackers. The smoke in front of Qiu Muling Zhonglian's formation was shrouded in smoke, but the Jin soldiers were swept away.

"What is this?"

Hu Yangeng laughed: "Pine tree cannon, hollow out the trunk of the big tree, fill it with gunpowder at the back, block the shattered copper, iron gravel in the front, and ignite the gunpowder, and you can kill people by fine and hard objects." The method of making the pine tree cannon is clearly written in the militia manual. Ordinary farmers can build it as long as they have an axe. In the era of the Anti-Japanese War, they were used as heavy firepower by the guerrillas. Under specific terrain conditions, they can fight against the 38th Great Bow, let alone the seven-pound weak bow of the Jin soldiers.

This round of killing of pine cannons did shock the Jin soldiers. Taking advantage of this opportunity, Qiu Muling Zhonglian and Puliu Ru Bosheng handed over and retreated back to the trench area.

"Why don't the generals promote the entire army with such a powerful weapon?"

Promoting the entire army? The effect of Kaqiusha and the pine tree cannon was to surprise the Jin soldiers, and the Song soldiers got a chance to breathe. Tomorrow, the Jin soldiers will come back to the scene. These two far-immature weapons are not useful in the Battle of Bianliang.

The two sides of the Song and Jin sides fought from Chen to noon. Both armies were exhausted. After the Song army withdrew the trenches, the counterweight catapults on the city began to show their power, and the Jin soldiers quickly evacuated the south area of ​​the city and left the battlefield full of corpses for the Song army to clean. The Jin soldiers did not attack any further that day, but to the south of Bianliang City, the Jin soldiers had driven away the civilians to build a camp. Due to the difficulty of fighting with the Jin soldiers in the morning, the Song army did not send troops to the protection of the catapults to intervene.

"The Golden Thieves are going to trap the city."

Hu Yangeng returned to the Yujinyuan camp. On the one hand, he used two new weapons today, so he naturally had to summarize and discuss it. On the other hand, he asked the king for advice on his future strategy.

"The grain stored in Bianliang is still enough for three months to eat, and the Jin thieves may not be able to last for three months." Wang Bing, as the head coach, was not panicked. "But he had to send a messenger to Yingchang to make Han Tao and Peng Yan pay attention to the movements of the Jin camp and harass the Jin thieves' grain harvest team." Although Wang Bing did not experience the first besiege of Bianliang in the Jin thief, he also understood the situation at that time. He dissected the body of the Jin thief and found that there were only black beans for horses in the belly of the Jin soldiers, which showed that the food and fodder of the Jin soldiers might not necessarily support the siege of the city for March.

After Hu Yangeng and Wei Dingguo, Ling Zhen and others discussed the gains and losses of the new weapons, they made a big tent. It was time for Shen, and the sky had become dark. Hu Yangeng looked at the condensed clouds in the sky and thought to himself: "It's going to snow."

At the hour of Hai, heavy snow fell down. The Song soldiers who were originally arranged to sleep in the trenches all retreated to the camp, but the post was still there, and for a night, they were not afraid of the Jin soldiers' attacks.

There were also a few light snowstorms a while ago, and thin ice had been formed on the banks of the Bian River and Cai River. Wu Ge crawled into the camp where Hu Yangeng was and shouted: "It turns out that this is the real heavy snow. If you have this snow, you will be afraid that you will not freeze those golden thieves to death."

Hu Yangeng was not so optimistic. Generally speaking, snow was not good for the siege and was good for the defenders. However, the Jin people were always tough and used to staying in bitter and cold places, so they might not be able to survive this winter. On the other hand, the Song Bing had not yet been fully equipped in winter, and many soldiers were still wearing single clothes. It was okay to fight. When they did not fight, they all relied on hiding in the camp to keep warm. The only thing that made Hu Yangeng feel a little relieved was that this time and space implemented the walls and clearing the fields, and the surrounding trees were all collected into the city, and the Song Bing did not lack firewood for the time being.

Hu Yangeng slept until midnight, and suddenly the alarm bell was coming. The Jin soldiers did take the snowy night to steal the camp. Fortunately, the Song soldiers did not retreat. After a small-scale fight around, they returned to silence at night. There was no bad news from the North and West Walls, and they thought they did not let the Jin soldiers take too much advantage.

But after yesterday's battle, the Song Bing did not find any effective way to stop the Jin soldiers from continuing to build camps in the south. Not only that, the west and north sides seemed deaf. The battles in the south yesterday were in full swing, and no two people were sent to inquire about the situation. Hu Yangeng thought: The Privy Council did not seem to have fulfilled its responsibility for central allocation. I don't know what Zhang Shuye was busy with? It was snowing, and I don't know if Zhang Shuye adopted that method.

At this moment, Zhang Shuye was summoning Liu Li, the military officer of the capital, Xu Bingzhe, the prefect of Kaifeng, and others to discuss adding winter clothes to the soldiers guarding the city.

After listening to Uncle Zhang’s nagging words, Xu Bingzhe sat upright without saying a word.

Liu Fei said: "The War Warehouse has been checked, and the armor and weapons are still used, but there are not many winter clothes. It still needs to be purchased by Kaifeng Prefecture."

Seeing Xu Bingzhe entering into meditation like an old monk, and not speaking for a long time, Zhang Shuye called softly: "Xu Fu Yin, Xu Fu Yin..."

Xu Bingzhe suddenly woke up: "Ah, the golden thief is very hateful. He needs to buy new clothes, winter clothes, and winter clothes."

"The prefect is right. The winter clothes of more than 100,000 Bianliang defenders must be purchased."

"It is not easy to deal with this matter." Xu Bingzhe said, "During the Xuanhe and Zhenghe period, Cai Jing, Yang Jian and other thieves bought many times, which caused public resentment and chaos. Now that the Jin thieves are in a hurry, they will cause civil rebellion. If they still want to buy, they will cause civil rebellion. I hope the Privy Council will think twice." What he said was that Kaifeng Prefecture would not take on this job.

Zhang Shuye and Liu Li were struggling for a long time, and Xu Bingzhe pushed the blame cleanly. The three of them discussed for a long time, but there was no result.

Zhang Shuye returned to the back hall, and a short, black fat man next to him asked softly: "What are you worried about Hun Xiang?"

Zhang Shuye talked about the purchase of winter clothes. The short and fat man laughed and said, "What's the difficulty? Song Jiang has a plan to offer it to the Privy Council. Borrow it." It turned out that the short and fat man in front of Zhang Shuye was Song Jiang. He and Wu Yong and other troops of Liangshan were defeated by Zhang Shuye. After being captured, he surrendered to Zhang Shuye and participated in the Battle of Fang La.

According to the "State of the Eastern Capital" records: "In the second year of Xuanhe of the Song Dynasty, Fang La caused a rebellion and captured 52 counties in six prefectures and 52 counties, and the momentum was very strong. Zhang Shuye recruited and surrendered to Song Jiang in Liangshan. It was Xin Xingzong, the commander of the former army of Xihe. Xin You were thousands of people and ordered to attack Hangzhou. Hangzhou thieves had 60,000 people. Song Jiang used a plan to defeat him and captured him. More than half of the former were injured and killed. The commander of the Central Army commander Jiang and others made contributions. Xin Qizong said: "Jiang and others were originally great thieves in the Yangtze River. Although they had made contributions to destroying the city, they would redeem their previous crimes. The commander king did not dare to fight. Song Jiang and others retreated and hid for life."

According to this record, Song Jiang's contribution to Hangzhou was taken away by Xin Xingzong. However, Song Jiang and Wu Yong and others did not retire, but were used by Zhang Shuye as their aides.

Song Jiang suggested that Zhang Shuye borrow money and use the property in Zhaoguan’s palace as a guarantee.

Zhang Shuye was a little hesitant: What should I do if I borrow it and cannot pay it back? I really copied the Zhao Guan family’s old background? Song Jiang smiled and said, “The King’s Army will win.” Are you still afraid that I can’t pay it back if I win the war? If I lose, do I still need to pay it back?

When Song Jiang saw Zhang Shuye still hesitating, he thought to himself that the nobles of the country were really rich in their family. Hu Yangeng could actually give out 150,000 yuan at once. It turned out that Hu Yangeng found Song Jiang and gave the idea. After Hu Yangeng arrived in Bianjing, he made friends with Zhang Shuye's two sons, and on the other hand, he found a way to deal with Zhang Shuye's aides. When he heard Song Jiang and Wu Yong reported to his family, he knew that these two people had a lot of thoughts and were also ill-hearted and sarcastic. Some things that could not be put on the table could be allowed to do. So he asked Qiu Muling Zhonglian to make friends with Song Jiang. When Qiu Muling Zhonglian pretended to be drunk and said, "Dare to laugh at Huang Chao as a husband", he was attracted by Song Jiang as a confidant, at least on the surface.

At this moment, Zhang Shuye asked: "If you want to borrow like this, Gongming, you can get a charter."

Song Jiang took out the regulations prepared early, and Zhang Shuye discussed with Liu Sheng again. For a moment, he could not think of any other way, so he had to ask Zhao Huan to issue an imperial edict.

He first asked Zhao Huan to solve the problem of winter clothes. Zhao Huan also acted like a wise ruler and issued an order to "all departments and courts work with Zhang Shumi to prepare for winter clothes, and command and implement them from top to bottom." However, Sun Wei, a clerk of the Secretariat, wrote the decree, but where to publish it became a problem.

It is said that the army's winter clothes are under the jurisdiction of the Privy Council, but Uncle Zhang had already checked the warehouse under the Privy Council, and it was really empty, so he found another way. Some ministers said that the Ministry of Revenue was under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Revenue, but the Ministry of Revenue only cared for civil taxes, but there was no winter clothes. Some people said that the Ministry of Revenue was under the jurisdiction of the Shaofu and the Taifu Temple, but the Taifu Temple and Shaofu Temple are now both officials and are just empty titles. Not to mention winter clothes, there are not even a few pieces of linen.

Finally, Zhang Shuye sighed: "Why would you rather issue an order to the Privy Council to raise money and then hand it over to the Municipal Affairs Office to buy winter clothes."

As soon as this method was released, everyone agreed. Zhang Shuye then asked for an order to protect the royal property. Zhao Huan was holding the style of a wise king, and he didn't think that someone really dared to ask the emperor for a deposit, so he smiled and agreed: "Zhang Qing's family is just needed by the army, just go and borrow it, I will give you a guarantee."
Chapter completed!