On the sixth day of the siege, Zhao Guan's family got what they wanted and went to the battlefield. As the so-called emperor, they personally wore armor and swords, drew their bows and carried their swords, and stood in front of the battle.
Although Liu Yan personally led hundreds of Liaodong Red Heart Squadron followers for this purpose, Wang De, Fu Qing and other generals were also wearing armor beside them. The densely packed armored soldiers almost filled that section of the city wall, and because the watchtowers were demolished, many of them
Civil servants also accompanied him, making the city walls extravagantly decorated... But no matter what, this act still greatly boosted the morale of the soldiers on the city.
However, Zhao Guanjia did not wait for the "fighter" as in the previous days, and his proud archery skills could not be used. Because on this day, the Jin army adopted an unexpected way to attack the city.
"What is the golden man doing?"
Beside Zhao Guan's family, a group of civil and military personnel looked at the front of the Jin Army's position far outside the attack range. Looking at the heated scene there, they were all at a loss. But after watching for half a quarter of an hour, Hu Yincai, the censor Zhongcheng, was the first one.
Asked.
Hearing Hu Yin's question, the people around him looked at each other, but they didn't know how to answer.
As for Zhao Guanjia, maybe it was because he was a well-informed foreign professional. He almost immediately realized what Jin Jun was going to do, but he didn't know what professional words to use to describe it.
"Are you going to dig a tunnel?" Hu Yin continued to ask.
"No." Zhao Jiu, who was dressed in iron armor, came back to his senses and finally spoke. "Nanyang has abundant water systems and the cold winter, so we can't dig tunnels at all. If we have to say it, it means building tunnels on the ground and then pushing towards the city wall.
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Hu Yin and others were still at a loss, but Wang De and other generals were beginning to wake up... It was obvious that these generals, like the Zhao Guan family, at least understood the Jin people's intentions.
"It's a corridor." At this moment, Academician Xiao Lin suddenly said. "It is something that existed in the Qin Dynasty. It is to build a corridor, build walls on both sides, and add a roof on the top to avoid arrows and fill in ditches.
Ditch, push the wall when encountering the wall... At the end of the Qin Dynasty, when Zhang Han and Wang Li fought the decisive battle with the Chu Overlord in Hebei, they built a corridor to connect the main camp to protect the food road and facilitate the transportation of troops."
"I remembered." Hu Yin also suddenly woke up. "It is indeed a corridor. During the Three Kingdoms period, Emperor Wu of Wei, Cao Mengde, also built a corridor. It was just connected with carts and made of fences... It is exactly this thing! However, the corridor
How to break it?"
Hu Yin still asked Academician Xiao Lin about the last sentence, but it was obvious that Academician Xiaolin did not understand this, and he did not speak for a while.
As for the Zhao Guan family, who was watching with cold eyes, they had already thought of no less than three ways in an instant, but they did not say it out. They just asked Chen Gui to call him and wait for the latter to make a decision.
But while they were struggling in the city, there was already a different atmosphere in the Jin Army camp... To be honest, Wanyan Wushu really didn't expect that Zhang Yu would bring him such a big surprise!
Not only Wanyan Wushu, but also the other ten thousand households in Meng'an were extremely excited. After all, with this thing, trenches and sheep and horse walls are simply nothing!
So, after summoning and rewarding Li Dayin who came up with such a brilliant plan, Wanyan Wushu formally ordered that in addition to the three corridors that Zhang Yu originally built in the north, the rest of the main force of the Jin army also built corridors, and two corridors in the north were built.
There are two roads, one on the west and one on the south.
In other words, after the leaders of the Jin army realized this outstanding siege strategy, they did not hesitate to increase the weight and built seven corridors at the same time, either directly to the city gate, or directly to the bottom of Nanyang City in order to dig down the city wall!
On the top of the city, Chen Gui came in a hurry. After watching from a distance, his expression became serious: "The official family has only three strategies for the present..."
"Two strategies!" Zhao Jiu interrupted the other party without looking back. "I just saw that they have started to prepare felt cloth. It must be soaked in water and then spread as an outer layer to prevent fire and smoke."
"Then..." Chen Gui was startled for a moment, but became more serious. "Which of the remaining two strategies do the officials think we should use?"
"Let's go to war!" Zhao Jiu turned around and gave the order without any hesitation. It was obvious that he had already made a decision before. "There are more than 10,000 imperial camp troops and Ban Zhi in the city, and they will always go to war."
Chen Gui was startled for a moment, then nodded slowly.
And everyone around him, from Academician Xiao Lin who didn't speak but knew clearly in his heart, to Hu Yin and others who were still a little confused before, to the military generals who were either rude or careful but had more or less experience as sergeants, almost all of them were convinced.
However.
In other words, the so-called three strategies for dealing with this kind of wooden artificial tunnel... one of them must be to set fire to it and smoke it like a cave; the other must be like the military order just issued by the Zhao Guan family, wait for the opponent to come to the city and directly
Leaving the city behind the sheep and horse wall, they took advantage of the favorable location to engage in hand-to-hand combat; as for the third one, neither Zhao Guanjia nor Chen Shangshu said it directly, but everyone knew it clearly, it must be a cannon bombardment!
In fact, if anyone still has doubts at the moment, it is why the Zhao Guan family still insists on not firing?!
"The other two sides are easy to talk about, but who is willing to lead the troops down the five corridors in front of us?" Before he could think too much, Zhao Guanjia stared at the generals behind him.
It’s not like these people have never fought against the Jin people in hand-to-hand combat. What’s more, the officials have something to say and they are fighting under the protection of the city wall? So from Wang De down, all the generals simply surrendered and asked for orders!
"After we go down, we not only have to fight, but the key is to demolish the tunnel along the way." Zhao Jiuzheng asked. "What are you going to do?"
"The walls of the corridor are hastily built and can be easily pulled open with iron hooks!" Fu Qing answered first. "I would like to take a thousand soldiers from my army and go out in groups. Five hundred soldiers will hold spears to face the enemy face to face, and another five hundred will
Use the hook and rope to pull and dismantle the corridor from the surroundings, and you will definitely succeed! Even the corridors from the remaining two city walls leading to the city gate can also be disposed of in this way without exposing the city gate mechanism."
This countermeasure was extremely pertinent, and Zhao Jiu nodded immediately.
"Officials!" Wang De also spoke quickly when he saw this.
Let us say that at this time, Hu Yantong was in Fangcheng, Qiao Zhongfu was in Xiangyang, Zhang Jing was in Guanghua Army, and Xin Xingzong (Daxin) was in Wuguan. The remaining five generals in the city were Wang De, Fu Qing, Xin Yongzong (Xiaoxin), and Yang
In Yizhong, Liu Yan had a total force of 17,800, including 12,300 soldiers and more than 10,000 civilians. Logically speaking, Wang De, the highest-ranking military officer, should be in charge of the situation. But in fact, because
Chen Gui, the Minister of War, personally took charge of the city's defense, and Lu, the Prime Minister of the Privy Council, and Liu Shenjun, who served as Fang Si, were present, but Wang Yaksha was ignored by everyone. He was basically the same as the other generals, just following orders.
Therefore, Wang Yaksha, who had been thinking about the Nanyang Four Walls Defense Envoy, was really unwilling to give up this good opportunity to show his face in front of the officials.
However, when Zhao Jiu turned to look at Wang De, the deputy commander of the imperial camp was speechless for a moment, and then his face flushed with anxiety. Apparently, he had no countermeasures of his own.
"It's understandable that the king is eager to fight." Zhao Jiu smiled slightly when he saw this. "But Fu Tongzhi offered suggestions, let him handle it this time!"
Wang De hesitated to speak, but the official in front of him had shown some tricks from Huaishang to now, and he still had the most basic prestige... Therefore, Wang Yaksha could only admit defeat in the end.
In this way, after deciding that Fu Qing would be the main attack, Zhao Guanjia pointed out Xin Yongzong and Yang Yizhong, who should be stationed at the military square in the city at this time, to attack from the south and west to cut off the corridor, and then sent Chen Gui to station at the remaining city walls.
, and then waited quietly on the city wall for the Jin army to enter the corridor.
Time passes quickly or slowly. In the afternoon, the corridor was laid to the outer trench, and it also entered the range of the Song Army's conventional missile weapons at the top of the city... And with three sides of cover, it was only more than ten feet.
The corridor, which is wide and as high as one person, closely protected the Jin army inside. Although there was no hope, when the crossbow arrows and rockets failed on the wet felt cloth, Zhao Song Wenwu, who was under the dragon banner on the top of the city, was still alive.
Somewhat disappointed.
Correspondingly speaking, on the general platform just over 300 steps across from the city wall, with Wanyan Wushu below, many of the Jin Army generals were in a spirit of excitement.
Not to mention, the seven tunnels were dug together, and when they reached the outer trench, their effectiveness became even more obvious, because the Jin army in the tunnel only had to face a narrow tactical cross-section of more than ten feet. In just half an hour, the ever-expanding tunnels were
We arrived in front of the Sheep and Horse Wall easily! But this wall, which had worked wonders yesterday, had no power at this time, and was soon easily cut off by the Jin Army with shovels in the corridor.
Next, there was the inner trench. Wanyan Wushu, three men from ten thousand households, and dozens of Meng'an almost stood up together to watch from a distance.
Unsurprisingly, the inner trench could not stop the extension of the corridor... But just when the Jin army crossed the inner trench and reached the last dozen steps in front of the city, behind the wall of sheep and horses, a shocking cry of killing suddenly sounded.
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This situation is in sharp contrast to yesterday...yesterday the Jin army kept shouting, and the Song army was silent. Today, however, the Jin army kept building tunnels, and the Song army took the lead in shouting to kill.
"Why are the sergeants on the corridor unprepared?" Wanyan Wushu turned to ask.
"The soldiers who escaped from the sheep and horse wall yesterday said that the Song Dynasty people set up a wall in front of the city gate." Han Chang blurted out. "I thought it was strange at the time, but now it seems that it was just to cover the opening and closing of the city gate.
, it is convenient for troops to sneak attacks... Just like the low ground inside the Sheep and Horse Wall, it should be a strategy of the city defenders, which is quite interesting."
"That's it." Wanyan Wushu saw a hand-to-hand fight starting under the city wall in front of him, but he suddenly smiled evilly. "But such a small way can be called cunning at best. Since we are fighting hand-to-hand, we still have to have the final say with real swords and guns.
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"That's what the Fourth Prince said." Han Chang blurted out, but the next moment, like Ba Lisu, Chi Zhanhui and others around him, their expressions changed.
Because Wanyan Wushu's confidant general saw with his own eyes that the fourth prince's personal guard Meng An actually separated five plotters without saying a word, and then poured directly into the five corridors in front of him... And these five plotters
Damn, almost everyone is wearing full body armor!
You know, these armored warriors have some special sayings. Since they usually fight on horseback, once they get on the armored horses, from the gourd-shaped helmets to the knees of the horses, they are all covered in iron armor, and they look like a pagoda made of iron.
Generally speaking, it is called Iron Pagoda!
And even Wanyan Wushu only had a thousand iron pagodas in his hands at this time, and half of them were borrowed from his brother, the third prince, Yinli Duo.
But no matter what, if five hundred iron pagodas dismount and fight on foot, it is still an iron pagoda! Now that the iron pagoda has emerged, it would be a fool's dream for the Song army to use hand-to-hand combat to break through the corridor!