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Chapter 2 BMW Iron Elephant Chapter 115 The sound of drums and horns at the fifth watch

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    Wan Yanliang was wearing a general's armor and standing on a wooden archery tower. He looked at the siege soldiers below who were ready to go, drew his sword and shouted: "Attack the city!" These golden soldiers were carrying ladders.  , shouting and rushing towards the city like a tide.

    The city wall of Yunnei Prefecture was too high. The ladders used by the Jin soldiers had to be connected to reach the top of the city. The soldiers in the army kept shouting loudly: "Anyone who goes to the top of the city will be rewarded with a hundred taels of silver. If you attack the top of the city, you will be rewarded."  The reward is three hundred taels of silver. If you don't retreat, you will be killed!"

    The Jin soldiers crossed the pontoon bridge one after another to the bottom of the city, put the ladders on the wall, and climbed up. The archers who were covering the city fired bows and arrows at the Liao soldiers on the top of the city. When the Jin soldiers attacking the city were halfway up, a gong sounded on the top of the city.  With a sound, the Liao army in Yunnei Prefecture poured hot oil on the city. The Jin soldiers suddenly screamed, but the Jin soldiers had strict military discipline, and the swordsmen and axemen supervising the battle followed closely behind, and they would chop after retreating.  After the wave of hot oil, although Jin Bing was afraid, he quickly attached the ladder and climbed up again.

    The hot oil poured by the Liao army was quickly finished, but the second wave was the burning wood and torches that burned the oil below the stove, as well as the rockets fired downwards by the Liao army. The hot oil that had just been poured under the city met the fire and burned quickly.  When they got up, there was a sea of ??fire under the city. The Jin soldiers were afraid and could not escape. Many jumped into the moat. Not many Jurchen soldiers could swim, and hundreds of them drowned.

    The flames gradually extinguished, and amidst the shouts and curses of the swordsmen, the follow-up troops of the Jin soldiers once again climbed up the ladder. This time, the Liao army first sprinkled lime on the eyes and poured boiling water on the head, and then there was a rain of rolling logs and large rocks.  What's even worse is that some small holes suddenly appeared in the belly of the city wall where the ladders were set up. The Liao army hid in the city and used forks to overturn the ladders of the Jin soldiers, or used spears to attack the Jin soldiers climbing the city. These small holes were not big, and the Jin soldiers  If you want to guard against the stones on the top of the city, you can't guard against the spears coming out of the attack holes. There is no way.

    Fang Jinshi watched the golden soldiers climb up the ladder like ants, and then quickly fell down. Not only did he shake his head secretly, but Wan Yanliang didn't pity the lives of these golden soldiers at all, and just ordered to attack the city.

    Some Jin soldiers rushed into the city cave, trying to break through the city gate. The city gate of Yunnei Prefecture City was also unique. It was five inches thick, half made of iron and half made of wood. The iron plate outside was one inch thick. It was usually an inch thick.  It is opened and closed by hinged iron cables. There are many small holes dug on the door leaf. The small holes are blocked with small iron lids. Behind the door are Liao soldiers hiding. From time to time, they lift the lid and stab the Jin soldiers outside with spears through the door leaf.  , Jin Bing wanted to fight back along the same hole, but the lid inside was immediately closed, and Jin Bing did not dare to approach the door leaf for a while.

    Wan Yanliang yelled loudly, and one of his subordinate Jin generals saw that the losses would be too great if he continued to attack the city like this, so he went up and said: "Young General, I'm afraid it won't be easy to attack the city like this, so why don't we withdraw our troops for the time being and consider the long term." Wan Yanliang stabbed him with a knife.  He died and shouted: "Anyone who dares to retreat will be killed without mercy." As soon as he finished speaking, a giant arrow seemed to fly from the top of the city of Yunnei Prefecture, and went straight through the body of a golden soldier beside him. This golden arrow  The soldier was hit by the impact and took two steps back, and was nailed to the wooden stake by the giant arrow.

    Wanyan Liang was shocked. This giant arrow was five feet long. It could be shot from the top of Yunnei Prefecture to here. It also had such power. Wanyan Liang had never thought of it in his dreams. Tang Kuo beside him said: "Young Master  General, this is the crossbow of the Song Dynasty, and it is very good at shooting from a long distance, so why not go down below."

    Wan Yanliang said: "Anyone who retreats before the battle will be killed without mercy, didn't you hear clearly?" He seemed to have remembered something, and said again: "Where is the Song general Li Bao who came to help? Ask him to bring his people over quickly."

    Tang Kuobian quickly sent people to find Li Bao. This Li Bao was recommended by Zhang Bangchang, the young minister of the Song Dynasty Ministry of Rites, and ordered by Taishi Tong Guan to help the Jin soldiers coordinate their operations. However, he led too few troops and the Jin soldiers looked down on him.  He basically had nothing to do. At this moment, Wan Yanliang saw the Yunnei Prefecture defenders using bed crossbows, and then he remembered that someone had mentioned to him before that Song general Li Bao carried several powerful weapons, including the bed crossbow.  He was impressed.

    Li Bao rushed to the city with hundreds of Song soldiers. At the top of Yunneizhou City, he had already killed several Jin generals with bed crossbows. The loss of several generals by the Jin soldiers was nothing. It was just the powerful deterrent power of the bed crossbows and the super long range.  The distance and the strong force made Jin Bing feel that no matter where he was hiding, he was being stared at by the arrows of the bed crossbow, and he felt uncomfortable all over.

    Li Bao rushed to Wan Yanliang. Wan Yanliang said: "Quickly shoot your big arrows at them." Li Bao shook his head and said: "The enemy is at the top of the city and takes advantage of them. Why not use these arrows to help you attack?"  City." Wanyan Liang asked curiously: "Use this arrow to attack the city?"

    Li Bao didn't waste any time, and ordered his men to place more than a dozen crossbows in front of him. With a shout, more than a dozen crossbows were fired one after another, but they did not hit the top of the city. Instead, they lowered the arrow a little lower, and the giant arrows shot deeply into half of the city wall.  Among the blue bricks, Li Bao turned around and said: "It's done. Hang the ladder on the arrow and it will not be easy to knock it down."

    The giant arrows of this crossbow are also called stepping arrow clusters. With their domineering strength, they can penetrate into the city wall. Those who are strong and strong can even step on the arrows to climb the city tower. Therefore, it is named Li Bao. With this arrow, he completed the world's first  A duel with weapons with a range of more than one thousand meters.?It would be hundreds of years before a firearms weapon showdown reached this level in Europe.

    The Jin soldiers hung the ladder on the giant arrow, and some even tied it to the arrow. The Liao soldiers hiding in the city found their forks from the small holes, and it was not easy to push them up the ladder. The Jin soldiers shouted, they could finally climb up.  We have arrived at the crenellations of the city wall.

    Jie Wanli saw the Jin soldiers approaching and waved his flag. The Liao soldiers used Qimen weapons to deal with the Jin soldiers who were about to attack the city. Fang Jinshi couldn't see clearly in the distance. He only saw iron ropes dancing wildly and iron balls flying wildly.  The golden soldiers rolled down from the top of the city one after another. Many golden soldiers were hit in the head by the iron ball and died extremely tragically.

    Fang Jinshi was very interested in this kind of weapon. It wasn't until a Jin soldier grabbed the iron chain with his backhand and pulled a Liao soldier from the top of the city back that he could see clearly. There was a wooden pole in front of the weapon, and the head of the pole was connected with an iron chain.  Holding an iron ball, the advantage of this weapon is that the defenders do not need to expose their bodies to the outside. They can attack the enemy on the ladder below by hiding behind the crenellations. The people on the ladder cannot see the defenders above.  It is also difficult for the archers covering the city to shoot at the defenders at the top of the city.

    After a heavy rain of rocks at the top of the city, many of the golden soldiers attacking the city, including their ladders and arrow clusters, were smashed by big stones. The corpses of the golden soldiers below the city had been stacked on several layers, but from the fifth watch of the siege to the afternoon, not a single golden soldier was found.  The soldiers attacked the city.

    Dozens of Jin soldiers carried a giant tree. This giant tree was a whole pine tree cut down by the Jurchens from the deep mountains and old forests in their hometown in the Northeast. The front of the tree was sharpened, and they hit the city gate with all their strength. There was a loud crashing sound, and the city gate seemed to be connected in one piece.  It's the same as casting, except for the ash and dust falling from the door opening, there is no effect.

    Suddenly, Jin Bing discovered that black smoke was pouring out from the gap in the corner of the city gate. The black smoke was getting thicker and thicker, choking people and making it difficult to open their eyes. There were small smoke chambers on the left and right of the city gate in Yunnei Prefecture. At this time, they were gathering their strength.  The bellows were turned on and pungent smoke was sprayed out through special pipes. The Jin soldiers couldn't stand the smoke, so they had to temporarily stop hitting the city gate and send people to send cowhide and cotton to plug the holes where the smoke was sprayed.

    The Jin general was so angry that he sent soldiers to bring wood and charcoal to burn the city gate. The gate was made of iron on the outside but wood on the inside. If it had been burned for a long time, it would have burned down the city gate, but the two gates of Yunneizhou City were burned.  A layer of fine sand was filled between the layers. Even if the iron plate on the outside was red-hot, the wooden parts inside would not be burned, let alone the Liao soldiers above who kept watering the city gate to cool it down.

    Song general Li Bao watched the Jin soldiers attack the city like ants, but the city of Yunneizhou was impregnable and the Liao soldiers had too much advantage. The Jin soldiers came one after another and lined up to die. Li Bao couldn't help shaking his head and sighing.

    Wanyan Liang looked at it and asked, "Does General Li have a way to break the city?" Li Bao stepped forward and asked, "Can we try it next time?" Wanyan Liang said, "If General Li can capture this city, I will definitely do it."  I will reward you with ten thousand taels of gold." Li Bao smiled and said, "This city gatekeeper, Jie Wanli, is very good at guarding the city. He is unmatched by ordinary people. Yunnei Prefecture City is also called the most difficult city in the world to break, and I am not sure about it.   Please also ask the Major General to order a suspension of the siege."

    Wan Yanliang pondered for a moment and said, "Just follow General Li." Li Baodao said, "Please also ask the Major General to order the moat to be filled with a dirt road so that my city climbing vehicle and ten thousand catty hammer can pass through."

    Wan Yanliang followed Li Bao's suggestion and ordered a suspension of the siege. He asked thousands of Jin soldiers and civilians to carry earth bags, fill in a dirt road on the moat, and pave it with wooden planks.

    Fang Jinshi watched the Jin soldiers stop attacking from a distance. A general wearing Song army uniform spoke to Wan Yanliang and quickly asked Hu Tu next to him who this person was. Hu Tu told him the origin of Li Bao and Fang Jinshi's knowledge of the Song Dynasty.  It is incredible that the people in power in the court sent engineers to cooperate with the Jin soldiers to fight. Not only did they tell the generals of the Jin soldiers all their military secrets, but they also taught them how to use advanced technology to attack the city. Is there no one in the court who is sober?

    Jie Wanli stood at the top of the city, watching the Jin soldiers stop attacking the city and filling in the moat. A huge wooden frame was slowly rolled out from the Jin soldiers' camp in the distance. Liu Xingjie, the fifth oldest member of the Liu family beside him, said: "Brother-in-law, then  What is it?"

    Xie Wanli glanced at the huge wooden frame and slowly pushed it closer, and said calmly: "This is the Song Army's city boarding vehicle." He turned around and ordered: "Hurry up and transport the huge wooden frame to the top of the city."

    The city-climbing car advanced slowly. In fact, this car was extremely simple. It was just a slope with steps made of wood. As soon as the city-climbing car approached the city wall, the siege sergeants rushed up from the steps. It was much faster and more convenient than the ladder.  The difficulty of this city climbing vehicle is that it has to reach the height of the city, and it must be divided into several parts that can be disassembled for transportation.

    When Wan Yanliang saw the city car, he really admired the simplicity and practicality of the Southern Han people's method. Anyone could think of this, but it was not easy to make the steps so high.

    The Jin soldiers raised their weapons, and as soon as the city boarding car approached the city wall, they rushed up the six-foot-wide steps of the city boarding car. They swarmed halfway up, but were frightened half to death by the scene in front of them. The Liao soldiers at the top of the city carried  hugeThe logs also waited for the city boarding car to approach the city wall. The Jin soldiers rushed onto the city boarding car, and the Liao soldiers' logs also rolled down the steps.

    The log rolled down very fast. The Jin soldiers jumped off the car quickly, but more Jin soldiers were killed by the log. The Liao soldiers dropped five logs in a row, crushing the Jin soldiers to death.  In the blockbuster, the Jin soldiers no longer dared to rush to the city boarding car. They didn't know what to do for a while. The Liao soldiers carried logs at the top of the city to prepare, and were not willing to waste the logs easily. The battlefield suddenly became quiet, except for those injured under the city boarding car.  The wailing of the golden soldiers and the shouts of killing could not be heard.

    A strange scene suddenly occurred during the siege of Yunneizhou. The golden soldiers were able to climb to the top of the city with a trot, but there was nothing they could do about this short step.  .  .  .  .  .
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