With a loud "bang", the thick door panel finally couldn't withstand the huge collision and was slammed open. The golden soldiers near the crashing vehicle let out a burst of cheers, and immediately raised their knives and guns, bypassed the crashing vehicle, and rushed towards the city impatiently.

At this time, Fusan Zhongyi and Sushi Lie Zhining, who were watching the battle in the back, saw it clearly, glanced at each other, and breathed a sigh of relief in their hearts, the gate of Yanzhou City was finally opened.

But when the eyes of the two of them returned to the battlefield again, the situation changed abruptly, and they only heard a "boom" sound from the city gate hole, and thick smoke quickly filled the entire cave entrance.

Almost at the same time, "whoosh, whoosh, whoosh" sounded a dense and sharp sound of arrows breaking through the air, and the golden soldiers who rushed towards the city cave let out a series of screams, and suddenly fell to a large surface.

It turned out that at the moment when the Jin army crashed open the city gate, the Song army lit three "fire dragon water cylinders" in the city gate. At such a close distance, it was launched intensively, and the Jin army at the city gate had no time to dodge, and the gunpowder spraying was extremely powerful, and the arrows fired almost pierced several people. Therefore, this launch killed more than 200 Jin soldiers at once. The other Jin soldiers who were lucky enough not to die were also stunned.

After the launch of the "Fire Dragon Water Cylinder", the Song army in the city immediately smoked choking smoke and pushed out the knife cart, adding sand, gravel and soil to block the city gate hole. After the smoke faded a little, the Jin army, who came back to their senses, found that the city gate cave that had just been opened was tightly blocked by the Song army's sandstone knife cart.

The two of them, who were watching the battle in the back, looked at each other, although they didn't know what happened to the body, but it was conceivable that the Song army must have used some strange firearms again. couldn't help but smile relatively bitterly, in the siege battle in the past few days, the Jin army came in front of the firearms of the Song army, but it suffered a lot.

After being ambushed by the Song army outside Hongzhou, Wanyan Yungong was furious and ordered to march on the snow to march into Yanzhou. Fortunately, after the heavy snow stopped, the weather gradually warmed up, like a small spring in March. Therefore, although Jin Jun's clothes and armor are thin, he does not feel cold. And the gradual melting of the snow is also conducive to the advance of the army.

Wanyan Baisa, Shifting Pu A, Zhang Wenshou and others saw it, and they also offered flattery to Wanyan Yungong, saying that Wanyan Yungong was blessed with Qitian, so that there was this providence to help, the climate warmed up, and this rescue of Xixia will be a complete victory, etc. After finishing speaking, Yan Yungong didn't know who he was.

Faced with such a scene, Fusan Zhongyi and Su Shi Lie Zhining only had a relatively bitter smile. In fact, although the winter weather is cold, it is also a common thing to warm up for a few days occasionally, and it has nothing to do with the help of providence. However, now the Jin army lacks cotton clothes to protect against the cold, and the grain and grass are almost unmoving, it is indeed rare to encounter this kind of weather, so it is indeed necessary to hurry up and march into the army quickly, otherwise it will be difficult to do it once the sky changes again. So the two of them sent people to step up the transportation of grain and grass on the one hand, and mobilized men and horses on the other hand to attack Yanzhou.

However, at this time, the Song army, under the command of Yang Yan, laid out a tight defense line with Yanzhou as the core, and waited for the Jin army to attack.

The Jin army also focused on Yanzhou, dispatched 180,000 horses to attack Yanzhou, and the Song army guarding Yanzhou had 25,000 people, commanded by Yang Yan himself, so the two sides launched a fierce offensive and defensive battle under the city of Yanzhou.

In fact, the Song army had some siege weapons such as tower cars, cloud ladders, bucket cars, city crashing vehicles, etc., and the Jin army also copied a lot, and this time they all used them. It's just that in addition to the time constraints, there is no digging ditch, bulldozing mountains and so on outside the city. Despite this, the disparity in the strength of the two sides was too great, so Fusan Zhongyi and Sushi Lie Zhining were also confident that it would not be difficult to capture Yanzhou.

However, there has been no war between the Song and Jin dynasties for more than five years, and the impression of the Song army is still stuck five years ago. Five years is not a long time, it is not a short time, and in various aspects, the Song army has not changed much, but there is only one point, but there have been major changes, that is, firearms

Generally speaking, the Song Dynasty had a new weapon, and as soon as it was used on the battlefield, the Jin Kingdom would immediately copy it, and I basically had what you have, such as the Song army's tower car, pedaling ladder, bucket car, city crash car, including the divine arm bow, bed crossbow and so on. Although the imitations of the Jin Kingdom are not as good as those made in the Song Dynasty, they are not far behind. There are only two items, and no matter how the gold is imitated, it is far inferior to that of the Song Dynasty. One is warships, and the second is firearms.

Yang Yan is also well aware of this, so he also attaches great importance to the research, manufacture and use of new firearms. Compared with five years ago, the Song army's firearms have developed greatly. Both the manufacturing process and the power have been greatly improved compared with five years ago, and the emergence of bronze cannons has made a new page in firearms.

Since the bronze cannon was manufactured, Yang Yan realized that although this new guy was inconvenient to carry and the gap between firing was too long, it had fierce firepower, long range, and great lethality, and if it was used well, it would be a sharp weapon. It was only used once two years ago during the war against Western Xia, so now, it is time for the Jin army to pay for it.

Sure enough, when the Jin army just began to attack the city, the artillery brought a great shock to the Jin army, I don't know what kind of weapon the Song army used, that is, a copper-cast pipe, the fire was earth-shattering, and it hit extremely far, it could hit the rice through more than a thousand steps, and the lethality was huge, and one shot could kill one hundred and ten people, which was unprecedented. Therefore, the Jin army was frightened, and even the servants were san Zhongyi and Su Shi Lie Zhining were also bluffed. As a result, in the first three days, the Jin army did not even attack the city wall.

But as the battle progressed, the Jin army gradually discovered that the interval between the two cannons was long, and it was still far away but not close, and once it entered the distance of two hundred steps by the city wall, it would not be bombarded. And once the formation is scattered, the casualties can be greatly reduced. Therefore, he regained his courage and launched a fierce attack on Yanzhou City.

However, within the reach of artillery, there were still crossbow guns and crossbow arrows of the Song army, which were also mixed with smoke balls, thunderbolts, thunderbolts, tribulus fireballs, fierce oil bombs and other firearms, which still made the Jin army suffer.

Although the Jin army braved the artillery arrows and stones, the tower cart and the cloud ladder were pushed to the side of the city wall of Yanzhou City, and attacked upward, but the Song army also prepared more than ten rushing cars at the head of the city, as long as the tower car was close to the city wall, it slammed the tower car with the rushing car, and since a few days of fighting, the Song army destroyed more than ten tower cars of the Jin army with the warp.

And when the Jin army attacked the city wall, it was blocked by the Sancai array laid by the Song army. This is a formation specially designed to deal with the defense of the city, with three soldiers as a combat unit, which is very suitable for fighting on the narrow city walls. Therefore, although the Jin army killed the city wall of Yanzhou City several times, in front of the Song army's Sancai array, they could not break through one step further, and they died at the head of the city, and the casualties were very heavy. finally waited until the door car crashed into the gate of Yanzhou, but it was still hit hard by the Song army, and it was still unable to enter the city.

The momentum of the Jin army was frustrated, and the offensive did not slow down. The Song army took the opportunity to launch counterattacks again and again, killing the Jin soldiers who attacked the city, and crashed and destroyed two tower cars in a row.

At this time, the sun had already turned westward, and when the Jin army was discouraged, they knew that they could not fight any longer, so they had to order the troops to be withdrawn.

Back in Dazhai, the two immediately reorganized the soldiers, and then arranged for the vigil and patrol the camp. At this time, the military administration secretary came to report to the two men that the camp had less than ten days of food.

Military rations are also a problem that makes the two of them uncomfortable. It was less than a month after entering the Western Xia, and the military rations carried by the army had already been almost eaten, and the Song army did not leave a grain of grain when it withdrew, and it was difficult to get the support of the Western Xia court at present, and it was not in a hurry to transport it from the country, so in the case of no way, the servants could only give an order to let the armies solve part of the food problem on their own, and the so-called "self-solution" is to say it nicely, but in fact it is to plunder the people.

However, merely relying on plundering grain to survive is just a drop in the bucket for an army of more than 200,000 people, and it is difficult to last long. At the same time, he urgently ordered to urge the country to transport some grain and grass materials first to temporarily relieve the urgent need. But now I don't know when the grain and grass in the country will be delivered, but now the army is facing the danger of running out of food, so after listening to the report of the Military and Political Department, Fusan Zhongyi and Sushi Lie Zhining also looked at each other and were speechless.

But it won't work without talking, and the whole army is waiting for the two of them to come up with the idea. In fact, there is no other way, one is to send troops out to rob, and then plunder some food back, but it is difficult to say how much can be recovered, and the other is to cut the soldiers' rations and strive to maintain it for a longer period of time. But this will cause instability in the morale of the army, and it is no longer to slaughter some war horses and serve them as military rations. And although the weather is warming up now, it is winter after all, and it may turn cold again at any time, so what should I do at that time?

The two of them thought about it, but they couldn't make up their minds, and when they were in trouble, suddenly a soldier came to report that it was the team carrying grain to pass through the Wuding River, and in three or five days, they could reach the camp. This time, 200,000 stones of grain, 80,000 stones of forage, and 50,000 pieces of cotton clothes were escorted, but the battalion was asked to send troops to take over.

This news came too timely, although the grain and grass materials transported were not enough to supply the needs of the whole army, but it could also be supported for a month or two, which was much better than having today and no tomorrow, so the two immediately discussed it, and sent the general Meng An Qijin to lead 20,000 horses to pick up the grain transport team. However, he was afraid that the grain transport team would not arrive in time, so he still sent troops to the nearby villages to plunder some grain and come back.