After all the Jin troops had retreated beyond the range of the Song army, the monk Wanyan Chen sent 300 soldiers to clean up the corpses of the Jin soldiers, on the one hand, to recover the bones of their comrades, and on the other hand, to clean up the battlefield for the next battle. And the Song army was also very cooperative, throwing all the corpses of the Jin soldiers who died in the city and letting the Jin army take them away. And also sent more than 100 people out of the city to collect the corpses of the Song soldiers who fell under the city, and the whole process took a full night to basically clean up.

In this battle, the losses of the Jin army were as high as nearly 8,000 people, and more than 5,000 people were wounded, and 16 tower carts were completely destroyed, and another 8 needed to be repaired on a large scale before they could be reused. Four bed crossbows were lost, and trebuchets were lost three.

The Song army suffered more than 4,000 killed, including 214 heavily armored infantrymen, and more than 3,000 wounded. Two bed crossbows and trebuchets were destroyed, and six were destroyed in a crash.

In this offensive and defensive battle, the losses of both sides exceeded 20%, which can be said to be very heavy. And the war between Song and Jin has entered a very tragic state from the very beginning.

The first attack was strongly hindered, and it could not help but make the monk Wanyan Chen cautious, and this battle, together with the wounded, lost more than 20% of the troops, and the loss of the tower car was as much as 30% or more, in this case, although the monk Wanyan Chen woke up, he should continue to storm Haozhou, and could not give the Song army a chance to breathe, but also had to rest for three days, and at the same time ordered the craftsmen in the army to speed up the repair and assembly of the tower car, and treat the wounded soldiers.

Three days later, more than 3,000 wounded soldiers had been reunited after simple medical treatment and were ready to take part in the battle. Only then did Monk Wanyan Chen re-dispatch his troops and launched another attack on Haozhou City.

But after these three days of buffer, the Song army has also been quite repaired, the damage of the city wall has been repaired, the city gate has also been fortified and reinforced, although the strength has not been replenished, but a batch of materials to defend the city has been added. Nearly 2,000 of the wounded soldiers returned to the battle, and at the same time, Gao Zhen organized nearly 10,000 middle-aged people in the city to act as a transport team.

At the same time, after the first battle, Gao Zhen also found that some siege tactics commonly used by the Song army in the past were learned by the Jin army, and now they are used on the Song army, which is also the main reason why the Song army fell into great passivity in the first offensive and defensive battle. However, these tactics are commonly used by the Song army, and the Song army has naturally been prepared for their countermeasures, taking advantage of the free time of these three days, Gao Zhen has also made arrangements one by one, so the Song army is also full of confidence in holding Haozhou.

When the Jin army attacked again, the Song army did not dare to be careless, and before the Jin army attacked the city wall, they smashed the strong bow and crossbow, firearms and boulders at the Jin army, and when the tower car of the Jin army approached the city wall, the Song army stretched out countless large trees up to two zhang long from the battlements, and many tower cars were held up by the big wood, only a few zhang was missing, but it was impossible to reach the wall. The golden soldiers in the tower car were also at a loss.

Although there were still a few tower carts that avoided the big wood, approached the wall, put down the flap, and let the Jin army kill them, but the number was limited after all, and the threat to the city was not great. Moreover, Gao Zhen was also prepared, and from the very beginning, he transferred 500 heavy armored infantry to garrison on the city wall, so as soon as the Jin soldiers saw the tower car, they fell into the siege of the Song army and were killed one by one.

Seeing this, the monk Wanyan Chen had to hope to attack the city with a cloud ladder, and countless golden soldiers climbed to the city head with a cloud ladder like ants, but the Song army in the city firmly guarded the battlements, rolling wood and stones, and even boiling oil and hot water, which fell like raindrops, only to hit the head of the golden soldier to break the blood flow, and screamed, and kept falling down from the cloud ladder like leaves.

Seeing that it was difficult to gain the upper hand on the city wall, the monk Wanyan Chen sent a city car again, hoping to break the city gate again, and this time the Jin army prepared two hundred iron floating maps, led by Gao Linfu and Wulintai, and just waited for the city car to hit the city gate, and immediately used the iron floating map to impact the Song army guarding the gate hole, quickly occupied the city gate hole, and ensured that the Jin army behind it would enter the city.

But in these three days, the Song army strengthened the city gate with scriptures, and the Jin army's car crashed more than a dozen times, but it still couldn't open the city gate. At the same time, the Song army also strengthened the defense on the city tower, and some soldiers poured fishing oil on the city car and set it on fire. That's not all, during these three days, the Song army also installed two special weapons on the city tower specially used to deal with the city vehicles - slapping rods.

"Shooting rod" is generally used for the weapon of the warship, that is, with a thick wood up to five zhang, erected on the city tower, half of which can be stretched out of the city wall, tied with ropes, and hung on a boulder weighing hundreds of catties, can only rush to the city car when pushed to the city gate, by 16 soldiers to manipulate the shooting rod, with the boulder to smash the city car.

Although the wagons were covered with raw cowhide and supported by rough wood underneath to protect the soldiers, they could not stand the alternating smashing of the two poles. Moreover, the goal of the Song army was not to use a slapstick to smash the city car, as long as the boulder could smash the roof of the city car and expose a gap, the Song army's archers could shoot arrows at the golden soldiers who were manipulating the giant tree in the car and hitting the city tree.

And what is even more powerful is to use boiling oil and boiling water to pour it directly on the head of Jin Jun along the gap, only to make Jin Bing scream "whooping" and fall to the ground and roll straight. And the flames will also flow down the boiling oil and spread step by step to the inside of the storming car.

In this way, the Jin army dispatched three Chongcheng vehicles in a row. They were all defeated by the Song army's tactics of first smashing the roof with a boulder, and then setting fire to the roof. Seeing that the situation was not good, Monk Wanyan Chen did not dare to attack again, so he immediately ordered the troops to be withdrawn.

The siege was frustrated again, but also made the morale of the Jin army plummet, Wanyan Chen monk originally thought that after seven or eight years of efforts, the Jin army learned the siege tactics of the Song army through the scriptures, that knew that the Jin army was improving, the Song army was also not idle, and the technology of defending the city was also improving, only after the last battle, it firmly restrained the Jin army.

Then now the Jin army only has one last resort, which is to dig trenches outside the city and pile up mountains of soil, and only by piling them higher than the city wall can they completely suppress the Song army. In fact, this trick is also a common siege tactic used by the Song army, but it is generally used to attack the fortified city of the national capital, because digging trenches and piling up dirt mountains are big projects, which require a lot of manpower and material resources, as well as time.

However, now the Jin army is also difficult to ride a tiger, either to capture Haozhou, or to lead out Yang Yan, neither of these two goals has been achieved, not only does Wanyan Chen monk not have the face to see Wanyan Changzhi, but this southern expedition may only go to this step? Therefore, it is now necessary to capture Haozhou at all costs.

However, at this moment, news came from Shandong that the Song army was sending troops to attack Haizhou, and asked Monk Wanyan Chen to send troops to rescue immediately. Of course, Monk Wanyan Chen understood that the Song army was a plan to encircle Wei and save Zhao, and if he went to rescue Haizhou, then the battle to attack Haozhou would be a complete failure. Therefore, although he hesitated for a while, he immediately decided to continue the attack on Haozhou. However, he also immediately ordered Shi Dingyue, who was guarding Suzhou, to send troops to rescue Haizhou, and at the same time transferred 10,000 horses from Pu Atong, who was stationed in Shouzhou, to supplement his own troops, and at the same time requisitioned 50,000 civilian servants to prepare for another attack on Haozhou.

In fact, Gao Zhen already knew that Cao Xun had sent troops to attack Haizhou. This is exactly the tactic that the two have discussed a long time ago, dividing their troops into two ways and echoing and supporting each other. If at this time, Monk Wanyan Chen returned to rescue Haizhou, then Gao Zhen would immediately send troops from Haozhou to attack Shouzhou, Suzhou and other places, so that Monk Wanyan Chen would lose sight of one and the other, and lose ground in advance and retreat

But Gao Zhenwan didn't expect that Monk Wanyan Chen not only did not go to the rescue of Haizhou, but on the contrary, he also dug trenches and piled mountains of soil outside Haozhou City, and there was a great way to fight Haozhou as a strong city like Jiankang.

Gao Zhen couldn't help but get nervous in his heart, Wanyan Chen Monk was really powerful, and he saw through the Song Army's plan to encircle Wei and save Zhao, and he also made the most correct choice, because Haizhou is just a seaside area on the border of Shandong, and Haozhou is indeed an important part of the Jianghuai defense line of the Great Song Dynasty, and the strategic value of the two is not at the same level at all, so Wanyan Chen Monk would rather lose Haizhou than do his best to capture Haozhou.

And although Haozhou is the location of the garrison of the Great Song Dynasty, but after all, it is only a local city, although the city wall is strong, but it is not too tall, the average is only more than three zhang bright, less than four zhang, once the earth mountain is piled up outside the city, according to the condescending, Haozhou City will be completely restrained by the Jin army, and it will be absolutely impossible to hold Haozhou at that time.

Fortunately, a project like a trench and earth mountain cannot be completed in three or five days, and Gao Zhen will not let the Jin army just build comfortably and comfortably, and will continue to send people out of the city to interfere with the progress of the Jin army's project, so if the Jin army wants to wait until the fortifications are all completed and can play a role, it will take at least about fifteen days.

However, Gao Zhen had no other way to think of now, but to find a way to delay the construction of the Jin Army as much as possible, and at the same time sent someone to report the situation to Yang Yan and Cao Xun. It is only hoped that during this period of time, Cao Xun can quickly capture Haizhou, and then move on to other parts of Shandong, forcing the monk Wanyan Chen to return to the army, or Yang Yan can come up with some other way to deal with the Jin army.

And Monk Wanyan Chen also knew that the time was urgent, so on the one hand, he urged the civilian servants to hurry up the construction, and on the other hand, he also paid close attention to the Shandong battlefield, hoping that Shi Dingyue could hold on for a longer time, so that he could capture Haozhou.