Ninety-six Bianliang Offensive and Defensive Battle (1)

"Knock-knock-knock-knock-"

The sound of war drums shook the silence of the wilderness, and the Song army lined up in a haphazard and chaotic formation, forming a formation on the plain outside the city of Bianliang.

The walls of Bianliang stood majestically about 600 paces away. And the Jin army also lined up outside the city, waiting for the Song army's attack. Zhao Chen, Han Yanzhi, Wang Yan, Li Xianzhong, Zhao Yueru and other monarchs and ministers were stationed on a semi-natural, semi-artificial small soil slope about 800 steps away, where they could basically overlook the entire battlefield, below the soil slope, in the 5,000 Song army, to protect their safety.

The Jin army did not defend the city according to the city wall, which was a bit unexpected by Yang Yan, but the tactics chosen by Monk Wanyan Chen were undoubtedly correct.

Outside Bianliang City, the terrain is flat, and all sides can be used as a battlefield for siege. At the same time, the city wall line is extremely long, reaching twelve miles on each side. Although the Jin army had more than 130,000 people, it still seemed weak to defend such a long city wall. Moreover, once they retreated into the city and garrisoned, the Song army built a mountain outside the city and dug it into a trench, so that they could gain a condescending advantage. In addition, now the Song army also has artillery, and if the artillery is erected on the earth mountain, it will be even more terrifying.

Monk Wanyan Chen knew that it would definitely not be possible to defend the city, and he must expand the battle line to the wilderness outside the city. At the same time, although Bianliang City is accessible on all sides, it is obviously impossible for the Song army to go around to the north city to attack, and the Shandong region in the east is still in the hands of the Jin army, and the Song army may still be attacked on the eastern front, so the Song army will only be able to attack on the southwest two lines. On the western front, there was Xiangfu County as a buffer, so the main point of attack of the Song army would only be due south.

Therefore, the monk Wanyan Chen was on the periphery of the southern city, about 70 to 100 steps away from the city wall, and within a range of more than 2,000 steps, he built the defense line of the Jin army outside the city.

Within this line of defense, 30,000 Jin soldiers were arranged to guard it, under the command of Pu Atong. Three trenches about eight feet wide and four feet deep were dug out, and on the side of the ditch near the city wall, a wall of earth more than two feet high was piled up, and at a distance of about 100 paces, a hill of earth about two feet high was piled up, and between the three trenches, it was staggered. There are two trebuchets or bed crossbows on each dirt mountain, and there are 50 Jin troops to defend, and between the earth and the mountain, there are also set up horse, antlers and other barricades.

Moreover, this entire line of defense is within the range of the archers of the city wall, and once the Song army launches a strong attack, it will be hit by a double blow inside and outside the city. At the same time, because this line of defense was too close to the city wall, even if it was lost, all these fortifications could not be used by the Song army. On the contrary, it can also play a role in hindering the advance of the Song army. It can be said that in order to defend Bianliang, Monk Yan Chen also wasted a lot of painstaking efforts.

Even Yang Yan had to admit that the defense line built by the Jin Army was indeed very tight, and it was by no means easy to break. And in the face of this line of defense, there is no magic plan to do, so it can only be hard-hitting. In fact, the so-called conspiracy can only play a certain auxiliary role forever, and in most battlefields, a head-on confrontation is the general mode of warfare. Not to mention, in the two fierce battles of Xiaoshanghe and Chenzhou, it was actually a head-to-head battle between the Song army and the Jin army.

Therefore, this time Yang Yan was also mentally prepared, if he wanted to recover the old capital of the Great Song Dynasty, it was impossible not to pay a certain price.

However, the Song army greeted the Jin army first with artillery. At this time, all the forty artillery pieces of the Song army were concentrated in Yang Yan's army, and at this time, they were also lined up on the battlefield at a distance of twenty steps and one door, divided into two groups, and carried out a round of fierce artillery bombardment against the defense line of the Jin army.

The concentrated roar of forty artillery pieces was even more earth-shattering, continuous, and the earth trembled. Even the soldiers on both sides who had seen artillery fire before couldn't help but be shaken by the shock, not to mention those soldiers who saw the artillery bombardment for the first time, they were all stunned with fright, and their tongues rose out for a long time, and they forgot to take it back.

However, the Jin army was also prepared for the use of artillery by the Song army, so after the Song army launched the artillery, the Jin soldiers guarding the side of the trench immediately all hid in the trenches, and the Jin soldiers on the earth mountain also hid behind the earth mountain.

This was indeed effective, although the power of the artillery fire was amazing, but unless it happened to hit the trench, the actual casualties caused to the Jin army were negligible. Moreover, this time, the mountains of soil piled up by the Jin army were not very high, so the artillery hit the mountains of earth, although the earth and sand splashed, but it would not cause the mountains to collapse much. And after a period of shelling, the soldiers of the Jin Army now have no more than this power of artillery, and they have gradually calmed down.

After more than ten rounds of fierce shelling, Yang Yan also realized that the role of artillery was not obvious, so he immediately gave the order to stop the artillery firing. At the same time, the order was given again, and 5,000 Song troops pushed out 1,000 carts in front, and another 5,000 infantry in the rear, a total of 10,000 soldiers, and attacked the Jin army's defense line.

Monk Wanyan Chen looked at the head of the city, only to see that the small car launched by the Song army was larger than the ordinary shrimp and toad car, and there was a baffle up to six feet wide and up to one zhang in front of the body, which was covered with cowhide, which could not only protect the soldiers of the cart, but also cover the soldiers on both sides, and in the middle of the cart was a dump bucket, which was estimated to be filled with sand, gravel and soil, which could be used to fill the trench.

At this time, the golden soldiers also jumped out of the trench one after another, holding swords and guns, and the crossbowmen bent their bows and arrows. Wait for the Song army to come into their range. The soldiers guarding Tushan also pushed bed crossbows and trebuchets onto Tushan, preparing to attack the Song army.

The first to strike at the Song army was naturally trebuchets and bed crossbows, and with the Jin army's shooting, the crossbow guns as thick as arms, dozens of pounds of heavy stones fell from the sky and smashed towards the Song army.

Although protected by a baffle, it is not very resistant to ballistas and stones, and the ballista can easily penetrate the baffle and hit the soldiers behind the baffle. The stones smashed the baffle to pieces, and the cart fell to the ground along with the soldiers. Not to mention the Song army, which did not have any protection in the back. As a result, many people were shot with ballistas, knocked down by stones, some wooden carts overturned because they lost their pushers, and some were smashed by stones and had to stay on the way.

But in the face of the blow of the Jin army, the Song army was not timid at all, pushed the vehicle forward, bypassed the comrades who fell to the ground in front, and still advanced according to their own degree, without slowing down in the slightest.

After paying the loss of nearly a hundred carts, the front team of the Song army finally advanced to a distance of within a hundred paces of the Jin army's defensive line. At this time, the trebuchet was basically ineffective, and the bed crossbow had to adjust its angle to shoot Song Pong.

However, at this time, Yijing entered the range of the crossbowmen, and the crossbowmen of the Jin army opened their bows and arrows one after another, shooting at the Song army. At the same time, the archers of the Jin army on the city wall also used projectiles to support the defense line outside the city. The arrows immediately rained down on the top of the Song army.

However, this time the baffle on the wooden cart played a big role, not to mention that this baffle could not stop the crossbow and stones, but it was still very effective against bows and arrows. And because the baffle is diagonally erected, whether it is a straight stab or a thrown feather arrow, it is blocked by the baffle. Therefore, at this time, the casualties of the Song army were even smaller than just now. The Song army behind also raised their shields one after another to block the feather arrows.

It didn't take long for the Song army's vehicles to push through the range of the bow and arrow, closing in on the Jin army's defensive line. The archers of the Jin army also retreated, giving up their defensive positions to the pikemen, retreating to the back row, using the method of projectile, and continuing to shoot. Although the Jin army on the earth mountain could continue to shoot the Song army with bows and arrows, the arrows shot were almost all blocked by the baffle.

But at this time, the pikemen of the Jin army took up their positions one after another, and clenched the spears in their hands, each spear was more than two zhang long, and could easily pierce the opposite side of the trench, so the spears were immediately as dense as a jungle, and they were raised horizontally in front of the side of the Jin army's trench. Just waited for the Song army to jump over the trench and give the Song army a fatal blow.

However, what Jin Jun didn't expect was that when the Song army's vehicles were pushed to a distance of only ten steps from the edge of the trench, they all suddenly stopped, and at this time the Song army still had more than 800 cars, one side by one, with a group of about ten cars, in front of the Jin army's defense line, erected a car wall. The soldiers of the Song army hid behind the wall of the car and were very safe. Jin Jun couldn't see it, but in fact, at this time, Song Jun was adding oblique wood support to the car wall and fixing the car to the ground. At the same time, he unloaded the spears from the dump of the cart and pushed them out of the gap in the wall of the cart.

Yang Yan, who was watching the battle in the rear formation, saw that the first round of attacks had achieved results, and immediately ordered the second batch of chariots to be dispatched immediately to reinforce the Song army in front. So another 5,000 soldiers, pushing a thousand carts, broke out of the array and rushed to the defense line of the Jin army. It was also followed by the 5,000 infantry army.

Jin Jun didn't know what to do for a while, and he was stunned. Pu Atong, who was guarding the defense line outside the city, was also dumbfounded, he didn't expect the Song army to use chariots like this, but he also knew that if he didn't find a way to break the Song army's car wall as soon as possible, he was afraid that the Jin army's defense line outside the city would not be able to hold out for a day. But now the Jin army itself is blocked by a trench, and it is impossible to rush up to attack the Song army's car wall, in fact, it is not much use to rush up.

However, the best way to deal with the car wall is to use firearms, especially with fierce oil bombs or fire dragon water cylinders, but although the Jin army's outer defense line has also prepared a lot of firearms, but it is still explosive firearms such as thunder and thunderbolts, but there are no fierce oil bombs and fire dragon water cylinders, because these two firearms are left in the city, ready to deal with the tower cars of the Song army attacking the city.

Although the Jin army couldn't take care of it a lot, they threw the thunderbolts and thunderbolts on the wall of the Song army's car, but because the baffle of the Song army's car wall was still covered with two layers of raw cowhide, after the thunderbolts and thunderbolts were thrown on it and exploded, the damage to the car wall was not great. Although some could be thrown behind the wall of the car to attack the soldiers of the Song army, this was not the effect achieved by the Jin army's killing hope.