Wan Yan Xian also finally suppressed the news of the sneak attack on the temporary grain depot to avoid affecting morale, and early on the morning of the third day, the Jin soldiers launched the first attack according to the plan.

As soon as the morning dawned, the rumbling war drums sounded in the Jin Bing camp, and at the same time, a rapid alarm sounded at the head of the city of Tokyo, and the Song army had received orders last night and did not take off their armor, so when the alarm sounded, the soldiers quickly arrived in place, and tens of thousands of soldiers soon appeared on the city wall.

At this time, the city wall of Tokyo has been covered with thick ice, in the early morning sun, the whole city shines with a magnificent light, from a distance, is a beautiful crystal city, this is also a huge project, the Song soldiers took a full ten days to make the ice completely cover the city wall.

At this time, Li Yanqing was standing at the head of the north city, looking at the Jin soldier camp faintly visible in the distance, and the slow and rhythmic war drums in the Jin soldier camp could be clearly heard at the head of the city, which was exactly the same as the war drums of the day before yesterday, it was the drum of assembly, and all the Song soldiers knew that the war was coming.

"Today should just be a test attack!" Next to him, Liu Jian said in a low voice.

Li Yanqing shook his head, "A tentative attack is true, but isn't a tentative attack a siege?" Don't underestimate the enemy, and be attacked by the enemy. ”

"I know that I will not let the enemy take any advantage!"

Liu Jian turned around to order the soldiers to prepare, Li Yanqing was still looking intently into the distance, in fact, he also understood in his heart that a tentative attack means that the enemy army will not invest too many troops, nor will it use too many large siege weapons, which is certainly a positive side, but there is also a negative side, that is, a tentative attack generally does not use his own people, the commander of the Jin soldiers does not have pity for the soldiers, the enemy will be very brave in attacking the city, fighting to the end, and will not retreat easily.

But at the same time, this was an excellent training opportunity for the defending soldiers, and Li Yanqing understood that Liu Jian also understood that they had actively deployed.

The north city wall is about twelve miles long, and there are one hundred and twenty large trebuchets and two hundred cannons, as well as bed crossbows, fierce oil fire cabinets, iron fire thunder, barrels of fire oil and sandbags, rolling wood and stones, etc., which is also the width of the head of the capital city is two feet and five feet, and it cannot hold so many materials if it is replaced by an ordinary city.

Despite this, Li Yanqing was still very cautious, built dozens of stone houses on the head of the city, and placed materials such as earth-shaking thunder, iron fire thunder and fire oil in the stone houses to prevent the Jin soldiers from attacking the city with fire oil, the best at using fire is the Western Xia, the Jin soldiers suffered a big loss of the Western Xia fire in the attack on Datong Mansion, and now the Jin State has conquered the Western Xia, there is no reason why they do not use fire attack, Li Yanqing has been taught in Taiyuan.

Li Yanqing was more worried about the trebuchet, if the trebuchet was damaged and could not shoot out the ignited earth-shaking thunder in time, then there would be a tragedy in Taiyuan, and there was a sky-shaking thunder in Taiyuan that was damaged by the trebuchet and did not shoot out, killing and injuring more than 100 people, this tragic lesson Li Yanqing did not want to repeat.

Although the craftsmen have checked the trebuchet three times, Li Yanqing is still not at ease, he knows that the trebuchet is not damaged now, but after the use of many times, the strong pulling force is likely to break the leather bag that binds the trebuchet, for this reason, he arranges a craftsman next to each trebuchet to check the abnormality of the trebuchet at any time, which is also a lesson learned by Li Yanqing, arranging a craftsman is definitely of great effect.

"They're coming!" Several soldiers suddenly shouted.

Li Yanqing turned his head and looked into the distance, only to see two armies appear in the wilderness outside the city, with flags like clouds, marching towards the city, and there was an army in the distance, but it was obviously keeping a distance from these two armies.

Li Yanqing immediately judged that it was these two armies that were attacking the city today, about 20,000 people, and the army behind them was pressing the formation, or it could be the axemen, forcing these two armies to attack the city to the death, and the other side was not many in number, and it was obvious that they would only attack the northern city.

"Tell the archers to prepare, trebuchets to prepare!" Li Yanqing gave the order to prepare for battle.

'Boom! Boom! Boom! The fierce sound of war drums rang out outside Tokyo, followed by the low, hoarse sound of antlers, 'woo-' echoed in the wilderness for a long time.

20,000 Jin soldiers have been completed in a formation two miles away, the armor is distinct, murderous, they are the Khitan elite among the Jin soldiers, and they were thrown into the first war to attack the capital of the Song Dynasty, although there is an intention to send them to death, but Wanyan Xian also promised them that if they capture Bianjing, the palace of the Song Dynasty can be entered by them.

The Jin soldiers went south all the way like a bamboo, all the states and counties in Hebei fell in the wind, and the hundreds of thousands of Song troops stationed in Hebei were also defeated in a battle, so compared to the huge profits of entering the palace first, it was worth taking a little risk for the Khitan army, even if the Song army in the capital could not be defeated in a battle, but I believe that the Khitan army could also enter Tokyo City after paying the price of a little blood.

Almost every Khitan soldier had such a thought, and they were murderous, and when they waited for an order, they would kill directly to the city.

Today, the chief general of the Jin soldiers commanding the siege is Wanyan Zongwang, and although Wanyan Xian is also the marshal of the capital, he is only in charge of strategy and army deployment, but in terms of specific operations, it is completely handed over to Wanyan Zongwang.

At this time, countless pairs of eyes looked at Wanyan Zongwang, Wanyan Zongwang looked at the hundreds of siege ladders that had been prepared, and then looked at the towering Tokyo Bianliang City in the distance, Wanyan Zongwang nodded slowly, and issued a combat order, "The first army is attacking!" ”

'Knock-knock-'

The earth-shattering war drums sounded, and the 10,000 golden soldiers deployed in the east gave a shout, overwhelmingly rushing towards the city of Tokyo two miles away, they carried more than 150 siege ladders, this kind of siege ladders are made of thigh-thick wood, weighing about 300 catties, each of which is four zhang long, and there are two huge iron hooks at the front end, which can directly hook the city wall, even if it is ice, it can be tightly bitten, and even more practical than the ladder.

10,000 golden soldiers poured in like a tide, rushing closer and closer, 1,000 steps, 800 steps, 600 steps, 500 steps...... It is already approaching the range of the trebuchet.

Li Yanqing's eyes looked coldly at the Jin Bing who had already entered the range of the trebuchet, although he knew that the other party was testing his strength, but showing his strength was also a kind of deterrent to the other party.

He coldly ordered: "Launch!" ”

The trebuchet of the Song army was activated, a series of strong winds sounded, one hundred and twenty long poles were swung out, and one hundred and twenty black earth-shattering thunderbolts rose into the air, forming a dense rain of iron in the air, making a strange sound, and smashing towards the heads of the Khitans.

A series of earth-shattering explosions suddenly sounded in the wilderness, although the Song troops at the head of the city had experience in the defense of Taiyuan, when the trebuchet was fired, they covered their ears and squatted, but the earth-shattering explosions still made the Song soldiers feel thrilled.

When the explosion died down, some of the brave soldiers quietly looked up out of the city, but the situation outside the city still made many people stick out their tongues in shock.

The attacking Jin soldiers were obviously inexperienced, and when the earth-shattering thunder fell and exploded, they scattered and fled, but not many of them were lying on the ground.

The intense shock wave and shrapnel killed and wounded the Jin soldiers extremely heavy, and dozens of dirt pits appeared in the wilderness, which were surrounded by corpses and stumps and severed arms, and blood stained the ground.

The first round of explosions killed and wounded more than 1,080 Jin soldiers, although the casualties were only less than 20 percent of the 10,000 troops, the shock caused by the explosion frightened the Jin soldiers, turned around and fled.

Wanyan Zongwang had already prepared, and when he saw the soldiers of the first round of attack retreating, he was suddenly furious in his heart, and shouted: "The sword and axe are in hand!" ”

Two thousand Jurchen cavalry rushed forward with sharp axes, and they killed more than 100 deserters in a row, forcing the rest of the soldiers to continue the siege.

Under the persecution of the supervising cavalry, the 8,000 Khitan soldiers had to turn around and kill the city again.

This time, Li Yanqing changed his order, and the earth-shaking thunder was replaced by a boulder, and he also needed to use these eight thousand gold soldiers to hone his team.

More than 100 boulders rolled in the air and smashed towards the rushing Jin soldiers, the Jin soldiers who ran in front of them turned over on their backs, the boulder hit the soldiers, the heads were smashed away instantly, the flesh and blood were blurred, the war horses were smashed, neighed and fell, and the soldiers on the horses were pressed under them, and a stone rain killed and injured more than 400 cavalrymen, so that the arrogance of the Jin soldiers was setback.

But after all, the boulder is not a thunderstorm, there is no terrorist threat of thunder, the attack of the Jin soldiers did not stop, going forward and one after another, continuing to kill the north city of Tokyo, at this time the second wave of stone rain hit again, and it was a group of people on their backs, at this moment, the forward troops of the Jin soldiers were less than one hundred and fifty steps away from the city.