Each trebuchet has forty soldiers pushing the winch, eighty trebuchets creaked open, the sunlight passed through the huge body of the trebuchet, throwing the long figure on the ground, more than a dozen soldiers were struggling to pull the six-zhang long throwing rod, three soldiers put a boulder weighing eighty pounds into the throwing pocket, at this time, the projected war drum rumbled.

"Launch!" The commander of the golden soldier roared.

The long throwing poles popped out one after another, and smashed the boulders weighing eighty or ninety pounds towards the city, and countless small black dots appeared in the air, flying towards the city head violently, and the soldiers at the city head shouted and squatted down to dodge.

'Boom! ’

A boulder hit the battlements, the huge impact force smashed the battlements, and suddenly the gravel flew wildly, several soldiers couldn't dodge, and were hit by the rocks to the head and blood, a soldier screamed, his arm was hit by a fist-sized stone, the powerful impact immediately broke his arm bones, the boulder hit the battlements and then bounced, the residual strength did not disappear, and flew over the heads of the soldiers to the city.

The impact of the boulder has not yet subsided in the hearts of the soldiers, and then there is a shout not far away, a boulder hit the base support of a trebuchet at the head of the city, and one of the four bottom pillars was smashed into two sections, the trebuchet suddenly became unstable, swaying, and a shout of the soldiers fell on the head of the city, and the soldiers dodged, but there were still two soldiers who could not get up and were crushed under the trebuchet, and they did not know whether they were alive or dead.

Huge boulders flew one after another under the city, or smashed into the city wall, or flew over the city, and everywhere there was a 'bang!' Bang! The trebuchets were also greatly damaged, and the one hundred and twenty trebuchets on the head of the city were destroyed by three rounds of boulder projectiles.

However, it is not so easy for the boulder to hit the city head, from the city to the city head to throw stones, from the straight line is not to hit the city head, unless it is a high elevation angle projection, in a parabolic way, and the force is not light or heavy, maybe there are a few boulders can just hit, but a large number of boulders to hit the city head, almost impossible.

The trebuchet was more powerful than the trebuchet of the Song army at the head of the city, which was the advantage of the Jin soldiers, and they also gave full play to this advantage, and the trebuchet battle was thrown fifteen rounds, and only gave up when the trebuchet failed one after another.

At this time, a commander rushed to report the observation to the commander Wan Yan Xianye, and the Jin soldiers also built three high platforms, slightly higher than the city wall in the distance, and standing on the high platform, you can clearly see the destruction of the city.

"Qiyu is the capital, and at least more than eighty percent of the trebuchets of the Song army have been destroyed!"

Wan Yan also nodded, the time was ripe to attack, and he immediately ordered: "Attack!" ”

'Woo-' The low horn sounded, and 10,000 Xi soldiers burst out with a loud roar, and began to march neatly towards the city, carrying hundreds of large siege ladders in the team, this siege ladder is at least three times wider than the previous siege ladder, weighing hundreds of catties, and the bottom of the ladder is nailed with wooden planks, which is to prevent the Song army's flying fire and thunder attack, and the rungs between the ladders are no longer round stick type, but square, which is convenient for soldiers to step on when they go up the ladder.

Among the hundreds of siege ladders, there are ten siege ladders that are special, they are huge, which is designed by the Jin soldiers according to the flying ladder captured in Zhending Mansion, this kind of siege ladder has pulleys under it, and two long ropes are tightly fastened to the top of the ladder.

Hundreds of soldiers behind struggle to pull and pull two long ropes, the ladder will be directly erected, set up on the city, more importantly, the ladder has been attached to dozens of soldiers in advance, when the ladder is built into the city, dozens of soldiers will immediately attack the city, especially the top of the soldiers can directly fly up the city, hence the name flying ladder.

The use of this kind of flying ladder is a great progress in the siege of the Jin people, which greatly shortens the time for the Jin soldiers to climb the city and makes the war more tragic.

After fifteen rounds of attacks with trebuchets, the trebuchets on the northern city were indeed greatly damaged, at least more than eighty percent of the trebuchets were hit by boulders, and the degree of damage varied, but the Song army could no longer use trebuchets to carry out long-range strikes against the advancing soldiers.

The starting point of the Song army's attack was reduced from two hundred and fifty steps to one hundred and fifty steps, which was the effective killing range of the divine arm crossbow, Li Yanqing no longer counted on trebuchets, after the enemy stopped the stone attack and changed to an infantry attack, he immediately ordered the earth-shaking thunder and hundreds of small trebuchets to be pushed to the south of the city, and the soldiers immediately took action, and thousands of soldiers pushed small carts and small trebuchets with wheels to run at the head of the city.

The height of this mobile small trebuchet is only more than one person high, about seven feet, which is equivalent to more than two meters in later generations, and the throwing rod is two feet long, which can throw a forty-pound sky-shaking thunder to a hundred steps away, or a giant sky-shaking thunder of eighty pounds to fifty steps away.

After accumulating many defensive experiences, the Song army had already found the most lethal tactic, that is, when the enemy army attacked the city intensively, it concentrated on using the giant earth-shattering thunder bombardment, which could kill and injure thousands of people at one time, and the power was extremely powerful.

At this time, 10,000 Xi Jin soldiers accelerated their pace and ran, followed by 10,000 Khitan crossbow troops also began to run, but 20,000 Jurchen soldiers still did not move.

The Xi soldiers gradually entered within one hundred and fifty steps, and Li Yanqing immediately ordered, "Crossbowmen shoot!" ”

Three thousand soldiers with divine arms in their hands began to fire arrows at the city, 'Whoosh! Sou! There was a dense sound of breaking the sky, and three thousand crossbow arrows shot like a torrential rain towards the running Xi Jin soldiers.

The soldiers were more susceptible to the powerful crossbows as they ran, and the soldiers in the ranks were shot down, but the golden soldiers continued to charge forward one after another, and soon they were within a hundred paces.

Wang Gui hurriedly said: "Dutong, order the use of trebuchets!" ”

Li Yanqing looked at the other two teams of 10,000 people in the distance, that was the main force of the Jin soldiers, he and Wan Yan Xian also fought wits and courage, since Wan Yan Xian also wanted to destroy the trebuchet, then complete Yan Xianye, creating an illusion that the trebuchet had been destroyed, so that Wan Yan Xian also invested more troops to suffer death.

Li Yanqing shook his head firmly, "The trebuchet is not yet time, pass my order, defend the city bow and prepare!" ”

At the head of the city, three rapid drums sounded, which was a signal for the preparation of the bow to defend the city, and five thousand archers stood behind the head of the city, brushed the ground and raised the big bow to defend the city, and pulled the bowstring, and the tip of the arrow was at an angle of forty-five degrees.

Li Yanqing squinted at the enemy army rushing within fifty steps, and he immediately ordered: "Shoot arrows!" ”

The sound of bangzi suddenly sounded, and five thousand archers fired together, and five thousand crossbow arrows shot like dense locusts at the surging golden soldiers under the city.

Heavy and sharp arrows fell like raindrops, their lethality is no less than the divine arm crossbow, under the double blow of the god arm crossbow and the big bow to defend the city, 10,000 Xi Jin soldiers in a short period of time have suffered nearly 2,000 casualties, corpses are all over the ground, and the miserable howl is endless.

At this time, 10,000 Khitan golden soldiers rushed up, they were crossbowmen, arranged in several rows, and put arrows on the city together, ten thousand arrows were fired together, forming a dark cloud of arrows flying towards the city, and the powerful arrow rain suppressed the god arm crossbow at the head of the city, creating an opportunity for the Xi Jin soldiers who were attacking the city.

The Jin soldiers of the Xi nationality fought bravely, although they suffered a powerful bow and crossbow attack of the Song army defending the city, and suffered heavy casualties, but they still erected a siege ladder, and the soldiers climbed up bravely, on the head of the city, 12,000 Song soldiers guarded the battlements, and the rolling wood and stones fell down like raindrops, and a string of gold soldiers were smashed to the ground, but immediately there were soldiers who killed frantically, and the Song army also continued to suffer casualties, screaming and falling from the city.

At this time, there was a loud noise, the chassis of the ten flying ladders resisted the city wall, hundreds of soldiers shouted behind and struggled to pull the rope, the huge siege ladder that was originally lying flat was quickly pulled and erected, the flying ladder was full of soldiers, there were as many as thirty or forty people, and the siege ladder was rushing towards the city wall at the fastest speed.

"Dutong, quickly give the order to use the earth-shaking thunder!"

Wang Gui rushed over from the east of Beicheng and said to Li Yanqing almost pleadingly: "The enemy's offensive is too fierce, and there are new siege weapons, we need to use earth-shaking thunder!" ”

Li Yanqing looked at the ten flying ladders, and still shook his head, "Ten flying ladders can't shake my will!" ”

"But they've taken the city!"

I saw a flying ladder slamming against the city wall, dozens of soldiers jumped directly from the flying ladder to the top of the city, Wang Gui pointed to the flying ladder and shouted: ""They have killed!" ”

Li Yanqing grabbed Wang Gui's collar and shouted angrily: "You were fucking frightened by Jin Bing, weren't you?" How many people do they have, how many do you have? ”

Wang Gui was stunned for a moment, his face suddenly turned the color of pig liver, he roared, broke free from Li Yanqing's hand and ran towards the city, "Kill me, slaughter as much as you want!" I heard Wang Gui's roar from afar.

Li Yanqing shook his head, Wang Gui was already the deputy capital commander, a dignified general from the fourth rank of Zuo Weiwei, but that kind of competitive character has not changed at all since he was a child.

Although the flying ladder has an advantage in attacking the city, after all, the number is scarce, only ten, and the more than 200 Jin soldiers who attacked the city head were killed by the Song army at the city head in just a moment, and none of them survived.

At this time, Wan Yan Xian could basically judge that there were indeed not many earth-shattering thunders in the city, otherwise he would not not use them when the siege was so fierce, Wan Yan Xian also let go of his heart slightly, he turned around and shouted: "The third army, the fourth army set off!" ”

'Boom! Boom! Boom! ’

The earth-shattering drums sounded, and the 20,000 Jurchen soldiers who had been standing in front of the battle began to mobilize, and they lined up in a neat line, holding large shields and one-handed spears, and trotted murderously towards the city.

At the head of the city, Li Yanqing's eyes narrowed, and Wan Yan finally sent out 20,000 elite Jurchen soldiers, Li Yanqing knew that killing the Jurchen soldiers would put pressure on the Jin State, no matter how many Khitans, Xi people, and Han people died, the Jin State would not have the slightest pity, but the Jurchen soldiers were different, and the various Jurchen tribes would bring great pressure to the rulers of the Jin Kingdom, and would force the rulers of the Jin States to make some kind of changes.

The battle on the head of the city was still fierce, one after another siege ladders were pushed up, and another was erected, arrows were shot, rolling wood and stones were smashed, fire oil was burned, all kinds of means were used, and the golden soldiers suffered heavy casualties, but they were still one after another, and they were not afraid of death.

At this time, 20,000 Jurchen soldiers rushed into a hundred steps away from the city wall, and the rain of arrows overhead was overwhelming, and the Jurchen soldiers raised their shields to resist, quickly forming a sea of shields, but there were still many Jurchen soldiers who were caught off guard and were shot by pervasive arrows.

The 20,000 Jurchen soldiers shouted and ran towards the city wall, like ten thousand horses galloping, and the momentum was terrifying.

Li Yanqing coldly looked at the 20,000 Jurchen soldiers who were getting closer and closer, and ordered: "The earth-shaking thunder is ready to be launched!" ”