At the same time, the battle of attacking Beicheng was also at its most intense, Wanyan Zongbi did a lot of homework in advance, especially afraid of the Song army's flying fire thunder, he listened to the advice of the Song craftsmen, and nailed the wooden planks under the siege ladder, so that the flying fire thunder could no longer wrap around the pillars and beams, so that the most critical battle point of the flying fire thunder was broken, and the explosive power of the flying fire thunder itself was not strong, if it was not close to the siege ladder, its violent explosive force could not destroy the ladder.

A siege ladder hooked the battlements, and the Xi soldiers climbed up bravely, and the Song soldiers guarding the battlements fought fiercely, and soldiers on both sides were constantly stabbed by spears and spears, screaming and falling off the city.

In the fierce shouting and killing, the Song army's flying fire and thunder failed one after another, and the general Yang Wenyi hurriedly reported the situation to Li Yanqing.

"Try again!" Li Yanqing pointed to a siege staircase.

Immediately, a fire thunder hand waved a copper rod, and the flying fire thunder circled and flew towards the siege ladder, hitting the siege ladder very accurately, but the flying fire thunder failed to entangle the ladder, and fell directly, exploding on the ground, but the siege ladder was intact.

"These bastards are actually smart!"

Li Yanqing scolded and immediately ordered: "Pass my order, stop the flying fire and thunder attack, and use fire oil to burn instead!" ”

Burning with fire oil is also a way to deal with siege ladders, but it is not as effective as flying fire mines, and even if the ladder is burned, it is not easy to be burned.

In addition, it is also a good way to bombard with earth-shaking thunder, but this is too expensive for earth-shaking thunder, the Song army has consumed nearly 1,000 earth-shaking thunders in Taiyuan City so far, and the inventory is less than 500, most of which are long nail mines and eighty-pound explosions to deal with nest cars, and there are only more than 100 ordinary throwing mines left.

And the supply of Jingzhao Mansion has not been able to be sent for a long time, and there is a lack of saltpeter in Taiyuan City, so it is impossible to make it by itself, in this case, Li Yanqing can only try not to use the earth-shaking thunder easily, and can use the city defense bow to shoot the enemy troops under the city,

In front of a siege ladder, several Song soldiers knocked a fierce Xi warrior down the city, and the enemy below has not yet picked up, at this time, there is a gap on the top of the siege ladder, and the Song soldiers who have been waiting on the side have poured a bucket of fire oil down, and poured the black fire oil on the following soldiers and the siege ladder.

The fire oil of the Song army came from Yan'an Mansion, where the fire oil is of high quality, less impurities, easy to burn, and can be burned on the water surface, it was mined for lighting in the Sui and Tang dynasties, it is the famous high slave oil, and the fire oil was simply filtered in the five dynasties and began to be used in large quantities in war.

The golden soldiers on the siege ladder were splashed with fire oil and immediately shouted in horror, at which time the Song army threw down the torches and immediately lit the fire oil, and the two soldiers immediately became fire men, screaming and jumping off the city desperately.

At this time, two more barrels of fire oil were poured from the city, and the entire siege ladder was ignited, and the fire oil was piled up on the ground, and it burned brightly, and gradually the siege ladder was swallowed up.

Wanyan Zongbi watched the battle from a distance, and his siege ladder broke the opponent's flying fire thunder, which made him secretly proud, but the Song army immediately used fire oil to burn the ladder, which soon made the Jin soldiers fall into decline, Wanyan Zongbi shook his head and shouted: "On the nest car!" ”

'Woo-' The low horn sounded, and the ten nest cars standing behind the trebuchet began to rumble forward, the nest car was not brought from Zhending Mansion, but the craftsmen brought by Wanyan Zongbi were made in Taiyuan Mansion, the nest car was as high as three zhang, the body was huge, the skeleton was made of straight pine wood, the outside was simply wrapped with wooden planks, and four large wheels were installed on the huge chassis below, and the nest car was a straight ladder inside, which could go directly to the city.

More than 20 golden soldiers stood on the roof of the nest car, in front of them was a heavy wooden plank, with holes in it, which could not only see the situation on the city, but also defend against the arrows of the Song army.

After all, these nest cars are made by Song craftsmen, and they reflect the wisdom of Song craftsmen in many details, for example, according to the standard nest car manufacturing process, two layers of cooked cowhide should be used to cover the outside, but the craftsmen can't find the cooked cowhide for a while, so they sawed the log into two and directly nailed half a log to the front of the nest car, so that even the bed crossbow arrow can't shoot through the nest car.

The ground outside the north city of Taiyuan is flat, the original wheat field has already been trampled firmly, the nest car drove quickly on the flat ground, and soon entered a hundred steps, at this time, the bed crossbow of the Song army began to fire, one by one big arrows roared to the nest car, but the effect was not great, and the big arrows could not shoot through the thick wood.

When the first nest car entered fifty steps, the cannon was suddenly launched, shooting a sky-shaking thunder at the nest car, which was the Song army's long nail earth-shaking thunder to deal with the warship, referred to as the long nail mine, launched when the two ships met, the three long thorns on its shell could be firmly nailed to the hull, but the Song army has not been used in water warfare so far, but the similar structure of the nest car and the hull has made it play a role twice.

However, Jin Bing couldn't see the launch of the spike mine from behind, nor could he see that it could be nailed to the body of the nest car, and thought that the sky-shaking thunder fell into the nest car from the top, of course, when the nest car was close to the city wall, it was possible to use this trick to find a strong soldier to throw the sky-shaking thunder directly into the nest car, but Li Yanqing would not give the nest car a chance to get close to the city wall.

The earth-shaking thunder accurately hit the front of the nest car, the long iron thorn was inserted into the wood, the earth-shaking thunder did not land, the fire rope had been burned into the body of the iron thunder, when the nest car took two steps forward, the earth-shaking thunder exploded earth-shattering, and suddenly the wood was shattered, and more than 20 people on the top were blown up into the sky by the violent shock wave, and when the smoke dissipated, the first nest car was blown away by more than half, leaving only the base and the small half of the nest car, and the golden soldiers who stood in the nest car in advance were also blown up.

Immediately afterwards, the nine-seater nest car behind was also concocted in the same way, and it was blown up one after another, Wanyan Zongbi was dumbfounded, and only after a while did he sigh and say: "Order to withdraw the army!" ”

'When! While! While! The bell rang, the Jin soldiers who were besieging the city retreated like a tide, at this moment, Li Yanqing issued an order to launch, the Song army's eighty artillery chased after eighty giant explosions of the city, the giant earth-shaking thunder fell on the crowd and exploded, the Song soldiers at the head of the city covered their ears and squatted, the explosion of the giant earth-shaking thunder made the city wall also shake, the violent explosion shook the soldiers' hearts to stop beating, and the golden soldiers died thousands of people in the last round of explosions.

Wan Yanchang of Dongcheng was unable to attack the city and was forced to order the withdrawal of troops.

The siege of Taiyuan on the first day of the first lunar month ended with heavy casualties of the Jin soldiers, this battle, from early morning to dusk, the Jin soldiers who attacked the north city suffered more than 9,400 casualties, and the Jin soldiers who attacked the east city suffered 14,000 casualties, and the wounded were difficult to heal, most of them will die, but Taiyuan is still firmly controlled by the Song army.

However, the clouds that were not conducive to Taiyuan City also quietly appeared, and the Song army defending the city could not get the replenishment of military materials, and the earth-shaking thunder that showed its might in several major battles was about to be exhausted, which meant that the later wars would be more and more tragic.

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The afterglow of the setting sun shrouded the earth, the crystal clear ice wall of Taiyuan City appeared more magnificent and dazzling under the illumination of the setting sun, and at the head of the city, the female guards were busy helping the wounded, in fact, when the war was fierce, their figures appeared, and the seriously wounded soldiers were carried down the city and sent to the temporary medical camp for treatment.

Today's fierce battle Song army also suffered more than 2,000 casualties, hundreds of people in Dongcheng were injured by the earth-shaking thunder, and hundreds of casualties were also killed and injured by the enemy's bow and arrow shooting, and the casualties of the soldiers in Beicheng mainly came from the fierce battle with the besieging Jin soldiers at the head of the city, and the casualties were thousands of people, but compared with the casualties of the Jin soldiers, it was insignificant.

After the Jin soldiers withdrew to the barracks ten miles away, the Song army opened the city gates, and Niu Gao led more than 3,000 soldiers to begin to clean up the battlefield, mainly to gather the corpses of the Jin soldiers who died in the war and burn them to prevent epidemics, and at the same time collect armor and weapons and recover arrows.

At the end of a day of fierce fighting, Li Yanqing was really a little tired, but he still fought hard and came to the temporary military camp to visit the wounded soldiers.

The temporary medical camp is located next to Jinyang Street in the north of the city, about 500 steps away from the city wall, it was originally the training school field of the Taiyuan Xiang Army, covering an area of more than 50 acres, and now the Song Army has built more than 100 big tents in the school field, which can accommodate 5,000 wounded soldiers at most, but now only more than 1,000 soldiers who are slightly injured are receiving treatment, and the wounded soldiers are not crowded in the camp.

More than 30 military doctors are busy treating the wounded soldiers, most of the wounded soldiers are external injuries, including arrow wounds, knife wounds, etc., but there are also soldiers who die, when Li Yanqing walked into the wounded barracks, he happened to see Hu Qinger with more than a dozen female soldiers carrying five stretchers out, the soldiers on the stretchers have been covered with white cloth, which means that the soldiers have died, but Li Yanqing found that these five people seem to be female soldiers.

"Qing'er, what's going on with them?" Li Yanqing stepped forward and asked.

Hu Qing'er shook his head, and said with some sadness: "These five sisters were all injured in the fierce battle, one was pierced through the abdomen by a spear and died of serious injuries, the other four were seriously injured in the explosion of the same earth-shattering thunder, three people had too many fragments on their bodies, and the bleeding could not be stopped, and one person was not injured, it is estimated that the internal organs were shattered by the explosion, and many soldiers in the city were shocked to death on the spot. ”

"How many wounded soldiers are dying now?"

"So far, with the addition of the five of them, there are a total of sixty-four people, all of whom are seriously injured and difficult to save."

These five female soldiers followed Hu Qing'er when they were in Liangshan, they usually love sisters, they have lived and trained together for many years, and their feelings are very deep, they looked at them well in the morning, but now they are separated by life and death, Hu Qing'er's mood is low, Li Yanqing stared at her for a moment, and then said softly: "Bury them well!" ”

Hu Qing'er nodded silently and left with the female soldiers, Li Yanqing looked at her back and walked away, and then walked quickly into the wounded barracks.