Liu Da urged the horse to run down the city wall, worriedly ran to the school field, two months ago he had just established a foundation on Taihang Mountain, ten days ago he was urged by Li Ying to go down the mountain, and again in Shangdang County to erect a flag to denounce Jin Bing, although the bankrupt farmers who took refuge in him gathered like ants, but Liu Da was not happy at all, he knew very well in his heart that he was so public, he would inevitably become the first target of Jin Bing's suppression.

As he expected, just now he received news that a group of golden soldiers was coming to Shangdang County.

Liu Da urged the horse to run to the school field, and the shouting and killing in the school field shook the sky, Li Ying was wearing armor and was training the five thousand recruits who had just been recruited.

Li Ying is Yan Qing's general, in the Song army as the commander of the scout battalion, that is, the former general, he was ordered to guide Liu Da's righteous army, this is actually Li Yanqing learned the lesson of Zong Ze, Zong Ze failed to integrate the Hebei righteous army, resulting in the Hebei righteous army out of control, and finally was wiped out by Wanyan Zongwang, so when the anti-Jin righteous army appeared on Hedong Road, Li Yanqing's first thing was to control these righteous army, obey his own orders, and use it for his own use.

This matter is in charge of Yan Qing's intelligence battalion, and the five commanders under Yan Qing have led people to various places to guide the rebel troops in various places to resist Jin.

"General Lee!" Liu Da waved and shouted at the gate of the school grounds.

Li Ying glanced back at Liu Da, who was full of anxiety at the gate of the school, and handed over the training to one of his subordinates, he urged the horse to meet him, and ran to the front, Li Ying turned over and dismounted and said with a smile: "But the Jin soldiers are coming to Shangdang County?" ”

Liu Da was stunned, "How does General Li know?" ”

Li Ying smiled slightly, "I also just received a pigeon letter from General Yan, so I know a little bit about the situation." ”

Liu Da admired Yan Qing the most, he was able to let himself loot the Linfen warehouse without spending a single soldier, which was even more powerful than Zhuge Liang, and he hurriedly asked, "What did General Yan say?" ”

"General Yan said that 10,000 Jin soldiers are coming to Shangdang County, let us resist the city and defend it!"

"Ahh Liu Da was stunned, 10,000 gold soldiers, how could he resist it?

He suddenly panicked and said, "In this case, we must retreat into the mountain immediately!" ”

Li Ying shook his head, "This time is an order from our capital to hold on to the party and defeat this golden army." ”

"But the other side has 10,000 troops!"

Li Ying smiled, "We also have reinforcements, which will come soon." ”

Liu Da was overjoyed, "How many reinforcements are there?" ”

As soon as the words fell, a soldier rushed to report, "General Liu, there is an army from outside Beicheng. ”

Li Ying smiled faintly, "It should be that the reinforcements have arrived, let's take a look!" ”

He and Liu Da got on their horses and ran towards the north city gate, where a Song army of two hundred people came with five fully enclosed donkey carts, and in addition to the generals who were the leader, a middle-aged scribe followed them.

This army belongs to the firearms battalion of the Jingzhao Army, the firearms battalion has about 10,000 soldiers, established after the Western Xia Campaign, the main will be the commander of Gong Zuwen, in addition to the famous three thunders of the Jingzhao Army (earth-shaking thunder, iron fire thunder, flying fire thunder), but also responsible for the use of other firearms, such as rockets, fire harriers, etc., the newly established Guanlei Army in Yan'an Mansion also belongs to the jurisdiction of the firearms battalion, in addition, with the gradual refinement of the scope of use of the earth-shaking thunder, the establishment of the firearms battalion has also begun to refine.

At this time, the gate opened, and I saw Li Ying and Liu Da galloping out of the city, and the first general hurriedly turned over and dismounted, and stepped forward to kneel down on one knee and salute, "The last general, Hou Jing, see Commander Li!" ”

Hou Jing is the general of the firearms battalion, Li Ying knows him, Li Ying smiled and said: "Dutong really took care of us, and he actually sent General Hou." ”

"Thank you General Li for the compliment, and Mr. Yan is also here."

Mr. Yan is a middle-aged scribe who traveled with him, and he joined the army by Yan Jiuling, who was appointed by Li Yanqing as the prefect of Longde Mansion, and this time he came to take office.

Li Ying hurriedly stepped forward to salute Yan Jiuling, Yan Jiuling smiled, handed him Li Yanqing's letter of appointment, Li Ying was immediately overjoyed, "Great, finally with the prefect, we can be liberated." ”

Li Ying is now in charge of the government affairs, and all kinds of trivial things come to him all day long, which makes him anxious, and now that he finally has a prefect, how can he not be overjoyed.

Yan Jiuling smiled slightly: "I am only temporarily part-time, and I have to be appointed by the imperial court for official appointment." ”

Yan Jiuling has been in the office for 20 years, and he has a lot of experience, because he is not a Jinshi, he was a small official of the Yamen for the first ten years, and he has only stepped up to the official rank since he met Li Yanqing, and now he is from the seventh rank of Chaosanlang, he is at most the commander of Chixian County, but Li Yanqing appointed him as the prefect, and also clearly told him that the procedures of the Ministry of Officials will be made up, which means that he will jump from the current seven products to the five products.

Yan Jiuling is not the first to receive such an honor, the previous Liu Fang was promoted from the eighth rank to the governor of Ezhou from the fifth rank, and Mo Jun was promoted from the seventh rank to the Pingjiang prefect from the fourth rank, all of which were exceptionally promoted.

Yan Jiuling has not yet been officially appointed by the imperial court, so of course he needs to be modest.

At this time, Liu Da slowly stepped forward, looked at the one hundred and fifty Song soldiers and asked in astonishment, "General Li, this is the ..... Reinforcements? ”

Hou Jing smiled, "We are not reinforcements, the reinforcements are in the donkey cart!" ”

He opened the car door and said with a smile: "General Liu might as well come and have a look!" ”

Liu Da walked forward slowly, only to see dozens of swarthy, winter melon-like iron lumps neatly placed in the carriage, and there was a thick rope on the top of each iron lump.

"What is this?" Liu Da asked blankly.

"This is the Earthquake Thunder, haven't I trained the soldiers?" Li Ying stepped forward and said with a smile.

"Ahh This is what General Li said about the world's first firearm? ”

Li Ying nodded, "This is the most powerful firearm in the world, and after it is thrown, every soldier must cover his ears and lie on the ground." ”

Liu Da looked shocked, gently stroked the swarthy iron shell, and Li Ying asked again, "How many earth-shattering thunders are there?" ”

Hou Jing stepped forward and said, "There are a total of thirty, all of them are throwing type earth-shaking thunders, and there are also two hundred and forty flying fire thunders, corresponding to the one hundred and twenty thunder throwers I brought." ”

This time, Hou Jing brought a total of 150 soldiers from the firearms battalion, of which 120 were mine throwers, and the other 30 were responsible for controlling the earth-shaking thunder.

Li Ying led everyone into the city, he first led Yan Jiuling to the government to take over the government affairs of Longde Mansion, and then took Hou Jing to the military warehouse, where ten cannons were placed in the square outside the warehouse, covered with oilcloth.

This was discovered by the rebels when they were transporting the materials from the warehouse in Linfen County, and they were also transported back to Shangdang County.

Li Ying patted the cannon and said with a smile: "I've already found a craftsman to repair it, let's see if it can still be used?" ”

Hou Jing stepped forward to take a closer look at the ten fire cannons, they belonged to medium-sized fire cannons, which could throw ordinary sky-shaking thunder fifty steps away, which was almost enough, Hou Jing finally nodded and said: "Basically, it can be used, but it was actually made during the Shenzong period, and it is old enough." ”

"The main thing is that it is well maintained, and the iron crossbow machine is smeared with oil, and there is no rust."

Liu Da said on the side: "If you use it to throw a sky-shattering thunder, will it hurt the city wall?" ”

"No!"

Hou Jing said with a smile: "Unless you dig out a city brick and stuff it into the sky-shaking thunder, the sky-shaking thunder will not collapse the city wall, it has been tested many times, and there will be no problem, but the explosion fifty steps away will affect the soldier's hearing, so you must cover your ears in time." ”

"We've already trained on this, and we'll rotate again today and tomorrow!"

.......

At noon the next day, the alarm bell sounded in the head of Shangdang County, and groups of rebel soldiers rushed to the city, these rebels received a large number of armor supplies in Linfen County, each soldier was dressed in leather armor, wearing iron helmets, holding standard spears, or holding bows and arrows, they did not get crossbows in Linfen County, only 3,000 bows to defend the city, Li Ying selected 3,000 people from the newly received rebel army, and formed archers.

After nearly two months of training, the initial 5,000 Volunteers already had the appearance of an army, but the newly received 5,000 Volunteers still belonged to the nature of a militia and could not be used for direct combat, but could only be used as second-line soldiers, mainly for archers.

Although Shangdang City is not a big city, but it is close to Taihang Mountain, there are a large number of stones, the city walls are quarryed and built, after a hundred years it is still very solid, the circumference of the city is about 20 miles, the city head is about one zhang wide, the widest part has one zhang and five feet, can only place the middle fire cannon, and the large fire cannon can not be placed.

Five thousand soldiers rushed to the head of the western city, in addition to two thousand pikemen, there were three thousand archers, ten cannons were in charge of two hundred soldiers, thirty soldiers of the firearms battalion were in charge of the placement and ignition of the earth-shaking thunder, and the other one hundred and twenty mine-throwers, each with two sets of flying fire mines, stood behind the battlements, waiting for the enemy to begin the siege.

In just a moment, 10,000 golden soldiers rushed like a long black dragon from the distant official road to Shangdang County.