Pirate Song

Even before Hu Luchi came, he had thought that he might surrender without using a single sword or shot. He only needed to scare the Huangzhou defenders once the army arrived, and the Song army, which was not strong in combat, might open the city and surrender. But today it seems

, his expectation has been completely disappointed, even the Song Army generals sent to persuade them to surrender were killed on the spot by an arrow shot from Huangzhou City.

From the current point of view, he still underestimated the determination of the Song Dynasty Huangzhou defenders to resist, so he frowned, pressed his thick lips tightly together, and stared at the advancing troops.

, there has been no words.

After the two armies started fighting, due to the distance, the Jin army continuously attacked the first trench, paying a heavy price. However, such efforts finally began to pay off when the battle was approaching noon.

, a large number of Jin soldiers kept transporting sand bags, wood and other objects back and forth, and finally filled in several passages in the first trench, opening up several passages for the subsequent Jin soldiers to advance.

A large number of golden soldiers immediately crossed these passages and rushed closer to Huangzhou City.

"Put up leather curtains, lay out tents, and crossbowmen pay attention to protection. Put up wooden signs to suppress enemy archers. Prepare cannons! Send an order to the city to continue transporting arrows to the city!" Gao Huaiyuan stood calmly behind the battlements and observed the city.

After seeing that the Jin Army had broken through the first trench, and a large number of Jin Army archers and shield bearers cooperated to pass the trench and approached the city wall, he immediately issued new orders.

His calmness also infected the soldiers of the Song Army who were guarding the city. From the initial nervousness, they gradually began to stabilize, and after receiving his order, they immediately began to arrange all the vines, leather curtains, and wooden signs.

They were erected one after another by the defenders and covered the city wall.

Speaking of these things, the curtain is actually a horizontal cloth flag made of thick linen. After being lifted up with a horizontal pole, the linen above is soaked in water, which can effectively block the enemy's arrows, while the leather curtain

It's even simpler, just hang up a curtain made of rawhide

After that, it can also be used to defend against arrows. As for the wooden shields, they are actually giant wooden shields with upper and lower tips, supported by poles at the back. They are also used to defend against arrows or enemy artillery stones when defending the city, but they are

It's just much bigger than an ordinary shield!

These things were immediately lined up on the crenellations of the city wall, covering the Song Army soldiers at the crenels. The improvised cannons placed on the city walls also began to be loaded. The selected young and strong rural warriors

They didn't know how to use bows, so they didn't have much trouble doing this. They all stepped forward and grabbed the hemp rope on the gun barrel, and stood behind the gun mount, nervously waiting for the new order to be issued.

Each stone cannon was commanded by a soldier of the Song Army, and there was also a dedicated person to set the cannon. When they heard the firing order from not far away, these civilians followed the gunner's command and worked hard to pull the gun in their hands.

thick hemp rope, in

The cannon bar made of logs was dragged by them and suddenly lifted up. The leather bag hanging on one end of the cannon bar was immediately pulled up and flew up. After reaching the fixed height, the leather bag was released, and the stones contained in it were released.

He immediately flew out towards the city.

The whistling stones gradually grew larger in the sky, and then carried a huge force, churning the air and hitting the Jin army outside the city.

For such a blow, no one could stop it. The golden soldier who was shot didn't even have a chance to scream, and was immediately smashed into a pile of flesh and blood. After the stone fell to the ground, it carried with it the remaining power and momentum. The reduced force continued to roll forward, and the damage continued to increase. A golden soldier's leg was broken by a stone, and he fell to the ground holding his thigh twisted into a strange angle. He let out a horrible scream, and another golden soldier had his legs broken by a stone. The soldier's waist was suddenly crushed by a stone. While screaming, he pushed the stone on his body in vain with both hands. He saw his intestines pouring out from the broken wound, but he had no way to do anything. He could only scream in agony. Until the voice gradually became quieter...

Although I dare not say that every stone fell, it hurt the Jin soldiers, but such a blow still had a considerable impact on the morale of the Jin soldiers, so the pace of the Jin soldiers' attack immediately began to slow down, and most of them The golden soldiers who rushed through the ditch looked up at the sky in fear, fearing that they would become the victim of the next stone at any time.

"Adjust to the left! The stone is deflected!" After observing the impact point of his stone cannon, one of the cannon operators immediately turned around and shouted to the cannon operator.

So the people immediately lifted the heavy gun mount, adjusted the stone cannon, and quickly moved the gun mount to the ideal position.

"Keep shooting! Everyone pull hard together! Let go!" the gunner who directed the shooting immediately ordered, shouting and directing Minzhuang to pull the rope.

Then another round of stones began to fly out of the city wall with a buzzing sound, hitting the ground outside the city heavily, splashing with blood.

"The shield men step forward to guard against arrows! The archers line up to fight back! Hold down the archers of the Song Army, and the rest of the people will continue to charge for me!" At this time, a Jin Army general rushed out from among the Jin soldiers, waving his sword and giving the order. road.

So the Jin soldiers lined up outside the city and began to set up their bows and arrows. Under his command, they raised their arms and started to counterattack at the top of the city. There were many archers in the Jin army. As they counterattacked, large clouds of arrows floated towards the city. On the top of the city, the open cloth and leather curtains, as well as the wooden signs, fell one after another, making intensive popping sounds.

The archers of the Song Army hid behind the parapet and these protections, and braved the rain of arrows from the Jin soldiers. They continued to fire arrows and exchanged fire with the Jin soldiers outside the city. But even so, the Jin soldiers' counterattack was still too much for the Song soldiers on the city. The soldiers caused some casualties. When the unlucky Song army got up and fired arrows, they happened to be hit by the arrows of the Jin soldiers. They immediately wailed and fell on the city wall.

At this moment, the Huangzhou defenders finally shed their first drop of blood. Only at this point did the battle really become more bloody.

"Don't panic! On the stretcher! Rescue the wounded and go to the city for treatment. The others are not allowed to stop waiting and continue to fire arrows to suppress the Jin Army archers! Give me a lesson for the Jin Army!" Gao Huaiyuan gave the order while loudly encouraging the people on the city wall. Once these Song troops suffered casualties, some timid soldiers began to slow down their firing speed, causing the firepower on the city wall to weaken. How could Gao Huaiyuan just ignore it?

While shouting, he took a step forward, took his big bow from Li Ruohu's hand again, cocked the arrow, opened the bow and aimed at the city. After releasing an arrow casually, he saw the man below the city commanding the attack with a sword. The head of a hundred households in the Jin Army fell backwards in response, and was hit by an arrow in the chest again, and died on the spot.

"Hear the crossbowman! Let me aim at the officers in the Jin army and disrupt them!" After Gao Huaiyuan hit the target with an arrow, he immediately gave a loud order to the soldiers on the city wall who were holding hard crossbows.

At this time, the situation outside the city was relatively chaotic. After the Jin soldiers swarmed through the trench, their formations were relatively scattered and they had not yet formed an effective command in front of the horse guns. This was what Gao Huaiyuan valued. He wanted the crossbowmen to specifically pick off the Jin soldiers.

The officers took action, which could effectively disrupt the Jin soldiers' offensive pace.

The Song army has always attached great importance to crossbow equipment, so there is no shortage of hard crossbows in the army. Crossbows are much stronger than ordinary bows in terms of range and accuracy, and are easier to train and master for Han people who are not good at shooting. Therefore

The Song army in Huangzhou City does not lack these items, and there are hundreds of powerful divine arm crossbows among them. This is a major killer weapon of the Song army, and it would be a pity to leave them unused.

When the Song Army officers and soldiers on the city received Gao Huaiyuan's instructions, they suddenly came to their senses. The crossbowmen opened their crossbows and set them up on the crenellations. They began to search for the officers of the Jin Army among the crowd of Jin soldiers, and then singled them out to attack.

.

Although the battlefield was chaotic, it was not too difficult to find their officers among the crowd of Jin soldiers. First, although the Jin soldiers surged through the trenches, their formations basically maintained their original positions.

The second reason for the organizational structure is that the officers of the Jin Army are equipped with better armor. Officers above the tenth commander often have various feathers on their helmets. In addition, the officers usually command at the front of the queue, so it is much more convenient to find them.

After Gao Huaiyuan's poisonous move, the crossbowmen on the city had a strong purpose in firing arrows, specifically targeting those with distinctive armor in front of the Jin soldiers, especially the range and power of the divine arm crossbow.

They are both very large and can carry out very precise direct aim shooting at this distance. In this way, in a short time, the golden soldiers

Then they realized that something was wrong. As soon as their officers showed up, they would immediately attract a large number of arrows flying in like locusts. Many captains of ten and centurions were shot into hedgehogs and fell to the ground.

, even a commander in chief who led the army to attack the city was hit by an arrow, was seriously injured and was robbed.

As a result, the Jin army, which had just broken through a line of defense, suddenly became confused. Because the officers suffered heavy losses, their counterattack could not be organized, and they could no longer effectively coordinate the attack. So a large group of Jin soldiers just

They began to crowd together in a noisy manner, and the situation became increasingly chaotic.

Regarding these things happening in front, Hu Luchi, who was commanding from the center, had seen it from a distance, but he didn't know why the orderly attack suddenly started to become chaotic. His siege troops were becoming more and more disorganized. He was also very experienced.

Rich, he immediately made a decisive decision and sent the order to withdraw the troops with gold.

Immediately, there was a rapid sound of gold ringing in the middle of the Jin army. After it reached the front of the two armies, all the Jin soldiers immediately stopped advancing and began to swarm back from the front of the first trench.

Seeing the hurried retreat of the Jin soldiers, cheers immediately erupted in the city. The tense nerves of the defenders immediately relaxed, and they all climbed onto the crenels and raised their arms and shouted loudly.

"The golden soldiers retreated! The golden soldiers retreated! We repelled the golden soldiers' attack!..."

As the cheers of the soldiers on the city came into the city, the people in the city who were busy transferring supplies to the city were stunned for a moment, and then they started cheering, and a thunderous roar immediately sounded in Huangzhou City.

Cheers.

Gao Huaiyuan looked at the retreating Jin soldiers and still felt a little regretful. He now lacked an offensive force. If he took this opportunity to open the door and pursue the Jin soldiers, he would at least cause great losses to the Jin soldiers. Unfortunately,

ah!

"Sir! The Jin soldiers have retreated! We have won!" Everyone was excited and ran over to report to Gao Huaiyuan.

"Well! I have seen it, thank you for your hard work! Pass the order and order our soldiers to rest where they are and be ready! Treat the wounded as soon as possible, place the bodies of the fallen soldiers, and speed up the replacement of arrow losses! Everyone should count the losses and report as soon as possible.

My officer!" Gao Huaiyuan smiled and nodded. This time the contact

The battle against them was relatively good, and relatively speaking there were no problems with the organization. They were all under his control, but he did not dare to take it lightly. After all, the actual losses of the Jin soldiers were not large, and this first battle could only be regarded as a test.

Jin Bing will never give up because of this sexual attack.

However, repelling the Jin soldiers this time was of great benefit to the soldiers of Huangzhou City's defenders. Most of the soldiers went into battle for the first time and had no experience, so they were easily affected. After winning this victory, it was very important for the stability of the city.

Military morale has great benefits, and the soldiers and civilians of Huangzhou have begun to gain more confidence in holding on to the city. Compared with killing those golden soldiers, this gain is the biggest.

When the Jin soldiers gathered their troops and reorganized outside the city, the losses on the northern city wall where Gao Huaiyuan was located were also counted. In this contact battle, they hunted down nearly two hundred Jin soldiers, but their own losses were very few.

He only paid the price of more than 30 casualties. Gao Huaiyuan was basically satisfied with this result, but he knew that the next battle would be more cruel, so he did not dare to neglect and walked back and forth on the city wall to continue to encourage the soldiers.

morale.

At this moment, Jiang Fang, the number one man in Huangzhou, walked up from the city. When he saw Gao Huaiyuan, he looked excited and grabbed Gao Huaiyuan and thanked him repeatedly.

"Gao County Lieutenant is really powerful. Now the soldiers and people of Huangzhou can be saved! It seems that the Jin soldiers are just like this, but we were too nervous before!" Jiang Fang looked at the corpses of the Jin soldiers scattered on the ground outside the city.

, so I started to relax a little.

Gao Huaiyuan looked at Jiang Fang, invited him into the city tower, stood aside, and said to Jiang Fang sternly: "Jiang Qianji, to be honest with you, this is just a tentative attack by the enemy. The next battle will be

Even more cruel, don't let down your guard at all

, Gao Mou will continue to stare here, and I hope you can stabilize the mood of the people in the city as soon as possible. It is best to take these people near the city wall away from the city wall. It is estimated that the city may be bombarded by golden soldiers and artillery stones in a while. Try to reduce our

The casualties are!

In addition, please arrange to send meals to the soldiers. The fierce fighting for more than half a day has consumed a lot of their physical strength. The fighting will be more intense next time, so you should take more care of yourself!"

Seeing Gao Huaiyuan's solemn words, Jiang Fang was really a little embarrassed. Only then did he realize that things were not as simple as he thought. It turned out that this was just the beginning! So he quickly nodded and said: "What Gao County Lieutenant said is that I underestimated the enemy."

! Please rest assured, I will take care of these things right now!"

After saying that, Jiang Fang immediately turned around and came out. After chatting with the happy-looking soldiers on the city wall for a while, he hurriedly turned around and walked down the city wall.

After Hu Luchi withdrew his troops, he reorganized his team, looked up at the not-too-large Huangzhou City standing in front of them, revealed a cruel smile on his lips, and said to himself: "Huangzhou City really gave me a What a surprise! You can resist so tenaciously! Not bad! I want to see how long you can last!"

"Lord Du Shi, the troops and horses have been reorganized. Shall we continue to attack the city today?" A deputy general galloped to Hulucci on horseback and asked for instructions.

Huluchi straightened his back on the horse and glared: "Nonsense! It's still early, why don't you continue to attack the city? My general ordered me to use archers as the main ones to cover the stone cannon and push it close to the gate of Huangzhou City. Bombard Huangzhou City with cannons and rocks! Be sure to dismantle the defensive horses outside the city before dark!

In addition, I ordered Alu Guan to attack Huangzhou City from the east of the city. This time, I want to let the Song army in the city know how powerful our Jin army is!"

After his order was issued, the sound of drums and trumpets sounded again outside the city. After reorganizing the team, the Jin soldiers changed their strategy this time, with the large shieldmen as the leader and the archers on the left and right, forming squares. The formation, with stone cannons guarding the middle, steadily pushed towards Huangzhou City step by step.

After the golden soldiers' big shields were erected, a shield wall was formed in front of the queue. The subsequent golden soldiers were blocked behind this shield wall, and their heads were also topped with the golden army's round shields. They were densely packed together and moved slowly. Then, the huge stone cannons were pushed forward.

After seeing the Jin soldiers taking action again, the atmosphere in the city became tense again. The defenders and soldiers who were resting on the spot stood up one after another, once again held the crossbows in their hands, and set up their arrows one after another. On the bow string, the crossbowmen put their crossbows on the ground and stepped on the iron ring at the front of the crossbow body with one foot, clasping the crossbow string with both hands, and hung the heavy crossbow string on the crossbow machine with great strength, and then put the crossbow The arrow was placed in the chute of the crossbow body, and the arrow on the crenel was pointed at the Jin army outside the city.

Gao Huaiyuan looked at the actions of the Jin army and was slightly worried. It should be said that the Jin soldiers were relatively well prepared for their attack on Huangzhou. They launched so many stone cannons on the first day, and from a distance, most of these stone cannons They are relatively heavy double-tipped cannons or five-tipped cannons, which can throw rocks weighing 25 to 50 kilograms fifty steps away. There are also some lightweight vehicle cannons and cyclone cannons. Although these cannons can shoot rocks The weight of the bomb is limited, but it is very fast. It poses a considerable threat to their defenders.

Since the Jin Kingdom occupied half of the Han people's territory, it has absorbed the skills of the Han people's skilled craftsmen, and now its siege capabilities have become stronger and stronger. Especially in the application of stone cannons, it has accumulated quite a wealth of experience. When it was destroyed In the Northern Song Dynasty, when they attacked Bianliang City, they organized thousands of stone cannons to throw stones at Bianliang City day and night, and finally defeated Bianliang City. Therefore, in terms of siege technology, the Jin Army now has no Not much worse than the Song Army.

After watching the advancing Jin soldiers gradually approaching the first trench, the defenders on the city began to become a little nervous. They tried to get up and shoot arrows, but were immediately stopped by Gao Huaiyuan.dd