Chapter 275 Fire Attack Yellow Dragon

The retreated Jurchen soldiers shivered and burned the fire. Zong Han sighed as he saw it. It was originally good to kill hundreds of enemies, but judging from the degree of frostbite of these soldiers, the situation was not optimistic.

"Haha, the Grand Marshal became a scattered chicken." A man came over from the sparse flowering bullets of the Song army and jumped off his horse and laughed at Zonghan. This was not someone else, but Wanyan Zongbi, who was demoted to the commander of the ten thousand men and had a deep conflict with Zonghan.

Zonghan waved his hand to stop the resentful personal soldiers around him and said, "Wanyan Zongbi, you are not laughing at me Zonghan, but at the Jurchens."

"Ha, I'm wrong." Wanyan Zongbi asked, "How is it, Ouyang is so poisonous, right?" As soon as he heard that Ouyang was a military supervisor, he knew that this kid was going to do something bad. But he didn't expect it to be bad. He didn't know that although Ouyang was bad, he couldn't think of such a professional way.

"It is almost impossible for Zhang Junfei to destroy the water truck," Wanyan Zongbi said, "I have a plan to avenge this."

"What plan?"

"There were chariot escorts in front of the Song army, and there were cavalry on both sides to support them, and heavy artillery piled up in between. It was difficult to unfold the formation." Wanyan Zongbing said: "So they could only send a maximum of one thousand people to attack the city."

"You mean?"

Wanyan Zongbi smiled and said, "Let him attack"

Zong Han was not a fool, and immediately understood: "You mean we were going to shoot the Song army on the front of the city from the ancient tower?"

"The tower is more than 120 feet high, and overlooking the city head, without any obstacles. One hundred archers stick to the tower, and the Song army is like our hunting prey, with nowhere to hide."

"Okay," Zong Hanxi said: "Then I will leave it to you."

"Don't worry, I will definitely not be as embarrassing as you."

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"**, there are hundreds more people." After hearing the battle report, Zhang Jun was furious and slapped his thigh. He sieged the city twice, and suffered heavy losses. Although the Jurchens suffered a lot of losses, they were frozen to death and there were many people who died. But Zhang Jun knew that in the first confrontation, he made some points with secret weapons, and he was the one who suffered the loss. Apart from killing the enemy, he had no strategic results at all.

"This hand is very vicious." Ouyang said: "The ancient tower is as high as 120 feet, and it is obvious on the city wall. The Jurchens are good at shooting and cannot stabilize the city at all. Moreover, my imperial guards' offensive path is blocked, so it is difficult to transport a large number of troops at one time."

Wu Jie said: "But the last generals look at it, the Jurchens are also quite taboo to our army's water-blocking truck."

"It's useless. The water throwing truck can only advance to two hundred steps, and if it goes over, it can only hit the wall." Chen Gui said: "The biggest function of the water wheel is to make the Jurchens give up the city wall."

Zhang Jun said: "Since they don't want the city wall, we don't want it either. Order to collect explosives packs."

...

The Song army retreated in an orderly manner in the afternoon, and the two sides were temporarily on standstill. After a night, the Song army began yesterday's tactics again, with the chariot guards and cavalry arranged.

"Report" Zong Han was drinking butter tea, and a personal soldier came to report: "Master General, Song army is digging tunnels under the city."

"Digging the tunnel?" Zong Han was shocked after thinking about it: "They weren't digging the tunnel." As soon as he finished speaking, a huge roar sounded.

Zong Han hurried out and a personal soldier intercepted the report halfway: "Master General, the Song army is bombing the city wall."

"I know" Zong Han looked ugly. He guessed what the Song army was going to drive. When he gave up the city wall, the Song army dug holes under the city wall and blasted the wall. Not to mention that there are three layers of city walls, even ten layers are not enough for the Song army to destroy them. Others ants chew elephants and dig you out bit by bit.

"Oh, Grand Marshal, you want to peel it again." Wanyan Zongbi appeared.

"Are you waiting for someone to explode in a big mouth?"

"I mean, the Grand Marshal is not in a hurry. Anyway, he has to peel it, so it's better to let them blow it up for a while."

"What's the meaning?"

"Once it is effective, they will transport a large amount of gunpowder across the moat for continuous blasting. At this time, if the rocket shoots a few arrows, the Song army will beat them and kill them."

...

Wu Jie said: "General, you have blown up a small hole. Have you transported a large amount of gunpowder? Carry out a large explosion of the gap?"

Zhang Jun did not answer the question: "Sir Ou, what do you think?"

"From the abandonment of the city wall, the Jurchen commander is quite not easy." Ouyang said: "But five or six explosive packs have been blown up, and even a Jurchen person has not been disturbed on the wall. It's too weird." Ouyang guessed with the heart of a villain.

"Well, I think so too." Zhang Jun said: "General Wu, withdraw people and don't be taken advantage of by others, otherwise it will greatly damage morale." Although there are few people, the sentiment of failure will not be small.

"Yes" Wu Jie left with his fists.

...

In the first two days, no one took advantage. Zhang Jun still had time, so he was not in a hurry. Zong Han naturally was even less anxious. On the third day, the snow stopped and the sun came out, and the Song army temporarily stopped the action.

At lunch meeting, Zhang Jun and several major generals and Ouyang had a dinner meeting. Zhang Jun said: "There are two ways now. The first is to reduce the water-blocking trucks so that I can arrange an siege army of at least 5,000 people as one unit. But in this way, it is impossible to suppress the enemy of the city wall, which is equivalent to a hard attack. The cavalry on both sides cannot be abolished, otherwise if someone counter-raided, the front army will disrupt the rear army, which may cause defeat. The second method is to lay off heavy artillery, and two thousand people as one unit of support for the city wall. But without heavy artillery, the north of the city that mainly hoards troops can easily support the city wall, that is, hand-to-hand combat, we will send troops one after another, and the city wall becomes a place to decide the outcome, and the losses will be very heavy, and once the attack is not stopped."

"The most annoying thing is the ancient tower that is 130 feet tall." Ouyang asked: "Mr. Chen, can the water cannon hit the ancient tower?"

"It's barely possible." Chen Gui smiled bitterly, "Do you want to flood the ancient tower? As far as I know, the ancient tower is very strong, and it is made of solid bricks and bluestone flat."

"No, the tower is thirteen feet high, it is already very tall." Zhang Jun jumped up and said, "Wu Jie. Collect the hot turbulent oil and we burn the ancient tower."

Ouyang was amazed at Zhang Jun's physical knowledge. Not every modern person knew that although bricks and other building materials could not melt at high temperatures, high temperatures could destroy their toughness and strength. Ouyang knew that this principle was because of the 9 incident. At that time, he wondered why the building collapsed? Then he realized that the impact of the plane was not the reason for the collapse of the building. The main reason was that the fire burned the toughness of the building materials, causing the building materials to be unable to support the weight, and finally all collapsed. You must know that even modern bricks that specifically prevent fire can only withstand the temperature of more than 50 degrees. But Zhang Jun could not have participated in the 9...

"My father told me that the higher the brick kiln fire, the better. Once it is too high, bad bricks will appear, and it will become powder when it is smashed." Zhang Jun said: "We will re-fuel the ancient tower."

...

So the water fight was changed to a fire fight, and the materials were ready-made, which was to replace the water with strong tinder oil. Eight hundred water trucks suppressed the city walls, and two hundred trains attacked the ancient tower. Although the first batch of fire bombs were extinguished when most of the fire sources were flying, one or two people exploded in the end, and the fire at the bottom of the ancient tower inevitably burned.

Zong Han listened to the newspaper, but at first he couldn't understand Song Jun's intentions, and then, under the reminder of the craftsmen, hurriedly ordered: "Extinguish the fire."

Fierce tinder oil was also recorded in ancient times, also called tinshui and stone lacquer. The period when wars in ancient China were the Five Dynasties and the Song, Jin, Liao and Yuan Dynasties. It was also during this period that oil was called fierce tinder oil. The most mature application of fierce tinder oil was the Song Dynasty. The Song Dynasty established a military weapon supervisor in the capital Bianliang, which was a specialized in weapons manufacturing. It had eleven pieces (i.e. workshops), and there was a special piece of fierce tinder oil. Fierce tinder oil was generally used to defend against cities, especially in battles to defend cities.

Since there are no fire extinguishers such as carbon dioxide, water poured on the oil, and the fire became even bigger. Zong Han was shocked, and the craftsman immediately said:

"Master Marshal, this is a hot tincture. The water cannot be extinguished and can only be covered with sand and soil."

Zong Han hurriedly shouted: "Digging sand and soil"

But as soon as the order was issued, the Song army expanded the attack range. In addition to the ten cars continuing to throw Meng Meng turret oil at the ancient tower, twenty cars began to set fire around the tower without any difference. Other cars stopped attacking. After all, the fierce turret oil was mainly a defensive battle. Zhang Jun limited his understanding and did not bring too much.

The area expanded, not only did the sand and soil strategy work very well, but Zong Han also had to consider the problem of fire prevention in the army. Many soldiers were burned to death by inaccurate fire bombs.

"Report" to the imperial soldiers to report: "General, the turbulent oil can only be re-irrigated."

Zhang Jun's expression did not fluctuate at all and ordered: "Let the chariot escorts operate, push the ten-heavy artillery forward to bombard the ancient tower."

Ouyang hurriedly said: "General Zhang, the Jurchen shooter's accurate head is so powerful. Once the rocket is shot in the heavy artillery running port and detonates in a series, our army will suffer heavy losses."

"Accurate?" Zhang Jun said: "Don't worry, Lord Ou, Shanren has his own tricks."

The sound of the 'boom' flowering bullets came, and several shells were exploding, and the soldiers who put out the fire were killed and injured. Zong Han shouted: "Order, the shooter should defend the wall."

Due to the suppression of water trucks, everyone can only strip naked for defense, but there is no need to worry about not getting angry. Zhang Jun also has some turbulent oil used by Zhang Jun, and the Jurchens have many products that were eliminated by the Tokyo Making Bureau. Moreover, Zhang Jun's water truck is not a continuous heavy rain after all. The city wall is more than a mile and thousands of people go up. As long as there are a few that can shoot rockets, they may blow up the Song army. It is condescending and a range of 200 steps is relatively simple for the Jurchens.

"Calibration" The ladder truck's lookout hand immediately lit the signal flag to correct the landing points of each cannon.

After a while, the Jurchens had already rushed up the city wall, but when they saw the Song army, they were all stunned. They saw that it was not the Song army, and they could not see the location of the heavy artillery, and instead they were gray smoke. When they looked down sharply, they saw that the escort army was burning dry feces and other smoke-filled objects.

Looking at the smokeless place of the Song army, two ladders raised to observe the artillery fire in Cheng'an, and used signal flags to correct the artillery fire. Wanyan Zongbing said anxiously: "Master General, come out with the cavalry. Two hundred steps, and you will arrive in one breath."

"Zhang Jun is a famous general, and it is impossible to imagine that if he made some arrangements in advance and robbed the city gate in the smoke, the consequences will be unimaginable." Zong Han ordered helplessly: "Let everyone pay attention to the collapse of the ancient tower."

After about a moment of bombing, the Guta finally couldn't bear the double blow and announced its collapse. Zong Han looked at the Guta roar and fell to the ground and sighed deeply. The next battle would be even more cruel.

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But the cruel battle came earlier than Zong Han thought. That night, the Song army yelled and heavy artillery fired together. Zong Han took people to the city urgently to the city. But unexpectedly, the ruthless water bullets were still greeted by him. A general asked: "Master General, what should I do? Retreat or not?" He ran away quickly, and if he did not withdraw, everyone would take off his clothes. These days, he was tortured by the Song army's water bullets. Not many people died, but he fell ill.

Suspicious soldiers? Attacking? Zong Han looked at the dark night and the Song army busy boiling water and loading bullets in the distance and pondered for a while: "Retreat the order of a hundred people and take turns to shoot arrows in two hundred steps." Everyone took turns to take a shower. Once the Song army really attacked the city, it would inevitably cause death and screams.

Zong Han went down the city wall and patrolled everywhere, feeling heavy. The army began to catch a cold, and some soldiers also had pneumonia. Of course, it was not called pneumonia at that time, but lung wind. It was a combination of pneumonia and measles. Lack of doctors and medicine was the biggest problem facing Huanglongfu. The most terrible thing was that the Song army had not yet launched a large-scale attack on Huanglongfu, but the combat effectiveness in Huanglongfu decreased significantly.

The next day, the water bomb of the Song army began again. Zong Han really didn't know how much ceramics the Song army had fired. He didn't know that Ouyang used all the productivity of the large factories under the name of the Commercial Association and produced them for two months. Of course, Ouyang also had another idea. This batch of imperial orders could greatly alleviate the embarrassing situation of stock backlog and the factory was ineffective. Objectively stimulated the economic recovery of the Song Dynasty. It is said that when Zhao Yu saw the required expenses, he scolded Ouyang and Chen Gui on the spot.

On this day, the Song army and the Jurchens fought for the city walls. The Jurchens all went into battle, but they would be hit by water bombs because they didn't. Although the Song army stopped attacking after they came to the city, they had to worry about the Song army's powerful weapon to scatter their hands and can't distance themselves from the Song army.

The Jurchens showed their fearlessness. Under the leadership of their chief, the soldiers of the Xicheng Army camp used their flesh and blood to force the blockade line composed of heavy artillery to reach the East City Wall, and continued to support the city wall to fight with the Song army. Finally, they successfully drove the Song army in Shangcheng to eliminate them. At noon, Zhang Junming and Jin withdrew their troops. The two sides counted the casualties and wounded thousands of people. The Jurchens died and injured more than three thousand people, but they seized more than a dozen hand-shaking cannons that could be used. It was not that Zong Han was not lucky, but that Zhang Jun was very stingy. There were only a few dozen people in Shangcheng troops carrying two hand-shaking cannons, and Zhang Jun used up all the orders given to them. However, the Jurchens' perseverance in fighting was beyond the expectations of the Song army, and some were still seized.

"The inability to unfold the attack formation is our army's biggest weakness." Zhang Jun said: "It is impossible to continue to support the city walls. It took a quarter of an hour for two thousand people to reach the city."

Wu Jie said: "If you remove the water truck, you can remove the chariot escort army. Ten thousand people climb the city for less than a quarter of an hour. However, the Jurchens defended the city walls without restraint. It was harder to attack than climb to the sky."

Ouyang said: "The Jurchen soldiers in the north are being replenished one after another. If they have to waste up their soldiers, it will take a lot of time."

"It cannot be consumed. Although this kind of siege battle takes advantage, it has a great blow to morale." Zhang Jun said: "The fighting will of the Jurchens is beyond our expectations."

"I will have an idea at the end." Wu Jie said: "Send more than a hundred warriors to sneak up to the city wall at night and use firearms to guard the four support channels. Ten thousand people will climb the city at night." The support channel is the two stone stairs that extend the two cities and the lower city.

"Well..." Zhang Jun looked at the structure of the city wall and said, "No, but if Zong Han guarded the four exits, our army would not be able to break forward. There could only be three or five thousand people on the city wall at most. Then the formations below the Jurchen City were all shot. The imperial guards on the city wall became targets? The city could be three or four feet higher than outside the city. Zong Han's killer weapon was the archer hoarded by the north and south cities. He could arrange the array within a few minutes, arrive within half a quarter of an hour, and shoot at the city wall. This killer weapon has not been taken out yet. Although the Song army could get on the wall, only a dozen people could participate in the attack. Even if there were hand-shaking cannons, they could not throw the shooting distance of the bow and arrow.

Chen Gui thought about it and said, "What if forty heavy artillery can be transported onto the city wall in half a quarter of an hour?"

"Ah, that's good." Zhang Jun asked: "How to transport it?" If it is transported up, the Song army is condescending. Since the three-layer wall is wide, the heavy artillery at the end is basically zero at the attack angle, and the shield soldiers can be easily protected. However, unlike the original, the enemy is on the top, with full area and straight arrows, which has a very high accuracy. And most importantly, the archers from the Jurchen North and South City may not necessarily use rockets and gunpowder arrows. But how to transport it?

Chen Gui said: "This is a gadget designed by the official." Chen Gui took out a few drawings.

Ouyang leaned over and saw Dahan. Isn’t this the legendary fixed pulley or moving pulley? Ouyang’s physical performance is average, but he knows the existence of these two wheels. It is said that installing a wheel can save half the effort, installing another wheel can save half the effort, and installing another wheel...

Zhang Jun obviously had poor physical performance. Looking at the drawings was like reading a book of heaven, and then he couldn't believe it and asked: "Can this thing pull the heavy artillery in half a moment?"

"Of course, as long as you hit these few points well, the two below can pull the heavy artillery up with the strength of the two."

Zhang Jun pondered for a while and said, "Mr. Chen, the army has its own rules. If you want people, you can arrange whatever you want. But the ugly saying goes ahead. I spent thousands of lives to bet on this drawing. If it doesn't go well, I must rectify you to pay tribute to the soldiers who died in battle."

"Don't worry, General, I'll issue a military order. But I want to try it a few more times, train my skilled people, and the fastest and most efficient way to transport heavy artillery to the city wall."

Zhang Jun reminded: "The heavy artillery will start to be timed after passing the moat. If the time goes on, the general will be engaged in military law."
Chapter completed!