Three days later, outside the city of Zhuozhou, a large number of soldiers and horses of the Song army came to the city, Xiao Tzu Rin stood on the head of Zhuozhou City and looked down, all the soldiers of the Song army were suppressed, and they couldn't see the edge at a glance, 200,000 soldiers and horses didn't sound like a lot, but when you Xiao Tart Rin saw this scene, he was also very frightened, after all, this is 200,000 people, even if the Song army's combat effectiveness is weak, the 200,000 army is also a big threat.
After the Song army showed off its might under the city of Zhuozhou, it did not immediately attack the city, but retreated to the army for thirty miles and set up camp, at night, from the south tower of Zhuozhou City to the Song army camp, a bright light, now the Song army has come to the city, Xiao Tzu Rin has not moved, just ordered to close the city gate to guard the death, at this time the Zhuozhou city has been martial law, all the materials are concentrated and uniformly deployed, all the young men are mobilized to help defend the city.
But even so, the strength of the Eastern Liao Army is still stretched, Zhuozhou City General's Mansion, Xiao Tzu Rin will all the generals at all levels gather together to discuss the plan to defend the city, but there is no good way to hold Zhuozhou City, only the old one: bows and arrows, thunder stones, rolling wood, and pouring fire oil; Defend it to the death, the fall of Zhuozhou is only a matter of time, and there is only one way to hold Zhuozhou City, that is, to defeat the 200,000 Song troops in one fell swoop.
Turning around, the question turned back to the distance, Xiao Tzu Rin sat on the handsome seat and asked the generals: "Think about it, everyone, now that the Song army is in the city, what should we do, if we want to cut off the Song army's food route, we must find a way to drag the Song army here, and our army has limited strength, and it is impossible for all of us to leave Zhuozhou." ” An adjutant general stood up and said: "Your Majesty, now that the Song army has not formed an encirclement of Zhuozhou, the last general thinks that an elite army of soldiers and horses should be sent to leave Zhuozhou at this time and attack the Song army on the periphery; There is no need for too many soldiers and horses, and three thousand fine horsemen are enough. ” "Vice General Wang, General Ben gave you three thousand fine horsemen, are you sure?"
Xiao Tzu Rin asked Vice General Wang.
Vice General Wang assured Xiao Tzu Rin: "The last general swears to complete the military order." ” "Okay."
Xiao Tzu Rin patted the handsome chair and said: "Vice General Wang received the order, I will give you 3,000 fine horsemen to respond to the army outside Zhuozhou City, if it is possible to cut off the Song army's food route." ” "Yes, the last general will obey the general's orders."
Vice General Wang took over the military order.
In the early morning of the next day, the Song army camp was in turmoil, the Song army began to assemble to prepare to attack Zhuozhou City, although the Song army was the majority of the infantry army, the mobility was very poor, but the Song army had a lot of equipment, all kinds of siege equipment are countless, what rush car, arrow tower, watchtower, siege ram, only you can't think of it, no Song army can't do it.
Thirty miles away, the Song army walked for nearly two hours, this can not be blamed on the speed of the Song army's march, because the Song army also has to push a large number of siege equipment, this speed is already very fast, after the Song army came to the position of three arrows away from Zhuozhou City, the Song army began to line up the array, and at the same time a large number of craftsmen began to assemble the siege equipment, such as the car, the arrow tower, the watchtower These large siege equipment are too big to transport, all are disassembled parts, and wait for the scene to assemble.
The craftsmen were assembling the siege vehicles, the soldiers of the Song army were not idle, and the bow and crossbow troops of the Song army began to show their might; Because the Song army is mostly infantry, and the opponents who fight with it are mostly cavalry, so in a Song army, crossbow soldiers account for a large proportion, is one of the main arms of the Song army, and the Song army's crossbowmen are divided into many categories, from far to near, which has not been explained in detail before; It's just that this time the Song army dispatched not different crossbowmen, but heavy crossbowmen.
That is, the legendary bed crossbowmen, the bed crossbowmen are also divided into several kinds according to the role of the bed crossbow, including large Zhang crossbows, one-arm bed crossbows, three-bow bed crossbows, etc.; This time, because it was a siege battle, most of the Song army's dispatches were three-bow bed crossbows and one-armed crossbows; In addition to the bow and crossbow, there is also a long-distance siege weapon, that is, the catapult, the catapult of the Song army has been very different from the previous catapult, the catapult of the Song army can not only throw stones, but also throw fire oil cans; Song Jun's fire oil tank is divided into two types, one is the fatty oil extracted from animals, and the other is the fierce fire oil dug from the ground, which is now oil.
During the Song Dynasty, the land of Sichuan and Shu produced a kind of fierce fire oil, in fact, it is a self-spraying oil well, because the oil layer is very shallow and exposed on the ground, after understanding the power of this fierce fire oil, the Song army used it as a strategic weapon to use, the Song army used the fierce fire oil are brought from Tokyo Bianliang, and the subsequent fierce fire oil is from the distant Sichuan and Shu land, through the Yangtze River, the Grand Canal transportation to the far north.
Before the siege vehicle was assembled, the first round of strikes of the Song army began, and the first thing that made a fury was the catapult, under the command of a captain, the huge throwing rod of thirty catapults was pulled down, and about thirty catties of stones were placed in the basket, and then the rope was pulled to the tightest with a winch, and suddenly it was released, and the huge throwing rod threw the stones at a very high speed, and then fell into the city of Zhuozhou, or hit the city wall.
"Boom, boom, boom" stones began to hit the wall of Zhuozhou City continuously, the whole city wall was splashed with broken stones, the city defense of Zhuozhou City is still very solid, during the reign of Liao, as a big city of Liao, Liao State has strengthened the city defense of Zhuozhou City several times, the whole Zhuozhou City is divided into two parts, the inner city and the outer city, there are urn cities in the various gates of the outer city, the entire outer city wall is wrapped by blue bricks, and the interior is rammed earth; The resulting walls are strong and tough.
When the stone hits the city wall, although the blue bricks on the outside are splashed, in fact, a large part of the impact is absorbed by the rammed earth wall inside; Under the blow of the Song army's long-range weapons, the Eastern Liao army defending the city did not show weakness, and the long-range weapons on the city wall also began to exert their power, the most important of which was the bed crossbow, but the bed crossbow used by the Liao army was much worse than that of the Song army.
The soldiers of the Eastern Liao Army began to use bed crossbows to carry out long-range attacks, hoping to kill the Song army's catapults directly, but they soon found that this method did not work at all, because the bed crossbows of the Eastern Liao army did not have enough range; The Song army's catapults continued to strike the walls of Zhuozhou City unscrupulously, and after five rounds of stones, the Song army replaced it with fierce fire oil, which was obviously much more powerful than stones.
Due to the problem of accuracy, the Song army's catapult could only be a covering blow, and a stone could only hit an indefinite point, and it is likely that there was no one at this point; The fierce fire oil is different, the Song army's fierce fire oil is loaded in a large clay pot, when the jar falls to the ground and breaks, it will form a huge flame, which cannot be extinguished with water, as the saying goes, water and fire are ruthless, once the fire is burned, it cannot be cleaned up.
In addition to the catapult, the Song army also has bed crossbows and various bows and crossbows, at the same time as the catapults are launched, the bed crossbows and bows of the Song army also began to roar, under the command of the crossbow general, 50,000 Song army bowmen operated various types of bow and crossbow equipment and began to release arrows to Zhuozhou City, the Song army has more than 30,000 arrows of large and small size in a round of arrows, which is the real rain of arrows that cover the sky and the sun.
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