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This was a great treasure to Wanyan Zongbi.
I have to personally observe it every day.
"The section closest to the west gate,"
"The new wall collapsed the best,"
Wanyan Zongbi said,
"It falls down and becomes a slope,"
“Our great golden warriors can charge up the slope,”
"You can climb to the top of the city wall by using a very short ladder."
Wanyan Talan said, "Continue to use the cannons to launch stones."
"It will probably take another month or two,"
Only then could the old walls built by the Liao Dynasty be breached.
"Should we attack the city before it collapses?"
Wanyan Zongbi said, "The grain supplies were seized from Goryeo by Woben (Wanyan Zonggan)."
"He transported a batch back to Liaoyang himself,"
"The rest are for us to fight."
"The fighting isn't just happening here,"
"The Great Wall at Zhenhaikou is also under attack,"
"If we drag this out too long, we'll run out of supplies."
Wanyan Talan frowned and asked, "Why not concentrate our forces in one place?"
"In a siege, whether the forces are concentrated or not makes no difference."
Wanyan Zongbi said,
"The coastal county town is too small,"
Even if 50,000 men were to attack this city,
"That's about all the people we can send,"
"The rest of the troops can only watch from behind."
Wanyan Talan couldn't help but complain:
“Eriduo (Wanyan Zongfu) hasn’t been on the battlefield for several years,”
"He had no idea how difficult the Ming army was to deal with."
"It was already difficult enough to recapture Haibin County,"
"They're even thinking of starting wars on two fronts,"
"Take down the Great Wall at Zhenhaikou as well."
Wanyan Zongbi had not fought a war for three years.
After careful consideration, he said:
"Bombard them with artillery for another five days,"
"Choose a few sections of the city wall to launch a strong attack,"
"The rest of the troops will feign an attack to assist in the battle."
Five days passed in the blink of an eye.
The two city towers, east and west
It had been riddled with holes by the Jin soldiers' trebuchets.
Even the best-positioned arrow towers were destroyed.
The siege has officially begun!
The trebuchet was assembled first.
The stones were used to cover the advance of the attacking troops.
The Jin army was well prepared this time.
They also utilized artisans kidnapped from Hebei.
They produced many siege weapons invented during the Northern Song Dynasty.
There weren't many people standing on the city wall.
Until the Jin soldiers stopped bombarding,
Li Baocai dispatched soldiers.
They quickly ran up the city wall from the horse path to defend it.
Furthermore, there are no plans to use the Thunderclap Bomb for the time being.
There are only eight hundred of those for now.
Chapter 3132 Siege Weapons
Logs and falling rocks,
They had already piled up on the city walls.
The broth has been boiled down to a semi-solid state.
It was a mixture of feces, urine, and various unidentified substances.
The salt workers, who were to be employed as laborers, followed along.
Add water to the semi-dry, semi-thin syrup.
Then light the firewood and start heating and cooking.
Hot oil was not prepared.
Supplying goods across the sea
Vegetable oil is very precious.
The first ones deployed for the siege
They were all Han Chinese from the north and Khitan soldiers.
These two ethnic groups,
The largest population within the Jin Kingdom
Moreover, their social status is not high.
They were always used as cannon fodder in sieges.
The newly constructed outer wall collapsed.
This creates uneven obstacles.
Although it made the city walls much lower
However, this also made it difficult for the Jin army's large siege weapons to get close.
Things like cloud ladders,
We also have to choose a spot where the outer wall hasn't collapsed.
Only then could the ladder be successfully hung on the city wall.
Just as the Jin soldiers turned the winch,
As the ladder slowly extends,
The defenders suddenly shouted in both Chinese and Khitan:
"Han sons and daughters, do not risk your lives for the Jurchens!"
"Khitan brothers, drop your weapons and we won't kill you!"
"The Jurchen soldiers dared not attack the city."
"You've only come here to die!"
"..."
These past two years of cross-sea raids,
Li Bao abducted and persuaded many Jin soldiers and civilians to surrender.
They have figured out the Jin army's tactics for attacking cities.
He knew about the previous waves of cannon fodder used in the siege.
They must have been Han Chinese and Khitans.
The Ming soldiers defending the city,
While shouting to persuade them to surrender,
They were using underhanded tactics to kill him.
The first thing to be launched was a rocket.
Aiming at various siege weapons.
Gunpowder mixed with rosin,
The bullets continued to burn on the siege equipment.
As long as enough rockets are launched,
It always manages to ignite one or two pieces of Jin weaponry.
The first wave of Jin troops' attack.
They were quickly driven back by rockets, falling rocks, logs, and ordinary arrows.
The Ming army had not yet had time to leave the city and destroy the weapons.
The Jin army's second offensive has begun.
They pushed the rows of parapets and approached quickly.
The Jin soldiers hiding behind the parapet.
Team after team took over the siege equipment that had been abandoned.
This time, someone approached the top of the city wall.
The scalding hot molten gold was poured back onto them.
The fighting continued into the afternoon.
Hundreds of Jin soldiers have been killed or wounded.
"Linchong, there's a Linchong over there,"
"Fire all rockets at the charge!"
Li Bao personally oversaw operations from the watchtower within the city.
Suddenly I saw something through the binoculars.
He immediately ordered the mobilization of nearby rocket troops.
Linchong was also known as Lügongche in the Ming Dynasty.
It takes twenty or thirty people to push it forward.
It's like a mobile building.
Many siege warriors were hidden inside.
The top was built slightly higher than the city wall.