Water Margin farming to become powerful

At this time, there were 2 troops of the guardian army outside Luancheng, as well as more than [-] production teams that brought supplements.

The leader of this team is Lu Zhishen.

Now Sun Xin has sent out all the senior generals from Dengzhou. Luan Tingyu is in charge of the attack in Hebei. Lu Zhishen quickly went north from Liyang after the siege of Liyang, met with the officer corps from Dengzhou, and led himself to supervise Students from the university are responsible for attacking Zhending.

As soon as Lu Zhishen arrived in Zhending, he made a plan to attack one point with all his strength. He only gave a small amount of support to the rebels around the area and pulled all his main forces under Luan City.

The Jurchens had very sparse control over Wo Prefecture and Zhending Prefecture, relying only on a few large cities. Lu Zhishen knew that as long as the connections between a few cities were cut off, the Jurchens could be dispersed and surrounded at any time.

Moreover, the number of Jurchens was not enough. The defensive generals in these cities were either officers who surrendered from the Liao Kingdom, or even some generals who surrendered from the Song Dynasty. These people's fighting will was relatively weak.

Lu Zhishen gathered all his transportation capacity and headed straight to Luancheng as the first stop.

On the top of Luan City, Zhou Da looked at the dense crowd below and felt troubled.

Zhou Da was a surrendered general of the Song Dynasty. He was originally responsible for guarding Zhending. After surrendering to the Jurchens, this place is now under his management. He just replaced his troops in the city.

After the peace talks between the Jurchens and the Song Dynasty, Zhou Da was originally ready to give up Zhending and return north with the Jurchens, but he did not expect that Wanyan Zongwang suddenly decided to stick to the Zhending area in Hejian.

Zhou Da cursed in his heart but did not dare to disobey, so he could only guard here honestly.

Zhou Dadu had not yet reacted when the escort army arrived at Luan City along the Hutuo River. However, at dawn, he discovered that there were densely packed ranks of escort troops outside the city.

Zhou Da didn't know that his city was being targeted, but he was crying without tears and wanted to surrender. It was impossible because his soldiers were a mixed bag, many of whom were Han from Liao and would not listen to his orders at all. He could only defend hard.

When Lu Zhishen began to attack the city, not only Zhou Da, but even the Khitans and Jurchens in the city were immediately stunned.

Hebei is not a place in the North China base where you have to cross half the distance of the Great Wall to send anything. You can directly disembark from Binzhou, which is already controlled by the Supervisory Committee. Send the goods all the way to Dizhou, then you can take the waterway through the Yongji Canal, and then turn around Hutuo River, the protection army can easily connect most places in Zhending Mansion through waterways.

Lu Zhishen had been hoarding supplies for less than half a month before the attack. Now that he was so rich, he directly gathered a few artillery regiments and started bombarding Luan City.

What Lu Zhishen fired was not the cheap solid bullets. He fired for three days in a row, using all the explosive bullets.

Where had Song Jun's surrendered army, the Khitan people, and the Jurchens who were guarding the city seen such a thing?
When the bombs were fired for the first time, Zhou Da still used his previous experience of attacking the Shandong Supervisory Council with Tong Guan and asked everyone to hide behind thick battlements and piled some defensive stones and miscellaneous trees on the city walls. kind.

When Zhou Da had attacked Shandong before, he also saw the power of this iron cannon. He knew that this stuff was powerful, but he thought that with the solid city wall of Luancheng, as long as he was not hit by the iron bomb of the Baojun cannon, he directly hit the iron bomb directly to hit the bomber. At least he can keep the lives of some people. In order to maximize the solid defense, he simply not allows soldiers to go down the city walls.

And when the first explosive bomb exploded in front of him, Zhou Da was immediately stunned.

The iron bullet lost this time was no longer the same solid bullet like before relying on the bouncing killing. After falling on the city wall, it bombed and exploded. Even if he hid the stack of the city wall, there was no any effect behind it.

The defenders escaped the first batch of iron bullets, but the next moment the explosion caused the scattered iron blocks to directly fill the soldiers hiding in various corners of the city wall into a hornet's nest.

The bodies of the soldiers who were close to the explosive bombs could not even be put together and were simply broken into pieces.

Zhou Da instantly knew how powerful this protective army was, but there was nothing he could do.

Lu Zhishen made people bombarded against Luan Cheng. All the shells were aimed at the city wall. After bombing for a long time, people could not stand on the wall.No matter how hard Zhou Da drove him away, no one was willing to go up.

At this time, people in Luan City were already panicking.

Especially among the local defenders, fear is spreading.

As for the local people, they already hated the Jurchens deeply. At this time, they were just succumbing to the Jurchens' lust. As soon as they heard that the Supervisory Committee outside the city was attacking the enemy, they naturally wanted to act as internal agents of the Supervisory Committee.

The defenders also gradually lost confidence in their defensive capabilities.

The Protectorate Army seemed to have directly taken over the control of some rebels, cutting off all communication between Luan City and the surrounding areas.

Now more than 4 Jurchen troops are south of Luan City. Originally, they thought that Wanyan Zongwang would soon defeat the defenders in the south and then return to Luan City to aid, but Wanyan Zongwang has been out for almost half a month and there is still no news.

Zhou Da also tried to send someone to inquire about Wanyan Zongwang, but none of the soldiers who descended from the city came back.

Zhou Da even tried to suggest to his Jurchens whether Kaicheng could surrender, but all the Jurchens under him strongly opposed it. Zhou Da found that he could not control them at all, so he could only worry in the camp every day.

At the top of Luancheng City, defenders Zhao Wuqi and defender Zhang Tietou were leaning against the city wall, nervously watching the situation below.

"The cannon below has been pushed out again."

Hearing Zhao Wuqi's voice, Zhang Tietou said without saying a word, and ran down the city with a gun.

The Jurchens who would have been guarding under the city wall to prevent the soldiers from retreating have long since disappeared.

The Supervisory Committee was bombed for three days. These Jurchens also knew how powerful they were. Placing soldiers guarding the city was a complete waste of lives. Every time the protection army began to bombard the Jurchens, if they stopped the Han people from going down to the city, I'm afraid they would be filled with indignation. The Han people killed them and their nature was no more than controlling them.

Zhao Wuqi and Zhang Tietou ran down the city wall in one breath and hid in the Tibetan Soldier Cave under the city wall. Many Han people had already gathered in the cave in twos and threes. They all held wooden guns in their hands just like Zhao Wuqi and Zhang Tietou. , these are all defenders who are used to being bombed. They know that escaping under the city wall means escaping a life, so they sit here and wait for the bombing by the protection army to end.

Zhao Wuqi and Zhang Tietou found a secluded place. The two of them were often on duty together, so they sat together and talked quietly.

Zhao Wuqi: "I think the protection army is about to attack the city. Originally they only bombed once every two hours, but today they have bombed once every half an hour."

After listening to Zhao Wuqi's words, Zhang Tietou nodded. No one paid attention to them at all, and it didn't matter what they said.

"Uncle Zhao, if they break into the city, what should we do?"

Zhao Wuqi and Zhang Tietou were both born into military households. Zhao Wuqi was already in his 40s and Zhang Tietou was less than [-] years old. Both of them had no family background. In Zhao Wuqi's eyes, Zhang Tietou was his companion. The same goes for my son.

He told Zhang Tietou: "Don't be stupid when the time comes. If the escort army really enters the city, we will surrender on our knees. The Jurchens also know that the city cannot be defended. Now they have mobilized their troops into the city and are ready to fight." The protection army is engaged in street fighting, how can we defend it?"

(End of this chapter)