The struggle of the reborn prince

During the battle to defend Huining, the emperor made many tricks. Zongxiong and Zongmin, the two pillars of the Great Jin Kingdom, appeared so stupid, incompetent and incompetent. On the two people, Pu San Zhongyi, they commanded the soldiers and civilians of Huining City to repel the Song Army's attacks again and again, and they showed great bravery and fearlessness, which caused a lot of trouble for the Song Army.

According to Zhao Tong's arrangement, the Song army attacked the city with the tactics of rapid attack and slow advance, concentrated artillery fire in the north city to destroy their fortifications outside the city, and then approached steadily, gradually clearing the strongholds on the outer defense line of the Jin army, and then re-opened. Build artillery positions to get within the effective range of the artillery.But in the process of advancing, the closer to the city, the greater the resistance encountered, and this resistance is not only the tenacious resistance of the Jin army, but also the threat of trebuchets.

The Kingdom of Jin went south to the Central Plains. When it attacked Bianjing, it obtained the most advanced offensive and defensive weapon abandoned by the Song army at that time, and used it in actual combat in the subsequent siege, and mastered the launching method.The Jurchens are also very good at learning and absorbing advanced technology. Naturally, powerful weapons like trebuchets have also become the objects of their absorption.After returning to the north, the Jurchens used the captured craftsmen from the Central Plains to start making trebuchets, which were gradually equipped to the troops.The earliest history of the catapult can be traced back to the Warring States period. It is a large-scale human-powered long-range weapon that uses the principle of leverage to throw stone bullets.The development of the catapult in the Song Dynasty reached its peak, and its power began to become extremely terrifying and huge.According to the size and manpower required, trebuchets are divided into three types: light, medium and heavy:

Light throwing carts are cast by only two people, and the stone bullets weigh half a catty, which can be used to fight against the enemy; medium throwing carts include single-shoot, double-shoot, whirlwind, tiger squatting, etc., requiring forty to a hundred people to pull the cannon.It can shoot a stone bullet weighing more than 20 kilograms for eighty steps; while the heavy throwing car has five-shoot and seven-shoot guns, and it takes 150 to 250 people to pull the gun cable, it can fire stone bullets weighing [-] to [-] kilograms.In the state of full blood, a hundred catties of stone bullets can be shot fifty steps away, and smaller stone bullets can be fired farther.

compared to artillery.The trebuchet has low power, short range, and poor flexibility, but it is still a sharp weapon, especially in the battle of defending the city.After the development of artillery was hindered by the Jin army, it began to produce a large number of trebuchets for war, and gradually explored and summed up experience in the battle with the Song army.Although he won less and lost more in the battle with the Song army, it was much better than being beaten passively and having no power to fight back.During the Northern Expedition of the Song Army.The Jin army retreated steadily, and Heshi Lie Zhining, who was in charge of defending the capital, realized that he would fight the Song army in the city.Therefore, he was also actively preparing for the battle. While strengthening the city defense, he ordered the craftsmen to rush to make a large number of trebuchets, with a total of more than [-] trebuchets.

Based on past experience, Zhi Ning understood that trebuchets were the key targets of the Song army's artillery, so he placed light trebuchets on the top of the city. Because it is easy to manufacture.The number is also the largest; the medium-sized trebuchets are relatively bulky, and he arranged them on the high platform in the city, hidden behind the city wall.You can use the shielding of the city wall to reduce the probability of being destroyed by the artillery of the Song army.

Heavy trebuchets are difficult to move and can only be fixed on the ground. Therefore, Zhining took advantage of its long range to arrange heavy trebuchets at the corners of the city, throwing them from partition walls to suppress enemy artillery. There are hundreds of them in each city corner.Thinking about launching thousands of trebuchets at the same time, and the flying stones falling from the sky overwhelmingly is an extremely spectacular scene, and the damage caused is also very amazing.

But Jin Jun's trebuchets not only fired stone bombs, they also equipped the trebuchet with multiple types of bombs.Lime bags with charming eyes, poisonous caltrops that can ignite and smoke... The most powerful thing is the thunderbolt that can explode, although this is not as powerful as the Song Army's flowering bombs.But unlike shells, which are limited by the caliber of the artillery, they can be made very large to increase their power.Therefore, the casualties caused by the explosion in the crowd are also terrible.No one was spared within a radius of several feet.

In order to eliminate the threat of the trebuchets to the attacking troops, Zhao Tuo ordered the artillery to try to destroy them.The trebuchets on the top of the city are okay, but the range of the rapid-fire guns is not enough, and they can be destroyed by direct shooting with heavy artillery, but it is difficult to deal with the ones hidden behind the city walls. Because it is difficult to find its location and the range is limited, it is impossible to shoot accurately. It can only be targeted by the probability of the observer's calculation, which is extremely inefficient. The heavy-duty catapult in the corner of the city is even more difficult to hit because it is covered by two walls.

So Zhao Tun ordered to fill up the ditch in front of the barrier, and use the remaining low wall as a basis to heighten it so that it was basically level with the city wall, and then set up artillery positions on this platform, so that the conditions for observation and shooting were greatly improved. change.There was a fierce artillery battle inside and outside the city, and even the artillery placed on the top of the city by the Jin Army joined the battle.

But over time, the Jin Army's trebuchets fired slowly, and their weaknesses of short range and low power were exposed. The small trebuchets placed on the top of the city were first destroyed, and then the artillery was also overturned.While destroying the trebuchets at the top of the city, the heavy mortars of the artillery of the Song Army also fired suppressively at the trebuchets hidden behind the city, and resolutely destroyed the exposed concentrated firepower.

The artillery battle between the two sides lasted intermittently for several days. Compared with the performance of the two incompetent generals, Heshi Liezhining and Pusan ​​Zhongyi, their performance in this defense battle was very eye-catching, and it is also worthy of special mention. Because the two have almost always insisted on the forefront of the war.When the fierce battle was in full swing, He Shi Lie Zhining personally went to the North City to command the battle against the artillery fire of the Song Army, appease the defenders, and personally delivered medicine and wine to the wounded during the truce, and rewarded the defenders for meritorious service.Servant Zhongyi, who commanded the trebuchet, absorbed the experience of previous defeats, rationally allocated firepower, replenished ammunition in time, repaired the destroyed trebuchet, moved exposed positions, and replenished young men to maintain combat effectiveness.

But it's hard for a clever woman to cook without rice.As the battle lasted longer, in this intense battle, the gunpowder stored by the Jin army was basically exhausted, and the city was besieged and could not raise the sulfur, saltpeter and other raw materials needed for the preparation of gunpowder. The artillery became a display with great power. The thunderbolts are also exhausted.But they did not stop fighting because of this, and still fired stone bullets to attack the attacking Song army, so that they could not even supply stone bullets in the later period.

Bianjing also encountered this scene back then, but they did not have the foresight like Zhao Ji to collect strange stones to build Genyue in the city, and built an ammunition depot for the officers and soldiers guarding Bianjing city.Servant Zhongyi took the lead in demolishing his mansion, and polished the strips, steps, and pillars into stone bombs for war, and used the wood to make trebuchets.With an example, the soldiers and civilians in the city also collected stone and wood to send to the army. Hundreds of stone bombs were piled up around the corner of the city.

From a tactical point of view, the Song army seemed to have won this battle, destroying hundreds of catapults of the Jin army, killing and injuring a large number of enemy troops, and opening up the channel for attack.But from a strategic point of view, the Song Army did not achieve the expected results. Instead of crushing Jin *min's will to resist, it inspired their fighting spirit.So generally speaking, it should have been evenly matched. The Song army had the upper hand and did not achieve an overwhelming victory...

The offensive and defensive battle of Huining City was in full swing, but the emperor Wanyan Quan was not as enthusiastic as before. After confirming Wanyan Heng's disappearance, he completely believed that Wushu was going to make peace with Song Dynasty and betrayed himself and made his son emperor It's true.This made him restless, and he might be given to Zhao Er as a gift at any time, but no one in Beijing can compete with Wushu, and all capable people have already killed Wushu with his help. Thinking of her predicament, Wan Yanquan felt desolate, there was no one she could trust in times of crisis.

Between life and death, of course Wanyan Quan would not sit still, he thought about it and the only one he could use for himself was Zhang Hao. Use his talents but don't trust him, but he should be an emergency role.And he is dissatisfied with Wushu's domination of the government, so Zhang Hao can become the target of being wooed by him, and become a pawn against Wushu.

Wan Yanquan figured it out, so he called Zhang Hao into the palace to discuss the matter of Kuoli, and he retreated from the left and right to discuss with Zhang Hao, and told Wushu that he was going to make peace with Song Dynasty and establish his son as emperor.In fact, this matter has long been rumored in Beijing, and Zhang Hao has also heard it. Today, the emperor knew it was "true" when he said it. He understood that the emperor would inevitably be involved in the royal battle when he told him about this matter, There is no way out.He is a literati, and he can be regarded as an upright person, so he naturally despises Wushu's actions, so he decided to side with the emperor.

Zhang Hao and Wanyan Quan knew that the two of them alone would not be able to defeat Wushu, their strength was too weak, especially without the support of the army.Now the army in the city is in the hands of Wanyan Zongxiong, Wanyan Zongmin, Heshi Liezhining, and Pusan ​​Zhongyi. Heshi Liezhining is the son-in-law of Wushu and is naturally the first one to be excluded. Wanyan Zongmin did not join the army With experience and lack of contacts, there are only Zongxiong and Pu San Zhongyi.

In fact, these two people are not the best candidates. Zongxiong's performance in the battle is really unsatisfactory; Pu San Zhongyi has followed Wushu for a long time, and the two have a close relationship, and they have been recommended by Wushu for several promotions.So they didn't dare to put the treasure on them, and at this moment, news came from outside the palace: Wanyan Kexi, who was guarding Supin Road, led Qin Wang's army to break through the encirclement of the Song army and enter the city...