December 13th, Wuma Mountain, in front of Tiebi Pass.

From the end of November to the present, in half a month, the Jin army has launched no less than twenty consecutive attacks, one more fierce and one more fierce. Before Tiebi Pass and Chaotian Pass, they were thick and firm.

The ice is not white, but bloody.

Dozens of life-and-death battles have paid a heavy price, both sides on the offense and defense.

As a victorious army, the Jin army surrounded the camp with superior forces, so its morale was as strong as a rainbow. The soldiers and soldiers were strong and well-armed. If they were not restricted by the terrain, they could not expand large forces and could not place large siege equipment.

, Wuma Mountain Village has been broken several times.

The Wuma Mountain Rebel Army has no other way to compete with the rest. The troops can only be compared with 2,000 people. The other thousands of young and strong men who have no training can only fight and throw a stone.

If you want to fight, you can't change one of the enemies if you want to fight. It's almost like killing a death.

Comparing combat power, the most elite 2,000 troops in Wuma Mountain Village are only comparable to the Han-Sign Army of the Jin army. If they face Ali Xi, they will be a little overwhelmed. If there are some Jurchen soldiers mixed in, Wuma Mountain guards

Jun, he can only get beaten up.

The Wuma Mountain Village was in a hurry again and again, because there were one or two Jurchen Jin soldiers in Puyan, mixed with the attacking Han Qian army and some Ali Xi, and suddenly exerted force to defeat the defenders.

The reason why Wuma Mountain Village has never lost it is that there are a group of well-made standard crossbows in the mountain village. This batch of standard crossbows was taken up by Zhao Bangjie and Ma Kuo. Both of them were from court officials and have repeatedly participated in the anti-Jin battle.

There are hundreds of pairs of arms and resources on hand. Among them, there are hundreds of pairs of crossbows, leather armor, side cards, swords and guns. Among them, the most lethal to the Jin soldiers is the crossbows.

The bow is a five-dou compound bow with strong pulling force and good elasticity. It can be broken through armor with thirty steps and penetrate the body with fifty steps. The crossbow is the most commonly used horse-yellow crossbow in the Song army, with a lethality of more than a hundred steps. This is even more against gold.

The weapon of a soldier.

Whenever the key points are reached, they rely on strong bows and crossbowmen to exert force together. A heavy rain of arrows suppresses the momentum of the Jin soldiers, and only then can they barely save the clan from losing.

However, after a few days of bloody battles, the 2,000 elite troops in Wuma Mountain Village have been lost, and half of them are crossbowmen; the Five Dou Bows and Horse Yellow Crossbow are also damaged, which is unusable; what's worse is feather arrows and crossbows

There are shortages in the arrow...

On December 13th, there was only a light snowfall, and the mountain road was muddy, but it could not stop the Jin army's crazy offensive.

Yelu Duo has received the last record from Wanyan Zongfu. If the war is delayed until next year, then Wang Bolong will take over his command. As for how Yelu Duo is placed, the superiors have not said anything, only one thing is certain, and they will no longer take it seriously and will remain behind.

At present, the commander of the Eastern Route Army is in charge of Zhending City. Where can there be any position where Zhending stays behind?

It is related to his future wealth and prosperity, Yelu Duo had to sacrifice his strength. He attacked for many days but failed to win many battles. Yelu Duo also summed up some experiences and lessons. If he did not change his playing style and would only attack and fight hard, he would not dare to say it for a long time.

It is definitely impossible to defeat in the short term. The southern soldiers fought in the field, but defending the city was his strength. It was precisely because of the strength of the city and the advantages of fortifications and mediocre combat power that were so simple that they could be trained.

The signing army was one-to-one. During this period, the Jin army threw more than one thousand corpses in front of the two parables. Similarly, the casualties paid by the defenders far exceeded this number.

Yelu Duo has taken some other measures, such as cutting off the water-drawing road on the mountain, sending people to lure the surrender, and even driving nearby villagers to fill the trenches to attack the village, but unfortunately the results are very little. The guards are determined and ignore the persuasion of surrender, and are forced to attack.

The villagers in the village will be killed... As for cutting off the water source, if it is dry and rainy autumn, it is a tough move. However, on such a snowy day, it can only cause a little inconvenience to the defenders drinking water, and there is no obvious effect.

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Just when Yelu Duo was at a loss, there was finally a good news. Zhending Base Camp sent a long-awaited reinforcement - of course, this reinforcement was not many new forces, but several craftsmen that Yelu Duo urgently needed... Therefore,

This time, Yelu Duo fought against Tiebi Pass again, which is more confident than usual.

At the third hour of the year, Yelu Duo was at the foot of Wuma Mountain, directly in front of Tiebiguan Village, and set up a marching camp. His confidant general Xiao Bulu paid goodbye to Yelu Duo carefully, and then led the four Mousses to defeat the Jin soldiers.

Pushing five large carts, he marched towards the iron wall gate surrounded by clouds.

This time, Yelu Duo no longer divided his troops, but concentrated his efforts to specialize in Tiebi Pass. As long as he took this Pass, he captured and killed King Xin and Zhao Bangjie, Chaotian Pass would naturally be defeated without attack.

In the Tiebiguan Village, a three-story three-story building with thick logs, Zhao Bangjie, Zhizhai, was stationed on the ground, and looked at the Jin army servant dozens of feet away from the village wall with a gloomy face.

, unloaded a bunch of siege equipment from several large trucks. Hundreds of Jin soldiers in front gathered to set up formations to prepare for the attack.

However, in just over ten days, Zhao Bangjie's fat face became longer, his face was haggard and his long beard was entangled, and it was obvious that he had not been combed for many days. The fish scale armor that was originally sensible was also negligent to wipe it.

The darkness is much darker, which makes him look grey and sad.

"What equipment are you unloaded from the Golden Dog's vehicle?" Zhao Bangjie asked the guard behind him with a little tiredness.

The guards stretched their necks and looked at them for a long time, and said uncertainly: "It seems like a ladder... No, the ladder is not so short... the attacking ram is too small... Could it be a crossbow..."

At this time, the gathered Jin soldiers were composed of ten people in a row and one chariot as an attacking unit. The soldiers in the front row held a license and held a knife, the two and three rows of soldiers in a spear, and the two rows in the back were archers.

The formation was assembled into a formation, and 400 Jin soldiers formed a total of eight attack echelons. However, the Jin soldiers did not launch an attack immediately, but seemed to have some support.

The Tiebiguan Village is already ready. The village walls of Tiebiguan are equipped with mercedes, patrols, troop ladders, troop sheds and other facilities. There are interior walls and exterior walls, the exterior walls are 1 meter high, and the inner walls are

The two walls are ten feet apart, forming a trapezoidal strike surface with high inside and low outside. In the previous fierce battle, whenever the Jin soldiers approached, the outer wall defenders fought with swords and guns, and the inner wall was

A large number of crossbowmen gathered, condescending to the top, and shot with crossbows, repeatedly defeating the Jin army's offensive.

At this time, the Tiebi Guanzhai Rebel Army had already experienced the experience with the Jin soldiers after nearly a month of bloody battle. Without Zhao Bangjie's order, the outer wall was full of gun players. Various kinds of rolling wood, stone, and boiling oil were also used.

Prepare early; on the inner wall, the crossbowmen also entered one after another, leaning on the mercedes against the bitter cold wind, their hands full of frostbite, still holding their bow arms tightly...

Looking at the slightly sparse archers team, Zhao Bangjie felt his eyes were astringent and his nose was sore. Most of these archers were his old subordinates. Wuma Mountain Village could be attacked by nearly 10,000 Jin soldiers. Supporting this has been the result of this group of crossbowmen. In just half a month, nearly half of the few crossbowmen have been lost, with only less than a hundred people remaining, and the number of arrows is not enough to apply...

The scale of the Jin army's attack this time was obviously quite large. There were four scepters, obviously they had made some determination. I really don't know how many crossbowmen and arrows would be left after this battle...

At this time, under the command of several craftsmen, the group of servants carried all the unloaded equipment from the truck onto several temporary piled soil platforms, and then assembled them into shape. It was gradually seen that it looked like something...

A guard from the Western Army behind Zhao Bangjie suddenly burst into tears: "No, it's... a whirlwind cannon!"

Zhao Bangjie subconsciously shuddered and looked back in shock: "You read that right?"

The guard looked panicked: "I read that right, it is indeed the whirlwind cannon used by Xia Guo's 'Puxi Army'. This object can be fired on the back of a camel. It hardly takes into account the terrain restrictions... I'm afraid it will be bad this time."

Although Zhao Bangjie had never seen the whirlwind cannons of Xia Kingdom with his own eyes, he had heard that the "Shuxi Army" of Xia Kingdom was the elite of the army. When he was about to set up a whirlwind cannon on the camel saddle. The stone was like a fist and overturned like rain. .Hundreds of steps away, destroying the enemy's formation is like destroying the dead.

Now the troops are at the city, not the Poxi Army. However, the siege weapon used is actually the whirlwind cannon, the Xia army's sharp weapon to break the village!

Zhao Bangjie's face changed drastically. His voice changed: "Hurry, let the soldiers on the village wall retreat, or look for shelter nearby...Hurry--"

The Western Army guard received the order quickly. As soon as he ran down the stairs, a strange roar came from his ears. The sound was somewhat similar to the huge hailstorm that had been dropped a few days ago.

The Western Army guard couldn't help but look up - dozens of black dots appeared in the sky, getting bigger and bigger, getting closer and closer... Bang bang bang bang! A series of vibrations made the village walls fly, and several misfortunes The defender's chest collapsed, and he spitted blood from his mouth and fell from the wall of the village, and he saw that he was no longer alive.

Yelu Duo's secret weapon - the whirlwind cannon! It has begun to show its power!

Two hundred steps away from the Tiebiguan Wall, after the Jin army array, twelve cyclone cannons were arranged in three rows, constantly smashing stone bullets that were as big as fists and were like winds, slamming them at Tiebiguan like a wind .For a moment, the stone chips on the village walls cracked, dust flew, and the snow was misty, and sometimes mixed with the screams of the defenders. The entire iron-blocked village was filled with screams, scolding and chaotic footsteps... from the whirlwind cannon At the beginning, in just a moment, the defenders of Tiebi Pass fell into chaos.

The famous whirlwind cannon in the Western Xia army is actually a small single-tip stone thrower, which is maneuverable and flexible and can be turned. It is usually operated by three people, one person releases it, and two people pull and fire stone bullets. The maximum power generated at the moment , with a throwing range of more than 300 kilograms, is close to that of the Divine Arm Bow, and its destructive power to objects is greater than that of the Divine Arm Bow.

At that time, there were also cyclone cannons in the Song army. The cannons had no frame and the shaft was placed horizontally on the soaring pillar. When firing, the column was buried five feet below and fixed with wood, or tripped with mills and chips. Although the power is not small, it is heavy and clumsy, and it is difficult to transport. Unless it is a long-term siege, the general war is basically useless. It is placed on the back of a camel with the Xixia Poxi Army, and it can be turned in a cross shape and moves quickly. The whirlwind cannon is simply incomparable.

Xixia was once an ally of the Liao Kingdom, and even the princess of the Xixia was the princess of the Liao Kingdom. When the Jin army destroyed Liao, Xixia also sent troops to help Liao Kingdom. Jin Kingdom and Xixia also had many collisions in the northwest, and many After suffering from the Poxi Army, of course, in the end, the Jin army still defeated the Xixia Army repeatedly with its strong combat power, and captured some of the Poxi Army soldiers and craftsmen. Most of these prisoners were sent to Huining Prefecture, Shangjing, and few Part of them were allocated to the east and west armies of Jin.

In Wanyan Zongfu's Eastern Army, there were a few Western Xia craftsmen who knew a little about the production of whirlwind cannons. After receiving the report that Yelu Duo's war was not going well, Wanyan Zongfu decided to go to the left army with consideration. Send craftsmen who are good at making whirlwind cannons to open up the deadlock for Yelu Duo.

After these craftsmen arrived at the base of the Left Army, they asked Yelu Duo for two hundred servants and spent seven or eight days to make twelve whirlwind cannons. However, due to the haste time, these craftsmen were given the same rush. The manufacturing technology is not skilled, so the cyclone cannon produced is rough in shape, and its quality and performance are several streets worse than the quality of the military used by the Poxijun.

However, Yelu Duo didn't care about this much, it would be good if it could be useful. Anyway, Tiebi Guanzhai is not a high-walled city, and the copycat version of the whirlwind cannon should be enough.

Yelu Duo's estimate is indeed correct. Although the large siege equipment such as the catapult is not very harmful to the guards, it is even worse than a dense wave of arrows, the deterrent force it shows will have a psychological impact on the defenders. A huge impact. The whole village wall seemed to be trembling. I could only hide my head like a mouse, hiding under the village wall with endless blows, which hurt my morale very seriously.

This is actually a bit like the artillery fire strikes on the battlefield in later generations. It looks earth-shaking and shattering, but its actual lethality is sometimes not as good as a few bullets. Even so, it does not prevent artillery from becoming the god of war.

Throughout history, all wars have proved an iron law: the one who decides the outcome of a battle is often not how many enemies one side kills, but the morale of which side collapses first.

Therefore, all weapons that can destroy the morale of the enemy, even though their actual lethality is not as terrifying as the surface, are strategic weapons that determine the outcome of the war.

This is true for cyclone cannons; artillery cannons; so is the case for sniper rifles.

The whirlwind cannon of the Xixia standard is not large, it weighs only five or six pounds, but it hits from two hundred steps away, and the gravity acceleration and destructive power cannot be underestimated. The village wall made of red sandstone will be smashed. It was a big pit. The facilities in the village, such as water tanks, oil jars, iron pots containing gold juice, hidden soldiers sheds for guards to rest, etc., were all smashed to pieces.

What's even more terrible is that this small stone caster throws stone bombs very fast, which is almost the same as the time it takes to fire a crossbow. In this way, although there are only twelve cyclone cannons, it fires a barrage, saying that the bullet is like rain. It is not an exaggeration to directly tie the two walls inside and outside the Tiebiguan Village into a white ground.

If the Jin army could maintain such a intensive attack for half an hour, or even an hour, even if the morale of the Wumashan defenders was not defeated, the village wall would not be able to withstand it and collapse.

However, the copycat version is a copycat version. Twelve cyclone cannons, which were used in less than two quarters of an hour, and began to malfunction one by one. Either the bearing shaft was damaged, the base was cracked, or even the rotation of the tip rod occurred. And because of the unfamiliar skills of the gunner and the stiff operation, the loss rate of the whirlwind cannon has been artificially accelerated.

At first, the craftsmen were sweating profusely and rushed around for repairs, but they had not done it yet and there was a situation there. They finally got rid of the fault and had to use it for a while, but they didn't know what was wrong and slacked off. I was really exhausted, but the more I repaired, the worse it was. In the end, seven whirlwind cannons were completely scrapped.

"It's almost done." Xiao Bulu, as the commander of the attack, was already very satisfied with the current results. If the whirlwind cannon is broken, it will be broken. Anyway, after capturing Guanzhai, this thing will be useless.

As Xiao Bulu waving the flag, the remaining five cyclone cannons stopped firing. The four attack echelons of Jin soldiers who had been raising their energy for a long time shouted, and their steps were steadily marching into the snow. Flying like a human wall, attacking the iron wall.
Chapter completed!