Back to the Song Dynasty as a tyrant

This place is the northern landing point of the Bohai Strait, across the sea is Penglai.

If you want to do business with Liaodong in the land of Qilu, this is the place you must pass through.

In fact, Qilu in ancient times has been famous for doing business by sea since the Spring and Autumn Period.

In places that cannot be touched by historical materials, it is reasonable to infer that private coastal merchants often traveled between Penglai and Duli.

In other words, non-governmental maritime merchants who entered the sea from the Cangzhou area to the east and traded with Korea would often settle here.

Although it is not as important as the Central Plains Chong or the border trade point of the Great Wall, it has slowly gathered some people over time.

An important part of Han Shizhong's management of Dengzhou Prefecture is to bring Duli under the jurisdiction of Dengzhou Prefecture, connecting Penglai and Duli's commercial exchanges.

And Duli's position in the Song Army's Liaodong strategy was the granary, where all the grain shipped from Dengzhou or the Qian family from Hangzhou Bay was hoarded.

In the future, it will also be one of the main trade points between Koryo and Song Dynasty in the future.

When Wan Yanchang came to inspect the entire terrain in person, he was surprised to find that the west side of the city was backed by mountains, the south side directly faced the sea, and a protruding urn city was built on the north side. Only the east side looked okay. attack.

However, in the sea area to the southeast of the city, there are more than a dozen large ships on display.

Those big ships are like giant beasts floating on the sea.

They are very close to the coastline.

Wan Yanchang didn't know how to fight in the water, so he couldn't judge whether those big ships could approach the shore again.

If the Song army on the sea ship can disembark in batches and form a stormtrooper when the Jin army is attacking the city from the east, it will cause great interference to the Jin army's offensive.

Wan Yanchang hesitated for a while.

He immediately sent some scouts to the west of the city to investigate the situation.

These scouts climbed up the mountain, crossed the rugged and narrow road, and two accidentally fell to their deaths in the valley.

In the afternoon, I went to the mountains to see that the city walls were also erected in the west of the city. Although they were not high, they were all erected in places with extremely strange terrain. It was impossible to form a team to attack the city in batches.

This time Wan Yanchang felt his ass hurt.

Sure enough, what you see on the map is different from the real situation you face in the actual detailed inspection.

Wan Yanchang did not act hastily, but sent more scouts to conduct a comprehensive investigation.

Wan Yanchang had a mission in mind, and he boasted in front of Wanyan Zongfu that he could win Duli City in ten days.

After the scouts explored all the terrain, Wan Yanchang summoned his staff and his Moeyans to discuss countermeasures.

There are only two roads before Wan Yanchang, the North City and the East City.

Zhang Cai, the aide, said: "General, there is an urn city and an archery tower in the northern city. It is very difficult to attack. The east city is flat. The Song army has not had time to build the urn city and there is no archery tower. My subordinates suggest attacking the eastern city."

But Mengyan Gu Lijia said: "The Song army has placed more than a dozen large ships on the sea, there must be something wrong, I think they want to attack Beicheng!"

Zhang Cai said: "Those dozens of large ships are still far away from the shore. It is not so easy for the Song army to disembark and land to meet Dongcheng."

"Didn't you see that every ship is connected to the rocks on the shore by iron chains? When necessary, the Song army can slide to the shore by the iron chains!" Gu Lijia obviously looked down on Zhang Cai's flamboyance. "You, who have never fought a war, don't know at all. When necessary, you can fill the road with human life!"

Zhang Cai didn't dare to say more. After all, he was a Han Chinese, and the status of the Han people in the Kingdom of Jin was naturally lower than that of the Jurchens.

Wan Yanchang said: "Didn't everyone realize that the Song army is forcing us to attack Beicheng! They must have deployed heavy troops in Beicheng, as well as all kinds of defensive weapons."

The crowd was silent.

Wan Yanchang continued: "Song Jun asked us to fight the North City, but if we don't go, we will fight the East City!"

Gu Lijia said: "General, what if the Song army gets off the ship and surprises us while we are attacking the city?"

"Set up a line of defense at the seaside." Wan Yanchang smiled, "I don't believe that we are waiting on the shore, and the Song army can defeat us if they attack from the sea!"

When everyone heard this, they couldn't help but praise Wanyan Chang for being wise.

On the ninth day of April, the Golden Army began to act.

Wan Yanchang arrived in Duli on the seventh day of April. He only had ten days to take down Duli on April [-]th.

Early this morning, Zhao Chen was studying how to cook sea crabs.

Since arriving in Dengzhou, I heard that the people along the coast have a difficult life, and they can only rely on sea crabs, sea shrimps, sea fish and the like to eke out a living.

Zhao Chen is a kind-hearted person. He heard that the people along the coast are suffering so badly, and he can't do anything for a while. In order to appease the people, he is the king of Qi, so he also eats these things.

Sometimes he would cook it himself and invite Zhang Qing and Hu Yantong to eat it together.

Although Zhang Qing and Hu Yantong burst into tears every time they ate, they still had to fight back to finish eating.

Chinese people have been eating seafood for a long time.

For example, there were grilled oysters during the Northern and Southern Dynasties.

However, due to transportation conditions, only a very small number of people in the mainland can eat it, which is called delicacies from mountains and seas.

But this thing, in fact, many people didn't like to eat it in ancient times, because it was too fishy.

Only fishermen along the coast really have nothing to eat, and they often eat stewed sea crabs and squat sea cucumbers to make ends meet.

Just when Zhao Chen was about to cook sea crabs for everyone to eat, he suddenly heard a bell.

He looked up and looked outside.

"what happened?"

The attendant on the side said: "Your Highness, it may be that the gold thief has attacked the city!"

"Siege?" Zhao Chen froze for a moment, then turned and walked into the house.

"Your Highness, where are you going?"

Not long after, Zhao Chen came out in armor, and said with a firm gaze, "Of course I'm defending the city with the soldiers and civilians of Duli City."

If Zhao Ning saw this scene, he would probably be a little relieved.

People are complicated.

Zhao Chen is a conservative, who has never seen the ways of the world and people's hearts, and only ideally adheres to the way of sages and sages.

But that doesn't mean he's a coward.

As Qin Hui's wife, Wang Shi, said, when the conservative faction collapsed, the prince still dared to stand up, it was really brave!

"Your Highness, you can't go out, it's too dangerous outside."

But Zhao Chen had already come out in armor, and his guards followed him out.

Soldiers and civilians can be seen everywhere on the street, and the armored Imperial Army has begun to line up in the open space.

The Xiang army began to move boxes of weapons from the arsenal.

The county lieutenant of Duli City was shouting loudly on the street: "Everyone, don't panic, don't mess up, and do what you should do."

Zhang Qing led the people towards the city, and he met Zhao Chen.

"His Royal Highness, why did you come out?"

"I'll go as well."

"It's too dangerous there!"

"It's okay, I won't bother you."

The bells of the city tower became more and more intensive, Zhang Qing didn't say much, but said: "Defend King Qi!"

"Yes!"

Zhao Chen followed Zhang Qing to the tower.

The vanguard of the Jin Army has already lined up outside the east city, there are thousands of people, wearing light armor, reflecting the cold brilliance under the sunlight.

An officer of the Golden Army shouted loudly: "Surrender without killing!"

Then, thousands of gold troops followed and shouted loudly: "Surrender without killing!"

Then the entire Jin army began to shout: "Surrender without killing!"

For a moment, the sound shook the whole field, and the momentum was like a rainbow.

"Commander Zhang." The people below shouted to Zhang Rong, "The gold thief is ready to attack the East City!"

Chapter 485 Wan Yanchang Miscalculated Again (Second Update)

While putting on his armor, Zhang Rong said, "I saw it. The whole army is assembled."

The horn of assembly sounded from the bow of the ship, and several orderlies stood on the mast and waved flags, which meant that the troops were assembled.

How many people can a ship of the Song Dynasty hold?

According to historical records, large-scale sea-going ships can support 500 to [-] people.

This carrying capacity is equivalent to that of the 17th-century European ocean-going warship Galen.

In addition, the technology of sleeping mast and unloading mast is also adopted. When necessary, the mast can be unloaded or laid down.

River boats also have this technique, which is recorded in "A Picture of Rising the River during the Qingming Festival".

However, there were no warships for oceangoing battles in the Song Dynasty, and Song ships were more for commercial services.

The development of shipping technology to this stage also fully demonstrates the strong commercial atmosphere of the Song Dynasty.

It is said that there were some larger boats in the Song Dynasty. People lived on them all year round in the rivers, specializing in fishing and transporting goods for a living, which was equivalent to a small village.

However, this type of river boat disappeared after the Song Dynasty. After all, the commercial atmosphere in the mainland has declined since the Ming Dynasty.

On the contrary, the sea-going ships were built even bigger, and there were super-large ships like Zheng He's voyages to the west.

At this time, there were 300 people on each of the ships led by Zhang Rong, and there were 12 ships in total, with a total of 3600 people.

The forward of the Golden Army was led by Gu Lijia.

After the golden army shouted and cheered, the world seemed to have returned to tranquility.

The sea breeze was blowing, and the waves kept beating against the reefs on the shore.

A golden army of about 2000 people quickly lined up along the coastline to form a defense.

Not long after, Gulijia's siege team began to advance towards the east gate of Duli City.

After entering the range of the crossbow arrows of the Song Army, a dense rain of arrows rushed out of the city in an instant, and fell towards the Jin Army cracklingly, shooting on the shield and armor, making a "dong dong dong" sound.

Some people fell to the ground with arrows and screamed, but the large army still held their shields high and continued to move towards the tower.

The one rushing to the front was a huge "ox cart", and the strongest group of golden soldiers hid behind the "ox cart" and pushed it hard.

The written name of this kind of "ox cart" is trench-filling leather cart, which is included in the "Wu Jing Zong Yao" of the Song Dynasty.

Its original shape is actually not like a cow, but a square box with wheels inside. In order to strengthen its strength, it is wrapped with cowhide.

It is equivalent to the ancient armored vehicles, which are specially used for siege.

However, in order to make it look more mighty, the golden man built it in the shape of a big cow.

When the car reached the moat, the gold army inside started pouring things into the moat.

Song Jun's bow and arrow shot at it, and it was basically impossible to penetrate it.

When the Jin army's troops advanced to a certain distance, the archers hiding behind the goose cart took advantage of the gap and began to shoot arrows.

Soon the Song army at the top of the city was also shot by arrows, but there were only a few of them.

Zhao Chen said: "The Jin people also have the same siege equipment as us?"

Zhang Qing said: "What was not there before, is now available, and Jin people are constantly learning."

The siege equipment of the Jin people is actually relatively simple, not to say that the Jin army does not have that technology, but that after Wan Yanchang marched to the capital in a hurry, he collected materials nearby and built the siege equipment within three days, which can be as sophisticated as to what extent?

The two sides began to confront each other at the distance of the moat.

The bows and arrows were as dense as rain, making a sharp sound.

Not long after, the Song army began to use rockets, and the dense rockets pierced the cowhide and began to emit white smoke.

Others stuck to the goose cart and set it on fire.

Some soldiers of the Golden Army quickly poked their heads out, climbed up directly with good skills, and quickly put out the fire while the fire was small.

As time went by, the Song army stopped shooting arrows. After all, the number of arrows is limited, and the amount of oil that can be burned is also limited.

But during this period of time, the howling and drumming of the main force of the Golden Army did not stop.

They deter the Song army in the city by making loud noises.