Chapter 493: Prepare for war

   "God's arm bow, stepman armor, and weapons such as drop knives, halberd knives, phoenix knives, ring spears..."

Chutian plundered the Northern Song arsenal and looted the equipment of the Song army, and obtained a batch of god-arm bows, infantry armor, and a bunch of miscellaneous soldiers.

Chutian personally put on a pair of step armor, with the armor as the main body, draped on the shoulders, subordinates hanging legs, and the head is extremely heavy.

Chutian soon discovered the problem.

The armors of the Northern Song Dynasty were too heavy, not conducive to maneuverability, and required extremely high physical strength for soldiers.

In other words, if a battle lasts too long, the physical strength of Song Guo's heavy infantry will drop rapidly, and eventually they will lose strength and be defeated by the enemy. Even if it is defeated, it is difficult to hunt down the enemy and expand the results.

However, if Song State did not use heavy infantry, it would not be able to stop the cavalry attack of Liao Jin and Xixia.

"This armor is suitable for defensive combat, not for offense."

Le Yi commented on the Northern Song Dynasty Buren Jia.

Armor is not the heavier the better, it should be analyzed in detail.

Even in the Northern Song Dynasty, not all armors are complete steppers. A complete step armor is costly.

The versatility of the step human armor is poor, and the more practical is the **** arm bow.

God arm bow is a kind of crossbow weapon, the lowest quality is the gold level, among which the excellent one can reach the king level.

Chutian divided up eight thousand **** arm bows, most of which were gold-level god-arm bows, and a few were platinum-level.

"Lord Lord, here are two drawings."

Saint Joan of Arc led his troops to participate in the investigation of the north and south workshops and the bow and crossbow courtyard, and took out two drawings from his arms.

Chutian took the drawing and was stunned.

One of them is a drawing for the manufacture of a gold-class **** arm bow, and the other is a drawing for the manufacture of San Gong Chuang Zi Nu Ba Niu Nu.

Chutian looked at the finished product of the drawings of the God Arm Bow.

Name: Standard God Arm Bow

Quality: Gold

Effect: The fixed attack power of 30 decreases with the distance, and has nothing to do with the class attack power, with the effect of sundering armor

Evaluation: Do you think it is a bow? It's actually a crossbow.

"Standard God Arm Bow?"

This is a good thing.

What Chutian needs is actually this kind of weapon that can be mass-produced to equip the crossbow army.

The higher the quality of the weapon, the higher the cost, but it may not be practical. The cost of building an imperial weapon may be enough to build hundreds of standard divine arm bows.

Chutian also looked at the attributes of the Ba Niu Crossbow, which is a large weapon that can be used to attack and defend the city. Before the advent of artillery, the Ba Niu crossbow was already one of the top siege weapons!

Name: Eight cattle crossbow large

Level: Eighth level siege and defense equipment

Attack power: 200506 releases 7 arrows at the same time, the attack power decreases with distance

Evaluation: It is said that Xiao Talin, the commander of the Liao army, once received a crossbow bolt from the Ba Niu crossbow on his forehead, and was lost and killed in battle.

Chutian already has a double-bow bedzi crossbow, but compared with the eight-niu crossbow, the damage is lower.

After possessing Ba Niu Crossbow, Chu Tian has a more terrifying siege weapon.

"Did you find the manufacturing drawings for the steppers?"

"No."

"These two drawings are enough. As a bonus, you can shorten the time to return to France by one month."

Chutian was very satisfied with the two drawings, so he generously shortened the time for Joan of Arc to return to France.

But Joan of Arc seems not very satisfied.

In addition to weapons such as the God Arm Bow and Infantry Armor, Chutian also divided up a batch of gold and silver as a commission for helping Song Qinzong expel the golden soldiers.

At this time, the Treasury of the Northern Song Dynasty was not rich after many miserable defeats. In fact, Chu Tian did not get much gold and silver.

The territory of Chutian in the main world is richer than that of Song Qinzong.

After seizing a batch of god-arm bows, Chu Tian asked the Yanjiao warriors to put on the god-arm bows, and Chu Tian prepared to take the rest of the god-arm bows back to the main world and put them on Liang Hongyu’s Jianyan crossbowmen.

For the Yan Jia, the improvement of replacing the God Arm Bow is not great, but the God Arm Bow improves Jianyan Crossbowmen a lot.

While the stepping armor is acceptable for sticking, but lacking flexibility, Chu Tian is hesitating whether to replace the Yan armor and sacrificing mobility for defense. This approach has advantages and disadvantages.

The remaining princes also obtained a batch of high-quality equipment from the inner city and the imperial palace arsenal.

More than one hundred thousand Han troops have replaced their equipment and their combat effectiveness has become even stronger!

In addition to the equipment above the gold level, there are also a bunch of minor weapons or some strangely shaped miscellaneous soldiers, enough to arm one hundred thousand militiamen.

"We can recruit 50,000 Song troops and 200,000 Baojia militiamen to drill and upgrade their ranks. One month later, the soldiers attacked the Golden Army on the outer wall and provided cover for us. Then, we gathered our troops and did it in one fell swoop. Jin Bing drove off the outer wall."

"Let Song Qinzong make an order to call on civilians to participate in the exercise."

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Various princes tried to squeeze the war potential of Kaifeng City.

Since it is not possible to recruit soldiers, then only 50,000 Song troops can be called and all armed forces in the city can be summoned to expel the golden soldiers in one fell swoop.

All of this must be in the name of Song Qinzong in order to be justified.

At present, Song Qinzong, Song Huizong and a group of ministers are locked up in a small black room, locked the wooden door with iron ropes, and reflect on them.

Song Qinzong witnessed the celestial master Guo Jing being killed on the main hall of the celestial hall. He was already a frightened bird, and he did not respond to the demands of the princes.

"Not enough, just that, it's not enough, we want to create panic. You set fire in the city, disguised as a golden soldier, threatening to slaughter the city."

Chutian asked Li Guang to pretend to be a golden soldier, and at night, he set fire to the outer city of Kaifeng and called for death.

The news began to circulate in the city that the golden soldiers wanted to burn the city and slaughter the people of the city. For a while, everyone in Kaifeng was in danger.

At this time, Qinzong decreed to recruit 200,000 civilians, conduct training, and serve as auxiliary soldiers to counterattack the Golden Army!

Sheng aims to circulate wildly in the city of Kaifeng, and the people of Kaifeng who have long been annoyed are completely angered. The crowds are like black dragons, gathering towards the Xuande gate of the imperial palace.

If you want the civilians to be used by them, you must make them angry and fearful.

The Xuande Gate is crowded with people, and the water is not leaking. A total of 300,000 civilians!

The princes of the Han army eliminated the young and old from the 300,000 civilians, leaving only 200,000 civilians, including women with kitchen knives.

The princes of the Han army distributed weapons to the young and strong, and then they carried out a one-month simple training, mainly to let them learn to order and prohibit, and put pressure on the golden army.

For most of the Baojia militia, Chu Tian didn't even expect them to go to the battlefield, as long as they attracted the attention of part of the gold army when they counterattacked.

According to the imagination of the princes of the Han army, they would turn the entire Kaifeng outer city into a battlefield, fight to the death with the Jin Army, and defeat the Jin Army in one battle!

Except for the gold army guarding Tongguan, the main force of the gold army has already arrived in Kaifeng. If the main force of the gold army is severely damaged, the Kingdom of Song Dynasty can be extended for a period of time.

The inside of the city was training soldiers and horses nervously, while the golden army on the outer wall was panicked.

The situation in Kaifeng city took a turn for the worse. According to the returning Jinshi, the defenders in the city had hijacked their emperor and openly cleared the side of the emperor.

Even the Jurchens who were born in remote places know that there is no difference between Qingjun and rebellion.

After the emperor was placed under house arrest, the Jin Jun could no longer negotiate directly with Emperor Song, because Emperor Song could no longer promise them anything. They can only negotiate with the Han princes. Starting

It’s just that, given the strength of the Han princes, is it possible for them to negotiate and compensate?

Wan Yan Zongwang has been observing the situation in the outer city recently. He has faintly noticed that the civilians in the outer city are constructing fortifications in an organized manner, arranging horses, sandbags, and bricks on the streets.

If the former civilians only spontaneously resisted the Golden Soldiers, then behind the current civilians, there is a group of people commanding them.

The princes of the Eastern Han Dynasty were extremely capable of launching civilians to participate in wars. The civilians used them well, and they could also exert miraculous effects.

Yan Zongwang felt uneasy, he had realized that the defenders were holding on, and at the same time they were accumulating strength to counterattack.

The defenders in the city no longer negotiate with the golden army outside the city, or the negotiations between the two sides have broken down, only swords are facing each other.

"They are training the Baojia militia. The people in the city complain about us. We can't just wait and die!"

Finally, Wan Yan Zongwang saw through the strategy of the Han princes.

Kaifeng city people can use their hearts, this is a force that scares the Jin army!

Yan Zonghan said: "It is better to destroy the outer city and kill all the people in the city."

Jin Wushu shook his head: "The massacre will have a sense of disobedience, and it will be difficult to convince the public. It will not be easy to enter the Central Plains in the future.

Yan Zonghan didn't care: "For the resisters, only slaughter the city can deter the remaining Song army."

Jin Wushu still disagrees.

The generals of the Jin army are also divided into two factions, arguing.

The West Route Army was blocked by the Song Army in Taiyuan for nine months, so they advocated massacre and disintegrate the Song Army’s resistance will, while the East Route Army generally advocated being soft in order to gain control of the Central Plains in the future.

Finally, Wanyan Zongwang rejected the proposal of the West Route Army to massacre the city and chose to attack the inner city in a conventional way.

"Move the bed crossbow into the city and engage in street fighting. At the same time, we continue to send envoys to put pressure on the defenders to surrender. Otherwise, we will set fire to the outer city and razed the outer city to the ground."

Under the tent of Yan Zongwang, there is a group of generals above the pseudo-king level are confident in the fighting power of the Jin army and are ready to attack.

The Song Army camp is still training soldiers and horses in an orderly manner, guarding several important places such as Longjin Bridge with the main force of the Han army, and playing saws with the Jin Army in the outer city to buy time and at the same time blow the morale of the Jin Army.

Outside the city of Kaifeng, Zhao Gou, the ninth son of Song Huizong, was appointed as the general marshal of the world's soldiers and horses, and Zong Ze and Wang Boyan were deputy marshals. The Emperor Song ordered him to lead soldiers and horses from all over Hebei to rescue Kaifeng. Never dare to march to Kaifeng.

Deputy Marshal Zongze had to lead troops alone to support Kaifeng.

During the period, Zongze sent a letter to the governor of Beidao, the Xuanfu Envoy of Hedongbei Road, and the Zhixingren Mansion, requesting joint soldiers to rescue Kaifeng, but these people thought Zongze was arrogant and ignored it.

The General Marshal Zhao Gou did not send reinforcements at all. His main force did not dare to move forward, but he separated a partial division. The former army of the Marshal’s Mansion commanded Liu Hao. He headed towards Junzhou and Huazhou to the south. During the Three Kingdoms period, Liyang and Yecheng were used as suspicious soldiers to aid Kaifeng.

In the area of ​​Shiyulin in Huazhou, a three-hundred-man cavalry squad under Liu Hao's department is galloping. The generals leading the group are only more than twenty years old. Shen Hou is reluctant to speak, and on Liu Hao's order, came to reconnaissance.

It is said that the capital of Bianjing has been besieged by the Golden Army. The soldiers and horses of Hebei are not far from Bianjing. The marshal of the soldiers and horses Zhao Gou gathered a large number of rebels, but hesitated.

A scout cavalry reported urgently: "My lord, there is a golden army ahead!"

The young military commander's voice was deep and certain: "Kill it!"

:. : M.x