The sun rises in the east, the cumulus clouds disperse, and the snow covers the border.

The cold wind is blowing above the city gate, and the Liao flag is spreading in the wind, and the rushing is resounding.

On Juyong Pass, one person stood alone on the city tower, wearing a rabbit velvet cloak, holding a brass telescope in his hand and looking at the pass northeast.

The sun gradually rose and shone on the plaque "The No. 1 Pass in the World" above my head. The river water next to it was icy and rustling.

"Beat the drum, and smoke."

There were sounds of orders inside the pass, and the giant drums quickly rang out, and thick black wolf smoke was lit on the beacon tower above the Great Wall.

Beacon towers followed by beacon towers, connected together, with a terrifying momentum.

And just as the beacon fire evaporates, a blurred line appears in the distance of the pass. As the line approaches, it is possible to distinguish it from the naked eye, but you can see the crowd like a stormy wave.

The Jin army has arrived.

They lined up and set up camp ten miles outside Juyong Pass and did not advance. As the drum beats inside the Pass stopped immediately, both sides began to bury pots and cook rice.

This is probably the rule. Anyway, Xiao Song said it was better now from the book. As early as the Spring and Autumn Period, there were more rules for fighting wars, otherwise there would be no such thing as beating drums and singing gold to withdraw troops.

"Shishou Song, what should we do afterwards?"

"What should I do? What else can I do? Waiting to defend the city, only 50,000 people can rush out?" Xiao Song pointed to the environment around Juyongguan: "Isn't the Great Wall built for this?"

Xiao Song's mission this time had nothing else, he was to defend Juyong Pass until the Song-Liao coalition forces moved here, and he didn't need to consider other things, nor was he the turn to consider them.

Xiao Song was not afraid of defending the world's number one pass, but it was not that easy to say, because in just over twenty days, the offense and defense can only rely on God to decide the outcome.

The canyon where Guancheng is located belongs to the mountainous land of Taihang Yuanmai Jundu, with a cliff and a steep terrain below. It is impossible to force an attack, but the generals of this era are not fools. Naturally, they will not attack the city just by coming up, and psychological warfare is the first priority.

And I think it's just the first front line, and there must be other troops attacking from other directions at the same time.

This invisibly formed a siege. In this case, it was actually very stressful for the soldiers guarding the city. The snow yesterday and the severe cold that was about to be brought also greatly challenged the psychological defense of the soldiers on the border.

So if there is no accident, the final battle of defending the pass is the morale and psychological endurance of the pass guarding soldiers and siege soldiers.

Whoever collapses first will be finished.

This is not the first time that Xiao Song has seen large-scale cluster operations, but this time it is actually a little panicked.

Many people may not know what the concept of 350,000 people is. In fact, they can refer to the number of people in a high school to do math problems.

An ordinary high school has three grades, each grade has ten classes, and each class has eighty people, so one grade has eight hundred people, and three grades has two thousand four hundred people.

Imagine the grand occasion of such a high school when going to school and leaving school, and you will probably know what the concept of 2,400 people is.

Then ten 24,000 are 24, one hundred 24, two hundred 24,000, and 350,000 people are almost equivalent to 150 students in such medium-sized high schools, and they are all concentrated on the playground. The full load capacity of a bird's nest is 90,000, and these 350,000 people can fill the four bird's nests.

Now you can know what kind of grand occasion this is. When you look up, you will see people gathering ten miles away, and not only people, but also horses, siege equipment, baggage, etc.

In this era, the siege battles usually involve using various siege equipment to smash the city gates and walls, smashing the walls in the daytime and setting fires at night, and not being able to relax day and night. Xiao Song did not dare to guarantee that the soldiers in the pass had the best fighting will and psychological endurance.

So compared to shooting against opponents on the city wall, the biggest risk is actually the mutiny in the city defense camp and the people who gave up resisting because of an explosion of mentality.

"What a mountain and field."

Xiao Song supported his hands on the city wall, looked back at the deputy general, and smiled helplessly on his face.

When the deputy general saw the coach's pretending to be relaxed, he felt a little moved. As long as the opponent launched a huge offensive, even Juyongguan...

But before the general was pessimistic, Song Beiyun continued: "This is 350,000 pigs that will be killed for a long time."

The deputy general didn't breathe, and he was almost choked to death by himself...

When is this time? This coach can still have the heart to joke. When it comes to the three drums, the opponent will start attacking, and then the sky will shake and the earth will move...

Sure enough, not long after, the second war drum sounded in the Jin army camp. Song Beiyun could see from the telescope that they had already started preparing and as he issued the order of the second drum.

The cannon position on the city wall began to assume that the cannon was in place, and the crossbow archer also began to take its place. Unlike before, there would be a musketeer every few crossbow archers.

When a huge catapult was being placed on the opposite side, Xiao Song watched the soldiers of the Beihai New Army move to the left with his hands behind his back and began to set up a formation along the Great Wall.

After all, there are too few people and too few new types of troops. If you only need to guard the city gate, you can still see it. However, facing such a large-scale front, the 3,000 New Army of the Beihai are really not enough to see it.

Perhaps the artillery can still give a certain shock, but there are too many people on the other side, and no one can explain clearly what is happening on the battlefield. The New Army of the Beihai really cannot withstand consumption.

Song Beiyun had no choice, because in addition to Juyongguan, he also had to take into account Nankou, Juyongguan, Shangguan and Badaling at the same time. Any of these four gates would be pushed and finished.

Because the offense can be transferred at any time, the defense can only open the line and wait for the wind to come. It is really uncomfortable to be beaten passively.

Assuming that the catapult was completed, Xiao Song ordered the third drum to be sounded as they pushed the engineer forward.

The third drum beat means that the war has begun. Because of the range, the Beihai New Army was able to reach the Jin army in advance, and the first round of gunfire directly hit the enemy's position.

This attack really caught the forefront of the Jin army off guard, and many Jin soldiers died on the way forward.

But soon the Jin army reacted and they launched a very strange cart from the camp. This cart is about three meters high and five or six meters wide. There are three layers of shields in front of the cart to stack protection devices, which cannot be penetrated by either muskets or crossbows.

The only one who can effectively kill them was artillery, but the reloading speed of the artillery was really unsatisfactory. Moreover, the artillery used on the wall was light artillery specially prepared for mobile warfare. In terms of range and power, it was not the same as the heavy artillery used by the Song army to defend the city. Its main purpose was to bomb cavalry on the grassland.

After seeing the situation on the battlefield, Song Beiyun narrowed his eyes and said, "What's this and that is really amazing."

Song Beiyun, who rarely praised people, just said that he was amazing this time, because in addition to the first team, the Jin army, who was serious behind, was actually using very advanced squad-based strait strait advance method!

This tactic was clearly born to restrain Song Beiyun. It should be the experience gained by the Jin Dynasty from the battle between the Song Dynasty and the Western Xia. After research and running-in, it was only after research and adjustment that this tactic that did not belong to this era.

Just as Song Beiyun created weapons that did not belong to this era, smart natives would definitely create tactics to restrain those weapons. In a sense, Song Beiyun had inadvertently promoted the evolution of military tactics of this era.

The strait propulsion tactics can actually effectively enter the range blind spot of the artillery position.

It seems that he knows everything. If you want to win Song Beiyun, you must slap him in the face, otherwise there will be no chance.

As for the damage to the war, he didn't care at all. The 350,000 army was defending 50,000 cities. As long as six people replaced one of the opponent, he could still have a total of 50,000 people left!

The straggler line was circulating upward from all angles and soon arrived within the blind spot of the gun position range. Although many people were lost on the road, they were approaching in the end.

But at this moment, Xiao Song raised his hand gently...

In an instant, the hand-cranked trigger explosive that detonated from the city suddenly exploded. At that time, smoke and dust rose everywhere, and earth and rocks flew everywhere. Countless Jin soldiers were blown away by the huge impact force. Some even were blown into pieces of meat on the spot. The power of the mountain shaking and earth alarmed Wanyan in the distance. He walked into the formation and looked towards Juyongguan, but he only saw a piece of smoke and dust, and the others were invisible.

"Not good, handsome man!"

The messenger rushed to the Jin army camp and shouted in a hurry: "The Liao army used magic, and countless soldiers were killed or injured!"

"Demonic Art." That guy murmured softly: "Hmph, I want to see how many demonic arts he has, and continue to order people to rush forward. If you are negligent, you will definitely not let go of killing."

There is really not much explosive used to break the city, and there is only one chance to deter it. But after the smoke and dust dissipates, he finds that the Jin army is still attacking like a tide, so he takes a step back.

"Incendiary bomb."

Since kerosene has been invented, it is naturally necessary to use it. Although Xiao Song didn't really want to use such a careless thing, it was a war.

The incendiary bombs contained in the glass bottle are not the yellow color of kerosene, but brown color, because not only kerosene is included but also not so pure gasoline, plus white sugar, glacial acetic acid, white phosphorus and potassium nitrate for making fertilizers.

The soldiers threw the encapsulated glass bottles under the city without any accuracy. They just threw them down, allowing the liquid inside to splash as the glass exploded. Then, due to the violent collision, potassium nitrate exploded first, and the explosion ignited the white phosphorus, and then ignited the mixture on the ground. Almost instantly, a wall of fire appeared on the ground in front of the pass.

As long as the Jin soldiers came into contact with this flame, they would keep burning and could not be extinguished no matter whether they rolled or did it. Instead, they would burn even more happily because they were stained with white sugar and white phosphorus.

If it is contaminated on the skin, a large piece of flesh will soon burn off, and the air will be filled with a strange smell, and the burning smell of the body will also have that pungent smell...

Seeing the scene in the distance, he clenched his fists tightly. In the first round of contact, he lost more than 2,000 people.

This is something he never expected...

"Report!"

The messenger quickly returned: "The Liao Kingdom used the magic again to lower the sky fire. Our soldiers would burn to death as soon as they contacted them. The one who survived by chance was also in great pain, and they kept wailing, and some people even committed suicide in the face of battle."

Wanyan looked ahead in a daze, gritted her teeth and said, "It's hateful! I'll send a command to separate one and go to other passes."

"yes."

Wanyan obviously wanted to try his luck. If other passes were not guarded by someone like Song Beiyun, he would pretend to attack Juyong Pass and then concentrate on attacking other levels.

Xiao Song was also worried because he didn't have many "demonic techniques" on hand, and this place could not be supplemented at all. If the person on the opposite side who could create scattered troops found that he was strong outside and was fighting in the middle, the opponent would probably really attack madly.

There are 350,000 people opposite, and even if six are replaced, there are still 50,000 people left.

Xiao Song sat in the barracks, quietly waiting for news from other levels. After this wave of tentative attacks, if the opponent was not a reckless person, he would have calmed down. Anyway, as long as he didn't launch a fierce attack, they would just siege the city. Anyway, everything would be fine as long as the reinforcements arrived.

But Xiao Song actually didn't dare to pat his chest to guarantee that because the other person on the other side, Wanyan lost her beloved daughter. Xiao Song could understand what would happen if he had red eyes...

So, he actually regretted it now, so he shouldn't discuss with those tough guys whether he should kill the kidnappers. Those dogs from Qiu Ba were only the size of walnut kernels. How could he know what politics was? Now that he was worried about his face, he was almost unable to bear it.

Of course, Xiao Song had the greatest responsibility here. At that time, he did not consider the consequences too much in order to show off. Now he might have to drag the entire Yanjing to bet with him. Wanyan didn't get over the hatred. Because he really wanted to attack fiercely, the Juyongguan defenders would be beaten to a state of collapse in five days at most.

"No, these stupid words will not be listened to in the future."

After shaking the blame and putting less pressure on himself, Xiao Song began to pick up his idle books and read it. It was one thing to read it or not. Anyway, he had to let his subordinates see him leisurely and relaxed. No matter how his feet fluttered, he had to be as elegant as a sportsman who swam in a variety of ways.

"Mr. Song, one of the enemy troops turned around and headed to Badaling."

"Go and go, so what about Badaling? It must be told to go but not return." Xiao Song had already seen the opportunity and said, "What's the news in the city?"

“Not yet.”

Um……

Why haven’t the reinforcements come yet!!! Xiao Song was roaring in his heart. He was so scared now! He was afraid of death, really afraid of death. If the reinforcements don’t come, he can’t even sleep at night!

"Report!"

Before the previous order was left, another order came in: "Report to the Marshal, the Left Piss Army arrived in New South Wales."

"Have you arrived at Zhangjiakou?" Xiao Song smiled and subconsciously said the name of the future: "Okay, okay, great."
Chapter completed!