At this time, Yelu Hongbo, Liu Quanfu and others were watching from a distance from the tower of the city tower of Gubeikou, and they had already seen the Song army rushing here, with as many as 10,000 people; They suddenly felt a little uneasy in their hearts, and sweated in their palms.

Cao Zong said to Yang Wenguang at this time: "Brother Pingzhong, the terrain here is dangerous, easy to defend and difficult to attack, when there is a husband who is not open, if there is no magic weapon you brought, I estimate that no matter how many people in this Gubeikou, it will not be able to attack." ”

Yang Wenguang also said: "Brother Yuting is too modest, even if there is no artillery, if Gubeikou wants to conquer it, it will definitely be able to conquer it, but the casualties are too large." ”

Soon the Song army came to the gate of Gubeikou, and saw that the Great Wall was already full of Liao troops, more than 2,000 people, and they were ready to defend and meet the battle.

At this time, I heard Cao Zong's order, and a path flashed in the army, and I saw ten cannons slowly pushing towards the front army, and the artillery pushed to a stop at five hundred meters of the city gate.

The gunner began to calibrate the firing elements, and the gunners were also busy, some were carrying the shells, and some were cooperating with the gunner to raise and lower the gun, and soon the guns were calibrated and ready to fire.

Yang Wenguang hurriedly said to Cao Zong: "Brother Yuting, please let the soldiers bring earplugs, and the war horses should also be bold, so as not to break the ears of the soldiers with the huge sound of shelling, and at the same time prevent the war horses from fleeing in fright and causing chaos." ”

Cao Zong heard that he was good, and hurriedly gave the order to go down, and saw that the Song soldiers put on earplugs and covered their ears; At the same time, the cavalry also put earplugs and blindfolds on the horses.

Yang Wenguang saw that the army was ready, he raised a yellow flag, and then shouted loudly: "Artillery listen to orders, prepare... Launch. ”

Then he heard the loud sound of ten cannons in unison, and the cannonballs made a terrible sound, and roared towards the city gate, and saw that the sky shook and the earth shook suddenly, and the city gate was torn to pieces.

The Song army began to charge towards the city gate, Yelu Hongbo was so frightened by the fire and loud noise from the explosion of the cannonballs that he sat down on the ground, and Liu Quanfu was even more unbearable, and he was so frightened that he peed his pants; And the soldiers of the Liao army were also frightened by the sudden lightning and thunder, and they fled in all directions.

Soon the Song army rushed into the city and began to slaughter all sides, and soon slaughtered the two armies, and Yelu Hongbo was desperately protected by the guards and escaped from Shengtian.

Cao Zong was overjoyed at this time, and hurriedly asked the soldiers to clean up the battlefield, bury the corpses, count the materials stored in the pass, and let the soldiers re-erect the spare city gate for several days, and then let the army enter the camp to rest.

Chong Shiheng's army was not slow, and he conquered Qizhou, Jingzhou, Luanzhou and Xifengkou one after another; In the end, he and Gao Zundu met in Pingzhou, and the strength of the Song army at this time also reached 60,000.

In the end, Chong Shiheng was in Pingzhou, and he sent Gao Zundu to lead an army of 40,000 to attack Yingzhou and Shanhaiguan, and Meng Ming led an artillery unit to assist; The two took the order and marched to the front line without stopping.

Zhao Yaoke, the defender of Yingzhou, led 3,000 troops to surrender when he heard the wind, and Gao Zundu left 3,000 Song troops to garrison and surrendered the weapons of the Oak Army; Then they marched mightily to Shanhaiguan.

The army spent two days to get to the city of Shanhaiguan, in the previous life Meng Ming went on a business trip to Heijiliao, and took the train through Shanhaiguan no less than 100 times, but he saw the outline of Shanhaiguan from a distance on the train, and did not visit him.

This time is really to see the legendary Shanhaiguan, its Guancheng is a majestic Guancheng of adobe bricks, 14 meters high, seven meters thick, more than four kilometers in circumference, the whole city is connected with the Great Wall, with the city as the pass, forming the trend of "locking the golden lock to connect the Great Wall".

At this time, the garrison of Shanhaiguan has reached 20,000 people, and the follow-up reinforcements are coming from afar, Yelu Longxu is also sitting here, he knows the importance of Shanhaiguan, if Shanhaiguan is lost, Daliao will be blocked outside the Great Wall, and there is no power to go south.

Yelu Dagu, the guard of Shanhaiguan, is also a brave and good general, and he saw the Song army sweeping towards Shanhaiguan, and there was a trace of fear in his heart.

Meng Ming was not polite, and he began to order the artillery to launch a fierce artillery bombardment at Shanhaiguan, not only to the city gate, but also to bombard the Great Wall horse road. Suddenly, the heavens and the earth changed color, lightning flashed and thundered, fires erupted, and gunpowder smoke filled the air.

The Liao army suddenly suffered countless casualties, and in an instant, the wolf ran suddenly, and the army was defeated, Gao Zundu immediately issued an order for a general attack, and the Song army rushed into the city gate and began to attack the Liao army, and the offensive was like a tide;

At this time, the Liao army was already frightened, and had long lost its fighting spirit, and was like a lamb to be slaughtered in front of the Song army; In the shadow of the sword and sword, the soldiers of the Song army raised and fell with their swords, only to see the heads of the soldiers of the Liao army messing around, screaming miserably, and the scene became a Shura field full of killings.

The Song army soon occupied Shanhaiguan, and at this time the Liao Emperor Yelu Longxu had already fled in disarray, and on the way he was angry and angry, vomiting blood, and fainting.

At this time, Meng Ming entered the Shanhaiguan, and there were four gates in its gate, the east gate was called Zhendong, the west gate was called Ying'en, the south gate was called Wangyang, and the north gate was called Weiyuan. Outside the east and west gates, there is Luo City.

Among the four city gates, the most imposing and well-preserved is the east gate of the town, because it faces the outside of the gate, so it is more solid in terms of architectural layout and structure.

There are three lines of defense at this gate: the first, Luocheng; the second, the urn city; The third is the gate of Shanhaiguan.

On the tall city gate, there stands a double-storey arrow tower with heavy eaves of the mountain; There are sixty-eight red plate arrow windows on the north, east and south sides of the arrow tower.

Climb the Shanhaiguan City Tower, look at the turbulent Bohai Sea in the south, and the Great Wall from Shanhaiguan to the sea.

The seaside is the old dragon head at the starting point of the Great Wall, and the Chenghai Building, an important building on the Great Wall, is nearby.

Looking at the north, you can see the magnificent Horn Mountain, majestic and majestic, the Great Wall that slowly goes along the plain through Guancheng, jumps to the top with its head held high, and goes along the ridge, like a giant dragon flying.

The tall enemy platform is condescending and eyeing the tiger. Not far from the east gate of the city, there is also Weiyuan City, which echoes it.

This series of buildings, militarily angular, each other is a horn, the structure is clearly prioritized, and constitutes a complete defense system.

Meng Ming's heart was full of excitement and heroism at this time, at this time, the Great Song Dynasty had already occupied the passes along the Great Wall between Juyong Pass and Shanhaiguan, and also pushed the territory of the Great Song Dynasty to the Great Wall, and the Great Song Dynasty no longer needed 300,000 soldiers to go to the Song-Liao border, as long as they held the various passes on the Great Wall, about 100,000 people were enough.

In fact, it is easy to understand, relying on the Taihang Mountains and Yanshan Mountains, plus the Great Wall, if the nomads in the north attack, you just need to guard the passes of each mountain, swallow the troops here, the nomads do not send out hundreds of thousands of millions, pay some price, I am afraid it will be very difficult to fight here.

Gao Zundu's army captured Shanhaiguan, at this time Guo Zun also captured Bauhinia Pass, Di Qing occupied Juyong Pass at the same time, Cao Zong occupied Gubeikou, these good news were passed to Chong Shiheng, Chong Shiheng was immediately overjoyed, and then sent these good news back to the imperial court.