Li Jiu and his army have arrived at the east gate of Hongzhou City, and the east gate has not been closed at this time, and the hanging gate on the city wall is still in the hands of Peng Qi and other vanguards.

"Sons! Meritorious deeds are at this time, kill me!! ”

Di Qing took the lead, and the forbidden army behind him quickly stopped the cavalry charge lineup in the shape of a pendant, the spear in his hand was tucked under his armpit, and his body leaned forward slightly, which was the best posture for cavalry charging.

The city gate is narrow, but it invisibly makes the formation of the defenders compact, and the horses in front of them can't stop the crazy cavalry, Di Qing stretched out his hand and pulled out the dagger on his waist, and slammed it into the horse stock, the painful military horse galloped up wildly, and the cavalry behind him also did the same.

The cavalry of five hundred people roared angrily and rushed towards the city gate, they knew that every quarter of an hour of delay, the robe on the city gate would sacrifice one more person, Li Jiu and Dali were even more like crazy tigers, if Peng Qi died, they really didn't know what kind of face they had to go back to see the brothers of the official family and the personal guard.

Most of the military horses of the Great Song Dynasty were heavy horses, and the so-called cavalry of the Great Song Dynasty were mostly mounted and dismounted to fight, but the cavalry in Di Qing's hands was an exception, they were all elite cavalry selected from the Guards Division and the Fourth Army, although the number was only three thousand, it could be regarded as the elite cavalry of the Great Song Dynasty.

Even in the face of the party, there is still no fear, the number of agricultural civilization of the Han people must be much more than the number of nomads, and the number of people available for selection is naturally more than that of the party and the Liao state, so the fundamental reason for the lack of cavalry is the lack of enough war horses.

The real war horse is very different from the horse, which is why Zhao Zhen did everything to let the Taliban bring good horses from the Abbasid dynasty.

Di Qing put on the mask given to him by the official family himself, and his hideous face instantly made Yang Huaiyu's jealous hands tremble on the side, and the mask with green fangs showed the official's love for Di Qing, and he actually painted on the mask himself, the hideous ghost head was vivid, and when he returned from his military exploits, he would ask the official family for a face.

The vanguard cavalry of 500 people pierced into the encirclement of the party with spears, and the huge impact of the horse sprint was not at all what human beings could bear, and the soldiers at the front were knocked out like paper paste, and even then the party soldiers behind were still frantically moving forward without retreating.

They knew that as long as they retreated, Hongzhou City would be overwhelmed by the tide of Song troops.

But even if they didn't retreat, they couldn't withstand the impact of the Song army, because of Li Jiu, Zhao Dali and the two of them went completely crazy after seeing the forbidden army of Peng Qi's department fall from the city wall, completely ignoring the life and death of the war horse, and frantically chopping the horse stock with the long knife in their hands.

Seeing that Li Jiu and Zhao Dali, the two remaining deputy marshals, were going crazy, Di Qing and Yang Huaiyu didn't know the seriousness of the matter.

Raised the spear in his hand and shouted: "Kill!" ”

All the cavalry also followed them to stimulate the horses with their weapons, and for a time the furious horses turned into a crazy torrent, neighing and rushing to the enemy in front.

The horses of the Great Song cavalry were covered with iron armor, although it was only a thin layer, but it was still not to be underestimated, with the strength of the horses, even if they were cut a few times, it didn't matter, but it could stimulate their ferocity.

The party members suffered heavy casualties and finally cut down a war horse, but desperately found that there were more cavalry rushing towards them, it turned out that the crazy war horse is not human can stop, when Li Jiu casually cut down a party person who rushed over, he found that there was no one to kill in front, and the cavalry successfully killed the enemy formation......

After the cavalry impact is like a tide of infantry rushing to mend the knife, in the face of the Song army armed to the teeth, the party people almost do not know where to start, the protective performance of the whole body foot armor for the first time to accept the test of actual combat, the party people often do not even see the appearance of the enemy clearly was taken away by the sharp three-edged army stab.

In such a close-range battle, the power of the three-edged army thorn was exerted to the extreme, and the smooth feel and huge blood groove made the Song army start to vomit frantically after killing people.

In the tense battle, the forbidden army who first entered the battlefield had little time to adapt, and at the last moment, it was either you dead or I lived, so how could I have time to think about feelings at this time?

When the Song army collapsed to the ground tiredly after killing people, they were frightened by the hellish scene in front of them, even they didn't expect this battle to be so bloody and cruel.

One of the soldiers in charge of cleaning up the mess behind the cavalry sat on the ground and looked at the stream-like river of blood in front of him, wow! began to vomit frantically.

His vomiting brought more people to ......

Blood, scarlet blood everywhere, and a few party members who were not yet dead were wailing, staring in horror at the wounds on their bodies that were constantly spurting blood, and they couldn't even stop it with their hands, and blood gushed out from between their fingers like a burst.

In order to avoid such screams harassing and irritating the tired sergeants, the soldiers who entered the city raised their hands to help them end their suffering.

Li Jiu and Zhao Dali successfully rescued Peng Qi and the East City Gate, at this time Peng Qi could no longer sit down, he was full of bows and arrows, and he even had bows and arrows on his buttocks, but he still asked his own soldiers to help him take off his armor, and the rising underwear had been dyed red, and Li Jiu used the high liquor he carried with him to wash his wounds.

Even if he was shot like a hedgehog, Peng Qi didn't scream, but under the stimulation of alcohol, Ziwa screamed and made Li Jiu pout his lips disdainfully.

Zhao Li bowed to the forbidden army protecting the sluice, most of these forbidden troops were torn off the sluice, they did not hesitate to use their bodies as shields in order to protect the only way for the army to enter the city, even if there was the protection of the whole body step armor, but there were still many people who were taken away by death young lives.

Peng Qi cried loudly after seeing a young officer being carried down with a white cloth, this is his own nephew, who had just graduated from the Military Academy and was sent to serve in the Western Expeditionary Army.

But he didn't, he resolutely participated in the Western Expedition, if he didn't die, such military exploits could be used by him for five or six years.

Even if he was crying, Peng Qi still asked Li Jiu: "Are Di Qing and Yang Huaiyu still there, and have the army exterminated the remnants of the party in the city?" ”

"The two of them are all good, my 60,000 troops have all entered the city, and it is only a matter of time before the rest of the party is wiped out......"

"When issuing the order, you must be careful when exterminating the remnants of the party, even if you have to set fire to the house, don't risk sacrificing your life anymore, my soldiers in the western expedition have already suffered a lot of casualties in this battle!"

In fact, the casualties of the Western Expedition army were not heavy, compared to other siege battles, this was already a big victory, but in Peng Qi's eyes, the life of every soldier was extremely precious.

He clearly remembered the words of the official: "The mission of the general is to protect his soldiers and win the greatest victory at the minimum cost!" Otherwise, how can the soldiers under his command regard him as the backbone? How can a general make a soldier serve his death? ”

Today's Hongzhou City is already in the bag of the Great Song Dynasty, as long as the Great Song army is here for a day, it can cut off the retreat of Li Deming's 100,000 army, Li Jiu let the black hand in the army release the carrier pigeon to inform the Zhijia army in Huanzhou that Yanzhou, which is closest to Hongzhou, will definitely come to reinforcements, and the Zhijia army can take advantage of this gap to sneak attack Yanzhou.

The main reason why we want to attack these two state cities is not only that the Great Wall is not far away, but that the two most important passes of the Northwest Great Wall are also here, one is the Qin Camel Pass in the northwest of Yanzhou, and the other is the Tiemen Pass in the north of Hongzhou City!

Even if the city of Hongzhou was captured, the army of the Western Expedition still could not rest for long, and a more difficult war was still waiting for them.

Only by taking the pass on the Great Wall can it be regarded as the perfect end of this western expedition, and also achieve the final deployment expected by the officials and the Privy Council.

Destroying the vital forces of the party army is the end of Zhao Zhen's deployment of this game of chess!

In more than two hours, the 60,000 Western Expeditionary Army of the Great Song Dynasty ploughed Hongzhou City as carefully as a plow, every house, every dark passage, and even the dry well.

Hongzhou is close to the Great Song Dynasty, and most of the people in the city are Han Chinese, when they saw Zhang Pu's head hanging high on the top of the Anmin notice, the Han people in the city surrendered to the Great Song Dynasty, and the 60,000 tiger and wolf army gave them a far greater deterrent than the threat of Li Deming's 100,000 army trapped in the Great Song Dynasty.

All the party members who do not surrender or surrender by fraud will be shown to the public, for the city that has just been laid, this is no way, high-pressure stability is what Hongzhou City needs the most now.

Mu Xiu and Zhou Zhan served as the temporary managers of Hongzhou City, they are civil officials, and they have long been familiar with the management of the state city.