The Shieldmen were unarmed, each carrying a large light and sturdy shield, and a jar of ceramic oil, which they were tasked with clearing two sandbag walls from the ice.

Since the sandbag wall has been frozen so hard that it is difficult to break through with a hard smash, the best thing to do is to use fire to melt the ice first and then remove the sandbags.

The two sandbag walls are within the range of bows and arrows at the head of the city, and as soon as the soldiers of the Giant Shield Army approach the first sandbag wall, the arrows on the head of the city are overwhelming, and the characteristics of the Giant Shield Army are shown at this time, they not only have a giant shield in their hands, but also carry an arc-shaped shield like a turtle shell on their backs.

This kind of giant shield army originally appeared in the firearms battalion, the igniter soldiers did not have time to escape, so they lay on the ground, using the shield on their backs to resist the iron chips, the Jin army soon found that the effect of this back shield was good, and began to form a giant shield army, the giant shield army is currently about 10,000 people, this time Li Bing brought 3,000 people to attack Liyang City.

The arrows overhead were so dense that they rained down to dodge, so the soldiers moved forward on their prostrates, their shields on their heads, and two large shields shielding them from the rain of arrows overhead.

Approaching, hundreds of people were the first to reach the first sand wall, they piled dozens of quilts in front of and behind the sand wall, poured hundreds of cans of fire oil on them, lit them and quickly retreated.

On the surface of the river, a sandbag wall more than 20 zhang long was blazing, thick smoke billowed out, and soon, the second sandbag wall that was only a dozen zhang away from the city gate was also ignited, and the giant shield soldier simply threw out the fire oil clay pot in his hand and smashed it on the city gate, and the black fire oil flowed all over the city gate, and the flames quickly spread to the city gate.

Hundreds of people were still injured by the dense raindrops of arrows at the head of the city, basically all of them were wounded in the legs, and the cotton pants and leather armor could not stop the sharp and heavy arrows, and the arrows pierced through and pierced into the flesh, and soon more than 300 people were injured one after another.

The uninjured soldiers struggled to carry the sandbags, and in just a moment, the sandbag ice wall that Zhu Junjun had spent a lot of time building had been removed, and the surface of the river became empty.

Xue Lun's face became very ugly, and he didn't expect that this weakness in Liyang County would be so serious.

"General, look!" A soldier shouted pointing into the distance.

Xue Lun's face turned pale, and he saw that a mile away, hundreds of soldiers pushed a huge battering ram onto the ice, the battering ram was mounted on a shelf, and the four feet of the shelf seemed to be equipped with sleds, and the soldiers pushed the battering ram forward effortlessly.

Xue Lun immediately realized that the city gate on the ice could no longer stop the Jin army, and they had no choice but to fight with the bloody blade.

He immediately ordered: "General Liu, you can lead 3,000 people from your headquarters to the city to block the enemy army from entering the city, and I will come to meet you later!" ”

This general's name is Liu Kui, and he knows that he is likely to be wiped out by the whole army, but the military order is like a mountain, so he has to agree to it.

"The Third Army comes with me!"

Liu Kui waved his hand and led the 3,000 soldiers of his headquarters to go down to the city to line up........

On the ice, 300 guards moved on the ice with heavy battering rams, and the giant wood obtained from Jixian County had been transformed into a battering ram, the front end was sharpened by craftsmen, an iron head was installed, and a large wooden frame was built to house the battering rams.

The blacksmiths made four copper sled boards out of copper, which were attached to the four feet of the battering ram wooden frame, and slid up with a gentle push on the ice.

Behind the battering rams were a thousand heavily armored infantrymen, two hundred of them in a row, in five rows, each with a murderous sword, walking towards the gate step by step, and then behind them were the cavalry and spearmen.

The heavy battering ram was only a hundred steps away from the city gate, and at this time, hundreds of barrels of fire oil were thrown down from the city, the barrels were broken, the fire oil flowed all over the ground, dozens of torches were thrown down, and the flames suddenly burned.

The battering rams grew faster and faster, and the soldiers jerked forward, and the huge battering rams cut through the raging flames and rushed towards the gates with a strong inertia.

"Boom-"

There was a huge dull sound, and the charred city gate could not withstand the blow of the battering ram at all, and was suddenly knocked open a large hole one zhang wide and five feet high, and the battering ram rushed directly into the city, and the inertia did not disappear, and it hit the third sandbag ice wall more than 20 steps away, and even knocked the ice wall open, and the huge battering ram finally toppled to the ground.

Xue Lun had already seen the heavy armored infantry coming in line, bows and arrows were meaningless to them, there was no need to release arrows at the head of the city, what would follow would be a bloody battle at close range, and whether or not they could hold Liyang was a matter of doing so.

"The whole army is assembled and go down to the city to face the battle!"

The 7,000 soldiers at the head of the city began to assemble rapidly, after all, they were the elite army of the Great Qin Dynasty, well-trained, and very strong in battle, Xue Lun was also a famous general under Zhu Zhu's account, and he had led the army to defeat the powerful Huaixi army.

At this time, a thousand heavy infantry entered the city, and a dense number of arrows came at him, making a clanging sound, and the arrows could not penetrate the heavy armor of the infantry.

The hoplites quickly lined up, bypassing the sandbag wall and slaying at the 3,000 enemy forces that had intercepted them.

At this time, hundreds of soldiers following behind the hoplites quickly cleared the sandbag wall, struggling to push the fallen battering rams aside, and they simply opened the city gate completely, and opened the two broken gates.

Seeing that the bow and arrows were ineffective, Liu Kui shouted, and led three thousand troops to rush up and collide with the heavy infantry.

The formation of the heavy infantry became two rows of five hundred people, the extremely sharp Mo knife waved, and suddenly blood burst out, the limbs were broken, they stepped on the corpse, the Mo knife flew up and down, without any resistance, more than three hundred soldiers were killed in an instant, the heads rolled off, the body was split, the internal organs were scattered all over the ground, and the air was filled with a pungent fishy smell, and the soldiers couldn't stand it, and they vomited one after another.

The heavy infantry was not affected at all, they advanced step by step, invincible, no matter how desperately the soldiers of the Zhu Zhu army resisted, they still suffered heavy casualties, and the death was extremely miserable, which can be called a meat grinder-like slaughter.

No matter how elite the soldiers were, they were frightened by this brutal killing, and they retreated, not daring to rush forward to their deaths.

At this moment, the sound of horses' hooves was loud, and Li Bing led 5,000 cavalry into the city, and at this time, Xue Lun also led 7,000 soldiers to rush down from the city, and happened to meet the cavalry of the Jin army.

Immediately afterwards, 14,000 pikemen soldiers also entered the city, and they divided their forces into two lines, 4,000 soldiers quickly occupied the various warehouses in the city, while 10,000 soldiers attacked the enemy's main force from behind.

The Jin army had powerful cavalry, heavy infantry with strong combat effectiveness, and spear infantry were also well-trained, and their strength was twice that of the other party.

Liu Kui's men were the first to rout, their casualties were nearly half, and Liu Kui himself was also cut off an arm by Mo Dao in the melee, he screamed, turned around and fled, his men have been killed more than 1,300 people, the remaining 1,600 people can no longer support, the main general's escape made the soldiers follow the U-turn and flee, more than 1,600 people shouted, desperately ran to the east city gate.

The rout of Liu Kui's army also seriously affected the morale of Xue Lun's army, and the army began to waver, and the soldiers on both sides fled.

Xue Lun scolded angrily, "No, bastard, you will ask the Son of Heaven to behead him!" ”

A general next to him said worriedly: "General, the brothers have suffered heavy casualties, and if you continue to fight, the whole army will be wiped out, so retreat!" ”

Xue Lun saw that the morale of his army was on the verge of collapse, and the strongest heavy infantry on the other side outflanked and killed, so he had to sigh, "Withdraw!" ”

"Whew-"

The horn of retreat sounded, and more than 5,000 soldiers quickly retreated to the east city under the leadership of Xue Lun, they did not break out, retreated to the east of the city in an orderly manner, and soon withdrew from the east city gate and ran to the south bank of the Yellow River.

Li Bing saw that the other party was retreating but not chaotic, so he did not order the pursuit, they had already completed the task assigned by the King of Jin, captured Huaizhou and Weizhou, and cut off Zhu Zhu's logistics base.

The army occupied Liyang City, and the 400,000 stone grain and a large amount of military supplies stored in Liyang City fell into the hands of the Jin army, and Li Bing immediately sent people to Weizhou to report to the Jin king.

..........

The main camp of the Jin army has been constructed, and Zhang Tuo, the general of the chariot cavalry, led 20,000 troops from the camp in Qingzhang County to Changle County.

At the same time, Wang Yu was also ordered to lead 10,000 troops from Yuancheng to reinforce the main force, so that the total strength of the main force of the Jin army reached 80,000, which was on par with the main force of Zhu Zhu in the city, and if the troops of Xiangzhou and Liyang, as well as the 20,000 troops left behind in Qingzhang County, the number of Jin troops in Hebei actually far exceeded that of Zhu Jun's army.

In addition, tens of thousands of people drove tens of thousands of ox carts to transport all kinds of military supplies to the camp, and one big tent after another began to stand up, and thousands of big tents could not be seen at a glance.

In the big tent of the Chinese army, Guo Song had already received the latest express from Li Bing, and they had captured Liyang City, which meant that Zhu Zhu's logistics base had been terminated.

This news made Guo Song happy, he stood in front of the map and said to Wang Yu: "I estimate that the grain in the city can only last for a month at most, and it is impossible for them to withdraw when the food is broken, and it is likely that they will retreat south in twenty days, we must seize this opportunity, and slaughter them tens of thousands of horses, so that Zhu Zhu will not dare to peep into Hebei again." ”

Wang Yu smiled slightly and said, "How does Your Highness know that the other party's food can support a month?" ”

"I guess there should be so much food!" Guo Song frowned, he didn't have much certainty.

Wang Yu said unhurriedly: "So the timing of His Highness's judgment is based on a hypothesis, what if the military rations in Changle County can only last for half a month?" Then they should retreat south in ten days, which means that no matter how many days they can hold out, we will keep the highest alert, and the cavalry will attack at any time! ”

Guo Song pondered for a moment and nodded, "Sir is right, we can't relax at any time, maybe they get the news of the loss of Liyang, and Zhu Zhu will retreat tonight." ”

Wang Yu smiled and said: "There is also this possibility, Your Highness will send more scouts to monitor the enemy's every move." ”

Guo Song happily accepted Wang Yun's suggestion and immediately ordered: "Quickly order Zhang Yun to see me!" ”