On the night of October 23 in the fourth year of Xuanhe, Guo Yaoshi led 1,000 Changsheng troops as the vanguard, and Zhao Heshou, Gao Shixuan, Yang Keshi, and Yang Kebi four generals commanded a total of 5,000 troops as the main force from Liangxiang to the east to attack Yanjing.

Six thousand light horsemen secretly crossed the Lugou River from the west of Gu'an County overnight, then made a detour to Anci, and arrived in front of a village called Sanjiadian in the east of Yanjing City in the middle of the night the next day.

Rest the night in the woods.

Early the next morning, Guo Yaoshi sent his general Zhen Wuchen and fifty elite soldiers to form a commando.

The commandos pretended to be ordinary people, and then some carried vegetable baskets, some carried bundles of firewood, and some carried bamboo baskets.

Zhen Wuchen saw the opportunity and led fifty commandos to suddenly burst out and start a bloody battle with the soldiers guarding the door.

After paying the tragic price of more than 40 dead and wounded, Zhen Wuchen and they captured the Spring Festival.

Zhen Wuchen, who was lucky to survive, decisively lit the signal flare.

Seeing this, Pharmacist Guo immediately led the team to set off.

Yang Keshi, Gao Shixuan, Zhao Heshou, Yang Kebi, etc., were not to be left behind, and each led the army to quickly advance to Yanjing City.

The 6,000 Song troops quickly assembled in front of the Yingchun Gate in Yanjing City, and then prepared to enter the city.

However, at this time, Pharmacist Guo suggested to Yang Keshi: "We can't all go into the city. ”

Yang Keshi was puzzled: "Why?" ”

Pharmacist Guo replied, "We should leave a thousand troops and horses to ambush outside the city. First, it can block the reinforcements that Xiao Gan or Yelu Dashi may return to the city. Second, in case our trip doesn't go well, we can also have a response when we exit. ”

Yang Keshi felt that Guo Yaoshi was reasonable, so he asked Gao Shixuan, Yang Kebi, and Zhao Heshou: "Which of you wants to stay outside the city?" ”

Gao Shixuan, Yang Kebi, and Zhao Heshou were all silent—it was obvious that none of them wanted to stay.

Think about it, this is the first merit to recover Yanjing, who wants to give up this great feat?

Yang Kebi is Yang Keshi's brother, and it is impossible to leave him behind.

Gao Shixuan is Yang Keshi's old partner, and it is impossible to keep him.

In the end, he could only leave Guo Yaoshi's subordinate Zhao Heshou behind.

Guo Yaoshi ordered the seven generals of the Changsheng Army to quickly lead 200 cavalry to quickly seize the other seven gates of Yanjing.

Yang Keshi divided the remaining army into two routes, Yang Keshi and Guo Yaoshi led the left flank, and Gao Shixuan and Yang Kebi led the right flank, and marched separately to Miyagi, which was located southwest of Yanjing City—they planned to surround Miyagi and capture Xiao Pu alive.

The news of the Song army's entry into the city disappeared, and it soon became known.

Some bold residents ran out of their homes and stood on both sides of the street to watch the excitement.

A middle-aged man walked straight to the middle of the street, stretched out his arms to stop Yang Keshi and Guo Yaoshi, and said excitedly: "Two generals, I am a Han people, named Ma Xianliang, Wang Shi entered the city, we Han people are all rejoicing, in order to show respect, we specially present a poem: the general Xiao enters Yan, and the city is full of harmony. The oil ran for 3,000 miles, washing away the bloody flesh for 200 years. ”

The crowd immediately applauded and responded, and it lasted for a long time.

Yang Keshi and Guo Yaoshi smiled and waved to the people.

There are also some timid residents who hide in their homes, close the doors and block the windows, and then lie on the cracks of the doors and windows to peek out.

When the Khitan and Xi residents heard the news, they were deeply worried and did not know how to respond.

When entering the city, there was no decent resistance, so that the Song army from Yang Keshi and Guo Yaoshi all relaxed, so that many hungry Song soldiers began to disobey military discipline, and ran into the roadside restaurants and shouted loudly: "Old rice and wine, quick!" ”

The owners of the hotel hurriedly waited carefully.

But the owner of a restaurant refused to receive it, and he also clashed with Song Bing, and was finally killed by Song Bing.

The owner of the hotel, who was killed by the Song army, was a Khitan.

This matter, one by ten, ten by hundred, soon spread all over Yanjing City.

This incident infuriated the Khitans, who took to the streets one after another, blocking and interfering with the advance of the Song army.

For a while, the crowd was turbulent, as if dry wood met a fire, and it intensified.

Yang Keshi saw that it would not work if it went on like this, which would delay the military plane, so he issued a military order: All soldiers who harass people's houses, no matter who they are, will be punished on the spot; Anyone who obstructed the advance of the Song army, no matter who it was, would be killed; Rectify military discipline and speed up the advance.

So, thousands of killings were killed, and blood was shed.

Because of the atrocities of the Song army, the Khitan and Xi people spontaneously organized themselves to resist the Song army—the Khitan and Xi people who filled the streets, and they were full of men, women, and children, and they rushed towards the Song army like a tide. Armed with knives, guns and sticks, they engaged in a tragic street battle with the Song army. The streets of Yanjing City have become battlefields, and the Song army has to pay the price of blood for every step forward!

Despite this, Yang Keshi still sent someone back to report the victory.

But—

The object of Yang Keshi's victory was not Liu Yanqing, who was close to Lugou River, but Tong Guan, who was far away in Xiongzhou.

After a bloody battle, the Song army finally broke through the layers of obstacles of the Khitans and came to the imperial city.

Although the scale of the Yanjing Imperial City is not large, the city walls are towering and connected by pheasants, which is very strong.

The Liao soldiers hid on the city wall and shot at the Song army continuously, and the arrows rained down, and the Song army could not move forward at all.

Yang Keshi and Guo Yaoshi first wrote a letter of persuasion to Xiao Puxian.

As a result, Xiao Puxian not only tore up the letter of persuasion, but also put on a military uniform and stepped on the tower of Xuanhe Gate to fight in person.

Under the personal entry into battle of Xiao Puxian, the soldiers of the Liao army swore to resist to the death.

During this period, in addition to fighting bravely, Xiao Puxian also fought wits with the Song army - Xiao Puxian first promised to surrender, and put forward countless bargaining conditions, using the tactic of delaying the army for a long time.

By the time Yang Keshi and Pharmacist Guo reacted, most of the day had passed.

And Song Jun first looked for a log that could hit the door for a long time, and then followed the advice of Li Chuwen's younger brother Li Chuneng (the guy who ran to be a monk) to dig a tunnel for a long time.

In short, Song Jun lost a lot of precious time.

Yelu Dashi, who was stationed at Juyong Pass to guard against the Jinwu army, was surprised to learn that the Song army had advanced into Yanjing, and immediately hurriedly gathered 3,000 cavalry and quickly galloped to Yanjing for reinforcements.

Halfway through, Yelu Dashi ordered: "All the soldiers should take off their military uniforms and shirts, and those who have Song army clothes should change and walk in front." ”

Juyong Pass is only about 100 miles away from Yanjing City, and at dusk, Yelu Dashi led the army to the west gate of Yanjing.

Yelu Dashi shouted to the city gate: "We are the reinforcements of the Great Song Dynasty, open the city gate quickly!" ”

The Song soldiers guarding the city gate saw a large group of cavalry coming from outside the city, thinking that reinforcements were coming, so they happily opened the city gate and fell off the drawbridge.

In fact, this is not all blame for the Song soldiers, because, according to the plan formulated, the reinforcements brought by Liu Guangshi should have arrived a long time ago, so the Song soldiers guarding the city gate will regard the soldiers and horses brought by Yelu Dashi as reinforcements sent by Liu Guangshi.

Yelu Dashi led the men into the city first, and then the Liao army swarmed in, and more than 200 Song soldiers were all killed.

Yelu Dashi ordered seven generals to lead 300 elite soldiers each and quickly seize the rest of the city gates.

Yelu Dashi asked them to cut the drawbridge directly, completely cut off the connection between inside and outside the city, he wanted to let the Song army have no return, and let them all be buried in Yanjing City!

As for the fact that the Liao army had entered the city, Guo Yaoshi and Yang Keshi and other Song generals did not know, and they were still organizing forces to attack the city outside the imperial city.

Gao Shixuan and Yang Kebi led a group of Song soldiers to carry a large log and slammed the gate of the imperial city.

Boom!

Boom!

Boom!

……

The sound of the crash gave hope to the Song army outside the imperial city and fear to the Liao army inside the imperial city.

The Liao soldiers hid in the city gate tower and the city wall, condescendingly and desperately shooting arrows.

Sou!

Sou!

Sou!

……

Arrows raining down!

A group of Song soldiers fell, and another group of Song soldiers immediately rushed up again.

Yang Keshi said anxiously: "We have to break through the palace tonight no matter what, otherwise we will be in danger, now we are alone, and life and death are all on tonight." ”

Pharmacist Guo had a clear understanding of the dangerous situation in front of him, and he frowned and said, "Calculating the time, Liu Guangshi's reinforcements should have arrived a long time ago, but why is there no news at all?" Aren't they coming? ”

Yang Keshi was silent.

Not long ago, Yang Keshi had a conflict with Liu Guangshi, and his relationship with Liu Yanqing has never been good.

Yang Keshi thought worriedly: "Their father and son shouldn't delay the big thing because of their selfishness, right?" ”

Gao Shixuan and Yang Kebi continued to organize the storming of the city gates.

The Song army knew very well that these two gates were related to success and failure, as well as their own life and death!

It was getting dark.

At this time, two sentries suddenly came, and they reported to Yang Keshi: "Report to the general, we found that a Liao army was killed from the northwest, and they were all cavalry, murderous!" ”

Yang Keshi was taken aback and said, "Where did the Liao cavalry come from?" ”

Guo Yaoshi said: "It is likely that Xiao Gan or Yelu Dashi's reinforcements have entered the city." ”

Yang Keshi heard this, and immediately called Gao Shixuan and Yang Kebi to discuss countermeasures.

Yang Keshi believes that the current situation is very dangerous, and the siege should be stopped, and the team should be gathered to retreat to the area of Yingchun Gate - Yang Keshi thought that Yingchun Gate should still be controlled by the Song army, and there were still a thousand reinforcements there, so it was most likely to be safely withdrawn from there, in addition, Yang Keshi believed that they entered the city from Yingchun Gate and were more familiar with the roads in that area, so that area was also convenient for them to retreat.

But Yang Keshi was wrong.

Yang Keshi forgot that they killed tens of thousands of Khitans there, so much so that the Khitans there hated them the most.

On the other side, Xiao Puxian left everyone and entered the Yuanhe Hall alone, and then found two white ribbons.

Xiao Puxian is a strong woman, she does not want to be insulted, so she chooses to accompany the burial of this former great empire.

But before Xiao Puxian could hang up the ribbon, someone outside suddenly shouted: "Queen Mother, Song Bing has retreated!" ”

When Xiao Puxian heard this, she was overjoyed, and hurriedly threw away the ribbon in her hand, then rushed out and asked, "What's the matter?" ”

Soon, two teams of cavalry rushed from a distance.

When Xiao Puxian saw this, tears poured out all of a sudden!

At this time, Xiao Puxian was not the only Empress Dowager of Northern Liao, she was just a poor woman.

The Song army continued to retreat towards Yingchun Gate.

Suddenly!

A sentry ran back and reported to Yang Keshi and Guo Yaoshi: "The dust is billowing outside the city, and a large group of cavalry is coming, but I don't know if it is the Song army or the Liao army." ”

Hearing this, Pharmacist Guo's face changed greatly, and he said, "It must be the Liao army reinforcements again!" ”

Yang Keshi and other generals didn't believe it, they thought that Liu Yanqing must have sent a large army to meet them.

Yang Keshi, Guo Yaoshi and other generals climbed high to lookout, only to see that under the gray city wall, a group of cavalry was gathering.

Guo Yaoshi's eyes were sharp, and he soon found that the banner of Xiao Gan, the king of the four armies, was erected on a Yanwang mound outside the city, and then said: "Look, isn't that Xiao Gan's banner?" ”

Yang Keshi and other generals looked at Guo Yaoshi's fingers, and saw the banners of the kings of the four armies fluttering in the evening breeze, and then their faces were like ashes.

Guo Yaoshi was indignant that the reinforcements had not come for a long time, and he said: "There should not be many Liao troops in the area of the Lugou River, why didn't Liu Yanqing take the opportunity to attack?" The Lugou River is only a few dozen miles away from Yanjing City, and Liu Guangshi's reinforcements should have arrived a long time ago! ”

Yang Keshi was silent, he couldn't figure it out, why didn't the reinforcements come?

Yang Keshi thought to himself: "Is it because of a conflict with me Yang Keshi?" If that's the case, then you father and son are too narrow-minded, right? ”

A trace of sadness welled up in Yang Keshi's heart.

Yang Keshi now feels both ashamed and guilty, and he has already made up his mind to die: "The battle is like this, what face do I have to go back to the Great Song Dynasty?" What kind of face do I have to see Tong Xuanfu again? ”

Xiao Gan led his soldiers and horses into the city through the secret passage at the south gate of the imperial city, and then quickly made contact with Xiao Pu Xiannu and Yelu Dashi.

Xiao Gan and Yelu Dashi agreed to act separately and annihilate the Song army in the city.

The Song army fought and retreated, and came to the downstairs of Shuangmen.

Yang Keshi asked Gao Shixuan: "What kind of place is this?" ”

Gao Shixuan said: "It seems to be a double gatehouse. ”

As soon as Gao Shixuan's words fell, the arrows of the Liao army rained down, and then groups of Liao soldiers rushed up with shouts.

Gao Shixuan raised a spear in his hand and assassinated several Liao soldiers one after another.

A fierce battle ensued between the two armies.

Yang Keshi shouted at Gao Shixuan: "Don't fall in love with the war, withdraw quickly!" ”

Suddenly!

Gao Shixuan was cut off his horse by a Liao soldier.

Yang Keshi roared when he saw this, and then rushed forward on a prancing horse and killed the Liao soldier.

Yang Keshi looked at Gao Shixuan again, and saw that most of his arms had been cut off, and the blood was not stopping.

Yang Keshi hurriedly jumped off the horse and picked up Gao Shixuan, and said loudly: "Brother, you can't die!" ”

Gao Shixuan opened his eyes and looked at Yang Keshi and said, "Find my arm and take the brothers out of the city......"

Due to excessive bleeding, Gao Shixuan was martyred.

Gao Shixuan is a famous archer of the Song Army, known as Gao Yijian, who once compared arrows with Liu Qi, he could have become a hero, but unfortunately died here.

Gao Shixuan's death made Yang Keshi seem to be crazy, he brandished a spear and killed the Liao army in the east, and the Liao soldiers fled one after another.

The soldiers of the Song army saw that the commander was desperate, and they all swore to kill.

After a period of slaughter, the Liao soldiers retreated.

Yang Keshi ordered: "Find Gao Shixuan's arm." ”

A few pro-soldiers turned around, but they didn't find it.

Yang Keshi said: "If you look for it again, you must find it, if you can't find it, we will stay here forever!" ”

Gao Shixuan's arm was finally found.

Only then did Yang Keshi order: "Tie General Gao to the horse, and I will take him with me." ”

Yang Keshi and Yang Kebi led the remnants of the army to retreat in front of the Minzhong Temple.

Guo Yaoshi, who had divided his troops and advanced before, had been waiting here for a long time, and there was still a large group of ordinary people gathered in front of the temple.

Yang Keshi said to Pharmacist Guo, "What now? Do you want to go to Yingchun Gate to wait for reinforcements? ”

Pharmacist Guo said: "I have received definite news that the Yingchun Gate has been lost!" ”

The people gathered in front of the Minzhong Temple were all Han Chinese in Yanjing City, and they all participated in the massacre of the Khitans, and they looked at Yang Keshi and Guo Yaoshi and said, "You let us accuse the Khitan people and help you kill the Khitans, and now if you go out of the city, what will we do?" Besides, now that the drawbridges of the city gates have been cut off, there is no way to get out of the city, so it is better to fight to the death with the Khitan! ”

Yang Keshi then organized the Song army to fight a fierce battle with the Liao army, but was defeated again.

It is impossible for them to be undefeated, the Song army has not slept for three days and nights, and it is already hungry and tired, while the Liao army is strong, how can it win?

The encirclement of the Liao army became smaller and smaller, so the Song army abandoned their horses and climbed the city wall.

The Liao army gathered more and more, and finally surrounded the Song army on the city wall.

Yang Keshi saw that he had been driven to a dead end, and was ready to fight to the end, he said to his younger brother Yang Kebi: "We are a family of Jiangmen, we can't follow the state of our children, now is the moment for us to sacrifice our lives for the country!" ”

After speaking, Yang Keshi danced a spear and commanded the soldiers to fight to the death with the Liao army, ignoring the poisoned arrows.

I don't know how long it took, someone reported to Yang Keshi: "General, Guo Yaoshi has already gone down the city. ”

After everyone listened, they all persuaded Yang Keshi to go down the city.

But Yang Keshi resolutely refused.

Seeing that Yang Keshi was about to die, Yang Kebi said to Yang Keshi: "Zhao Heshou's rear army will not come to support, and Liu Yanqing will not send troops to respond, today's events, black and white, if we all die in such a daze, no one will laugh at us as historical sinners." I think we should go out alive, it will be obvious to the world, if the court punishes the crime, die without regrets! ”

Yang Keshi thought about it and felt that what his younger brother said made sense, so he also led people out of the city......

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