The siege began in the second phase of the siege. The low and hoarse sound of the horn resounded through the battlefield under the city, and the sound sounded in the ears of every defender at the head of the Great Zhou City and the people in the city, making the cold hairs on his body stand up and shiver.

Almost all the infantry of the Jurchen army was dispatched, and nearly 12 infantry were divided into three echelons, and the formation spread out on the battlefield two miles wide to the left and right of Fengqiumen. The 120,000 infantry were accompanied by 50,000 cavalry archers, whose duty was to suppress the fire of the defenders at the head of the city.

The entire army and horses slowly advanced to a distance of 300 paces from the city like a tide, and then, Wanyan Aguda personally gave the order to attack. For a time, the drums of war rumbled, the trumpets sounded, and the shouts resounded through the sky. The first wave of infantry began to rush towards the city, carrying ladders and wooden shields.

The first echelon was composed of 50,000 Liao troops who defected to the Jurchens and some of the Dazhou and some of the Jurchens who were young and strong, in fact, they were also used as cannon fodder to withstand the first wave of attacks, and the two waves of 70,000 Jurchen soldiers and horses in the rear were the real main force attacking the city wall. But unlike the unarmed people who filled the passage in the moat before, they were a group of people who hated the Great Zhou itself. Whether it was the surrender of the Liao State or the surrender of the Great Zhou, they actually did not have any sense of guilt for their actions. The Liao State was originally the enemy of the Great Zhou, and the group of Great Zhou young men who took refuge in the Jurchens either became resentful because they were rejected outside the city of Bianliang and turned to the enemy, or some remnants of the Qingjiao were looking for an opportunity to avenge the Qingjiao they were loyal to. Therefore, these two types of people will not be soft in the slightest when attacking Da Zhou. Although they can only be reduced to cannon fodder and inferior in front of the Jurchens, they themselves do not think so.

They are indeed not cannon fodder in the full sense of the word, the Jurchens equipped them with simple armor blades, shields and other armor, they are indeed very different from the previous cannon fodder who were unarmed and had no means of defense. But the meaning of cannon fodder is not because of how well-equipped and how generous the promised rewards are, but because of the role played in the whole battle. For siege warfare, the first wave of counterattack firepower must be extremely terrifying, so the first echelon siege is not a glory, but precisely because it is worthless. Wanyan Aguda only needs these people to rush to the city, absorb the damage of the defenders at the head of the city, and it is best to take a cloud ladder to break through the city wall, if they can't attack it, it's nothing, because they will provide cover for the follow-up main force and open the passage. As for whether these people are dead or alive, Wanyan Agu doesn't care too much. What he cares about is whether the tactical intent can be achieved.

Fifty thousand soldiers and horses rushed on the muddy ground that had been trampled, the distance of three hundred paces was too short, and in the blink of an eye, they were already within range of the defenders of the city. Nearly 40,000 soldiers and horses of the forbidden army have been assembled on the city wall of just two miles long, and at the time of the short truce before, the defenders of the Great Zhou Dynasty have judged that the other party will no longer bomb with thunder vehicles, so a large number of soldiers and horses have gathered here, and a lot of materials to defend the city have been quickly carried by the people on the city wall.

After the opponent entered the range of bows and arrows, ten thousand arrows were fired at the head of the city, pouring round after round into the enemy formation attacking on the ground like a heavy rain. Countless arrows pierced through the bodies of the Jurchen soldiers under the city, muffled snorts and screams came and went, and the terrifying popping sound of the city gate when the arrows entered the flesh and blood was terrifying, and the ground was full of exploding blood mist, like blood-colored ripples on the water, and like blood-colored flowers blooming on the earth.

In less than a few dozen breaths, the fierce rain of arrows at the head of the city gave six or seven rounds of baptism to the attacking enemy, killing and wounding as many as three or four thousand people. The formation was too densely compressed, and 50,000 soldiers and horses were concentrated within the range of two miles, and there were people almost everywhere, and the black pressure was like ants. Although it is a skirmish formation, this straggler formation is actually not loose, the terrain is too narrow, and it can't be dispersed if you want to.

The Jurchens were not unaware of the drawbacks of dense formations, but they had no choice. Because the Jurchen army itself has a limited number of soldiers and horses, less than 300,000 people in full battle, facing the defense of the opponent's 200,000 forbidden army and an unknown number of young and strong people, they can only choose to concentrate on attacking a certain point, rather than spreading out the battlefield in an all-round way. In that case, it will not only help the formation of your own siege troops and horses, but also allow the opponent's defenders to make full use of their strength. Moreover, the siege equipment in the hands of the Jurchen army was limited, and there were only 36 coveters as the main force of the siege, so it was necessary to concentrate on breaking through the city wall, and a large number of troops could break through a certain section of the city wall at the same time to form the conditions for breaking the city. So, on the trade-off, this is the best choice for the Jurchen army.

The siege soldiers rushed to the moat, and then they could cross the river and enter the dead end under the walls, so that they could not be killed by the fierce fire of their bows and arrows. But this short distance across the moat was an absolute nightmare. Although the more than 20 passages are as wide as two zhang, tens of thousands of people rush here, but they will naturally form congestion. The bows and arrows at the head of the city were specially fired at these more than 20 passages, causing a large number of casualties. Countless siege soldiers were shot like hedgehogs on these river crossings, and countless soldiers fell into the moat, and the blood made the already blood-red moat even more red and purple and black. The short distance of seven zhang wide was like a ghost gate, and thousands of lives were taken.

But in any case, after paying a huge price, the first wave of thousands of siege soldiers managed to reach the high city walls.

Several tall remnants of the Qingjiao sect shouted the slogan of 'The Holy Father is the greatest, invulnerable', completing a historic moment. They erected a huge ladder that was three feet long and built the city wall of Bianliang, the capital of the Great Zhou Dynasty. Although these remnants of the Qingjiao were quickly killed by the stones thrown down from the city, and the ladder was also overturned by the defenders with a long fork and fell to the ground, this was the first enemy siege ladder erected under the walls of the capital more than 100 years after the founding of the Great Zhou Dynasty.

With countless ladders on the city wall, the bloody battle against the city wall officially began. Rolling wood and stones rolled down the city and boiling oil and boiling water, smashing the siege soldiers under the city walls and crying wolves. To say that the Great Zhou soldiers and horses are not limited to these means of defending the city, the Great Zhou, as a soldier and horse with defensive operations as the guiding ideology, naturally came up with a lot of good ideas in the method of defending the city. In addition to the conventional means, there are also special means used to deal with the enemy's siege behavior.

A team of more than a dozen soldiers used a long-handled wooden fork to push the siege ladder away from the city wall, and the siege soldiers who were forced to push it down fell to the ground with the ladder, breaking their tendons and breaking their bones, crying for their father and mother. There is also a special team of pikes guarding the city with two-zhang spears, they poke their heads out and use their spears to violently stab the soldiers on the siege ladder below, poking the siege soldiers until they are covered in blood, and have to jump off the ladder to save their lives. Although these methods are no longer a secret, they are indeed the original creations of the Great Zhou defenders for so many years.

The attacking side suffered heavy casualties, but this was also expected. Siege warfare is a battle in which the attacker pays a great price, unless, of course, if you have powerful siege equipment. At this moment, when the first echelon of siege soldiers and horses were suffering under the city walls, the 70,000 elite Jurchen infantry in the rear finally came overwhelmingly. In the dense crowd, more than 30 tower-like cloud carts were slowly approaching, and dozens of siege vehicles were also surrounded by soldiers in formation.

When tens of thousands of Jurchen elite infantry rushed to the city almost without hindrance, the Jurchens also had their means of counterattack. Tens of thousands of Jurchen soldiers took off the hook from their waists, it was just a kind of rope with iron four claws at the front end of the long rope, which was originally a tool for the Jurchens to hook trees and grasp rocks in the mountains and forests to facilitate movement, and occasionally used to control tyrannical beasts at close range. At this moment, this hook was used on the battlefield and became a sharp weapon in siege. The hook rope that whirled overhead was directly thrown onto the city by the Jurchen soldiers with the help of the power of rotation, it was not to hook the city wall and climb up directly, their target was the Great Zhou soldiers who had lost the protection of the battlements at the head of the city. The hook only needs to hook the body of the soldiers defending the city, and the next convenient will pull hard, and the defenders of the Great Zhou who are caught off guard will be directly pulled upside down and planted on the city wall, and if they can't die, they will be hacked to death with a knife.

This surprisingly difficult offensive method instantly made the thousands of defenders on the head of the city fall into the way, and they were pulled off the city wall like dumplings one by one. Some soldiers were hooked in the arm, and they reacted quickly and still had the strength to resist, and they used their feet against the base of the battlements to fight against them. Those who move quickly will quickly cut the rope, and those who do not move quickly will have to endure the pain of skin and flesh, and be torn off a large piece of flesh by the iron hook to get rid of this hook of life.

Even so, it was quite difficult for the Jurchens to attack the city wall, and under the fierce defensive means of the other party, it was not easy to climb the city by just attacking the city by means of cloud ladders. Although the forbidden army defending the city was only forty or fifty thousand people, a steady stream of reinforcements was on both sides of the city wall and inside the city wall. Although the number of dead and wounded of the defenders was not small, they were able to fill the vacancy at the first time, and their combat effectiveness was not reduced in the slightest. And although the Great Zhou forbidden army on the walls on both sides of the battlefield could not join the battle, they could use bed crossbows. Bow and arrow to support. They could shoot and kill besieging enemy forces within their range, causing no small amount of harassment to the Jurchens.

The Jurchens kept climbing the city wall from the ladder, but because the number of people who could break through the city wall was too small, the sporadic soldiers who climbed the city were not at all, and they were quickly hanged. In this case, if the Jurchens wanted to break through the city wall, they could only hope for the arrival of the cloud car, which was slowly approaching the city wall and would soon cross the moat.

When the siege battle was about an hour and a half, more than 30 cloud siege vehicles finally slowly stopped on the ground less than fifteen steps of the city wall. The Jurchen soldiers quickly laid wooden stakes on the ground to fix the chassis, and four counterweight boxes weighing more than 600 catties were carried down from the carts by them and pressed against the iron beams of the ground. With more than 2,000 catties of heavy objects pressing down on the ground, plus more than a dozen wooden stakes nailed into the ground as a fixation, the whole cloud car can be described as stable as Mount Tai. Wanyan Aguda also learned from the experience of the Liao people when they attacked Liaoyang City, when his sister Wanyan Mingyue came up with the idea that the situation of pulling down the Liao army's cloud car by pulling horses must not happen here, so the Jurchen cloud car is not only more solid in structure, but also equipped with more heavy objects to counterweight. At the top, there are as many as a dozen soldiers armed with long scythes, ready to cut the ropes that pull the other party's rollers. Wanyan Aguda made sure that everything was foolproof.

The chariot was in place, the Jurchen soldiers rushed into the space on top of the chariot, and a suspension bridge opened, and the passage to the city was instantly opened. Countless Jurchen soldiers rushed towards the city like wolves and tigers. This is not the previous sporadic soldiers and horses who climbed the ladder to the city, more than 30 cloud chariots can allow nearly 2,000 people to pounce on the city at one time, even if the number of people is not enough to occupy the city wall, but it is not a short time to solve. As long as there is a delay, a steady stream of follow-up soldiers and horses will rush up. After being involved, the Jurchen soldiers and horses of the Cloud Ladder Siege will also get the opportunity to attack the city, which will break the current balance between the offensive and defensive sides, and it is very likely to cause the defender to collapse.

Although the Great Zhou Forbidden Army has not been in battle for a long time, and it is full of many children of the family who hope to participate in the forbidden army as a step forward, the combat effectiveness is no longer the most powerful and elite soldiers and horses of the Great Zhou Dynasty when the Great Zhou Dynasty was founded. However, the Great Zhou Forbidden Army, as the only soldier and horse guarding the capital, had a heavy responsibility on its shoulders, and did not dare to be too lax. For so many years, the training of the forbidden army, the training of the forbidden army, the training of basic combat skills such as simulation acting, and the tempering of basic combat skills have not been wasted. Moreover, the weapons and equipment of the forbidden army are obviously the most complete and sophisticated among all the soldiers and horses of the Great Zhou, at this moment, in the face of the danger of breaking the city, the forbidden army of the Great Zhou Dynasty broke out of their former heritage, showing extraordinary combat effectiveness.

The Jurchens' hand-to-hand combat ability can be called strong, but in the face of the ferocity of the Jurchens, the Great Zhou Forbidden Army did not retreat at all and stumbled to the end. The two sides fought to the death on the broad city walls. Both sides had a steady stream of reinforcements, and although the Jurchen infantry had suffered great losses in the siege before, they still had more than 90,000 combat troops. The forbidden army, on the other hand, had only suffered less than six or seven thousand casualties before, and there were as many as 100,000 reinforcements on the inner and both sides of the city wall. Therefore, the imaginary collapse of the defenders did not happen, and the two sides used the city as a battlefield, strangled together, coerced together, and launched a crazy fight.

Several times the Jurchens almost took control of the situation, and the Great Zhou forbidden army was almost on the verge of rout, but they still withstood the opponent's attack. The bloody battle was carried out at the end of the Shen period, and the number of dead and wounded on both sides was already countless. Under the city, there were corpses everywhere, and blood flowed down the top of the city walls, gathering into a trickle. Everyone is red-eyed, and they are desperate for life and death. The Jurchen cavalry drew 50,000 people to the city to support, and Wanyan Aguda personally took the mace to guard the battalion to the city to fight, and the soldiers and horses of the Great Zhou gradually couldn't support it.

But at this moment, Guo Xu led a thousand forbidden troops in front of the palace to rush into the ruined ruined city tower of Fengqiu Gate. At the moment when the dragon flag was raised high, Guo Xu stood on a high place in golden armor and beat the war drums himself. At that moment, all the soldiers of the forbidden army seemed to be infused with new strength from top to bottom, radiating the fighting power of a lion and tiger. The emperor's royal car came to the battle in person, which greatly boosted the morale of the Great Zhou forbidden army. The retreating Great Zhou forbidden army launched a fierce attack, suppressing the momentum of the Jurchen soldiers and horses, and the two sides fell into the scorching of entanglement.

The sun was slowly setting, and the north of Bianliang City under the residual sun was already a hell in and out of the city. The exhausted soldiers on both sides were still fighting their last days, and the corpses on both sides of the city walls were piled up and rivers of blood flowed.

At this moment, the sound of a high horn came from the afterglow of the setting sun west of Bianliang, and countless black dots were rushing across the snowfield on the distant horizon. The soldiers and horses on both sides were a little stunned, and they were very confused in their hearts.

Suddenly, someone shouted loudly: "Reinforcements have arrived, the soldiers and horses of Lord Yuan Zhenqian of the Northwest Army have arrived, and the Jurchens are going to be finished." ”

This voice was shocking, and soon Wanyan Agu and Guo Xu saw the banner of the soldiers and horses in the sunset in the distance from the clairvoyant mirror. That's right, it was the arrival of Yuan Zhenqian's soldiers and horses of the Northwest Army stationed in Western Xia in the Great Zhou. After waiting for them for nearly a month and a half, they finally arrived at the battlefield at a critical time, at a critical moment.

"It's them, hahaha, God bless me Da Zhou, God bless me, my Bianliang City is saved. Hahaha. Guo Xu looked up to the sky and laughed, and tears of laughter flowed out. The reason why he came to the city to fight in person was not only to gain fame and reputation, but he did feel the danger of the city being broken. He didn't want to die in the end, so he chose to come to the city to fight. Regarding his behavior, Lu Zhongtian only symbolically blocked a few words and then stopped dissuading. Maybe Lu Zhongtian wants him to die, but it is unknown. But now, the Northwest Army has arrived, the reinforcements have arrived, and the situation will be reversed, how can Guo Xu not cry with joy.

The arrival of reinforcements made the soldiers and civilians of the Great Zhou Dynasty above and below the city wall thunderous and morale, and they shouted and launched a fierce attack, all of them were extremely brave. On the other hand, the Jurchens suddenly fell into an ice cellar. After several hours of desperate fighting, it was unbelievable that success was just around the corner, but the other party's reinforcements had arrived. The Northwest Army of the Great Zhou Dynasty is the main force with 250,000 horses, even if it may not have 250,000 soldiers and horses now, it is definitely not something that the Jurchen army can withstand at this moment. Especially when the siege is in full swing, once the other party attacks, it will be difficult to take care of the end, and that is the end of the situation.

Wanyan Agu scolded angrily, although he was unwilling, he had to order the withdrawal of troops.

As soon as the military order was given, the Jurchen soldiers and horses hurriedly went down to the city, died down, and hastily collected the troops and returned to the camp. Even more than 30 SkyScooters were abandoned. The soldiers and civilians of the Great Zhou shouted for victory at the head of the city, laughing loudly one by one, but soon they sat bloodied and slumped among the corpses on the ground weeping.