On the ninth day of February, the north wind blew strongly overnight, and the weather seemed to be suddenly a lot colder, and the water of the Yellow River, which had just thawed, seemed to be freezing again. On 13 February, except for the four that were blown up during the attack on Gaoyang Pass, all the 11,000-pound cannons of the Liao soldiers were moved into the fort and bombarded the city of Hejian almost day and night. On February 15, Han Shizhong led the second army in Zhenbei to attack the city and attack the Liao artillery fortress to the west, planning to destroy the Liao people's giant artillery with earth-shaking thunder.

Wang Yan allowed the Zhenbei Second Army to select armor blades from the armory. The iron barrel cannon at the head of the city was inconvenient to move, and the range was not as good as the huge cannon of the Liao soldiers, so Wang Yan ordered the bed crossbows in the heavy camp to be moved to the west city wall as much as possible to suppress the Liao. The Song army's bed crossbow had a range of up to 750 paces, which was just enough to extend to the Liao army's fort and cover the route of Han Shizhong's battle all the way. The Song State also had a bed crossbow with a range of up to 1,000 steps, but unfortunately it had to be defended only in Bianjing City, and other towns were not allowed to violate the system.

For the dispatch of Sima Wang Yan on the march, Tong Guan was all deployed. He seems to have great expectations for the brave Han Shizhong, such a sensational cannon, each worth may be close to 10,000 yuan, if it can be destroyed, the Liao soldiers can't take it away after the war, find a way to drag it to Bianjing to show off the martial arts to the official family, I'm afraid that the responsibility for the collapse of the Hebei camp will not be taken care of.

As soon as the sky dawned the next day, Zhao Xingde and the generals went to the city to watch the battle.

The foot soldiers of the Song army are all wearing armor, as if the fifty catties of foot armor are the heaviest, and the spears and shields of the camp are wrapped in iron armor all over their bodies, and under the hood with masks, only two eyes are exposed, and the eight thousand troops from the streets of the city and from the west gate are lined up, and the armor pieces make a neat clanging sound. The people in Hejian City sent these warriors out of the city with awe, and the Liao people's shelling yesterday evening made everyone worry about their hearts, and this best-equipped army in the city somewhat made people pin great hopes.

After the formation of the infantry was completed, the 4,000 cavalry slowly passed through the city gate, forming a cavalry formation on the left and right of the infantry formation. The regular cavalry of the Song army was similar to the Tielin Army of the Liao State, most of them were heavily armored men and horses, but most of the armor was discarded when the Hejian camp collapsed, and there was a lack of war horses in the city, so Han Shizhong only had more than 2,000 cavalry Zhenbei Army was a real heavy armored cavalry, and the remaining 2,000 cavalry were only cavalry armor, and the horses could only wear thick linen clothes as a shield from arrows.

Not far away, the Liao people had already noticed that the Song army in the city had also arranged a military formation in front of the fort, and the cavalry was also divided into two wings. Between the two tributaries of the Yellow River into the sea, there was not a wide place for horses to gallop, and both armies used cavalry to stretch out to protect the flanks, so that there was no room for a roundabout sneak attack, and they could only fight each other hard. The distance between the two armies of Song and Liao in front of the formation was only more than two hundred steps.

Han Shizhong looked back at the banner of the city tower, and ordered in a deep voice with an expressionless face: "Twenty steps forward." "The commanders of the battalions, the orders of the heads of the capital came out in unison, accompanied by the drumbeat of the Chinese army, the eight thousand foot soldiers took twenty steps forward neatly, and then stopped, and at the same time, the cavalry formation on both wings also slowly urged the horses, and maintained cooperation with the infantry formation.

Seeing that Han Shizhong had trained the rapidly expanded Second Army of Zhenbei so neatly in a short period of time, Wang Yan nodded secretly, "The order is forbidden, and there is the style of an ancient famous general." Shen Sheng ordered: "Release the crossbow arrows!" "The Song sergeant at the head of the city picked up the hammer and knocked on the fangs, only to hear dozens of sounds, hundreds of bed crossbow arrows were launched, in the opposite side of the Liao army camp was a chaos, many soldiers panicked to raise their shields to dodge, but the pure iron bed crossbow is thick like a child's arm, how can it be blocked by manpower, only to see more than 500 steps away, shot to the cavalry, penetrated the heavy armor, people turned on their horses, shot to the foot soldiers who raised the shield, the shield was broken, and more than a dozen shot to the Liao soldiers' fortification, with a huge momentum on the huge shield of the height of the zhang, the tail wings continued to shake.

The bed crossbow of the Song army was a circular radiation, which did not stop for a moment, and the iron barrel cannon at the head of the city also opened fire to bombard the Liao soldiers outside Lixu. The Liao army did not show weakness, more than ten huge iron barrel cannons opened fire one after another, more than 100 small iron barrel cannons also bombarded the city, the two sides came and went, the sound of gunpowder roared loudly, the sound of breaking the sky was endless, and the crossbow arrows of the stone marble bed in the sky flew wildly.

The stakes are very high, even if from time to time there are thousands of pounds of stone bullets flying over the head, whenever the city wall is hit, there is a sense of shaking the mountain, and the generals of the Song army who are cheering at the head of the city, even the pale Tong Guan, no one goes down to hide.

Zhao Xingde's official rank is low, there is no clairvoyant mirror available, only from a distance to see the Song army's large array slowly advancing, from the Liao army formation a hundred steps away, the infantry army array sent out of the arrow rain will fly out in waves, across an arc, fell into the Liao army and horses, the Liao people's bow and arrow are weak, the iron barrel cannon charge is extremely long to fire, just now fired a round of stone bullets at the city, until the forward and the Song army fought together, and there were not a few stone bullets hit the Song army's infantry and cavalry formation, Zhao Xingde secretly called luck, But I didn't know that the artillery used by the Liao army was extremely troublesome to adjust the elevation angle, and it had to spend most of the day, so it was only used for siege, not for field battles.

After the two armies of Song and Liao fought together, the Zhenbei army suddenly rushed the Liao people's formation into a depression, and most of the Liao army used the Han people of Youyan and other inferior clans as foot soldiers, and the cavalry originally wanted to break through the horse formation of the two wings of the Song people, and outflank the central formation of the Song army in a roundabout way, and more than 4,000 horsemen on both wings of the Song army fought to the death and did not retreat, and even slowly rushed in with the foot soldiers.

Seeing that the forward of the Song army was getting closer and closer to the Liao people's fortification, Zhao Xingde's fists were clenched tightly, and his palms were already drenched with sweat.

"Kill!" "Kill it forward!" Bi Sheng, the commander of the Third Army in Zhenbei, next to him, couldn't hold it anymore and waved his hand loudly. Tong Guan also rarely did not reprimand him, and Feng Mei of the Fourth Army in Zhenbei secretly regretted why he didn't ask Ying to fight, such a huge firearm must be dedicated to the saint, Jane is in the emperor's heart!

"It is said that the southerners are cowardly, but now it seems that the courage is no less than that of my Khitan athletes." Xiao Dabu, the commander of the Liao army, also saw with his own eyes several wounded Song soldiers holding the hooves of horses trampled from the side, and the Liao army that rushed into the large array of the Song Central Army was often like falling into a flesh and blood millstone, and could not get out after entering. He shook his head, "It's a pity ......" He turned around and ordered: "The Iron Wall Battalion will come out and intercept the Song army." ”

The military order is like a mountain, and there is a sound of chains, Xu Ding stands up hard, six feet three inches tall, and his broad waist and round torso are wrapped in iron armor, like an iron tower. The iron chain made of fine iron was tied to Xu Ding's waist, and the two equally tall soldiers on the left and right were connected, a group of five, walking with neatly trained steps, knock-knock-knock——, like an iron wall.

Xu Ding stared viciously at the Khitan soldiers five feet away. If it weren't for the iron chain at his waist that prevented him from stepping two feet away alone, even if he died, he would have used the heavy axe in his hand to split these condescending Khitans into two pieces.

The Khitan were proud of their cavalry and archery, and the tribesmen did not want to be lowly foot soldiers, so they selected tall and powerful captives from the defeated Five Kingdoms, Jurchens, Han and other ethnic groups to form an iron wall battalion, and the five people were connected into a group with iron chains, led by the officers of the Xi tribe. Most of the soldiers in the Iron Wall Battalion are slaves. The ancestor of the Xu family was the general of Han Chang who died in the battle of Broken Axe Mountain, and after the defeat, he gathered in the mountains and forests and became enemies of the Liao court. Xu Ding was captured because of the sneak attack of the Liao army, and was selected into the Tiebi camp because of his tall and strong body, and more than 100 other people who were captured together were divided into five horses by the Liao.

"I just want to kill the Khitans." Xie Ye, a captive from the tribes of the Five Kingdoms, scolded. "I want to, too." Xu Ding's teeth chattered. "I also want to kill the Khitans." Another Han prisoner, Zhang Zhouhoudao. The Khitan cavalry in front of the Tiebi camp slowly dispersed to both sides, and the foot soldiers of the Song army rushed to the front like a mountain and a sea, but the soldiers of the Tiebi battalion connected by iron chains barely moved. The sword of the Song army's foot soldier could not pierce through the heavy armor of Tiefutu, and the ping-pong pong of Pu Dao's spear smashed on Xu Ding's iron armor, and he didn't blink his eyes. "Wave!" With the sound of the military order behind him, the front row of Tiefutu raised his blade, heavy axe, big sword, and mace at the same time, and just by this moment, he forced the Song army in front of him back half a step. "Kill! ...... Hercules swung his blade, and a piece of flesh flew in front of him.

Zhao Xingde looked at the city from the top of the city, only to see a dazzling reflective copper wall suddenly appeared in the rear of the Liao army, under the wave of the blade, the Song army infantry formation could no longer move forward, the two wings of the Liao army got the opportunity, one after another to the center of the arrows, so that the Song army suffered heavy casualties, began to retreat. Fortunately, Han Shizhong managed the army well, although the second army in Zhenbei was defeated but not chaotic, and slowly retreated to the city gate, the Liao army was afraid of the bows and crossbows and artillery of the Song army at the head of the city, and did not chase them too much, but the huge cannon with good gunpowder and stone shells bombarded more fiercely.

Han Shizhong fought hard, was wounded by more than ten wounds, and after bleeding and fainting, he was carried back by his generals. All the generals looked at each other, no one took the initiative to ask Ying to destroy the Liao army's artillery fortification, and all deployed Tong Guan's face was pale, and that night, the Liao State sent a messenger to send a letter of persuasion. At the same time, with more than 2,000 heads of Hebei soldiers, a Beijing temple was built next to the fort.