The drawbridge fell, and the road to the city gate was unobstructed. How could the rear Wanyan Agu Da not know the meaning, and turned his head in excitement and shouted: "What about rushing to the car?" Rush forward. Fast! ”

Hu Lu rolled his eyes and said, "Big leader, the car has already gone up." ”

Wanyan Agu was stunned and said, "When, why didn't I see it?" ”

Hu Lu smacked his lips and said: "The chariot is mixed with the cavalry, I saw it just now, but the big leader didn't see it." ”

Wanyan Agu was stunned, turned his head to look, and saw that a rushing car had already entered the suspension bridge, and more than a dozen soldiers wearing armor and holding large shields were frantically pushing the rushing car across the suspension bridge. Three other rushing cars followed closely behind.

"Good, good. Learn a little, the military advisor is really good, Lao Tzu has picked up a treasure. Wanyan Agu laughed loudly.

Hu Lu rolled his eyes and muttered, "The big leader is now a heavy military division, and he will forget the merits of our brothers." ”

Wanyan Agu turned his head and smiled: "Brother Hulu, why are you like a resentful woman?" How can you speak with him? He is Han, you are my Jurchen, can you be the same? What are you still doing? The city is about to be broken. Aren't you ready to enter the city with your cavalry? ”

Hu Lu's face was happy, and he promised loudly and rode away.

After the Great Zhou defenders on the city tower fell, they understood the other party's intention to attack the city gate. Suddenly, countless arrows rained down the drawbridge, intending to stop the rushing cars from rushing across the drawbridge. However, the rushing team carried a large iron shield, as large as an iron umbrella, shielding almost all the arrows.

Normally, the soldiers who rush to the city to do dirty work in the rain of arrows are equipped with large shields. It's just that most of them are wooden shields, and if they are better, they will cover the wooden shield with a thin layer of iron, which is already an excellent treatment. But the Jurchens used expensive fine iron shields, which showed luxury. But this is a reflection of the importance that Wanyan Aguda attaches to siege warfare. Wanyan Agu knew that to fight with the Great Zhou, it was necessary to have the most sophisticated siege equipment, because the Great Zhou soldiers and horses were good at defending the city. It is absolutely wrong to be stingy with the siege troops. It is better to have thinner armor on the cavalry or infantry than to ensure the use of siege equipment. It can be said that in the use of military materials, the priority is the Tiefutu, which has been recognized by Wanyan Agu, followed by the siege equipment and related personnel. Even the traditional Jurchen cavalry was in the back, let alone the infantry.

The huge iron shield protects the safety of the operators of the rushing car, and although the rushing car is full of arrows, it does not affect the use of the rushing car. Because the structure of the punch car is simple and crude, it is a flatbed truck as long as a zhang, with three square frames set up with logs, and under the frame, a rope as thick as an arm is hung with a long grinding disc thick log. At the time of impact, more than a dozen people can push the suspended log and hit the obstacle in front of them.

The bows and arrows of the Great Zhou defenders were in vain, and they could only watch as several of the opposing party's rushing vehicles rushed across the drawbridge to the city gate. The sound of a rumbling bang on the city gate sounded, and the sound of a heavy hammer slamming the door seemed to smash into the heart of every defender of the city.

Shi Zhiyuan was anxious, he was originally full of confidence in defending the city, he felt that even if the opponent's hundreds of thousands of troops were approaching the city, he would be able to hold on for at least a few days with the deployment of 80,000 men with the city wall. Just hold out until reinforcements arrive. Because of the rear, Bai Qi, the deputy envoy of the Great Zhou Privy Council, led 70,000 soldiers and horses in Xiongzhou City. And Xiongzhou

In fact, it is less than a day's journey to Bazhou. Even if it snows heavily and the road is difficult, Bai Qi will definitely rush to reinforcements within three days. When the other party charged the city with infantry, Shi Zhiyuan was about to laugh. Sure enough, the Jurchens still used this primitive siege method, they thought that they would live a long time, and no one would be able to bear the price of storming the city. Shi Zhiyuan even had a premonition that he was famous all over the world today.

However, the strange cavalry that suddenly appeared on the other side was simply an invulnerable iron man, and they rushed to the bottom of the city, ignoring all the defenders of the city in front of themselves, and then broke the iron chain of the drawbridge and lowered the drawbridge. Now, their rushing cars have begun to storm the city gate, and Shi Zhiyuan's heart is cold. It seems that the good situation is about to be reversed by this special never-before-seen soldier.

"Is the gate clogged?" Shi Zhiyuan asked with the last hope.

"It's blocked, it's been blocked with wooden fences and other things before." The person next to him hurriedly replied.

"What? What is used? Rejection? Idiot, why not use dirt and mud bags? Use a rejection horse to make a fart. Shi Zhiyuan almost fainted. I can't wait to cut down the general who is responsible for blocking the door with a knife. Sure enough, it was a rabble, and they didn't prepare mud, stone and straw bags to block the city gate hole, what is the difference between that and not blocking? But when I think about it, I can't blame others, even I think that it is snowing heavily and the enemy will not attack, who would have thought that they would appear overnight and attack immediately, without even giving a chance to block the door. Now it's too late to block it.

"Boom, boom, boom!" Under the side-by-side impact of four rushing vehicles, the heavy city gate could not resist it at all. After hundreds of strokes, the rushing car forcibly tied up the back with an iron bolt and smashed the half-foot-thick gate against the horse with logs. Even the iron bolt was smashed into an arc.

The city gate cave is indeed filled with logs, horses, wooden fences, etc., but how can these withstand the impact of the rushing car. The two rushing cars rushed in side by side, and when they encountered obstacles, they smashed them with logs, smashing the wooden horses that were more than one person high, and squeezed out of the other side of the city gate hole. In less than a meal, the city gate holes have been fully penetrated.

"Kill!" Li Guoqiu ordered loudly, and the Tiefutu cavalry rode side by side, ignoring all obstacles and rushing into the city. The defenders of the Great Zhou Dynasty had already set up a dense bow and arrow array on the square inside the city gate, ready to make a final stubborn resistance and shoot all the enemies who dared to rush in, but Tiefutu ignored all bow and arrow attacks, and of course, when they rushed into the city in groups wearing fanged masks, they ignored any attacks like evil spirit knights from hell, trampled all the way out, and scattered the defenders' formation.

Outside the city, countless Jurchen cavalry had already let out an earth-shattering roar, and they were overwhelming along the road where the Iron Floating Slaughter had charged. With 3,000 Iron Floating Tu cavalry in front of the road, the road was unimpeded. A large number of people soon rushed into the city, and began to rush wildly along the streets of the city, and the entire city quickly fell.

As Li Guoqiu said, the elite soldiers and horses in the northeast border of the Great Zhou Dynasty were lost, and the rest were a rabble. Shi Zhiyuan's 80,000 soldiers and horses look like that, they can still restrain the city when it is not broken, and they can defend the city decently. Once the city is broken, it is immediately beaten back to its original shape. The defenders of the city began to flee unrestrained, the gates of the southeast and west were opened, and a large number of deserters fled to the wilderness and snowfield.

Shi Zhiyuan knew when the city gate was broken. Today's battle is like that

I didn't use all the strength in my body, and I thought I could resist for a few days, but at the beginning of the battle, it was already a one-sided crush. Only then did Shi Zhiyuan understand that today was indeed a battle in which he became famous all over the world, but it was just notorious. Although Shi Zhiyuan is not a general of Yang Jun's faction, he is also a veteran who has been stationed in the border town for many years, and he has a brave spirit. His original idea was that even if the city was broken, he would lead 80,000 soldiers and horses to fight in the streets, fight to the end, and even if he was defeated, he would not be defeated. It's a pity that he thinks so, and the soldiers don't. The rabble fled for their lives, completely ignoring his orders. The soldiers and horses following Shi Zhiyuan were reduced almost instantly, and when Shi Zhiyuan led his troops to rush to the middle street, there were less than 8,000 soldiers and horses left behind him. The rest of the people have already scattered as birds and beasts, and they are on their way to flee for their lives.

Shi Zhiyuan lamented. But he still finally led the army to rush towards the Jurchen cavalry, and thousands of Great Zhou soldiers and horses were all killed in the streets and alleys after killing more than 2,000 Jurchen soldiers and horses. Shi Zhiyuan slashed and killed eleven Jurchen cavalrymen with a Daguan knife, and finally encountered the mace cavalry guard battalion led by Wanyan Aguda, and was smashed by Wanyan Aguda's head and died under the horse.

The battle in the city ended quickly, and it only took more than an hour for the Jurchens to take just over an hour from the beginning of the siege to the full occupation of Bazhou City. A large number of Great Zhou soldiers and horses fled outside the city, and Hu Lu and others led the cavalry to chase and kill everywhere, and only collected their troops and returned to the city in the afternoon. It can only be said that the heavy snow gave many people a chance to escape, and the Jurchen cavalry could not gallop between the wilderness under the heavy snow at will. A large number of Great Zhou soldiers and horses had a chance to live.

In the afternoon, the results of the battle were counted, and the Jurchen army suffered more than 3,800 casualties, while the 80,000 troops of the Great Zhou Dynasty suffered nearly 30,000 casualties, more than 10,000 surrendered, and the rest fled. The surrounding town of Bazhou has never been lost for a hundred years, but today, it has finally changed hands.

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At the time of the fall of Bazhou, outside the Yanmen Pass in Daizhou, northwest of Gyeonggi in the Great Zhou Dynasty, 200,000 Liao troops launched a fierce attack on Yanmen Pass. The defenders of Daizhou were the Ninghua Army, which consisted of only 25,000 men. Although the number is small, it is not an elite soldier. However, under the leadership of Yang Jin, the commander of the Ninghua Army, he relied on 25,000 soldiers and horses to repel seven attacks by the Liao army and annihilate nearly 40,000 Liao troops. It is a pity that the Ninghua Army is a border town soldier and horse that is not taken seriously, because the terrain of Yanmen Pass is dangerous, and generally no enemy will attack from Yanmen Pass. So there has been no war here for many years. Therefore, the imperial court did not pay attention to the Ninghua Army at all, and the supply of food and materials was often insufficient, and there were many deductions. Now under the situation of the imperial court, under the overstretched financial situation, there has been no supply of weapons and materials for almost a year. If it weren't for the veteran general Yang Jin's ability to lead the army and his reputation for loving soldiers like a son to unite the Ninghua army, this soldier and horse would have been disheartened.

But as the so-called Qiao woman is difficult to cook without rice, although a soldier and horse are united and good at fighting and are not afraid of sacrifice, but the materials for defending the city are gone, and they can only face the end of failure. The defenders at the gate of Yanmen shot all the arrows, smashed the rolling wood and stones, and even removed the stones from which the houses were built in the gate and used them as weapons to stop the enemy's attack. In the end, all the supplies were used up. In the end, the old general Yang Jin had to order the remaining tens of thousands of soldiers and horses to evacuate Yanmen Pass and prepare to retreat to Daizhou City. However, he was unfortunately trapped by the Liao soldiers on a hill in Yanmen Mountain.

Meng Sage, the chief general of the Liao army, personally persuaded him to surrender, because his opponent made him admire him very much. Yang Jin would not surrender, so he led 9,000 remnants of the army to charge the enemy formation, and finally Yang Jin, his three sons and 9,000 soldiers all died on the battlefield.

A day later, Daiju fell.