Time goes back to the scene of the siege of Xijin Province six days ago.

Under the guidance of Ma Qingshan's battle strategy, the siege soldiers and horses of the Great Zhou Dynasty broke through the southern city gate in the evening, and the cavalry rushed into the city gate after paying huge casualties. Yang Jun's cavalry guard battalion commander He Chuanzong led thousands of cavalry to fight to the death, and successfully attracted Han Desui and more than 20,000 Liao troops defending the city to the city, dispersing the forces on the Liao army wall.

Ma Qingshan decisively asked Yang Jun to give an order for a full-scale siege of the city, and Yang Jun did not hesitate at all after understanding Ma Qingshan's intentions, and pressed the entire line of 80,000 Chinese troops at hand, and broke through the southern city wall in one fell swoop before dark.

When a steady stream of Great Zhou soldiers and horses rushed up the city wall and occupied seven or eight staircase passages in the lower city, rushing towards the city, even Han Desui realized that the Xijin Mansion was about to be lost. The city has been destroyed, and the greatest advantage has been lost. The total strength is inferior to the other party, and the hand-to-hand combat ability is inferior to the opponent's, and the Xijin Mansion seems to be powerless.

However, Han Desui had already made up his mind to fight to the death from the beginning of the siege war, because he clearly understood that once Xijin Mansion was captured, the Great Liao River and Mountains would be in turmoil, and time was running out. As Yelu Zongyuan's father-in-law, as an ally in the same boat as Yelu Zongyuan, Han Desui certainly understood that it was also the end of today's status and achievements that his Han clan had worked hard for generations. Of course, Han Desui was unwilling, so he had to fight to the death, because he had no way out and room for maneuver.

Han Desui deserves to be a famous general of Daliao, and at this time, he can still command calmly and in an orderly manner. Benefiting from the worst-case scenario he had foreseen, he set up several fortifications on the main streets of the city early on. Although these fortifications made of sandbags and stones cannot be compared with the city walls, they can still be used as a means of street fighting. A large number of wooden tables and chairs piled up on the long street were also set on fire to block the advance of the Great Zhou soldiers and horses.

At the same time, Han De quickly gathered the remaining nearly 70,000 soldiers and horses to defend the city, and launched a blockade against the soldiers and horses of the Great Zhou Dynasty at every street and alley. The street fighting was extremely fierce, and the hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses of the Great Zhou Dynasty and the 60,000 or 70,000 Liao troops fought and fought bloody battles in every fortification and every street and alley. Every corner and alley was soaked in blood.

The advantage of the Liao people lies in their familiarity with the terrain and the accurate sniping of longbows, while the soldiers and horses of the Great Zhou Dynasty seek to break through the blocks with superior forces and advance the encirclement and suppression. Once the Liao army is encircled somewhere and enters into real hand-to-hand combat, the Liao people have no power to resist at all. However, although the number of soldiers and horses of the Great Zhou Dynasty was doubled, they continued to attack the city and fought continuously, and they were already tired soldiers. In addition, the Liao people built fortifications all over the city, which greatly hindered the advance of the soldiers and horses of the Great Zhou. As a result, the progress of street fighting was extremely slow.

Finally, at midnight, the Great Zhou soldiers and horses occupied most of the city, and nearly 40,000 Liao troops retreated into the imperial palace in the northern city of Xijin Mansion under the command of Han Desui, and relied on the high walls of the palace to carry out a final battle.

This is already a dead end that is powerless, although the walls of the palace are tall, they will definitely not be able to resist the attack of the soldiers and horses of the Great Zhou. However, in order to reduce casualties, Yang Jun ordered the mobilization of siege equipment outside the city into the city, wanting to use siege equipment to break through the palace in one fell swoop and complete the final encirclement and suppression.

However, at this moment, the change happened suddenly. Stay in the South Side

Outside of the Great Wednesday, 10,000 logistics baggage soldiers and horses and more than 10,000 wounded soldiers were suddenly attacked by countless Liao cavalry who appeared out of nowhere. All the main forces of the Great Zhou soldiers and horses are fighting bloody battles in the city, and the main force of the Liao army defending the city is already under control, the number and distribution are clear, who would have expected that another Liao army will arrive.

In a hurry, the soldiers and horses of the Great Zhou outside the city warned and stopped the resistance. However, the number of soldiers and horses attacked by the other side was beyond imagination. The black-pressed cavalry of the Liao army was all over the open space under the mountain and car city, and the rough estimate was that the number of people probably exceeded 150,000. It is unbelievable that such a large number of soldiers and horses suddenly attacked without the slightest warning in advance. And there was no information about this soldier and horse before, which was even more unexpected.

The number of soldiers and horses was completely crushed, and the soldiers and horses outside the city were not the main force of the Great Zhou, and most of them were old, weak, sick and disabled. When Yang Jun, Bai Qima, Qingshan and others who had invaded the city received the report, the situation outside the city was already one-sided. Tens of thousands of old, weak, sick and disabled soldiers and horses of the Great Zhou Dynasty were annihilated in a very short period of time. Most of the opponent's soldiers and horses had already rushed into the southern city and entered the city, smashing directly into the belly and back of the Great Zhou soldiers and horses besieging the palace.

The strength of the two sides reversed, and there were still 1340,000 soldiers and horses in the city of Great Zhou, while the total strength of the Liao army soared to about 200,000, and the balance of strength reversed sharply. What's even more troublesome is the formation, the reinforced Liao army and the Liao army led by Han Desui who held in the palace are in a north-south attack, sandwiching the Great Zhou soldiers and horses.

In this situation, Bai Qi and Ma Qingshan immediately suggested to Yang Jun to stop the attack immediately and concentrate on breaking through. However, Yang Jun made the fatal mistake of empiricism at this time, he regarded the situation of fighting with the main force of Western Xia and defeating them in one fell swoop as the same situation as the situation in front of him, and he thought that he could still replicate the original battle. If the Liao army can be routed head-on here, the situation will be completely under his control. Otherwise, when taking Xijin Mansion and continuing to march north, it is still necessary to have a decisive battle with the main force of the Liao army. Rather than that, it would be better to have a decisive battle here.

Of course, Yang Jun is not completely unbalanced by the comparison of combat power, it is an indisputable fact that the number of opponents exceeds that of their own tens of thousands. Yang Jun's decision cannot but take into account the factor of strength comparison. But after he saw the equipment of the soldiers and horses reinforced by the other party, he found that the soldiers and horses reinforced by the other party were not regular soldiers and horses of the Liao State, those people had no armor, and the blades were all patchwork, and the war horses were not carefully selected, they were obviously temporary patchwork of soldiers and horses. It's a ragtag army that came out of nowhere. Yang Jun decided that their combat effectiveness would not be strong. Moreover, Yang Jun believed that under the cramped terrain in the city, the opponent's cavalry-based soldiers and horses could not exert their power. The soldiers and horses of the Great Zhou Dynasty were mainly infantry, so they could move with ease, interspersed with roundabouts, and move freely.

In view of the above judgments, Yang Jun not only did not feel the slightest inappropriateness, but thought that this was another opportunity to make himself famous all over the world. He decided to start a decisive battle with an army of 130,000 and an army of nearly 200,000 on the other side.

Although Bai Qi, Ma Changqing and some generals tried hard to stop them, they couldn't say a word of opposition when Yang Jun choked on Yang Jun's words of 'you are afraid of fighting and afraid of death'. Now that the marshal has made up his mind, there is only one way to fight to the death.

Yang Jun took back command and personally arranged the big battle. At dawn, after learning the news of the arrival of his reinforcements, Han De led 40,000

The Liao army rushed out of the palace, and at the same time, the Liao army reinforcements from the south also poured into the battlefield from the direction of a dozen main streets, and the two sides obviously communicated with each other, although they did not know how this communication was achieved, but it was obvious that they launched a north-south attack at the same time.

The battle began at dawn, and hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses from both sides were concentrated in the circular square around the Imperial Palace and in the streets and alleys within a radius of four or five miles, and a bloody battle was carried out. It was the largest number of battles ever fought in a small area within a city. The streets and squares are full of people, fighting, blood and screams, which can be called hell on earth.

Yang Jun firmly believes that he will win this battle, because his soldiers are all elite, all well-trained and well-equipped elite. With the personal command of him, the Great Zhou Military God, there should be no loss. Maybe it's a crushing victory, maybe it lasts longer, maybe it's going to be a battle from dawn to night, but I'm sure I'm going to win. But what he never expected was that the battle didn't even last for an hour. When the light of the morning sun sprinkled on the battlefield in the city, the soldiers and horses of the Great Zhou began to collapse on all fronts.

The reason is simple, Yang Jun's previous analysis is not incorrect, but he has ignored two important factors that affect the victory or defeat of the battle. The first is fatigue. Yang Jun completely forgot that before tonight, the army had been attacking the city for three days without stopping, and all the soldiers and horses were exhausted. Although the strategy of rotating the siege was adopted, when the siege was tight, it would drive the withdrawn soldiers and horses to charge again. In fact, the whole army can really rest for only a few hours in three days. The army is besieging the city, and everyone is tense and ready to attack the whole army at any time, where is there time for you to rest. Moreover, before that, the soldiers and horses of the Great Zhou had been marching continuously for more than a month. Since entering the territory of Liao, it has almost crossed in siege, river crossing, and rapid marching. Sometimes you have to worry about the ambush of the other party. In fact, the whole army is already exhausted from the bones. In addition to the 40,000 remaining soldiers and horses defending the city, the soldiers and horses of the Liao State were exhausted, and the reinforcements of the more than 100,000 troops were all new forces.

The second factor is the psychology of the soldiers. The siege war, which had been unfortunated for a long time, lost so many soldiers and horses, and the soldiers already had a sense of war weariness in their hearts. When Ma Qingshan's strategy worked, he originally thought that this purgatory-like siege battle was coming to an end, but suddenly faced a large number of reinforcements from the other side, and his psychological blow can be imagined. I thought I would survive this siege alive, but at the moment I was afraid.

It is already a taboo in the art of war to attack the labor division, and the tired soldiers and the new army fight against each other, and the number of people is not dominant, and the psychological heart of war weariness is born, and the result can be imagined. Even a well-trained soldier will never win. Yang Jun may be a good leader, but he is sometimes overconfident and self-serving. The desire for victory is too strong and refuses to accept the fact of defeat. It's a double-edged sword, sometimes it gives him brilliant victories, but sometimes it leads to a complete defeat.

On the long street due south, after a large number of Great Zhou soldiers threw away their weapons and raised their hands to surrender and were unwilling to fight again, the negative feelings of war weariness and pessimism grew like a plague. The tired and heartless Great Zhou soldiers soon fell into a bitter battle, and the more this happened, the more oppressive the other side became, and the more a vicious circle would be created. Once the taut string breaks, it is a complete collapse.