After receiving the warning, the imperial soldiers who were responsible for protecting the transport convoy and the people along the road hurriedly led them to retreat in the two directions of Huangzhou City and the Yangtze River in accordance with the plan of the predetermined number.

Although Pang Wanchun was fully prepared, the speed of the arrival of the Jin cavalry was still beyond his imagination, and when the convoy retreated to the vicinity of Macheng and Huangpi, the rumbling sound of horses' hooves was already heard.

"It's too late to go back, let everyone retreat to Macheng!" Looking at the smoke and dust rising in the distance, leading 5,000 soldiers, the deputy general of the Fourth Army Corps, who was responsible for protecting the convoy, Zhu Tong, the bearded prince, hurriedly gave an order.

Macheng is different from Huangzhou, although the city wall is low, and there is a flat river outside the city, it is not a good place for defense, but at this moment, Zhu Tong does not have many choices.

Before the arrival of the Jin soldiers and iron cavalry, the convoy and the people finally entered Macheng, and the five thousand imperial soldiers all climbed the not very strong city wall.

Zhu Tong stood at the head of the city, holding a telescope to observe the galloping Jin Guotie cavalry, and condescendingly immediately took the situation of the entire battlefield into his eyes.

Appearing in front of Macheng were countless Jin State Iron Cavalry with a clean military appearance, Zhu Tong silently counted it, and estimated that the number of Jin soldiers was at least 50,000.

After seeing these Jin State cavalry, Zhu Tong, who had a hot temperament, felt that his blood was surging.

On that day in Yingtianfu, the four major infantry legions of the empire all encountered the fierce impact of the Jin State Iron Cavalry, and all the legions suffered enough from the cavalry, and many of the generals and soldiers under Zhu Tong also died in that battle.

The hands of these golden soldiers were stained with the blood of the soldiers of the Imperial Army, so after seeing these bastards appear in front of his eyes, although Zhu Tong wanted to pick up the big knife and kill them, but when he thought of the transport team and the people in the city, he could only force himself to calm down.

50,000 well-trained golden soldiers and iron cavalry are enough to level any army, even if all the members of the Fourth Legion of the Empire stationed in Huangzhou City are dispatched, I am afraid that they will not be the opponent of these golden soldiers in the field, not to mention that at this time, there are only 5,000 people under Zhu Tong's command.

Looking at the small city in front of him with a city wall only three meters high, the second prince of the Jin Kingdom, who had been defeated by Li Nan, and now Wanyan Zongwang, who had been named the king of Wei, smiled coldly.

Although the cavalry of the Jin State is not good at attacking the city, but this small city has no strong city walls, and there is no trench outside to resist horses, Wanyan Zongwang estimates that it will only take half an hour to attack this city and slaughter the soldiers and people of the empire.

"The old rule, you can loot for half a day after breaking the city!" Wanyan Zongwang raised his sharp saber, pointed at Macheng and shouted to the Jin cavalry beside him.

Since coming to the Song Kingdom, these 200,000 Jin State cavalry have been like hungry wolves that have entered the flock. In the past, when they were in their own country, they had their own Jin officials to restrain the soldiers, so they did not dare to rob the traitorous silver at will, but after arriving in the Song Kingdom, everyone released the beast nature in their hearts.

After hearing Yan Zongwang's order, all the Jin soldiers became excited, and they just wanted to use the blood of the enemy and the women of the Song Kingdom in the city to fill the hunger and thirst in their hearts.

"Kill them all!" The Jin soldiers screamed like beasts, and the excited Jin cavalry, whose eyes were red, launched an attack on Macheng.

"Bang ......"

Shots rang out one after another from the city walls, and grenades were thrown from the city walls like dark clouds.

In the face of the incomparably fierce and rapid attack of the imperial army, the horses of the Jin country that charged in the most fell to the ground with a sad cry, and the golden soldiers lined up in a horizontal row were harvested like straws, and they fell a lot in an instant.

Wanyan Zongwang had seen the imperial army's platoon attacks, so he continued to command the cavalry to rush without changing his face, and when these golden soldiers rushed to the city wall at any cost, the golden soldiers who were good at riding and archery began to bend their bows and arrows and began to counterattack.

It is not easy to train a qualified archer, and archers who are good at riding and archery are even more rare in the Central Plains, but in the Jin Kingdom, which started by riding and archery, basically every cavalry can shoot arrows on a horse.

Inside and outside the city, people from both camps were constantly shot and wounded and killed, and in the case of mutual injuries, this was a cruel war of attrition for perseverance and courage.

At the current rate, even if the 5,000 imperial troops in Macheng fight for their lives, sooner or later they will be slaughtered by the city.

Looking at the soldiers around him constantly dying, Zhu Tong's heart ached and hurt. After a moment's consideration, he stepped down from the city and ordered the tarpaulins to be lifted from all the transport vehicles.

"You hit together food, canned food, military uniforms, medicines, etc., and poured fire oil on them. You pushed all these carts loaded with bullets and gunpowder to the gates of the city. ”

Zhu Tong commanded the soldiers and people to sort all the vehicles, and after hearing his order, everyone in the city understood what he meant.

Zhu Tong's meaning is very simple, that is, after the city is broken, he doesn't want the Jin people to get anything, and the supplies poured with fire oil are naturally for incineration, and those ammunition and gunpowder will give the Jin soldiers who are the first to rush into the city a huge 'surprise'!

Although the empire has not been established for a long time, the gradual affluence and stability of life and the repeated victories in foreign wars have made every imperial person have a proud heart.

The people and soldiers in the city had nothing to say about Zhu Tong's orders, and they hurried to get busy and make the last preparations in their lives.

Every minute and every second of the 5,000 Imperial soldiers, some of them were shot by the arrows thrown by the Jinren, but as long as they were not hit by the vital point, then no one wanted to withdraw, these soldiers had arrows on their arms and legs, bleeding but still shooting at the enemy.

An hour passed, and the King of Wei of the Jin Kingdom, who was standing on the hillock outside the city, finished looking at his face, his face gradually turned blue, and his heart was also cold.

On the bank of the Yellow River that day, Wanyan Zongwang commanded the attacking iron cavalry to attack the imperial army, but he knew that it was an expeditionary force carefully selected by the empire, so he didn't care.

Today is different, trapped in the small city in front of them is only an ordinary imperial soldier escorting a convoy, but they have persevered until now under the siege of the elite of the 50,000 Jin Kingdom.

Thinking that he would have to fight with more imperial troops in the future, Wanyan Zongwang had doubts about the final outcome of this war to aid the Song Dynasty for the first time.

A strong army is inseparable from the support of spiritual strength.

The imperial army's will to fight is definitely strong enough, but when the gap between the number of the enemy and us is too large, it has withstood an hour's attack, and the five thousand imperial troops trapped in Macheng have also entered the stage of the end of the strong crossbow.

On the dirt slope outside the city, Wanyan Zongwang sat on a horse and observed Macheng in the distance, a horse galloped onto the slope, and Xu Ping, the commander of the original Huainan West Road, restrained the jujube red war horse under his crotch.

Xu Ping pointed to Macheng with a smug face, and said flatteringly to Wanyan Zongwang: "The imperial army has always praised the world for its invincibility, but when I met His Royal Highness King Wei today, it looks like nothing more than that!" ”

"Humph!" Wanyan Zongwang thought of the number of dead and wounded reported by the deputy general just now, and felt that his face was hot, so he didn't answer.

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