With the efforts of the professors of the institute, experienced craftsmen, hundreds of thousands of logistics men and soldiers of various armies day and night, the city was built without waiting for Zhao Yan to arrive at the camp of the Northern Expedition, extending from the southeast, northwest and northwest battalions to the four gates of Yanjing City.

Four ice, snow and mud mixed roads that protrude from the ground three zhang high and three zhang wide are one mile long, one end is connected with a high platform five zhang high and one hundred zhang wide, and one end reaches the Yanjing city wall.

The road surface is almost level with the city wall, less than five zhang away, once the siege begins, the road surface can be connected to the city wall within an hour, and thousands of soldiers of the Northern Expeditionary Army can step on the city wall and attack the city without breaking the door.

At the same time, these four broad roads protruding from the ground are like four high walls, dividing the flat and vast field outside Yanjing City into four parts, even if the Jin army in the city changes their minds and wants to abandon the city to break through, they cannot join forces.

The overall situation of the Northern Expedition has been decided, and as long as Zhao Yan arrives, with an order, the 100,000 Northern Expeditionary Army can launch a general attack from four directions and seize Yanjing City.

On the twenty-second day of the lunar month, in a hurry, Zhao Yan's camp finally arrived near Yanjing City.

When the news came, Yang Congyi, as the commander of the Northern Expedition, immediately ordered the commanders of all battalions, the commanders of all armies, and the deputy commanders of the Northern Expeditionary Army to go to the camp with him to meet the emperor.

On the twenty-third day of the lunar month, Yang Congyi personally led a group of senior generals of the Northern Expeditionary Army to the emperor's camp twenty miles away from Yanjing City to report to Zhao Yan on the military situation of the Northern Expedition against Yanjing.

The news that the Northern Expeditionary Army had encircled Yanjing City, Zhao Yan had already known it, and now he was very happy when he heard that the Jin Army was unable to fly and that the capture of Yanjing City was just around the corner.

In front of hundreds of civil and military officials, Zhao Yan once again reiterated that once Yanjing City is successfully captured and the land of Youyan is captured, the civil and military generals will be rewarded for their meritorious deeds, and Yang Congyi, the commander of the Northern Expedition, can be crowned king!

Regarding Zhao Yan's promise, Yang Congyi immediately expressed his resignation, claiming that even if he successfully captured all the Youyan land, he would only complete the task of a courtier and realize his century-old dream as a citizen of the Great Song Dynasty.

The civil official group was quite dissatisfied with the promise made by Zhao Yan in public, and immediately quoted scriptures, moved out of Taizu Taizong and the ancestors of previous dynasties, and told Zhao Yan that he could not be easily crowned king, hoping that he would immediately withdraw the words of the king, otherwise he would resign and return to his hometown!

Zhao Yan was in high spirits at this time, and Shi Hao, the prime minister's teacher who could contain him, was left in Bianjing by him, and the accompanying civil and military officials did not pose much threat to him at all, and he didn't even have much pressure.

The final result was that Zhao Yan rejected the words of the ministers, including Yang Congyi's words.

I have already said that whoever takes Youyan can be crowned king, and the world knows it. Because Zhao Yan knew very well that if the emperor's words were not counted, Yang Congyi's incomparable prestige in the army would definitely set off waves that would be difficult to calm down, so once the matter was completed, the king must be sealed.

Zhao Yan was jealous of Yang Congyi's prestige in the army, and also planned to earn support and trust by promising to be crowned king in front of hundreds of civil and military officials and senior generals of various armies.

Sure enough, Zhao Yan saw a look of envy and yearning on the faces of the generals, as long as he was good at guiding, I believe that it would not be long before he could win the sincere support of the generals and soldiers of the Northern Expedition and slowly eliminate Yang Congyi's influence on the army.

On the same day, Zhao Yan gave a banquet in the camp and rewarded the generals of the Northern Expeditionary Army with wine and delicacies.

On the twenty-fourth day of the twelfth lunar month, the Jingwu Forbidden Army will escort Emperor Zhao Yan, the commander of the Northern Expedition, Yang Congyi, and a number of senior generals to the southern camp of the Northern Expeditionary Army.

Zhao Yan entered the camp of the Northern Expeditionary Army, accompanied by Yang Congyi, and personally inspected the officers and men of various armies to inspect and prepare for war.

At the same time, he met with the middle and low-level military attaches and ordinary soldiers who had made great contributions to the Northern Expedition, and reported to all battalions of the Northern Expedition as soon as possible to further boost the morale of the Northern Expedition.

With the emperor's personal expedition to the camp of the Northern Expeditionary Army, the Northern Expeditionary Army knew from top to bottom that the final battle was coming.

On the night of the 25th, Zhao Yan, Yang Congyi, and the commanders of the battalions gathered in the southern camp to jointly issue the offensive order of "launching a general attack at noon on the 26th."

On the morning of the 26th, the commanders of the four battalions in the southeast, northwest, and northwest climbed the five-zhang high platform to mobilize before the battle, and issued an operational order to launch a general attack at noon.

It was also on the morning of the same day that Yang Congyi revealed to the reorganized army that their relatives who had stayed in Yanjing had been killed by the Jin army and the angry people.

Although the soldiers had already prepared and expected in their hearts, hearing the news with their own ears still caused them to suffer a huge blow, and emotions such as self-blame, regret, disappointment, crying, and anger came one after another, almost causing people to collapse.

The out-of-control mood hardly needed to be guided, and soon shifted to hatred for the soldiers and civilians in Yanjing City.

At three o'clock in the afternoon, Emperor Zhao Yan, accompanied by Yang Congyi, the commander of the Northern Expedition, climbed the high platform of the southern camp and personally issued the order to launch a general attack: "The whole army attacks!" ”

As soon as the emperor gave an order, he ordered the flag to be displayed, and the military order was immediately spread through clear flags throughout the 150,000 Northern Expedition troops of the four battalions in the southeast, northwest and northwest.

The battalions were given the order and quickly attacked.

A group of heavily armed archers arrived near the Yanjing city wall through the high platform and wide road, and with the terrain not lower than the Jin army, they used strong bows and hard crossbows to shoot crossbows, trying to suppress the Jin army.

At the same time, another group of well-protected soldiers threw sacks filled with ice, snow and soil piled up on both sides of the road in advance in the direction of the city wall under the high platform, quickly filling the four or five zhang wide ravine between the high platform and the city wall.

Due to the early preparations, in less than an hour, the moat was blocked, the ravines were filled, and the high platform and wide road were connected with the city wall.

The offensive road was opened, and the officers and men of the Northern Expeditionary Army quickly rushed through the high platform connecting the Yanjing city wall in accordance with the established attack order.

The golden soldiers guarding the city walls did not have the slightest resistance, and under the first wave of the attack, they crumbled, either losing their lives or turning around and fleeing for their lives.

Since the construction of the four-way high wall, the Jin army is destined to not be able to hold Yanjing City.

The soldiers of the Northern Expeditionary Army rushed into the city.

A street battle on an unprecedented scale has begun!

Although the Jin army was prepared for street fighting, it had no choice but to be demoralized, on the other hand, the soldiers of the Northern Expeditionary Army of the Great Song Dynasty were like wolves and tigers, their eyes were shining, as if they wanted to eat people, and the more they fought, the more fierce they became, and the more fierce they became.

The Jin soldiers were defeated and retreated on all fronts, and the Song army pursued closely and fought closely.

Trampling on the bodies of the dead and wounded, the Song army soldiers continued to rush into the city.

At the beginning, they also obeyed the military order to only kill the Jin soldiers in the armor of the Jin Army, and did not kill the civilians, but as some soldiers were red-eyed, except for the people in the clothes and armor of the Song Army, they chased and cut people when they saw them, and they couldn't stop it at all, and in the chaotic street fighting, there were no generals who could be distracted to specifically restrain them.

So in less than half an hour after attacking Yanjing City, the street battle that was originally launched with the Jin army, as the battlefield progressed step by step, soon turned into an indiscriminate slaughter of the city.

Many Jin soldiers who knew that they had no hope of winning and just wanted to leave a small life thought that they could change into civilian clothes in advance and escape the catastrophe, but they didn't expect that the red-eyed Song army didn't care if they were civilians or Jin soldiers, and directly raised their swords against each other.

Hundreds of thousands of soldiers of the Northern Expeditionary Army of the Great Song Dynasty who were like wolves and tigers and morale were like rainbows fought fiercely against 50,000 or 60,000 Jin soldiers who had no morale.

Jin Bing had no morale to resist, and he had no ability to resist at all, so he could only flee for his life in all directions.

But no matter how big Yanjing City is, there is a boundary after all, where can you escape to?

In the evening, the sound of killing in the city gradually stopped.

Yang Congyi accompanied Zhao Yan to stand on the high platform outside Nanying and looked at the smoke-filled Yanjing City a mile away, and his excited mood was difficult to calm down.

Soon, the front-line soldiers came to report: "Most of the golden soldiers in Yanjing City have been killed, but there are still a small number of golden soldiers who are still absconding, and the soldiers from all walks of life are still being hunted and killed, and it is expected that the hunt can be completed before noon tomorrow!" ”

"What do you think, when will you enter the city?" Zhao Yan couldn't take his eyes off it, Yanjing is a century-old dream of the Great Song Dynasty, and today's dream comes true, once Yanjing is included in the territory of the Great Song Dynasty, he will definitely leave a good name in history as "the master of the Great Song Dynasty generation".

"Your Majesty, it's not time to enter the city yet. The city is too chaotic, and it is the best policy to wait for the Jin soldiers who fled to be swept away, and the city to be cleaned up, and then the emperor will bring hundreds of civil and military officials into the city. ”

Yang Congyi's heart is relatively calm, after many years of preparation, Yanjing City was finally won without danger, and the mission of half his life seems to have been completed, at the same time, he actually felt a trace of loss in his heart, feeling empty, because he lost the goal of fighting for half his life.

"Okay, just wait." Zhao Yan's eyes were always attracted by Yanjing City, he raised his eyes into the distance, exhaled and raised his eyebrows, because he was really excited at this time.

Yanjing City is the hundred-year-old capital of the Liao Kingdom, and then the capital of the Jin Kingdom, for a full two hundred years, and now it is finally broken by the soldiers of the Great Song Dynasty under his personal conquest and personal verification, how can he not be excited!

Zhao Yan and Yang Congyi stood on the high platform for a long time, and they didn't see anyone else except for the soldiers of the Northern Expeditionary Army of the Great Song Dynasty who entered and exited Yanjing City.

"Is there not a single captive in a huge city?" Zhao Yan was quite puzzled, and his brows furrowed slightly.

Could it be that the soldiers and civilians in Yanjing City are willing to be martyred for the Jin Kingdom, and they don't want to be the people of the Great Song Dynasty?

Yang Congyi hurriedly replied: "Your Majesty, although Yanjing City is not small, but it is bitterly cold in the north, there are not many people, plus the Jin State has been rampant and fierce, and there are not many people around. The Northern Expedition has begun since September, and the people who do not want to be affected by the war have already fled, coupled with the limited materials in Yanjing City, the Northern Expedition army is approaching, they know that it is difficult to resist for a long time, in order to reduce unnecessary consumption, most of the ordinary people have been driven out of Yanjing City before the winter moon, leaving them to fend for themselves. Therefore, the vast majority of those left in the city were golden soldiers, and the street fighting was complicated, and they generally did not capture prisoners. ”

"I see." Zhao Yan listened to the explanation, and his brows gradually stretched.