On July 21, the third year of the Great Song Dynasty, early in the morning.

At this time, far away in the east of Yanjing City, it was precisely when Wu Tian led 900 iron cavalry to break through 2,000 Khitan old soldiers.

And in the Anyang mouth shop guarded by Zhong Fu's department, it was another tragic scene.

A battle to the death with a huge disparity in strength is about to begin. However, this time it was Song Jun who was weak. The four generals led by Zhong Fu, less than 18,000 people (including only 9,000 soldiers), have been divided into two parts. About 2,000 soldiers were stationed at the Guancheng of Anyangkoupu, blocking the Han army of Nanjing Dao from guarding the pro-army from all over the mountains.

The remaining 16,000 men, regardless of the soldiers, auxiliaries, and militia, were all armed, and stood behind a line of fences, trenches, and several earthen walls. In front of them was the Liao army of more than 50,000, commanded by the Great Liao Emperor Yelu Yanxi.

Anyang Pukou is not a natural danger, and now it is the enemy on the back of the abdomen, and the number of enemies exceeds 80,000, almost five times that of the Song army!

If the Song army under Zhong Fu had the combat power of the Shaanxi New Army (don't dare like Wu Tian), then this battle would not be without fighting.

But the 9,000 soldiers under the command of Zhong Fu have no combat effectiveness at all, just a group of tofu soldiers, if it weren't for the hard village, I'm afraid they wouldn't even be able to fight, and they were directly blinded by the strong enemy in front of them.

Zhong Fu placed his Chinese army under the Guancheng of Anyangkoupu. Dozens of relatives of their own families stand on the left and right. In front of them, there was also a row of spears, and on each spear, there was a bloody human head!

These are the heads of the deserters who tried to escape from Taihang Mountain last night, and there are a few military attaches with official status, all of whom Zhong Fu ordered people to cut off their heads!

There is nothing to say now, it is nothing more than killing oneself and sacrificing one's life for righteousness. Who still wants to live in the world, but they can't get along with someone Zhong.

Zhong Fu doesn't plan to live anymore! He is not Liang Zimei, a life-sparing civil servant, he is a military general who is not afraid of death! What else can I do now? It's nothing more than a death! You can't live to be a traitor, can you?

So last night, when others were busy digging trenches and repairing the earthen wall, he had already prepared the death poem.

Woowoo......

A melodious horn suddenly sounded from the Liao army in the south of Anyangkoupu! Then there was a soldier's desolate shout: "Enemy attack! Liao dog! ”

More, the panicked shouts followed suit, and the sound of the golden drum on the tower was loud, and the desperate beating of the warning. Such a reaction was completely excessive, and the enemy did not come to sneak attack, it was simply a dignified formation, and the Song army had long been in a tight position.

Zhong Fu was not in a hurry, got up and walked to the low city gate tower of Anyangkoupu. There is no city in Anyangkoupu, only a city pass, that is, a city gate and a city wall. When you go up to the city gate tower, you will see the two battlefields.

Through a crystal telescope produced in Jiehe Shang City, Zhong Fu found that the Liao army south of Anyang Koupu was led by a combination of Da Yu soldiers and black armor soldiers.

There was a large wooden tree almost one person tall in front of him, moving slowly, and it should be someone holding it forward. Behind the big wooden tree were the black-armored soldiers of the brigade, all of whom carried longbows.

"The herald front team, all of them are hiding behind the low wall! No arrows from a bow or crossbow are allowed without a general order! ”

Zhong Fu has been in the Western Army for many years, and he still has battlefield experience, and he can see through the intentions of the Liao people at a glance.

They wanted to use the big wooden pole to block the god's arm crossbow, and then use the armored archers behind the wooden pole and their own archers to drain their energy.

Archery is a lot of work! The archers of the Western Army, those who shoot thirty or fifty arrows in a burst are considered good hands. It is already a miracle that the waste of the Hebei Army can really shoot ten arrows!

The so-called "real archery" of course, refers to the full length of the bow with more than eight buckets, and then shoot the arrow to the exact direction and distance - this is also a craft that must be mastered after a certain period of rigorous training. Otherwise, even if you have the strength to pull a hard bow with one stone, and the arrows you shoot are not accurate at all, you can't control the distance, what threat can you pose to the enemy?

Zhong Fu had practiced bows and arrows himself, so he knew the difficulty. As for dozens of steps or hundreds of steps away, an arrow hits a moving target, the difficulty is even higher, it's not that Tongzigong is basically useless!

Therefore, in his opinion, it is not unreasonable for Wu Haogu to cancel professional archers in the four-general infantry army directly under the Xuanfu Division, and it is not unreasonable to only equip crossbowmen with crossbowmen.

"Xuan Shuai, the Liao dog in Guanbei has also come up!"

Someone suddenly shouted behind Zhong Fu, he quickly turned around, walked to a battlement, raised the telescope to check, and saw a group of fully armored soldiers in a dense formation surrounded by a battering ram!

"Battering ram!" Zhong Fu gritted his teeth, he didn't expect that the Liao Han guards in Guanbei would actually build a battering ram!

"Order, send a team of people to the city gate, and block the city gate with sandbags!"

"Whoa!"

As soon as the soldier who gave the order answered, there was a sound of a "taut" bowstring.

The Liao soldiers on the battlefield in the south of the city have already begun to throw feather arrows!

Zhong Fu turned to the south to watch, and found that these Liao soldiers were shooting arrows while advancing! Moreover, the feather arrows they shot were all very accurate, and they all fell on the heads of the Song officers and soldiers behind the earthen wall. The screams rang out one after another, apparently someone was injured.

"How so? Isn't it armor? A general of the Hebei Army asked in a self-muttering question.

Zhong Fu turned his head to look at him, and smiled bitterly: "Liao Dog is shooting an armor-piercing heavy arrow!" And the soldiers of our Hebei Army do not have full armor, the armor leaves are also thin, and there is no counterweight eaves for the pockets, of course there will be some casualties. ”

"And that said?" This Hebei army surnamed Shi is the descendant of Shi Shouxin, the founding father of the Great Song Dynasty, who has been an official in the forbidden army for generations, but he doesn't know what heavy arrows, full armor and heavy eaves.

Zhong Fu asked: "The "Infantry Army Drill Equipment" issued by the Military Machinery Department is all there, haven't you read it?" ”

"This ...... Who will watch this? Shi Zhengjiang cried with a sad face, "Our ancestors have never heard of any drills......

Zhong Fu could only shake his head. He really wants to die now as a model new army in Kaifeng! If he can bring a model new army general to Hebei, this life will probably be saved!

But now, he was really killed by Wu Haogu! Can't this guy take a good look at this gang of waste in Hebei?

Tight ......

There was a chaotic rattle of bowstrings. Zhong Fu followed the sound and saw that it was a part of the Song army archers placed on the south side of Anyangkoupu and began to shoot arrows on their own without waiting for an order. At the beginning, the archers were all good at archers, and the arrows finally fell in the array of Liao soldiers, but then more archers and even crossbowmen began to follow suit, and the landing points of the arrows became very scattered, and most of them deviated from the target and landed in front of the Liao army's array.

Zhong Fu just wanted people to stop the soldiers from wasting their physical strength, and in the camp of the Liao army, the sound of war drums had already rumbled.

I only saw a large number of unarmored Jingzhou soldiers, holding shields and long knives, like a tide, from both sides of the Liao soldiers who were shooting arrows like a tide!

And almost at the same time, the sound of war drums and shouts also came from the other side of Anyangkoupu.

The bloody battle in Anyang Pukou has officially begun!

……

Under Yanjing City, Sanggan River Ferry.

The bloody battle was also staged here as scheduled.

The three pontoon bridges that were originally erected here have now been burned down, and only the last pontoon bridge that has not been burned has yet to be burned down, which somehow fell into the hands of the vanguard light cavalry sent by Xiao Baoxian. The cavalry of these palace divisions also came day and night, although they were a step late, but they finally snatched a trace of life for the city of Xijin Prefecture.

Oh, and it's also possible to plunge headlong into the trap laid by Wu Tian.

Wutian's cavalry has already beaten the waste Khitan soldiers in Yanjing City back to the city! And it was fought in front of the Jingzhou soldiers of the Xijin Prefecture who were defending on the city wall!

Now the people's minds in Yanjing City have changed. The Khitan Iron Cavalry is nothing more than that, and it is not the opponent of the Cangzhou Iron Cavalry at all.

Is it necessary for everyone to take these edible and unbeaten wastes as the master?

The changes in the hearts of the people in the city can also be guessed by the deputy of the Great Liao Nanjing Road, Yelu Liduo. Therefore, he didn't dare to mobilize his troops out of the city to fight against the hundreds of Song army iron cavalry. Instead, the gates of all parts of Yanjing were closed, and even the gates of more than 20 fang markets in the city were also closed, and residents of all fang were strictly forbidden to go out. At the same time, he also scattered and reorganized the Jingzhou soldiers in the city, and used Khitan soldiers to separate the battalions of the various Jingzhou soldiers, so as not to cause them to revolt on the battlefield.

The Liao soldiers in the city couldn't move, and the Wutian troops outside the city could naturally start a fierce battle with Xiao Baoxian's light cavalry around the pontoon bridge.

All of their men and horses were dressed in armor, and they were still in a team of 100 horsemen, taking turns to charge at the Liao State Palace, which was desperately occupying the bridgehead. After a few rounds, the bridgehead was surrounded by dead men and dead horses from the palace army.

However, this group of Khitan soldiers is much stronger than the old soldiers in the city of Xijinfu, although they are dead and wounded, they still hold the bridgehead of the pontoon bridge. They also piled up the corpses of dead men and horses and built fortifications. finally won a glimmer of possibility for Xiao Baoxian's return to the teacher.

I don't know if Wu Tian felt that the fortifications of the Liao people were difficult to break through? The fighting at the head of the Sanggan River was also suspended after the completion of this fortification. The cavalry commanded by Wu Tian slowly retreated more than 2,000 steps and retreated to the Gaoliang River.

At this time, on the other side of the Gaoliang River, the main force of the cavalry group led by Zhao Zhongge had arrived, and the accompanying sappers were building pontoon bridges on the not wide surface of the Gaoliang River.