As soon as night fell, 10,000 Jin soldiers quietly advanced to the west city under the cover of night, most of the houses in the west outer city were not demolished, so that the gold soldiers had a sheltered space, 10,000 gold soldiers were scattered in the streets and alleys of the west outer city, and there were 30,000 Jin cavalry in the outer city were also ready, commanded by the general Wan Yan Lou room, they hid behind a hill outside, about five miles away from the inner city, under the cover of night, the Song army in the inner city could not see them.

This is a reenactment of the scene of attacking the outer city, Wanyan Zongwang was quite nervous, they only had fifty earth-shaking thunders left, which were special items to be sent back to the Jin Kingdom for research, and now they had to be used to break the city, just an hour ago, Wanyan Zongwang received an order from Marshal Du to break the city, and ordered him to repeat his old tricks, using the cover of night to blow up the city gate with earth-shaking thunder.

Wanyan Zongwang was immediately at the gate of Xiwazi in the outer city at this time, he looked at the guards on the head of the city, he analyzed from the previous experience of breaking through the west outer city, the Song army will pay attention to the city walls on the north and south sides, and will slightly ignore the east and west, the city is very quiet, and there are no patrolling soldiers, maybe the Song army thought that the city would not be attacked for the time being during the negotiations, Wanyan Zongwang thought secretly.

At this time, a soldier rushed over and reported in a low voice: "Deputy Marshal Qiyu, it has been prepared and can be set off at any time!" ”

After Yan Zongwang looked at the city, and then looked at the night, the night was thick enough, so he nodded and ordered: "Let's act!" ”

Hundreds of soldiers dressed in black were divided into three teams and marched quickly in the direction of the city wall, there is also a moat under the inner city, and no houses are allowed to be built within a hundred steps from the city wall, which makes the hundred golden soldiers need to pass through a hundred steps wide open space near the city wall, but this is also in the plan of Wanyan Zongwang, three teams of golden soldiers rushed out of the alley, and immediately crawled on the ground, with the help of the weeds on the ground, slowly crawling forward, and there were three people behind with long wooden planks, which were used to prepare to build a bridge over the moat.

Hundreds of golden soldiers silently approached the city wall, but they didn't expect that at the head of the city, a pair of cold eyes were watching their every move.

The city has already deployed a special night view soldiers, composed of more than 100 soldiers with excellent night vision, who are responsible for keeping an eye on the movements of the outer city at night, so when 10,000 gold soldiers quietly entered the west outer city, they were discovered by several night view soldiers in the west and immediately notified the main general Li Yanqing.

Li Yanqing had already seen the soldiers who were crawling on the ground, and he admired Wan Yan Zongwang's mind a little, he actually repeated the old tricks, and it was still Xicheng, but he turned the West Outer City into the West Inner City, when everyone thought that it was impossible to break through the West Outer City again, Wan Yan Zongwang just did it.

Li Yanqing casually picked up an iron fire thunder, and at this moment, Zhou Yan, the general stationed in Xicheng, stepped forward quickly and whispered: "Dutong, the water is ready!" ”

Li Yanqing turned around, only to see more than 1,000 people each pick a load of water city, under the battlements have been placed three drainage buckets, densely packed with more than 2,000 barrels, since Li Yanqing told the generals that water is the natural enemy of the earth-shaking thunder, almost everyone has done enough work on water, starting this morning, the east, west, north and south sides of the city are full of buckets, enough as tens of thousands of barrels of water.

Li Yanqing smiled and shook his head, two thousand barrels of water was too much, at most twenty or thirty buckets were enough, but he didn't say it, and said with a smile: "Then there is the bow and crossbow!" ”

"It's ready!"

I saw 2,000 soldiers holding divine arm crossbows, ready to go.

"Have the reinforcements arrived?" Li Yanqing asked again.

"It's already here, just wait under the city."

Since it has been judged that the Jin soldiers are going to attack Xicheng, then it is not just as simple as a surprise attack, if the surprise attack fails, it is likely that there will be a large-scale attack, Li Yanqing must be prepared to deal with it, in addition to Xicheng's own 5,000 troops, Li Yanqing transferred 5,000 people from Beicheng and Nancheng each, and at the same time transferred 30,000 militia to prepare for war.

"Get ready and follow my orders at any time!"

The hundred golden soldiers had already reached the moat, and there was still no movement on the city's head, so they put their long planks on the moat, ran over the planks, and their bodies were close to the city walls.

The Jin soldiers had the experience of blowing up the outer city gate for the first time, and they cooperated tacitly, and soon the three teams merged into two, distributed on both sides of the city gate, one south and one north, with about 60 people in the south and 40 people in the north, each carrying ten earth-shattering thunderbolts.

Today, the Jin soldiers have to deal with the Liang Gate, which is one of the main gates of the West City, and there is a Zheng Gate in the south, but because the Zheng Gate is a natural barrier to the cavalry after entering, it is a natural barrier to the cavalry, so the Jin soldiers set the target on the Liang Gate.

The blasting of 100 golden soldiers is very methodical, completely the same as the first time to blow up the west gate of the outer city, blow up the first one, and wait for the first earth-shattering thunder to loosen the city bricks next to the gate, and then place ten earth-shaking thunders, so that even if the copper door cannot be blown up, the structure on both sides of the copper gate can be blown up, so that the copper gate will fall down completely, as for bringing twenty earth-shaking thunder, because the beam gate is an urn city, they also need to blow up another city gate inside, but that city gate is much easier, a sky-shaking thunder can solve the problem.

Beckoning to the leading centurion, two soldiers rushed up, and they skillfully placed a heaven-shattering thunderbolt on the junction between the bronze gate and the city wall, and the next step was to light the fire.

At this time, Li Yanqing nodded, and immediately more than a dozen soldiers picked up buckets and splashed down, more than a dozen buckets of water suddenly splashed down, just like a waterfall falling from the sky, the two soldiers below who were lighting the fire were caught off guard, and were drenched by water, and the earth-shaking thunder was also affected by the water, turning into a wet mine.

The golden soldiers below were taken aback, and at this moment, an iron fire thunder was thrown down, and it happened to fall in the middle of several golden soldiers who were close to the city wall, and the iron fire thunder suddenly exploded, and the two golden soldiers couldn't dodge, and they were blown up.

The sudden splashing of water and the explosion suddenly frightened the hundred soldiers into a fright, and jumped into the moat desperately, while a dozen soldiers holding the earth-shattering thunder ran towards the small bridge, and the crossbowmen at the head of the city appeared together, aiming at the golden soldiers below to release arrows.

For a time, the arrows rained down, the golden soldiers screamed and hit the arrows, more than a dozen golden soldiers who had just run to the wooden board with the earth-shaking thunder were also shot over, and fell into the river together with the earth-shaking thunder, and more than 20 soldiers who had just climbed ashore could not escape the arrow rain, and they fell to the ground and died, only a moment later, more than 100 golden soldiers all died under the arrow rain, and none of them lived.

At the same moment when the iron fire and thunder exploded, Wanyan Zongwang knew that their surprise attack failed, it was not the explosion of the earth-shaking thunder, and it was under the city wall, and then countless black shadows appeared at the head of the city, releasing arrows to the city, Wanyan Zongwang clenched his fists with hatred, but he quickly relaxed, it is normal for the surprise attack to fail, they used a surprise attack to break through the outer city, of course the other party will be on guard.

Wanyan Zongwang immediately coldly ordered: "Pass my order and retreat back to the camp!" ”

They did not carry siege weapons and had to retreat.

10,000 troops quickly withdrew to the north, and 30,000 cavalry in the distance also received the order to retreat and quickly retreated in the direction of the main camp.

The Jin soldiers' northward retreat was no longer concealed, the black shadows surged, the sound of horses' hooves was like thunder, thousands of troops and horses retreated to the north, and the soldiers at the head of the city saw the Jin soldiers' intentions tonight, and many people were scared into a cold sweat, this turned out to be a big battle.

Zhou Liang stepped forward and asked puzzledly: "Since you are so well prepared, but you have withdrawn, it is incomprehensible!" ”

Li Yanqing smiled slightly, "Maybe they didn't think of the need to climb the wall to enter the city!" ”

Zhou Liang was stunned for a moment, and couldn't help laughing.

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In the marshal's tent, Wan Yan Zongwang reported tonight's defeat to Marshal Wan Yan Xian with anxiety, he thought that Wan Yan Xian would also be furious, but he didn't expect Wan Yan Xian to not speak, but seemed to be restless, as if waiting for something, Wan Yan Zongwang was a little suspicious, Marshal Du didn't listen to his report at all.

"Marshal, what's wrong?" Wanyan Zongwang asked cautiously.

Wan Yan Xian also waved his hand, he was very annoyed, he didn't want to explain, but paced back and forth anxiously, Wan Yan Zongwang didn't dare to ask any more, so he could only accompany him quietly and wait for some news?

At this moment, there was a sound of running outside, and a personal soldier almost rushed into the big tent, "Dashuai, it's confirmed, it's true!" ”

"Ahh

Wan Yan Xian also suddenly screamed, swept the things on the table to the ground, kicked over the table, he suddenly pulled out his sword, and left the big tent angrily.

Wanyan Zongwang was stunned on the side, and when he saw Marshal Du walking away, he hurriedly grabbed a personal soldier and asked, "What happened?" ”

"Don't you know? The plague spread. ”

"What!" Wanyan Zongwang was taken aback and asked anxiously, "What's going on?" ”

The soldiers smiled bitterly and said: "Dongzhai and Xizhai both vomited and diarrhea last night, but these soldiers were afraid of being sent to the isolation camp, so they concealed their illness, and the news came this evening, Dongzhai died over there, and all the soldiers in one tent died, preliminary statistics, there are about thousands of people in Dongzhai and Xizhai with diarrhea symptoms, and the marshal asked the military doctor to diagnose, and the deputy marshal also heard the report just now, and the result is true, all of them are plagues. ”

Wanyan Zongwang suddenly shuddered, he knew very well what the outbreak of the plague meant for a densely populated army.