On the north wall of Moxi City, which was covered with corpses, there were lives lost every moment, screams and shouts of killing came and went, and a Khitan soldier had just climbed the city wall and hacked to death a citizen of Moxi City with a knife, and was hugged by a wounded woman, who fell down the wall from the battlements together, and fell to his death under the city wall. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

A tun commander of the defenders of Moxi City, who had just hacked to death two Khitan soldiers who had climbed the city wall, was pierced through his neck by an arrow shot by the Khitans outside the city, and fell on top of the overlapping corpses.

"Kill-" After the partial general Gong Xun brandished a long knife and hacked another Khitan general to death, the Khitan people's attack on the northern wall of Moxi City was finally repulsed again, and the partial general Gong Xun was also scarred at this time, with at least seven or eight wounds on his body.

Gong Xun put the handle of the long knife in his hand on the ground, panting constantly, the Khitan general who fought with him just now was not weak in martial arts, although Gong Xun successfully killed the Khitan general, but he was tired enough, and a knife wound was added to his body.

At this time, the eldest son, Gong Yi, who was also covered in blood, walked up to Gong Xun's side, "Father, can we still hold it today?" ”

It is now the morning of October 30, 426 of the Great Jin Dynasty, the third day of the siege of the Khitan army, although the four walls of Moxi City have still not been breached, but Moxi City has basically reached the point of exhaustion.

On the first day of the Khitan army's siege, it only sent a team of 10,000 people into the siege, which brought losses of 5,000 people to Moxi City, of which the defenders of Moxi City lost more than 1,300 people, and the young and strong men in the city lost more than 3,700 people.

When the Khitan army began a full-scale attack, the loss of Moxi City suddenly doubled several times, the second day of the Khitan army siege, Moxi City lost nearly 18,000 people, of which the defenders lost more than 2,700 people, the young men in the city lost more than 8,000 people, and the remaining loss of more than 7,300 people were women, teenagers and old people, in order to resist the siege of the Khitans, the men, women and children of Moxi City have been mobilized, and climbed the city wall to help the defenders of Moxi City defend the city.

On the third day of the siege of the Khitan army, there were less than 1,000 defenders left in the city, and there were more than 8,000 young and strong men, as well as nearly 20,000 women, teenagers and old people, and as for the other thousands of people in the city, almost all of them were children under the age of ten, and these children could not help defend the city at all.

However, before this morning had passed, the losses of thousands of people in Moxi City had increased, especially the soldiers of the defenders who were relatively strong in combat, and there were not many of them left.

Gong Xun didn't answer the question of his eldest son Gong Yi, but looked at Gong Yi, who was covered in blood, and asked, "Does it matter if you have injuries on your body?" ”

Gong Yi immediately said: "Father, don't worry, most of the blood on my body is Khitan, and I have only been scratched a few times, so it's no big deal!" ”

Gong Xun heard this, and then said: "Then you quickly lead those elite soldiers under your command to rush to the west city wall for support, now the situation of the other three city walls is very serious, and my father can only use this elite under your command as a firefighting team." ”

Gong Yi glanced back at the soldiers under his command behind him, and his gloomy color flashed, originally there were six hundred elite soldiers under Gong Yi's command who had been trained for many years, and in the battle to defend the city, nearly four hundred young and strong men in the city were also replenished, but at this time, there were only sixty or seventy soldiers left under his command, and the rest had already died on the city wall.

Gong Yi nodded and said: "Father, then you stay on the north city wall, you have to be careful to prevent the Khitans from attacking again, I will take people to the west city wall, if the Khitans on the west city wall are repulsed, I will then take people to the south city wall, and when the south city wall is safe, I will take people to the east city wall!" ”

Gong Xun said sadly at this time: "Yi'er, you have to be careful, now only you and Zhong'er are left for your father, and your father doesn't want to send black-haired people anymore!" Another hundred were drawn from the northern city wall...... No, transfer 200 people, you take it to the west city wall together, you must guard the city wall, as long as one of the four sides of the city wall is lost, Moxi City will be finished! ”

In the defense of the city, Gong Xun's three sons Gong Xin, Gong Da and Gong Chengdu died on the city wall, and the four nephews Gong Tong, Gong Wu, Gong Yun, Gong Ke, and only Gong Wu, who has the best martial arts, is still alive.

And as soon as Gong Xun's words fell, a soldier in iron armor ran over from one end of the north city wall, "General! Checkmate! Reinforcements are coming! The Khitans who attacked the eastern city wall retreated! ”

When the soldier ran to Gong Xun's side, Gong Xun quickly asked, "What's the matter?" Say it! What's going on? Are reinforcements really coming? ”

The soldier said to Gong Xun with a look of ecstasy: "General, the reinforcements are really coming, we can see clearly on the east city wall, a cavalry army came from the east, this cavalry army is huge, there is no end in sight from a distance, it is the banner of our Jin Kingdom, after the Khitans found this cavalry army, they stopped attacking the city!" ”

Gong Xun and Gong Yi then glanced at each other, and their faces showed excitement, "Father, Liu Taishou is here!" It must be Liu Taishou who led the troops to rescue our Moxi City! ”

"At this time, the Jin army that can appear outside Moxi City is only the troops under Liu Ji's command, fortunately, that Liu Ji didn't see death and didn't save him, otherwise our Moxi City might not even survive today."

The army that came from the east was the sixteen cavalry battalions, four infantry battalions, and the Guards battalion led by Liu Ji, as well as 16,000 Uighur cavalry.

Originally, Liu Ji led the 200,000 army and set off early yesterday morning, but the pasture south of Xishankou, where the 200,000 army was located, was nearly 380 miles away from Moxi City, even if because of the large number of war horses in Liu Ji's hands, the infantry under Liu Ji also rode the war horses, and the 200,000 army still drove for more than a day, and only arrived outside Moxi City on the morning of October 30.

This is still because Liu Ji gave up a large amount of baggage in order to quickly rescue Moxi City, and just let all the soldiers carry a part of the military rations on the backs of the war horses, otherwise the nearly 380-mile road would have to march for at least three or four days.

The Khitan right king Yeluqi, the right letter king Yelu Amu and the left king Yeluge, after Liu Ji led the army close to Moxi City, ordered the Khitan army that was attacking from the four walls of Moxi City to stop the siege and retreat.

The Khitans who attacked the northern city wall just now were not repulsed, but received an order to retreat and took the initiative to retreat.