Chapter 1043: Conquering Yanjing

[I made a mistake in my busy schedule last night, and I missed a chapter, sorry! ] 】

Yanshan Mansion, the final decisive battle has quietly kicked off, Yanshan Mansion Lord General Wanyan Xiyin knew that the troops were insufficient, on the one hand, he used the Flying Eagle to send a message to Shangjing for help, and on the other hand, he ordered 30,000 Jin soldiers to retreat to Yanjing City.

Soon, a reply letter came from Shangjing, and the gold lord Wan Yan Sheng ordered him to defend Yanjing City, and reinforcements would arrive soon.

At this time, the 200,000 troops of the Song army entered Yanshan Mansion, and Liu Tie's 30,000 troops first occupied Pingcheng, cutting off the strategic passage for Liaodong to support Yanshan Mansion, making Yanjing City an isolated and helpless dead city.

The muffled sound of trumpets and war drums could be clearly heard ten miles away, which was the signal for the Song army to attack, and the 130,000-strong army began to march towards Yanjing City from the south.

At the same time, the 50,000 Song troops in the north also received orders from Li Yanqing, the commander of the Song army, and pressed south from the north under the leadership of Liu Kuang, and the two main forces of the Song army formed a combined encirclement of the Jin army in Yanjing City.

The city of Yanjing was panicked, every house was closed, the streets were empty, only groups of Jinguo soldiers were smashing doors from house to house, they looted one by one on the pretext of searching for the Song army's spies, and all the grain, money, and livestock were robbed.

The army needed to boost morale, so Wanyan Xiyin relaxed military discipline and allowed the Jin soldiers to plunder the property of the people in the city, and when the soldiers grabbed the property, they would defend the city to defend their interests.

Although the 30,000 Jin soldiers were all Yanshan Han soldiers and not Jurchens, when their desire to plunder money broke out, they would not consider too many emotional factors.

At most, Dongcheng District, which was inhabited by Han people, was spared, and Xicheng District, where Khitans and Xi people lived, which led to chaos in Xicheng, and almost every family could not escape their fate, and many Khitans fled to Dongcheng District in panic, leaving their money to the looting soldiers.

Above the city, Wanyan Xiyin, the main general of the Jin army in Yanjing City, looked into the distance in despair, he seemed to have seen the figure of the main force of the Song army, although he ordered to repair the city, but it would take at least three days to completely repair the city, and they were too late.

And the army of the Song army is already approaching, what should I do? Whether to go out of the city and fight with the Song army, or to defend the city and wait for reinforcements, the crisis is imminent.

Wanyan Xiyin knew that the reinforcements could not come, but he never had the courage to go out of the city and fight the Song army, his heart was full of unrealistic thoughts, maybe the reinforcements would really conquer Pingcheng and kill Yanjing City to rescue himself.

Wan Yanxi took a closer look at the city wall of Yanjing City, the city wall is two zhang and seven feet high, although it is not very high, but it is very heavy, it is all made of big bluestone, it may be able to resist the Song army for a few days, or it may be able to wait for the day when the reinforcements arrive.

He was looking for comfort in all kinds of self-assumptions, but the arrival of the Song army was real, not his hallucination.

'Woo~Woo-'

A low and distant trumpet sounded in the south of the earth, and a long black line appeared in the west, as if it were an echo, and the trumpets sounded in the north, and the Song army in the north also appeared.

The black line gradually spread out, pulling out an overwhelming black curtain, the flag is like a cloud, the armor is distinct, the team is neat, the swords and guns are like a boundless forest, the cavalry is in front, the infantry is behind, the speed of the march is not fast, but every step is so thrilling, the rhythm of the march is accompanied by the sound of horns, and the rumbling drums roll across the sky like thunder.

This is the army that the Jin soldiers once looked down on, they still retain the banner of the Song army and the armor of the past, but this army is no longer the Song army that was defeated in the first battle in the bones.

They have a unique neat military appearance and strict discipline, but they can't see the weak temperament of the Song army in the past, they have a kind of blood and fire of the Northwest Army, and they have a tough temperament like steel, and they can win any battle.

The horns in the city also sounded continuously, and all the 30,000 golden soldiers went up to the city, they had no heavy defensive weapons such as trebuchets or bed crossbows, only bows and arrows, and the most primitive rolling wood stones, and the way to obtain stones was easy, they demolished all the stone houses near the city walls, and obtained a large number of stones.

In addition, the deputy general Guo Yaoshi commanded the soldiers to block the gate with boulders in front of the city gate, and the huge stones weighing thousands of catties were moved by the soldiers of the Jin State and densely stacked behind the city gate, the city gate is the most vulnerable place in the fortified city of Yanjing City, and it is very easy for the Song army to open the gap from here.

Pharmacist Guo's voice was hoarse, he pointed to a door and shouted in a hoarse voice: "Quick! This way, this way, plug this place. ”

If God could give Pharmacist Guo another choice, what would he choose? Maybe he will not surrender to the Jin State again, but become the oldest military general in the Great Song Dynasty, but unfortunately time will not go back, he has no choice.

In addition to deep remorse, he only has a glimmer of hope, the arrival of Jin reinforcements will allow him to keep Yanjing City, but will Jin soldiers reinforcements come? Pharmacist Guo himself couldn't believe it.

More than 200 Jin Guo slowly transported a square boulder with crowbars and rolling logs, blocking the city gate, and several boulders were also transported one after another and piled on top of the boulder.

At this time, the Jin soldiers drove thousands of old and weak women and children to the city from all directions, many of them still holding children in their hands, crying and pleading, but the Jin soldiers ruthlessly drove them to the city with whips and wooden sticks, these old and weak women and children will be their hostages, which can hinder the attack of the Song army.

The drumming outside the city gradually subsided, and the two Song armies in the north and south arrived in Yanjing City almost simultaneously, and they stopped their advance two miles away from the city, waiting for the next order.

Wang Gui was on a horse, in the middle of the ranks, he looked at this familiar city with a cold gaze, although he had made a plan to deal with several possible scenarios, he did not expect that Jin Guojun finally chose to trap himself in the city instead of evacuating Yanshan Mansion.

Although the thick city walls of Yanjing City could slow down the Song army's offensive pace for a while, the Jin army could not hold the city at all, on the contrary, the city wall would trap the Jin soldiers from escaping.

If it were him, if he knew that he was invincible and there were no reinforcements coming, he would rather choose to break through and break through in the direction of Liaodong as soon as possible, after all, there are tens of thousands of troops in Liaodong, and they will definitely be able to capture Pingcheng, but the other party chooses to trap Yanjing, which can only prove that their main general's head was broken by the door.

"General, look!"

One of his soldiers pointed to the city and shouted, "They have brought all the women and children into the city." ”

Wang Gui couldn't help but smile contemptuously, he had already smelled the cowardice of the Jin soldiers, and putting women and children in the city as shields didn't it show their cowardice?

"Pass my orders, trebuchets will fight!"