Chapter 761: Siege Three Missing and One Empty City Plan
The Jin army in Beijing held out for two more days, and finally could not withstand the crazy pressure of the Western Liao army, and the garrison of Xicheng already showed signs of chaos.
And this gave the Western Liao army a great opportunity, Xiao Weili saw that the actual lead the army to attack, and finally successfully captured the West City Gate with some efforts.
Subsequently, according to the original plan, Yelu Zhanshuo led a cavalry army of 30,000 garrisons in Songpeng Mountain as foreign aid, while Xiao Huli led an army of 100,000 to directly enter Shangjing.
The Khitan people's hatred for the Jin people is actually far better than that of the Han people!
This has a lot to do with the cultural upbringing of the nation, and the Han people always pay attention to being forgiving and forgiving, and pay more attention to educating the enemy with reason, so that they can finally turn hostility into friendship.
And the Khitans were once wolves on the northern grasslands, how could they forget in the face of the former exterminating clans!
Now the opportunity for remuneration is in front of them, and every Khitan will not let go of this opportunity, so the army rushed into Shangjing.
When the army poured into the capital, they found that the city was already empty! Except for some of the Jin soldiers who were scattered from the east gate, even the people in the city disappeared out of thin air!
Just when Xiao Weili felt bad, a rear army came to report, saying that tens of thousands of Song troops in Xicheng had blocked their retreat.
"How could Song Jun be so fast?"
"It can't be!"
After hearing about the urgent report of the horse scout, the generals felt incredible, because of such a large-scale army moving and advancing, their horse scouts must have noticed it.
But now it's a good thing, this army is not only like falling from the sky, but also blocking their back road.
However, how could they know that since Wu Ting's 200,000-strong army left Jinzhou, it had been marching day and night, taking off the horse bells and wrapping the horse's hooves, and breaking the ranks into pieces, dividing them into several queues and scattering them.
At the same time, through the cover of the terrain along the way, they were able to deceive the scouts of the Liao army, and finally gathered secretly in the deep mountains and old forests twenty miles away.
Xiao Weili's inner concerns were finally fulfilled, although he couldn't figure out how the Song army avoided his sight for the time being, but now it was imperative to evacuate the capital.
So he didn't think about it, and directly ordered to leave the city quickly.
Originally, he planned to return along the original road, but Wu Ting's 200,000 army had already been divided into two routes, and Wu Xi led a 100,000 army to rush to the aid of the 50,000 Jin army that had withdrawn from the city, and joined forces with the Jin army to block the east gate of the city!
As the rear of the Western Liao Army, the West Gate was personally commanded by Wu Ting, and together with his subordinate Bao Tian, he blocked the retreat of the Western Liao Army.
Today's Song Army is no longer the sheep of the past, one by one is murderous and ferocious, not to mention the grenade that he carries with him as a way to meet, which is conceivable under the comprehensive strength contest of various disparities.
The Western Liao Khitan army, which was about to withdraw from the original route, was beaten by the Song army at the West Gate, and a round of grenade projections had already made them dizzy.
The restrictions of the terrain and the city have already caused serious setbacks to the Khitan cavalry, so the rest can only be beaten.
In the end, in desperation, Xiao Weili had to give up the west gate of the city, in order to evacuate Shangjing from the other three gates.
But it was at this time that the other east and south gates poured into the city one after another, which not only blocked his retreat from the city, but also formed a three-sided attack in the upper capital.
Clusters of swarthy grenades, dragging wisps of green smoke, flew over Xiao Wei's head like crows.
It was followed by countless arrows, rolling up a huge wave towards the city. At the same time, the first salvo of two hundred light crossbows from outside the city was fired.
Overwhelming!
In the sound of explosions one after another, the Western Liao cavalry that entered the city instantly turned on their backs and screamed, while the remnants of the Liao army that did not enter the capital city directly became a live target for the Song army's arrow rain on the periphery.
The physique of the Han people is far inferior to that of the northern nomads, so the imperial court has always been extremely sophisticated in the configuration of long-distance KitKat.
In particular, the arrow array in this army is an effective long-range lethal weapon used by the Central Plains Dynasty since the Qin and Han dynasties.
However, the arrow array composed of more than 10,000 people has rarely been of such a scale since the previous dynasties!
Frightened horses disrupted the formation of the infantry, and the burnt soldiers and banners caused a series of turmoil.
While anxiously leading the army to rush out of the battle circle of the three armies, Xiao Lili ordered to send a signal for Yelu Zhanshuo of Songpeng Mountain to come and respond.
It is the art of war to prevent the enemy from seeing no hope and desperately resisting, which will also be a serious casualty for your own side.
In fact, it also confirms a saying: the soft are afraid of the hard, the hard are afraid of the horizontal, and the horizontal is afraid of dying!
The Song army gave a gap for the Liao army to look forward to life, but the advantage of killing from three sides also made the Song army show it vividly.
The 100,000 troops of Western Liao were in the city, like rats in bellows, so the tragic hand-to-hand combat began!
After the Song army opened the way with a round of firearms, they did not take pride in the superiority of weapons, but rushed forward one by one with war knives in hand and fearlessly rushed forward to fight with them!
What fights is the merits of war, and what fights is also a kind of excitement!
Not to be outdone, the Khitan warriors returned the color with the same roar and sword. The sharp blades slashed through all kinds of armor, and the sonorous sound of metal and the tearing of ** thundered together.
The two warring sides are like two equally hard iron fists, you come and go, you advance and I retreat, you live and die.
The battle lines are intertwined, enemies and friends are intertwined, and countless warriors fall in pools of blood at every step. The scorching heat of the sun stirred up a boiling heat wave that stirred together the people who fought to the death and boiled into a pot of boiling soup with blood splattering.
The blood and sweat of thousands of warriors, and the sonorous or low or high shouts and screams of countless swords made the already viscous and manic air continue to scorch.
It seems that the entire Hoi Nyeong Mansion may be shattered in the raging heat wave at any time!
At this moment, Xiao Weili felt that this battle was the most sloppy battle in his life. Knowing that there might be fraud in this, he couldn't remain indifferent in the face of the nearby Shangjing City.
Now it is blocked in the city and attacked on three sides, so that all the troops under his command are concentrated together, which not only gives the Song army a chance to exert its power, but also makes it impossible for the combat power of the headquarters army to be brought into play.
In less than an hour, the 100,000-strong army directly lost more than 30,000 people!
Just when Xiao Lishu led the army to break through to the north of the city with difficulty, Yelu Zhanshuo, who received the signal, rushed to the city with 30,000 light cavalry.
Yelu Zhanshuo slashed the ground with a spear, pulled up the billowing smoke and dust, and led the army all the way to the encirclement of the Song army.