Ada turned away, and the moment he turned around, an imperceptible color flashed in his eyes, and he whipped his horse and headed towards the camp.

Munda next to him was extremely excited: "Khan, the Shence army has only one defense, we can attack in an all-out way and take the inner city." ”

"No way!"

Du Ji categorically denied, "The middle city is too narrow and easy to be attacked by the Shence army. ”

"So what to do?" Meng Da was in a hurry, he was afraid that he would not be able to kill Han Shizhong, and finally the army retreated to the grassland.

Du Ji stared at the crescent-shaped Zhongcheng, he knew that the inner city was half a foot shorter than the middle city, he sneered, he wanted Han Shizhong to lift a stone and hit himself in the foot.

Thinking of this, he immediately said to Munda Ling: "You send 10,000 people to the middle city, give me to shoot arrows at the inner city wall day and night, and suppress the Shence army for me, and the remaining 30,000 people use the stones from the demolition of the city to lay a gentle slope of the upper city, so that our trebuchet can go up to the city, and it must be completed before dawn." ”

A sinister sneer appeared on his face, he imagined the grand occasion of a hundred trebuchets smashing the inner city wall tomorrow, did Han Shizhong think that one more city would be able to hold him back? Did he think he really wasn't going to attack the city? He was so wrong, and he would regret his clever decision!

The Hu army began to launch an offensive, 10,000 Hu troops went up to the city to occupy the city, and began to fire arrows into the inner city, the overwhelming rain of arrows made the Shence army unable to gain a foothold in the city, so they had to withdraw, at the same time, the 30,000 Hu army piled up the gentle slope of the upper city with stones that demolished the houses.

Night was falling.

Peikou City is a long strip of east and west, north and south flat, the north city wall is ten miles long, and the east and west two sections of the city wall are only two miles long, the two ends are tightly against the vault Xuanshi Mountain that Peikou City is backed by, in which a hundred steps long plank road is built at the west side of the mountain, connecting the outer city and the middle city. The plank road had burned down when the Shence army evacuated the outer city.

Another of the biggest features of Peikou Castle is that there is no wall road to the upper city in the outer city and the middle city, and it is necessary to go up from the inner city, and then reach the middle city head and the outer city head through the suspension bridge and plank road respectively, so the advantage of this design is that even if there are spies who pretend to be merchants to sneak into the city, they cannot seize the city gate. The chain winches that opened the gates and drawbridges were all on the top of the city.

At night, the army of 40,000 Hu people was busy in the outer city, on the middle city, 10,000 Hu army archers took turns to shoot arrows to the inner city, although they could not see a magic army, but under the military order, they did not dare to slack off, and hundreds of torches illuminated the outside of the city wall as day.

Hundreds of miles away, however, there was darkness, and dozens of heavy trebuchets stood alone in the darkness like giants. Including the huge 40,000 army camp is also dark, only hundreds of cavalry patrol back and forth in the camp, and there are only a dozen sentry posts on the outer city wall.

At that time, when the Hu army was busy in the outer city, there were abnormal changes at the end of the eastern city wall of the outer city. The plank road is installed on the west city wall, which is a dead road. At the end, it is close to the stone wall of the Dome Mountain, which is a granite mountain, without soil and without any plants, but several giant vines grow from the soil filled in the gaps between the city wall and the mountain rocks, and climb up to a foot high. The giant vines grew lush and green, and it was late spring. It was when it was in its exuberance that it almost obscured a mountain rock.

The anomaly happened in the vines, and in the night, a hand appeared from the vines. The vines were slowly pushed away, and a pair of blazing eyes looked out for a moment, and a soldier of the Hu People's Army came out of it, to be precise, he was a soldier of the Shence Army wearing the iron armor of the Hu People's Army and taking off his hat, which was the dress of the Hu People's Army Guards.

Immediately afterwards, a second and a third people came out, more and more, as many as fifty people, and they lined up in a neat line, like a real army of Hu soldiers patrolling the city, and marched towards the northern city wall.

This is something that the Hu army never dreamed of, for more than ten years, the Qionglong Mountain has been dug by the soldiers and civilians of Peikou City, which is full of countless caves, becoming the natural wine cellar of Peikou City, but these grottoes are not used by the military, it is also impossible, and there is a great military secret hidden in it.

That is, a military secret passage was dug in the body of the Qionglong Mountain, which led directly from the inner city to the outer city wall, and the exit was at the top of the east city, covered by vines, and a false wall was built, which was very well camouflaged, while the plank road was in the west city wall.

This secret passage has not been used for more than a year, and today is the first time it has been used.

Fifty 'Hu army sentinels' marched briskly across the city. In a few moments, they came to the north city wall, and there were less than twenty Hu army sentinels on the north wall of the entire outer city, and their duty was to open and close the city gates.

In front of a sentry point, three sentries of the Hu army were leaning against the city wall and chatting boredly, and the topic was inseparable from the woman and the lamb at home.

"Who is it?" A soldier saw a group of Hu soldiers coming in the darkness and shouted.

"On the orders of the Khan, I came to check the post!"

The other party's tone was extremely harsh, and the three Hu army sentries all panicked and stood up straight together.

Fifty 'soldiers of the Hu Army' walked past them, and only a few muffled grunts were heard, and the three corpses were dragged away and replaced with new sentry posts, and after only a quarter of an hour, all twenty sentries at the head of the city were killed silently.

At this time, from the secret passage, countless soldiers of the Shence Army wearing the uniforms of the Hu people's army poured out, about four or five hundred, they were different from the first fifty people, they looked almost the same as the Hu people's soldiers, these were the Hu people recruited by the Ruzhou Shence army, a total of five hundred, and they were selected prisoners of war in the previous wars.

They carried barrels of oil up to the city, and found an entrance to the city wall at the east end of the city, and the two of them got into the city wall, and in a moment pushed away a few bricks from under the city root, and drilled out, which was also a secret passage down the city, but not a staircase, but a slide, surrounded by a small forest.

They carried the oil barrels to the empty and dark outer city, and they placed the barrels on the ground, and stabbed the stoppers of the barrels with their daggers, and the viscous oil flowed out of them and filled the ground.

Occasionally, they also encountered inquiries from the soldiers of the Hu army on the other side of the camp, but their indistinguishable appearance from the Hu soldiers made them not encounter any suspicion within an hour. They dumped thousands of barrels of fire oil on two high hills, which are blind spots that catapults can't hit, and where fire oil can't flow, these two areas can at least squeeze 10,000 people, Han Shizhong will not let a single Hu army survive, and the war is not merciful.

……

One watch time. Thousands of Song soldiers raised their huge shields and rushed to the city, erecting a shield wall, and then 5,000 militia soldiers rushed to the city with oil barrels.

At this time, a hundred heavy trebuchets installed on the inner city wall began to creak and rattle, and in the panic of the Hu army, one by one the oil drums were thrown out and smashed into the outer city, and more than a dozen huge fireballs that were ignited also rose into the air. Shoot to the outer city.

The fire in the outer city burned and spread rapidly, and the soldiers of the more than 10,000 Hu people who were piling up the gentle slope were in a mess, and they all fled in the direction of the big camp in the north, but the fire also burned in front of them, and then the big camp in the outer city also began to burn, the flames rose to the sky, and the smoke was billowing out.

From the inner city, oil was thrown continuously, and the fire grew bigger and bigger. Even the walls of the middle city began to burn, and another 10,000 Hu army archers screamed in the fire and fled for their lives. But what awaited them was either to fall to their deaths or to be engulfed in flames.

Han Shizhong stood on the observation deck at the top of the Dome Mountain, silently watching the outer city gradually engulfed by the fire, and he had stockpiled tens of thousands of barrels of fire oil in the winter-long preparation for war. Just waiting for this moment.

The air was filled with a pungent scorching stench and billowing smoke, the outer city gate was closed, and the 20,000 or 30,000 Hu troops in the outer city had no way to escape, and the fire spread, engulfing groups of desperate Hu army soldiers. The terrible screams resounded through the outer city, and at this time, Han Shizhong's eyes did not have a trace of pity, only endless coldness.

……

Six thousand soldiers of the Shence Army appeared at the head of the outer city, they were lying on the battlements, one hand holding a crossbow, the other hand covering their mouths and noses with a soaked linen cloth, and behind them was the outer city camp of the Hu army, which was already in flames and a heat wave.

And in the wilderness outside the city, tens of thousands of soldiers of the Hu army surged towards the city, and they wanted to seize the city. Open the gates of the city and let the soldiers of the city escape, but meet them. But it was a dense raindrop of arrows, and a large number of soldiers of the Hu army fell, and the screams and flames in the city made them chill and lose their fighting spirit, and after being ambushed by the Shence army, they turned around and fled, rushing up again and again, and being repelled by crossbow arrows again and again.

The Khan of the Hu army stood in front of the camp gate in a daze, looking at the tongue of fire rising in the sky three miles away, his eyes were full of despair, in fact, he thought of the possibility of the Shence army attacking with fire, so he did not allow the soldiers to enter the middle city, but he never dreamed that the fire burning by the Shence army could engulf the entire outer city.

"Khan! Unable to kill them, thousands of divine armies appeared out of nowhere and blocked us with arrows. ”

Knowing that his army of 90,000 was finished, a heart-rending pain was so unbearable that he fainted to the ground.

"Khan! Khan! "There was a mess in front of the camp, and the sky was getting brighter, but the pungent smell of burnt paste in the air had not dissipated, and the whole outer city was still curling with green smoke.

A group of Song soldiers came out of the secret passage, and the situation in front of them made many soldiers turn their backs in horror, not daring to take another look, what kind of hell on earth was it, all the soldiers of the 30,000 Hu army were burned to death in the outer city, and the entire outer city was dark.

More than 10,000 of them were not burned by the fire, they were huddled in a narrow open space about 200 paces wide between the fire and the tent, and the oil did not flow, but they all died equally, and more than 10,000 people were either roasted alive by the fire, but most of them were suffocated.

As Han Shizhong said before the war, he wanted to make the Tartars forget the brutal slaughter of this war for generations.

……

The cruelty of war lies in the fact that there is no mercy on the battlefield, and any mercy to the enemy is a crime against oneself.

On the same day that Peikou City was finally burned, the battle situation in Kawaguchi City also reached its final moment.

Ten miles north of Hekou City, the battle of 10,000 Shence Army cavalry and Mintuan Army against nearly 30,000 Hu army cavalry began.

Yanjing stayed behind Yang Ji and led 14,000 Shence soldiers to arrive from Yanjing, cooperating with the soldiers and horses in the city, a total of 30,000 people, and the two sides fought a decisive battle on the outskirts of the city.

Yang Jin is worthy of being the all-round civil and military talent left by the old breed to Yang Ling, he laid out a large array, and the 20,000 cavalry were divided into six teams, cooperating with each other to attack the enemy from six directions.

Although there are not many foot soldiers of the Song army, you must know that many of the team of the Shence army infantry army are the foundation laid by the victorious army, and the iron warriors who can face the Jurchen cavalry army head-on, when the enemy army has fifty steps, they quickly get closer, close to each other, at the moment when the enemy army is like a raging wave, the tail of the long spear shaft touches the ground, the body leans forward, and the four thousand spears that are half kneeling on the ground are like a half-lying forest, densely stabbing at the other side, and the other end is dead on the ground, they are using the power of the earth to resist the most powerful first wave of the cavalry of the Hu army.

Thousands of horses neighed, long blades pierced into their bodies, many horses were pierced, these spear shafts were all ash shafts, they would not break, they must be able to withstand the powerful impact of the cavalry army.

As the first wave of impact disappeared, the war drums rumbled, they cooperated with tacit understanding, with collective strength to resist the impact of the Hu army cavalry, and pulled out the war horse heavy sword to kill, cut off the horse's head, split the soldier's body, under their pace, the corpses piled up, blood flowed into a river, killing the Hu army cavalry on their backs, heavy casualties, at this time Yang Jin saw that the two wings of the Hu army were empty, and immediately ordered four Shence army cavalry to kill from all sides, from six directions to impact the Hu army cavalry.

The cavalry fought fiercely, people shouted horses neighing, the cavalry of the Hu army took a thousand people, with spears, knives, ropes as weapons, under the command of the prince, and the Shence army fought in Hekou City, this is an elite Hu army cavalry, and the cavalry field battle is their specialty.

The battle lasted for three days and three nights, the two sides clashed more than ten times, the Shence army lost nearly 10,000 people, and the heavy armored infantry army also suffered more than 1,000 casualties, but the Shence army became more and more courageous, but the Hu army was exhausted and began to gradually unable to support it.

Despite the superiority of the Hu army, in front of the well-trained, well-equipped, and highly motivated Shence army, this elite Hu army was finally defeated, and finally collapsed on the whole line after nearly half of the casualties, and the cavalry of the Hu army was defeated. (To be continued.) )