The feint attack on the south city wall is a full-line attack, and there is no focus, and as Zhao Pu expected, the battle outside the west city wall is very tragic, Zhang Guanghan behind the west gate cooperates with the strong attack, and once invested 10,000 troops, sixty ladders, and at the same time there are rushing cars hitting the door, heavy trebuchets are intermittently projectile, and heavy crossbows are fired according to the enemy's situation, mainly as to disrupt the defenders' knots and formations. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Outside the gate of the Qing and Jin Dynasties, Hujie left wing Du Yu Hou Zhang Guangzan and Liu Xinghuai led 5,000 troops to test the attack for a round, and after more than 700 casualties, they quickly retreated. Zhang Yue also attacked the fortified city four zhang high for the first time, and when he saw the disadvantage, he immediately transferred the 15,000 town army brought by Li Chongjin from the rear, and Guo Chongyi, Liu Chongjin, and Chen Sirang commanded the three to attack again.

Because this is the real siege battle in the morning, it will allow the soldiers to maintain their physical strength and fight selectively in the afternoon, and if the main force is defeated, there will be a weak momentum at the last moment of the afternoon, which will be detrimental to the overall situation.

The 15,000 soldiers are divided into three points, stretched out in formation, 5,000 on the south side of the Qing Jin Gate, and 10,000 on the north side are also separated, each carrying 30 ladders, and sending Zhang Guangzan to lead 3,000 sabers and axes to supervise the battle, and the emperor's umbrella cover car is driving in the rear army, and a large group of purple-robed ministers have not left, this time the town army has to work hard, no one dares to take a step back.

The battle was fought from the beginning of the hour until noon, and the town army retreated like a tide to count the casualties, and the three formations of ladders almost all overturned, and the city was full of gaps, and the walls were covered with dark red blood stains flowing downward, and huge arrows dyed red were dripping.

At the foot of the wall lay corpses, even all kinds of stumps and broken arms, piled up like a hill, and occasionally there were a few terrifying howls, blood mixed with the dirt was red, and clumps of flies flew and lingered, and the air carried a strong smell of blood that could not be dissolved.

At this time, the left wing of the Tiger Jie, which was ready to go, finally came out with thousands of people, divided into teams to clean up the battlefield, dismantled and towed the damaged ladder for repair, and the wounded soldiers and corpses were loaded onto the cart and pulled back to the rear army for treatment. When they came back, the carts were dripping with sand, and the carts were toppled down, and the blood stains were covered after bulldozing, so as to keep the ground dry and avoid the soldiers from slipping and falling during the next round of siege.

At noon, the whole army had a meal on the spot to rest, Guo Rong took Wang Pu, Wei Renpu, Dou Yi and other important ministers to inspect in front of the positions of the various armies, and to be transferred to the area of Tutai in the front formation, perhaps because he saw that the casualties were a little too much, Guo Rong shouted with a gloomy face: "Listen to the soldiers, you must fight to the death, take this city and can't help killing and plundering, except for the Guancang Treasury, all the soldiers have it!" ”

When the officers and soldiers who were dining on the floor heard this, they were all stunned, and they looked at each other in disbelief that it was true. Since Guangshun, this kind of happy enmity and revenge, and the good thing of getting rich at will have not happened for many years, and it has almost become a legend.

When the ministers accompanying Guo Rong heard this, they were also shocked and opened their mouths wide, Dou Yi was about to speak, but Wang Pu pulled him and persuaded: "You see that the defense buildings at the head of the city have been destroyed, and the city is hopeful, but there are more than 30,000 Khitan soldiers in the city, even if half of the battle has been killed in the past few days, there are still more than 10,000 people, plus how can there be 70,000 or 80,000 family members, how to deal with it?" ”

"If you can take prisoners, maybe you can replace the state and county, or exchange the Han population with them, right?" Dou Yiwu was not convinced, and said: "The Son of Heaven is virtuous and golden-mouthed, even if he has this idea, it should be said by his subordinates." ”

"Elephant! You are too heavy to be a literati, how can the two countries not die at war, Youzhou is the homeland of the Central Plains, my dynasty has spent countless dollars to come and not to mention, you have to continue to spend financial resources to operate this place, and the sixteen states of Youyun can not be recovered, the border defense is ultimately unstable, is the Han population in exchange for Liao prisoners reliable? It's simply impossible to change states and counties! Besides, this is a wartime, so what's wrong with Your Majesty's words? Wang Pu explained carefully.

At this time, Zhang Yue happened to hear it, and he agreed very much: "What Xianggong Wen Bo said is very true, the war with the Liao State will either end the truce and negotiate peace because of this, or it will be a long-term small-scale battle because of the hostility, but no matter what, at this stage, our army cannot contain prisoners!" ”

The reason why prisoners of war cannot be taken in, in fact, there is another reason why Zhang Yue is ashamed to say that the Liao army has invaded the sixteen states of Yanyun for decades, forcibly intermarried with many local wealthy families, and even robbed young girls, killed husbands and wives, and the result of all kinds of **** is that there are at least tens of thousands of mixed-race children in Youzhou alone, and they are merciful to the enemy, but what do the fathers and elders of Youzhou think.

You must know the time and space he knows, until the fall of the Liao State, the people of Youzhou have always looked forward to the Northern Expedition of the Wang Division, and the result is that the court is blind, and even plays the "Sea Alliance" with the Yellow Sparrow Jurchens who catch mantises, and finally the Baigou River more than 100,000 troops were defeated by the 30,000 horsemen of the remnant Liao Xiaogan, and the handsome Guo Yaoshi of Youzhou would rather use his meager strength to divide the territory than to belong to the court.

It can be seen that Guo Rong is not angry for a while, but thinks about it in the long term, and now he really needs the head of the Liao army to boost morale, and sound a wake-up call to the wealthy people who take the initiative to attach themselves to the Khitan in Youzhou, so that the victimized people can return to their hearts, so that the incomplete border defense can be stabilized as soon as possible, and the court will have to spend a lot less effort, which is also advantageous no matter how you look at it. Otherwise, how could he have issued such a brutal military order and let the historian make a stain on himself.

Guo Rong opened this mouth is the edict, the soldiers of the palace beat the horses in all directions, and soon spread to the armies outside the city, the soldiers ran to tell each other, the joy was thunderous, the morale was bursting, and the people and miscellaneous servants behind the battle were envious to death, making a fortune is a trivial matter, I haven't seen it for so many years, everyone has survived, and now if you cut off a few heads, you can only call one to raise his eyebrows.

Half an hour later, the soldiers of the whole army rested on the spot after lunch, and on the stage of the Chinese generals, Guo Rong sat in the center in front of the white tiger screen, listening to the casualties and results of the various armies. In addition, the southern city wall should strengthen the offensive in order to contain more defenders, so Zhao Kuangyin's troops increased by 10,000, and the forbidden army can be regarded as the whole army.

The results of the battle were not much, and the total number of Liao army heads collected was only more than 2,000 levels, and it was estimated that half of them were in the city, and the total number should be about 5,000. If you add in the skirmishes before the official siege, the trebuchets have been killed and injured for nearly ten days, and the real defenders in the city may have about 20,000 left, mainly concentrating on defending the two city walls, and the troops are still strong.

According to the art of war, in normal siege operations, the minimum strength ratio of the defending side and the besieging side is one to six, but now there is an internal response, which is usually called "strange soldiers".

At the beginning of the day, the feng shui took turns, and at this time, the sun in the sky began to turn westward, turning to the side of the forbidden army's large array. With the rumbling of the drums of the Chinese army, the armies outside the western city wall are in large formations, and a new round of onslaught will begin again.