"The emperor has been shot, the emperor has been shot!!"

Just as Cao Can was commanding the soldiers to prepare to retreat, he suddenly heard the guards around him roaring, and turned his head to see that at this time, Zhenzong Zhao Heng had already been hit by an arrow in the chest, and he was crumbling on the horse.

So Cao Can hurriedly rushed over to slowly help Zhenzong off the horse, and when he put Zhenzong lying flat on the ground, he suddenly saw a feather arrow inserted in Zhenzong's chest, and the position where the feather arrow entered the body happened to be the weak place where the armor seam was weak.

may be because he was shot through his lungs by a feather arrow, and Zhao Heng kept coughing up blood at this time, and he couldn't speak at all.

Seeing that the emperor was seriously injured and the army was defeated, Cao Can, who was over fifty years old, didn't know what to do next at this moment.

Although he didn't know what to do, the Khitans knew very well that they should beat the water dogs at this moment, so Yelumo gave the army an order to assault the whole army.

The defenders at the head of the city naturally saw the scene of the emperor being hit by an arrow and falling from his horse, and someone immediately wanted to open the city gate and let Cao Can escort the emperor into the city.

However, his move was stopped by Kou Zhun.

"Kou Laoxi, do you want to rebel?" The general, who was blocked by Kou Zhun, angrily rebuked Kou Zhun.

Kou Zhun didn't immediately refute him, but pulled him to the top of the city and asked him to look into the distance: "See? Now that the Khitans have launched a full-scale attack, opening the city gate at this time is undoubtedly giving the entire Bianjing to the Khitans. ”

After being reminded by Kou Zhun, the general naturally understood that the Khitan army was now very close to the city. If the gates are opened at this time. As long as the Khitan cavalry takes this opportunity to rush in. The entire Bianliang City will suffer a catastrophe.

"But Your Majesty is under the city at this time, and he is seriously injured, if you don't open the door and let Your Majesty withdraw to the city, in case Your Majesty has three longs and two shorts, you and I can't afford it."

Of course, Kou Zhun also understood what the general said, at this time, he was undoubtedly in a dilemma, opening the door and destroying the beam, and not opening the door was regarded as killing the king. If you enter or die, your legs will also die.

While the people in the city were still hesitating, the Song soldiers under the city could no longer support it completely, and their formation had been completely dispersed by the Khitan cavalry, and the lone people were slaughtered one after another.

The only thing that could basically maintain the formation was a small circle of less than 1,000 people on the periphery of the emperor's and Cao Can's location.

However, the team also kept retreating, and finally pushed under the city gate, and there was no way back.

At this time, the only hope in Cao Can's heart was that the people in the city would quickly open the city gate and let them retreat, otherwise, the Khitan iron cavalry would soon rush in front of them.

"Kou Laoxi. Now you can open the door, Your Majesty and they have retreated under the city gate. Open the door at this moment, they will be able to enter the city in an instant, and they will not let the Khitan soldiers have a chance. ”

Having said that, the general was not confident enough when he said this, and he didn't dare to guarantee that there would really be no Khitan cavalry to rush into the city during the time when the door was opened and closed.

At this moment, a loud explosion was suddenly heard on the periphery of the battlefield, and the sound came from the north side of the battlefield. Kou Zhun took out his telescope and looked north, and found that the Khitan encirclement located on the bank of the Yellow River in the north of the city was constantly exploding, and a large number of Khitan soldiers were directly killed in the explosion.

So he hurriedly grabbed the general who wanted to open the door: "Come and see, what's going on over there?" ”

The general took the binoculars and looked at it, in addition to seeing the same scene as Kou Zhun, he also saw a huge fleet of boats lined up on the Yellow River at this time, and then there were many Great Song soldiers on the boat, and they seemed to be attacking the Khitan troops with some strange weapons.

"Kou Laoxi, it seems to be the prince, the king of Wuyue."

Kou Zhun took the binoculars again, and at this moment he saw a military flag erected on the fleet, and a big Zhao character was embroidered on the flag. Among the generals of the Great Song Dynasty, except for Zhao Weiji, the king of Wuyue, who can embroider the word Zhao on the military flag, he will no longer be the second choice.

Seeing that it was Zhao Weiji coming, Kou Zhun was also greatly relieved, and because of Zhao Weiji's attack, the attention of the Khitan troops at this time had been attracted by him, and the Khitan cavalry under the city turned around and began to advance north, and the pressure in front of the city gate was suddenly much less.

"Why are you still stunned, hurry up and open the city gate to let Your Majesty in." Seeing that the pressure on the city gate had suddenly decreased, Kou Zhun hurriedly ordered the general to open the city gate.

With the general's actions, Zhenzong Zhao Heng was finally connected to the city, and he was temporarily safe.

Zhenzong, who was carried into the city, was already angry at this time because of the arrow wound, and there was a possibility of death at any time, so he was immediately sent to the nearest medical center, and then ordered someone to go to the palace to find the imperial doctor, hoping to rescue Zhenzong.

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Just when the people in the city were rushing to rescue the True Sect, Zhao Weiji's good life was basically over.

At first, Yelumo, who suffered a lot because he didn't understand artillery, after killing and wounding countless of his men, gradually discovered some rules of artillery, as long as the soldiers' formations were spread out, and then moved quickly, it was not so easy to be hit by artillery shells.

And Zhao Weiji also discovered that at this time, the lethality of the artillery began to decline, and it was no longer as capable of killing one piece at a time as it was at the beginning.

Seeing such a situation, Zhao Weiji decisively ordered the shelling to stop, and all the ships immediately drove away without entanglement with the Khitan army.

I have to say that the order he gave was very correct, because he had not disembarked, so it was very easy for Zhao Weiji to withdraw at this moment, and retreating at this time could also avoid unnecessary battles, after all, there were tens of thousands of Khitan cavalry in front of him, and his own side, plus the people recruited in Qingzhou City, was less than five thousand.

Although it was against the current to escape, it was relatively easy to get rid of those Khitan soldiers on horseback, and when Yelumo personally led the troops to the river, Zhao Weiji's fleet had already run far upstream.

In desperation, Yelumo could only lead the troops back to Bianliang City again, but when they returned to Bianliang City, the Song army that had been besieged before had already arrived in the city and disappeared.

At this moment when the battle was temporarily over, Yelu Mo finally remembered one thing, that is, who was the general of the Song army who was shot down before, it felt as if it was very important.

Why is the battle so far, Yelu Mo still doesn't know the identity of the true sect, it is because the true sect has basically never shown his true face in front of the Khitan army.

In recent years, the relationship between Liao and Song has been bad, and naturally there is no such diplomatic activity as sending envoys to each other, and since Zhenzong ascended the throne for a few years, Liao only knows that the Song State has changed the emperor, but he does not know what the emperor looks like.

Although after Bianliang was besieged, Zhenzong once went to the city to comfort the soldiers, but it was only in the city, and his face was not able to be seen clearly by the Khitan soldiers.

In addition, although this battle was a personal expedition by the imperial driver, Zhao Heng did not put on the emperor's guard of honor, which also made the Liao side only think that it was the general of the Song State, and did not know that the Emperor of the Song State came to the front of the battle in person.

If not, no matter how Zhao Weiji bombed at that time, I was afraid that Yelu Mo would also capture the Song Emperor first and then deal with Zhao Weiji's shelling.

However, although Zhao Heng protected his true face very well, he was finally exposed at the moment when he was hit by the arrow, and the shouts of the soldiers and Cao Can were still heard by some Khitan soldiers who were close.

Under Yelu Modo's inquiry, he finally learned that the general who was shot and fell from his horse turned out to be the new emperor of the Great Song Dynasty, and when he learned the truth, he regretted his rash U-turn.

At the same time, he also knew that the person who led the fleet to bombard them turned out to be the hateful Zhao Weiji, although after his Qingzhou City, Yelumo and Zhenzong knew about his return.

But Yelumo, who didn't know much about the details of the Qingzhou Campaign, also didn't know the existence of artillery rifles, and Yelumo, who finally appreciated the power of this new weapon today, couldn't help but sigh that this Zhao Weiji should be his eternal enemy.

Today, the Khitan warriors who fell under Zhao Weiji's cannon actually had more people than they had sacrificed in the five months since they besieged Bianliang City.

Fortunately, judging from the news he got, Zhao Weiji should not have many soldiers in his hands, as long as he guards against his sneak attack from the Yellow River, there should be no problem, and he does not dare to get off the boat and fight on foot.

Yelumo expected it well, at this time, Zhao Weiji only dared to use the Yellow River and the fleet to sneak attack the Khitans from the rear, and he didn't dare to get off the ship at all.

The mobility of the artillery is so poor that once it is close to the Khitan army, it is impossible to retreat.

Now Zhao Weiji's only idea is how to enter Bianliang City, and now Bianliang City is surrounded by Khitan legions, and he must not think of entering it from the land, the only possibility is to enter the Bianhe River through the Yellow River, and then enter the city from the Bianhe River.

It's just that the Yellow River into the Bianhe River is very easy to do, and there is no trace of the Khitan army at the confluence of the two rivers, but it is not so easy to go from the Bianhe capital.

At this time, both ends of the Bianhe River in and out of Bianjing had been blocked by the Great Song army, and there was no way for any ship to pass through, and it was not easy to enter the city if they could not get in touch with the people in the city.

Although he knew that he could not get in touch with the city for the time being, Zhao Weiji still decided to give it a try, and he ordered the fleet to sail to the Bianhe River first, and then proceed to the next plan.

When the fleet drove from the Yellow River to the Bianhe River, and the capital city of Libian was already very close, Zhao Weiji's flagship suddenly found a small boat in the middle of the river.

When they approached the boat, a man came out of the boat, claiming to be Kou Zhun's messenger, and asked to see Zhao Weiji.

As soon as he heard that it was Kou Zhun's messenger, Zhao Weiji did not doubt him, and immediately invited this person to his flagship.

As soon as this person got on the boat, he brought a thunderbolt-like news on a sunny day, that is, the emperor of the Great Song Dynasty, Zhao Heng of Song Zhenzong, died of serious injuries due to an arrow in the chest, and died on the night of the arrow. (To be continued......)