Hu Yanzhuo jumped off the horse, affectionately stroked the war horse, and then drove the horse into the river, the war horse kept looking back, in the sorghum river, back and forth, refusing to leave, the sound of wailing, for a long time, is ......

On November 12, the fourth year of Xuanhe of the Great Song Dynasty, the back road of the Huanqing army was trapped by Xiao Gan's army, and the rear defender Hu Yanzhuo killed himself in the Gaoliang River.

This battle is the last understanding of Song Liao's century-old grievances, and countless sons and daughters threw their heads and spilled their blood in this battle, fighting for their own nation......

The back road of the Huanqing army has been almost completely wiped out, but after eating Hu Yanzhuo, the Liao people have suffered heavy casualties, but in the middle of Liu Yanqing's army, the offensive and defensive battles between the Song and Liao sides are in full swing.

Dozens of stone cannons were forcing the camp to stand, shooting large and small stones towards the Song army camp.

Since the thunderbolt appeared on the battlefield in China at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, such a weapon for attacking cities and villages has been extinct for a considerable period of time with the chaos at the end of the Jin Dynasty.

At the beginning of the founding of the Great Song Dynasty, there was no stone cannon on the battle array, Song Taizu attacked Taiyuan, Song Taizong attacked Youzhou such a fortified city, in the battle array, or feather arrows covered the city head to suppress, cover the city under the digging of the city caves, with crashes, rushing cars, ladder cars and other attack tools directly thin the city such a tactic, did not use stone artillery.

It was not until decades after the Great Song and Western Xia campaigns that stone cannons began to be used in the Western Xia army, and the Song army was soon equipped with such weapons, and finally appeared in the Liao army.

This reappearance in the army is a weapon of attack, in all fairness. Far from the highest level of this era, not to mention coarse and bulky. And the cannon power is not strong, and it can't shoot huge rocks, and it can't shoot far. At every turn, you have to force the stone cannon close to the opponent's city or camp.

Defending a city is never blindly defending, such a bulky attack is too close to the city or camp, and the opponent's counterattack cavalry and horses are easy to be destroyed, and it is not very useful to spend a lot of effort to build, which is very chicken.

It was not until more than 100 years later that the Mongol expedition to the west, which later rose. The technology of return artillery was introduced, and this kind of stone artillery really became a siege weapon.

However, this time the Liao people used stone cannons, but they used them unscrupulously. The Huanqing army forced the city this time, and there were very few cavalry, so they wanted to pull out the battle and destroy these stone artillery. The Liao army could cover these attacking tools with cavalry charges at any time. It's a little weaker by nature.

In fact, it is not a big problem if the morale of the Huanqing army is enough, endure the bombardment of these stone cannons and arrows, and the first army alternately covers the camp and moves forward slowly, which is nothing more than another field battle, with more casualties, and can always advance and destroy all these attack tools that cannot be dragged away.

Even if the cavalry rushes forward. Did the Song army still fight less infantry against cavalry field battles?

But now, the heart of the Huanqing army has been lost. None of the military horses could drive out of the camp, form a formation to cover their defense system, and do a field battle with the Liao army relying on the camp!

The fiasco of Hu Yanzhuo's department on the back road, as well as the loss of military equipment and tens of thousands of people, are absolutely catastrophic, and the loss is one thing. And Liu Yanqing did not allow Wang De to come to the aid of Hu Yanzhuo, and gave up their Huanqing army robes to garrison the back road, as well as most of his own baggage, and the frustration of the army's morale. It's catastrophic!

An army doesn't even go to the rescue of its own robes, so as a soldier in this army, who is willing to continue to fight to the death?

If it weren't for Liu Yanqing still sitting in this continuous camp to supervise the battle, if it weren't for the fact that the Jingyuan Qin Fengxi River troops on the flank would come to support, maybe the Huanqing army, which had completely lost its military spirit, would abandon the camp and the whole army would collapse and flee south!

The Liao stone artillery was very close, not very far from the trenches hastily dug by the Huanqing army, next to each stone cannon, there were hundreds of civilian auxiliary gunners who were busy operating, throwing large and small stones into the grating like raindrops, and each stone projectile was thrown out, which aroused a burst of cheers in the Liao army array. Everyone's popularity is at an extreme.

The Liao people of the brigade rode well, and they dismounted and stood by behind the stone cannons, looking at the occasion when the cannons rained down, they were just gearing up and their blood was boiling.

The trench in front of the camp has been filled out of seven or eight passages, and the camp in front of the camp that has been attacked by the key attack, the fence has also been pulled down in four or five places, and the gap in the fence is close to the left, and the corpses of the Liao army of the Song army are covered in layers, and each gap seems to have experienced a tragic battle. In these open gaps, there are door jam carts and all kinds of deer utensils.

The Song soldiers supported huge defensive equipment, formed a second line of defense behind the gap, and endured the rain of stone bullets and arrows thrown into the camp.

In the Liao army, the dead soldiers in charge of breaking through the village all retreated at this time to breathe, and each trapped soldier was wearing double heavy armor and holding a long blade.

For those who eat and drink, there are naturally auxiliaries to serve them, and strive to let them recover as soon as possible and kill again.

This Song army camp that has suffered a key attack, on the only remaining watchtower, is desperately dancing the banner and asking for help from the surrounding camps, but the camps that are close to each other are also restrained by the Liao army.

The Huanqing soldiers and horses in the camp did not have the courage to risk death to fight in the field, but desperately responded to the attacked battalion with feather arrows and crossbow machines, as every moment passed, the banner of the Huanqing military camp that was attacked swayed more and more crazy and desperate, and everyone in it understood that this Huanqing military camp was captured by the Liao army, just between fingers! ”

Almost approaching the foot of Yanjing City, the middle camp where Xiao Gan, the king of the four armies of the Great Liao, was hastily set up, the Liao army retreated all the way to show weakness, and never set up a continuous and stable camp at all, except for where Xiao Gan was, almost all of them were fighting in the wild, and at this moment, what camp did the Liao army need for this last force?

Countless Khitan Xi people, Bohai and even Han army generals all wore helmets and armor and waited under the watchtower where Xiao Gan, the king of the four armies, was located.

Everyone looked up at the banner on the watchtower, as long as the flag pointed to their military horse, these generals of the last days of the Great Liao, who were already boiling with black blood, immediately took the order and rushed straight to the camp of the Song Huanqing army!

Countless people requisitioned out of Yanjing City to transport earth and stones, and transported them to the front, the stone cannons lacked stone bullets, and even the stone foundation of the courtyard wall of the high gate of Yanjing City was demolished.

When Xiao Gan was preparing for the final battle, in Yanjing City, as long as it was a man who looked a little stronger, all of them were used by the army, and Xiao Gan had already squeezed out the last bit of blood left in Da Liao! (To be continued......)