In the history books of later generations, there is a strong description of the Xiangyang offensive and defensive battle in the second year of Longxing.

Even the most radical historians and scholars can't find anything to fault about the detailed performance of the Song soldiers in this battle: the soldiers are not cowardly, and they will not be faint.

Song all fought to the death.

In particular, the final stage of the Xiangyang offensive and defensive battle has become a classic textbook-like battle.

It has become a classic textbook for offensive and defensive warfare.

In this battle, the Great Song Dynasty produced a peerless Confucian general who was as famous as Xin Qiji and Zong Ping.

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In the early morning of the second day after the scolding battle, the Xiangyang offensive and defensive battle kicked off with the sound of horns.

The Tang and Deng troops led by Sushi Lieda Lu did not carry siege equipment, and went all the way first, but to clear the obstacles along the way, Wu Jiaji defeated Song Jin, and waited until the soldiers and horses of Ruzhou brought siege equipment, and then advanced to the city of Xiangyang.

The preparation is sufficient, and it is completely a posture of not taking Xiangyang and not giving up.

At the sound of the horn, twenty foot soldiers, each holding a shield and wearing heavy armor, guarded the hammer cart covered in iron sheets, and slowly advanced towards the Xiangyang City Gate.

Behind the hammer cart, there were two more rows of shield-armored soldiers, and the shields they held were even greater.

It's two meters tall!

Behind the shield guards was a row of crossbowmen.

As the hammer cart advanced towards the city gates, the crossbowmen fired a barrage of arrows at the city's head, suppressing the defenders at the gates, preventing them from throwing boulders or logs, or pouring fire oil.

The hammer truck was left and right, less than 200 gold soldiers.

But with the cooperation of the shield armor soldiers and crossbowmen, the soldiers on the Xiangyang City Gate were helpless with the hammer cart.

The **** crossbowmen were all blocked by the shield armor.

And if you don't pay attention to it a little, you will be suppressed by the other party's arrow rain......

In addition to the hammer trucks, there were dozens of wells.

It is said to have been invented by Mozi during the Warring States Period, and its mobility is very slow and often easy to destroy, but it is a mobile arrow tower, generally built to three and a half stories high, with a pulley installed at the bottom, and it moves and strafes condescendingly.

It is a ranged weapon.

During the siege, it has a fire suppression effect.

If it were an ordinary city, these dozens of wells would be enough to cause a large number of casualties among the defenders.

But this is the first city of the Great Song Dynasty, Xiangyang.

The golden crossbowmen on dozens of wells were desperate to find that your sister, standing on the wells, you still have to look up at the head of Xiangyang City...... This Nima Xiangyang City is also too perverted.

Despite this, the rain of arrows still played a big role.

The distribution of the shafts is not dense, leaving a large blank space, which is the space left for the stone throwing trucks.

As soon as the horn sounded, the first thing to strike was the stone throwing car.

Because the defenders of Xiangyang were closed, there was almost no resistance in the Fancheng area, and from the beginning of their arrival in Xiangyang, Fu Shilie Dalu ordered the soldiers to demolish the walls of Fancheng, and piled up all the boulders next to the stone-throwing trucks to attack the city.

With the order of the siege army, the soldiers of the Jin army quickly poured the fire oil on the stones, and then operated the stone throwing cart, and countless fireballs suddenly appeared in the Xiangyang sky under the sun.

The first boulder canopy slammed into the city walls.

Instead of the imaginary collapse of the city wall, the boulders shattered, sparks splashed everywhere, and a terrifying cobweb crack was left on the city wall!

Countless roared and fell, or on the walls, or on the head of the city, or on the inside of the city.

If the Xiangyang guards who were suppressed by the crossbow arrows did not notice the boulder, they would probably be smashed into pulp without even making a sound.

Inside the city, several houses were soon set on fire because of the ignition of oil on the boulders.

Smoke billowed ......

The hammer truck was already ramming the city gates.

The crossbowmen on the well archers fired arrows intensively to suppress the defenders at the head of the city.

Dozens of pairs of shield armor soldiers covered the foot soldiers, carried dozens of ladders, or pushed siege vehicles, fearless to the city, trying to seize the first city of the Great Song Dynasty.

When the horn of the Jin army sounded, the Song soldiers at the head of Xiangyang City were not afraid at all.

Morale is high!

This has to be said, it was originally a rout, but after entering Xiangyang, the fighting spirit resurged, one is the confidence brought to them by Xiangyang City, and the other is the credit of Peng Jianqing.

After reorganizing the rout until he regained his fighting spirit, Peng Jianqing did only one thing: he sent scout light cavalry to find two corpses of young children and a young woman who had been destroyed so much that they were unable to form in the place where the Sushi Rettaru army had passed.

In front of countless defeated soldiers, Peng Jianqing gritted his teeth and said: "Who doesn't have Meng Tong Erlang, who doesn't have a little lady, sons, if Xiangyang is broken, those people who withdrew from Xiangyang will follow in the footsteps, think about our Ambassador Zhang, think about the two thousand cavalry robes, can Xiangyang let the gold thieves set foot in?" ”

There are no impassioned motivational speeches, and there is no chicken soup for the soul of the country's righteousness, it is these three corpses that make countless defeated soldiers grit their teeth and look forward to battle.

The horn of the Jin army sounded, and when the Jin soldiers entered the siege area, the stone throwing carts and bed crossbows at the head of the city were immediately returned to color.

This tragic offensive and defensive battle has been killing people from the beginning.

The stone throwing vehicles on both sides continue to smash the soldiers into pulp, and the bed crossbow at the head of Xiangyang City, every time it is shot, it will harvest the lives of many Jin soldiers under the city, and the wells and siege vehicles of the Jin Kingdom will also show their power with the defenders on the head of the city.

The battle was fierce and unusual.

From time to time, siege engines and wells were ignited by rockets, and the golden soldiers on them fell screaming.

Countless ladders were erected, cut off by the guards' axes, or simply pushed down, killing people every moment.

Xiangyang City only smells blood, but does not see the fragrance of summer flowers.

And when the Jin soldiers broke through the city gate with a hammer cart, what was waiting for them was not a Saimen knife cart, but a huge urn city......

The fierceness of the fierce battle in Xiangyang City is beyond words.

From early morning to dusk, the Jin army attacked the city no less than ten times!

Although the Jin soldiers are not afraid of death, and there are many siege equipment, but Xiangyang is the first city in the world after all.

The first day of attack and defense came to an end.

Up and down the city wall, corpses were left everywhere.

Soon, Wei Shusheng sent a team of fifty people to open the city gate and go to collect the corpses of the Great Song soldiers who had fallen from the city.

And the Jin army only looked from afar, and did not take the opportunity to attack the city...... If you want to, you can't attack it, and when you break through the city gate during the day, what awaits them is a huge urn city, and this is also an unspoken rule.

After the Song army collected the corpses, the Jin army also sent a team of about 300 people, all of whom were old, weak, sick and disabled, to collect the corpses under Xiangyang City.

The Xiangyang guards only watched vigilantly and did not stop it.

Collecting corpses is an unspoken rule of both sides of the war during the offensive and defensive war, and it will not interfere under normal circumstances, and in this weather, if the Jin army does not take away the corpses, will it not be possible to wait for three or two days after the corpses decay and cause a plague.

Xiangyang City ushered in a short period of tranquility, but neither Song nor Jin could be truly peaceful at night.

Fu Shi Lieda Lu was afraid that the Xiangyang defenders would attack the city at night, and the Xiangyang city guards were afraid that the Jin people would steal the city at night...... The hemp rod beats the wolf at both ends. (To be continued.) )