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When the Song army arrived at the city, the Liao people on the head of the city kept smashing down with rolling stones and sassal wood, while the Song army tried to climb the city wall and used gunpowder to blow up the city gate of the Liao people. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Whenever there were Song soldiers on the city wall, the Liao spearmen would fight hand-to-hand with the Song army in a deadly posture, and the scarred Nanjing city wall became a meat stirring machine, the Song army followed one after another, and the Liao people fought to the death and did not retreat, and the casualties on both sides were rising in a straight line.

There were also corpses at the city gate, and the Song army tried to blow the city gate open with gunpowder, but the Liao troops completely blocked the city gate hole with huge stones inside.

After a fierce battle, more than 8,000 Song troops were killed and wounded, and several charges were beaten down by the Liao.

Although it repelled the charge of the Song army, who knew that the Song army would never stop like this, this was only the first time the Song army attacked the city, and the subsequent battle was bound to be more brutal. Yelu Shiya looked at the Song army that was receding like a tide, and didn't know what kind of fierce battle they would have when they came back next time.

"General! General, something is wrong! A Liao soldier rushed over and said in a deep voice beside Yelu Shiya.

"What's the matter?"

"General Hui, the Song army is attacking Wuyuan Mountain!"

Wuyuan Mountain, located five miles east of Nanjing, the stream under Wuyuan Mountain is the source of water for the entire city, so Yelu Shiya put 10,000 elite soldiers of the Liao State in Wuyuan Mountain.

These 10,000 soldiers can not only guard the water source of the entire city of Nanjing, but also the terrain there is dangerous, easy to defend and difficult to attack, and they can support each other.

Yelu Shiya was not afraid of the loss of Wuyuan Mountain, because in his opinion, there were 10,000 Liao troops on it, and the terrain there did not allow the Song army to use artillery and crossbows, which were very lethal weapons.

It's just that he is very strange, these Song troops have just arrived here, and they attacked Nanjing once without even resting, and now they are fighting Wuyuan Mountain, isn't that Wen Yanbo not ready to sleep? Yelu Shiya touched his head, he really couldn't understand what Song Jun was paying attention to.

The generals of the Song army were really sleepy, and at this time everyone wanted to sleep well, but Wen Yanbo forcibly ordered Shu Baoxin to take their team to attack Wuyuan Mountain.

In Shu Baoxin's view, this is simply a battle that there is no way to fight, the Liao [***] team has tens of thousands of people, Wen Yanbo only gave him 6,000 soldiers and horses, the terrain is dangerous and his own troops are not as good as others, and the sky is about to be dark, it is a taboo for soldiers to attack the cottage this night!

But he can't disobey the military order, Wen Yanbo asked him to go up, he had to go, don't say give him 6,000 people, even if he doesn't give him a single person, he himself has to go up.

Of course, Wen Yanbo had his considerations, he saw at a glance that the Wuyuan Mountain and the Liao State Nanjing could support each other, and he did not plan that the Song army could really defeat the Wuyuan Mountain, but hoped to drag the enemy on the mountain to the death through continuous attack.

In a word, entangle him, so that the enemy there will not be able to intervene when he attacks Nanjing. Although Shu Baoxin didn't understand what Wen Yanbo meant, no matter whether this guy was fighting or fake, at least he didn't dare to stop the shouting and killing on this mountain.

After seeing the enemy behind him, Wen Yanbo asked the soldiers of the Song army to rest for a while, and after eating a fairly good dinner, he fought at night and let go of the siege.

Fighting a siege at night is cruel for both the attacking and defending sides, the attacking side cannot judge the situation on the opposing wall, and the defending side has to wait until the other side is very close to find out.

The weapons of long-range strike were limited by their eyesight and could not be used at all, and the hand-to-hand combat between blood and blood became the main theme of the night.

With the experience of a veteran, Jerushiya quickly responded, redeploying his defensive forces and shrinking the defense. At the same time, a large number of reserve forces were prepared to be put into those places where the battlefield was tight at any time.

The drums of war sounded again, and after the usual artillery blast, the Song army rushed to the city again in the night. The Liao people did not put all the defensive forces on the city as they did just now, and only after the artillery stopped did they rush from the city to their positions, smashing the Song army that was climbing the city wall with wood and rolling stones, and at the same time they had to engage in hand-to-hand combat with the Song army who were sent directly to the city by the ladder.

Under the stubborn counterattack of the Liao people, the charging troops of the Song Dynasty suffered heavy casualties, and the attack was frustrated several times, and even Wen Yanbo himself was almost shot by a stray arrow when he visited the front line in person, and the battle was still stalemate! The army of the Song Dynasty was menacing every time, but it could not break through the city defenses of the Liao.

The night passed in a shouting and killing.

At this time, Yelu Shifang finally made a mistake that seemed trivial to him, but it was enough to change the whole situation of the battle.

The battle had been fought all night, and the Song army was attacking at the north gate, west gate, and east gate of Nanjing without stopping, and one wave had just retreated and the other wave immediately rushed forward. The Song army attacked more than once, and the Liao people fought to the death and did not retreat, and the two sides fought fiercely on many city walls, and the attack and defense were white-hot. Although the Song army attacking one side suffered heavy casualties, the losses of the Liao people were equally huge.

After a night of bloody fighting, the sky gradually invented, but Wen Yanbo's attack had no intention of stopping. The Song army has more than 300,000, and they can take turns to rest. But the Liao [***] team in the city was already exhausted after a night of fighting.

In the south of the city, this night was unusually quiet.

Many of the troops could not bear the pressure given to them by the Song army, and asked Yelu Shiya to transfer some of the troops from Nancheng so that there would be a rotation that would allow the soldiers to take a little rest, even if it was just a bite to eat.

But Yelu Shiya knows that sometimes the calmer the place, the more dangerous it is.

He didn't dare to move Nancheng's troops for a night, and if there was no attack there, it would be much more intense than in other places.

But when the sky was shining, Yelu Shiya felt that he could change it, after all, as soon as the sky was bright, it would be very difficult for the Song army to attack or attack.

Besides, he still has more than 40,000 temporarily organized residents in his hands, and it should be no problem to send a small number of troops to watch the city, and there should be no problem with putting some of these temporarily organized people below.

Under the pressure of the Song army's tidal offensive, Yelu Shiya gritted his teeth and transferred the Liao soldiers in Nancheng to defend elsewhere, and finally eased the already tense situation for the time being.

He believed that the Song army was not fought with iron, and the Song army also needed to rest. After a long period of attack, the Song Dynasty definitely needed time to reorganize.

Do the math, now that Yelu Gollu has also received the news from himself, the cavalry of the Liao State should have rushed here.

Time, or time, if you can hold on, the passivity in front of you can be turned into complete initiative, and the offense and defense will change momentum.

But the destruction began precisely when he made this decision.

Under the southern city, a unit dressed in Liao [***] uniform has quietly touched the root of the city, at this time there are not a few Liao soldiers on the head of the southern city, those who have just organized the Liao young people after seeing this team, only as their own people, not only without the slightest doubt, but even very happy for the arrival of these regular troops.

The transformation of the functions of the military department in the Song Dynasty brought great benefits to the Song army, the previous military department was responsible for formulating the battle plan, but now the military department is responsible for studying the battle plan and coordinating the cooperation between several battlefields as much as possible.

In the past, when generals marched and fought wars, they had to follow the instructions of the military department, and when the battlefield and the military department imagined were different, the general was dumbfounded, and the military department was beyond the reach of the whip.

But now the battle was fought by Wen Yanbo himself, and the Ministry of War just told him to take Nanjing and take Nanjing as quickly as possible, and provided him with all the information of the Liao soldiers in Nanjing, as well as all the strategies that the Liao people might use after the study of the Ministry of War.

From the moment Wen Yanbo stepped out of Zhending Mansion, he aimed directly at Nanjing. And he deliberately studied other siege battles, not to mention ancient times, too far away and already familiar with it. The most famous wars in the Great Song Dynasty were Di Qing's pacification of Xiangyang and Chen Shimei's expedition to the party.

Wen Yanbo studied it carefully and found that whether Chen Shimei fought Li Yuanhao or later fought Dongying, the most critical point why he was able to win the battle was that Chen Shimei often sought a breakthrough from within the opponent's fortress.

Wen Yanbo immediately followed suit and arranged for a Song army of more than 200 people to sneak into Nanjing first, and these people were the best among the elite of the Song army.

The Liao people on the border fled north one after another, and there were not a few people who chose this place as an escape target, and the infiltration of the Song army provided extremely favorable conditions.

The most important thing is that the previous wars between the Song Dynasty and the Liao State were all about defending the city, and occasionally attacking the city was also that kind of gentleman's method. It must be like Zhao Guangyi's attack on Youzhou, such a good form, the Han people in Youzhou City rose up to help him, he didn't know how to use it, and gave Han Derang a chance to turn the tables.

Therefore, in Yelu Shiya's consciousness of defending the city, he thought about the various means of the Song army's strong attack and sneak attack, but he didn't think that the Song army would come to win the city, which didn't seem to be the style of those scholars and doctors who supported Zhao Guangyi.

More than 200 people hid in the city for two or three days, but they were not found by the Liao people, when they stepped on the city wall of the south gate, the regular soldiers of the Liao State on the wall found that something was wrong, just opened their mouths to ask, only to see these people take off their clothes outside, revealing a Song army uniform, waving the weapons in their hands to give the Liao people a military education lesson easily.

They suddenly sent an attack, and in an instant, they suppressed the Liao people on both sides of the city, and then cut down the drawbridge, opened the gate, and the Song Dynasty army that had already been ambushed there outside the city swarmed in!

Yelu Shiya, who was struggling to support himself, heard the news, like a thunderbolt on a sunny day, and the whole person was suddenly stupid.

The breaking of the South City Gate was like a stalemate between the two sides, and the Song army suddenly hit the waist and eye of the Liao people with a dark fist, and the entire Nanjing city suddenly fell into chaos.

The collapse occurred irrepressibly the day after the Song army launched an attack on Nanjing.

(To be continued)