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The Liao soldiers, who had fought hard with the Song army all night, struggled to support themselves under the blows of artillery fire, and the young men of Nanjing City, who had gathered in a hurry, fled for their lives in the face of the surging Song army. The actions of these Liao people once again proved that when civilians encountered regular troops, not only the Song people would only die, but it would take a lot of courage to resist.

It can be said that Wen Yanbo chose the most suitable time to bet on the heaviest chips in his hand. The entire defense line of Yelu Shiya was like a strong embankment, which collapsed in an instant after being breached by the flood.

The victory of the Song army was irreversible. Yelu Shiya, who was covered in blood, stood in the palace where the emperor and ministers of the Liao Kingdom discussed politics in the past, and he couldn't accept this fact at all.

Now, only this place in the entire city of Nanjing is still completely in the hands of the Liao.

The south city is broken, the east city is broken, and the west city is broken.

The Liao [***] team resisted step by step, shrinking the defensive front little by little, Yelu Shiya was not giving up, the Song army opened the north gate to let them run, many magnates had already left, and now the rout of those residents is congested at the north gate.

But he didn't want to leave, because the key to this battle was not how many Liao soldiers the Song army annihilated, or how many Song soldiers were killed by the Liao soldiers. It's about whose hands the city will be in when the war is over.

Yelu Shiya thought about the great battle decades ago, at that time, Han Derang was also defending the city alone, the same city, Han Derang insisted on the arrival of reinforcements, and killed the hundreds of thousands of troops of the Song Dynasty Emperor Zhao Guangyi, but what about himself?

Hold on a little longer, Yelu Gollum's army is not far away, maybe reinforcements will come soon, and he can kill the Song army and lose his armor.

The battle outside is still going on, and the soldiers of the Liao State are still resisting. Most of the Liao residents of Nanjing fled to the north of the city in despair, but when some people found that they could not escape at all, they bravely chose to fight the Song army.

Some people hid in the corner alone and attacked the Song troops who passed by with handy weapons, while others found the remnants of the Liao State and resisted with them.

There was a river of blood on every street, there was a battle in every alleyway, and even every house had to be fought. The Song army advanced step by step, paying casualties for every inch of land advanced, charging non-stop, and the enemy's resistance never stopped.

The sporadic battle is not bloody at all compared to last night's siege battle, this is the last breath of the Liao people, Wen Yanbo knows that the great work is about to arrive, but he does not dare to be careless.

Because he knew in his heart that the Battle of Nanjing was just a node, and it was important to obtain this node, but the things that followed were even more important.

The battle lasted for two whole days, and almost the entire city was reduced to ruins, but Yelu Shiya and the remnants of thousands of Liao soldiers were still defended.

Neither morale nor weapons, they could not hold out.

Yelu Shiya sat on a stone bench on the ground, staring at the ground with dull eyes, his spear on the side, and his expression was unusually confused. He could accept failure, but he couldn't accept failure so quickly!

Three days! It only took three days and two nights for the Song army to defeat the city of Nanjing, which the Liao people thought could hold on for at least a month or even half a year!

Wen Yanbo's initial moves were all false moves, filling in the trenches, besieging Wuyuan Mountain, and even tens of thousands of Song soldiers died under the city walls of Nanjing all night! These are all fakes.

When the Song army came, they determined their lethal moves, and all the deployments were made to expose their flaws.

Times have really changed, and even a Song Dynasty scholar like Wen Yanbo will use tricks! Yelu Shiya suddenly laughed when he thought of this, and the laughter was very loud: "Haha, haha, hahaha!" ”

A personal soldier ran over: "General, the Song people have sent someone outside to shout again, saying that if we don't leave, they will set off artillery to level here!" ”

Yelu Shiya put away his laughter and looked at the soldier: "I'm not leaving." The king gave me this place, and I won't leave it if I can't keep it! ”

The pro-soldier hesitated for a moment, then made up his mind and hugged his fist at Yelu Shiya: "General take care!" ”

After saying four words, the pro-soldier turned his head and ran away. Yelu Shiya's hand touched the bow and arrow beside him, and finally let go of his hand with a sigh, watching the soldier disappear from his vision.

Picking up the flask, he poured himself a bowl of wine, and drank it as fast as he could.

"Whew! Call! ”

With the terrifying sound of the wind, one after another cannonballs flew into the compound, and one of them landed right next to him. Jeremiah saw the round thing rolling at his feet, and ignored it, but picked up the flask and poured it again.

"Bang~"

The resistance organized by the Liao people was finally over, and those stragglers continued to fight, Wen Yanbo stood at the highest point of the city gate tower, looking at the city under his feet, and the feeling of a conqueror made him very excited!

The Song army of this city has been thinking about it for many years! He found himself speechless.

Fu Yongji ran over from the side: "My lord, the remnants of the enemy in the city have basically been cleared, and there are still some sporadic battles, but the scale is not very large, and it can be pacified within half an hour." There are still more than 100,000 Liao people crowded at the north gate, should we close the door? ”

Wen Yanbo sighed: "What are you doing when you close it?" Do you think I am Chen Shimei? Since they want to go, let them go. How is Shu Baoxin? ”

"Where are the Liao people who have begun to break through, General Shu asks if you want to keep them?"

Wen Yanbo shook his head: "What I want is this city, and it's not a bad thing for them to tell the other Liao people about the results of this battle." You go and ask the supervisors of each unit to report the casualties to me within an hour, and send them back to Bianjing with the battle table. Also, the soldiers have worked hard, burn a good meal tonight. ”

Fu Yongji clenched his fists: "Yes." ”

In the Battle of Nanjing, the Song army annihilated more than 17,000 defenders in the city, and the number of young and strong people temporarily recruited by the Liao State and the casualties of the Liao civilians in the battle cannot be counted.

The Song army's own casualties were staggering, with more than 29,000 killed and more than 14,000 seriously wounded, not counting minor injuries.

The main reason is that Wen Yanbo attacked too fiercely, in order to put pressure on the Liao people that night, he almost used his life to pile people on the city wall, and the troops who had just marched in a hurry immediately entered the battle, and their physical strength was seriously insufficient, even if they had much better equipment than the Liao people, but they still couldn't take the slightest advantage.

Judging from the number of people, the Liao people did not suffer a loss at this station, and even took a lot of advantages. But that's not how war works.

It is the political, economic, and cultural center of the entire southeast defense line of the Liao State. Wen Yanbo defeated Nanjing in three days, which meant that the strongest point on the entire defense line of the Liao State was knocked out! Half of the Liao State has lost the fulcrum, the toughest fulcrum.

The Song army grasped the node of the war, mastered the rhythm of the war, and the rest of the matter was to let the war continue in the footsteps of the Song Dynasty.

In the third year of the Emperor's reign, at the beginning of April.

Yelu Hongji's cavalry counterattacked the city of Nanjing, hoping to open this passage. But after being counterattacked by Wen Yanbo, he retreated.

In mid-April, the cavalry troops of Li Shibin and Yeli Yuqi immediately launched a sweeping attack on the southwestern half of the Liao State.

At the same time, Mu Guiying's 400,000-strong army changed the slow movement at the beginning of the war, and pounced on Yelu Hongji's troops who were stuck by the Song army on the back road like a cheetah that had found its prey.

In the second half of the year, Renzong pressed the more than 100,000 soldiers who Fan Zhongyan had mobilized in Bianjing during this period of time, who were originally going to defend Bianjing. Ren Fu also commanded nearly 300,000 Song troops in Hejian Province to launch a counteroffensive aimed at holding back Yelu Hongji.

The Liao people had not yet gotten rid of the shock of the fall of Nanjing, and were thinking about whether the Song Dynasty would continue to attack them northward, the Song army mobilized nearly a million troops in the area of Hejian Province at the fastest speed, and the intention was very clear, that is, to eat the 400,000 Liao elites led by Yelu Hongji in one bite!

At the beginning of May, Yelu Hongji gave up his attack on Xin'an and led his army to retreat to the defensive line deployed by Wen Yanbo in the vicinity of Nanjing, hoping to break through a little and let his army escape. At the same time, Yelu Gollu led a large army south to attack and respond, hoping to defeat the Song army and rescue the trapped Liao army.

After a few days of bloody battles between the two sides, the news came that Di Qing had sent troops from Goryeo, and Yelu was forced to retreat.

In the middle of the year, all the Song troops on the three routes were in place, and the elite of the Liao State led by Yelu Hongji ran out except for nearly 30,000 cavalry who ran out before the encirclement of the Song army was completed, and the rest of the men and horses were all besieged in Yongqing, Xincheng, and Gu'an.

The Liao people lost their last chance, and a large-scale encirclement and annihilation battle that the Song Dynasty had never fought was about to begin.

The entire Great Song Dynasty was excited by the news, and those people had a proud smile on their faces, some pushing carts, some driving carriages, pushing carts and carts of supplies from the rear to the front.

Almost all the caravans were volunteering to help the Song army with transportation, and even the scholars and doctors of the Song Dynasty were not pursuing anything during this period of time.

When the two sides of Hejian Province fought bloodily, the people who were most popular in the teahouse and wine shop were no longer the scholars and doctors, but some soldiers and refugees who had returned from Hejian Province. No matter where these people appeared, there was always a large crowd around them to ask about the real situation on the battlefield.

When he heard the highlights of Song Jun's killing, there were always some people who did good things shouting loudly, and shouted that all the money for wine and food was counted on his head today, which won applause from the audience.

The hearts of the scholars and doctors were originally a little unbalanced that they had been snubbed, but now that they are good, Wen Yanbo's defeat of Nanjing is tantamount to making them raise their eyebrows, who said that only martial artists can fight? At the beginning, Emperor Taizong hated Youzhou, and now Wen Yanbo is perfect for him to save face.

Moreover, after Wen Yanbo conquered Nanjing, he did not kill them all like Chen Shimei did to the Dongying people, and greatly let those defeated soldiers and fleeing civilians of the Liao State leave, which showed the open-mindedness of the Song Dynasty scholars and doctors, and gave them the capital to brag about.

Everyone was talking about the front line, about the death battle of the Song army in Hejian Province, the surprise attack of the Song army in Nanjing, and about the battle preparations for the encirclement and annihilation of the Liao army.

At this time, the nationalism of the Song Dynasty was at an all-time high because of the victory in the war, and everyone from the scholars and doctors to the peddlers and pawns were discussing what they could do for the front.

(To be continued)