In the capital of the Northern Han Dynasty, the Song army surrounded it on all sides, and the sound of killing shook the sky.

It was a battlefield of blood and fire, full of soldiers who were charging and shouting to kill the heavens, and corpses lying in pools of blood that would never get up again. Maybe not long ago, these dead bodies were still living men, in this thousands of troops, he was just an insignificant pawn, but in his family, he was a husband who was a head taller than the sky, a father who was three points heavier than the king, and the pillar of a family, but now it was just a corpse that no one cared about to look at more.

If there are Northern Han soldiers looking down from the city, they can see the red tassels on the top of the hat under the city, flying like flames, converging into a sea of fire, which is daunting. It was the Fan Yang hat on the head of the elite of the Great Song Forbidden Army. There are more than 10,000 people and horses, boundless and boundless, at this time, there are more than 10,000 military horses under the city, it seems that there is really a huge momentum of throwing whips and breaking the stream, raising hands like clouds.

In fact, if the defenders of the city head were not impatient, they would not have looked at this spectacular scene, the rows of crossbow arrows under the city like a cluster, as if they did not cost money, poured on the city head, and in the violent blow of the storm, there were more than 100 stone throwers, smashing hundreds of pounds of stone bullets to the city head, each boulder fell down, and a thick cloud of yellow smoke rose up, and the capital of the Northern Han Dynasty was bombarded with holes.

The city is made of local materials, rammed with very sticky loess, this kind of sticky loess is really as strong as cement after ramming, and a little more tough than cement, and now it has become a better battle than the city made of stones. If it is a city wall made of bricks and stones, it is easy to crumble and collapse under the bombardment of such a boulder.

The Northern Han army at the head of the city was also stubbornly fighting back at the Song army under the city, and rows of sharp arrows attacked the Song army below the city like locusts after a squeaky string sound. No less than the huge stone projectile thrown by the Song army, it slowly rotated in the air at a speed visible to the naked eye, smashed to the ground with a bang, smashed out a three-foot deep pit, rolled a puddle of mud, and rolled forward quickly for a distance of dozens of zhang, and the boulder rolled through, all the way to the flesh and blood...... The two sides have been in a stalemate for half a month. At the same time that Zhao Kuangyin sent troops to cut off the Zhou counties on the periphery of the capital of the Northern Han Dynasty, he had personally led a large army to attack the heart of the Northern Han Dynasty. In the past half a month, the losses on both sides have been extremely heavy, and in comparison, the Northern Han army in the city has undoubtedly suffered greater losses than the Song army under the city.

Although they occupied a favorable geographical position, there was no lack of courage in the soldiers' lives, and there were sufficient grain, rice and weapons in the treasury of the capital, but compared with the Great Song army that was personally conquered by the emperor, there was still a fatal weakness: the soldiers were few and the generals were outnumbered.

The Song army besieging the city was ten times that of the Northern Han defenders, they had inexhaustible weapons and equipment, and there were mountains of grain and rice supplies, and the follow-up grain was still being transported in a steady stream, while the city was consuming some less, and now in terms of arrows, they had to pick up the arrows that the Song army shot into the city to meet the needs of the defenders at the head of the city. The contest of war is, to a large extent, a contest of national strength between the two sides, and the current national strength of the Great Song Dynasty is not the same as that of the Northern Han Dynasty.

In this battle, the Zhao official family is bound to win. This year, Zhao Guanjia was just forty-one years old.

Now is the age when his experience, energy, and wisdom have reached their peak. He has a strategic strategy, but also a strategic vision of the overall situation, he knows that the Southern Tang Dynasty, the Southern Han Dynasty, Wu Yue, and even Chen Hongjin, who is really divided by the Ming Dynasty, are all vulnerable, and sooner or later he will face a strong enemy who can really fight with him: the Khitan. So, here he comes.

His royal expedition against the Northern Han Dynasty was in the Khitan. His purpose was to take advantage of the internal instability of the northern kingdom to take down the Northern Han Kingdom, an important bridgehead for their southern invasion, and prepare for the future crusade against the Khitan and the recapture of the Sixteen Prefectures of Youyun.

At this time, the Zhao Guanjia was not only eloquent and strategic, but his personal martial arts had never retreated by half a point. At this time, he was still the same Panlong stick, the Zhao Kuangyin who beat all over the 84th military state in the world. Under his personal command, the forbidden soldiers of the Great Song Dynasty were like tigers and horses, all the way to the west, and they did not even encounter a decent resistance, even the so-called invincible general Liu Jiye of the Northern Han Army was also defeated in a battle, and fled in despair, and the counties and towns of the outer states of the Northern Han Kingdom had fallen into his hands one by one, and now only this lonely city remains, the last battle of the Northern Han Dynasty. Here, he finally encountered the first tough battle, and it was also the last battle of this royal expedition.

Zhao Kuangyin stood on the top of the high hill, overlooking the crumbling capital of the Northern Han Dynasty in front of him, which was like a lonely boat in the monstrous waves, which would be overturned at any time, but always reappeared on the crest of the waves. The head of the city and the city below are like a tireless meat grinder, reaping human lives at a rapid pace......

Zhao Guanjia, who has rich experience in the battle formation, is also a benevolent general who is sympathetic to the soldiers and refuses to innocently hurt people's lives, he doesn't know how much sacrifice it takes to forcibly attack with such cruel means, how many lives will it take to fill in the moat that can never be crossed by half a step, but the arrow is on the string, and he has to send it, and he will not fight quickly without a decision, God knows if the sick and weak but ambitious new emperor of the northern country can integrate Zhubei and raise troops again?

More than 20 years ago, his old boss Guo Wei, the Taizu of the Later Zhou Dynasty, attacked the city in the river for a whole year, and the year-long siege battle lost countless grains and grass, but the casualties were the lowest, and finally he took the fortified city. However, who can give him Zhao Kuangyin that much time?

Want to do it quickly? More than 10 years ago, Chai Rong, the first British lord who was more eloquent than him Zhao Kuangyin, personally drove the expedition to attack Shouzhou City, and requisitioned hundreds of thousands of strong men in Songzhou, Bozhou, Chenzhou, Xuzhou, Suzhou, Xuzhou, Caizhou and other places.

Hundreds of stone throwers were damaged, and the nearly a million stones alone could fill up Shouzhou City, but Liu Renzhan, the general of the Southern Tang Dynasty, still defended the city, and Shouzhou City never fell, until all the surrounding states and counties fell into the hands of the Song people, and Shouzhou still fluttered the banner of the Southern Tang Dynasty. It wasn't until later that he fell seriously ill and fell into a coma, and his already fearless generals surrendered the city.

Now the defenders in the capital of the Northern Han Dynasty are not united, and they are not afraid of death. Five days ago, Luo Qian, the defender of the southern city of the Northern Han Dynasty, was frightened under the stormy attack of the Song army, and scattered out of the city to beg to surrender, but he assassinated the prison army and carried many subordinate guards out of the city without permission. This Luo general died in the hands of the Song army colonel, because he was on the verge of the battle to join the enemy, and his family members were beheaded by the defenders at the head of the city.

If it can't be broken from the inside, what about requisitioning the people to attack the city? In this vast and sparsely populated northwest region, the entire Northern Han Kingdom is now only 50,000 households, where do you want him to find so many people to help in the war. Compared with the city in the river and the city of Shouzhou, this is the capital of the Northern Han Dynasty, and this is the last hope of the people of the Northern Han Dynasty.

The existing forces in his hands would have been enough to wipe out all the troops in the capital of the Northern Han Dynasty over and over again, but the premise was that the Northern Han was willing to go out of the city for a decisive battle, and if he wanted to attack the city, the only way to attack the capital of the Northern Han Dynasty as quickly as possible was to recruit the people or increase the troops in a large way, but ...... Does he have any more troops to grow?

The domestic troops can no longer be transferred, and the countries of Jing, Hu, and Shu, which have been destroyed by him, have not been completely digested, and a large number of troops need to be stationed; The Southern Tang Dynasty and the Southern Han Dynasty should also send heavy troops to prevent them from taking the opportunity to bite into their hearts; Kaifeng city also has to garrison troops, since the five generations of troubled times, there are too many self-reliant and ambitious generals, and it is impossible not to prevent someone from taking the opportunity to rebel; The Qiang people in the northwest are in turmoil, and they must also be suppressed by soldiers; Especially the Khitans, the most powerful enemy, more than 50 years earlier than the founding of the Great Song Dynasty, today's Khitans are no longer the kind of tribal alliances in the past, hurriedly combined in battle, each with a command, all relying on a savage courage to fight the Hulu.

They were feudal empires in terms of polity, like the Central Plains; Economically, there are Khitan nomadic herding and Han farming in the sixteen continents of Yanyun; militarily maintained the prowess of the nomads; Geographically, they occupy the most dangerous terrain; In terms of armament, they have the offensive armament that the Great Song Dynasty lacked the most: war horses. This enemy will be the only fierce enemy he will face in the future. In the past, as long as the Great Song Dynasty and the Han Dynasty, they would come to support, but will they come this time?

This time, he drove the expedition in person, and had already considered the possibility of sending troops from the north, so he adopted the strategy of dividing troops from multiple routes, besieging the city and blocking reinforcements, first clearing the peripheral enemy forces, and finally conquering the capital of the Northern Han Dynasty. The four-way army attacked the capital of the Northern Han Dynasty all the way, and took the Yunling Mountains all the way to the north, cutting off the largest land communication artery between the Northern Han and the Khitan, preventing the Han army from fleeing north and the Khitans from going south. The Third Route Army was stationed at the Tongtian River in the east to prevent the Khitans from sending troops to support. He personally led the Fourth Route Army to the rear, and the target was also the capital of the Northern Han Dynasty. Now even the army led by him has come in handy, but to capture this fortified city, there is still a little lack of fire, but the two vigilant armies cannot be deployed, otherwise once the Khitans suddenly kill, it is not a question of whether they can take the capital of the Northern Han Dynasty, but whether they can retreat calmly.

Zhao Kuangyin looked at the north worriedly, at the desert grassland with a long wind and a long road, and the group of wilderness people, did they have such a long-term vision, put aside the internal disputes for the time being, and relieve the siege of the Northern Han Dynasty? If they can't capture the capital of the Northern Han Dynasty as soon as possible, and they send troops to help, won't this time be in vain?

Zhao Kuangyin looked at it for a long time, and then looked back at the surrounded city under his feet, this city will fall into his hands sooner or later, and the emperor in this city will sooner or later prostrate himself at his feet like other emperors, but will God give him enough time to succeed in a battle?

The city is like an isolated island, the battle array is like a cloud, looking down from the top of the mountain, thousands of soldiers, like a group of ants. Once, he was one of these ants, but now, he has been wrapped in a yellow robe and has become a son of heaven. The Son of Heaven was angry, millions of corpses were lost, and thousands of miles of blood were shed, whether he was reluctant or not, these hands had to be stained with those bloods, just because...... He is the Son of Heaven!

※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※ Zhao Guan's family looked at the battlefield and was worried, naturally they couldn't see that among the thousands of troops and horses, there was a "little ant" who was not wearing a military uniform, and was hurriedly walking to Cheng Shixiong's barracks. Cheng Shixiong was subordinate to the Northwest Frontier Army of Fuzhou, and the main task of this requisition was to be responsible for clearing the outer prefectures and counties of the Northern Han capital, and at the same time to escort the supply of grain and straw escorted by various transit envoys.

He not only wants to take the Northern Han in one fell swoop, but also wants to show the military might, knock on the mountain and shock the tiger, and force the two major feudal towns in the northwest to give up their military power.

Cheng Shixiong was happy, the Northern Han armed forces in the outer counties and towns were chased and killed by him, and he came to report to the army after clearing the periphery. In the past few days, the attack and defense have become more and more fierce, and the casualties of the forbidden army responsible for attacking Xicheng are too heavy, and Zhao Guanjia had to withdraw them to rest, and Cheng Shixiong took on the task of attacking Xicheng.

Speaking of this Cheng Shixiong, he is really a natural general. People like him were born for the battlefield, and they didn't read much in his military books. Zhao Kuo has a father who uses soldiers like a god, he has studied a lot of military books since he was a child, and few famous generals in the world can argue with him, but he is really useless on the battlefield. Sun Wu is somewhat similar to him, but he has also never started as a pawn, and once he becomes a general, he can win every battle.

I haven't read a few military books, all rely on battlefield fighting, blood and fire tempering and no teacher, proficient in battle formation, and the skills are not under the famous generals from the "science class", from a pawn to kill the god, the god of war, the undefeated god Bai Qi, don't even know the word, only know the bow and shoot the eagle Temujin, is such a famous general. Cheng Shixiong and they are all the way, if he didn't really have great skills, he wouldn't have so many subordinates who were willing to die, and he wouldn't have been entrusted with important tasks by the Zhe family, leading the army to guard the west as a person with a foreign surname. But until today, he was the most idle person in the capital of the Northern Han Dynasty.

Now that he has received the task of attacking Xicheng, Cheng Shixiong is not perfunctory, he concentrated dozens of stone throwers, stormed the city a little, collapsed a city wall, damaged the gate of Xicheng, and then personally brandished a halberd to lead the troops to charge.

The enemy's weakness is the main point of our army's attack, the strategy was originally correct, and then the defenders in the city occupied a favorable position, and they did not need many soldiers and horses to block this gap tightly.

When Yang Hao came to his side with the colonel in the army, Cheng Shixiong had just been hit by an arrow and retreated from the front of the formation, the war drums in the formation were still roaring, Cheng Shixiong had a swarthy backbone, revealing a body of steel-like muscles, and his body was sweat and blood. An arm as thick as Yang Hao's thigh had just been pulled out of the arrow, and the flesh and blood were blurred, and a military doctor was sweating profusely to bandage him. This military doctor is not a lowly medical doctor, nor is it the first time he has seen no blood on the battlefield, but when he encounters such a difficult master as Cheng Shixiong, he can't sweat if he doesn't want to.

Cheng Shixiong sat there with a golden knife, and the military doctor cleaned up the blood stains and bandaged him with medicine, but this General Cheng was not idle, sitting there with a beard like a thorn, his eyes widened, and he roared loudly like thunder, and his two arms waved from time to time, bringing Na Langzhong to the ground: "Straight lady thief, the Northern Han thief who killed this day will only hurt people with secret arrows, why don't you come out and fight to the death with a certain family." ”

"You go, you go, and send a few more stone throwers to knock down their city gates."

"Transfer the left battalion down to rest, change to the right battalion, he hurts people with hidden arrows, Lao Tzu will drag him to death with wheel warfare, I will see how long this city can be defended."

"Report! General, there are not enough arrows. ”

"your grandma, this kind of thing has to be reported to General Ben? When you get married, do you want General Ben to drill a hole for you? If there are not enough arrows, go to the official camp to ask for it, can the emperor send hungry soldiers? How are you a quartermaster, a dog thing with no eyes. ”

In the laughter of several pro-soldiers, the quartermaster ran away in a gloomy manner, Cheng Shixiong heard the sound of killing in front of him, suddenly jumped up again, and shouted: "Your grandmother is a bear, how can you relax and pull my pro-soldier guards up to supervise the battle, and those who dare to come to the battle will be killed!" ”

Someone hurriedly said: "General, it is not that the soldiers are afraid of battle, but that there are not enough arrows to suppress the enemy army at the head of the city, and when the arrows arrive, they will attack again." ”

At this moment, Yang Hao arrived. The little colonel who led the way hurriedly stepped forward and hugged his fists and said, "Report~~, general, someone from your house has come up." ”

"Ah, who's here? Is there something wrong with my old lady or is my bastard son causing trouble? Cheng Shixiong turned around, hit the shaft of his hip bone, knocked out the old man who had not been wrapped in the bandage for all his efforts, and sat on the ground with his butt.

"Ouch, I'm sorry, look at you old man, you don't pay attention to it." Cheng Jiangxiong stepped over in one step, picked up the old man like a chicken, turned his head to look, and couldn't help but wonder: "Hey, it's you, why are you here?" ”

The old man wiped the cold sweat from his forehead, quickly wrapped it around a few times, and picked up the strip of cloth that was about to hang to the ground and continued to bandage him, Cheng Shixiong turned around and shouted: "Your grandmother's, can't you die as Lao Tzu's soldier?" Still beating drums. Give me a drum, sound gold, rest for a while, and wait for the arrows to arrive before attacking the city. After giving the order, he turned around and asked, "Why did you run to the front of the two armies?" ”

Yang Hao hurriedly stepped forward and said: "General, I heard that the general went on an expedition, and I had the intention to come to serve in front of the army, but unfortunately when I arrived in Guangyuan, the general had already sent troops, and I didn't want to eat idle meals in Guangyuan. ”

Cheng Shixiong paused and said: "It's a pity, it's a pity, why didn't you come early, I still don't want to join the army when you are nostalgic for your homeland." In front of everyone, he was inconvenient to say too much, and then strode back to his seat, the old man pulled the strip of cloth and was led back by him all the way, Cheng Shixiong said in a rough voice: "You come, you come, now the war is urgent, I don't have time to arrange you, but at this time I can enter the army, but there is no leisure for you to do, although you are a benefactor of my family, once you join the army, everything must be in accordance with military law, I Lao Cheng is also unsympathetic to you, do you know?" ”

Yang Hao was overjoyed when he heard his permission, and he hurriedly followed up a few steps, and said: "My subordinates know that no matter what the position, Yang Hao is willing to accept it." ”

"Well, that's good, let's get things done. Well? Yang Hao...... When did you change your last name? ”

Yang Hao hurriedly said the matter in a deafening shout, and many of the inside stories naturally had no time to go into detail, but the general situation was enough to explain clearly. Yang Hao said, and said: "I am desperate, and the only way out I think of is to come to you General Cheng." Let's tell the truth, Yang Hao's coming to vote for the general this time is effective, but he also inevitably has the intention of avoiding disaster. If the general has any scruples, but please say it bluntly, leave as soon as you go, and you will never embarrass the general. ”

General Cheng looked up to the sky and laughed, and waved his hand heroically, pitiful for the old man's hard work for half a day was in vain: "This is a big fart, isn't it just killing a pair of adulterers and adulteresses, kill it, just kill it, look at your cowardice, just kill the two of you like this, hahahaha, the lives of my old Cheng are not one thousand but eight hundred, and it's not that the sky doesn't care about it." ”

Yang Hao was stunned when he heard it: "This rammer, shouldn't it be a legal blind......"

He said tentatively, "The general is ...... I didn't understand the meaning of Zaixia, killing people under the Xia is not the same as killing people on the battlefield general, and now the Bazhou Mansion is afraid that the list has been posted, and I am wanted all over the world. ”

Cheng Shixiong glared at him, and said hesitantly: "Brother Hao, you think that I am a big boss, and you don't even understand this matter?" Murder pays for life, doesn't it? ”

As soon as Yang Hao nodded, Cheng Shixiong spat heavily: "Ah...... Bah! There are more outlaws under my Lao Cheng, and he dares to come to Lao Tzu's territory to arrest people? Lend him guts! You just have to stay, even if you don't change your name and surname, they have to pretend to be deaf and dumb. In the future, as long as you make military achievements, I Lao Cheng will repair a book and ask them to cancel your murder, and the whole world will still tell you to walk sideways! ”

What is called a feudal town, this is called a feudal town. What a big breath, what a big majesty!

Yang Haoxin happily shook it to the end, and thanked him respectfully: "Thank you General Cheng for your maintenance, from today onwards, Yang Haogan will be a pawn in the army, but he has no regrets." ”

Yang Hao said this, and then listened to a clear and soft voice and smiled: "What a pawn in the Hundred Battles Army." In Han Changli's poem, this sentence originally refers to being at the mercy of others and the situation is miserable, so if you use it like this, it sounds like a heroic wind of 'where righteousness is, although thousands of people go to me'! ”