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All three levels have fallen! This dismal result has a lot to do with Liu Yuan, a eunuch, who interfered indiscriminately in the military, rewarded and punished unfairly, which caused morale to plummet, and finally Waqiao Pass was captured by Xiao Temo.

The eunuchs of the Song Dynasty were a little special, they did not have much power in the court, and there were few situations like the Tang Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty that held the central authority.

However, in terms of military affairs, their power is extremely prominent, like Li Xian and others in the Shenzong period, they all led the troops as a commander, which is extremely rare in other Chinese dynasties.

Liu Ying probably wanted to make military merits like Li Xian, but unfortunately he didn't have the military talent like Li Xian, so he made a mess of things this time.

Fortunately, Pan Yi had already prepared, as soon as the Waqiao Pass was broken, he retreated to Baozhou, and immediately ordered the embankment to be broken, and at the same time ordered 7,000 soldiers and horses to suddenly leave Ansu and attack Yizhou, Liao, which was empty.

A set of combination punches can more or less drag Xiao Temo for three or two days.

Pan Yi took advantage of this opportunity to coordinate with the soldiers of the township and build another line of defense from west to east relying on Baozhou, Gaoyang, Mozhou, Shucheng, Qingzhou, etc.

It's just that this line of defense is full of loopholes, and a small city like Shucheng has poor defense capabilities, and it is easy to be broken by the Liao army.

Now we can only hope that Xiao Temo will not dare to abandon these border cities, and the cities will be attacked one by one.

Otherwise, if Xiao Temo disregarded the back road and forcibly waved his army deeper, he would be able to drink the Yellow River in one day.

The fall of Sanguan caused panic almost made the Great Song Dynasty finished, and many people from all over Hebei had already taken refuge in the city, and even formed a large wave of refugees to flee south.

When the news reached Tokyo, the whole of Tokyo boiled, and the panic spread like a plague.

Countless pieces of music flew into Shangshu Province.

In front of the Xuande Gate, there was a crowd of black oppression, princes and nobles, scholars, scholars, all kinds of people, etc., crying and shouting to abolish the new law and clean up the hearts of the people; Negotiate peace with Liaoxia and stop fighting.

Among them, some are really worried about the survival of the Great Song Dynasty, and some have ulterior intentions, which is inexhaustible.

Fortunately, at this time, several victories in the northwest came one after another, such as Yang Yiqing's Pingguan, Chongpu Dali River, and Xihe Army's Luosaling.

In particular, Yang Yi fought hard for a day on the small hill of Baimachuan and annihilated thousands of Xia troops, which was deliberately exaggerated, which finally gave the DPRK and Chinese officials a glimmer of hope and gave them the courage to withstand the pressure of Mount Tai.

After consulting with General Xu, he sent 10,000 Japanese troops to Huazhou to garrison the Yellow River pontoon bridge, which was tantamount to preparing for the worst. And the war orders sent to the northwest are several times a day......

Tokyo is breathless, and Huanzhou is about the same, and Empress Dowager Liang has a deep love for Yang Yi, a new love, and a deep hate.

The 70,000 army was led by Wei Ming Ah Wu to meet Zhang Ji, 10,000 were led by A Gulu to attack Gyeongju, and the remaining 670,000 horses attacked Huanzhou day and night, and it seemed that Yang Yi would not give up if he did not capture Yang Yi back to warm up the bed.

Those huge siege vehicles came and burned one, but this was not the determination of Empress Dowager Liang to break the city.

In addition to the ladders, she had people dig tunnels, mounds of earth, destroy city walls, and so on.

Digging tunnels and the like is easy to deal with, the most important is the trick of building a mound of earth, which is simply helpless, tens of thousands of Xia soldiers each have a bag of soil, and rush to the city with a hula, and soon be able to pile up a small mountain bag.

And there is no need for the Xia army to dig the soil at all, before the people of Huanzhou dug countless trenches outside the city, and a lot of soil was dug out, and the Xia army could move the soil directly from there, and the law was very high.

The height of Huanzhou City is only two zhang, that is, about six meters high, if the Xia army desperately piles up the soil, it is estimated that it will be able to pile up to the head of the city in a day or two.

Empress Dowager Liang's move was ruthless enough, relying on the large number of people, she insisted on flooding Huanzhou City with soil and corpses.

Yang Yi was so worried that his hair was about to turn white, and he couldn't think of a way to stop the mound under the city from growing taller.

Heavy weapons such as catapults and beds were concentrated as much as possible, but these weapons occupied a large area and could not fit a few, and their power was not small, but the firing was slow and the results were limited.

Try to blast with grenades, the number of grenades is not unlimited, let alone omnipotent.

Relying on the fuse to detonate, it often can't hit the ground and explode immediately, Xia Jun will also dodge when he sees a lot, and if he runs away from seven or eight meters, he will basically not be harmed.

In the end, the grenade and the arrow rain were used to shoot the Xia army as much as possible, and the grenade was thrown down, and as soon as the Xia army dodged, the shield array was chaotic, and then shot with the arrow rain.

But this also has a disadvantage, Empress Dowager Liang, a crazy woman, simply doesn't treat people as people, if you shoot Xia Jun to death, she will directly pile up the soil again and use the corpse as a rampart together.

The more Xia Jun you shoot, the faster her mound grows, it's ...... It's maddening!

Later, Qing Niang learned about this and gave Yang Yi an idea: where the Xia army piled up soil, he would build which section of the city wall was high.

Yang Yi felt that Qing Niang's trick should be useful, and under great joy, he caught Qing Niang and kissed him several times, shouting: There is Yi'an, the city is safe!

So a strange scene appeared, the Xia army was building soil below, and the Song army was building a wall on top, and the siege battle was sparsely fought, and the earth and wall were in full swing.

Huanzhou City is in full swing, but Meng Yi is quiet, Chong Pu only gave him 2,000 cavalry, ready to say that it is 2,000 cavalry infantry, and wants to go deep behind the enemy to rob the grain road, and his whereabouts are naturally as hidden as possible.

The Xia army rarely brought baggage to fight in the past, especially during the Yuan Yu Institute, their invasion of the Great Song Dynasty was like going to visit their own back garden, what was lacking, what was needed, what grain and grass to bring?

But this time it was different, Lu Huiqing had already ordered the Yanyan Road to clear the wall, and Renduo Baozhong couldn't grab anything, so he could only transfer grain and grass from the rear.

This is also the main reason why Rindo Baozhong did not wave his army to go deeper before capturing Mizhi City.

Meng Yi copied the mountain trail and came to the west of Yongle City twenty miles, it was almost dark, and the scouts sent reported that there was indeed a backlog of 100,000 Xia troops in Yongle City for several days, and there were more than 1,000 Xia soldiers in the city to guard, and the rest were soldiers and people.

After the original Yongle City was destroyed by the Xia army, the rebuilt Yongle City could no longer be called a city, and it was not as strong as the ordinary walled forts on the border of the Great Song Dynasty.

After getting this information, Meng Yi patiently waited for the third watch in a dense forest more than ten miles away from Yongle City before launching an attack.

In the dark night, Liang Shuming, the general of the Xia army, was also very alert, and Meng Yi's men and horses were close to Yongle City for two miles, and they were discovered by the hidden sentry.

Meng Yi could only launch a strong attack, and the front army withstood the dense rain of arrows, tied more than 20 grenades together, and detonated them under the rudimentary city gate.

In addition to more than 1,000 regular soldiers, there are more than 10,000 soldiers and civilians who are also caught up by Liang Shuming, and the two sides launched a fierce fight at the West Gate.

The fire under the west gate was blazing, the arrows were raining down, the shouts of killing pierced the night sky, and the narrow city gate was crowded with soldiers on both sides, so crowded that it was difficult to even swing a knife.

Meng Yi personally rushed to the front, organized several rows of spearmen, and assassinated the surging Xia army, while the soldiers behind the spearmen lit grenades and threw them in, and the explosion of fire and gas swept the Xia army into the air.

The Xia army on the city wall was stone and brick, and they smashed down with whatever they got it, and then threw the torch to ignite it after throwing the grease hay down.

Many of the Song army's grenades were stoned to death by the city before they could be thrown, and the grenades exploded in their own crowds.

Under the city gate, it was like the Nine Shades of Purgatory, and the soldiers on both sides fell in piles, blood flowed on the stone slabs, slippery and slippery, and the corpses piled up higher and higher, almost forming a low wall.

As for the 100,000 Xia troops in Yongle City for a few days, even if the 2,000 men and horses were exhausted, Meng Yi did not intend to give up.

Once he succeeded in destroying these grains and grasses, Rinda Baozhong was in a dilemma, and he did not dare to go any further, and he might even be forced to retreat.

Meng Yi knew the importance of these grains and grasses, how could Liang Shuming not know it? If he really loses these grains and grasses, Rindo Baozhong will definitely cut him down.

Just when the two armies of the West Gate were fighting to the death, a huge explosion sounded at the north gate of Yongle City again, and at the same time that the city gate was lifted away, countless iron hooves violently knocked on the stone pavement under the city gate, and the entire Yongle City was shaken and trembled!

"Yongle City! I'm Liu Laohu! Hahaha......"

You can't be wrong when you hear this wild scream!

It was Liu Laohu's 2,000 men and horses who came, and they were ready to say that there were only more than 1,400 people, and I don't know what kind of bloody battle they went through, and how they came from Tiandu Mountain in the west to Yongle City.

At the beginning, Yang Yi instructed him to go east as much as possible to find an opportunity to rob Renduo's loyal grain route, although Yang Yi was only a suggestion, not an order, Liu Laohu still wrote it down.

Liu Laohu's army is a real cavalry, and the cavalry that survives a hundred battles is definitely not comparable to Meng Yi's "cavalry infantry".

As soon as the city gate was broken, they were like a strong wind, roaring and rolling into Yongle City, cutting down people when they saw them, the war horses were flying, and torches flew out of the horses, and soon the grain and grass piled up in Yongle City were shrouded in firelight.

Liu Laohu's men and horses went from north to east, from east to south, and they had to kill the entire Yongle City before they proudly killed the west gate.

The battle at the West Gate had turned into a one-sided pursuit, and the moment Liu Laohu blew up the North Gate, the Xia army began to collapse!

Outside the gate was the Song army rushing in, and the city was full of raging fires, and the Xia army, which had no escape, had to surrender on its knees.

Meng Yi was about to capture the prisoner with the rope, but Liu Laohu's men and horses rushed in, and without looking at it too much, the roaring iron horse plowed over, the fire was blazing, the iron horse was like the wind, and where it passed, there was only blood, water, flesh and mud left......

"General Liu! Yes! It's our Huanzhou General Liu Laohu......"

"Liu Laohu! Fierce as a tiger! ”

"Liu Laohu! Fierce as a tiger! ”

Meng Yi brought a lot of the Huanzhou Army, and when they saw Liu Laohu, they shouted excitedly.

There is no need to catch the prisoner now, Meng Yi spat out, threw away the rope in his hand fiercely, and felt very uncomfortable: "General Liu! General Liu, these Xia troops have surrendered, let's arrest ......"

"Scratch a fart!"

Liu Laohu didn't wait for Meng Yi to finish speaking, and then smiled rudely: "Do you know what the military order that Lord Yang gave me is?" Kill the Hengshan, and when you see the panting, you will kill me! Kill, kill, kill! ”

"Kill, kill, kill!"

Liu Laohu shouted a few killing words violently, and the wolf cubs behind him also roared, and they were murderous for a while!

Seeing that Meng Yi was still a little unimpressed, Liu Laohu scolded: "Don't think that Lord Yang is giving orders indiscriminately, damn it, we are fighting behind enemy lines, and taking prisoners is looking for death!" Don't forget, our 200,000 soldiers and civilians will bury their bones in Yongle City, and Lao Tzu will use the blood of the party to commemorate them tonight. That's all there is to it, Lao Tzu will not be accompanied, sons, go! ”

As soon as they said go, more than 1,000 horses came and went like the wind, and soon disappeared into the vast night.

(To be continued)