In the south of Yanmen Pass, there is a famous deep ditch - Heishi Ditch, which was originally a river channel, and after the river dried up, only this big ditch was left.

The walls of the ditch are sloping, and there are slopes that can be climbed up and down if you walk carefully.

Huyan Geng ordered people to dig six crooked trenches in the direction of Yanmen Pass in the black stone ditch. The passages between these trenches were staggered from each other, and in order to pass through the trenches, the golden soldiers had to move half a mile laterally between every two trenches.

In front of the black stone ditch, hundreds of war horses stopped to watch, spitting hot air from their mouths and noses, and kept smashing on the ground with all four legs, but the owners of the horses always clutched the reins tightly and refused to let go easily.

About one cavalry of the Moukejin army, uniformly draped in cavalry armor, carefully examined the enemy situation in the direction of Yanmen Pass in front of the trench, and there were constantly light horsemen with superb riding skills returning from both sides of the road, reporting the enemy situation in the surrounding direction to the superior officers like flowing water.

Hu Yangeng and other officers who were hidden on the wall could only see these cavalry at the moment, but they could not see the enemy's camp.

The enemy in front of them was extremely sophisticated, and they put the camp out of the Song army's sight, which could not only effectively avoid the camp from being raided, but also make the enemy army unclear.

Gao Zhong led the light cavalry to clash with the Jin soldiers of Xinzhou several times, and slowly lured them to Yanmen Pass.

Opposite Shi Jianu's direct subordinate Mouke was a force composed of hundreds of veterans who had not survived the battle, and it was undoubtedly extremely unwise to engage them in frontal field hand-to-hand combat, and it was the correct tactic to make full use of trench obstacles and long-range weapons to give them maximum damage.

And those red scarves under Yang Jizhong, you can first observe the battle, learn the battle, and grow up in the battle.

Shi Jianu looked at it with his eyes slit. The banner on the head of the city indicates the identity of the opponent. Hu Yangeng, the one who defeated Yan Yinshuke, Wan Yan Sticky Han, Wan Yan Liduo, forced to retreat from Yan Lou's room, it is said that Yan Yan's inseparable death also has something to do with him.

This formidable enemy now hides behind this ruined pass.

Shi Jianu knew that many people in Jin Jun were wary of this guy with a foreign surname. Although he had not yet confronted this person head-on, the six extremely strangely dug trenches in front of the pass had already shown the insidiousness and viciousness of this person.

The Song army is good at arrows, nine long and one short, as we all know. Shi Jianu believed that once his subordinates carefully stepped into the death zone composed of dense trenches and vicious passages, it would not be long before all his cavalry either tumbled down the trenches or became live targets on the narrow and tortuous passages. This trench line deliberately left a road to lure its cavalry warriors into the area.

Within the range of the crossbow, the cavalry must have to go down the slope cautiously in order not to roll down the river, and must move forward in a line of horses. There is also a ditch at the bottom of the ditch......

The sky has gradually darkened, looking at the cloudy sky, Hu Yangeng's heart sank a little, it seems that tonight is destined to be a night without moonlight. This is the reason why the enemy has been waiting patiently in front of the trench, and it seems that a fierce battle is inevitable tonight.

Isn't it spring, why does it look like it's going to rain? Looking at the thick clouds overhead, Hu Yan Geng muttered about the weather, well, the end of April can barely be regarded as early summer. The air was filled with a warm and humid smell, and it seemed to smell of impending heavy rain.

Although the rain will cause certain obstacles to the enemy's attack, once it rains, the rockets cannot be used, and the bowstring of the crossbow is better put away, so let's fight the knife.

As the sky darkened little by little, Yang Jizhong's two commanders began to go up to the city, and each of them placed a wooden bucket full of water beside him, which was used to prevent the enemy from throwing torches at the city.

Judging from the fact that the enemy in front of him calmly waited for dark, Hu Yangeng estimated that these enemy troops should not raise fire when they crossed the trench area, but these enemy troops would definitely light torches before landing in the city.

It is one thing to cross a trench under the cover of night, and quite another to go out into the city in the dark on a night without moonlight, the former being clever and the latter being stupid and lacking common sense.

With the change of sky, the visual distance of the defenders at the head of the city is rapidly shortening, and now even the people at the head of the city can no longer see the situation in the black stone ditch clearly, no matter how hard they try, as for the enemy's movements, they are basically completely invisible.

The most basic judgment can only be made, without the sound of a large number of dense horses' hooves, the enemy brigade should not have left.

The sky gradually darkened, and each commander basically couldn't see anyone else except for the soldiers around him, and the sky was like a dark and heavy cauldron overhead, so dense that no gaps were exposed, and the bright moonlight on weekdays was blocked behind the heavy cloud curtains......

Suddenly, there was a noise at the end of the pass, and it seemed that the soldiers who had been sitting and resting stood up, and as they moved, the iron pieces attached to the leather armor made a loud sound, and then it seemed that someone was shouting, too far away to be inaudible. But the people at the head of the city knew very well that the enemy was about to begin the siege.

The operation to cross the Black Stone Ditch still took some effort, and the Song army laid down thistles in the Black Stone Ditch.

Waiting until nightfall to launch an attack was originally intended to prevent the enemy's bows and arrows from inflicting heavy casualties on their own side. However, Shi Jianu knew from the beginning that all he could avoid was large-scale casualties, and individual casualties could not be completely avoided. The enemy's trenches were well dug, and the passages that were set aside made it possible for the besieging party to jump into them even if they knew it was a death trap.

It was too much physical strength for the armored Tiefutu to fully climb over these trenches, and for the Jin cavalry, who had been in the field for a day, they had to effectively save every penny of physical strength before attacking the city.

Therefore, when the order to attack was given, the first to dispatch was 500 troops. Shi Jianu's Meng'an has more than 2,000 people, only his direct subordinate Mou Ke is a Jurchen, and there are about 400 people in Khitan, Xi, and Bohai, and there are 6 or 700 people in the grassland barbarians who forcibly recruited to Meng'an, and finally there are 1,000 signed troops.

As soon as they walked down the river of Heishigou, the signing army that stepped on the thistle terrestris stopped, hugged their feet and wailed, and the grassland barbarians behind them hacked to death a few unlucky ghosts with knives, driving them on.

From the first trench onwards, all the golden soldiers began to be cautious, on the one hand, because it was dark and they could not raise fire, and if they moved too fast, it was easy to accidentally fall into the trenches, and on the other hand, these golden soldiers knew that the enemy troops on the city would definitely block these passages with crossbow arrows, so they needed to be extremely careful when crossing the six passages below.

However, the second trench was also covered with thistles, which stabbed many of the signatories, who limped forward, and from time to time some people rolled down the trench. But the Song army did not release the arrows.

A moment later, the golden soldiers had already crossed the third trench, and half of the distance had been completed.

There was still no movement on the city.

The golden soldiers continued to move forward, and the fourth and fifth trenches were also crossed without any suspense.

By this time, everyone in the front of the army and the subsequent steppe tribes understood what the archers at the head of the city were waiting for. The temporary leader of the steppe barbarian tribe, Hebul, knew that the enemy's bows and arrows were clearly prepared to block there. If more and more soldiers are gathered in the square inch between the two trenches, the enemy's bows and arrows will not need to be aimed at all, and even in the dark of night, they will be able to inflict heavy damage on their own troops.

Without the slightest hesitation, the leading officer of the Jin Army waved his hand and let his subordinates drive the signing army to gall towards the passage of the trench.

At this time, the gate of Yanmen Pass opened, and rushed out a team of spears and side cards, with the side players in front and the pikemen behind, directly on the north bank of the black stone ditch, facing the passage of the moat zhongyang.

When the side player arrives at the shore, the commander gives an order, and the two hundred side players tie the side card down, and the side card forms a wooden wall, just blocking the passage of the trench.

Five hundred signing troops were in front, and the other Mouke were behind, and at least 800 people were densely packed in the river, and there was no need to aim at such a dense crowd, and the Song army on the gate began to shoot.

The Song army deliberately avoided the signing army that rushed in front, because he was afraid of accidentally injuring his own people, and stretched out a spear behind the wooden wall of the side sign on the edge of the black stone ditch, killing the signing army in front of him.

"Whoa—"

Another wave of arrows shot down, and several golden soldiers rolled over and fell into the trench with screams.

And on the bank of the black stone ditch, although it is a red scarf, but face to face with them is the signing army, the will to fight is far worse than the red scarf, and now the golden soldiers behind the signing army are busy dealing with the arrows in the sky, and they have no time to use the knife to supervise the battle.

There was no knife behind the signing army, but there were three hundred spears in front of him frantically stabbing him, and the red scarf in front of him became more terrifying than the grassland princes behind him. Finally, the signing army couldn't stand it anymore and turned around and fled.

Hebul led the steppe tribes to supervise the formation behind the signing army, and he slashed one of the escapees to death, but more escapees came and pushed him into the trench.

A few hundred people who were about to flee could not be stopped by the same number of Warlords. In the narrow area composed of several trenches, if the intercepted Jin soldiers did not turn around and run back, they would be rushed into the trenches by the fleeing signing army, and they would lose their health.

So the warriors from the grassland had no choice but to turn around and run away.

But the way back was also full of thistles, and the sky was the arrows scattered by the Song army. If a person who steps on an iron thistle can't help but squat down and look at his feet, he will be trampled to death by his own people.

Hebul stepped on the thistle, he endured the pain and pushed the person in front of him. The man in front of him could not bear the strength and was pushed to the ground, and the brave Hebul stepped on him with the foot of the thistle, and the spike of the thistle stuck to the ground pierced into the abdomen of the fallen man. The unlucky man's screams were trampled back by a few feet.

And after Hebul left the thistle on the unlucky man, he was pushed by the people around him, staggered and insisted on not falling, and returned to the south bank of the black stone ditch.

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