In the past ten days, the Sticky Han army in the west has been storming, and Liu Yanqing's army in the west has relied on the Bianliang city wall to hold on. However, Emperor Zhao Huan of Jingkang in the deep palace was very calm in his heart.

Zhao Huan thought that the situation was much better than when Jin Bing first besieged the city. At that time, he had just taken over the throne for a few days, and his position had not yet been secured, and his father, who was always worried about escape, had taken his place. He himself was warring and uncertain.

But this time it was much better, Zhao Huan had already made up his mind: war and two pennies. He only begged the Jin people to retreat to the Song-Liao border to demarcate the border, and Yanyun's hometown of the Great Song Dynasty could not be avoided.

At this time, Dazai He Li was reporting to Zhao Huan and making peace with the Jin State: ceding the north of the Huai River, and the Song Dynasty was a vassal to Jin.

Zhao Huan was willing to make peace, but he felt that the conditions of the Jin Kingdom were too harsh, so he couldn't help but get angry and asked, "What does the Qing family think?" ”

"Spare him to ask for a price all over the sky, and wait for me to bribe the land!" He Li said, this is just the sky-high asking price of the golden people.

Zhao Huan thought about it, the Jin people failed to break through Bianliang for ten days, but they were afraid that they were already timid, as long as they urged the military to work harder, they could make the Jin people retreat. But just when Zhao Huan felt good, Sun Fu, Zhang Shuye and others came to play: Xin Yongzong was killed.

Zhao Huan, the emperor, sometimes behaves very soberly, he asked the reason, and said: "Good life comforted the Xin family brothers, and posthumously awarded Xin Yongzong the regimental training envoy." Then he thought about it again, "The soldiers have worked hard to defend the city for me, and I will go to the city to reward them." ”

He Li and others advised him, and Zhao Huan insisted on going, at least to the western city wall where the mutiny broke out.

On the 17th day of the first month of Jingkang, the rain and snow continued on this day, the haze did not open, and the climate was very cold. Zhao Huan, surrounded by the Lu Bo team and the palace banzhi, went to the west city wall to patrol the city. The Song army on the west side of the city wall has been divided into two distinct groups, the Huanqing army led by Liu Guangguo's Xin family brothers stays in the north section, and the Dumen Forbidden Army is in the south section of the city wall. Zhao Huan appeased the Xin brothers, allocated some rewards, and went to the southwest section of the city wall. On the abduction of Cheng, dozens of generals of the Metropolitan Gate Forbidden Army knelt down to welcome the Son of Heaven.

Zhao Huan jumped off the horse and asked the names of these forbidden army generals one by one, and the current Dumen Forbidden Army in the western section was led by a veteran general named He Qingyan.

Zhao Huan also appeased He Qingyan and others, saying that the culprit of the mutiny had been ambushed and would never blame others again. Zhao Huan stretched out his hand and patted the shoulder of a forbidden army general, and found that he was only wearing a thin linen clothes, so he relayed the good news that Zhang Shuye brought to him: "The imperial court has ordered winter clothes, and they will be sent to everyone soon." ”

At this time, the Jin soldiers launched a new round of offensive, and the camp of the Golden Rear launched a number of cowhide carts shaped like tents and wooden carts shaped like big geese. Zhao Huan deliberately asked, "What is this?" "Left and right: These are called cave houses and goose carts, which are all sharp weapons for attacking the city, and if they are allowed to approach the root of the city, the city guards will be in danger. Zhao Huan saw that the moat under the city was wide and deep, and the water in it had formed thick ice, and they couldn't fly to the moat with their wings; I didn't care much about it, and I encouraged the soldiers again.

At this time, it was already lunchtime, and the inner supervisors brought the imperial meal. He ordered the withdrawal to pay the guards, but he took the soldiers' food and ate with them.

The forbidden soldiers at the head of the city were very moved, and when the monarch and ministers were enjoying each other, Zhao Huan saw that a little man was not eating, but put the black bun in his arms. Zhao Huan asked Tong Mu to ask him to come to the front to ask. This is right: "The emperor's benevolence, we have to repay it, the villain died on the battlefield, the only thing that can't be let go is the villain's wife and children, they are still starving." ”

Zhao Huan said: "If you don't eat enough, how can you kill the enemy?" ”

"If the wife and children are dead, what is the use of killing the enemy?"

As soon as this charge said this, there was an uproar around, and He Qingyan secretly praised: "Good man." ”

At this time, Xin Qizong, who followed Zhao Huan to patrol the city, shouted: "What a bold thief, saying such disloyal and unrighteous words, we kill thieves for the sake of the official family, how can we wait for the life of a dog." ”

Xin Qizong took advantage of the topic to play like this, and squeezed the gate forbidden army in the city. The one was angry, so he said: "What's the use of empty talk, when I go down to the city, cut off some heads and come up, which is the real skill." ”

Someone on the side shouted: "Brother Xiang said well, big brother will go down with you." ”

He Qingyan was about to stop the two, who knew that Zhao Huan saw that the army's heart was available, so he first asked the names of the two, it turned out to be the two guards of the Dumen Forbidden Army, one was called Xiang Chong, and the other was called Li Gon, the two of them were together, and more than 200 people around were willing to go to the city to go down. Zhao Huan said: "Xiang Yuhou, you eat the dry food first, and I will make up for you the share at home." He promoted Xiang Chong and Li Gon to Marquis Yu on the spot.

When Xiang Chong and the others were full, Xiang Chong took out the long knife side card, gave a salute to Zhao Huan, and then took two hundred side players with Li Gon to rush down to the city to kill. These side players are in general attire, with a side card in their left hand, a javelin behind their backs, and a long knife in their right hand.

Everyone went out of the city gate, under the cover of the trebuchet, covered their bodies with side signs, laid wooden planks and straw mats on the ice, crossed the trenches, rushed towards the goose cart cave house of the Jin soldiers, and when they saw that the Jin soldiers were near, they threw out a round of short spears, and then bravely pounced into the ranks of the Jin army, and fought with the Jin army. Xiang Chong and Li Gon's martial arts are not lost to Jin Jun. They jumped back and forth in the enemy line, and in a few more times they killed fifty or sixty enemy soldiers.

But after all, the number of more than 200 people was too small, and gradually, they were surrounded by the golden soldiers.

Zhao Huan asked He Qingyan to send reinforcements quickly, and He Qingyan replied: Each defender has its own task, and if one team is withdrawn, the defense on the city wall will be weak. Moreover, apart from himself, there are no people in the west of the Dumen Forbidden Army, who can lead the team to fight in the city, and he needs to ask the Xin Commander to help.

Zhao Huan asked the Xin Qi Sect to send people to help. Xin Qizong pretended to send someone to inform the commander Fan Qiong to go out of the city to rescue, but he waited left and right, and there was no movement from Fan Qiong's department. The situation under the city became more and more critical, and at this time, Xu Ning, the head of the Golden Gun Class, took fifty horsemen out of the city to assault.

The Golden Gun Class is a member of the Halo Thin Team, and it is a guard of honor on weekdays, but the members are all excellent in equestrianism and superb marksmanship. Zhao Huan also wanted the squad around him to show his face, so he allowed Xu Ning to lead fifty golden spear cavalry to attack.

The city gate was ajar, and fifty horsemen rushed out, quickly rushing through the ice of the moat, Xu Ning took the lead, using a hook and sickle to pick off the golden soldiers in front of him, killing them in the middle of the formation, and taking Xiang Chong, Li Gon and others out. A group of people fought and retreated, and came to the ice of the moat with the golden soldiers.

The two sides were fighting hard, when suddenly hundreds of people shouted in unison, the ice on the moat shattered, and hundreds of people on both sides of Song and Jin fell into the moat together. Most of them are armoured, and it is not so easy to swim up when they fall into the river.

Zhao Huan was anxious to see the city tower, and urgently ordered He Qingyan to send someone to rescue people quickly, at this time, Zhang Shuye, who was driving, said on the side: "Weichen has transferred the horses to lead the soldiers and horses of Nancheng to come to the rescue. ”

Sure enough, Hu Yangeng brought nearly 2,000 people and turned to the west from outside the Bianliang city wall and between the moat, some of them were on guard, and the other part was fishing for people along the riverbank.

Including Xiang Chong and Li Gon, most of the Song soldiers were lying on the side cards, they paddled with their arms, and the Song soldiers on the side fished them ashore with scratching hooks. Xu Ning was wearing a pair of Yanling Golden Ring Armor, the armor was thin and dense, fortunately he did not fall into the water, but was isolated on the opposite bank, and most of the dozens of horsemen in the Golden Gun Class were isolated on the opposite bank.

Hu Yangeng shouted towards the city: "Put the suspension bridge!" ”

Zhao Huan saw that his golden gun squad was isolated outside the moat, and he was very anxious, and urgently ordered He Qingyan to put down the suspension bridge.

At the same time, Hu Yangeng let all his infantry line up along the river, and almost all of the Song soldiers were armed with bows and crossbows, and these nearly 2,000 Song soldiers shot the Jin soldiers on the opposite bank across the river. At the same time, he sent people to carry the ten-bed phoenix crossbow to the bank of the river, set them one by one, and fired arrows violently at the golden soldiers on the opposite bank.

The phoenix crossbow is a kind of high-level giant crossbow that is launched by machinery, each bed needs twenty or thirty skilled hands to serve it, once the bow is injected, the crossbowmen step hard, ten seven or eight feet long, a single arrow has three catties of weight, and the giant arrow with kite-like wings on the bone flies out at the same time, and the farthest can reach a thousand steps. Iron armor, shields, baffles, and cowhide tents could not block its edge, and the two or three feet thick earthen walls could also shoot through, and it was indeed an effective weapon for long-range attacks in the war at that time. It has only one drawback, in the hand-to-hand combat in which the two armies intersect and the hand-to-hand combat is close to each other, it is afraid of accidentally injuring its own people, but this kind of wind crossbow cannot be used.

On the south bank of the moat, crossbow bolts were fired like a torrential rain. The Jin army on the other side could not survive on the ground or in the bunks, so they had to disperse one after another, and the bold ones prostrated themselves on the same ground, waiting for an opportunity to attack. From the riverbank to the place where Xu Ning was entangled, a large open space was set aside.

Hu Yangeng also brought fifty horses, and as soon as the suspension bridge was put down, he rushed over the suspension bridge.

The suspension bridge was extremely short, and when Hu Yangeng rushed across the suspension bridge, the Jin soldiers had not yet reacted, and the fifty horsemen quickly opened a clearing on the bank of the river. followed by Yang Kefa's infantry command, and this command was immediately deployed at the bridgehead to defend the bridgehead.

The fierce sound of war drums sounded at the head of the city, but it was Zhang Shuye who sent a message to Xu Ning and told him to break through.

Hu Yangeng's entire team marched with difficulty. The Jin people had already reacted, in the formation, Hu Yangeng tried his best to look forward, there were too many Jin soldiers around, and his eyes were densely packed with human heads, and he couldn't see where Xu Ning was surrounded for a while.

Note: Two Song soldiers killed fifty or sixty Jin soldiers with long knives on the side, as recorded in history. Xuanhe Lu said: On the day of the Royal Chaoyang Gate, dozens of Hu soldiers forced the city, and more than 300 guards begged to fight. Then the battle was combined, and the two people who held the shield jumped in alone, killing fifty or sixty generations with their hands and the rest of the soldiers did not advance. I don't want to be scared. With the king of diligence does not come, so that the challenge to show the courage of the enemy, but the only one who can be used has 30,000 guards. For each division, hundreds of people have been graded, but they have lost five or six out of ten.