After discussing with Yao Duan, Zhang Xian sneaked to the outside of the city with more than 1,000 soldiers, and when he arrived at the place, he ordered all the soldiers to lie down and wait for news from the city.

At this time, there are no clocks and other things, can not be accurate time, they agreed on the time is the first quarter of the fourth watch, at this time the human body is the most tired, but also the most fragrant sleep, take advantage of this vacancy, the most likely to succeed.

Zhang Xian lay on the ground, his nose was the fragrance of the earth, and the battlefield in front of him was faintly filled with the bloody breath of the daytime battlefield, he had been through the battle array many times, so stealing chickens and dogs in the middle of the night to climb the city, but it was the first time to do it, he felt faintly nervous in his heart, only felt that time passed very slowly, and looked up at the sky a few times, the sky was full of stars and half a round of crescent moons, but he couldn't see any changes.

He was waiting to show his wet robes, and his whole body was wet and cold, not only him, but all the accompanying sergeants were a little anxious, although no one dared to speak, an invisible air of anxiety flowed in the air, which made people feel extremely upset.

Zhang Xian also felt that there was a lot of difference from the expected time, and he didn't know whether it was better to climb the city directly regardless of the response in the city, or to wait for himself.

In the midst of his trouble, he saw a few lanterns on the head of the city, and then quickly extinguished.

Zhang Xian was overjoyed, immediately stood up, and whispered to a few officers beside him: "The people in the city have arrived at the city gate, you immediately lead people forward, and after receiving them, you can act." ”

Several officers were all experienced, and they were not flustered at this time, and they all replied softly: "Yes, please rest assured, general." ”

With that, they were the first to get up and slowly swam forward, behind the officer. More than a thousand strong men got up in turn, followed closely behind and headed towards the city gate.

At this time, the moon stars are scarce, the faint moonlight is sprinkled on the battlefield, and the corpses of the Song soldiers who died during the day have been converged far away, and the more they go forward, the more they can't see the corpses they snatched back in the moonlight, which is extremely tragic.

Everyone held back the grief and indignation in their hearts, and did not make a sound, but only fried in a radial direction. Because he was afraid of alarming the Jin soldiers on duty at the head of the city, he did not dare to march quickly. But it slowly swam for half an hour, and then it was over.

When I arrived more than 100 meters below the city, although I was extremely careful, I still heard movement in front of me, but I heard someone shouting softly not far away: "Is it General Zhang?" ”

Several officers leading the team looked at each other. I don't know how to answer it. Zhang Xianshi explained a lot, but he did not mention that the other party would ask him if he came to the city.

was about to return to his aunt, but he heard someone reply not far from the battle: "Zhang is here, is it General Li in the city?" ”

The man in the dark let out an "ah", showing great joy, and immediately replied: "It's the last general, more than 100 of my subordinates and 200 people under the command of Governor Zhang have all sneaked near the city gate. The one who carried the lantern as a code is probably Zhang Zhifu himself. ”

The two of them answered each other as they moved forward together. When they met, they all smiled, and Zhang Xian first said to Li Xianzhong: "If the city is broken, General Li should be the first." ”

Li Xianzhong smiled indifferently and replied, "The credit doesn't matter." As long as the entire territory of Taiyuan Hedong is restored, my Li family can return to the Great Song Dynasty, which is stronger than anything else. ”

Although what he said was ordinary, he couldn't hide his excitement.

Zhang Xian was also very moved in his heart, patted him on the shoulder, and only said: "Don't talk about this now, let's go to the city quickly." ”

"Yes." Li Xianzhong's spirits perked up and replied: "After days of fighting, the Jin soldiers are extremely tired, and they can't hold on. Although we took precautions against our Han army in many ways, we still caught a loophole. At present, there is only one cadre at the city gate with hundreds of gold soldiers barely supporting the vigil, and when we rush to the city, Governor Zhang will also do it when he hears the movement in the city. They mainly attacked the city gate inside the city, tried to open the city gate, and the general led his troops to quickly climb the city with hooks and ladders, so that the inside and the outside should be combined, and the other party had to prevent us from opening the city gate, and we had to deal with the soldiers who climbed the city, and they would definitely not be able to hold it. ”

Zhang Xian was overjoyed when he heard this, and immediately patted Li Xianzhong on the shoulder again, and then ordered in a deep voice: "Everyone heard it, right?" Go quickly. ”

The generals were anxious for a long time, Zhang Xian gave an order, and the 100-meter distance was no longer flirtatious, and everyone gave an order in succession, more than 1,000 people rushed forward quickly, and Li Xianzhong took the lead and led the way in front, but in an instant, he had arrived at the bottom of the city.

When the golden soldiers at the head of the city heard the movement, they first asked ignorantly, and when they felt wrong, the Han soldiers gathered in the dark part of the city had already slashed and killed with knives, and the golden soldiers scolded and fought back, while desperately beating the gong and shouting, so that the golden soldiers in the camp not far from the city head came to the rescue.

At this time, the Song army that ran to the city had already used the hook rope to hold the battlements and began to climb the city, and more than a dozen cloud ladders followed behind, and the Taiyuan city was built in a hurry and simple, and it could not be compared with the Xiongguan city in the border towns of Hebei Province.

On the one hand, the Jin soldiers have to deal with the Han army attached to the city that suddenly broke out, and on the other hand, they have to deal with the Song army who climbed the city outside, because of the fatigue of the fierce battle, the Jin soldiers who kept vigil were far from enough, and they were all tired divisions, where could they compare with the Song army soldiers who had been recuperating, and the Han army in the city did not work hard in the past two days, and they were not as good as the Jin soldiers, and their spirit was far superior to the Jin soldiers. Coupled with the sweetness of sleeping in the second half of the night, I felt that my hands and feet were even more sore in a hurry, although I fought desperately and shouted to kill, in fact, I was about to collapse at one touch, and I couldn't resist the attack on both sides.

In the past, hundreds of Song soldiers had already climbed to the head of the city, and the golden soldiers at the head of the city were defeated and retreated. Although the gold camp in the city heard that there was a change in the city, the lights were bright for a while and began to gather morale, but in the middle of the night, everyone took off their red stripes and slept soundly in the tent, how could they come to help immediately in a hurry.

Zhang Xian saw that the city had been captured by the Song soldiers, and immediately ordered someone to raise a fire as a signal, and now Yao Duan led the backup to rush immediately. Waiting for the soldiers around him to light the torches and shake the signal, the Han soldiers in the city have also been obtained, kill the guards near the city gate, remove the sandbags that seal the city gate, lift the buckle, only to hear the door squeak, it has suddenly opened.

"The city is broken!"

The soldiers of the two armies inside and outside the city are overjoyed, and they chant in excitement, and the rest of the Song soldiers who are not in time to enter the city outside the city are rushing straight into pursuit and killing the Jin soldiers along the open city gate, the fire is bright under the starlight, and the sword light is flickering everywhere, and the night Jin soldiers who have long been defeated can not resist the enemy, and begin to flee desperately, even the Jin soldiers who have just arrived at the reinforcements of the Jin soldiers, are also defeated and retreated from the Jin soldiers.

The Jin soldiers in the city were in a panic, but they heard the sound of horses' hooves not far away like thunder, thousands of Song soldiers and cavalry had already stopped at this time, and the camping place was not far from the city, Yao Duan had already been ready to stop, and as soon as he saw Zhang Xian's signal, he immediately led a large group of elite horsemen to the edge of the city to kill.

In this way, the Jin soldiers, who originally wanted to quickly recapture the city gate, were finally completely wiped out, and the reinforcements also retreated with the defeated soldiers, and there was no trace of the Jin soldiers near the city head.

When Yao Duan arrived, Zhang Xian had also entered the city, and Zhang Xiaochun, who was dressed in the official robe of the Great Song Dynasty, was greeting, and when he saw Yao Duan arrive, Zhang Xian hurriedly beckoned, and Yao Duan rushed over, and Zhang Xiaochun finished the salute, Zhang Xiaochun hurriedly said: "At this time, there is no need to say politely, the general must not stay here for a long time, he must attack quickly, otherwise he will be afraid of change." ”

Yao Duan said with a smile: "I have three thousand elite horsemen here, plus the men and horses of the Lord and General Zhang, even if the enemy comes to attack all of them, they may not be able to recapture the city gate." Besides, this place is too narrow for the GI to deploy, and I can't do anything about how many people I discipline him. ”

"That's not the case." Zhang Xiaochun was very anxious, and said: "Taiyuan City is a military town, although the outer city rules are not big when the city was built, but the inner streets are all built with Ding Yu shape, which is the easiest to fight in the streets. The Jin people guard the general Wan Yan Jiujin has long been said in advance, the outer city may not be able to hold, if it falls, then the whole army and the army street fighting, these days he drove the people around to build barricades and wooden fences, cabinet horse horn iron dark ditch arrow tower everywhere, because the soldiers are not good to attack the city, so they did not retreat the gold soldiers who defended the city, and now they are attacking rapidly, and it is best to catch them off guard. If they wait for them to go back and arrange the stop, the Great Song Dynasty will have to die a heavy death, and the streets and houses in Taiyuan City will be destroyed before they can really take the city. ”

Before he finished speaking, Yao Duan already knew that it was powerful. Taiyuan City was originally built to prevent the Khitan, it was originally a military town, the outer city was built hastily, and the streets of the inner city were built for street fighting.

glanced at Zhang Xiaochun at the moment, and didn't have time to say more, he only hugged his fist heavily, and beckoned his cavalry to chase quickly in the direction of the retreat of the Jin soldiers.

Seeing him leave, Zhang Xiaochun only felt that he didn't have many troops, but he was afraid that he would not be able to grasp the overall situation at once.

Zhang Xian was extremely moved when he saw him like this. Zhang Xiaochun in order to keep Tokyo safe, hard to defend Taiyuan for nearly a year, swore not to surrender, and later in order to protect the lives of the remnants of the people and soldiers in the city, the city was broken and had to surrender, the Jin people attached great importance to him, tried every means to win over, but he refused to serve, and then reluctantly appointed the pseudo-Qi Shangshu Zuocheng, but also will never make a plan for the Jin people. After rushing to Taiyuan in the clouds, he sent people to secretly discuss with the Song generals many times, and until the night he should meet with the outside and break the gate of Taiyuan, his loyal heart is really admirable.

It's just that at this time, it is indeed not the time to greet the cold and noisy, Zhang Xian also knows that it is powerful, if it is really clearly commanded by the Jin soldiers to fight with the Song army in the streets, even if Taiyuan can get it, I am afraid that it will be in ruins.

At that moment, he issued orders again and again, and his own soldiers hurried back to the camp, and hurriedly summoned the whole army to come, and it was necessary that before dawn, the officers and men of the three armies entered the city together, and pursued and fought fiercely, so that the enemy would not calmly respond to the battle.