The Fallen Horse Pass is named because of the steep mountain road, and the war horses often have to fall down here. It can be seen that the situation occupied by this pass is dangerous, and compared with the fort, that is, the three-story western-style building and the adobe house, not only the defense measures are complete, and the city walls are all built with stone barriers, filled with pebbles in the middle, and the wall is built along the ridge for several miles, and there are heavy soldiers. Although it can't be compared with strong cities like Yanjing and Kaifeng, it is not a little stronger than Heishiling Fort.

Zhao Lian led the front army to arrive and immediately launched an offensive, and the Jin army guarding the pass seemed to know the strength of the Xijing army in Ludao, no matter how much they scolded, they didn't go out of the city to engage in battle, and vowed to do the turtle to the end. Zhao Lian had no choice but to wave his troops to attack the city, but the front of the pass was narrow and difficult to stretch his hands and feet, and he lacked siege equipment, and the rapid-fire cannon mainly equipped with the dragoon brigade was less powerful and could not cause substantial damage to the city wall.

The Xijing army attacked the pass several times, and as soon as the artillery fire stopped, they set up a cloud ladder to attack the city, and the enemy army rushed out from behind the wall, ten thousand arrows were fired together, and the big stones were smashed down one by one, and the Xijing army besieging the city suffered heavy casualties, and could only retreat, and it was difficult to break through. The next day, Zhao Lian changed his tactics, made a frontal feint, and flanked in a roundabout, wanting to make some trouble on the wall.

But the wall is built on the ridge, and the slope in front of the wall is either renovated into a steep slope, or the use of the original steep mountain, plus the ice and snow are all over the ground, it is very difficult to climb, the rolling wood and stones put down by the Jin army roll down, and the flesh and blood of the soldiers who are not in a hurry to avoid are often not even able to reach the root of the wall.

On the third day, Zhao Ta arrived with the Chinese army, but the Fallen Horse Pass had not yet been captured, so he stepped forward to check it and frowned. This time, because of the mountain road, it was ice and snow again. Therefore, the heavy artillery battalion of the artillery brigade did not accompany it, but it was difficult to achieve the goal by breaking through the pass with artillery. And the entire passage was cut off by the pass, and it was impossible to detour. Therefore, there is only one way to go.

Now there is no urgency, if the worker wants to do a good job, he must first sharpen his tools, Zhao Ta checked it, ordered the craftsman battalion to make siege equipment overnight to make siege vehicles, and cut wood in front of the pass to set up a few five-zhang high platforms, exceeding the height of the wall, and arranged machine gun positions on the high platform, condescendingly to provide cover for the siege troops.

After dawn, when the Jin army in the pass saw the high platform erected in front of him, his heart was cold. Realize that today is going to be a fierce battle. But the battle was far more tragic than they had imagined. In this battle, the Xijing army attacked three infantry brigades and one dragoon brigade at the same time to attack the fortress and the border wall, and the sound of guns and artillery rang out throughout the valley.

The defending Jin army knew that the Xijing army was using tactics that were blooming on all sides, and they didn't use the key points of attack, and they were everywhere, so they could only scatter their limited troops to fortify everywhere like pepper noodles, and even sent reserves!

"Lord Wang, isn't it a taboo for us to attack in an all-out way without a focus?" Zhao Lian looked at the poured horse guan that was beaten into a pot of porridge. Asked suspiciously.

"The enemy is on the defensive, and the enemy occupies an advantageous position, and we have equal forces on both sides, if we want to gain a local advantage. What are you going to do? Zhao Ta asked rhetorically.

"What the prince means is that a full-scale attack is just a mistake on many sides, forcing the enemy army to divide his forces, and emptying the center. Then take advantage of the void attack and break through from the center with a quick attack! Zhao Lian glanced at the several siege vehicles hidden behind the mountain and understood a little.

"Not bad. Any good war is about methods, and sometimes we pretend to attack somewhere. It is used to confuse the enemy, and then suddenly launch an attack in another place, taking the enemy by surprise; Sometimes it is also possible to make several feints to paralyze the enemy and cover the real offensive action! Zhao said.

Zhao Lian's failure this time was because of the rigidity of tactics, if the correct deployment of two brigades of troops could complete the task, but he did not give full play to his advantages, but stuck to the old rules, using the traditional and mature tactics of the loyal and brave army in the past but did not know how to adapt, resulting in failure.

"Lord Wang, my subordinates have been taught, and I ask the Lord to punish him to discipline the army!" Zhao Lian said ashamedly when he heard this, although the prince did not scold him, he was also uncomfortable in his heart.

"Alas, I can't blame you entirely, you have been away from the battlefield in the past few years, and you have lost the opportunity to exercise and study, you have to use your brains more in the future, you can't just eat the old book!" Zhao Ta said with a sigh.

"Yes, Lord Wang, my subordinates understand!" Zhao Lian hurriedly saluted, at this moment he also figured out one thing, the prince sent troops in two ways this time, isn't it just to verify what he just said, with Zhao Yong as the clear, attacking the city and plundering the land with great fanfare, it will inevitably attract the attention of the Jin army and force it to divide the troops. But they covered their secret sneaking along the way, and once they reached their goal, they successfully cut off the retreat of the Jin army going south, in fact, they were the real main force.

"Don't be stunned, let's start attacking, this time you will be punished for the crime if you don't fight well, and you will be punished for both crimes if you don't fight well!" Zhao Tan said to Zhao Lian with a smile.

"Yes, the subordinates will not fail in their mission!" Zhao Lian was stunned for a moment and said, he thought that he was deprived of the right to command by the prince because of his failure to grab the pass, but he didn't expect the prince to trust him as always.

Zhao Ta boarded the lookout car and looked at the city pass, which was still silent just now, and it was already lively. First of all, the ten rapid-fire guns concentrated their fire on the city gate and fired continuously, after all, compared to the high closing wall, the city gate is the weakest place. Under the continuous bombardment, the iron-clad city gate was already crumbling, and the enemy defenders on the city hurriedly asked the soldiers to go down to the city to block the city gate and prepare for the battle.

At this moment, the mortar battalion of the artillery brigade spoke, they raised the elevation angle and hoisted the flowering shells into the pass, the city wall was narrow, and the hit rate was low, but now the enemy troops under the city were concentrated and ready to fight for the city gate with the Xijing army, that is, they threw grenades into the crowd and exploded a large area!

At the same time, the machine guns on the high platform also began to 'burst out...', and the dense projectiles were tilted towards the city, causing the defenders of the city to hide in all directions. In this moment of confusion, three siege engines appeared, and quickly approached the city wall under the impetus of the soldiers.

At this moment, the defenders were suppressed by the heavy fire of artillery and machine guns at the head of the city and under the city, and the enemy troops in other places were also pinned down by the Xijing army, and they could not do anything when they saw the siege vehicles approaching. The siege cart quickly approached and stopped at the edge of the moat, and the soldiers of the cart pulled the rope together, and the folded bridge was pulled up and fell violently on the top of the city, and the iron hook was hung on the battlement, and a flying bridge was erected!

"Rush!" Zhao Lian waved the flag and sent the signal for a general attack, the sound of guns and cannons stopped abruptly, but he remembered the sound of hurried horses' hooves, and a team of dragoons rushed to the city along the flying bridge, and those defenders who were dodging the artillery fire just appeared, and they were split by the sabers of the dragoons who came along the horse road!

The dragoons seized the head of the city, and immediately divided their troops into two ways, all the way along the horse road to the wall, like a tiger into the flock of sheep to cut down the defenders, the wall can only accommodate two horsemen in parallel, the defenders of the city can not avoid, can only retreat, or have to jump the city and die; On the other hand, the dragoons rode down to the city, dispersed the enemy troops guarding the gate, cleared the traffic jam blocking the gate, and opened the city gate...

After capturing the Fallen Horse Pass, there was no danger in front of it, and the Xijing army went down with the trend, and the enemy army in front of the small force was powerless to stop it, so it was simply fleeing from the wind. The Xijing army marched non-stop all night, and when the sun rose again, Zhao Ta suddenly felt that his field of vision was wide, and they had already walked out of the mountains and entered the plain, and in front of them was Zhongshan Mansion!

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Song Chen Fan Zhixu conquered Tongguan, and Song reinforcements gradually gathered from all directions, and he led his troops into the Beijing Division. This caused unease among the Jurchens, and Zong Han sent thousands of his men to meet the enemy, and met Fan Zhixu's former army at Michi. The Jurchen iron cavalry launched a charge, and the Song army was routed, losing all its baggage, and nearly half of them were killed and wounded. Fan Zhixu was also frightened when he heard the news, and hurriedly fled, and there was no way to talk about rescuing the capital.

You can press the gourd to float the scoop, and when the Jin army went south, it connected the three cities of Heyang, and the Song army fled south to Luoyang. At that time, guarding Luoyang was Wang Xiang, the governor of Xijing and the head of the West Road, he had 30,000 soldiers and horses, if he defended it, he would not necessarily lose, but this person was quite disrespectful and planned to abandon the city. Before leaving, he asked Zhai Xing and Zhai Jin of Yiyang to guard Luoyang, and he led 30,000 horses to retreat, and Luoyang was occupied by Jin soldiers.

The two brothers, Zhai Xing and Zhai Jin, were just junior officers in the Song army, but at the critical moment in Luoyang, these two people had the courage to take responsibility and recruited people from Yichuan, Ruyang, and Song counties to form the "Loyal and Righteous Army of Western Henan" to defend Luoyang. In the face of the powerful Jin Bing, they tried their best to deal with it.

Zhai Xing adopted the tactics of making a roundabout way to the west, first went to Tongguan, and joined forces with Fan Zhixu of Song Jingluo, so that the troops increased slightly, and then led troops to the east. Zhai Jin led a small group of men and horses to break the golden soldiers in Fuchang. At that time, the people of Luoyang had never seen the Jin soldiers, and when they saw the Jin soldiers and cavalry, they hated and feared, but this battle in Yiyang broke the myth of the invincibility of the Jin soldiers.

The loyal and righteous army in western Henan had a long ambition, and the two armies of Zhai Jin and Zhai Xing met together and prepared to fight again, but after calculation, the righteous army was less than a thousand people, and they did not dare to make a big show, so they traveled day and night, and it took five days to arrive in Luoyang to start a night battle. The Jin soldiers underestimated the enemy and were defenseless, but the rebels broke into the city, killed the Jin Dynasty Xijing and stayed in Gao Shiyou, and recovered Xijing Luoyang, and then the rebels defeated the Jin soldiers in Yiyang, and the morale was greatly boosted...

When the news of Luoyang's recovery reached Kaifeng, Zong Han was a little surprised, but he was not worried, a group of volunteers were not the opponents of the Jin Army after all. What worries him is that the Xijing army is rapidly coming south, they are coming towards Luoyang, once the Xijing army takes the lead in seizing Luoyang and controlling the ferry, then those who are still on the Yellow River will fall into passivity.

After Zong Han and Han Li did not discuss, they decided to immediately send troops to recapture Luoyang before the Xijing Army took control of Luoyang, but who to send there was a big problem, the Xijing Army was not the soft persimmons of the Song Army, and anyone could do it, and at this time, the two of them thought of one person at the same time - the fourth prince Wanyan Wushu... (To be continued......)