Chapter 487: The Fish That Slipped Through the Net

As the armies gradually entered the city of Jinzhou, they took control of the city walls and communication arteries, cut the enemy army into several pieces, and then cleared them in brigade units. The wolf general infantry is good at attacking fortifications and street battles, and is still responsible for the task of capturing the main city; The Tiger Wing Army is a mixed infantry and cavalry unit, which can cooperate with each other and independently undertake combat tasks, and is responsible for clearing and suppressing the periphery of the city; The leopard generals are all dragoons, mounted on the horse is a cavalry, dismounted is a foot army, can quickly maneuver various battlefields, they take on the task of controlling the traffic arteries, chasing and suppressing the remnants of the enemy.

Because Wan Yanliang always firmly believed that the main direction of the Song army's attack was Dongcheng, the two main forces of 10,000 people did not dare to go to reinforcements even when the battle in Xicheng was the most intense, and they have always remained relatively intact. The Jin army in order to strengthen the city defense of the construction of the moat, blocked the city gate, now after the city is broken, they have no way to escape, can only rely on the buildings in the city to resist stubbornly, but after the Song artillery entered the city, when it encountered insurmountable buildings, it used artillery direct fire, and the resistance would collapse in an instant.

The first to collapse were naturally those Ding Zhuang who were temporarily recruited, who were themselves a conquered people enslaved by the Jurchens, and had no reason to sell their lives for the Jin State. However, the Southern Dynasty had already spread the news of treating the surrendered army well and treating the people of the newly conquered land equally, and the conditions offered were much stronger than those of the Jurchens, so they surrendered one after another after a little resistance, and they simply laid down their arms in groups and automatically marched out of the city as prisoners.

The two divisions of Shulie and Tudanzhen suffered equally heavy losses under the siege artillery fire of the Song army, but most of their troops were Jurchens, and the standing army had strong combat effectiveness, and their rear roads were cut off, and there was no way to retreat. Therefore, he can still barely support the stubborn resistance and launch a counterattack against the Song army. But how could this trapped beast attack succeed under the dense and fierce fire of the Song army, it only increased casualties.

When the artillery of the Song army entered the city. This was the last straw that crushed them, and the sound of the cannon pierced through the house, killing and wounding, especially after the artillery fire was blown to pieces. The remnants of the army had no intention of resisting, and some of them retreated to the Shuai Mansion under the leadership of Tu Danzhen, and most of them surrendered or dispersed. At dusk, the fighting in various urban areas is basically over. The Song army's siege units met at the Shuaifu, and after a short rest, Gao Zhong commanded the troops to launch an attack on the Shuaifu......

Li Chengbu, who rescued Jinzhou, marched to Chaya Mountain and plunged into an ambush circle laid by the Song army. When he found that the road ahead was blocked, Li Chengchu tried his best to open the road to Jinzhou. But several attacks were all blocked, and he realized that this was by no means a small vigilance force of the Song Army, but specially waiting for him to come to the door. And when he changed the back team to the front team and wanted to quit the same way, it was already over, and the Song army had already cut off the way back. I can't walk if I want to.

Things have come to this point. Li Cheng could only sigh that his life was not good. Since receiving the order to send reinforcements, he was not optimistic about the battle in Jinzhou, thinking that the fall would be a matter of time, and the reason why the Song army was reluctant to launch an attack was to use this to contain Liaoyang Mansion. And what he was worried about was that the Song army would soon capture Liaoyang Mansion and cut off his way back, so he detoured Xianzhou in the name of confusing the Song army, and along the way, he also used various reasons to stop and stop the time, so as to wait and see. Once something happened in Liaoyang, he could quickly withdraw so as not to fall into the encirclement of the Song army.

But the truth was beyond Li Cheng's expectations. The naval army led by Xu Wen was very competitive, and defeated the Song army's naval division in succession, blocking it in the Liao River and unable to go north. And Liaoyang and Jingshi kept urging Li Cheng to hurry up to relieve the siege of Jinzhou, he thought that he could use this time to rescue Wan Yanliang, but Zhao Er did not know the progress of the battle in Liaoyang, and would not take the initiative to launch an attack so as not to expose his intentions. So Li Cheng suddenly accelerated his march and went to Jinzhou.

In fact, what Li Cheng thought was not unreasonable, but he didn't expect that it was his abnormal behavior that aroused Zhao Ta's suspicions, and decided to launch a general attack on Jinzhou in advance, and even solve him together. Now that the Song army was deployed here in advance to send reinforcements, Li Cheng also realized that the Song army had already made a move against Jinzhou, and it was useless to go or not by himself, so it was better to protect himself. Therefore, he began to break through to the road with all his might, wanting to open a gap and withdraw to Liaoyang.

Although Li Cheng urged the army to attack, he was repulsed again and again by the Song army occupying the favorable terrain, and it was difficult to cross the blocking line prepared by the rain of bullets. There is no hope of breaking through, but the casualties are getting bigger and bigger, Rao is Li Cheng has always been not thin, and the morale of the army has begun to be unstable, and the morale is completely lost, especially the reinforcements requisitioned in Xianzhou and other places are very dissatisfied with letting themselves act as cannon fodder, and they began to disobey the general's orders and began to break through separately.

Seeing that the sky was dark, Li Cheng had no choice but to order to disperse and break through, and he himself took out the ability to be a Kou back then and took his own soldiers into a valley, wanting to take advantage of the chaos to get into the mountains and then find an opportunity to escape. When the Song army discovered their attempt, they began to launch a general attack, and the cavalry condescendingly pressed down from the mountain, drove the enemy back into the valley and cut them into several sections.

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After Lin Shuo received the order, he led two cavalry brigades to intercept the enemy troops who had fled out of the city outside Jinzhou City. This task can be said to be very boring, the Guards Brigade was arranged in the area between the camp and the camp, they were divided into several teams to swim back and forth, and after a long day they did not find a single person, the common people were all brought into the city, and there was no one except the Song army thirty miles outside the city. Seeing that it was dark, Lin Shuo ordered a bonfire to be lit up in less than fifty steps to illuminate the wilderness, leaving soldiers to guard and put a big net ready to catch 'big fish'.

But everyone didn't have much hope for this, the city wall and the city gate had already been controlled by the Song army, although it was dark, but the whole city was burning, even a mosquito flying ten zhang away could be seen clearly, it was impossible for a big living person to escape from the city wall full of soldiers. Besides, there is a moat outside the city, and two deep trenches dug by the enemy, unless it is a monkey, you don't want to come up if you fall down. And then there is the Song army besieging the camp, and there are soldiers left behind, even if they escape the obstacles in front, they can't escape this obstacle.

"Deputy commander, our guards are the most elite soldiers, but now they are doing this miscellaneous work, alas, ......" After turning around for a long time, the rabbit didn't see it, and the first brigade commander Jiang Lin couldn't help but complain when he listened to the sound of gunfire in the direction of the city.

"What do you know, the duty of our guards is to protect the safety of His Majesty, although this is outside the battlefield, but it is not close to the camp, if an enemy army breaks through, the emperor is frightened, can you take responsibility?" Although Lin Shuo had the same idea in his heart, he had to reprimand him with a straight face.

"Hee-hee, your majesty will be frightened?! I'm afraid it's too late for him to rejoice, who among the old guards doesn't know His Majesty's temperament, if it weren't for everyone to stop him, I'm afraid he would have rushed up with a gun. Jiang Lin didn't care about Lin Shuo's attitude, and said with a smile.

"Yes, now our main task is not to prevent others from assassinating His Majesty, but to watch His Majesty not secretly run out to the battlefield, it's really tiring!" Jiang Lin's words amused Lin Shuo, and he couldn't help but complain.

"I heard that His Majesty didn't want to be locked up in the courtyard when he was a teenager, and he always wanted to escape from the house, but no one really could catch him, isn't it true?" Jiang Lin reined in his horse and twisted his face and asked.

"Hehe, speaking of which, I hadn't entered the mansion at that time, but I heard the old man in the mansion say that when he was a teenager, dozens of guards in the mansion couldn't stand it, but were played by His Majesty, that is, our old worship couldn't keep up at that time, and then I simply didn't care, and let His Majesty come and go." Lin Shuo chuckled and said, these things are the secrets of the house, the old guards back then were ashamed and never talked about it to the outside world, he still listened to Lu Xiaoyao unintentionally.

"Yes, when His Majesty was imprisoned in Beijing, Emperor Jingkang sent so many people to watch, but His Majesty flew away under the attention of tens of thousands of people. It is estimated that if you want to sneak out of the camp now, we can't watch it! Jiang Lin said with a wry smile.

"Don't you see that the commander and Xiye are boiled into rabbit eyes, they don't leave His Majesty day and night, and they don't dare to hit one, for fear that His Majesty will disappear if they don't pay attention." Lin Shuo sighed and said, it's not easy to be a bodyguard for a capable emperor.

'Bang, bang, ......' Suddenly, there were gunshots in the wilderness.

"Where's the gun?" Lin Shuo immediately became alert and asked sharply.

"Report to the deputy commander, it's in the north of the city, not far from us!" A pro-soldier listened for a moment and said.

"There are really people who can escape from the siege, order the guard posts everywhere not to move, to prevent someone from diverting the tiger from the mountain, escape by taking advantage of the gap, and order the rangers to pursue!" Lin Shuo turned his horse's head and walked aside.

For a while, the trumpets of contact came and went, and the rangers scattered everywhere or volleyed or outflanked, converging to the north of the city, and Lin Shuo also received a report on the way to it, a group of people suddenly appeared and were found by the guard post, and they couldn't answer the password, and they turned around and ran away without listening to the warning, so they opened fire, and now they are surrounded in a river ditch and are being rounded up.

When Lin Shuo arrived at the scene, the battle was over, and thirteen of the gang were dressed in civilian clothes, ten of whom were killed in the pursuit and three were captured alive. A lot of belongings were found from them, but one of them had the waist tag of the Shuaifu, but he only said that he was a citizen of the city, and the belongings he picked up while the war was raging, and the waist tag was also taken from a dead man. They were afraid that the Song army would slaughter the city, so they took advantage of the black city to escape from the city.

But Lin Shuo soon discovered the flaw, although these people had dust on their bodies, there was no muddy water on their bodies, they claimed to have escaped from the north of the city, but the trenches and moats over there were not shelled and remained intact, and it was impossible for them to come from that side without even a mud speck on their bodies. When asked again, he just didn't say a word, and his bones were very hard, even if he used torture, he refused to tell his origin, which reminded Lin Shuo of the emperor's words, 'Big Fish' was likely to escape from the city...... (To be continued......)