Chapter 305: Retreat

Seeing that Youzhou City, which was within reach, was being snatched back by the Liao army little by little, Zhao Jiong had blue tendons on his forehead, stared at him for a long time, waved his hand to call the eunuch, and ordered: "Go and tell Cao Han that if Youzhou City can't be conquered, I am the only one who asks." The eunuch answered, and trotted to Cao Han, who had entered the siege vehicle and commanded in advance.

Di Li Du commander Cai Zal Chan is commanding the only dozens of Di Li Du Xi soldiers and the Song army together to resist the Liao army on both sides of the continuous attack, but there are more and more Liao soldiers on the city, but the Song army that climbed the city is far from making up for the loss, he saw the Han soldiers rescued by the brigade not far away from the banner of the Yulin battalion, he knew that the general trend had gone, and turned back to the captain who commanded the battle of the Song army in the city and said: "My lord, the Liao army is large, and it seems that this time the city is not going to be done, so we might as well retreat first and then make plans." ”

Hujie military captain Wang Zhizheng cut down a Liao soldier, heard that someone behind him wanted to retreat, before he thought about it, the curse words rushed out: "Retire your grandma, if you want to retreat, you first asked grandpa about this horizontal knife!" Just wanted to look back to see which kind of seed, and there was a Khitan soldier holding a spear to stab him in the ribs, Wang Zhiheng gave half a step, stretched out his arm to clamp the spear shaft, and wiped the neck of the Khitan soldier, the surrounding Khitan soldiers saw that he was brave and abnormal, and did not dare to approach for a while, Wang Zhi laughed, took two steps forward, and found a Liao army with a big waist and a round waist to fight again.

Cai Zhalcan saw that Wang Zhi only cared about fighting, and said secretly in his heart, I kindly persuaded you to judge the situation, but unexpectedly ran into a bastard. He knew that the Yulin battalion was the elite second only to the Northern Ya soldiers in Han Derang's hands, and there were many of them, since they had been reinforced, but with the hundreds of Song troops in the city, they couldn't hold the ladder, and he could abandon Liao and surrender to the Song Dynasty, and his family had already been secretly sent to the south, and at this moment he didn't have the determination to fight to the end, so he just shrank behind the Hujie army sergeant who was killed by the Khitan soldiers and retreated.

With a bang, the city gate of Youzhou was finally closed again under the joint efforts of the Northern Ya soldiers, Han Derang breathed a sigh of relief, and continued to let the Northern Ya soldiers carry earth and stones from the city, piled up the city gate holes, completely sealed them, and ordered the defenders of each gate to do the same. Then he picked up the northern soldiers and killed them along the Yongdao to the city. When the northern soldiers rushed to the head of the city, the city walls on both sides of the south city tower had almost no foothold, densely packed with Liao soldiers who rushed to reinforce from all over the place, and only more than 100 Song soldiers surrounded a circle, tightly guarding the three ladders, and there were still Hujie soldiers who kept climbing up. Seeing that the situation was not good, Cai Zhalcan shouted loudly: "My lord, I am the commander of Di Lidu who served in the Southern Dynasty, I want to meet Lord Wang, I want to meet the Holy Lord, this is said in advance!" He shouted in Chinese, Wang Zhi was in a daze, Cai Zal Can had no choice but to shout hoarsely several times, Wang Zhicai retreated, under the cold eyes, Cai Zalcan only felt uncomfortable, but listened to Wang Zhi said in a deep voice: "Send this Hu Er down." Cai Zhalcan suddenly thanked him happily, and Wang Zhi didn't look at him, turned around and joined the battle group again.

Zhao Jiong saw from a distance that there were actually generals retreating to the city along the ladder, and he was furious, and shouted violently: "Before Ming Jin, who is the one who escaped without permission, and he will definitely be beheaded all over the door if he escapes from the battle and mistakenly kills the big thing!" After speaking, he threw the teacup in his hand to the ground, and the tea splashed everywhere. Pan Mei was also very strange in her heart, the siege soldiers were all selected to die, and there was no possibility of escaping, so she told her subordinates to ask clearly, Cao Han was under the city tower to supervise the battle, and this general who retreated from the city without permission would definitely be tied up to Cao Han for questioning. After a while, the subordinate officials reported, Pan Meifang Bing said: "Your Majesty, the general who retreated from the city is not a soldier of the forbidden army, but the commander of the Khitan Dili Du, Cai Zhalcan, who admires the etiquette and education of the Celestial Empire, and is willing to break away from the enemy camp in battle, and is willing to serve the people of our dynasty." He knew that this Cai Zhalcan was the internal response that he had made with Wang Yu in advance, and the city gate was not allowed at the moment, so he didn't mention it.

At this time, the Song army at the head of the city was gradually killed and wounded, Wang Zhi, the captain of the Hujie Military Academy, and two soldiers were finally killed, and the corpse was cut into several pieces and thrown down the city, and the Khitan soldiers at the head of the city laughed, and pushed the ladder of the Song army to the ground one by one, and cast the sassalo rolling stone downward. The Song army, which had originally gathered outside the south gate, had to retreat back hundreds of steps, and there was nothing left under the city with corpses.

Seeing that the seizure of the city was not successful, Wang Yu, who had been in the army for a long time, knew that his hands and feet were cold, but Zhao Jiong kept a calm face and did not speak. Cao Han, who supervised the battle in front, saw that the imperial camp neither sounded gold nor beat drums, so he had to organize the soldiers to forcibly attack the city again. "That's enough! Zhao Jiong finally ordered, Pan Mei, Shi Shouxin, and Wu Yingying, who were standing next to him, Cao Han, who was supervising the battle in front, and the captains and heads who commanded the siege, all of them were secretly relieved to carry the ladder and prepare to die at the head of the siege. At this time, the forbidden army under the city of Youzhou, most of them participated in Shouchun, Taiyuan Zhuhui attack on the strong city, well-trained, at this moment when I heard the retreat, the front team will be the back team, the bow and crossbow towards the city head to cover the shot, the iron cavalry army stepped forward to prevent the Liao soldiers in the city from taking advantage of the situation to rush out, orderly, not much effort, tens of thousands of troops retreated from the city cleanly. The Liao people redeemed the defeat at the last moment, and naturally shouted with joy, and the voice entered the Huayan Temple where Zhao Jiong was stationed, making the face of the official family even more gloomy and terrifying.

See Pan Mei, Cao Han didn't have time to dismantle his armor, so he hurriedly came in to ask for guilt, Zhao Jiong was still angry, today was a great opportunity to break the city, and he delayed these generals who were unfavorable in battle, he even doubted whether Cao Han had two hearts, and the generals left behind by those big brothers planned to support Dezhao, and he didn't want to establish an orthodox position in one fell swoop with the martial arts of Jing Youyan, but these ideas, even if he was the Son of Heaven, he couldn't find someone to discuss, so he could only coldly watch the two sweaty generals kneel on the ground, and after a long time, Zhao Jiong calmed down the anger in his chest, and said in a deep voice: "The city wall of Youzhou is tall, the defenders are brave, and the reinforcements of the Liao people are gathered on the periphery, I wonder if the two Aiqing have a way to break through the city as soon as possible?" Pan Mei and Cao Han glanced at each other, did not dare to make a sound, even Taiyuan attacked four times before breaking the city, Youzhou is not strong enough to Taiyuan, and the soldiers are brave and brave not to Taiyuan, today there should be help to capture this city, it is the will of God, who can pat their chests and say that there is any way to defeat Youzhou!

Zhao Jiong saw that Pan Mei and Cao Han were silent, and he suspected that the generals were deliberately slacking, and his anger was blazing, he thought for a moment, and said in a deep voice: "Jinling City is broken, thanks to the attack of the cave, I have sent the guards in front of the palace to survey the terrain near the left of Youzhou, and it is known that the southeast corner of the city of Youzhou is soft and soft, which is conducive to excavation, it is the place where Cao Qing and Mi Xin's department are stationed, Cao Qing will personally supervise his subordinates, and attack the city in the cave, and within ten days, Youzhou will be broken!"

Pan Mei and Cao Han saw Zhao Jiong's gloomy face, and even planned how to attack the city, and did not dare to disobey, Cao Han was even more careful, no matter whether the siege of the cave was effective or not, it was better than attacking the city like today, and throwing the lives of the generals under the fortified city in vain. After Pan Mei Cao Han retreated, the more Zhao Jiong thought about it, the more angry he became, and he threw two tea cups in a row.