The bloody battle of Niangzi Pass has been carried out to the seventh day, the trapped beast is especially fighting, the Liao army is also red-eyed, they gave up the idea of breaking through from Hebei, but decided to break through from the west, so the pass is a little easier than Niangzi Pass, as long as the Niangzi Pass is captured, so the pass is not a problem.

Their 100,000 cavalry, as long as they get out of the narrow passage of Jingcheng, it is high in the sky and let the birds fly.

In order to survive, the Liao army did whatever it takes, regardless of casualties, to storm the city on a large scale day and night, without giving the Song army a chance to breathe.

"Boom! Boom! Boom! "Before the smoke of the day had cleared, the drums of war sounded again in the night.

The 10,000 Liao army began to assemble rapidly, and the curtain of battle was about to open.

The Song army at the head of the city had just been replaced, and the 3,000 soldiers who had suffered more than 500 casualties during the day were exhausted and retreated to rest, and another group of 3,000 elites came up.

Di Qing did not underestimate the enemy, he wrote a pigeon letter to Yang Wenguang in Taiyuan, imploring Yang Wenguang to send troops to support Niangzi Pass, just yesterday, 10,000 troops rushed from Taiyuan, so that the total strength of guarding Niangzi Pass reached 33,000 people, coupled with the condescending favorable terrain, has been able to withstand the crazy attack of the Liao army.

Cao Wenjing stood on the high peak fire platform, looking at the Liao army at the foot of the mountain, the beacon tower is the highest building in Niangzi Pass, the field of vision is also the widest, was temporarily used as a combat command platform, Cao Wenjing did not directly command the operation on the city, but he stood on the command platform but can control the overall situation, which side if the troops are not enough, immediately reinforcements, which kind of defense materials are about to run out, immediately replenish, after the war to repair the city wall and city gates, this is his main general responsibility.

It's just that Cao Wenjing hasn't closed his eyes for three days, his eyes are bloodshot, and his voice is hoarse, just now he wanted to take a nap, and the war drums at the foot of the mountain sounded again, so that he had to fight hard to deal with it.

"General Cao, if the commander of this battle is not for me to come, you can go down and rest!" Adjutant General Yang Chun suggested.

Cao Wenjing sighed and said: "Let me sleep now, I can't sleep either, I will command a battle again tonight, and I will hand it over to you tomorrow, you go to rest, and come to pick up my post early tomorrow morning." ”

Yang Chun saw that the lord would insist on not going down to rest, so he had to sigh and go down by himself.

The 10,000 Liao army attacked in three groups, each with 3,000 men, and the other 1,000 were overseers, who were armed with sharp axes, and any soldier who escaped without permission would be ruthlessly hacked to death.

"Kill—"

The leader of the generals roared and led 3,000 men to rush up the hillside.

It is about 800 steps from the starting place to the top of the mountain, the first 600 steps are controlled by the Liao army, and there is no danger, but the last 200 steps are the road to death.

Three thousand soldiers rushed forward with a shout, and the second group of three thousand soldiers slowly followed.

Niangzi closed the mountain road on one side of the cliff, on the other side is a hundred zhang abyss, the road is only two zhang wide, can only allow a small group of soldiers to charge, but the defense army has three thousand soldiers, except for the three hundred soldiers on the city, the others are on the right side of the Great Wall, their bows and arrows can also shoot on the official road.

Five hundred Liao troops finally rushed to two hundred paces, where the corpses were originally piled up, but they were thrown into the ravine by the Song army as fast as possible, and the excited howls of wild wolves were constantly heard these days.

As soon as he reached two hundred steps, he heard a loud rumbling sound, dozens of rolling logs smashed down on his face, and the dozens of soldiers who ran in front were so frightened that they were not possessed, and they were a little smarter, so they immediately lay down, reacted slowly, turned around and ran, but there were all soldiers behind, where was there room to run.

A scream rang out, and seventy or eighty soldiers were hit by the tumbling giant trees, some were smashed to the point that their bones were broken, some were simply smashed off the cliff, and more than a dozen were smashed to the point that their skulls burst and died on the spot.

The remaining hundreds of people retreated one after another, many of the wounded soldiers did not even care, they had to wail and climb down by themselves, the Liao army was extremely short of medical treatment, except for a few lightly wounded soldiers who could be cured, most of the wounded soldiers died due to untimely treatment.

There were so many dead that the soldiers were numb, and no one cared about the lives of the wounded, and many of them were stoned to death in the second round of rolling logs.

In the second attack, hundreds of soldiers were prostrate on the ground, carefully climbing upward, but the Song army unexpectedly stopped attacking.

When they were still sixty paces away from the castle, they saw a flame spreading rapidly downward, and the soldiers were so frightened that they jumped up and fled downward.

At this time, hundreds of rolling logs roared after them, mercilessly hitting hundreds of Liao soldiers from behind, and the soldiers were smashed off the cliff one after another, which was lucky, many soldiers who were injured and unable to walk watched the burning oil swallow themselves, and they could only let out desperate screams.

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The first batch of 500 soldiers was wiped out in less than half an hour, the second group of 500 soldiers went up again, and the second group of soldiers died again, the third group of 500 soldiers went up again, and then the fourth group rushed up, and the second group of 3,000 soldiers also joined in, the Liao army used the cost of 2,000 dead in battle, using the corpses in front as cover and stepping stones, they finally rushed to Guancheng within 100 steps of Guancheng, and began to bow and arrow to counterattack the Song army.

At this time, the ballista on the city was fired, three iron fire thunderbolts shot out, rolled into the crowd, the soldiers were so frightened that they fell to the ground, one of them rolled down the cliff and exploded halfway, the other two exploded in the crowd, in the earth-shattering explosion, dozens of soldiers were blown into the air, their bodies were fragmented, flesh and blood were flying, and the mountain road was filled with gunsmoke,

This night battle was fought from dark to the early morning of the next day, the Liao army lost more than 4,000 people, and the Song army also suffered hundreds of casualties, but the pass was still standing still and was firmly controlled by the Song army.

Hundreds of Song soldiers came out of the city, cleaned up the corpses on the mountain road, threw them all down the cliff, and sprinkled a large amount of quicklime to prevent the corpses from causing epidemics.

In fact, there will be hidden dangers when the body is thrown off the cliff, but the soldiers of the Song army can only deal with it in this way, and they can't move back to Guancheng to burn it.

The city was also very quiet, Cao Wenjing couldn't support it anymore, went back to sleep, and a new batch of 3,000 soldiers took over the soldiers who fought last night, led by adjutant general Yang Chun.

The Song army camp is also at the foot of the mountain, consisting of 2,000 large tents, covering an area of thousands of acres.

In the camp, the soldiers cut a large number of trees from the distant mountain, removed the branches and leaves, only one main trunk remained, they sawed the trunk into countless sections of rolling logs, tens of thousands of soldiers lined up in two long lines, from the foot of the mountain to the city, is relaying the rolling logs up the mountain, not long after, thousands of rolling logs were directly sent into the city.

At this moment, the Liao army camp once again sounded the fierce war drums, and a new siege was about to begin.

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At the same time, the battle for Lou Fu Pass was also raging, and 30,000 Liao troops from Datong Mansion were also attacking Guancheng, and they wanted to go south to Taiyuan Mansion to rescue the Liao army besieged in Jingcheng Pass.

Different from the lightly armed Liao army in Jingcheng, the Liao army that went south from Taiyuan Province this time carried all kinds of heavy equipment, and dozens of medium-sized trebuchets made efforts one after another, throwing cans of ignited fire oil or porcelain bottle fire thunder towards Guancheng.

Flames erupted inside and outside the city, and there was a constant sound of crisp explosions.

Hundreds of steps in front of the city, the Song army built a low wall with mud and sandbags, as the first line of defense, thousands of Song soldiers hid behind the mud wall and kept firing arrows, arrows were like rain, shooting towards the Liao army a hundred steps away, above his head, there were constantly fire oil cans whistling, the fire oil tanks fell to the ground and shattered, and the fire oil flowed all over the ground, burning rapidly.

More than 100 soldiers worked in groups of three, carrying baskets filled with earth, and as soon as the canisters hit the ground, they quickly rushed forward and covered the flames with the earth.

Under the cover of trebuchets, two thousand Liao soldiers held their shields high, formed a shield wall, and approached the sandbag wall step by step, and the arrows of the Song army had no effect on them.

At this time, the trebuchet of the Liao army suddenly stopped projecting, and the war drums sounded loudly, and in the rapid sound of war drums, two thousand Liao soldiers ran up with shouts, rushed to the sandbag wall, and stabbed the Song soldiers with spears, and the two sides fought fiercely in the narrow passage.