In the night, Yang Ying led an army of 50,000 to arrive in Jinzhou, at this time the third watch was not enough, the night was dark, and the city of Jinzhou was very quiet.

The spies of the Liao army in the corridor of western Liaoning did not send the news of the Song army, so that the defense of Jinzhou has not yet entered the wartime state, if it is a wartime state, the 20,000 defenders in the city must be divided into three shifts to defend the city, then at least 6,000 people at night, although it has not entered the wartime state, but after all, it is not a peacetime period, and there are many troops guarding the city at night, there are 3,000 people patrolling the city, including 2,000 people in the city, and more than 1,000 people on the streets in the city.

The 50,000 Song troops did not come to the city at the same time, they ambushed a mile away from the north city, waiting for news from the vanguard.

The reason why the attack point was placed in the north city instead of the south city was because Fan Ning, after learning more about the loss of Jinzhou, realized that there was a hole in the structure of the north city wall, which led to the loss of Jinzhou, but it also gave the Song army the opportunity to capture Jinzhou.

Five Song soldiers crossed the ditch, ran under the city wall, and ran to the north gate in just a moment, the five soldiers quickly groped on the city wall, and one soldier suddenly beckoned to everyone, and he found the anomaly of the city wall.

There were a few bricks that were obviously newly mended, but the mending was not good, and they could still feel the fine mud and sand in their hands, and everyone was in good spirits, and the two soldiers quickly used a very thin tool to dig out the mud and sand around the city bricks little by little.

It takes at least a year for the city bricks to be completely solidified, not to mention that the Liao army is relatively rough, without adding rice milk, directly mixing with lime and fine sand to lay bricks, and using special tools to pull out the mortar little by little.

After about a quarter of an hour, the two soldiers nodded, gently poked the hook in, and pulled it out with great force, and the wall was pulled out.

The space leading to the road has been blocked by the Liao army with bricks and stones, but this is not important to the Song army, the Song army only needs to pull out two city bricks, the Song army removed two city bricks, and put a city explosion type iron fire thunder weighing one hundred and fifty catties into the wall hole, this iron fire thunder is huge, even if it is placed on the city wall, it can blow up a big hole, but the effect will be better if it is placed in the city wall.

A soldier drew a fire fold and shook his hand, and the fire ignited, but the fire was too dazzling in the dark night, and it was immediately discovered by the soldiers on the city.

The soldiers at the head of the city shouted: "Who is it?" ”

Before the five soldiers could answer, they lit the arquebus, turned and ran.

"There is an enemy!" The soldiers at the head of the city began to shout.

"When! While! While! "Alarm bells are ringing.

The soldiers patrolling the city immediately poured in from all directions to the northern city, and they drew their bows and arrows, and blindly looked out of the city to release their arrows in the darkness, not realizing that death was already smiling at their feet.

"Boom—"

With an earth-shattering explosion, the city wall rushed to the ground, the earth trembled, the city wall shook violently, the city wall and the north gate near the north city were blown to pieces, bricks and stones and wood flew into the air, and the city tower also collapsed, and the dust flew, enveloping the entire city.

Yang Ying got up and shouted: "Kill in!" ”

'Woo-' The low trumpet sounded, and the 50,000-strong army that had been lying in ambush on the ground rose up, shouted, and slaughtered the northern gate like a tidal wave.

The smoke and dust in the north city have gradually dissipated, the entire north city gate and the city walls on both sides have disappeared, the city tower has collapsed, and nearly a thousand Liao soldiers have been blown up or shocked to death, especially the city wall on the right side has torn a large hole of nearly 20 zhang, and the situation in the city can be clearly seen.

50,000 Song troops poured up like a tide and directly entered Jinzhou City through several gaps.

The explosion at the city gate had already alarmed the sleeping defenders in the city, and the defenders in the city panicked, and even the armor did not have time to put on, and they came out of the barracks directly, in fact, even if they wanted to put on the armor, it was too late, whether it was the landscape armor of the Song army and the iron armor of the Liao army, they were very troublesome to wear, and they did not want to wear it for half an hour.

But more importantly, he was in a panic, and he didn't have time to think about wearing armor, so he rushed into the street with swords, guns and spears.

At this time, Yelu Hongtai, the king of Liang, rushed over on horseback, he held a long lance in his hand, and shouted: "The team is assembled, no chaos, hold on until reinforcements arrive!" ”

He had already sent people on horseback to ask for help from the Liao army in Jianzhou and Western Liaozhou as soon as possible, once the 50,000 reinforcements arrived, Jinzhou would be able to hold on, the key was that they would hold on.

Yelu Hongtai was really a little annoyed, a general once suggested that he build a beacon tower, but he did not accept it, thinking that it was of little significance, but he did not expect the Song army to really kill at night.

The 20,000 Liao troops in the city are also from the Son of Heaven Guard, which is the elite of the Liao army and has strong combat effectiveness, while the 50,000 Song troops that came in are the Western Army, and they are also the strongest army in the Song Dynasty.

As 50,000 Song troops entered the city, a fierce street battle began in Jinzhou City.

On the central axis street, thousands of Liao soldiers rushed to kill, a hundred steps in front, thousands of Song soldiers raised crossbows and arrows together, a dense rain of arrows, the Liao army was suddenly hit by hundreds of arrows, they all screamed and fell to the ground, they were all wearing cloth clothes, and they couldn't stop the arrows at all.

Seeing that the situation was critical, Yelu Hongtai shouted: "Rush forward and don't give the enemy a chance to fire arrows." ”

Thousands of Liao soldiers ran frantically and rushed forward, and thousands of Song soldiers also flashed out from behind the Song army's crossbowmen, they swung their swords and spears to kill, and the two armies crashed together, and in an instant, flesh and blood flew sideways, wailing and screaming everywhere.

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As the day dawned, thousands of Liao troops rushed out of the northern city gate, and under the leadership of Yelu Hongtai, the king of Liang, they fled in panic to the northeast.

Although the Liao army was strong, they did not wear armor, they were not the opponent of the Song army at all, the more people fought, the fewer people fought, Yelu Hongtai saw that the general trend had gone, in order not to destroy the whole army, he broke through the city with the last more than 3,000 soldiers, and fled to Liaoxi Prefecture.

In this tragic night street battle, the Liao army lost more than 14,000 people, and the Song army also paid nearly 7,000 casualties, and both sides suffered heavy losses.

The worst were the ordinary people, almost half of the more than 1,000 families in the city died in the street fighting.

When the battle finally ended, the Song army took control of Jinzhou, and the fleet of ships from the Xiaoling River arrived in Yongle City, where thousands of artisans began to quickly repair the bombed-out walls, install new gates, and soldiers collected corpses inside the city.

The corpses of Liao soldiers were burned and buried deep on the spot, while the corpses of Song soldiers were burned and their bones were packed in clay pots to be returned to their families.

The same is true for dead civilians, and the Song army will not keep the corpses, which are prone to epidemics.

The news of the capture of Jinzhou soon spread to Pingzhou, 400,000 troops are currently deployed in Pingzhou, they were originally waiting for Cao Shi to lead the vanguard to seize Liaoyang, and then the army quickly went north, but did not expect Cao Shi's 100,000 army to be defeated, retreat to Dading Mansion, the situation in Liaoyang Mansion is not good, so that the 400,000 army does not dare to act rashly.

At this time, Fan Ning was in Lulong County, Pingzhou, and Han Jiang was also there, although he resigned as the head coach, he was still ordered by the Son of Heaven Zhao Ji to stay and assist Fan Ning in taking over the enemy's state and county.

In addition to Han Jiang, Fan Ning's father-in-law Zhu Xiaoyun was also present, he was the prefect of Yanshan, and at the same time was appointed by Zhao Ji as the transfer envoy of Yanshan Mansion, responsible for the logistics of the Song army.

Zhu Xiaoyun not only has to govern the local area and care about the livelihood of the people in Youzhou, but also is responsible for the eating, drinking, and Lazar of the 400,000 army in Pingzhou.

Fan Ning took a copy of the information he had just received and said to Han Jiang and Zhu Xiaoyun: "Yang Ying did not disappoint me, he has already captured Jinzhou!" ”

Han Jiang was overjoyed, the loss of Jinzhou had always been a thorn in his heart, and now it was finally withdrawn, which made him secretly relieved in his heart.

"And what about the enemy?" Han Jiang asked again.

"The enemy lost more than 14,000 casualties, but the main general Yelu Hongtai escaped, and we suffered 7,400 casualties, including more than 3,600 killed.

Saying that, he handed the information to Han Jiang, who looked at the information and said to Fan Ning: "Then we should send troops as soon as possible." ”

Fan Ning nodded, and said to Zhu Xiaoyun: "I'm worried that the Liao State will send people to burn the logistics grain and grass, I inspected the warehouse yesterday, and suggested that it is best to separate the forage and grain warehouse, and then strengthen the defense, the logistics can not be lost at all, this matter will be hard for my father-in-law." ”

Zhu Xiaoyun nodded, "The cunning rabbit has three holes, I won't put the grain in the same place, you can rest assured that you will go north, and there will be no problems with logistics." ”

Fanning said happily: "Then get ready to go!" ”

In April of the second year of Xining, the Song army recaptured Jinzhou, strategically regained the initiative, the commander Fan Ning personally led 300,000 troops north to Jinzhou, Liaoyang Mansion was under great pressure, Yelu Hongji then ordered the 30,000 Liao troops besieging Dading Mansion to withdraw east to Liaoyang Mansion, preparing to gather 100,000 troops and the Song army in Liaoyang Mansion decisive battle.