The men and horses of Sticky Han were at a loss in Cangzhou and were delayed for a few days. The only way to do this is to continue south along the Northern Shandong Avenue and advance to the central part of Shandong......

At the same time, 600,000 Jinliao coalition troops set out from Yunzhou and swept through the entire territory of Shuozhou within ten days, plundering more than 500,000 refugees, as well as a large amount of grain, cattle and sheep. There were more dead and wounded people, the bones were all over the field, the blood flowed like a river, and the north of the Great Song Dynasty became a piece of earth......

In mid-August, the Jin-Liao coalition army entered Taiyuan Province. The prefectures and counties under Taiyuan Prefecture have long implemented the practice of clearing the wilderness. Therefore, the Jin people only caught more than 20,000 displaced people who had no time to transfer in Taiyuan Prefecture. and did not receive any material supplementation.

When he arrived in Xinzhou, Deputy Marshal Wan Yan Lou said to the commander Xiao Yanguang: "I heard that Yang Huaiyu's Yang family army raised troops on Taihang Mountain, with a population of more than 1.5 million, a region spanning seven or eight counties, and a lot of money and grain. If the marshal gives me 150,000 troops, I will go and destroy the Yang family's army. The money, food, and population obtained are divided equally between our two countries, I don't know what the marshal wants? ”

Xiao Yanguang, the commander of the Western Front, took the initiative to ask Yan Lou after seeing it, and knew that he was also a famous general of the Jin State, and he was also very strategic. Not only did he agree to his request, but he also gave him an additional 200,000 horses.

In this way, Wanyan Lou took 50,000 Jin soldiers, with Wanyan Xiyin as the military advisor, plus 150,000 Liao soldiers to attack the Yang family's main village on Taihang Mountain.

Wan Yanguang thought that he didn't need 400,000 horses to fight a small Xinzhou, so he asked his two brothers, Yelu Qitian and Yelu Hongfu, to take 200,000 horses to attack Shouzhou.

The rest of him and Jin Wushu led an army of 200,000 and 3,000 Tiefutu to surround the city of Xinzhou, preparing to defeat Xinzhou and join the army of Shouzhou in Taiyuan.

Xinzhou City originally had only 15,000 men and horses, and after Shi Wengong came to Taiyuan Mansion with 30,000 horses, Zhongshi Zhong saw that the troops in Taiyuan City were not only sufficient, but also slightly surplus, so he sent 5,000 additional soldiers and horses to Xinzhou and Shouzhou. The government soldiers of the five subordinate counties of Yizhou were all concentrated here, with a total of 3,000 men and horses, and 6,000 or 7,000 people from the regimental training and Minzhuang temporarily organized, so that there were 30,000 people in total.

On August 16, Xiao Yanguang ordered an army of 200,000 to attack the city of Xinzhou. The Liao people are not good at attacking the city than the Jin people, and the combat effectiveness is not as good as the Jin people, they fought for two hours, lost more than 4,000 people, and the Liao soldiers did not even attack the head of Xinzhou City once.

Jin Wushu saw the scene of the Liao soldiers fighting on the side, and shook his head. He said to Xiao Yanguang: "The morale of our army is also declining now, it is better to let the soldiers retreat and rest for a while, and after eating, we will attack the city in another way."

After eating at noon, Jin Wushu said to Xiao Yanguang, we just need to do this, and we can break the city.

So Xiao Yanguang asked the soldiers to go in the field to find giant trees that were more than a few hundred years old. Soon, thousands of Liao soldiers got two giant trees in the forest five miles away from the city.

After Jin Wushu let his 3,000 iron floating slaughter be draped, he stepped on his heavily armed war horse and slowly walked towards the south gate of Taiyuan City in two long rows. Let fifty Liao soldiers carry giant trees to follow behind, and 10,000 infantry also hid behind Tiefutu and approached the head of Taiyuan City.

The Iron Float was heavily armoured and protected by bows and arrows, and ordinary knives and spears were of no use to them. The golden vulture allowed them to line up in a long row and walk in front, becoming a natural shield for the Liao soldiers.

On the Xinzhou side, the general who brought 5,000 Zhongjia troops to Xinzhou to assist in the defense was Zhong Mingwu, a distant nephew of Zhongshi, who had experienced the great battle to eliminate Western Xia, and was also a middle-aged general who had experienced a hundred battles and was well-informed. When he saw that the horizontal shooting of bows and arrows could not cause any damage to the Liao soldiers, he ordered the archers to shoot their bows and arrows diagonally into the sky and throw them all. Although the projectile was not accurate, fortunately, the enemy army was dense enough, and it would still cause some casualties to the Liao soldiers.

Under the cover of the Tiefutu, the Liao soldiers carrying the giant wood came to the south gate smoothly, and hundreds of Tiefutu raised infantry shields to cover their heads. Dozens of Liao soldiers lifted the giant tree and began to slam the city gate violently, the violent impact sound was deafening, but the gate did not move. It turned out that after Zhong Mingwu arrived in Xinzhou, he discussed with Taishou that the city gate had been completely blocked.

The Liao people were unwilling, and under the supervision of the captain, they continued to bang on the door, and suddenly the city tower began to throw hay and firewood. The golden generals of the Iron Float are often reminded by the Golden Vulture that the Iron Float is tightly wrapped from man to horse, and only the sword with sharpened iron like clay, or the person with heavy weapons in his hand, may pose a threat to it. So under normal conditions, the Tiefutu was more threatening than the heavily armored cavalry of the Central Plains. On the other hand, the Iron Float is five horses linked together and acting in unison, which is somewhat like a chain of horses.

In fact, the Iron Float is supposed to be a combination of serial horses and heavy cavalry. Each horse weighed nearly five hundred pounds, so the Tiefutu moved slower than the infantry. Turn and go back with big turns.

On the battlefield, Tiefutu is afraid of things that affect the action such as tripping horse ropes and hooks, and second, it is afraid of fire attacks. Because once the risk

Caught in the fire, one horse falls, and the other four are implicated. Fortunately, today's Tiefutu is not connected with iron chains and raw cowhides.

The Jin general who commanded the Tiefu Massacre is called Han Litu, who is the cousin of Han Lihu, the current No. 1 warrior of Dajin, and is also a fierce general. As soon as he found that the firewood and grass had been thrown down, his first reaction was that the enemy was going to attack with fire.

So he roared and ordered the Liao people around the city gate to get out of the way and keep them away from the fire. With the throw of a large amount of firewood, a large number of torches were also dropped. Before the two hundred Iron Floating Slaughter had completely left the fire, the fire was burning within a radius of fifty meters.

In the end, the more than ten horses that ran out were in danger, although when they were withdrawn from the fire, the iron armor was a little hot, but it was not a big problem. However, they did not let them win, and no less than 1,000 Liao soldiers were killed and injured by 200 Tiefutu. If it weren't for the fire, most of them wouldn't have died.

But there was fire again, and the way to escape was blocked by the Tiefutu, not to mention that they were injured, and there were hundreds of uninjured Liao soldiers who did not escape the doom of being burned.

Of course, the sea of fire at the gate of the city did not have much impact on this battle. After all, it's just the tip of the battle. The reason for the early end of this battle was the loss of more than 200 people due to Tie Fu, who was regarded as a golden baby pimple by the Golden Vultures.

It turned out that under the instruction of Jin Wushu, another task of Tiefutu this time was for them to take a ladder first, climb up to the top of the city to kill some of the defenders, and then cover a large number of Liao soldiers to attack the city wall. It has to be said that this ploy is operational.

But the only thing that Jin Wushu missed was the thousands of cavalry of the Zhongjia army, which was the big sword soldiers organized by Zhao Chongyang on the battlefield of Western Xia, and they were the same as the Yang family army in Taihang Mountain, each of them had a set of steel helmets and steel armor, as well as a steel knife to cut gold and jade, which was the nemesis of Tiefutu.

When the Tiefutu people worked hard to build a human wall with the help of the Liao soldiers, and sent more than 200 Tiefu maps to the wall, they must have thought that the balance of victory had begun to tilt in their favor.

Who knew that as soon as they showed their heads, large blades flew towards them. They also scolded in their hearts: "What a bunch of harass! Can your blade hurt me? Before the silent words could be spoken, their heads suddenly disengaged from their necks. The round heads with rat tails rolled down the city with a contemptuous sneer at the enemy on their faces......

In an instant, in the countless blows of the Golden Vulture Technique, the Iron Futu that was offered by the Liao soldiers as a god rolled down from the altar at once.

"This battle can't be fought, hurry up and retreat!" Xiao Yanguang and Jin Wushu ordered to withdraw at the same time.

That night, at the suggestion of Jin Wushu, the Liao soldiers launched three more all-round sneak attacks.

The first time was when the child started. The Liao army quietly launched a surprise attack from all around the city of Xinzhou, and was soon spotted by patrolling soldiers who rang the gong. The soldiers defending the city slept on the walls, and when they heard the sound of gongs, they took up their arms and went into battle, and some random arrows repelled the enemy.

The second time, after an interval of half an hour, the Liao people launched another all-round sneak attack. This time, Zhong Mingwu calculated that the Liao people would come to sneak attack. Let the people take the people to boil countless pots of boiling water in advance, deliberately leave no one to patrol, and only let the middle and lower officers in the broadsword soldiers hide behind the city wall with a lookout and observe quietly.

When the enemy came, he was silent, and by gestures, he had a wooden barrel filled with boiling water handed over. As soon as the enemy set up a human ladder, he put his hand on the head of the city, and a bucket of boiling water fell down, and he scalded to death and injured three people at one time. Because, in order to catch the other party off guard, the Liao people also used gestures to order unified action, and all the people climbed on the wall, and the error before and after would not exceed three seconds.

In this case, the error before and after pouring boiling water and pouring Liao people will not exceed three seconds. Therefore, when the boiling water on each wall was poured down, thousands of wails resounded in the sky, and all the birds in the mountains and forests were frightened......

It was precisely because the Liao people suffered a big loss in the second sneak attack that everyone did not expect them to come to the sneak attack.

After the Liao people returned from the second sneak attack, when Xiao Yanguang proposed to let everyone rest for an hour, have some dinner, and launch another sneak attack, Jin Wushu did not expect the marshal to make such an arrangement.

Xiao Yanguang explained: "Even your fourth prince didn't expect it, and the generals defending the city definitely didn't expect it. Therefore, success or failure is in one move, if we fail this time, we can only lead our troops south and concentrate all our forces to fight Taiyuan. ”

Therefore, in the third sneak attack, the Liao people almost succeeded. Because, in almost every direction, Liao people climbed over the wall before they were discovered. What's worse is that on this day, the Zhongjia army in every direction is the protagonist, and it is very hard, so the Taishou and the generals of the government soldiers persuaded the Zhongjia army to go to the city wall to rest well, and the government soldiers and Minzhuang replaced them to keep watch for the last half hour of the night.

The fifth watch is the time when people are most likely to get sleepy. The patrols on the city walls were still patrolling, but their eyelids felt heavy, and they walked mechanically on the top of the city, a little sluggish in their sense of their surroundings. The Liao soldiers quietly walked to the city, set up a human ladder and began to climb the wall, only to find that the patrol soldiers on the east, west and north sides of the city could not wake up after beating the gong. He was kicked a few times by his companion before he rolled over and went into battle.

But by this time many had already climbed to the top of the city. Some of them threw the ropes they had prepared on the battlements, and some of them got into scuffles with the nearby defenders......