Feihu Road originally refers to the road from Feihu to the north to Weizhou and connects Yunzhou. During the Northern Wei Dynasty, the Lingqiu Road was dug through Lingqiu to Daizhou. In the Tang Dynasty, the Lingqiu Road was also called Feihu Road. From Feihu to the east, there is a road to Yizhou in the north, and in the south, it can reach Dingzhou. It is the core area connecting Hebei and Hedong.

After entering the Song Dynasty, because the Flying Fox belonged to the Khitan, the Song people walked the Jingxing Road to and from Hedong Road in Hebei, and gradually became deserted. However, although fewer people walked, the road was still there, and the Flying Fox was still an important place in the Taihang Mountains.

Jia Kui went through a lot of hardships and finally arrived at Feihu City at the end of October.

Looking at the broken city in front of him, Jia Kui sighed: "I finally arrived at Feihu City! Have the Khitans sent troops to help in the past few days? If there are no reinforcements, they will start to attack the city tomorrow!"

Hao Zhi said: "I have investigated around me, and there are no reinforcements from the Khitan. Although there are troops and horses outside the mountain, there are no people in charge of the government. Qu Yang was surrounded by Liu Jianji's army and could not move. Now the flying fox is an isolated city, so you can seize it with confidence."

Jia Kui nodded: "This is the best. We have been traveling all the way from Daizhou for ten days and have tasted countless hardships. If we could capture Feihu early and destroy the Quyang Khitan troops with Taiwei Liu outside the mountain, everything would be fine. The transportation of grain and grass from Dingzhou is much closer than Daizhou."

In fact, it is not just that it is much closer, Jia Kui is also dissatisfied with Feng Yanji in Daizhou. Although the enemy is in front of him, Feng Yanji has not deducted all the materials of Jia Kui's army. He just doesn't support it. The Privy Council will do what he told him, and it is useless to say that Jia Kui said without explanation. Liu Jianji is the imperial guard after the training, so it should not be like this. Moreover, with the Privy Council's unified transportation, everything is much more convenient.

He took several generals to look around Feihu City, and Jia Kui said, "This city has two thousand soldiers and horses. When defending outside the city, more than 500 people have been wiped out. Now there are about 1,500 people in the city. The military strategy is full of military tactics. The siege of the city must be surrounded by three gulfs and one. This time we go against the way. The entire army only attacks one side and opens the other three sides. Tomorrow, all the artillery soldiers of the entire army will be placed on the west wall and suppress both ends of the city wall with cannons. Then the army will attack the city and strive to go down in one go! The enemy will escape from the city, but in the end we can't escape our cavalry!"

The generals agreed loudly. Due to the difficulties and dangers of the mountain roads, Jia Kui's army had few artillery artillery, only a few small artillery, which was not very powerful. Since artillery could not collapse the city wall, it was used to suppress the city and concentrate troops to attack head-on. This is a mountainous area, with dense forests around it, and siege tools are always easy.

On the top of the city, Xiao Wugu, the Flying Fox Guard, said: "What should I do if the Song army besieged the city and there are no reinforcements outside?"

The magistrate Zhang Shi said: "If you can't post the king in Quyang, if you get the news of the Song army besieging the city, you will definitely come to rescue us. We just need to hold on for a few days, and when the reinforcements come, the Song army will naturally retreat."

Xiao Wugu smiled wryly and shook his head: "It will take several days for Quyang to arrive here. As soon as the person who reported the news went, it will take more than ten days for reinforcements to arrive. How can we hold on for tens of thousands of troops outside for so many days?"

Zhang Shi had a calm face and didn't speak. Who could come up with a complete solution at this time? There is only one way, just hold on. Only God knows when to defend.

The Khitan army has been concentrated in the Youzhou area for more than ten days, but because Yelu Tie was blocked from Quyang, it has not been straightened out. It turned out that the Khitans' plan was that Yelu Tie would not lead the army south. It was best to capture Dingzhou. Even if Dingzhou could not be captured, he had to go south to the hinterland of the Song army and use the rapid characteristics of cavalry to disrupt prefectures and counties. As a result, the Khitan's deployment was not blocked, and the Khitan's deployment was disrupted, and there was no clue yet.

Since the fall of the Tang Dynasty, there have been few people walking, and they are not important in the eyes of the Khitan. The Song Dynasty communicated with Hedong and Hebei by Jingxing Road in the south, while the Khitan relied on the military capital Xing in the north, and the Feihu Xing in the middle was gradually abandoned. However, occasionally, the Khitan attacked the Central Plains in the south, and sometimes they would send troops from the Feihu to attack Dingzhou. The current two thousand defenders have deliberately strengthened their defense during the war.

Looking at the Song army camp at the foot of the mountain, Xiao Wugu was helpless. Since Jia Kui captured Lingqiu, he reported to the court and asked to send troops to aid, but there was no news. Obviously, in the eyes of the Khitans, this road was not important. As for the army in the south, the Khitans planned to let them go south, not retreat. How could tens of thousands of cavalry be surrounded by the Song army in the plains? It was incredible to think about it.

Zhang Shi said: "Following the arrangement of the Song army outside the city, we only gathered troops in the west city, and the other gates did not arrange large troops. Could it be that they only attacked the west city and opened three sides? If so, it would be easy for us to withdraw our troops."

Xiao Wugu said: "The county magistrate, there are tens of thousands of troops outside and over ten thousand cavalrymen. Where can we still have a way out of the city? The flying fox is in the mountains, not in plains, and there is no way to run! Forget it, we can only stick to it, and the rest will be left to fate."

After saying that, he took him down the city in person. He watched Song Jun here and caused trouble for himself for nothing.

Zhang Shi looked outside the city, his eyes flashed for a moment, and his mind changed rapidly. He was a Han Chinese and was born as a Jinshi. If he had sacrificed the city, he would not know how the Song Dynasty would treat him. In recent years, the Song army has not taken special care of the status of the Han Chinese. This time, he attacked the Khitan. I don’t know if there would be special policies. Now it seems that the flying fox will be bound to be captured by the Song army, but it only takes a long time.

After sighing, Zhang Shi turned around and went downstairs, thinking about this in his heart.

The next morning, Song Jun buried his pot and cooked rice before dawn. By the time the sun was rising, he had already completed the formation under the city.

Jia Kui looked at the head of Feihu City and didn't speak for a while. Looking at the head of the city, Khitan increased its defense, but did not transfer all its troops to the west city. Feihu City, a small city wall does not use many soldiers, and the most important thing is to have vitality. However, the Song army has artillery, and siege and defending the city is very different from before. Feihu City does not have artillery to defend the city, so the Song army can push artillery to the front of the city and use artillery to block a small section of the city wall. This is the most familiar method of siege by the Song army, and it has been like this since the beginning of the cannon. On the contrary, there is no long-term battle example of siege, and there is no chance to attack the city with heavy artillery. I have always had doubts about the collapse of the city wall. In fact, the Song army's heavy artillery now has no problem with collapse of the city wall. It's just that transportation is not easy, and heavy artillery is difficult to keep up with the marching speed of other troops, and there is no chance to perform.

Looking at the sun in the sky, Jia Kui took a deep breath. He said to Zhou Jin on the side: "After siege the city, use artillery to blast the west city wall first. Then aim the gun at both ends of the city wall, so that the Khitans cannot replenish their troops. Your troops will send a thousand people to attack the city."

Zhou Jin crossed his hands and sang a promise. Yesterday, he urgently logged wood around and made a siege ladder, and today it finally came in handy.

After a while, seeing that the Song army under the city were ready, Jia Kui said sternly: "Fire the cannon!"

The artillery soldiers arranged under the city ignited the cannon twists together. After a while, they heard dull sounds of cannons. Most of the Khitan soldiers at the top of the city had seen cannons, and were not panicked, and they all hid behind the female wall. However, although the cannons of the Song army were small, they still had great destructive power to the female wall. After a while, screams continued to sound on the top of the city. The Khitan soldiers leaned tightly behind the female wall, and did not dare to move.

Xiao Wugu looked at the city wall, and then watched the Song army outside the city approaching with a ladder, frowning. As a long-time general, Xiao Wugu had seen the Khitan cannon and knew how to use it. He also knew what the Song army outside the city was thinking. But what method was there? The flying fox had no cannons, and he didn't know what to do. Without cannons, how could he deal with the Song army artillery with flesh and blood?

As the Song army moved its guns, a horn sounded, and the Song army carried the ladder toward Feihu City.

Xiao Wugu said sternly: "Don't worry about the artillery, go to the middle to defend the city immediately! If you don't have any patrols, please don't mind it!"

Amid the rumbling cannons, Xiao Wugu's words could not be heard far, and there were no Khitan soldiers to deal with him. Even if the Song army had broken through the city, they could still fight with them. Now they came forward in front of the cannon fire, wouldn't they die?

When the Song army arrived at the city, two hundred people were divided into two wings and set fire to the city. In cooperation with artillery, they suppressed the movement of the Khitan soldiers on the top of the city. The Song army in the middle leaned the ladder tightly against the city wall and climbed up the city one after another.

The cloud ladder is one of the oldest siege tools. By this era, it was very perfect. It was not a simple ladder, otherwise the ladder would fall down as soon as it was pushed on the city. Instead, the back slope was covered with solid support and the slope was relatively slow. The Song army was holding back tightly behind it, and the soldiers on one side were rushing up one after another. There were not many Khitan soldiers left on the city, so there was no way to push the ladder away.

Seeing the Song army successfully climbing to the top of the city, Jia Kui said, "Flying foxes want to land, it seems that it is not difficult to attack. As long as they go to the top of the city, what else can the Khitans do? Even if there are many soldiers, how can they block the musket?"

Hao Zhi said: "What the Taiwei said is that as long as we climb to the top of the city, what can the Khitans do? We have taken advantage of the Khitans with swords and guns. Now it seems that as long as we have complete artillery, it is really easy to break through the Khitans' city."

Jia Kui shook his head: "You can't think so. The Khitans also have cannons, but the flying foxes are in the mountains, and the Khitans have few cannons and they are not arranged here. If it is a big city, the Khitans have many cannons, and it is not easy to attack the city."

The function of artillery on the city is not to attack soldiers who siege the city, but to destroy the siege equipment of the siege troops. In particular, the artillery range has an advantage and can suppress the artillery that sieges. The flying fox was completely suppressed by the Song army without cannons. Especially when fighting in siege, the range of weapons plays a crucial role, and both artillery and muskets can exert their power.
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