The Khitan people in Gu'an will never forget that morning. The tide-like Song Dynasty army suddenly roared by, and countless mules and horses in the team pulled artillery and headed eastward. They had seen many armies, and they had seen the Khitan army going south a few days ago, but they had never seen such an army. The morale was high, and the officers and soldiers all exude an uplifting spirit, towards the rising sun in the morning.

Jia Kui successfully captured Zhuozhou without much fighting. He was originally preparing to go north and attack Xijin Prefecture. The general officer actually changed his orders and asked him to go east to assist in defending Wuqing.

In Zhuozhou, Jia Kui quickly came east.

The Khitan army had arrived in Wuqing and immediately siege the city. The first afternoon of the first day, the captured Song army artillery was arranged outside the city, but it was destroyed by Song army artillery the next morning. Starting from the next afternoon, there was no need to rely on artillery and no time to make siege equipment. Crazy ants attached to the siege city.

Yelu Hongji rode on the horse and looked at the war ahead, his face sank as if he was watery. He thought that he might lose this time, and thought that he would end up in a sad way, but he didn't expect that it would be like this. The Song army was progressing so quickly that it was far beyond everyone's estimate.

In just a few days, only Xijin Prefecture was left in Youzhou, and the rest of the cities were all captured. Four hundred thousand sign troops were not fighting at all. The Song army immediately surrendered as soon as it came. Now there are only tens of thousands sign troops in Yijin Prefecture to defend the city, and the rest have all been captured. The 400,000 troops under his jurisdiction have completely cut off food and grass. If Wuqing cannot be captured and rescued Xijin Prefecture quickly, the Khitan's military strength will be completely destroyed.

Outside the East City Gate, three thousand Song troops were in line with the city and fought fiercely with the Khitan. With artillery cover at the city and the city walls as their back wings, these Song troops became more and more brave as they fought, and the Khitan army could do nothing. On the other three city walls, the Khitan army attacked the city wall like a tide. However, when the city was far away, there were artillery suppression at the city, and when the city was close, there were muskets, the Khitan army could not even have a ladder on the city.

Yelu Fairy Tong was beside Yelu Hongji, looking at the two armies fighting in the endless battles, frowned. After a long time, he said, "Your Majesty, the Xijin Mansion has been surrounded, and the city has been broken for only a day and night. We should send a large army north to rescue them. Once the Xijin Mansion is broken, the road for the entire army to return north will be cut off. Now the army is short of food and the retreat route is cut off, and the consequences are really worth considering."

Yelu Hongji said in a deep voice: "I have sent Maliu to lead the Xi army to the north, but the Song army blocked it and I can't get close to Nanjing for a while. I just want to stay and guard the city for a few more days. As long as I capture Wuqing, our army can go north."

Yelu Fairy Tong opened his mouth and said nothing. The Khitan's form is very bad now. When the Song army counterattacked, all the Khitan troops were defeated. The capital was surrounded, the food route was cut off, and the Song Dynasty army was everywhere around, and they were already trapped in a heavy siege. What's even more terrible is that no matter which unit the Song army was against, the Khitan could not win and had become a turtle in the jar.

In front of Wuqing City, Lin Guang's command was constantly rotating forward and fired ammunitions at the attacking Khitan army. As soon as he discovered the flaw, three thousand soldiers immediately stepped forward, wiped out the enemy, and then quickly retreated. With the support of the artillery at the top of the city behind him, he did not even need to set up an attacking artillery position, but he was in the most favorable position. He just needed to seize the fighter plane keenly and attack at any time.

The 15,000 troops in the city were divided into three armies except for the reserve team and the defending troops, and were rotated out of the city to fight. Every two hours, they were rotated. The four city gates were different for each battle, and the Khitan could not arrange them.

The most important thing in defending a city is to be able to counterattack, but not counterattack, and sooner or later they will be trapped by the enemy. Unless like the city on Hebei Road in the Song Dynasty, its strength completely exceeds the ability of the Khitan to attack, and the Khitans can do anything. Wuqing is a small city. Although the Song army urgently repaired it after the war, it was still not strong enough. If you want to defend the city, you must continue to go out of the city to attack. However, there were too many Khitan troops and they could not attack, so they could only be under the city wall.

On the city tower, the deputy commander Zhong Xiang kept patrolling back and forth. The Khitan attack was too fierce, and it never stopped from the bottom of the city. In one day, there were corpses everywhere outside the city, and the Khitan continued to move forward.

Seeing the sun rise above my head, Zhong Xian breathed a sigh of relief and sat down on a chair. The personal soldiers hurriedly brought the pot over.

Zhong Xiang drank a water and said, "Zhi Niang, the Khitans are so crazy! They can't attack the city, but they still keep going. Is their lives worthless? Look at the city where corpses accumulate out of the mountain. Do they want to climb the city with their bodies!"

The deputy Sui Du on the side said, "If the Wuqing is not taken down, the Khitans cannot rescue the Xijin Mansion on a large scale. If the Xijin Mansion is not rescued, they will have no way out. Taiwei, for the Khitans, Wuqing City is their lifeline."

Zhong Xiang sighed: "That's right, Wuqing is the lifeline of the Khitans. Alas, I didn't expect that I, Zhong Xiang, had encountered such a battle all my life. If I am lucky enough to die this time, I can brag to my children and grandchildren for the rest of my life."

Because the Song army had too high estimates of the Khitan army, it was indeed unexpected that it was suddenly concentrated in Wuqing to fight this battle. Since the Khitan army was about to collapse in every direction, they suddenly concentrated in Wuqing. The originally expected to attract the Khitan army south of the Juma River, and the situation of fighting between the two sides did not happen, and the pressure suddenly hit the Wuqing defenders.

After drinking a sip of water and taking a break, Zhong Xiang stood up and patrolled the city wall again. The Song army on the city also rotated once every two hours. It was divided into several parts and rotated in sequence with the reserve team in the city. Each time the army rotated, it was like the body was exhausted.

Outside the city, Yelu Hongji looked at the corpses piled up under the city walls, frowned and said, "After now, countless people have died, but they have not yet arrived at the Song army. How can we continue like this? If we stay in Wuqing City for one more day, it will be difficult for Nanjing City to get a little bit. We must find a way."

Yelu Xiantong said, "What's the solution? The Song army on the top of the city has many artillery, and they are fierce and accurate. The soldiers rushed forward and were already dead. When they arrived under the city wall, they faced the Song army's muskets, which were even more powerful than bows and arrows, and it was really difficult to attack."

Xiao Ashi on the side said, "According to my opinion, it is difficult to make progress if you continue to attack like this. It is better to wait for the night and choose a suicide. When you suddenly climb over the city wall, it is more likely to break the city. If you don't believe that the Song army will fight fiercely for a day, you can still guard it thoroughly at night."

Yelu Hongji nodded repeatedly: "Okay, okay, this plan is very good! Choose someone immediately and turn it over to the top of the city at midnight tonight!"

In the south of Wuqing, a personal soldier entered the commander's tent quickly on the way. He crossed his hands to Guxi: "General, the Dielid army in the south retreated and was about to reach our barracks. Behind them are Song cavalry chasing them, and they will soon be able to attack our army."

Gu Ni frowned and said angrily: "Dieli has 50,000 troops, a hundred miles away from us, why did he retreat here? I still have 100,000 pursuers here, so I can't stop them. If you come another 100,000, how can you stop them?"

Pu Gu said: "At this time, there is no need to stop the Song army anymore. These days, it can be seen that the Song army is getting stronger and stronger as they fight, and they cannot stop them at all. It is better to retreat north and join the emperor's army. If hundreds of thousands of troops are together, the Song army should have no choice."

Gu Niu said with a calm face: "The Lord gave the imperial edict, let us do our best to block the pursuers of the Song army south of the boundary river. How can we disobey?"

The few people in the tent didn't speak. The meaning was very obvious. At this time, the hand edict was useless. It was easy to say the Song army south of the Border River, but it was difficult to do it. After fighting with Ma Huaide for dozens of days, he was full of confidence at the beginning and wanted to destroy his entire army. Later, the two sides fought against Ma Huaide, and then the Khitan army became worse and stronger day by day, but Ma Huaide became more and more brave.

The more than 100,000 people in Guniu were the ones who tempered Ma Huaide's army. This was originally a training for the imperial guards on Hebei Road. No one had any confidence in the early stages. However, they did not expect that in the process of fighting against the Khitans, all kinds of shortcomings were quickly compensated and became a strong army.

A few days ago, Gu Ni could hardly stop the counterattack. The two armies fought fiercely for one day, Gu Ni had to retreat, and Ma Huaide followed. Fortunately, the Khitan was full of cavalry, and Ma Huaide could not catch up with him. The two armies fought and stopped and arrived at the Jiehe River. Yelu Hongji led the army to the north and ordered Gu Ni to be unable to cross the river. The two armies were fighting fiercely here.

There is no way to deal with Ma Huaide Gu Ni, and it is like a nightmare to come to another 100,000 Song troops. Gu Ni could not imagine how he could escape the siege by his tens of thousands of people surrounded by the Song army. If he could not retreat north, he would be afraid that his entire army would be wiped out near the Jiehe River.
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