Heavy troops encircle and annihilate

Enter the city, attack, and encircle.

The Liao soldiers who had fought hard with the Song army for a night were struggling to support the artillery fire. The young and strong people in Nanjing who had gathered in a hurry were fleeing in the face of the surging Song army.

The actions of these Liao people once again prove that when civilians encounter regular troops, not only the Song people will only die and resist, but it will take great courage.

It can be said that Wen Yanbo chose the most suitable time to leverage the heaviest chips in his hand. Yelu Shiya's entire defense line was like a solid embankment, which collapsed instantly after being washed away by the flood.

The victory of the Song army could no longer be reversed. Yelu Shiya, covered in blood, stood in the palace where the former Liao emperors and ministers discussed politics, and could not accept this fact at all.

Now, this place in the entire Nanjing city is still completely in the hands of the Liao people.

The south city was broken, the east city was broken, and the west city was broken.

The Liao** team resisted step by step, shrinking its defensive front bit by bit. Yelu Shiya was not willing to give up. The Song army opened the north gate and asked them to run away. Many powerful people had already left. Now the defeated soldiers of the residents were congested at the north gate.

But he didn't want to leave because the key to this battle was not how many Liao soldiers were annihilated by the Song army, or how many Liao soldiers killed by the Liao army. But when the war ended, the city was in whose hands.

Yelu Shiya thought about the battle decades ago in his mind. At that time, Han Derang was also alone in defending the city. Han Derang persisted until the arrival of reinforcements and killed hundreds of thousands of troops of Emperor Zhao Guangyi of the Song Dynasty, but what about himself?

Keep it a little longer. Yelu Niegulu's army is not far away. Perhaps reinforcements will come soon and he can kill the Song army and lose his armor.

The battle outside was still going on, and the soldiers of the Liao Kingdom were still resisting. Most of the residents of the Liao Kingdom in Nanjing fled to the north of the city like desperately, but when some people found that they could not escape at all, they bravely chose to fight the Song army.

Some people hid in the corner alone and sneaked into the Song army passing by with their weapons, while others found the remnants of the Liao Kingdom and fought with them.

Every street was blood flowing like a river, every lane had to fight, and even every house had to be fought for. The Song army advanced step by step, and every inch of land advanced had to suffer casualties. The charge continued, and the enemy's resistance never stopped.

The sporadic battles were not as bloody as last night's siege. This was the last breath of the Liao people. Wen Yanbo knew that his great achievements were about to be obtained, but he did not dare to be careless at all.

Because he knew in his heart that the Battle of Nanjing was just a node, and it was important to obtain this node, but what happened next was even more important.

After two days of battle, the entire city was almost ruined, while Yelu Shiya and the remaining thousands of Liao soldiers were still defended.

Neither morale nor weapons, they could hold on.

Yelu Shiya sat on a stone bench on the ground, staring at the ground with a dull look, his spear aside, looking extremely confused. He could accept the failure, but he could not accept the failure so quickly.

Three days, the Song army only took three days and two nights to capture the Nanjing city, which the Liao people believed could be at least one month or even half a year.

Wen Yanbo's first attempt was to fill the trenches, siege Wuyuan Mountain, and even tens of thousands of Song soldiers died under the city walls of Nanjing all night.

When the Song army came, they confirmed their fatal killing moves, and all their deployments were to expose their flaws.

Times have really changed. Even the scholars and officials of the Song Dynasty like Wen Yanbo would use tricks. Yelu Shiya suddenly laughed when she thought of this, and she laughed loudly: "Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

A personal soldier ran over: "General, the Song people sent someone to shout outside, saying that if we don't leave, they will set off fireworks and flatten the place."

Yelu Shiya put away his laughter and looked at the personal soldier: "I won't leave. The king gave me this place, and I will never leave it if I can't keep it."

The personal soldiers hesitated for a moment, then made up their minds and clasped their fists at Yelu Shiya: "Precaution, General."

After saying the four words, the personal soldier turned around and ran away. Yelu Shiya touched the bow and arrow next to him, and finally let go of his hand with a sigh and watched the personal soldier disappear from his sight.

I picked up the wine pot and poured myself a bowl of wine, and then drank it as fast as possible.

“Huhu”

With the terrifying sound of wind, shells flew into the courtyard one by one, one of which fell next to him. Yelu Shiya saw the round thing rolling at his feet, and ignored it, picked up the wine pot and took a sip.

"Bang~"

The resistance organized by the Liao people was finally over, and the scattered soldiers and roaming warriors continued to fight. Wen Yanbo stood at the highest point of the city gate tower, looking at the city with smoke everywhere under his feet. The feeling of a conqueror made him very excited.

Song Jun thought about this city for many years and found that he could not say anything.

Fu Yongji ran over from the side: "Sir, the remaining enemies in the city have basically been eliminated, and there are still some sporadic battles, but the scale is not very large, and it can be pacified within half an hour. There are still more than 100,000 Liao people crowded at the north gate. Should we close the door?"

Wen Yanbo sighed: "What are you doing when you close it? Do you think I am Chen Shimei? Since they want to leave, let them go. How is Shu Baoxin's where?"

"Where are the people of Liao who have begun to break through? General Shu asked if he wanted to keep them?"

Wen Yanbo shook his head: "What I want is this city. It is not a bad thing to let them tell the results of this battle to other Liao people. You can ask the supervisors of each army to report the number of casualties to me within an hour and send them back to Bianjing with the battle table. Also, thank you for your hard work, and you will have a good meal tonight."

Fu Yongji clasped his fists: "Yes."

During the Battle of Nanjing, the Song army annihilated more than 17,000 defenders in the city. The number of young and strong people temporarily recruited by the Liao Kingdom and the casualties of civilians in the Liao Kingdom during the battle cannot be counted.

The casualties of the Song army themselves were shocking. The number of casualties alone was more than 29,000, and more than 14,000 were seriously injured, regardless of minor injuries.

The main reason was that Wen Yanbo's attack was too fierce. In order to put pressure on the Liao people that night, he almost used his life to pile people on the city wall. The troops that had just arrived rushed immediately entered the battle. They were seriously lacking in physical strength. Even if they had much better equipment than the Liao people, they still couldn't take any advantage.

Judging from the number of people, the Liao people did not suffer any losses at this stop, and even took a lot of advantages. But this is not how the war is calculated.

This is the political, economic and cultural center of the entire southeastern defense line of Liao. Wen Yanbo captured Nanjing in three days, which means that the most solid point on the entire defense line of Liao was destroyed, and half of the country of Liao lost its strongest fulcrum.

The Song army grasped the nodes of the war and mastered the rhythm of the war. The rest was to let the war continue in the footsteps of the Song Dynasty.

At the beginning of the third year of Huangyou.

Yelu Hongji and his cavalry counterattacked Nanjing City, hoping to open up this passage. However, they retreated after being counterattacked by Wen Yanbo.

In mid-April, Li Shibin and Yeli Yuqi's cavalry troops immediately launched a sweeping attack on the southwestern half of the Liao Kingdom.

At the same time, Mu Guiying's 400,000 army changed the slow movements at the beginning of the war, and pounced on Yelu Hongji's troops who were stuck in the back by the Song army.

In the late month, Renzong also suppressed more than 100,000 soldiers who were mobilized by Fan Zhongyan in Bianjing during this period. Ren Fu also commanded nearly 300,000 Song troops from Hejian Prefecture to launch a counterattack aimed at dragging Yelu Hongji.

The Liao people had not yet escaped from the shock of the fall of Nanjing. While thinking about whether the Song Dynasty would continue to attack them north, the Song army mobilized nearly one million troops in the Hejian Prefecture area as quickly as possible. The intention was to eat the 400,000 elite Liao powers led by Yelu Hongji in one bite.

In early May, Yelu Hongji gave up his attack on Xin'an and led his army to retreat and pounced on the defense line deployed by Wen Yanbo in Nanjing, hoping to open up a little and allow his army to escape. At the same time, Yelu Niegulu led his army south to attack and respond, hoping to defeat the Song army and rescue the trapped Liao army.

After several days of bloody battle between the two sides, news of Di Qing sending troops from Goryeo came, and Yelu Negulu was forced to retreat.

In the middle of the month, all the Song army of the three routes were in place. Except for nearly 30,000 cavalrymen who ran out before the encirclement of the Song army, the rest of the troops were besieged in Yongqing, Xincheng, and Gu'an.

The Liao people lost their last chance, and a large-scale encirclement and annihilation battle that the Song Dynasty had never fought before was about to begin.

The entire Song Dynasty was excited by the news. The villagers had a proud smile on their faces, some were pushing carts, and some drove carts and trucks of supplies from the rear to the front line.

Almost all caravans volunteered to help the Song army carry out transportation. Even the scholars and officials of the Song Dynasty were not pursuing romanticism during this period.

When the Hejian Mansion was fighting bloody battles, the people who were most popular in teahouses and restaurants were no longer the literati and officials, but some soldiers and refugees who came back from the Hejian Mansion and fleeing refugees. No matter where these people appeared, there was always a large group of people surrounding them to ask about the real situation on the battlefield.

When he heard the wonderful things about the Song army's killing, there were always some good people shouting loudly, and shouting that all the money for today's wine and food was counted on him, which won applause from the whole hall.

The literati and officials were originally somewhat unbalanced about themselves being neglected, but now it’s better, Wen Yanbo’s capture of Nanjing is like making them proud. Who said that only martial artists can fight? Emperor Taizong hated Youzhou at the beginning, but now Wen Yanbo helps him get his face back.

Moreover, after Wen Yanbo conquered Nanjing, he did not kill all the Japanese like Chen Shimei, and let the defeated Liao Kingdom and fleeing civilians leave, which further demonstrated the minds of the scholars and officials of the Song Dynasty and gave them capital to brag about.

Everyone was talking about the front line, the death battle of the Song army in Hejian Prefecture, the surprise attack of the Song army in Nanjing City, and the preparations for the upcoming encirclement and annihilation of the Liao army.
Chapter completed!