On July 21, the third year of the Great Song Dynasty, early in the morning.

At this time, under the city of Yanjing far east, it was exactly when Wu Tian led 900 cavalry to break through 2,000 Khitan master soldiers.

However, in Anyangkoushu, which was under Zhong Fu's army, there was another extremely tragic scene.

A decisive battle with a huge gap in strength is about to begin. However, this time the weaker one is the Song army. The four generals led by Zhong Fu, less than 18,000 (of which there are only 9,000 soldiers), have been divided into two parts. About 2,000 soldiers guard the Guancheng in Anyangkoupu, blocking the Han army guards from the Daliao Nanjing Road that came all over the mountains.

The remaining 16,000 people, regardless of the war soldiers, auxiliary soldiers, and militias, all sent out weapons and guarded layer by layer behind the defense line composed of fences, trenches and several earthen walls. In front of them, there were a large army of Liao Kingdom with a number of more than 50,000, and was personally commanded by the Emperor Yelu Yanxi of the Great Liao Dynasty.

Anyang Pukou is not a natural danger. Now it is attacked from both sides, and the number of enemies exceeds 80,000, almost five times that of the Song army!

If the Song army under Zhong Fu had the combat power of the Shaanxi New Army (not Ganda like Wu Tian), then this battle would not be undefeated.

But the 9,000 soldiers under Zhong Fu's command had no combat power at all. They were just a group of tofu soldiers. If they had not formed a tough camp, they would probably not even be able to fight a stupid battle and were directly blinded by the powerful enemy in front of them.

Zhong Fu placed his central army under Guancheng in Anyangkoupu. Dozens of his own throne stood on the left and right. In front of them, there were a row of spears, and each spear was covered with a bloody head!

These were the heads of deserters who attempted to get into the Taihang Mountains last night. Several of them were military officers with official positions. All Zhong Fu ordered people to cut off their heads!

There is nothing to say now, it is nothing more than killing oneself and sacrificing one's life for justice. Whoever wants to live in this world is that it is impossible to get along with Mr. Zhong.

Zhong Fu didn't plan to survive! He is not a civil servant Liang Zimei, who cherishes his life. He is a military general who is not afraid of death! What else can he do now? It's just a death! You can't live and treason the country and surrender to the enemy, right?

So last night, when others were busy digging trenches and repairing the earth wall, he had already prepared the Death Poem.

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A melodious sound of trumpet suddenly sounded from the Liao army formation in the south of Anyangkoupu! Then a soldier shouted desolately: "Enemy attacks! Liao dog!"

More and more, the panic shouts followed, looking at the loud sound of the golden drums on the building, and desperately beating and warning. This reaction was completely excessive. The enemy was not here to attack, but it was a dignified formation, and the Song army had long been waiting for the battle.

Fu Zhong was calm and stood up and walked up to the low city gate tower of Anyangkoupu. Anyangkoupu had no city, only Chengguan, which was a city gate and a city wall. After going up the city gate tower, the two battlefields were all in your eyes.

Through a crystal telescope produced in Jiehe Shang City, Zhong Fu found that the Liao army on the south side of Anyangkoupu was dispatched to lead the battle with a combination of large soldiers and black armored soldiers.

There was almost one person tall in front of the big wooden squid, moving slowly, and someone was holding it forward. Behind the big wooden squid were the black armored soldiers of the brigade, and everyone was carrying a longbow.

"The front team of the commander has been hid behind the low walls! Without commander, you must not shoot arrows with crossbows!"

After all, Zhong Fu was in the Western Army for many years and still had battlefield experience, and he could see through the intentions of the Liao people at a glance.

They wanted to use a big wooden arch to block the divine arm crossbow, and then use the armored archers behind the wooden archers to consume their energy.

Archery is a skill! The archers of the Western Army are good at shooting thirty or fifty arrows in one round. It is a miracle that those wastes of the Hebei Army can actually shoot out ten arrows!

The so-called "real archery" of course means pulling a step bow of more than eight dou and then shooting the arrow to the exact direction and distance. This is also a craft, and it must be mastered after a certain period of rigorous training. Otherwise, even if you have enough strength to pull a hard bow with one stone, the arrow shot out has no accurate head, and you cannot control the distance. What threat can it pose to the enemy?

Zhong Fu has practiced bows and arrows himself, so he knows the difficulty. As for the target that is moving with an arrow a few dozen or hundreds of steps away, the difficulty is even higher. If it is not that the boy's skill is basically out of reach!

So in his opinion, Wu Haogu canceled professional archers in the four generals directly under the Xuanfu Division, and only equipped with crossbowmen is not without crossbowmen. It is not unreasonable.

"Shishuai Xuan, the Liao dog from Guanbei is also here!"

Someone suddenly shouted behind Zhong Fu. He quickly turned around, walked to a scrambler, raised his distant tube to check, and saw a group of armored soldiers in dense formations surrounded by a siege hammer!

"Siege Hammer!" Zhong Fu gritted his teeth. He did not expect that the Liao Han guards in Guanbei actually built a siege hammer!

"Send an order to transfer a team of people to the city gate and block the city gate with sandbags!"

"Here!"

As soon as the soldiers who sent the order responded, a "tough" sound of bowstrings came.

The Liao soldiers on the battlefield in the south of the city have already begun to shoot feather arrows!

Zhong Fu turned to the south again to watch and found that these Liao soldiers were shooting arrows while advancing! Moreover, the feather arrows they shot were very accurate, and they all landed on the heads of the Song army officers and soldiers behind the earth wall. The screams were also heard one after another, and it was obvious that someone was injured.

"How could this happen? Isn't it wearing armor?" A Hebei army general asked to himself.

Zhong Fu turned his head and looked at him with a wry smile: "The Liao Gou shot heavy arrows that broke armor! And the soldiers of our Hebei Army do not have full armor, the armor leaves are thin, and the pants do not have double eaves. Of course, there will be some casualties."

"There is such a saying?" This Hebei Army General named Shi was a descendant of Shi Shouxin, the founding father of the Song Dynasty. He has been an official in the imperial guards for generations, but he did not know about heavy arrows, full equipment and double eaves.

Zhong Fu asked: "The "Infantry and Military Training Classic" issued by the Dujun Jishi, have you not read it?"

"This...who will see this?" Shi Zhengjiang cried with a sad face. "Our ancestors have never heard of any rituals..."

Zhong Fu could only shake his head. He really wanted to die in Kaifeng's model new army! If he could bring a model new army general to Hebei, his life would probably be saved!

But now, I was really cheated by Wu Haogu! Can't this guy train these wastes in Hebei well?

Strong...

A chaotic sound of bowstrings came. Zhong Fu looked at the sound and it turned out that some of the Song army archers placed south of Anyangkoupu began to shoot arrows and fight back without waiting for orders. At the beginning, those who shot archers were good at archers, and the arrowheads finally fell into the array of Liao soldiers, but then more archers and even crossbowmen began to follow the trend. The landing points of the arrowheads became very scattered, and most of them deviated from their targets and landed in front of the Liao army array.

Zhong Fu was about to let someone stop the soldiers from wasting their energy, but the sound of war drums was already rumbling in the Liao army camp.

I only saw a large number of unarmed Jingzhou soldiers, holding shields and holding long swords, rushing up from both sides of the Liao soldiers who were shooting arrows like a tide!

Almost at the same time, the sound of war drums and shouts also came from the other side of Anyangkoupu.

The bloody battle in Anyang Pukou has officially begun!

...

Under the city of Yanjing, Sanggan River Ferry.

The bloody battle was also staged as scheduled here.

The three floating bridges originally built here have now been burned down, leaving only the last floating bridge that has not been burned down. Somehow it fell into the hands of the vanguard light cavalry sent by Xiao Baoxian. The cavalry of these palace divisions also came day and night. Although they were one step late, they finally grabbed a trace of vitality for Xijinfu City.

Oh, it may also be a trap set by Wu Tian.

Wu Tian's cavalry had already defeated the useless Khitan soldiers in Yanjing City back into the city! And they were attacked in front of the Jingzhou soldiers of Xijin Prefecture who were defending on the city wall!

Now the minds of Yanjing City have changed. The Khitan Iron Cavalry is just like this and is not the opponent of the Cangzhou Iron Cavalry.

So is it necessary for everyone to pay these wastes that can be eaten and not beaten as a master?

The changes in the hearts of the people in the city were also possible. Yelu Eliduo, the deputy deputy of the Nanjing Road in the Great Liao Dynasty, could also guess. Therefore, he did not dare to mobilize troops out of the city to confront the few hundred Song army cavalry. Instead, he closed the gates of Yanjing, and even the gates of more than 20 markets in the city were closed, strictly prohibiting residents of each store to go out. At the same time, he also dispersed the Jingzhou soldiers in the city and reorganized them, and used Khitan soldiers to separate the battalions of each soldier, so as not to cause a battlefield uprising.

The Liao soldiers in the city could no longer move, so Wu Tian's troops outside the city could naturally fight fiercely with Xiao Baoxian's light cavalry around the floating bridge.

All of their men and horses were replaced with armor and armor, and a team of hundreds of cavalry took turns to charge towards the Liao Dynasty's government army that occupied the bridgehead. After a few rounds, the bridgehead was surrounded by the palace army.

However, these Khitan soldiers were much stronger than the master soldiers in Xijinfu City. Although they were killed and injured, they still held the bridgehead of the floating bridge. They also piled up the bodies of dead people and horses and built them into fortifications. Finally, they won a little possibility for Xiao Baoxian's return to the army.

I don’t know if Wu Tian felt that the Liao people’s fortifications were difficult to break through? The war at the bridgehead of the Sanggan River was also suspended after the fortification was completed. The cavalry commanded by Wu Tian slowly retreated more than two thousand steps and retreated to the edge of the Sorghum River.
Chapter completed!