On the battlefield on both sides of Anyang Koupu, the attacks and killings between the Song and Liao sides were in full swing.

On the north of Anyangkoupu Pass, after the failed use of the siege hammer, the Han army, who was looking at the horse, actually pulled up more than a dozen stone cannons, forcing the city to stand, and fired stones of all sizes towards the city walls defended by the Song army.

These stone cannons are not traditional rope-pulling models, but counterweight stone generators that cleverly utilize the principle of leverage! At first glance, they are high-tech weapons designed by craftsmen in Jiehe Market using the knowledge of "morphology"!

It is not surprising that the Liao people's Han army guards had such weapons. Jiehe Shangshi was owned by the Song and Liao dynasties, so the Yuntai Academy never closed the door to the powerful men in Yan. Of course, some of the powerful men in Yan learned to make counterweight stone cannons, which are now used to deal with the unlucky Zhong Fu.

Because time is in a hurry, these stone cannons are made very rough and have not had a long range. Therefore, they can only approach the construction of the city gate in Anyangkoupu, and are not far from the trenches dug by the Song army in front of Anyangkoupu. Next to each stone cannon, dozens of Han soldiers were busy operating. They threw large and small stones to the city gate in Anyangkoupu. Each stone bullet fell on the city gate, either causing a flying gravel or hitting the soldiers guarding the gate. The bones and tendons were broken, and they didn't even have time to scream, and they were already killed.

The Han army guards and soldiers in the brigade lined up behind the stone cannons, carrying cloud ladders, ready to attack the city at any time. The stone bullets were like rain, making it difficult for the Song army on the city to gain a foothold. The archers of the guards and the archers took the opportunity to approach the trench, stood in rows, and fired dense feather arrows towards the city gate. The Song army on the city was unable to lift their heads!

On the other side of Anyangkoupu, the Song army had already blocked the four rounds of attacks of the Liao soldiers in accordance with the hard camp, but it also paid a considerable price. The fences in front of the camp were all pushed down, and seven or eight paths had been filled with trenches. In front of the eight-foot-high wall, the bodies of the Song army and Liao soldiers also had bags of sand and soil layer by layer. It seemed that the Liao army was attacking the earth and was subjected to the tenacious resistance of the Song army! On the wall, the Song army soldiers held huge side signs to cover the crossbowmen and archers to shoot arrows one by one. The hand-to-hand combat soldiers holding swords and spears stood behind the wall. Once the crossbowmen retreated, they should go on the field to fight for their lives.

However, the traditional Song army imperial guards weighed on bows and crossbows and light on hand-to-hand combat. There were not many armored soldiers who could fight hand-to-hand combat. It was difficult to cause enough fatal damage to the enemy!

Moreover, after several rounds of death battles, the few hand-to-hand combat soldiers had already suffered a lot of losses, and they might not be enough to continue to resist. Zhong Fu could only recruit strong men from the auxiliary soldiers and civilians, and distributed swords and shields to let them act as cannon fodder.

After four rounds of attacks with the cannon fodder of Jingzhou soldiers as the main force, the elites drawn from the Gong branch army were already gathering at this time. Each soldier was wearing double heavy armor, with a layer of black armor on the outside and a layer of chain armor on the inside. Everyone was holding a grown-up weapon. Archers drawn from the imperial tent were wearing armor and approaching step by step under the cover of the wooden siege supported by the auxiliary soldiers. The good archers were hiding behind the wooden siege, so they naturally did not seek accurate hits, but only used the method of shooting heavy arrows to cover the attack. In fact, the real purpose was to lure the crossbowmen of the Song army to fight back to consume their limited physical strength!

At this time, Zhong Fu was already driven down from the city gate of Anyangkoupu by the stone cannon of the Liao soldiers, and set up a temporary central army in the safe city gate. His dozens of personal guards brought out from the Western Army, plus the heroes selected from the four generals under his command, totaling about 200 to 300 people, all of whom were covered with armor and breathing at the foot of the city wall. There were also some auxiliary soldiers and civilians serving them to eat and drink, as if they wanted them to keep their spirits and be ready to fight at any time.

As long as Zhong Fu gave the order, these heroes would immediately attack and pounce on the edge of being broken by the Liao army!

Relying on these few heroes' repeated counterattacks, Zhong Fu finally survived most of the day. Now the sky is getting darker, but the Liao army has no intention of stopping. It seems that they are preparing for a night battle!

Zhong Fu, who had been in the northwest for a long time, knew that the Liao people were going to fight a fatigue battle! There were many people, so they could take turns to fight. But they were few and were attacked from both sides, so they had to grit their teeth and thrust. After fighting for a few days and nights, they should be exhausted...

But what can I do if I don’t stand up? Can I look forward to reinforcements? Dreaming! The only one I can fight on the battlefield in Hebei is the Cangzhou cavalry under Wu Haogu. But here is more than 500 miles away from Cangzhou! Even if Wu Haogu, a treacherous minister, is willing to send reinforcements, he will not be able to get through without seven or eight days!

Alas! It’s all treacherous ministers who ruin the country! It’s treacherous ministers who ruin the country!

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"It's all treacherous ministers who ruin the country! I must scatter the martial arts hard and make a good ancient book!"

The hippo in the world really runs faster, and Liang Zimei, who comes from a noble family, is also a master who can ride a horse. Now she has already run to Zhending Mansion and scolds the treacherous minister Wu Haogu in front of the stunned Wang Ying.

Wang Ying looked gloomy and had the urge to hang Liang Zimei up and beat him up. How could Liang Zimei abandon the city and escape? Even if there is only one general's defender, he can persist in Dingzhou for a long time! Dingzhou is a serious city!

Moreover, Wang Ying had handed over half of his troops to Zhong Fu to reinforce Dingzhou. Now, they all became meat buns to beat dogs.

What's even more annoying is that Liang Zimei only cares about running for her own life and does not escort the general from Dingzhou City to retreat to Zhending Mansion. As a result, the general roared on the way to retreat. Nearly 5,000 soldiers and less than 500 auxiliary soldiers retreated into Zhending Mansion!

Now there are less than 3,000 soldiers in Zhending Prefecture City. What should I do if the Liao people fight?

"Please, now you can only rely on the group training!" Han Xiaozhou, who rushed over after hearing the news, wiping the sweat beads on his forehead, and said to Wang Ying, "The officials have already made a name for themselves and can go back to Xiangzhou to recruit soldiers immediately! The people of Xiangzhou are martial, and there are many heroes hiding among the people. As long as they are summoned, they should be able to fight."

In fact, the customs of Hebei are considered strong. In history, the Jurchens spent the hard work of pacifying Hebei! There were also eight characters in the Taihang Mountains, and they had been dealing with the Jurchens for a lot of time.

Dingzhou City also carried out a long resistance during the Jin army's southward journey, which lasted for two years. This time, the fall so quickly was actually caused by two reasons. First, the treacherous minister Wu Haogu recruited soldiers at Jiehe Market at high prices, attracting many local martial artists and heroes in Dingzhou to Jiehe; second, before Liang Zimei had enough time to fully mobilize and organize group training, the Liao soldiers rushed in, and Liang Zimei was also half-hearted about organizing group training.

This regiment is approaching an armed force outside the imperial court's economic army, and it is not easy to control!

Therefore, after Han Xiaozhou took office as the Zhendingfu Road Train Envoy, he also reserved it and did not fully mobilize his own forces in Xiangzhou to form armed forces.

"Like husband, have we recruited tens of thousands of people?" Wang Ying didn't understand Han Xiaozhou's words very well. He is a native of Jiangnan West Road, and the folk customs on Jiangnan West Road are not as good as Xiangzhou on the edge of Taihang Mountain. There is no high-gate and huge room like the Han family in Xiangzhou, so naturally I don't know how much power it will be if the Han family in Xiangzhou has fully armed themselves.

"Please, this is different..." Han Xiaozhou just shook his head, "Please give Ji Yizhi of Daming a document, and ask for good weapons produced in Jiehe to transport them to Xiangzhou City as soon as possible!"

"Okay, okay!" Wang Qing didn't care about that much. The Han family in Xiangzhou was his life-saving straw. As long as he could get the team up, he would do anything.

"We have to let Wu Haogu send troops!" Liang Zimei was unwilling to accept it and gritted her teeth, "It's better to report together and ask the emperor to issue an edict to transfer the Cangzhou Iron Cavalry to Hebei West Road.

Now Zhong Fu’s four elite soldiers are mostly besieged somewhere. As long as the Cangzhou cavalry can come, they should be rescued."

I don’t even know where I am besieged. Where can I go to save the Cangzhou Iron Cavalry?

Wang Ying knew that Liang Zimei's words were unreliable, but she still looked at Han Xiaozhou.

"Please report!" Han Xiaozhou said, "By the way, I will study the ancient book of Wu Hao! He is the Hebei Xuanshuo, and he was ordered to train the Hebei New Army... Now the Hebei New Army has no combat power. Can he get rid of the crime?"

Wang Qi nodded, "Okay! Then let's get involved!"

In fact, Han Xiaozhou didn’t want to really bring down Wu Haogu… Without the big tree Wu Haogu, how could the “Shooting Army” of the Han family in Xiangzhou grow up healthily?

The "Capital Army" is also used to guard against the military force of the Yuntai New Army!

So if Han Xiaozhou has something to do or not, he has to bite Wu Haogu, otherwise how could Zhao Ji feel at ease? After all, the Han family and the Wu family are in-laws! Wu Haogu's third brother is Han Xiaozhou's future son-in-law... With this relationship, how could the emperor feel at ease?

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"Tell me the whole army dismounted and rested!"

At this time, Xiao Baoxian finally arrived at the west bank of Sanggan River. When he learned that there was a floating bridge on the Sanggan River under his control, the uncle of the Great Liao Kingdom finally breathed a sigh of relief, staggered down from the horse's back, and issued an order to rest.

"Prince, now rest?"

Yelu Zhangnu, who made meritorious service, is now Xiao Baoxian's deputy. When he heard his order, he asked in confusion: "Yanjing City is almost here, so we might as well rush in in one go!"

"I can't rush in!" Xiao Baoxian shook his head, "Didn't you see the flag of the Song army on the other side?"

"So what? It's just ten thousand cavalrymen... We still have 5,000 Khitan soldiers in the city of Xijin Prefecture! They will not be defeated if they are at the same time?"

Xiao Bao sighed first: "Don't think about analyzing the Khitan troops in Jinfu City... they are all waste and cannot fight. If we want to enter the city, we have to fight in by ourselves.
Chapter completed!