Great Song Super Scholar

Chapter 732 Jinzhou Falls
Not long after Fan Ning arrived in Beidao, the Song Dynasty received the secret information from Yelu Yixin. The five princes of the royal family of the Liao Kingdom took advantage of Yelu Hongji leading an army to Dongdong Road, and launched a palace coup in Shangjing. Brother is the new emperor, and Yelu Hongji led an army of 5 to rush back to Shangjing in a hurry. At present, there are only [-] defenders on Dongdong Road.

At the same time, the intelligence department also received a report from Tokyo Road's spies, and Yelu Hongji led the army to retreat northward in a panic.

Emperor Zhao Xu realized that this was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to attack Liaoyang Mansion in Tokyo, and immediately ordered Han Jiang, the envoy to conquer the North, to end his preparations ahead of schedule and launch a battle to attack Liaoyang Mansion.

At this time, the Song Dynasty had assembled 50 troops and [-] warships on the front line of Pingzhou, with the prime minister Han Jiang as the commander. Han Jiang immediately ordered General Cao Shi to lead the [-] troops to Jinzhou. Miao Shunli, the commander of the military capital, led a thousand warships along the Liaobei River to cooperate with Cao Shi's [-] troops to capture Liaoyang Mansion in one battle.

That afternoon, Cao Shi led an army of [-] troops through Jinzhou. They traveled lightly and only brought dry food for ten days, while their various supplies were delivered by warships by water.

There are currently [-] Song troops stationed in Jinzhou, and the general is Liu Zhen, who is a commander. When Cao Shi's army went north, Liu Zhen was relieved. At least he doesn't have to worry about the Liao army attacking Jinzhou now.

Not only did the general Liu Zhen relax, but the defenders in the entire city also relaxed. The Song Army has been tense for the past few months, not daring to relax for a moment, and the soldiers are really exhausted.

At this time, the army crossed the border, causing Jinzhou to change from the front line to the rear. The soldiers deserted one after another, and the generals stopped urging them to let the soldiers rest.

At night, Liu Zhen found two prostitutes to drink and have fun with him, and more than a dozen generals under him also got together to drink.

The soldiers also went to bed early, and there were only a thousand or so guards on duty on the city. He was resting and drinking, but arranged for him to be the guard on duty.

Li Song also knew that he was not welcome, and he was very depressed. However, he was quite dissatisfied with the indulgence of the general Liu Zhen. Although the main force had already passed the border, he could relax a little, but after all, it was a time of war, and the military order was very clear. It is a serious violation of military regulations not to drink alcohol during wartime.

It's just that other people speak lightly, and if they speak rashly, they may encounter unexpected consequences. At this time, the best way is to keep silent, as if they didn't see anything.

Just when the Song army thought that the main force was passing through and Jinzhou became the rear, a Liao army of more than [-] people quietly approached Jinzhou.

This Liao army did not come from Liaodong, but from Dading Mansion in Zhongjing to the west.

It's no wonder that although Dading Mansion is named Zhongjing, it has existed in a weak way for a long time. Its economic importance is far less than that of Liaoyang Mansion in Tokyo, its strategic importance is not as important as that of Yanshan Mansion in Nanjing, and its outreach is not as important as Datong in Xijing. Mansion, not to mention compared with the real capital Shangjing.

It was only because the Liao Kingdom needed a Zhongjing that Dading Mansion was able to be named.

Not only the Song Army looked down on it, but the Liao Kingdom itself did not pay much attention to it. The garrison was less than [-], not an elite army, but a Khitan reserve army, equivalent to the militia of the Great Song Dynasty.

Because of this, the Song Army guarding Jinzhou never took Dading Mansion seriously. Although the importance of Jinzhou is to guard the intersection of Dongdong Road and Zhongjing Road, the Song Army still set its sights on Liaodong and never wasted a little thought. And focus on Dading Mansion.

The 5000 Liao army approached the North City Gate of Jinzhou and ambushed [-] paces away from the city. Today's weather is bad, dark clouds cover the stars and moonlight, and no one can be seen [-] paces away.

A thousand-strong Liao army has quietly approached the northern city of Jinzhou. They are wearing Song army armor, but each has a white belt tied to their left arm.

When the Song army first occupied Jinzhou City, there were still a thousand Liao troops ambushing in Jinzhou City, ready to cooperate with the Liao army outside the city. At that time, the thousand Liao troops had tampered with the North City and dug a secret road, but they did not Use it in time.

Later, the Song army did not discover this secret road. The north gate of Jinzhou City is the Wengcheng. Generally, the Wengcheng has a secret passage from the top of the city to the inside of the Wengcheng. In the urn city.

The Liao army tampered with this secret road entering the urn city, and opened five feet outside the city to the north. Don't underestimate these five feet, so that the secret road and the outside of the city are only separated by a city brick, and the city brick has already disappeared. loose.

This secret road that opened up to the outside has been well covered up, and the Song army did not find it, and the Song army did not use the urn city.

Thousands of soldiers from the Liao army rushed against the city wall. Jinzhou had no moat, and the Song army dug a trench outside, but for the Liao army with long planks, this trench was meaningless.

A thousand Liao troops rushed to the north city gate. Two extremely strong soldiers used iron crowbars to test brick by brick. They quickly found the loose wall bricks and slowly pulled them out with crowbars. , took out five city bricks, and a big black hole appeared in front of my eyes. This is a narrow passage, with a length and width of three feet, and a thin camouflage wall is located five feet inside. Remove this thin wall , and behind it is the narrow passage leading from the head of the city to the Urn City.

Two soldiers climbed in and passed brick by brick, being extremely cautious, lest the thin wall collapse and alarm the soldiers on the top of the city.

Not long after, a dark passage appeared in front of the Liao army. This passage went straight to the top of the city. It was about eight feet high and only two feet wide, which was very narrow.

Two powerful soldiers from the Liao army entered the corridor first, and the soldiers behind followed one by one. down the steps.

A crack was opened in the plank, and the top of the city was very quiet. Most of the soldiers on duty at night were leaning against the city wall to sleep. The plank was slowly lifted, and two strong soldiers from the Liao army jumped out, followed by soldiers from the Liao army pouring out one after another. They divided into two groups, one group went straight to the sleeping Song soldiers, and the other group ran towards the winch that opened the city gate without hesitation.

Li Song, the general on duty, happened to be in the south city at this time, because it was possible that the main force of the Song army would come from the south at night, so the gate of the south city must be guaranteed to be opened by the defenders at any time.

Suddenly, there was a shout of killing from the top of the north city. Li Song was startled, and turned his head to look at the north city gate, only to see flames appearing on the top of the north city.

He was taken aback immediately. This kind of fire light was mostly a signal to inform the ambushes outside the city. He immediately took the horse's head and shouted: "Follow me!"

He led [-] soldiers along the head of the city to the head of the north city.

When he was two hundred steps away from the head of the northern city, he reined in the reins, and saw that the gate of the northern city was wide open, and a black army was rushing in from outside. The gate of the urn city was also opened, and countless enemy troops were rushing towards the gate.

At this time, a group of soldiers fled from Beicheng in a panic. Li Song was startled and anxious, stopped the group of soldiers with a wave of his gun, and asked sharply, "What happened to Beicheng?"

A soldier cried: "The Liao army came out from the corridor of the Wengcheng. There were thousands of people. The brothers couldn't resist, and the city gate fell."

Li Song was so anxious that he immediately sent soldiers to inform the barracks and the chief general Liu Zhen, while he turned his horse and ran towards the south city. It was meaningless to go to the north city at this time. Next to the south city was a warehouse with [-] iron fire mines He is well aware of the importance of Tie Huolei, and he must keep these Tie Huolei from falling into the hands of the Liao army.

At this time, [-] Liao troops had already rushed out of Jinzhou City, and the Jinzhou City was full of flames. The general Liu Zhen was still drunk, and the [-] soldiers in the barracks fought in a hurry. Most of them did not wear armor, and many of them were still naked. With only one knife, he was defeated by Liao soldiers and retreated steadily. The casualties were extremely heavy. Soon the soldiers of the Song Army couldn't hold on, they were completely defeated, and began to rush to the south gate.

As soon as Li Song opened the warehouse door, he received a report from the soldiers, "General, the main force of the barracks has been defeated and is fleeing towards the south gate."

"Where is Liu Tongzhi?" Li Song asked anxiously.

The commanding army's office has been ignited, and the commanding army's life and death are unknown.

Li Song suddenly realized that the general situation was over, and the iron, fire and thunder could not go away, so he immediately ordered: "Pile fodder in the firearms store and light it!"

The soldiers piled hundreds of loads of hay into the firearms storehouse and threw dozens of torches into it. The firearms storehouse suddenly ignited a raging fire. Li Song led [-] soldiers towards the west gate. There are mountains blocking it, making it impossible to retreat to the south, but there is a path to retreat to the north.

In the dark night, a series of earth-shattering explosions suddenly erupted in the city of Jinzhou. The entire city was shaking and the ground was trembling.

(End of this chapter)