Great Song Super Scholar

Chapter 740 Raid on Jinzhou

In the night, Yang Ying led an army of [-] to Jinzhou. At this time, it was not until the third watch, and the night was dark, and the city of Jinzhou was very quiet.

The spies of the Liao Army on the Liaoxi Corridor did not hear the news of the Song Army, so Jinzhou's defense has not yet entered a wartime state. If it was a wartime state, the 6000 defenders in the city must be divided into three shifts to defend the city, so at least at night. 3000 people, although not in a wartime state, but it is not a peacetime after all, there are also many troops guarding the city at night, and 2000 people are patrolling the city, including [-] people in the city, and more than a thousand people on the streets of the city.

The [-] Song troops did not arrive at the city at the same time. They lay in ambush a mile away from Beicheng, waiting for the news of the forward.

The reason why the attack point was placed in the North City instead of the South City was because after learning about the fall of Jinzhou in detail, Fan Ning realized that there was a loophole in the wall structure of the North City. Opportunity.

Five soldiers of the Song army crossed the ditch, rushed under the city wall, and rushed to the north gate in a moment. The five soldiers quickly groped on the city wall, and one soldier suddenly waved to everyone. place.

A few bricks were obviously newly repaired, but the repairs were not good, and fine sand could still be touched. Everyone was refreshed, and two soldiers quickly used a very thin tool to remove the sand around the city bricks. Take it out little by little.

It takes at least a year for the city bricks to fully solidify. What's more, the Liao army patched them roughly, without adding rice slurry, and directly mixed lime and fine sand to build bricks, and the mortar could be dug out bit by bit with special tools.

About a quarter of an hour later, the two soldiers nodded, gently poked the hook in, and slowly pulled it out forcefully, the city wall was actually pulled out.

The space leading to the corridor has been blocked by the Liao army with bricks and stones, but this is not important to the Song army. The Song army only needs to pull out two city bricks. The Song army removed the two city bricks and put one A city-exploding iron fire mine weighing 150 kilograms was placed in the hole in the wall. This iron fire mine is so powerful that it can blast a big hole even if it is placed on the city wall, but the effect will be better if it is placed inside the city wall.

A soldier pulled out a fire pocket, flicked his hand, and the fire ignited, but the fire was too dazzling in the dark, and the soldiers on the top of the city immediately spotted it.

The soldiers on the top of the city shouted: "Who is it?"

The five soldiers had no time to respond, so they lit the matchlocks, turned around and ran wildly.

"There is an enemy situation!" The soldiers at the top of the city began to shout.

"Dang! Dang! Dang!" The rapid alarm bell sounded.

Soldiers patrolling the top of the city immediately rushed from all directions to the top of the north city. They opened their bows and set arrows, blindly looking at the darkness outside the city to release arrows, but they didn't realize that the god of death was grinning at their feet.

"Boom—"

With an earth-shattering explosion, the city wall rushed up suddenly, the ground trembled, the city wall shook violently, the city wall and the north city gate near the north city were blown to pieces, bricks, rocks and debris flew into the air, and the city tower also collapsed , dusty, enveloped the entire city.

Yang Ying stood up and shouted: "Go in!"

"Woo——" The low-pitched horn blew, and the [-] army lying in ambush on the ground jumped up, screaming, and rushed towards the north gate of the city like a sea tide.

The gunpowder smoke and dust in the northern city had gradually dissipated. The entire northern city gate and the walls on both sides disappeared. Through the opening, you can clearly see the situation in the city.

Fifty thousand Song troops rushed forward like a tide, and directly entered Jinzhou City through several gaps.

The explosion at the city gate had already alarmed the sleeping defenders in the city. The defenders in the city panicked. They didn't even have time to put on their armor, so they rushed out of the barracks. In fact, even if they wanted to put on their armor, it was too late. The landscape armor of the Song Army and the iron armor of the Liao Army are very troublesome to put on, and it takes less than half an hour to put them on.

But more importantly, he was flustered, and before he had time to think about wearing armor, he rushed into the street with a knife, gun and spear.

At this time, Liang Wang Yelu Hongtai rushed over on horseback, holding a long spear in his hand, and shouted: "Assemble the team, don't mess up, hold on until the reinforcements arrive!"

He had already sent people on horseback to ask for help from the Liao army in Jianzhou and West Liaozhou at the first time. Once [-] reinforcements arrived, Jinzhou would be able to hold on. The key is that they must hold on.

Yelu Hongtai was really annoyed. A general suggested that he build a beacon tower, but he didn't accept it, thinking it was of little significance. He didn't expect the Song army to come here at night.

The [-] Liao troops in the city also came from the Tianzi Guards. They are the elite of the Liao army and have strong combat effectiveness, while the [-] Song troops who came in are the Western Army and the strongest army in the Song Dynasty. Night combat training, rich experience in night combat.

As [-] Song troops entered the city, a fierce street battle broke out in Jinzhou City.

On Central Axis Street, thousands of soldiers from the Liao army charged forward. A hundred steps away, thousands of soldiers from the Song army raised their crossbows and fired arrows together. There was a dense rain of arrows. Hundreds of Liao soldiers were shot by arrows, screaming and falling down. On the ground, they are all wearing common clothes, so they can't stop the arrows at all.

Seeing the critical situation, Yelu Hongtai shouted: "Rush forward, don't give the enemy a chance to shoot arrows."

Thousands of soldiers from the Liao army rushed forward, and thousands of soldiers from the Song army flashed out from behind the crossbowmen of the Song army. everywhere.

As the sky gradually dawned, thousands of Liao troops rushed out of the north city gate, and under the leadership of Liang Wang Yelu Hongtai, they fled in a panic to the northeast.

Although the Liao army was strong, they did not wear armor, and they were not opponents of the Song army at all. The more they fought, the fewer people there were. run away.

In this tragic night street battle, the Liao army killed more than 7000 people, and the Song army also suffered nearly [-] casualties. Both sides suffered heavy losses.

Ordinary people suffered the most. Almost half of the more than 1000 households in the city died in the street fighting.

The battle finally ended, the Song army took control of Jinzhou, and the fleet from the Xiaoling River also arrived in Yongle City. Thousands of artisans accompanying the army began to quickly repair the bombed city walls and install new gates. Soldiers were collecting corpses in the city.

The corpses of the soldiers of the Liao army were burned and buried deep on the spot, while the corpses of the soldiers of the Song army were burned and their bones were packed in pottery pots, ready to be returned to their families.

The dead civilians are also treated in the same way. The Song army will not keep the corpses, which is prone to epidemics.

The news of capturing Jinzhou soon spread to Pingzhou. The 40 troops are currently deployed in Pingzhou. They were waiting for Cao Shi's forward to capture Liaoyang, and then the army would quickly go north. Arriving at Dading Mansion, the situation in Liaoyang Mansion was not good, making the 40 troops dare not act rashly.

At this time, Fan Ning was in Lulong County, Pingzhou, and Han Jiang was also there. Although he resigned as the coach, he was still ordered by the emperor Zhao Xu to stay and assist Fan Ning in taking over the enemy's prefectures and counties.

In addition to Han Jiang, Fan Ning's father-in-law Zhu Xiaoyun was also present. He was the magistrate of Yanshan and was appointed by Zhao Xu as the transfer envoy of Yanshan to be in charge of the logistics of the Song army.

Zhu Xiaoyun not only had to govern the local area, care about the people's livelihood in Youzhou, but also be responsible for the food and drink of the 40 troops in Pingzhou. He was so busy that he was really exhausted in the past few months.

Fan Ning took a piece of information he had just received and said to Han Jiang and Zhu Xiaoyun: "Yang Ying has not let me down, she has captured Jinzhou!"

Han Jiang was overjoyed. The fall of Jinzhou had always been a thorn in his heart, and now it was finally withdrawn, which made him secretly relieved.

"What about the situation of the enemy army?" Han Jiang asked again.

"The enemy army killed more than 400 people, but the main general Yelu Hongtai escaped. We suffered [-] casualties, of which more than [-] were killed. Fortunately, the enemy army was in a hurry to fight at night, and it was almost too late to put on our clothes. Armor, otherwise our casualties will increase.”

Speaking of which, he passed the information to Han Jiang. Han Jiang looked at the information and said to Fan Ning: "Then we should send troops as soon as possible."

Fan Ning nodded, and said to Zhu Xiaoyun: "I am worried that the Liao Dynasty will send people to burn the logistics grain and grass. I inspected the warehouse yesterday and suggested that it is best to separate the grass fodder from the grain warehouse, and then strengthen precautions. The logistics cannot be lost in the slightest. This matter It’s hard work on my father-in-law.”

Zhu Xiaoyun nodded, "The cunning rabbit has three caves, I won't put the food in one place, so you can rest assured that there will be no problems with logistics."

Fan Ning happily said, "Then get ready to go!"

In April of the second year of Xining, the Song army recaptured Jinzhou and regained the initiative strategically. The coach Fan Ning personally led an army of 30 to Jinzhou. The pressure on Liaoyang Prefecture was extremely high. The army withdrew from Liaoyang Mansion to the east, preparing to gather an army of [-] and the Song Army for a decisive battle in Liaoyang Mansion.

(End of this chapter)