Chapter 783 The Outer City Falls
The battle in Beicheng was extremely fierce. A siege ladder was erected, and the golden soldiers climbed up desperately. On the top of their heads, rolling logs and rocks fell like hailstones, and countless soldiers screamed and fell from the ladders.
Behind the siege ladder, the bow and arrow battle was also going on fiercely. In the dark night, it was basically impossible to aim. The arrows flying above and below the city weaved a huge black net.
Li Yanqing was in Nancheng at this time. Xu Ning handed over the 6,000 soldiers in Nancheng to Li Yanqing to command, and he himself went to command the 5,000 soldiers in Dongcheng. These 11,000 soldiers were the foundation of Li Yanqing's counterattack. They could not control the Qianxinbei Army, especially the 15,000 people who fought fiercely with the Jinbing in Beicheng.
Li Yanqing did not rush to Beicheng to participate in the battle. His role in the city was not great, even similar to Zhang Qing, Xu Ning and others.
What Li Yanqing is good at is not directly participating in the battle, but preparing for battle, commanding, and employing people, especially in employing people. He can give full play to everyone's talents, boost morale, make soldiers fight desperately, arrange the positions of generals, and let generals fully exert themselves. The advantages.
He arranged all these things properly, and naturally Liu Kai, Wang Gui, Niu Gao, Cao Meng, and Yang Zaixing led the army directly to fight.
The reason why Li Yanqing knew that the outer city was bound to be breached was because the Song army did not have any preparations for the second defense of the city. They were squandering the balance of his combat preparations for the first time. They did not check the trebuchets carefully and did not have sufficient logistical support. During the truce, the army didn't even have any training, and the army had no rules for fighting. The soldiers fought fiercely with the golden soldiers based on instinct. How could this battle be won? Do you think Jinbing is so easy to defeat?
Whether Li Yanqing won the defense of Taiyuan or the first defense of the capital, it was the result of a lot of hard work, and he would never succeed by chance.
At this time, a shocking explosion came from the head of Beicheng, and half of the trebuchet was faintly seen flying high, followed by another explosion, and the two trebuchets were blown to pieces.
Li Yanqing frowned in his heart. It was because the trebuchet had malfunctioned, which caused the Thunderbolt to explode directly on the top of the city without throwing it. He shook his head slightly. This was what he expected. He was so careful in Taiyuan One even exploded, not to mention that the army has not considered this issue at all, and the implosion must be inevitable.
Li Yanqing immediately ordered: "Pass my order, prepare to withdraw to the inner city!"
As soon as he finished speaking, there was a continuous sound of violent explosions from the west city, and a strong black smoke rose into the sky. Li Yanqing's expression changed immediately, "Not good!"
He saw that the place where the black smoke rose was the Xinzheng Gate. It was the Jin soldiers bombing the city gate. Li Yanqing suddenly understood that the attack on the North City was just a cover, and the Jin soldiers wanted to use the thunder they captured to blow up the West City. , who said that Jin Bing can't use strategy, this strategy is quite clever, using Jin Bing's thinking inertia of attacking the North City all the time, and blowing open the West City Gate by surprise.
Li Yanqing immediately made a decision and shouted: "Launch the rocket and return to the inner city!"
Three rockets soared into the sky, which was the signal to retreat. The 6,000 Song troops on the top of the city quickly left the southern city and withdrew to the inner city.
At the same time, Xu Ning of Dongcheng also ordered the army to retreat. At this time, a series of explosions were heard from Xinzheng Gate. The entire city wall of Xinzheng Gate was blown down and dust was flying.
There were tens of thousands of people shouting to kill outside the west city, and 30,000 gold soldiers ambushed outside came to attack Xinzheng gate.
At this time, the northern city was still fighting fiercely. The Jin soldiers attacked the city several times, but they were all killed by the Song army. He was only fifty years old and was born as the number one scholar, but at this moment, he is like a general who has experienced many battles, commanding the Song army to fight. In fact, this is his first contact with war, but the blood in his bones has also been ignited by the flames of war. up.
"Fighted against the enemy, and eighteen years later everyone is a hero again!"
If it wasn't for a soldier holding him tightly, He Li would have swung his sword and rushed in to join the battle group.
At this time, Zhang Qing rushed over. Not long after the explosion in the west city, he also saw Li Yanqing's order to retreat, and there was no time left for them.
"He Xianggong, the outer city can no longer be defended, quickly withdraw to the inner city!"
"fart!"
He Li roared angrily: "With me here, Jin Bing can't even try to kill him!"
The shouts of killing here were so intense that He Li did not hear the explosions in the west city. At this moment, a series of explosions in the west city finally came, and all the soldiers in the north city were stunned.
"Retreat! Withdraw to the inner city!" Zhang Qing gave the order loudly.
He Li was startled for a moment, and then furiously shouted: "No retreat! No one is allowed to retreat!"
It's a pity that none of the soldiers will listen to his orders anymore. The soldiers Li Yanqing placed in the army played a role at this time, and they all shouted: "The outer city can't be defended anymore, quickly withdraw to the inner city!"
They then shouted again: "Pull out the fuse of the Thunderbolt, and don't leave it to the Jinren!"
The soldiers pulled out the fuse of the thunder on the top of the city one after another, and retreated to the city like a tide under the leadership of Li Yanqing's personal soldiers.
At this time, Zhang Qing was eager to organize the soldiers to retreat, so he ordered several soldiers: "Take He Xianggong back to the inner city, whether he wants to or not!"
After finishing speaking, Zhang Qing rushed down the city. Several soldiers hurriedly tried to help He Li, but he broke free violently. A soldier said anxiously: "The west city is lost, and this place can't be defended either. Hurry up and leave!" Bar!"
He Li smiled miserably, "The outer city has fallen, how can I explain to the officials? How can I explain to the people of Bianjing? I swear to coexist with the outer city, why do I want to retreat!"
He suddenly let out a long sigh, "Forget it, let me, He Li, bear the burden of this sinful minister through the ages!"
He took two steps back abruptly, with a swipe of the horizontal sword, he immediately fell down, several soldiers failed to hold him back, and he was stunned. At this moment, a soldier beside him shouted: "The golden soldier has killed the city!"
The retreat of the soldiers of the Song Army gave the Jin soldiers a chance to attack the city. Dozens of Jin soldiers with siege ladders rushed to the top of the city. Seeing that the situation was critical, several soldiers had to run down the city holding He Li's body in tears. On the way, He Li died.
At this time, several fires ignited in the outer city. It was soldiers of the Song Army who lit the houses to prevent the Jin soldiers from chasing and killing them.
The Suzaku Gate in the south and the Cao Gate in the east have been quickly closed. The retreating soldiers rushed to the top of the city to start the inner city defense. The Zheng Gate in the east and the Cao Gate in the north were not closed. The city fled.
Caomen in the north was garrisoned by 8,000 troops. At this time, Wang Daoqi, the deputy commander in front of the palace, was standing on the top of the city. Into the outer city.
His face suddenly turned pale, looking at the soldiers of the Song Army who were desperately rushing towards Caomen, he suddenly ordered: "Close the city gate!"
The city gate creaked and began to close, and the soldiers who came running shouted, but the soldiers on the city didn't understand anything, and the city gate suddenly closed.
The soldiers who hadn't entered the city roared and shouted angrily. At this moment, Zhang Qing came galloping on horseback. He saw the city gate closing slowly from a distance, and couldn't help being furious in his heart.
He rushed forward and shouted: "Who is guarding the top of the city, open the door for me!"
Wang Daoqi did not expect that Zhang Qing was still outside, he hesitated, and immediately ordered: "Don't open the city gate again, anyone who dares to open the gate without authorization, beheaded!"
He turned around and went down the city. Zhang Qing yelled for a while, but the city gate was still closed. At this moment, a soldier finally couldn't help but said: "Commander Wang ordered the gate not to be opened, General Zhang go to another place to enter the city! "
At this time, the shouts of killing in the distance were getting closer and closer, Zhang Qing could only suppress his anger in his heart, and shouted, "Follow me!"
He led more than 3,000 remnants of the army towards the east city gate. At this time, the soldiers outside the east city gate had all retreated into the city. The chief general Pan Yue had ordered the city gate to be closed. Suddenly, a soldier shouted: "There are still Song troops outside!"
Pan Yue looked out, and saw thousands of Song troops galloping from the north, and the leading general on horseback was Zhang Qing.
Pan Yue was taken aback, and quickly shouted: "Quickly open the city gate!"
The city gate that had just been closed opened again, and Zhang Qing led the soldiers into the city.
(end of this chapter)
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