The Tatars behind rushed forward desperately at the urging of the officers, and set up ladders to climb under the cover of catapults and arrows.
There was a chaotic battle inside and outside the city, and it was extremely brutal.
The battle lasted from noon to dark.
Seeing that his side had suffered heavy losses and the pass could not be captured after a long siege, the Tartar commander sounded the retreat.
The Tartars retreated like the tide, Shi Yong breathed a sigh of relief, and survived another day.
However, when he counted the soldiers, he found that half of them had died in the battle, and his heart was bleeding.
As night fell, there was dead silence, with only the groans of the wounded and the flickering bonfires in the Tartar camp.
Compared to Zhendi Fort, Lin Feng of Weizhou and Tian Qing of Yinzhou have it much easier.
Both Timur and King Loufan wanted to preserve their strength, and Yinzhou and Weizhou were not the main attack directions.
Tian Qing even asked Murong Chunhua to lead the Murong cavalry out of the city to charge and fight for a while.
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While bloody battles were being fought in Shuozhou, the chaos in the world was further intensifying.
Prince Yinxi of Jin led the "Jingnan" army, which quickly expanded to nearly 70,000, and was not in a hurry to attack the heavily defended capital.
Instead, he adopted a steady and cautious strategy, dividing his troops to sweep the counties around the capital, while constantly publicizing the prince's crimes and his own justice to attract more wavering forces to join him.
The main force of the five battalions of the capital, led by Li Chenghua and Yang Dingguo, had a strength comparable to that of the Prince of Jin, but their morale was far inferior to that of the other.
They were forced to confront the Jin King's army in the wild. Small-scale battles continued, with both sides winning and losing, but a large-scale decisive battle did not happen.
Yang Dingguo sought to be cautious, while Li Chenghua was afraid of the Prince of Jin and advanced slowly. This made the Crown Prince very angry in the capital, and he issued a series of decrees to urge the troops to advance.
The 100,000-strong left-wing army led by the Northern Di Zuoxian King was unstoppable all the way!
The garrison of the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun was already short of troops, and after years of peace, their military preparations were relaxed. Moreover, the internal turmoil in the capital caused chaos in the command and the people were in panic.
Wherever Zuo Xian Wang's cavalry went, they captured several cities in succession and headed straight for Youzhou!
Once Youzhou falls, the entire Hebei Plain will be wide open!
At this time, the rebels led by Li Jingang, Yang Yan, Ma Zongliang, Li Hu and others gradually learned about the internal strife between the Crown Prince and the Prince of Jin, and the news that the Tartars were heading south. They swept away their previous defeat and became active again.
After learning that Yang Dingguo and Li Chenghua had left Xijing with five elite battalions of the capital's troops, they immediately surrounded Xijing.
When Pei Lun and Tian Zun learned that the imperial army had suddenly left, they complained bitterly and hurriedly evacuated Xijing with their troops.
Tian Zun returned to Linzhou, and Pei Lun rushed to Jinyang in a hurry. He didn't want to take sides with either the Crown Prince or the King of Jin. He just wanted his piece of land in Hedong.
The Jiedushi of Jiannan Road also withdrew to Jiannan, and the Jiedushi of Longyou Road withdrew to Longyou.
Only Zhang Zhongfang's army was left in Xijing, defending Xijing.
Emergency documents flew to the capital like snowflakes, but most of them were suppressed by Gu Dingming and others. Their primary goal at the moment was to eliminate King Jin first.
Let’s put Li Jingang’s rebels aside for now.
As for the Northern Di Tartars, Gu Dingming and Cui Kaiji discussed it together and reported it to the new emperor, who sent an envoy headed by the Minister of Rites Su Yayan to negotiate peace.
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