“Boom.”
With a deafening roar, the south gate of Liangxiang City was breached first.
It was mid-November and the sky was overcast.
There is a heavy snowstorm in Liaodong area at this time, and the cold wind from Siberia is brewing in Yanyun, and snow may fall at any time.
Another large batch of winter clothes arrived for the Song army. They wore thick cotton clothes and launched a charging roar.
Groups of Song soldiers emerged from the trenches, holding long spears in their hands and shouting slogans such as "Charge", "Kill", "Destroy the Liao dogs", and "Recover Yanjing".
The cannons on the top of the city were still firing sporadically, but since the Song army had dug a trench outside the city, the cannons in the trench were also firing at the top of the city.
Therefore, attacking the Song people while they were setting up camp was the most suicidal act.
Zhang Jian was wearing a purple cotton robe with a sable fur coat around it. This was a garment that only the nobles of the Liao Dynasty could wear. In the past, purple robes were all made of silk, but cotton from the Song Dynasty had now spread to the north and was deeply loved by the people of Liao.
"So are we just going to waste time like this?"
Zhang Jian's meaning was obvious. If that was the case, why not just abandon the city and lure the Song army to attack, so they could set up an ambush and then conduct a large-scale corps battle in the open.
"yes."
This meant that the Song army's current camp was just an empty shell, with a wooden fence outside and tents for the soldiers inside. There were almost no crucial defensive equipment such as chevaux de frise, horse traps, caltrops, and watchtowers.
Because people can go through Xifengkou, but supplies cannot.
Fan Zhongyan said: "If we continue to waste time, the Liao people will undoubtedly be defeated. I think they will find a way."
"Hmm"
Wang Su said, "The Liao people must have lost the courage to fight us in the wild. After all, they have fought us in the wild many times before, but they have been defeated every time."
"Probably."
"It should be soon."
At this time, the battlefield situation became that the Song Dynasty army was almost close to Xijin Prefecture. If we look at the maps of later generations, the main force of the Song Dynasty was currently stationed in Fangshan District and Fengtai District of Beijing, threatening the city center of Beijing.
The two sides fought back and forth, suppressing each other, so that the Song army below quickly rushed to the top of the city and quickly poured in through the broken city gate.
But it was not until he saw with his own eyes how the Song army fought that Yelu Zongzhen realized that the Song army seemed to be somewhat unstoppable.
But there is a problem here.
Often, it was only when the Liao army's outer defense system was attacked that they would know how far the Song army's offensive had reached, which made Yelu Zongzhen very passive.
Just when Yelu Zongzhen was worried about the outcome on the city wall of Xijin Prefecture, he realized that the Song army had become so powerful.
Countless people surrendered or fled, but the Song army had surrounded Liangxiang in three layers, leaving them with nowhere to escape. The more than 10,000 Liao soldiers in the city were almost wiped out, and not a single one of them managed to escape.
"Is the man wearing a fur coat on the city wall Yelu Zongzhen?"
His eyesight was becoming somewhat blurred, and he could only vaguely see the endless fortifications in the distance outside the city. They were like small hills, blocking out the sky and the sun, with no end in sight.
"The soil will freeze, and even if we can dig it up, it will probably be time-consuming and laborious."
After taking Liangxiang, the Song army began to advance again. Liangxiang was already the frontier of Xijin. After passing Liangxiang, they could actually attack Xijin Prefecture directly, because Yuhe and Wanping were located to the west and south of Xijin.
But the problem is that the Song army didn't seem to want to fight them to the death.
Fan Zhongyan naturally would not make such a low-level mistake, so he did not rush to besiege Xijin. Instead, he divided his troops into two groups. The main force went out of Liangxiang and pretended to attack Xijin, while the other two groups went straight to Wanping and Yuhe to continue his bunker and trench tactics.
After Liangxiang fell, Fan Zhongyan went straight to the outside of Xijin Prefecture and started his old routine, setting up camp and then digging trenches around the camp.
If you defend your city, people will slowly dig trenches all the way to your city, surrounding it with three layers of walls inside and outside.
Now people only need to stand on the platform behind the fence, raise their guns over the fence, and shoot the Liao army rushing over.
Otherwise, if there were sufficient firearms and food supplies to defend the tall city of Xijin Prefecture, even if the Song army broke through the city gate by digging earthen tunnels, they might not be able to capture the city with a large number of troops and sufficient food.
Yelu Zongzhen frowned and said, "If we continue to hold out, I'm afraid Xijin will end up like Liangxiang. The Song people are constantly digging and building trenches outside. One day, they will dig the trenches all the way to the city."
Yelu Zongzhen looked towards the north and said, "It looks like it's going to snow soon."
Fan Zhongyan said softly, "But during this same period of time, the Liao army that was originally blocked by Di Qing in Liaodong will probably arrive. Then the entire Liao army will fight us to the death."
At that time, we will still have to face the bombardment of enemy artillery fire, like a hedgehog.
That's it.
If I had known earlier, I shouldn't have agreed to Zhao Yuanhao.
On the 25th, on the city wall of Xijin Prefecture, Yelu Zongzhen and many ministers of the Liao Kingdom were standing by the parapet, looking towards the southwest.
Yelu Zongzhen's face was quite serious, and he looked around at the entire camp layout, direction and movement trajectory of the Song army.
What he didn't know was that at this moment, on a small hill about four or five kilometers southwest of Xijin City, someone was also observing his every move.
Zhang Jian sighed and said, "Perhaps as a last resort, we should abandon Xijin City."
Give up Xijin?
We should have negotiated peace with the State of Song earlier, perhaps we would not have fallen to the point where Xijin Prefecture has a high probability of being captured by the Song army.
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