"Don't panic! We have many people!" An officer from the Song Army ran back to the city gate with his men, shouting loudly all the way, trying to recruit more people: "Follow me, occupy the gate wall! Put it on
The enemy forces block back!"
There were also soldiers on the city tower shouting: "There is a hidden board here! Open the hidden board and throw stones at it to block the city gate and corridor, so that their cavalry will not be able to run!"
The outer city of Kaifeng that Hou Zhi was responsible for building was extremely gorgeous, and many arrangements were made to meet the needs of the battle. For example, there was no urn at the city gate, but a gate wall and a sheep and horse wall were used to block the enemy's rush. Another example is
There is a concealed board in front of the city tower, and huge wooden and boulders are piled up on the concealed board. Once the concealed board is removed, the wood and stones can fall straight down the corridor and crush the attackers.
In such a short period of time, the Song army grasped the key to Hou Zhi's two creations and began to use Nanxun Gate as an offensive and defensive stronghold. It can be seen that the Song people were good at defending and it was true.
Such an army, as long as it is more familiar with the terrain and allows time to arrange the coordinated sequence of city defense operations, is enough to block several times or even ten times the enemy's attack.
The Kaifeng court set fire to Li Ting and others, thereby creating a huge rift between the Song Army and Ding Haijun, and forcing the Song Army to side with them. It was indeed a deal that guaranteed profit without loss.
However, Ding Haijun's response was too fast and the time left for them was too short.
The Dinghai navy cavalry who were the first to rush up to the city tower ran rampant, like iron plows cutting into the soft soil, advancing and retreating unimpeded. In the blink of an eye, they walked back and forth several times along the top of the city platform, trying to move the dark board.
The pawn was hit by the iron horse and flew down the city with his hands and feet tied.
Turning around to look at the other side, the cavalry had already crossed the gate wall. Only dozens of Song soldiers were left holding on to a section of the wooden wall standing on the magpie platform, shooting bows and arrows left and right.
The magpie platform is two feet high, and the wall is one foot and three feet high. The Song army was condescending, and arrows fell like rain. They instantly shot down more than ten cavalrymen who were running at high speed. People on both sides of the guard wall jumped on their backs, and also overturned those who were following behind.
More soldiers came, causing the horses and horses to neigh wildly, smoke and dust billowing, and most of the road was blocked.
At this time, Dong Jin ran from the city gate. Seeing that the road was blocked, he grabbed a large shield to block the arrow and urged his horse to gallop forward.
At first, Song Jun just thought that this man was angry and planned to hit the wall with his men and horses. Unexpectedly, he took out a rope from behind and threw it, and tied it to a thick wooden stake in the middle of the wooden wall. He then tied the rope twice to the saddle bridge.
.The next moment, the horses galloped sideways, the rope suddenly tightened, the wooden pile was uprooted by the huge force, and the entire wooden wall shook.
The Ding navy cavalry cheered loudly, and several of them followed suit and threw ropes to pull the wooden wall. In the blink of an eye, another series of wooden stakes flew up, and the wooden wall swayed, tumbling from the platform and falling to the ground.
More than ten Song soldiers suffered severe head injuries.
The large number of Dinghai navy cavalry were so impatient that they immediately rushed their horses to the magpie platform, and then accelerated forward to kill them.
The cavalry continued to pour in, but they were not in a hurry to go deep into Kaifeng. They rushed back and forth, rushing back and forth, and expanding the scope of control unhurriedly. Soon, the Xuanhua Gate and Anshangmen on the east and west sides of Nanxun Gate were also fighting.
As for the vicinity of Nanxunmen, there is a special emphasis.
Because this place was the place where Zhang Bangchang led hundreds of officials to resign and mourned his servants when the Second Sage was hunting in the north. The records of the Southern Dynasties are very detailed. Therefore, although Zhao Fang has never been here, he is quite familiar with the surrounding terrain, and he deliberately made it when he entered the city.
He ordered people to occupy the street pavilion about half a mile inside the city gate, and set up their own Chinese army camp with the street pavilion as the center.
But at this moment, it seemed that all the considerable troops stationed around the street pavilion were unable to hold their ground. They were driven away by the cavalry and rolled around, scattering in all directions!
According to common sense, Ding Haijun's cavalry came from the direction of the Lincaiguan battlefield and galloped for more than 20 miles at full speed. The men and horses were steaming with heat. No matter how you looked at it, they should be at the end of their strong crossbows. But facing this strong crossbows, the Song army had no time to form a whole team to fight.
Unable to withstand the enemy!
Since Zhao Fang did not issue new orders, the Song army persisted in fighting, and then was killed, repulsed, resisted, and crushed. There was a commotion all around, and there was probably only a small piece of ground where Zhao Fang and Guo Ning were facing each other.
It's quieter.
However, this is just a beach that has not been washed away by the rapids. It is not known when the iron bone flower will fall.
Zhao Fang did not feel that he had to be an enemy of Ding Haijun. Although Xianggong Shi could make decisions based on his head, it was not that he had no reason to accept the emperor's orders. The current situation was just due to Hou Zhi's treacherous conspiracy.
But this situation inevitably made Zhao Fang a little angry and a little frustrated.
Somehow, he suddenly remembered something. A few years ago, when he promoted Meng Zongzheng in Suizhou, because Meng Zongzheng's father Meng Lin was once a general of King Yue, he asked Meng Zongzheng if there were many soldiers in the frontier army of the Song Dynasty today.
Are these warriors who are skilled in martial arts as good as the heroes in the Yue family's army?
Meng Zongzheng shook his head repeatedly and said that it was definitely not as good as it was because the Song Dynasty had been settled in the south of the Yangtze River for decades. The soldiers had not been tempered through countless births and deaths. After all, they lacked the ferocious energy that the ZTE generals had when they waded out of the mountains of corpses and seas of blood.
Zhao Fang was initially skeptical about this.
Before the Jurchens went south to rob the country, his soldiers had never experienced much fighting on the battlefield. But after rigorous daily training and the initial panic of encountering powerful enemies, many of them have now become completely transformed, no less than those in Kaifeng.
Any army of the imperial court.
Therefore, Zhao Fang feels that even if they are not as good as the men from the North who fight constantly all day long, they are not too far behind.
But at this moment he understood that people like Meng Zongzheng, who had been in the army for generations, did have some family traditions. Zhao Fang himself thought too easily about military affairs on paper, and the navy was far more ferocious than the Jin army. This
The powerful people were able to rob the power of Zhongdu in the Kingdom of Jin in just a few years. They had solid confidence!
At this time, Guo Ning reined in his horse and asked lightly, "Are you tired of living?" Zhao Fang felt that he had become the prey of a huge beast, and was about to be torn to pieces by sharp claws at any time. That kind of humiliation cannot be explained by words at all.
It can be described that even though he was good at cultivating qi, his face suddenly turned livid.
What was even more terrifying was the look in Guo Ning's eyes. It turned out that people who had walked through mountains of corpses and seas of blood looked at people like this. Zhao Fang felt as if he had been struck by a sharp arrow in the brain, and his nerves were suddenly blocked.
The movement suddenly stopped.
This Guo Ning is really as scary as the rumors say... I don't know how many people he killed before he developed such a ferocious look!
Zhao Fang used great strength to free himself from this state, and then bowed and saluted:
"Why did the Duke of Zhou speak like this? Could it be that his subordinates failed to greet them in time and were rude? I will definitely punish them severely. I also ask the Duke not to care about it and not to use dangerous methods on friendly forces."
Guo Ning took two steps forward on his horse and sneered several times: "What nonsense are you talking about!"
When he bowed down, Zhao Fang couldn't help but think that this Guo Ning was indeed as frivolous and impetuous as the rumors said. He actually used his body of ten thousand to do such things on the battlefield. If there were archers around the city gate at this moment,
Isn't it possible...
There are indeed archers, and there are a lot of them. At this moment, there are more than just archers who want to go to the same place as Zhao Fang.
Guo Ning rode in, and the soldiers surrounding him were all covered in blood. There were corpses everywhere he passed. Many soldiers of the Song Dynasty knew that their master was here, and they subconsciously avoided it.
But a big man suddenly jumped up from a short distance from the side, dodged the short spear in the hand of his companion, twisted his waist, and threw it towards Guo Ning.
The distance was too close. If Guo Ning tried to get out of the way, the guards behind him would be caught off guard and would probably be killed or injured. So Guo Ning did not move at all and only raised his left arm to block.
There was a loud "ding" sound, and Guo Ning's arm shook violently, and he felt a burst of pain. The tip of the short spear made an imprint on the thick arm guard, and then Guo Ning swung it away with all his strength.
He moved his arm, and the big man had already rushed forward, holding the Yanling knife in his hand, and stabbed Guo Ning.
Guo Ning sneered slightly, and when he was about to wave his Iron Bones, someone roared loudly in his ears. It turned out that it was Ni Yi who had turned his horse from the side.
Following the roar, Ni Yi jumped off the horse, put his arms around the big man's shoulders, and pushed him down directly.
The big man didn't react in time and fell backwards, throwing the Yanling knife aside. He pulled out the dagger from his waist and stabbed Ni Yi in the ribs, but the dagger slipped on the armor and slipped away.
Bring out a spark.
But Ni Yi held the big ax upside down with one hand and smashed it down hard with the iron spine of the ax handle.
The first blow opened a blood hole with a diameter of about an inch in the big man's face, penetrating through the underlying tissue. The second blow hit the neck, and with a slight sound of bones cracking, blood spurted out from the wound.
Ni Yi smashed it a few more times. As the long handle of the ax was pulled out, pieces of meat began to fly. The big man's limbs twitched occasionally and soon stopped moving.
Zhao Fang kept his bent posture and watched the big man die.
When he raised his head, there was uncontrollable compassion on his face: "My lord, we Song people did not set this fire in the city! Now those who are being massacred by the lord are all Song people!"