On the ninth day of February, the north wind blew hard all night, and the weather seemed to have suddenly become a lot colder. The newly thawed Yellow River water seemed to be freezing again. On February 13th, except for the four doors that exploded during the attack on Gaoyang Pass,

All the eleven thousand-jin cannons of the Liao soldiers were moved into the forts, and they bombarded Hejian City almost day and night. On February 15th, Han Shizhong led the Second Army of Zhenbei to attack from behind the city and attack westward.

The Liao soldiers' artillery fort planned to use sky-shaking thunder to destroy the Liao people's huge cannon.

Wang Yan allowed the Second Army of Zhenbei to go to the arsenal to select armor and weapons. The iron barrel cannons at the head of the Hejian City were difficult to move, and their range was not as good as the Liao soldiers' cannons. Wang Yan ordered all the crossbows in the city to be moved to the west as much as possible.

The city wall was built to suppress the Liao people. The Song army's bed crossbows had a range of up to 750 steps, which could extend to the Liao army's artillery forts and cover the battle route of Han Shizhong's troops. The Song Dynasty also had bed crossbows with a range of a thousand steps.

Crossbows, unfortunately, can only be found in Bianjing city defense, and other towns are not allowed to violate the regulations.

Tong Guandu approved of the dispatch of the marching Sima Wang Yan. He seemed to have great expectations for the brave Han Shizhong. Such a sensational cannon may be worth close to ten thousand yuan each. If it can be destroyed, Liao

After the war, he couldn't take it with him, so he tried to drag it to Bianjing to present it to the officials to show off his military exploits. I'm afraid the steward would not care about the blame for the collapse of the Hebei camp.

As soon as it dawned the next day, Zhao Xingde and other generals went to the city to watch the battle.

The infantry of the Song Army were all fully armored, and the fifty-pound infantry armor was the heaviest. The soldiers with spears, swords, and shields trapped in the camp were all wrapped in iron armor. Under the hoods with masks, only two eyes were exposed.

Thousands of troops passed through the streets of the city and filed out of the west gate in formation, their armor clanking neatly. The people in Hejian City sent these warriors out of the city with awed eyes. The Liao people's shelling yesterday evening made everyone worried.

, this is the most well-equipped army in the city, which gives people a lot of hope.

After the infantry formation was completed, four thousand cavalry slowly passed through the city gate and formed a cavalry formation on the left and right of the infantry formation. The regular cavalry of the Song Army was similar to the Tielin Army of the Liao State. Most of them were men and horses with heavy armor, but

When the Hejian camp collapsed, most of the armor was discarded, and there was a lack of war horse equipment in the city. Therefore, Han Shizhong's command only had more than two thousand cavalry to suppress the Northern Army, which were real heavy armored cavalry. The remaining two thousand cavalry were only cavalry with armor, and the horses were only

He can wear thick linen clothes to protect himself from arrows.

Not far away, the Liao people had already noticed the Song army leaving the city, and they also set up a military formation in front of the artillery fort. The cavalry were also arranged on the two wings. Between the two tributaries of the Yellow River entering the sea, there was not much space for horses to gallop.

It was so wide that both armies used cavalry to spread out to protect the flanks. In this way, there was no room for detours and sneak attacks, and they could only fight head-on. The distance between the Song and Liao armies was only more than 200 steps.

Han Shizhong looked back at the flag on the city tower and ordered in a deep voice with no expression: "Twenty steps forward." The commanders of each battalion gave orders at the head of the command. Along with the drumbeat of the Chinese army, the eight thousand infantry marched neatly.

He took twenty steps forward and then stopped. At the same time, the cavalry formations on both wings also slowly urged their horses to keep in step with the foot formations.

Seeing that Han Shizhong had organized the rapidly expanded Zhenbei Second Army in such a neat manner in just a short period of time, Wang Yan nodded secretly, "It's like an ancient general to enforce orders and prohibitions." He ordered in a deep voice: "Fire the crossbows!" At the top of the city

The soldiers of the Song Dynasty swung their iron hammers to knock on their machine teeth. Only dozens of sounds were heard, and hundreds of crossbow arrows were fired. There was chaos in the Liao army camp opposite. Many soldiers raised their shields in panic to avoid them, but they only used iron

The cast crossbow was as thick as a child's arm, how could it be stopped by human power? More than 500 paces away, the crossbow hit the cavalry and penetrated the heavy armor.

It cracked, and more than a dozen of them hit the Liao soldiers' artillery fort, piercing into the giant shield that was ten feet high with huge momentum, and the tail fins kept shaking.

The Song army's crossbows fired in a circle without stopping for a moment, and the iron barrel cannons at the top of the city also fired at the Liao army's forwards a few miles away. The Liao army did not show weakness, and more than ten huge iron barrel cannons opened fire one after another, and more than a hundred small guns were fired. Iron barrel cannons also bombarded the top of the city. Both sides came and went. The roar of gunpowder was loud, the sound of piercing the sky was endless, and stone marbles, crossbows and arrows were flying in the sky.

This battle is of great importance. Even if there are stone bullets flying over the head from time to time, every time the city wall is hit, the ground will shake. The generals of the Song army gathered at the top of the city to cheer, including the pale Tong Guan. No one went down to escape.

Zhao Xingde had a low official rank and did not have a telescope to use. He could only watch the Song army's formation slowly advancing from a distance. When he was a hundred steps away from the Liao army's formation, the arrows fired by the infantry formation flew out in waves, crossing a line. The arc fell into the crowd of Liao soldiers and horses. The Liao people's bows and arrows were weak, and the firing time of iron barrel cannon charges was extremely long. Just now, a round of stone bullets was fired at the city head, until the forward and the Song army fought together, it was also Few stone bullets hit the Song army's infantry and cavalry formation. Zhao Xingde secretly called it a fluke, but he didn't know that the artillery used by the Liao army was extremely troublesome to adjust the elevation angle, and it took a long time to do so, so it was only used to attack the city instead of using it. Come to the wild fight.

After the Song and Liao armies fought together, the Zhenbei Army immediately rushed the Liao people's formation into a depression. Most of the Liao army used Han people from Youyan and other lower-class tribesmen as infantry. The cavalry originally wanted to break through the Song people's formation. After the horse formations on both wings, the Song army outflanked the central formation of the Song army. The more than 4,000 horsemen on both wings of the Song army refused to retreat, and even slowly charged in with the infantry.

Seeing that the Song Army's forward was getting closer and closer to the Liao artillery fort, Zhao Xingde's tightly clenched fists were already sweating.

"Kill!" "Kill forward!" Bi Sheng, the commander of the Zhenbei Third Army next to him, could no longer hold himself back and waved his hands loudly. The commander of the Zhenbei Army, Tong Guan, also rarely scolded him, and the Zhenbei Third Army commander Feng Mei of the Fourth Army secretly regretted why she didn't invite her to fight. Such huge firearms must be dedicated to the Holy One. Jane is in the Emperor's heart!

"They all say that the southerners are cowardly, but now it seems that they are no less brave than my Khitan athletes." Xiao Dabu, the commander-in-chief of the Liao army, also saw with his own eyes several injured soldiers of the Song Dynasty holding on to the horseshoes trampled from the side, and The Liao troops who rushed into the Song Dynasty's central army formation were often like falling into a millstone of flesh and blood, unable to get out after getting in. He shook his head, "What a pity..." He turned around and ordered: "Tiebi camp comes out. , intercept the Song army."

The military order was like a mountain, and there was a clanking sound of chains. Xu Ding stood up with all his strength. He was six feet three inches tall, with a broad and round torso wrapped in iron armor, like an iron tower. There is still such an elite soldier in Liaodong. The name resounded everywhere, "Iron Pagoda". An iron chain made of fine iron was tied around Xu Ding's waist, connected to two equally tall soldiers on the left and right, in a group of five, walking in well-trained steps, bang—— Boom--boom--, like a copper wall and an iron wall.

Xu Ding stared fiercely at the Khitan soldiers five feet away. If it weren't for the iron chain around his waist that prevented him from walking more than two feet alone, even if he died, he would have killed these condescending Khitan soldiers with the heavy ax in his hand. Cut the horse into two pieces.

The Khitans were proud of their riding and archery, and the people did not want to be humble foot soldiers, so they selected tall and strong prisoners from the defeated Five Kingdoms, Jurchens, Han and other tribes to form the Iron Wall Battalion. Five people were connected with iron chains to form a group, led by Xi Most of the soldiers in the Tiebi camp were slaves. The ancestor of the Xu family was Han Chang, a general who died in the Duanhu Mountain battle. After the defeat, he gathered in Xiaoshan Forest and became an enemy of the Liao court. Xu Ding was attacked by the Liao army because of a sneak attack. Those who were captured were selected into the Iron Wall Camp because of their tall bodies and strong physical strength. More than a hundred other prisoners were cut into pieces by five horses of the Liao people.

"I just want to kill the Khitans." Xie Ye, a prisoner from the Five Kingdoms tribes, cursed. "I want it too." Xu Ding gritted his teeth. "I also want to kill the Khitans." Another Han prisoner, Zhang Zhouhou, said

The Khitan cavalry blocking the front of the Iron Wall Battalion slowly dispersed to both sides. The infantry of the Song Army rushed forward like an overwhelming force, but the soldiers of the Iron Wall Battalion connected with iron chains hardly moved. The swords of the Song Army's infantry could not penetrate the iron.

The heavy armor of the pagoda and the ping pong pong of the sword and spear hit Xu Ding's iron armor, and he did not blink. "Swing!" Following the military order behind him, the iron pagoda in the front row raised their weapons, heavy axes, and big guns at the same time.

With just one move of the sword and mace, the Song army in front of him was forced back half a step. "Kill!"... The strong man waved his sword, and blood and flesh flew everywhere in front of the formation.

Zhao Xingde looked from the top of the city and saw a dazzling and reflective copper wall and iron wall suddenly appeared in the rear formation of the Liao army. With the swords swung, the Song army's infantry formation could no longer move forward. The Liao army on both wings got the opportunity and rushed toward them.

Arrows were fired from the center, causing heavy casualties to the Song army, and they began to retreat step by step. Fortunately, Han Shizhong managed the army well, and the Second Army in the north of Zhenbei was defeated but not in disorder. It slowly retreated to the city gate. The Liao army was afraid of the Song army's crossbows at the city head.

The cannons and artillery did not pursue them excessively, but the cannons loaded with fine gunpowder and stone bullets bombarded them even more fiercely.

Han Shizhong fought hard and was wounded more than ten times. After bleeding and fainting, he was carried back by his generals. All the generals looked at each other. No one took the initiative to ask for help to destroy the Liao army's artillery forts. They all deployed Tong Guan, who looked pale. That night, Liao soldiers
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