The defenses at the gates were broken, and the defenders on the walls felt the pressure. When the Song army entered the city gate and occupied the area near the city gate, they began to climb the city wall and attack from behind the defenders of the Jin Kingdom.

The defense collapsed in an instant, and the golden soldiers who were attacked by the enemy on their backs could no longer resist. After the Song army occupied the city wall, they began to attack the county government.

As soon as the county magistrate saw that the general trend had gone, he led the crowd out of the county government to surrender.

Tang Ning didn't want to embarrass this guy too much, who knew that the people in the county were very excited. They all said that this county order was not a good thing, that he was corrupt and perverted the law, and colluded with the powerful to fish and meat in the township.

When Tang Ning heard this, he paid it back. So he sent people to his house to raid his house, and beheaded him at the entrance of the vegetable market, so as to make the people angry.

The people applauded and said that Tang Ning was a good person. After Tang Ning entered the county government, he came to give gifts to Tang Ning.

However, the good times did not last long, and the reinforcements of the Jin State had already arrived near the county seat.

Tang Ning led 30,000 soldiers into the county, and there were only more than 20,000 reinforcements, so they did not dare to attack the city easily. So I waited for another reinforcement to arrive.

"Wait, wait. The more people who wait, the better. Tang Ning stood on the city wall and looked at the golden soldiers encamped in the distance, and smiled.

Youzhou has a total of 60,000 troops, and the 3,000 defenders in this county are dead and wounded. If you don't have forty or fifty thousand people outside, don't think about attacking the city.

When your forces are gathered, Lu Qiren should also lead the army to attack Youzhou.

The plan is good, Tang Ning just wants to use the advantage of troops to play the Jin army. Everyone knows that the large army of the Jin army is now fighting against the remnants of the defeated army of the Liao State in Jiashan, and they can't take care of the affairs of the sixteen states of Yanyun.

If you still want to fight a war of attrition with a military town like Youzhou, which is easy to defend and difficult to attack, you can only suffer from the Song army itself.

However, the fact was always going in the opposite direction of the plan, and it didn't take long for the Jin army to retreat again. It looks like they don't plan to take it back.

The strong man broke his wrist, gave up the surrounding county seats, and only cowered in Youzhou City, which is a good way, but what is the use?

When the big army comes, won't it still be broken in one fell swoop?

The superiority in strength and weapons has reached the point of crushing, and in the face of the current Song army, the traditional defensive war is no longer possible.

Most of the walls of this era were made of clay and paste, and they did not have the ability to resist shelling like later city walls.

A few shots will be fired, and the walls of a city will be reduced to nothing. The Song army, which carried six large general cannons, was invincible in the siege battle.

Unless the Jin soldiers can form a force equal to the Song army, then they still have some possibility of victory.

Moreover, they must also have Zhang Kai's strategic thinking, 'the soldiers are outside, and the defenders dare to fortify the wall'.

If there were no troops loitering outside to harass the besieging soldiers, the defenders would still have a better chance of defeat.

Thinking of this, Tang Ning became a little excited.

If we continue to work hard at this end, as long as the artillery shells, gunpowder, grain and grass delivered by logistics can keep up, I will be able to fight directly to Datong Mansion in one go.

It is not a dream to recover the sixteen states of Yanyun by military strength within a year!

Five days later, Jin Bing really didn't seem to have any idea of taking care of the county anymore. The scouts are almost in Youzhou City, and there is still no trace of the Jin Bing's activities.

After another three days, the large army finally arrived in Youzhou. Tang Ning led his troops to join him, and Liu Ling directly brought good news to Tang Ning.

Guo Cheng sent troops to Shuozhou at Yanmen Pass on the eastern front and won a complete victory. That side is the main force of the Jin soldiers' defense, because the Jin army's large forces have not long captured Datong Mansion, and the main force is still there.

The significance of the victory in this battle was not trivial, and it meant that the Song army was already capable of defeating the main force of the Jin State.

That being said, it's not necessarily a good thing.

Because Guo Cheng's next line of action was very limited, he did not dare to rush forward, so he could only send troops to Huanzhou and Yingzhou, and in front of Yanmen Pass, these three state capitals that had been trained into a line were used as the defensive front of the Song army.

Further west, he did not dare to go. Further north, you have to go to Datong Mansion to fight with Wanyan Agu.

He only has 150,000 soldiers under his command, and there are 350,000 on the side of Wanyan Agu, and Guo Cheng will not do anything about hitting eggs with stones.

Taking advantage of the fact that Wanyan Agu is now pursuing Yelu Yanxi, it is the top priority to capture Huanzhou and Yingzhou as soon as possible and lay down a defensive front.

As for the rest of the area, they can only wait for Tangning to take it one by one.

This was of course good news for Tang Ning, because even if the Jin soldiers solved Yelu Yanxi and wiped out the remnants of the Liao State, he would still have to turn his head to deal with the Western Army that had already launched a defense.

At this time, the Jin soldiers had no leisure to deal with the Ninth Route Army advancing eastward, Tang Ning could do whatever he wanted before arriving in Ulzhou, and after arriving in Ulzhou, as long as he joined forces with Guo Cheng, defeated Yan Aguta, and captured Yunzhou, he would completely recover the sixteen states of Yanyun.

"Good Guo Cheng, I really have you!" Downing secretly applauded this good friend, who was often in contact by letter, but had never met a few times.

The governor of Youzhou himself is not good at military affairs, not to mention that he is also a relatively high-status person among the Jurchens.

When he didn't give the order, the generals of the Jin army might still dare to make their own decisions and do such a thing as ambushing Tangning.

Now that he has given an order to retreat in Youzhou City to defend, the generals of the Jin Army naturally dare not say much.

Although such an act is tantamount to waiting for death, in the golden country of slavery, status is everything. The following offenses are better than a death.

By the time Tang Ning's army overwhelmed the border, the generals of the Jin Kingdom in Youzhou City knew that their time of death had come.

But before you die, you always have to pull a few cushions, and you can delay it for as long as you can. The Song army was outnumbered, and as the front deepened, their supplies would definitely be quite tight.

As long as it can drag on for half a month, it is enough to relieve some pressure for the rear.

Shangjing has sent 120,000 reinforcements, and if it can be delayed for one day, it is equivalent to saving the lives of Shunzhou, Danzhou and other places for one day.

But when Tang Ning showed the six great general's cannons, they were all dumbfounded.

After the six cannon shots, a huge gap had appeared in the seemingly majestic wall of Youzhou City.

Taking advantage of the smoke and dust, the Song army rushed up, directly entered Youzhou City from the gap, and directly started hand-to-hand combat with the defenders of the Jin State.

The same trick Song Jun had already used in the Daimyo's Mansion, so the Jin Army was also prepared for this.

However, the gap in strength is still huge, and Tang Ning has blasted a gap in the wall on the other side, and under the double-line attack, the Jin army is powerless to resist.

The Han people in the city also cooperated with the Song army to launch a riot, and the pressure on the Jin army in Youzhou City increased sharply.

But after all, it is still the elite of the Jurchen headquarters, and it can still hold out for three hours in this situation. They fought and retreated, all the way to the government in Youzhou City.

Originally, they wanted to resist for a while, but they didn't know that they were falling into the arms of the Song army.

The space inside the government was limited, and after the Song army surrounded the government office, they threw grenades and incendiary canisters inside.

Although the governor of Youzhou has no military ability, he is also an iron-clad Jurchen man.

Seeing that the general trend had gone, and his subordinates were bombed indiscriminately by the Song army, he asked them to go out of the palace and surrender, and jumped into the sea of fire themselves.

When all the soldiers of the Jin Kingdom saw that Zhizhou was like this, they all had the consciousness of fighting to the death. Against the offensive of the Song army's incendiary canisters and grenades, he rushed out of the palace and fought with the Song army.

The Song army did not expect that the resistance of the Jin soldiers would be so strong, and they were defeated and retreated as soon as the Jin soldiers rushed out.

Fortunately, there was a steady stream of Song troops coming up from behind, and only then did the stubbornly resisting Jin soldiers wipe out around the mansion.

The city was already full of blood, and after the Song army entered Youzhou City, the Jin soldiers chose to start a street battle with the Song army.

The streets and alleys of Youzhou City were covered with the corpses of Jin Bing and Song Jun, and the burning fire ignited the building, and the thick smoke that rose made it impossible to open your eyes.

Several wild dogs pounced on the corpse and gnawed non-stop, and when the Song army, who was cleaning up the battlefield, saw it, he raised his crossbow and shot at these wild dogs.

Dogs that have eaten human flesh will become wolves, and they must be driven to the wild or killed on the spot......

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