However, the Song army completely captured the defensive line outside the city, and it was a matter of the afternoon of the next day, and in order to fight for the position outside the city, the two sides fought for two days and one night.

Although the Great Song Emperor Zhao Chen personally beat the drum, which greatly boosted the morale of the Song army, made the Song army more energetic, and the attack was more ferocious, but the Jin army was not defeated because of this, because the Jin army also knew the importance of the defense line outside the city. Therefore, the Jin army was also inspired to have high morale and fought to the death with the Song army. At the same time, Monk Wanyan Chen also ordered Shang Jingliang to bring 10,000 horses and horses out of the city for reinforcements.

The battle became more and more intense, and by dusk the battlefield had gradually expanded to cover the entire line of the Jin army, even after breaking through to the third trench.

However, the battle reached this point, no one on both sides refused to stop, the Song army did not want to give up the good situation that was achieved now, so it continued to attack, but the Jin army did not want to give up the defensive position on the periphery of Bianliang City, so it did not retreat, and the whole battle was extremely tragic. Even Zhao Chen, who was beating the drum, knocked his arms sore, and had to put down the drum hammer to rest.

The resistance of the Jin army was unexpectedly tenacious, and it was also somewhat unexpected for the Song army. Han Yanzhi, Li Xianzhong and others all suggested to Yang Yan that if the war continued like this, the casualties of the Song army would be too great, and the Song army was exhausted, so it was better to temporarily withdraw the troops, return to the camp to repair, and recuperate before attacking again.

But Yang Yan refused to retreat. Because the war has been going on so far, it is not easy. The tactics he had used before were so good that the Jin army's fortifications basically did not play much role, and they could only rely on the soldiers' hard work and the commanders' immediate command to resist the Song army's attack. Once the troops are withdrawn, all the gains made so far will be in vain. And the Jin army will inevitably come up with countermeasures to deal with the attack of the Song army, and it will be impossible to achieve the current results in the next battle. Therefore, at this time, we must not stop, we must persevere to the end, and fight a protracted offensive and defensive battle with the Jin army, even if it is a night battle, we will not retreat, and we must completely capture the Jin army's defense line outside the city.

Although Zhao Chen could not fully understand Yang Yan's intentions, he fully supported Yang Yan's decision, so Yang Yan divided the Song army into several groups and took turns to attack the Jin army's position. At the same time, the soldiers who did not go into battle rested on the spot before the battle. When it was dark, he lit torches in front of the battle, and sent someone to inform the battalion to cook food and send it to the battlefield immediately, and sent felt and other cold items, and slept in front of the battle, ready to go into battle at any time. In short, it is not going back.

At the same time, the Song army did not retreat, and Zhao Chen refused to return to the camp, and he must hold on until the Song army wins. If he didn't leave, Han Yanzhi, Wang Yan, Li Xianzhong and other ministers naturally couldn't leave, because Yang Yan had no choice but to order people to set up a few tents in front of the battle for Zhao Chen and others to rest.

The Song army refused to stop, the Jin army also did not retreat, and the monk Wanyan Chen also frequently dispatched troops and took turns to go out of the city for reinforcements, which had the meaning of accompanying him to the end. Moreover, at this time, the monk Wanyan Chen also found that the emperor of the Great Song Dynasty was on the battlefield to supervise the battle, so he also sent men and horses to attack the main position of the Song army twice, hoping to win. However, Yang Yan had already prepared for this, not only sent people to closely monitor the city gate of Bianliang, but also arranged strict guards around the position, and beat the Jin army's surprise attack to the ground, and fled back to the city in embarrassment. Seeing that the Song army was well prepared, Monk Wanyan Chen also gave up the idea of a sneak attack and insisted on sticking to the defensive line.

The two armies fought from night to day, and several of the main generals of the Song army, Zhao Yueru, Wei Jiao, Qi Dazhu, Wu Xi and others, also took turns to lead the Song army to attack, but they were still unable to defeat the Jin army and seize the defense line outside the city.

Although they took turns to fight, after a night of fighting, the soldiers on both sides were very tired, and even Zhao Chen wore black circles under his eyes. But the battle is still raging. The two sides seem to be comparing who can hold out more.

So the battle lasted from the morning of the next day and continued into the afternoon. In the end, it was because the Song army could use more people for rotation, and the Jin army finally couldn't hold on, and was killed by the Song army and retreated again and again, and finally withdrew from the defense line outside the city. When Monk Wanyan Chen saw it, he had no choice but to open the city gate and let the Jin army enter the city.

Therefore, in the end, the Song army finally won the victory, seized the Jin army's outer defense line, and laid a good foundation for the capture of Bianliang.

Both sides paid a great price in this battle, and both did their best, because both sides were very tenacious, and the defense line outside the city also became a meat grinder-like battle, and the entire position was almost covered with corpses, blood flowed out, and even spears and helmets were floating. After the battle was completely over, the number of dead in the Jin army reached more than 28,000, and the Song army also exceeded more than 25,000. It can be said that the Song army was able to win in the end, completely by virtue of its overall strength to defeat the Jin army. And although the Jin army failed, it was also defeated.

At this time, the sky gradually darkened, and only a few soldiers were retrieving the corpses of soldiers on the battlefield, and many soldiers were lying on the ground and falling asleep. Zhao Chen, Han Yanzhi, Wang Yan and others were also extremely tired, and fell asleep when they returned to the camp. Only a few generals such as Yang Yan and Zhao Yueru were able to hold on, commanding the Song army to collect troops and return to the camp one after another.

Even Yang Yan never thought that the battle would be so tragic, and with his more than ten years of military career, such a tragic war is rare. And after the victory over the Jin army, the last breath that the Song army had been holding was also relieved, and the whole army was exhausted, if the Jin army launched another attack at this time, the Song army would be defeated on all fronts. Fortunately, the Jin army is also exhausted, and if the Song army doesn't fight him, everything will be fine, how can he still have the strength to attack the Song army in the near future.

But in the following five days, there was no more fighting on the battlefield south of Bianliang City on both sides, on the one hand, because after such a rare meat grinder battle, both sides needed time to rest and reorganize and recover. Therefore, they are not able to fight any longer. On the other hand, it is also because the battlefield needs to be reorganized before the war can be started again. It took two days to completely clean up the corpses of the soldiers killed in the two armies, but there were nearly 2,000 corpses in which it was impossible to distinguish whether they belonged to the Song army or the Jin army, so they could only be buried on the spot.

After the corpses were cleaned up, the Song army still further cleaned up the battlefield and avoided a few roads that could pass through the tower cart before they could carry out the next siege battle.

And Zhao Chen decided to hold a grand memorial ceremony for the fallen soldiers, on the one hand, to comfort the dead, and on the other hand, to boost the morale of other soldiers. In the memorial ceremony, Zhao Chen personally read the memorial text and offered three pillars of incense to the soldiers who died in battle. At the same time, he also took off his dragon robe and burned it in front of the spirits of the soldiers, expressing his respect. and publicly announced that the deceased's family would be exempted from taxes for ten years, and that they would show mercy to their parents and wives.

Subsequently, Han Yanzhi, Wang Yan, Yang Yan, Zhao Yueru and others also paid tribute to the soldiers who died in the battle one by one.

It should be said that this action of the Great Song Dynasty Junchen had a considerable effect, and many soldiers were moved to tears on the spot, and Zhao Chen announced on the spot that he sympathized with the families of the deceased, which also made many soldiers feel very gratified. The morale of the Song army was also re-inspired.

At this time, there was a good dissipation, and Gao Zhen on the western front conquered Xiangfu County with scriptures, and he was also trying to kill the edge of Bianliang.

It turned out that because the Song army and the Jin army were fighting for the outer defense line of the southern front, the Jin army's strength was insufficient, and the monk Wanyan Chen had to transfer some men and horses from Xicheng to participate in the battle, but it caused the defense of the western front to be empty. So Gao Zhen also seized this opportunity and launched a fierce attack on Xiangfu County, and finally captured Xiangfu County and hit the edge of Kaifeng Mansion.

Now the Song army is only blocked by a city wall from capturing Bianliang. At this time, the position outside the southern city also cleared ten passages that could pass through the tower car, so Yang Yan immediately ordered the Song army to attack on all fronts and launch a final attack on Kaifeng Mansion.

To attack Bianliang City, the first thing is naturally to fill in the moat outside the city. This time, the Song army launched a standard shrimp and toad cart, loaded with sand and gravel and dirt, braving the rain of arrows, crossbow guns and stones of the Jin army, as well as firearms, bravely advancing to the moat and dumping all the sand, gravel and mud on the car into the river.

Although the Jin army's blows were very ferocious, and even sent a group of men and horses out of the city to attack the Song army's river reclamation team from time to time, the Song army was still undaunted and still transported sand, gravel and soil to the Fangcheng River one by one. Moreover, the goal of the Song army was not to fill all the moats, but only to fill in more than a dozen sections to ensure that the tower cars could pass. At the same time, the Song army also piled up earth mountains outside the city of Kaifeng Prefecture, and the two projects were carried out almost at the same time.

After six or seven days of work, after paying the price of nearly 2,000 casualties, the Song army finally filled in more than a dozen places with the moat on the southern front, and at the same time erected three earthen hills more than six zhang high, and set up artillery on the earth hills, and bombarded the city walls. In fact, the lethality of artillery to soldiers is also limited, and the purpose of this is only to undermine the morale of the Jin army.

By this time, the defenders of the city also began to panic, and their morale plummeted. At the same time, many generals had doubts about the reinforcements that Monk Wanyan Chen said, and the army's morale began to be unstable. Monk Wanyan Chen also knew that Kaifeng Mansion could not be defended. But he also made up his mind, and he would defend the city to the death, even if he died in battle, he would never retreat.

And at this moment, Wanyan Changzhi's letter was delivered to Kaifeng Mansion. Since retreating to Kaifeng Mansion, the monk Wanyan Chen has to write to Wanyan Changzhi almost every day to inform him of the situation of defending the city. At the same time, he also expressed his determination to defend Kaifeng Mansion in the letter. But now Wanyan Changzhi replied to him, and Wanyan Chen monk was busy opening the letter and watching. After he read the letter, he couldn't help but change color.