The outline of the Taiyuan city stands alone on the desolate land, and the dense villages and towns that were originally ruled around are not the slightest bit angry, and the rising smoke is not curling smoke, but the smoke after the war.

The moat around the city outside the city has either been filled in many places, or the roads leading to the city have been erected by the pontoon bridge of the crossing, and a large number of siege equipment such as goose carts, oars, and ladders are scattered in front. A few burned utensils scattered under the city walls were scattered and scattered, and the corpses of the Jin army that had not yet been collected lay sideways. However, the inside and outside of Taiyuan are even more devastated, and the air is filled with the strange smell of blood, corpse stench and gunsmoke. Behind the already battered city wall, the Song army led by the prefect Zhang Xiaochun and the general of the Western Army, Wang Yu, suffered heavy casualties, and even the people in the city also lost most of them in the protracted battle to defend the city.

Looking into the city, nearly half of the houses and buildings near the city gate have been demolished, and there are people in the devastated market who carry corpses with numb faces. Most of the soldiers defending the city behind the city wall were wounded, and if you look outside the city, you can immediately see that there are many fortresses scattered behind the large array set up by the Jin army, which has already trapped the soldiers under the rule of Hedong Road. The Jin army that was lined up was still densely packed like a swarm of ants, the heads of people were surging, and countless hard bows and crossbows were also facing the top of the Taiyuan city wall. was already in a desperate situation, and seeing such a huge scene of the besieging enemy army also made people more and more desperate, and their hearts were already like falling into an ice cave

Originally, the Jurchen tribes, which were better at field warfare than fortified battles, accumulated rich experience in siege warfare in the battles that successively captured important places such as Wujing of the Liao Dynasty. This time the Jin West Road army besieged Taiyuan, also equipped with a large number of siege equipment, the Jin Army West Route Army commander Wan Yan Sticky Han and the city around the city with the lock method to build a fortress outside the range of the Song army's bow and arrow, invaded all the surrounding counties, villages and towns, completely isolated Taiyuan City from the Song State external supplies, the material reserves in the lonely city are limited, after the strict blockade and several rounds of siege, the soldiers and civilians in the city have been struggling to support for several months, the grain is exhausted, the soldiers have slaughtered cattle, horses and mules, and then cooked bows and crossbows and leather armor, The chaff bark is full of hunger, and most of the soldiers and civilians are weak and can't even hold their weapons steadily, so how can they resist the fierce siege of the Jin army?

As a terrible horn sounded in the ears of the defenders above the city, the soldiers of the Song army hurriedly got up and warned loudly, but some of them looked frightened, and although some of them loudly encouraged their colleagues around them, the eyes of the Song army who decided to fight to the death were also mixed with a bit of despair.

The soldiers and civilians in Taiyuan City are extremely weak and exhausted, and the broken city walls of Taiyuan City seem to collapse after a few rounds of falling rocks or crashes. In fact, from Zhang Xiaochun, Wang Yu and other civil and military officials who led the forbidden army and the people in the city to defend the city to the death, down to an ordinary pawn in the army, even in the case of such supplies and sound are completely isolated from the outside world, they can realize that the reinforcements sent by the imperial court have also been defeated one after another under the interception and killing of those Jurchen foreign invaders who are better at field warfare outside the city.

If it weren't for the deliberate efforts of the commander of the Jin army Tartars, intending to annihilate a large number of Song army galloping troops and horses, the city of Zamo Taiyuan may have been broken by the enemy army in the previous rounds of fortifications

However, one of the commanders of the Shengjie army who was defending the city of Taiyuan anxiously ordered the military academy next to him to go to report to the main general Wang Yu that after knowing that the Jin army seemed to be attacking the city again, he immediately shouted hoarsely and ordered the soldiers of all the troops to prepare the defending equipment that was now almost exhausted, while rushing to the head of the city to defend it, he looked at the Jin army formation below and couldn't help but be stunned. Because the commander of the Shengjie army saw that the Jin army of the brigade was not pressed to rush in the direction of Taiyuan City, but turned the front, turned to the rear, and turned to the rear, and was about to line up with his back to the city.

When the commander of the Song army was stunned, he looked in the direction of the Jin army's soldiers, and only a moment later, he saw many black lines gradually emerging from the end of the horizon, and the thousands of swords and halberds that were rapidly assembled in the open were cold and murderous.

And look at the movement of the Jin army's big array, straight across the Taiyuan city and the camp of the army that suddenly killed all the way, a cavalry from the two wings in an orderly manner, in the forefront should be mostly the cavalry with maces, hammers, axes and other heavy weapons to open the way, the rear arch horse riding and shooting posture has also been held in the bow, and a large number of horse soldiers have swords in their hands, Dao Dao Limang is like a river scales and cold. Judging from this battle, it is obvious that he is about to fight against the army that has rushed here!

"Quick! Hurry up and tell the royal capital to rule, my reinforcements from the Great Song Dynasty have finally arrived!! ”

The commander was overjoyed and immediately screamed, and the head of Taiyuan City, which had been shrouded in suppressed danger for several months, immediately erupted into a burst of shouts from the mountains and the sea

The soldiers and horses under Xiao Tang's command were even more powerful than the Jin army, and countless weapons in the large array stretched out towards the sky like a forest. Under the sun, it is like a sea of steel and cold reflecting the sun. And many of the leaders of the Chinese army cast eager eyes on the commanders they embraced. Another battle with the Jin Army is imminent, and all the heroes are high-spirited.

However, Xiao Tang's expression was still very solemn when he looked at the opposing military formation, and on the way from Killing Xiongling to Taiyuan, he had several skirmishes with the Jin army. He also vaguely remembered that the commander of the Jin West Road Army was at the beginning of the army in Taiyuan, and formulated the strategy of "curbing foreign aid and cutting off its salary", which was obviously not only bound to seize Taiyuan, a military town, but also to use the advantage of the Jin army's better at field warfare to disintegrate the rest of the main force of the Song army. And the Songjin Taiyuan Defense Battle is also one of the most classic siege battles in the history of Chinese warfare, and now although he led the righteous army under his command to finally rush to the city of Taiyuan, Xiao Tang himself did not know whether all this was also expected by Wanyan Sticky?

The scale of the battle centered on Taiyuan is no longer limited to the battlefield under this isolated city, and the enemy and us must now consider playing on a larger chessboard. The army led by Han Shizhong and Niu Gao to join Li Xiaozhong's troops in Shaanzhou, as well as the northbound reinforcements recruited by the states north of Gyeonggi, Ma Xiaotang Ziwen, had also made arrangements as much as possible in those aspects that he could not predict the battle situation at the moment, at least for the time being, he had to focus all his energy on how to surround the Jin army in front of the city of Taiyuan

It's just that now the general of the Jin Army, Yinshuke, who was ordered by Yan Stickhan to personally command the siege of Taiyuan, is also a more difficult opponent to deal with when the two armies killed him, even compared with many famous generals of the Jin Dynasty such as Wanyan Huonu, Wanyan Yanmu, Mou Lianghu and even Wanyan Hulu Bu in the past.

At this time, in the opposite array, Yinshu Ke was also surrounded by many Jin army generals under his command, he straightened up his sturdy and tall body and looked in the direction of Xiao Tang's army, his eyes were as sharp as knives, and he looked up and looked forward to the momentum of commanding thousands of troops and horses to sweep the world. After a while, a hideous smile suddenly appeared on Yinshuke's originally angry face, and then he said fiercely: "But I never expected that the living girl would die at your hands, but there is a certain family in Wanyan Lou's room." And you, Xiao Tang, lost the favor of the old emperor who beat you back then, and went to a certain soldier's front, and now it has finally arrived, and the new hatred and old hatred are also clearly separated from you."

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