Two hours later, Yelu Chongyuan launched a full-scale attack, and after getting rid of Yelu Hongji, his 20,000 soldiers and horses were naturally quickly absorbed, and the selected 40,000 old and weak soldiers and 20,000 soldiers and horses were used as cannon fodder in the first echelon; For Yelu Chongyuan, even if all the 60,000 people are exhausted, he will not feel distressed at all, because it will not have much impact on his military strength.

But these 60,000 death squads absorbed a large amount of firepower from the Song army, and in order to stop the charge of these death squads, the enemy towers and feather arrows on the city were about to run out, and they were attacked on all sides at the same time, which suddenly made Su Jin's 80,000 troops seem overstretched.

The siege battle lasted until the end of the third watch, the city was full of dead corpses, and the Liao people rushed like crazy regardless of life and death, bringing huge pressure to the defense of the city.

Fortunately, the Song army had rich experience in defending the city, and the walls and defense system of the imperial city were indeed very strong. Roughly calculated, in one afternoon, the two sides had killed and wounded nearly 30,000 people in the battle for the imperial city.

The Liao army outside the city stopped attacking and began to rest, but the Song army inside the city could not rest, they were worried about the sudden attack of the Liao army, Su Jin patrolled at the head of the city, looking at the tired appearance of the soldiers, and was quite worried; At present, there are not many arrows left, although the bed crossbow left by the Liao army on the enemy tower is there, but the crossbow arrows have run out, it has become an ornament, fortunately, you can still order people to go up to the enemy tower and shoot with arrows.

The lack of materials is good to say, that is, the fatigue of the soldiers can not be solved, after more than half a year of campaign, the soldiers have never had a good rest, after taking Linhuang Mansion, I thought that I could take a good rest and recuperate, but it is a series of vicious battles, the accumulated fatigue lingers, the reason why the soldiers can still persevere, is completely by virtue of a spirit.

"Order everyone to sleep on the spot, no need to take precautions, send more people to monitor the movement of the enemy, and give early warning in time." Su Jin ordered.

"I am afraid that I will not be able to cry out if I fall asleep, and I will not be able to go into the tent to sleep in this very cold day, and I will not freeze to death outside." Pan Jiang frowned.

"Send someone to the city tomorrow to collect fur and felt blankets, and at this time I don't care about disturbing the people, let's deal with it tonight and sleep for a while, and order the gang to boil more hot soup and send it to the city to warm up the brothers, are there still cattle and sheep in the city?"

"It's long gone, but there is food, but there is no meat."

"Kill the horses, kill all the horses pulling the cart, the horse meat drives away the cold, although there are some violent things, but I can't take care of it, we must guard here, otherwise there is a dead end."

The generals around him were silent, the marshal was determined to defend it, and the marshal looked at the horses like a treasure on weekdays, when he crossed the mountains and sand seas, he was short of water to drink, and the marshal would rather let the horses drink water three times a day, but people can only drink it once, which shows the cherishment of the horses; If these war horses are all about 100 percent in the Great Song Dynasty, it is a pity that they have to be reduced to pigs and sheep to provide meat at this moment.

In one night, more than 3,000 war horses were slaughtered on the spot, horse meat and white rice were boiled into a pot of meat porridge and sent to the city, the soldiers were greedy bowls of bowls poured into their stomachs, and snoring loudly around the bonfire leaning against the battlements of the city wall, Su Jin did not rest, he led the guards to keep patrolling the four cities until the sky was bright.

The arduous siege lasted for four days, and from the hour of each day, the Liao army would begin to attack frantically, until it was noon to retire to rest and eat, and continue in the afternoon, and then it continued until dark, so that everyone formed a rule, and at one point they consciously carried their blades to the head of the city or the head of the city, which was more punctual than going to work and getting off work.

Whether it is the siege or the defender of the city has tended to be numb, this numbness is not only a blind eye to life and death, and even does not care about their own life and death, the arrows of the city have long been used up, and the soldiers have to do another thing every day is to move bricks and stones, and the upper and lower city walls always carry a large bag of stones as weapons, so that there is a shortage of bricks and stones in the city, and even the bluestone road has been pried a few. The besiegers are also exhausted, the catapults are no longer usable, not that there are no stones to smash at the city, but their overloaded use has been scattered, the arrows are consumed, and most of the ladders and carts are destroyed, and by the morning of the fourth day, the Liao army even has only more than 300 usable ladders, which are not up to the needs of the siege.

Yelu Chongyuan had to order a suspension of the siege, facing the high wall, there was no ladder, could it not be done without a ladder, could it be a ladder to go up? Although it would be okay even if they all stood at the base of the city wall now, the Song people would only use some stones and bricks to smash down, which would not cause much damage, but they could not order the soldiers to stare the Song soldiers to death one by one by their eyes.

Yelu Chongyuan ordered the whole army to repair the damaged trebuchet and build a new improvised ladder, and sent people to hurry north to Yikun Ningzhou in Wuzhou to mobilize siege equipment and arrows, he believed that as long as the high-intensity attack lasted a few days, the imperial city would be broken, because the Song army obviously had no means to stop their attack, and they had nothing but high walls.

Su Jin was anxious, the situation became more and more urgent, Yelu Chongyuan was like a mad dog biting and not talking, completely ignoring the casualties, the number of casualties on both sides exceeded 90,000 in four days, and his own soldiers were reduced by more than 30,000, and Yelu Chongyuan paid the price of 60,000 people, but even such a large casualty did not make Yelu Chongyuan give up the attack.

It is true that Yelu Chongyuan used the stupid method of changing his life, he had 160,000 horses, and went to 60,000 and 100,000, which was more than enough to attack the city; And Su Jin's army was only 80,000 people, and only 50,000 were left after 30,000 were killed.

The Liao army has been resting for two days, Su Jin knows that this is the last trace of tranquility before the big war, standing on the Beicheng station tower, watching the truckloads of materials transported from the north to the Liao army camp, Su Jin's heart sank to the bottom, he wanted to lead the army out of the city to seize the military supplies, but he knew that it was unwise, Yelu Chongyuan Yan could give himself this opportunity, I am afraid that he would have been waiting for the net a long time ago.

Rao is Su Jin is clever and knowledgeable, and he is helpless at the moment, under the stalking of Yelu Chongyuan's mad dog, there is really no good way to deal with it, Su Jin realized how lucky he has been in the past six months, and he has made a lot of money when the Liao people are empty, but now I am afraid that even the old bottom will be lost.

Su Jin convened a meeting of all the generals in the Dongcheng City Tower, the atmosphere of the meeting was solemn, everyone realized the severity of the situation, and they were silent one by one frowning.

Su Jin snorted and looked at everyone and said with a smile: "Everyone is depressed one by one, what's wrong?" ”

Everyone, you look at me, I look at you rolling your eyes, it's all at this time, and the handsome man is still pretending to be relaxed.

Su Jin coughed and walked past each general with a negative hand, and a calm voice sounded: "We should be happy, my northern expeditionary army of 200,000 has entered Liao since May, as if entering a no-man's land, more than 10,000 miles in length, eighteen lower cities, nearly 300,000 enemies, in the past six months, we have become a sharp knife in the abdomen of the Liao people, making them restless and thunderous, we even took their capital, let them suffer unprecedented humiliation, these are not enough for us to be happy?" Isn't it something we should be proud of? Looking at the past and present, what army can do this? ”

The generals' eyes showed a look of light, and their bodies were straight, Su Jin's words made them proud, looking back on the past six months, all kinds of incredible things, I didn't think it was at the time, but now looking back, it is indeed a great achievement.

"The ancients said: It is okay to die at the end of the day, this sentence may not be suitable for the current situation, but what I want to say is that we have made our greatest contribution, for the people of the Great Song Dynasty, we have completed the mission of 200,000 people, and our names will be recorded in the history books and spread for the world, isn't this enough? What's more, we haven't failed yet, the imperial city is still in our hands, what do we have to worry about? What if the city is broken and dies? It's just a perfect and heroic end to our glorious journey to the north, and although this is not the best ending, this ending is not as tragic as you imagined. ”

The generals listened to it with a surging heart, but they were a little ashamed, compared with Su Jin, their own realm pattern is much smaller, people talk about official positions to the central ministers, talk about the wealth of thousands of dollars, people are young and heroic, there are groups of wives and concubines in the family, they can ignore life and death, and they can't catch up with him, but they can't let go.

Su Jin continued: "Of course, surviving is naturally the most perfect result, the Liao people rested for two days, no accident, tomorrow will be the last onslaught, the Liao people mobilized a large number of materials to come, tomorrow's battle of the imperial city is difficult to protect, so I decided, we can't wait to die here, we have to break through, survive one by one, can't all be stuffed in the city, today's discussion, is how to break through." ”