The battle in Beicheng was particularly fierce, one after another siege ladders were erected, and the golden soldiers climbed up desperately, and above their heads, rolling logs and stones fell down like hailstones, and countless soldiers screamed and fell from the ladders.

Behind the siege ladder, the bow and arrow battle was also fiercely carried out, and there was basically no chance of head in the dark night, and the arrows flying above and below the city were woven into a huge black net.

Li Yanqing was located in Nancheng at this time, Xu Ning handed over the 6,000 soldiers in Nancheng to Li Yanqing to command, and he himself went to command the 5,000 soldiers in Dongcheng, these 11,000 soldiers were the foundation of Li Yanqing's counterattack, and the other 19,000 New Northern Army They could not control it, especially the 15,000 people who fought fiercely with the Jin soldiers in Beicheng, it was even more difficult to guarantee, and it was as much as they could come back.

Li Yanqing did not rush to Beicheng to participate in the battle, and his role in the city was not great, even similar to Zhang Qing, Xu Ning and others.

What Li Yanqing is good at is not directly participating in the war, but preparing for war, commanding, and employing people, especially employing people, he can give full play to everyone's talents, boost morale, let soldiers fight to the death, arrange the position of generals, and let generals give full play to their own advantages.

He arranged all of these one by one, and naturally there were Liu Jian, Wang Gui, Niu Gao, Cao Meng, Yang Zaixing, these fierce generals directly led the army to fight.

The reason why Li Yanqing knew that the outer city would inevitably be breached was because the Song army did not have any preparations at all in the second defense of the city, and they were all squandering his combat readiness balance for the first time, without carefully inspecting the trebuchet, without sufficient logistical support, the army did not even have any training during the armistice, the army had no rules and regulations, and the soldiers fought completely by instinct and fought fiercely with the Jin soldiers, how could this battle be won? Think the golden soldiers are so easy to defeat?

Li Yanqing's victory, whether it was the Battle of Taiyuan or the First Battle of the Capital, was the result of a lot of painstaking efforts, and it would never succeed by chance.

At this time, there was an earth-shattering explosion on the head of Beicheng, and I faintly saw half of the trebuchet flying high, followed by another explosion, and the two trebuchets were blown to pieces.

Li Yanqing pinched in his heart, this is a trebuchet malfunction, resulting in the earth-shaking thunder not being thrown, and it exploded directly on the city, he shook his head lightly, this is what he expected, he was so careful in Taiyuan and exploded one, not to mention that now the army has not considered this problem at all, implosion must be inevitable.

Li Yanqing immediately ordered: "Pass my order and prepare to withdraw to the inner city!" ”

As soon as his words fell, there was a continuous violent explosion from the Xicheng side, and I saw a strong black smoke rising into the air, and Li Yanqing's face suddenly changed, "Not good!" ”

He saw that the place where the black smoke rose was Xinzheng Gate, this was the Jin soldiers bombing the city gate, Li Yanqing suddenly understood, the attack on the North City was just a pretense, the Jin soldiers wanted to use the earth-shattering thunder they captured to blow up the West City, who said that the Jin soldiers would not use strategy, this strategy is quite clever, using the thinking inertia of the Jin soldiers to attack the North City, and unexpectedly blow up the West City Gate.

Li Yanqing immediately made a decision and shouted: "Launch the rocket and retreat to the inner city!" ”

Three rockets rose into the air, which was the signal for retreat, and the six thousand Song troops on the head of the city quickly left the southern city and retreated to the inner city.

At the same time, Xu Ning of Dongcheng also ordered the army to retreat, and at this time, a series of explosions came from Xinzheng Gate, and the entire city wall of Xinzheng Gate was blown down and dusty.

Tens of thousands of people shouted to kill outside the west city, and the 30,000 gold soldiers who were ambushed outside came to kill Xinzheng Gate, and the defenders of the west city saw that the situation was not good, and they rushed down to the city and retreated to the inner city.

At this time, Beicheng was still in the midst of fierce battles, the Jin soldiers attacked the city several times, but they were all killed by the Song army, He Li stood under the city tower and brandished his sword and roared, his hair was scattered, his eyes were red, He Li was only fifty years old, and he was born as a champion, but at this moment, he was like a general who had experienced a hundred battles, commanding the Song army to fight, in fact, this was his first contact with war, but the blood in his bones was also ignited by the flames of war.

"Fight with the enemy, and after eighteen years, everyone will be a good man again!"

If it weren't for a soldier holding him tightly beside him, He Li would have swung his sword and rushed in to join the battle group.

At this time, Zhang Qing rushed over, and not long after the explosion in Xicheng, he also saw Li Yanqing's order to retreat, and there was no time left for them.

"He Xianggong, the outer city can't be defended, quickly withdraw to the inner city!"

"Fart!"

He Li roared angrily: "With me here, Jin Bing doesn't want to kill him!" ”

The shouting and killing here was too intense, He Li didn't even hear the explosion in Xicheng, and at this moment, a series of explosions in Xicheng finally came, and all the soldiers in Beicheng were stunned.

"Retreat! Withdraw to the Inner City! Zhang Qing gave an order in a loud voice.

He Li was stunned at first, and then angrily shouted: "Don't retreat!" No one is allowed to retreat! ”

It's a pity that no one among the soldiers will listen to his orders anymore, and Li Yanqing's personal soldiers in the army played a role at this time, and they shouted one after another: "The outer city can't hold it, quickly withdraw to the inner city!" ”

They immediately shouted: "Pull out the fuse of the earth-shattering thunder, and leave it to the golden people!" ”

The soldiers pulled out the fuse of the earth-shattering thunder on the head of the city one after another, and retreated like a tide to the city under the leadership of Li Yanqing's own soldiers.

At this time, Zhang Qing was anxious to organize the soldiers to retreat, so he ordered several soldiers: "Take He Xianggong back to the inner city, whether he wants it or not!" ”

After speaking, Zhang Qing rushed to the city, several soldiers hurriedly wanted to help He Li, but he violently broke free, and a soldier hurriedly said: "The Xicheng side is lost, and it can't be held here, Xianggong go quickly!" ”

He Li smiled miserably, "The outer city is lost, how can I explain to the officials?" How to explain to the people of Bianjing? I swear to coexist with the outer city, and I will retreat! ”

He suddenly sighed, "That's it, let me bear this eternal sinner!" ”

He took two steps back suddenly, swiped his sword, and immediately fell to himself, several soldiers failed to hold him, and he was immediately stunned, at this time, a soldier next to him shouted: "The golden soldiers have killed the city!" ”

The retreat of the Song soldiers gave the siege of the golden soldiers a chance, dozens of siege ladders of the golden soldiers killed the city, several soldiers saw that the situation was critical, they had to tearfully hold He Li's body and run down the city, halfway through, He Li lost his breath.

At this time, several fires broke out in the outer city, and it was the Song soldiers who set fire to the houses to prevent the Jin soldiers from chasing and killing.

The Suzaku Gate in the south and the Cao Gate in the east have been quickly closed, and the retreating soldiers rushed to the head of the city to start the defense of the inner city, while the Zheng Gate in the east and the Cao Gate in the north were not closed, and a large number of soldiers and some civilians were desperately running towards the inner city.

The Caomen in the north was garrisoned by 8,000 troops, and at this time, Wang Daoqi, the deputy commander of the palace, was standing at the head of the city, and he saw a new fire suddenly burning near the outer city wall in the distance, and he knew that this was the Jin soldiers who had entered the outer city.

His face suddenly turned pale, and looking at the Song soldiers who were desperately rushing towards Caomen, he suddenly ordered: "Close the city gate!" ”

The gates creaked and began to close, and the soldiers who ran to the city shouted, but the soldiers in the city did not understand, and the gates slammed shut.

The soldiers who did not enter the city under the city roared and screamed angrily, and at this time, Zhang Qing rode a horse and galloped, and he saw the city gate slowly closing from a distance, and his heart couldn't help but be furious.

He rushed forward and yelled, "Who is guarding the city, don't open the door for me quickly!" ”

Wang Daoqi didn't expect Zhang Qing to be outside, he hesitated, and immediately ordered: "Don't open the city gate again, whoever dares to open the door without authorization will be killed!" ”

He turned around and went down to the city, Zhang Qing roared for a while, and the city gate never opened, at this time, a soldier finally couldn't help but say: "It was the king who ordered the order not to open the door, General Zhang went to enter the city elsewhere!" ”

At this time, the shouting and killing in the distance was getting closer and closer, and Zhang Qing had to suppress his anger in his heart and shouted, "Follow me!" ”

He led more than 3,000 remnants of the army to the east city gate, at this time the soldiers outside the east city gate have withdrawn into the city, the main general Pan Yue has ordered the city gate to be closed, and suddenly a soldier shouted: "There is still the Song army outside!" ”

Pan Yue looked out and saw thousands of Song troops galloping from the north, led by Zhang Qing.

Pan Yue was taken aback, and hurriedly shouted, "Open the city gate quickly!" ”

The city gates that had just been closed were opened again, and Zhang Qing led his soldiers into the city.