Knowing that Shangjing City has fallen into the hands of the Jin State, Xiao Dilie can't help but be angry and helpless, angry that the Liao State obviously has a strong city wall to defend, and the strength of the troops is several times that of the Jurchens, but in the last few days, Shangjing City fell into the hands of the Jin people, but he is more helpless about this, after all, he also has a deep understanding of the decay of the Liao State, and at this time he also feels more and more that it is a wise decision for him to return to the Great Song Dynasty, otherwise he will have to be buried with the Liao State sooner or later.

At that moment, Xiao Dilie immediately sent someone to inform Hu Yanqing in the rear, and sent a cavalry team to lead Yelujun and these people to meet the large army in the rear, as for how to arrange them, it was not up to him, as for himself, he led his cavalry to continue to rush forward, after all, his previous order was to rush to Shangjing as soon as possible, although Shangjing has fallen now, but he hopes to rush to Shangjing to find out the situation and prepare for most of the attacks behind.

It is precisely because of this that Xiao Dilie immediately sped up and rushed to Shangjing after sending away Yelujun and these people, but at this time he also knew that there was a Jin cavalry in front of him who was chasing Yelujun and these people, so he also made people prepare for battle, and when it was dusk, he finally encountered the Jin cavalry on the opposite side, and the other party was about 3,000 people, but they did not know in advance that they would encounter the Great Song cavalry, so when the two armies encountered, they were a little unprepared.

Although Xiao Dilie is young, he grew up in the barracks when he was young, and he is very proficient in the tactics of cavalry, he seized the opportunity of the Jin army's lack of preparation, rushed to the other party at the fastest speed, and when he charged, there were two rounds of bows and arrows, and the last round had become grenades, although the Jin army also fought back with bows and arrows, but after all, he was not well prepared. The counterattack was also a little weak, and it did not have any impact on the Song army at all, but they were chaotic by the Song army's bows and arrows and firearms, and the army was inferior in numbers, so Xiao Dilie's charge killed the opponent and defeated the opponent. Even the commander-in-chief of the opposing side died in the enemy's ranks.

The tactics of cavalry are like this, they have always been quick battles, if the cavalry is engaged with the enemy, the longer it is delayed, the more unfavorable it will be for them, and in the head-to-head duel between cavalry and cavalry, it generally only takes two or three charges to decide the victory, especially when one side has the advantage, it is generally to destroy the other party in a crushing posture.

The Jin cavalry was defeated. The rest of the cavalry scattered and fled, Xiao Dilie pursued in the rear for a while, and finally eliminated most of the Jin cavalry, but a small number of them still fled, but he didn't bother to chase anymore, after all, for them, the most important thing now is to rush to Shangjing as soon as possible to find out the situation over there.

After a night's rest. Xiao Dilie ordered people to hurry again early the next morning, although the previous elimination of the Jin cavalry had been delayed for a while. However, in the afternoon, they finally rushed to Shangjingxia, but at this time there were Jin troops everywhere outside the city, and as soon as they approached, they were attacked by the Jin army, but fortunately they were not easy to mess with. However, after defeating several Jin troops, they soon attracted a large number of Jin troops, which forced them to temporarily retreat, and the Jin army also seemed to be very jealous of the Song army, as if they were afraid of falling into the trap of the Song army. So he didn't dare to catch up, so after Xiao Dilie withdrew and went to Shili, he temporarily set up camp, ready to monitor the movements of the Jin army.

It's just that what Xiao Dilie never expected was that on the second day he arrived at Shangjing, the Jin army outside the city suddenly disappeared, which made him very puzzled, and immediately sent a probe horse close to the city wall to inquire about the situation, but half a day later, the probe came back to report, they did not find any Jin army, and the city was empty, it seemed that the Jin army had withdrawn, but the strange thing was that there was no movement in the city, as if the Jin army had moved all the people in the city?

Hearing Tanma's visit, Xiao Dilie was even more surprised, because according to the time, the Jin army occupied the capital for only three days, but in just three days, it was absolutely impossible to move everyone in the city, after all, there were more than 100,000 people in the city, and it was a big project to move them all, and it was absolutely impossible to complete it without ten days and a half months.

With the doubts in his heart, Xiao Dilie sent a scout horse again, not this time the scope of the probe was larger, several teams of scout horses almost ran around the capital, and finally found that most of the city gates were tightly closed, except for the north gate open, it seems that the Liao army retreated from here, and what is even more strange is that there is no figure after running around.

After getting another report from Tanma, Xiao Dilie decided to go into the city to have a look, but he didn't dare to lead the army to the north gate, after all, if the Jurchens set up an ambush on the road, he couldn't escape if he wanted to, so he decided to enter through the south gate, although the city gate here is closed, but there are no defenders on the city, so you only need to let people climb in from the city head, and then open the city gate.

With Xiao Dilie's order, more than a dozen cavalry immediately rushed out, waving a rope with steel claws in their hands, and then suddenly threw the steel claws, and in the blink of an eye, they fell to the city and grasped it, and then a group of neat soldiers immediately came out of the ranks and pulled the rope to climb the city.

Originally, according to Xiao Dilie's order, the first batch of soldiers who climbed to the top of the city would immediately go down and open the city gate, but when these people just climbed to the top of the city, they were all stunned, looking at the direction of the city motionlessly, although they couldn't see the expressions on their faces, but they could also guess what shocking sight they must have seen.

"What are you in a daze, don't go down to the city and open the city gate quickly!" At this time, the chief officer below saw that his subordinates were stunned, and immediately yelled angrily.

Hearing the reprimand of the chief officer below, the soldiers at the head of the city were shocked and sobered up, but they did not go down to the city according to the commander's orders, but turned around and shouted to Xiao Dilie and the others below: "General, the city is full of blood and corpses, and it seems that there is not even a living person!" ”

"There are corpses everywhere, is it ......" Xiao Dilie suddenly thought of a possibility that made his whole body chill when he heard this, and immediately raised his head and yelled, "Quickly open the city gate, I want to personally check the situation in the city!" ”

"Whoa!" The soldiers at the head of the city agreed loudly, turned around and ran down the city, but the city gate did not open immediately, but waited for a long time or there was no movement, and finally Xiao Dilie sent several groups of people, but the people inside reported that the city gate was blocked, and it needed to be cleaned up before it could be opened, but after a full hour, I saw that the heavy city gate was slowly opened, and with the opening of the city gate, a strong bloody gas immediately poured out, and there was a pile of corpses that almost filled half of the city gate hole.

"General Qiqi, there are too many corpses behind the city gate, just now we cleaned up for a long time before finally clearing out the space to open the city gate, but the corpses in the city gate hole are difficult to clean out for a while!" At this time, I saw a member of the Song Dynasty reporting to Xiao Di Lie covered in blood, and the blood on his body was naturally not his, but was dyed when carrying the corpse just now.

Xiao Dilie didn't pay attention to the report of his subordinates at all, from the moment the city gate opened, his attention had been attracted by the corpses in the city gate cave, only to see that among these strange corpses, most of them were ordinary people, and a small number of them were Liao soldiers wearing uniforms, these corpses were piled up on top of each other, filling half of the city gate hole, and they wanted to enter the city, they could only step on this corpse mountain.

Looking at the shocking corpse mountain in front of him, Xiao Dilie felt cold hands and feet, because the soldiers who had been to the city just now had already said that the city was full of dead corpses, that is to say, the city gate hole in front of him was only a corner of the tragic situation in the city, and there must be more corpses in the city, in other words, the Jurchens were likely to slaughter the city against the court of the capital, which also explained why the city was silent.

Thinking of this, Xiao Dilie didn't care about anything else, he threw off the saddle and dismounted at the moment, and wanted to step on the corpse to see the tragic situation in the city with his own eyes, but when he was just about to get off his feet, he saw that under his feet was a baby corpse less than a year old, the baby's belly was dissected, and the small body was curled up there naked, his innocent little face was full of blood, and his two big eyes were opened without a look, which made people really can't bear to take a second look.

Seeing the baby corpse under his feet, even Xiao Dilie, who had been fighting on the battlefield for many years, was a little unbearable, and finally suddenly sighed lightly, retracted the foot that was about to step on the corpse mountain, and then commanded weakly: "Move out the corpses in the city gate and place them outside the city temporarily, no one is allowed to insult the corpse, otherwise military law will be engaged!" ”

"Whoa!" Although Xiao Dilie's order is a little strange, but the Great Song Dynasty has always had strict military discipline, even if Xiao Dilie ordered them to jump into the river, they would not hesitate to do it, this is the meaning of the military order, so thousands of Great Song cavalry dismounted one after another, except for the necessary guards, the rest of the people were all involved in carrying the corpses.

There are thousands of corpses in the city gate cave, most of them were hacked to death by sharp blades, only the bottom layer may have been trampled to death, fortunately it is winter now, and it is very cold here in Beijing, so the corpses are all frozen cold and hard, but there is no decay, otherwise the smell alone can smoke people to death, many corpses even maintain the posture when they died, and many corpses are frozen together by the blood flowing out, no matter what, they can only be pulled out of the rope outside the city gate.

As the city gate hole was cleaned up, the scene behind the city gate was finally presented in front of Xiao Dilie and them, only to see that the roads in the city were full of blood and dead corpses, and some places were also like the city gate cave here, which was piled high into a mountain of corpses, and even from the reverse of these corpses, you could deduce the direction of their escape, but in the end they were driven together and slaughtered! (To be continued.) )