The battle of Lingzhou kicked off with the Jin army crossing the river, Qu Duan took the lead to lead 10,000 horse infantry troops into Lingzhou, Li Yanxian was already ready to hold on, in the face of the swarming Jin army and the Western Xia army, the soldiers of the Dingbei army were unhurried to stick to the city wall. The ladder of the Jinxia coalition army was temporarily built at first glance, and the height was not enough to help it start to use it in the last section, relying on the courage of not being afraid of death, one after another under the cover of archers to climb up the city tower.

However, the castle tower was prepared with large stones, sasswood, lime, and scalding oil, and most of the besieging soldiers fell down with the collapse of the ladder when they climbed half the height. The two sides fought for a morning from dawn, and the battle situation was still stalemate, the Jinxia coalition army relied on a large number of people, starting from a city gate, until the four city walls were besieged, and they didn't care about the taste of casualties; the Dingbei army was under the command of Li Yanxian to throw troops one after another, no matter how the Jinxia coalition army intensified, it was always unable to form a breakthrough, and the continuous loss of the ladder made so that the speed of replenishment of the ladder could not keep up.

The tense atmosphere on the city tower was no less than that under the city, Qu Duan originally did not plan to reinforce Lingzhou, but Yang Zhi received the news of Wu Bixing, and immediately reacted, ordering Qu Duan to reinforce; seeing the momentum of the Jinxia coalition army, Qu Duan secretly called it lucky, although the army killed from Xingzhou was only 60,000 people, but there were as many as 20,000 ordinary people, who were specially engaged in auxiliary work and making siege equipment. It can be seen from the various siege equipment that the other party has prepared that Nie Erjin delayed his departure for a few days just to wait for these equipment.

Qu Duan looked at the coal stove erected on the city tower, the hot oil was heating in the oil pot, and was taken by the defenders to the side of the city wall and poured it down; Li Yanxian, this kid, is no wonder he was heavily armed by Yang Zhi, not to mention the courage in battle, there are many twists and turns in his heart, looking at this posture, I am afraid that he has been preparing to defend the city from the first day he took office. The Dingbei army on the edge of the city shouted again, and with the weakening of the sound of arrows, it should have repelled another siege.

Li Yanxian walked over from the city wall, and said with a smile: "Qu Shuai, the Jin army is a good hand at fighting, but the siege of the city is far behind, relying on a brute force that is not afraid of death; after today's battle, it is estimated that it will stop for a day or two, and wait for the catapult and ladder to be made, and then launch a large-scale attack." ”

Qu Duan nodded and said, "It's a pity that Yang Shuai didn't leave gunpowder for us, otherwise he would definitely be able to teach them a lesson today." ”

Li Yanxian said indifferently: "The thunderbolt is not very useful when defending the city, and it is not yet good to boil oil, we have stored a sufficient number of large stones and sassal wood in the city, which is enough to deal with, but I don't know when Yang Shuai will come." ”

Qu Duan laughed: "Yang Shuai won't come, if I guess correctly, Yue Fei will come to our aid." ”

Li Yanxian was stunned for a moment, and then understood: "This is because I am afraid that Nie Erjin will run away." ”

Yang Zhi's reputation in the Jin Kingdom is also resounding, almost a record of complete victories, even if Nie Erjin is arrogant, he may know that he is not as good as Wanyan Zonghan's people, and he is unwilling to fight Yang Zhi;

Qu Duan sighed and said, "It's a pity that I did this scripture strategy, and I didn't have the opportunity to cross the northwest like Yue Fei." ”

Li Yanxian smiled secretly in his heart, he naturally knew that Qu Duan was only convinced of Yang Zhi alone, and he was very envious of Yue Fei's ability to command a comprehensive team, but Qu Duan was also a person who valued power, and if he wanted to command troops that did not belong to him to fight like Yue Fei, Qu Duan might not be willing. The city remembered the singing, Jun is not seen, the Han Dynasty is in the final army, the weak crown is the captive, please Changying, Jun is not seen, Ban Dingyuan, the peerless light cavalry urges the war clouds! The man should be in serious danger, how can he let the Confucian crown miss this life? The situation is that the country is in danger, and the feather is fighting for nothing......

Hundreds of people sang together, the singing was loud, reaching the sky, even Nie Erjin and Wu'er Siqi, who were watching the enemy situation under the city, could hear it clearly, Nie Erjin asked, "What are they singing?"

Wu'er Siqi smiled bitterly: "A military song written by Yang Zhi is about the final army of the Han Dynasty who invited himself to send an envoy to South Vietnam at the age of 20, and Ban Chao, who led 36 horsemen to resist the Xiongnu in the Western Regions. ”

Wu'er Siqi is a literary and military all-rounder, and knows that this song is easy for the Han people to resonate with the Han people to resist foreigners, and he just wants to be perfunctory for Nie Erjin; Today we know the strength of the other party, let's rest, let the people below build more ladders and catapults, we will attack the day after tomorrow, and send people to pay attention to the enemy forces in Xining Prefecture and Weizhou, and see which army will come to reinforce at the end. ”

Wu'er Siqi was relieved, from the beginning of the attack, Wu'er Siqi unexpectedly found that the Dingbei Army did not resist more on the periphery, and the villages near Lingzhou had been moved, leaving no food or anything, so he was always worried about what Li Yanxian wanted to do, worried that Nie Erjin would fall into the trap. Nie Erjin didn't get angry when the attack was unfavorable, he didn't rush to finish the battle, he didn't lose his mind, even if this guy said something big in Xingzhou, but in fact he was still very careful.

But that's it, the Jinxia coalition army still caught Li Yanxian once, there are many wells outside Lingzhou City, no one thought that Li Yanxian predicted in advance that the siege army would set up camp in Pangjiapo, so he poisoned the three wells in Pangjiapo, and even if it was found quickly, hundreds of soldiers died, and the coalition army was tossed for half a night.

The lookout post on the city tower saw this situation, but Qu Duan and Li Yanxian had no intention of attacking, and the opposing coalition army came with the idea of decisiveness, even if they suffered setbacks, their morale was still very high at this time, and they couldn't make a hard move; what they had to do was to wait for the reinforcements to arrive, and then attack inside and outside, and break the enemy in one fell swoop.

On the sixth day, Yue Fei and Yang Yizhong took 50,000 cavalry to reinforce Lingzhou, and after a day of wits and courage, the two sides fought a decisive battle under the city of Lingzhou. And Yue Fei seized Nie Erjin and sent out a hot air balloon when he reorganized the army and horses, and notified Qu Duan to attack, but under the attack of 70,000 Dingbei Army, the Jinxia coalition army was defeated, Nie Erjin and Wuer Siqi fled from the battlefield, 8,000 Jin troops and 20,000 Xixia troops died on the battlefield, and as many as 30,000 troops and civilians surrendered.