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Chapter 792 Song People

Inside Nanxun Gate, there was already chaos.

"Don't panic! We have a lot of people!" An officer of the Song Army ran back to the city gate with his subordinates, shouting loudly all the way, trying to gather more people: "Follow me, occupy the gate wall! The enemy is blocking back!"

Some soldiers on the city tower also shouted: "There is a dark board here! Uncover the dark board and throw stones down to block the passage of the city gate, and their cavalry will not be able to run!"

The outer city of Kaifeng that Hou Zhi was responsible for building was not very ornate, and a lot of arrangements were made for the needs of the battle.For example, there is no urn at the city gate, but a gate wall and a sheep and horse wall are used to block the enemy's rush.Another example is that there is a dark board in front of the city tower, and huge logs and stones are piled up on the dark board. Once the dark board is removed, the wood and stone can fall straight down the corridor to smash the attackers.

In such a short period of time, the Song army grasped the key points of Hou Zhi's two constructions, and began to use Nanxunmen as an offensive and defensive stronghold. It can be seen that the Song people are good at defending, and it is true.

For such an army, as long as they are more familiar with the terrain and allow time to arrange a coordinated sequence for defending the city, it is enough to block several times or even ten times the enemy's attack.

The Kaifeng imperial court set fire to Li Ting and others, in order to tear a huge rift between Song Jun and Ding Haijun, and force Song Jun to stand on his side.

However, the response speed of Ding Haijun was too fast, and the time left for them was too short.

The Dinghai cavalry, who were the first to rush up the tower, charged forward like an iron plow cutting into the soft soil, with no hindrance in advance or retreat.In the blink of an eye, they walked around the top of the city tower several times, and several soldiers who tried to move the dark board were hit by iron horses, and flew down the city with their hands and feet tied.

Turning to look at the other side, the cavalry had already crossed the gate wall.Only dozens of soldiers of the Song Army were left standing on a wooden wall standing on the magpie platform, shooting randomly from left to right with bows and arrows.

The magpie platform is two feet high, and the wall is another three feet high. The Song army is condescending, and the arrows are like rain, shooting down more than ten cavalrymen who are galloping in an instant.The people on both sides of the guard wall turned their backs, and led more soldiers who followed behind, causing the people to hiss wildly, the smoke and dust billowed, and most of the road was blocked.

At this time, Dong Jin came rushing from the city gate. Seeing that the road was blocked, he grabbed a large shield to block the arrows, and urged his horse to gallop forward.

At first Song Jun only thought that this man was irritable and planned to hit the wall with his men and horses. Unexpectedly, he took out the rope from behind and threw it, put it on a thick wooden stake in the middle of the wooden wall, and looped the rope twice on the saddle bridge. .The next moment, the horse galloped sideways, the rope suddenly collapsed, the wooden stake was uprooted by the huge force, and even the entire wooden wall shook.

The Ding navy cavalry cheered loudly, several of them followed suit and threw ropes to pull the wooden wall.In a blink of an eye, another series of wooden stakes flew up, and the wooden wall swayed, rolling and falling from the magpie platform to the ground, and even more than a dozen Song soldiers fell to the ground.

And a large number of Dinghai cavalry were impatient, and they immediately urged their horses to run up to the platform, and then accelerated to charge forward.

The cavalry kept pouring in, but they were not in a hurry to go deep into Kaifeng. They rushed back and forth like a stream, and expanded their control area without haste.Soon, Xuanhuamen and Anshangmen on the east and west sides of Nanxunmen also fought.

As for the vicinity of Nanxun Gate, there is a special emphasis.

Because this place was the place where Zhang Bangchang led hundreds of officials to resign and weep for servants when the second sage was hunting in the north. The records of the Southern Dynasties are very detailed.So although Zhao Fang had never been here, he was quite familiar with the surrounding terrain. When he entered the city, he deliberately had someone occupy the Kanjie Pavilion half a mile inside the city gate, and set up his own Chinese army camp centered on the Kanjie Pavilion.

But at this moment, all the considerable troops stationed around the Kanjie Pavilion were unable to hold their feet, and they were driven away by the cavalry, and scattered in all directions!
According to common sense, the cavalry of the Ding Navy came from the direction of the Lincaiguan battlefield and galloped at full speed for more than 20 miles.Facing the end of this powerful crossbow, the Song army had no time to fight with the whole team, so they couldn't resist the enemy!
Since Zhao Fang gave no new order, the Song army persisted in fighting, and then was killed, repelled, resisted, and crushed.There was chaos all around, probably only the small piece of ground where Zhao Fang and Guo Ning were facing each other was quieter.

However, this is just a beach that has not been washed by the torrent by luck.At some point, Tie Guduo will fall down.

Zhao Fang didn't think that he had to be an enemy of Ding Haijun.Shi Xianggong can certainly use his brains to make decisions, but it's not that he doesn't have a reason to accept the king's order.The current situation is nothing more than Hou Zhi's conspiracy.

But this situation inevitably made Zhao Fang a little angry and a little frustrated.

For some reason, he suddenly remembered something.A few years ago, when he promoted Meng Zongzheng in Suizhou, because Meng Zongzheng's father, Meng Lin, was a general of the King of Yue, he asked Meng Zongzheng if there were many warriors skilled in martial arts in the frontier army of the Song Dynasty. Can't match up to the heroes in the Yue family's army back then?
Meng Zongzheng shook his head again and again, saying that it was definitely not enough, because the Song Dynasty had been in the south of the Yangtze River for decades, and the soldiers had been tempered countless times through life and death. After all, they lacked the ferocity of the ZTE generals who wade through the mountains of corpses and seas of blood.

Zhao Fang was skeptical about this.

His soldiers and generals really didn't go through any battles before the Jurchens went south to plunder them.But after rigorous training on weekdays, and after surviving the panic at the beginning of encountering a strong enemy, many people are now reborn, and they are by no means inferior to any army in the Kaifeng court.

So Zhao Fang felt that even if they were not as good as the men from the Northland who kept fighting all day long, they wouldn't be too far behind.

But at this moment he understood that people like Meng Zongzheng, who have been in the army for generations, do have some family traditions.Zhao Fang thought it too lightly when he was talking about war on paper, but the fierceness of the Ding Navy was far worse than that of the Jin Army.This group of strong men has robbed the power of the central capital of the Dajin Kingdom in just a few years, and they have a solid foundation!
At this time, Guo Ning reined in his horse and asked lightly, are you tired of working.Zhao Fang only felt that he had become the prey of a gigantic beast and would be torn to pieces by sharp claws at any moment. The humiliation was beyond words to describe. Even though he was good at nourishing Qi, his face turned livid.

Even more frightening was Guo Ning's eyes.It turns out that those who have waded through mountains of corpses and seas of blood look at people like this.Zhao Fang felt that his nerves were suddenly blocked, as if he had been pierced by a sharp arrow, and his movements suddenly froze.

This Guo Ning is really as scary as the rumors say... I don't know how many people he killed before he raised such a vicious appearance!
Zhao Fang used great strength to break free from this state, and then bowed and saluted:
"Why did Zhou Guogong speak like this? Could it be that his subordinates were too late to greet them, so they were disrespectful? I will definitely punish them severely, and please don't mind, Duke Guo, and don't show trouble to the friendly army."

Guo Ning took two steps forward and sneered a few times: "What nonsense are you talking about!"

When he bowed down, Zhao Fang couldn't help but think, this Guo Ning is really as frivolous and aggressive as the rumors said, actually with a body of ten thousand chariots, he personally does this kind of rampant thing on the battlefield, if there are archers around the city gate at this moment, Is it possible...

There are indeed archers, and there are a lot of them.At this moment, the archers were not the only ones who wanted to go to the same place as Zhao Fang.

Guo Ning came here on a gallop, and the soldiers surrounded by him were all bathed in blood, and the places they passed were strewn with corpses. Many soldiers of the Song Army knew that their master was here, and subconsciously avoided this side.

But a big man suddenly jumped up from the side not far away, dodged the short spear in the hand of his companion, twisted his waist and threw it towards Guo Ning.

This distance is too short, if Guo Ning wants to get out of the way, the guards behind him will be caught off guard, and they may be killed or injured.So Guo Ning didn't move at all, only raised his left arm to block.

With a loud "Dang", Guo Ning's arm trembled and he felt a burst of pain.The tip of the short spear made a mark on the thick armguard, and was immediately swung away by Guo Ning.

Moving his arm away, the big man had already rushed forward, stabbing at Guo Ning with the Yanling Saber in his hand.

Guo Ning sneered slightly, and was about to swing his iron bones, when someone roared loudly in his ear, it turned out that Ni Yi had turned his horse from the side.

Accompanied by the roar, Ni Yi jumped off the horse, put his arms around the big man's shoulders, and directly pushed him down.

The big man couldn't react in time, he fell on his back and threw the Yanling saber aside.He pulled out the dagger from his waist and stabbed at Ni Yi's ribs, but the dagger slipped away from the armor, leaving only a trail of sparks.

And Ni Yi held the big ax upside down with one hand, and smashed it down heavily with the iron spine of the ax handle.

In the first blow, a blood hole with a diameter of one inch and running through the underlying tissue was opened on the big man's face.The second hit hit the neck, and with the slight sound of bones cracking, blood rushed out from the wound.

Ni Yi smashed it a few more times, and as the long handle of the ax was pulled out, pieces of meat began to splash, and the big man's limbs occasionally twitched, and soon he stopped moving.

Zhao Fang maintained a bent posture, watching the big man dying.

When he raised his head, there was uncontrollable compassion on his face: "Duke, we Song people did not set the fire in the city! Now the people being massacred by the Duke are all Song people!"

Guo Ning sneered: "This is still nonsense."

(End of this chapter)