When the Song army was fighting against the Liao army, Gao Wei was leading 15,000 elite cavalry of the Xia army in the valley! The loud noise of "kill..." alarmed Gao Wei. Although Gao Wei knew that the two Liao armies in Zhuozhou were about to fight, Gao Wei did not expect that the Song army would take such a smooth action this time to attack the city of Zhuozhou.

"Report, report, report, report..." A sentry detective came to report; "Reported to the military advisor, the Song army launched a large-scale attack on Zhuozhou City, mobilizing a large number of catapults, siege cars, beds and crossbows and other siege equipment..."

"Be prepared, you guys follow me to see outside Zhuozhou City." Gao Wei ordered decisively.

"As for orders." Several personal guards and generals took over the military order.

On an unknown hill outside Zhuozhou City, Gao Wei and several generals were lying on the ground and looking at the battlefield where the Liao army fought. Gao Wei pointed to the Song army's crossbow troops and said, "Look, look at how strong the Song army's combat power is. They usually complain that they look down on others. With such an attack power, can our cavalry fight through it? I'm afraid that if we don't meet the Song army, we will probably lose ordinary troops!"

The heavy general was ashamed by Gao Wei's words. In the past, the officers and generals of the Xia army talked a lot about the Song army. In their eyes, the Song army was a group of lambs to be slaughtered. However, the Song army now showed a group of lambs with thorns. Gao Wei deeply realized that the Song army was not as weak as the legendary one, but the Song army was very powerful; it was obvious that the Song army's crossbow troops were established to fight against the cavalry.

On the battlefield of Zhuozhou, the huge crossbow of the Song army began to show its power. The crossbow string of the three-bow bed crossbow was slowly pulled open by the winch. In order to increase the power of the crossbow arrows, the Song army only prepared a thick crossbow arrow this time. The function of the three-bow bed crossbow was to shoot the city walls and battlements of Zhuozhou City. With a "bang...", one crossbow arrow came out and flew towards the city walls of Zhuozhou City, directly piercing the huge crossbow tip into the city walls. In this way, the crossbow arrows were arranged upwards in sequence to the top of the city. When the infantry attacked the city, the soldiers could climb upwards with thick crossbow arrows.

Wang Anshi stood on the tall commanding arrow tower and overlooked the entire battlefield. This was the first time Wang Anshi saw the battlefield. The battlefield made the great poet feel excited and also made him feel disgusted. After all, this scene was too bloody, but in just this quarter of the early stage, the Song army had no casualties, and after the early stage attack was completed.

Wang Anshi ordered: "Sentence the army to attack the city..."

With Wang Anshi's order, the siege soldiers pushed various siege equipment and began to slowly advance towards the city wall, "Hey, hey, hey..." The Song army shouted loud slogans and pushed the heavy siege cars hard to move forward slowly, but the other soldiers were not like this. Many Song army soldiers carrying simple ladders carried the ladders forward directly; at this time, a passively beaten Dongliao army could finally fight back, arrow feathers, thunder stones, and rolling wood began to smash towards the Song army, and the burned boiling water and hot oil were poured directly on the Song army, and many Song army soldiers were scalded on the spot.

The injured soldiers on the battlefield were even more terrifying than those who died in battle. An injured soldier needed at least two people to save him. For this reason, a large number of troops were wasted. People who did not have time to be rescued or who were half-dead might be trampled to death by their companions. At this time, Zhuozhou City was a huge meat grinder, devouring several lives at every moment. The Song army achieved great success by relying on the tactics of the sea of ​​people. The soldiers of the Song army began to approach the head of Zhuozhou step by step.

In Zhuozhou City, Xiao Talin walked towards the city wall wearing armor. The deputy general said to Xiao Talin: "General, it's too dangerous above, you'd better not go up."

Xiao Talin sneered: "I have to go up even if I am in danger, otherwise how can I understand the combat power of the Song army and how to formulate an effective action plan."

Xiao Talin climbed the city tower despite the obstruction of his generals. At this time, the city tower was in a mess. The Song army was constantly climbing up with the help of the attack ladder. Looking at the Song army that was like a tide below, Xiao Talin said: "It is not a solution to defend this way. We must find a way to deal with the Song army severely, otherwise our army will be dragged to death by the Song army's sea tactics sooner or later."

"General, be careful..." A deputy general suddenly threw Xiao Talin to the ground. At this moment, a fierce tinder tank exploded beside Xiao Talin. The tinder instantly ignited several soldiers not far away. Several generals quickly helped Xiao Talin up and said, "General, are you okay!"

Xiao Talin immediately ordered decisively: "Send the order, all the cavalry in the city will gather at the south gate immediately, and all the buildings within ten feet of the south wall will be cleared immediately. All the losses of the people will be allowed to go to the general's mansion to get them."

"Yes, please follow the general's military orders." Several generals immediately took over the military orders.

After half an hour, all the mobile cavalry in Zhuozhou City had been assembled outside the South Gate, with only more than 10,000 troops. The rest of them climbed to the city tower to serve as infantry envoys. Although there were not many cavalrymen, there were many war horses, so basically a knight had many war horses. These war horses were armed with weapons, and there would be a mess wherever the war horses passed.

After the cavalry was ready to attack, Xiao Talin immediately ordered: "Open the city gate and the whole army attack..."

"Cruff! Cruff! Cruff..." The city gate slowly opened, and the Song army outside the city gate was immediately overjoyed. Just as Xiao Talin led 10,000 Eastern Liao troops to rush out of the city, the Eastern Liao army solved all the Song army in front of the city gate as fast as possible, and then rushed towards the Song army under Xiao Talin's leadership. After all the Eastern Liao cavalry rushed out, the originally opened southern gate of Zhuozhou City was immediately closed again. The Song army did not take advantage of this opportunity to rush into the city.

Xiao Talin, who left the city, led the Eastern Liao cavalry to rush around. Originally, the cavalry and infantry were at an absolute disadvantage. Now this is even more so. In front of the powerful Eastern Liao cavalry, the infantry soldiers of the Song Dynasty were like lambs to be slaughtered. Faced with the charge of tens of thousands of war horses, many of the Song soldiers fell into deep fear. Xiao Talin did not waste time with these ordinary Song soldiers, but directly killed the Song army's siege cars, catapults and large bed crossbows. Xiao Talin planned to destroy all the heavy siege equipment of the Song army.

This approach is obviously very effective. Wherever the Eastern Liao cavalry passes, it is like entering a deserted land. The Song army has no way to organize effective resistance. Of course, this is a big problem of command. Since the Eastern Liao cavalry and the Song army are fighting each other, the Song army's crossbowmen have no way to exert their power at all, and can only watch the Eastern Liao cavalry rushing around.

Xu Xi stood beside Wang Anshi and said, "Sir, please send an order to let the shield soldiers protect the central army formation! Block the Dongliao cavalry outside the central army formation."

Wang Anshi asked Xu Xi: "What about the front army! What should be done with the front army?"

Xu Xi said: "It's time now, so there is still kung fu to control the front army! As long as the main force of my army is still there, we still have a chance."

"Okay then! General Xu, come and give orders!" Wang Anshi said.
Chapter completed!