The breach of the west gate was not to blame on anyone. When Zhao Huan arrived at the west gate, he knew everything about the incident. It was really a pure accident.
The two sides fought desperately, and naturally the Song Army's unique weapon Feihuo was brought up, causing great damage to the Jin people.
But the fact that the Jin people were able to dominate them for such a long time was not due to luck.
The continuous plundering and migration that began at the end of the Han Dynasty and even the end of the Qin Dynasty, as well as the Wuhu chaos in China, resulted in more than just heavy casualties of the Han people.
There is even more outflow of technology.
The iron smelting technology of today's Jin people is not much worse than that of the Song Dynasty. Not to mention, the siege technology and equipment are also already in shape.
In this case, several other city gates besides the South City Gate, which was deliberately leaked out, received very severe blows.
Wanyan Zongwang led the entire army as the commander-in-chief, while Nianhan personally led the troops to fight and fight. He happened to be in charge of the west gate.
When the soldiers on the city wall were throwing flying fire, they were accidentally hit directly in the heart by a stray arrow. After all their strength was released, the flying fire in their hands fell to the bottom of the city without being able to hold it firmly.
The explosion happened to hurt the heel of his city gate. At this time, a huge boulder was thrown in and hit the heel of the city gate.
Two heavy blows directly smashed open the long-disrepaired west city gate of Chang'an. Nianhan and his general Chi Zhanhui immediately seized the opportunity and led all their troops to rush towards the gap.
At the front are hundreds of heavily armored Jin cavalry. This is their first generation Iron Buddha.
Those guarding the West City were also the main force of the Song army. Fan Zhixu, the Yongxing military commander, had also commanded the Six Route Army in fierce battles with Xixia and Jin.
He always thought that he was capable and aloof. After the Jin people broke through the city, he felt that although they had many soldiers and horses, the gap in the city gate was small. If they used cavalry to attack at this time, they would block him.
At this time, just using the crossbowmen to suppress them is enough to kill them one by one.
Fan Zhixu, the commander of Yongxing Army, not only thought this way, but also did it. He took his own troops and hundreds of crossbowmen and rushed down directly, hoping to use strong bows to harden the crossbows. Shoot these golden men to death.
But he never thought that the first-generation iron pagoda, the prototype of heavy armored cavalry, was not afraid of arrows and crossbows. He looked at the arrows that hit their armor but had no effect.
Yongxing military commander Fan Zhixu was a little at a loss.
The Jin people would not give him a chance to be stunned. He led his soldiers and horses to charge in one go. General Chi Zhanhui even jumped on his horse and held the sword to kill the Yongxing army commander Fan Zhixu on the spot.
Fortunately, Ma Changyou, the right military doctor under his command, was not an ordinary person. After seeing this scene, he immediately changed his tactics. Especially after seeing his general die on the battlefield, he did not panic, but instead tried his best to boost morale.
Then he asked his soldiers to rush forward with their shields, using their lives to delay for a little while, and at the same time, he called back the crossbowmen and sent the giant axeman to the front.
As the saying goes, there was a Mo Dao in the Tang Dynasty and a giant ax in the Song Dynasty.
When the Tang Dynasty attacked outside the Great Wall, the Mo Dao Camp was very prominent. The Song Dynasty, which also had to face foreign cavalry, although the results were not very good, it was not without improvement.
Today's foreign soldiers and horses have more sophisticated equipment, and Mo Dao can no longer adapt to today's battlefield, so in order to deal with the iron cavalry of the Liao Kingdom and even the Jin people today.
The Song people chose giant axes, a weapon that was equally good for chopping but easier to use, as their standing army.
This was a sharp weapon against cavalry, and it was also the only support of the right-wing doctor Ma Changyou. Unfortunately, during a charge, he also followed in the footsteps of his own generals and was killed on the spot.
Hundreds of giant axemen under his command were also killed.
But the fighting of these people was effective. The golden cavalry was blocked by the giant axemen who also wore heavy armor and held giant axes.
The Jin general Chi Zhanhui was also injured by several people.
At this time, several other generals stationed in Xicheng also rushed down. Seeing the tragic scene in front of them, they did not think much about it and immediately led their troops to charge and kill, hoping to drive the Jin people out of Chang'an completely.
But the result was that they were strangled to death by the Jin people, but they also took away the head of the traitorous Jingyuan Road general Zhang Zhongyan.
Of course, there is also the Jin warrior Chi Zhanhui, who was injured and has difficulty moving.
As a price, Gao Li, the guard of Xicheng, Wang Xiang, the general manager of Xidao, Qian Gai of Shaanxi control and other important officials of the Song Dynasty were also killed one by one.
At the moment when the city gate was about to be lost, Li Gang, who heard the news, led all the civil and military officials in the city to finally rush over and blocked the Jin's attack with their lives.
How could the scholar-bureaucrats of the Song Dynasty be so brave and fearless of death?
Of course not, Li Gang just imitated the sages and learned how Kou Zhun sent the really cowardly emperor...Emperor Zhenzong to the battlefield of Daming Mansion.
Naturally, there is a reserve team in the city. Neither Qu Duan nor Zhao Huan would miss this point. However, the Jin people have already broken through the city gate. Even if these reserve teams rush forward, they will have little effect.
So Li Gang asked them to change their goal and asked them to directly surround all the officials and generals in the city, draw their knives and tell them.
Fight to the death or die!
Which one of these people is not surrounded by a group of guards, and which one is not accompanied by dozens, hundreds or even hundreds of servants.
Together, these officials and petty officials are a powerful force. , and this is the time for them to set off.
More than two hundred officials, with their own bodyguards, minor officials from various government offices in Chang'an Mansion, and servants of the government offices, this time Li Gang directly brought out thousands of reinforcements.
These people are not as brave as the Jin people, but they can barely support themselves when the sword is placed on their necks.
At the same time, Secretary Li Guang went to the wounded soldiers camp and found the wounded soldiers who had retired due to injuries. He knew that he was being unkind.
But they still bowed and begged, hoping that they would appear again with scars to kill the enemy.
A group of soldiers called Qiu Ba had never seen such a battle before. They were civil servants who looked down upon them and pointed their fingers at them.
This request means that they are willing to die.
Dr. Tongyi was once just a pure literati. He had little ability in poetry and poetry, and only had a good reputation.
But it was this person who asked Li Gang to use his identity to go to various family merchants after learning about this matter.
The demise of this clan does not mean that the family has also been destroyed. For example, his disciple Lu You came from a prominent family and a book-collecting family in Jiangnan.
Starting from his great-grandfather Lu Zhen, he was an official in the central court, and his father Lu Zai was the deputy transport envoy of Jingxi Road.
Whether he was born in a poor family or had some influence in his family, when he reached the officialdom, he would inevitably think of ways for his descendants. After three or five generations, they would become a new family.
Nowadays, these families may not be as powerful as those of the Han and Tang Dynasties, but they still have many servants and guards.
He was somewhat famous among them, and even though he had an old face, he gained a lot of power.
Relying on this patchwork of soldiers and horses, they went forward and blocked the Jin people who rushed in in the city gate.
The fierce fighting caused many truly loyal and brave warriors to die on the battlefield, and it also made many people fearful and flee from the battle.
Hu Zhiru, Lu Zongyuan, Lu He, Wang Zhongmin, Zhao Lin, Song Hui and others were already on Zhao Huan's blacklist. These people made a lot of money following the Six Thieves.
It was just that when the Six Thieves, Bai Shizhong and others collapsed, they took the lead in rebelling and gained a lot of credit, which allowed them to narrowly escape death during the purge.
But no one has forgotten them. Now in the dilemma of life and death, these people once again want to escape and save their lives.
This happened to hit Li Gang's hand. With an order, their identities were far inferior to those of the royal clan. Zhao Huan and his half-brother were chopped into pieces, let alone them?
"kill!"
With a loud roar, more than ten heads were hung on the flagpole.
Li Hui and Li Tao were cautious all their lives and did not dare to offend anyone, fearing that they would be criticized and impeached. Now that they saw that the road back was cut off and the road ahead was difficult and dangerous, they even wanted to escape and surrendered to the Jin man before the battle.
However, Nianhan watched his losses gradually increase at this time, and looked at the mess of guard servants behind the two men. He knew that if he took them under his command, it would only make his army chaotic in the end.
This is Li Gang's plan. Anyway, the Song army is in ruins now. It would be great if it can drag the Jin people into the water.
"Shoot them, shoot them now!"
Nianhan's roar turned Li Hui and Li Zao into sieves, and the guards and servants under his command were not able to escape the poisonous hand.
Seeing that there is no way to survive in front and no life behind, there is no other way but to fight.
And when Zhao Huan arrived, this was what he saw, such a crazy and bloody scene.
A famous scholar-official of the Song Dynasty did not die under his own stick, but died on the battlefield, even if they had a knife held to their necks.
Even if every one of these people is timid, just looking at them makes people laugh.
But Zhao Huan couldn't laugh.
What surprised Zhao Huan the most was that he actually saw Qin Hui fighting bravely here. Although he also saw his little thoughts, there were always people like military commanders and captains around him.
This was to save his life as much as possible, but I have to say that this was really a smart person who didn't give himself any chance to kill him.
But then I thought about it, but it was right. After all, people who can mess up the situation in history, how can they not have some abilities.
"Pingzhong, fight out and fight back Nianhan!"
"The army is charging. Let Li Gang, Zeng, Li Guang and others get out of my way!"
"Kill the enemy!"
After a fierce battle for most of the day, with Zhang Yong and Yao Pingzhong both losing, the Jin finally opened up a hole.
Almost all of the iron pagodas remained in the city gate, and Nianhan had a wound on his face. The Song army suffered more than 3,000 casualties, and more than 100 officials were killed.
General Ximen almost lost his battle, and Li Guang was carried down. He almost lost an arm, and Li Gang was covered in blood.
Zhao Huan had his ribs pierced with a spear. If it had not been for luck, his family would have been given to his son.
However, at such a tragic cost, they finally took back the city gate and completely blocked it with countless corpses and various debris combined with soil.
The city wall was also taken back from the hands of Yao Pingzhong and Zhao Bingyuan who came over, and the Jin people were not allowed to complete the feat of breaking the city in one day.
The wolf smoke slowly rose in Chang'an City, and the thick smoke column spread hundreds of miles away. Dozens of scouts who had already ambushed out of the city immediately divided into two groups and headed for Monk Yuan and Sanbi Mountain.
This time Zhao Huan not only wanted to fight to the death in Chang'an, he had his own plan from the beginning when he sent officials to inform both sides.
He wanted to use himself as bait to gather all the main forces of the Jin people in Chang'an, and then let Wu Jie and Li Yanxian regain the country and encircle the Jin army.
