The battle continued until noon, and the strength of the Jurchens in the city gradually failed. The hungry soldiers could not move their swords, draw their bows, or even die together with the enemy.
Outside the city, Subotai, who was observing from the rooftop, was keenly aware of the changes in the battle situation.
"Marshal Du, Cui Li's men have attacked the city!" General Meng next to him reminded excitedly.
Subotai saw more and more Mongolian troops climbing up the city walls everywhere, and knew that if they put more effort, the city would be broken.
"Hahaha~ The golden thief has no strength!" Subotai immediately pulled out his scimitar and swung forward, "Mongolian warriors, charge forward for me, the city will be destroyed today!"
Cui Li commanded the surrendering troops, and finally gained the upper hand after suffering heavy casualties.
At this time, Su Butai smelled the breath of victory, so naturally he could not give up the great attack on Kaifeng to a surrendered general, and immediately ordered the Xue army to attack.
The Jin army in the city could not withstand it. The elite Mongolian army entered the battlefield again, and more and more Mongolian troops were on the city.
At the city gate, the Mongolian army pushed a huge battering ram and arrived at the city gate. The soldiers stared at the shields, risking arrows from the city head to miss, and the rolling wood and thunder stones that fell down violently hit the city gate.
"Smash it with me!" The city walls were in danger. Emperor Wanyan Shouxu of the Jin Kingdom led nearly a thousand guards to personally guard the city gates.
He saw the Mongolian army pushing a huge battering ram, protected by hundreds of shields, charging at the city gate again and again, and hurriedly ordered the defenders to attack.
The key to a siege is to guard the city gates. As long as the enemy does not breach the city gates, they will not be able to enter the city in large numbers.
At this time, the golden soldiers at the top of the city fired quickly and threw down stones and logs, but they were unable to shake the centipede iron beetle.
Seeing this, Subotai sneered, "The city gate is about to be breached!"
"Peng!" Under the impact of the battering ram, the city wall trembled, city bricks and soil fell rustlingly, and the city gate was rattled and was already crumbling.
"Come again!" the Mongolian general yelled.
Nearly a hundred Mongolian soldiers pulled the rope, leaned back, and swung the huge wall of wood backwards. Then they all let go, and the tree hit the city gate again with great force.
There was another loud noise of "Peng" and "Pa". The crossbar behind the city gate was finally broken, and the city gate was finally knocked open by the impact of the battering ram.
"Kill!" The Mongolian general outside the city gate immediately waved his scimitar and screamed loudly.
A large group of Mongolian troops immediately rushed into the city gate, and hundreds of people entered Wengcheng in a matter of seconds.
With red eyes, Wanyan Shouxu came to the back of the city wall and roared: "Shoot them to death, no one will be spared!"
The Mongolian army that rushed into Wengcheng was blocked by a city gate inside, while the Jin army on Wengcheng fired arrows from all sides, causing heavy losses to the Mongolian army.
"Marshal, the soldiers who rushed in were ambushed!" General Meng couldn't help shouting when he saw the Mongolian troops rushing in and then retreating. Half of the men and horses were missing.
The corner of Subotai's mouth twitched. Originally, the Jin army in Kaifeng City was in despair and he could easily capture it. However, once Zhao Tai made a move, the Jin army regained a glimmer of hope.
From the morning of the fight until now, Subotai did not expect the Jin army to be so tenacious. He estimated that the Mongolian army had lost five to six thousand people, and the muscles in the corners of his mouth could not help but twitch.
Now the Mongolian army had the upper hand, but the Jin army still resisted fiercely. Subutai was unable to get off the tiger, so he went directly off the roof and came to the front of Wengcheng.
"We must capture it today!" Subotai ordered: "The army besieged the city on three sides, pushed the siege ram in, and knocked open the city gate inside!"
The Mongolian army besieged the city on three sides and pinned down the Jin soldiers guarding the city, making it impossible for the Jin soldiers to concentrate their archers to shoot the Mongolian soldiers who entered Wengcheng.
The Mongolian army took this opportunity to push the battering ram under the inner city gate at the risk of missing arrows and suffering heavy casualties.
"Hit me!" the Mongolian general gave the order, and the soldiers struggled to swing the siege ram backwards.
With a "Peng" sound, the battering ram hit the city gate, but it didn't move at all.
Seeing this, the Mongolian general immediately stopped his subordinates and stepped forward to check. After a while, he couldn't help but cursed: "Damn it, stop hitting it. The golden man has blocked the doorway."
When the news reached Subotai's ears, Subotai couldn't help but turn pale. He lost thousands of people, but in the end he found that the road was blocked.
This made Subotai extremely angry, "Huh, the city gate is blocked, so I just climbed over the wall and broke in."
Subotai personally supervised the battle. The Mongolian army attacked regardless of casualties. The newly invested troops soon became red-eyed. Taking Kaifeng has become their only belief.
Tens of thousands of Mongolian troops entered the battle. They fought desperately to reach the top of the city regardless of death.
Although the Jin army blocked the city gate and prevented the Mongolian army from entering the city in large numbers, as more and more Mongolian troops entered the city, the war situation began to take a turn for the worse.
At this time, Wanyan Shouxu had been forced to the tower by the Mongolian troops who had ascended the city. He saw that the number of defenders was getting smaller and smaller, and he felt extremely anxious.
The reinforcements made such a big noise last night, which means that the reinforcements are near Kaifeng.
Today the Mongolian army launched a fierce attack, why did the reinforcements not move?
At this time, in the south of Kaifeng City, hundreds of miles away, the reinforcements that the Jin army was looking forward to were still confronting the Mongolian army.
Zhao Tai knew that Wo Kuotai was attacking Kaifeng, but Zhao Tai stood still and did not attack Wo Kuotai.
Wokuotai also understood that Zhao Tai just wanted to use Kaifeng to consume the Mongolian army, so he followed Zhao Tai's wishes.
At this time, Wanyan Chenglin, who was covered in blood, led a group of people to kill the Mongolian troops surrounding the city tower, and came to Wanyan Shouxu, "Your Majesty, there are too many Mongolian troops on the city, and the soldiers can't hold on any longer. Please, Your Majesty." Go down to the city immediately and return to the palace."
Wanyan Shouxu's eyes were red and he asked: "The reinforcements are nearby. The Mongols have been attacking for most of the day. Why don't they show up?"
Wanyan Chenglin naturally couldn't answer, "Your Majesty, maybe it's reinforcements. I don't know that our situation is critical!"
Wanyan Shouxu heard this and immediately ordered: "Light the tower on fire so that the reinforcements can see the beacon fire!"
At this time, the city could no longer be defended. After hearing the order, the Jin soldiers immediately set fire to the city tower, and then hurried down to the city surrounded by Wanyan Shouxu.
The Jin army set fire to the tall towers, and the flames soared into the sky and could be seen dozens of miles away.
Wanyan Chengde and Wanyan Chenghu led three thousand cavalry and wandered around Kaifeng.
After receiving the report from their subordinates, the two of them came out of the woods and looked west, showing shock on their faces.
"It's in the direction of Kaifeng!" Wanyan Chengde said.
"The Mongolian army should have started to attack the city!" Wanyan Chenghu said.
The two of them stared at each other for a while, worried about the tribesmen in the city and the Emperor of Jin. Wanyan Chengde said: "I will lead the cavalry to Kaifeng again. You should return to the camp immediately and ask the king to send troops. Say that Kaifeng is in dire need!"
At this time, as the Jin army set fire to the city tower, Wanyan Shouxu retreated to the top of the city, and the Mongolian army quickly occupied the city wall.
Subotai looked at the burning tower and frowned, "Who set the fire!"
After a while, a Mongolian general came back in a hurry, "Marshal, it was the gold thief who set the fire!"
Zhao Tai had no intention of rescuing Kaifeng, but Subotai didn't know what Zhao Tai was thinking. When he heard this, he immediately turned black and said, "This is the gold thief asking for help! Send the order, hurry up and attack, and we must destroy the Jin Kingdom before dark."
At this time, Cui Li led a team of troops to the top of the city. He looked around and saw that there were not many Jin troops on the city. He immediately roared: "One team goes down and removes the obstacles in the door. The other team kills the city wall for me." The artillery group behind!"
Two groups of Mongolian troops rushed down the steps to the city wall. The Jin army on the back of the city wall finally lost morale and was scattered by the Mongolian troops, fleeing into the streets.
At that moment, a group of Mongolian troops killed the Jin troops behind the city gate and began to clear the stones blocking the doorway. Another group rushed into the artillery group and killed everyone on sight.
The artillery groups were mainly operated by women and children, who were no match for the Mongolian army.
An old woman turned pale with horror when she saw the Mongolian army rushing over. She quickly knelt down, hoping that the Mongolian army would let go of the child behind her.
However, the Mongolian army hacked him to death with a knife, and then kicked him hard, kicking his grandson away and hitting him hard on the city wall. He vomited blood and passed out.
At this time, the Mongols along the city wall destroyed the Jin army's artillery group, then turned their guns and began to clean up the Jin people in the palace along the passage.
Although the Jin Kingdom's finances had long been bankrupt under the attack of the Mongolian army, and the palaces in the imperial city should have been damaged by the war, Kaifeng had been the capital of the Song Dynasty after all, and its foundation was still there.
The Mongolian troops who rushed into the inner city saw the magnificent palace, and their eyes immediately showed greed.
"Kill!" The Mongolian army rushed in and shouted loudly, "Leave no chickens or dogs behind!"
The Jurchens in the city lost their organizational structure and fell into complete chaos. They could only fight on their own.
When they saw the Mongolian army entering the city, they felt extremely desperate. Some retreated into the palace and continued to hold on. Some saw the Mongolian army coming and knelt down in fear to beg for mercy. However, the Mongolian army entering the city did not care about so many people and killed everyone they saw. Rivers of blood flowed.
As soon as Wanyan Shouxu returned to the palace, he heard the roar of killing in the city and knew that the Mongolian army had entered the city.
"Your Majesty, break out of the encirclement!" A Jin minister's face turned pale.
Wanyan Shouxu laughed miserably and did not respond. He saw reinforcements arriving outside the city last night. In order to hold on to Kaifeng, he had people block all the gates with stones. Now he can't get out at all.
Wanyan Shouxu couldn't help but let out a long sigh. Knowing that the Kingdom of Jin was over, he couldn't help but cry bitterly, "I don't want to think that I will still be the king of the country's subjugation!"
At this time, he looked at his cronies who were still guarding the palace, and said with a sad smile: "You can find a way out, whether it's fighting with the enemy, or using weapons to save your life."
Many Jin ministers in the hall were all sad and burst into tears.
When Wanyan Shouxu saw this, his face was full of despair. He stood up and walked to the main hall immediately, feeling as if he was dead and walking to the ancestral temple.
Now the inner city of Kaifeng is like a cage, trapping more than 100,000 Jurchens to death and allowing them to be massacred by the Mongolian army.
When Wanyan Shouxu came to the ancestral temple, he knelt in front of the ancestral tablet and stated to the emperors of the Jin Dynasty. He was so sad that he could hardly make a sound. The confidants who followed him closed the door and piled firewood in the ancestral temple, waiting for the last moment to arrive. .
The Jin Kingdom has been in existence for more than a hundred years, and a lean camel is bigger than a horse. No matter how it declines, it still has some wealth.
Cui Li turned out to be the commander-in-chief of the Kingdom of Jin, and he had a better understanding of the situation in the Kingdom of Jin.
At this time, the Mongolian army removed the obstacles blocking the doorway and opened the city gate. Countless Mongolian soldiers filed in and engaged in street fighting with the Jurchen soldiers and civilians in the city.
However, Cui Li led his confidants and went straight to Wanyan Shouxu's treasury.
At this time, Cui Li slashed the guarding soldier to death, and his subordinates immediately cut off the iron lock and opened the warehouse door.
Cui Li led his confidants and rushed in. When he saw boxes of treasures, porcelain, calligraphy and paintings piled up in the warehouse, he was immediately ecstatic.
"Marshal, what should I do with these things?" The subordinate couldn't help but licked his lips, his eyes full of greed.
Cui Li stepped forward, looked at the gold, silver, dongzhu, coral, and jade in the box, narrowed his eyes and said: "Leave the copper coins, move these treasures away quickly, and find a place to hide them!"
"Commander, there are Mongols outside, how can we move them away?" his confidant couldn't help but ask.
Cui Li frowned and took a few steps, "Arrange people to guard the door and prevent the rebels from coming in. I saw there is a lake next to the warehouse. I will sink all the gold and silver treasures into the lake. If they cannot be sunk, I will find them." No place to bury!”
"I humbly obey my command!" Several subordinate generals accepted the order and secretly followed his wishes.
At this time, the fighting in the city was still going on. Wanyan Chenglin, the last general of the Jin army in the city, was separated from Wanyan Shouxu, so he led the 500 Zhongxiao army with the intention of breaking out.
They came to the city gate and charged seven times against the dense Mongolian army, but failed to get out. In the end, all 500 Zhongxiao troops were lost. Wanyan Chenglin was shot down by the Mongolian army and hacked to death with swords.
After Wanyan Shouxu retreated to the ancestral temple, the Mongolian army soon arrived.
The leading Mongolian army saw that the ancestral temple was magnificently built and guarded by golden soldiers, so they thought there was treasure inside and immediately led the troops to attack.
After a while, the Mongolian army came to the main hall from outside.
At this time, the bodies of two golden soldiers flew upside down and hit the hall. Then the Mongolian soldiers holding scimitars broke in and saw Wanyan Shouxu kneeling in front of many tablets.
The leading general, who had some knowledge, was overjoyed when he saw him wearing a dragon robe, and immediately shouted: "Wanyan Shouxu, you still don't surrender!"
Wanyan Shouxu didn't look back, he just bowed his head to his ancestors and murmured, "It is a great shame to be the king of a subjugated country, how can you be a prisoner!"
Thinking about how the Jin Kingdom treated Emperors Hui and Qin, Wanyan Shouxu was not willing to be a prisoner until his death.
After he finished speaking, he knocked over the oil lamp, and a fire immediately ignited in the hall. The flames engulfed Wanyan Shouxu, and quickly spread inside the hall. Seeing this, the Mongolian army could only retreat in a hurry.
The Mongolian army entered the inner city in the afternoon, but the fighting in the inner city continued until the early morning of the next day.
In the imperial city, the remaining Jurchens guarded various palaces. The Mongolian army paid a lot of casualties to eliminate the Jurchens in the imperial city.
Usually speaking of blood as a "bloodbath" is often an exaggeration, but when this term is used in the inner city of Kaifeng, it is not an exaggeration.
The Mongols kept their word and massacred the city when they were told. Except for a very small number of the more than 100,000 Jurchen soldiers and civilians in the city, they were either massacred by the Mongolian army or they set fire to themselves and burned themselves to death.
Early the next morning, the fighting was basically gone, but many palaces were still burning.
Subotai led his troops into the imperial city. There were layers of corpses on the ground, leaving him with almost no place to set foot.
In order to welcome Subotai into the city, the Mongolian army simply cleared a passage, but corpses were piled on both sides, and blood flowed out and gathered in the middle, forming a bloody stream.
Subotai came to the main hall with his feet covered in bloody mud that covered his insteps, and immediately summoned the generals to inquire.
Cui Li arrived first, "Marshal, the army broke through the city, the Emperor of Jin committed suicide, and more than 100,000 people in the city, except for hundreds of ministers and harem women, were all killed!"
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