Northern Song Dynasty: Counterattack and became emperor after the Jingkang Revolution

Chapter 62 The embarrassed Liu Lin

Han Shizhong was shocked when he saw this scene. This...he was attacking the city. Why did he suddenly retreat?No more siege?
However, he thought too much!
The next moment, with an earth-shattering noise, a huge cloud of smoke rose into the sky!The whole earth seemed to be shaking.

This sound frightened Han Shizhong so much that he lost two of his three souls!His face turned pale.

Not only Han Shizhong, but also Yue Fei and others who knew that there would be a loud noise in advance were frightened. They knew that this strange thing would cause a loud noise, but they did not expect that there would be such a big noise.

As for Liu Lin, who was directly above the loud noise, the feeling was even more intense. Although the loud noise did not completely deafen his ears, the huge impact also made his ears ring for a while before he recovered.

Just when almost everyone was distracted, Zhao Yingluo's order was sent out.

"Army attack!"

The drums were beating and the whistles were blowing. After receiving the charge signal, the cavalry and light infantry who were ready to go rushed towards the city gate like a tide, while the musketeers who had not retreated far scattered to both sides. Make way for the stormtroopers, and on the one hand suppress the enemy's defense on the city wall.

Han Shizhong was puzzled. Shouldn't the charge at this time be to set up a ladder and charge towards the city wall?Why did all these cavalry rush towards the city gate?

Liu Lin, who came back to his senses, was also a little confused. What kind of siege was this?

Han Shizhong and Liu Lin were puzzled, but Yue Fei and Wang Zaixing knew the reason. After hearing the order, they led the cavalry and rushed straight to the city gate.

At this time, the smoke from the city gate gradually dissipated...

When Han Shizhong saw that the two gates of the city gate had fallen down like that, he was shocked!Could it be... Could it be... Could it be that that loud noise completely destroyed the city gate?
You should know that the gates of each city are mostly made of jujube wood and iron birch, which are hard and difficult to light.Not only that, the city gates are often covered with iron sheets, and the iron sheets are also studded with rivets, which can effectively prevent fire and can be said to be extremely strong.

But just with that loud noise, the two doors were blasted so easily!
The cavalry led by Yue Fei and Wang Zaixing had already rushed to the city gate. The long swords in their hands were like dragons rising out of the sea, and they instantly cut to pieces the enemy troops who came to block the city gate.

At this time, Zhao Yingluo's order was issued again: "All-out attack!"

Following this order, the muskets of the Fire Gun Team were aimed at the soldiers at the top of the city one by one. The banging sounds continued, smoke rose, and the enemy troops on the city wall continued to fall.

This bizarre scene made the enemy soldiers defending the city so frightened that they completely lost their sense of resistance and ran down the city wall in panic and fled into the city.

Looking at the defenders falling on the city wall, Liu Lin was extremely frightened.

He understood that they had been defeated. Their defense line had been completely broken through by the opponent. Either their entire army would be annihilated here, or they would have no choice but to retreat.

At this time, Zhao Yingluo's private offensive came like a tidal wave. They had completely opened the city gate, and a large number of cavalry and infantry had rushed into the city.

"Get out of the city! Get out of the city!" Liu Lin shouted before the city wall was completely occupied by the opponent. After leading the remaining soldiers down the city wall, he got on his horse and ran towards the other side of the city.

Han Shizhong, who was storming outside the city gate, was speechless when he saw this scene... He never thought that attacking a city could be so fun!He looked up at the sun and saw that it had just been an hour.

If it were his own army of [-] to [-] men who attacked, even if they captured the city, it would probably be ten o'clock at dusk, and the scene of the siege would be quite tragic.

As time went by, Liu Lin's army in the city quickly collapsed. Yue Fei, Wang Zaixing and others who invaded the inner city commanded the army, chasing the remaining troops from different streets and alleys like dozens of winding snake formations.

"General Han, shall we sit down in the city?" Zhao Yingluo said with a smile in her eyes as the battle situation reached expectations.

Han Shizhong was completely shocked by what he saw. He nodded blankly and followed Zhao Yingluo into the city.After entering the city, Zhao Yingluo pointed to the soldiers who were cleaning the battlefield and said to Han Shizhong: "General Han, we are cleaning the battlefield at the moment. We will have to ask General Han to help us see if there are any surrendered enemy troops. Just leave it to General Han."

"It all depends on the princess's orders." Han Shizhong came back to his senses and responded, but a turmoil arose in his heart.

Today's battle has completely opened his eyes. It turns out that the world has changed, and the means of siege and the way of fighting have become so novel.

He suddenly felt that even his thirty thousand troops were nothing more than chickens and dogs in front of others.

After a while, Yue Fei and Wang Zaixing came to resume their duties.

"To inform the princess, the remnants of the enemy have been eliminated. More than [-] of our troops were killed in battle, and the rest are safe." Yue Fei said loudly.

"Okay! All the generals have made meritorious service in today's battle. I will give you rewards later." Zhao Yingluo said loudly, "Also, generals, please remember today's fighting method. If there is a war in the future, you will need to use this method. Act.”

"The general will understand." All the generals responded in unison.

The fighting method of this battle is actually not new in Zhao Yingluo's plan. As early as the Warring States Period, there was a similar fighting method - concentrating superior forces to attack one point to open a breakthrough.

However, due to various reasons, this tactic was not famous in history, but Zhao Yingluo felt that this tactic was very suitable for the current environment.

At least it's much stronger than the kind of attacking style.

Where did Liu Lin go?

Liu Lin was let go by Zhao Yingluo!

As the saying goes, the goal is to open a wide net, but in Zhao Yingluo's case, she is not trying to open a wide net, but to prevent Liu Lin from being killed and the net is broken. After all, Liu Lin's army still has [-] to [-] people!Even if the city is broken, his remaining army will not be less than [-].

If they were to fight to the death, the casualties of their own private soldiers would not be the 500, but thousands.

Thousands of people are indeed small compared to the scale of 10,000+ people, but they are all her losses!She wanted to preserve her strength, even with these thousands of people.

In addition to this aspect, she also wanted to let her emperor brother Zhao Gou see that although she could win the battle, she was not capable of annihilating all the enemy troops, which was a sign of weakness.

On the other hand, she didn't want to push the Puppet Qi into a panic. After all, the enemy Kaifeng City was facing was the Puppet Qi. If Liu Yu really got into a hurry and started a fight with her, wouldn't it be Qin Hui and those who were the cheaper ones?

She was waiting for the moment when her strength was crushed, which would be the beginning of the collapse of the Puppet Qi.

Her mind is very clear. Today's hidden worry is not the invasion of the Jin people or the threat of the Puppet Qi, but the internal struggle within the Song Dynasty!
If she cannot support the main militant faction that supports her in a short period of time, if she cannot establish a strong force that can support her major events, her final end will be either to be placed under house arrest or to be executed.

Because she threatened the interests of the capitulation faction and the throne of the cheap emperor Zhao Gou.

Therefore, before the siege began, she only assigned [-] infantry to surround the south of the city, and warned that if Liu Lin led his army out of the south gate, there was no need to block it.

(End of this chapter)