Eagle Byzantium

The earth-shaking bombardment began soon, and the Tiger Wing Army, because of the infantry and the heavy armor, had not yet withdrawn from the killing range of Gawain's light and heavy artillery.

The whistling cast iron shells whistled into the formation behind the Tiger Wing Army, with rolling bloodstains, constantly piercing through and harvesting the lives of the Tiger Wing Army soldiers.

"I ended the Great Fair King. The contest with you made me realize that you are not a strong man who can change this world. Only I, not you, can stand shoulder to shoulder with other real strong men in this arena!" Gawain stood on a high hill, looking at the battlefield with thick smoke, thinking.

Even the infantry armor weighing dozens of kilograms could not protect the flesh and blood inside in front of the furious shells.

Tong Guan's eyes were almost bleeding. He roared and ignored the advice of his staff. He asked his own Shenwu generals, who had few artillery pieces and ammunition in the fort, to fire back to suppress Gao Wen's artillery fire. He also rode to the Jingxi camp, which had also begun to retreat, and asked for cavalry to help the rear guard of the Tiger Wing Army return to the camp.

Wang Bing, the infantry commander of the Jingxi Army, personally jumped on his horse and led the cavalry to rush over. This was a tragic and desperate charge. Gao Wen waved his scepter and ordered 1,500 subordinate cavalry to fight the Jingxi Army. Then more than a thousand Serbian cavalry rushed from the side and cut into the Jingxi Army cavalry. With two attacks, Wang Bing was immediately defeated. More than 500 elite Jingxi cavalry died in the battle. The rest could only flee and enter the fort to rest.

Soon the infantry of the Jingxi Army also retreated.

The Tiger Wing Army finally left two commanders of about a thousand people, and pointed their long swords, giant axes and maces at the outside, forming a deadly rear guard formation. Some of the remaining soldiers even took off their heavy armor, threw them on the battlefield, and retreated to the fort along the ridge.

Tong Guan rushed into the gate of the fort, shouting in despair, asking the 2,000 local soldiers guarding the fort to go out of the camp to fight with the Fulin people, but Lu Yihao also came in and took away the letter board with the order, saying that most of the local soldiers were foreigners from Huershan and Hezhong, who lacked training and had no intention of dying. Going out would be a waste of life, and he actually blocked Tong Guan's order directly.

At dusk, in the wilderness full of blood, craters and corpses on the outskirts of Mofu, Gao Wenfang's tens of thousands of troops formed an outflanking "iron wing", ignoring the various firepower threats fired by the Song army's forts, and pinned the Tiger Wing Army soldiers who could not escape in time to the two commanders.

The shells fired from the artillery hit the Tiger Wing Army from all directions with arc-shaped trajectories, and blood foam, limbs, broken armor and dirty snow rose up, but the enemy still persevered in forming a formation.

The emperor came to the front of the formation with ceremonial guards and flags. He asked to temporarily stop the artillery fire, and then sent a messenger cavalry to persuade the Tiger Wing Army to surrender, loudly asking the other side to surrender decently.

The Song soldiers continued to stand in front of the mutilated bodies of their comrades, holding the same mutilated long swords, and remained silent. As a result, Maxianius, who led the messenger, immediately asked the interpreter to shout this sentence on horseback, "Where are your officers? Let the officers come out to take responsibility and stop making unnecessary sacrifices. The war is over now. You must accept the result of failure calmly and enjoy a peaceful life."

Finally, four Yuhou and a Du Yuhou walked out. They stood on the snow, then turned around and knelt down in front of the closed gates of their own fortresses. They kowtowed several times in a row and shouted sadly, "We have repaid the emperor's kindness with a bloody battle today. From now on, we will not let each other down - we have traveled thousands of miles alone, just to seek a way to survive, surrender!"

After saying this, the hundreds of surviving Tiger Wing soldiers put down their weapons and armor, left their own lines, and slowly walked towards the camp of the Fulin people with heavy steps.

Many spearmen watched them in the enemy formation along the way, and a Roman centurion shouted, "You fought well, you are the best soldiers, and you should get the same glory crown." This evaluation was unanimously recognized by almost everyone.

Behind the battlements of the fortress gate tower, Tong Guan, who watched the last soldiers surrender, slowly sat down on the wall, then raised his hands in the direction where the group of soldiers left, with a guilty look on his face, and burst into tears...

After nightfall, after the emperor promised a high reward, he strictly urged all soldiers not to rest, dig artillery forts and build fortifications, and push the front line of the camp forward about one and a half to two li, approaching the western area of ​​the Song army fortress group in Mofu City, "There is no time to lose, and turn to the attack state as soon as possible."

While the emperor and the Song expeditionary army were fighting fiercely, the Pingyuan Army led by Liu Yanqing, about 10,000 infantry and cavalry, also arrived at the foot of Amur City and began to besiege the castle to remove this nail on the retreat road.

Diogenes, with a strong bow made of ox horns on his shoulders, climbed up the tower and fought desperately with the whole team. He repelled Liu Yanqing's attacks several times in one day and renovated the missing walls of Amur City.

Helpless, Liu Yanqing could only set up camp under the city and think of other ways to attack the city.

It happened that Yelu Dashi integrated and gathered 5,000 infantry and cavalry from Bukhara City, crossed the Oxus River to join Liu Yanqing's camp. Liu Yanqing, who was overjoyed, accepted Dashi's invitation after nightfall and went to his camp for a banquet.

As a result, after pouring the wine, Yelu Dashi picked up the cup and asked Liu Yanqing frankly, "According to Liu Xuanfu's opinion, who will win and who will lose in this contest between the Song Dynasty and Fulin?"

"Liu only obeyed orders and never expressed his opinions on the military affairs of the Privy Council." Liu Yanqing was a standard soldier of the Song Dynasty. He should not worry about things that he should not worry about. There was no possibility that he would worry about them.

Yelu Dashi suddenly felt bored and disgusted. He sighed and continued to ask, "We are willing to be the pioneers of the Great Duke Gong, hoping that one day we can rescue Emperor Tianzuo and revive our Liao. The current situation is probably even more difficult!"

Liu Yanqing was a simple and honest man. Seeing that Yelu Dashi was sad, he stretched out his hand to persuade him and said, "Why do you say that, Yu Yue? As long as this Amur city is captured, there is always hope for the revival of the Liao Kingdom."

"Speaking of this, I think that the hope of the revival of the Liao Kingdom falls on one person."

A correct version of the book in 1619!

"Who?" Liu Yanqing asked curiously.

"That's Liu Xuanfu." Yelu Dashi closed his eyes, turned his head slightly, and answered reluctantly.

"Why do you say that?" Liu Yanqing still looked confused.

But Yelu Dashi threw the wine glass to the ground, and with a bang, the crystal clear ceramics were scattered everywhere.

Only then did Liu Yanqing see that under the light of the fire, the tent curtains were full of black shadows holding sharp blades, swaying and growing...

That night, under the city of Mofu, the Song army, after a short rest, took advantage of the night to go out of the fort and bravely attack the artillery fort that Gao Wenfang had just built.