The crossbowmen at the top of the city pressed down the formation, and after a few waves of sweeps against the Zhejia army below, the infantry forwards charged forward.

They held long spears and started close combat with the Zhejia army.

Their arm strength was astonishing, and they thrust their spears forward quickly. Anyone who came close would be stabbed to death on the spot.

The Zhejia army in front wanted to repel these Song troops with bows and arrows, but the arrows fell on the armor and were unable to penetrate the armor.

In addition, being frightened by the giant trebuchet just now, the Zhejia army's morale was unstable, and they collapsed after being attacked by several waves of infantry armor from the Song Bureau.

The forward battalion of Bu Renjia took advantage of the victory and pursued it, charging forward with all their strength and killing them, causing the Zhejia army to scream in agony.

Not long after, the morale of the Zhe family army completely collapsed.

When Zhewu arrived, it was too late. When he learned that the army had collapsed, Zhewu was in a panic and ran away without saying a word.

What remained was that after the Song army entered the city on a large scale, they began to reorganize the city with an iron fist.

On March 21st, Lanzhou City was recaptured by the Song Army.

Lanzhou City is not a fortress, and neither side has even invested much troops. However, the next battle in Lanzhou City is destined to be focused by all parties.

In the past era, there has never been a weapon capable of breaking down city walls.

In the era of cold weapons, the defenders of the city wall had a great advantage.

Especially in the Song Dynasty, part of the city walls began to be built with bricks.

The more typical ones are the city wall of Taiyuan City and the city wall of Tokyo City.

They have undoubtedly become the most fortified cities of this era.

In the first year of Jingkang, Wanyan Zonghan besieged Taiyuan City for nine months before taking Taiyuan City after the city ran out of food.

This shows the advantage of the defending side.

However, the emergence of this giant trebuchet is destined to make the defense of most cities look like a decoration.

Maybe now Wanyan Zongpan is still drinking in the palace, Zong Han is still sleeping in Liaoyang Mansion, Zong Wang is drinking tea in Yanjing, and Li Qianshun is still eating hot pot in Xingqing Mansion.

Nothing seems to have changed.

However, this attack on Lanzhou City really changed the pattern of the subsequent war.

If the Jin Army mastered this kind of giant trebuchet during the war, they would definitely manufacture it on a large scale.

Next, the Song Dynasty's defense line in Hebei will face an even more terrifying blow.

Once this happens, Song Dynasty's defensive advantage may disappear.

The two sides will directly enter the competition in terms of military field capabilities, mobilization capabilities, and arms investment.

The so-called defense system based on the city is likely to become a thing of the past.

For example, Zong Wang had previously advised Zong Han not to rush southward because the Song Dynasty's deep defense in Hebei was really difficult to shake.

Just think about it, after Zong Han organized a large number of such artillery units, would they still have such concerns?

This is also the reason why Zhao Ning has never created Hui Hui Pao.

And now that Zhao Ning dared to put it into the battlefield, it shows that the military and political affairs within the Song Dynasty have made a qualitative leap.

The famous generals of the Song Dynasty have grown up rapidly through continuous training over the years.

The more important reason is that the mobilization system established by Zhao Ning in the north has been initially completed, and the fiscal revenue of the national treasury has also entered a healthy state.

He was even confident that as long as his mobilization order was issued from Tokyo City, all places north of the Yellow River would enter a state of full-scale war in a short time.

This is the confidence that Zhao Ning dares to change the way of war!

News of the defeat spread quickly from Lanzhou to Fugu.

This epoch-making siege of Lanzhou City has not attracted the attention of all parties. At the same time, the Song army in Taiyuan Prefecture is quietly advancing westward with a strong posture.

Their goal in the short term is Fugu and Linzhou, but from a grand strategic perspective, it is to make up for the attack on Xixia on the eastern front and prepare for Zhao Guan's family to destroy Xixia later.

On March 22, the day after the Battle of Lanzhou Castle, the situation in the Goryeo War in Haidong also changed significantly.

After Wanyan pulled away quickly, the Guaizi horse went south, destroying every city in Goryeo like a flash flood and a tsunami.

Their tactics were very simple. Whenever they arrived at a city, they would use a dense barrage of bows and arrows to kill the Korean defenders on the top of the city that were only two or three meters high, and defeat the Korean army as quickly as possible who tried to leave the city to fight back.

The terrifying fighting power that swept through everything frightened the Korean people, and countless people fled.

During this period, countless cities were abandoned between Xijing and Kaijing.

In order to attack the Song Army's logistics system more effectively, the Jin Army would kill everyone they could after rushing into the city.

Every time the Jin army passed through a city, it was a mountain of corpses and a sea of ​​blood.

The people of Goryeo wailed in pain under the iron heel of the Jin army. The earth was bleeding, countless people were displaced, countless children lost their fathers, and countless women became slaves.

What's even more terrifying is that the Jin army killed anyone they saw on the road. As long as they were alive, they were executed.

Some villages were wiped out.

The rivers in some cities were blocked by corpses.

Wild dogs eat until their eyes turn red.

Crowds of crows hovered in the sky, blocking out the sun and swarming towards the lifeless city ahead.

In this way, for more than a month, hundreds of thousands of Korean people have died under the butcher's knife of the Jin army.

Moreover, following the great famine, more Goryeo people who fled were starved to death on the roadside.

If you walk on the road, you can see sallow and thin people everywhere, and you can even see some people gathering together to eat dirt.

Next, more people will die. They will not be killed, but starved to death.

War always brings only destruction.

In late March, countless letters of information were sent to Xijing and Kaijing like snowflakes.

Every piece of intelligence told Zhao Chen and Han Shizhong that the Jin Army was using the craziest way to destroy the Song Army's logistics system and push the war situation into another situation.

Zhao Chen's heart sank and he said: "Why did the Jin Army's actions suddenly change? If this continues, we will become more and more passive!"

Han Shizhong said: "I urgently need a group of cavalry to fight a deep assault battle with the Jin army!"

By March 25th, Wanyan Xiyin's army had arrived at Xicheng and was stationed in Xicheng, more than a hundred miles away from Xijing, to build the Jin Army's combat command center here.

At the beginning of April, the results of the cavalry at the front were reported one after another. Wanyan Xiyin was obviously very satisfied.

The first step of the plan is being completed in the direction specified by him.

Originally, the Song Army had the advantage, but now the balance is slowly tilting.

And with the arrival of the main force of the Jin Army, the crisis in Xijing's defense line also came.

At the same time, Wanyan Xiyin, on behalf of the Jin Emperor, conferred the fake identity of Wang Jin as the head of the Goryeo Kingdom, and began to recruit powerful people from all parties.

He pointed to a wider area on the map and said with a smile: "To defeat all these places in the south, it would be best if the farmers in Goryeo would have no food to harvest this year. In this way, these hundreds of miles of land would be deserted, and there would be a large number of people."
Chapter completed!