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Chapter 1427 Clearing Obstacles(2/2)

On the 19th day of the twelfth lunar month, the siege of Xiongzhou City began. The 220,000 Jurchen army began a fierce attack on Xiongzhou City, which was trapped in an isolated city. With the assistance of hundreds of catapults and dozens of Yunxiao siege vehicles.

Next, the siege began vigorously.

Bai Qi was sitting in command in the city. He had 100,000 men under his command, and he was determined to defend Xiongzhou. He believed that even if no reinforcements arrived, the other party would be wishful thinking in conquering Xiongzhou. The opponent's endless attack on the city,

Bai Qi commanded and dispatched a well-organized defense. In the first three days of the siege, the Jurchens did not succeed. However, when the city was isolated from the enemy and there was no way to survive, Bai Qi's generals and soldiers were not as anxious as Bai Qi.

Under the threat of death, the morale of the military began to waver.

On the third day, the city began to run out of supplies. The city defense supplies also ran out. More than half of the 100,000 soldiers and horses were casualties. Everyone was exhausted and dying under the Jurchens' attacks day and night. People began to despair.

On the seventh day, the Jurchens attacked the city wall. The moment the opponent climbed onto the city wall, their tensed nerves were broken. The Zhou garrison suddenly collapsed and collapsed. The Jurchens deliberately left the south gate without deploying troops.

Siege, the method of encircling three buildings is a kind of psychological warfare that makes the defenders wander between fighting and escaping. They chose to escape.

On the 26th of the twelfth lunar month, the Jurchen army led by Wanyan Agu finally took the hard nut of Xiongzhou after suffering nearly 60,000 casualties. It completely cut off the supply transit of other soldiers and horses in the northeastern town of Dazhou.

Hub. Although an unimaginable and almost unacceptable price was paid, after the victory of this battle, 80% of the nearly 400,000 troops of the Northeastern Zhou Dynasty defenders had been wiped out. There were no more decent Zhou Dynasty troops on the road leading to the capital of the Zhou Dynasty.
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