Five Dynasties River Mountains Fengyue

Chapter 526
"What exactly is it?" On the hillside, Yelusha and Handerang looked at the fortress of the Qin army in the valley, frowning.

Han Derang looked down at the deployment of the Qin army in the valley, and he always felt a little uneasy. On the one hand, the rumors about Shi Congyun over the years were well known even in Shangjing, and the Liao court had always paid close attention to it.

And their Han family father and son, as the Han father and son with high positions in the Liao Kingdom, are responsible for most of the intelligence and situation of the Qin Kingdom in the south. Listen.

It was also because of this that they had close contact with the South Court, conspired with each other early on, and were ready to welcome Yeluxian to the throne.

Because of his special status, he pays much more attention to the Qin State in the south than others, and what Shi Congyun has done in the past 20 years actually shocked him and frightened him.

They defeated their army twice and seized several states in Guanbei. This is what most Liao people knew about Shi Congyun's deeds. These have made them a little frightened and lack confidence when facing Shi Congyun.

But he knows more. He also knows that Shi Congyun has conquered the Northern Han Dynasty and annexed Hedong in the past 20 years; Nanping and Wuping annexed Jingchu; conquered Lingnan and annexed Southern Han; captured Huainan, conquered Southern Tang, annexed Jiangnan; merged Wuyue.

This is only 20 years!Even a hero like the Emperor Taizu of the Liao Dynasty could not do it
In his heart, Han Derang had a very high evaluation of Shi Congyun, and he was also very cautious. He always thought that he was definitely a figure like Emperor Qin and Hanwu. The Liao Kingdom is in a high position, so he will deliberately belittle Shi Congyun.

Handerjean is very smart, so he is also very disturbed.

The forts in the valley are strange, unlike the tall walls and forts built by the Han in Hebei, they seem to be able to house a few hundred people at most each.

Moreover, their fortress is very strange. The main body is a square wall, and there are corner watchtowers. The city wall, with stairs at the back connecting the main city wall from the air, looks very strange.

The most important thing is that the walls of these fortresses are generally not very high, about two feet, and there are deep ditches around them. Hundred steps long.

But those slopes don't say that people can climb up, even horses can climb up, but they walk slower, so they are even more puzzled, why the Qin army took time and effort to build such gentle slopes.

Han Derang thought to himself, maybe Shi Congyun is old and confused. Those heroes who became famous at a young age, such as Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty and Zhuangzong of the Later Tang Dynasty, etc., all made great achievements when they were young and strong, and soon fell into the circle of self-righteousness and great achievements. , and eventually self-destruct the Great Wall.

If so, it would be best!
Shi Congyun is indeed young, he should be in his early thirties, at most one or two years older than him, so he is even more remarkable.
However, he couldn't use this explanation to convince himself. Handerang looked east. In the northern section of the valley, there were a large number of cavalry and densely packed, and there were many flags.

However, most of the troops in the front are infantry, even those on horseback must dismount, because the siege battle will be fought in the valley next.

Moreover, there are many infantry troops in the Liao Army. The territory of the Liao Kingdom looks very vast, but its core areas are still in Nanjing, Tokyo and Shangjing. In fact, the Liao Kingdom does not have that strict control over the vast Mobei grassland. In the situation of the dependent country, there are no officials, let alone garrisons, and they are required to pay tribute.

Therefore, the Han and Xi troops are a very important part of the Liao army. Most of the Khitans are dismounted from their horses to herd and plow and mount their horses to fight, while the Shan army in Shangjing, which is mainly composed of Han people, is a professional army with full military pay. .

The Shanshan Army and the Pishi Army in Shangjing are collectively referred to as the Yuzhang Pro Army, and they are the core combat power of the Forbidden Army of the Daliao Kingdom.

A large number of soldiers in the river valley were forming an array, preparing some siege equipment. The elite Shan army and Pishi army were leading the way. Two-thirds of them were infantry, and even those who were not infantry had dismounted.

In the Liao army, 500 people form a team, ten teams form a team, and ten teams form a team.

The soldiers in the river valley were deployed by Yelu Xiezhen. They formed a group and surrounded the fortress of the Qin army on the east hillside, which was located in front of the left front of the army. They lined up one mile away to form an encirclement. After the men and horses, twelve teams of men and horses were deployed in the rear.

Prepare to go into battle in turn and attack from all sides. The reason why you don't choose the fort by the water first is because that fort is close to the water on one side and it is not easy to encircle.

At the same time, they were not planning to attack in an all-out way, and planned to take a look first to see if the Qin people were playing tricks or had some calculations.

Black and orderly people and horses spread all over the valley, and the six fortresses of the Qin army on the opposite side were like small boats in the ocean. It seemed that as long as their army drove past, they could be submerged in an instant.

In fact, at this time, Han Derang didn't care much about the mighty army of his own. He kept his eyes on the strange Qin army fortresses in the distance, and wanted to know what was going on in the Qin army fortress at this moment.

He had an inexplicable uneasiness, and he didn't know how to resolve it anyway. He could only look at the densely packed army in the valley, ready to march, and whispered: "Buddha bless you."

Afterwards, he saw the commanding soldiers of the Chinese army begin to wave their flags, the horn of desolation sounded, and the attack began.

Eighteen teams, nearly 1 people attacked a fortress of the Qin army defended by 500 people, and it was easy to catch!Even a pile of people can be higher than their two-foot city wall!
Han Derang thought to himself that he couldn't think of any possibility of not being able to fight.

"If we deploy too many people, they will not fight easily. If there are only 3000 to [-] people guarding there, they are likely to fight to the end, because the advantage is great." Emperor Shi was in the Youzhou Palace, facing A sand table in front of him explained to Zhao Shijian that there were also craftsmen accompanying the confidential department beside the table. Emperor Shi liked to take them with him as consultants so that he could answer some questions at any time.

"Why is this guide slope 250 steps? Wouldn't it be better if the artillery was farther away?" Shi Huangdi asked.

"The officials have to take care of the bow and crossbow. In addition, if it is too far away, because of the shooting angle, the city wall must be shorter. Too short is not good. If the enemy is desperate and relies on piles of corpses to make the city wall high, go up too. It's gone." The craftsman always spoke coldly.

Emperor Shi nodded, then shook his head and smiled: "I don't believe they can go to the corner of the city to pile up corpses with the cannon."

"As long as the artillery hits them enough to break their morale, our fine cavalry behind us can go north and crush them." Emperor Shi said.

In fact, if you want to annihilate the main force of the Liao Kingdom, the most important problem has always been not that you can't fight, but that you can't fight the annihilation battle. If you want to defeat it head-on, as early as his father Shi Yanchao's time, he was able to lead the cavalry to repeatedly defeat the Khitan.

But the key is that defeat is defeat. You can't kill many people, and you can't kill more. If they come back next time, they will be exhausted. So whether it was the Battle of Guanbei, the Battle of Hedong, or the Battle of Youzhou In the battle, how to hold back the main force of the Liao army so that they can't get out of the battle is the key.

In the battle of Guanbei, Wang Shenqi's department was used as bait to hold back the Liao army. In the battle of Hedong, Guo Jin's department was passively used as a bait to hold down the Liao army.

It's just that this time with the blessing of artillery and bastion, Emperor Shi played a very big and unprecedented gamble. He planned to use more than 2000 people to hold back an army of [-]!
(It seems that I can’t post the picture chapter now. I have drawn a simple structure diagram and schematic diagram of the bastion for everyone to read in the group or in the reply at the end of this chapter)

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