Aspiring to the Ten Kingdoms

Chapter 244 Xiaosheng
Youzhou South Gate Military Village.

Luo Youdu got up early in the morning, first did radio gymnastics to warm up, then trotted around the barracks, and then rode a lap.

The soldiers in the battalion have long been familiar with Luo Youdu's healthy routine.

Luo Youdu didn't intend to attack Youzhou City immediately at all.

He knew that the generals under his command were unavoidably impatient, so in order to appease their emotions, he specially gathered them together.

Pointing to the large bed crossbow on the tower, he said: "Don't look at the lack of soldiers in Youzhou City, this is an important military location. It is not comparable to the previous Waqiao Pass."

"Look, all kinds of defensive equipment on the city tower are unambiguous at all. Just this south gate, there are thirty big bed crossbows and fifty large and small catapults along the entire city wall."

"I suspect that there is still stone lacquer in Youzhou City. Even if you haven't seen the power of stone lacquer, you should have heard of it."

"They have the advantage of defending the city, and they also have a sharp weapon like stone paint, which is not easy to deal with."

"With this kind of defense, we have to pay a huge price to fill up the moat, let alone attack the city."

Luo Youdu is not alarmist at all.

Khitan's technology tree is not inferior to Central Plains at all.

Khitan knows about stone lacquer.

Historically, during the Later Liang Dynasty, Yang Longyan, the leader of the Southern Wu Kingdom, sent envoys to Khitan to send a batch of stone paint, and specifically told them to "siege the city, use oil to burn the buildings and oars, and the enemy will fertilize them with water, and the fire will grow hotter."

So there is no situation where they have such a sharp weapon as oil, but Khitan does not.

Luo Youdu knows better than anyone that China's main oil production areas are the northeast Jilin and Liaohe areas occupied by the Khitan.

Maybe the Khitan people lack the means to extract oil, but it is just like the oil in Wuwei County.

Sometimes this thing will flow out by itself and does not need to be mined.

Siege is the most costly battle. Luo Youdu would rather attack the city later than to make full preparations.

"So! Brothers, don't worry, build more siege equipment and play more steadily. First, recharge your batteries, and when you really want to show your strength, just don't embarrass me."

When he said this, he suddenly smiled and said: "If you are really idle and bored, you can play the snare drum a few times at night to amuse them."

As far as Luo Youdu's current prestige in the Imperial Army Division is concerned, no one said anything more as soon as he said this, and obeyed orders honestly.

Luo Youdu was not in a hurry, but Xiao Hunian and Shi Fang on the city wall couldn't wait any longer.

Xiao Hunian put on an iron armor painted with red paint, which looked extraordinarily gorgeous. He came to inspect the city defense every day, waiting for the Central Plains soldiers and horses to attack the city, thinking that they should be able to attack the city after they built the camp.

Still nothing.

Xiao Hunian was so angry that he cursed: "Siege of a city is so coy, don't fall into my hands, or you will have to take off his pants to see if it is a man."

Shi Fang ignored the tiger-wolf words, and said worryingly: "He is forcing His Majesty to attack the stronghold. If His Majesty does not dare to attack, it means that he will not save us. Our morale has plummeted. It will be more turbulent."

Xiao Hunian gritted his teeth and said: "If Your Majesty attacks, he will use his own weaknesses to attack the other's strengths. If he loses, he will also lose morale. Anyway, he will not suffer no matter what, he is a rascal."

Shi Fang said softly: "The only way to break the situation now is for His Majesty to win. Otherwise, our morale may be exhausted by them."

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Youzhou Beiying.

Yeluxie put a black mace across his shoulders, sat on the horse's back, looked at the fortified camp, and sent someone to call out outside the camp.

Facing the tortoise shell that Luo Youdu specially prepared for them, Yelujing and the other Khitan civil and military forces had no choice.

The current situation is clear, either attack the camp now, or attack Youzhou City later.

Their tried-and-tested starvation tactics are no longer applicable.

They don't have the ability to go around the Bohai Sea to rob grain, and it doesn't make sense to attack the Jingu military stronghold.

There is really no way but to use the oldest way to call the formation.

See if you can call out the Central Plains soldiers in the camp.

It's better to have a one-on-one field battle than to attack the village.

Yeluxie accepted the mission and led [-] cavalry outside the northern camp early in the morning.

Although Yeluxie's words are reckless, he also knows how to be courteous before fighting.

At the beginning, it was an elegant battle, but seeing that the barracks in front of them were indifferent, they began to select soldiers with extremely loud voices who knew Chinese to stand in front of the queue and curse loudly.

They frantically used bad words to greet Guo Rong's eighteen generations of ancestors upwards, and humiliated their grandsons, great-grandchildren, and great-grandchildren downwards.

From character and character, to physical defects.

No matter how bad it sounds, I just want to provoke Guo Rong to order a field battle.

The angry generals couldn't take it anymore, but Guo Rong said with a smile: "That's it? I'm six years old and my neighbor's children scolded each other more than that!"

He didn't take it seriously at all.

Yeluxie's words were listening to the soldiers' abuse, and seeing the quiet camp, he also knew that the opponent would not fight, but he had to complete the task of the leader, otherwise it would be difficult to explain when he went back.

"Curse, continue to scold me!"

Yelu Xie ripped off his helmet, the sun was not too harsh in this May day, but he was sweating profusely after wearing armor and fighting under the sun for more than two hours, and he rode his horse back and forth restlessly in front of the battle.

The same is true for other Khitan soldiers.

The Khitan army was not good at forming an army. Under this slack, the lineup became loose and discipline was difficult to maintain.

The soldiers in the last row even secretly sat on the ground to rest under the cover of the crowd.

Right now!

The gates of the small village on the left and right flanks suddenly opened wide, and two fierce cavalry rushed out like flying!

The Khitan army was still scolding happily, no one was mentally prepared for the sudden appearance of the enemy, and they couldn't help being in an uproar.

At this time, a cavalry team appeared on the front of Dazhai.

One person, to be exact, plus a cavalry team.

Zhao Kuangyin's speed was too fast, he directly left the team and rushed towards Yeluxie's words.

The distance of two hundred steps was reached in an instant under the sprint of the horse.

The 150 Khitan soldiers who shouted and scolded on foot in front of the formation could not stop him at all, and broke him directly.

Yeluxie's words were flustered at first, but when he saw Zhao Kuangyin killing him alone, he greeted Zhao Kuangyin with a mace in ecstasy.

He still wants to talk...

Zhao Kuangyin rushed to him like a tiger descending a mountain.

Yeluxie said that before he could swing the mace, he felt like he was flying like a cloud!
Zhao Kuangyin just swung the iron stick, like hitting a baseball, and sent Yeluxie's words flying a distance of five or six feet.

The three-way cavalry caught them, and the Khitan cavalry had no room to fight back, leaving more than 500 corpses behind and fled in a panic.

Especially those Khitan soldiers who shouted and scolded, they didn't have horses, and they divided the corpses of Zhou soldiers.

Luo Youdu leisurely appeared in Beiying, congratulating Guo Rong on his victory and begging for more than 1000 corpses.

(End of this chapter)