Aspiring to the Ten Kingdoms

Chapter 681 Attack in Fireworks
Huge... bang! ! !

Huge... bang! ! !

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The celebration of the Cold Food Festival ended perfectly with the fireworks at night.

Linhuang Mansion is the cultural and economic center of Khitan. Compared with other places, life is indeed much richer.But in recent years, Yelu Bishe and Yelu House have all been in the arms competition in the Central Plains.

Compared with the vast land and resources of the Central Plains, and the support of Luo Youdu, the Khitan has paid much more on the road of arms competition than the Central Plains.

Even for the people of Linhuang Mansion, their living burden is very heavy, and they rarely have the opportunity to play.

But this time during the Cold Food Festival, Luo Youdu brought them an unforgettable festival celebration.

From the time of offering sacrifices to Confucius when the sun rose, the city of Linhuang Mansion was filled with festive celebrations.

The chefs in the army are guests of the street vendors. They use the ingredients in the army to make the delicacies of the Central Plains and sell them on the street.

Cold Food Festival, as the name suggests, is to ban smoking and fire, and only eat cold food.

The Khitan cannot do this, but the cold food in the Central Plains has lasted for thousands of years, and there are countless delicious cold food.

Foods to fill the stomach include cold food porridge, cold food noodles, cold food syrup, green rice, glutinous rice, jelly, cold noodles; New tea and clear spring sweet water are rich and colorful, and have deep meanings.

For example, there is a popular saying that "snake and rabbit must be rich", which means to hope that the people will be rich and the country strong;

As the Cold Food Festival is approaching, the logistics sent there are similar ingredients in the luggage. As for the food like snake and rabbit, there is no shortage of food on the grassland, so that the Han people living in Khitan can truly taste the delicacies of their hometown.

In addition, there are exciting polo matches, exciting football matches, acrobatic performances, and poetry festivals.

Khitan's cultural development in the early years was not inferior to that of the Later Zhou Dynasty. A large number of Chinese books were translated, and the scientific and technological, literary, and historical achievements of the people of the Central Plains were introduced to the grassland area.Yelu Abaoji worshiped Confucius. He successively set up schools in Shangjing Jianguozijian, prefectures, prefectures, and counties to teach Confucianism. He also built Confucius Temples for Confucian students to worship, support scholars and select scholars through imperial examinations. week.

Their works have various genres such as poems, words, songs, Fu, essays, chapters, and slips, and have various themes such as narratives, precepts, satires, and narratives.Poems include both majestic sentences and fresh and beautiful words, with their own special style.

However, since Luo Youdu became the emperor of the Central Plains, he changed his policy of emphasizing martial arts and despising literature, and even deceived emperors like Li Yu to live in the Central Plains, making the Central Plains literary style overshadow Shu and Jiangnan.

Under Luo Youdu's deliberate guidance, the style of poetry in the Central Plains is not the soft and graceful style of Jiangnan and Bashu, but is biased toward "why don't men wear Wu hooks and collect fifty states in Guanshan", "the yellow sand wears golden armor in a hundred battles, and the end of Loulan is not broken". Not yet" such impassioned poems.

Lu Duoxun has extensive knowledge of classics and history, is clever and memorized, and his diction is quick. His literary talent ranks first in the entire Dayu court.

When he served as the chief historian in Taiyuan, he also organized poetry clubs. Through the dissemination of literature and education, he added merits to himself, and he has all the talents and experience. A poetry festival will open the eyes of talented people around Linhuang Mansion...

Guests are happy.

Until the night, I thought it was over.

There was a series of explosions in the sky.

The rocket exploded in the air, bursting out dots of fireworks, driving away the darkness, and illuminating the sky and the earth white in an instant.

The fireworks of this era are naturally not as good as those of later generations. There are many types and colors, and they can play tricks.But you must know that this is an era when bamboo firecrackers are used as firecrackers.Suddenly encountering fireworks that can explode in the sky, even if they have a single color and a single style, they can still attract the attention of the masses, making the people of Linhuang Mansion like bumpkins, smelling the smell of gunpowder all over the city, dancing excitedly, and having trouble falling asleep.

In fact, not to mention the people of Linhuang Mansion, even if they were the people of Bianjing, they had never seen such a scene.

At best, the people of Bianjing listen to the sound of simple gunpowder and firecrackers. They have seen rockets used as fireworks.

This is the first time this has happened.

Dashun Gate of Khitan North City.

Yelu Chizong, the guard of Dashun Gate, looked at the fireworks in the sky, feeling a little envious in his heart, and heard the surrounding soldiers shouting excitedly: "Here we come, we come again."

As the rocket exploded, a fiery flame shone in the dark sky.

Yeluchi Zong watched the flames dissipate in the sky, saw that the tower was full of soldiers, and shouted like chasing away flies: "What are you doing? Don't sleep? You, Shi Shaonan, are you on duty at the second watch? Laozi Stop you, if you dare to blink your eyes at night, I will shave your ears."

His cursing emotions were a bit complicated, more like venting his dissatisfaction.

Yeluchizong was not a member of the royal family, but because his grandfather made great contributions with Yelu Abaoji, he was given the surname Yelu.When Yelu Abaoji ranked the founding heroes of the country, he listed 21 people, and Yelu Chizong's grandfather happened to be at the bottom 21.However, due to the chaotic political situation in Khitan, Yeluchizong's grandfather followed the wrong master and stood in line with the iron-handed queen mother Shuluping, who was ostracized by Yeluruan and transferred away from the power center.

The Yeluchi sect also gradually declined, and it has not improved until today, but because of the loyalty of the past generations, it has been mixed up with the position of the guard of the Dashun sect.

Originally, it was a position of eating and waiting to die, but with the massive invasion of the Central Plains, it suddenly became very important.

Yeluchizong even received two summons from Yelv Bishe, and Yelv Bishe asked him to accompany him when he personally inspected the city tower.

Yeluchizong only felt honored, especially when he heard Yelubishe's oath of living and dying with the Khitan, he felt his blood boiling. There is nothing wrong with entrusting your life to your own country.

But as time passed day by day, Yeluchizong's blood cooled down little by little.

Not to mention him, even Yelu Bishe didn't come to inspect the city defense in recent days.

They are as useless as if they had been beaten with chicken blood. The Central Plains didn't attack at all, it just drained their energy.

"Brother, look who's coming!"

A burly little schoolboy with a tiger-headed child on his head strode over.

"Daddy, Daddy..."

The little boy danced happily when he saw Yeluchizong.

Yeluchizong's expression changed slightly, he stepped forward and pulled the principal aside, and said, "Why did you bring Pan'er up to the tower?"

The little principal said indifferently: "Pan'er is arguing to watch the fireworks, but if you watch them elsewhere, you can't see them clearly from the city tower."

Yeluchizong wanted to reprimand him, but seeing his son's reddened eyes, his heart softened, and he said, "Okay, just this once."

He hugged his son around the schoolboy's neck with both hands and let him ride on his shoulders.

He originally had the determination to serve the country to the death, but every time he went home and looked at his wife and children, his determination was slightly loosened, especially when he looked at the scene of Seoul in the south, a thought flashed through his mind more than once, "If you listened to the third brother's advice back then, It is suggested that it might be better to give Pan'er to him."

The Khitan people and Han people live together in Linhuang Mansion. After more than [-] years of getting along with each other, the barrier between them has long been eliminated.

Although Linhuang Mansion is divided into the northern city and the southern city, there are actually many Khitan people living in the southern city of Seoul, and many developed Han people moved to live in the northern city.

The third younger brother of Yeluchi Zong moved his family to Seoul because he married a Han Chinese daughter-in-law. Before the Central Plains army came down, the third brother suggested that they move to Seoul to avoid the disaster of war.

Originally, Yeluchizong didn't regret it, but seeing the cold food festival held in Seoul today, I still can't help but feel a little bit of envy from you.

Bringing his own son, Yeluchizong did not go to the main gate, but to the southwest corner of the tower.

Opposite Dashun Gate is the southern city of Seoul in Linhuang Mansion, but there is a Baiyingolo River between the northern city and the southern city.

The southwest corner of the city tower, the water gate of the city tower, is the most remote place. Usually, there are not many people gathered, and the view is not bad. You can avoid the crowd and avoid people saying that you are abusing your power.

When he came to Shuimen, Yeluchi Zong looked at this deserted place, and there were many people who thought the same as him.

Even Xia Junliang, the guard of Gongchen Gate in Beicheng, is here.

Gongchenmen is the north gate of Beicheng.

Xia Junliang was holding a ten-year-old girl by the hand. The two smiled awkwardly when they saw each other.

At this moment, fireworks rose again over Seoul, reflecting each other's faces.

Listening to the cheerful voices of each other's children, the two smiled faintly, regardless of embarrassment.

However, when their eyes were attracted by the fireworks, the army of the Central Plains took advantage of the night to attack Qiande Gate, Dong'an Gate, and Gongchen Gate respectively.

Fierce oil was poured on the city tower, and the brave and fearless Central Plains soldiers crossed the moat through the folding trench bridge, holding flying ladders and pushing cloud ladders, trying to climb the city.

The soaring fireworks ignited half of the sky in Beicheng.

When he learned that the Central Plains was attacking the city, Yelv Bishe was entertaining the nobles of Khitan in the palace, drinking wine and eating meat.

Under the planning of Zhongyuan, the festive atmosphere of this cold food festival is too strong.

Yelv Bishe didn't want to hold any banquet under the current situation, but the Central Plains side had such a good time, if they didn't show anything, it would have a great impact on morale.

He couldn't make the Cold Food Festival as vigorous as the Central Plains, but he also held a polo match symbolically in the city, entertained the nobles, and gave extra meals to the soldiers defending the city.

When the news of the attack on Qiande Gate, Dong'an Gate, and Gongchen Gate reached the palace, the wine glass in Yelu Bishe's hand fell to the ground unconsciously, causing an uproar in the hall.

Zhao Kuangyi reacted the fastest, he didn't care about swallowing the food in his mouth, he just started to spit out the food that he couldn't chew in the future on the table, and shouted: "Your Majesty, hurry up and arrange people to support the three families."

He wondered more than once when the Central Plains of the Southern Dynasty would launch an attack, but he never thought that the Central Plains would choose this day to attack, when the festive atmosphere was at its peak.

It was hard for him to imagine that Zhongyuan made such a big move in Seoul just for tonight's attack.

Yelu Bishe asked Zhao Kuangyi to respond, and immediately called for Yelu Ameili, Yishi Wang Sahe, and Xiao Dougu to support him.

Yelu'a drank a lot of wine and led the soldiers to Gongchen Gate with a bit of drunkenness.

Before he got close, he saw the shout of killing Zhentian on the Gongchen gate.

Yelua shuddered inwardly, and secretly called, "Not good?"

This is all killed on the tower?

Yelu'a Meili lost his drink and shouted: "For Khitan, for Daliao, follow me to take back Gongchen Gate."

General Dayu, who was in charge of attacking the North Gate, was called Kang Zaiyu, and he was the commander of the Xuanwei Army of the Imperial Camp.

At the beginning of the Xuanwei Army's establishment, it mainly focused on breaking the city, and the main training direction was climbing the city and climbing mountains and mountains.

Kang Zaiyu was standing on the tower of Gongchen Gate, he also did not expect that the attack would be so smooth, the enemy did not even organize an effective resistance.

It turned out that when Kang was attacked again, Xia Junliang, the guard of Gongchen Gate, neglected his duties and took his daughter to watch the fireworks.When he left, he arranged everything to the deputy general Ban Yuanjian.

Ban Yuanjian did not dereliction of duty, but he was out of luck.

The fierce fire oil of the Southern Dynasties showed great power in Liaodong. Linhuang Mansion learned a lesson. They spread a layer of sand on the city wall. Flow in all directions, causing the flame to spread.

Facing the city tower covered with a thick layer of sand, as long as a layer of sand is covered on the fire point, the fierce fire can be easily extinguished.

This method does have a miraculous effect on fierce fire oil, but it also causes another situation: silky...

The sandy soil is already inconvenient for walking, and if the fierce fire oil penetrates, one will fall on one's back if one is not careful.

Ban Yuanyu was in a hurry to resist the Central Plains soldiers who were about to ascend the city, but he didn't care about his feet. He accidentally bumped his head on the tower and passed out on the spot.

The general was not there, and the deputy general lost his ability to command dramatically. Kang Zaiyu rushed to the top of the tower in one breath.

He originally wanted to take down the Gongchen Gate in one go, but the Khitan people went crazy, completely disregarding the casualties, and fought them desperately.

In the aisle of the small tower, every step forward has to pay a few fresh lives.

Both sides are fighting desperately for every piece of land.

Kang Zaiyu charged five times in a row, but failed to reach the tower, let alone occupy the city gate. When he opened the city gate, seeing that the resistance he encountered was getting stronger and stronger, he retreated for the time being, glanced left and right, and saw Jiang Weizhi , grabbed him and shouted: "Jiangdutou, there, see, count from here, the second street, the fourth house. There is the place where Khitan stores fire oil, you take some soldiers and horses to take He's burned, just go down from here."

Jiang Weizhi didn't care about the dangers and dangers, so he responded instinctively, found a rope ladder, and climbed down from the inside of the tower.

Kang Zaiyu held up the notched knife in his hand, and said sharply: "My Xuanwei army has received the emperor's favor, and there is no way to repay it. Today, I took this city for your majesty."

Regardless of his identity, he forced his way to the front of the aisle of the city tower, stepped on the corpse of no enemy and brandished the broken blade in his hand.

(End of this chapter)