Great Song Super Scholar

Chapter 745 Don't beat anyone
Two days later, 30 Song troops crossed the Liao River and completely surrounded Liaoyang City.

Looking out from the top of the city, the Song army stationed four camps in the east, west, north, south, and four directions of Liaoyang City, about three miles away from the city, and the tents were so densely packed that one could not see the edge at a glance.

Now Xiao Weixin finally understood why Yelu Hongji wanted to escape from the Liaoyang Mansion. As the Son of Heaven, he couldn't accept the humiliation of being besieged in the city anyway.

And not only the loss of the dignity of the emperor himself, but also the Liao court could not tolerate it. In the year before and last year, Yelu Hongji ransacked the wealth of 34 royal families and dignitaries in order to collect money. Taking the opportunity to establish a new emperor on the grounds of Liao Sheji's stability?
But understanding is understanding, Yelu Hongji's escape still caused turmoil among the people in Liaoyang City, the army's morale was unstable, and morale was extremely low.

Two days ago, in order to reduce the turmoil in the city and save food, Xiao Weixin decided to let the people out of the city, but there were too many people who wanted to go out of the city, everyone rushed out of the city, and the order was out of control, so that the newly recruited soldiers took the opportunity to escape more than [-] people Xiao Weixin had no choice but to retract the order and once again prohibited the people from leaving the city.

Although the morale of the army is unstable and the hearts of the people are turbulent, Xiao Weixin still has something to rely on, that is, the tall and strong Liaoyang City. After being attacked by the Song Army many years ago, Liaoyang City underwent major repairs. With a wide moat dug and sufficient garrison troops, as long as the Song army doesn't use the perverted iron fire thunder, he can guarantee at least half a year without loss.

But will Song Jun not use it?Xiao Weixin let out a low sigh, turned around and went down the city
At night, the camp of the Song Army was brightly lit, and thousands of craftsmen were busy assembling super trebuchets. This kind of super trebuchets made great achievements in the attack on Youzhou City. It was extremely deterrent and a sharp weapon to break the morale of the army.

The Song army transported 24 from Youzhou and the capital each, a total of 48, which can be put into the battlefield after simple assembly.

Zhong Er accompanied Fan Ning to inspect the assembly of the super speculative stone. The name of the super speculative stone was given by Fan Ning, and it has now become the official name of this kind of trebuchet.

"I heard that His Highness has suggested to the emperor to increase the number of troops?" Zhong Er asked with a smile.

Fan Ning nodded, "Now we have 45 troops. Considering that we are still defending various key points, we actually use only about 30 troops. If we want to destroy the Liao Kingdom and deter the grasslands at the same time, we need at least 50 troops. So I propose to the Son of Heaven to increase the number of troops by 20."

Zhong Er pondered for a while and said: "Then have you considered letting the emperor personally conquest?"

Fan Ning laughed, "The increase of 20 troops is to leave room for the emperor to personally conquer. Of course, this idea is also mentioned in my proposal, but whether the emperor wants to lead the army or not depends on himself. idea."

At this time, a head of the Nuyuan Academy hurried over to salute. Fan Ning pointed to the huge monster and asked, "When will the installation be completed?"

"It's faster this time, and try to complete the installation and debugging before noon tomorrow!"

Fan Ning smiled comfortingly: "Everyone has worked hard this time, and when the war is over, I will give credit to the Nuyuan Academy!"

"Thank you, Your Highness, for your care."

Everyone walked to a trebuchet. The trebuchet had been basically installed. There was a thick protective plate in front of it. There was a big box with a height of [-] feet beside it. steam engine, with it, only ten people can operate a super trebuchet.”

Fan Ning nodded, this can be regarded as advancing with the times
In the morning of the next day, 48 trebuchets rumbled toward Liaoyang City from four directions. The trebuchets were five feet high, and the throwing pole was twenty feet long. Using the power of the steam engine to roll the winch, a huge stone weighing a hundred catties could be shot into the city at one time. two miles away.

There were no trebuchets on the city wall, so I had to watch helplessly as the super trebuchet approached step by step.

The trebuchets stopped about [-] steps away from the city wall. A huge spherical wooden shell was placed inside each trebuchet. The soldiers lit the match, and the trebuchets were launched suddenly.

The wooden shell ball exploded in the air, and thousands of leaflets fell from the wooden ball, and then the wind, one after another, floated to the whole city. Song Jun shot ten wooden shell balls from four directions in a row, tens of thousands of leaflets Immediately, it filled the whole city.

Xiao Wei, who was standing on the city wall, was startled in confidence, when a leaflet floated in front of his eyes, with a few lines printed in Chinese characters on it.

"The king of Chu in the Great Song Dynasty and Fan Ning, the envoy to the north, sent a letter to Xiao Weixin, the privy envoy and the army and people in the city.

Yelu Hongji acted perversely, the people betrayed their relatives, and the Liao Kingdom was about to perish. The 50 troops of the Song Dynasty besieged Liaoyang. The cruelty of the war will give Xiao Shumi envoy and the whole army a way of life. As long as the city surrenders, the Song army will treat the soldiers and civilians kindly. In order to remember, don't compete with the heavenly army, and go out of the city with righteousness before night falls.

Song Chuwang Fan Ning pays tribute'

Xiao Weixin was shocked and angry by this letter, and ordered: "Go and collect the leaflets quickly, and those who dare to hide will be punished as collaborators!"

Although Xiao Weixin ordered the leaflets to be confiscated, it was useless. This open letter had already been quietly spread throughout the army and the whole city. People's hearts were floating, and many soldiers began to consider their own way out.

As night fell quietly, Fan Ning looked at Liaoyang City coldly. Xiao Weixin's refusal to surrender was expected by him, but he had done his best. Since he didn't know what to do, don't blame him for being cruel.

"Pass my order, the trebuchets will attack!"

'Boom!Boom!Boom!Boom! With the sound of fierce battle drums, the Song army began a large-scale long-range attack, and 48 super trebuchets entered the launch state one after another.

The soldiers put huge fireballs in their throwing pockets one by one. This kind of fireball is soaked in oil and dried in the sun, and then wrapped into a big ball, which is filled with burning gunpowder. The throwing rod shoots out.

The fireballs burned rapidly in the air, forming clusters of bright red flames in the air, flying into the city from all directions. This is the fire that destroys the city. The fireballs are very elastic. fly away.

In just a moment, fires broke out in many places in Liaoyang City, including the palace. Three fireballs shot into the palace, and the palace was also set on fire. The maids and eunuchs in the palace ran away in fright.

But this was just the beginning, followed by the second and third rounds of fireballs, and in the fourth round, what Song Jun shot was no longer fireballs, but cans of fire oil, which fell into the city. It was shattered, kerosene splashed everywhere, and was quickly ignited. The fire took advantage of the wind, and fires broke out everywhere in the city.

The people took buckets and basins and poured water to put out the fire, but they managed to extinguish one fire point, but added dozens of fire points, which could not be saved at all.

Half of the Tokyo Palace was engulfed in flames, and the barracks next to it were also engulfed in raging fire.

That night, Song Jun shot nearly a thousand fireballs, and half of Liaoyang City was engulfed in flames.

In the morning of the next day, the craftsmen began to repair and adjust the trebuchets. After the fire that destroyed the city, the thunder of the Song Army was about to kick off.

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Although the battle in Liaoyang is in full swing, the capital has been focusing on another major event these days.

The imperial court finally wanted to formulate the overseas feudal enfeoffment system and overseas territory management system.

These are actually two laws. The first law is aimed at the overseas fiefdom system of dignitaries with titles above earl.

The latter law is aimed at the management system of minor titles and civilians who own over [-] hectares of overseas territories. Simply put, they are two laws aimed at dignitaries and businessmen.

Since Song Dynasty began to sell islands eight years ago, it has sold more than [-] pieces of land over [-] hectares, including [-] islands and more than [-] pieces of land. Most of the land and islands are concentrated in Lu Song Island and South Continent also sold hundreds of pieces of land.

The imperial court obtained huge land income, [-]% of these proceeds went to the state treasury, [-]% went to the internal treasury, and then when there were major arrangements, the internal treasury would allocate money, such as construction and engineering colleges, investment immigration to the southern continent, and so on.

However, the status of these overseas lands has not been clarified by law. Many islands have been immigrated and developed, but they are all black households. In the past eight years, there have been endless debates about the overseas enfeoffment system.

Opponents believe that overseas land is also the territory of the Song Dynasty. If enfeoffment is implemented, it will inevitably affect the unified system of the imperial court. However, supporters believe that overseas land is private property, and the imperial court has already collected money, so they have no right to dictate the disposal of private property. , What's more, there are many unowned islands overseas that Da Song doesn't know about.

But Wang Anshi made it clear three years ago that as long as the people of the Song Dynasty were not relocated, the Jianguo court would not care about it, but if the people of the Song Dynasty were relocated, the court had the right to intervene.

Many ministers supported this idea, including Wang Anshi, Fu Bi, Wen Yanbo and other prime ministers who all supported the third plan, which gradually became the mainstream in the court.

The key is how the imperial court manages and how to control the speed, which has become the focus of contention among the various factions in the Song Dynasty. After three years of back-and-forth discussions, a compromise plan acceptable to all parties was finally introduced.

(End of this chapter)