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After Wanyan Zongwang came back from the battlefield, the first thing he did when he returned was to ask his men to find out about the Han army that was fighting with him.

The conclusion reached is that the opposite side is just a cavalry unit of the Protector Army, not even the absolute main force. The absolute main force is still in the frontal defense line of the Protector Army and has not been separated to fight.

Wanyan Zongwang and all the Jurchen generals around him were all surprised. Only then did they believe that Wanyan Zongbi's words were not a lie. The protection army was really powerful. Even the protection army in Shandong was better than the supervisory committee protection that Wanyan Zongbi met in the North China base. The defense force must be stronger.

Originally, the Jurchens had always adopted the idea of ​​​​reaching wherever they could when expanding their territory.

More than a year ago, they even felt that it was enough to sign a maritime alliance with the Song Dynasty and seize the land north of the Great Wall. Now the main reason why they went south was that they found that the Han army was so incapable of fighting during the contact with the Song army, so they decided to go south. He did not hesitate to swing his butcher knife at his past allies.

At this time, the Jurchens still wanted to grab a handful and go back. After encountering such tenacious resistance from the Supervisory Council, the Jurchens' officers had other ideas at that time.

More than ten days of trials have proven that the Protectorate Army is at least capable of fighting head-on with the Jurchens. Moreover, the areas around Hebei are all organized by the Supervisory Committee. The Jurchens are already finding it very difficult to fight.

"If an ordinary cavalry member of the protection army has such combat power, why bother dealing with the enemy anymore?"

After some thought, Wanyan Zongwang said to his subordinates: "Go and call Medicine Master Guo."

The Jurchens fought all the way south from Yanshan and surrendered many Song troops along the way. Most of them were taken by Wanyan Zongwang. Among them, Guo Yaoshi was naturally the largest military leader under Wanyan Zongwang.

After the surrender, these Han troops were responsible for the heaviest work. During the past few days, a large number of Han troops were used as baggage trains to test the enemy's combat effectiveness and transport grain.

The Han army in Liao Dynasty, which expanded under Guo Yaoshi and relied on the Ever Victorious Army to recruit surrenders and rebels, was also harassed by the Supervisory Committee and suffered heavy losses.

When he heard that Wanyan Zongwang was looking for him, he felt a little uneasy. When he came to Wanyan Zongwang's tent, he saw Wanyan Zongwang sitting on the commander's seat carelessly:

"How many men do you have?"

Wanyan Zongwang was not the son of Wanyan Aguda, but at this time, the Jurchens didn't care much about being called the prince. Anyway, they were all Han people's titles. At this time, all the Jurchens' clan members with the surname Wanyan The Han people all call him Prince.

Naturally, Pharmacist Guo also called out in the same way: "Back to the Second Prince, I have suffered a lot from the harassment from the Supervisory Committee. Recently, my brothers have suffered a lot. Now I can only count 1 people under my command."

Wanyan Zongwang nodded and said, "That's enough."

Then he stood up and said to Medicine Master Guo:

"I'll give you a mission. The army will guard Liyang and ensure the safety of the city."

Pharmacist Guo was completely stunned.

……

In the early morning of April, several soldiers from the maternity team were guarding the position. The early morning mist was chilling their bodies, but the two soldiers were talking quietly while bored.

"Brother, where are you from?"

"I'm from Puzhou, Shandong."

"It turns out that the people from Qi Di are at the feet of the Emperor!"

"How can we in Puzhou be so lucky because we were just defeated by the Supervisory Committee?"

"Yes, but it doesn't matter. Once Liyang is captured, our Supervisory Committee will enter Hebei. By then, the people in Hebei will be able to live a good life."

"I hope so." The two were chatting when they suddenly saw a group of people coming behind them.

In an instant, both of them cheered up: "Who is it? Password!"

"Drive out the Tartars."

After hearing that the password was correct, the two of them relaxed their vigilance, and a few people who looked like protection army officers walked out of the darkness.

"Commander..." Recognizing one of them as the top officer of their own delivery team, the two soldiers became nervous.

Standing next to the commander was a tall, middle-aged officer with no beard.

Both of them knew that most of the people dressed like this were high-ranking officials from Shandong, but they didn't dare to inquire at the moment.

"You're tired, I'll check the sentry." The commander of Puzhou's maternity care team smiled at them, "I'll go back after the sentry and have a good rest. Stop walking around. Take the time to sleep."

After hearing the words of their commander, both of them reacted and nodded repeatedly, knowing in their hearts that the Protectorate Army was about to launch an siege operation. The commander could not reveal the specific time but asked them to go to bed quickly. The decisive battle was probably here. A few days.

……

On April 2th, a total of [-] troops from the birth protection team and protection army surrounded Liyang City. The Jurchens had withdrawn early, leaving only more than [-] Han surrendered troops guarding Liyang City.

It's just that before the Jurchens left, they left more than 1000 people for Pharmacist Guo to monitor him. These people followed Pharmacist Guo around every day, and Pharmacist Guo had no choice but to surrender.

I had no choice but to grit my teeth and start fighting.

Liyang was a large city of the Song Dynasty in North China. It was very heavily guarded and the city walls were built very high. Liang Fangping even claimed that he could rely on this city to resist the Jurchens for half a year. Of course, in fact, he had already escaped before the Jurchens arrived.

At this time, Pharmacist Guo had no way of escaping in the city.

The entire population of Liyang City has been mobilized, and large pots are set up on the city walls, with grease or dung water burning in the pots to prevent enemies from attacking the city.

The Jurchens had already experienced the method of protecting the army to attack the city before. The Jurchens had no solution to the cannon bombardment method. They could only force their Liao soldiers to seize the time to build some so-called strong hiding caves. , what they thought was that when the war started, these soldiers would hide in the doorway, and when the enemy's artillery bombardment was tired, they would go up and light firewood.

In the early morning of April [-]th, the escort army finally began to attack the city.

It's still the usual routine, but this time because the area of ​​the siege battle is close to Shandong, the protection army is not like defending the North China base area. It only has more than 20 cannons. It took nearly a month to mobilize supplies. Sun Xin shipped them from Shandong. It has more than 100 cannons, the maximum caliber of which exceeds [-] centimeters, and the shells fired are almost the size of a bowling ball.

After seeing the cannons of the Protecting Army being set up from a distance, Pharmacist Guo in the city asked his subordinates to personally supervise the battle. In the early morning, the Protecting Army started the bombardment after some propaganda.

The woods outside Liyang City had already been cut off by Sun Xin. They were besieged on three sides, leaving only the north side for the soldiers defending the city to retreat. The purpose was to capture Liyang, a transshipment center, as soon as possible.

On the hill with cut branches, there is no obstruction in front of it, which is an excellent position for artillery.

More than 100 cannons fired at the same time, and the momentum was earth-shattering.

The city head of Liyang instantly fell into a sea of ​​fire.

Even if the city wall of Liyang City is strong enough, the thin female wall still cannot prevent artillery attacks. In the first round of bombardment, two of the hidden soldier caves in the city were destroyed, and more than 100 old soldiers from the Ever Victorious Army were all killed alive. Smashed to death in the hole.

(End of this chapter)