Traveling through Tianlong: Starting from the Zhenlong chess game

Chapter 660: Youzhou City Falls
The Liao soldiers were now extremely lax in their defense. They were either tortured to the point of being completely exhausted by Zhao Mu and the others, or simply fell asleep.

The tens of thousands of elite troops deployed by the Liao Kingdom to resist him are now unable to form effective combat power.

In fact, the biggest reason why the Liao Kingdom put its absolute main force here was to use fighting to promote negotiations. They wanted Zhao Mu to hit a snag here, and then give up some interests to force the Song army to withdraw and sign a Liao Kingdom's "Chanyuan Alliance".

But this time, Zhao Mu was determined to annex him directly. Therefore, under Zhao Mu's ambush, the Liao Kingdom had lost the capital to promote negotiations through fighting.

Although the envoys for peace talks had been sent out in the direction of Shangdu, because Wang Xian and his men fought too quickly and surrounded Shangdu, the envoys were sent back directly.

Zhao Mu rode away from the others and bravely took the lead.

When he approached the city wall, the archers guarding the city, although exhausted, still rained arrows down on him the next moment.

Zhao Mu leapt up upon seeing this. He pointed his finger and urged Xiaoyao Yufeng to move, muttering, "Buzhoulifeng! It controls life and death!"

The next moment, a strong wind blew, causing the rain-like arrows to turn back and fall on the Liao soldiers.

Li Canghai, who had been watching the battle from the sentry tower at the rear, couldn't help but sigh.

Li Canghai didn't expect that the wind control method that he had mastered for decades would be used by Zhao Mu, his enemy, to deal with his own people. As a great shaman, Li Canghai felt sorry for the Khitan people who had always obeyed her.

Li Canghai only blamed himself for being "useless". Li Canghai was reluctant to teach Zhao Mu such a unique skill, but Zhao Mu's "skill" was too amazing.

During the time when he was using strategies to tire out his troops, Zhao Mu's only daily entertainment activity was "playing with her".

After these seven days of "torture", Li Canghai was completely Zhao Mu's from the inside out. And this time Zhao Mu also used those Caiyin tricks appropriately to replenish himself and torture the other party.

Not to mention that Li Canghai is a gentle woman, even if he was an iron man, he would have been melted by Zhao Mu and turned into iron liquid after being tortured endlessly like this.

Li Canghai was afraid that Zhao Mu would play her to death, so she had no choice but to agree to hand over the complete formula of Xiaoyao Yufeng, so that she could have a moment's respite. Even now, her legs were trembling a little, and if she didn't hold on to something, she felt that she couldn't stand.

She now understood why Zhao Mu wanted to find so many women. After all, she couldn't stand him, so if an ordinary woman met him, she would have no choice but to die.

The only thing to be thankful for is that they died in bliss.

Under the enhanced Xiaoyao Yufeng, Zhao Mu quickly cleared out the Liao army on the south gate wall. Without any obstacles, the Song army engineers immediately built a floating bridge on the moat and then set up all the ladders.

After the ladder was built, the vanguard army's first suicide squad climbed up quickly like marching ants.

Now the 3,000 death squads of the vanguard army were full of energy and well-equipped. They were almost a dimensional strike against the exhausted Liao army. Soon, all the enemy troops on the south gate wall were cleared.

And Zhao Mu still charged forward with a sword, trying his best to clear a way for his soldiers.

Under Zhao Mu's absolute force, even those soldiers of the Shan Army who practiced advanced martial arts were unable to resist. In less than a moment, most of them were killed by Zhao Mu.

The Song army soldiers were still climbing the city in an orderly manner.

After entering the city, the soldiers continued to clear away the stones and dirt that blocked the city gates like ants. With strength in numbers, the blockage at the South Gate was soon cleared, and the Song army that entered the city opened the city gates and lowered the drawbridge. Then tens of thousands of Song army troops followed in.

Fierce street fighting then broke out in the city.

Zhao Mu did not participate in these fights. Instead, he quickly ran towards the four gates, clearing the enemies on the city walls and minimizing the pressure on his siege troops.

Thanks to Zhao Mu's efforts, the east, south and west gates were lost one after another, and hundreds of thousands of Song troops broke through the three gates and poured in.

The street fighting in the city became more intense.

However, the ferocity of the street fighting in the city was somewhat beyond Zhao Mu's expectations.

This is because the people who participated in this street fighting were not only the soldiers of the Liao army, but also the people of all sizes in the city. Moreover, both the Khitans and the Han people participated in the battle against the Song army.

But unfortunately, these people, even if they took up weapons, were just ordinary civilians and were no match for the Song army soldiers.

But it was not their fault, because Zhao Mu did not distribute any notice to reassure the people before the battle. In addition, the garrison commander of Youzhou blocked the four gates of Youzhou, completely cutting off information from inside and outside the city.

These people also don’t know that the Song Dynasty will not kill everyone.

The garrison commander of Youzhou and the ministers of Liao deceived them by saying that after the Song army broke into the city, they would massacre the people, plunder their property, and rape their wives and daughters. That is why the people fought desperately.

However, Zhao Mu and the Song army did not know about this, and they just cleared out the remaining defenders in the city as quickly as possible. And Zhao Mu had told them one thing before, that is, as long as the other party did not lay down their weapons, then he would be the enemy, and the enemy had no distinction between big and small, male and female, old and young.

Therefore, facing these resisting civilians, the Song army maintained great restraint and did not harm young children. However, facing the attacking enemies, they still committed a lot of murders.

The battle lasted for nearly two hours.

Soon, the people who assisted the Liao army in defending the city gradually came to their senses. That is, the Song army did not show its brutality.

As long as the civilians did not resist, they would not kill them. As for the robbery and rape mentioned by the Liao officials, they did not happen at all. The only atrocities against civilians were limited to those armed civilians who wanted to attack Song soldiers and were killed by the Song army.

So some smart people immediately laid down their weapons when they saw the Song army and hid back in their homes.

The Song army did not break into the houses, but continued to clear out the remaining troops in the city.

Not only did the common people come to their senses, but even some of the Liao army that had escaped had noticed. Faced with the Song army's blanket pursuit throughout the city, they also quickly threw away their armor and disguised themselves as civilians and hid in the houses.

Some Liao soldiers knew that they were doomed this time, so they decided to go all out and began to vent their last desires on the civilians in the city. Therefore, before the Song army caught up with them, these defeated soldiers satisfied their last desires in life on these innocent civilians.

Another hour later, the battle was finally over. The Song army began searching for the remaining troops, clearing the bodies in the city, and then sealing the treasury.

(End of this chapter)