Dawn of the Empire

Chapter 7 - 58

After the news of Yelu Dashi's personal conquest came out, the morale of the Liao army was greatly boosted.Since the war started in December, it is now the end of April, and the weather is getting hotter.The Jin and Liao armies fought fiercely in Shenzhou and Liaoyang for nearly half a year. The soldiers were exhausted and impatient with the scorching heat. However, no one dared to retreat lightly at this time.Brother Yelu Tie was strictly ordered to commit crimes and make meritorious deeds, and he also began to attack and defend with the Jin soldiers. The infantry took advantage of the mountain to form a camp for more than ten miles, and they were each other's horns.The Jin soldiers were unable to attack repeatedly.The Liao and Jin sides were deadlocked.Under the attack of the Jin soldiers for days, Liaoyang City was already on the verge of collapse.However, the war lasted for several months, but it has not yet been conquered.Seeing that Yelu Dashi's own reinforcements from Shangjing were about to arrive, the Jin Emperor Wanyan Aguda who was stationed in Huanglong Mansion finally couldn't bear it anymore and decided to lead [-] cavalry to go south to hunt with Yelu Dashi under the city of Liaoyang.

The Jin soldiers outside Liaoyang City attacked the city more violently.Every time they attack the city, the Jin soldiers often drive more than ten thousand signing troops as the vanguard, but they mix the elites of Meng'an Muke in the middle. Go, but really can't kill many Jurchen soldiers.After several months, the land outside the city was stained purple and black with blood.At the beginning of the siege of Liaoyang, in order to prevent the plague from raging, after each confrontation, the Liao army at the head of the city tacitly did not kill the body collection team of the Kingdom of Jin.Later, as the weather got hotter, Jin Bing actually threw rotten human and animal corpses into the city, and the Liao army no longer tolerated Jin Bing approaching to collect corpses.Once the golden soldiers approached the city wall, arrows rained down like rain.

At this time, under the city of Liaoyang, the corpses had piled up like a mountain, rotten to death, even when there was wind, there was an unbearable stench.Most of the houses in Liaoyang City were destroyed by stone bombs, and most of the rest were demolished to reinforce the damaged city walls.Fortunately, the reserves in Liaoyang City are very rich, and 10,000+ Khitan people know that if the city is destroyed, they will surely die. Even healthy women go to the city to defend the city, and the old and weak transport arrows and stones to guard the slaves.Xiao Suxian, who stayed behind in Tokyo, was originally a direct descendant of the Bohai Dashi royal family, and Yelu Dashi privately promised him the restoration of Bohai, so most of the Bohai people in the city were able to fight to the death.The uprising of the Bohai clan that the Jin army was looking forward to was hopeless. Instead, the insiders of the Brotherhood took advantage of the battle between the two armies to pass on the news that the Han slaves in the workshops in the city were preparing to uprising, and asked the troops outside the city to prepare to respond.

It stands to reason that all the Han'er in the city are slaves and can't contact the outside world at all, but there happened to be a Han'er who joined the Brotherhood of Volunteering and was the son-in-law of a Bohai man, so his household registration was concealed by the Yue family, and he was also incorporated into the Bohai Sea Military membership.Zhao Xingde was quite surprised, and after checking the password was correct, he informed the Jin Army of the news.

The current layout of Liaoyang City was planned by Han Chang in the past. The various workshops are distributed according to the five elements, including the formula cloud, east wood, north water, south fire, and west gold.The east is the wood of Jia and Yi, just to the east of Liaoyang, there are many mountains and forests, and there are carpenter workshops all over the east of the city, processing various woodware.The north is the water of Rengui, and the north of Liaoyang City is adjacent to the Taizi River. The scale of the wharf is second to none in the inland of Liaodong, and most of the goods are transshipped from this place.In the south is the fire of Bingding. There are many kilns in the south of the city, where bricks are fired to make pottery.The west is the gold of Gengxin, and there are many iron shop workshops in the west of the city. Iron farm tools and various armor weapons are all manufactured in the west of the city.Everyone in the world claims that Xia Guojian is the best in the world, and there are quite a few top-grade weapons in Central Plains that falsely claim to be made by Xia Guobai Steel, but in fact they are all produced in Liaoyang, because the steel is pure in color, sharp and durable, and ordinary people can't use it. Can't tell.Most of the Han'er labor slaves who contacted the incident this time were in the iron workshop in the west of the city.

When Han Ningshuang introduced the layout of Liaoyang to Zhao Xingde, Zhao Xingde once felt that Han Chang must be a very smart person.Not only did the resource logistics corresponding to various workshops be arranged properly, but it also coincided with the attributes of the five elements to create momentum for the Han army's uprising.So that after the failure of the Han army's failure, the Liao court has always followed the original plan of Liaoyang City without making any changes.In Liaodong, there has always been a saying that Liaoyang is the head of the Liaodong dragon veins. Even the emperor of the Jin Kingdom, Wanyan Aguda, is quite concerned about it.

The defenders of the Liao Kingdom completely blocked the Xiande Gate and the Daliao Gate among the three west gates, leaving only one due west, the Dashun Gate, for the Liao army's iron cavalry to attack from the city.After the Han army started the incident, they wanted to seize the Dashun Gate.Han Ningshuang and Wan Yanci greeted each other without hesitation, and first led the army to ambush outside the west city wall.Jin Bing used to encircle Liaoyang City with three ques and one attack, and the attack on the western city wall was not violent. Wan Yanci was overjoyed when he heard the news.Immediately, Wanyan Zongbi, Wanyan Zonghan, and Wanyan Loushi led [-] soldiers to the west of Liaoyang City.The other Jin soldiers still attacked the east, south, and north walls with all their strength, leaving only the west wall untouched, and prepared to attack the city immediately if there was any movement in the city.

The Jinbing camp used to be a practice of setting up empty tents as suspicious soldiers. From the top of Liaoyang City, there are endless tents at that time. At night, torches are scattered everywhere, and the distribution is unclear. To the west of the city, the Liao soldiers in Liaoyang City were also unaware.However, after ambush for several days, there was no movement in the city, and the Jin army was secretly suspicious.There were as many as 15 Jin soldiers besieging Liaoyang, but there were only more than 8 soldiers among them.There are more than 5 regular soldiers in the 7 Jin Army confronting the Liao reinforcements.There are more than 3 Liao troops continuing to attack the city, but there are only [-] main soldiers, and now two-thirds are stranded outside the west city doing nothing.Seeing that Yan Aguda was about to rush to the city of Liaoyang, it seemed that fierce generals like Wan Yan Zonghan wanted to make meritorious deeds as soon as possible.If Han Ningshuang and Zhao Xingde hadn't tried their best to keep them, Wan Yanci would have transferred this elite team to other directions long ago.

"Old Zhao, the internal response of this fraternity, could it be..." Jian Cheng looked out through the gap in the tent, the city wall was calm, and there was no other sound from inside the city.Jian Cheng held back and did not continue. Yu Wenliang next to him was the internal response who gave up his family's information. Hearing this, he became anxious and said in a trembling voice: "Generals, the brothers in the city are all doing things with their heads up. But you must not withdraw."

"Don't worry," Zhao Xingde patted him on the shoulder, and said in a deep voice, "We won't leave." He turned his head to look inside the tent, and there were eight people densely packed in this small tent.In order not to cause the Liao army at the head of the city to become suspicious, no one was allowed to go in and out at will during the day, and food and water were brought up from behind at night.Most of the Han army was concentrated in the camp in front, while more than 2 Jin soldiers were behind.Han Ningshuang had already made an agreement with Wan Yanci that if the city of Liaoyang was destroyed, all the Han people in the city would be owned by the Han army.

Yu Wenliang thanked him in a deep voice: "Thank you, General." Zhao Xingde nodded at him, sighed and didn't speak again, and looked outside again, there was still no movement in the city.

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Behind the west city wall of Liaoyang, within a hundred paces were demolished open spaces, piled up with materials such as stones and rolling logs.Because the Jin soldiers intended to encircle the three ques and one, the Liao soldiers here were not as dense as the other three sides, and the Khitan healthy women, old and weak who helped defend the city were also arranged on the other three sides.Although the troops on the western city wall were not as strong as the other three sides, Xiao Suxian, who stayed behind in Tokyo, did not relax his vigilance because of this. Even ordinary Bohai people were not allowed to approach the city wall within a hundred steps.

A hundred steps away from the city wall is the blacksmith workshop.The gaps in the rolling blades of the weapons in the city, and the damaged pieces of armor are all repaired here, and those that cannot be repaired must be returned to the furnace for rebuilding.Xiao Suxian, who stayed behind in Tokyo, kept enlisting the Khitan and Bohai people in the city to help the city. In addition to taking out the weapons stored over the years from the armory, the armor weapons needed were also made in the workshop here.

Inside the workshop, surrounded by fireworks, there are dense "ding-ding--" iron strikes everywhere, and occasionally there is a "Zi la--", and the red-hot iron sticks out into the water to bring out a cloud of steam .Because of the hot weather, most of the blacksmith slaves were naked, with only a piece of cloth to cover their shame. The smoke and sweat made everyone's faces unclear.

Yang San'er and Liu Quan occasionally exchanged glances.Yu Wenliang's life and death are uncertain, and it is not known whether the news of the riot has been brought outside.In the past ten days, judging from the repaired weapons and armor sent by the Khitan people, the fighting outside has become more and more intense.Just the day before yesterday, a stone marble hit the nearby workshop shed.The number of guarding Khitan soldiers also decreased.A cold light flashed in Liu Quan's eyes, Yang San'er nodded meaningfully, raised his head slightly, and looked at Huo An in the distance.Huo An stood by the anvil and was swinging the hammer vigorously. His hair was wet with sweat on his cheeks. He also looked at Yang San'er, nodded, moved his feet, and the shackles made clanking noises.When these labor slaves were forging weapons, they were firmly tied to the ground with shackles and iron chains, and they could move no more than two steps from left to right.

Li Yi, Guo An, Zhou Wang, and Feng Ding, the leaders who were preparing to start an incident, did not show any hesitation in their eyes.Yang San'er looked at Liu Quan again, and both of them nodded.Liu Quan lowered his head, fiddled with the charcoal fire deliberately, and a sword that was being forged was burning red.The sun will set in a quarter of an hour. In order to prevent accidents at night, the Khitan government will drive these labor slaves to sleep farther away from the city wall.

Three or four Khitan officials walked up to Li San'er and asked him to count the weapons made today, Li San'er reported to him with a smile on his face, trying to attract the attention of the Khitan officials.Just two steps away, Liu Quan suddenly pulled out the iron sword that was burning in the charcoal fire, and stabbed the Khitan man's back with a "chi--", the blood smelled burnt, and the Khitan official still Before he could react, the iron sword was drawn out and stabbed at the chest of the person next to him again.The remaining two Khitan officials turned around and pulled out their scimitars. Li San'er picked up the hammer and hit them on the heads with a round wheel, causing their brains to burst immediately.

"Do it!" With a loud shout!Huo Andu took up the sledgehammer, "jumped", "jumped" and "boom--" continuously smashed on the iron chains connected to the shackles, and immediately two or three iron rings were smashed to pieces.The Khitan people shouldn't let labor slaves make these iron chains by themselves. Huo An and others intentionally added sulfur to the iron material. Although it looks thick and strong, it is extremely brittle and can be smashed with a heavy hammer. broken.All of a sudden, dozens of labor slaves here were freed, and they all grabbed their weapons and headed towards the adjacent workshop to kill them.