I became the son of Renzong

Chapter 956

Eat well, dress warmly, travel fast, and live comfortably, these should be regarded as the most basic pursuit of human beings.

Yelu Yixin's rebellion created an opportunity for Song Dynasty to recover Yanyun and at the same time expand its territory.

Of course, it's not that Da Song didn't have the strength to recover Yanyun a few years ago, but that he couldn't meet Zhao Xi's recovery standard.

Because of Yelu Yixin's rebellion, Zhao Xi had the opportunity to manipulate people's hearts and win them over.

Two years of war caused Beiliao, which was not considered wealthy, to truly fall into a stage of material shortage.

In wartime, materials have always been given priority to military use.

Cavalry and war horses, these are the first things that the Northern Liao court needs to be adequately supplied during the war, and then the Khitan nobles.As for ordinary people, I don't know where they will be ranked.

Therefore, in the past two years, the people of Beiliao have really been in dire straits.

In addition, after the Song Dynasty declared war on the Northern Liao Dynasty, Nanjing Road, the main grain production area of ​​the Northern Liao Dynasty, was set as the battlefield, and the material supply of the Northern Liao Dynasty became even more scarce.

At this time, Yelu Hongji gathered hundreds of thousands of people to Dading City. To put it bluntly, he wanted those people who would have starved to death to fight for him to win buffer cannon fodder from various forces.

Therefore, Da Song's food tactics still worked.

"How many people escaped in three days?"

The meal strategy formulated by Zhao Xi required to last for three days.Three days have passed, Zhao Xi needs to know the effect...~
"Back to the official's house, there were more than three thousand on the first day, and more than three thousand on the second day, but less than two thousand in the second day."

"On the third day, less than 2000 people slipped down from the city wall. The veteran ordered the reception officer to ask. According to those who escaped on the last day, Dading City will kill again!"

"The people guarding the city panicked because someone ran away. Yelu Hongji also realized that it was inappropriate, so he started killing people!"

Wang Anshi and even the cabinet members don't quite understand the food offensive of the officials, and think it's a bit of a joke.Unexpectedly, it was really effective, so he paid more attention to it, and there was no need for scribes to report. Wang Anshi knew the specific situation very well.

"The official, the old minister thinks that the food offensive can last for a few days..."

"President Wang, are you saying that Yelu Hongji killed someone in Dading City?"

"Indeed. Not only did they kill people, but they also began to implement the policy of consecutive sittings. The people were managed by divisions and partitions. If one escaped, ten people would sit together. This is also the reason why the number of people who escaped decreased after the third day."

"Officials and veterans think that although the number of people escaping is decreasing day by day, it still works."

At this time, Wang Anshi no longer doubted the tactics of the officials.

Killed?

Perhaps the so-called rulers at this time really don't care about the lives of the people.

Emperor Taizong once said that water can carry a boat and capsize it. Could it be that Yelu Hongji didn't understand?

As a later generation, Zhao Xi knows exactly how strong the people's hearts are.

It feels like Yelu Hongji is cooperating with him to expand the territory...

"Let's carry out the second offensive!"

The plans have been drawn up and all the supplies are ready.

"Officials, don't you need to continue the meal offensive?"

"No need! The purpose of the meal offensive was to annoy Yelu Hongji, they have already killed people, there is no need to continue..."

The next day, Da Song surrounded the team of Dading Mansion.The Huotou army, which had been ahead of schedule, began to retreat, and did not really withdraw to the position where the Huotou army should be, but only reached the second sequence.

The entire team surrounding Dading Mansion was ahead of time with something similar to a trumpet mouth...

The large opening with a diameter of one foot gradually shrinks backwards, really like a trumpet.

Is this a new type of artillery from the Song Dynasty?
Those people in the city who have no sense of cannon fodder also know that Song State now has firearms, very terrible firearms.

Fear spread over the entire city of Dading, and the piled up human shields were chaotic, pushing and shoving, so that the entire Song Dynasty's former army could see...

Killed again!

It wasn't the Khitans killed by the Song Dynasty, but the soldiers who supervised the battle on the city wall of Beiliao, who began to kill those restless cannon fodder people... They didn't want to be exposed to the sight of the Song State's artillery.

And the restlessness of those human shields, pushing and shoving inevitably exposed them... Da Song not only has artillery, but also muskets, comparable to the shooting distance of five stone bows...

Therefore, those Warlords of the Northern Liao Dynasty need meat shields and there must be no gaps...~
"Brothers of the Khitan people in the city, this is not a cannon, this is a trumpet, there is no need to be nervous!"

Just after returning to the correct formation of meat shields on the top of the city, the siege team of Song Dynasty began to shout from all directions...~ It's really a loudspeaker.

"Dating back to a long time ago, regardless of Khitan or Han people, we are all citizens of the same dynasty, and there is no distinction between you and me."

"In the past 200 years, due to the ambition of some people, we have left."

"Separation is not terrible, just like the separation of brothers and sisters, as long as they all live well, they can do anything. This is also the reason why Song Dynasty signed the Chanyuan Alliance with Liao Kingdom and maintained peace between Song and Liao for a hundred years."

This is a bit of gold on the face!However, this is due to the need for publicity... There is no way to refute it from the top of the city.

"But, since Yelu Hongji, the emperor of the Liao Kingdom, came to the throne, what has he done?"

"Believed in slander, killed the virtuous empress, killed the virtuous prince, led to the rebellion of Yelv Yixin, and made the entire powerful and wealthy Liao Kingdom starve to death, and the people were miserable."

"Since Yelu Hongji came to power, the Liao Kingdom has rebelled many times, killing and injuring countless innocent people and soldiers!"

"But this time, it was because he refused to accept Song Guo's aid to suppress the rebellion, which left the Liao Kingdom with a shortage of supplies and people's food. What's more serious is that he was self-willed and refused to agree to my Song Dynasty's favor, which led to the two country war."

"And it was your Majesty who escaped with the elite of the royal family when the two countries were at war, leaving your brothers to resist the artillery of Song Dynasty!"

"Just like now, he is hiding in the city, and let you unarmed women, children, old and weak guard the city! Do you still need to respect and protect such an emperor?"

Every [-] to [-] steps, there was a loudspeaker calling out to Dading City in a synchronized manner among the entire besieging army.

"Brothers of the Khitan people, you can cook with a very good iron pot, you can eat rice worth [-] Wen like the people of the Song Dynasty, you can wear Shu embroidery, wear Jiangnan silk, and even use the carriages and fresh things in the workshop city... ~"

"As long as you no longer serve an emperor who is not qualified for your allegiance, you can leave the head of Dading City!"

"For an absurd, stupid, and incompetent emperor, you have already offered food, horses, and sons, fathers, husbands, and brothers. Do you still want to sacrifice your lives for him?"

"It's not necessary! If you don't eat enough to make you full, if you don't sleep well, you have given everything you have to the current emperor of Beiliao, but what did he give you? He asked you to block the Song Dynasty artillery fire for him... ..."

"Leave, whether it's going back to your home in the city or getting off the city wall, it's a way to survive, but staying at the top of the city is a way to seek death!"

(End of this chapter)