The palace of the Liao Emperor Yelu Longxu took advantage of the night to march in the direction of Shangjing non-stop, like a lost dog, at this time Yelu Longxu fell ill again, and saw him lying on the frame with a pale face, covering a handkerchief on his head, this person curled up in a big quilt, his eyes were closed, and he looked like he was asleep.

The night outside the car was dark, but it was approaching dawn, and Yelu Longxu was already asleep, but his face was cloudy, sometimes soft and sometimes distorted, as if he were in a dream.

At this time, he was having a nightmare, he dreamed that Concubine Xiao Yunjin and the crown prince were beheaded by themselves, and their headless bodies were covered in blood, and they were walking towards him crookedly;

Among them, there was a terrible laugh in the stomach of Concubine Liang, and she said in a long voice with compassion: "Your Majesty, the concubine died so unjustly, you should pay me back quickly." ”

At this time, the prince also let out a childish cry, and he also said sadly: "Father, the child was wronged, why did you kill me indiscriminately, without thinking about flesh and blood, tiger poison does not eat children, you are too ruthless, you return my life." ”

The two of them rushed at him with a terrible cry, and by this time they had surrounded him, and when they saw that each of them had a leader growing on their stomachs, they saw that the heads were hideous, and their eyes were full of bloody tears, and their mouths were full of steel teeth and fangs, and their fingernails were as long as sharp knives, and then they came at him with a chattering laugh.

Suddenly they opened their mouths with steel teeth and sharp teeth towards his waist, and each of them struck Yelu Longxu's throat like sharp swords, and at this time his eyes were about to split, and he was so frightened that he was about to bleed on the spot.

At this time, I heard Yelu Longxu suddenly shout, "Don't!" I woke up from my dream in a panic, and when I woke up, I was covered in sweat and soaked through my underwear; He was still panting at this time, and then looked around blankly, it was his own camp, and now the red candles were high and the lights were bright, so he breathed a sigh of relief, and then touched the sweat on his head.

At this time, the outside was also stunned, and saw several eunuchs and palace maids hurrying over to serve, he was still shocked, his chest rose and fell sharply, his mouth was panting, he wanted a glass of warm water, and then drank it all.

He said to a little eunuch; "You call Zhang Jian, who is the same as Pingzhang, to me."

The eunuch was just about to leave, but he hurriedly stopped, and then thought about it again. It seems that some things are still undecided.

He said with some interest: "Then call me Liu Shenxing and Gong Fenjun to stabilize Yeluye, the Liaoxing Army, quickly." ”

The eunuch hurriedly took the order and left, and after a while, the three of them rushed to the camp tent of the Liao Emperor, who were in a hurry to run away these days, and they were also waiting for the night to sleep, and they were delusional about sleeping, so they could only take a nap and stop trying.

At this time, Zhang Jian said: "Your Majesty, you called us here, what is the matter?" ”

I heard Yelu Longxu say: "I have been restless for the past few days, and just now I dreamed that Concubine Liang and the crown prince were beheaded, and the two dragged the headless corpse to ask for my life. Now I just want to come to you to discuss how to get out of the crisis and at the same time settle the border army of the Great Song Dynasty. ”

After he finished speaking, he coughed sharply, coughing as if he was about to spit out his spleen and lungs, Zhang Jian hurriedly stepped forward and slapped him on the back, and finally saw that Emperor Liao calmed down, but he still saw a demonic flush on his cheeks.

He said to Zhang Jian and others: "Now Da Liao is now in danger, now to visit the Malay newspaper, the elite of the Song army is exhausted, one is following us, and the other is advancing to Nanjing Xijin Mansion; In this way, it seems that the Song army has a very big plan and wants to pass through the land of clouds; Otherwise, we will stay in Nanjing, order people to come to King Qin, and then fight a decisive battle under the city of Nanjing, and defeat and defeat the Song army in one fell swoop. ”

At this time, Liu Shenxing said: "The emperor can't, if you wait for the master of King Qin to come, it will take about half a month; During this time, the Song army is very likely to break through the Xijin Mansion, and the emperor cannot put himself and the danger in danger. As long as the emperor is good, he will reach a million soldiers, and the comeback is unknown. ”

At this time, Ye Luye said: "Your Majesty, now our military salaries and rations are not much, so we can only travel lightly, there are still more than 300 miles away from Shanhaiguan, and we can appropriately reduce the use of camp personnel, we can pass through Shanhaiguan on the tenth day, and then rush to Shangjing, revitalize the dynasty, and appease people's hearts." ”

At this time, Zhang Jian said again: "Your Majesty, hurry up and negotiate with the Great Song Dynasty now, both sides will come up with a plan, and hurry up to draw up a good peace plan, so that the Great Song Ming will collect his troops and restore it to the original state before the war." ”

At this time, Liu Shenxing said again: "Your Majesty, Zhang Xiang is very right, please make the next imperial decree, tell Xiao Xiaomu the bottom line of our negotiations in Daliao, and then let him negotiate with the Song Dynasty to end the war as soon as possible, and it is okay for us to make some concessions." ”

Chong Shiheng led the army to Youzhou, day and night, and it took four days to reach the city of Youzhou, and Yang Wenguang sent an artillery battalion with twenty cannons to Youzhou to meet with Chong Shiheng.

One of the Shiheng troops was two: one led an army of 100,000 to attack Youzhou, the other led an army of 60,000 by Gao Zundu to attack Shanhaiguan, and Yang Wenguang's Li Zhaoliang brigade attacked Gubeikou.

Youzhou stands majestically on the vast and bleak plain, surrounded by mountains on three sides, surrounded by West Mountain, Jundu Mountain and Yan Mountain, the terrain is dangerous, easy to defend and difficult to attack;

At this time, the Great Liao Nanjing City (Youzhou) is located in the southwest of Beijing in the area of Guang'anmen, which is the largest of the five capitals of the Liao State; There are 300,000 people in Nanjing, including Han, Khitan, Xi, Bohai, Jurchen and other ethnic groups.

The circumference of Nanjing City is 36 miles, and the city wall is 8 zhang high and 1.5 zhang wide. The outer city has a total of 8 gates, the east is the Anton Gate, the Yingchun Gate, the south is the Danfeng Gate, the Kaiyang Gate, the west is the Qing Jin Gate, the Xianxi Gate, the north is the Tongtian Gate, the Gongchen Gate. The inner city covers an area of five miles, and there are three gates of Danfeng, Xianxi and Yabei; Miyagi is in the southwest corner of the outer city.

At this time, there were 15,000 Han troops in Youzhou City, and their combat power was low, but as depicted above, Youzhou City was surrounded by high walls and a moat.

And you must take Youzhou within ten days, otherwise as soon as the reinforcements of Da Liao arrive, the Song army will let Taizong's Northern Expedition be the same situation, and it will be a failure.

Meng Ming also came to Youzhou City, this is the Beijing of later generations, but now the scale of Youzhou City is not large, but the Liao army is based on the city, relying on the geographical advantage, it will cause huge casualties to the Song army.

The 100,000 troops of the Song army surrounded Youzhou, and Meng Ming was also summoned to the tent of Shuai, at this time the tent was full of generals, and they all looked at Meng Ming curiously, after all, Meng Ming was too young, and in their eyes, he was a "stinky and undry" kid; Meng Ming saw that their eyes were full of contempt for themselves.

At this time, Meng Ming took out a map of Youzhou City, and then hung it on a wooden shelf in the big tent, and at this time, Chong Shiheng also hurriedly came over to watch.

The east city wall of Nanjing City is on the east side of Fayuan Temple; The south city wall is on the north bank of the Liangshui River, the south end of You'anmen Neixi Street, the south gate of Yulin Community; The west city wall is on the west side of Baiyun Temple in the northwest of today's Guang'anmen; The north city wall is on the north side of today's Baiyun Temple to Taiping Street.

There are two main avenues in the city: one is east-west, from Qingjin Gate to Andong Gate, which is the predecessor of Guang'anmen Inner and Outer Streets; The other is north-south, from Gongchen Gate to Kaiyang Gate, it is the south section of downtown street, the north of Changchun Street intersection to the north of South Cherry Garden intersection.

Meng Ming said confidently to Chong Shiheng at this time: "Chong Shuai, Youzhou City seems to be a city with high walls and strong walls, but we can launch an attack from Andong Gate; The task of breaking through the city gate will be left to our First Division. ”

Chong Shiheng also agreed, and many generals scoffed at Meng Ming's self-confidence, and some even coaxed and ridiculed, which immediately annoyed Chong Shiheng, and he hurriedly reprimanded.

He knew that Meng Ming had something to rely on, and he was a master of art and bold, Meng Ming would not say anything unmeasured, let alone fight an uncertain battle.

Meng Ming led the artillery battalion at this time and marched towards Andong Gate, and at this time, Chong Shiheng transferred his own descendant troops, followed by Meng Ming, of course, there was also the meaning of protecting him.

From time to time, the artillery battalion arrived at the location of the east two miles of Andong Gate, and then Meng Ming asked the artillerymen to aim at the guns, and then filled the bomb and test-fired, and saw that the cannon made a loud noise, and the surrounding Song soldiers felt that their ears were buzzing, and the ground under their feet also trembled.

The cannonballs dragged the long tail of fire, rushed towards the city gate at a gallop, this time missed, but in the middle of the city tower, suddenly the fire was everywhere, and the screams continued, and the whole city tower was bombarded into the sky, leaving only the ruins and broken walls.

The soldiers of the Song army were also frightened by the lightning and thunder of this artillery, and even more shocked by its power.

Meng Ming asked him to inform Chong Shiheng and asked him to order the war horse to bring earplugs, so as not to have a situation where the war horse was frightened and out of control, and when everything was ready, Meng Ming ordered the shelling of Andong Gate.

After a few cannons, the tall city gate was blown to pieces, and the Song army immediately cheered and jumped, and then rushed towards the city gate like a tide;

Seeing that the strong city gate was easily breached like this, the people at the head of Youzhou City were also shocked and lost their minds, and they stayed on the spot and forgot to fight back.

It only took an hour for Youzhou City to be taken, and at this time, all the Song army officers and soldiers were agitated, and there was a sea of joy everywhere.

At this time, the generals of the Song army also looked at Meng Ming with admiration, and they all put away their contempt, they recovered the land of clouds and made great achievements, all relying on this divine weapon, their eyes when they looked at Meng Ming were so hot, making Meng Ming's scalp numb and eyelids jumping.

Meng Ming was discussing the big tent of Shiheng, discussing the next step of the combat deployment, and everyone was talking freely, Meng Ming was distracted in front of the map, when a big hand patted him on the shoulder, and woke him up all of a sudden.

I saw Chong Shiheng say to him: "General Meng, what are you considering? Think so with God. ”

Meng Ming said: "Kind of marshal, I am thinking that if the Liao army launches a counterattack against our army, it will attack from those directions. ”

He drew red circles at three locations on the map:

One is Pingzhou, Yingzhou, and Luanzhou to the east of Lulongling, and these three states are undoubtedly important strongholds for the passage of the western Liaoning corridor.

One is the ancient north entrance, which is a dangerous pass on the Great Wall, where the Great Wall is composed of the Great Wall of Wohu Mountain, the Great Wall of Panlong Mountain and the Great Wall of Simatai. Gubeikou is the fortress of the Great Wall between Shanhaiguan and Juyongguan, and is the "throat" of the Liaodong Plain and Inner Mongolia leading to the Central Plains.

One is Juyong Pass, the situation of Juyong Pass is dangerous, the east is connected with Lulong, Jieshi, and the west belongs to Taihang Mountain and Changshan, which is the danger of the world. Since ancient times, it has been a battleground for soldiers.

As long as these three fortresses are held, they can completely rely on the danger of the Great Wall to block the passage of the Great Liao to invade the Great Song Dynasty in the south, and also save a lot of troops for the Great Song Dynasty.

So Chong Shiheng began to divide the deployment of troops, he personally led an army of 10,000 to join the Gao Zundu Department, and attacked Shanhaiguan and Pingzhou, Yingzhou, and Luanzhou east of Lulongling; Cao Zong led an army of 20,000 to attack Lanzhou and Gubeikou, with Li Zhaoliang as the vanguard;

Yang Wenguang had already captured Xiangshan at this time, and led his army to the Badaling Great Wall, and he would soon be able to launch an attack on Juyong Pass.

At this time, Guo Zun's brigade also arrived at the Bauhinia Pass, and after repairing and surveying the terrain, he could start attacking.