The speed of the Liao army is very fast, although siege warfare is not something they are good at, but the loss of Nanjing Dao has made them crazy with hatred, how can they easily forget it? I'm not good at it, but it's not that I can't.

Yelu Zongzhen believes that Khitan men can gallop on horses and fight on foot when they get off their horses, which does not mean that the Khitans after dismounting are not as good as the Song people...... What's more, he still has several infantry armies in his hands, such as the Han Army of Wujingzhou County, the Bohai Navy, and the Mature Nuzhen who are all good at foot combat.

In order to recover Yanyun this time, Yelu Zongzhen has made a lot of preparations, and there are enough Jurchens recruited by 50,000 people alone, which is about eighty percent of the strong labor of mature Jurchens, so Yelu Zongzhen did not hesitate to issue a recruitment order, this is a bloody recruitment rule, and anyone who does not follow will slaughter his clan to deter people's hearts!

The Liao Dynasty stipulates that all people who are over 15 years old and under 50 years old are subordinate to the military, which applies to households of all ethnic groups in Liao. But unlike the Han Khitans, who had a large number, the number of Bohai people and Jurchens was too small, and the soldiers recruited according to the regulations were all strong laborers of a family.

This bloody conscription rule is that once the war is tight, and the men, because they are all in the army, can be fully recruited.

Men are the pillars of this era, once they die in battle, a family is likely to be destroyed, especially in a country like the Liao Dynasty, which is composed of multiple Tibetan tribes, Bohai people, mature women can no longer bear such oppression, not to mention that at the same time, they also have to bear the weapons and equipment of these strong men, etc.

Galloping soldiers to the people is the most basic, the people are both producers and soldiers, living a life of horses chasing water and grass, people relying on cheese, and the livestock nourished by the lush grassland is the source of food and clothing for the herdsmen.

Bows and arrows and horses are hunting tools on weekdays, and military equipment in wartime. In case of requisition, the tribal army prepares its own food and clothing, one person per regular army, three horses, and four bows, four hundred arrows, long and short spears, bones, axes, small flags, hammer awls, fire knife stones, horse bowls, fried buckets, sandbags, hooked felt umbrellas, two hundred feet of horse ropes, and so on.

These are not the end, no one wants the men of their family to die on the battlefield, and there are necessary protections, such as the nine things of human iron armor, horse bridle, horse vest and iron, etc., depending on their strength.

These are the heavy burdens on the people of the Liao Dynasty, it is better when there is no war, just pay taxes, but now the Western Liao's western expedition has just ended in failure, and the Western Xia War did not plunder back much wealth to feed the people, and the Great Liao will go to Yanyun again, which is like bad news for the average Liao Dynasty family.

Originally, the Khitan also took the "grass valley" and "army money" as a means of supplementing military supplies during the war, and the army also specialized in "playing grass valley riding" to hook grain and grass, this method of fighting and raising war at the beginning still worked, but unfortunately the Great Song Dynasty knew the combat style of the Liao people, and took the Western Xia War as an example, the wall was clear, the fortress was set up, and the grain was stored and the deep mountains and wilderness, although people died without missing a grain.

These were all probed by horses, so Yelu Zongzhen ordered the whole country to supply grain and grass and Dading Mansion, and follow the transportation of the army to the south along the naturalization and Bei'an Prefecture to prevent the mistake of the western expedition again.

But this move undoubtedly made the people of the Liao Dynasty worse, the war is not simply leading the army to fight, which contains all aspects of knowledge, and at the same time, the war is also fought with national strength and money.

The Liao Dynasty now has neither money nor soldiers, and can only exploit from the heads of the people, but this exploitation is limited, once the bottom line of the people is exceeded, internal and external troubles and the destruction of the country are just around the corner!

Zhang Jian had already seen the drawbacks, and admonished Yelu Zongzhen many times: "Your Majesty, at this time, you should use the news of the death of the Great Song Dynasty Emperor to calm the hearts of the people and the army, otherwise the army will not reach Yanyun and the people's hearts and the army will be in chaos!" ”

To be honest, Yelu Zongzhen didn't want to do this, but he really couldn't help it, after hearing Zhang Jian's suggestion, his heart was moved, and he nodded slightly: "It's okay, let the soldiers and the people know that my Daliao will win this time, and there will be a reward after taking back the smoke and clouds, so that they can fight with peace of mind......

Zhang Jian came and said: "Your Majesty Shengming! "Then he walked out of the palace, and immediately made the final preparations before sending the troops, and the text of the oath must be made when the troops were sent to fight crimes, which is a daily process, and His Majesty will read out the text later, so it will naturally be slightly modified.

Every time he sent troops, the emperor of Da Liao had to lead the civil and military ministers of the Han Dynasty, slaughter the green ox and white horse to sacrifice to the gods of heaven and earth and the sun, and ordered the ministers to sacrifice to the tombs below Taizu and the gods of Muye Mountain.

The emperor drove in person to wear military uniforms to worship the palace and temple of the first emperor, or to worship the three gods of the first emperor, the road and the army.

Before the march, a pair of oysters must be sacrificed. To conquer the city and win, it is necessary to slaughter the black and white sheep in time to sacrifice the heavens and the earth. On the occasion of the class, the captured horse and ox should be sacrificed to heaven and earth. Moreover, when leaving the division and returning to the division, "ghost arrows" were held, that is, death row prisoners or prisoners were tied to pillars, and the sergeants shot them to death in the direction of the march.

After a series of ceremonies, who still doesn't know the news that the army is about to go out? Even the Liao Dynasty was like this, and the rules of the Great Song Dynasty were even more cumbersome, which is why Zhao Zhen suddenly sent troops to Yanyun under the guise of military exercises, in order to save time and lengthy etiquette......

On the one hand, on the defense, on the other hand, the attack, the Great Song Dynasty obviously occupied the right time, the right place and the three things, and the Liao Dynasty's attack was really a bit hasty and forced, Yelu Zongzhen had no choice, the domestic economic downturn has made it difficult for the Great Liao to recover, if even the treasure of Nanjing Road is lost, the consequences are unimaginable.

Fortunately, the Emperor of the Great Song Dynasty died under the poisonous arrows of Yelu's tufted flock, otherwise he really didn't know what to use to boost the morale of the army.

But Yelu Zhenzong is not good at saying the words of the death of the Emperor of the Great Song Dynasty, after all, it will be associated with him, even if he does not instruct others, he will not believe it, the assassination of this kind of thing is a side way that the emperor disdains, if he is put on his body, it will inevitably make people feel that the emperor of Daliao is unscrupulous.

The news naturally leaked out "accidentally" from some channels, and after the cumbersome ceremony, the news of the death of the Great Song Emperor circulated in the army, and even the assassination process was described in great detail, as if they had seen it with their own eyes, which made people can't help but feel that it was true.

Ordinary soldiers naturally had to ask the officer, and the officer would mysteriously say that the news came from the secret agent of Xijin Mansion, so the "daimyo" of Yelu Tufting spread among the army, and many people immediately understood why His Majesty would wave his troops south at this time!

After hearing the news, the soldiers naturally separated Yelu Zhenzong from the assassination, because His Majesty also learned the news "accidentally", and heard that His Majesty also set up a mound in the palace tent to commemorate the emperor of the Great Song Dynasty......

But the memorial is the memorial, Nanjing Road still has to be taken back, after all, this is the gateway of Yanyun, and it is also the richest place in Yanyun, from the emperor to the soldiers, all understand its importance, with the three horns, the heavy and melodious voice reminds everyone that the journey to the south has begun.