Li Zhu and Liu Wen and other leaders who guarded Zhao Zhuang underestimated Han Chang's ruthlessness and determination to destroy Zhao Zhuang. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

When Han Chang accepted this mission, in private, Liao Emperor Yelu Yanxi, a well-known nomadic nation in history, told Han Chang that this time he must eradicate Zhaozhuang, the foundation of Cangzhao, destroy Zhao Gonglian's powerful family forces and strive to kill Zhao Gonglian, disintegrate the hard-line political forces led by Zhao Gonglian in the Song State, and severely attack the Song State's territorial ambitions against the Great Liao, so that the Song State knows the power of the Great Liao State and is afraid of the Great Liao State again, and eliminate the military threat of the Great Liao State in the south.

The core powerhouses within the Liao State generally believe that as long as Zhao Gonglian and the powerful family behind him are eradicated, the remaining civil and military officials such as Cai Jing, Bai Shizhong, Tong Guan, and Gao Yu are all old and rotten and unbearable.

Yelu Yanxi's face was full of anger at that time, and his fierce light was revealed, and he viciously told Han Chang that he would do whatever it took to complete the task. The former Liaodong nobles and tribal troops who participated in the war under your command, whether they are royals or dignitaries, you cannot tolerate and cherish them. Gritting his teeth: "It is glorious to let them all die in this southern expedition." ”

Han Chang was shocked and a little puzzled.

Yelu Yanxi's hatred vented the anger in his chest for a long time, and he could be regarded as explaining to Han Chang: "These dogs and dog slaves, they are greedy for life and afraid of death, and they have no ability to only know wealth and pleasure, and they can't even fight the Bohai man-made rebellion, and they usually boast of their loyalty and bravery, boasting that their subordinates are the most brave and warlike warriors of the Heavenly Wolf Clan, but they were chased and killed by the Bohai slaves with no armor and few soldiers, and they abandoned everything and ran away, and lost the foundation of Liaodong, which is very important to my Great Liao, so that the Jurchen slaves got the help of the alliance and became more and more fierce and arrogant, which seriously damaged the interests of my Great Liao State, I have even lost the face of my Great Liao Kingdom.

They were unbearable themselves, they fled and lost their land, became lost dogs, hid in Yan Yun and breathed, and actually had the face to ask me and King Yan for money and food to settle down again!

can't satisfy them for a while, these dogs don't think about their own crimes, and they dare to privately or even publicly accuse the king of all kinds of wrongs, dare to scold me for being a faint king? What a damn one! ”

Han Chang understood.

The emperor held a grudge, and this was to take advantage of this southern expedition to take the opportunity to clean up all these former Liaodong nobles who were disloyal and disrespectful but could not retaliate with normal means.

In this way, Emperor Liao vented his hatred, and his heart was happy.

Indirectly, the land of Yanyun lacks these-stirring sticks that can only add chaos and are useless, and the burden and trouble formed by the refugees in Liaodong have also been greatly reduced.

Emperor Liao confessed: "Han Chang, you just have to let it go." ”

"Destroy Zhao Zhuang, it doesn't matter if all the tribal troops and infantry you go to are consumed there, as long as the Cangzhao family can be eradicated. Take the remaining 5,000 cavalry and iron cavalry, you go north from Cangzhou, use the cavalry advantage of my Great Liao to completely disrupt Zhao Gonglian's military defense deployment from the inside of Cangbei, and kill the Northern Cangbei barbarians who dare to take advantage of my Great Liao, and help the people who go north to loot the fruitful results, and also force Zhao Gonglian to personally go out to block you, just in time to kill him. ”

"As long as you kill Zhao Gonglian and disintegrate the heart of the Cangbei army that dares to provoke my Great Liao State, five thousand elite cavalry will be lost, Han Chang, you will also have a huge credit. It has its own rewards. ”

Don't worry about losing soldiers and generals, just to clean up a rural village and kill Zhao Gonglian, this condition is too generous.

Han Chang himself felt that it might not be difficult to kill Zhao Gonglian.

With Zhao Gonglian's character, if Cangbei is wantonly burned, looted and destroyed by the Liao army from the inside, Zhao Gonglian's main army and generals will deploy the border passes, and they will not be able to draw manpower. He dared to go out of the city to fight, and then the opportunity came.

Even if Zhao Gonglian abandons the safety of all the people under his rule and only defends the city to the death, there is still a chance.

can directly force Qingzhou City, and Zhao Gonglian must personally command the battle. In the meantime, remote plotting, wits and courage can also be used to kill other opportunities, such as anti-sneak attacks.

When Han Chang arrived at Yanshan Mansion to meet Yeluchun, the king of Yan, he also heard the meaning similar to that of the wolf lord from the meaning of the words.

It seems that King Yan also hates the Cangzhao family very much, and he is also disgusted with these nobles from Liaodong who will only make trouble and make trouble, and he can't hate to die to be quiet.

With the support of the two de facto rulers of the Liao State, Han Chang was conceited and ambitious, and he was determined to fight to the end in Zhaozhuang, and he didn't care how many people died.

Li Zhu sent people out of the city to fight back and rob to provoke, which only stimulated Han Chang's determination to be firmer.

The Liao generals, who were accustomed to underestimating the Song people, were also provoked by the huge shame that the Song people bravely covered their heads, and they were extremely angry and resentful, fierce, and afraid, but they were even more anxious to take revenge on the shame. For the cowardly and easy to bully, and the Song people who were used to bullying in the past, the Liao army still maintained its former self-esteem. It is not as shameful as it was for the Jin army.

At this moment, the Liao army's fighting spirit was all up, and he only needed Han Chang to cheer up again, eliminate the fear of the bed crossbow, and inspire the confidence of the soldiers.

In the frightened and angry scolding of the Liao army, Han Chang glanced at Zhao Zhuang, who had returned to calm nearly a thousand meters away, and his face was extremely gloomy.

He silently came to the whirlwind cannon of destruction, and from the terrible and miserable corpses that were dead all over the ground, he pulled out a crossbow spear with two corpses stuck deep in the grass and examined it carefully.

Those that were easy to pull out by the ground had been recovered by Zhao Zhuang when they robbed just now. The ones that are still erected here are ordinary people, and it is difficult to pull them out with two hands.

Of course, this is not difficult for Han Chang.

He is born with divine power, and he can support a thousand catties with a shake of his arms, and he can also pull out a crossbow spear that is deeply inserted into the ground with one hand.

The blood of the corpse stained with the crossbow gun flowed down the erected barrel to Han Chang's hand holding the gun, and Han Chang didn't seem to feel it, just looking at what the crossbow was studying.

The head of the crossbow gun was very short, so short that it was almost as wide as an ordinary person's fist, that is, a pointed iron head was mounted on the wooden stick that was only conducive to assassination, which was completely different from the kind of crossbow gun used by the Song army that the Liao army had seen in the past, which was either in the shape of a shovel or the tip of the gun was long and sharp enough.

I don't know if it's because it's inconvenient for the Zhao family to save money.

Han Chang noticed that the crossbow gun head was rusty, and even after the friction of deep penetration into the mud, it was still rusted obviously.

The iron exposed by the rust is even more inferior.

That's what the roots are shoddy.

Only the barrel of the gun is smooth and straight, and the wood used is not bad, but it can also be seen that it is old.

Tuo Buhua also came over to inspect it, and when he saw the fresh tail of the spear, he couldn't help blurting out: "This, this seems to be the transformation of the spear with a truncated handle, right?" ”

Han Chang looked at his deputy and nodded slightly, and without squeaking, he pulled out multiple crossbow guns in a row to inspect the gun heads, and the results he saw were similar to the first one.

He ordered the Liao army to collect the dead bodies and transport them to the muddy and sandy land on the banks of the East River for cremation to avoid the plague in the hot weather.

If you don't burn in the grass nearby, you don't naturally care about the grassland.

This is the territory of the Song Kingdom, it is the grassland of the Cangzhao family, the Liao army will leave after the battle, and it may never come again, who will care if the grassland here is destroyed or not. Choosing to burn in a grassless place by the river is to avoid the uncontrollable fire burning in the dry and irritable grassland and endangering the Liao camp.

Collected the corpse, and by the way, also received the crossbow gun with the corpse inserted. Han Chang carefully examined these guns, and then recalled the performance of Zhao Zhuangren's looting, and had a guess in his heart.

Del is not brave and rude, but he is not stupid, and he has also seen some fame at this time.

"General Han, I always think that these crossbows are temporary modifications of spears. What do you think? ”

Han Chang nodded and said, "That's right." In my opinion, the people of Zhaozhuang went out of the city and were in a hurry to clean up the battlefield, only afraid that they were ostensibly demonstrating and provoking us, but in fact they were in a hurry to recover the crossbow guns, and by the way, completely destroy the whirlwind cannons and stone throwers and grab our weapons. ”

"You mean, the Cangzhao family lacks weapons?"

Han Chang's eyes narrowed and he sneered, "I'm afraid it's not just the lack of crossbow guns and melee weapons. There are also insufficient manpower to defend the village, at least they cannot compete with our army of more than 20,000 people. ”

Del does not spend much in agreement.

"Since Zhao Zhuang does have a lot of bed crossbows. We guessed right, and the previous caution should be. But they watched the fortress being smashed one by one, and they didn't use the bed crossbow to fight back to stop it, and they lost the favorable support of the main city, and they only used it at the critical juncture of the destruction of the main city. I didn't have a gun, so I was in a hurry to grab our knives. There were no troops to go out of the city and fight hard. “

Han Chang looked at Zhao Zhuang, his face showed an extremely cold and cold face, and said with a cold smile: "I lost a lot of soldiers, but I also forced out Zhao Zhuang's hypocrisy. “

Thousands of crossbow guns were shot, and most of them were too deep in the grass, and the people of Zhaozhuang did not dare to stay for a long time when they went out of the city, so they confiscated a few in a hurry. The ones that hit the concrete floor were close to the city, and the people in the city had time to take them back, but the guns were damaged, and all they recovered were wooden sticks and rotten iron, and there were very few crossbow guns that could be recycled. The lack of crossbow guns is like a cannon without shells, what if Zhao Zhuang has a large number of bed crossbows?

Han Chang and Tuo Buhua both figured this out and told the Liao army.

"Zhao Zhuang's strength has been roughly proven. They relied on nothing more than bed crossbows to defend the city. The lack of a ballista is not a cause for concern. We have a large number of soldiers and are brave and good at fighting, there is no need to be tempted or afraid, only with our Daliao warriors and superior numbers, it is not difficult to destroy Zhaozhuang with a direct hard attack. ”

There weren't many crossbow guns available in Zhao Zhuang. Without the threat of weapons that such people could not fight, the morale of the Liao army suddenly increased much more in shame and resentment.

Li Zhu in the city closely observed the movements of the Liao army, saw Han Chang's actions, and when he heard the Liao army's beastly roar, a smile appeared on his face.

These barbarians have a fine Han commander Han Chang, and they really caught the catch.

The crossbow gun used by Zhao Zhuang was indeed changed from a long spear, and it was recently changed. But it was a gun with a Goryeo stick.

After sweeping the peninsula, the Northern Army seized hundreds of thousands of guns with Goryeo sticks, both from the Goryeo army and from the civilian population. With the long-standing spirit of the small stick country that survives in the cracks to prevent the invasion of powerful foreign enemies at any time, even if the whole people participate and reserve weapons with the strength of the whole country, how much power can they create a large number of high-quality weapons?

The stick pursues quantity, and can only cut corners and choose iron-saving, ready for shoddy guns. As long as you can kill the enemy, you can arm a large number of civilians to help defend the city in times of crisis.

The peninsula has taken advantage of loopholes in the contradictions between major powers and has not had a major war for a long time. These guns were not used for many years and were stored in the warehouse to rust.

The Imperial Army is equipped with a large number of bed crossbows, which just makes use of these rotten guns, which not only saves reconstruction, but also makes effective use of waste.

Zhao Zhuang naturally got it before the Liao army went south.

Han Chang's determination to attack with human lives was also a helpless move.

There are craftsmen in the army, but it is difficult to get enough thick and long wood to rebuild a stone thrower, and it is difficult to find a suitable one if there is no shortage of trees near Zhaozhuang, and time cannot afford to wait.

If it takes ten days and half a month to rebuild, the daylily will be cold. The looted Liao people and the army returned with a full load, and the lone army was left behind, which was blocked by Gaoyangguan Road and the Cangbei army, and all had to die in Cangzhou. The whirlwind cannon is a complex and difficult process, and the craftsmen accompanying the army can't make it at all, so it will be useless.

However, in the past few days of the bombardment, Han Chang has ordered craftsmen to build ladders, siege vehicles, door crashing vehicles and other siege weapons. Ready for a hard attack.

The grassland army's siege methods were not inferior to the Song army, and the siege was no longer difficult. This is the merit of traitorous scholars and craftsmen who strive to show their talents and strive to be loyal to foreign races.

The two leaders were ruthless, the time was pressing, and they didn't dare to rub it any longer, so they sent a team of 1,000 people to try to attack that afternoon to verify whether the previous judgment of Zhao Zhuang was correct.

The ordered Liao army set up light shields, carried ladders, and shouted loudly at the urging of the commander to approach the castle in a scattered formation that was conducive to preventing long-range attacks, and stared at the city with fear as they advanced, for fear that the bed crossbows would be dense and unstoppable to take their lives.

But, fortunately, it was a smooth rush all the way to the city.

There was no power in the city. It seems that there is a real lack of ballistas. Reluctant to use lightly.

Han Chang, who was watching from afar, breathed a sigh of relief. The attacking Liao army was also bold.

A series of ladders were quickly erected on the city, and the iron hooks in front of them firmly hooked the city. The Liao army let out a furious beast-like cry and climbed bravely under the leadership of the team school.

Rush to the city and it's safe. Rushing to the city means victory.

It is impossible for the brave and brave close combat of Zhaozhuang District to stop the brave and good Daliao warriors.

The Song people, including the army, had this strong self-confidence in the Liao army. This is the confidence and sense of honor that has been bullied by Song Jun for hundreds of years.

Beaten by the Jin army again and again, looking for tooth corpses all over the field, the Liao army can always find the former majesty and dignity from the cowardly Song army.

The city wall is only about seven meters high, and it doesn't take a few breaths to climb up the ladder. Besides, the city has not yet counterattacked.

A centurion who led the charge, with a strong desire for revenge, slaughter, and confidence of victory, bravely took the lead, and was the first to climb near the city.

He held a shield in one hand to protect the top, and the other hand held the battlements, and he smiled and jumped up to the top of the city in one fell swoop......