Although Yelu Dashi, the emperor of the Liao State, was quite vocal in managing internal affairs, he had always been forbearant externally, not only taking a defensive position against the Jin State, but also forming a good alliance with the Song State, which seemed quite timid. However, compared with Wanyan Aguta, the emperor of Liao, who had not long ascended the throne, had an absolute advantage, he was in the prime of life, and time was on his side.

In the past few months, although Wanyan Aguta looks as strong and powerful as before, he himself has become more and more tired, tired easily, and his eyes have become more and more flowery. His grandfather, Wu Gunai, lived to be fifty-four years old, his father to be impeached by Li Bo to be fifty-three years old, and his brother Wu Yashu to be only fifty-two years old. No matter how powerful the heroes are, they must obey the call of the Immortal Heaven. Unlike the elderly emperor, the Jurchen nation was the most prosperous time, after several generations of accumulation, the Wanyan tribe is now full of talents, but there are some signs that no one is convinced. After this year, the old emperor will be fifty-five years old, so the old emperor is determined to send troops with all his strength to defeat the Liao State before his soul returns to the immortal heaven. The Han army in Suzhou and Kaizhou was already quite grand. In the southeast of Liaoyang, the Bohai people and Han people in the prefecture and county had a corresponding uprising. Xiao Suxian, who stayed in Tokyo, sent an envoy to lose sincerity, and after finishing his face, he was moved by the mind of going south.

After Xiao Suxian retreated, Wanyan Aguta immediately convened the Zhubo Jilie Conference to send troops. Because of the great stakes, not only the big Bo Ji Lie Wan Yan Wu begging, the State Minister Bo Ji Lie Wan Yan Sagai, the first Bo Ji Lie Wan Yan resigned, the second Bo Ji Lie Wan Yan Gao, the third Bo Ji Lie Wan Yan Pu family slaves were all present, and other important generals in the Wan Yan clan, such as Wan Yan Zongbi, Wan Yan Zonghan, Wan Yan Zongwang, Wan Yan Xiyin, Wan Yan Zongpan, Wan Yan Zongjun, Wan Yan Chang, etc., all rushed to obey the emperor's account.

Sending Mr. Han Da to test the details of the Liaoyang envoy, Wanyan Aguda was just out of a habit of being cautious. Mr. Han Da, as usual, complained to the Jurchen leaders about the pros and cons of going south to Liaoyang. This is also what Wanyan Aguta admires most about this Han man, he is always much more well-informed, and he speaks and thinks clearly. But in the end, Mr. Han Da also persuaded Yan Aguda not to trust the Bohai people too much.

"Xiao Suxian is the uncle of the Liao State, he is rich enough, but he still betrays the Liao State and stands on his own, he must be an ambitious hero. Don't hide it from Your Majesty, when Wei Chen went to test the details of the envoy, the envoy was also repeatedly testing the truth of our dynasty. He saw that Weichen was Han, and there was a faint intention to solicit in his words, but Weichen sternly refused. Weichen thought that after expelling the forces of the Liao State from Liaodong in the future, the forces of the Bohai people would immediately become the great enemies of our dynasty, so His Majesty must be on guard against them. ”

Mr. Han Da is always cautious and even a little excessive, and this time is no exception. When Mr. Han Da finished speaking, Wanyan Wu begged to smile sarcastically: "No matter how ambitious Xiao Suxian is, he must have this ability." After several generations of accumulation, the Wanyan tribe has produced heroes from generation to generation, so that it can have today's prosperity. Bohai people, Xiao Suxian only stayed in Tokyo three months ago, why did he compete with our Dajin Kingdom for Liaodong?

As soon as Yan Wu begged to buy this, several other Bo Jilie laughed loudly. The torches of the Emperor's Golden Tent were a little dazzling, and Wanyan squinted his eyes, and there was a hint of a smile on the corner of his mouth. From a small tribe in Liaodong, the Wanyan tribe has become a victorious country in the East China Sea that is enough to compete with the Liao State in just one or two decades, which really makes these nobles of the Wanyan tribe have proud capital. Only Wan Yan Zongbi, Wan Yan Chang and a few other people showed a slight solemnity in their eyes, and in such a situation, they did not dare to speak out against it. As a result, the topic of the meeting changed from "Do you want to send troops?" "Turned" how to send troops? At this time, the generals of the Jin State, who were experienced in war, were very cautious.

"Troops were sent from Huanglong Mansion to Liaoyang, with Tongzhou, Xianzhou, Yinzhou, and Shenzhou in between. If you want to be sure, you have to take these four places first. Only by cutting off the road for the Liao State to go to Beijing to reinforce the army can we protect the back road of our army. The prime minister changed his course.

"Can't you take a detour to Kaizhou?" Wan Yan Gao frowned, although the Khitan army cowered in the city and did not dare to challenge the Jin State, it was not so easy for the Jin State to defeat any Khitan heavily guarded city, let alone four. "The Han army has besieged Kaizhou for a long time, although it has not yet been defeated, but the Khitan forces in Kaizhou, Hengzhou, and Zhengzhou have fled far away, and there is no difficulty in passing through the army, and the Han army can help us transfer the baggage. It was also not so easy for the reinforcements to cut off the retreat of the army. Mr. Han Da, do you say yes? ”

Wan Yan Gao has always been friendly with Mr. Han Da and trusts his influence on the Han army, so he proposed a plan to take advantage of the area controlled by the Han army to directly attack Liaoyang. All the Jurchen nobles looked over, and Mr. Han Da coughed lightly, nodded and said, "There is no problem for my army to pass through the area of Kaizhou, Hengzhou, and Zhengzhou controlled by the Han army. Wei Chen was only worried that the Liao State had 20,000 cavalry troops stationed in Shenzhou, and if they were desperate, they would still pose a great threat to us. Therefore, Weichen also advocated that at least Shenzhou should be captured to ensure that the Liao State did not have any heavy troops on this line, so that he could rest assured that he could send a large army south to Liaoyang. ”

"Hmph, then take Shenzhou, and then take Liaoyang." Wanyan Pu Jianu said in a deep voice.

"Pu Jianu is right, you have to fight Shenzhou first." Wan Yan nodded in agreement. "No matter if the Bohai people want to play tricks, just ask for peace." "I also agree with the resignation, hit Shenzhou first!" Wanyan Wu Qimai nodded and said, "But you can send a partial division first and make a detour to Kaizhou to Liaoyang to meet the Bohai people who started the incident." ”

Three of the six great heroes agreed to fight Shenzhou first, Emperor Wanyan Aguda also nodded in agreement, and Wanyan Sagai and Wanyan Gao did not object. The major event decided by the Bo Jilie Conference, and the following generals had no chance to put their beaks. This is especially true of Mr. Han Da. So it was decided that Wan Yan would not lose command of the main force of the Jin army to attack Shenzhou, and there were Wan Yan Zonghan, Wan Yan Xiyin, Wan Yan Zongpan, Wan Yan Zongjun, Wan Yan Chang and other generals. Wan Yan Gao led a detachment of deviant divisions to detour to Kaizhou to go to Liaoyang first, and Wan Yan Zongwang and Wan Yan Zongbi also led their respective Meng'an to follow the action. After the prime minister finished Yan Sa, he changed the arrangement of the heavy grain and grass needed for the army, and asked the Meng'an to prepare separately, and the entire Jurchen Jin Kingdom had to prepare for the official invasion of Liao in December.

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Outside the city of Kaizhou, the cannon roared loudly, and the Han soldiers shouted, carrying ladders and shields and rushing towards the city wall. However, a burst of arrows shot down at the head of the city, and before they could enter the effective range of the bow and arrow, the Han soldiers and soldiers rushed one after another, leaving only a white arrow feather under the city. The Khitan army at the head of the city also had no time to laugh at these people, and hurriedly shrank behind the ruined walls, dodging the cannonballs and arrows fired from the city. After two months of besieging the city, the attacking and defending sides now seem to have a tacit understanding, and more and more shells and arrows are consumed every day, and fewer and fewer people are killed. The retreating Han soldiers all had the same expressions as if they had survived the catastrophe, the leader of the village celebrated with his forehead because he had not lost any soldiers, and some of them explained with a hippie smile to Wang Hengzhisalai.

Zhao Xingde stood on the fort and watched this scene with a clairvoyant mirror with an expressionless face. Jian Cheng muttered and scolded: "What kind of ghost battle is this, just let us get it." "Having said that, even if he is willing, Zhao Xingde does not want Sergeant Chengying to die in the siege battle." These Han soldiers are too bastard. ”

The southeast corner of Kaizhou City, which was bombarded by the artillery of the Xia Kingdom, has been hit by countless shells, the wooden towers and the trenches have long been smashed and shattered, the bricks and stone battlements are all broken, and even the bricks and stones outside the city wall have been shaken off a lot by the shells, and large areas of rammed earth have been exposed, and even the rammed earth has been smashed out of countless potholes. Under the blow of cannonballs and arrows, the Khitan soldiers defending the city were also killed and wounded. In the eyes of the Chengying battalion, this city is like a city that has been stripped naked, but the Han army just can't pounce on it, it really makes people angry.

Wang Hengzhi is a veteran and very brave himself, but he can't stop the Han generals under his command from preserving their strength. In this situation, the Kaizhou Han army itself could not withstand attrition. Now all the generals of the Han army will not send veterans to attack the city, but use them as personal soldiers and warlords. And those Ding Zhuang, who was still holding the hoe handle a few months ago, quickly grew into a soldier in the child's play of siege battles. Even the originally "simple" and "belligerent" Yalu River Jurchen army learned to retreat outside the enemy's arrow range.

The momentum of the Han army is better day by day, the Han people, Bohai people, and Jurchen heroes in several nearby states and counties have all pulled relations with these Han army village leaders, and several of them have married in-laws, and the armament and food of the Han army have also improved a lot compared with before, and the veterans are almost all wearing armor, and the recruits have decent blades. In Liaodong, the momentum of the Han army in Kaizhou was even greater than that of Guannan in Suzhou, but the will to fight of the Han army was getting worse.

"These immoral ghosts!" Du Blowhorn muttered, "It's time to teach them a lesson." He took the clairvoyant mirror from Jian Cheng's hand, and looked towards the north city wall, then quietly, since the Han army began to attack the city, it was clear that the carriages and horses stormed the southeast corner, and over time, the Liao army also reduced the garrison of other city walls, but the necessary vigilance was still there.

Du Fujiao looked at the clairvoyant mirror towards the city, and immediately saw Yacheng, where the Khitans' reserves should be, and worried: "If the garrison camp blows up and collapses the city walls elsewhere, we may not be able to rob the Han army's lack of morality." ”

Xia Guoying lost patience with the Han army's siege, and finally decided to dig a tunnel from the garrison battalion to the weakest northern city wall of Kaizhou, first hollowed out the foundation of the wall, temporarily supported it with wooden stakes, and then used gunpowder to blow up the wooden stakes and collapse them, and at the same time shook the city wall, so that the northern city wall collapsed a hole, and then the soldiers of the Chengying battalion and the garrison battalion took the opportunity to rush into the city to occupy Yacheng. This plan would be kept secret from the Han army until the last moment, and the roaring cannons that rang out from time to time every day also effectively prevented the defenders of the city from listening to urns to detect the sound of digging tunnels.