"Bet on your life?"

Wanyan Aguda repeated the word, and he sneered: "What a 'gamble'!" ”

In this elderly emperor, there seems to be another awe-inspiring murderous aura. From a small tribal chieftain to the emperor of the Jin Kingdom, who now occupies most of Liaodong, he doesn't know how many times he has made bets. He didn't think it was a little funny, this Xiao Xia native knew what "nine deaths and one life" was. After Yan Aguda's words, "Immortal Heaven blesses the Jurchens."

"Nonsense," Wanyan Zongbi's face was slightly gloomy, "Mr. Zhao is not playing with us." Zhao Xingde had something to do, he thought that there was a good way to restrain the Liao army's artillery, but who knew that he still had to gamble with the Jurchen warriors.

Zhao Xingde disdained to talk to him, his face was pale, but a trace of coldness flashed in his eyes, and he shouted: "Shut up!" After the voice, Yan Zonghan and Yan Zongbi suddenly didn't dare to speak again. After Yan Agu beat him, he reprimanded: "You remember to me, as long as the wife wins peacefully, that is not a warrior, but a turtle!" Liao dogs are more numerous than us, armor and swords are better than ours, cities are stronger than us, and horseback archery is not bad. But they always want to win the battle easily without much effort, and when they fail, they run away. There are few Jurchens, and the armor is rudimentary, but we are not afraid of blood and sweat, so we can defeat the Liao dog! He took a breath and said in a slow tone: "General Zhao, don't blame them for not having knowledge, and you have to bother to train against Liaogou's artillery." ”

"Well said," Zhao Xingde nodded, "Do your best." His tone was neither joyful nor angry. Although just now he was determined to help the Jin army deal with the artillery of the Liao State. But in the morning battle, Zhao Xingde still carefully observed, the effective distance of the Liao artillery firing shotguns was about 200 steps, he roughly estimated the delay time from ignition to artillery firing according to the pulse, and recorded the speed of reloading. Although it was only a battle, if the enemy's deliberate falsification was excluded, he already had some understanding of the Liao army's artillery use. And it can also be gradually tested in future battles.

Wanyan Agu stared at Zhao Xingde, his eyes were piercing like a needle, he was able to become the patriarch of the Wanyan tribe from a young age, become the capital of the Jurchen tribal alliance, defeat the Liao State, and be the emperor of the Jin State, he has the ability to recognize people, and after looking at it for a while, he felt that although Zhao Xingde was not pretending, this "do your best" words were quite sincere. He sighed, nodded, and said, "So please ask General Zhao." ”

Zhao Xingde was about to agree, Wanyan Aguda's eyes turned slightly, his eyes fell on Han Ningshuang, and then looked at Zhao Xingde, and said in a deep voice: "If the Liao army is defeated, my daughter Meini will marry General Zhao, and the two fierce soldiers and horses will be her dowry." "According to custom, when the tribe loses a battle, it is necessary to present the beauty of the tribe to the victor, and it is also possible to marry the beauty of the tribe to benefactors and allies. In the past, the silver envoys of the Liao State inspected the Jurchens of Liaodong, and every time they asked the women of the Wanyan tribe to sleep, even the families of the nobles were not spared, so they formed a great enmity with the Wanyan tribe. As soon as Wanyan Agu said this, Wanyan Zongbi and Wanyan Zonghan were shocked.

Han Ningshuang's heart moved slightly. She knew that Yan Agu was a very serious person, and as long as Zhao Xingde nodded, there was no room for change in this matter. She stared at Zhao Xingde to see how he responded.

Wanyan Zongbi ignored the offense and said loudly: "Father, don't!" ”

Wanyan Agu's eyes lit up, and he shouted in a low voice: "Shut up!" Zong Han and Zong Bi didn't dare to speak, so his face softened and asked, "General Zhao, what do you think?" ”

Zhao Xingde was also surprised, looked at Yan Agu, and excused himself: "Don't dare to hide it, I already have a wife's room below." ”

"What does it matter," Wanyan shook his head, "I also have seven wives and sixteen children. Capable men naturally have many wives. His tone was extremely natural, as if it were a matter of heaven. Wanyan Zongbi and Wanyan Zonghan's eyes were almost round, and they looked at Zhao Xingde viciously together, if he agreed, he would have to eat him raw. Both of them have many women, but to marry their sister to someone surnamed Zhao is as uncomfortable as eating a fly.

Zhao Xingde still shook his head and said, "Thank you, Your Majesty, for your kindness, I don't dare to ask for extravagance." ”

"Oh?" Wanyan Aguda was a little displeased, "Since General Zhao doesn't look down on the women of my Jurchen Wanyan Department, I am not strong." Han Ningshuang exhaled softly, as if she had let go of something, and felt a little uncomfortable. Wanyan Meini is the pearl of Ah Guda's palm, and since she is willing to get married, she naturally expresses her great gratitude and attention to Zhao Xingde. Zhao Xingde refused, naturally brushing Ah Gu's face. Even Wanyan Zongbi and Wanyan Zonghan, who were opposed at first, glared at Zhao Xingde viciously a few times again, and said secretly, what a man who doesn't know how to lift.

Zhao Xingde's first participation in the Jin Kingdom's imperial account military conference ended in such an embarrassing and bizarre atmosphere. When I walked out of the tent, it was already dusk, and smoke rose everywhere in the tent. As the sun set, the soldiers finished their busy training during the day, and before nightfall, there was no need to guard against a sneak attack by the enemy. It was the most leisurely time of the day, and the tense atmosphere was everywhere in the camp of the various Meng'anmok, the cavalry came and went, and the camp was full of the scene of an approaching battle.

In the days that followed, Yelu Dashi also seemed to have received news of the conquest of Shenzhou. In today's situation, Jerod Stone can be as immobile as a mountain. Behind him, there were Shangjing Road, Zhongjing Road, and Nanjing Road to transport grain and salary, Xijing Road had the Erbo tribe to help each other, and the Song State had stable diplomatic relations with the Liao State. But Wanyan couldn't beat it, Shen Zhou was like a thick and sharp thorn. Inserted behind the Jin army, in the north of Shenzhou, the wolf-like Khitan cavalry took advantage of the Jurchen army's southern expedition, burning and looting everywhere like wildfire, and some small tribes and villages have even turned into white land.

No matter how the Jin army challenged, the Liao army held the camp steadily. A large number of Khitan cavalry scattered and wandered within a radius of one or two hundred miles around the Jin army's camp. If these Khitan rangers are about to leave, they are within the sight of the Jin army. Whenever Wanyan Lou Room and Wanyan Ci Bushi sent Jurchen cavalry to drive away, the Khitan cavalry retreated, the Jurchen cavalry retreated to the camp, and the Khitan cavalry came forward again, and the ghost did not disperse, which was really a headache. The two sides have also had a few small encounters in the past few days, each with a victory or defeat, and the losses are less than 1,000.

The atmosphere between the two armies became more and more tense, and Zhao Xingde took over the artillery of the Jin State while instructing Yan Di Gunai's abducted horse to lure the Liao artillery to open fire. The Jin soldiers constantly sent abductors and horses to tentatively attack the Liao army camp in order to spy on the layout and reality of the Liao army's artillery. The Liao army did set up artillery forts in the front and rear of the camp, but they were not arranged in a linear ring, but placed the artillery in four artillery forts, and used the range of the artillery to take care of each other. The defense in front of each artillery fortress was the responsibility of the Xi army and the slaves of the Iron Wall Battalion.

Under the rule of the Liao State, the status of the Xi people was below the Khitan people, but above other ethnic groups, many of the Hao chiefs of the Xi people were given the surname Xiao, and the Khitan nobles also intermarried with the Xi nobles for generations. Because most of the Khitans were only willing to be cavalry, most of the armored infantry troops in the Liao army were served by Xi people, supplemented by the Ding infantry army of Han'er Township. Since the reform of Yelu Dashi, the Han'er Township Ding no longer existed, so more Xi people were levied to serve as infantry soldiers, and more slaves were rewarded to Xi people, so it did not cause great disgust among Xi people.

To attack the Liao army's fortification, Zhao Xingde was more concerned about the Tiebi battalion. Under the city of Hejian, the soldiers of the iron-walled camp who were covered in iron armor and connected by iron chains left a deep impression on him. to attack. The artillery fort can only be used with extremely fast speed and nimble abduction horses, but the hoplites of this iron wall battalion are the nemesis of the abduction horses. Now there are no thousands of firearms when they were in Hejian, and even if there is, Zhao Xingde is reluctant to put them on the battlefield where hundreds of thousands of cavalry gallop back and forth.

After saying that Zhao Xingde talked about this, Han Ningshuang was silent for a moment, and said in a low voice: "Mr. Zhao doesn't have to worry too much, there are brothers of the Han army in the Tiebi Battalion, and as long as we play the banner at that time, the Tiebi Battalion will be self-defeating." Her tone was a little low, the internal response in these iron-walled camps, or the Han army captured by the Liao army in previous battles, or the Han children who were forcibly recruited into the camp by the Liao army, were connected by iron cables between each other, and the Liao army was usually tightly guarded, and they could not escape. This time the battlefield has turned against each other, even if it is victorious, ten people don't know if they can survive the next one.

The sunset in the distance, like blood, painted the sky red, and like a raging flame. Under the city of Liaoyang, between the camps of the Liao State and the Jin State, even the small trees were cut down, forming a large empty area, and under the reflection of the remnant sun, the ground seemed to be steaming with a floating blood color.

On the 23rd of July, dark clouds covered the sun, there was not a single wind, and it was as hot as a steamer. The Jin army once again came out of the camp and lined up, this time, according to Zhao Xingde's guidance, thousands of heavily armored Tiefutu dismounted as infantry troops, and together with more than 10,000 Han troops under Han Ningshuang, they guarded around the artillery camp position. Zhao Xingde kept the artillery position as close to the Liao army as possible. A total of more than 300 large and small artillery pieces were arranged on six artillery forts that covered each other, and 33 heavy artillery pieces were concentrated in the central artillery fort, aimed at the artillery positions of the Liao army, even if they could not be hit accurately, they would harass the artillery battalions of the Liao army, and the remaining hundreds of small artillery pieces were used to defend the fort itself and prevent the assault of the Liao cavalry.

In previous battles, the artillery battalions of the Liao army either attacked the city or bombarded the infantry cavalry. Ordinary artillery was not accurate enough, almost no enemy artillery hit the Liao army's forts, and there was not even a battle in which the two armies bombarded each other with artillery. Therefore, Chai Yi, the capital of the Liao State Artillery Army, scattered light and heavy artillery on the four artillery forts surrounding the camp and used them to bombard the Jin cavalry. Although the artillery fort facing the direction of the camp of Jin Guo was the largest, it did not concentrate all the heavy artillery. In other words, although the total number of heavy artillery possessed by the Liao army exceeded that of the Jin army, on the main artillery barrier on the front, the Liao army had only eighteen heavy artillery pieces, which was only a little more than half of the Jin army. Although there were more than 100 small guns on the fort, these guns that were not enough could only attack and attack. The enemy troops in the artillery fort are useless in long-range artillery battles.