Chapter 1384 One Stone
In the midst of the heavy snow, a crossbow arrow pierced through the cold air, breaking through the dense snowflakes of the net, and shot out from the city with a faint sound of wind and thunder. Strictly speaking, this is not a crossbow arrow, but a hardwood stick. It's just that the head is slightly sharpened. The rod is also not very smooth, with mottled marks after the knife and slightly warped sawdust. It can be seen how rushed the people who made this crossbow arrow were at that time.
Its flight is not perfect, the perfect crossbow is smooth and stable in flight, like a fish swimming in water, and its posture is graceful. The trajectory it flies over is also smooth, with a graceful arc. And this crossbow arrow, because of the roughness of the production and the shift of the center of gravity, it is not only spinning, but also swaying in flight. Its head and tail do not vibrate at the same frequency, which makes it fly forward as if it were a frightened fish in the air. The rough body brought resistance, so that its flight brought more resistance, stirring up the surrounding snowflakes, and the snowflakes were obviously disturbed, thus leaving a trace of turbulence in the heavy snow, as if drawing a trajectory.
But even so, under the impetus of the powerful three bowstrings, it was like a cannonball, violently and savagely penetrating the space of three hundred paces, and it only took a few breaths to reach the position it had to reach.
Yelu Zongyuan was pointing at the city tower with the people around him. Although it is not clear to see the specific battle situation, the general progress of Yelu Zongyuan and others can see it clearly. The increasing flow of attacking people on the city walls on both sides of the city tower was still clearly visible, and with the continuous news coming, he knew that the Xicheng city tower was about to be conquered. So Yelu Zongyuan was in a good mood. I will definitely be able to spend the night in Liaoyang Mansion tonight, and at the last moment, I conquered this place by myself. This means that the Jurchens will flee like lost dogs, which means that the next army will be like a bamboo to recover the land of Liaodong, and finally drive them into the deep mountains and old forests of the icy Changbai Mountain. After that, he had to look to the south, where the fat and weak sheep was waiting to be slaughtered. In the south, that rich and prosperous land is waiting to be conquered. That rich place, full of wealth and beauties, will be the peak of his achievements in his imperial career.
"Buzz!" The dull sound of breaking the sky like wind and thunder shook everyone's eardrums. The guards beside Yelu Zongyuan immediately heard the sound of crossbow arrows breaking through the air, and they reacted quickly. However, the heavy snow filled their eyes, and they could not see the arrival of the ferocious crossbow arrow in the distance, and it was not until the crossbow arrow broke through the snow mist and appeared in the air several feet away that the guards beside Yelu Zongyuan discovered its traces.
"Your Majesty, be careful!"
"There are cold arrows!"
In the midst of the crisis, several of the guards reacted, two of them rushed forward on horseback, trying to cover them with shields, and the other two waved their scimitars to knock it away
Only crossbow arrows. However, their movements are too slow, or rather too little time for them to react. The scimitar slashed through the tail of the bolt, slicing through a large snowflake, and before the shield could reach its position, the swinging bolt grazed the edge of the shield with a piercing grinding sound.
"Peng!" A dull voice rang out. It was as if someone had smashed Yelu Zongyuan's chest with a sledgehammer, and the golden armor on Yelu Zongyuan's chest was obviously dented in, and his tall body fell backwards from the horse. Before his body hit the ground, a mouthful of hot blood had already sprayed into the air, staining thousands of snowflakes red.
It wasn't so much that he was pierced into his body by a crossbow arrow, but that he was vigorously whapped by the crossbow arrow in Yelu Zongyuan's chest. The sharpened hardwood didn't actually penetrate Yelu Zongyuan's golden armor. It was just a gold-encrusted exterior on the outside, but on the inside was a real heart armor. The wooden arrow is impenetrable, let alone swaying into a flower-like shot, and the penetration is even more reduced. So, when the arrow was blocked by the armor, the body and tail of the crossbow bolt rotated horizontally, and the chest position from the top left to the bottom right was firmly whipped down. All the kinetic energy was transmitted to Yelu Zongyuan's body, and although it was released after a distance of three hundred steps, in the end, Yelu Zongyuan's huge body was whipped upside down and flew out.
The moment Yelu Zongyuan flew up, he already felt that he couldn't breathe, he felt that his internal organs were churning and in severe pain, and he felt that his chest had no feeling. felt that a fishy heat could not be suppressed, so he raised his head to the sky and spurted blood, and fell off the horse.
"The emperor has been shot, the emperor has been shot." All the Liao army guards and accompanying officials shouted in panic, and the guards dismounted and rushed towards Yelu Zongyuan. They soon discovered that Yelu Zongyuan was already in a coma.
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On the city tower, when the golden figure flew up and landed in the air, Wanyan Aguda and other Jurchen people could hardly believe their eyes. This arrow was just a gift before evacuating, Wanyan Aguda didn't have the expectation of being able to shoot Yelu Zongyuan at all, he just thought that even if it could shoot around Yelu Zongyuan, so that Yelu Zongyuan would be frightened, he would have already achieved his goal. didn't even have a crossbow arrow on the right track, how could he expect to really hit Yelu Zongyuan.
But the truth is that it was the simple crossbow arrow that he made with the hardwood handle of his mace that hit Yelu Zongyuan. Even if it was a stick that could not be called a crossbow arrow, with the blessing of the three-bow bed crossbow, a shot to the flesh would cause great damage. A thought popped up in Wanyan Agu's excited brain, he wouldn't shoot Yelu Zongyuan with one arrow. Even if he doesn't die, I'm afraid he will be seriously injured.
Wanyan Aguda suddenly laughed, grabbed half of the mace and shouted: "Sons, kill me!" The Liao Dog Emperor died, and the Liao dogs couldn't get up, so they all killed me. ”
The Jurchen warriors were excited,
Holding his mace aloof, he roared loudly and rushed towards the walls on both sides like a beast. The Liao soldiers on the city wall heard their shouts, and the soldiers who knew the Jurchen native language immediately reported the content of their shouts to Yelucai and others, Yelucai was suspicious, turned his head to look at the city, and found that the figure of his father who was fighting hundreds of steps under the city was indeed gone, and a large number of entourages were also rapidly withdrawing, and he was immediately panicked.
"Yelu Zongyuan is dead, the Liao Dog Emperor was shot with a crossbow arrow by my Jurchen chieftain, and the end of the Liao Dog has arrived. Kill. The Jurchens yelled wildly, and the news soon spread throughout the battlefield.
The Liao people were suspicious, and the Jurchen crowd was excited. Originally, the situation had already collapsed, and there were less than 80,000 of the 200,000 Jurchens left, and they had already fallen into an absolute disadvantage. When everyone thought that they would lose today and die here today, the news was a great morale boost. The big boss didn't disappoint them, at this time, the big leader actually killed the emperor of the Liao State, which was a shot in the arm, and they began to fight back frantically. On the other hand, on the side of the Liao soldiers, although the news came suspiciously, the news that the eldest prince Yelucai led his troops to retreat from the city and return to the camp soon came, which basically confirmed that this matter was not groundless.
After about a stick of incense, there was a sound of gold from the city, which was the order to retreat. Soon, the Liao soldiers received an order to immediately withdraw their troops and stop the siege. This is also an official confirmation of the news that the emperor was shot. The Liao soldiers immediately stopped attacking the city, retreated in defeat, and even discarded a large number of siege equipment, and retreated like a tide.
Wanyan Agu and the others didn't have the heart to chase and kill, they were actually exhausted. The remaining nearly 80,000 Jurchen soldiers and horses stood on top of the snow-covered city, and the sweat on their bodies began to slowly turn cold, as if they had a nightmare. The corpses everywhere made them really feel their luck, they crawled out of the sea of corpses and blood, they were still alive, and Liaoyang Mansion was still there. They have done what would have been impossible, and everyone knows that the Liao people will no longer have a chance to get involved in Liaoyang Mansion today.
Wanyan Agu crossed his legs and faced the direction of the Liao army camp under the city, his chest was held high, and his fists were clenched tightly. His heart was full of excitement and pride. Although more than half of the 200,000 hands were killed or wounded, it was nothing. He knew that from today onwards, he would be able to compete with the Liao State without relying on anyone's strength, and from today on, the road in front of him would be more brilliant and smooth.
"Ahh Wanyan Aguda suddenly put his hands around his mouth and roared loudly towards the empty white land. It was the cry that the Jurchens liked to make when they had successfully hunted and returned with joy.
"Ahh All the Jurchens, including the Jurchen people in the city, also shouted, and the sound pierced through the endless snow, resounding across the earth and reaching into the sky.