Jereil drooped his head, his face was blue, and he had been listless all day. Empress Xiao wiped her tears and complained: "It's good that Your Majesty has painstakingly taught him, but Yilie is still a child, how can he stand this?" She came here on purpose and begged His Majesty to comfort the emperor, and she could stuff sweet dates and slap them. To untie the bell, you must also tie the bell, you know, Yelu Yilie has always regarded his father as the greatest hero in heaven and earth.

"It would be fine if he looked back on himself. Otherwise, the medicine will be taken in vain. Yelu Dashi replied, still reading the military intelligence report.

Xiao Tao was unconvinced: "Your Majesty has done so many unprecedented events, why do you teach Yilie so much, the Khitan people respect the heroes who stand up to the sky, can Your Majesty bear to let Yilie be a mediocre person?" She had no intention of saying this, but when she said this, she was shocked in her heart, and secretly thought that His Majesty really did not want to pass on the throne to Yi Lie, but to pass it on to the son-in-law of the fox girl, so he intended to teach Yi Lie to be a mediocre person, so as not to be the way of others. Thinking of this, Queen Xiao's face also turned pale, thinking of the relationship between husband and wife when Yelu Dashi did not ascend the throne, tears rolled down like pearls with broken threads, and she was so sobbing that she couldn't speak, and secretly hated the concubine Xiao Sese.

Yelu Dashi comforted a few words left and right, but Queen Xiao just didn't follow. The guards reported to the privy envoy of the North Court to ask for a meeting, and Xiao Tao left crying without smoking.

When Yelu Tiege came, he met the queen and was stared at fiercely by her. He married the daughter of Concubine Xiao, and now the husband and wife have a very good relationship. It is rumored that Yelu Dashi intends to continue the matter of the Khitan Eight Divisions electing the emperor in the future, and Yelu Tiege, as the privy envoy of the Northern Court who takes care of the affairs of the Khitan people, is the person who everyone expects. However, Yelu Tiege is the confidant general who has followed Yelu Dashi for the longest time, but he does not have the slightest extravagant hope for the throne, but acts more and more cautiously, not letting people grasp the handle.

He looked at the queen's back with an embarrassed face, and sighed: "Your Majesty's hard work, the queen will understand it in the future." He said worriedly: "Your Majesty's desire to capture the past is indeed a clever plan." However, after the army set out, the remnants of the previous dynasty and the traitors took the opportunity to make a move, and they will definitely attack the imperial city with all their might, and hold the concubines and princesses hostage. Do the ministers want to send some more elite soldiers to guard the imperial city? Otherwise, if the army can't come back in time, Weichen will die and can't redeem it. "Over the years, the former dynasty chaos and the two-minded Khitan nobles have been almost cleaned up, but there are always some remnants of the scum, so taking advantage of the opportunity of this country to go to Liaodong, Yelu Dashi designed a trap for returning to the horse pistol, and the army pretended to make an expedition, in fact, it stopped and camped not far from Shangjing, and sent a fence and horses to cut off communication. This is the best and last chance for the lurking rebels in the capital, once Yelu Dashi sweeps Liaodong, his position as emperor can no longer be shaken. Therefore, they will definitely launch a rebellion, and then Yelu Dashi justifiably raised troops to quell the rebellion, cleared the troubles, and left an elite army to defend Beijing, and then set out to conquer Liaodong with peace of mind.

"I'm afraid that this will startle the snake," Yelu Dashi shook his head and said, "The palace tent army guarding the imperial city was originally an elite loyal and brave man. The queen was born in Jiangmen, quite courageous, and familiar with the military. Even if the rebels attack with all their might, it should be no problem to hold on for a few days. He hesitated for a moment, then said in a deep voice, "You can think of a way to transfer the boy camp in Beijing to the imperial city in advance." ”

A ray of golden light shone through the dome of the imperial tent, and when it was time for the sunset, Yelu Dashi stood up and looked out, and the clouds in the distance set the sun, and after a while, it would sink into the distant mountaintop. The heavy eaves and arches in the imperial city wall were dyed with a layer of golden rust red by the glow, and the specially leveled grassland in the palace wall was also dyed golden yellow, and more than a dozen sheep walked back to the sheepfold on the grass.

"The boy camp carries the future national fortune of my Great Liao," Yelu Dashi frowned, "They are all Khitan blood, it is best not to involve them in this rebellion." "Having said that, the Khitans have always been connected with each other. As the emperor, Yelu Dashi did not dare to raise tigers. He finally sighed and clenched his fists.

"Wechen understands." Brother Yelu Tiege bowed and said. His Majesty's plans and arrangements are all of profound intentions. On the grounds that the queen is anxious, the boy camp was transferred to the imperial city, which not only did not arouse the suspicion of the traitors, but also made the traitors fall into the trap in the future. It's wonderful. And His Majesty deliberately snubbed the queen and publicly punished the prince Yelu Yilie, I am afraid that it is also the idea of asking the rebels to fight less strange goods.

"How's the war going in Shenzhou?"

Yelu Tiege's expression became more and more respectful, and he said: "The enemy army has the help of the Song State's iron barrel cannon, and has built a car cannon, a cannon, and a whirlwind cannon. Throwing stones to attack the city, day and night siege is not stopped. Whenever the enemy sends stones, the stones fall in the city of Shenzhou. Within three days, the trench outside Shenzhou was filled in, and the enemy was able to attack the city wall. At the sound of the order, the arrows under the city were like flying locusts, and the arrows were coated with poisonous juice, and the middle ones were either killed or injured. There are also Jurchen elite soldiers wearing two layers of iron armor, not afraid of my arrows and swords, desperately attacking the city. General Yeludilie stayed at the head of the city day and night, and whenever an enemy army landed in the city, he personally led our Khitan warriors to fight against it and drove them out of the city. Although there were repeated emergencies on all sides, not an inch of the city wall was lost. ”

Brother Yelu Tiege hesitated for a moment, and said in a low voice: "Di Lie has pleaded guilty several times, and in the opinion of Weichen, it seems that he did not plan to come back alive from Shenzhou because of his previous mistakes, and he was intent on martyrdom. ”

When Brother Yelu Tie spoke, Yelu Dashi's face was very calm, and at this time, his eyes moved slightly, and he sighed: "Di Lie is a good man of the Khitan, he didn't delay the big thing, and I didn't blame him, so why did he suffer." But he didn't say anything more. The two of them discussed to lure the Jin army away from Ningjiang and Huanglongfu, and after going south into the territory of Liao, they cut off their rear route with a large group of elite cavalry and surrounded and annihilated the Jurchens' fresh force between Liaoyang and Shenzhou. The North Court has been preparing for this plan for a long time, which involves several aspects, which can be described as one ring after another, and it is not easy to implement.

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Under the city of Liaoyang, the smoke and dust covered the sun, and a team of Jin people galloped back and forth, driving the Liao people who had not yet had time to enter the city into the wooden fence. The Jin soldiers, who had no choice but to go south, had only 30,000 men, and they looted all the counties in Liaoyang, and all the adult men in the people were forcibly recruited as the signing army for the siege. The people resisted a little, and immediately took the disaster of destroying the door and slaughtering the village. In just over a month, more than 30,000 signatories were recruited. Hundreds of miles near Liaoyang, it was originally the most prosperous place in the whole Liaodong, but now there are no people everywhere, only the smell of corpses, stretching for hundreds of miles, and the towns and villages are empty.

Originally, the status of the Bohai people and the Jurchens in the Liao Dynasty was almost the same, and there was even a saying that the Jurchens and the Bohai people belonged to the same clan. Therefore, many Bohai clans were willing to serve the Jin State, and the Jin State also took advantage of this to use wealth and military power as bait to reuse the Bohai people to lead the army to attack the city. The Han did not want to be killed in vain for these aliens, but they were not allowed to escape, but were placed under the Bohai people, and rushed forward as the forward infantry, killing and wounding.

When Han Ningshuang's troops arrived at Liaoyang City, witnessing this scene, all the soldiers were indignant. Zhao Xingde even commanded the Han army to build a camp overnight, in addition to the wall and ditch, set up six forts, ready to turn against the Jin soldiers. In addition to more than 100 sergeants under Zhao Xingde, the artillery battalion of the Han army was at his disposal, and Jian Cheng brought the fifth garrison battalion from Kaizhou to rendezvous.

The Han army was assigned to the south of Liaoyang City. The siege equipment of the Jin soldiers was insufficient, and the Han army carried ten three-inch guns and ten iron barrel guns all in the south of Liaoyang. When Wan Yan asked the Han artillery battalion to open artillery to help the Jin soldiers attacking the other three city walls, Han Ningshuang asked him to transfer thousands of Han Er's troops to the tent under the pretext that mobile artillery required labor. Wan Yan Xian had no choice but to agree to Han Ningshuang's request.

"The Jin soldiers have always driven the signing army to attack the city, and they deliberately consumed the elite and morale of the Liao army first," Zhao Xingde said to his subordinates in a low voice, "Let's also keep an eye on it, don't aim too accurately at the artillery, so as not to cause a disaster." "If the artillery is suppressed too much, the Liao cavalry may have to go out of the city to counterattack, and then the Jin soldiers will only need to watch from the wall, and they will be able to consume the strength of the Han army. Therefore, Zhao Xingde planned that as long as the Jin soldiers did not attack the city with all their might, his artillery would continue to slack off until the Jin army could not hold its breath first.

Tong Yunjie was stunned for a moment, looked at Zhao Xingde, and then looked at the signatories who were described as withered and sent to death, pondered for a moment, looked at each other, nodded, and said in a deep voice: "Mr. Zhao still thinks about it properly." He immediately whispered to each of the gun commanders. These artillery commanders are all top people in the Han military camp, how can they not understand when they hear this, they have raised the muzzle of the cannon or biased it a little, and many cannonballs are flying past the city, which is amazing, but in fact it does not hurt many people.

Jurchen tribes all kinds of artillery throwing stones to attack the city, has always been to win more, in the past besieged Huanglongfu, now attacking Shenzhou, the city hem all kinds of earthen stone cannons have thousands of planes, naturally the accuracy requirements are extremely low. The artillery originally owned by the Jin State was an old-fashioned iron barrel cannon purchased from the Song State, which was not as accurate as the field artillery made by the Xia State, and some of the iron barrel guns captured from the Liao army or copied by Liaodong itself, which were even more inferior, and the training of the gunners was not as strict and refined as Zhao Xingde did. Therefore, the generals of the Jin Army never found out that the Han artillery battalion was slacking off.

Xiao Suxian, who stayed in Tokyo, urged the soldiers to fight to the death and not surrender, and even openly dug out the hearts and stomachs of the Jin soldiers who were captured in the city, and distributed them to the soldiers defending the city, cutting off everyone's way of life. No matter how unbearable the Liao army defending the city is, there are always tens of thousands of horses, and there are many accumulations in Liaoyang City. Although the Jin soldiers were brave and artillery, the siege continued until March, when the news of the fall of Shenzhou and the martyrdom of the defender Yeludilie came.

The fall of Shenzhou, Liaoyang became the last lonely city of Liao in Liaodong, Liao Emperor Yelu Dashi seemed to be quite touched, and finally ordered the Northern Court Privy Envoy Yelu Tiege to be the capital, Yelu Yanshan left deputy capital, Guo Baoyi to be the right deputy capital, commander 50,000 cavalry, 100,000 infantry to rescue Liaoyang.