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The Liao army was dumbfounded, who would have thought that the Jurchens would come up with such a method? And they actually let them get their hands on it. It is distressing that the Clouds Carriage destroyed twelve seats, but what is even more troublesome is that these behemoths fell on the embankment, completely blocking the passage, and the subsequent Clouds Cars could no longer advance under the city, and the original plan to use the Clouds Carriage as the main siege method was put on hold.

I thought victory was in sight, but with the collapse of the skycars, everything came to naught. On the rear viewing platform, Yelu Zongyuan was shocked and scolded repeatedly.

This clever plan to deal with the cloud car was proposed by Wanyan Mingyue to Wanyan Aguda. Wanyan Aguda was actually quite confident in the Liao people's siege, until he saw a large number of siege equipment arriving under the city, and his confidence suddenly disappeared cleanly. It doesn't matter if the catapult is down, or the siege car is down, what he is most afraid of is the cloud car. The first appearance of this thing was two years ago when the Great Zhou put down the Qingjiao Rebellion, when Guo Xu, who was still the king of Huai, led his troops and horses to attack Yingtianfu. At that time, although it failed to break through Yingtianfu through the cloud car, it was finally broken because the south city gate was broken by Ma Bin and other internal responses. However, the performance of this cloud car on that day was already extremely amazing and domineering.

For the military armament of the Great Zhou, the Liao people have always been extremely eye-catching. The appearance of the cloud car was then reported back to Daliao by the Liao State. And Wanyan Agu Da is obviously also a person with a heart, and he often pays attention to the changes in the military equipment of the Great Zhou and the Great Liao, and he also learned about the siege weapon of the cloud chariot from within the Liao State. It's just that for Wanyan Aguda, this matter has little to do with him, and he was tired of fighting against Yelu Zongyuan's counterinsurgency army at that time, and he didn't have time to think about it. I really learned about the power of the cloud car in the battle of Xijin Mansion a few months ago. This time, he joined forces with Da Zhou to fight against the Liao, and Wanyan Agu completely understood the impact of the power of siege equipment on the battle situation. Moreover, Da Zhou gave a batch of drawings of siege equipment to the Jurchens very sincerely, which also allowed Wanyan Agu Da to truly understand the subtlety and wonderful use of these things.

Whether it was the actual combat performance report of the coxon sent back by the battlefield workers in the battle of Xijin Province, or the various structures and operation methods of the cohort seen from the drawings, Wanyan Aguda completely changed the previous idea that only the Jurchens were the most advanced in their combat methods. The more thoroughly he understood, the more he felt awe and admiration, the Great Zhou is indeed the Central Plains, although many things are flashy and extravagant, useless, meaningless, but they are useful in the right way after all. These heavy, practical and atmospheric siege equipment, these powerful bed crossbows, all have to be admired. Of course, Wanyan Agu Da is also a little puzzled, Da Zhou, who has such a powerful weapon, seems to be very weak for some reason, they are actually willing to reconcile with the Liao State for nearly a hundred years, and pay tribute every year, which is incredible.

For people like Wanyan Aguda, he naturally won't take into account the state of etiquette in the Great Zhou Dynasty, which is already peace-loving and convincing people with virtue. In his mind, force is everything. Having such great strength and equipment and not swallowing others is difficult for him to understand.

Originally, the Liao people's large-scale attack was not surprising. Whether it is a frontal field battle or a defensive battle, Wanyan Agu mostly thinks that he has a chance of winning. It was only because he understood that the Liao people lacked siege means and the casualties in the head-on battle were too large, so from the very beginning, Wanyan Agu decided to defend Liaoyang Mansion.

However, when a large number of siege equipment arrived at the city ten days ago, and the huge cloud chariot was assembled and stood in front of the formation, Wanyan Aguda's confidence suddenly disappeared without a trace. Finally, he had to face this extremely advanced but effective siege machine from Da Zhou, and this time it was no longer his business. For this reason, Wanyan Agu racked his brains to think about how to deal with this situation. If it was just a conventional siege, he was absolutely confident that he would hold on until the heavy snow hit, and then the Liao army would retreat without a fight. But with the moot and so many siege equipment, I'm afraid I may not be able to hold out even for two or three days.

The Jurchens thought of a lot of countermeasures internally. Some people suggested that they take the initiative to send troops to attack the camp and burn and smash all those siege equipment. Some say they have to find a way to make a more powerful crossbow. Bow to craft iron crossbow arrows and destroy the Arcane with powerful bed crossbows and sharp bolts. There were a lot of suggestions and so on, but none of them made Wanyan Agu satisfied.

Raid on the camp to destroy? How easy is it to say? The other party's 500,000-strong army is eager to go out of the city to fight by itself, and attacking the camp is not to send them to death? For a month, the camp of the other party was brightly lit and heavily guarded every day, and it was clearly visible from the top of the city. There is no possibility of a sneak attack at all.

Crafting a powerful crossbow is not a one-time effort. The drawings given by Da Zhou do have drawings of a powerful three-bow bed crossbow that can shoot 700 steps, and it does mention a fine iron crossbow. The penetration of the bow and arrow can break through the wall, but the bed crossbow made in his army can only shoot three or four hundred steps, and the crossbow arrows used can only be hardwood iron-tipped crossbow arrows, and the power and range are not satisfactory. It's not that he doesn't want to make the perfect bed crossbow on the design drawings of Da Zhou, but that his Jurchens don't have those materials at all. The Jurchens did not have the ability to forge fine iron, let alone the materials to make powerful bows. According to the drawings of the Great Zhou, in order to make a bed crossbow that is 700 steps away, the bowstrings of the three bows and arrows used must be the tendons of the yak in the Western Regions. After the beef tendon is exposed to the sun, it is torn into tendons as thin as a hair, then tanned with secret medicine, and finally kneaded into a thin cord and woven into a bowstring. This is the most powerful and elastic bowstring. with

The material of the corresponding bow body and back is the best wood. However, there are no timber in the land of Liaoyang, and most of them are in the primeval forests of the extreme south. So it's just empty talk.

In this case, Wanyan Mingyue offered a strategy, which was the simplest attack countermeasure against the cloud car itself. To this end, Wan Yan Mingyue made a model based on Da Zhou's drawings to simulate the siege of the city, thus determining the feasibility of pulling the chariot down by pulling it down by pulling a rope when it approached. This may seem like a stupid solution, but it actually hits the nail on the head. Pull it to the ground, what else can the straggle be used for? This line of thinking is first and foremost the right way of thinking. Coupled with the feasibility at the time of implementation, although the Jurchens' three-bow bed crossbow was not the most powerful, it could definitely shoot through the outer iron sheet of the cloud car with a sharp iron-tipped crossbow arrow at a distance of more than thirty steps. Although it is not possible to destroy its structure, it can be nailed to it to hook the roller back to the car. This is clearly achievable.

As soon as this policy was proposed, Wanyan Agu was overjoyed and praised again and again. His sister is indeed a fairy sent by the Immortal Heaven, and this method is more practical and effective than anyone else's proposed method. Wan Yan Mingyue only put forward two suggestions in this defense operation, one of which was to use black oil burning to block the enemy, although it could not stop the opponent from attacking the city, but it also successfully delayed for five or six days. The second is the way to deal with the roller coaster. And this strategy may become the key to saving Liaoyang City and saving the battle situation at this moment.

Wanyan Mingyue showed extremely high military talent, which she herself was surprised by. For Wanyan Aguda, it is really lucky that he can have such a sister.

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After the collapse of the Yunxiao siege vehicle, the Liao army besieging the city was in chaos. Without the means of attacking the city by the cloud chariot, and attacking the city in the most primitive way, this tall and sturdy Liaoyang City will become their nightmare. The Liao soldiers were depressed, while the Jurchens were demoralized. The most worrying cloud car is lying in the moat, and the alarm of the opponent's biggest siege threat is lifted, which is naturally exciting.

Wanyan Aguda laughed loudly on the city tower, and praised Wanyan Mingyue with a big finger. Wanyan Mingyue also breathed a sigh of relief, once this strategy worked, the situation would be under the control of the Jurchen soldiers and horses, and she could also go down to the city with confidence.

The feeling of disgust in her heart has not been eliminated, she knows that it is a reaction after pregnancy, and she has already secretly asked someone to diagnose the pulse. It was that sweet night in the valley with Lin Jue that he became pregnant with Lin Jue's child, which was a gift from heaven for Wanyan Mingyue. Although Lin Jue is gone, although he can't live and fly with him, he will always be his wife, and it is absolutely impossible for him to marry someone else, and he will not like anyone else in this life. If he and Lin Jue can never be reunited, then this child is his only thought and the only link between him and Lin Jue. Therefore, she will not take this child away. At this moment, since the plan has worked, there is no need to stay in the city, you have to go down to the city to rest, and protecting the child in your womb is much more important than killing a few Liao soldiers.

After Wanyan Mingyue left, Wanyan Aguda immediately issued an order to strike a fierce blow to the Liao army. The Liao army still refuses to retreat, and must give them another devastating blow.

"Pour black oil on me. Burn the Liao dogs. Wanyan Agu ordered loudly.

Barrels of oil were hoisted up from under the inner walls, and then poured down the walls in barrels. Although there were shields over their heads, the pungent and sticky oil still trickled through the cracks onto the soldiers. In the midst of the crowding, the soldiers were covered with grease stains. Someone quickly realized the danger.

"It's oil in the stone, the same black oil that burned in the trench the other day. They...... They were afraid they were going to set it on fire. Someone shouted.

The Liao soldiers were shocked when they heard this, and their brains were clever enough to start pulling away from the outside of the city wall to avoid crowding together. Before he could react, the countless torches lit at the head of the city had been dropped. The torch was dipped in black oil and immediately burned, and many Liao soldiers were drenched from head to foot by black oil, and they became burning men in an instant. They beat the flames on their bodies in horror, trying to extinguish the fire, but where can they put it out? Not only that, but the fire began to spread rapidly over the crowded Liao soldiers. As long as the body is stained with black oil, it will quickly set fire to the body, and you can't hide. The soldiers on fire began to jump and scream in panic again, scurrying into the crowd for help, but this would ignite more fires. In this way, before the tea time, the Liao soldiers under the city were in chaos.

In fact, there was not much black oil that was really dumped, only hundreds of barrels of black oil were dumped, and the Liao soldiers under the city had already realized that the Jurchens at the head of the city were going to set fire, so the Jurchens had to light the fire in advance. Therefore, in fact, there were not many soldiers on fire, and there were only more than 1,000 people outside the three city walls. But the blow to the hearts of people brought by such a scene is huge, especially after the scene that has just endured the capsizing of the cloud car, the already fragile morale has reached the verge of collapse.

The tragic situation of those Liao soldiers who were on fire was even more terrifying, watching them being burned alive in front of their eyes, and rolling around in the sky screaming, it was more terrifying than being shot by arrows and stoned to death. And the smell of burnt flesh in the air, the pungent smell of burning black oil, makes people want to vomit. The black smoke is even more difficult to breathe. In this case, I am afraid that the only one who can still hold on is the ignorant and ignorant wooden man. Anything flesh and blood has

No one who feels it can withstand such an impact.

"Run for your life, or everyone will die here." Someone cried out in horror with a sad face.

The next moment, the soldiers of the Liao army suddenly scattered, shouted and then turned around and ran. The city is crowded with ** 10,000 siege soldiers and horses, at this moment dozens of pontoon passages can no longer meet their needs, they are crowded on the pontoon bridge, trampling and pushing each other, and people continue to fall into the moat. Some people jumped directly into the moat and swam to the other side, and everyone was eager to have wings, hating that their father and mother did not give them two more legs. The Liao army retreated without restraint.

The defenders of the city took advantage of the situation to chase and kill with bows and crossbows, and when the Liao soldiers escaped from range, they left thousands of corpses behind. The moat was full of the corpses of the Liao soldiers who had been shot. The water in the moat was also completely dyed red, and it truly became a river of blood.

The siege battle began in the early morning, and it was already evening at this moment, and finally ended with the rout of the Liao army.

As the sun set, the sun shone through the smoke and fog above the battlefield, making it look bleak and cold, without heat. The vast battlefield was a mess, full of stumps and broken arms, bloodstained corpses, destroyed vehicles and equipment, and arrows and blades stuck in the ground. The closer you get to the walls, the more tragic the scene becomes. In particular, on both sides of the moat, in the area below the city walls, corpses were overlapped, blood flowed into streams, and arrows on the ground looked like dense grasslands. Almost every corpse had more than one fatal wound on it, either full of arrows, or both arrow wounds, broken heads, and even missing arms and legs. It can be seen that the previous battle was tragic.

The moat was littered with floating corpses, especially on the sides of the pontoon bridges and dikes, where the corpses were piled up like a school of dead fish crowded on the water, rippling with the waves. After the river was blocked by the embankment, the blood could not flow away, so the entire moat was a blood-red color.

The area under the base of the city walls was even more miserable, with layers of corpses and broken flesh. These were all inhuman-shaped corpses smashed by the rolling wood and stones smashed down from the city. There are also corpses that were burned alive in pitch black as charcoal, still smoking green smoke, and their bodies twisted and still maintained the painful struggle before death. The gaping mouth seemed to be still uttering a silent cry of pain. All this is even more creepy, and people can't face it at all.

That's how cruel war is. After a siege that lasted only six or seven hours, nearly 60,000 lives were lost here. And it has taken ten or twenty years, or even decades, for these people to grow up to where they are today. And then it all becomes meaningless at this moment. Most of them probably don't realize what they're fighting for, what they're dying. As the so-called life is confused, death is unclear, it is really a kind of sadness.

The only ones who were elated were the vultures. From the beginning of the war, they hovered in the air. Because they smell death, they smell the flesh of the corpse. For them, it doesn't matter what the humans on the battlefield are fighting for, all they care about is the corpses on the ground, and those are delicious food. Many of them have tasted human flesh, and it's a delicious food. Therefore, when the war was over, they pounced on the black and oppressive swarms, devouring the flesh and blood on the ground frantically, and refused to stop until they could no longer fly. They fought, quacking and quacking, like arguing with each other, and laughing with satisfaction.

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It soon got dark, and a cold north wind blew. The wind blew the blood and stench of the battlefield and the smell of death into the Liao army camp. There was a frozen dead silence throughout the camp. In the previous more than a month, the Liao army camp had never been so quiet, and every night it was a bonfire and a lot of people. Every day is spent in an irritating noise. But today, the whole camp, though still brightly lit, is as dead and silent as a great tomb.

Yelu Zongyuan's ornate tent was also brightly lit, and hundreds of generals and officials were gathered here, and they lined up from inside the tent to the open space outside the tent according to the size of their official positions. Everyone frowned and looked serious, and the cold wind outside the tent was swishing, but they were sweating. Because, their emperor, the president of the army, is furious in the big tent.

“…… I didn't expect it, I didn't expect it. This is actually the situation. It is unbelievable that an army of 400,000 attacked the city and returned with a crushing defeat. Which of you told me why this is? My Great Liao soldiers are not brave enough? My Da Liao weapon is not sharp enough? My Great Liao's siege equipment is not powerful enough? How so? How so? Who can tell me? Well? Yelu Zongyuan waved his hands and feet excitedly after the case, roaring loudly, and spat on the faces of the nearest officials and generals standing there.

No one spoke, no one responded to his anger, because there was no way to answer his questions. The emperor witnessed the progress of the war with his own eyes, and everything was also a plan made by him with full authority, and the loss of the war should also be borne by himself. He was thundering at the moment, but it didn't make sense. Because the others just carried out his battle plan. In all fairness, the emperor's battle plan was no problem, but the Jurchens were more powerful than they imagined, they had powerful defense equipment, and they had a plan to deal with the Liao army that had been prepared for a long time. They were ready for everything, and every move of the Great Liao soldiers and horses was under their control, and they were targeted and cracked by them. That's the reason for the failure. The emperor's anger is understandable, but no one wants to take responsibility for it.