Although Li Hanguang said it lightly, Yelu Dagu didn't dare to put all his thoughts on being able to prepare black powder, not to mention that they didn't know that this thing was black powder at all.

And Yelu Dagu is unwilling, very, very unwilling.

Thinking of the possible punishment for him from the King of the Southern Court and His Majesty the Emperor after the war, especially the fact that most of his enemies in the domestic court and army would fall into the ground, Yelu Dagu's gloomy gaze licked the faces of the patriarchs of the ten local tribes like a poisonous snake letter, making their hearts twitch for a while.

I only heard Yelu Dagu's voice so cold that it made people chill from the bottom of their hearts: "The Song people came all the way to take the city, and they must not have many weapons with them, and there are probably not many bows and arrows left, and there should not be many terrifying weapons that can explode, and now our troops are roughly twice that of the Song people, and we may be able to break the city tomorrow if we attack again." ”

The leaders of the tribes either turned their heads or bowed their heads, not daring to look at the great bones of Jerod, but none of them responded with a voice.

Yelu Dagu's expression was cold, and he gritted his teeth and said: "Tomorrow, the Xijing army will be responsible for attacking the south, west and east, and your ten tribes will be responsible for the north city wall. ”

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On the second day, the Liao army threw down nearly 1,000 corpses and had to retreat.

In the evening of the same day, the atmosphere in the camp of the great bones of Jerod was extremely dull.

"Li Hanguang, has that thing been prepared?" Yelu asked with a gloomy face.

Li Hanguang smiled bitterly in his heart, thinking that such a thing could not be so fast, so he quickly stood up and bowed and said: "General, all the craftsmen in the camp have been called by the lower officials to come and see, and the lower officials have given a reward of five hundred taels of silver, all the craftsmen have thought about it for a day and a night, and many people have tried various methods, but no one can concoct it, maybe send this thing to Shangjing, and His Majesty will gather skilled craftsmen from all over the country to study it for many days before it can be deployed." ”

"No, by that time, we'll still be able to count how much credit we have." Yelu Dagu roared angrily, "It must be deployed as soon as possible to be able to atone for the sin." ”

Li Hanguang hurriedly said, "Xiaguan will try again tonight." ”

Yelu Dagu took out a black iron token and said loudly: "If you try again tonight, you can use this token to call anyone in the camp, and maybe someone will know what this thing is made of." ”

Li Hanguang took the token, and was about to retire with a bitter face, when a military attache rushed in and reported loudly: "Report to the general, more than ten people in the tribal army wanted to flee back to the tribe, but they were caught by their humble duties. ”

Yelu Dagu's face changed when he heard this, and then he was furious, if there were heavy casualties on the battlefield, it would be easy for a chain reaction to appear deserters in the army, and the morale of the army would drop to the bottom in a short period of time.

"Who gave them the guts to dare to run away, do they all want to die?" Yelu Dagu looked murderous and roared loudly.

Magutou asked in a deep voice, "Did you ask them why they ran away?" ”

The officer glanced at Yelu Dagu and said, "I asked these more than a dozen people, and they all fled because they heard that the general was going to force the tribal army to attack the city and send them to death. ”

Yelu Dagu roared: "Fart, when did Lao Tzu say this." ”

The officer hurriedly said: "General, I don't know where this rumor spread, now it has spread in the army, and because the general forced the army to attack the city today, many people are convinced of this rumor, our Xijing army is okay, and now the tribal army is already panicking, and it is not only these dozen people who want to flee back to the tribe." ”

"Who is spreading the rumor, you will check it for me, and I will pick his skin after I find out." After Yelu Dagu said this, he had already forcibly calmed himself down, because he suddenly realized the seriousness of the problem.

After the officer took the order and left, Yelu Dagu forcibly suppressed the anger in his heart, and said with a solemn expression: "Pass the order, pay attention to vigilance at night, and prevent the Song people from attacking the camp!" ”

As soon as Yelu Dagu's voice fell, the faces of all the generals of the Xijing army under his command did not change, even the ten clan leaders such as Magu were extremely ugly.

You must know that they still have more than 12,000 people, and there are more than 7,000 Song troops in Shuitou City, although it is difficult for them to break the city, but every Liao person believes that the Song people will never dare to go out of the city, but now they want to prevent the Song people from sneaking attack.

But if you think about it carefully, with the morale of their army and the current military spirit, it is not impossible for the Song people to attack the camp.

The morale of the army is something that cannot be touched, but it can be seen from the soldiers' expressions, words and deeds, and the appearance of the army, and during the day, everyone found that the morale of their army was already at a low point.

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Li Hanguang took the token given by Yelu Dagu, took an entourage, and came to his tent with a gunpowder bag.

"The official is back." The snake slave greeted him, gave Li Hanguang a slight blessing, and then gently helped Li Hanguang take off his clothes and hand over hot wine.

"If you look at this thing, can you tell what it's made of?" Li Hanguang drank the wine in one gulp, and said with a sad face: "General Yelu pressed very tightly, and even gave me a black iron token, everyone in the camp can be transferred over to try it to see if this thing can be made." ”

"Yes, officer." As the snake slave spoke, he carefully took the gunpowder bag from Li Hanguang's entourage, sniffed it seriously, and pondered: "This smell seems to be the smell of dry grass roots, I seem to have encountered it when I was looking for dry firewood around the camp in the past few days. ”

When Li Hanguang heard this, he was immediately overjoyed and said, "Great, you hurry up and find that kind of dry grass root, go now." ”

The snake slave smiled and said: "Don't worry, the concubine has boiled hot porridge for the official, and the concubine will bring it in for the official first, and then immediately go to find the dry grass roots." ”

The snake slave said yes, and went out of the tent, and came to the nearby hill, where there was a simple stove made of stones, and on top of it was an iron pot for cooking porridge, and the fire was burning.

I didn't see any movement from the snake slave, and the moment he picked up the iron pot from the stove, the fire turned a faint green, and it looked eye-catching from a distance.

The green flame didn't last long, just seven or eight breaths, but if someone kept staring in this direction, they would definitely be able to spot it at the first time.

After the snake slave returned to the tent, Li Hanguang couldn't wait to say: "I'll send you an entourage with a torch, and you hurry up to look for the withered grass around the camp." ”

The snake slave said: "Official, the concubine has just seen the camp raise its vigilance, and I'm afraid she won't be able to get out of the camp." ”

"Take this, and if anyone stands in the way, you will retreat with this token." As Li Hanguang spoke, he took out the black iron token given by Yelu Dagu from his arms and handed it to the snake slave.

The snake slave took the token, thought for a while, and said: "Official, it's too dark at night, even if there are torches, the vision is not clear, and the craftsmen called by the officials during the day have been picking up dry firewood around these days, so it's better for Gongzi to send some craftsmen over, and the concubine will take them to find it together." ”

Li Hanguang said without hesitation: "Okay, I'll have people call those more than 100 craftsmen over and follow you out of the camp to find it."

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Dark clouds cover the moon, and the winter is cold.

Shuitou City, the city walls are lit high, and the soldiers can't undress, sleep on their pillows, and are always ready to fight the enemy.

Han Sanlang hurriedly ran to report to Zhang Binyu, who lived on the city tower: "At the head of the third gear, the shadows in the Liao camp sent another signal, this time it was a green flame, which lasted for seven or eight breaths. ”

When Zhang Bin heard this, his expression suddenly froze, and he muttered to himself: "It only lasted for seven or eight breaths, and this is to make us attack at night." ”

Zhang Bin was a little hesitant, although he told the snake slave about the signal, and asked the snake slave to send all kinds of things that could change the color of the flame in advance, but he could only carry out simple information transmission, he didn't know what happened in the Liao army camp, and even asked the snake slave to send a message directly and let them go to the camp.

You must know that the Song people are not the opponent of the Liao army in the field, this is already a thing recognized by everyone, the Flying Fox Trail was a big victory with more than 50,000 horses to set a trap, besiege and kill 8,000 Khitan people, and also made enough preparations for various traps in advance to kill 8,000 Khitan people, but in this way, the Song army still suffered five or six thousand casualties, it is conceivable that the combat power of the Liao people in the field is strong.

But now outside Shuitou City, there are still more than 13,000 people in the Liao army, and there are only about 7,000 people on the Song army's side, how can they be able to fight, even if it is a night attack, the Liao people will be unprepared?

Just kidding, this is on the battlefield, the Liao army is a real elite division, and it is not a rabble, how can it not even do this most basic thing.

"Prison army, give me 3,000 men, and I'll go to attack the Liao." But there are always people who are exceptions, there are always those who are very brave and courageous, this person is of course a brave and brave Orimu Qiu.

Without waiting for Zhang Bin to speak, Zhi Kerou scolded Zhi Muqiu: "Nonsense, we finally got into this situation, you take 3,000 people to die, if you go and don't return, the troops will be reduced by nearly half, how can you defend the city in the future." ”

Orimuqiu's face was scornful, and he stepped aside, his eyes full of disappointment.

Zhang Bin suddenly said in a deep voice: "My secret son in the Liao army has an extraordinary mind, since she sent a letter to let us go to the camp, there must be a reason, it is likely that something happened in the camp of the Liao army that we don't know." ”

"But it's too risky to send a large army to steal the camp." After a pause, Zhang Bin glanced at Zhemuqiu, a flash of determination flashed in his eyes, and said: "However, you can send a small group of elite troops to take a look, with ten gunpowder bags, if there is a chance, give the Liao people a ruthless, if you can't do anything, you will retreat decisively, and you must not let yourself fall into danger." ”

When Zhi Muqiu heard this, his eyes lit up, his spirit perked up, and he was about to say something, but Zhi Kerou glared at him and said first: "The prison army ......"

Zhang Bin waved his hand to interrupt Zhi Kerou's words, and said: "Let Mu Qiu lead the 100 soldiers of this official over, this 100 soldiers are the most elite soldiers selected from the western army of Dashun City, as long as you are cautious, do not fall into the encirclement of the Liao army, there is no problem in retreating." ”

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PS: I'm very, very sorry, after I finished writing it tonight, I felt that the logic didn't make sense, so I changed it again and deleted more than 1,000 words, so there is only one chapter of more than 3,000 words tonight————

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