In mid-October, when the first snowflakes fell from the sky in the territory of the Amway army on the north bank of the Yellow River, Yelu Yanxi's army finally arrived on the west bank of the Yongji Canal, which was only twenty or thirty miles away from the north bank of the Yellow River.

This is the preset camp selected by Yelu Yanxi for the Liao army, and it is also the location where a decisive battle with Gao Yu is planned to begin.

Liyang City, which has been a battleground for soldiers since ancient times, is on the east bank of Yongji Canal, just one canal away from the Liao army camp. Ten miles south from the section of the Yongji Canal near the Imperial Tent of Yelu Yanxi, the canal turns westward and finally disappears near the high embankment of the Yellow River.

The large camp of the Liao army was also laid out along the bend of the Yongji Canal, occupying a fairly good geographical advantage.

Although this section of the Yongji Canal has long been abandoned, the ditch is still there, and the embankment still exists. Under the orders of Yelu Yanxi, his Liao soldiers also learned the methods of the Han Chinese, rammed earth to build fortifications, and raised the embankments of the Yongji Canal on the southeast side of the camp, making it a high wall enough to resist the strong attack of the army. And on the northwest two sides of the Liao army camp. The Liao soldiers also endured hardships and worked in the cold wind for days and days, digging ditches, building walls, and building fences in front of the walls to protect the enemy's cavalry from attacking. It is almost a copy of the hard village built by Zhong Fu in Anyangkou.

That's right! Yelu Yanxi's army is now also learning from the Song army, and it is also going to be a tough village and a dumb battle!

The opponent this time, after all, is the terrible Gao Yu Gao Taiwei!

Wu Haogu at the end of the four marshals of the Great Song Dynasty is already so powerful, can Gao Yu be worse? Therefore, Yelu Yanxi also had to wait for it and use a hard and stupid way to compete with it.

According to the plan, before the Yellow River froze, Yelu Yanxi's 100,000 Khitan army (including more than 50,000 palace troops, 30,000 tribal troops, and 15,000 imperial horde army) and 16,000 Han troops of the 44th Jie army would be concentrated in the Liyang camp on the west bank of the Yongji Canal.

Of course, he didn't come empty-handed, but beat the grass valley as much as possible, and also broke a number of Han regiments to train and garrison the stockades, plundered a large amount of grain and grass, and gathered together in the Liyang camp.

Relying on these grass valleys, Yelu Yanxi's army was enough to hold out on the north bank of the Yellow River for three months. In fact, they don't have to wait so long, at the latest in November, the Yellow River will be frozen, and then 100,000 Liao troops will step on the ice and go south and go straight to Kaifeng City!

And if Gao Yu wanted to stop Yelu Yanxi's army from moving south, he had to take the initiative to find a way to fight a decisive battle......

If you want to stay in the hard village and insist, then you can only watch the Great Liao Heavenly Soldiers go to Kaifeng Mansion to live happily!

Thinking that he would soon be able to go to Kaifeng Mansion to spread wild, Yelu Yanxi is in a very good mood now, and at this time he is holding a banquet in his imperial tent, eating and drinking with the ministers and generals who accompany the army, enjoying songs and dances, and from time to time he will discuss the possibility of entering Kaifeng Mansion?

Although it's just talking, there is basically no possibility of realizing it - that's Kaifeng Mansion! How can it be easily overrun?

But Yelu Yanxi is still very happy! Since the Empress Dowager Chengtian went south and signed the alliance with the Song Lord, no Liao army has gone south to the bank of the Yellow River for more than a hundred years. He Yelu Yanxi can be regarded as the first person in a hundred years!

Just when he was happy, a waiting Langjun suddenly came to report.

"Your Majesty, there is an envoy from the Song Kingdom outside, named Gao Lian, who claims to be Gao Yu's brother."

"What? Gao Yu's brother!? Yelu Yanxi was stunned, thinking that he had drunk too much, "Say it again!" ”

"Your Majesty, Gao Yu of the Song State sent an envoy over, it is his brother Gao Lian!"

It must be here to write a war book!

Yelu Yanxi became nervous.

He can't figure out how many soldiers and horses Gao Yu has now? In case there are 108,000 of them, and then the iron cavalry of Wu Haogu is brought in, things will not be very easy.

"Gao Yu's army has arrived?"

"Back to Your Majesty, I didn't see a large force of the Song army, only a few monks and a dozen cavalry escorted the self-proclaimed Gao Lian."

"Bao Xian," Yelu Yanxi said, "and go and ask." ”

"Yes."

Xiao Bao took the order first, and after a while, he trotted all the way over, shouting as he ran.

"Your Majesty, Your Majesty...... The envoys of the Song army said that they wanted to negotiate peace with us! ”

What the!? Peace? Are you sure?

Yelu Yanxi was stunned at that time, and her voice trembled a little, "Baoxian, you, you said you were going to negotiate peace?" ”

Xiao Baoxian had already broken into the imperial tent, and when he saw Yelu Yanxi, he saluted, "Bodhisattva bless, Bodhisattva bless, the Song people can't hold back, they want to negotiate peace......"

"Amitabha Buddha ......" Yelu Yanxi's tears of excitement were about to fall.

It's definitely a torment to fight!

How can Gao Yu say otherwise, Wu Haogu's side is too powerful! Not only can it be beaten, but also it can be bought, who knows if there will be Yandi Haoqiang in Yanjing City who sees the money and sells the city gate to Wu Haogu?

So during this time, Yelu Yanxi was tense on the surface, but his heart was constantly collapsing, and he was having nightmares every night!

"Your Majesty," Xiao Bao asked first, "what do you want to do with him?" ”

Yelu Yanxi couldn't make up her mind for a while, and her eyes swept in the imperial tent, "What do you think?" ”

"Your Majesty, we have to let the Song army immediately withdraw from our Nanjing Dao territory!"

"You have to give us 1 million coins!"

"Give another 3 million at one time!"

The ministers present began to make suggestions. It is nothing more than to withdraw from the army, give New Year's coins, and give compensation. However, he did not put forward too many demands, and did not put forward any conditions for "killing the ancients to make peace" or "ceding the Tianjin Mansion".

After all, the current battlefield situation is not favorable to Daliao, and there will be problems on the side of Xijin Mansion at any time! Tokyo Road is also a powder keg, I don't know if it will be ignited by Wu Haogu.

In this case, delay is very disadvantageous for Liao.

……

The shallow water period of winter has finally arrived. The water level of the Gaoliang River has rapidly receded, and in some places sandbars have been exposed. Hundreds of war horses, just leaping horses out of the shallow water, splashing a splash. Wu Haogu took the lead, rode a tall Tianjin horse, and jumped straight onto the west bank of the Gaoliang River!

A huge castle appeared in front of Wu Haogu's eyes.

This castle is not Yanjing City, but the camp between the rivers.

It is said to be a large camp, but it was built according to the standards of the castle. Even red bricks were brought in, and a thin layer of brick walls was wrapped around the rammed earth walls. It looks particularly majestic!

And this Hejian camp, which is comparable to a city, is not the only castle under the Song army in Yanjing City. After several months of construction. Yanjing City is now besieged by a long trench. The starting point of the long length is the big camp between the rivers, which extends to the east and west, and to the east it "crosses" the Gaoliang River, and then digs along the Gaoliang River to the north. To the west, it is a few hundred steps away from the corner of Yanjing City and turns north. Finally, in the north of Yanjing City, the two long moats turned again and finally joined into one.

And along the long trench, there are three big forts, respectively in the east, north and west of Yanjing City, there is a series of small forts, every one or two hundred steps, there is a garrison base.

In short, it's a siege!

Zhao Zhongge and Murong Parrot, who learned that Wu Hao's ancient relatives had arrived with reinforcements, had already gone out to greet them. Riding their horses to Wu Haogu, both of them had to dismount and salute, but they were stopped by Wu Haogu.

"No need to be polite, let's talk as we go." Wu Haogu pointed to the four "big cylinders" that were creaking and rolling from the pontoon bridge not far away, and said with a smile, "Baby is here!" Four three-thousand-pound cannons...... Can the fort be built? ”

These four 3,000-pound guns are not field guns, but siege guns, although there are also gun mounts, but it is obviously more convenient to place on the battery, and the shooting is also accurate.

"That's it!" Brother Zhao Zhong said with a smile, "350 steps south of the city of Xijin Mansion, there are 4 forts, all of which are made of bricks and stones, and there are moats and walls to cover them. ”

"Good!" Wu Haogu smiled, "Now the walls of Xijin Mansion are about to collapse!" ”

"Can it really collapse?" Murong Parrot seemed a little skeptical.

"Why don't you collapse? A 3,000-pound cannon can fire 15-pound iron balls, a cannon can fire at least 10 pieces in an hour, 120 pieces a day, and 4 cannons together is 480 pieces, what city wall can bear? ”

"Jieshuai," Brother Zhao Zhong suddenly lowered his voice, "Didn't you say before that you shouldn't pull the cannon out for the time being?" Right now...... Is it that Yelu Yanxi's side is going too well? ”

"The imperial court wants to negotiate peace,......" Wu Hao Gu said, "Gao Taiwei has already obtained a secret decree, and we have to spoil his good deeds!" Brother Zhong, how are you doing here? Is there a way? ”

"Yes!" Brother Zhao Zhong said, "Xiaguan has a brother named Zhao Sheng, who is running inside and outside the Xijin Mansion.

In addition, the fifth brother's brother walked between Juyongguan and the Hejian camp. ”

"Can't talk?"

"They are all waiting and seeing," Zhao Zhongge said, "I want to see what happens to Yelu Yanxi?" ”

"It's not going to end well!" Wu Haogu said coldly, "Tomorrow, we will transport the cannon in place, and then test it, and the day after tomorrow, we will tear down a section of the south wall of Xijin Mansion!" ”

"If it can really be dismantled, there will naturally be no problem." Zhao Zhongge said, "At least there is no problem with the Zhao and Liu families, and the Zhang family in Pingzhou is also willing to surrender." ”

"What about the Han family?" Wu Haogu asked, "Do you want to be a member of the Loyal Palace?" ”

"The Han family can't stay!" Zhao Zhongge said, "The Han family has a lot of land, and it can house many knights and soldiers from the Tianfu Mansion. And...... The festival commander should be gracious and powerful! ”

In the Northern Expedition of Wuhaogu, except for the Yutian Han family, everyone else in the Yanyun family was watching, only the Han family came out and fought a few battles, and they fought all the old books, who else would they take if they didn't take the knife? Moreover, the territory of the Yutian Han family is the largest among the Yanyun families. With at least tens of millions of acres of land, all of which were confiscated, Wu Haogu would be able to place tens of thousands of Tianfu soldiers and thousands of knights in Yandi.

"Good!" Wu Haogu nodded, "The Yutian Han family is expelled, and all the land belonging to the Khitans in Yandi will also be confiscated, and the Khitan people in the Xijin Mansion will be allowed to leave empty!" ”