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As soon as he finished shouting these words, he was slashed down by Qin Mo, who was chased from the mill, and his body fell into the river. To see the latest chapters of this book, please go to Qiushu

The three guards had been in battle for a long time, and although the situation was critical, their hearts were not in the slightest, leaving two of them to deal with the enemy, and sent a person named Thursday back to the town to report the news.

Thursday got on his horse and galloped away, and the arrows flew sideways on his side, but he was blessed with a great life, and he was unharmed.

The other two guards fought fiercely with the enemy for a long time, were outnumbered, and were killed one after another.

Qin Mo rubbed the bloody knife on the sole of his boot, and said to the Khitan who had lifted the disguise of Orion: "The people have been settled, you go back and report to Yelu Yili, and everything will go according to plan." ”

Khitan humanitarian: "Whether people are dead or not, we have to take a look." ”

Qin Mo glared at him and said angrily, "Can't you believe me?"

The leader of the Khitan people smiled: "The stakes are very high, so it's better to take a look." ”

Qin Mo glared at him viciously and led everyone to the mill.

Li Mao's corpse lay on his stomach in front of the door, his head outward, his feet rushed inward, and a big man's mouth was cracked on his back, and half of his body was soaked with blood. The Khitans shook off their skins, drew their scimitars, and prepared to cut off Li Mao's head and bring it back.

Qin Mo sneered: "Confused, can you go back with the head?"

The Khitan leader said: "You don't have to bring back the head, but it's not too much to cut it off, if your knife is not sharp enough, let me do it for you." ”

Qin Mo glanced at him, walked to Li Mao's corpse, grabbed his hair, and asked the Khitan people: "You see the truth, whether it is me, don't blame me for killing the wrong head"

The Khitan took out an image from his arms, checked it, and confirmed that it was Li Mao himself, so he nodded in agreement. Qin Mo cut off Li Mao's head in front of everyone.

When the news that Li Mao was assassinated by Qin Mo in collusion with the Khitans in the mill reached Donggao Town, Lan'er howled and cried, and the cry was so terrible that the color of the listener changed. The dragons were leaderless, and there was a mess up and down. At the critical moment, in the end, Jin Daoan was calm, and Jin Daoan summoned Zheng Xiaozhang, Chang Mucang, Xie Biao and others to discuss countermeasures.

Everyone pushed Kim Do-an to come out to preside over the overall situation and deal with the crisis. Jin Daoan said: "If I and Luo Ke come forward, Donggao Town will inevitably be divided into two, and if the Khitans don't come, we will kill ourselves first, then it will really be a complete defeat." At present, we must immediately take Wen Sima back, push him as the master, and we will devote ourselves to assisting him to get through this crisis first. ”

Xie Biao said: "What the head said is reasonable, we can't be chaotic internally." Zheng Xiaozhang and Chang Mucang had no choice but to agree, and after everyone discussed, they sent Xie Biao as a special envoy to cross the river to welcome the clerk back to the town to preside over military affairs.

When the clerk heard that Li Mao was killed, he couldn't help but burst into tears, and said to Xie Biao: "Although I have a political dispute with him, I have been an old brother for many years.

Xie Biao persuaded: "Sima Jiewai, now that the dragons in Donggao Town have no leader, the Khitans are bound to take advantage of the situation to attack, and the head of Jindu, the head of Chang, and the judge Zheng sent me to urge Sima to return to the city to preside over the overall situation." ”

The clerk wiped away his tears and said: "What you said is that we want to avenge him and destroy the Khitans." ”

No matter how Li Mao and Wencheng disagree, Wencheng is the second person in Donggao Town after Li Mao, and the No. 1 person was assassinated, and it is only natural that the No. 2 person will take over the position of the owner. In the whole episode, only he can hold the two groups of people and work together to tide over the difficulties.

After taking over the supreme power of Donggao Town, Wen Cheng immediately ordered martial law, and transferred the 3rd Division loyal to Li Mao out of Zhuangwai to garrison, while the 1st Division and Zhu Jiu's navy army formed by the old Qing Navy as the team were transferred to the town to garrison.

When the Khitans got the exact news of Li Mao's assassination, they were overjoyed, and Yili Jin Yelu Delong personally led 3,000 elite knights across the Liao River and marched south day and night.

His scouting horses protruded five hundred miles from the front team, and he could relay the latest and most accurate situation of Donggao Town at any time.

Without exception, this information shows that Li Mao was assassinated, and that Wen Cheng had already grasped the actual power of Donggao Town, but Wen Cheng's position was not stable, and those loyal to Li Mao suspected his motives for mobilizing the army and were plotting to overthrow him by force.

Yeludron ordered the front team of 1,000 light cavalry to abandon the brigade and march to Donggao Town desperately, the Khitan light cavalry marched at an astonishing speed, three days later the Khitan cavalry arrived at the Songyuan slope thirty miles east of the Donggao Mountain, there is a dangerous pass on the slope Songmu Pass, which is one of the important gateways of Donggao Town, breaking this pass, Donggao Town will be directly exposed to the blow of the Khitan iron cavalry.

In terms of terrain, Songmu Pass is also sinister, as long as you make a little preparation to stop a hundred and ten people, it is really a very easy thing, but if you want to stop three thousand elite soldiers and horses, unless the guards have the talents of Wei Qing and Li Jing, or the attacking soldiers are stupid and stupid like pigs' heads, it is absolutely impossible.

However, the 3,000 Khitan army was really blocked in front of the Songyuan Pass, and the 1,000 vanguard army organized two small attacks, and after the defeat, they did not move. This made Donggao Town jubilant, and at the same time, it also made the 3,000 Khitan army very depressed.

Jerodron's son, Jerod, asked his father why he didn't break through and move on.

Yerodron smiled: "At this moment, if we go to relieve his siege, the clerk will definitely have to bargain with us, and it will be very annoying." It's better to let him suffer a little more, and when he can't withstand the pressure of Li Mao's subordinates and takes the initiative to ask us for help, let's kill him well, and then enter the army, what qualifications does he have to negotiate with us at that time?"

Yelushi was puzzled: "The child has never understood what is the difficulty of the little cross crossing, why the father wants to leave a document here" Yeludron said: "It is easy to take Donggao Town, and it is not difficult to defend it, but what do we want such a broken village to do, what we want is salt, iron, silk, cloth, where do these come from, we can only come from the towns run by the Han people, kill the clerks, we will not get anything, in the end it is still empty." It's better to keep him for the first time and slowly squeeze the benefits out of him. It's like raising a sheep, killing it with one knife, eating a mouthful of meat and then it is gone, but if you raise him, you can keep shearing the sheep, milking the goat, and when he can't use it, he will kill and skin it and eat the meat with a knife. ”

Yelu Shi said: "Fight the cross in one go, spare his life, and then give favors, and still let him be the master of the cross in the future, is he still afraid to betray us?"

Yerodron said: "If your home is easily broken by the enemy, do you live in peace of mind in such a home, you live in a home that is not at ease, although you have made a fortune, how dare you put your property in the house If you know that we can easily break his walled city, even if you become our slave in the future, you will be unwilling in your heart, and he will run away at the first opportunity, it is better to let him mistakenly think that we are powerless to break his walled city, let him live in peace, and wait for us to milk him slowly." ”

Yelu Shi said: "Father is smart, this is the strategy that the Han people say." ”

Yerodron smiled: "I don't know what tricks, when I was young, my family was poor, often not full, so I went to the grassland with the Han family slaves and maids to pick up the vole's nest to dig food to satisfy hunger, I found that as long as you don't destroy their nests and leave them a little food, these clever little guys will not abandon their nests, they will work hard to rebuild their homes, and you will dig their nests again in the next year, and they are full of good things." Year after year, we can't get enough of it. ”

Yelu Shi was convinced.

A few days after the postponement outside Songmu Pass, the messenger of the clerk secretly came to the Khitan camp with the Khitan liaison and asked Yelu Delong to march as soon as possible, otherwise he would not be able to bear it. Yerodron took the opportunity to bargain, and the clerk was forced to sign the alliance under the city, and the two agreed to attack the city on the 26th of this month.

In the early morning of the 26th, the Khitan army with the support of Neiying frantically launched an attack on Songmu Pass, and the Songmu Pass, which had been held for five days and five nights, fell after a stick of incense, and there were still three small passes in the south of Songmu Pass, but they were really vulnerable in front of the three thousand elite Khitan knights who rushed like a tide, and they were broken one after another.

The 3,000-strong army crossed the defense line of Donggao Mountain and rushed straight to Donggao Town like a flood.

The Khitan people live in the steppe and have no habit of settling, and their tribe is a typical nomadic people, good at archery and horse archery, and not good at siege and street warfare. After a symbolic attack by the 3,000-strong army of 3,000 people who surrounded the town of Donggao, they died down, and according to the plan, at dusk, the clerk would open the east gate of the town and let them into the city.

Idle, Yerodron carried a battle axe, under the escort of a team of black-armored warriors to the front of the position to check, the more he looked at it, the more shocked he became, in just one year, Donggao Town has grown taller and stronger than he remembered, and the towering city walls look like a strong sense of oppression from a mile away. He secretly rejoiced: Fortunately, I didn't listen to those old-fashioned opinions, otherwise I would really wave my troops to gnaw this hard bone, even if I succeeded, I would have to break several teeth, and if I was not careful, there was even the danger of returning home, luck, luck.

At noon on this day, a black pillar of smoke suddenly rose in the town of Donggao, as if a house was on fire, and Jerodron knew very well that it was the code that he had agreed with the clerk, which proved that everything was normal in the city, and that it was enough to do what was planned at dusk.

Waited left and right, and finally at dusk, the city suddenly burst into flames, this is the signal that the clerk has moved, Yeludron personally blew the horn of attack, three thousand Khitan soldiers shouted from all directions to launch an attack, the brave warriors howled, wielding scimitars and hammers, overwhelming, the momentum is overwhelming.

War drums sounded above the city, and all the people in Donggao Town were mobilized, with men climbing the walls and women carrying arrows and transporting the wounded, everything seemed to be in order.

It was agreed that the location of the city was the east gate, and Yerodron personally supervised the formation, he walked halfway, and felt that the situation was a little weird, Li Mao's flag on the head of the city was fluttering in the wind, wasn't Li Mao dead, why did he still hang his banner. He was suspicious, but he quickly convinced himself that the Han people respected their ancestors, the dead were the greatest, and Li Mao was the former owner of Donggao Town, who had been assassinated and his bones were still cold, and the successor to the throne had hoisted his banner or just to appease Li Mao's old department.

Yeludron scolded secretly in his heart: "The Han people are just weird, people die a hundred, their wives' wealth, cattle, sheep, knives and horses are all other people's, and even the children have to change their surnames to other people's families, but where do they get these stinky rules." ”

After a bit of slander, Jerodron was relieved, and he suddenly noticed that there was chaos at the east gate of the city, as if there was a fight, and the arrows shot from the tower were noticeably sparse.

"The Han people have infighting, rush"

Thinking that he had seen the situation, Yerodron suddenly made his attendants fight and reveal his true nature.

Li Mao's eyes lit up when he was standing at the head of the city, and he turned around and greeted the clerk: "You have appeared, Khitan leader." The clerk squinted his eyes and nodded: "It should be him, cunning enough." While the two were talking, the six most famous archers in Donggao Town appeared at the same time, standing in front of the female wall, the Khitan leader who was charging, suddenly lit up in front of him, and the hanging suspension bridge suddenly made a loud gurgling sound, and was slowly falling, and the unusually heavy city gate also cracked a gap.

The light is at hand, the victory is at hand, the woman and the inexhaustible wealth are at hand, rush

Jerodron took the lead and swooped down on the side of the drawbridge like a whirlwind.

At the same time, six feathered arrows were fired at him from the same spot with a strong wind, and Jerodron was stunned for a moment, it was too late to dodge, and six arrows were accurately shot at him, two in the waist and abdomen, two in the leg, one in the right arm, and one through the neck.

Yerodron wears three layers of armor on his body, and his chest and abdomen and head are the most protected. The arrow in the waist and abdomen only pierced through two layers of leather armor and did not hurt the vital point at all, the arrow in the leg pierced through three layers of armor, but only the flesh, the arrow on the arm caused actual damage, but the problem was not serious, the real fatal thing was the arrow that fell vertically from mid-air and burrowed into his soft chest cavity from between his neck.

Jerodron vomited blood and fell to the ground.

The six shooters made persistent efforts, and shot the strong man who held the big drum in one breath, the standard-bearer is a very special position in the army, not everyone is qualified to raise the flag, especially the one who raises the big flag, the one who is not superior in strength cannot, Yerodron was killed, the impact on the army is not great, after all, in the chaos, few people can see Yerodron's true body, but Dalu is different, here is the morale of the entire army, and the impact of its collapse on morale is fatal.

There was a slight fluctuation in the ranks of the Khitans, which seemed to be unharmed, but in fact they were fatal.

The Khitans were fierce warriors in the grassland, in the jungle, and in the sparse forest and grassland, but in the absence of the necessary siege equipment, they were still helpless against Donggao Town under the protection of the tall city walls.

And the defenders were obviously prepared, with strong bows and crossbows, and full firepower. The Khitans lacked iron, and with the exception of officers and a few elite soldiers, most of the soldiers did not have thick armor, and the casualty rate was frightening in the rain of arrows pouring down like a torrential rain.

The moat that had been cleaned up not long ago was quickly silted up by the corpses, and the Khitan warriors of the rear team stepped on the corpses of the Khitan warriors of the previous team and rushed over the moat to the solid city wall, set up a human ladder, threw out the grappling hook, and began to climb upward, and they were greeted by rolling wood and stones as dense as raindrops.

Then the ghost cried and the wolf howled to the earth, and the mountain of corpses was seen under the city wall.

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