Since the founding of the Liao State, because the territory is too large and there are too many remote places, rebellions have occurred from time to time, and the monarchs and ministers of the Liao State have become accustomed to it. But this rebellion in Suzhou really took everyone by surprise.

What surprised them was not that the remote city of Suzhou was defeated by the rebels - this was also a common thing in the past, after all, the territory of the Liao State was too large, there were only about 3 million men of military age in total, and even if they were all recruited, it would be difficult to have enough troops to ensure control of some tribal areas - what was really surprising was that this time it was the Bohai tribe and the Song pirates who joined forces, and the Song pirates also had a powerful weapon in their hands.

The ability of the Bohai tribe and the Song pirates to join forces is a bit great, and Yelu Dazhen led 4,000 people to quell the rebellion, and the family was defeated in a battle. Although more than 1,000 people eventually escaped, they lost their horses, weapons and armor because they fled back over the mountains.

When the garrison of Ningzhou learned that Fuzhou had been captured by pirates, they easily recaptured Fuzhou five days later, but they were lured into the narrow roads of the mountain woodland by the pirates, and were hit by several weapons that could make a huge roar, killing and wounding hundreds of people. Unexpectedly, that night, the Song pirates and the cavalry of the Bohai tribe pursued and killed under the city of Fuzhou, and used demon methods to destroy the south gate of Fuzhou in an earth-shattering roar. At this time, the reinforcements in Ningzhou had no desire to fight, and they rushed to flee for their lives, and were chased and killed all the way back to Ningzhou. Unexpectedly, the combined forces of the pirates and the Bohai tribe chased the city of Ningzhou from the sea again, and threw a large number of gourds that could burst and hurt people and set fire into the city. Then, the pirates and the Bohai tribe allied forces took thousands of people from Ningzhou, and then moved all the people in Fuzhou, making Fuzhou an empty city.

Gaizhou, Fuzhou and Ningzhou, placed in the densely populated places of the Great Song Dynasty, can only barely be regarded as a town, or even a larger village, but in the vast and sparsely populated Liao State at that time, it is a great fulcrum. With the loss of these three towns, the Liao State lost control of the Liaodong Peninsula. Although the Liaodong Peninsula was still a desolate place at this time, it was also a large area, so it was necessary to retake these three states and put down the rebellion.

However, in view of the powerful weapons in the hands of the Song people, the Liao State stayed in Tokyo and decided to send 30,000 troops to quell the rebellion for the sake of prudence.

30,000 troops is not a small number, although the military system of the Liao State determines the efficiency of its war mobilization, but to gather 30,000 troops, it will also take ten days and half a month. Moreover, given that the Song people possessed powerful weapons, the Liao army had to prepare sufficient food to fight on the Liaodong Peninsula, which was vast and sparsely populated and had little arable land. Although the summer grain has just been collected, it is still necessary to collect carts to transport the grain. So, when the 30,000-strong army set out from Tokyo, Haizhou, and Tiezhou respectively, nearly a month had passed.

What they didn't expect was that in this month, the 3,000 soldiers of Tamna Island had arrived in Suzhou with 3,000 primitive arquebuses, 50 guns and 12,400 kilograms of primitive granular gunpowder, and Tao Lin had also urgently recruited more than 2,000 strongmen from Shandong and Hebei, and Tao Lin's troops had doubled.

Due to the topographical constraints of the Liaodong Peninsula, after the army passed through Chenzhou, it could only march along the narrow flat land of about ten miles between the sea and the mountains, forming a long snake formation. This situation was not conducive to the deployment of the Liao army, but it was conducive to the harassment and interception of the rebels and Song pirates, plus the roads and bridges were destroyed, and the 30,000 people were stop-and-go, but they could not get up quickly.

When the Liao army overcame the difficulties of landing from behind and burning the baggage convoy by the Song pirates along the way, and arrived at the city of Suzhou in mid-October, they were surprised to find that in the narrowest part of the Liaodong Peninsula, a large ditch with a depth of one zhang and a width of more than one zhang at the top appeared on the seashore from the bottom of the city of Suzhou to the other direction. The edge of the ditch is covered with deer bars, and in addition to water, there are sharpened wooden stakes and bamboo thorns in the big ditch. All the earth and stones excavated from this big ditch were piled up on the south side of the ditch, forming a high earth wall, and there was an arrow tower on the earth wall. When the Liao army advanced to the north side of the ditch, you can still see people carrying stones to build piers on the top of the earthen wall.

For the Liao army, which was not good at attacking the city, how to break through this ditch was a difficult problem. But it is not possible to attack as soon as possible, as soon as winter comes, the morale of the Dun soldiers is greatly damaged under the fortified city; In addition, the Song pirates continued to land behind the army, cutting off the grain routes and destroying the roads, although they could not cause too much damage, but they caused panic.

So on October 19, the 30,000 Liao army launched an offensive on a front with a total length of five to six kilometers. The result was very sad, because the battle line was only five or six kilometers in total, and the Liao army could not give full play to the advantage of being outnumbered, let alone the advantage of the rapid penetration of cavalry, so it could only be rigid and frontal. The Liao army lost more than 3,000 people in only three hours, although there was a breakthrough of the earthen wall, but no one dared to say that this was not a trap, because the Liao army that rushed to the earthen wall was sprayed by the Song people's weapons that were sprayed into either death or wounded and could not expand the breakthrough, and more than 300 people who rushed to the south of the earthen wall were cut down by the cavalry, and most of them did not escape.

The Liao generals lost confidence in breaking through the defensive line formed by the trench and earthen wall in a short period of time, and wrote a letter to report to the Tokyo garrison, but what he did not expect was that the messenger he sent encountered an ambush by the Song people who landed from behind the Liao army on the road, and his letter also reached Tao Lin's hands.

In this letter, it can be seen that the Liao general already had a deep understanding of the solidity of this defensive line, saying that this ten-mile-long earthen wall was well defended and covered with all kinds of weapons, and it was impossible to attack without enough siege equipment.

According to his description, before the attacking troops could get close to the earthen wall, they would be hit by javelins fired by ballistae and stones fired by trebuchets, and then hit by a wave of strong crossbows before the Liao army could come within range of bows and arrows. However, the Song people not only wore armor and shields, but also used movable wooden frames to hang raw cowhides, and bows and arrows were not lethal to such a complete defense at all. On the contrary, the Song people shot with firearms, causing heavy casualties to the Liao army. Especially the kind of fire that can emit a huge roar, a dozen of them is a large piece of lead, and it is difficult to leave even a whole corpse when it is swept away.

The Liao soldiers used ladders to go down to the bottom of the trench, and the Song people on the earthen wall would throw ash bottles and fire oil into the ditch, but these were relatively nothing compared to a kind of "gourd bomb" thrown by the Song people. This kind of gourd bomb is filled with gunpowder and small iron pellets with a dry gourd, ignited the fuse and thrown, the gunpowder explodes and the iron pellets burst out in all directions, in addition to direct killing, giving people a psychological shock is even more serious, and the Liao army's attack in several sections is completely collapsed under the bombardment of gourd bombs.

The power of this "gourd bomb" is so great that the soldiers of the Liao army naturally paid serious attention to it. Many of these "gourd bombs" could not be exploded, and they were picked up by the Liao soldiers, and some people wanted to use cloth or grass as a fuse, and then throw it back to blow up the Song people. But the effect is very poor, because it is impossible to grasp the time when the fuse burns, and there are often self-blown up.

However, at the beginning, the Liao general still thought that he had the advantage of numbers, the entire trench was more than ten miles long, and the Song people did not seem to have enough troops to defend each section of the earthen wall, and the side of the earthen wall facing north was also a slope that was conducive to climbing, and he was not without a chance of winning. Therefore, the Liao army still had a chance to attack the earthen wall despite heavy casualties, but attacking the earthen wall was not the same as breaking through the enemy's defensive line. The Song would hold on both sides of the breach, using firearms and strong crossbows to block the Liao army from expanding the breach on both sides. On the narrow wall, the dense firecrackers are the iron brooms that harvest life, and the two-layer armor of the Liao army will also be pierced under the close bombardment of the firecrackers. It was only after paying a heavy price that the Liao army realized that it was impossible to break through from the earthen wall to both sides.

It turned out that it was not a good idea to rush over the earthen wall and directly behind the earthen wall, because there was a brave cavalry behind the earthen wall. When the Liao army crossed the earthen wall, the tragedy of infantry against cavalry would be repeated, while the Khitans obviously did not have the experience of the Song army in fighting cavalry with strict formations and heavy infantry in a strict formation, and they could only be beaten when they encountered cavalry armed with steel swords and iron rods.

The entire line of defense was only a little more than five kilometers wide in a straight line, which was an instant for cavalry. So even if the rebels only had a few hundred cavalry, it would be an unsolvable problem for the attackers.

Considering all the difficulties, the Liao general asked the rear to send more grain and grass, so that he had time to build siege equipment and attack slowly. However, Tao Lin learned that the Liao army was short of food, so it was naturally impossible for the grain to be easily delivered to them, and the people who kept landing from all over the rear of the Liao army destroyed the only way for the Liao army to transport grain. A few days later, the Liao army was irretrievably short of food, so it had to pull out the camp and return north, and was intercepted and killed by the Song people and the tribal cavalry along the way, and suffered heavy losses.

After that, it was winter. In this season, no one wants to fight on the Liaodong Peninsula, where rabbits don't and supplies are difficult to supply, so naturally Liao's conquest of the rebellion can only be postponed until the next year. Tao Lin won another winter of rectification time.

The Liaodong Peninsula was hot, but the Great Song Dynasty did not react at all, because at this time, the attention of the whole Song Dynasty was attracted by one thing.