629th Battle of Song-Liao 1
Without the help of any auxiliary tools, it is very difficult to manually tear down these steel frame breasts that are connected together and a third of which are buried in the ground.
What's more, the Song army, hiding behind the steel frame breastop and holding a large number of bows and crossbows, is not a fool, they will use the bows and arrows in their hands to greet these Liao troops.
In order to prevent the Liao army from taking advantage of the tactics of manpower, they filled in the deep ditch in front of each steel frame chest wall, and used the corpses of their companions to cross the steel frame chest wall. Cai Dao also specially prepared a hundred barrels of fire oil for Pan Xiong. Once too many enemy corpses were piled up in front of the breastwork, Pan Xiong could take advantage of the break when the Liao army stopped attacking and burned them all.
Everything is ready, and now it depends on how the opponent Liao State responds.
News of the Song-Liao war soon spread to the two countries.
In the Song Kingdom, many Confucian scholars, especially those in the south, gathered and wanted to go to Bianliang City to knock on the Que, and wanted to invite the Empress Dowager Meng and the official family to return to Cai Dao, a demon road that was a great joy and brought disaster to the country and the people.
Everyone in the world knew the strength of the Liao State, and in order to achieve long-term peace, Zhenzong and Renzong did not hesitate to pay tribute to the Liao State in exchange for the long-term peace between the two countries. But now, the Liao State has not been evil, and in order to take the initiative to attack the Great Song Kingdom, Cai Dao rashly raised troops, if it is defeated, it will inevitably bring greater disasters to the Great Song Kingdom.
These people have only read their sage books at home, but they have not cared at all about the changes in the surrounding countries of the Great Song Dynasty, as well as the changes in the Great Song Dynasty itself.
These people have always used the old eyes to look at the comparison of strength between today's Great Song Dynasty and the Great Liao Kingdom. Indeed, how strong could a great Song dynasty that continued to pay annual tribute to its neighbors every year be able to become stronger?
It's a pity that these Confucian scholars in the south overestimated the influence of their own group in the people, and greatly underestimated Cai Dao's influence among the three people of agriculture and industry in the north, and even among the three people of agriculture and industry in the south, there are many talented supporters.
For example, most of Jiangnan West Road, almost all of Fujian Road, all of the Lingnan area, and the Bashu No. 5 Road area, where the people are now looking forward to Cai Dao's early extension of the new law.
Therefore, some of these scholars in the south have not yet left the state capital, so they were secretly beaten back by the local people and reported to the government. Local officials simply don't care, and they don't dare to care.
Others, as soon as they left the southern state capital and stepped on the land of the north, were driven away by the people in the north who got the news.
When I entered the city and wanted to stay in a hotel, no inn was willing to take in these Confucian scholars from the south.
It is no wonder that the people in the north reacted so much, and this year is not the year of Dabi. At this time, when a person dressed as a scholar in southern dialect entered Beijing, he would definitely go to sue Taishi Cai for his troubles.
On the contrary, the city of Bianliang is very stable, except for some hot-blooded young people, who have signed up for Di'an, clamoring to join the forbidden army, and they all want to contribute to the Great Song Kingdom's ability to recover the sixteen states of Youyun.
Before leaving, Cai Dao expected such a thing, considering that the Liao and Song Dynasty wars would definitely sacrifice a lot of forbidden troops. Therefore, he left a message that these people who want to see the forbidden army can enter the ranks of the forbidden army after strict screening. However, these recruits should stay in the rear and train well!
On the contrary, there was chaos in the territory of Liao, and His Majesty the Emperor Yelu Yanxi was actually blocked by the Song army to Yanjing Xijin Mansion, although it is still possible to transmit information, but hundreds of thousands of troops are blocked there, and logistics supply is a big problem.
What's more, now in addition to the rumors flying all over the Liao Kingdom, it is said that the Jurchen tribe has rebelled.
"The Jurchen is less than 10,000, and 10,000 are invincible."
"The Wanyan Department has subdued all the Jurchen tribes, and its subordinates and the elite soldiers under them have already exceeded 100,000, not only 100,000, but also 100,000!"
"Wanyan Aguta is like a Jurchen hero like Yelu Abaoji of the Khitan clan, and he will definitely lead the people of all ethnic groups in the Liao State to overthrow the tyranny of the Liao State!"
Rumors like these were dressed up in a similar way, and even those who lived in places closer to the Jurchen tribe spread more violently, and many Khitans, Han people, and some other tribes who did not want to be in the war either fled to the state capital south of Huanglong Mansion, or moved their tribes to temporarily avoid the edge of the Jurchen Wanyan tribe.
For this, Wanyan Aguta at this time is more puzzled than anyone else, first of all, he is not the leader of the Wanyan Ministry, at least not on the surface, because Wanyan Yingge is the orthodox leader of the Wanyan Ministry.
At this time, the number of soldiers under the control of the Wanyan Department now, where is there 10,000 people, and it is just over 1,000 people, but it is still far from 10,000 people, and 100,000 people are even more difficult than ascending to the sky.
"Ah Guta, what do you think we should do?" Wan Yan Yingge asked.
Although Wanyan Aguda was very depressed, he knew what his uncle was asking about, at this time, although the situation was unfavorable to Wanyan, it was even more unfavorable to Liao.
The emperor of the Great Liao State and the elite soldiers were blocked in the south at the same time, and the entire Liaodong was actually an empty shelf. No one dares to touch the land of Sanjing, but what about other state capitals and counties?
This incident is a God-given opportunity for the Wanyan Department and the entire Jurchen clan, but it may also become a disaster from heaven. Therefore, the reason for the rumors is that now the remaining soldiers in the north of the entire Great Liao Kingdom are staring at Wanyanbu's body.
In fact, at this time, Wanyan Aguta and Wanyan Yingge both understood in their hearts that the rumors about the rebellion of the Wanyan Department suddenly appeared this time, and this must be the young and terrible Cai Taishi of the Southern Barbarians who was secretly making trouble.
Should we take advantage of this opportunity to order the Jurchen tribes to raise the banner of anti-Liao, or should we quietly hide to the side and pretend to be a grandson, and sit back and watch the Southern Barbarians and the Liao people fight to the death?
The latter choice seems to be safe, but the two leaders of the Wanyan Department know very well in their hearts that the little master of the Southern Barbarian is very vicious.
If the Wanyan Ministry chooses to wait and see what happens, if the Great Song Kingdom wins, they will not only lose an excellent opportunity to rise, but also make the Wanyan Ministry lose the prestige that it has built up with great difficulty among the Jurchen tribes.
If the Great Song Kingdom loses, or the two countries lose both. Based on the Jurchens' understanding of the Great Song Kingdom over the years, the Song people will definitely bow down to their vassals, and at that time, Yelu Yanxi, who has his hands free, will definitely not let go of Wanyanbu, nor will he let go of Wanyan's bones.