Before Li Danran's words fell, a thunderclap suddenly sounded outside, as if even Shuozhou City was shaking. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

Zhao Gu smiled: "Listen, this is an explosion." ”

The two hurriedly went out to take a look, but saw a puff of black smoke rising from the direction of the catapult, and the small hill that the Liao army used to hide their vision was gone, and in its original direction, a pile of fine broken wood was scattered.

The shape of the wood seems to be the wreck of one of the catapults.

"It's ......."

The inside and outside of Shuozhou City suddenly quieted down, whether it was on the side of the Song army or the Liao army.

In particular, the shooters next to the catapult stood there as if they had seen a ghost, forgetting their movements for a long time.

It wasn't until their general shouted behind him that they reloaded the stones onto the catapult and prepared to start.

Zhao Gu smiled and said to the archer: "Don't stop, hurry up and shoot arrows." ”

The archers nodded, and then each lit the lead on the iron ball, and then fixed the iron ball to the arrow, and shot it out with a 'poof'.

The arrow arced, first flying into the sky for a while, then quickly landing, landing right near the catapult.

Zhao Gu selected a total of ten shooters, that is, ten iron balls fell near the catapult.

Then I heard a 'boom', and there was a burst of sand and rocks near the catapult, like a boiling soup pot, and a puff of smoke rose from it.

Immediately after, there were bursts of explosions, mixed with the painful wails of the Liao soldiers, but after a few moments, no one made a sound.

When the smoke cleared, there were still shadows of a few catapults in the same place, leaving only pieces of stone that had turned from boulders to rubble, and human limbs and organs everywhere.

The only Liao soldier who didn't lack anything from top to bottom was already out of breath, and he couldn't die anymore.

Li opened his mouth indifferently!

The shooters opened their mouths wide!

All mouth wide open!

Obviously, everyone was frightened by this amazing sight, the legendary collapse of the heavens and the earth, which describes this kind of scene!

It wasn't until a scream came that everyone came back to their senses, but it was a surviving Liao soldier who was running quickly, shouting 'ghost' as he ran.

The Liao soldier's eyes were glazed and his face was full of horror, and he jumped as he ran, even though his right leg had been deformed by the crashing stones, he was still unconscious, and only subconsciously ran forward.

Song Jun couldn't help but smile, they knew that this was not some kind of ghost and fairy practice, but Zhao Shenjun's 'practice'.

But soon, the smiles on the faces of the Song army all became puzzled, why did this Liao soldier not run to the Liao side, but to Shuozhou City?

The Liao soldiers ran and shouted, and finally crashed to death on the wall of Shuozhou City, splashing blood all over the ground.

Seeing this scene, the Liao army didn't know who was the first to hold back, and shouted loudly, 'Ghost'.

This was followed by the screams of other Liao soldiers, also shouting about ghosts and gods.

The people of this era believe in ghosts and gods very much, because in their cognition, there are too many unimaginable things, and people can't figure out the principle, so they can only explain them with ghosts and gods.

At this moment, they saw that the catapult was blown away by a few small fireballs, and their comrades went crazy and died outside Shuozhou City, so they naturally believed the soldier's words before he died, and thought that there was really a ghost!

As a result, many Liao soldiers who believed in ghosts and gods shouted along.

Sometimes emotions are really contagious, especially when everyone is nervous, and suddenly something incomprehensible happens, and people's emotions will become more and more overwhelming.

As a result, more than 10,000 soldiers of the Liao army were suddenly in chaos, and the shouts were overwhelming, and even the horses were frightened, constantly neighing and jumping in place, which was difficult to control.

Soon, the Liao army issued an order to retreat, and more than 10,000 Liao troops retreated to 20 miles away at once.

Seeing this, the Song army let out bursts of applause.

Zhao Gu also breathed a sigh of relief, and asked people to hurry up and treat the soldiers and civilians who were injured by catapults.

This time it was really lucky, if it wasn't for Zhao Gu to build the iron ball in advance, in the face of the Liao army's crazy boulder attack, even if Shuozhou City could be held in the end, the soldiers and people would have suffered heavy casualties, but now there were not too many casualties, and the Liao army was scared a lot, which is really a turning point.

Zhao Gu predicted that the Liao army should not attack again in a short time, and at least the Song army could take a break for the time being in three or two days.

He simply let the soldiers defending the city rest for a day, and then began to garrison in shifts.

And the facts also proved that his guess was not wrong, and in the next three days, the Liao army did not move twenty miles away.

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The time came on the twenty-second day of the first lunar month.

After seven days of traveling, Cao Wei led the remnants of the grain army and finally returned to Kaifeng before the city gate was opened.

The soldiers who opened the city gate were startled when they suddenly saw hundreds of people guarding the city gate, and they were not allowed to go until Cao Wei took out the military order of the Privy Council.

Cao Wei asked the grain transport troops to go to Sanya to restore their lives, and he directly took the military order and went straight to the palace.

At this time, Zhao Guangyi and the ministers were still deliberating, the Great Song Dynasty went all out to the Northern Expedition, and there were many things to do about the mobilization of military horses and local defense, etc., and they would deal with related matters every day at these times, and everyone was very tired.

After Cao Wei arrived at the palace, he couldn't enter the palace because of his lack of authority, and was blocked out of the palace gate by the eunuchs, and in desperation, he took out a token directly from his arms.

"I am the son of Cao Bin, the Duke of Luguo, and my grandfather promised my father that I could enter and leave the palace freely, this is a token given by the ancestor, so dare you stop me?" Cao Wei shouted.

"It's ......."

The eunuchs looked at each other, the status of the military generals of the Great Song Dynasty was actually very embarrassing, even if they were high and powerful, they were still restricted by civil officials, so even if it was a founding hero like Cao Bin, they were usually very cautious and did not dare to go out of line, as for some privileges or something, they never dared to use them, just for fear of being caught by pigtails.

But this little grandfather Cao Wei is good, he didn't dare to take out the token he used, but he took it out.

But the token is a token after all, and when it came to Taizu Zhao Kuangyin, the eunuchs didn't dare to stop him, so they could only let him in, and at the same time quickly reported to Zhao Guangyi.

After Zhao Guangyi heard this, he was slightly stunned, and he couldn't figure out what kind of wind Cao Wei was smoking, and he dared to go straight to the palace gate.

Instead, Lu Meng was on the side and said: "Cao Wei came back from transporting grain, I'm afraid that something big will happen on the side of the army on the West Road." ”