"Hurry up!" A Khitan warrior said viciously in the Khitan language, and the horse whip in his hand fell on the ragged Han army from time to time, driving them like cattle and sheep. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

These Han soldiers looked numb, as if they had hollowed out their souls. Only in the ranks of the Han army, there were a few pairs of eyes that were still bright and glared angrily at these Khitan overseers.

In the Khitan Chinese army, Yelu Chongyuan rode on a tall horse, listening to the spies' report, his brows furrowed: "You mean, Nelugu's sneak attack has been discovered?" How could it be, how could the Han dog see through it? Could it be that someone leaked the news? ”

None of his men dared to answer, and he said angrily, "Why don't you keep quiet? ”

At this time, a Khitan general said cautiously: "Uncle Huangtai, the last general noticed that along the way, there were almost no farmers in Dashun, there must be something wrong here!" ”

Yelu Chongyuan thought about it carefully, and it seemed to be the same reason. Their Khitans marched extremely fast, and once they formed an army, the vanguard would immediately set out and change horses. With such a speed of marching, people know in advance, and the Khitans are not stupid, how could they not think of this? Someone must have leaked the news and sent information to Dashun.

But there is no way, Liao is a multi-ethnic mixed country, no matter where it is, there are Khitan, Bohai, Jurchen, Bai Dada, Murwei, Xi people, Hu Yirat, Balhun, Uersute, Qiali, Pennuli, Orimi, Yue Li Du, Yue Li Ji, Han and other nomadic and farming peoples are mixed, among which the number of Han people is quite a lot! Even in the upper capital, there are a large number of Han people who serve as slaves. If there is a mixture of spies who are proficient in Khitan and Chinese, who can identify it?

Yelu Chongyuan figured this out, but he only felt a stuffiness in his chest, and he couldn't get it out. He said viciously: "Full speed ahead, I want to see what a state city can do to me!" ”

The Khitan army sped up, and many Han troops on the road were in a hurry, and their already weak bodies couldn't stand such a high-intensity march, so they fell to the ground and couldn't get up again.

The rabbit died and the fox was sad, and many Han soldiers stopped to watch, but they were scolded by the Khitan overseers, waved their horsewhips and began to beat people. The whip was whipped on their bodies, and the Han army did not feel the pain, but when they saw their compatriots falling to the ground like this, there seemed to be an indescribable anger burning in their hearts.

The Han army continued to hurry, but everyone was silent. They knew that the sooner they walked to the city of Youzhou, the sooner their lives would be lost. In each major battle, the Han army survived less than two out of ten, and was the unit with the most casualties. They are not treated as human beings at all, just a group of livestock with weapons, blocking arrows for the Khitans and being their cannon fodder.

But they did not dare to resist, the Khitans were very wary of the Han army, in addition to a small number of border army prisoners, more Han people were taken captive to the Liao State. If they escaped and were detected by the Khitans, the whole family would be killed. They would rather die in battle than flee. In their minds, there is no state. Whoever farms is not farming, as long as there is a bite to eat, they will not resist too much.

The Khitans also caught this characteristic of the Han people, and at first they did not dare to plunder the population, and most of them killed when they hit the grass valley. But after gaining experience, they treated the Han people as slaves, which has to be said to be a kind of sadness.

Originally, it would take more than 20 days to walk, but the Khitan army arrived in less than 20 days, only a few days slower than the vanguard army. The price of such a forced march was that the non-combat attrition of the Han army was as high as 20%. Of the more than 10,000 Han troops, no less than 2,000 fell on the road, and hundreds were missing.

But Yelu Chongyuan doesn't care about this, what he cares about is to vent the anger in his heart: "Why can he Xiao Xulie return victoriously every time, but I Yelu Chongyuan can't?" I'm an uncle, I can't be worse than him! ”

In order to fight for this breath, Yelu Chongyuan hurried desperately, just to break the city as soon as possible, so as to loot in Youzhou City and grab gold, silver, jewelry, slaves and maids.

Knowing that Yelu Chongyuan had arrived, Yelu Nerugu was overjoyed, and these days he sent people to shout and scold under Youzhou City every day, just to force the defenders in the city to come out for a decisive battle. But the Dashun border army on the city wall was unmoved, and only answered them with arrows in their hands.

Over the past few days, in addition to the loss of troops, the Khitan vanguard army did not take the slightest advantage. Yelu Nerugu's face became more and more ugly, and he had already beheaded many generals who were unfavorable in attacking the city, which made the people in the army panic, and the morale of the Khitan vanguard army dropped again and again.

Fortunately, at this time, Yelu Chongyuan led a large army to arrive, and also brought the most lacking siege equipment, and Yelu Nerugu's face was better. After pleading with Yelu Chongyuan, Yelu Chongyuan still appointed him as the vanguard and led the infantry to attack the city.

After a short rest, the Han army, which was not treated as a human being, was driven to the battlefield. Dressed in ragged clothes, armed with inferior weapons, and even scarce shields, they were driven to Youzhou City.

If they retreated, they would be ruthlessly slashed by the Khitan cavalry riding behind them with sabers and bows. The Han army constituted the absolute main body of the infantry of the Liao army, and any battle was fought by them with their flesh to block the sharpest sword. And after these Han troops were forced into a desperate situation, the combat effectiveness that broke out made all the Dashun border troops tremble.

After Zhu Daguang saw the Han army dispatch on the city tower, he "groaned" in his heart, and secretly said that something was wrong. immediately shouted loudly: "All of them cheer up Lao Tzu, if the city is broken, we all have to be cattle and horses, you and my wife and children will not be able to turn over for the rest of our lives!" Do you want to be those Han soldiers below, they are the mold! At the same time, the heralds transmitted the order to fight to the death to the city gates in all directions, and the morale of the border troops was boosted.

The bow in his hand was full of arrows, and the arrows rained down like a torrential rain. The Han army, lacking armor, was screaming and being hit by arrows. More Han troops transported the crossing to the edge of the moat, and more than ten temporary bridges were built in an instant. Because the moat of Youzhou City is deep and wide, the Khitan army's crossing can only fold two into one and use it, turning it into a folding bridge. It is to connect the two Hao bridges, there is a rotating shaft in the middle, there are two big wheels in front of the bridge, and there are two small wheels in the back, which are advanced into the moat, and the bridge is flat and crossable when the wheel sinks.

Originally, the Khitans did not know how to make siege equipment, but after capturing the border army, the siege machinery also fell into their hands. These siege machines were not difficult to imitate, so the Khitans learned to make siege machines.

Zhu Daguang saw Du Hao and shouted: "Catapult, smash it for Lao Tzu!" ”

He also knows that the army below is also Han, but Ci is not in charge of the army, if there is a trace of mercy, if you can't bear to shoot arrows to kill, let them rush to the city wall, and Youzhou City will be over! The border troops did not dare to slack off, and hurriedly prepared the catapults, and with a few "whirring" sounds, one by one stone bullets fell into the enemy formation.

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