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Celtic watched as the man kicked over the two pirates and walked away, putting away the Western sword to the side of Malnu's mouth: "Kill them, chase them up and kill them for me." Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo”

Marr chased after him with a dozen men. Only then did the king of Shilan react, it was not his old enemy Peng Dan who was calling, and his fingers trembled and pointed at these invaders: "You, who are you?" ”

Gilry looked at the king and said to Celtic, "Captain, he's talking to you." ”

Celt held up his head proudly: "Only the victor has the right to speak." ”

Jiri laughed, "But I bet he doesn't understand what you're saying." ”

Celt shook his head indifferently and patted the sword on his waist: "It doesn't matter, he can understand this." Tie him up and roast him tomorrow in front of their subjects, so that the natives will be afraid of us. ”

The king really didn't know what the invaders wanted to do, but when the next day, the king, along with more than thirty soldiers of the elite troops who had been captured, and more than twenty Song people, were escorted to the execution ground arranged by these robbers, anyone with eyes knew what these people were going to do.

The king was very frightened, and he kept twisting his body: "You can't do this to me, I am the king, you can't do this to me!" ”

Celt couldn't understand what he was saying, but he didn't think he needed to pay attention to what the king was saying now, and he could see fear in the faces of the natives who were watching from the sidelines, and that was enough.

"Kill all the others, and put this king on a fire and burn him at the stake."

Human heads were cut off by axes, and dozens of headless corpses were placed there at the small street entrance, when had the Xilan people seen such a scene? They trembled one by one.

The king was so frightened that he peed his pants, and he was glad that the axe did not come to cut him, but he did not expect that he was the king, and it was the finale.

The robbers tied him to the shelf, and Mar lit the firewood underneath it, watching the blazing fire, listening to the king's wail, and Celt carefully observing the reaction of the people around him.

"You can't do that! I am the king of the Great Song vassal state! ”

Before he died, the king finally remembered his backer, but Celt couldn't understand it, and even if he did, he didn't take it seriously, because this backer was thousands of miles away and couldn't save the king's life.

The king shouted desperately in the midst of the raging fire, and the voice grew more and more miserable, less and less pitched, and before long the smell of roasted meat filled the streets.

Celtic's eyes were always fixed on the onlookers, and they were terrified, and Celt knew that these were the lambs now, waiting to be slaughtered by themselves.

Ji Rui saw a girl beside him with a frightened expression, and went up to hug the girl, the girl seemed to be struggling, but she was a little scared, and did not dare to provoke these barbarians too much. But Jiry's hands became more and more unruly, making it difficult for the girl to control herself.

Celtic laughed, "Hey, Jiry, gentlemen, bring it to the room." ”

Gilry forcibly dragged the fine orchid woman away, and when Celt saw that the men didn't dare to say anything, he knew that he could do whatever he wanted now.

"Alright guys, now take all the diamonds around their necks, and go to their house and see what else is valuable. Marl, you take care of going back and selling the diamonds, and then organize more people to come over, we need manpower because we're going to dig up all the diamonds here. ”

The robber showed his fierce face, and in a cellar on the street, the merchant of the Song Dynasty turned pale and all his companions were dead, and he tried his best to control his emotions, and at the same time pressed the prince's mouth tightly with his movable hand, and the prince burst into tears and trembled.

In April of the third year of Huangyou, the war between Song and Liao entered a critical node, which was a node for both sides.

While Yelu Hongji's footsteps were still blocked by Xin'an's military camp, Wen Yanbo's army had approached Nanjing, the seat of the Southern Courtyard of the Liao State.

If the Song Dynasty army conquered Nanjing, the defense of the entire southern line of the Liao State would collapse, and Yelu Hongji's troops would be in a situation where they had no way to retreat. Once the Song Dynasty's troops could not be attacked for a long time, Yelu Negolu and Yelu Hongji were fully capable of concentrating all their cavalry forces to defeat the Song army led by Wen Yanbo.

Whoever gets this node on both sides is very important for the future battle! The key is whether the Song army can take this second largest fortified city in Liao in addition to Yanjing in the fastest time.

Yelu Zongyuan was very confident in the persistence of Nanjing, there were 30,000 troops in the city, more than 200,000 Liao residents, sufficient material reserves, and the most proud general under him, Yelu Shiya, was stationed in Nanjing.

No matter from which point of view, Nanjing is much stronger than Xin'an in the Song Dynasty. Just the scale of that city, calculated according to the general siege speed and the number of Song troops, if you want to build such a real fortified city, it will definitely not be possible to do it in one or two months.

Yelu Shiya had already begun to arrange defensive lines around Nanjing City, and he had been fighting with Yelu Zongyuan for many years, and he was very experienced in attacking and defending cities.

In addition to the defense of the city, he also built some obstacles such as deer barricades outside the city. A trench about two zhang wide and one zhang deep was dug around the city wall, and the trench was filled with bamboo spears. Inside the trench, the Liao people also built a wall, about one meter high, and the wall was filled with dense sharp iron tools and stones, similar to the role of barbed wire in later generations.

Behind the wall is another ditch, but in the middle of this ditch is introduced by the Liao people and the river, and the water depth is maintained at about two or three meters.

The arrangement of these peripheries cost the Liao people a lot of manpower and material resources, but when the war began, it could only cause some trouble to the Song army in the early stage. The people of the Song Dynasty must have had a way to fill these obstacles.

For the defending side, this is more than enough.

The excavated earthwork was not wasted by the Liao people, and many fortifications were piled up in the city of Nanjing. What really determines the factors of war is the contest between the soldiers of the two sides on the battlefield. Yelu Shiya prepared for the worst, and once the Song army broke through the city, they could also use these fortifications to fight a street battle with the Song army.

It can be said that Yelu Shiya was very well prepared for this battle, but even so, Wen Yanbo still surprised the Liao people.

Yesterday evening, the Liao people reported that the vanguard of the Song Dynasty was still more than 140 miles away from Nanjing, and according to the speed of the Song people, Yelu Shiya estimated that it would take two days for the Song Dynasty people to complete the deployment and then launch an attack.

But he never expected that before dawn this morning, Wen Yanbo personally led 50,000 Song troops to the city.

"My lord, should we send someone to persuade you to surrender first?" Fu Yongji gasped and patted his horse to follow Wen Yanbo, and the two of them on horseback felt very tired, not to mention the Song soldiers who were walking on two legs. There is a time to persuade the troops to surrender, and the troops can also rest.

Wen Yanbo sneered: "Persuasion? Do you think they will surrender? Immediately remove the garbage arranged by the Liao people outside the city for me, hurry up! ”

Fu Yongji didn't say anything, and immediately waved his army to attack some strongholds on the outskirts of Nanjing. The battle was very smooth at the beginning, and the Liao people did not expect the Song army to come so quickly, and several outlying strongholds were easily defeated by the Song Dynasty army.

These strongholds originally played the role of an early warning and delaying the Song army's attack, and no matter how quickly they were lost, it would not have the slightest impact on the entire battle situation, but only gave the Song army who had just rushed over a small victory.

Wen Yanbo knew what this battle meant to the Great Song Dynasty, and he also knew what it meant for the emperor to hand over this battle to his command, if he could fight this crucial battle well, then the future was limitless.

Therefore, after the battle on the periphery was over, he still did not stop to rest, and immediately launched an attack on the southern wall of Yanjing.

The real siege will not begin until this time.

The trench dug by the Liao people was really a barrier of death, and the Song soldiers dug up bags of dirt and rushed up to fill the trench. But the rain-down bows and arrows of the Liao people caused many Song soldiers to fall to the ground with dirt on their backs.

The Song army who rushed forward suffered heavy casualties, and although they showed great valor, after an hour of fighting, the Song army still crossed the trench.

Wen Yanbo was very annoyed when he saw it, this battle is about time, if he can't even break through the first trench, then when will this battle last?

"Fu Yongji! Didn't you eat? ”

Fu Yongji ran back from the front: "My lord, the bows and arrows of the Liao Kingdom are too dense, our bows and crossbows can't suppress them, let's wait for the army behind to come up and fight!" ”

Wen Yanbo whipped him on his helmet: "Do you want to wait for the emperor to come before beating?" I'm telling you, give you another hour, and if you can't fill that trench, you can jump for me yourself!" ”

Fu Yongji took two deep breaths, and his heart was very uneven, there was really no way to fight. The siege equipment of the Song Dynasty was still behind, they were the vanguard, and they only carried some light weapons, at this time Wen Yanbo used them as a large army, and if he wanted to fill the trenches, he would have to pay a great price.

But looking at Wen Yanbo's meaning, no matter what the price is, he has to go up, so let's go up.

Wen Yanbo mobilized all the current crossbowmen of the Song army to suppress the Liao troops at the head of the city, and did his best to ensure the safety of the attacking troops.

However, the bows and crossbows of the Song army were almost flat shots, and they were obviously not as powerful as the bows and arrows that were thrown when attacking the city, so the support they could give was very limited. Fu Yongji and his soldiers must advance with shields. Basically, if you throw a bag of dirt into that trench, one of the Song soldiers will be shot by the enemy.

Seeing that time passed little by little, but the battle situation did not make the slightest progress, one brother after another died by his side, Fu Yongji was very anxious in his heart, he really had the idea of jumping into this trench and dying.

"General, you can't fight like this! Otherwise, when the trench is flattened, our more than 10,000 brothers will have to fill it in! A commander ran over with a shield and braved the rain of arrows, squatting beside Fu Yongji and said anxiously.

"If you can't fight, you have to fight, Wen Yanbo said, we must fill this trench before the arrival of the army!"

A feather arrow came, grazing the commander's shoulder, the sharp edges and corners cut through the commander's clothes, and brought out a bloody mark on the shoulder, the commander frowned, just tilted his head to look at the wound, and then said: "General, he doesn't take our lives seriously, we can't do this to ourselves!" This is not a war, this is a death sentence. ”

Fu Yongji knew in his heart that what Wen Yanbo wanted was only military exploits, and these scholars had never taken these warriors in their eyes, and thought for a while: "It's not okay if you don't fight, what's the way?" I don't think I can do it like this! ”

Since the commander came to him, he had already paid attention to it in his heart: "General, you don't think this will work, we can't fill in the top, let's fill in from the bottom." ”

Fu Yongji was stunned for a moment: "Fill in from the bottom?" ”

The commander nodded: "Let's dig a hole next to it and pull out those bamboo guns directly from the bottom!" Then drive piles and build bridges, which is much easier. ”

Fu Yongji laughed after hearing this: "Good way, you take someone to do it here, and I'll go and tell Master Wen." ”

(To be continued)