The imperial tent is arranged on the high platform, the surrounding situation is unobstructed, Xiao Zhonggong looked south, only to see the flag on the embankment outside the city to cover the sun, the flag is raised high, obviously the city has fallen into the hands of the enemy, a hundred steps later is hundreds of high muzzle artillery, thousands of elite cavalry arrays around, the river outside the east gate on the river is gathered, the mast is like a forest, the huge Liaoyang city is deep in it, and there are faint soldiers on the city head.

"Lord Xiao, how is my Song Junwei?" Zhao Ta twisted his face and asked Xiao Zhonggong.

"Hmph, but so, it's far from my Great Golden Country's Tiger and Wolf Division." Xiao Zhonggong knew that Zhao Er was demonstrating to himself in order to break his will and take the initiative in the negotiations, of course he couldn't be fooled, so he replied coldly. At this time, his heart was like turning over the river and the sea, and he couldn't help but think of when Jing Kangnian himself went to Bianjing, Song Chenliu said to Li Ye that the Jin army's 'people are like tigers, horses are like dragons, mountains are like apes, and when they go into the water, their momentum is like Mount Tai, and China is like tired eggs', but these words can only describe the Song army.

"Hehe, Lord Xiao can't help but say this, but I don't blame you for each of them!" Zhao Ta smiled instead, and said disapprerovitously, "You have experienced the Battle of Jinzhou, you should know the power of my Great Song Dynasty artillery fire, and there will be no tiles left after ten thousand cannons are fired in unison." Heaven has the virtue of a good life, I asked people to shoot books in the city three days ago, and anyone who is willing to leave the city within three days will not send troops to intercept them, and they will stay voluntarily. I just don't want the people in the city to suffer an unwarranted disaster, but Wan Yanyong refuses to open the city gate and let the people out of the city, and wants to bring all the people to the funeral with him, is Lord Xiao willing to persuade him again? ”

"Haha, please don't waste your efforts, hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians in Liaoyang City have long been determined to live and die with the city. There will be no surrender. But the king should obey the will of the people and do what is righteous. An early peace agreement will save all the peoples from the fire. Only then did Xiao Zhonggong understand that he was summoned by Zhao Er, and he wanted to be a lobbyist. Of course, he angrily refused.

"Okay, that's a good point, Lord Xiao was also a peace envoy twenty years ago, you went in and out of Bianjing, coercing and seducing me The Great Song Dynasty monarchs and ministers were so proud, but you never thought that there would be today's begging for peace. Since you refuse my kindness, let you see the thunderous anger of the Great Song Dynasty and open fire! Zhao Ta looked at Xiao Zhonggong, who was forced to be calm, and said with a sneer.

"Shoot ......"

"Shoot ......"

"Shoot ......"

With a loud bang. Xiao Zhonggong knew that the shelling had begun, and at first he could distinguish the sound of the cannons, but after a while, the sound of the cannons had already sounded, and he couldn't tell them apart, and the ground under his feet seemed to be timid, and he shuddered. He looked up and saw gunpowder rising from the east, south, and west sides of Liaoyang City, and countless projectiles flew into the city with fiery red tracks. The side of the sailor's warship also constantly spewed tongues of fire, and each shot could send hundreds of shells into the city. Xiao Zhonggong already felt that the artillery used by the Song army this time far exceeded the Battle of Jinzhou. Needless to say, the damage it will cause will far exceed that of Jinzhou.

Xiao Zhonggong felt good, and the artillery bombardment of the Song army used three artillery brigades, all the artillery battalions directly under the five generals, and more than 20 Yongzi-class warships of the Dengzhou Naval Division, and more than 1,000 large and small artillery pieces. Far exceeded the amount of artillery used in the Battle of Jinzhou. They were in the east, south, and west directions of the city, and were arranged in echelons according to the range of the artillery, and the target of their first round of attacks was not the city wall. Instead, the flowering bullets were fired into the city.

Liaoyang City is the largest city in eastern Liaodong and even in Northeast China. Naturally, it is extremely prosperous, and the streets are dense. Among them are low dwellings, shops, military camps, as well as majestic and tall palaces, government offices and monasteries, which fill the city to the brim. But in this era when there was no reinforced concrete, the buildings were mostly wooden structures.

The flowering bullet used this time is a flowering bullet using a new type of gunpowder, which is much more powerful than the previous black powder. After the explosion of the flowering bomb, the roof of the building was lightly overturned, and the air wave generated by the explosion blew open the doors of the rooms in the building, making the buildings a through-structure. In this walled city, the overturned roofs reveal beams and pillars that look like firewood in a furnace.

The first round of shelling, which lasted for an hour, stopped for two quarters of an hour to cool down and replenish ammunition, and then the second round began, only this time with incendiary shells. The seemingly innocuous black clay pots were hurled into the city, shattering as they fell, and the black goo contained in them splattered everywhere. But as soon as they get a little bit of spark, they quickly burn up and spread in all directions.

Due to the special environment, the fire caused by the shelling formed a strong cyclone between the ground and the low altitude, and produced many huge pillars of fire above the city, up to hundreds of zhang, several miles in a radius, its combustion absorbed a huge amount of air, so that the oxygen above the burning area was exhausted, the temperature was scorching, and the cold air from the outside world poured in rapidly due to the temperature difference, and at the same time sucked the people and things on the ground into the fire, the temperature of the central fire field rose rapidly, flowers, trees, and objects that could be burned were burning, and all were melting.

Listening to the explosions one after another, looking at Liaoyang City and the fire dragon hovering over the city that were gradually submerged in the smoke of gunpowder, Xiao Zhonggong, who had experienced the purgatory of fire and iron, slowly closed his eyes, but the situation of countless creatures struggling for their lives in blood red still appeared clearly in his mind, and he trembled and let two lines of clear tears drip down......

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"What's going on in the city now?" The bombardment lasted all morning, but the fire did not subside until the early morning of the next day, and Wan Yanyong stayed awake all night, and he ordered someone to go to the scene early to inspect it, and even if he hid in the palace, the smell of scorching and gunpowder smoke was still disgusting.

"Gift...... He was handsome and suffered a lot of losses. Wan Yan replied tremblingly, and his body trembled uncontrollably.

"What the hell is going on?" Wan Yan Zhehe can also be said to be a strong general who can fight habitually, but he can go out and inspect it and become like this, Wan Yan Yong knew that it was not good, and stood up and asked urgently.

"Dashuai, it's so miserable!" Wan Yan and suddenly fell to his knees and cried.

Wan Yan Yong was shocked, and hurriedly stepped forward to help him up for a while to comfort him before he gradually calmed down, and he also learned about the situation after the shelling of the city from Wan Yan and his intermittent account. Most of the buildings on both sides of the streets in the eastern, western and southern districts were destroyed by artillery fire, and occasionally some ruins and broken walls stood in the ruins, none of which were intact. The inhabitants and troops stationed there suffered heavy casualties, only some of them died in the same shelling, and most of them died in the fire that followed.

"Dashuai, the city is full of corpses, scorched and stinky, there are almost no living creatures, and it is difficult to see a single green tree and flowers. The water in the ponds was dried and the corpses of those who jumped into the ponds to escape the fire were piled up, the stone slabs on the streets were burned to powder, and even the walls were burned red and cracked like pottery kilns, and in some places they had collapsed. The last general inspected a blacksmith's shop in the city, and the iron was burned to pieces. Wan Yan and his face twisted into a ball of pain, and he sobbed and said.

"That'...... How big were the casualties? Wan Yan Yong was also excited when he heard this, and he turned a thousand knots, but he still forced himself to calmly ask Fu Yin Tuhe.

"Dashuai, the government office in the south city was also destroyed by the fire, most of the officials and servants were killed and wounded, and the mayors of the various cities died and fled, and some people were not spared and became extinct, it is difficult to count the accurate number, but the lower officials estimated that no less than 60,000 people died, and now the survivors are temporarily placed in the north and the inner city where the artillery fire has not ravaged them, but many people's property is not in the fire, and they are in urgent need of relief, and the corpses in the city also need to be buried urgently, otherwise it will cause an epidemic." Wanyan suddenly turned out of the sea of blood in the knife mountain, but the tragic situation at the scene still moved him, and he said with a sad face.

"Sixty thousand?! Sixty thousand people died in just two or three hours, Zhao Er was really a living Yama, and he took so many people's lives with a wave of his hand. Wan Yan sat down and muttered, he didn't know that Zhao Ta's name as the king of Hades had been around for a long time.

"Marshal, yesterday's enemy artillery fire destroyed the warehouse in the east of the city, the grain and grass hidden in it were burned, and most of the defensive equipment under the city was damaged and unusable, and we still need to try to raise it, otherwise the Song army will have nothing to use to attack the city." After patrolling the city, Jiagu Wuli found that not only the soldiers defending the city suffered heavy casualties, but also the stored materials were also lost.

"Then is the Song army preparing to attack the city?" Wan Yan Yongzai couldn't calm down, and asked in a bit of a panic, he knew that if the Song army launched an attack at this time, the army with no morale would be difficult to resist.

"Marshal, the Song army has retreated to the big camp five miles away overnight, but it still maintains a siege posture and has no signs of attacking." Jiagu Wuli reported that in fact, he knew in his heart that the reason why the Song army took the initiative to withdraw its troops was that most of them could not stand the stench of the fire in the city and retreated.

"Order people to step up the repair of the city defenses, arrange obstacles in the city, and distribute the grain and grass stored in the inner treasury to the temporary crisis first, so as to stabilize the hearts of the people." Wan Yanyong sighed, relying on the buildings in the city and the Song army's plan to fight in the streets, was also burned by this fire, and the materials in the city were built in the east of the city because of the proximity to the river in the east of the city, which was convenient for transportation, so the warehouse was built in the east of the city, but now most of them have been destroyed, and it is impossible to hold on until the autumn. But it's hard to say how many days Liaoyang City can be held in such a state, and I don't know if the emergency supplies stored in the inner city can be used, so it is better to use it to stabilize people's hearts first, so as not to cheapen Zhao Er.

"Marshal, outside the city, the Song army shot a book in the north city, and sent the army to shout loudly to persuade him to surrender, and now the people are panicked and ask to go out of the city to hide, so as not to destroy the city." At this time, Li Qiong hurriedly ran in and said...... (To be continued......)