Brother Yelu Xiu arched his hand and said, "Brother Hugh should do it with all his might," he paused, and saw that there was still worry in Yelu Xian's eyes, and said in a low voice: "Your Majesty, don't worry, even if you are defeated, the Song people are just taking the land of Youyan." Ye Luxian nodded when he heard this, Xiao Xuan's eyes lit up, although this Brother Xiu was the first time to lead the army, he did not think about victory, he thought about defeat first, and he was a rare and reliable person among the Khitans.

Although it is known as 100,000 cavalry, only half of the army guards the Liao Emperor, and half of the army grazes in the water meadow occupied by the royal circle. For the royal family of the Liao Kingdom, even if the land of Youyan is lost, this palace is elite, how much vitality can be saved, and more should be preserved, otherwise how can it suppress the barbarians who rise and fall in the north.

Queen Xiao Xuanping Suri likes to wear the Chinese women's costumes, do Han women's costumes, today for the southward aid to Youzhou's palace division army strong, deliberately changed into a tight-fitting narrow sleeves Khitan women's clothes, more bright eyes and bright teeth, graceful, gorgeous, the palace division army looked up to the two saints, but most of the military eyes stayed on her body. She and Yelu Hugo are old acquaintances, and a few days ago, Han Derang reached an alliance with Yelu Hugh, so Hugh Ge tried his best to defy public opinion and insisted on raising troops to help You. Under the watchful eye of everyone, Xiao Xuan picked up the marigold full of spirits, and said in a low voice: "Your Majesty is not strong enough to drink, so I will have a glass of wine for the Khitan athletes who went out on his behalf, and I wish you to return victorious!" Holding the calendula in his hand with Brother Hugh, he picked up a glass and drank it all, the wine of this Liao country is very strong and spicy, even if it is a bold Khitan woman like Xiao Sui, if she goes down with a glass, she must forcibly hold back the surging wine, and her cheeks are suddenly crimson. Seeing this, Brother Yelu also drank all the liquor in the cup, and said loudly: "Brother Hugh gave the wine to the queen mother on behalf of the soldiers of the southern expedition. "This Xiao clan is a big clan among the Liao people, Xiao Xuan was a famous beauty in the Khitan tribe when he was young, and his reputation was even greater after becoming the queen, and at this moment he saw that she was heroic and dry, not inferior to men, and the 30,000 palace cavalry suddenly cheered loudly, and the sonic boom was several miles, and the morale was also strong to the extreme, and Yelu Xiu Ge led the army south.

The sonorous sound of iron armor gradually faded away, Xiao Xuanmu sent the army to the south, and the phoenix eyes showed a trace of worry, the Song army of more than 200,000 people kept attacking Youzhou City day and night, and Youzhou stayed behind Han De to let the soldiers not more than 20,000, and he insisted hard, and the city was shocked three times a day, and the people were in turmoil, "Han Lang, do you and I still have a chance to meet?" she muttered in her heart, her nails sinking deep into the palm of her hand.

At this moment, at the head of Youzhou City, Han Derang has not closed his eyes for three days and three nights, and the Song army has set up a posture of attacking on all sides, the Dingguo Army Jiedu makes Song Wei attack the south, Heyang Jiedu makes Cui Yan attack the north, Zhangxin Jiedu makes Liu Yu attack the east, Dingwu Jiedu makes Meng Xuanzhe attack the west, and Pan Mei is appointed as the Youzhou Xingfu, coordinating the siege army on all sides, Cao Han and Mi Xin lead the iron cavalry, The Hujie army was stationed in the southeast of Youzhou, ready to attack the Liao reinforcements who dared to approach Youzhou, and Zhao Jiong's imperial camp moved to Huayan Temple in the west of Youzhou City, and led the front of the palace to supervise the soldiers to attack the city for several days.

"General Xiao is working hard!" Yelu Xuegu saw that Han De did not take off the iron armor, and when he was sleepy, he leaned on the desk of the city tower to rest for a while, although he did not sleep for two days, he was still in good spirits, whenever a certain section of the city wall was in an emergency, he could always calmly judge the situation and send his subordinates to the north and south of the Yayulin elite to respond, so that the Song army could not enter the city. Yelu Xuegu secretly thought in his heart, the powerful people in the court said that the Han officials in Youzhou were in the south of the dynasty, and they had two hearts, but they did not see that Han people like Han Derang were loyal to our Daliao court, and they were not more worried than the Khitans. The few Khitan troops he led were the only reinforcements to enter Youzhou. Since June 23, the Song army appeared under the city of Youzhou, rumors in the city swarmed, some said that the Song army attacked Taiyuan before, only because the people in the city resisted to hold on, there was a move to burn the city and destroy the city, if Youzhou can not be delayed, it is the second Taiyuan, the Han soldiers and the people for their own safety, need to sacrifice the city early, some say that the Khitan people are angry that the Han officials and Han people in Youzhou are close to the Song Dynasty, once the Song army retreats, they will kill the Han people in Youzhou, or migrate to the farther north, to the alien people as slaves. These two versions of the rumor spread more and more widely, and even stirred up great unease among the common people and ordinary Han soldiers.

Han Derang listened to his explanation, muttered for a long time, and said: "It has only been three days since the Song soldiers came to the city, and the rumors in the city are so widespread, there must be a careful effort to disturb people's hearts. It's not hard to debunk this rumor. As he was talking, there was a sudden bang, and a huge bed crossbow came in through the window of the city tower, and penetrated deep into the stone wall with a strong wind. Han Derang remained silent, waved his hand to call the several guards who poured in to retreat, and continued: "Song and Liao are fighting, people's hearts are on the opposite side, and the people are at a loss. Brother Yelu is a royal nobleman, and he comes from outside the city, and Derang can borrow it. Yelu Xuegu was busy and said: "The so-called wind knows the strength of the grass, the time is poor, since the Song army attacked the city, a certain person has seen it with his own eyes, heard it with his own ears, Brother Han is the Great Wall in the south of my Great Liao Kingdom, what are the instructions, although the Tao comes." He knew that the three generations of the Han family had won the trust of the royal family of Liao, Han Derang was even better with Xiao Xuan, and was relied on by Xiao Xuan as a confidant, seeing that Yeluxian's body was declining, the prince was young, and the Liao State had the tradition of the queen mother's rule.

Han Derang saw that he was sincere, so he said in a deep voice: "The matter is urgent, I think about coming and going, there are three ways to deal with it, one is to learn from the ancient brother can pretend to pass on the will of His Majesty the Emperor, and the people in the city will be rewarded for their cooperation against the enemy, and after this battle, the land and property abandoned by the people of Nantou outside the city will all be rewarded to the people in the city." The second is to let the soldiers spread rumors everywhere that the Southern Dynasty took Youzhou, and it will be like Taiyuan, stationed in the forbidden army, the original Han soldiers are not used, and the officials are transferred to the south to be idle, and said that the Bianliang soldiers are very tight in the grass valley outside the city, and once they enter the city, the property and lives of the people are in danger. The three soldiers patrolled the whole city, but the people who had nothing to do were all arrested, and with the power of thunder, the hearts of the people were calmed. ”

After listening to him, Yelu Xuegu took a breath of cool air, he knew that Han Derang was a person who made great things without informality, but he didn't expect that such a thing as a false transmission of the holy decree would come out of his mouth so easily, in the future, if Yelu Xian blamed him, or the imperial court made other arrangements for the abandoned fields outside the city, how could Han Derang explain? The two discussed for a while, Yelu Xuegu said goodbye, and saw that Han Derang his subordinates ran on the top of the city, commanding the eight battalions of the Han army to defend the city desperately, the north and south ya, the north and south Yulin battalions were the most elite among the Han soldiers, and Han Derang stayed in the west of the city as a reserve, and the crane battalion guarded the west of the city, the Shenwu battalion guarded the north of the city, the Xiongjie battalion guarded the east of the city, and the Xiaowu battalion guarded the south of the city. In addition to the Han soldiers, a small number of Khitan soldiers who were originally stationed in the city to monitor the Han army also went to the city to help defend under the leadership of the commander, but they all hid in the city tower to shoot arrows, and shrank behind the Han soldiers in Youzhou. The Han soldiers who braved the rain of arrows and stones to defend the city looked at the Khitan people who occasionally passed by, and most of them showed a sense of contempt.