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A thick horned bow suddenly poked out from behind the battlements and shot feathered arrows at Lu Si, the commander of the baggage battalion. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 infoThe bearer of the bow had a distinctly steppe face, and the feathered arrows he shot were accurate and urgent. The commander of the baggage battalion caught Lu Si off guard, a red light appeared in the shoulder socket, and he fell on his back. Hundreds of bolts flew towards the archer, and in the blink of an eye, it was submerged in a sea of crossbows.

Another group of Khitans mixed with Han Chinese, holding shields, rushed out of the city. They tried to get close to the temporary bridge, which was being widened and reinforced, under the protection of the shield. This wish was destined to be unfulfilled, and the siege crossbows, the Qingzhang crossbows, and the countless angular bows of the attackers were aimed at them at the same time, and long and short arrows came like locusts. Shields were torn apart, torches were smashed, and adventurers with good dreams turned into hedgehogs one by one.

Several siege crossbows with torches flew directly over the city walls, lighting up clouds of smoke inside Bianliang City. In an instant, more fires surged rapidly in the south, north, east, and west of the city. Han Pu, who was sent into the city by Liu Zhiyuan in advance, received the signal and led a group of dead soldiers to start attacking. Their combat effectiveness is not comparable to that of the regular army, but their destructive power cannot be underestimated. forced Xiao Huairang, the Khitan commander who was responsible for the defense of the whole city, to transfer manpower from the city walls on each side again and again to quell the rebellion from behind. As a result, the already precarious city defense became even weaker. About half an hour later, several wooden bridges near the west gate of Bianliang broke through at the same time, and Shi Hongzhao jumped off his mount, waved his big axe, and rushed to the city in the lead.

The 100 Khitan guards will try to organize people to close the city gate and lower the iron gate between the urn city and the inner city. Countless Liang soldiers jumped around, pulling out their weapons and fighting with his followers. Team generals, capital heads, ten generals, pawns, and the "Liang soldiers" who were as docile as sheep half a day ago, all of them were like wolves and tigers, one after another. Even some veterans who originally had no connection with the outside of the city, but were only recruited and took money to sell their lives, also resolutely defected at this moment. Together with the Liang soldiers who "raised righteousness", they drove the Khitans away from the city gate and the iron gate to ensure that the road into the city was unimpeded.

Seeing that the battle flag of the Han army had been forced into the city gate, the Khitans defending the city gave up the control of the iron gate and roared towards Shi Hongzhao. This is even more of a wrong choice, since they were colluded by Du Chongwei to cross the Hutuo River without blood, they have encountered all cowards, so they have overestimated the bravery of the Han people. With a slight swing of the big axe in Shi Hongzhao's hand, the two Khitan ten generals who rushed over flew back upside down like a watermelon, breaking their tendons and breaking their bones. Immediately, he raised the axe up and slashed forward, "Click!" The Khitan who rushed over to stop him in the third place was splitting two bloody pieces from the door of his head!

"Ah——!h Courage is all relative, and even people who usually don't take death seriously know that they are afraid of death. I saw that one of the best warriors on my side was cut open by one of the evil men on the other side with an axe from the center of the head, and his intestines fell to the ground. The rest of the Khitan soldiers who followed suddenly lost their desperate courage, screamed loudly, and retreated. The speed of the turnaround was three points faster when he was rushed out of the city.

"But that's it!" Standing on a building car five hundred steps away from the city wall, Liu Zhiyuan, the "descendant" of Liu Bang, the ancestor of the Han Dynasty, the Shatuo clan, and the new emperor of the Han Dynasty, shook his head and pouted slightly.

It is said that the Khitan people are unstoppable, if Du Chongwei and Zhang Yanze did not collude with them last year and turn around and fight back, how could they take Bianliang with this group of foreign buns who do not even know the most basic city offensive and defensive skills? As a result, one handed over most of the soldiers and horses in his hand and returned to the fiefdom to be a shrunken turtle, and the other was simply unloaded by the Khitans and killed the donkey, and directly cut off his head to appease the people!

"Congratulations to Your Majesty on entering Bianliang as you wish! My Han Dynasty has leveled the four seas, and it is just around the corner!" The Han Privy Envoy, the Zhongshu Shilang and the Secretary of the Ministry of Shangshu, rushed to the upstairs car in three steps and two steps with Ping Zhangshi, and danced in front of everyone. (Note 1)

From persuading Liu Zhiyuan to refuse the Khitans' recruitment to raise troops to fight, to later working with Guo Wei to urge Liu Zhiyuan to give up the idea of "coercing the Son of Heaven to order the princes" to establish himself as the emperor, among the ministers, he does not know how much cynicism he has suffered. In case the war does not go well this time, it will inevitably provoke political opponent Su Fengji and other people to attack. And now that all the dark clouds have dispersed, it turns out that Yelu Deguang, the son of the Great Liao, has no intention of ruling the Central Plains for a long time, and the Khitan soldiers and horses who stayed in Luoyang, Bianliang and other places are all some papier-mâché tigers. As Shi Hongzhao's figure rushed into the city gate, the entire battle of Nanjin Bian was about to end with the complete victory of the Han army. Liu Zhiyuan, the king of the Han Dynasty, successfully turned his family into a country, and he Yang Wei is about to completely secure the position of the first minister of the Han Kingdom because of his first contribution to planning and planning.

"Congratulations to Your Majesty for successfully taking Bianliang! I wish Your Majesty an early peace of the four seas and the unification of Kyushu!" Su Fengji, the secretary of the Criminal Department, Nie Wenjin, the Privy Council, and the Flying Dragon Envoy Houzan, and Li Jin, the commander of the Imperial Forest Army, also climbed the stairs one after another, some wearing the official robes of the upper court that had just been made, and some were still wearing old clothes, but the joy on everyone's faces was as fake as a fake.

Regardless of whether they agreed with the southward movement or opposed the southward movement in advance, the smooth entry of the Han army into Bianliang and the recovery of Bianliang was beneficial and harmless to everyone. At least, everyone's newly promoted official positions have been retained, and there is no need to return to Taiyuan to lie on the salary and taste the courage.

"What is there to congratulate on taking Bianliang, there are only a few Khitans in total? As for the unification of Kyushu, there is no shadow. Gentlemen, don't be happy too early!" Liu Zhiyuan was also very excited at the moment, however, as the emperor of the Han Dynasty, he felt the need to pour a little cold water on everyone. lest these guys get carried away and push themselves away from the mistakes of Huangchao entering Chang'an.

When the civil and military officers heard this, they were slightly stunned at first, and then bowed down and bowed down with their mouths wrong, "This, the lord is sage, be prepared for danger in times of peace, and the ministers are ashamed!"

"I didn't mean to be so happy, there's really nothing to be proud of. It's far from unifying Kyushu!" Hearing the perfunctory meaning in everyone's words, Liu Zhiyuan had to put away his smile and solemnly emphasize. "The secret report in advance has also seen that the total number of Khitans left in Bianliang today is less than 4,000, and none of them are the elite cronies of Yelu Deguang's old thief. And among the four privy envoys appointed by the puppet emperor of the puppet Liang, three have already established contact with us. Therefore, it is not surprising that the city is broken with one drum, and the troops are helpless outside the city, which is really a great shame for us!"

"Hehe, hehe, hehe, hey!" Zhong Wenwu was speechless, and could only lower his head and laugh.

Today's battle has indeed not had any suspense for a long time. The Khitans themselves did not have the determination to fight to the death, and the two Khitan ministers who were left behind by Yelu Chongguang abandoned the army and absconded one after another; in addition, most of the Han generals on the defending side had already lost their sincerity to the Han Emperor in advance; let a little-known Khitan commander lead more than 3,000 abandoned miscellaneous soldiers against the 100,000 army, and it is strange that he can hold Bianliang City!

If the Han army could not be defeated along the way, how could the grass on the wall left in Bianliang City by Yelu Chongguang take the initiative to lose their sincerity? The combat effectiveness of the three or four thousand remnants of the Khitan army is indeed not worth mentioning. But just half a year ago, three or four thousand Khitan miscellaneous soldiers could sweep through Gon and Cao Shuzhou. Along the way, the princes of all parties either surrendered in armor or closed their doors without fighting. Who has ever been like the Han army, fighting them without the power to fight back?!

"Take Bianliang, which is controlled by my Han Dynasty, but it is only the two states of Henan and Henan. I don't know if it's really thinking of danger in times of peace, or deliberately pretending to be worried, Liu Zhiyuan slowly paced a few steps on the building car, and continued to whisper, "And in Kyushu in the world, there are still seven at the moment, which are controlled by the hands of chaotic ministers and thieves." However, the state has been on the front line of the fight against the Khitan all the year round, and it has long been exhausted. And Yuzhou, alas, is a pity for this anointed land, which was ruined by the Khitans. After ten years of health preservation, I'm afraid it will be difficult to return to the way it was back then!"

These words are indeed based on the truth. The smile on the faces of the people quickly cooled, and a touch of desolation swelled up in their eyes.

Since the collapse of the Tang Dynasty, although the banners of Later Liang, Later Tang, Later Jin, Southern Chu, Southern Han, and Western Shu have appeared successively, no imperial court has really been able to reorganize Kyushu. But in general, the princes regarded the area from Luoyang in Xijing to Bianliang in Tokyo as the heart of the Central Plains. Several wars of dynastic succession did not last long, and neither the new nor the old nor the old nor the old dynasties could bear to wreak havoc on the old lands of the two capitals.

But the Khitans don't care what they don't care about, for them, the entire Central Plains is a spoils of war. Therefore, after killing the Hutuo River, it is like a robber entering the bazaar, and a wild beast entering the flock. Burning, killing and looting along the way, doing all kinds of evil. However, the Great Liao Kingdom of Yelu Chongguang has never said that military salaries and military rations are provided. Whether it is the guards or the peripheral miscellaneous soldiers, all the supplies have to be robbed. After robbing the city and the countryside, and robbing the countryside and robbing the fortress. In just half a year, the prosperity accumulated by generations of Central Plains people has been completely ruined!

Now, the Khitan Emperor Yelu Deguang has snatched the addiction and ran back to Yanyun. The big man who took over the old land of the two capitals had to clean up this mess for him. There is no money to collect the people, the Zhao'an bandits do not have enough money, and even the money for buying the heads of the Khitans who were owed to the world's heroes at the beginning of the year does not know where to raise them now?

Note 1: The Later Han Dynasty did not have the post of prime minister, and exercised part of the power of the prime minister with the same level of affairs under the Zhongshu Sect. The Zhongshu Decree was usually not established, and the Zhongshu Shilang was the first powerful official in Zhongshu Province, responsible for assisting the emperor in making various decisions, and the privy envoy was qualified to control the military power. Therefore, Yang Wei is equivalent to a person who has three important responsibilities of decision-making, execution and military planning, and also controls the evaluation and promotion of officials. The power is equal to or even greater than that of the prime minister of the Tang Dynasty.

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