In Hejian County, Fanning stood in front of the stereotyped map and was silent, his expression was a little solemn, Yelu Hongji requisitioned hundreds of thousands of people to build a dam on the Juma River was indeed beyond his expectations.

How to stop the Liao State from building a dam, Fan Ning didn't have a good way for a while.

"Let's talk about it! What comes to mind and what to say? ”

Fanning said to more than a dozen generals: "Let's brainstorm and see if there is any good plan." ”

"I'll start with two words!"

Commander Zhang Shang stepped forward, saluted Fan Ning with a fist, and said in a deep voice: "Since the Liao army wants to relieve the plight of the Eastern Route Army, can we completely annihilate the Eastern Route Army before the dam is completed?" ”

Di Qing also smiled and nodded, "Commander Zhang's idea is good, as far as I know, the Liao army did not build a camp, and thousands of big tents were stationed on the spot, relying on thousands of scouts to patrol the periphery, which is easy to cause accidents, it is better for us to take the initiative to attack and lure the enemy into battle." ”

Judge Zhang Qi also said: "It is better to use a two-pronged approach, on the one hand, use warships to delay the Liao army to build a dam, and on the other hand, send troops to encircle and annihilate the East Route Army. ”

General Wei Xu said: "Speaking of the navy, the humble position thinks of the navy on Juehua Island, they can take advantage of this opportunity to build a fortified city on the Liaoxi Corridor, retreat can return to the sea, and enter can cut off the connection between Yanshan Mansion and Liaoyang Mansion." ”

Fan Ning nodded, he saw that Liu Kui seemed to have something to say, but he stopped talking, so he smiled and said, "Let's step back first!" Let me think again. ”

Everyone returned to the camp separately, and Fan Ning asked Liu Kui, "What do you want to say when you join the army?" ”

Liu Kui said slowly: "There are two suggestions for the humble position, first, support the Jurchens and the Wugu tribe and the enemy martyrs on the grassland to resist Liao and disturb the rear of the Liao State; Second, it's time for us to use the move of Jeruyisin. ”

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Everyone retreated, Fanning paced back and forth in the room alone, he needed to sort out his thoughts, although everyone was right, but everything had priorities, he couldn't grab it with his beard and eyebrows, he had to do things separately, the top priority was to prevent the Liao army from building a dam, it was also necessary to trap the Liao East Route Army, support the Jurchen and the steppe tribes, and the preliminary affairs of buying Yelu Yixin could also be prepared.

Thinking of this, Fan Ning turned around and ordered, "Quickly invite Judge Zhang and Liu Sima to come and see me!" ”

That night, Zhang Ji and Liu Kui left Hejian Mansion by boat, the two received different tasks, Liu Kui went to Pingdao, and then went to Liaoyang Mansion, before the capture of Liaoguo Tokyo, the Song army established an intelligence network in Liaoguo Tokyo City, Liu Kui needed to get the help of the intelligence network to go to Beijing.

And Zhang Qi went to Kunzhou, and then followed the army from Kunzhou to Whale State, and after establishing a supply base in Whale State, the fleet entered the black water, on the one hand, to clear the Khitan nest, and on the other hand, to support the Jurchens to resist Jin.

On the dock, Fan Ning said to Zhang Qi: "To support the Jurchens, we must also have conditional and selective support, we can't help the wolf, and we will attract tigers in the future, the Wanyan family is the king of the Jurchens, this family can't stay, I don't care what means you use, the Wanyan family will destroy me, we support the Shixian tribe and the mature Jurchen on Haidong Road." ”

Zhang Qi was a little puzzled and said: "I heard that the Liao State is now mainly attacking the Wanyan Ministry, and it should support the Wanyan Ministry's resistance to the Liao." ”

Fan Ning shook his head, "This matter involves the words of the diagram, it is extremely confidential, there is a heavenly monument in Changbai Mountain that 'Wanyan Xing, Liao and Song Dynasty are destroyed', the Jurchen Department can be used, but it cannot be expanded, the Jurchen Five Division, let the Shi Xian family replace the Wanyan family and lead the Jurchens to fight against the Liao State, this is extremely important, it is better for the Liao army to destroy the Jurchens directly, and never let the Wanyan Department rise without authorization, do you remember?" ”

Seeing Fan Ning's grim expression, Zhang Qi nodded, "Remember the humble duty!" ”

Fan Ning said to Liu Kui again: "Yelu Yixin is greedy for money and power, and ambitious, just like I said today, we can give him Tanzhou first, to show sincerity, as long as the Liao State is destroyed, he is allowed to lead the rest of the Khitan to take Goryeo to establish a state, or give him Kunzhou, and he can choose one of them." ”

Fanning is not worried about what demon moth Yelu Yixin will give birth to, in history, Yelu Yixin secretly colluded with the Great Song Dynasty, how could he not leave a way back for himself?

Liu Kui nodded, "Please rest assured, the humble position will definitely take the opportunity to act and get along with Yelu Yixin." ”

The two got on the boat, and Fanning hugged his fists on the shore to say goodbye, "The task is important, and it depends on the two envoys!" ”

The two stood at the stern of the boat and saluted Fanning, and the boat faded away.......

The damming project of Baigou has begun, on the north bank of Baigou, a huge shed has been erected, the gravel in the shed is piled up, hundreds of craftsmen have laid a fifty zhang long wooden pile in the river, the wooden pile is very dense, composed of two layers, one next to the other, about one zhang wide, forming a water tank, a large number of stones, soil and wood are poured into this tank, and the dam is formed after tamping.

Most of the people were responsible for quarrying and transporting the stones, and tens of thousands of people used wheelbarrows to pour truckloads of dirt and gravel into the river, and in five days, a dam was formed ten feet long.

At the time of the third watch, a large number of people on the shore were still busy, and at this time, several Song warships appeared on the river several miles away.

Dozens of small sampans soon appeared on the water, this kind of small sampan is like a miniature version of the Jiangnan black sampan boat, the whole body is pitch black, only one person can ride, there are waterproof black sampans on it, but there are no soldiers on the small sampan.

Dozens of water ghosts pushed the small sampan to swim to the dam hundreds of steps away, stopped at three hundred steps, a water ghost swam in front, fifty steps away from the dam, the water ghost lit the fire rope with the fire break on the boat, and pushed the boat towards the embankment, he immediately had a fierce man plunge into the water, and quickly swam in the direction of Jiangxinzhou.

The fire rope had burned into the black shed, the spark was gone, and the soldiers on the embankment did not notice the boat approaching, but just as the boat was close to the dam, the boat burst out with a red light and exploded.

The iron fire thunder on the small boat is the enhanced and upgraded version of the original iron fire mine, weighing one hundred and twenty pounds, extremely powerful, and it is the most powerful firearm for the siege ship, and the Song army used it to blow up the dam, and there was no pressure.

A column of water several zhang high rose on the surface of the river, rocks flew sideways, the smoke of gunpowder was filled, and the huge explosion alarmed the Liao army camp on the shore, and all the soldiers who were sleeping were awakened, Yelu Hongji got up and walked out of the big tent and asked, "What is the sound?" ”

The guard pointed in the direction of the river and said, "Your Majesty, it seems that the voice is coming from the river." ”

Yelu Hongji frowned, could it be Song Jun's firearms?

At this time, there was another violent explosion in the direction of the river, and Yelu Hongji was shocked, and he immediately realized that this must be the Song army using iron fire and thunder to blow up the dam.

He immediately shouted: "Dispatch 10,000 crossbowmen to the river to release arrows to stop the Song army from continuing to blow up the dam!" ”

As soon as he finished speaking, the third and fourth explosions were heard again.

Yelu Hongji was so anxious that he turned on his horse and urged his horse to run outside the camp, and hundreds of guards were so frightened that they got on their horses and chased after them.

The explosions continued one after another, almost as soon as the waves subsided and the waves rose again and again, and the explosions finally subsided after 12 times, and the dam more than 20 zhang long had disappeared without a trace, nearly 100 soldiers and dozens of people were killed, and civil strife broke out on the shore, and thousands of people took advantage of the chaos to escape.

Yelu Hongji ran to the river with thousands of people, and Yelu Wende knelt down on one knee and reported to him: "Your Majesty, it was blown up by the iron fire and thunder of the Song army, and it came very secretly and suddenly. ”

After speaking, he presented a piece of iron sheet, "This is the iron fire thunderskin that flew ashore, please take a look at it." ”

Yelu Hongji did not answer, he urged the horse to the shore, looked at the river, only to see that the river was already calm, and it was dark in the distance, and there was no sign of any boats, but the dam that they had piled up in a few days was more than 20 zhang long, and it had disappeared.

Yeluhongki turned around and asked, "Is the underwater part of the dam still there?" ”

Yeluvind looked puzzled: "The lowly has sent soldiers to see that the wooden stakes under the water have been blown off by Qigan, and the gravel and earth have been paved on the riverbed, and the dam is completely destroyed. ”

Yelu Hongji was extremely annoyed in his heart, and snorted heavily: "Start building the dam again, and you must send rafts to guard both sides at night, and you must not let the dam be blown up again, otherwise, you, the main general, will no longer be the main general." ”

"Wechen obeys!"

Yelu Hongji turned his horse's head and returned to the camp, and when he entered the big tent, he had no intention of continuing to sleep, and asked, "Is there a battle report from Yizhou?" ”

The guard hurriedly said: "It's been delivered, but it must be delivered when you just fell asleep." ”

"Where's the war report? Don't give it to me yet! ”

The battle report was on the table, and the guards presented it to Yelu Hongji, who threw the iron piece of iron fire and thunder on the table, and then took the battle report, and just after reading a few lines, he slapped the table in anger and scolded, "Useless fool! Idiot, incompetent bastard, what's the use of him? ”

This battle report turned out to be a letter of guilt, Yelu Kunping recounted several major battles in the report, all of which were about to climb the city, but were defeated by the Song army's iron fire and thunder, six battles of all sizes, 41,000 casualties, he had to lead less than 10,000 remnants of the army to withdraw from Yi County in a panic, and even the camp was captured by the Song army.

Tonight, Yelu Hongji was going crazy with anger, first the dam construction failed repeatedly, and then there was bad news from Yi County, Yelu Kunping was so stupid that the 50,000 army attacked the city and lost 40,000 people, is this defending the city or besieging the city?

After thinking about it, it was because the Song army had iron fire and thunder.

He immediately issued an order and ordered the Liaoguo Gunpowder Bureau to imitate the iron-shelled fire thunder within three months.