When the day was about to dawn, Fanning got the interrogation report, there were 30,000 Liao troops in the city, mainly equipped with iron armor, and 30,000 militiamen were recruited, most of them had experience in the army, equipped with leather armor, and there were 60,000 troops in Youzhou City.

Fanning was even more convinced of his strategy, and he had to destroy the fighting spirit of the enemy army and the entire Youzhou City from the will, and then he could talk about attacking the city and starting street battles.

As soon as the day dawned, the deployment of the Song army changed, and twenty super trebuchets began to move the battlefield one after another, heading to the south city, and outside the east city were replaced by fifty heavy trebuchets, which had a range of about two hundred and fifty steps, only half of the super trebuchet.

However, the trebuchets of the Liao army at the head of the city have all been destroyed, as long as the bed crossbow of the Liao army cannot be taken out, within 250 steps, the Liao army has no way to take the trebuchet of the Song army.

Before the super trebuchets were completely withdrawn, fifty heavy trebuchets rumbled forward, and before the Liao army could deploy the bed crossbows, fifty heavy trebuchets were fired one after another.

Song Jun projected a canister of oil, a thin-skinned clay pot like a wine jar, filled with sixty catties of oil, and five or six burning powder tubes tied to the outside of the pot, which was exactly the same as the cartridge on the rocket, once ignited, it would burn violently, and they were responsible for igniting the oil.

Fifty heavy trebuchets threw out canisters of oil one after another, some of them hit the city walls, some of them flew over the city, flew into the city, and lit a fire in the city, but most of the canisters of fire hit the city, and the gunpowder cylinders burned rapidly, igniting the fire oil flowing on the city, and for a time the smoke billowed from the city, and the red flames engulfed everything in the city.

The 5,000 soldiers defending the city panicked and fled to the city, and thousands of soldiers who had no way out either jumped from the city or were engulfed in flames.

There were no soldiers at the head of the city, the tactics of the trebuchets began to change, thirty heavy trebuchets began to move forward, until they came to the moat, they still threw one by one oil cans into the city, but these oil canisters were thrown into the houses, and soon, a large number of houses near the city wall in the south of Youzhou City were on fire, and the fire spread rapidly, and the people in the city fled to the north city crying and screaming........

The same thing happened in the south of the city, the Song army's long-range attack was very orderly, twenty super trebuchets were responsible for destroying the defenses on the south of the city, and then dozens of heavy trebuchets appeared on the stage, forcing the Liao army down the city, and then attacking the houses in the city at close range.

This offensive method fully embodied Fanning's strategic thinking, destroying the Liao army and Youzhou City's will to resist.

In addition to the Khitans, there are also Han people, Xi people, Bohai people and mature women, etc., it is difficult for them to twist into a rope and work together to the outside world, let alone become stronger and stronger.

Especially after the Liao army withdrew to Liaoyang Mansion, in a certain form, it was to abandon Youzhou, and the external conditions for the soldiers and civilians in the city to be able to share the same hatred for the enemy have disappeared, not to mention, there are still undercover agents of the Song Dynasty in Youzhou City who will spread rumors and constantly weaken the will of the soldiers and civilians in the city to resist.

It was based on the above considerations that Fanning decided to use the strategy of maximum pressure to destroy the will of the enemy army.

After three rounds of earth-shattering explosions on the head of the south city, the fifty trebuchets on the head of the city have completely disappeared, and the two hundred bed crossbows originally deployed on the head of the south city have also been blown to pieces, and then the fire fell from the sky, and the forty heavy trebuchets participated in the battle and turned the city into a sea of fire, and the heavy trebuchets began to move forward and began to attack the houses in the city.

At this time, a Song army's Baishi sentry ship docked the water gate, it came from a tributary in the east, and did not encounter any attack from the city, whether it was the east city head or the south city head, there was not a single Liao army soldier.

The water gate is one foot five feet high, and like other water gates, there are two iron gates inside and outside, the iron gate is very heavy, and each iron railing is as thick as a baby's arm, and if you use a hacksaw, you can indeed cut these iron railings one by one.

Of course, the Liao army also knew that the water gate was a weak point in defense, so they also deployed a lot of soldiers in the city, once the Song soldiers approached the water gate, they would fire arrows in unison, or the Liao army also poured fire oil in the water, using fire to stop the Song army's destruction of the water gate, and even had a last resort, filling the water gate with a boulder.

Of course, the last move could not be used lightly, which would allow the Song army to calmly carry away the boulder and open a passage into the city.

At this time, the raging fire in the city had driven away all the Liao soldiers who were approaching, and there were no Liao soldiers in Shuicheng.

Several Song soldiers on the boat hung a huge iron fire mine weighing 150 catties on the iron gate, lit the fire rope and quickly left.

Not long after, an earth-shattering explosion actually blew out the huge iron gate, filling the smoke with gunpowder, and the masonry above fell and became very shattered.

This long-range fire attack did not end until the afternoon, and nearly half of the houses in the entire Youzhou City were destroyed by the fire, tens of thousands of people were left homeless, and thousands of Liao soldiers and tens of thousands of civilians died in the flames.

From top to bottom, everyone's mood became extremely heavy, and they all realized the strength of the Song army's combat effectiveness and the horror of the war.

The Song army stopped the attack, the fire oil ran out, and the Liao soldiers finally appeared in the east and south one after another.

Yelu Hujian stood beside the Cao River at the Water City Gate with hundreds of people, he looked at the situation inside the Water Gate with a gloomy face, the outer iron gate had disappeared, and the Song army could even go directly to the city through the Yongdao.

He understood Fanning's hint that the Song army could capture Youzhou City at any time, did Fanning want to surrender himself?

Yelu felt a chill rush to his back.

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For three consecutive days, the Song army launched a large-scale attack on Youzhou City, following the east city and the south city, the Song army launched an offensive on the west city and the north city, destroyed all the trebuchets and bed crossbows, burned down the houses near the city wall, in just three days, more than half of the houses in Youzhou City were burned, and even the granaries were burned in half, the Liao army in the city was unable to resist, so they had to take advantage of the opportunity of the Song army to suspend the attack at night, and blocked the water city gate with a boulder.

The originally high morale in the city gradually became low under the continuous blows of the Song army.

In the afternoon of that day, he hurried to the big tent of the Chinese army in the south of the city, and the soldiers invited him in, and when he entered the big tent, he saw Fanning pacing back and forth in the big tent with his hands in his hands.

He clasped his fists and saluted: "What does it matter if Fan Xianggong is looking for a humble position? ”

Fan Ning sighed and said slowly: "I just got the latest information, the plague has broken out in the Jingcheng Liao Army!" ”

He was taken aback and hurriedly asked, "How is the situation?" Has Song Jun been affected? ”

"The situation of the Liao army is unknown, I only know that it is very serious, Di Shuai has experienced the epidemic prevention test of Western Xia, and it should not be a big problem."

"What does that despicable function do?"

Fan Ning said lightly: "The old general has been in favor for a long time and understands right and wrong, I invited the old general to come over because I wanted to ask the old general to make a decision for me, to be honest, I was very conflicted." ”

"Please say that you will do your best."

Fan Ning pondered and said, "What if I let a group of Liao soldiers return to Liao, such as 10,000 or 20,000 people?" ”

Chong Ge suddenly understood, "Xianggong wants the Liao soldiers to bring the plague to the Liao country?" ”

Fanning nodded, "I'm really embarrassed, strategically I know it's a good move, but I'm afraid it's morally untenable." ”

Chong Mo pondered for a moment and said, "I advise Xianggong to give up this idea. ”

"Why?"

"Xianggong, the plague is a demon, and the outbreak of the plague in the Liao army is also God's punishment for them, but if the demons are artificially released out of the cage, it will violate the way of heaven and damage the reputation of Xianggong, and if you are not careful, the plague will backfire on the Song army, making our strategic success a failure, and giving the Liao State a chance."

The last sentence of the seed is the key, so that Fan Ning has to be cautious, indeed, the Song army's epidemic prevention ability is far from enough, and the slightest carelessness will be eaten by the plague, and in the end, the Liao country will be cheapened in vain.

"The old general is right, we really can't take this risk."

Fanning eventually gave up on the idea of using the plague to fight the Liao state.

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