Two days later, 300,000 Song troops crossed the Liao River and completely surrounded Liaoyang City.

Looking out from the head of the city, the Song army stationed four large camps in the east, west, north and south directions of Liaoyang City, about three miles away from the city, tents one by one, dense, and could not see the edge at a glance.

Xiao Weixin now finally understands why Yelu Hongji wants to flee from Liaoyang Mansion, with the respect of the Son of Heaven, he can't accept this humiliation of being besieged in the city.

And not only the loss of the dignity of the Son of Heaven itself, but also the Liao court could not tolerate it, the year before and last year, Yelu Hongji looted the wealth of thirty-four royal magnates in order to collect wealth, once he was besieged by the Song army, how could these royal magnates not take the opportunity to set up a new emperor on the grounds of the stability of the Great Liao Sheji?

But understanding is understanding, Yelu Hongji's escape still led to turmoil in the hearts of the people in Liaoyang City, the morale of the army was unstable, and the morale was extremely low.

Two days ago, in order to reduce the turmoil in the city and save food, Xiao Weixin decided to let the people out of the city, but there were too many people going out of the city, everyone rushed out of the city, and the order was out of control, so that the newly recruited soldiers took the opportunity to flee more than 6,000 people, Xiao Weixin had to retract the order and once again forbade the people to go out of the city.

Although the army is unstable and the people's hearts are turbulent, Xiao Weixin still has some reliance, that is, Liaoyang City is tall and strong, Liaoyang City was overhauled after being attacked by the Song army many years ago, the city wall was thickened and heightened, a wide moat was dug outside the city, and the garrison was sufficient, as long as the Song army did not use perverted iron fire and thunder, he could guarantee at least half a year.

But will Song Jun not use it? Xiao Weixin sighed lowly, turned around and went down to the city........

At night, the Song army camp was brightly lit, and thousands of craftsmen were busy assembling the super trebuchet, which had made a great contribution in the attack on Youzhou City, and it was extremely deterrent and a sharp weapon to break the army's heart.

The Song army brought twenty-four planes from Youzhou and Beijing, a total of forty-eight planes, which could be put into battle after being simply assembled.

He accompanied Fanning to inspect the assembly of the Super Speculative Stone, the name of which was given to Fanning and has now become the official name of the trebuchet.

"I heard that His Highness has suggested to the Son of Heaven to increase the army?" He asked with a smile.

Fanning nodded, "Now we have 450,000 troops, considering that we are also defending various vital places, our actual troops are only about 300,000, if we want to destroy the Liao State and deter the grasslands at the same time, we need at least 500,000 troops, so I suggest to the Son of Heaven that we increase our troops by 200,000." ”

He groaned and said, "Then have you considered letting the Son of Heaven take the expedition in person?" ”

Fanning laughed, "An increase of 200,000 troops is to leave room for the Son of Heaven to personally drive the expedition, of course, this idea is also mentioned in my proposal, but whether the Son of Heaven wants to lead the army to the expedition depends on his own ideas." ”

At this time, one of the directors of the crossbow courtyard came to salute quickly, and Fanning pointed to the behemoth and asked, "When will the installation be completed?" ”

"This time it's faster, and strive to complete the installation and commissioning before noon tomorrow!"

Fanning smiled comfortingly: "Everyone has worked hard this time, and when the war is over, I will give credit to the crossbow courtyard!" ”

"Thank you, Your Highness, for your care."

Everyone walked to a trebuchet, the trebuchet has been basically installed, there is a thick protective plate in front, only to see a seventy-foot high box next to it, the director explained: "This is a super trebuchet supporting the steam engine, with it, a super trebuchet only needs ten people to operate." ”

Fanning nodded, this can be regarded as keeping pace with the times........

On the morning of the next day, 48 trebuchets rumbled to Liaoyang City from four directions, the trebuchet was as high as five zhang, the throwing rod was 20 zhang long, and the steam engine power was used to roll the winch, and the 100-kilogram boulder could be shot two miles away at a time.

There were no trebuchets on the walls, so I had to watch the super trebuchets approach step by step.

The trebuchets stopped about three hundred paces from the city walls, and inside each trebuchet were placed a large spherical wooden shell, and the soldiers lit the fire rope and the trebuchets were launched suddenly.

The wooden shell ball exploded in the air, thousands of flyers fell from the wooden ball, and then the wind swept towards the whole city, and the Song army shot ten wooden shell balls in a row from four directions, and tens of thousands of flyers suddenly floated all over the city.

Xiao Wei, who was standing on the city wall, was shocked by his confidence, just as a leaflet floated in front of his eyes, with a few lines of words printed in Chinese characters.

'Fan Ning, the king of Chu of the Great Song Dynasty and the envoy to the north, sent a letter to Xiao Weixin's privy envoy and the soldiers and civilians of the city.

Yelu Hongji perversely, the rebellion of the relatives, so that the destruction of the Liao State is imminent, the Song Dynasty 500,000 troops besieged Liaoyang, the thunderbolt, the fire of the city, are all waiting for the pillow, and then the heavens have the virtue of a good life, the commander is unwilling to destroy the cruelty of the city, specially to Xiao Shu's envoy and the whole army and the people of the army a way to live, as long as the city surrenders, the Song army will treat the army and the people well, the soldiers are disarmed, no one is injured, the people live in peace, do not take a penny, hope that the Xiao Shu's envoy to the whole city of life as a thought, do not compete with the heavenly army, before night falls, raise righteousness out of the city.

Song Chu King Fan Ning respects'

This letter made Xiao Weixin shocked and angry, and shouted: "Go and collect the leaflets quickly, and those who dare to hide will be punished as collaborators!" ”

Although Xiao Weixin ordered the collection of leaflets, it was useless, this open letter had already quietly spread throughout the army and the whole city, and people's hearts were fluctuating, and many soldiers began to think about their own future.

Night fell quietly, Fan Ning looked at Liaoyang City coldly, Xiao Weixin refused to surrender in his expectation, but he had already done his duty, since he didn't know what to do, then don't blame him for being ruthless.

"Pass my orders, and the trebuchet will attack!"

'Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! The fierce war drums sounded, and the Song army began a large-scale long-range attack, and forty-eight super trebuchets entered the firing state one after another.

The soldiers placed huge fireballs in their throwing pockets, which were soaked in cloth and dried, then wrapped into large balls coated with incendiary powder, and one soldier lit the fireballs and shot them out with a long throwing rod.

A fireball burns rapidly in the air, forming a cluster of red flames in the air, flying into the city from all directions, this is the fire of destroying the city, the fireball is very elastic, and after landing, it bounces high and flies to the depths of the city.

In just a moment, fires broke out in many places in Liaoyang City, including the palace, three fireballs shot into the palace, and the palace was also ignited, and the palace maids and eunuchs in the palace were so frightened that they fled in all directions.

But this is just the beginning, followed by the second and third rounds of fireballs, and by the fourth round, the Song army is no longer shooting fireballs, but cans of fire oil, fire oil cans shot into the city and fell and shattered, fire oil splashed everywhere, and was quickly ignited, the fire borrowed the wind, and the city was full of fire.

The people poured water on the fire with buckets and basins, but it was easy to extinguish one fire, and dozens of more fires were added, and they could not be saved at all.

Half of the Tokyo Imperial Palace was engulfed in flames, and the nearby barracks were also in flames.

That night, the Song army shot nearly a thousand large fireballs, and the entire half of Liaoyang City was plunged into a sea of fire.

The next morning, the craftsmen began to trim and debug the trebuchet, and after the fire that extinguished the city, the thunderbolt of the Song army was about to kick off.

………….

Although the war in Liaoyang is in full swing, the eyes of the capital in the past few days have been focusing on another major event.

The imperial court finally had to formulate a system of overseas feudal feudals and a system for the management of overseas territories.

These are actually two laws, the first of which is for the system of overseas fiefdoms of magnates with the title of earl or above.

The latter law was for minor lordships and commoners owning more than fifty hectares of overseas territories, and in short, for the magnates and merchants.

Since the Great Song Dynasty began selling islands eight years ago, it has sold more than 3,400 pieces of land of more than 50 hectares, including 1,300 islands and more than 2,000 pieces of land, most of which are concentrated on Luzon Island, and hundreds of pieces of land have also been sold on the southern mainland.

The imperial court obtained huge land revenues, and these revenues went to the treasury for thirty percent and seventy percent for the inner treasury, and then when there were major arrangements, the inner treasury would allocate money, such as the construction engineering college, investment immigration to the southern continent, and so on.

However, the status of these overseas lands has not been clarified by law, and many islands have been resettled and developed, but they are all black households, and there has been a debate about the overseas feudal system for eight years.

Opponents believe that overseas land is also the territory of the Great Song Dynasty, and if the implementation of feudal division will inevitably affect the system of unification of the imperial court, but the supporters lack that overseas land is private property, and the imperial court has already collected money, so they have no right to dictate the disposal of private property, not to mention, there are many unowned islands overseas that the Great Song Dynasty does not know, and others occupy the islands to establish the country, and the Great Song Dynasty cannot control it.

But Wang Anshi made it clear three years ago that as long as the people of the Great Song Dynasty were not migrated, then the imperial court could not be built, but if the people of the Great Song Dynasty were migrated, then the imperial court had the right to intervene.

There are many ministers who support this idea, including Wang Anshi, Fu Bi, Wen Yanbo and other ministers who support the third plan, and it gradually becomes the mainstream in the imperial court.

The key is how to manage the imperial court and how to grasp this degree, which has become the focus of contention among the various factions of the Great Song Dynasty, and after three years of tug-of-war discussions, a compromise plan acceptable to all parties has finally been introduced. 8)