At this time, it was late October, the autumn harvest had just ended, and it was gradually coming to the end of the year, and every household began to prepare for the New Year, and the whole Datang was shrouded in the busyness of preparing for the New Year.

But at this time, an accident occurred in Liaodong, and the news of Li Quanzhong's poisoning spread to Liaodong, causing the anger of the Khitan tribes, and Sun Wanrong was obliged to take over Li Quanzhong's chieftaincy.

In order to grasp the military and political power of the Khitan and establish prestige among the Khitan ethnic groups, Sun Wanrong tore up the agreement reached with the Tang Dynasty in the name of avenging Li Quanzhong, raised troops to rebel against the Tang Dynasty, and gathered tens of thousands of troops to attack Yingzhou again.

Above the city, thousands of Tang soldiers looked at the huge Khitan army several miles away, they only had more than 3,000 people, and there were constantly horns blowing on the city, and the Tang army seemed a little panicked.

Although they had made preparations in advance, evacuated the people in the city to the south, and prepared a large number of rolling wood and stones, they still seemed powerless in the face of tens of thousands of Khitan troops.

Fang Danqing, the commander of the Tang Army, turned pale, looking at the murderous Khitan army, he showed a frightened look in his eyes, he was already in chaos, and he didn't know what to do.

From his original intention, he really wanted to abandon the city and retreat immediately, but the Holy Lord made it very clear in his will that no army was allowed to abandon the city and flee without permission, and the city must be held, otherwise it would be the scum of the Tang Dynasty army and would be severely punished.

But this will is obviously a bit unfair to Liucheng, it is located in the northeast of Liaodong, if the Khitan army rebels, Liucheng is undoubtedly the first to bear the brunt, Fang Danqing also put forward his own opinion, but its opinion has no response, but caused the instability of the army's heart.

His fears unfortunately became true, and the Khitan army rebelled again and came to the city.

At this time, a Khitan cavalry galloped forward, flew past the edge of the city, and an arrow shot at the head of the city, and the arrow was carrying a letter, and some soldiers picked up the letter and rushed to the main general.

Fang Danqing opened the letter with trembling hands, and there was only one sentence in the letter, "Surrender within one hour, otherwise you will set foot in Liucheng." ”

Fang Danqing sighed, dropped the letter, he couldn't help but look to the south anxiously, as early as when the Khitan tribes were gathering troops, he sent people to Youzhou for help, there are still tens of thousands of troops stationed in Youzhou, but three days have passed, and there is no news from Youzhou.

"General, what are we going to do?" asked another general, worried.

"Resist first! If you can't resist it, you will retreat. ”

Fang Danqing sighed, it is better to retreat than to surrender, he suddenly thought of something, and hurriedly said to this general: "You immediately send someone to Yuguan and tell Zhong Yuan that the Khitan army is pressing the border, and the reinforcements are not coming for a long time, and Liucheng can no longer be saved, let him prepare!"

"The last general obeys!"

The general immediately ran to arrange for the messenger soldiers, Fang Danqing looked at the messenger soldiers leaving the city, he turned around sharply and shouted to the soldiers: "The Khitan army is extremely brutal, kill my young and old, insult my woman, today they will attack again, we should fight to the death to the end, and never surrender!"

The sound of trumpets at the head of the city was continuous, which was a signal to the battle, declaring to the Khitan army that they would never surrender.

A few miles away, Sun Wanrong had already heard the horn of the battle, his pupils gradually contracted, and the killing machine burst out, and he ordered word by word: "Assemble the trebuchet immediately." ”

The 300 craftsmen who accompanied the army went into action, unloading the huge trebuchet parts from the baggage squads and starting to assemble them on the spot.

When attacking Goguryeo with the Tang army, the Khitans also captured a large number of craftsmen from Goguryeo, enabling them to build huge trebuchets that played a huge role in the last southern assault on Yingzhou.

Not only that, but they also bought thousands of horses from the Turks to pull supplies, which carried a heavy burden and were good at long journeys, especially in sledding.

It is with sleds and horses, so that the Khitan army's various heavy siege weapons can travel with the army, bringing them great convenience, less than half an hour, skilled craftsmen assembled twenty huge trebuchets, this can throw a hundred pounds of boulders, the force is strong, one stone can destroy the city tower, each trebuchet needs two hundred wrestlers to pull their hair, like twenty giants standing under the city.

At this time, a Khitan soldier ran towards Sun Wanrong and reported loudly: "Great chief, the trebuchet is ready!"

Sun Wanrong looked up at the sky, the sun had already set the horizon, and the sky was dyed with a layer of purple red, revealing the sad atmosphere of the end.

"Start attacking!"

Sun Wanrong gave the order to attack, he looked at the city wall that was also dyed purple, and said coldly: "I have already given you a chance, since you refuse to accept it, then don't blame me for using Liucheng to sacrifice the sword." ”

'Knock!knock!'

The huge drum beat sounded, and each drum beat smashed into the hearts of the Tang soldiers in the city, smashing them uneasy, they held bows and crossbows, and waited for the battle, but the twenty huge monster-like giants under the city filled each of their hearts with heavy pressure.

The drumming stopped, and there was silence between heaven and earth, and suddenly, dozens of huge black shadows soared into the air, drawing dozens of arcs, flying through the air, and making a piercing whistling sound.

"Ahh

There was an exclamation from the top of the city, and Fang Danqing shouted: "Lean over and dodge!" "Boom, boom!" There was a loud bang, and dust and smoke were flying on the city.

Although the city wall of Liucheng is rammed with bricks and stones, the city wall is tall, but after all, it has a history of hundreds of years, it has been eroded by wind and rain, and it has been a little old.

'Bang!' There was a loud bang, and a boulder hit the battlements above the head of the main general Fang Danqing, the battlements were smashed to pieces, the gravel flew wildly, and the boulder was still alive and swept over, and several Tang soldiers couldn't dodge and were smashed to the ground.

The soldiers on the head of the city shouted for help, and more than 100 people were killed and wounded in the first round of attacks, the city tower was hit by two huge stones at the same time, the wooden pillar was broken, the city tower collapsed, and more than a dozen Tang soldiers were buried in the collapsed wood and stone pile.

Immediately after the second round of boulder attacks were launched again, twenty boulders of more than 100 catties rotated in the air, carrying strong force, and rushed straight to the city wall, and there was a huge and dull crashing sound.

A section of the city wall finally could not withstand the continuous impact of the boulder, there was already a terrible crack, crumbling, at this moment, another grinding disc of the big stone volleyed in the air, is hitting the crack, the city wall collapsed, like the skin that was torn apart, was pulled off more than 20 zhang at once, the city wall interlayer filled with sediment poured down, forming a slope of the upper city.

Fang Danqing's eyes turned red in a hurry, and he shouted loudly: "Hurry up and build a wall with sandbags!"

Thousands of Tang soldiers rushed to the gap with sandbags on their backs, desperately threw sandbags into the gap, and quickly rebuilt a city wall.

But Sun Wanrong still did not give the siege order, just stared coldly at the busyness of the city, his eyes were full of disdain, in his opinion, he had twenty heavy trebuchets, and this city was vulnerable.

"One, two, three, put!"

Two hundred Khitan soldiers exerted their strength at the same time, and the long pole arm was thrown, making a "woo!" sound of wind, a huge bluestone rose into the air, roaring towards the city gate, the continuous impact made the city gate shake violently, and finally could not withstand the attack of the boulder, and the city gate shattered.

Sun Wanrong waved his sword, "Kill into the city!"

Tens of thousands of Khitan troops were overwhelmingly slaughtering towards the city gate, Fang Danqing's face turned pale, he gritted his teeth and stomped his feet fiercely, "Retreat! Retreat immediately!"

He could not let the army be wiped out, and he would rather be severely punished than let the soldiers die.

Thousands of Tang troops immediately withdrew to the south gate, abandoned Liucheng, and quickly withdrew in the direction of Yuguan in the south, the Khitan army captured Liucheng, Sun Wanrong saw that the city was already empty, and the grain and population had been withdrawn, he was furious, and immediately led the army to continue southward and rushed to Yuguan.

At the same time, Wang Xiaojie led an army of 100,000 day and night, and arrived at Yuguan shortly after the fall of Liucheng.

Sun Wanrong learned that Wang Xiaojie's army had arrived, and the garrison stopped, the two armies were about 20 miles apart, in the big tent, Sun Wanrong paced back and forth with his hands, looking a little worried, he really did not expect the main force of the Tang army to come so quickly, he had just captured Yingzhou, the main force of the Tang army rushed to Yuguan, indicating that the Tang army had already prepared, so that his plan was disrupted.

Sun Wanrong also knew that a direct consequence of Li Qianzhong's rebellion a few months ago was that the population and materials of the Tang Dynasty were all withdrawn to Guannei, and only the army was stationed in Liaodong, even if he captured Yingzhou, there was not much food supply, so Sun Wanrong planned to lead the army south immediately after capturing Yingzhou, and use the advantage of heavy siege engines to capture Yuguan in one fell swoop, and the army swept Hebei, so that he could get sufficient supplies.

Moreover, the Khitan tribes can also plunder the population and property of Hebei on a large scale, as long as they are fully compensated, they will naturally be loyal to themselves, and he will sit firmly in the position of the Khitan chieftain.

But Sun Wanrong did not expect that after the Tang Dynasty learned that Li Quanzhong was poisoned, it immediately took emergency countermeasures and sent Wang Xiaojie to lead an army of 100,000 to the north, which happened to block his attempt to plunder in the south and north, which made Sun Wanrong's plan fail.

Sun Wanrong was distraught, they were not fully prepared for going south this time, there were not many logistical supplies, and now Yingzhou could not get supplies, would he be forced to withdraw to his lair again? In this way, how could the Khitan tribes obey him again?

The more Sun Wanrong thought about it, the more annoyed he became, he walked to the map, looked at Yuguan in a daze, and couldn't help but sigh a long sigh, at this time, the curtain was opened, and his brother-in-law Yi Yanyu walked in, Yi Yanyu successfully poisoned Li Qianzhong for Sun Wanrong in Luoyang, and has become his right-hand man and his military advisor.

Seeing Sun Wanrong's frowning, Yi Yiyu smiled and said, "Has the big chief encountered a problem?"

Sun Wanrong sighed, "I really didn't expect the Tang Army to come so quickly and disrupt my plan, now I am short of food supplies, and I can only hold out for half a month at most, otherwise we will fall into the danger of food shortage, so I am a little upset." ”

"And how is the Great Chief going to deal with this dilemma?"

Sun Wanrong pointed to the map and said: "I want to fight the Andong Protectorate to the east, the Tang Dynasty has placed nearly a million Goguryeo people in the Liaocheng area, if we can rob these people, we can solve the food dilemma, and then occupy the Liaodong and Andong Protectorate, and build a country here, but I am worried that once I lead the army eastward, the Tang army will take the opportunity to cut off our back road, so that we are in danger of being attacked by the enemy, and I heard that the Tang army will be the commander of Wang Xiaojie, who has been with Tibet for many years, Turkic warfare, is a famous general of the Tang Army, and it is by no means comparable to the villain of Wu Youyi, so I hesitated. ”

Yi Yiyu smiled slightly and said: "Wang Xiaojie has been fighting with the Turks and Tubo all the year round, using cavalry tactics, but it may not be effective for our Khitan, since the big chief is worried that he will lead the army north to cut off our back road, why don't we plan and lure the Tang army to annihilate it?"

Sun Wanrong suddenly woke up to the fact that Li Quanzhong's two defeats of the Tang army were not just a trick to lure troops, and the terrain of eastern Liaodong was complex, which was very suitable for ambush warfare.

"What if Wang Xiaojie is not fooled?" Sun Wanrong was still a little worried, if Wang Xiaojie was not fooled, his food would not last long.

"Great Chief, even if Wang Xiaojie is not fooled, we will not be able to go to Andong to replenish, and in the end we will have to withdraw to the Desert, I am afraid that by then, the tribes will not get enough benefits, they will be dissatisfied with the Great Chief, and it will be difficult for the Great Chief to control them. ”

Yi Yiyu's words hit Sun Wanrong's heart disease, he pondered for a long time, and finally nodded, at this moment, Sun Wanrong made up his mind, he wanted to gamble on this and put all his net worth and life on it.

"If you can completely annihilate Wang Xiaojie's department, my grandson Wanrong will be able to become the king of Hebei. ”