The strength of the Jin soldiers stationed in Shangjing, Xiao Ming finally got the real result through several explorations, 20,000 Jurchen cavalry, 50,000 or 60,000 surrendered Khitan, Bohai, and Xiren surrendered, plus 50,000 Jurchen cavalry cruising around the periphery, the total number was about 120,000 and the number of Liao troops.

But the number of cavalry on the other side has reached 70,000, and even the infantry has more than 50,000, while the number of cavalry of the Liao army plus the cavalry of the Wuhuai battalion is only more than 40,000, and the rest are all infantry, this contrast of strength is very important, Xiao Ming immediately realized that in fact he was still at a disadvantage.

The defense of Shangjing was not tight, and when they learned that the Liao army was camped ten miles outside the city, they did not even close the city gate, and the people who came and went in and out of the city gate entered and exited the city as usual, and the Jurchens did not care, as if they knew that the Liao army did not dare to attack rashly, in fact, Xiao Ming did not dare to attack rashly.

Xiao Ming was spending time outside the city, but he was not idle, and kept sending people into the city, and the ethnic groups in Shangjing were mixed, and there were people of all nationalities, such as Khitans, Jurchens, Bohai people, Xi people, Goryeo people, and the Semu people of the Western Regions! Of course, there are also a large number of Han Chinese.

In this regard, the Jurchens estimated that they were more strict about the Khitans who came and went into the city, but they were much more relaxed about the personnel of other nationalities, so most of the personnel sent by Xiao Ming to Shangjing were Han Chinese, and the best candidate was Qian Baguang, and Qian Baguang also liked to do the work of finding out the news.

In fact, when Qian Baguang was in Mangdang Mountain, what he did was to find out the news, he specially led a group of people to disguise themselves as ordinary people or craftsmen, and mixed into the caravan to find out the news, but this guy was very out of tune, and the big boss Fan Rui, the demon king of the mixed world, was very disappointed in him, so he always deceived Hao Stick with a papier-mâché sledgehammer.

Xiao Ming now finally understands the strength of the Yaxing Gang, the person in charge of the Yaxing Gang in Beijing turned out to be a Hu person from the Western Regions, and Qian Baguang, who was in charge of going to the joint, actually became friends with others, and the two actually made a bet that the Liao army led by Xiao Ming would capture Shangjing in a few months.

Qian Baguang gambled for two months, and the other party gambled for half a year, if Shangjing could not be captured within half a year, the Liao army would be defeated, and the Jin soldiers would be victorious! Qian Baguang asked the reason, and it turned out that the other party did have a lot of military intelligence in Shangjing.

This first, the Jin soldier in the Liao State of Shangjing Linhengfu guard general is the Jin State of the famous general Wanyan Di Gunai, this person is brave in battle, resourceful, widely known in the army, many Liao people are afraid of him, and the deputy general of the city is the Liao general Xiao Da Buye who surrendered to the Jin State, this person was a guard in Beijing, familiar with the overall defense layout of the entire city.

Second, the Jin cavalry stationed in Shangjing is the team that Wanyan Agu swore to revolt in Ningjiang Prefecture, and successively won the victories in the battles of Ningjiang Prefecture and Chuhedian.

The third and most important point is that the founder of the entire Jin country, the commander of the army, Jin Taizu will come to Shangjing in the near future, ready to personally command this battle with the Liao army, and heard that the emperor personally came to supervise the battle, the morale of the Jin soldiers was greatly boosted, and he vowed to kill all 100,000 Liao troops in Shangjing.

Xiao Ming, who heard the news, was also taken aback, and said in his heart: "This Wanyan Aguda really gives face, and is ready to come to fight with Lao Tzu in person, it seems that it is not that I Xiao Ming has a big face, but that Aguda knows that after destroying the 100,000 troops of the Liao army, there may be no soldiers and horses in the entire Liao country who can fight."

On the third day after this news was obtained, news came from Shangjing again, saying that the Jin people's defense had suddenly strengthened, and Wanyan Aguta really came to Shangjing with 5,000 Yulin troops, and the Jin soldiers shouted in unison! The sound of the four wilds! The entire garrison of Shangjing was ready to go out of the city for a decisive battle.

Xiao Ming, who got the news, decided to show weakness to the Jin soldiers again, ordered the whole army to retreat ten miles back and camp, chose a hillside and valley as the camp station, and began to hoard trees, cut down all the trees within a radius of ten miles, and formed a camp in the upper reaches of the river in Shangjing's water source and Linhe River, and defended it tightly.

This battle was fought inexplicably at the beginning, the Liao army attacked the same number of elite cavalry of the Jin State with the weak fighting strength of the Southern Academy, and the initiative of the war was not in the Jin soldiers but in the Liao army, which really made many people not very optimistic about the outcome of this battle, and the entire Liao army was shrouded in a pessimistic atmosphere.

And Xiao Ming's show of weakness also made the Liao army discouraged, where did this come to attack? It's just here to fight, but no one dares to say anything, and all actions can only obey Xiao Ming's orders and transfers.

During this time, Xiao Ming was not idle, and was guarding the craftsmen in the army to supervise the construction of sharp weapons to defend the city, this kind of sharp weapon has something to learn, it was transported from the merchant ships of the Song Dynasty, that is, the bed crossbow, but Xiao Ming thought that the bed crossbow was too slow, and asked the craftsmen to make a repeating crossbow car.

There are also some strange things, Xiao Ming also let the craftsmen assemble them, and he provided the drawings craftsmen to create a kind of siege weapon, that is, the "Huihui Cannon" that the Mongols have been using in later generations! This kind of stone thrower invented by the people of the Western Regions was first used in war more than 100 years later in the war between Song and Mongolia and Song and Yuan.

Now Xiao Ming has made it now, anyway, he has robbed the patent rights of Ah Lao Wading and Yi Si Main, Xiao Ming is now thick-skinned, and even Watt's steam engine was plagiarized by him, not to mention the return gun, if the conditions permit, there are many things he wants to plagiarize.

Not long after the Huihui cannon was built, and before the production could be expanded, the envoy of the Jin State sent a war letter, stating that the decisive battle would be fought in three days! Xiao Ming urgently convened a military meeting, recently he always held a military meeting, the generals of the Liao army are a little used to it, he held a meeting not to promote the generals, issue tokens, but to invite everyone to eat and drink, and then ask everyone's opinions on the battle situation and the battle situation, or the direction of the next move.

But this kind of meeting of drinking and eating meat around the big tent does not necessarily make the generals relax their nerves, because you have to talk about it unscrupulously, Xiao Ming immediately turned his face and pulled people out to beat the military sticks, so everyone drank wine and tasted meat.

This time it was like this again, when Xiao Ming asked the generals, the Jin State sent someone to write a war letter, what did the generals think, everyone, you look at me, I look at you, no one spoke, there was no way Xiao Ming named people to answer, and he was the first to name Yelu Dashi.

"What do you think, General Oishi?"

Yelu Dashi was helpless, stood up and replied: "The last general thinks that the Jin people want to fight with us because they want to destroy us to the greatest extent with their strength, and we should preserve our strength and avoid a decisive battle with him."

He was based on Xiao Ming's consistent weakness these days, and said what he said to pat Xiao Ming's ass, I thought that Xiao Ming would definitely praise it and talk nonsense about what he said was reasonable, who knew that Xiao Ming frowned after hearing it, and said loudly: "This is bad!" Don't forget what His Majesty the Emperor is doing with us here? ”

The generals were stunned when they heard this: "What does this mean?" ”

Xiao Ming, who listened to it, continued: "If we preserve our strength and don't fight a decisive battle with Wanyan Agu, then he will continue to transfer troops to surround us, and at that time, the state capital we conquered all the way will still fall into the hands of the enemy, and at the same time, we will be slowly eaten by the Jin soldiers."

Xiao Ming stopped talking, looked at the generals of the Liao army and said: "Ah Gu fights a battle, I will fight with him, and then I will assign you to your respective positions and battle positions, I hope you will strictly implement ......them, and there will be no mistakes."

The generals stood up and bowed and said yes, Yang Qizhong, who was hiding in the back account and eavesdropping, couldn't do it, and said in his heart that this Uncle Xiao really has a set, false and false, true and true, so that the generals of the Liao State are really confused, they all think that the commander's mind is unpredictable, and it is also very mysterious, how can he seem to be acting?

Xiao Ming is really acting, but this play is not only for the generals of the Liao State, but also for his opponent Wanyan Agu, whether the other party can be fooled, Xiao Ming is not worried at all, judging from the reaction of the Liao army at this stage, although the combat effectiveness is not good, but the quality of obeying orders is very high, as long as everyone is obedient, this battle is easy to fight.

After assigning the task, Xiao Ming returned to the back account and continued to study the map Xu Lizhuo gave him with Yang Qizhong, the gold mine has not been found now, but as a military map, it has helped Xiao Ming a lot, and the plan for this operation is largely based on the terrain on the map.

Soon the three-day period has arrived, "Puffy ......! In the sound of war drums, the Liao army brigade drove out of the camp, and slowly crossed the hill to the riverbank in the direction of Shangjing, which was the decisive battle site agreed with Wanyan Agu, the terrain of the riverbank was open, and it was indeed suitable for the large army to do a decisive battle.

And the Jin soldiers have come there one step earlier, only to see that the soldiers and horses of the Jin country have been arrayed less than three miles on the opposite side, it is really a banner covering the sun, the swords and guns are dazzling, the elite of the Jin soldiers is indeed not ordinary, the armor is distinct, under the current Daxu, a big Han golden helmet and golden armor, it is Jin Taizu Wanyan A bone fight!

This time the Jin Kingdom can be said to be the best of the best, Wanyan Aguda is surrounded by some famous generals of the Jin Kingdom on both sides, Wanyan Di Gunai, Wanyan Lou Room, Wanyan Po Lu Huo, Wanyan Yinshuke, Hu Gulu, Pavilion Mother Wanyan Yilie and others are all present, as for Wanyan Aguta's sons are stationed in various places except for Wanyan Zonghan, this time they did not follow.

Looking at the Liao army's grinding formation, sorting out the flags, Wanyan Agu took a horsewhip and pointed to the opposite side and laughed: "The Liao army ten years ago was much more neat than the Liao army now, and it was not defeated by me, but now the Liao army on the opposite side has regressed even more, it seems that the world of the Khitan people is destined to not last!" ”

The people around him laughed together, and said with a smile: "Your Majesty, now that the Liao army has a firm foothold, our army will definitely be able to catch the other party off guard when it charges now, do you want me to take someone to rush at him now?" ”

Wanyan Agu said: "No, back then, we could defeat dozens of times more enemies than us by fighting more with less, now let them line up in formation, today's battle is our last battle against Liao, I estimate that there will be no big war to fight in the future!" ”

The Liao army finally sorted out the formation slowly, the horn blows, the Xiaozi banner flutters, both sides have begun to beat the war drums, the Liao army actually used infantry to meet the enemy today, which is also unexpected by Yan Agu, but now the arrow has to be sent, "Rumble!" In the sound of war drums, Ah Gu struck the horsewhip and pointed at it, and the Jin soldiers began to charge.

Jin Bing used 30,000 cavalry at a time this time, and more than 10,000 people charged and attacked each of the two wings of the Liao army, and the formation of the Liao army shrank back sharply, and instantly became a triangle, and it was an inverted triangle.

When the cavalry of the Jin soldiers approached the two wings of the Liao army, they could not find the direction of attack, and the infantry camp of the Liao army projected a piece of short spears at this time, which was specially improved by Xiao Ming.

The projection distance of the short spear is only about 100 paces, when the cavalry of the golden soldiers began to circle around the infantry, a gap was opened by the throwing spears, and the men shouted that the horses neighed, the golden soldiers suffered heavy casualties, and when they turned to seal the gap, they were blocked by the archers with strong bows and crossbows.

After throwing the spear, the infantry of the Liao army, turned around and pulled the horse from behind to turn over the horse and fled quickly from the open gap, and the people without the horse were picked up by the archers and the two of them ran quickly, and they fled from the gap when they saw it.

The Liao army is fleeing in embarrassment, and there are constantly people who are shot off their horses by the arrows of the Jin soldiers behind, but these people are all lightly armed, and they don't even wear the iron armor that protects themselves, except for the short spears thrown out, they don't even have a scimitar, the weight of the horse is not much, and the speed of escape is fast, and tens of thousands of Liao troops flee in a deserted way, and the Jin soldiers have fought the battle into a pursuit war as before.