Emperor Zhenzong looked at Yang Peng's gift to himself, and the eighth prince also said, "That Yang Peng wants us to open our own trading house, so that the money we earn will be used in the palace, and don't look at the face of the household all day long, the price of salt they give us is not high, fifty wen a catty, and now the green salt is sold for one hundred and thirty wen a catty, where is the green salt Yang Peng's salt is good." What do you think, official. "Emperor Zhenzong didn't know how happy he was when he thought that such salt could make a lot of money.

Emperor Zhenzong took the soap and looked at it again. The last time I used the soap, the old lady gave me a hundred yuan, which was not enough for those imperial concubines, and it was a piece in my hand. When Emperor Zhenzong ran out of soap and was using horn soap, his whole body was uncomfortable. But Tokyo didn't have to sell it, he almost wanted to die of this soap, but he didn't expect Yang Peng to give it back so much, and Emperor Zhenzong was so happy. Then he took off his yellow robe, took a brocade clothes and put it on his body, felt much more comfortable, and said to the eunuch next to him, "According to this style, make me ten pieces of yellow robe cloth." After making ten pieces for the emperor's uncle, he asked Shang Yijian to do it, "The eunuch took the costume and ran."

Emperor Zhenzong took the flintlock pistol and looked at it again, and finally put it back in its place, Emperor Zhenzong said to the eighth prince, "Eighth uncle, you are in charge of the affairs of the business house, and I will transfer a few little eunuchs to help you early." Another Praetorian Guard will transport your goods between Bianjing and Tianjing New Town. I will prepare 50,000 taels of silver for you for the first batch of goods, and I will arrange for them to set off tomorrow, and in the future, all the forbidden troops in the imperial city will change into such clothes, and the colors are yellow, red, green, and cyan. And black on the line. Such a costume is atmospheric, good, really good-looking. ”

The eighth prince said, "There is another thing, that is, Yang Peng exchanged Yingzhou and Mozhou for the imperial court for a martyr's shrine for the dead people of the Yang family, and a sign, which reads that the civil officials get off the sedan chair and the military generals dismount to show respect for the Yang family." Emperor Zhenzong said, "Is it true, there is such a good thing, promise him." The two cities, the fool did not agree. Besides, Lao Linggong's death, the court has not said anything, this time it is just to give the Yang family an explanation, eighth uncle, to make an ancestral hall for Yang Qilang alone, so as to comfort Lin Qing'er. After all, Yang Peng is her apprentice. Lin Qing'er has only one son, and it is already a great favor that she did not ask the Pan family to pay for her life this time, and the Pan family should be grateful to the Yang family. ”

On the eighth day of October in the first year of Xianping, the Khitan army slaughtered the boundary of Dagou in Tianjing New Town. At the beginning, Yang Peng only felt that there were more and more Khitan cavalry in all directions. The Khitan scout cavalry was like a wave of the sea, constantly oppressing Yang Peng's sentinels. These rangers are all horse armor and infantry armor that are skilled in riding and archery, and their combat effectiveness is considerable. They seemed to have learned the lesson of the previous days, and groups of forty or fifty people were scattered in the four fields, and they went forward in groups to try and suppress the sentinels of the pioneer battalion, but they did not rush up to fight, and only relied on a little more people to squeeze the sentinels of Tianjing New City.

The Khitan cavalry was so dense that Yang Peng's sentries were in danger of being surrounded when they went out to engage in battle, so Yang Peng withdrew the sentries and collected them into the city. To scout the surrounding military situation, it is all up to telescopes. By the ninth day of October in the first year of Xianping, 12,000 Khitan troops had already attacked Dagou City. Yang Peng and Duan Zhixian stood on the city tower and looked over, only to see groups of Khitan cavalry in gray armor running a mile away from the city, raising patches of dust on the wasteland. Five or six miles north of the city are densely covered with Khitan army tents, and the company camps for several miles.

Yang Peng looked through the binoculars and saw that the camps were heavily guarded, the cavalry was ordered to shuttle back and forth, and the Khitan soldiers stationed were all dressed in gray armor or military uniforms, and the military discipline and military appearance far exceeded the bandits seen in Yanshan County. The camp is very large, and there are not only Khitan troops in it, but more people and mules and horses looted by the Khitan army in the camp tents. I couldn't see it well through the binoculars, but I could only vaguely see the people who seemed to be tied up from the tents with a few open doors. It is thought that the Khitan army wants to escort these people to Youzhou to be slaves and provide manpower for the Khitan war.

Looking through the binoculars, all kinds of flags were displayed in the Khitan military camp tent, and Yang Peng didn't know what those flags meant. The camp tent was erected every 100 meters, and Yang Peng guessed that it was where the Khitan Army's Southwest Road Recruitment Division and Northwest Road Recruitment Division were located. There is a woven golden dragon fluttering on the camp in the middle, which is probably where the red light of the Northwest Road recruits Si Yeyi.

When the Khitans arrived at the battlefield, they were not in a hurry to attack the city, but looked around for timber and trees and began to make chariots. A forest in the north of the city was unlucky and was cut down by the Khitans. In addition to preparing for the siege, the Khitans also had another preparation: in the afternoon, three horsemen rode out of the Khitan army camp. The three of them slowly bypassed the pit traps outside the city, moved away from those antlers and horses, and rode all the way to the bottom of the city gate of the north city, stopping about fifty meters away from the city gate. One of the Han Chinese generalists shouted in Chinese to the soldiers on the towers:

"The heroes in the city, where the soldiers of my Great Liao State go, they are invincible and invincible. Do not resist by chance, lest you perish in your own right. Surrender now, our Great Liao Army will not kill innocents! The soldiers of the city pointed their rifles at him, and the silence was as dead as death. The messenger was a little frightened, licked his lips and shouted again.

He was answered by three crisp gunshots. After the gunshots rang out, only three plops were heard, and the three Khitan and Song people who had surrendered to Tianjing New City were hit by flintlock bullets, fell under their horses, and died. Seeing that the messenger was killed, there was a commotion in the Khitan camp.

Not long after, the camps of the Khitan armies were opened, and one hundred Khitans rode out with more than 300 Song people. Riding a mile outside the city walls, these Khitan troops stopped. The people who were escorted out knew that there was no good thing, and one by one they knelt on the ground and began to cry, and the cry shook the sky for a while. Then the Khitan army went up to untie the rope of a middle-aged man among the people of the Great Song Dynasty. The man let go of his hands and feet, looked around for a moment, and ran to the north gate of the ditch.

He ran less than thirty meters, and a Khitan man with a bowed bow and an arrow shot at the back of the man's head. The Khitan's arrows were accurate and heavy, and the man let out a terrible cry and fell to the ground, without making a sound. When the soldiers of Tianjing New City on the city wall saw that the people were killed, they gritted their teeth and cursed.

The Khitan soldiers untied the ropes of several young girls of sixteen or seventeen, and the girls wept when they saw the death of the middle-aged man in front of them. Knowing that they were inevitably going to die, they wiped their tears with their hands and walked towards the gate of Dagou with one foot deep and one foot shallow. The soldiers of the Khitan army waited for them to walk a few dozen steps, rode up and chased after them, and hacked the girls to death from behind.

When the soldiers on the city wall saw this, their eyes were already blood-red. But the Khitans were still more ferocious, they raised their sabers and began to gallop and shuttle among the kneeling Song people. Every few steps they run, they swung their sabers and slashed at the people below. The bound people could not escape, so they could only be killed. Blood flew everywhere on the open land north of the city, and the screams shook the sky.

The blood of hundreds of people stained a whole land red. On the city wall of Dagou, the soldiers were like knives when they saw this scene, and some soldiers turned around and knelt in front of Yang Peng: "My lord, let's go out and fight with the Khitan dog!" Yang Peng closed his eyes and said lightly: "Don't fall for the Khitans' radical scheme!" We defend against the danger! ”

The soldiers were full of hatred, and turned their heads to look at Yang Peng speechless. After killing the people of the Great Song Dynasty, the Khitans shouted for a while next to the corpses of the people. When they saw that the Song army on the city wall did not rush out, they rode back to the camp. For the rest of the day, the Khitans did not move, but kept cutting down trees around, as if they were burying their heads in the camp to build chariots.

On the morning of the next day, the Khitan tent suddenly heard the sound of horns. The gates of the tent were opened, and the soldiers in gray armor howled and rushed out of the tent. They did not ride horses, but lined up on both sides of the gate with swords on foot. The gold-woven dragon was also raised, and dozens of generals stood under it, riding horses and slowly moving towards the city wall. Zhijin Longxu led the entire Khitan army array forward and stopped four miles away from the city wall.

Shield carts were pushed out of the tents. The wagons were six or seven meters long, two or three meters wide, and two meters high, and were covered with a thick layer of wood on the outside, and the front was covered with a wet quilt that ordinary archers and arrows could not penetrate. Eight or nine wooden wheels were mounted underneath the shield cart, and there were more than two dozen vest infantry armours standing inside to push the shield cart. The Tartars built nearly a hundred shield carts! The shield carts were only four or five meters apart, and they covered the entire front of the battlefield.

The Khitan army used 300 soldiers as a recruit, and each envoy had about 10 of the most elite soldiers, about 40 elite vests, 50 infantry armour, and the remaining 200 soldiers were all followers and auxiliaries wearing cotton armor or no armor. At this time, each shield cart was followed by a dozen followers and auxiliaries pushing wheelbarrows, who were ready to fill the potholes and traps outside the city walls with earth and stones.

Behind the followers and auxiliaries, there were more than 300 elite Creek Army wearing iron armor, which was the so-called elite of the Creek Army. With red tassels on their helmets and flaming flags on their backs, they held their bows and arrows in their backs, ready to support key points at all times and shoot any of their own soldiers who fled.

Yang Peng used a telescope to observe the elite of the Xi army, and found that there were some generals wearing thick armor among the elite of the Xi army, and these generals wore feathers on their heads and carried a two-foot flying tiger back flag on their backs, probably the leaders of the elite of the Xi army. An elite of the Creek Army stood on horseback two miles away from the city wall with his personal guards, serving as the front-line commander of the siege. The guard behind him was holding a big pole, which was very conspicuous.

The shield cart went out of the tent gate and pressed towards the north wall of the ditch. The defensive preparations for each wall of Dagou were similar, and the Khitan army simply attacked the north wall directly. Yang Peng had long known that the Khitans would build chariots, and at this time he had already concentrated sixty-two strong crossbows on the northern city wall. The crossbow is attached to a specially designed battlement and can be fired at the city. With the addition of the forty crossbows on the fort on the north wall, there are now sixty-six crossbows on the north wall.

The shield carts of Sili, Sanli, Liangli, Yili, and Khitan entered the range of the strong crossbow little by little. Yang Peng ordered to go down: "Don't shoot, don't shoot, and wait for the crossbow to stop in front of the pothole before fighting!" The Khitan shield cart continued to advance and arrived in front of the pit more than a hundred meters from the city wall. The Khitan army was not attacked all the way while pushing the shield cart, thinking that there was no strong crossbow on Dagou City, and they were extremely happy.

They didn't know how powerful the ditch was, and they thought that this seemingly rich city was already within reach. The shield cart stopped in front of the pothole, and the followers and auxiliaries behind the shield cart pushed the wheelbarrow up and began to fill in the potholes outside the city. Yang Peng shouted: "The strong crossbow shoots in turn!" "The trumpets sounded on the city wall, the swans chirped, and twenty strong crossbows aimed at the shield cart one hundred and fifty meters away, and spat out long arrows.

A loud whoosh sounded, and the soldiers on the wall couldn't help but cover their ears. Black smoke slammed out from the crossbow. The long arrows were like lightning bolts, flying towards the shield cart not far away at a speed invisible to the naked eye. Twelve powerful crossbows hit their targets, smashing holes one meter larger in those shield carts. The pieces of wood smashed by the long arrows flew sideways, more deadly than stray bullets, and in an instant, the three or four Khitans in the front row of the shield cart lost their combat effectiveness.

Although the Khitans' horse armor and infantry armor were wearing armor, their necks and faces were defenseless, and when they were inserted into their necks by flying wooden blocks, they would die immediately. In the rain of wood chips, there were not a few Khitan soldiers whose necks were cut. There were also a few Khitans who were cut into their glasses by sawdust and immediately became blind. Even if you are lucky enough not to be injured to the core, but you are just stuck in the face by a wooden block, it is still a massive hemorrhage and loss of combat effectiveness.

In addition to the dangerous sawdust blocks, the arrows themselves are also very lethal. The arrow slammed into the shield cart, shattering the flesh that stood in its way, bouncing off the ground and taking one or two more lives. A powerful crossbow hits the shield cart. The arrows of the strong crossbow were even more powerful, and they smashed on the shield car and directly smashed all the front rows of the shield car, and more pieces of wood were knocked out, which directly caused the five or six Khitan soldiers in the front of the shield car to be killed or injured and withdraw from the battle. The heavy cannonball crashed into the shield cart, smashing all the flesh that stood in his way into a pulp, shattering the pulp, shattering the first body, and then rushing backwards to shatter the second body, and with a single bullet on the ground, it smashed through the bodies of three or four Khitan soldiers in a row before stopping.

The shield carts hit by the long arrows were full of flesh and blood, and the terrible screams of countless Khitan soldiers came from inside, as if those shield carts had turned into Shura hells. Although a few long arrows missed the target, the landing arrows also crashed into the follower auxiliaries behind the shield cart, killing more than a dozen unlucky follower auxiliaries. With a single salvo, more than 80 Khitan soldiers under the city wall lost their combat effectiveness, and these soldiers were basically all elite infantry armor vests. The Khitan generals under the weaving golden dragon were suddenly in a commotion. Yang Peng looked over with a telescope and saw that the Khitan generals gathered together to discuss, and seemed to be very sad about the sacrifice of the warriors in front of them.

But the slaughter had only just begun. Another trumpet sounded on the city wall, and another twenty-two powerful crossbows whistled and fired wildly at the shield cart that was parked one hundred and fifty meters away. This time, eleven long arrows hit the target. The arrow slammed into the shield cart, which was like a flower, splattering countless pieces of wood on impact. These dense and flying wooden blocks were as fast as knives, harvesting the lives of the elite Khitan soldiers in the shield cart.

Once the neck is cut, it immediately loses his life. Even if you are lucky enough not to be cut by wood chips to your neck and head, but your hands and legs are cut by these wooden blocks, it is a heavy hemorrhage. These broken pieces of wood pierced into the body and were difficult to remove, and as soon as the wound was pulled, the pieces continued to cut the flesh in the flesh, causing greater trauma than the wound.

What's more, the long arrow itself has a powerful destructive power, and the strong crossbow arrow pierces the body of one or two layers of soldiers before stopping on the ground. And the long arrows of the Eighteen were like an invincible killing god, smashing all the obstacles in his path, and smashing the flesh of the Khitan soldiers on the third and fourth floors of the shield car into plasma and flesh.

The Khitan army's auxiliaries had not yet poured a cart of soil into the hole, and the elite soldiers in the shield cart had already suffered two head-on blows, and more than 160 Khitan soldiers were killed or wounded, losing their combat effectiveness. And the third salvo came right away. Another hundred and twenty-two strong crossbows rang out in unison, and in the thick black fog, the strong crossbows shot long arrows, shooting towards the shield cart a hundred paces away.

Where does the shield cart have a defensive effect in front of a strong crossbow? It's a murder weapon that amplifies the power of long arrows! Long arrows pierced the wet quilt and two-inch-thick planks, smashing the defensive planks into flying blocks. The wooden block pierced the head and neck of the infantry vest, stabbing these Khitan soldiers who had killed countless people to the ground. The bouncing arrows made the Khitan troops in the back row scattered. As soon as there was a whoosh, they escaped from the shield cart and stood outside the shield cart.

Yang Peng raised his binoculars and looked under the Weaving Golden Dragon, and saw that dozens of Khitan leaders could no longer stand, and gathered at the big leader in the middle to say something. The big leader in the middle was probably Yaren Hongguang, he didn't say a word, and seemed to be still thinking about the situation on the battlefield. After the three salvos, Yang Peng's crossbowmen began to push the crossbow cart back to its original position, clean the arrows, and the battlefield was quiet for a while. Seeing that the crossbow at the head of the city no longer sounded, the armours and infantry who operated the shield cart also hid back in the shield cart one by one.

The followers and auxiliaries behind the shield cart hurried to push the cart to load the soil, trying to fill in the layer of potholes and trenches one hundred and fifty meters above. The Khitan soldiers did not know the level of crossbows on the city wall, and thought that Yang Peng's soldiers would take a long time to reload their arrows, and they imagined that they could fill the potholes in this interval. However, only a minute later, their illusions were shattered. The auxiliaries had not yet filled a tenth of the pothole, and the crossbows on the walls had already been loaded with long arrows and began the second round of firing.

The smoke had cleared, and the crossbowmen could take aim calmly—another hundred and twenty-two arrows broke through the air and fired at the hundred-gauge shield cart parked in front of the pit. A cloud of sawdust flew, and more than a dozen shield carts were hit, and screams came from the broken shield carts. Flesh and blood flew from the smashed shield carts in an instant, and the front half of the inside of the shield cart was sprayed with a layer of blood, stained red. Blood spurted from the cut wounds of the wood chips and the shredded flesh from the shells, from under the shield cart to the outside of the shield cart.

When have the Khitan soldiers ever seen such a powerful crossbow? Seeing that the warriors were killed by long arrows in the shield cart, they no longer had the fighting spirit, so they turned their heads and fled. The elite of the Creek Army behind the vest infantry did not let them escape, and the elite of the Creek Army roamed around the rear of the front line and shot arrows, and the arrows were vicious and went straight to the vital point, shooting those vest infantry armors that escaped from the shield cart on the battlefield. The armor infantry found that there was no way out of retreat, so they had to re-enter the shield cart.

As soon as the frightened Khitan soldiers returned to the shield cart, another 122 long arrows flew in, and the long arrows crashed into thirteen shield carts. The shield carts were like cans that had been opened by iron tongs, and they had been broken open to the point that they had no temper. In just one or two minutes, the city's powerful crossbows fired five volleys, and more than 60 shield carts had already been blown up. Flying wood fragments and ferocious long arrows slaughtered the vests and infantry in the shield cart, leaving more than 400 Khitan soldiers dead or wounded and exiting the battle.

If the Khitan soldiers were still very confident that they could easily capture Dagou City when they slaughtered the people of the Great Song Dynasty just now, now these Khitans have lost the confidence to win. How can there be so many strong crossbows in this small city? How many warriors' corpses will be laid under the walls of this city? Finally, the leader of the Khitan, Ye Yan Hongguang, realized the fierceness of the strong crossbow on the city wall, and no longer forced the horse armor and infantry to stick to the shield chariot, and Ming Jin withdrew his troops. Hearing the horn of the troops, the Khitan elites who were guarding in the shield cart were relieved, and fled to the rear together, retreating from the battle line like a tide.

The crossbow of the sixth salvo was aimed at the fleeing Khitan soldiers. One hundred and twenty-two long arrows whizzed towards their moving targets. When the Khitan soldiers heard the sound of shooting on the city wall, they fled with their heads in their hands, lest they be touched by arrows. One hundred and twenty-two long arrows landed on the ground, bounced up again, and bounced forward on the ground, drawing a hundred and twenty-two death lines in the ranks of the fleeing Khitan army. Although the results of this salvo were not as good as the bombing of the shield car, one hundred and twenty-two long arrows also killed more than 130 Khitan soldiers.

At the end of two rounds and six shots, more than 500 Khitan soldiers were killed, and more than 100 were seriously injured and thrown on the battlefield, suffering heavy losses. The Khitan soldiers who withdrew from the shield cart hid in the camp and did not dare to approach the city wall easily. The golden dragon silk entered the camp with the retreating Khitan army, and led the entire Khitan army to withdraw to the camp. In the next half a day, the Khitan army did not send soldiers to attack Dagou City except for sending ranger scouts. The first stop was successful, and there was joy in Dagou City.

Under the deterrence of the crossbow, a hundred soldiers of the Elective Regiment went out of the city before dark to clean up the battlefield - cutting off the heads of the Khitan soldiers and mending the knives for those seriously wounded Khitan soldiers. These soldiers hated the murderous Khitans, and they were very excited when they killed the Khitan soldiers with their swords, and they howled and stabbed down one by one.

After getting more than 600 Khitan army heads, Yang Peng asked people to put these heads in front of the city gate for public display. These chiefs made the atmosphere in the city much lighter, and the people began to believe that the soldiers of Tianjing New City could hold the city, and the fear of being besieged by the Khitan army subsided a lot. The people have been working together for a month, and now there are antlers everywhere under the city wall, and it is not easy for the Khitan people to get close to the city wall. The walls of the city were piled up with rolling stones and wood and burned with gold juice, and if the Khitans wanted to climb the city walls, they had to use corpses to pile them up. The people all knew that Dagou was a fortified city at this time, and it was not so easy to conquer.

If you want to know what happens next, let's see the next breakdown.