‘Woooo’

As soon as dawn was dawn, the horns of the Jin army camp in the distance were blew one after another, and the alarm bells were sounded on the city. Teams of soldiers with neat appearances rushed to the city, standing densely on the city. Behind them were huge and majestic catapults and artillery. The Jingzhao Army was responsible for the defense of the North City and the West City, the New Taipei Army was responsible for the defense of the South City and the East City, and Li Yanqing was the commander-in-chief and the Tokyo Defense Envoy, responsible for the defense of the whole city.

At this time, Li Yanqing stood on the head of the north city, staring at the Jin soldiers camp in the distance with his eyes focused on the Jin soldiers camp. The Jin soldiers arrived yesterday, of course it was impossible to start siege today, but the sound of the trumpet of the Jin camp meant to gather. Li Yanqing was a little curious. The Jin soldiers had just arrived, what did they want to do?

"Master, I guess I want to demonstrate first!" Liu Qi whispered from the side.

Li Yanqing nodded. It should be like this. This is the tradition of the Liao Kingdom. Later it was passed down to Xixia. Unexpectedly, the Jin Kingdom also learned it. However, he also admitted that this was indeed a powerful method and had a good effect on suppressing the morale of the enemy.

"Dong!Dong!Dong!" The dull cowhide drum was beating, and the sound of the shocking drum could be heard dozens of miles away, slowly and rhythmically, as if beating a person's heart, and the hearts of many soldiers were beating.

"Here you come!"

The sentry pointed to the distance and saw a black line several miles long appearing ten miles away. At this time, the earth began to tremble, and the drum sound was covered by a muffled thunder coming from the sky.

"It's a cavalry!" a soldier shouted.

Everyone's faces became severe, forming such a momentum. If you run wildly on the grassland, maybe ten thousand cavalry can do it, but it is impossible for the Jin soldiers to run wildly from ten miles away. If you want the earth to tremble, you will need at least more than one hundred thousand cavalry to do it.

Soon, the main army of Jin soldiers appeared. They were like a black cloud covering the ground, gradually spreading out, flags were overwhelming, drums rumbling, and low horns were heard. Teams of cavalry helmets and armor were bright and spears were like forests. These alien soldiers looked ferocious and murderous, and from time to time they made waves of roars like wild animals, which made people shudder.

The 150,000 army was overwhelming, forming fifteen large formations, showing off their might outside the northern city. At this time, the formation of Jin soldiers split like waves, and a team of five hundred cavalry rushed towards him. The head flag leader was extremely majestic and rode on a strong war horse. He held a golden wolf-headed flag two meters long in his hand, and the 500 people behind him each held a large flag, flying under the blow of the cold wind.

The soldiers on the city were speechless, and the powerful strength demonstrated by the Jin soldiers brought great pressure and shock to all soldiers.

Li Yanqing suddenly remembered the rules of the Xixia army and circled around the city with the king's flag in his hand to show his shock. He immediately turned around and ordered: "Get my bronze bow!"

Soon a personal soldier came and presented the bronze bow. Li Yanqing drew an iron arrow and waited patiently for the enemy flag bearer to come forward. Generally speaking, the flag bearer who circled the city to demonstrate flags should not be too far away. It would have no effect, but it should not be too close. Generally, it is about 250 steps. In just a moment, the flag bearer holding the flag in his hand gradually approached the city wall.

Just when the flag bearer was about 250 steps away from the city, Li Yanqing suddenly opened his bow and pulled the arrow, and pulled the bow like a full moon. The bow string was loosened, and the iron arrow was like a black lightning, shooting towards the golden wolf-headed flag. With a sound of "Crack!", the golden wolf-headed flag broke in the wind, causing a burst of exclamation on the city and the city below. The city suddenly had a thunderous sound. This arrow destroyed the limelight of the Jin soldiers, and the powerful murderous intent just displayed was also diluted a lot.

But before a group of flag bearers turned around and escaped, Li Yanqing's second arrow shot again, and one arrow shot through the burly flag bearer's vest. The flag bearer screamed and turned over and fell off the horse. The remaining hundreds of cavalry fled in a panic. The soldiers on the city were jubilant again. Wanyan Xie in the distance could see clearly that the golden wolf-headed flag was shot by the Song army. His face turned pale. He originally wanted to demonstrate to the Song army, but was slapped in the face by the Song army. Wanyan Xie was helpless and had to shout: "Retreat the army and return to the camp!"

Amid the sound of the retreating gongs and drums, the 150,000 army began to retreat slowly. Although the 150,000 Jin soldiers showed their powerful combat power, Li Yanqing's arrow shot the king flag of the Jin Kingdom, completely offsetting the pressure brought by the Jin soldiers to the Song army. Soon, Li Yanqing's arrow spread throughout the capital, bringing hope to the 700,000 people in the capital.

After the Jin soldiers were all gone, the Song army began to go down the city and return to the military camp one after another. At this time, a team of guards rushed over and bowed to Li Yanqing, "The official family asked Li Dutong to go to Zhizheng Hall to discuss important matters!"

"I understand, let's go!"

Li Yanqing ordered Liu Qi a few words, then quickly walked down the city, turned over and ran towards the palace.

At present, among the six prime ministers of the Zhizheng Hall, Wang Fu has been dismissed from the position of prime minister, Gao Qiu and Cai You left Beijing and were also removed from the position of prime minister. Cai Xiang resigned from the position of prime minister a few days ago because he was old. The only prime ministers in the previous dynasty were Bai Shizhong and Li Bangyan.

Once the emperor and the ministers, after Zhao Huan ascended the throne, he quickly appointed Wu Min, Sun Fu, Zhang Bangchang and Li Gang as prime ministers to form the new Zhizheng Hall.

Since Li Gang, Wu Min and Sun Fu, the three backbone of the Military Affairs Hall, both became prime ministers and Zhao Huan was the prince's supervisor, he considered how to compete with Zhizheng Hall and formed the Military Affairs Hall. Now that he was promoted to an emperor, he naturally did not want the Military Affairs Hall to compete with Zhizheng Hall, so Zhao Huan gradually replaced the Military Affairs Hall in the era of Prince's supervisor.

Li Yanqing hurried to Zhizheng Hall, and an official reported to him, "Dutong Li has arrived!"

Li Gang quickly came out and bowed and said with a smile: "Everyone is waiting for President Li, and the official family has been waiting for a long time. Please come in!"

Li Yanqing was stunned, "The official family is here too?"

"Today, Zhizheng Hall is more important to discuss matters, and the officials are also here to listen. We are talking about the war on paper, and you have to tell us the actual situation."

"Today is talking about military affairs?"

"It's not entirely military, you'll know when you come in."

The two walked into the conference hall. It was like a small hall. In the middle of the above is the seat of the emperor Zhao Ji. It has been empty for decades. After Zhao Huan ascended the throne, he would basically come to listen. Today is no exception. Zhao Huan sat high on the dragon throne and nodded slightly to Li Yanqing who walked into the lobby.

There are eight sets of tables and chairs on both sides of the lobby, and two rows of chairs are placed behind them, mainly for important officials to sit when attending the meeting.

Li Yanqing was not a member of the Zhizheng Hall and was not qualified to be on par with the prime ministers. However, it is the war period. As the commander of the chief defense, his status was particularly prominent, and no one dared to underestimate him. Zhao Huan specially issued an order to add two sets of tables and chairs to the meeting hall, one set for Li Yanqing, and the other set for the Privy Councilor High-level.

Li Yanqing walked into the meeting hall and bowed to Emperor Zhao Huan, "I'm going to see Your Majesty!"

"President Li is not welcome to sit down!"

Li Yanqing walked to his seat and sat down. At this time, the right prime minister Guo Bai Shizhong asked: "Dong Li, when will the Jin people attack the city?"

The emergency meeting of Zhizheng Hall was held for sure after the Jin soldiers retreated, but everyone was still scared. Seeing that a war was about to break out, everyone felt heavy in their hearts.

Seeing that everyone was looking at him, everyone was probably worried about this matter. He looked up again, and Emperor Zhao Huan also looked at him with concentration. It seemed that this was the highlight of today's discussion.

Li Yanqing bowed slightly and said to everyone: "According to my experience, the Jin soldiers will have a ritual of sacrifice to the gods before the formal siege of the city. They should not attack tomorrow, and they should be the first attack the day after tomorrow. However, the first attack should be a tentative attack, and the scale will not be large, and the war is not fearable. What I am worried about is the chaos in the city."

Li Yanqing is telling the truth. They have been preparing for nearly half a year, and with the good defense foundation of the capital, it is not easy for the Jin soldiers to break through the city. The key is that there is no civil strife in the city. One of the important reasons why Taiyuan City was able to defend was that everyone was united. Li Yanqing said nothing and no one dared to disobey it.

But this is not the case in the capital. There are more powerful and high-ranking officials than him. If people are uneven, the consequences are likely to occur in the army, and there will be gaps in the defense of a certain section of the city wall.

Of course, Li Yanqing did not make it clear that he was worried that it was not ordinary people, but high-ranking officials in the city. If someone was bought by the Jin Kingdom with a lot of money and titles, it would be really unhappy.

"I wonder what the city chaos Li Dutong refers to?" Wu Min asked.
Chapter completed!