Chapter 300: The Secret Method of Breaking the City

This is Zhao Hu's second time to enter the city for peace talks. Last time Zhao Zhen dared not hurt him and let him go. After a secret talk with Luo Dacheng, Zhao Hu entered the city again and invited Zhao Zhen to the city wall to see where the Chinese army's confidence came from!

After saying that, Zhao Hu raised his longbow, ignited a rocket on it, pulled it away with force, and shot an arrow into the sky.

The arrow was tied with bells and whistles, making a shrill whistle in the sky, and with brilliant fireworks, it flew towards the increasingly dark sky.

The emperor and ministers of the Song Dynasty raised their heads and stared blankly at the rocket flying above. The brilliant and gorgeous fireworks were something they had never seen before.

In the darkness, the Chinese army's catapults stopped firing, but war drums were beating under the city. Countless cavalrymen rode back and forth in the night, roaring loudly, as if they were about to attack the city.

Zhao Zhen, who was blocked by the guards with his bodies, looked pale, afraid and angry, stared at Zhao Hu not far away. If he dared to deceive himself and wanted the Northern Army to kill him in the chaos during the attack, he must take him down and beat him up after quickly retreating to the inner city, and then...

Then, I could only let him go back, otherwise if I killed Luo Dacheng's righteous brother, would the Northern Army be willing to give up?

Countless guards huddled up to the city walls, hid behind the battlements, and guarded against the enemy's large-scale siege.

Along the way below the city, a large number of Chinese soldiers carefully placed a huge black projectile on the catapult, strictly followed the operating procedures, ignited the leads outside the projectile with a torch, allowing the hissing and burning fire to ignite the leads into the inside of the projectile.

To prevent accidents, the Chinese soldiers quickly controlled the catapult and threw the projectile towards the city, drew an arc in the dark air, and landed far to the tower of Xishuimen.

With a loud bang, the projectile hit the city tower, knocking the Song soldiers standing on the city wall over the bottom, screaming and unable to get up.

After throwing for so many days, the trencher operator has already mastered the trick and can almost hit every shot and throw the projectile to every fixed position on the city wall.

Despite the meat cushion below, the projectile was still smashed to pieces and lay on the wall below the city tower. The hissing fire was still extending into the projectile.

The emperor and ministers of the Song Dynasty under the city were blocked by the city tower, so naturally they could not see the scene there. They only heard a loud bang and the screams of the Song soldiers. Then there was nothing else, and they couldn't help but look at each other in confusion.

Only Zhao Hu took a few steps back, hid behind a house, reached out to cover his ears, and a sinister happy smile appeared on his lips.

Seeing his appearance, a feeling of anxiety surged in my heart. Several ministers were considering whether to run over to stand side by side with him. Suddenly, a "boom" sounded.

This sound was like a bolt from the blue, countless times louder than the roar just now. Then, in everyone's horrified eyes, he saw the tall city tower suddenly collapsed!

The fierce gunpowder hidden in the projectile exploded, causing the city tower next to it to be the first to be hit, and it collapsed with a bang. Countless iron pieces and steel balls flew around, knocking a large number of Song soldiers on the city wall into a bloody and bloody state, and they fell on the city wall with screams, or simply fell from a high place, and died of death.

Under the city, Zhao Zhen raised his head and saw clearly in his fearful eyes that the tall city tower was shaking violently, slowly falling toward him in the roar, until most of the city tower fell to the city, splashing a large piece of smoke and dust, spreading everywhere.

As the smoke and dust filled, countless guards and ministers were shouting in panic, running around and trampling on each other. There were many injured people, and screams rang all over the sky, causing everyone to fall into panic and fear.

Only Zhao Hu lies in the dark, looking at them, shook his head and sighing. No matter what, they were all fellow villagers in the old days. If they were willing to surrender and negotiate peace, there would be no need to have such a big battle.

Zhao Zhen was firmly covered by many loyal guards with his body. He was not injured, but was too frightened and almost fainted.

It was not until Zhao Hu walked more than ten steps ahead of him and shouted loudly that he woke up, and then screamed in panic, ordering the guards to stop him and not allow him to approach.

And beside him, the other ministers also hid from Zhao Hu and looked at him with fear. Only those brave and fearless guards were still loyal and guarding the emperor of the Song Dynasty with their bodies.

Invisibly, Zhao Hu, as the Chinese envoy, has become the incarnation of the devil. The thrilling scene just now has become a permanent nightmare for many ministers and can never be forgotten.

Zhao Hu shook his head helplessly, put his hands on his mouth, and shouted at Zhao Zhen who was almost deaf, "According to the order of the emperor of our dynasty, I will talk to you again!"

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Endless fear spread throughout the city of Bianliang, and everyone was talking about the terrifying weapons of the Chinese army and the huge power that shook the sky and the earth.

A single attack can collapse a city tower. Legend has it that the Chinese Army has countless such weapons. Even if they want to smash the city of Bianliang to pieces, it is only a breeze!

All the people were filled with fear, and the soldiers were even more afraid. Everyone was worried that if the terrifying weapon like thunder strike fell on their heads, their home was afraid that all their relatives would be crushed to pieces and not even a single corpse would be left behind!

In fact, with the crude explosive weapons of the Chinese army, it was difficult to throw them over and knock down the city wall, let alone flatten the city. But people's fear encouraged the spread of rumors and spread to every corner of the city as they opened their mouths.

The soldiers who climbed up the city walls to watch the enemy situation were terrified and found that the enemy's camps had increased a lot. The Chinese army, who appeared outside the city walls, also confirmed the news that the enemy's troops had increased, and most of these soldiers were new alien infantry.

As the war report came, the Hedong Xuanfu envoy Qin Tong regained a large army of 170,000, including a large number of newly recruited rebels to march towards Bianliang to serve the king, but was stopped by the Northern Dynasties' uncle Di Qing, leading a large number of reinforcements, and defeated the Song army in the field. Qin Tong died on the spot, and more than 100,000 troops were dispersed and fled. Many Song soldiers were captured by the Chinese army and became slaves tragically.

After this battle, all the territory of Shanxi fell into the hands of the Chinese army. The Dangxiang and Uighur coalition forces, which were constantly coming, also brought into Di Qing's tent, accepted his orders, firmly controlled every county, and defeated the Song army that came to support one by one, and exhausted the main force of the Song army in the northwest.

After leaving enough soldiers to guard the newly occupied area, Di Qing led 100,000 reinforcements to cross the Yellow River south, stationed at the Bianliang city with the original 100,000 cavalry in the company camp, and surrounded the entire Bianliang city, and did not allow anyone to pass through the company camp.

This is exactly what Luo Dacheng has been waiting for. If he could face Bianliang with a powerful army of 200,000 to oppress Zhao Zhen to agree to the peace talks and agree to the conditions proposed by the China Kingdom, the losses of the siege battle could also be avoided.

Zhao Hu bargained with Zhao Zhen in the city. After many failed negotiations, he had to lower the asking price to the ten coastal states, and then governed across the Yellow River, and then retreated to the north. The clause that the Song Dynasty regarded China as the Han people's regular review was also changed to the two countries jointly issued an announcement, and they were called the orthodox Han Dynasty, which was called the brotherly country, and then they were friendly and harmonious, and they would not fight each other again.

However, Zhao Zhen still gritted his teeth and refused. The anger he had been bullied by Luo Dacheng for many years could not be suppressed. What's more, if he wanted to cut off ten states, even Jiangnan would have to cut off several cities. What would he look like to meet Taizu who had laid this foundation in the future?

Faced with such a stubborn Emperor of Song, Zhao Hu had no choice but to do anything until Brother Su was sent to the city to persuade him, and cut the military expenses in half or even reduced to the original 20%. Zhao Zhen still refused to allow it and eagerly looked forward to the arrival of the army of the king. Even though there would be a violent explosion roar in one direction every day on the city, scaring the soldiers and civilians in the city to the point of being disgusted, Zhao Zhen showed extraordinary courage and refused to agree to the conditions of the enemy.

Upon hearing the news from the city, Luo Dacheng could only sigh that Zhao Zhen was indeed a young man, and he was a hundred times stronger than his cowardly descendant Huizong and Qinzong. If he could survive until the Jin soldiers attacked the city and lead the army to defend the city, there would probably be no Jingkang disaster.

Just as recorded in history, Zhao Zhen could sacrifice his life for face. Li Yuanhao was so angry that he was furious that he sent troops. After his defeat, he forced Li Yuanhao to remove the imperial title and reap the resignation. For this reason, he did not hesitate to take out a large amount of gold and silk to bribe Li Yuanhao, only seeking the title of a sect leader. He must have held a grudge for his own emperor and was determined not to bow his head to seek peace to him.

Originally, I didn't want to kill more Han people in the city, so I insisted on peace talks, but my kindness and concessions were regarded as weak and incompetent by Zhao Zhen, which made Luo Dacheng feel helpless.

He just wanted to get some of the cities along the coast as commercial ports and the rear of peace during the Western Expedition. Now he could not achieve his goal. Could it be that he could only break through the city and plunder all the officials, wealthy merchants, concubines and princesses to return to the north, and re-sell the disaster of Bianjing?
Chapter completed!