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Chapter 58

After the news of Yelu Dashi's personal expedition came out, the morale of the Liao army was greatly boosted. Since the launch of troops in December last year, it is now the end of April. The Jin and Liao armies fought in Shenzhou and Liaoyang for nearly half a year. The soldiers were exhausted and unable to withstand the heat. However, no one dared to retreat easily at this time. Yelu Tiege was severely ordered to make meritorious contributions, and began to attack and defend with the Jin soldiers. The infantry and army were connected to the camp for more than ten miles with each other, supporting each other, and a large group of iron cavalry

The camps echoed back and forth. The Jin soldiers could not capture it repeatedly. The two sides of the Liao and Jin sides were in a stalemate. After the Jin soldiers attacked each other for several days, the Liaoyang City was already shaking. However, the war lasted for several months, but it had not been conquered. Seeing that the reinforcements of Yelu Dashi, who was stationed in the Huanglong Mansion, were about to arrive, the Jin emperor Wanyan Aguda, who was stationed in Huanglong Mansion, finally could not bear it and decided to lead 20,000 cavalry south to hunt down the city of Liaoyang with Yelu Dashi.

The Jin soldiers siege the city even more violently. Every time they pounced on the city, the Jin soldiers often drove more than 10,000 signing troops as the front drive, but mixed the Meng'an Mouke elites. The Liao army guarding the city was not negligent, so they could only shoot ten thousand arrows at the same time, smashing the stones down the city, but they could not kill many Jurchen soldiers. After several months, the land outside the city was stained with blood. When the siege of Liaoyang was first attacked, in order to prevent the plague, after each confrontation, the Liao army at the top of the city tacitly did not kill the corpse collectors of the Jin Kingdom. Later, the weather became hotter and the Jin soldiers actually threw the rotten corpses of humans and animals into the city, and the Liao army no longer tolerated the Jin soldiers approaching the city wall. Once the Jin soldiers approached the city wall, arrows would fall like rain.

At this time, the bodies were piled up like mountains and rotten. Even when there was wind, it was filled with an unbearable stench. Most of the houses in Liaoyang City were blown up by stone bombs, and the rest were mostly demolished to strengthen the damaged city walls. Fortunately, there were a lot of reserves in Liaoyang City. More than 100,000 Khitans knew that the city was broken, and even the healthy women came to the city to defend, while the old and weak transported arrows and stones to guard the slaves. Xiao Suxian, the remaining royal family of the Bohai clan was originally the legitimate lineage of the Bohai clan, and Yelu Dashi privately promised him the Bohai restoration, so the Bohai tribes in the city could fight to the death. The Jin army hoped that the Bohai tribe had no hope of uprising, but the brothers' inner circle passed on the news while the two armies were fighting, saying that the Han slaves in the workshop in the city were preparing to revive the army outside the city.

It is logical that all the Han'er in the city were slaves and could not contact the outside world at all, but there happened to be a Han'er who joined the Brotherhood of the Volunteer and Braves. He was the son-in-law of the Bohai people, so he was concealed by the Yue family in terms of household registration and was also included in the Bohai people's military. Zhao Xingde was quite surprised. After checking the code, he still informed the Jin army of the Jin army.

The current pattern of Liaoyang City was planned by Han Chang that year. Various workshops were distributed according to the direction of the five elements, including the formula: East wood, North water, South fire, and West Jin. The east is the wood of Jia and Yi, and there are many mountains and forests in the east of Liaoyang, and carpenter workshops are everywhere in the east of the city to process various wood tools. The north is the water of Ren and Gui, and the north of Liaoyang City is the Taizi River. The scale of the wharf is the first in the mainland of Liaodong, and most of the goods are transported to other places. The south is the fire of Bing and Ding, and there are many kiln factories in the south of the city.

Burning bricks and making pottery, fires soar to the sky at night. The west is the gold of Geng and Xin, and there are many iron shops in the west of the city, iron farm tools, and various armor and weapons are all made in the west of the city. People all call Xia Guo sword the best in the world, and there are many top-grade weapons in the Central Plains that lied to be made by the Xia Guo 100 steelmaking, but they are actually produced in Liaoyang, because the steel is pure, sharp and durable, and ordinary people cannot distinguish it. The Han worker slaves who contacted the instigation this time were mostly in the iron workshops in the west of the city.

When Han Ningshuang introduced the layout of Liaoyang to Zhao Xingde, Zhao Xingde also sighed that Han Chang should be a very smart person. Not only did he arrange the resource logistics corresponding to various workshops just right, but he also secretly adapted the five elements and built momentum for the Han army's uprising. Even after the Han army failed to raise an army, the Liao court continued to follow the original plan of Liaoyang City and did not make any changes. There has been a saying that Liaoyang is the leader of the dragon vein in Liaodong. Even the Jin emperor Wanyan Aguda was quite concerned.

The Liao Dynasty defenders were completely blocked by the Xiande Gate of the three city gates to the west, leaving only a Dashun Gate directly in the west for the Liao army's cavalry to attack. After the Han army rose up, they wanted to seize this Dashun Gate. Han Ningshuang and Wanyan Ci greeted each other and led the army to ambush outside the west city wall. The Jin soldiers originally had a way of surrounding Liaoyang City with three quarries and one attack, and the west city wall was not fierce. After learning this news, Wanyan Ci was overjoyed. He immediately ordered Wanyan Zongbi, Wanyan Zonghan, and Wanyan Loushi to lead 20,000 troops to the west of Liaoyang City. The other Jin soldiers still attacked the three walls on the east, south and north with all their strength, leaving the west city wall without fighting. They were ready to attack the city immediately if there was any movement in the city.

The Jin soldiers camped in a camp originally with the method of establishing tents as suspicion. From the head of Liaoyang City, there were endless tents. At night, torches were swaying everywhere, and the distribution was not clear. Therefore, the more than 20,000 soldiers were mobilized to the west of the city, and the Liao soldiers in Liaoyang City were unaware of it. However, after a few days of ambush, there was no movement in the city, and the Jin army was a little suspicious. There were as many as 150,000 Jin soldiers besieged Liaoyang, but only the main soldiers were

There were more than 80,000 people. Among the 80,000 Jin troops that confronted the Liao reinforcements, there were more than 50,000 soldiers. The Liao troops continued to attack the city, but there were only 30,000 soldiers. Now two-thirds of them were stranded outside the West City to do nothing. Seeing that Wanyan Aguda was about to arrive at the city of Liaoyang, generals like Wanyan Zonghan wanted to make achievements early. If Han Ningshuang and Zhao Xingde had not tried to keep them together, Wanyan Ci would have turned this elite force to other directions.

"Old Zhao, the inner responder of this brotherhood should not be..." Jian Cheng looked out through the gap in the tent. The city wall was calm and there was no other sound in the city. Jian Cheng held back and said without further ado. Yu Wenliang next to him was the inner responder who had left his family and informed him. He was anxious and said tremblingly: "All the generals, the brothers in the city are all working with their heads. The reinforcements must not be withdrawn."

"Don't worry," Zhao Xingde patted his shoulder and said in a deep voice, "We won't leave." He turned to look at the tent. There were eight people in this small tent. In order not to cause doubts from the Liao army on the city, everyone was not allowed to enter and exit at will during the day. At night, food and water were brought from behind. Most of the Han army was concentrated in the tent in front, and more than 20,000 Jin soldiers were behind. Han Ningshuang had already agreed with Wanyan Ci that if Liaoyang City was broken, all the Han people in this city would belong to the Han army.

Yu Wenliang said gratefully: "Thank you General." Zhao Xingde nodded at him, sighed and said nothing, and looked outward, but there was still no movement in the city.

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Behind the Liaoyang West City Wall, there were demolished open spaces within a hundred steps, with rocks, rolling wood and other materials piled up. Because the Jin soldiers were interested in surrounding three palaces and one, the Liao soldiers here were not as dense as the other three sides. The Khitan women and old men who helped defend the city were mostly arranged on the other three sides. Although the troops in the west city wall were not as strong as the other three sides, Xiao Suxian, the left-behind in Tokyo, did not relax and alert for this. Even ordinary Bohai people were not allowed to approach the city wall within a hundred steps.

A hundred steps away from the city wall is the Blacksmith's Workshop. The weapons in the city with the gaps in the curling blades and the broken armor and armor pieces are repaired here, and those that cannot be repaired must be rebuilt. Xiao Suxian, the left-behind Tokyo, has been recruited to recruit Khitans in the city, and the people of Bohai climbed the city to help guard. In addition to taking out the weapons stored in previous years from the armory, the armor and weapons required are also made here.

In the workshop, there were dense "ding-ding-" iron sounds everywhere, and occasionally a "Si" sound came from the sound of "Si" and the red-hot iron tool reached into the water to bring out a piece of steam. Because the weather was hot, the iron slaves who made the iron were very delicate and had only a strip of cloth to cover their shame. The smoke and sweat made everyone's face not clearly.

Yang Saner and Liu Quan occasionally exchanged their eyes. Yu Wenliang's life and death were uncertain, and it was unknown whether the news of the uprising was brought outside. In the past ten days, from the weapons and armor sent by the Khitans to repair, the war outside became more and more intense. Just the day before yesterday, a stone marble hit the workshop shed next to him. There were fewer and fewer Khitan soldiers guarding him. Liu Quan's eyes flashed with a cold light. Yang Saner nodded meaningfully, raised his head a little, and looked at Huo An in the distance. Huo An stood beside the anvil and was waving his hammer with sweat wet his hair on his cheek. He also looked at Yang Saner, nodded, moved his feet, and made a jingle sound. When these work slaves were building weapons, they were actually tied to the ground with shackles and chains, and they could move around only two steps.

Several leaders who were preparing to rebellion, Li Yi, Guo An, Zhou Wang, and Feng Ding, did not hesitate at all in their eyes. Yang Saner looked at Liu Quan again, and both nodded. Liu Quan buried his head and deliberately fiddled with the charcoal fire. A sword that was being built was burning red. In a quarter of an hour, the sun was about to set. In order to prevent accidents at night, the Khitan government would drive these labor slaves to a place farther from the city wall to sleep.

Three or four Khitan officials walked to Li San'er and asked him to count the weapons he had made today. Li San'er reported to him with a smile on his face, trying his best to attract the attention of Khitan officials. Just two steps away, Liu Quan suddenly pulled out the iron sword burning in the charcoal fire, and inserted it into the back of the Khitan people with a "sneer" sound. The blood smelled burning. Before the Khitan officials could react, the iron sword was pulled out and inserted into the chest of the person next to him again. The remaining two Khitan officials turned around and pulled out the scimitar. Li San'er picked up the iron hammer and smashed the wheel round toward their heads, and his brain burst out.
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