Chapter 1079

"At the beginning, Chong Mou also had the same idea as you, but if that is the case, why would this official gather all the soldiers and horses of the three states of Yinshilong?" The seed master Dao's gaze swept over the soldiers around him, and he explained with a smile.

Seeing that these guys were still a little confused, the planter Dao was very satisfied and stroked his long beard, as it should be, as the commander, if your mind is so easy to guess. Wouldn't everyone be able to take my place?

"You think that Chong Mou is really just thinking about surviving Wei to save Zhao, then you are wrong......

The generals couldn't help but gasp. "General, do you want to capture Xiazhou?"

"It's too early to tell, let's wait a minute." The planter didn't take this stubble with a smile, after all, before the situation was completely clear, it seemed too childish to talk about seizing Xiazhou.

It's just that I don't know, that thing is very awesome to defend the city, if it is used to attack the city, will it really be as Wang Wushu said, destroying the city and destroying the wall, it is easy.

At this moment, at the wharf in Shizhou, truckloads of timber are being pulled onto the transport ship, and on the first log, there are detailed marks.

The two transport ships on this side are protected by a group of murderous and unsheathed Yuan Youjia soldiers, and no one is allowed to approach.

From time to time, there are still people shouting loudly, not to get close to the fire, not to light the fire......

What these two large transport ships needed to load was the Yuanyou stone thrower invented by Wang Wushan, the pacification envoy of the northwest road of the Great Song Dynasty.

Now, Shizhou's eight Yuanyou stone throwers have been reduced to pieces, turning into piles of wood and boxes of parts to be sent to the transport ship.

These things are the basis and confidence that the Master Dao used to attack Xiazhou.

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Xiazhou, the seat of the Liao-Dongdao River, was also an important outpost for the Liao-State to control the Hedongdao and monitor the Song territory to the west and south.

Hedong Province, which is under the control of the Great Liao, seems to be very vast and sparsely populated, and the total population of the entire Hedong Province is only 700,000.

There is no way, after all, Hedong Province originally belonged to the territory of Western Xia, and the group of party barbarians who only knew how to destroy and did not know how to build were only more than three million people in total.

In addition, Liaoxia is an ally, and since this land became the territory of Liao, Western Xia moved most of the Western Xia people living on this land.

The remaining population is even less than 400,000, and there is only such a small population in a dignified place, which is really a shame to be thrown into my grandmother's house.

In the end, Yelu Hongji, the son of heaven of Liao, couldn't see it himself, and ordered to immigrate from Nanjing Road to fill in the east of the river, and only then did he reluctantly migrate nearly 300,000.

You must know that there are 140,000 soldiers and horses of the Liao State in Hedong Province, and the ratio to the population is almost close to two to one, which can be even more awesome than the Western Xia, where all the people were soldiers in the past.

Fortunately, these Liao army officers and soldiers are all transferred from other places, and even the grain must still be transported in Nanjing Road, there is no way, who makes the population of this Hedong Province too small, and it will not be able to feed such an army at all.

Because Xiazhou is the closest to the Song Dynasty and the Hedong Daozhi Office, the 80,000 main forces of the Liao army are gathered here, and the other 60,000 soldiers and horses are distributed in the Mida Cave, which is what the Xia people called the Left Wing Shenyong Army Division to the area of the Turbidity Wheel Village to guard against the Song Hedong Road.

A few days ago, Yelu Dudton, the governor of Hedong Province, received the news that Andingbao had fallen and Ye Bosheng and others had been captured by the Song army, and immediately went east with his own army.

After that, he sent someone back to pass the order and appointed Yelu Yongping as the defense envoy of Xiazhou to lead 10,000 troops to garrison Xiazhou. So far, of the 80,000 soldiers and horses stationed in Xiazhou, only 10,000 were left for Yelu Yongping, and the remaining 70,000 troops went to the Song-Liao border to fight with the Song army, almost pouring out.

As a general trusted by Yelu Dutton, Yelu Yongping is no longer more brave and responsible, but because he is cautious and cautious, so by handing over the city to this general, Yelu Dutton can rest assured of his own future.

And Yelu Yongping, indeed did not live up to Yelu Dutten's expectations, the first time, he ordered the ban of the four gates, before Yelu Dudten returned to Xiazhou victoriously, he did not plan to let anyone enter and leave Xiazhou, using the most stupid way, but the most effective way to ensure the safety of Xiazhou.

Even if the people in the city and the merchants of the Liao State complained? As long as the four gates are not opened, then, even if there are spies of the Song State in the city, they will not be able to pass on the news of the emptiness of Xiazhou.

This made Yelu Yongping admire his wit and talent very much, but what he didn't expect was that just half an hour ago, a scout came to report that a large number of Song troops were found in the south of Xiazhou, and they were advancing in the direction of Xiazhou.

The number is at least tens of thousands, hearing the news, Yelu Yongping's little face instantly turned white as lime, and he immediately ordered to send a messenger for help, all the way to the direction of Mida Cave to ask for help, and the other way to the west of the army of the chief of Yelu Dutton for help.

As for the rest, it was to let the soldiers ascend to the top of the city, and to defend it to the death, no matter what, until reinforcements arrived.

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When they saw the distant horizon began to rise with billowing smoke and dust, when they saw the blood-colored banner of the Song army waving in the wind, and when they saw a team of Song soldiers in bright armor entering the city of Xiazhou, the soldiers of the Liao army defending the city looked a little uneasy.

And Yelu Yongping was also very uneasy, but as the lord of the army, he naturally had to show momentum and style, in addition to catching up with all the 10,000 defenders to the city, he also strictly ordered the young and strong people in the city to go to the city to help defend the city.

More than 20,000 frightened young men were also swept up to the top of the city, at least in numbers, it didn't look so thin.

It's just that what makes Yelu Yongping curious is that after the Song army arrived outside the city of Xiazhou, it did not first carry out a tentative attack on the city defense forces of Xiazhou as he expected.

Instead, they rested directly, and then, dozens of carts stopped at a distance of about fifty-six zhang from the city wall of Xiazhou City, and kept unloading goods there, and then countless craftsmen began to assemble objects there.

Thinking about it, it should be a siege machine, and seeing that the Song army did not attack directly but assembled the siege machinery there in an orderly manner, this made Yelu Yongping and the defenders in the city couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

Now the most lacking thing in Xiazhou City is time, what he is most afraid of is that after the Song army comes, he will attack the city directly without saying a word, then, with these 10,000 defenders, he dare not say anything else, and there will be no problem with defending it for ten days.

But the problem is that I am afraid that those young people who go to the city to assist will be killed or injured at least half. However, if the Song army assembles the siege machinery, then the Liao army soldiers waiting for the city will definitely be a difficult battle to defend the city.

"Order, light a fire, boil gold juice and oil pot, let the brothers cheer me up, and move more rolling stones and trees to the city, no matter how many Song troops come, we will be able to firmly defend the army led by the chief to return to the reinforcement with the strong city of Xiazhou."

Yelu Yongping and the generals and colonels all wandered among the soldiers, constantly shouting loudly, boosting morale. And a large number of young men are busy at the moment, moving those reserved weapons to the city wall.

At this moment, under the city, the planter Dao stroked his long beard, squinted his eyes, looked at the rammed city wall of Xiazhou, and turned his head from time to time to look at the assembly site of the Yuanyou stone thrower that had almost become a construction site.