Chapter 1079

"At the beginning, Zhong Mou had the same idea as you did, but if that was the case, why should I gather all the troops and horses of the Silver Stone Dragon states here?" Zhong Shidao glanced at the soldiers beside him and explained with a smile.

Seeing that these guys were still a little confused, Master Zhong stroking his long beard with satisfaction. It should be like this. As the head coach, if you think so easily, you will guess it. Then everyone can replace me?

"You think that Zhong Mou was really just thinking about surrounding Wei and saving Zhao, then you were wrong..."

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

"It's too early to say this now, so wait a moment before talking about it." Zhong Shidao smiled and did not take over the incident. After all, the situation was not completely clear before, it seemed too ridiculous to talk about seizing Xiazhou.

I just don’t know that that thing is very awesome to defend the city. If it is used to attack the city, will it really be as easy as the King Witch Book says, destroying the city and the village.

At this moment, at the dock in Shizhou, trucks of wood were being pulled onto the transport ship, and there were detailed marks on the first wood.

The two transport ships here were protected by a group of murderous Yuanyou armored soldiers with swords and guns being sheathed, and no one was allowed to get close to them.

From time to time, there are people shouting loudly, and they must not be close to the fire or burn the fire...

What these two large transport ships need to carry was the Yuanyou stone throwing machine invented by Wang Wushan, the governor of Shaanxi North Road, the Song Dynasty.

Now, the eight Yuanyou stone throwers in Shizhou have been broken into pieces, turning into piles of wood and boxes of parts and are sent to the transport ship.

These things are the support and confidence used by Zhong Shidao to attack Xiazhou.

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Xiazhou, the capital of the Liao Kingdom Hedong Road, is also an important outpost for the Liao Kingdom to control the Hedong Road and monitor the territory of the Song Kingdom to the west and south.

The Hedong Road under the control of the Great Liao Dynasty seemed to be very large and sparsely populated. The total population of the entire Hedong Road was only 700,000.

There is no way, after all, Hedongdao originally belonged to the territory of Xixia, and the group of Dangxiang Manzis who only know how to destroy but do not know how to build are only more than three million people.

In addition, Liaoxia is an allied state. Since this land became the territory of the Liao Kingdom, Xixia moved most of the people of Xixia who lived on this land.

The remaining population is less than 400,000. It is really embarrassing to send it to my grandma's house in a place with only such a small population.

In the end, even the Emperor of Liao Kingdom Yelu Hongji himself could not see it, so he issued an order to immigrate from Nanjing Road to fill the Hedong Road, and then he barely migrated nearly 300,000.

You should know that the Liao army in Hedong Road had a total of 140,000 soldiers and horses, and the proportion to the population was almost two to one, which was even more awesome than the Xixia, which was once the whole nation was full of soldiers.

Fortunately, these Liao army soldiers were all dispatched from other places, and even the food was still transported to Nanjing Road. There was no way, so he could not support such a large army at all.

Because Xiazhou is the closest important place to the Song Dynasty and the Hedongdao District, the Liao army's main forces gathered here, and the other 60,000 troops were distributed in the Mida Cave, which was previously called by the Xia people, and the Zuoxiang Shenyong Army Office to the Zhuolunzhai area to guard against the Hedong Road of the Song Dynasty.

A few days ago, after Yelu Dadun, the general manager of Hedong Road, received the news that Ye Bosheng and others were captured by the Song army, he immediately went east in person.

Later, he sent someone back to pass an order, and appointed Yelu Yongping to command 10,000 troops as the Xiazhou defense envoy to station 10,000 troops in Xiazhou. At this point, 80,000 troops were stationed in Xiazhou, leaving only 10,000 for Yelu Yongping. The remaining 70,000 troops rushed to the border between the Song and Liao dynasties and fought with the Song army, almost all out of their lives.

As a general trusted by Yelu Dadun, Yelu Yongping was not as brave and responsible as he was, but as being cautious. Therefore, only by giving the city to this general to guard him, Yelu Dadun could be at ease with his retreat.

Yelu Yongping did not disappoint Yelu Dadun's expectations. He immediately ordered the ban on four gates. Before Yelu Dadun returned to Xiazhou, he did not intend to let anyone go to Xiazhou, and used the stupidest method, but the most effective method to ensure the safety of Xiazhou.

So what if the people in the city complain and the merchants of Liao Kingdom? As long as the four gates are not opened, even if there are spies from Song Kingdom in the city, they will not be able to convey the empty news of Xiazhou.

This made Yelu Yongping admire his wit and talent very much. However, what he did not expect was that just half an hour ago, a cavalry came to report that a large number of Song troops were found in the south of Xiazhou, advancing towards Xiazhou.

The number was at least tens of thousands. After hearing this news, Yelu Yongping's face turned white as lime. He immediately ordered a messenger for help, rushing all the way to the Mida Cave for help, and on the other hand, he rushed to the military office of Yelu Dadun's commander to the west for help.

As for the others, it is to let the soldiers climb to the top of the city and guard them strictly. In any case, they must guard until reinforcements arrive.

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When I saw the horizon in the distance, when I saw the blood-colored flag of the Song army fluttering in the wind, when I saw a group of distinctly armored soldiers approaching the city of Xiazhou, the Liao soldiers guarding the city seemed a little uneasy.

Yelu Yongping was also very uneasy, but as the leader of the army, he naturally had to show his momentum and style. In addition to catching up with all the ten thousand defenders to the city, he also ordered the young and strong in the city to go to the city to assist in defending the city.

More than 20,000 terrified young men were also caught up on the city wall, at least in terms of quantity, but not so thin.

However, what made Yelu Yongping curious was that after the Song army arrived outside Xiazhou City, it did not first conduct a tentative attack on Xiazhou City's city defense forces as expected.

Instead, they were resting directly, and then dozens of large trucks stopped about fifty-six meters away from the city wall of Xiazhou City, constantly unloading goods there, and then countless craftsmen began to assemble objects there.

I think it was the siege equipment. When I saw 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 on the city even breathe a sigh of vigor.

What Xiazhou City lacks the most now is time. What he fears most is that after the Song army arrives, he will attack the city without saying a word. So, with these ten thousand defenders, I dare not say anything else, and there will definitely be no problem in defending for ten days.

But the problem is that the young and strong men who came up to the city would probably have at least half of the casualties. However, if the Song army assembled the siege machinery, then the Liao soldiers waiting for the defending city would have to be a difficult battle to defend the city.

"Send me the order, make fire, boil gold juice, and oil pan, so that my brothers can cheer me up and move more rolling stones to the top of the city. No matter how many Song troops come, we can firmly defend the city of Xiazhou with the strong city of Xiazhou and lead the army back to the aid."

Yelu Yongping and the generals and schoolmen all wandered among the soldiers, shouting loudly, raising their morale. A large number of young and strong men were busy at this moment, bringing the reserved city-defense weapons to the city wall.
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