Became a feudal lord in the late Northern Song Dynasty

Chapter 157 The Women of the King of Han

He used to be a soldier of the Song Dynasty, but now he fights the soldiers of the Song Dynasty.

Han Shizhong stared at the Song army preparing to attack the city outside the city, and was a little curious whether there would be any of his brothers in the Western Army there, but the next moment, he ordered the catapult to be launched without hesitation.

The catapults placed in the city began to throw boulders outside the city. A boulder with a slightly better accuracy could cause a considerable number of casualties.

Outside Yanjing City, Yang Weizhong looked at the city wall that remained motionless under the attack of his own army, his eyes almost bleeding.

At the edge of the city wall, Song soldiers continued to fall like dumplings from a soup pot. As the last ladder was burned by the defenders at the top of the city, it meant that today's siege had once again failed.

Tong Guan's army was dragged around Zhuozhou City and could not move forward. However, he imitated the tactics he used during the Liao campaign three years ago: he led his army to besiege Zhuozhou, and in addition sent a surprise force to attack Yanjing in a detour.

After learning that Liu Ling was leading the main force south to Hebei, Tong Guan discussed with the generals and agreed that Yan Yun would be extremely empty in the future. Therefore, they only needed to send some troops back to block Liu Ling's retreat, and then eat first Yan Yun, swallow Liu Ling again!

However, first of all, Zhuozhou City could not be attacked for a long time. Not to mention the defenders inside, even the people in the city were desperately helping to defend the city. Under the increasingly exhausted offensive of the Song army, the entire city remained impregnable.

Then there is the Yanjing City in front of them. According to Tong Guan and Yang Weizhong's estimation, because Yanjing is located behind Zhuozhou, Liu Ling took away the main force and "deployed heavy troops" to defend Zhuozhou City, then Yanjing City will definitely be empty.

The senior officials of the Song Army knew that there were actually three main armies in Yanyun's army: Zhenyuan, Yongqing, and Shengjie. The number of troops Liu Ling led south was about 30,000, so they preconceptionally believed that all three main armies must be with Liu. Around Ling.

Before Liu Ling left, he was also wary of the Jin people taking advantage of the situation, so he placed Han Shizhong and the Yongqing Army here.

The shouts of killing at the top of the city finally stopped. The defenders looked tiredly outside the city. Many people were injured. The appearance of the Song army outside the city was even more miserable than they were. After leaving corpses on the ground, As soon as most of the people heard the drums of retreat, they began to flee back desperately, which caused waves of commotion in the army.

During the two-day attack on the city, more than 1,500 of the 6,000 men died. The entire army was on the verge of collapse. Many soldiers had already deserted at night. It is conceivable that if Yang Weizhong forced them to attack again tomorrow, City, mutiny is possible.

From the moment the Song people arrived in Yanjing, Yang Weizhong knew that he did not have many troops, but he was ordered to attack. Even if he failed to seize the opportunity, he could only attack the city by force.

But after the Song people attacked the city and withdrew their troops during the day, the Yongqing army sentries outside the city would rush to the city wall at night and shoot the written military reports to the top of the city with arrows. Therefore, Han Shizhong knew that there was only this outside Yanjing City. A Song army.

And Yang Weizhong didn't know a lot of information.

For example, the city of Yanjing was plundered by the Song army three years ago. Many surviving civilians and even soldiers hated them, so countless civilians came to the city and fought tooth and nail to help defend the city.

For the people of Song Dynasty, there were only a few enemies in Yandi, but they were all hit head-on.

Inside the city gate, the auxiliary soldiers and civilians were constantly helping to remove the things blocking the city gate. A little further away, Han Shizhong walked down the city wall, and someone immediately fetched a war horse for him.

There was a sound of horse hooves in the city, and cavalry in black armor kept getting on their horses. The horses under them were also wearing horse armor. From a distance, it looked like a black cloud was rapidly increasing in area.

Princess Han withdrew her eyes from the cavalry, looked at the charming-looking woman in front of her, and said calmly: "It's not necessary."

Yelu Yuliyan put on his arm guards and laughed softly:

"My sister is now wearing a suit of armor and can be regarded as a female general. I think the king should like this style very much. It's a pity that he is still in the Song Dynasty."

"If he knew that you were going out with the army to defeat the Song army today, he would be happy at first, and then unhappy."

I am happy because my concubine can press the Song army to the ground and rub it.

I'm not happy because of Yelu Yuliyan's special status.

"When I was in Jizhou two years ago, the king was still a general. He once told me that I, the princess of the Liao Kingdom, was a very good flag. But now, from the Zhuozhou Army to the Evervictorious Army, from the Evervictorious Army to Zhenyuan Army, our men have been from Zhuozhou Defense Envoy to now the King of Han, and the flags have been changed one after another.

Sister, the king is a caring man, but if there are too many people in this house, no matter how great the kindness is, it will be divided.

I don't have any children now. If I am unlucky after I go out, it will be just a sacrifice for my motherland. If I can shed a few tears for King Bo, I will have no regrets in this life. If I win, then I can gain more favor for my child who has not yet arrived. "

Yelu Yuliyan said calmly. Under the gaze of the Han Princess who was hesitant to speak, Yelu Yuliyan put on his saddlebags and got on his horse.

"Although I, Yelu, destroyed my country in Wanyan, the people of Song Dynasty also played a role in it. This is the hatred of the country and the family, how can we not avenge it!"

She rode her horse and pulled the reins, followed by more than a dozen cavalrymen, holding out her flag, and the group merged into the cavalry queue. Han Shizhong caught a glimpse of her from a distance, waved, and a four-horse chariot drove by. .

"Ma'am, please get on board."

Han Shizhong was quite polite, because he was the one who instigated Yelu Yuliyan's appearance today.

The reason why Princess Han was not selected but invited to come out was naturally Han Shizhong’s intention.

Yelu Yuliyan was wearing a mask without a face covering, so Han Shizhong could see her expression and asked in surprise, "Aren't you afraid, madam?"

A dozen strong women were specially assigned to follow the chariot. Two of them helped Yelu Yuliyan board the chariot. After standing firm, she replied to Han Shizhong: "Two hundred years ago, I also had Yelu in Daliao. The women of our family led the troops, and just outside Yanjing City, they beat the Emperor of the Song Dynasty who was marching in person to the point where he did not dare to look back!"

Han Shizhong nodded silently and didn't ask any questions. Anyway, he was the one who really commanded the army, and this woman was just going through the motions.

But at the same time, he also secretly sighed that the women in the Queen of Han's house were not economical lamps.

Tsk, it’s better to be as good as me. My concubines are well-behaved and obedient. How can a woman go into battle?

He raised his hand toward the distance. A large city gate in Yanjing and two small city gates opened in sequence.

The Song people only sent a small number of sentinels. In addition, it was already evening, the sun was setting in the sky, and the ground was covered with a layer of blood. The Song army was exhausted after attacking the city all day. At least in the inertia of thinking, This vanguard army believed that the defenders in Yanjing City were just a group of old, weak, sick and disabled people with strong determination, and it was impossible to launch an attack at this time.

At the city gate, a black cloud began to pour out, as if the sky was darkening, and a cold wind gradually came invisibly, and countless flags were suddenly lifted in the wind.

Han Shizhong rubbed his wrist, and the lieutenant handed the horse to him. Han Shizhong then raised the horse high and shouted: "Break the Song camp!"

Someone in the cavalry beside him immediately began to repeat Han Shizhong's words loudly, transmitting his voice to the entire army.

"Break the Song camp!"

"kill!"

"kill!"

More than 1,800 cavalrymen all roared, and their eyes began to subconsciously ignore all the surrounding scenery, until they and their comrades were the only ones left in the world, until the only thing left in front of them was the Song Dynasty's great palace. camp.

Break it!

Crush it!

As the sound waves continued to surge around him, Han Shizhong looked at Yelu Yuliyan, the meaning in his eyes was clear.

The latter, indeed, was a woman who dared to accept his suggestion. She quickly reacted in her mind, drew out her sword, raised it with all her strength, pointed at the Song camp in the distance, and said loudly:

"The Han army is mighty!"

"The Han army is mighty!"

Yunzhong, Shuozhou.

"The last general, Li Liangfu, pays homage to the Queen Mother!"

Xia General Li Liangfu bowed to the woman in front of him.

With the help of the palace maid, the Queen Mother of Xia State untied her bag and saber and hung them aside casually. She finally breathed a sigh of relief and felt a pain in her back.

"When did the King of Han say he would come back?"

"Forehead"

"That's all, if I had known you surrendered him, I guess you wouldn't be willing to answer honestly. Tsk, there are many men in the world, and they change their hearts more easily than women."

Although Li Liangfu nominally led a Xia army to guard the northwest of Yunzhong, in fact he had accepted all the orders from the King of Han. Empress Dowager Yelu knew the details and secretly cursed Li Liangfu for being shameless.

But when she thought about the man Li Liangfu surrendered to, the anger in her heart actually subsided a lot.

At least, the good news doesn’t flow to outsiders.

"What did the King of Han say?"

"He said." Li Liangfu did not dare to say, and reached out to hand an opened letter to her.

The letter was written to Li Liangfu, but there were also words for him to pass on.

Yelu Nanxian suddenly trembled when he saw the end of the letter. He clenched the letter paper tightly with his slender fingers, and a trace of blush appeared on his face.

But it could be seen that although she was frowning, there was a smile in her eyes.

Li Liangfu didn't dare to look anymore and lowered his head deeper.

"Okay, okay, he is a man who knows how to save his family wealth. He is reluctant to waste his family wealth and let me bring Daxia's army to fend off the Song people for him?" There was a hint of coldness in the Queen Mother's voice.

"Queen Mother, didn't the King of Han also say in his letter that he would be rewarded with 100,000 pieces of silk, 5,000 horses, expansion of trade routes, and the cession of three hundred miles of grassland in the Yinshan Mountains after the war?"

"Humph."

Queen Mother Yelu sneered, "Why didn't you say that he still uttered wild words in the letter that he wanted to give me a title?"

"You bastard, you are shameless, you are a scoundrel!"

After scolding for more than a dozen times, Queen Mother Yelu said coldly: "He raised his Princess of Han well in Yanjing, but he taught me, a homeless woman, to run all the way for him. This blind person man"

When Li Liangfu saw her turning around and leaving, he thought she was really angry and hurriedly tried to stop her.

"Mother, where are you going?"

Empress Dowager Yelu didn't look back and said angrily: "I will lead the troops to tear his mouth out."

(End of this chapter)