The first prince of Song Dynasty

Chapter 1674 The Battle of Tanzhou ([-])
"General Wang, if you continue to fight tomorrow, I will keep them restless all day long, and our plan is about to be implemented."

While Zhao Xu paid attention to the affairs in Tanzhou, on the other hand, he arranged for Wang Yansheng to continue fighting against the Liao army, and asked Wang Yansheng to temporarily suppress the Khitan people with his reputation.

And Wang Yansheng seemed to enjoy this process very much. He always thought that this matter should be easy and he could take the opportunity to teach those people a lesson. Wang Yansheng was really excited these days.

Although he is not too young compared to Zhao Xu and the others, he is still very keen on fighting. Every time he asks himself to fight in person, now that Zhao Xu gave him such a chance, he is very excited. .

"Your Highness, don't worry, I must scare them out of their wits so that they don't underestimate my Great Song's military power." Wang Yansheng grinned grinningly, as if he were an ogre king.

Zhao Xu nodded in satisfaction. He wasn't afraid that something would happen to Wang Yansheng, because he had several generals following him for Wang Yansheng's safety, so Zhao Xu was always at ease.

Zhao Xu's plan has also begun to be implemented. There are now more than 30 Liao troops in Tanzhou City, and the defense is tight. Especially at night, they are afraid that the Song army will attack the camp at night.

"Your Majesty, there is news from ahead that the Song army has set up camp for ten miles this time, and then they did not continue to come to us."

Xiao Tianzuo followed Yelu Haowu, the two of them were walking around, that is, they were walking in Yelu Haowu's mansion in the city.

"These damned Song Army, so many reinforcements have come, and now they are only ten miles away from our Tanzhou City, why don't they move on?"

Yelu Haowu knew that what Xiao Tianzuo was talking about was the reinforcements from the Song army coming from the north, but he didn't know why they didn't move on but stopped at this moment.

"I don't know about this. We don't know what their plans are for the time being, but we have been annoyed by Wang Yansheng recently. This old guy is really shameless."

Xiao Tianzuo just had a headache, and Wang Yansheng had to shout every day. Many soldiers in the Liao army were afraid of him, and they couldn't kill him with one blow, so they had a headache for this guy.

"Our soldiers already hate this man very much, but there is nothing we can do. Every time we dare not leave the city easily, there is a large-scale Song army outside the city. I don't know what Zhao Xu thinks, let this old guy come out , don’t you care about the general’s life?”

Xiao Tianzuo was also very depressed. Wang Yansheng specifically picked those unknown generals of the Liao army to attack. He was not interested in ordinary people. This was strange. There were a few times when he was about to go out of the city to fight, and the bows and arrows of the Song army were almost here. on them.

It was extremely frustrating not to let people like them fight, so Wang Yansheng beheaded many of them, and the soldiers all turned pale when they talked about the king.

"Don't worry about him, he won't come back when he's boring. I'm waiting. When their reinforcements arrive, maybe it's time for a decisive battle." Yelu Haowu looked into the distance with deep eyes.

"That's right, Song Jun's harassment is much less frequent now, and it's not as frequent as the previous two days. Maybe they think they can't get any cheap from us."

Xiao Tianzuo has been paying attention to these things every day recently, and the frequency of Song Jun's actions has been much less recently.

"How is the morale of the soldiers?" Yelu Haowu didn't care about Wang Yansheng, he knew Wang Yansheng, and the old general had fought against him many times.

"Very expensive."

"What's going on, how did it become very high?"

Yelu Haowu frowned, but his question was very strange. Since ancient times, only generals were worried about the low morale, but no one ever asked why the morale was high.

"I have sent people down to tell the soldiers that as long as we defeat the Song army and occupy the country of Song, each of them will give a woman from the Song Dynasty. These soldiers seem to have been injected with chicken blood, so now they are all eager to try. .”

Yelu Haowu understands that these rough Khitan men like those delicate Song women, so under normal circumstances it is quite good to use this to motivate them, so Xiao Tianzuo's approach can also boost the morale of the soldiers.

"Master Xiao is really a good general of our Liao Kingdom. By the way, you should have a good rest in the next few days. The big battle is coming soon, and we will be busy then."

There is the darkness before the dawn, and even more the tranquility before the war. Yelu Haowu knows that this place will become a purgatory on earth again in a few days. The war is inevitable. It's time to enjoy the great battle.

At night, Tanzhou City was silent, and there were constant patrols on the top of the city. At this time, a pair of soldiers came over and said a few words in Khitan to the soldiers on the top of the city. After walking down, it turned out that the defense was changed, and the soldiers could not be allowed to patrol here in the middle of the night!

Maybe they didn't realize that when they were changing defenses, there was movement under the city. A group of people quietly arrived under the city. The north wind was blowing at night, and no one would have thought about some small movements. What is sitting in front of the door.

If you light the torches, you will definitely see them pouring the latest cement produced by the Song Dynasty, pouring cement on the city gate, and completely sealing the entire tall city gate.

The soldiers on the city wall lit torches here, apparently to help them. It turned out that these soldiers who changed defense were actually Song soldiers. They were those who stayed and did not retreat. Having learned the Khitan language and knowing some of the situation of the Liao army, it was easy to sneak in, and besides, the Liao army did not suspect it under such a dark situation.

This allowed the people of Song Dynasty to take advantage of the loopholes and even poured the city gates with cement. Cement is an advanced product in this era. They have never seen it before. They just heard that there is such a thing in Song Dynasty. Unexpectedly, the first time they saw it, it was Da Song who used it like this.

This kind of thing happened under other city gates, and the city gate was sealed under the eyes of the Liao army. Although it was not as solid as the city wall, it was very strong and could block ordinary impacts. What is the intention, it can't be to trap these Liao troops in the city, right?

This is unrealistic, because there is not only sufficient food and grass in the city, but also they have enough time to open the gate of the city poured with cement, so what is the meaning of this?
(End of this chapter)