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Chapter 220 Breaking Cangzhou
Khitan Barracks
Yelu Deguang just woke up, saw a person standing in front of the bed, and then said softly: "Has the matter been settled?"

"Everything is done, Your Majesty can rest assured to attack the city."

"That's good, soldiers are precious and fast, attack the city immediately."

Yelu Deguang gave an order, and the Khitan horn sounded again.This time everyone moved. The soldiers escorted the siege ladder forward. A group of men and horses held shields in their hands to form a shield and went straight to the city gate. They could be vaguely seen escorting a huge wooden tree. , they wanted to break down the city gate.

With a wave of Fu Yanqing's right hand, all the archers fired arrows, and the rain of arrows fell all over the sky. Countless Khitan soldiers were killed in the first round.But the brave Khitan soldiers immediately followed the footsteps of their predecessors, filling in any gaps, no longer caring what kind of army they were, if the siege ladder was falling down here, they immediately went to help it, and if someone was injured there, they immediately made up for it.

A large group of Khitan soldiers died generously like this, piling up corpses and marching forward.No matter how fast the archers are, they are not as fast as this wave of sprints like hungry wolves, and no matter how accurate they are, they are not guaranteed to hit every shot.Moreover, with the cover of the opponent's archers, it didn't take long for the Khitan soldiers to rush to the city.

Carry the siege ladder upwards, there is a reverse buckle in front of the siege ladder, and it is tightly buckled on the crenel on the city wall. The short-sword soldiers and long-spearmen, as long as they are Khitans, are climbing up.

The short swordsmen on the city wall have already been prepared, and they must not be allowed to stand firm. It is best to cut them down on the siege ladder.But the hand-to-hand combat that follows cannot be avoided no matter what.

Although Fu Yanqing was concerned about the situation here, the Khitan soldiers climbed up one by one, finally climbed to the top of the city wall and were besieged by a group of people, as long as time would not be deadlocked, there would be no danger on the city wall.Now Fu Yanqing was concerned about the siege chariots, if the chariots smashed into the city gates, the Khitan army would be able to drive straight in.

"Falling rocks, pouring asphalt."

People standing on the top of the city wall threw stones down crazily, regardless of whether they could hold them or not, as long as they could be thrown down, they would throw down anything, even if they didn't know how to throw their companions' bodies, they had to guard the city gate.

Dozens of people raised their heads and smashed into the city gate when the car was rushed, and the outer layer was full of people holding shields in their hands to protect them.The shield is still good for resisting bows and arrows, but it is not very useful in the face of stones falling from a high place.Even if the shield blocked the stone, the huge impact would be unbearable, and sometimes even broke the arm directly.

As long as the shield falls slightly, or even reveals a gap, countless feathered arrows will be shot through the gap immediately, and half of the entire team will collapse immediately.

But no matter how powerful the tactics were, they couldn't stand the crowd. A group of people fell down, and the people around them immediately dropped their weapons. Some picked up shields, some picked up rush cars, and kept rushing towards the city gate one after another.Feathered arrows had already covered the entire battlefield, especially since the vicinity of the car was growing out of the ground like weeds.

Behind the city gate, some people moved wood, some moved stones, and some even put their bodies against the city gate. The Khitans must not let the gate be knocked open.

Bucket after bucket of asphalt was poured down, hot asphalt flowed from the gaps between the shields, and even dripped on the people holding the car with flames. The battlefield was so chaotic that no one could hear their heart-piercing misery Call.

Fu Yanqing defended well, but there were too many Khitans.No matter how many people fell down, someone would fill their seats immediately, as if a crushing force kept moving forward, there was no way to stop it.

On the city wall, there are more and more Khitan soldiers. If this continues, there is no need to break through the city gate. These more and more Khitan soldiers can wipe out the entire Cangzhou.

Fu Yanqing shouted: "Light the smoke."

"Light the smoke~~!"

"Light the smoke~~!"

The orders kept passing down, and the last soldier held a torch and waited for this opportunity. As long as the smoke was lit, there would be a good show.After receiving the order, the soldiers sent the torches in their hands into the wolf smoke, and a black smoke appeared in the sky immediately, especially during the daytime, this black smoke was very eye-catching.

The Khitan soldiers' offensive was immediately suspended, and many people noticed the smoke. Although they didn't know what the smoke was for, they knew very well that it must be Fu Yanqing's backhand.

After returning to Red God, all the Khitan soldiers continued to pursue madly. The number of people was getting larger and larger, and the offensive was getting stronger and stronger. Slowly, the crenels could no longer be defended.

I don't know how long it took, but Fu Yanqing became anxious, because the Khitan's offensive was getting stronger and stronger, but the most important thing on the side did not appear.

"Where's the water? Where's my water?" Fu Yanqing stared at the people around him, no one knew what was going on.Originally, there was a river passing outside the northern city of Cangzhou. Fu Yanqing ordered people to forcibly cast a gate to intercept the river and flow it to other places. However, the old river mouth is still there. As long as the gate is opened, the flood will pour down. 30 troops, even a million troops will be drowned in the river.

The beacon is the signal, and there is an army guarding the gate. As long as they see the beacon in their house, and the signal in the beacon is correct, they will open the gate and flood Khitan.

Fu Yanqing hadn't even used this trick before, but there was no problem in theory, and there was no need for a too sophisticated theory, as long as the water was released, the momentum of the water would definitely disperse the Khitan army, and in that case the wall would be defended.But why didn't the water come in? Fu Yanqing's head was already sweating. All these years of preparations were just to prevent the Khitan army from overwhelming the country. It was just unexpected that something went wrong in the most critical step at such a fatal time. I knew that more people should be sent to guard the mouth of the river. yes.

No need to report, there must be something wrong with the estuary.Fu Yanqing had known for a long time that Cangzhou could not be defended at all. Before that, he was too confident in the five-shaped formation of Cangzhou, and he really did not expect Yelu Deguang to come so early.Bing is very fast, Yelu Deguang made a surprise attack, and he really did not expect that the five-shaped formation would be broken by him, which would lead to a big defeat.

Fu Yanqing said: "Order to go down, open the south gate and fight to the death, delaying the time for the people to escape first. Take a team of soldiers to escort my family to XZ to find my second brother. I want to live and die with Cangzhou."

"King Wei, if you keep the green hills, you won't be afraid of running out of firewood."

"Needless to say, this is my failure. I can only delay as much as possible to make Master Zong Xin's plan look more realistic. This shameless monk, he said this on purpose to make the plan more realistic. I already knew that Yelu Deguang would march south before the spring plowing, and the reason why I told us this is to let Yelu Deguang see that we are still preparing, so that it looks more real and let Yelu Deguang relax his vigilance."

Wei Wang Fu Yanqing didn't know whether to hate or admire him. Zong Xin's plan had long since surrounded Yelu Deguang, so he might not dare to enter Cangzhou.However, his approach really made people hate it. In order to make the whole plan look more real, he actually threw his life away.

Although I don't have to die in Cangzhou, for Zongxin's plan, I had better stick to it, otherwise Yelu Deguang would be suspicious.If Yelu Deguang was worried about being cut off, he would stick to Cangzhou after capturing Cangzhou, slowly eroding the power of the Central Plains step by step. This may take many years, but it will allow him to sit firmly in the country .

Master Zong Xin had a strict plan, and Fu Yanqing didn't know if it was meaningful to do so.But Fu Yanqing knew very well that if he escaped, it might have some impact.Now that the matter has come to this point, the monk's plan must not be affected in the slightest, and the Khitan army must be defeated.

Fu Yanqing led his troops to stand firm in Cangzhou City for a full seven days, but there was a huge difference in the strength of the two sides. There were originally [-] soldiers in Cangzhou, of which [-] fled and [-] died in battle. In the end, only a few dozen people were left around Fu Yanqing who were sleepy and exhausted. All were captured.

The Khitan army rushed into Cangzhou and immediately organized a defensive offensive. Yelu Deguang directly ordered people to bring Fu Yanqing to his side.

At this time, Yelu Deguang sat firmly on the high platform, Yelu Hong and Yeluzhen were guarding beside him, Fu Yanqing was in a panic, with many injuries on his body, and was pressed down by the soldiers and knelt on the ground.

Yelu Deguang admired: "What a tough guy, my army of 30 stormed Cangzhou and 5 people died. You are all my soldiers, and you are the chief culprit who killed them. You know what will happen to you?" ?"

"Hahahaha~~" Fu Yanqing said with a smile: "The real culprit is you, not me. If you don't let them fight, both sides will enjoy peace, and neither will die. This king is only protecting himself, you risking the situation to be polite Let me tell you, the Khitan dog, the small city of Cangzhou is useless, if you exchange fifty thousand soldiers for a useless land, I’m afraid it’s a big loss.”

"Oh~? How do you say that?"

Fu Yanqing said: "Now there is only one broken city left in Cangzhou. Whoever brings troops to attack will undoubtedly win. Go north to Youyun Sixteen Prefectures. Although it is now your Khitan territory, it is mainly our Central Plains forces. The Song and Zhao clans are here all the year round. Activities in Youyun Sixteen Prefectures. The king has been on guard for seven days, and the news should have reached everyone’s ears. Now we are gathering troops in the Central Plains, and they will immediately send troops to Cangzhou. By then, you won’t know how you will die.”

Yelu Deguang shook his head and said: "No, they will not come to support Cangzhou, but gather troops to prepare to attack Kaifeng, right? Everyone in the world knows Master Zong Xin's plan? But you must not have thought that I would send troops before the spring plowing, Seeing that you are also a tough guy, if you can surrender, I will save you from death."

"Don't follow me this way, rather die than surrender, give me a good time."

"Fulfill him."

Yelu Deguang gave an order, and immediately someone dragged Fu Yanqing down and asked to beheaded.

"Wait a minute." Yeluzhen said: "Your Majesty, there is no rush to kill Fu Yanqing. Let him torture him first and ask him to write down the formation method of the five-shaped formation in detail. We have not broken Cangzhou for decades, all because of Fu Yanqing's five-shaped formation. Formation diagram, although we have broken the formation, if we can also use this formation, it can help us stick to Cangzhou and develop steadily."

Yelv Deguang nodded and said: "According to what King Shenwu said, Fu Yanqing will be temporarily detained in the squad room and interrogated carefully. He must tell all the secrets of the five-shaped formation."

"Your Majesty is wise."

(End of this chapter)