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Chapter 1079 One and a half hours, eight Yuanyou stone throwing machines? (first update)
Chapter 1088

At this time, Shangshu of the Ministry of Rites, who ran to find the Liao envoy a few days ago and was so angry that the three corpses were furious, finally jumped out at this time, with a yin and yang.

"I don't know what Liao made you want to say and stopped for a long time. What exactly do you want to say? Why don't you just tell me directly. Don't worry, you are the envoy of Liao Kingdom. I, the emperor of Song Dynasty, has the generosity to accept all rivers and rivers. I will definitely not offend anyone because of my words."

It is not too late for a gentleman to take revenge for ten years, but the problem is that the Minister of Rites may not be a gentleman. Anyway, if he can retaliate against the envoy of the Liao Kingdom, the Minister of Rites of the Great Song Dynasty is still very happy to do it himself.

Xiao Yan glanced coldly at the minister of the Ministry of Rites who was looking at him with a look of gloating, and bowed directly in the direction of the emperor. "Since your country of Song has invaded Daliao, then this envoy has nothing to say. However, this envoy will definitely bring the words of the emperor of Song Dynasty to my emperor of Daliao."

"Of course it's okay. Please tell Emperor Liao that if your country is unreasonable and insists on acting recklessly. Then, don't blame me, Song Dynasty, for tearing up the peace treaty in order to get justice." Emperor Zhao Xu looked at the envoy of Liao Kingdom coldly and said loudly road.

This sentence also seemed to represent the Great Song Dynasty, officially declaring war on the Liao Kingdom.As soon as this remark came out, the face of the Liao envoy couldn't help but changed again.

After bowing respectfully to the emperor of Song Dynasty, Xiao Yan withdrew from the court hall, stood on the steps, turned his head, looked at the majestic hall of Song Dynasty, then raised his front with a gloomy face, and walked quickly towards the emperor. Go outside the palace.

He had to go back to the post house as quickly as possible, and then write a letter to Emperor Daliao, reporting the news about Hedong Road, and the reactions of Emperor Daliao and his courtiers.

So that the emperor can make a correct judgment.As for Yelu Dadun, the general manager of the East Road of the Daliao River who sent troops to attack the Song Dynasty without authorization, he would definitely be reprimanded.

After all, as the chief official in charge of Daliao, such an action seems a bit reckless.What's more, the strength of the Song State is becoming stronger and stronger now. At this time, it would be unwise to start another war with the Song State.

However, these are all Xiao Yan's own considerations, as for what the Daliao Emperor will think, it is not something that a small envoy of him can control.

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Three more days later, when the court meeting in the palace was about to end, another urgent report of eight hundred miles came. After the emperor got it, his eyes suddenly widened.

It seemed that some couldn't believe it and then raised his hand and rubbed his eyes. After confirming twice, he took a deep breath, and then looked at it with a smile.

"My dear friends, there is good news from Shaanxi North Road, do you know what it is?"

All the ministers looked at each other, but soon someone took the initiative to step out of the class. "Your Majesty, could it be that the army of the Liao army was unable to break through the Sanchakou Fort, and they also heard that the more than one hundred Liao troops had already been beheaded, and it would be useless to attack again, so they withdrew from our Song territory?"

"Sorry, Deng Qing's family, you guessed wrong. After the Liao army attacked Sanchakou Fort, Wang Jinglue ordered to use that kind of teacher to cross the river and attack Xiazhou. Within half a day, Xiazhou was captured."

"...Half a day?! Your Majesty, you mean that Zhong Shidao attacked Xiazhou within half a day?" At this moment, the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty were in an uproar.

How can it be?This is too unscientific.The civil and military personnel in the court naturally have veteran generals who have been in the army for a long time, and they are naturally very clear that it is not easy to attack a city. Even if it is an ordinary fortress in a border town, at least five times as many troops should be attacked. It will also take some time.

What's more, a strong city like Xiazhou has no internal support and no foreign aid. With the tens of thousands of horses under his command, how can Xiazhou, the governing place of the Hedong Road of the Liao Kingdom, be given to Xiazhou at once? won?This is really unimaginable.

"This is me. How dare he use such news to deceive me as a teacher? This is a crime of deceiving the emperor. Hehe... It seems that you don't believe it. In fact, if I hadn't read the memorial, I am afraid it would be difficult. believe."

After saying this, the emperor suddenly expressed emotion. "Speaking of which, it's because of Wang Wushan..."

"???" The faces of most civil and military people in the Manchu Dynasty immediately turned black, pitch black.The eyeballs stared straight at the current day, thinking that this is related to the half copper plate of Wang Wushan, who stabbed people in Youzhou far away?
"Your Majesty, I'm afraid there is something wrong with your words. General Zhong is one of the most famous generals among the military officials of the Great Song Dynasty. He can become the defense envoy of Yin, Shi and Long in the North Shaanxi Road of the Great Song Dynasty. It is His Majesty who is wise and talented.

And the reason why he was able to capture Xiazhou in half a day by cultivating his skills as a teacher must be because he was grateful to His Majesty and the soldiers sacrificed their lives to achieve such a hearty victory.What are you doing with that Lord Wang? "

The emperor looked at the excited minister, squinted his eyes, and then said with a smile: "The Qing family knows that Zhongqing led the army to attack Xiazhou because of Wang Wushan's military order... You don't have to rush to refute, What's more, Zhongqing also wrote very clearly in the victory report."

"Wang Wushan ordered him to cross the river to attack Xiazhou, and also ordered him to bring all the eight Yuanyou trebuchets in Shizhou. In the end, precisely because of the eight Yuanyou trebuchets, only one was used. In half an hour, the south gate of Xiazhou, the Liao Kingdom's Hedong Daozhi, and the city wall more than ten feet wide were completely destroyed."

"Furthermore, more than a dozen generals of the Liao Army, including the guard of Xia Province, Yelu Yongping, were all wiped out by the stone bullets of the Yuanyou catapult..."

When the emperor said this, all the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty could not help but look shocked.

"One and a half hours, eight Yuanyou catapults? This, this..."

"Your family, the way of attacking Xiazhou was cultivated, and no one was killed on the battlefield in my Great Song Dynasty. This battle is an unprecedented record of my Great Song Dynasty."

The catapult, the Yuanyou catapult, this thing is said to be a siege machine invented by Wang Yang when he was unable to attack the ancient city of Nawuyan for a long time.

Before, it was very powerful, but in the eyes of the important ministers in the court, it was just a fortress. No matter how powerful it was, could it still be more powerful than the bed crossbow of the Song Dynasty?

There are even many ministers who feel that it is a weapon that Wang Yang and other Shaanxi Lu Wenwu specially created to show off their achievements.

After that, during the offensive and defensive battle of Youzhou, this Yuanyou stone throwing machine was even more praised, but it still could not attract the attention of Chaowen Wu.

He even complained about the fact that the Armament Supervisor had spent a lot of taxes to manufacture new weapons for more than a year.

But today, it turned out to be such a result. It took only an hour and a half for eight Yuanyou catapults to completely destroy the section of Xiazhou, making it easy for the North Shaanxi Army of the Song Dynasty to win. Everyone was speechless.

Yelu Dadun, the general manager of the Hedong Road in the Liao Kingdom, was still attacking Sanchakou Fort, the Great Song Fort, and the victory was still pending. Over there, Zhong Shidao had already captured Xiazhou, the seat of the Hedong Road in the Liao Kingdom.

(End of this chapter)