I became the son of Renzong

It is such a reality that some forces in the Northern Liao Dynasty did not have the awareness to sacrifice their lives for the Northern Liao court.

Therefore, this battle in Dading Mansion became the focus of the Song and Liao wars, and it was also a key battle to determine whether the Northern Liao Dynasty would perish.

Not only because the court of the Northern Liao Dynasty is in Dading, but also because this battle will determine the whereabouts of all the forces in the entire Northern Liao Dynasty...~

Yelu Hongji took it, and those swaying forces didn't mind poking a cold hammer in Da Song's back to get a share of the action.

Yelu Hongji couldn't bear it, and they had no choice but to rely on the state of Song.

This battle is crucial, but Yelu Hongji knows the weakness of the Song court very well...~

Not to mention the court officials, even Zhao Xi couldn't give the order to fire on the people.He best understands the role of popular support.

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The army of the Song Dynasty had indeed attacked the city, and the gunpowder bombs that covered the sky and the sun were fired.

At that moment, Yelu Hongji thought it was going to be over...

However, when all the gunpowder bombs fell, none of them exploded on the city wall, and all hit under the city wall, or outside the wall of the city wall.

The city walls of Dading Mansion are a bit crumbling. It seems that if this happens again, the entire city walls of Dading Mansion will collapse, burying those people who were used as human shields on the walls...~

However, the next day, Song State stopped firing gunpowder bombs, and instead pushed forward those chariots that the arrows could not penetrate...~already close to the moat.

Could it be that they were approaching and firing gunpowder bombs into the city?

The people with meat shields on the city wall became even more nervous.Just enough rations to survive, but he has to take on the function of resisting the artillery of the Song Dynasty... I'm afraid!It's really scary!

As a result, Song's army did not attack again.

This...~ The army of the Song Dynasty actually moved ahead of schedule, and all the Huotou troops in the general camp were arranged at the forefront of the army, just behind the chariot closest to the Dading city wall.

Then, the Song army surrounding the entire city wall of Dadingfu unified the world and started cooking.

Don't worry about the wind direction, because the entire Dading Mansion is surrounded by groups, any wind direction can make the food smell of Song Guo's army float into Dading Mansion...

For this reason, Zhao Xi specially asked the fourth prince to transport a large amount of rice with a particularly strong fragrance from the Nanyang area.

At the same time, there are all the spices that can be seen on the market, especially the kind of seasoning that is more intense after heating.

Let the entire Huotou army cook at the same time, right in front of the hungry Beiliao people on the city wall of Dadingfu who are serving as meat shields.

Not just for them to see, but also for them to smell...~

"Anyway, if you are idle, you are idle. You have to cook. The army has to cook. It's nothing more than changing places."

"Beiliao's arrows can't penetrate the defense of chariots, but the smell of food can ignore the city walls."

"A group of people in a state of hunger, seeing and smelling that they can't eat, is more effective than gunpowder."

This is what the officials said when they formulated this tactic.

It seems like a joke, but I have to admit that in such a situation, such a tactic works very well.

The soldiers guarding the meat shields on the walls of Dading Mansion originally shot a few scattered arrows, and then kept scolding the drooling civilians.

Later, they were also tempted by the scent under the city wall, watching and smelling the Song army under the city wall having dinner...

How long?Since the civil strife in Yelu Yixin, the soldiers of Beiliao have never eaten sweet food.

What's more, it's the stir-frying method that was just popularized by Shijing in the Song Dynasty...

The scene of tens of thousands of people eating in a unified way is just a matter of spitting out their mouths, and it is not something that the soldiers of the Northern Liao Dynasty can withstand in a state of hunger...

The next day...~

Still the same, when the Great Song Dynasty started cooking, none of the Beiliao soldiers shot arrows.

It doesn't work, the key is that the people with meat shields who have been starving for a long time on the city wall simply let them shoot arrows!

There is even a dispute over standing in the front position, who would agree to influence Song Guo's cooking?

If you can't eat, you can always smell it.

what is that?There are actually them Khitan people...~

Seeing the prisoners who seemed to be unattended, that is, the Khitans captured by the Song Dynasty, they lined up one by one, holding the unique military rice bowls of the Song Dynasty, orderly received their meals in front of the pot, and even had a fire with the Song Dynasty. The army is talking and laughing...

If I were captured, I would be able to eat such a delicious meal...~ This kind of thinking is by no means alone.

It turned out that the captives also ate so well in Song Dynasty!

Attacking its weaknesses is the core of the battle. Fighting is not just a way of bombarding the sky. Sometimes food can also be used as a weapon.

What is most lacking in Dading City now?Supplies!Perhaps Beiliao will guarantee the rations of the soldiers, but for those common people who are meat shields, even if Yelu Hongji has a heart, the material reserves in Dading City cannot satisfy hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians.

When Yelu Hongji recruited these people to make human shields, he really made the Song army fight a rat, but he also made trouble for himself...

Originally, Beiliao was not good at urban governance, and Dading City was already in chaos.And Da Song's unexpected approach started the chaos in Dading City...

Chapter 956

Eat well, dress warmly, travel fast, and live comfortably, these should be regarded as the most basic pursuit of human beings.

Yelu Yixin's rebellion created an opportunity for Song Dynasty to recover Yanyun and at the same time expand its territory.

Of course, it's not that Da Song didn't have the strength to recover Yanyun a few years ago, but that he couldn't meet Zhao Xi's recovery standard.

Because of Yelu Yixin's rebellion, Zhao Xi had the opportunity to manipulate people's hearts and win them over.

Two years of war caused Beiliao, which was not considered wealthy, to truly fall into a stage of material shortage.

In wartime, materials have always been given priority to military use.

Cavalry and war horses, these are the first things that the Northern Liao court needs to be adequately supplied during the war, and then the Khitan nobles.As for ordinary people, I don't know where they will be ranked.

Therefore, in the past two years, the people of Beiliao have really been in dire straits.

In addition, after the Song Dynasty declared war on the Northern Liao Dynasty, Nanjing Road, the main grain production area of ​​the Northern Liao Dynasty, was set as the battlefield, and the material supply of the Northern Liao Dynasty became even more scarce.

At this time, Yelu Hongji gathered hundreds of thousands of people to Dading City. To put it bluntly, he wanted those people who would have starved to death to fight for him to win buffer cannon fodder from various forces.

Therefore, Da Song's food tactics still worked.

"How many people escaped in three days?"

The meal strategy formulated by Zhao Xi required to last for three days.Three days have passed, Zhao Xi needs to know the effect...~