"Report! After the King of Liaoyang and Yang Yi captured the Dading Prefecture of Zhongjing, he left 15,000 troops to guard Zhongjing, and led 30,000 troops to go east along the Daling River, and successively defeated Fushu, Jianzhou, Xingzhong Prefecture and other cities."

"What, Yang Yi led his army east?"

"Yes, King of Liaoyang, Yang Yi's march was too fast, destroying the city and pond all the way..."

"I'll ask you, where is Yang Yi's army now?"

"Report to the King of Liaoyang, the villain doesn't know."

"If you don't get out, go and check again!"

"yes."

Wanyan Loushi shouted deeply and ordered the scout to find Yang Yi's whereabouts again. After the communication methods were lagging behind, Yang Yi's advance was as fast as a 600-mile express messenger. When the information was transmitted to Wanyan Loushi far away in Songshan Pavilion, Yang Yi had long since gone.

When he received news from Jinzhou, Wanyan Loushi was extremely surprised. Yang Yi went east, not every city must attack, but if he could, he would fight, and if he could not be defeated, he would go around the city;

After capturing those cities, he would never be nostalgic, let alone leave troops to garrison. He had only one purpose to attack these cities - to replenish food and grass.

Wanyan Loushi couldn't help but ask in his heart, what is Yang Yi going to do? He left no way out and went deep into the army without considering the consequences. If he rushed to Beijing and directly attacked the head and paralyzed the entire Dajin, it would be understandable, but he was not.

It is undoubtedly a taboo for military strategists to go deeper into the deeper army without hitting the center. With Yang Yi’s years of experience in using troops, how could he make such a mistake?

Then he must have had another conspiracy.

Wanyan Loushi's eyes patrolled the marching map and soon landed at the Liaoyang Prefecture. In an instant, he was almost sure that Yang Yi had the idea of ​​attacking Liaoyang Prefecture.

But one thing confused Wanyan Loushi. The city of Liaoyang Prefecture is as high as two meters high. Compared with the Dading Prefecture of Zhongjing, it is even better than that of Zhongjing. Moreover, there are 20,000 troops stationed, which is not as empty as Zhongjing.

Yang Yi ignored the retreat and rushed to Liaoyang alone. Was he not afraid of being blocked under the strong city?

Even if he was confident in capturing Liaoyang, Jinzhou and other cities in western Liaoning were still in the hands of the Jin army, as long as the Jin Dynasty sent more troops, he could cut off his contact with the Song army in Zhongjing and other places. He was trapped in Liaoyang.

Although the Song army's firearms were beneficial, once the retreat was cut off and the ammunition supply was gone, they became toothless tigers. Wouldn't Yang Yi understand this? Why did he still do this?

Wanyan Loushi pondered for a long time, but still couldn't understand what Yang Yi's intention was. Finally, his eyes went east again. When he landed on Goryeo, he couldn't help but be shocked. Could it be that Song State actually colluded with Goryeo?

This is very likely. Goryeo, from monarchs and ministers to ordinary people, always admired the Song State. Under the heavy pressure of the Liao State, he secretly sent people across the sea to pay tribute to the Song State...

"Cross the sea, cross the sea......" Wanyan Loushi murmured to himself, his heart was shocked, and he shouted urgently: "Come. Come, come, immediately rush back to Shangjing to report to the Great Sage Emperor. Please send troops to reinforce Liaoyang Prefecture. Yang Yi wants to capture Liaoyang, and he may get supplies from the sea..."

When Wanyan Loushi urgently ordered the tent to report to the capital, Yang Yi had already joined Liu Wu in Haibei Prefecture, and then rushed eastward again to Liaoyang Prefecture.

Haibei Prefecture is less than two hundred miles away from Liaoyang Prefecture, and the Liaohe Plain is all the way, so the speed of the cavalry can be fully utilized;

Yang Yi led nearly 40,000 troops, and in less than two days, he arrived at the city of Liaoyang.

Liaoyang City was built on the east side of Liaodong Mountains and looking westward at the Liaohe Plain. It began to build a city as early as the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. Liao Taizu Yelu Abaoji captured Liaodong City and established Liaoyang Prefecture.

The following year, on the basis of the old city of Xiangping, Liaoyang City was repaired and changed to Dongping County, and a defense envoy was established, and "cast iron phoenix to suppress it", because it was called Iron phoenix City.

In the third year of Tianxian (928), Emperor Taizong of Liao Yelu Deguang ascended the throne and changed Liaoyang Prefecture to Nanjing. As the accompanying capital of the Liao Dynasty, he moved to the capital of the Dongdan Kingdom in Liaoyang, built the Dongdan Palace, and moved Yelu Bei to his residence.

In the first year of Liao Huitong (938), Nanjing was changed to Tokyo and Liaoyang Prefecture was established.

After the expansion of the emperors of the Liao Kingdom, Liaoyang City has become a magnificent city with a circumference of 30 miles and a wall of two meters high. The city is divided into 8 gates:

The east gate is called Yingyang, and the southeast gate is called Shaoyang;

The south gate is famous for Longyuan, and the southwest gate is famous for Xiande;

The west gate is famous for Dashun, and the northwest gate is famous for Daliao;

The north gate is famous for Huaiyuan and the northeast gate is famous for Anyuan.

Yang Yi's 40,000 troops stopped at Dashun's door, with flags flying and thousands of horses neighing, which was so majestic.

The chess move to attack Liaoyang was planned early in the morning. On the surface, this seemed to be a chess move, because as long as the Jin army blocked western Liaoning, Yang Yi's tens of thousands of troops became water without a source and a tree without a root.

But in fact, as long as Yang Yi successfully attacked Liaoyang, he could get continuous supply and even reinforcements through sea routes.

The shipping of the Song Dynasty is now very developed, and ten naval gunboats have been built in front and behind; six are still parked in Qinzhou Port, Guangnan, and the remaining four are under the Dengzhou Navy;

These four gunboats will escort the supply fleet from Dengzhou, cross the Bohai Sea, enter the Liaodong Bay, and then go upstream from the Liao River to the near Liaoyang City.

In this way, Yang Yi's tens of thousands of troops were no longer a sourceless water, but instead became a wonderful game of chess, facing Shangjing City from the east, which was a serious threat. It was a fallen son and the whole thing was alive.

The Liaohe Plain is one of the richest areas in the Liao Kingdom. It has extremely developed farming, hundreds of thousands of border households and thousands of farming and reclamation. It has always been the main granary in the northern part of the Liao Kingdom. The density of prefectures, counties and villages is even greater than that of Nanjing Road.

The main people living in Bohai and Han people, as well as many Khitan, Goryeo and Jurchen people.

Yang Yi's army came too quickly and too suddenly. The people of the villages outside the city had no time to hide. Yang Yi was not polite and immediately asked Yelu Mingwo to raise food and grass.

Hehe, I am helping you recover lost land. At least this is still the land of your Liao Kingdom. If you don’t raise food and grass, who will go? As the host, we can’t help you fight on hungry, right?

When the eldest princess of Yue heard that Yang Yi had let Yelu Mingwo do all the offending things, she couldn't help but come to him to argue. Yang Yi answered her lightly: "Terry, can you still want to rule Liaodong in the future?"

Just this sentence choked the eldest princess of Yue Kingdom. No, Yang Yi agreed to let them establish a country in Mobei, not Liaodong. In other words, no matter now or in the future, this land and the people here will no longer belong to her. If the Liao army goes to grab some food and grass, why are you anxious?

Yelu Mingwo went to raise food and grass. Yang Yi didn't need to worry too much. What he had to do now was to capture Liaoyang City as soon as possible and wipe out the surrounding prefectures and counties.

However, the army was running thousands of miles away, which was so tired that Yang Yi had to take the lead and camp for half a day to rest, and at the same time he used this time to build siege equipment.

The defenders in the city stayed at Wanyan Sahan for Tokyo. There were originally 25,000 troops in the city. After sending 5,000 reinforcements to Jinzhou, there are now 20,000 people left. Wanyan Sahan looked down from the top of the city and saw that Yang Yi was strong and strong, he couldn't help but be worried.

Wanyan Sahan’s worries mainly come from the situation in the city;

The population of Liaoyang City is close to 300,000, mainly Bohai people and Han people; two months ago, Yelu Yanxi was defeated in Hulunbuir Grassland, and Gao Yongchang, a native of Bohai, immediately joined forces with the Han people to uprising in Liaoyang Prefecture, Tokyo, proclaiming himself the Emperor of the Bohai Sea and changing the reign to Longji.

In fact, the Great Jin Kingdom did not seize Liaoyang City from the hands of the Liao Kingdom, but from the Bohai people and the Han people;

Although Gao Yongchang was defeated during the eastern expedition of Wanyan Loushi, the pattern in the city dominated by the Bohai people and the Han people did not change. Moreover, the suppression of Wanyan Loushi further intensified the conflict between the Jurchens and the Bohai people and the Han people.

Now Gao Yongchang is missing, and no one knows when he will come out to make trouble again.

This added unpredictable variables to the defense of Liaoyang City.

In the final analysis, it is because the Jin Dynasty was first established, the country's destiny was not stable, and people's hearts were not attached to it.

The key to Yang Yi's rush to Liaoyang Prefecture is the word "Quick", so he would never be as sprinting as he did in Dading Prefecture. After the camp was trapped and the soldiers were resting for a long time, he immediately ordered the city to attack overnight.

Liaoyang City led the Daliang River as a moat, and the Daliang River was also called the Prince River. During the Warring States Period, Prince Dan of Yan sent Jing Ke to assassinate the King of Qin to fail. The following year, the Qin army captured the Jidu of Yan (Youzhou), and King Xi of Yan and Prince Dan led their troops to retreat to Liaoyang.

Prince Dan hid in Yanshui. King Yan liked to listen to the plan of Zhao State on behalf of Wang Jia and killed Prince Dan to offer his head to King Qin. In order to remember Prince Dan, the locals rushed to Yanshui, which is the Daliang River, which is called Prince River.

If Yang Yi's army wants to attack Liaoyang City, he must first fill the moat with a passage for siege. He now has a total of 38,000 troops, and on the surface he adopts the method of siege of three quarries and one siege, and 10,000 siege troops were arranged on the east, south and west sides.

Countless torches rose above and below the city, as bright as daylight. Amid the earth-shaking war drums, tens of thousands of troops held shields and sandbags on their backs, rushing towards the moat;

The Jin army arrows on the city were like rain, hitting the Song army's shields with crackling sounds. Wanyan Sahan actually set up a trencher. The huge stones were thrown into the air by the trencher and roared down, making a dull "puffy" sound. You could feel the vibration of the ground from afar. The corpses of the soldiers who were hit were gone, and the death was extremely tragic.

Yang Yi arranged two hundred flintlock gunmen under the three walls. They spread out beyond the range of arrows on the city and kept firing. The gunshots of "chirp!" came one after another. The Jin army, who poked out their bodies from the battlements to shoot arrows, were splashed with blood and flesh on the top of the city.

The city walls on the east, south and west are fighting fiercely, with great momentum, while the city wall on the north side is quiet, and the water flows around the north side of the city is gurgling.

The Jin army had limited troops in the city, and most of them were divided into the three walls. Only a small number of troops were left in the north city to defend, and rows of torches were lit on the city to prevent the Song army from attacking.

Li Yizhong, with five hundred men, sailed down the Daliang River, and quietly approached Anyuanmen in the hazy night.

Although the offensives on the other three sides are huge, they are actually cover and restraint. In fact, Anyuan Sect is the breakthrough point chosen by Yang Yi.

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Chapter completed!