Chapter 1078

Moreover, due to the powerful crossbows on these Song Dynasty warships, the Liao army, which should have been besieging Sanchakou Fort on three sides, had to leave the city wall section close to the river bank far away.

Tens of thousands of elite Liao troops could only concentrate their troops in the direction of the city wall to the north of Sanchakou. As for the city walls on both sides of the east and west, they were within the protection range of the crossbows on those warships.

This thing cannot be protected by iron armor. The arrow body that is nearly an inch thick and thin, and the arrow head that is almost the size of a spear tip are often shot out with a crossbow, and can penetrate several people one after another like a kebab.

It was like Yelu Dadun wanted to strangle fate's throat, but he was caught by a fucking back. A suffocation that was difficult to breathe made him unable to speak for a long time.

This made Yelu Dadun climb the observation tower every day and saw the stone bullets flying out of Sanchakou Fort from time to time, and even further away, the scenes of the naval warships of the Song Kingdom showing off their power on the Wuding River. He always had the urge to suck himself in one ear.

If I had known this, I would not have been too confident because I had captured Sanchakou Fort, but should have attacked Wanjingkou Fort.

At least there is no navy in Wanjingkou Fort to cover the flanks. But the problem is that they have already been killed and killed at these three forks. Finally, the main general said that we have hit the wrong place and continue with a different territory.

If you do this, you will inevitably have a severe blow to your morale and will also greatly damage your prestige. So now, Yelu Dadun is really hard to get on the verge of death.

"Master, the spy we sent to Youzhou has returned." Just as Yelu Dadun was standing on the tower and thinking a lot, a general hurriedly climbed the tower and whispered in his ear.

Yelu Dadun didn't care about being sad about spring and autumn anymore, but quickly got down the tower. After a short while, the spy came to Yelu Dadun and fell to the ground. "Master, Ye Bo won the general and the others, they have already died for their country..."

Yelu Dadun's face turned dark. "Who else?"

"The general was killed by Wang Yang, Song Gou, and more than 120 brave soldiers were all killed." The spy replied with a look of sorrow and anger.

"All dead?...Wang Yang, you guy! You don't take me seriously. OK!" Yelu Dadun was so angry that the Three Corpse Gods furious and turned his head to look towards Sanchakou, but Sanchakou still stood firm, and there was no sign of being captured by the Liao army.

"It was him who forced me to be the general, General Xiao..." Yelu Dadun took a deep breath, turned his head, glanced at him, and finally fell on Xiao Zhongwen.

"The last one will be here." Xiao Zhongwen quickly stepped out and replied.

"Sanchakou Fort, the terrain is easy to defend but difficult to attack, but now, the main force of the Song army must be attracted by me. At this time, the Wanjingkou Fort in the north must be empty. Therefore, I will give you 30,000 troops, so you must take Wanjingkou, otherwise, come and see you."

Facing his resentful boss, no matter how reluctant Xiao Zhongwen felt, he could only harden his scalp and obey his orders.

"My generals, I believe you have already known that General Ye Bosheng and his more than 100 soldiers were unfortunately sacrificed their lives for the country. Those dog thieves in the Song Dynasty made arbitrarily quarrels in the border areas to break up my Anding Fort, plunder my soldiers, and refer to them as horse bandits..."

"How can I bear such a shame?! I ordered all the soldiers of the army to capture the Sanchakou and not seal the sword for three days!" Yelu Dadun pulled out the sword on his waist, raised it high, and shouted sternly.

"Capture the three-chakou and do not seal the sword for three days!" All the Liao soldiers present were unsheathed, pointing straight to the sky, and shouting fiercely.

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"General, today's Liao army's offensive is much more fierce than the previous two days." The guard of Sanchakou Fort wiped the blood on his face and gasped heavily, and came to Zhe Keshi to report.

"I'm not blind, I can tell. It seems that these Liao dogs have already made a real fire, but so what?" Zhe Keshi stood there, calmly, and his eyes fell on the Liao army soldiers running towards Sanchakou Fort in the distance.

"Tell brothers, don't be afraid and hold on. With these little dogs, you can't get our Sanchakou Fort. What everyone has to do is to hold on and create time and opportunities for the generals."

"General Zhong, is it General Zhong Shidao?" Another general beside Zhe Keshi asked curiously.

"That's right, it's that old boy, Zhong Shidao. He's lucky. Alas... I had known that today would have been, so I should have gone to the defense of Yin, Shi, and Long..." Zhe Keshi groaned unhappily and looked towards the east.

I don’t know what that guy Zhong Shidao is doing now. I think it’s either on the ferry or on the north bank of Wuding River.

He was really not wrong. At this moment, Master Zhong stood on a transport ship with a helmet and armor, his eyes crossed the surging Wuding River. Nearly 10,000 people had crossed the river bank in front of him. At this moment, they were lined up by the river bank.

Behind the Zhong Shidao, there were more than twenty ferries, each carrying one hundred and fifty fully armed elite Song squads.

Every two hours, five thousand soldiers can cross the Wuding River. In other words, in just one day, they can send all the 50,000 elite soldiers under their command to the north bank of Wuding River.

Yesterday morning, I received a warrant from Zhengluo Wang. I was really shocked by Master Zhong at that time. Didn’t it be said that the Liao and Song dynasties are now in peace?

He actually wanted to lead his army to cross the river and attack Xiazhou. After asking the messenger, he realized that it was the Liao army who started the battle first and was already attacking Sanchakou Fort.

Zhong Shidao immediately ordered to concentrate the army and collect ferries. From early morning today, 20,000 troops who arrived at the Shizhou Ferry had already begun to cross the river.

With the cover of the navy, it is naturally not difficult to cross the Wuding River. Yelu Dadun had already led the main force of the Liao army in Hedong Road toward the Sanchakou Fort.

The city defense of Xiazhou naturally became empty, with less than 10,000 defenders. In the eyes of Zhong Shidao, this approach seemed to be a tough bone that was originally difficult to crack and was smashed, revealing the delicious and attractive bone marrow inside.

After Zhong Shidao landed, he carefully asked the generals who had led the army first and confirmed that a large number of reconnaissance cavalry had been spread out and had not encountered the reconnaissance cavalry of the Liao Kingdom. Then he breathed a sigh of relief.

Zhong Shidao's eyes swept over the gathered generals and asked about the situation. At present, there are 15,000 soldiers who have crossed the river, including 3,000 cavalry, and the rest are infantry.

"Well, the Liao people have not yet found out that we are coming, which is a good thing. General Ning, have you done what you have told you to do before?"

"General, it's done, but Xiazhou is more than an hour away from us getting ashore. I'm afraid we have to wait for a while before we can get back." General Ning answered quickly.

"Okay, let the soldiers who have crossed the river check their respective equipment and rest on the spot, and do not make fires and make meals, so as not to make people feel unconscious..."
Chapter completed!