Chapter 1088 An hour and a half, eight Yuanyou trebuchets?
Chapter 1088
At this time, a few days ago, I went to find the Liao envoy, but the Minister of Rites, who was furious by the three corpse gods, finally jumped out at this time, and the tunnel was neither yin nor yang.
"I don't know what Liao sent you to say for a long time. Why don't you tell me directly? Don't worry, you are an envoy of the Liao Kingdom. The emperor of the Song Dynasty has the elegance of accepting all rivers, so he will definitely not be guilty of speaking."
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, he can retaliate against the envoy of the Liao Kingdom, so the Minister of Rites of the Song Dynasty is still very happy to take action personally.
Xiao Yan coldly glanced at the Minister of Rites, who was filled with gloating and bowed directly to the emperor. "Since your Song State has already launched troops to invade my Great Liao, the envoy has nothing to say, but the envoy will definitely bring the words of the Emperor Song Dynasty to me."
"It's natural. Please tell the Emperor Liao that if your country is unreasonable and insists on doing things recklessly, then don't blame me, the Song Dynasty to tear down the peace agreement to seek justice." Emperor Zhao Xu looked at the envoy of the Liao Kingdom coldly and said loudly.
This sentence also represents the Song Dynasty, officially declaring war on the Liao Kingdom. As soon as this statement was made, the Liao envoy's face changed again.
After respectfully bowing to the Emperor of Song Dynasty, Xiao Yan withdrew from the court, stood on the steps, turned his head, looked at the towering hall of Song Dynasty, then lifted up his front with a gloomy face and quickly walked out of the palace.
He had to return to the inn as quickly as possible, and then write to the Emperor of the Liao Dynasty to report the news about Hedong Road, as well as the reactions of the Emperor of the Song Dynasty and his court officials.
In order to allow the emperor to make a correct judgment. As for Yelu Dadun, the general manager of the Daliao River East Road who sent troops to attack Song without authorization, he would definitely be scolded.
After all, as the chief official in charge of the Great Liao Dynasty, such actions seem a bit reckless. Moreover, the strength of the Song State is becoming increasingly strong. At this time, it is very unwise to start another war with the Song State.
However, these are all Xiao Yan's own considerations. As for what the Emperor of the Great Liao Dynasty would think, it is not something that his little envoy could control.
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Three days later, when the palace meeting was about to end, another eight hundred miles of urgent reports came again. After the emperor got it, his eyes suddenly widened.
He seemed to be a little unbelievable and raised his hand and rubbed his eyes again. After confirming twice, he developed a breath of vigor and looked at it with a smile.
"Dear friends, good news has been heard from Shaanxi North Road. Do you know what it is?"
All the ministers looked at each other, but soon someone took the initiative to stand out. "Your Majesty, could it be that the Liao army could not break the Sanchakou Fort, and he also heard that more than 100 Liao troops had been killed, and it would be a useless move to attack, so he evacuated my Song realm?"
"Sorry, you were wrong in Deng Qing's guess. After the Liao army attacked Sanchakou Fort, Wang Jingluo ordered to use such a teacher to cross the river to attack Xiazhou. Within half a day, Xiazhou had been seized."
"...Half a day?! Your Majesty, are you saying that Master Zhong attacked Xiazhou within half a day?" Then, the civil and military officials in the court were in an instant.
How is that possible? This is too unscientific. The civil and military officials in the court naturally had long been in the army, so they naturally knew that it was not easy to attack the city. Even if it was an ordinary fortress in a border town, it would take some time to attack at least five times the strength of the troops.
What's more, a strong city like Xiazhou has no internal support and no foreign aid. How could he take down Xiazhou, the capital of the Hedong Road of Liao Kingdom, just by relying on his tens of thousands of troops under his command? This is really unimaginable.
"This is my own. How dare other masters use such news to deceive me? This is a crime of deceiving the king. Haha... It seems that all the Qing families don't believe it. In fact, if I hadn't read the memorial, I wouldn't believe it."
After talking about this, the emperor suddenly sighed and said with emotion. "To be honest, it's because of Wang Wushan..."
"???" The faces of most civil and military people in the court turned black, and they were pitch black. Their eyes were staring straight at the sky, thinking that this was the relationship between the half-copper of Wang Wushan, who was far away in Youzhou?
"Your Majesty, you're afraid that's something. General Zhong is a talented general among my great Song military officials. He was able to become the defense envoy of Yin, Shi and Long, the north road of Shaanxi in the Song Dynasty. This is because His Majesty's wise and talented.
And his master's ability to seize Xiazhou with half a day must be thankful to Your Majesty and the soldiers who used their lives to achieve such a refreshing victory. What does it have to do with that King?"
The emperor looked at the excited minister, narrowed his eyes, and then said with a smile: "Your family knows that Zhong Qing led his army to attack Xiazhou from the military order of Wang Wushan... You don't need to rush to refute it, and that Zhong Qing also wrote it very clearly in the good news."
"Wang Wushan ordered him to cross the river to attack Xiazhou, and ordered him to carry all the eight Yuanyou stone throwing machines in Shizhou. As a result, it was precisely because of the eight Yuanyou stone throwing machines that only took an hour and a half to destroy the southern gate of Xiazhou, the capital of the East Hedong Road of Liao Kingdom, and the city wall that was more than ten feet wide."
"And, more than ten Liao generals, including Yelu Yongping, the governor of Xiazhou, were destroyed under the stone bullets of the Yuanyou stone throwing machine..."
When the emperor said this, all the civil and military officials in the court could not help but look shocked.
"One and a half hours, eight Yuanyou stone throwing machines? This, this..."
"Dear your family, Master Zhong conquered Xiazhou, and no one of our great Song Hu Ben died on the battlefield. This battle is an unprecedented record for our great Song."
The stone thrower, Yuanyou stone thrower, is said to be a siege machine invented by Wang Yang, who was attacking the ancient city of Wuyan and could not capture it for a long time.
Before, I was very good at hype, but when it fell into the eyes of the important officials in the court, it was just a mere fortress. No matter how powerful it was, could it be better than the Song Dynasty's crossbow?
There were even many ministers who thought it should be the weapons that Wang Yang and other Shaanxi civil and military officials specially praised themselves in order to boast about their achievements.
After that, in the offensive and defensive battle in Youzhou, this Yuanyou stone throwing machine was even more amazing, but it still could not attract the attention of the civil and military officials of the court.
He even complained about military weapons supervision over the past year, spending a lot of taxes to create new weapons.
And today, there was such a result. The Batai Yuanyou stone throwing machine took only one and a half hours to destroy the Xiazhou section, making the Song Dynasty's northern Shaanxi roadside army easily win, and then everyone was speechless.
Chapter completed!