Outside Wuqing City, a fast horse and arrow arrived in front of Yelu Hongji and others, and suddenly stood up. The horse's knight turned over and dismounted and said to Yelu Hongji: "Your Majesty, the army of Guni and Dielid in the south have been defeated and have retreated across the border river."

Yelu Hongji seemed to have not heard it, just watching the war ahead.

Yelu Xiantong coughed and said to the knight: "The Lord asked Gu Ni to stick to the boundary river and not retreat. Why are they so ineffective?"

The knight said: "The little one heard the news that the Song army had 200,000 people, and their offensive was unstoppable. Gu Ni and Dieli could not hold on, so they could only retreat. Now twenty miles north of the Border River, wait for the orders."

Yelu Xiantong said: "How many people are left in the two armies? It is really useless to hide more than 100,000 troops in Guhuo."

The knight said: "There are about 80,000 people in both armies."

After hearing this, Yelu Xiantong waved his hand and asked the knights to leave. He bowed to Yelu Hongji: "Your Majesty, the Song army is surrounded, and now it is a critical time. There are still 80,000 people in Guni, so you must not give up. Let him retreat, let us join forces and deal with the Song army again."

Yelu Hongji said calmly: "Let the army come back. After coming back, he will be killed! With his defeat, the 200,000 Song army in the south will be forced over. How can we calmly attack the city?"

Yelu Xiantong said that, and ordered people to come and go and let Guni and Dielide lead their troops to retreat to the camp here.

Now Yelu Hongji is surrounded by about 200,000 elite Khitans and about 150,000 signing troops, with a total of about 350,000. In addition to the 80,000 brought back by Gu Ni, the total force is still over 400,000. In addition, the 50,000 Xi soldiers and horses who went north to rescue Xijin Prefecture, these 400,000 people are the total combat power of the Khitan. If this battle is defeated, the power of the Khitan will disappear.

Seeing the knights leaving, Yelu Xiantong sighed secretly. The situation in the Khitan is very critical now. If you cannot break Wuqing as soon as possible, you may all fall here. But looking at the front, there is no progress in the attack. 200,000 Song troops in the south are chasing Gu, Jia Kui from the north is about to arrive in Wuqing, and 50,000 soldiers and horses in Jingtai are approaching quickly.

After fighting for so long, the Khitans have already understood that the Song army has reached 100,000, and even if the Khitans use all their strength, it will be difficult to eliminate them. Once they are blocked by the Northern and Southern Song troops, the Xijin Prefecture in the north will be destroyed, and the situation will be lost. It is impossible to enter and there is no way back. What should I do?

With this situation, the morale of the Khitan army became increasingly dissipated. Yelu Hongji was just trying to keep an eye on his subordinates to attack the city every day. Those places he could not see were already in chaos.

At the city of Xijin Prefecture, Yelu Renxian looked at the continuous Song army camp outside the city. In a few days, the Song army had more and more artillery outside, and it was getting bigger and bigger, and it couldn't help but feel anxious. The Khitan had artillery at the city, but the range was not as good as the Song army and the power was not as powerful as the Song army, so he could not suppress the siege artillery at all. Every day when attacked by artillery, Yelu Renxian even had an illusion that the city wall under his feet was about to collapse.

At this moment, Han Yun, a Hanlin scholar beside him, said: "Look at where, the Song army has transported new cannons again! Oh, this cannon is so big!"

Yelu Ren looked up first and saw that each cannon was pulled by more than a dozen horses and slowly placed it in front of the city. After counting, there were as many as sixty or seventy.

"Are these cannons the real confidence of the Song army?" Han Yun couldn't help but shook his head. "The previous cannons could not bear it. If such cannons came, how could the city walls block it?"

Yelu Renxian didn't say anything, but just watched the Song army installing artillery outside the city, feeling indescribable. A few days ago, he received a letter from his brother Yelu Yixian. The letter said that the Khitan had no future and asked him to return to Song early and have a home in the future. But he was a Khitan royal family, how could he surrender at this time? Death from here in battle was also loyal to the country.

I remember many years ago, outside the Tanglong Town, the Khitan king Yelu Zongxu was killed by a round of cannons by the Song army because he was too close to the front line. Yelu Yi was the only survivor, lost his arm and left his life. Over the years, Yelu Yi was in the Song Dynasty first, but he was not a high-ranking official, and he always had a fortune. It was also at that time that Yelu Ren had voluntarily given up Hequ Road and saved the Shangjing Road for Yelu Hongji.

Unexpectedly, many years later, he saw such a powerful cannon again. Although Youzhou City is big, can it block such cannon? Yelu Renxian sighed secretly. He knew that it was probably impossible to stop it.

Liu Ji, Liu Jianji and Dou Shunqing stood outside the city, watching the soldiers installing artillery there. This was the largest heavy artillery, only available at the level of the army. Due to inconvenient transportation, the army finally transported it over after several days of siege of the city.

Dou Shunqing sighed: "I remember back then, when I followed Taiwei Du to save Tanglong Town, the Khitan king, and the Khitan king was besieged by a hundred thousand troops. As a result, because the general's tent was too close to us, the Taiwei ordered Yao Shouxin to arrange heavy artillery. A round of artillery fired, the Khitan king was killed, and dozens of ministers were buried with him. Many things now start from that battle. Speaking of which, it was a lot of years ago."

Liu Jianji said: "I have only seen two test shots of this heavy artillery, and its power is really amazing. I don't know if dozens of artillery can collapse the city walls of Youzhou. If it collapses, the war should be over. There are not many soldiers in Youzhou, and if you capture this place, it blocks the Khitan's way back."

Dou Shunqing said: "The power of this cannon is extremely amazing, it is not comparable to a small cannon. A cannon shell is more than twice that of an ordinary cannon. If it cannot be knocked down, we have to consider ants attacking the city."

Liu Ji said: "I asked Xie Tu, who was commanding the artillery. According to him, according to the artillery's own test, there is no problem with heavy artillery collapsed the city wall. But the Youzhou City may have to bomb a few more artillery. The left and right artillery has been transported, so we don't have to worry."

Liu Jianji said: "There are not many soldiers in Youzhou. Our 150,000 troops will come to attack, so it would be better to break the city earlier. Only Jia Kui and Jingtai are blocking the Khitan army in the south. I am afraid that they will not be able to stop it, so the Khitan soldiers will come to rescue it."

Liu Ji smiled and said, "It is really hard to say how much combat power the Khitans still have. Yesterday, Jia Kui met the Xi soldiers from the north of Khitan and defeated them in one battle. According to his estimate, the Xi people can be forced back within two or three days."

After hearing this, Dou Shunqing said, "Many years ago, Du Taiwei only brought 30,000 camps of Tianxiang Army to rescue Tanglong Town. How much military achievements have been made? At that time, the Khitan had just completed the conquest of Dangxiang, and hundreds of thousands of troops could not do anything to us. He also killed the Khitan king and a group of generals, forcing the Khitan army to voluntarily withdraw from Hequ Road and spread the land for thousands of miles. Now our hundreds of thousands of troops, how are the Khitans the opponent?"

Liu Ji said: "One time and another time, the hundreds of thousands of troops are not as well-trained as the Yingtianxiang Army back then. Even if Taiwei Du came to Hebei Road in person, he was still cautious and dared not be as good as he did back then."
Chapter completed!