A certain person is the Heavenly Killer Li Gui.

Chapter 283: Jurchens are less than , so they are bombarded with artillery.

But it is said that in the land of white mountains and black waters, there is a sturdy tribe named Jurchen. The tribes revolted because they could not bear the oppression of the Liao Kingdom.

The Liao Kingdom sent a large army to suppress it. However, like the Song Dynasty, the Liao Kingdom had been without war for a hundred years, and its army had long been in decay. The 70-strong army was defeated by the Jurchen daredevils. They were driven away hundreds of miles away, just like expelling lambs, leaving behind dead and injured people. .

After the Jurchens defeated the Liao army, they saw the strength of the Liao army, so they formed the Jin Kingdom, with the Wanyan family as the royal family, and went south to plunder.

Although the Liao Kingdom was large, it was like a fat pig, weak and incompetent. Facing nascent tigers like the Jurchens, it had no power to resist. It suffered repeated defeats. The huge Huanglong Mansion was occupied by the Jin people.

The Wanyan clan was not greedy, and stopped at Huanglong Mansion to patiently digest the fruits of victory.

In the second year of Zhenghe in the Song Dynasty and the tenth year of Tianqing in the Liao Dynasty, the Jurchen rode south again. In less than half a day, he captured the Liao capital city and went to Linhuang Mansion in Beijing.

The Liao army guard led his troops to surrender, and Yelu Yanxi, the leader of the Liao Kingdom, fled to Xijing.

It happened that Yelu Dezhong, the commander-in-chief of the Liao Kingdom, led his army back from the Song Dynasty to clear grass valleys. He hurriedly went to Datong Mansion in Xijing to see his Majesty. He presented the military weapons plundered from the Song Dynasty to the Liao Emperor and elaborated on the horrors of artillery.

Yelu Yanxi had panicked for a long time. When he saw such magical objects, he immediately grasped them as the last life-saving straw. He allocated a large amount of gold, silver and craftsmen, leaving Yelu to go back to casting cannons every day. He hid in the palace drinking and having fun, like an ostrich doing nothing.

Now that the country is about to be destroyed, everyone is panicking, and they don't believe that this thing brought back from the Song Dynasty can turn the tide.

If the Song Dynasty had this ability, how could it be possible for them to live in peace and harmony for so many years?

Yelu Dezhong and his party had witnessed the power of this artillery with their own eyes in Song Dynasty, so they were full of confidence in the power of this artillery.

The land of Daliao is vast. Although it is sparsely populated, it is rich in minerals, but there is little development.

Now that Yelv Dezhong has obtained the will of Emperor Liao, he only needs to say one word, and someone will prepare everything.

With these existing craftsmen and finished artillery pieces, after several months, the Liao Kingdom finally cast its own artillery.

Yelu was so happy that he immediately rewarded all the craftsmen, organized studies, and concentrated on cannon casting.

After collecting three hundred artillery pieces, Yelu Dezhong gathered the chariots and horses and transported the artillery pieces to Dading Mansion in Zhongjing, preparing to resist the Jin army and turn the tide.

At that time, Liaoyang Prefecture had been lost. Yeluyu, the commander of the Liao capital, saw the gold coming, and the Jin army pressed on Zhongjing.

The defenders in Zhongjing had no fighting spirit. Before the Jin army arrived, they burned and stored food in preparation for the people to flee.

When Yelu was seriously injured, he ordered his subordinates to take over the city defense, improve military discipline, and prepare for war.

When Wanyan Aguda led his army to the foot of Zhongjing City, which was still several miles away from the towering city wall, he heard the sound of thunder exploding in the air, and then saw countless black flying bird-like things. The distant city wall flew over, and the dense black mass blocked the sunlight and smashed head-on against the large army of the Jin Army.

Instead, a round stone hit him.

It was only then that Wanyan Aguda was shocked to see clearly that those black shadows were not birds, but round, extremely heavy stones. As if violating the laws of nature, they had somehow crossed such a long distance from the top of the city wall. , crashing down to the ground with thunderous force.

As soon as those stone bullets hit the ground, they plowed deep pits on the ground in an instant, and then rebounded violently and rolled around on the ground. No matter where they went, people and horses would die if they touched them, and they would be injured if they were rubbed.

The Jin army had never seen such a hot weapon before, so they knew how to defend against it. The dense formation was just right for the artillery to unleash its power.

As soon as this shell rolled in the military formation, it was a path of flesh and blood, taking away dozens of lives.

Even the cavalrymen who were not directly hit were affected by the impact. They were thrown off their backs, sand and stones flew around, and there was chaos.

There were 300 such shells at one time, rolling around each other and smashing the army to pieces in an instant.

Although the total strength of the Jin army is tens of thousands, and there are more than 100,000 servants, these casualties are simply a drop in the bucket for them, but what people fear most is the unknown.

This attack from the sky was so sudden that it was hard to guard against. Coupled with the loud thunder-like sound from the direction of Zhongjing City, it was enough to scare everyone.

Even when Wanyan Agu beat himself, he was still frightened and did not dare to go up rashly again.

He looked around in panic, and saw the wounded war horse falling to the ground, roaring in pain, its huge body torn apart by the violent impact, its internal organs and broken bones mixed with blood flying everywhere, it was extremely tragic.

The Jurchen warriors who once killed seven in and seven out of the Liao army's formation had no room to resist at this time. Some were crushed under them by broken horse corpses, and some were directly hit by stone bullets. , the bones were broken, the flesh and blood were blurred, and even the human form was gone.

As far as the naked eye can see, there are twisted and deformed human and horse corpses everywhere.

What was heard in the ears were all kinds of shrill cries before death.

Even Wanyan Aguda has been in battle for a long time and has seen countless scenes of flesh and blood fighting. Seeing this scene now, he still feels unspeakable fear in his heart.

If this attack falls on my head, with my martial arts skills, can I survive it?

He knew the answer without asking, which made him even more terrified.

He shouted loudly, gathered all the Jurchen warriors together, and retreated in another direction to avoid being trampled by the fleeing army and causing casualties.

An army of more than 100,000 people surged up like a rising tide, and collapsed like an ebbing tide.

Along the way, these defeated armies trampled on each other, and the number of people who died had already exceeded those killed by artillery shells.

Although no Liao army came out of the city to pursue, the cautious Wanyan Aguda still withdrew a hundred miles away before beginning to gather the defeated army.

When they were counted again, they found that the total number of soldiers who were damaged, injured, and escaped had exceeded 20,000.

He asked everyone to appease the armies separately, and then summoned the surrendered general Yelu Yu to see him and asked:

"Do you know what kind of attack it was during the day?"

Yelu Yujian was also confused!

He has never seen that thing before!

He murmured for a long time before hesitatingly said:

"I have never seen anything like this before. The stones flying towards me look a bit like a trebuchet, but a trebuchet cannot throw it so far!"

"Perhaps...it's some secret treasure passed down by the royal family!"

Wanyan Aguda then found some surrendered scholars and generals to ask, but no one knew what they were.

When he saw that the Liao army never came to pursue or use the weapon to fight, he knew that the weapon was weak, so he held the camp tightly and stopped attacking. Instead, he asked people to find ways to find out the details of the weapon.

But this thing was originally brought back by Yelv Dezhong from the Song Dynasty. Everyone he knew in the Liao Kingdom was over there in Xijing. People in Zhongjing knew little about it. Most people who had come into contact with artillery regarded this thing as Treating it as a treasure used by gods, it screamed so loudly that no one else knew about it.

Seeing that there was no harvest, Wanyan Aguda ordered all the troops to arrest the people in the surrounding area and attack the city.

Those vassal troops who surrendered to the Jin army were not good at fighting, but they were good at bullying the good. They did not care whether the people here were fellow villagers of their own clan, so they brandished their swords and guns and drove away groups of people.

Among these people, there are men in their prime, gray-haired old people, defenseless women and children, and even young people who have not yet shed their childishness. But to the Jin people, these are the enemy's property, and they will die with them. He doesn't matter.

In fear and despair, this group of innocent people were driven to the front of the team, paving a way out for the Jin army behind them.

Sure enough, with these people exploring the road, the Jin army successfully passed the location where it was attacked before.

However, what Wanyan Aguda didn't expect was that when the people passed by, they were fine, but when the Jin army walked there, the artillery immediately started firing again.

This artillery's attack is from the sky, rather than shooting flatly, so conventional defense methods against weapons such as bows, arrows, knives and guns will not work here.

When the overwhelming rocks flew up again, Wanyan Agu roared like crazy.

"retreat!"

"Quick retreat!"

The soldiers who had already suffered a loss had already turned around and ran away before he issued an order.

The cannon fodder who had no soldiers to drive them away were grateful that they had survived, fell to the ground, and burst into tears.

Because of the experience of the last time, the Jin army lost fewer people this time, only a few thousand, but the number of servants who escaped was more, more than ten thousand.

Wanyan Aguda looked at the morale of the servant armies, which had hit rock bottom, and knew that these servant armies were no longer needed, and future battles could only be fought by the Jurchens themselves.

"Pooh!"

"A bunch of trash!"

He spit hard, looked around fiercely, and suppressed the words of everyone who wanted to persuade him to retreat.

"Since I raised my army, I, the Jurchen, have never been afraid of the enemy!"

"Then the Emperor of Daliao brought 70 troops, but was he killed by of us?"

"So what if Zhongjing has some powerful weapons? Are we afraid?"

Everyone shouted in unison: "My Jurchen warriors are never afraid!"

"Very good!" Wanyan Aguda nodded with satisfaction.

"This is my true hero!"

"Then the Liao Kingdom and our Jin Kingdom have a life-and-death feud. There must only be one of them, and they must be destroyed!"

"If you can't destroy it this time, just try again next time. But you must figure out what the weapon is and what its weaknesses are so that you can deal with it in the future."

"We will try again tomorrow. This time we don't need a large team to come forward. I will personally lead a thousand people to test it."

"If I die in the battle, then Wu Qimai will succeed me. If Wu Qimai dies, he will be succeeded in turn!"

Everyone wanted to go on his behalf, but Wanyan Aguda just refused.

"What exactly is that weapon? I need to see clearly for myself before I can feel at ease."

Seeing that he insisted on his own opinion, everyone had no choice but to leave it to him. After receiving the order, they went to prepare themselves.

On the next day, Wanyan Aguda left the large army behind and led more than a thousand cavalry to disperse and march towards Zhongjing City in a loose formation.

The cavalry soon reached the position where they had been beaten before, and sure enough, there were loud noises again, and stone bullets flew in overwhelmingly.

Everyone lay on their horses, raised their heads, looked at the direction of the impact points of the stone bullets, turned their horses, and tried to escape.

But the speed of the stone bullet was so fast that there was no time to turn. It quickly hit the ground and rolled everywhere, involving people along the way and crushing them into a bloody mess.

However, without the dense formation, the damage of the stone bullets was reduced to a minimum.

Three hundred stone bullets fell, but the damage caused was less than thirty people.

"do not stop!"

"Keep moving forward!"

Wanyan Agu's heart was bleeding, but he still shouted loudly, urging everyone to continue charging.

Except for those who were injured and fell off their horses, everyone else gritted their teeth and followed closely behind their leader, rushing forward while nervously staring into the distance, preparing for the next round of bombardment.

But to their surprise, even after waiting for a long time, they did not wait for the second round of shelling.

It wasn't until we were nearly halfway through the distance that the second round of shelling came.

Because they were closer, the attack was much more lethal, taking away dozens of lives, but most of them missed.

But Wanyan Aguda instead laughed loudly and shouted:

"This thing can only bombard large armies, but it is not effective against a small number of cavalry!"

"This thing is very slow to reload, don't give them another chance!"

Everyone's morale was greatly boosted, and they responded with a bang, whipped the horses hard, and rode forward without hesitation.

Sure enough, when the third round of shelling came again, they had already rushed to the front of the city.

This time they finally saw it clearly. On top of the Zhongjing city wall, there was a black iron pipe placed every few steps. The hollow muzzles were pointed at them, and they were densely lined up on the entire city wall.

Behind the iron pipe stood a soldier on each side, loading stone bullets.

After the soldiers finished loading, someone waved a flag and gave an order, then they lit a fire and covered their ears and squatted down.

There was another familiar roaring sound, and the stone bullets flew out from the muzzle, and another wave of blood and flesh was stirred up among the cavalry.

Wanyan Agu bent his bow and set an arrow, and shot the man waving the flag to death with one arrow, and then walked away.

This group of people are all cavalry and are fast. The purpose is to test the strength of this weapon. Now that the purpose has been achieved, they naturally want to go back.

But when they heard the sound of drums on the city tower, Yelu Dezhong led his men to fight out of the city and chased Wanyan Aguda and the others.

The reason why Yelv Dezhong didn't pursue him before was simply because the distance was too far.

The artillery had a range of several miles, and by the time the soldiers under his command ran there, no trace of the enemy troops was seen.

Now that Wanyan Aguda was in danger alone, with only a few hundred cavalry under his command, it was a great opportunity to wipe him out.

What Wanyan Aguda was afraid of was the artillery on the city wall, but he was not afraid of the Liao army at all. Seeing that Yelu Dezhong dared to come out to pursue him, he actually did not escape. Instead, he led his men to dismount and line up, turn around and fight back.

This Jurchen is not a nomadic people, but a fishing and hunting people, with average riding skills.

To the Jurchens, horses were nothing more than means of transportation.

When it came time to actually fight, the Jurchens dismounted and fought on foot.

There was a huge disparity in numbers between the two sides, with cavalry on one side and infantry on the other, which should have been overwhelming. However, at this time, the Liao army's combat power had long lost its courage. Instead of destroying the enemy, it was pushed back.

Wanyan Aguda waved the iron bone flower and struck directly at Yelu De in the center.

Yelu Dezhong was not afraid of him. He waved his spear and the flowers of the spear covered him.

As soon as the two of them fought against each other, they knew that the enemy would be very brave and could not be defeated in a short time.

The two sides fought for more than ten consecutive rounds, with neither victory nor defeat, but the Liao army could not hold on any longer. Yelu was so helpless that he had to sigh, order Ming Jin to withdraw his troops, and watched Wanyan Aguda and others calmly retreat.

Wanyan Aguda brought everyone back to the camp and explained in detail what they had seen and observed. Everyone was a little relieved, but they still couldn't find a way to solve the problem.

The cavalry can quickly pass through the artillery firing area, but the cavalry does not have siege equipment and cannot break the city.

Infantry can carry large siege equipment, but their speed is too slow and their morale is low. They will be destroyed by artillery midway.

After the discussions were fruitless, Wanyan Aguda had no choice but to announce his temporary withdrawal and come back later after finding a way.

The Jin army retreated, and Zhongjing was saved!

This news immediately cheered up the whole Liao Kingdom, and Yelu's great reputation spread to all directions.

Yelu Dezhong wanted to seize the opportunity to reorganize his armaments and regain the lost territory. Unexpectedly, Yelu Yanxi was also a weakling. He was scared by the Jin army once. Now he was timid and did not dare to fight again. Instead, he wanted to negotiate with the Jin army. That matter of ceding territory for peace.

But it was said that Wanyan Aguda died of illness on the way back, and the throne of the Jin Kingdom was succeeded by his younger brother Wanyan Wu Qimai.

When the power was handed over, Wanyan Wu did not want to cause trouble, so he agreed to the agreement, but asked for the artillery as compensation.

"Your Majesty, no!"

"The power of this artillery is infinite. Our army in Daliao is weak now. If we don't have artillery to suppress the Jin Kingdom, we may only be in danger of destroying the country!"

"We must not let the Kingdom of Jin get the secret of this artillery!"

But Yelu Yanxi laughed disapprovingly and said:

"There are hundreds of artillery pieces in our country, so what can we do if we just send one or two to him?"

"The craftsmen who make cannons are all in our country. The Jin Kingdom are all barbarians. Who knows how to make cannons? It won't matter if you give them a few!"

"My dear brother, don't be alarmist. The Song Kingdom also had so many artillery pieces, and they never saw the Liao Kingdom fall!"

When Yelu got serious, he advised:

"Your Majesty does not know that there is a big thief in the Song Dynasty, named Li Gui, the Heavenly Killer. Now he has occupied the land in Shandong and has become a serious problem for the Song Dynasty."

"The Song Kingdom has no time to care about the affairs of the Liao Kingdom. Otherwise, how could the Liao Kingdom be as leisurely as it is now?"

Yelu Yanxi's eyes lit up after hearing this.

"Since this man occupies such a large territory in Shandong, he obviously has considerable strength. We might as well take him as a helping hand and let him continue to cause trouble in the Song Dynasty. When the Song Dynasty is in chaos, I, the Liao Dynasty, can march south and dominate the world. "

The sycophant minister next to him said flatteringly:

"Since Your Majesty is determined to unite with the Liang Dynasty and destroy the Song Dynasty, you might as well recruit Li Gui as your consort. After you unify the country in the future, you can just entrust him with the feudal lords."

After Yelu Yanxi heard this, she was really pleased with her appearance and sent out a decree to choose one of the royal ladies with outstanding appearance and conduct to make the marriage.

Coincidentally, after Wanyan Wu Qimai became the emperor, he also felt that the artillery was too difficult. He felt that with the power of the Jin Kingdom, he might not be able to destroy the Liao Kingdom, so he started to think about finding help for his family.

It happened that a man named Ma Zhi, a member of the great clan of the Yan land, wanted to make some great achievements, so he recommended himself and came to the door, offering a strategy of "succeeding the Song Dynasty to destroy the Liao Dynasty".

Wanyan Wu Qimai Dang even summoned Ma Zhi. After listening to his explanation in detail, he was overjoyed and promoted him to Guanglu Qing. As an envoy, he detoured to the Song Dynasty to contact the Song Dynasty court and agreed that if After the Liao Dynasty was destroyed, all the sixteen states of Yanyun were returned to the Song Dynasty, while the rest of the Liao lands were all owned by the Jin Kingdom.

　Yelu De here follows the template of Yelu Dashi.

　　

　

(End of this chapter)