It was already late at night, and a bright moon hung in the dark night sky and was covered with stars... This should have been a time to meet Zhou Gong in my dreams, but the lights in Bianliang City were still brightly lit.

On the edge of the Bian River, a group of people were unloading goods from a fleet to the shore. Not far away, Zhao Weiji and Kou Zhun were watching the artillery that were constantly moving to the shore.

"Prince? Is this what caused an explosion at the tail of the Khitan team during the day?" Seeing the pitch-black tube being continuously moved ashore and then transported to the surrounding city walls, Kou Zhun asked curiously.

"That's right, it's this thing. This thing is called a cannon. The principle is somewhat similar to the storm I made before, except that this thing has stronger firepower and a longer range." While explaining the cannon to Kou Zhun, Zhao Weiji was also giving orders to the transporters: "Wait, send the ten cannons starting from this to the west gate, be careful."

Seeing Zhao Weiji's precious cannons, Kou Zhun was increasingly confident in his ability to successfully defend Bianliang City during the day.

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Before dawn the next day, Zhao Weiji and his group climbed the north gate tower of Bianliang City. Although the news of the emperor's death had not yet been heard, the orders of Zhao Weiji temporarily commanded by Bianliang City were conveyed.

The orders from the superiors and the prestige Zhao Weiji had in the army made the soldiers who were originally stationed at the city wall have no objection to the sudden success of the prince who came from afar, but they were a little curious about the strange way the prince brought.

At this time, basically every run was surrounded by soldiers pointing and talking about something.

Zhao Weiji did not care too much about this scene. He was used to this situation. On the contrary, Zhao Weiji was very happy that the soldiers were interested in watching the cannons, which proved that the soldiers' fighting spirit had not been lost. If the soldiers at this moment were not even interested in novel things, then there would be no need to fight this battle.

After watching this scene, Zhao Weiji nodded, then turned around and asked the guard who took them to the city tower: "General Wu, don't you know if there are any other guardian equipment in the city, such as bed crossbows?"

Zhao Weiji never expected that the person who came to guide him on inspection today was an old acquaintance. General Wu Wen, who was originally stationed in Jianmen Pass. Because of his outstanding performance in quelling the rebellion in Shu, he was gradually noticed by the court after the war. In a few years, he was gradually promoted to one of the garrisons of Bianliang City.

This time, when Zhao Weiji's return, Kou Zhun arranged this person to Zhao Weiji and asked him to introduce Zhao Weiji to the current situation in Bianliang City and the situation of the defenders.

"Yes, there have always been reserves in the city, but His Majesty doesn't like it very much, so he has never taken it out and used it since the war started, and has been piled up in the warehouse."

Zhao Weiji was very happy to hear that there were other cities defending equipment in the city. After all, after dividing the cannons he brought into four gates, the firepower dropped sharply, which made him need other equipment to supplement.

"This relationship is good. Now you order people to move out all the equipment in the city and divide it into four doors."

Zhao Weiji's orders made Wu Wen a little embarrassed. Without knowing that the emperor had passed away, Wu Wen was a little afraid of implementing this act of openly confronting the emperor's previous orders.

When Zhao Weiji saw Wu Wen's face looked embarrassed, he knew what he was concerned about: "General Wu, it doesn't matter. Just do it. Now the defense of the entire Bianliang City is under my responsibility, and all the consequences will be borne by me."

When Wu Wen heard that Zhao Weiji was so decisive, he no longer hesitated and immediately went to find someone to move out all the equipment in the warehouse that helped defend the city.

When Wu Wen organized the manpower to start carrying equipment, the morale of the soldiers who saw this scene on the city wall suddenly began to rise.

Zhao Weiji, who was not sure what was going on, found out after asking that, it turned out that in the first five months, the soldiers were not completely defending the city without the help of equipment. In the first month, these equipment were still placed above the city.

With the help of these weapons, the attack of the Khitan soldiers on the side also made the soldiers of the Song Dynasty feel at ease in the initial stage, until once Zhenzong went out of the palace to inspect the army and then found these weapons on the top of the city.

After learning that these equipment were designed by Zhao Weiji, Zhenzong directly issued an order to remove all the equipment without giving any reason.

But this was the emperor's will. No one dared not to obey it, so these equipment were removed. For some time later, the soldiers were using the primitive way of defending the city, which made the soldiers miserable.

After hearing all this, Zhao Weiji couldn't help but sigh that he wouldn't die if he didn't do it. If he had used these equipment early, it might have been possible that Bianliang City would not have been besieged for five months.

After two hours, these city guarding equipment had basically been installed again on the top of the four gates, and at this time, the sky was basically all bright.

Zhao Weiji, who had almost never slept all night, had his eyes flushed and dark circles appeared at this moment, but he couldn't care about so much. After drinking a cup of tea in the room on the top of the city, he stood on the top of the city again because he knew that the Khitans were coming soon.

As expected, as soon as he returned to the city, dust began to fly in the sky. When he looked with a telescope, the Khitan troops began to approach Bianliang City again.

This is the first time that the Khitans have taken the initiative to attack Bianliang City in ten days. Since they have not been able to capture Bianliang City before, in order to reduce the risk of any time, Yelu has to adopt a strategy of siege but not attacking to hope to clean up the materials and morale in Bianliang City, and thus to take down the capital of the Song Dynasty at a relatively small price.

However, in yesterday's war, the Khitan warriors lucky enough to injure the Emperor of the Song Dynasty. Although there was still no latest news about the Emperor of the Song Dynasty, Yelu Mo still thought it was an excellent opportunity to attack, so after dawn, he asked the army to attack the city.

When he watched his army set off, Yelu Mo, who was full of confidence, suddenly felt a hint of uneasiness in his heart. The source of this uneasiness was Zhao Weiji's fleet that had not been found later. The fleet seemed to have disappeared and there was no trace anymore. Although just in case, Yelu Mo arranged countless scouts in the rear before today's battle, and once Zhao Weiji's fleet was discovered, he immediately alerted.

Soon Yelu Mo's uneasiness was confirmed. On the battlefield, the sound of cannons began to be heard constantly. He thought that it was Zhao Weiji who was sneaking into the rear and Yelu Mo who was preparing to let the troops he had prepared before go to the rear to fight, but a nightmare fact came from the scouts who returned from the front: "The continuous shelling of artillery attacks on the top of Bianliang City is the same as the shelling of the fleet yesterday."

After hearing the news, Yelu Mo's eyes turned dark and almost fell off his horse. He never expected that Zhao Weiji's fleet would slip into Bianliang City from under their noses.

Now that regretting is useless, Yelu Mo immediately ordered all soldiers to spread their formations and push them away like yesterday.

Not long after his order was passed to the siege troops in front, the new situation ahead was reported, that was, the bed crossbow and other equipment that had disappeared from the city of Bianliang for more than three months returned to the city.

The troops who were fortunate to escape the shelling were unfortunately trapped under these equipment, which formed a series of tight defenses, making the siege troops unable to make progress.

Even a small number of people were lucky enough to advance under the city wall, but they all died inexplicably. They only knew that when they died, they seemed to be hit by something, but they could not see any items remaining on these corpses.

Yelu Mo had never encountered such a situation before. Although the Khitans' siege were a little weaker, Yelu Mo, who had fought for so many years, had never encountered such a situation where soldiers were killed by all the soldiers who could not even start climbing the city wall.

Yelu Mo, who had no idea how to attack the city, had no choice but to call the gold to withdraw his troops and let the troops come back first to avoid more casualties.

And at the moment when the Khitan Mingjin retreated his troops, a huge cheer came from the top of the city of Bianliang City. Although the Song army generals had been defending Bianliang City for five months, no victory was so refreshing. This battle that made the enemy unable to climb the city wall was really too satisfying.

After the war was over, the defenders of the Song army were shocked to find that they had just killed less than ten soldiers. It is understood that these ten people were accidentally shot to death by the Khitans because they were not hidden. The others could be said to be unscathed.

This result forced all the soldiers of the Song army to sigh that Zhao Weiji's legendary stories were indeed well deserved.

On the other hand, in the Khitan military camp, the Khitan army had never suffered such a blow since the war between Liao and Song dynasties. Even though the siege failed in the previous few months, the morale of the Khitan soldiers had not been so low.

After today's siege battle, the number of soldiers lost by the Liao army has exceeded the total number of people lost by other battles since the beginning of the entire Liao-Song War.

Such a terrible defeat caused the idea of ​​retreating within the Khitan Army's top leaders to begin. Although Yelu Mo still did not want to give up, he had to reconsider whether the Bianliang City could be captured. If it could not be captured, what should be done next to maintain the previous victory result without losing.
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