Fengqiu, a small city north of Bianliang, the capital of the Song Dynasty, was also the last barrier to Bianliang in the north. At this time, Song general Zhong Shidao was leading 50,000 Song troops to station here. For Zhong Shidao, he was under great pressure at this time. Zhong Shidao did not defend Fengqiu. After all, the enemy opposite Zhong Shidao was relatively too powerful, and it was not something that Zhong Shidao could resist, but despite this, Zhishidao still made a lot of efforts.

"General, according to the spies' response, the Eastern Liao army has set out from the city of Qi and will arrive in Fengqiu soon." A deputy general said to Zhong Shidao.

Zhong Shidao asked Deputy General: "How is the city defense reinforcement?"

The deputy general replied immediately: "Everything has been prepared according to the general's orders, and he is just waiting for Yelu Neluku to lead his army to attack."

Before he knew it, two days passed. In the morning of this day, a dark army slowly came from the north. This army was the army composed of the Eastern Liao army and the vassal army led by Yelu Nelugu. Because Yelu Nelugu won a series of victories, the army was highly morale at this time. In addition to the heavy rewards given by Yelu Nelugu, these people took the initiative to be loyal to Yelu Nelugu for wealth, rights and women.

Zhong Shidao stood on the city tower at the north gate of Fengqiu City and looked at the enemy troops who were slowly approaching. The black clouds were overwhelming. Looking at the enemy troops who were slowly pressing towards him, it was basically impossible for him to block Yelu Nielugu under Fengqiu City. He could only do his best to hold them as much as possible and buy time for Wang Shao.

Yelu Nelugu led his army to Fengqiu City and did not launch an attack immediately. Instead, he set up camp outside the city. Yelu Nelugu had already understood the situation of Fengqiu City in advance, and he also knew clearly that the person in the city was his mortal enemy, who had caused him to lose more than 10,000 elite soldiers. Yelu Nelugu could be said to have hated Zhong Shidao to the core, and Yelu Nelugu even wanted to completely erase Fengqiu City in this world.

"Your Majesty, the army has been camped." Deputy General Wang said to Yelu Nelugu after coming in.

Yelu Nerugu nodded and said, "Tell me that the army will rest for a night today. If you have anything to do, I'll talk about it tomorrow."

"Yes, the last general will receive the order." Deputy General Wang took over the military order.

The next morning, Yelu Nelugu sent 100,000 troops to surround the entire Fengqiu City, but Yelu Nelugu led the army alone around Fengqiu and headed south. Looking at the more than 100,000 enemy troops slowly heading south, Zhong Shidao was anxious but had no choice, because now Zhong Shidao and his 50,000 Xia army were trapped in Fengqiu City and could not get out at all, so now Zhong Shidao could only watch Yelu Nelugu's leadership heading south.

"General, we have been completely surrounded by the enemy, and most of the enemy have gone south, probably going to Bianliang." A lieutenant said to Zhong Shidao.

Master Zhong said, "I know, but now we are trapped in this Fengqiu City and cannot get out at all. We can only pray for God's blessing."

"General, see, can we break through tonight..." the captain said to Zhong Shidao.

Now Yelu Nelu has led his army to bypass Fengqiu City. The 50,000 troops of Zhong Shidao can no longer play any role. Instead of sitting here and waiting for death, it is better to sacrifice your life and try it out. Perhaps you can have the opportunity to delay Yelu Nelu's pace of going south. Although Fengqiu is the gate of Bianliang in the north, it is not impossible to bypass it. This is the characteristic of the city in the plain area. When occupying the other city in ancient times, not every city needed to attack one by one. As long as you take down important strategic goals, the surrounding small cities will open the city and surrender themselves due to military pressure.

Although there are 50,000 Song troops stationed in Fengqiu City, Yelu Nelugu did not take these 50,000 Song troops seriously. According to the general marching strategy, a huge enemy force appeared in his rear because it would become a fatal threat at a critical moment. At this time, in Li Liangzuo's words, Zhong Shidao's army was a nail stuck behind Yelu Nelugu; but now the effect of this nail is very small; because Yelu Nelugu had already headed for the capital of the Song Dynasty, Bianliang.

Bianliang is the capital of the Song Dynasty, but today, this large metropolis with a population of more than one million in the world today has no soldiers to defend. Since Zhong Shidao took away 50,000 Song troops, Wang Shao began to recruit soldiers in Bianliang, but the results were very little. After all, people living in Bianliang are either rich or noble. How could these people come out to join the army? However, under the heavy reward of Wang Shao, many people living outside Bianliang City joined the army. In addition, Wang Shao recruited 100,000 new soldiers in Bianliang in just a few days. These are farmers who have just put down their hoes and will not fight at all. In order to defend Bianliang City, Wang Shao also mobilized the whole city, and men, women, young and old in Bianliang City joined the battle.

When Yelu Nelugu led his army to the city of Bianliang, Yelu Nelugu was very excited. After all, this was the capital of the Song Dynasty and one of the most prosperous cities in the world at that time. Although a considerable number of people had fled Bianliang before, the people of Bianliang still reached nearly one million. Facing the Yelu Nelugu army that had already reached the moment, Wang Shao felt cold, because Wang Shao knew that facing Yelu Nelugu's more than 100,000 troops, he had no way to defend the city of Bianliang.

Yelu Nelugu gathered his army in Hanfang Garden and prepared to attack Bianliang City at any time. The reason why Yelu Nelugu did not attack immediately was very simple. The walls of Bianliang City were extremely tall. Since Bianliang City was in a geographical location that was easy to attack and difficult to defend, the Song Dynasty began to build large-scale city defense after setting the capital here. The outer city wall of Bianliang City was more than four meters, and the inner city and imperial city walls also reached three meters. This was the highest city wall in China and even the world at that time.

The tall city walls added many defensive advantages to the city. When the city wall reached a certain height, the city's defense performance increased exponentially. Facing the four-meter-high city wall, Yelu Nelugu could be said to have the will but not enough strength! After all, the army under Yelu Nelugu was on an expedition, and did not bring any engineering equipment, and even had no ladders. Therefore, they stationed in Hanfang Garden outside Bianliang City. In order to create enough siege equipment, Yelu Nelugu ordered the demolition of all the houses of the people around them to make ladders and siege cars.

While Yelu Nelugu was building siege equipment for a large number of siege equipment, Wang Shao was also continuing to strengthen the city defense and train these new troops to prepare to deal with Yelu Nelugu's attack at any time. At the same time, Li Liangzuo was leading 50,000 Xia army infantry and cavalry to move south quickly. Rather than saying that Li Liangzuo went south to save Song, it was Li Liangzuo who went south to take advantage of the situation. Although there was no incident that disturbed the people where the Xia army passed, it caused a disaster to the local government.
Chapter completed!