Brother Yelushan wiped the mud and blood from his face, spit, leaned against the city wall, and then slowly sat on the ground.
These damn Jurchen servants...the Bohai people, Tiele people and Han people who once crawled at the feet of the Khitans and begged for mercy! Now seeing how ferocious the Jurchens are, they are so cruel to their former masters...Why weren't they like this when they fought against the Song people?
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Brother Yelushan came to rescue his eldest brother. His father had already begun to prepare to defend the city of Nanjing in Daliao. This time he could only send himself, four generals and three thousand trusted cavalry to come to the rescue.
When I met my eldest brother Yelu Shanqi, he was already a useless person lying on the bed...
Only half of one left arm was left, and an arrow was hit in the face... The wound festered, and the whole face was swollen like a pig's head!
Although he had been fighting openly and secretly for many years, in the face of life and death, Brother Yelushan still felt extremely sad when he saw his elder brother in such misery.
"Second brother, you...you're here!"
Yelu Shanqi's eyes were red, and he stretched out his right arm and squeezed his brother's arm tightly... "How many soldiers and horses has your father mobilized? Where are the reinforcements from Zhongjing City?"
"Brother...you..."
Yelu Shanqi smiled bitterly: "Three days ago at midnight, those dogs climbed up on poles, and there was a bloody battle at the city gate... There were heavy armored soldiers of the Jurchen Tatars outside! If these dogs were not killed, the city gate would reopen.
If the soldiers rush in, everyone will die... If it weren't for the guards you left behind last time, I would have been dead!"
Brother Yelushan said in a low voice: "The Southern Dynasty has been mobilizing troops frequently recently, and there have been several conflicts at the border! Father, father has recruited troops three times... This time only 30,000 people were recruited. I... I only brought
Three thousand people!”
Yelu Shanqi was stunned for a moment, then he lay down heavily on the couch and said in despair: "Three thousand people! Three thousand... There are less than two thousand people left in the city, and there are five thousand Jurchen soldiers outside.
There are at least more than 30,000 servants left... not counting the endless stream of miscellaneous Han people who have come to join them! How can we fight? How can we defend this city?"
Brother Yelushan hesitated for a moment, then said truthfully: "I bought a total of 5,000 gunpowder bombs from Song Wen of the Southern Dynasty! This time, I brought 500 gunpowder bombs..."
Yelu Shanqi's eyes widened in an instant and he asked: "Since the Southern Dynasty and the Liao Dynasty were at odds with each other, didn't you say that you couldn't buy gunpowder bullets?"
Brother Yelushan nodded: "I intend to use these things to save the lives of our Yelu family, so even my father didn't know about it before..."
Yelu Shanqi said miserably: "Your Majesty values you so much, do you...do you even think that Daliao's power has been exhausted? Now that we are here, why don't you bring more gunpowder bombs? When the reinforcements from Zhongjing City arrive, we will
Can you still..."
Brother Yelushan shook his head with an ugly face: "There are no reinforcements, brother... The reinforcements assembled from Yelu Dahei Mountain were targeted by the Jurchen general Wanyan Zongwang as soon as they left Xianyu Mountain... The Jurchen chieftain Wanyan Aguda besieged Beijing.
Who would have known that Wanyan Zongwang would quietly go south with 20,000 Jurchen troops to intercept the eastward reinforcements from Daheishan... After the First World War, all 70,000 reinforcements were wiped out! The imperial court's strategy of encircling Wei and rescuing Zhao had been wiped out long ago!"
Yelu Shanqi was stunned for a long time, and whispered with distracted eyes: "It's over... It's over... Daliao is over... If Shangjing is lost, the city of Zhongjing will not be protected! Is it possible to retreat to Xijing and give up half of the country and Liaodong?"
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Brother Yelushan smiled bitterly and said: "The most hateful people are the Song people in the Southern Dynasty! Those Song people... I'm afraid they are going to attack us behind our backs!"
"They? Why do they do this? Don't they have a covenant? Aren't they the most eloquent?"
Brother Yelushan shook his head... Although his eldest brother is more skilled in martial arts than him, he is sometimes impulsive, naive and arrogant. It is no wonder that his father has always stood aside and ignored his challenges. Maybe his father is also hesitating about the next candidate for the prince of Nanyuan...
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But none of this is important now... Brother Yelushan said: "Brother, I am not here for anything else. Firstly, I want to see with my own eyes what kind of fighting force the Jurchen soldiers are! Secondly, I want to
You save her...you have just been married for less than three months, and your sister-in-law is still waiting for you at home!"
Yelu Shanqi's eyes darkened even more when he heard this... "If the Song people come over, what should I do, my father? What should I do, my father! I've almost lost all the elites in the Grand Prince's Palace in the South Campus, and the imperial court can't send reinforcements... Pi
The imperial army has been crippled again. Song people, by the way! Don’t you know the Song Dynasty man named Song Wen? Isn’t he a businessman if you bribe him? Merchants are all looking for money... Give him money and horses! Let’s give him money.
He informed the movements of the Southern Dynasty..."
Brother Yelushan sighed and said in a low voice: "Brother! Our Nanyuan Palace has its own fine network... There is no need to go out of your way to entangle Song Wen with these things! He has no good impression of the Song Dynasty court, but he will not betray him.
His hometown! He is a merchant, but he is also from the Song Dynasty... I am more and more careful when dealing with him now. After all, I also know the power of the gunpowder bullets. "
Yelu Shanqi's eyes lit up, but then he shook his head: "It's useless. If a surprise attack is set up, it will still be effective, but now the Jurchens have been frightened after suffering a loss from gunpowder bombs. The siege battles are all spent by sending servants."
To test, the Jurchen pro-army is also leading the battle with heavy armor... It seems that they are always on guard against gunpowder bombs. However, after all, it is just a firearm... It cannot change the real battlefield."
Brother Yelushan said in a low voice: "Unless there is an overwhelming amount of gunpowder bombs...all kinds of big and small...and the price cannot be too high! Otherwise, this is really throwing money at people..."
"Ten taels of silver each, haha... five hundred taels, that's five thousand taels! Brother, how many do you plan to save?"
Brother Yelushan's eyes flashed with cold light: "It depends on whether the first one to attack Nanjing City of Liao Dynasty is the Jurchens or the Song people... If it was the Song people, Song Wen would definitely not sell me gunpowder bombs for me to use just to make money.
Massacre the imperial army of the Song Dynasty! If it is the Jurchens... In fact, I have always been wondering, Song Wen has never seen the Jurchens, why is he extremely repulsive or even hostile to the Jurchens? "
Early the next morning, a battalion of soldiers rushed out of the Jurchen camp, with cavalry guarding the two wings. Tiele and the Han servants held shields in front, and behind were the heavy armored soldiers of the Jurchen army...
The heavily armored soldiers were all sitting on carts. They were heavily armored, their helmet pockets were black and shiny, and their weapons were almost all blunt weapons!
Iron bone flower, big axe, mace...
Yelu Shanqi's lieutenant took his place and came to the gate of this small city. He looked at the Khitan army in the distance with trepidation, and then looked at Brother Yelu Shanqi who was standing not far from him.
The King of Nanyuan is the direct confidant of the Emperor of Daliao. He originally wanted to follow Yelu Shanqi to gain some credit. Who knew that he would encounter the Jurchen soldiers in this small and broken city? Originally, Yelu Shanqi was seriously injured and disabled, and he had already planned to do so.
He broke out from the west gate in the middle of the night and fled... As a result, the young marquis Brother Yelushan, who was praised by the Liao Emperor, came to the rescue! The key is that he also brought three thousand capable cavalry...
However, what if there are thirty thousand cavalry? If the Jurchens are less than ten thousand, they will be invincible if they are more than ten thousand!