Emperor Zhenzong looked at the gift Yang Peng gave him, and the Eighth Prince also said, "That Yang Peng wants us to open our own business, so that the money we earn can be used in the palace. Then don't look at the face of the Ministry of Finance all day long. They
The price of salt given to us is not high. A pound of salt like this is fifty cents, but today’s green salt is sold for one hundred and thirty cents a pound. How can the green salt be as good as Yang Peng’s salt? What do you think, officials?”
Emperor Zhenzong was so happy when he thought that such salt could make a lot of money.
Emperor Zhenzong took the soap and looked at it again. The last time he used the soap, the old lady gave him 100 yuan. It was not enough for the imperial concubines to share. In his hand, there was only one piece. After using up the soap, Emperor Zhenzong used his horn.
As for the soap, my whole body felt uncomfortable. But I couldn't sell it in Tokyo. I almost wanted this soap. I didn't expect that Yang Pengyi would return so much. Emperor Zhenzong was so happy. Then he took off his yellow robe and took it.
Wearing a piece of Jin Yiwei's clothing, I felt much more comfortable. I said to the eunuch next to me, "According to this style, use the yellow robe cloth to make ten pieces for me. I am making ten pieces for the emperor's uncle, called Shang Yi Jian."
Go ahead and do it." The eunuch took the costume and ran away.
Emperor Zhenzong took the flintlock gun and looked at it again and again, and finally put it back to its original place. Emperor Zhenzong said to the Eighth Prince, "Eighth Uncle, you have the final say in the affairs of the trading house. I have already dispatched a few young eunuchs to help you.
Deploy another Imperial Guard to transport goods to and from Bianjing and Tianjing New City. I will prepare 50,000 taels of silver for the first batch of goods and arrange for them to set off tomorrow. From now on, all Imperial Guards in the Imperial City will wear these.
The colors of the clothing include yellow, red, green, cyan, and black. Such clothing is very atmospheric, not bad, and really looks good.”
The Eighth Prince said, "One more thing is that Yang Peng exchanged Yingzhou and Mozhou for the imperial court to replace the martyrs' shrine for the dead people of the Yang family, and a sign that said, civil servants dismounted from sedan chairs, and military generals dismounted from horses, to show their respect for the Yang family.
"Is it true?" Emperor Zhenzong said, "Is it true? There is such a good thing. Promise him. Two cities. Only a fool would not agree. Besides, the court has never said anything about the death of old Ling Gong. This time it is just for the Yang family."
An explanation, Uncle Eight, built an ancestral hall for Yang Qilang alone. This would also comfort Lin Qing'er. After all, Yang Peng was her apprentice. Lin Qing'er only had a son. It was a huge kindness not to ask the Pan family to pay for it this time.
Well, the Pan family should thank the Yang family."
On the eighth day of October in the first year of Xianping, the Khitan army reached the boundary of Dagou in Tianjing New City. At first, Yang Peng just felt that there were more and more Khitan cavalry coming from all directions. The Khitan scout cavalry were like waves, constantly oppressing them.
Yang Peng's sentries. These rangers are all cavalry and infantry who are skilled in riding and shooting, and have considerable combat effectiveness. They seem to have learned the lessons of the previous few days. Groups of forty or fifty people are scattered in the fields, and they are going in batches.
He tried to suppress the sentries of the Pioneer Battalion, but he did not charge forward to fight. He only relied on a little more people to squeeze the sentries of Tianjing New City.
The Khitan cavalry was so dense that Yang Peng's sentries were in danger of being surrounded when they went out to engage in battle, so Yang Peng withdrew the sentry cavalry and took them into the city. He relied on telescopes to detect the surrounding military situation. When he arrived at Xianping Yuan
On the ninth day of October of that year, 12,000 Khitan troops had already reached the foot of Dagou City. Yang Peng and Duan Zhixian stood on the city tower and looked around. They saw groups of Khitan cavalry in gray armor running towards each other a mile outside the city, rising up on the wasteland.
Pieces of dust were raised. Five or six miles to the north of the city were densely packed Khitan army tents, which were camped for several miles.
Yang Peng looked through the binoculars and saw that the camps were heavily guarded, with cavalry rushing back and forth. The stationed Khitan soldiers were all dressed in gray armor or military uniforms, and their military discipline and appearance far exceeded those of the bandits seen in Yanshan County. The camps were very large, and inside
Not only the Khitan army, but also the people and mules and horses’ property that the Khitan army had plundered and looted in the tents. It was not clear through the telescope, but I could only vaguely see the common people from the tents with a few open doors.
They were tied up. It seems that the Khitan army wanted to take these people to Youzhou to be slaves and provide manpower for the Khitan war.
Looking through the telescope, various flags were fluttering in the Khitan army camp. Yang Peng didn't know what those flags meant. There were large banners erected every 100 meters in the camp. Yang Peng guessed that it was the Khitan army's southwest road to recruit Si He.
The Northwest Road Recruitment Department is located. There is a gold-woven dragon banner flying on the big camp in the middle, which is probably where the Northwest Road Recruitment Department Yeqi's red light is.
When the Khitans arrived at the battlefield, they were not in a hurry to attack the city. Instead, they looked for wood and trees everywhere and began to build chariots. A forest in the north of the city was unlucky and was chopped down by the Khitans. In addition to preparing to attack the city, the Khitans also had another plan.
Preparation: In the afternoon, three cavalrymen rode out of the Khitan army camp. The three of them slowly bypassed the potholes and traps outside the city, moved away the antlers and horses, and rode all the way to the bottom of the North City gate, fifty miles away from the city gate.
Mi left and right and stopped. One of the Han generals shouted loudly in Chinese to the soldiers on the tower:
"Heroes in the city, wherever our troops from the Liao Kingdom come, they will be invincible and invincible. Don't take chances and resist rashly, lest you die and the city will be destroyed. Surrender now, and our army from the Liao Kingdom will not kill innocent people!"
The soldiers in the city pointed their rifles at him, and there was a deathly silence. The general was a little frightened, licked his lips and shouted again.
He was responded to by three crisp gunshots. After the gunshots, only three thuds were heard. Three Khitan and Song generals who had surrendered to Tianjing New City were hit by flintlock bullets, fell down from their horses, and died.
It was clear. Seeing that the messenger who had passed the message was beaten to death, there was a sudden commotion in the Khitan camp.
Not long after, the camps of the Khitan armies were opened wide, and a hundred Khitan soldiers escorted more than 300 Song civilians and rode out. When they rode one mile outside the city wall, the Khitan troops stopped. Did the civilians who were escorted out know?
Good thing, everyone knelt on the ground and cried, and the cry was loud. Then some Khitan soldiers went up to untie the rope of a middle-aged man among the common people of the Song Dynasty. The man was released from his hands and feet, looked around, and then walked away
Run to the north gate of Dagou.
He ran less than thirty meters, when a Khitan man in vest bent his bow and fired an arrow, hitting the man in the back of the head. The Khitan arrow was accurate and heavy, and the man fell to the ground with a scream, and then
No sound was made. The soldiers of Tianjing New City on the city wall gritted their teeth and cursed when they saw the people being killed.
The Khitan soldiers untied the ropes of several young girls aged sixteen or seventeen. When those girls saw the death of the middle-aged man in front of them, they cried loudly as soon as they were untied. Knowing that they would inevitably die, they used their hands to
Wiping away tears, they walked towards the gate of Dagou City with one foot deep and one foot shallow. The soldiers of the Khitan army waited for them to walk dozens of steps, then caught up with them on horseback and hacked the girls to death one by one from behind.
Seeing this, the soldiers on the city wall had blood-red eyes. But the Khitan people were still more ferocious behind them. They raised their sabers and began to gallop among the kneeling people of the Song Dynasty. They waved their sabers and slashed at them every few steps.
The people below. The people who were tied up could not escape and could only be slaughtered by their necks. Blood flew everywhere in the open land in the north of the city, and the screams shook the sky.
The blood of hundreds of people dyed the land red. On the city wall of Dagou, the soldiers were heartbroken when they saw this scene. Then some soldiers turned around and knelt in front of Yang Peng: "Sir, let's fight out and fight with the Khitans."
It's a fight!" Yang Peng closed his eyes and said calmly: "Don't fall for the Khitan people's plan to provoke the generals! We will defend according to the danger!"
The soldiers were full of hatred and turned to look at Yang Peng speechless. After killing the people of Song Dynasty, the Khitan people shouted for a while next to the corpses of the people. When they saw that the Song army on the wall did not rush out, they rode back.
Camp. For the rest of the day, the Khitan people did not move much. They just kept cutting down trees around them and seemed to be busy building chariots in the camp.
On the morning of the next day, a continuous sound of horns suddenly came from the Khitan camp. All the doors of the camp were opened, and soldiers in gray armor rushed out of the camp howling. They did not ride horses, but lined up on foot with swords raised.
On both sides of the gate, the gold-woven dragon tapestry was also lifted out. Dozens of generals stood under the tapes, riding horses and slowly moving toward the city wall. The gold-woven dragon tapestry led the entire Khitan army array forward, standing on four sides of the city wall.
Stopped outside.
One by one, the shield carts were pushed out of the camp. The shield carts were six to seven meters long, two to three meters wide, and about two meters high. The shield carts were covered with a thick layer of wooden boards, and the fronts were also covered with wet
The quilt was so thick that ordinary bows and arrows could not penetrate it. Eight or nine wooden wheels were installed under the shield cart, and there were more than twenty horsemen and infantry standing inside to push the shield cart. The Tatars built nearly a hundred shield carts!
The distance between each shield vehicle was no more than four or five meters, and they covered the entire front of the battlefield.
The Khitan army used three hundred soldiers as one recruiting envoy. Each recruiting envoy consisted of about ten of the most elite military households, about forty elite vests, and fifty infantry. The remaining two hundred soldiers were all wearing cotton armor or armor.
Unarmored followers and auxiliaries. At this time, each shield cart was followed by more than twenty followers and auxiliaries pushing wheelbarrows. They were preparing to fill the potholes and traps outside the city wall with earth and rocks.
Behind the followers and auxiliaries, there followed more than 300 elite Xijun soldiers wearing iron armor, also known as Xijun elites. They had red tassels on their helmets, flaming flags on their backs, and were holding bows and arrows behind them, ready to
Support key points at any time, and shoot all escaping soldiers at the same time.
Yang Peng used a telescope to observe the elites of the Xi Army and found that there were some generals wearing thick armor among the elites of the Xi Army. These generals wore feathers on their heads and had two-foot-square flying tiger flags on their backs. They were probably the elites of the Xi Army.
The leader, an elite of the Xi Army and his bodyguards, stood on horseback two miles outside the city wall, serving as the frontline command of the siege. The bodyguard behind him was holding a large banner, which was very conspicuous.
The shield chariot left the camp gate and pressed towards the north wall of Dagou. The defense preparations for all the walls of Dagou were similar, so the Khitan army simply attacked the north wall directly. Yang Peng had long known that the Khitans could build chariots.
At this time, sixty-two powerful crossbows have been concentrated on the north city wall. The crossbows are placed on specially designed crenels and can shoot down the city. Together with the forty powerful crossbows on the north wall fort, there are now sixty strong crossbows on the north wall.
Six powerful crossbows.
Four miles, three miles, two miles, one mile, the Khitan's shield chariot entered the range of the strong crossbow little by little. Yang Peng gave the order: "Riflemen, don't shoot. The strong crossbow waits until the shield chariot stops in front of the hole before firing!" The Khitan
The human shield cart continued to move forward and arrived in front of a pit more than a hundred meters away from the city wall. The Khitan army pushed the shield cart without being attacked all the way, thinking that there were no crossbows in Dagou City, so they were extremely happy.
They didn't know the power of the ditch, and thought that this seemingly rich city was within easy reach. The shield cart stopped in front of the pothole, and the followers and auxiliary soldiers behind the shield cart pushed the wheelbarrow up and began to fill in the outside of the city.
Yang Peng shouted: "The crossbows fire in turn!" The horn sounded on the city wall, and the swans chirped. Twenty crossbows aimed at the shield chariot 150 meters away, spitting out a long
Arrow.
A huge whooshing sound sounded, and the soldiers on the wall couldn't help but cover their ears. Black smoke suddenly spurted out from the crossbow, and the long arrows were like streaks of lightning, heading not far away at a speed invisible to the naked eye.
The shield carts flew over. The twelve powerful crossbows hit the target and made one-meter-large holes in the shield carts. The wood fragments smashed by the long arrows flew across, more deadly than stray bullets. In an instant,
The three or four Khitans in the front row of the shield car lost their fighting capacity.
Although the Khitan people's vests and infantry were wearing armor, their necks and faces were unprotected. If a flying piece of wood penetrated their neck, they would die immediately. In the rain of flying wood chips, many Khitan soldiers had their necks cut open.
Several Khitan people had their glasses cut off by sawdust and were immediately blinded. Even if they were lucky enough not to be seriously injured, but just had a piece of wood inserted into their face, they would have suffered heavy bleeding and lost their fighting ability.
In addition to the dangerous sawdust and wood blocks, the long arrow itself is also very lethal. The long arrow crashed into the shield cart, shattered the body blocking it, bounced on the ground, and directly took away one or two lives. A powerful crossbow hit
The arrows of the crossbow were even more powerful. When they hit the shield cart, they directly smashed the entire front row of the shield cart. More wood fragments were thrown out, and the five or six Khitans at the front of the shield cart were directly hit.
The soldiers were either dead or injured and withdrew from the battle. The heavy shells crashed into the shield car, smashing all the flesh in his way into pulp, smashing the flesh into pieces, smashing the first body, and then smashing the second body backward.
The body bounced on the ground and broke through three or four layers of Khitan soldier bodies before stopping.
The shield carts hit by the long arrows were filled with blood and flesh, and the shrill screams of countless Khitan soldiers could be heard from inside, as if those shield carts had turned into Shura hells. Although some of the long arrows did not hit the target, they still
The arrow that landed on the ground also hit the auxiliary soldiers behind the shield cart, killing more than a dozen unlucky auxiliary soldiers. With one salvo, more than 80 Khitan soldiers under the city wall lost their combat effectiveness.
Moreover, these soldiers were basically all elite infantry and vests. The Khitan generals under the golden dragon robe suddenly became commotion. Yang Peng looked over with a telescope and saw the Khitan generals gathered together and discussing, and seemed to be very sad for the sacrifice of the warriors in front of them.
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But the massacre had just begun. Another horn sounded on the city wall, and twenty-two powerful crossbows fired wildly at the shield chariot parked 150 meters away. This time, eleven long arrows hit the target.
Target. The long arrow hit the shield cart. The shield cart seemed to bloom, and countless wooden blocks flew out at the impact point. These densely flying wooden blocks were as fast as knives, harvesting the elite Khitan soldiers in the shield cart.
life.
Once the neck is cut, life will be lost immediately. Even if you are lucky enough not to be cut by the wood pieces on the neck and head, but if you are just cut by these pieces of wood on your hands and legs, it will cause heavy bleeding. It is difficult for these broken pieces of wood to penetrate into the body.
When it is taken out, the wood block will continue to cut into the flesh as soon as the wound is pulled, causing greater trauma than the wound.
What's more, the long arrow itself has powerful destructive power. The strong crossbow arrow pierced one or two layers of soldiers' bodies before stopping on the ground. The eighteenth's long arrow was like an unrivaled god of death, smashing into pieces.
All obstacles in his way turned the bodies of the Khitan soldiers on the third and fourth floors of the shield car into a pulp of blood and flesh.
Before the auxiliary soldiers of the Khitan army poured a load of earth into the pit, the elite soldiers in the shield car had already suffered two head-on attacks. More than 160 Khitan soldiers were killed or injured, and they lost their combat effectiveness.
And the third volley came immediately. Another hundred and twenty-two strong crossbows fired in unison. In the thick black mist, the strong crossbows fired long arrows towards the shield chariot a hundred steps away.
How can the shield car be used as a defense against the crossbow? It is simply a weapon that amplifies the power of the long arrow! The long arrow pierced the wet quilt and the two-inch-thick wooden board, and smashed those defensive wooden boards into flying pieces of wood.
The wooden block pierced the head, face and neck of the infantry and vest, stabbing these Khitan soldiers who had killed countless people to the ground. The long bouncing arrows frightened the Khitan troops in the back row. As soon as there was a whoosh, they fled out of the shield car.
, stood outside the shield car.
Yang Peng raised his telescope and looked under the golden dragon tapestry. He saw that dozens of Khitan leaders could no longer stand. They gathered at the big leader in the middle and said something. The big leader in the middle was probably Ye Qi Hongguang. He said nothing.
He seemed to be still thinking about the situation on the battlefield. After three volleys were fired, Yang Peng's crossbowmen began to push the crossbow cart back to its original position and clean the arrow chambers. The battlefield became quiet for a while. The vest soldiers operating the shield cart
Seeing that the crossbows at the top of the city no longer sounded, the A's also hid in their shield cars one by one.
The followers and auxiliary soldiers behind the shield cart took the time to load the carts with soil, hoping to fill up the holes and trenches at the level 150 meters above. The Khitan soldiers did not know the level of crossbows on the city wall, and thought Yang Peng
The soldiers needed a long time to reload the arrows. They imagined that they could fill the holes in the gap. However, after only one minute, their illusions were shattered. The auxiliary soldiers had not filled the holes for ten minutes.
One of them, the crossbow on the city wall had been loaded with long arrows and started the second round of shooting.
The smoke has dissipated, and the crossbowmen can take aim calmly - another hundred and twenty-two long arrows pierce the air and shoot towards the hundred-ton shield cart parked in front of the hole. A piece of sawdust is flying, and dozens of arrows are flying.
The shield vehicles were hit, and screams came from the broken shield vehicles. Flesh and blood flew everywhere in these hit shield vehicles in an instant, and the front half of the shield vehicles was sprayed with a layer of spray.
The blood was dyed red. The blood kept spurting out from the wounds cut by the wood chips and the broken flesh from the shells, and flowed from under the shield car to outside the shield car.
When had the Khitan soldiers ever seen such a powerful crossbow? Seeing the warriors being killed by long arrows in the shield carriage, they no longer had the will to fight, so they turned around to escape. The elite Xi army behind the horse armor and infantry armor
To prevent them from escaping, the elite soldiers of the Xi army roamed behind the line and shot arrows. The arrows penetrated the vital points with vicious force, killing those horse-armored infantrymen who escaped from the shield chariot on the battlefield. The horse-armored infantrymen found that there was no way to survive by retreating, so they had to get back in again.
Got into the shield car.
As soon as the shocked Khitan soldiers returned to the shield cart, another hundred and twenty-two long arrows flew, and the long arrows knocked away thirteen more shield carts. Each of the shield carts was like being clamped down one by one.
The opened cans were smashed without temper. In just one or two minutes, the city's powerful crossbows fired five times, and more than sixty shield carts were blown apart. There were dancing wood fragments and fierce long swords.
The arrows slaughtered the horse and infantry in the shield carriage, leaving more than four hundred Khitan soldiers dead or injured and withdrawing from the battle.
If the Khitan soldiers were very confident that they could easily capture Dagou City when they massacred the people of the Song Dynasty, now these Khitan people have lost their confidence in winning. How come this small city has so many powerful crossbows?
How many corpses of warriors will be laid under the city wall in this city? Finally, the Khitan leader Ye Qi Hongguang realized the fierceness of the crossbows on the city wall, no longer forced the horse and infantry to stick to the shield chariot, and paid gold to withdraw the troops. Hearing the call to withdraw the troops,
With the sound of the horn, the Khitan elite who had been holding on to the shield car were relieved, and all fled to the rear, retreating from the battle line like a tide.
The sixth volley of crossbows was aimed at the fleeing Khitan soldiers. One hundred and twenty-two long arrows roared towards the moving targets. The Khitan soldiers heard the shooting sound on the city wall and held their heads.
They ran around, fearing that they would be touched by the arrows. One hundred and twenty-two long arrows fell on the ground, bounced up again, and bounced forward on the ground. One hundred and twenty-two arrows were drawn in the fleeing Khitan army.
A straight line of death. Although the result of this salvo was not as great as that of the bombing of the shield car, the 122 long arrows also killed more than 130 Khitan soldiers.
After two rounds of six shots, more than 500 Khitan soldiers were killed, and more than 100 people were seriously injured and thrown on the battlefield, resulting in heavy losses. The Khitan soldiers who withdrew from the shield car hid in the camp, and no longer
Dare to approach the city wall easily. That piece of gold-woven dragon cloth entered the camp along with the retreating Khitan army, and led the entire Khitan army back to the camp. In the next half day, the Khitan army did not send out any more than roving scouts.
The soldiers attacked Dagou City. The first stop was successful, and there was joy in Dagou City.
Under the threat of powerful crossbows, a hundred soldiers of the Selected Frontier Regiment went out of the city to clean up the battlefield before dark - cutting off the heads of Khitan soldiers and applying wounds to the seriously injured Khitan soldiers. These soldiers hated the ferocious Khitan people.
, I was very excited when I was killing the Khitan soldiers with a last-ditch blow, stabbing them with a howl and a stab.
After receiving more than 600 Khitan army heads, Yang Peng had these heads salted and placed in front of the city gate for public display. These heads made the atmosphere in the city much more relaxed, and the people began to believe that the soldiers in Tianjing New City could defend the city.
, the fear of being besieged by the Khitan army has subsided a lot. The people have been working together for a month, and now there are deer antlers and horses everywhere under the city wall. It is not easy for the Khitan people to get close to the city wall. Rolling stones and wood are piled on the city wall, and they are burned.
If the Khitans wanted to climb the city wall with gold juice, they would pile it with corpses. The people all knew that Dagou was a fortified city at this time and would not be easily captured.
If you want to know what happens next, let’s look at the breakdown in the next chapter.