Luo Youdu got up early in the morning and did some radio gymnastics to warm up. Then he jogged around the military camp and then rode a horse.
The soldiers in the camp have long been accustomed to Luo Youdu's healthy routine.
Luo Youdu had no intention of attacking Youzhou City immediately.
He knew that the generals under his command would inevitably be anxious, so in order to appease their emotions, he specially gathered them together.
He pointed to the large crossbow on the city tower and said: "Although Youzhou City has few soldiers, this is an important military location. It is not comparable to the previous Waqiao Pass."
"You see, the various defensive equipment on the city tower are not ambiguous at all. Just at the south gate, there are thirty large crossbows and fifty large and small catapults along the entire city wall."
"I suspect there is still stone lacquer in Youzhou City. Even if you haven't seen the power of stone lacquer, you should have heard of it."
"They have the advantage of defending the city, and they also have sharp weapons like stone paint. They are not easy to deal with."
"With this kind of defense, we would have to pay a huge price to fill up the moat, let alone attack the city."
Luo Youdu is not alarmist at all.
The Khitan's technology tree is now not inferior to that of the Central Plains at all.
The Khitan knew about stone lacquer.
In the history of the Later Liang Dynasty, Yang Longyan, the leader of the Southern Wu Kingdom, sent an envoy to deliver a batch of stone lacquer to Khitan, and specifically told them to "attack the city, use the oil to burn the buildings and oars, and the enemy to fertilize it with water, the fire will become more intense."
Therefore, there is no situation where they have a sharp weapon like oil, but the Khitan does not.
Luo Youdu knew better than anyone that China's main oil-producing areas were the northeastern Jilin and Liaohe areas occupied by the Khitans.
Maybe the Khitan people lack the means to exploit oil, but it is just like the oil in Wuwei County.
Sometimes this stuff will flow out on its own and doesn't need to be mined.
Attacking a city is the battle that loses the most soldiers. Luo Youdu would rather attack the city later and make sufficient preparations.
"So! Don't worry, brothers, build more siege equipment and be more stable. Recharge your batteries first. When you really want to show your strength, just don't embarrass me."
When he said this, he suddenly smiled and said: "If you are really bored, play the military drum a few times in the evening to entertain them."
Considering Luo Youdu's current prestige in the Royal Camp Division, no one said anything more as soon as these words came out of his mouth, and he obeyed his orders honestly.
Luo Youdu was not in a hurry, but Xiao Huchan was sitting on the city wall, and Shi Fang couldn't wait any longer.
Xiao Hunian put on a red-painted iron armor, which looked particularly gorgeous. He came to patrol the city defense every day, waiting for the Central Plains troops to attack the city, thinking that they would attack the city after they built the camp.
The result is still nothing.
Xiao Hunian was so angry that he yelled: "He is so coquettish in attacking a city. Don't fall into my hands, otherwise I will have to take off his pants to see if he is a man."
Shi Fang ignored the words of tiger and wolf, and said worriedly: "He is forcing Your Majesty to attack the stronghold. If Your Majesty does not dare to attack, it means that you will not save him. Our morale has plummeted, and the entire Youdu Mansion's already uneasy military morale has
There will be more instability."
Xiao Hunian gritted his teeth and said: "If your Majesty attacks, use your own shortcomings to attack the enemy's strong points. If you lose, you will lose morale. Anyway, he will not suffer no matter what. He is simply a scoundrel."
Shi Fang said softly: "The only way to break the situation now is for your Majesty to win. Otherwise, our morale may be completely depleted by them."
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Youzhou Beiying.
Yelv Xie's words put a pitch-black mace across his shoulders, stood high on his horse's back, looked at the impregnable camp, and sent people to call for formation outside the camp.
Faced with the turtle shell specially prepared for them by Luo Youdu, Yelujing and the Khitan civil and military officials were helpless.
The current situation is obvious, either attack the camp now or attack Youzhou City later.
Their tried-and-tested tactics of cutting off food no longer apply.
They have no ability to go around the Bohai Sea to rob grain, and there is no point in attacking the Jingu military stronghold.
There is really no other way but to use the oldest method of calling the formation.
See if you can call out the Central Plains soldiers in the camp.
A one-on-one field battle is better than attacking a stronghold.
Yelvxie Yan then took over this task and led five thousand cavalry to the north camp early in the morning.
Although Yelvxie acted like a reckless man, he also knew how to be polite before fighting.
It started as a polite invitation to fight, but when the military camp in front of them showed no reaction, they began to select soldiers with extremely loud voices and who knew Chinese to stand in front of the queue and curse loudly.
They used bad words wildly, greeting Guo Rong's eighteen generations of ancestors at the top, and humiliating their grandchildren, great-grandchildren, and great-grandchildren at the bottom.
From character, criticism to physical defects.
No matter how unpleasant it sounds, I just want to provoke Guo Rong to order a field battle.
Many generals couldn't stand the angry tempers, but Guo Rong said with a smile: "That's it? When I was six years old, I and the kid next door didn't scold each other more than this!"
He didn't take it seriously at all.
Yelusie Yan listened to the soldiers' curses and looked at the camp where there was no movement at all. He also knew that the other party would not go to war, but the mission he led had to be completed, otherwise it would be difficult to explain when he returned.
"Scold me, keep scolding me!"
Yelv Xie pulled off his helmet in one swoop. The sun on this nearly May day was not very harsh, but after fighting in the sun for more than two hours wearing armor, he was still sweating profusely. He rode his horse back and forth in front of the formation in annoyance.
The same goes for other Khitan soldiers.
The Khitan army was not good at military formations. With this relaxation, the formations became loose and discipline was difficult to maintain.
The soldiers in the last row even took advantage of the crowd to secretly sit on the ground to rest.
Just then!
The gates of Xiaozhai on the left and right flanks suddenly opened wide, and two fierce cavalry rushed out like flying!
The Khitan army was still cursing loudly. No one was mentally prepared for the sudden appearance of the enemy, and they couldn't help but burst into an uproar.
At this time, a cavalry team emerged from the front of Dazhai.
To be precise, one person and a cavalry team.
Zhao Kuangyin's speed was so fast that he broke away from the team and rushed towards Yelv Xie's words.
The distance of two hundred steps was reached in an instant under the charge of the divine horse.
One hundred and fifty Khitan soldiers who were shouting and shouting on foot in front of the formation were unable to stop him at all, and they directly broke him in two.
Yelu Xie was a little panicked at first, but when he saw Zhao Kuangyin coming to kill him alone, he was ecstatic and held up his mace to greet Zhao Kuangyin.
He still wants to talk...
Zhao Kuangyin rushed in front of him like a tiger descending a mountain.
Before Yeluxie could swing out the mace, he felt like he was flying like a cloud in the mist!
Zhao Kuangyin just swung the iron rod, like hitting a baseball, and sent Yelv Xie's words flying five or six feet away.
When three lines of cavalry were trapped, the Khitan cavalry had no room to fight back. They left more than 1,500 corpses behind and fled in panic.
Especially those scolding Khitan soldiers, who had no horses, and divided their bodies into pieces for the Zhou soldiers.
Luo Youdu appeared in Beiying leisurely. While congratulating Guo Rong on his victory, he begged for the more than a thousand corpses.