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Early the next morning, Su Jin personally led tens of thousands of soldiers to the lake area south of Zuzhou City. However, what Su Jin gave was not a battle order, but a puzzling order. He led the soldiers to dig earth, cut down trees, and build a dam with earth.
, a five- to six-foot-high earthen dam was built on a small river about ten feet wide that entered the lake on the south side of the lake. After the earthen dam was completed, people were ordered to dig out all the dams of several rivers and small lakes upstream. Because
The terrain is high in the south and low in the north. Water from rivers and lakes surged into the small river where the earthen dam was built. In two days, the river surged and overflowed the grass and trees on both sides of the river bank, turning into a marshy country.
Pan Jiang and others understood Su Jin's intentions somewhat. Pan Jiang asked: "Does the commander want to divert water to fill the earth dam, and then dig out the dam to flood Zuzhou City?"
Su Jin nodded and said: "The terrain is quite different. The terrain in the south is at least five or six feet higher than that in the north. The floodwaters pouring into the city will be nearly as high as a person. Do you think they can still stay here?"
Jingtai smiled and said: "The commander is truly unparalleled in his resourcefulness. This method is really brilliant. It can be effective without spending a single soldier. I can't wait to see the flood siege the city."
Su Jin smiled and said: "There is no need to rush. The terrain of Zuzhou is low, and several rivers in the south flow into the large lake, but the water level has always been kept stable. This shows that the Liao people must have opened canals to divert water out of the city to prevent Zuzhou from being destroyed.
The rising lake level is submerged; I judge that there must be a large river or canal flowing out from the north or east of the city, and the next step is to block all the rivers that discharge floods. I don’t need to say what happens next.”
Jingtai raised his big finger and said, "Commander, I have great views. I would like to go to the northeast of Zuzhou and have a look."
Su Jin nodded and said: "Okay, you take 20,000 brothers to the north, and Wang Chao takes 20,000 brothers to the east. Remember to bring more straw bags and fill them with mud. We will operate overnight. The dam will be opened early tomorrow morning. This mud dam will
I’m afraid it won’t last long.”
Jingtaihe Dynasty took the order and went to the north and east of Zuzhou overnight to search. As expected by Su Jin, there were actually seven rivers flowing through the northeast. So the soldiers immediately collected soil from the spot and left the city.
Three or four miles away, the river was blocked to make final preparations for flooding Zuzhou.
That night, the defenders of the Liao Army in Zuzhou saw torches on the east and north sides of the city making endless noises, thinking that the Song army was building siege fortifications. After receiving the report, the Lord of Zuzhou City, Ye Lurong, laughed and said: "Let them make noise, our Zuzhou Tun
We have hundreds of thousands of stones of food. Even if they surround us for three to five years, they still won't be able to trap us. All we have to do is keep our eyes open and don't let them sneak up on the city at night. Pass my order to increase the number of night watchmen on the northeast wall.
, three hundred additional lanterns were hung on each city wall."
Early the next morning, Su Jin led dozens of personal guards to the outside of Zuzhou City and stood three hundred steps away. Ma Han took out a strong bow with an iron arm, attached a feather arrow and aimed at it from a distance.
Seeing this situation, a Liao army captain at the top of the city pointed at Su Jin and others and laughed, taunting him: "Song Zhu! Do you plan to stand outside the range of my crossbow and fire arrows all your life? I don't believe in your arrows."
You can shoot three hundred steps, so don’t waste your time and go back to the Song Dynasty. If you delay any longer, your Bianliang will be occupied by our Daliao cavalry."
Mahan shouted: "If you dare, just stand still and don't move."
The leader of the Liao army slapped his chest and shouted, "Grandpa doesn't even blink."
Ma Han shouted: "Okay, whoever touches it will be the turtle bastard."
The leader of the Liao army laughed and said: "If you hit me, I will be your son, okay? If you can't shoot, you will be my son."
Mahan shouted: "Son, look at grandpa's arrows." After saying this, he bent his bow like a full moon, and when he loosened his hand, the arrow shot out like a meteor, and the bowstring rebounded, making a low buzzing sound.
Su Jin rolled his eyes and called someone else's son and grandpa. What kind of seniority is this?
But when he saw the arrow flying across the open space of 300 steps, it broke through the air and only hit the chest of the leader at the top of the city. The leader of the Liao army was about to curse a few more words, but suddenly he saw the opponent shooting an arrow. In the blink of an eye, the arrow
The branch came straight towards me, without even a curve, it was straight and full of strength.
The little boss was startled, forgetting the agreement not to move. He jerked his body to one side and quickly moved half a step to the side. The arrow passed through his chest with a trilling sound. Someone behind him yelled, and a man behind him
A soldier on guard was innocently hit by an arrow. The arrow penetrated his armor and penetrated three inches deep into his chest. He saw that he would not survive.
All the Liao soldiers took a breath of air. Good guy, the Song people are evil. One arrow can shoot three hundred steps. What kind of arm strength and bow and arrow are they? If everyone is like this, can this city still be defended?
Mahan's arms were sore and numb. He asked Liang Shi to make this iron-armed bow by selecting the fine iron refined from the Chengzhou iron ore. The bow string used was also made from yak hamstrings purchased from the Xia Kingdom.
A wild yak only has four suitable hamstrings, which are dried, smashed and twisted into strings. The sixty-four strands of plum blossom string required for the bow string require more than a hundred hamstrings. You can imagine how precious they are.
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A good bow may not be usable. With such a bow and arrow, it is not easy to just pull it open. Mahan could only pull it half open at first, but he had a strong strength. After continuous practice, his arm strength increased, and he could pull it open with his teeth.
Well, today Japan wanted to shoot the letter into the city. For safety reasons, he took this bow and arrow. It was not difficult to throw the letter into the city, but to kill someone three hundred steps away, he needed to fully draw the bowstring to do it, so he shot out with one arrow.
My arms and legs were a little sore and numb.
"You hid, you are my son. Son, on that arrow is a letter from my commander to your city lord. Hurry up and deliver the letter for me. When the city is destroyed, you and I can talk about the love between father and son. Haha.
Haha." Mahan ridiculed loudly.
The little leader didn't understand, and said nothing with a livid face. He turned around and saw that there was indeed a ball of cloth hanging on the arrow shaft, which had been dyed red by the blood of the dead soldiers. He quickly reached out to take it off, hurriedly went down the tower, and went to
Report to the city lord's mansion.
Ye Lurong was sitting and drinking tea with a group of generals and officials in the city lord's palace. When he heard that the Song army had sent a letter to the city, he laughed and joked: "Does it mean that the Song people want to have friendship with me? The Song people just like to engage in such nonsense.
You thing, if you don’t dare to fight, if you send me a message, why don’t we just give up our ancestors? It’s a joke.”
All the officials laughed loudly, and someone joked: "Maybe the people of Song Dynasty are planning to send some beautiful women to bribe you. You are having fun, and you might be tempted to let them take Zuzhou."
Ye Lurong laughed and scolded: "Bah, I'm so lustful? It's more like the Emperor of Song Dynasty giving his queen and concubine to me, hahaha."
Amidst the roar of laughter, Yelv Rongshi took out the letterhead from the cloth bag and unfolded it. There were a few lines of ink on it. The calligraphy was not very good, but it had the power of swords, guns, swords and halberds.
"Lord Taijian, Lord of the City, our army of the Great Song Dynasty has come south and will capture Zuzhou in the near future. You thought you were safe and sound, but you didn't know that the disaster has come. The two countries are fighting for their lives and the people are innocent. In view of this, I am morally concerned about the innocent people.
, you are allowed to evacuate the people for one hour. If the people are in trouble, it is not because of the unkindness of the Song Dynasty. Please think twice! Su Jinzi, the general of the Song Dynasty in the north."
Ye Lurong was so angry that he reached out and threw away the letter and cursed: "You are so brazen, who is this Su Jin? What a loud tone."
Someone picked up the letter and read it over and said: "Su Jin was the general who commanded the Xia army when Daliao fought against Xia. The great losses suffered by Daliao a year ago were due to this man."
"No wonder he is so arrogant. However, this time, I will make him crumble in my hands." Ye Lurong gritted his teeth and said.
An official asked doubtfully: "Why is Su Jin so loud? They suffered heavy losses in the attack on the city in the past few days. Could it be that they have come up with some plan that won't work?"
"It's a bullshit strategy, it's just a bluff. The stronghold of Zuzhou can't be easily broken." Ye Lurong looked nonchalant.
"Lord Yelu, we should not take it lightly. We should think carefully about whether there are any loopholes in the city's defense. What does he mean by reminding us in his letter to evacuate the people? What dangers can the people face in the city?"
"I told you earlier that they are just bluffing and intending to cause panic, so don't pay attention to them." Ye Lurong became impatient.
"That's not right, my lord. The Song army acted sneakily last night and was busy in the north and east of the city. Isn't this just a joke? Did you find anything strange?"
Ye Lurong frowned. He didn't pay attention to what the Song Army did in the north and east of the city. No one came to report it so early in the morning. After being reminded by his subordinates, he felt that something was wrong.
"Let's go and take a look at the top of the city." Ye Lurong grabbed his sword and went out. A group of officials and generals followed him, mounted their horses and galloped to the north city. After climbing the city wall, everyone set up a tent to look at the place where the Song army made a noise last night.
Because I was so familiar with the terrain, I could see something in the distance at a glance. If I looked closely, I saw it was something like an earth dam.
"When were those three earth dams built?" Ye Lurong asked.
"We didn't build it, it must have been done by the Song Army last night."
"Why did the Song army build an earth dam...ah...that's not good!" Ye Lurong shouted.
Everyone asked in shock: "What's wrong, sir?"
Without saying a word, Ye Lurong quickly went down to the city and galloped towards the east city. When he climbed up to the city tower and looked around, he saw four newly built earthen dams. Suddenly, big drops of sweat flowed down his forehead, and he said repeatedly: "It's amazing, that's it."