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Chapter 888 What are they doing, are they trying to humiliate us? (Second more)
Chapter 897

A quarter of an hour passed, two quarters of an hour passed, and a quarter of an hour passed, and still no Song soldier appeared within the range of the camp's fire, which made Yelu Jinping a little confused.

"What's the matter, ask the other guards, have they found traces of the Song Army?" Yelu Jinping's dignified and tense voice came out again.

Soon, a general rushed over to report that no trace of the Song army was found on the wall he was in charge of, and the guards on the other two walls also sent people to report that they had not been attacked.

"Is it a trick to suspect soldiers? Or maybe the Song people wanted to take advantage of the opportunity to escape?" This thought came to Yelu Hongji's mind, and he couldn't help being shocked.

If these tens of thousands of Song troops were allowed to quietly leave Youzhou and attack the back of the Liao-Xia coalition, then the consequences would be unimaginable.

"Immediately send scouts out of the camp to search for the whereabouts of the Song army, fast! Especially search to the south!" Yelu Jinping's military order was soon carried out by the soldiers...

An hour later, the news I got was that no matter whether it was the south, the east, or the north, not to mention the Song army, there was not even a ghost.

At this moment, Yelu Jinping and all the coalition generals around him were confused.

"Could it be said that those Song troops have withdrawn? Or are they hiding in the darkness, waiting for our army to make mistakes?"

"My lord, the general thinks that we should send scouts in the direction of Youzhou City to see what the hell those Song people are doing."

Yelv Jinping nodded, and soon, dozens of scouts with high skills and courageous scouts approached Youzhou City tremblingly, because they were worried that the other party would be ambushing in the dark, and all the scouts The riders are all worried, and every step forward of the mount will make their hearts beat wildly.

With a speed comparable to that of a tortoise, he arrived at a place a stone's throw away from the city wall. Only then was he surprised to find that there was a ghost of the Song Army. At this moment, the defenders on the top of the city discovered this group of stunned people. Xun Qi, a burst of crossbow arrows came down, and directly sent seven or eight unlucky ghosts to the underworld to die.

The rest of the scouts frantically beat their horses back and fled, galloping out of the range of the Yuanyou crossbow, and then took a breath.

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Yelu Jinping heard the report of these escaped cavalry, and the generals of the other three sects also sent messengers one after another, stating that a large number of Song troops had also left the city at the urn they were facing.

The numbers are in the tens of thousands.Yelu Jinping was stunned for a long time before he recovered himself.After a long time, those Song people just came out for a face-to-face meeting, and then slipped back like a thief?
"What do they want to do? Humiliate us?" A general next to Yelu Jinping couldn't help but angrily patted the sword at his waist and said angrily.

"No matter what Song Jun does, what we have to do is to stay steady and not be disturbed by Song Jun's changes." Yelu Jinping glanced at the generals around him, and could only order so.

For him who is good at offense, it is really frustrating to have him do this kind of defensive thing.

Fortunately, the rest of the night was very peaceful. Although I was tossed about for nearly two hours, I was finally able to rest well.

However, the enemy army outside the city has rested, but the city is still full of heat. Those Yuanyou catapults that were originally standing on the firing position have all been gathered near the east city wall, and countless craftsmen and soldiers are busy. .

And a total of sixteen, um, there were only twelve before. In the past month or so, Wang Yang asked those craftsmen to use those spare parts to build four more Yuanyou stone catapults.

Now, a total of sixteen Yuanyou catapults are lined up on a side street about [-] feet away from the east city wall, with one set up every three feet. Long-range weapons, after being fully concentrated on a street.

Like a group of powerful and lean giants, ready to go.It was busy until midnight before it was completed. However, both ends of the street and the courtyard walls on both sides were filled with soldiers, and no one was allowed to approach.

After all, Yuanyou's trebuchet is still a high-precision long-range weapon unique to the Song Dynasty. If it is kept secret for a while, the Song Dynasty will be able to take advantage of it for a while.

"The first wave of test shooting!" Accompanied by a low growl, the throwing ladles of sixteen Yuanyou stone catapults flew high into the sky, and inside the throwing ladles, five cement bombs made of perfectly round cement structures were thrown into the sky. It was thrown into the night sky, crossed the city walls and towers, and flew towards the dark depths outside the city.

At this time, the dozens of soldiers who had already lurked under the city quickly dispersed, and walked away from the city wall with a strange step similar to going forward. With the bright silver moonlight, they began to search the ground carefully, looking for Look at the impact marks caused by those stone bullets hitting the ground.

When they find the impact mark on the ground or find the round stone bullet that flew several feet away, they will silently record the distance calculated by the number of steps. Of course, they will also take the stone bullet away. In addition, they will still hit it. At the location of the mark, some red brick fragments were deliberately scattered.

"Are you sure? How far is the distance?"

"Sir, the distance from the city wall to the landing area is about seventy feet. The difference between the front and back is about three feet..." The soldiers responsible for measuring outside the city have returned to the city and are reporting to the coach Wang Yang. the data that needs to be collected.

After Wang Yang made some calculations, he nodded and said. "Very good, that's enough. We will send troops to the east gate tomorrow. The distance is... fifty, no, 55 feet away..."

"Sir, isn't this too risky? The distance is so close..."

"Is it very close? That's fifteen feet, not fifteen steps. Besides, if we stay a little farther away from the city and stay within the cover of the Yuanyou crossbow on the city, do you think those Liaoxia coalition forces dare to attack us? ?"

The big guy thinks about it too, if they don't leave the protection range of Yuanyou Nu, I'm afraid those Liaoxia coalition forces really don't know whether they dare to meet them or not.

"By the way, General Zhao and the others haven't come back yet?" After Wang Yang finished giving his instructions, he turned his head and asked Zhong Shihe.

"Not yet, why don't we wait a little longer, my lord? Wait until General Zhao comes back, and then make a decision?" Zhong Shihe said a little nervously.

After all, if General Zhao failed to bring back the news that Zhe Keshi and the others had been contacted, then it would be too risky to attack tomorrow.

After thinking about it, Wang Yang could only nod dejectedly. "Forget it, just wait another two hours. If, if the time comes, General Zhao has not returned, and tomorrow's attack plan will be cancelled."

At the moment when Wang Yang and a group of civil and military personnel in Youzhou were restless, General Zhao was leading more than a dozen cavalrymen, and cautiously moved towards the city of Youzhou, which could already see the flames on the top of the city.

From time to time, he looked around vigilantly, guarding against the possibility of a sudden appearance of the Liao-Xia coalition's cavalry.

(End of this chapter)