When the Liao army saw that their general had died, they lost their backbone and began to retreat.

But Zhao Yuanlang had already given the order. Qin Ming, Hu Yanzhuo, Lin Chong and Dong Ping, led four cavalrymen, and attacked from the side. In a short time, the Liao Dynasty was severely defeated and thousands of heads were beheaded.

If it weren't for the powerful bows and crossbows blocking the city gate, we might have been able to break into the city gate today.

The morale of the Liao Dynasty was low at this moment, with its generals dead and the army leaderless. Zhao Yuanlang hurriedly asked Ling Zhen to fire.

Wu Song, Lu Zhishen and Yang Zhi each led two thousand soldiers to attack the city.

Ling Zhen fired thirty cannons eight times in a row until the barrels turned red, and then he stopped. Wu Song and his men had already forced their way to the city gate, and all kinds of siege towers and ladders were almost at the foot of the city wall.

The two brothers Jie Zhen and Jie Bao, the surrendered generals of Liangshan, immediately led a brigade of 4,000 archers and crossbowmen to suppress the Liao army on the city wall with firepower.

At this moment, fires suddenly broke out in various places in Yanjing City, causing the soldiers on the city wall to panic. Since Zhao Yuanlang wanted to attack Yanjing, it was certain that he would send people into Yanjing in advance.

Shi Qian played a very important role. Although the spies who followed Shi Qian into the city were not as powerful as Shi Qian and had only been trained for three or four months, they were still able to do some basic things.

Aliqi immediately led the four brothers of Yelu Derong to put out the fire, while Qiong Yao Nayan led the others to defend against the attack of the Song Dynasty.

The war lasted for an hour and the fighting was fierce. Zhao Yuanlang frowned and signaled Yang Xiong, Shi Xiu and Lei Heng to lead 2,000 soldiers each to replace Wu Song and his men.

"Fan Rui, Xiang Chong, Li Gun, the three of you should be ready. Lead the troops to replace Yang Xiong and his men in an hour."

"Order!"

Another hour later, Fan Rui and the other three immediately led their troops to replace Yang Xiong and his men.

The city wall of Yanjing was high and strong. Three consecutive waves of attacks failed to take the city wall. As the sky gradually darkened, Zhao Yuanlang saw that four to five thousand soldiers had been killed, so he sounded the call for the troops to retreat.

On the second day, Zhao Yuanlang ordered Wu Song, Lu Zhishen, Yang Zhi, Fan Rui and six other people to lead two thousand soldiers each to attack the city. Ling Zhen's artillery camp bombarded the city ten times in a row before stopping.

The Liao army on the city wall was on high alert. They did not catch the enemy who set fire yesterday, and stationed a large number of soldiers in various places.

Little did they know that Shi Qian and his 100-man reconnaissance team were hiding in the houses on both sides of the city gate.

After Wu Song and his men approached the city wall, Zhao Yuanlang ordered Ling Zhen to fire thirty cannons. Shi Qian immediately took out his weapons and glanced at his men around him.

"The signal has been sent. Today is our day to make achievements. Brothers, go ahead."

As the southern capital of the Liao Dynasty, Yanjing naturally had a city gate. It was very difficult for Shi Qian and his hundred men to capture the city gate. However, there was one person in Shi Qian's team, Ruyunlong Gongsun Sheng. After Shi Qian and his men killed the soldiers at the city gate, Gongsun Sheng immediately performed a ritual.

The entire city was filled with flying sand and rocks and billowing yellow smoke. Many Liao soldiers were blinded and could not open their eyes. Some soldiers fell to the ground one after another. The yellow smoke was poisonous.

Shi Qian and his men took off their pants, took out face towels, wet them with urine, covered their faces with them, and immediately rushed out of the city gate and headed towards the two gates of the city wall.

Because of the rolling yellow sand, the people of the Liao Dynasty could not see clearly what Shi Qian and his men had just done, so they could not resist the yellow smoke.

The temporary commander, Yelu Dezhong, the younger brother of the Liao emperor, hurriedly asked his son to lead the troops to retake the inner city gate on the city wall.

However, the main gate of the city had been lost, and the two thousand soldiers led by Wu Song and Lu Zhishen had already charged in. Gongsun Sheng then stopped casting spells and quickly ran away.

The city gate was broken, and Lu Zhishen and Wu Song led the soldiers to block the city gate tightly. The Liao Dynasty led troops to fight for it several times, but failed to gain control.

Outside the city, Zhao Yuanlang personally led Lu Junyi, Shi Wengong, Hu Yanzhuo, Qin Ming, Lin Chong, Xu Ning, Dong Ping, Guan Sheng, Zhang Qing, and Suo Chao, ten cavalry officers, to launch a charge.

It's over. The city gate was lost. Yelu Dezhong looked at the battle outside the city gate frantically and shouted to Aliqi and Qiong Yao Nayan: "No matter what method you use, you must take the city gate back for me!"

Alichi and Qiongyao Nayan received the order and immediately led their troops down the city wall to fight for the city gate.

But before they arrived, Zhao Yuanlang rushed in with ten cavalry generals.

Alichi and Qiong Yaonayan had just mounted their horses and had not yet launched a charge when they found Zhao Yuanlang's chain meteor hammer right in front of them.

The two were knocked off their horses by Zhao Yuanlang's hammer. Shi Wengong and Lu Junyi behind Zhao Yuanlang immediately finished them off. Two of the Liao's top-notch generals died.

In this battle, Zhao Yuanlang's army won a great victory and defeated Yanjing. The Liao emperor's brother Yelu Dezhong was captured, three major generals of the Liao were killed, and more than half of the eleven generals and twenty-eight generals were killed or wounded.

Zhao Yuanlang continued to advance northwards and killed his way to the vicinity of Shangjing, which frightened the Liao Dynasty so much that many of its troops collapsed at the first blow.

The Jin Dynasty also conquered Zhongjing Dading Prefecture, and the Liao ruler fled all the way to the Shangjing area.

Zhao Yuanlang stopped the attack and the Liao Dynasty was destroyed, so the Song Dynasty had to face the Jin Dynasty directly. The Song Dynasty did not have much time, as Fang La, Tian Hu and others would soon revolt, so it needed to recuperate and recruit soldiers.

The Song Dynasty was naturally very happy to have gained the Youzhou region, and quickly sent officials there. However, they were all driven back by Zhao Yuanlang, who then took control of the Youzhou region.

Song Huizong was furious, and Cai Jing then remembered that this guy had gone to grab the territory before giving him any rewards, no wonder he was unhappy.

Tian Hu in Hebei was in rebellion, and Zhao Yuanlang had a strong army and made outstanding contributions, so Cai Jing thought about it all night and finally submitted a memorial to Song Huizong.

After reading it, Song Huizong sighed and said, "That's enough." So he drafted an imperial edict to confer Zhao Yuanlang the title of Duke of Yanjing, promoted him to the post of Recruiting Envoy of Hebei East Road, Hebei West Road, and Hedong Road, and the Jiedushi of Youzhou and the Jiedushi of the Anti-Kuo Army. He asked Zhao Yuanlang to arrange the Youzhou area and wipe out Tian Hu as soon as possible.

Zhao Yuanlang was slow and leisurely. Tian Hu was weak, so Zhao Yuanlang first recruited and trained soldiers. His military strength once reached 150,000. Only then did Zhao Yuanlang go to wipe out Tian Hu.

Although Tian Hu's army was large in number, eighty to ninety percent of them were untrained peasants, and they were easily defeated by Zhao Yuanlang's army.

Finally, Zhao Yuanlang interrogated the captured bandits and false officials, except for Tian Hu, Tian Bao and Tian Biao, who were escorted to Tokyo. The rest of the bandits were questioned and punished according to their crimes. The surrendered soldiers were incorporated into the death squad after labor reform.

When the bandits and officials learned that Tian Hu had been captured, half of them fled and the other half surrendered. Zhao Yuanlang sent troops to attack while sending troops to persuade them to surrender, and Tian Hu's rebellion was put down.

Well, just after Tian Hu’s rebellion was put down, Wang Qing started his rebellion.

Song Huizong's eyelids were twitching. Was this a bad luck for him?

There was no other choice but to issue an imperial decree, conferring the title of Prince of Yanjing on Zhao Yuanlang, and appointing him as the Recruiting Envoy of Jingxi West Road, Huainan West Road, and Jinghu North Road, ordering him to eliminate Wang Qing.

It was a little troublesome to wipe out Wang Qing, because most of Zhao Yuanlang's soldiers were from the north, and Wang Qing's territory was basically in the Yangtze River Basin. So Zhao Yuanlang left half of his troops in Youzhou and only led 100,000 troops there, ordering officials from both routes to gather troops and besiege Wang Qing together.

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