The Song Dynasty on the Sand Table

Chapter 144 Xiao Yuanshan

We need to provide assistance to the rebels without exposing our firearms.

Of course, we can only provide assistance in the direction of cold weapons.

Yue Wenxuan's eyes turned to his toy cabinet and immediately fell on a pile of ancient weapon models.

Ancient siege weapon set!

The ladders and battering rams in this set are not used in defense and do not need to be put in the box.

However, catapults and crossbows are powerful defensive weapons.

Moreover, the technology tree required for these two things is not high, and the required command power is definitely not as high as that of the musket. With my current command power of "actually controlling two states", I should be able to put them in in batches.

Just do it if you think of it!

Yue Wenxuan simply started testing in the corner of the sand table, placing a catapult and a giant crossbow cart in easily, and then continued to add more and place them in the sand table.

In a short while, he placed fifty catapults and fifty giant crossbow carts, but his command capacity was not yet full.

From this we can see that "weapons made of wood" have a very low level of technological content and thus occupy very little command power.

The rebel army also had these things, and Song Dynasty craftsmen could also make them, but due to a shortage of manpower, the rebel army did not have many of them. Now that Yue Wenxuan had provided so many at once, it would greatly improve their combat effectiveness during defensive battles.

After testing and finding no problems, Yue Wenxuan put down his figurine and told Madam Gong Er that he had used the "Six Ding and Six Jia Moving Technique" to deliver a batch of large equipment to them. Then he waved his hand and placed these weapons directly into the rebel army's barracks.

The rebel soldiers were overjoyed, as this saved a lot of craftsmen!
Quickly install these giant crossbows on the city walls.

Jiaoshui County wasn't a large city, just a small one, with a wall no more than two miles long on each side. Fifty crossbows were enough to cover all four walls, ten on each side, with ten extra. These crossbows were wheeled, making them very maneuverable. The extra ten could be used for reinforcements at any time.

As for the catapults, they were placed in the open space behind the city wall.

With this batch of weapons, not only the rebel soldiers, but also the people of the entire Jiaoshui County felt confident.
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Wang Hong fled Jiaoshui County in a panic and retreated to the northwest.

He brought a thousand people with him when he left, but only a hundred were left when he came back. Even his helmet was lost. He looked really miserable.

He ran into Jinan City in a dejected manner, scratching his bald forehead with his hands, and went to the prefectural government office to meet his superior.

After Jinan prefect Liu Yu surrendered, the Jin people entered Jinan and occupied Liu Yu's prefectural office to use as a front-line command post.

The one in charge here is not some famous Jin general. The real famous Jin general, Wanyan Zongfu, led the Jin's eastern army south to capture Zhao Gou. The only one left in Shandong was a subordinate of Wanyan Zongfu, named Amao Xiguo.

This name is a bit ridiculous, and Wang Hong is not very good at pronouncing it, so he has always pronounced it as "Amao Agou".

But even if it was just a random person, Wang Hong had to serve him carefully, for fear of angering Jin Guo's father.

Everyone knew Wang Hong had lost, and seeing him come back looking so shabby and dusty, they couldn't help but feel a bit displeased: "Aren't you a good fighter? How come you ended up like this after fighting a small county like Jiaoshui?"

Wang Hongdao said, "There's a major bandit group in Jiaoshui County, surnamed Gong. My subordinates sent people to question nearby residents and learned that this Gong is actually Gong Er Niangzi, the daughter of Gong Yi, a bandit leader in Jimo. She has many soldiers and generals under her command, while her subordinates are underpowered, which is why we suffered this defeat."

Ah Mao and Ah Gou exclaimed, "Gong Yi? I have some impression of this person."

He thought carefully for a while, and then he remembered that more than a year ago, the Jin army attacked the Song Dynasty for the third time, broke through Kaifeng, captured the two emperors, and then returned north. However, the eastern army advanced along the Yellow River into Shandong, burning, killing, and looting along the way. In a place called Jimo County, they encountered the Gongyi bandit army. At that time, the Gongyi bandit army had gathered 10,000 people and was defending Jimo County.

As a result, the Jin army defeated them in one battle, chopped off Gong Yi's head and hung it on the city gate.

Thinking of this, Ah Mao and Ah Gou laughed: "So she is that guy's daughter."

After saying that, he looked at Wang Hong with disdain: "That Gong Yi is weak and vulnerable, but you can't even defeat his daughter."

Wang Hong, looking embarrassed, touched his bald forehead with his hand and cursed inwardly: "I'm not a powerful person to begin with, otherwise I would have beaten the shit out of you golden dogs in Hebei long ago. It's because I'm weak that I surrendered to save my life."

Ah Mao Ah Gou: "Wang Hong, you really are worthy of being a Song'er. All Song'ers are trash, hahahaha."

Wang Hong: I can endure it!
After enduring it, he looked at the cats and dogs with squinted eyes, thinking: You say I am a waste, I want to see how you fight me.

Ah Mao and Ah Gou had to stay in Jinan and had no time to suppress any bandits. He waved his hand and ordered: "Call the Liao general Bali Yuanshan, who surrendered, and have him lead the Liao surrendered troops to suppress the palace bandits, and then take down Laizhou and Dengzhou. Wang Hong, you go too."

Wang Hong was shocked: "Oh, I only have a hundred people left."

Ah Mao and Ah Gou snorted coldly and said, "Can't we fight with just one hundred men? Your hundred men can still serve as guides and scouts."

Wang Hong: “…”

This is very embarrassing!

There is no way, I can only accept it.

After a while, the surrendered Liao general Bali Yuanshan arrived.

The Bali clan was one of the tribes in the Yaonian clan alliance period of the Liao Dynasty. Together with the Yishiyi clan, they were called "Ershenmi".

The Bali clan intermarried with the Yelu clan almost every generation, becoming the uncle-in-law clan of the Khitan. Later, Yelu Abaoji gave her the surname Xiao, which is how the Queen Xiao of the Liao Dynasty came to be.

Therefore, the Bali family can also be called the Xiao family, and Bali Yuanshan can also be called Xiao Yuanshan.

Wang Hong was shocked when he saw Bali Yuanshan. He was truly a rough and tumble warrior. Every move he made exuded a heroic spirit. His arms were so thick that he could kill five Wang Hongs with one punch. When he heard that they were going to wipe out the palace thieves, Bali Yuanshan grinned and laughed, "Why do you have to ask me to help you suppress a bunch of bandits? They are just a bunch of bandits, are they worthy of it?"

In the eyes of everyone, the Liao generals who surrendered were slightly superior to those who surrendered from the Song. Their attitude towards Bali Yuanshan was much better than their attitude towards Wang Hong: "Though the palace thieves are bandits and vulnerable, they are numerous. When our Great Jin defeated them last year, they already had 10,000 men under their command. Now, a year later, they have once again occupied the county town. I don't know how many troops they have. You should not be careless."

Bali Yuanshan laughed loudly: "No matter how many troops he has, they are just bandits. I can easily crush them."

Ah Mao Ah Gou: "Okay, go ahead. I'll ask Wang Hong to be your guide."

Wang Hong responded with a bitter face: "As you wish!"

So, the second wave of anti-bandit troops set out.

This time the main force was the surrendered soldiers from the Liao Kingdom, numbering as many as 3,000, led by General Bali Yuanshan and Deputy General Wang Hong.

(End of this chapter)