Chapter 897

A quarter of an hour passed, two quarters of an hour passed, and three quarters of an hour passed, but there was still no Song army within the range of the fire in the camp, which made Yelu Jinping a little confused.

"What's going on? Ask the guards in other aspects, are there any traces of the Song army found there?" Yelu Jinping's majestic voice spread out again.

Soon, a general rushed over to report that there was no trace of the Song army found in the village wall he was responsible for. The guards of the other two village walls also sent people to report that they were not attacked.

"Is it a trick of doubting the military? Or, the Song people wanted to take the opportunity to escape?" Yelu Hongji's thought appeared in his mind and he was shocked.

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

"Send a detective cavalry out of the camp immediately to search for the whereabouts of the Song army, hurry up! Especially searching south!" Yelu Jinping's military order was soon fulfilled by the soldiers...

One hour later, the news was that no matter in the south or east or north, let alone the Song army, they didn't even see a ghost.

Now, Yelu Jinping and the coalition generals beside him were all confused.

"Can they say that the Song army has withdrawn? Or are they hiding in the dark, waiting for our army's mistakes?"

"Sir, I finally think that we should send a scout cavalry to the direction of Youzhou City to see what the Song people are doing."

Yelu Jinping nodded. Soon, dozens of brave scouts, who were brave and brave, were slowly approaching in the direction of Youzhou City with fear, because they were worried that the other party would be ambushed in the darkness, and all scouts would be worried. Every time the rider took a step forward, their care would be beating wildly.

He reached a place that was comparable to a turtle's advance, and then he was shocked to find that there was a ghost Song army. At this moment, the guards on the city top discovered these stunned detective cavalry. A crossbow arrow came down and directly sent seven or eight unlucky ghosts to the Huangquan for their lives.

The remaining detectives fled desperately, galloping beyond the range of the Yuanyou Crossbow, and then took a breath.

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Yelu Jinping heard the reports of these reconnaissance cavalry who had fled back, and the generals from the other three sects also sent messengers to prove that a large number of Song troops had also appeared in the urn city they were facing.

The number was more than ten thousand. Yelu Jinping was stunned for a long time before he could calm down. After a long time, the Song people just rushed out to meet each other, and then slipped back in a thief?

"What are they trying to do? Do they humiliate us?" A general next to Yelu Jinping couldn't help but slap the sword beside his waist in anger, and said in a bad voice.

"No matter what the Song army does, all we have to do is to keep calm and not be disturbed by the Song army's abnormal movements." Yelu Jinping glanced at the generals beside him and could only give such instructions.

For him who is good at attacking, it is so frustrating to let him do such defensive things.

Fortunately, the whole night was very calm. Although I was tossed for nearly two hours, I finally had a good rest.

However, the enemy troops outside the city had already rested, but the city was still full of heat and heat. The Yuanyou stone throwing machines that were originally standing on the launching position had all been concentrated near the walls of Dongcheng City, and countless craftsmen and soldiers were busy.

And the entire sixteen, well, there were only twelve before. In the more than a month, Wang Yang asked the craftsmen to use the extra accessories to form four Yuanyou stone throwing machines.

Now, sixteen Yuanyou stone throwers are lined up on a horizontal street about twenty feet away from the Dongcheng City Wall, and one is placed every three feet away. These tall and majestic long-range weapons are completely concentrated on a street.

It was like a group of powerful and delicate giants, ready to go. They were busy until late at night, and the completion was completed. However, the two ends of the street and the courtyard walls on both sides were full of soldiers, and no one was allowed to approach them.

After all, the Yuanyou stone thrower is currently a high-end and high-range weapon unique to the Song Dynasty. If you keep it secret for a while, the Song Dynasty will have an advantage for a while.

"First wave of test shooting!" Accompanied by a low roar, the sixteen Yuanyou stone throwing spoons fluttered high into the sky. In the spoon, five round cement bombs were thrown into the night sky, crossed the city walls and towers, and flew towards the dark depths outside the city.

At this time, dozens of soldiers who had lurked under the city quickly dispersed and moved forward in a strange step similar to a regular stance. With the bright silver moonlight, they began to search the ground carefully, looking for the collision marks caused by the stone bullets hitting the ground.

When the collision marks fell to the ground, when the round stone bullet was found that it flew several feet away, it would silently record the distance calculated by the number of steps. Of course, it would also take away the rock bullet. In addition, it deliberately sprinkled some red brick debris at the collision mark.

"Confirmed? How far is the distance?"

"Sir, it's about seventy feet from the city wall to the landing area, with a distance of about three feet..." The soldiers responsible for measuring outside the city have returned to the city and are reporting the data that needs to be collected to the head coach Wang Yang.

After estimating, Wang Yang nodded and said, "Very good, enough. Tomorrow, the distance to send troops to the east gate is... fifty, no, fifty-five meters..."

"Will adults be too risky like this? The distance is so close..."

"Is it very close? That's fifteen feet, not fifteen steps. Besides, we should stay away from the city and be within the cover of the Yuanyou Crossbow on the city. Do you think the Liaoxia coalition forces dare to attack us?"

Everyone thought about it, but if they didn't leave the protection scope of Yuanyou Crossbow, they would be hard to say whether the Liaoxia coalition forces dared to fight.

"By the way, General Zhao and the others have not come back yet?" After Wang Yang finished giving instructions, he turned his head and asked Master Zhong.

"Not yet, why don't we wait a little longer? Let's wait until General Zhao comes back before making a decision?" Zhong Shihe said uneasy.

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

Wang Yang thought about it and could only nod his head in depressed manner. "Well, just wait for another two hours. If so, if General Zhao has not come back then, tomorrow's attack plan will be cancelled."

Just when Wang Yang and a group of civil and military officials in Youzhou were restless, General Zhao was leading more than ten cavalrymen to carefully touch the city of Youzhou where they could already see the fire on the top of the city.
Chapter completed!