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    Relying on the speed of their horses, the Liao army seized the road and fled north quickly. The trouble was that the Northern Han soldiers without horses either scattered into the surrounding mountains and villages, or knelt down on the roadside and raised their hands to surrender.  The snow should have been pure and flawless, but it was trampled and trampled into a mess by various footprints, wheel prints, and horse hoof prints. From time to time, there were corpses, stumps, and food scattered on the roadside. This was the panic of the Liao-Han coalition forces.  The tragic scenes along the way after escaping.  Under the personal leadership of Wang Jun, generals such as Qiu Hongchao and Yao Yuanfu followed closely with their cavalry, leaving all the surrendered soldiers to be handled by follow-up troops.  After chasing and escaping, the troops from both sides rushed through Hongtong and entered Huoyi. At this time, the snow fell even harder. In addition, the road from Huoyi north was narrow. The Liao-Han coalition forces were constantly being chased by the Zhou cavalry.  On the ground, accompanied by screams, they were wrapped under their swords and horses, and countless coalition soldiers fell down the cliff.  Qiu Hongchao, Yao Yuanfu and others became more and more excited as they chased. They went north to recapture Lingshi and Jiexiu in one go, and when they were about to attack directly into the Northern Han Dynasty, Wang Jun's order from the rear army was sent, and the front army stopped the pursuit and returned immediately.  Yao Yuanfu didn't understand, so he sent his bodyguard to report back: "Liu Chong came out in full force, united with the Hu cavalry, and aimed at Jin and Jiang. Now his morale is declining, exhausted, and he is fleeing in confusion. Why not take advantage of this moment to annihilate him in one fell swoop to avoid future troubles."  Wang Jun soon sent a strict personal order, and the former army immediately stopped the pursuit. Anyone who violated the order would be punished as disobeying the military order.  Qiu Hongchao tried his best to dissuade Yao Yuanfu, who was still unwilling, and led the team back slowly, collecting horses, grain and other trophies along the way, and of course the Liao prisoners.  What they didn't know at the time was that due to their hasty flight, when the Khitan army returned to Jinyang, there were only a little over 20,000 soldiers left. They lost 30,000 cavalry on the trip south, and the 20,000 elite troops sent by the Northern Han Dynasty were almost completely lost.  After returning in vain, Xiao Yujue, the governor of the Liao Kingdom Zhangguo, was furious and pinned the chief Huhan, who had lost his land due to alcoholism and worsened the war situation, to the street. He pinned him for fifteen days before killing him with a single sword.  There was only one breath left to sweat.  Emperor Liu Chong of the Northern Han Dynasty, who was defeated again from Jinyang, urgently raised a large amount of money and food, and sent away Xiao Yu, who had been furious. After that, he finally fully understood what kind of mess he was facing: Northern Han Dynasty  The land of the Han Dynasty itself was barren and the people were poor. Now they had to recruit and supply the army, support the government, and contribute money to the Khitan. The country's financial resources and national strength were already overwhelmed and crumbling. Reality defeated passion. Liu Chong's idea of ????going south to make progress was completely eliminated.  He was thrown into the eighteenth level of hell, and from then on he never had a single thought again.  This is something for later, let¡¯s not mention it for now.  Just when Guo Wei was temporarily stationed in Jinzhou to clean up the war, reward the heroes, and prepare to go south, Lin Feng, who was trapped in Shouzhou, began to feel upbeat.  In the early morning of November 2nd, three groups of three fireworks were lit continuously on the north bank of the Huaihe River in the northeast of Shouzhou City. This information was quickly reported to Lin Feng by the Beicheng guards.  Lin Feng consulted Li Yuanqing, who was in charge of northern intelligence, and learned that this was the reporting method agreed in advance with the intelligence department personnel lurking in the north. The fireworks warning was located in the northeast and should have come from Yanzhou. A group of people could only guess.  It was Murong Yanchao who failed in his uprising.  Lin Feng and all his subordinates sighed, lamenting and scolding Murong Yanchao for his lack of success and failure. It was true that the wall could not be supported by mud. However, this was just a casual move, and Lin Feng did not have high hopes for it.  Just turned the page.  However, in the early morning of November 3rd, the same firework warning signal was set off again in the northwest. Lin Feng's heart suddenly twitched. Now it could only be a warning signal coming from the Shanxi and Jiangxi areas. Could it be that the Liao-Han coalition forces were also attacked by the big army?  Zhou quickly smoothed it out.  Now, things have exploded. After eliminating internal and external troubles, Zhou Zhou will definitely focus all his attention on the south, and Shouzhou will definitely bear the brunt.  Lin Feng urgently summoned a group of close generals to discuss behind closed doors for two days, carefully review the gains and losses of city defense, and discuss strategies to retreat from the enemy. However, for a while, no one had a better idea. Lin Feng thought hard about the ancient and modern examples of city defense at home and abroad.  He really couldn't come up with many tricks to defeat the enemy, so in the end he had to resort to his best trick: recruiting people in the city for tricks to defeat the enemy.  Not to mention, in the way that people in the city actively handed it over, there are really some tricks that can be used for reference: A craftsman who has mined limestone suggested that lime boils when it meets water and can hurt people's eyes, so he can throw lime on the city  Pack the cans and pour hot water on them at the same time to injure the enemy and drive them back; An official from the Datang Academy of Sciences suggested that a batch of simple hand crossbows could be made urgently based on the principles of pulleys and springs, equipped with pointed wooden arrows, and assembled to the garrison  On the arm of a city soldier; Adil, an external scientist from the Datang Academy of Sciences, handed over an extraterritorial folk recipe for defending the city: using dried human feces, mixed with wolfsbane, grass bird head, croton, saponin, arsenic, arsenic,  Add half a kilogram each of sesame oil, four liang of panmao, and one kilogram of lime. Put them in a pot and boil them. Put one and a half kilograms into a thin earthen pot.Use a dung cannon and throw it outside the city. The juice can penetrate into the iron armor, and those who hit it will become sores and ulcers. Those who put the poison can put black plum and licorice in their mouths to ward off the poison. Those who shoot arrows can also pour its juice into the arrows, and the enemy will be seriously injured.  After being reminded by the military general, Lin Feng suddenly realized that Adil's recipe was an enhanced version of the ancient city defense "golden juice".  In ancient city defense battles, boiled feces and urine were often used, euphemistically called "golden juice."  Zeng Gongliang of the Northern Song Dynasty edited the military work "General Martial Arts", which also specifically discussed the role of "golden juice" in repelling the enemy.  To be honest, no one has mentioned using "golden juice" to protect Shouzhou City before, but Lin Feng silently rejected it. In his heart, he really didn't want to use such a cruel trick in the national civil war.  However, the situation is different now. The Southern Tang Dynasty is surrounded by enemies on three sides, and Huainan is on fire everywhere. The Great Zhou Dynasty, which has concentrated all its power, will definitely go south with all its strength. Once Shouzhou is lost, the entire Huainan Jiangbei area will be defeated. The Southern Tang Dynasty is bound to go, and the general trend of the world is  It is also certain that all his efforts in the past two years will be in vain. At this time, it is no longer time to stick to small details.  This time, Lin Feng handed over all the available ways to retreat from the enemy to Lu Jiang and asked him to arrange manpower to actively prepare. In the next few days, Lin Feng declined all visits and went out, and took Feng Jingyun, Lu Jiang and others to the birthday party.  The Secret Academy of the State Academy of Sciences was in seclusion, concentrating on the study of secret weapons. Some action plans that had been arranged in advance were artificially accelerated by Lin Feng, and they were fully prepared to deal with the upcoming new wave of offensive and defensive battles.  At this point, the brutality of the Civil War has quietly escalated again.
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