Since the death of Emperor Taizong, the imperial court has not opened up any territory to this day.

Kou Ji opened up several states in the Western Regions, which was enough to cheer up the government and the opposition.

No matter what Kou Ji did before or how much mistake he made, the court had to press it.

After all, Koji's credit is greater than his fault.

If the imperial court is in the excitement of the government and the opposition, it will deal with Kou Ji.

Then the resentment of the people will be great.

Under the boiling of public resentment, those civil and military officials in the court, including the official family, are estimated to be scolded miserably.

The official family will be reduced to a faint king, and the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty will become traitors.

Most of the civil servants in the court still have to use their fame to get promoted to make a fortune, and they will definitely not have a reputation.

Therefore, no matter how dissatisfied the courtiers were with what Kou Ji had done in the Western Regions, they had to maintain Kou Ji's reputation.

If you want to punish Kou Ji, you have to wait for the limelight to pass.

Before the whole Hexi was won, Li Di was still worried about Kou Ji, and now there is no need to worry about Kou Ji.

Li Di followed Kou Ji and rested in the tent for a while.

Zhu Neng sent someone over to spread the word, saying that it was a strategy to attack Xiliang City, and it had been agreed upon, and he was ready to attack Xiliang City, and asked Kou Ji and Li Di to come forward to say a few words to the soldiers.

Kou Ji and Li Di tidied up their clothes and left the tent.

The drums of war have been beaten.

The soldiers in the camp have begun to gather in the direction of the point.

After Kou Ji and Li Di arrived, they boarded the stage.

Li Di spoke a lot of inspiring words.

It was Kou Ji's turn, Kou Ji stepped onto the platform, raised the sword of the Son of Heaven in his hand, and said a word.

"The first meritorious person in this battle, knighted! What the official said! ”

"Roar!"

"Roar!"

The soldiers boiled for a moment.

It seems to have returned to the era when he was immediately crowned a marquis and won wealth with military merits.

The crowd is excited.

Even Zhu Neng and Li Zhaoliang, who had already put the duke title in their pockets, were excited when they heard this.

Li Di listened and tugged at the corners of his mouth.

The government and the opposition are up and down, and Kou Ji dares to say this.

Because Zhao Zhen will help him carry it.

If others say this, they will probably be charged with false transmission of the divine will and executed on the spot.

"Drums! Enter! ”

The drums of war beat again.

The war drums of the generals were very dense and urgent, and seemed to be urging all the soldiers.

The war drums of the march were very impassioned, and seemed to encourage the soldiers to move forward bravely.

Kou Ji has already helped Zhu Neng ignite his morale, and Zhu Neng doesn't need to talk too much, he just needs to take the soldiers to attack.

After the soldiers formed a battle formation and pushed the ordnance out of the camp.

Kou Ji and Li Di, escorted by a group of guards, went to a hillside outside Xiliang City to watch the battle.

The hillside is not high, and there are not many trees on it.

Condescending.

Inside and outside Xiliang City, you can see it at a glance.

Inside Xiliang City.

Yeli Wangrong sent all the soldiers and horses in the city to the city wall.

The walls of the city were full of people.

Yeli Wangrong seemed to realize that the Song army would not give him a chance to breathe, so he did not spare any hand, and pressed all his troops on the head of the city, making a desperate fight.

Xiliang City is on all sides.

Nearly 200,000 soldiers and horses formed a battle formation and pressed towards Xiliang City, and the scene was very spectacular.

The battle formations on the east, west, and north sides are much the same.

The battle formation of the soldiers and horses led by Zhu Neng looked a little rough.

There is an indomitable momentum.

The battle formation of the soldiers and horses led by Li Zhaoliang was very compact.

There is no superfluous place to be seen, it is close and neat, like a huge parade phalanx.

The battle formation of the soldiers and horses led by Chong Shiheng was decent.

There is nothing particularly prominent, and there are no particularly eye-catching places.

But if you look closely, you can still see some differences.

He used the same battle formation as Zhu Neng and Li Zhaoliang, but the deployment of soldiers and horses in the battle formation was slightly different.

Zhu Neng and Li Zhaoliang both placed heavy ordnance such as trebuchets and siege vehicles in the middle of the battle array.

However, Chong Shiheng placed heavy ordnance such as trebuchets and siege engines on both sides of the inner wall of the battle array.

Compared with the siege method of the three soldiers and horses of the Great Song Dynasty, the siege method of the Qingtang soldiers and horses is a bit difficult to see.

There are still battle formations, but they are very rough.

When the soldiers and horses charged, the image of the battle array was difficult to maintain, and it was more like a swarm of swarms rushing to the city.

Of course, this is not to say that Qingtang soldiers and horses are not strong.

It's that they are not good at the way of battle formation, nor are they good at the Song army's siege of the city.

If the Great Song Dynasty soldiers and horses and Qingtang soldiers and horses are thrown into the wilderness, it is not certain who will lose and who will win.

Qingtang soldiers and horses were more accustomed to field warfare than siege warfare.

Under the gaze of Kou Ji and Li Di, nearly 200,000 soldiers and horses pressed under Xiliang City.

With the help of horsepower, the Qingtang soldiers and horses rushed to the city first.

Begin the siege.

Zhu Neng followed.

followed by Li Zhaoliang.

On the contrary, the Shiheng is the last.

Nearly 200,000 soldiers and horses attacked the city.

The black oppression, like a black curtain, shrouded outside Xiliang City, gradually eroding the entire Xiliang City.

One by one, large fireballs flew into Xiliang City and smashed on the walls of Xiliang City, and the city burst open, igniting countless flames in Xiliang City.

The majestic rain of arrows made internal and external mistakes, forming a dense network of arrows in the air.

The sound of fireworks and shouts of killing instantly filled the entire battlefield.

Li Di stared at the majestic siege scene under the mountain, and said with a little excitement: "The old man has never seen the scene of 200,000 soldiers and horses attacking a city. ”

Koji nodded approvingly.

He hadn't seen it either.

The scene of 200,000 soldiers and horses attacking a city was very rare in ancient times.

Often, in a battle between countries, the total number of troops invested is only about 200,000.

The total number of troops invested in battles between powerful countries rarely exceeds one million.

When the number of soldiers and horses exceeds 30,000, they will not gather together to attack a city.

Rather, it will divide the troops.

It is divided into left, middle and right soldiers.

And then subdivided.

The aim is to devote more troops to where they are needed most.

Expand the results in the shortest possible time.

During this period, the main force rarely gathered more than 100,000 people together.

The scene of 200,000 soldiers and horses attacking a city is rare to see.

Unless it's a place where the armies converge and attack the capital.

……

The battle to attack Xiliang City.

It lasted from noon to early evening.

The two sides fought for a full afternoon.

With a capable army, Chong Shiheng broke through the defense of the Western Xia soldiers and horses at the head of the city.

Chong Shiheng's subsequent attack was the first to attack the city.

As Chong Shiheng opened up the situation, the Jiao Gang Luo Fang then also attacked the city.

Then there was Zhu Neng, and finally Li Zhaoliang.

Although Zhu Neng's soldiers and horses were sleepy and lacking, after receiving the knighthood reward promised by Kou Ji, they were still very brave, and with the help of more than 2,000 musketeers patrolling the horse guard, they were one step faster than Li Zhaoliang.

Yeli Wangrong in the city worked very hard and worked hard.

But he could not reverse the situation.

Most of the soldiers and horses he led were cavalry, and they were not suitable for defending the city.

Coupled with the fact that there is no large ordnance in hand, it is difficult to defeat four times as many enemies.

Enemies poured in from the west like a tidal wave.

He could divide his soldiers and horses into four parts and stick to the four city walls, but he couldn't divide himself into four parts, put them on the four city walls, and command the Western Xia soldiers and horses on the four city walls to fight.

The people who command the soldiers and horses outside the city, Li Zhaoliang may be weaker than him, and Zhu Neng is on par with him.

Jiaoluo and Chong Shiheng are much stronger than him.

Qingjian City under the rule of Chong Shiheng was like a nail, rooted on the edge of Xixia, and after many years, Xixia could not help him.

It can be seen that the kind of Shiheng is powerful.

Although Kakuro rarely sees him in battle, it doesn't mean that he can't fight.

In terms of the way of killing on the battlefield, he is one line stronger than An Ziluo.

Liao, Qingtang, and Western Xia, those who can't command soldiers and horses to fight are not qualified to be kings at all, and they are not qualified to override others.

The head wolf must not only have extraordinary wisdom, but also extraordinary bravery.

When the commanders under his command lead the wolves to kill the enemy, the head wolf has to go into battle himself.

In the chaotic situation, Jiaoguo Luo dominates Qingtang and is undoubtedly a qualified wolf king.

Therefore, he is not only very wise, but also very good at killing.

Therefore, from the moment the war began, it was over.

Four strong enemies, leading several times the number of soldiers and horses to attack Yeli Wangrong, unless there is a miracle, it is impossible for Yeli Wangrong to rebel.

However, the miracle did not happen.

Nori Wangei probably expected to lose when the war started, so he gambled everything.

Perhaps earlier, he had expected to lose.

Li Yuanhao led the soldiers and horses to the outside of Xiliang City, but he did not break through the siege and join him.

At that time, he probably expected his fate.

Because Xixia is in Hexi, the general trend has gone, and it is difficult to turn around.

At the moment when Yeli Wangrong was attacked in Xiliang City, did he curse Li Yuanhao in his heart, Kou Ji didn't know.

Kou Ji only knew that the battle in Xiliang City was over.

The fighting in Hexi was also over.

It's time for him to go down the mountain, it's time to go back to his tent, pack up, and prepare to enter Xiliang City.

It's time to sit in the city lord's mansion in Xiliang City and write a document to the imperial court.

As he descended the mountain, Koji glanced north.

The Hongshui River is dozens of miles away in the north outside Xiliang City.

Li Yuanhao probably took his remnants with him and wailed on the banks of the Hongshui River.

Kou Ji put his hands behind his back, looked north at the Hongshui River, and said faintly: "Li Yuanhao, I think too highly of you...... I thought you would take advantage of the chaos to fight outside Xiliang City for a while, and fight for a chance for Yeli Wangrong to break through......

It's a pity that I didn't see you from beginning to end......"

Li Di sighed behind Kou Ji: "Knowing that it is a dead end, of course he will not come......"

Kou Ji smiled and didn't speak.

Descended the mountain.

Back in the barracks.

Kou Ji and Li Di got together to write official documents.

With a stroke of his pen, Kou Ji wrote down the general meaning he wanted to express to the imperial court on a piece of paper, and then placed it on Li Di's desk.

"Two official documents, one for the inner court and one for the official family......"

Li Di stared at Kou Ji stunned, "Why don't you write it yourself?" ”

"Me?"

Kou Ji pointed at himself and said with a smile: "The writing is not as good as you, and the knowledge is not as good as you, and the things you write are always a little unsatisfactory." With such a big credit, it can't be a stain because my writing is too poor, right? ”

When Li Di heard this, he was angry and funny, pointed at Kou Ji's nose and scolded with a smile: "You kid doesn't learn and don't know how to do it, are you still reasonable?" ”

"If you don't have it, you can work hard......"

"You're bullying the old man......"

"You don't ...... old"

"You're using the old man as a clerk......

"What's the matter, you are always a person who has served as a member of the Tongzhong Shumen, even if it is an official, you are not qualified to use you as a clerk......"

“……”

Li Di is talking to Kou Ji, but he is also diligent in his hands.

After writing the recital that he should have written, he helped Kou Ji write the official documents and good news that Kou Ji was going to report.

Although Kou Ji has a bit of a meaning to treat him as a clerical envoy, he doesn't care.

After writing, without waiting for Kou Ji's instructions, Li Di quickly sealed the official document and good news, and then put them into three letterboxes and handed them to the messenger who delivered the letter.

"Eight hundred miles all the way to the urgency, send the good news back, eight people and eight horses, beat gongs and drums, and make the good news that my Great Song Dynasty took Hexi to the public!"

When Li Di handed the letter to the messenger, he gave a few special words.

Such a major event should be announced to the world and celebrated by the whole country.

The messenger got the letterbox, and it was very exciting.

As an old messenger chief, he delivered important official documents, if not a thousand, but eight hundred.

There was no important good news.

He led people and ran on the official road of the Great Song Dynasty with a horse, and was bumped into by the people, who would always guess where something bad had happened.

Is it a plague, or a dead person?

Now that he has received the good news, he can also raise his head and chest and announce loudly to the Quartet.

Good news!

Hexi victory!

Hexi returns to Song!

It's inspiring to think about.

After Li Di sent the messenger out of the tent, he turned around and said to Kou Ji in the tent: "If one day, you can take back the sixteen states of Yanyun, the old man can help you take off your boots." ”

Kou Ji was stunned for a moment, and raised his eyebrows slightly.

Li Di cried and laughed: "You kid really want the old man to help you take off your boots?" ”

Kou Ji laughed, "You're laughing...... I'm just thinking about how to govern Hexi in the future. ”

Li Di glanced at Kou Ji and muttered, "What do you think......

Kou Ji said with a smile: "In the Han Dynasty, there were four counties in Hexi. I don't have the saying of a county in the Great Song Dynasty, but I say this again. Hexi can be set up as a road, which is called Hexi Road.

Xiliang can be designated as the capital city of Hexi. ”

Li Di pondered: "It's okay to set up Hexi Road." Go back and write to the court and see what the court has to say. ”

Koji nodded.

Just as the two of them were talking.

A soldier covered in blood gave a bow and entered the tent.

"Qiqi Kou Qincha, Li Gong, Xiliang City has been breached, and Hexi belongs to my Great Song Dynasty."

The soldier's voice was loud and heroic.

It can be seen that he has a pride and arrogance in his heart.

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