Since Li Yuanhao has fled, then there are only soldiers and horses led by Yeli Wangrong left in Xiliang City? ”

Kou Ji asked.

Zhu Neng replied: "Not only the soldiers and horses led by Yeli Wangrong, but also the captives of the Ganzhou Uighurs that Li Yuanhao defeated. ”

Kou Ji's expression moved, and he asked thoughtfully: "The money, cattle, sheep, and horses that Li Yuanhao seized in Hexi are also in Xiliang City?" ”

Zhu Neng didn't say anything, but he had been paying attention to Li Di, who had been captured in Hexi, and said with a smile: "There are a lot of cattle and sheep that have been used as military food by Li Yuanhao and Yeli Wangrong, and there are a lot of horses and money left. ”

Hearing this, Kou Ji subconsciously glanced at Jiao Guluo.

Now that tens of thousands of soldiers and horses of the Great Song Dynasty have gathered troops in one place and taken Xiliang City, it is an easy matter.

Kakuro hasn't left until now, I'm afraid it's the idea of sharing the spoils.

Even now, it is impossible for Kou Ji to drive people away.

After all, people are reinforcements.

When there is no reason to contribute, use others, and drive others away when they share benefits.

If you really do this, it will be difficult to fool Qingtang's soldiers and horses to come out to help the Great Song Dynasty in the future.

Kou Ji analyzed the intentions left by Jiao Guluo, so he deliberately fooled the Qingtang soldiers and horses to continue to die.

Kou Ji pretended to groan: "So how do you plan to attack the city?" ”

As soon as these words came out, the Chinese army's tent fell into an eerie silence.

Zhu Neng, Li Zhaoliang, and Chong Shiheng all looked at Jiao Guluo.

Li Di also looked at Jiao Guluo with a smile.

Their thoughts were roughly the same as those of Kou Ji.

If Jiao Guluo wants to share the benefits from Xiliang City, his soldiers and horses must be killed.

At the very least, you have to gnaw hard bones.

Seeing this, Jiao Guluo sighed in his heart, but the smile on his face did not change, "If the Jishi Army is here, my soldiers and horses in Qingtang can be the vanguard." But now that the Jishi Army is fighting in Huangtou, the soldiers and horses brought by Ben Hou are a little unsatisfactory, and if he serves as the vanguard, I am afraid that he will miss a major event. ”

Jiao Guluo played Tai Chi and easily pushed the decision to Kou Ji and the others.

If Kou Ji and the others insisted on letting the Qingtang soldiers and horses serve as the vanguard, then the damage caused by the Qingtang soldiers and horses in the siege would have to be compensated for with benefits.

into the city.

There is no doubt that the Qingtang soldiers and horses will eat the most lucrative interests.

If Kou Ji and the others don't let the Qingtang soldiers and horses serve as the vanguard, it belongs to the interests of the Qingtang soldiers and horses, and they are indispensable.

Although it may be eaten less, the Qingtang soldiers and horses will not be damaged.

If you want Qingtang soldiers and horses to contribute, it is impossible.

Jiao Guluo's thoughts, Kou Ji and the others naturally understood it.

Zhu Neng, Li Zhaoliang, Chong Shiheng, and Li Di looked at Kou Ji to see how Kou Ji was ready to respond.

Kou Ji thought about it for a moment and said with a smile: "I have an immature idea, say it and discuss it." ”

Kou Ji's voice landed, and seeing that no one objected, he continued: "There are four gates in the city, we have four soldiers and horses here, each of which is responsible for attacking a city gate, and the first to take the city gate can enjoy thirty percent of the capture, and then the two soldiers and horses who take the city gate can each enjoy two and a half percent of the capture, and the soldiers and horses who finally take the city gate can only enjoy two percent of the capture, what do you think?" ”

Chong Shiheng said with a smile: "Then I will lead the army to attack the East City Gate, and it just so happens that the soldiers and horses I brought are guarding outside the East City Gate." ”

Zhu Neng and Li Zhaoliang were stunned at first.

Then he immediately answered.

Zhu Neng said loudly: "Leave the West City Gate to me!" ”

Li Zhaoliang sighed, "Then I'll be responsible for attacking the North Gate." ”

Jiao Luo looked at Kou Ji and the others in a daze.

Is this a negotiation?

Is this a negotiation?

Before we even discussed it, you had already decided.

The most important thing is that you have snatched up the three best city gates, leaving me with the most difficult west gate?

It's obvious that there are more people and fewer people are bullying!

If it hadn't come to this point, would you believe me flipping the table or not?

Jiao Guluo sighed helplessly and said, "Naxi City Gate will be handed over to me Qingtang soldiers and horses." ”

Although he did not grab the easiest city gate, Qingtang must take the west gate first.

For the sake of that one or half more seizures.

Li Yuanhao almost transported all the money and property collected by the Uighurs in Ganzhou, as well as the money and property looted from Guazhou and other places, to Xiliangcheng.

Although the money in Xiliang City is not as good as the gold hidden by the Uighurs in Shazhou, it is also quite large.

Ishikasui.

To put it mildly, there are millions of dollars.

For the sake of millions of dollars, it's still okay to make a little bit of death.

Kou Ji stood up and said loudly: "Then it's decided, the specific battle strategy will be discussed by the four of you, and you will take Xiliang City within three days, and I will celebrate your achievements in Xiliang City." ”

Jiao Guluo got up and said, "Three days, it's too long." Nearly 200,000 of our men and horses are hoarded here, and every day it takes, it costs a lot of money and food.

In order to avoid long nights and dreams, we are attacking the city today.

Take Xiliang City in one fell swoop. ”

When Zhu Neng heard this, his face was a little bitter.

Most of his men had been following Koji for days.

Kou Ji rushed over from Ganzhou with them in the starry night, and now he is in a time when people are sleepy and tired, and now attacking the city is extremely unfavorable to him.

Zhu Neng had the heart to speak, but after thinking about it carefully, he still didn't speak.

Kakuro's words are right, the night is long and there are many dreams.

Wait one more day, and there will be one more day of variables.

More importantly, among the nearly 200,000 horses, the soldiers and horses of the Great Song Dynasty accounted for a huge number.

The amount of money and food consumed every day is a huge number.

Kou Ji saw the bitterness on Zhu Neng's face, and said to the others with a smile: "The soldiers and horses under General Zhu's command have just arrived, and they are still in the midst of a lack of people and horses, in order to show fairness, I will temporarily lend the three thousand soldiers and horses of the Yuanshan Department to General Zhu, you will not have any objections, right?" ”

Chong Shiheng and Li Zhaoliang shook their heads decisively.

As for Kakuro, who cares what he thinks?

What Kou Ji lent to Zhu Neng was not Qingtang's soldiers and horses.

Seeing this, Kou Ji nodded slowly and said, "Then it's decided...... The four of them are here to discuss the strategy of the battle, so I won't bother for now. ”

Kou Ji arched his hand and left the big tent of the Chinese army.

Li Di followed out of the big tent of the Chinese army.

Jiao Guluo, Zhu Neng, Li Zhaoliang, and Chong Shiheng were left behind to discuss the strategy of the battle in the big tent of the Chinese army.

Li Di trotted to catch up with Kou Ji, and shouted complainingly: "Kou boy, what are you doing when you go so fast, and you don't wait for the old man." ”

Kou Ji paused and said to Li Di: "I am ready to go back to my tent, think about it, and see if I can take advantage of the situation to lead 200,000 soldiers and horses to attack Western Xia and remove Western Xia from the map." ”

Li Di glared in astonishment, "Are you crazy?!" ”

Kou Ji said with a calm face: "I'm not crazy, it's Li Yuanhao who has gone too far." ”

Li Di hurriedly said: "What Li Yuanhao did in Suzhou, the old man has also heard a little. The old man knows that you hate others for slaughtering the people of my Great Song Dynasty.

However, you can't be presumptuous.

You have to think about it for my Great Song.

For the sake of this war in the Western Regions, the imperial court emptied the money in the treasury.

Not only that, but the Changping positions to the west and north of Bianjing City have also been hollowed out.

Although we have seized a lot of money in Shazhou, it will not be able to send it to our Great Song Dynasty for a while, and it will not be able to replace it with grain.

The fertile land you have opened up in Shazhou has just been sown, and when it is harvested, I am afraid it will be autumn.

There is not enough food, how can you let the soldiers of the Great Song Dynasty fight with the soldiers and horses of the Western Xia? ”

Seeing that Kou Ji didn't open his mouth to refute, Li Di continued: "We have just taken Hexi, and the people in Hexi have already been slaughtered by Li Yuanhao. It will take some days for us to digest Hexi.

It's a good thing to be gluttonous, and the old man likes to see you gluttonous.

But if you eat too much, it will kill us.

If you want to fight Western Xia, I won't stop you, and I will even write to the official family to support your strategy of attacking Western Xia.

But can we wait, when we digest Hexi, when we have a surplus in the treasury?

When the time comes, you can toss as much as you want. ”

Li Di paused and said solemnly: "The old man knows that your kid is ambitious, and he is unwilling to look at my current weak situation in the Great Song Dynasty. The old man is also unwilling to look at me, and now the Great Song Dynasty is being oppressed by his neighbors.

We need time now, we need time to accumulate the cost of tossing.

When the capital is saved enough, let alone that you will fight Western Xia, even if you fight the Liao State, the old man will support it unconditionally. ”

After listening to Li Di's words, Kou Ji sighed secretly in his heart.

Li Di is telling the truth.

The imperial court paid a lot of money for this expedition to the Western Regions.

After Kou Ji and his entourage arrived in the Western Regions, they basically didn't worry about baggage.

It seems to be a very ordinary thing, but it is not ordinary at all.

In this era of suppressing military force with literature, except for some high-status generals and commanders, most of the generals and military ministers will always suffer all kinds of difficulties when they lead their troops to attack.

One of them is baggage.

Often, after the baggage leaves Bianjing City and is delivered to the soldiers, it will shrink by nearly half.

There will be countless people in the middle who will reach out and take advantage of the middle.

It's not something shocking, it's a common thing.

Kou Ji vaguely remembered that in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, when the ministers used military salaries and baggage, they didn't even cover up, and they reaped the benefits from the middle.

Nearly one million taels of military salaries were approved, and the bigwigs of the DPRK and China first divided hundreds of thousands of taels among him.

And then distribute it to the soldiers.

And after those soldiers got their salaries, if they wanted to get the next batch of salaries, they had to offer hundreds of thousands of taels or tens of thousands of taels of money to the bigwigs of the DPRK and China.

It can be said that after the military salary was approved, nearly ninety percent of them were eaten by the bigwigs of the DPRK and China.

Although the Great Song Dynasty was not as serious as the Ming Dynasty, it was also a norm to stretch out its hand on military salaries and baggage.

This time, this kind of normalcy did not happen to him.

All the materials needed by Kou Ji will be distributed by the imperial court.

Even if something goes wrong in the middle, the court will make up for it as soon as possible.

In order to avoid the lack of food and clothing in the Western Regions of Kou Ji and his entourage, the imperial court not only spent a lot of money, but also spent a lot of effort.

When Kou Ji left Bianjing, the treasury was empty and he could run rats, and it had been almost four months since Kou Ji left Bianjing, and during these four months, the baggage sent by the imperial court one after another was drawn from the regular liquidation in various places.

Maybe I also borrowed some money from Yizizipu.

Eighty percent of the imperial court is now in debt to support their wars.

Kou Ji seized a lot, but he could fill the debts, reward the soldiers, fill the hollowed out positions, and leave some money to run Hexi, and in the end there was not much left.

The Great Song Dynasty was not a great Han after all, and there was no way to mobilize the power of the country to conquer the Quartet.

The soldiers of the Han Dynasty went on an expedition, and the imperial court only needed to support rice and grain.

When the soldiers of the Great Song Dynasty went on the expedition, the imperial court had to pay not only rice and grain, but also a large amount of sophisticated armaments and a huge amount of military salaries.

After the period of conscription, the people also had to give some corresponding money as compensation.

It can be said that for the same battle, the Great Song Dynasty spent several times as much as the Han Dynasty.

Kou Ji's idea of fighting to feed the war is still a little worse after all.

The soldiers and horses of the Great Song Dynasty were not like the Mongolian soldiers and horses, and they could survive only with mare's milk, beef and mutton.

If they didn't eat rice and noodles for a few days, the soldiers of the Great Song Dynasty were like being hollowed out, and they had no energy.

This is not Kou Ji's imagination, but a fact.

A northerner who is accustomed to eating pasta and runs to the south, and it takes a long time to adapt to the rice life in the south.

And vice versa.

Ancient times are not like later generations.

In later generations, information was developed, transportation was developed, and commerce was developed.

Northerners can also often feed on rice.

Southerners can also eat a variety of pasta dishes in the south.

In ancient times, information was difficult to access, transportation was inconvenient, and commercial development was also some.

Eating habits vary widely.

People who are accustomed to eating pasta eat rice food are not full at all, and even some people have difficulty getting used to eating rice food for a lifetime.

And vice versa.

Kou Ji smiled at Li Di and said, "I'll just say it casually, are you still serious?" ”

Li Di tugged at the corners of his mouth with a stiff expression, and he should have believed Kou Ji's nonsense.

Others joke about this, Li Dixin.

Kou Ji joked about this, but Li Di didn't believe it at all.

Li Di was sure that if he didn't stop him, Kou Ji might really find a way to go to Western Xia.

After all, Kou Ji has a criminal record.

The original idea of the imperial court was to rush to the aid of the Uighurs in Shazhou.

But what about after Koji led his troops to the battle?

The Uighurs, the allies of the imperial court, were gone.

Originally, it only took one or two months to fight, but it was tossed to four months by Kou Ji.

The imperial court had an additional piece of Hexi territory.

One more ally who is about to rise in the Western Regions.

Motoyamabu.

Kou Ji asked Li Di with a smile as he walked into the tent, "You said that the things I did in Shazhou should have been reported back to the imperial court, right?" Why hasn't the court reprimanded me for the documents yet? ”

Li Di glanced at Kou Ji, snorted, and did not speak.

You forced a governor to death in the Western Regions, and of course the imperial court will reprimand you.

Not only will I have to reprimand you, but I will also send an important minister to the Western Regions to confiscate the power of your Qincha.

However, when that guy arrives, does he really dare to reprimand you?

Do you really dare to take out the edict that reprimands you?

You expanded your territory in the Western Regions and won the entire Hexi, which is enough to shock the government and the opposition and shock the world.

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