Cao Wei smiled softly, patted Kou Ji's shoulder and said, "Don't worry, the old man left you two powerful helpers." With their help, you will definitely be able to defend Baozhou City. ”

Without waiting for Kou Ji to open his mouth to ask, Cao Wei gently stroked his palm and looked behind a map hanging in the city gate building.

"Come out!"

The voice landed.

Two figures slowly walked out from behind the map.

Kou Ji looked at it fixedly, his face stunned, "Di Qing? ”

After a year of military training, Di Qing has matured a lot, with a lot less immaturity and more vicissitudes.

His handsome face, after the baptism of wind and frost, has a little more fortitude in sharpening and chiseling, and it looks even more attractive.

Judging from his physical appearance alone, it is difficult to think of him as a young man.

Beside Di Qing, there stood a middle-aged man in his forties, with a full beard, a long scar on his face, very sharp eyes, wearing a coarse linen coat, and a pair of leather boots on his feet, looking a little nondescript.

In his hand, he held a broken knife, which was stained with blood, but it had not been cleaned.

Di Qing saw Kou Ji, took the initiative to step forward, hugged his fists and saluted, "Di Qing has seen my brother......"

Kou Ji looked Di Qing up and down, and nodded with satisfaction, "I've grown a lot taller, and I've grown a lot stronger......

After a pause, Kou Ji stared at Di Qing's face and said, "You look a lot more handsome, and you are easy to suffer on the battlefield." Be careful of being looked down upon by the Liao girl, and tied up to be the prince of the village. ”

Di Qing patted his chest, and there was a sound of gold and iron, and he laughed in a low voice: "Qing has always remembered his brother's advice, so every time there is a war, he wears the mask given by his brother.

When Liao Nu saw Qing, she would only be scared to death by Qing, and she would not have the idea of catching Qing back. ”

Kou Ji saw Di Qing take his advice to heart, and nodded with satisfaction.

His eyes fell on the middle-aged man in nondescript clothes, and asked Cao Wei suspiciously, "Who is this?" ”

When this person saw him, not only did he not salute him, but even waited for him to give a salute in the past, and Kou Ji guessed that his identity was not ordinary.

Cao Wei glanced at the middle-aged man and sighed.

"Do you say it yourself, or does the old man say it for you?"

The middle-aged man shook his head, stared at Kou Ji and said in a deep voice: "Yongxing Road Mabu Army is the commander of Li Zhaoliang!" ”

When Kou Ji heard his words, his face was shocked, and he almost jumped up in surprise.

"Are you Li Zhaoliang?"

Koji exclaimed.

Li Zhaoliang groaned for a moment and nodded helplessly.

Kou Ji stared at Li Zhaoliang in disbelief, looked up and down for a long time, and said, "Aren't you dead?" ”

When Li Zhaoliang heard this, a gloom flashed in his eyes, and he said in a low voice: "I almost died, but I escaped by luck." ”

Kou Ji hurriedly said, "Since you are alive, why don't you go back to Beijing?" ”

A hideous look appeared on Li Zhaoliang's face, and he said, "I also want to go back, I also want to go back to clear my innocence, but I can't go back." ”

Kou Ji heard what Li Zhaoliang said, and hurriedly asked, "What's going on in your war in Western Xia?" Why can't you go back to Beijing? ”

Li Zhaoliang said resentfully: "I was ordered to lead nearly 200,000 soldiers and horses to fight in Western Xia (note, the 200,000 soldiers referred to here are not only the soldiers of the Datong Army, the Yongxing Army, and the Gande Army, but also the township soldiers and feudal soldiers from all over the country), and after taking Longzhou, I successively captured Yinzhou and the Great Wall. Just when I was about to lead the army to fight with Zhe Weizhong and Chong Shiheng.

Ding Wei suddenly jumped out, deprived me of military power, and forced my soldiers to leave the Great Wall, preparing to attack Huaizhou, hoping to take the territory of Western Xia south of the Great Wall in one fell swoop.

But when he led the army to Huaizhou, he happened to bump into the Liao Emperor Yelu Longxu who was leading the Liao army to attack Huaizhou City. ”

When Li Zhaoliang said this, he clenched his fists tightly and roared angrily: "That idiot, when he saw the Liao army attacking Huaizhou City, he actually did not order the soldiers and horses to retreat, but ordered the whole army to attack the Liao army.

He actually wanted to lead three weak chamber armies to break through the guards of the Liao royal family and the leather room army, and capture the Liao Emperor Yelu Longxu alive. ”

In the past, Kou Ji would not have felt much when he heard Li Zhaoliang's words.

After all, there were only 100,000 Pi Room troops, and Li Zhaoliang led 200,000 soldiers and horses.

200,000 against 100,000 may not lose.

But when he arrived in Baozhou and saw the combat effectiveness of the Baosai Army and the armament of the Baosai Army, he knew how weak the combat effectiveness of the Xiang Army was.

A group of soldiers who lacked food and clothing, and did not have enough to eat, carried broken swords and soldiers, to fight against a group of tiger and wolf divisions armed to the teeth and had been fighting in the north and south for many years, purely looking for death.

The leather room army is the most elite soldier and horse in the Liao State.

Otherwise, they would not have become the royal family of Liao.

Their status in the Liao State is like that of the Upper Fourth Army in the forbidden army of the Great Song Dynasty.

Let the 200,000 Xiang army fight against the 100,000 forbidden army.

The final result was that the 100,000 forbidden army crushed the 200,000 Xiang army.

In the face of the attack of the forbidden army's various armaments, it was difficult for the 200,000 Xiang army to rush in front of the forbidden army, even if they relied on the advantage of numbers, they reluctantly rushed in front of the forbidden army, and they were helpless to take the forbidden army covered in steel.

If you slash someone, they may not even react.

But if someone slashes you, they can kill you.

In the same way, the 200,000 Xiang Army, against the 100,000 Leather Room Army armed to the teeth, will also be crushed.

Although the leather room army does not have the luxurious infantry armor of the Great Song Dynasty Forbidden Army, they also wear armor with people and horses.

Although the armor of the leather room army is not up to the level of heavy armored cavalry, the level of armor equipped by others is not far from that of heavy armored cavalry.

It's not that the Liao State can't build the leather room army into heavy cavalry.

But the Liao Emperors of the past dynasties did not have the idea of building the leather room army into a heavy armored cavalry.

When they built the leather room army, in addition to all-round armor for the leather room army, they also retained the mobility that the cavalry should have.

If you have to give the leather room army a position, they are between the light cavalry and the heavy cavalry.

Although not as swift as the light cavalry, nor as brutal as the heavy cavalry, it has the characteristics of both cavalry.

What's more, the soldiers of the leather room army are all elites drawn from various ethnic groups by the Liao Emperors of the past dynasties, and they are all warriors who can be used as ten.

It is far from being comparable to a group of hungry soldiers with yellow faces and thin muscles and carrying broken blades.

The corners of Kou Ji's mouth twitched involuntarily when he thought of the scene of a group of yellow-faced and thin-skinned people, carrying broken blades to attack the Liao State's armed leather room army to the teeth.

"So, you're defeated?"

Li Zhaoliang gritted his teeth and said resentfully: "If it is commanded by me, even if it is defeated, it will not be defeated too badly." But Ding is that guy, he commands soldiers and horses, and he is simply sending meat to the Liao army.

The first attack of 200,000 soldiers did not break through the guards of the leather room army, but it also caused a lot of trouble to the leather room army.

But during the second attack, the soldiers rushed halfway, but they couldn't rush down. ”

Kou Ji was stunned and said, "Why? ”

Li Zhaoliang's teeth were about to bite off, and he said bitterly: "Ding Wei led the soldiers to rush halfway, and when he saw the leather room army rushing towards him, he was afraid of the power of the leather room army, and actually ...... on the spot ...... on the spot"

Cao Wei, Di Qing, and Cao Xu had closed their eyes in pain when they heard this.

Kou Ji was stunned and said, "Ding Wei ran away?" ”

Li Zhao nodded and laughed miserably: "Ding Wei ran away...... In front of the 200,000 army, he rode away on horseback so magnificently. ”

When Koji heard this, he fell silent.

Although he didn't know anything about military affairs, he also knew how the main general who commanded the battle fled when the army was fighting, and what kind of impact it would have on the army.

Kou Ji clenched his fists angrily and shouted, "Ding Wei should be damned!" ”

Li Zhaoliang laughed miserably: "Yes! Ding is damned! As soon as he ran, he saved his life. can leave 200,000 soldiers on the battlefield without a leader. Under the impact of the leather room army, they were like headless flies, scurrying around.

It was divided, strangled, divided, and strangled again.

200,000 soldiers were beheaded on the spot, and more than 30,000 people were beheaded on the spot.

Seventy or eighty thousand people were so sad and indignant that they voted for the Liao people on the spot.

The rest of the soldiers were either captured as prisoners or scattered.

When I led the tribe out, there were less than 3,000 people left with me. ”

Kou Ji said angrily: "Since you are still alive, you should go back to Bianjing City, expose Ding Wei's hypocrisy, and avenge those soldiers who were wronged and humiliated on the battlefield." ”

Li Zhaoliang said miserably: "I also want to go back, I also want to go to the Vertical Arch Palace, confront Ding Wei, and expose Ding Wei's hypocrisy, but I can't go back." ”

Kou Ji asked, "Why can't you go back?" Could it be that someone is still stopping you from returning to Beijing? ”

After Kou Ji asked this sentence, Li Zhaoliang fell into silence again.

Cao Wei, an insider, sighed.

Kou Ji looked at their reactions, and said with a solemn expression: "Is someone really blocking it?" ”

Li Zhaoliang nodded helplessly: "Yes, and there is more than one wave." ”

Kou Ji said in a deep voice: "What kind of person, so bold. ”

Li Zhaoliang shook his head, "I don't know what their identities are, but I know that they are strong in martial arts. ”

Li Zhaoliang stared at Kou Ji and said, "After I withdrew from Huaizhou, I originally planned to return to Yinzhou, and then return to Bianjing City from Yinzhou and tell the imperial court about this.

But before I could reach the Great Wall, I killed a group of people, made a decisive move, and attacked ruthlessly.

The 3,000 soldiers I led died tragically at the hands of thieves in order to protect me.

Escorted by the soldiers, I rushed all the way to Yaode City and took refuge in the high ground of the Gong army.

Originally, he planned to return to Beijing with him when Gong led the military division back to the DPRK from a high place.

But I took refuge in the high ground Gong's army, and there were still people who assassinated me.

At present, the war in Western Xia is tight, and Gao Di Gong can't protect me thoroughly, so he sent someone to send me here. ”

Li Zhaoliang said this, there is no need to say it explicitly, everyone can guess who the person who assassinated him was and who sent him.

has the ability to force Li Zhaoliang and his 3,000 soldiers to flee for their lives in Western Xia. In addition to the soldiers and horses in Western Xia, there was only one force left.

Imperial City Division.

When Ding Wei left Beijing, the staff of the Imperial City Division left Beijing with Ding Wei.

At the same time, Liu Mei, the Imperial City Division, also left the capital.

This marked that a large number of Imperial City Division personnel also left Beijing with Liu Mei.

Since Ding Wei returned to Bianjing, Liu Mei and his staff from the Imperial City Division have not returned to Beijing.

Nominally, Liu Mei and his men are helping Gao Zuo Gong fight, but in reality?

The war in Western Xia has become clear, and there is no need to spy on much information, and the scouts in the army are enough to deal with the war in Western Xia. The manpower of the Imperial City Division remained in Western Xia, and it was of no use at all.

Indeed, they remained in Western Xia.

When Kou Ji was in Bianjing, some people speculated that the manpower of the Imperial City Division stayed in Western Xia in order to show glory and make some great contributions when the high place Gong Banshi returned to the court.

Judging from Li Zhaoliang's experience, the manpower of the Imperial City Division stayed in Western Xia, obviously for him.

Moreover, it was obviously not only the people who assassinated Li Zhaoliang who had the Imperial City Division.

No matter how powerful the manpower of the Imperial City Division is, it can't be reckless in a military camp with hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses.

The only people who dared to commit an assassination in the barracks were the people of the weapons prison.

Only this group of daring guys who are masters of art will ignore the majesty of the army.

There is only one person who can mobilize the Imperial City Division and the Instrument Supervisor to assassinate Li Zhaoliang at the same time.

Liu E.

What is the purpose of Liu E's move, Kou Ji can roughly guess.

Liu E is in order to protect Ding, and the principle is to extinguish the mouth.

Kou Ji frowned and said to Li Zhaoliang: "You are in the high-ranking army, so you didn't write to Bianjing City and declare this matter to the imperial court?" ”

Li Zhaoliang gritted his teeth and said, "Who said I didn't send a letter to Bianjing?"

I sent hundreds of letters to Bianjing.

But after they left Western Xia, they became silent. ”

Cao Wei said in a deep voice: "Someone kidnapped and killed the messenger..."

Kou Ji narrowed his eyes slightly and said hatefully, "They are too unscrupulous. ”

Kou Ji's eyes fell on Li Zhaoliang and said, "Don't worry, I will help you send a letter back to Bianjing." I would like to see who my messenger will dare to rob. ”

When Li Zhaoliang heard this, he bowed deeply to Kou Ji, "If I can show Xue, I will not forget your kindness." ”

Kou Ji waved his hand and said, "I also have a friendship with Li Weixian, and he calls me brother." You are his father, and naturally my uncle.

Helping one's own family members is not a kindness. ”

Li Zhaoliang nodded heavily when he heard this.

Cao Wei's face softened a little, and he said to Li Zhaoliang: "I said that this kid would help you, now you believe it." ”

Li Zhaoliang nodded again.

Cao Wei said seriously: "It will take some time for you to settle your grievances." But the war in front of us cannot be delayed.

If the old man wants to solve the current war as soon as possible, he must win by surprise.

So the old man planned to sneak attack the Liao army and catch the Liao people by surprise.

After the old man leaves, the military affairs in Baozhou will be weighed by the two of you.

The old man doesn't ask you to make any great contributions, as long as you hold Baozhou City. ”

Hearing this, Kou Ji and Li Zhaoliang nodded slowly.

With Li Zhaoliang's help, Kou Ji has more confidence in defending Baozhou City.

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