The sound of trumpets and drums of war can determine the number of enemy troops.

However, in order to prevent the other side from cheating, the general who presided over the war would send lookouts and scouts to find out the opponent's strength before the battle began.

Kou Ji only deduced from the sound of the horn that Xiao Pidi led 80,000 Liao soldiers to attack the city together.

Di Qing saw with his own eyes that 80,000 Liao soldiers were pressed to the front of Yangguan Pass.

80,000 Liao soldiers set up a neat military formation, advancing towards Yangguan step by step, looking quite powerful.

Almost all the generals of the Liao State learned the art of war and strategies were born in the Central Plains, so the Liao soldiers were very similar to the Song army when they set up military formations and siege cities.

The soldiers of the forbidden army at the head of the city looked at the Liao soldiers outside the city and were indifferent.

The Black Khan looked at the military formation outside the city, and his heart was slightly frightened.

They were accustomed to a swarm of siege scenes.

But I have never seen the siege scene of the Liao soldiers maintaining a neat military formation and advancing forward.

The Liao soldiers who set up an army formation to attack the city are not powerful, and the Black Khan people don't know.

But the neat military formation put up by the Liao soldiers looked really good, and it scared the Black Khan people on the city a bit.

Di Qing stood behind the Black Sweat Man, and when he saw the Black Sweat Man turning back frequently, his eyes showed fear, and he guessed that the Black Sweat Man might be frightened by the other party's military formation.

"Beat the drums!"

Di Qing shouted, and the hundred-faced drums were beaten together, and the dull and heavy drum sound gave the Black Khan people some sense of security.

More than halfway through a drum.

The soldiers of the forbidden army struck their chests with the hilts of their swords, making a uniform sound of gold and iron clashing.

"Tiger!"

"Tiger!"

"Tiger!"

“……”

A high-pitched roar suddenly exploded in the ears of the Black Sweat Man.

The roar gave rise to a fierce aura.

The Black Khan Man was shocked when he listened.

The fear brought to them by the Liao soldiers was swept away in an instant.

Because they knew it, their slave owners had sent a stronger army of horses and horses to stand behind them.

In this battle, they will not lose, and they will not necessarily die.

"Oh!"

The Black Khan people didn't know what they were thinking, and after the soldiers of the forbidden army finished shouting, they shouted in a mess.

It seems to be emboldening itself through roaring.

It also seemed to be responding to the cries of the Forbidden Army and expressing their loyalty to the slave owners.

Seeing this, Di Qing couldn't cry or laugh.

The momentum that the soldiers of the forbidden army had just condensed was instantly destroyed by them.

However, Di Qing saw the thoughts of the Black Khan people, so he couldn't blame them.

Kou Ji and Li Di didn't know when they walked to the top of the city, and witnessed the shouts of the soldiers of the forbidden army and the shouts of the Black Khan.

Li Di listened to the shouts of those black sweat people, frowned, and commented in a low voice, "A group of rabble......

Kou Ji didn't evaluate those black sweaters, but walked towards Di Qing.

Di Qing saw Kou Ji and Li Di and hurriedly stepped forward.

"Brother...... Li Gong ......"

Kou Ji didn't wait for Di Qing to finish his salute, then waved his hand and said, "You don't have to worry about the two of us, just because the two of us have never appeared." ”

Speaking of this, Kou Ji asked: "When did you bring the *** of the Tiger Army to the Yongxing Army?" ”

If Kou Ji remembers correctly, using the tiger as the name and shouting the tiger character is the favorite thing for the Tiger Army.

Di Qing said with a smile: "There are some personal soldiers under him, and they have been following me since the reorganization of the Tiger Army. When they were rectifying and training soldiers and horses, they liked to use the tiger army.

Over time, that's what happened. ”

Kou Ji nodded, and didn't say anything more.

When the Liao soldiers officially launched an attack on Yangguan, Kou Ji and Li Di left the city wall.

The two of them ran to the city and swayed, also on a temporary basis.

In order not to affect Di Qing's command of the battle, the two of them went down the city wall when the battle began.

From beginning to end, neither of them gave any instructions on the military affairs on the city walls.

In the past, this matter was unimaginable.

In the past, those who supervised the army, or the important ministers who sat in the army, always had to show themselves before going to war.

Either pointing fingers at the soldiers, or pulling a few people out to kill the sacrificial flag, in order to show off their authority to the soldiers.

Kou Ji and Li Di went down to the city, and the arrows of the Liao soldiers floated up to Yangguan.

The reason why the arrow is floated is because after the arrow is shot, it is affected by the wind, and the accuracy is not so sufficient.

The arrows fired by the Liao soldiers were dense and numerous.

The Black Khan man lay on the battlement, holding a shield, resisting the arrows of the Liao soldiers.

The arrows rained down like a rain, and it didn't take long for many arrows to be inserted into the shields in the hands of the Black Khan soldiers.

Seeing this, Di Qing frowned slightly, ready to order the Black Khan people to fight back.

But before he could speak, the Black Khan people controlled the hundred tigers, bed crossbows, and heavy crossbows to shoot at the Liao soldiers when they bent their bows and arrows to shoot the second round.

Di Qing was slightly stunned when he saw this.

After thinking about it for a while, I understood what the Black Khan people were doing.

Although the Black Khan people are now reduced to captives and slaves, they are born as soldiers, and they have some instinct to be soldiers.

There was also a rain of arrows during the siege of the city in the west.

Therefore, the Black Khan people know that when the rain of arrows comes, they should avoid their edges.

I also know that after the edge, I have to find the right opportunity to fight back.

The Black Khan and the Liao soldiers, with bows, crossbows, bed crossbows and other instruments, you went back and forth to kill.

The shouting of killing instantly filled the entire Yangguan.

The Liao soldiers fought under the head of the city with **** and arrows, cut off the drawbridge, and began to attack the city.

All kinds of siege equipment were used in Yangguan.

The Liao soldiers pushed the siege chisel and beat it the city gate.

The gates were smashed out of one wooden pit after another.

At the gate of the city, there was a stone wall made of stones, and the stone wall was estimated to be four zhang thick.

It is impossible for the Liao soldiers to open the gate of Yangguan by attacking the city.

Kou Ji had already decided to spend a month or two with the soldiers and horses of the Black Khan Dynasty and the Liao soldiers, and waited for the Liao Emperor Yelu Longxu to lead the Liao soldiers south, and waited for Qingtang to send troops before counterattacking.

After Di Qing learned about this, he decisively ordered someone to dig a stone to block the door.

Anyway, if you have to keep guarding in Yangguan, and you won't go out to fight back, the portal will be blocked, and it won't have any impact on the war.

The Liao soldiers didn't know that the gate of Yangguan they attacked had already been blocked by the stone wall, and they were still hammering hard.

The other Liao soldiers carried ladders and siege vehicles, and climbed to the top of the city one by one.

Under the guidance of the Song soldiers, the Black Khan people pushed the rolling wood, stones, gold juice and other things down the city in one go.

Due to the abundant reserves of rolling wood, gravel, and gold juice.

So the Black Khan people don't have to save.

A huge amount of rolling logs, stones, and gold juice descended the city, causing a huge obstacle to the Liao army's siege.

The Liao soldiers launched four or five charges in a row, but they did not rush to the city.

Xiao Pidi had been watching the battle from behind, and after not seeing the artillery and muskets appear, he furrowed his brows.

Xiao Pidi recruited a personal soldier and ordered the personal soldier to investigate the situation.

After probing for a long time, the soldiers came back to report.

"General, the soldiers in front said that the enemies with them were all Black Khan people, and there was no trace of the Song soldiers so far."

After listening to the report of his own soldiers, Xiao Pidi sat on the back of the horse and was stunned for a long time.

The first thought that came to his mind was that the Black Khan King Yu Sufu had actually formed an alliance with the Great Song Dynasty a long time ago, and this time he agreed to form an alliance with the Liao State, purely to use the power of the Liao State to exterminate the Xizhou Uighurs, and then carve up the Liao State with the Great Song Dynasty?

After all, those black sweat people in the city fell into the hands of the Song people for a few days.

In a few days, the Song people domesticated them?

Unlikely.

But the Black Khan people at the head of the city dealt with their Liao soldiers, but they worked extremely hard.

The rolling wood, stones, gold juice, and the screams of the Liao soldiers who were tossing and besieging the city were everywhere, and he could hear them from two miles away.

It can be seen that the Black Khan people are really contributing to the Great Song Dynasty.

If they released the water, the Liao soldiers would not be so miserable.

This idea swirled in Xiao Pidi's mind for a long time, and was finally thrown out of Xiao Pidi's mind.

If the Black Khan King Yu Sufu had really formed an alliance with the Great Song Dynasty earlier, he would not have lost so many troops in Shazhou and Guazhou.

That's nearly 200,000 soldiers and horses, not 200,000 cattle and sheep.

Unless the Black Khan King Yu Sufu is crazy, it is impossible to dig a pit for him with the lives of 200,000 soldiers and horses.

Then the Black Khan people helped the Song people break the city, there must be other reasons.

Xiao Pidi has never been to the Black Khan Dynasty, and he doesn't know that the servility of the people at the bottom of the Black Khan Dynasty is deep in the bone marrow, so he doesn't know that the Black Khan people will automatically be brought into the role of slaves after surrendering.

He thought about it for a moment, and thought it might have something to do with the rumors that had arisen among the Black Khans recently.

Rumor has it that Koji is an emissary of the true gods that the Black Khan worship.

The oracle of the true God naturally drives the believers of the true God.

How fanatical the Black Khan people are about their belief in the true gods, Xiao Pidi knows.

Because he had seen many religious things in the Black Khan camp.

"Yangguan is very important to the Great Song Dynasty. There is no need for the Great Song Dynasty to take risks, and send Black Khan soldiers to guard the pass. In case the Black Khan soldiers are in battle against the water, as soon as the Yangguan is broken, there will be a flat river behind.

Sitting in Yangguan is Di Qing, the emerging general of the Great Song Dynasty, although he likes to win with odds, but he will never joke about the territory of the Great Song Dynasty.

Unless he led the elite of the Great Song Dynasty to other places, leaving behind a part of the people who drove the Black Khan people to block our footsteps. ”

On a Great Song Dynasty city, there are no Great Song Dynasty soldiers and horses to block the enemy, and Xiao Pi's enemies are inevitably cranky.

Xiao Pidi thought nonsense and ordered, "Order the whole army to attack me at all costs." If Song Bing shows his head, he will retreat immediately. If Song Bing doesn't show his head, then we will go into Yangguan in one go.

A little Black Khan soldier is not the opponent of my Liao soldiers. ”

After Xiao Pi gave the order to attack, the Liao soldiers rushed to the city one after another, even if they suffered heavy losses, they also climbed to the top of the city.

The Black Khan people at the head of the city blocked the Liao soldiers for a long time, and it was inevitable that they would fall into exhaustion, after all, the gap in numbers was too large.

Pushing logs, stones, and gold juice, as well as manipulating heavy crossbows and bed crossbows, are all physical tasks.

The Liao soldiers took advantage of the weak offensive of the Black Khan people and rushed to the city.

The Black Khans, exhausted by the enemy, repelled some of them, but did not stop the others.

When the Liao soldiers climbed the battlements on the head of Yangguan City, their faces showed joy, but the joy didn't last long on their faces, and they instantly turned into horror.

Because after they climbed to the top of the city, they saw the huge number of Great Song forbidden troops, wearing armor and holding blades, standing quietly behind the Black Khan people.

"Mother......

The Liao soldiers were really frightened, and couldn't help but say a Chinese sentence.

Some people were frightened and fell off the ladder, and some were waiting for the siege engine to roll down.

In short, no one dared to rush to the city and fight with the Great Song Forbidden Army.

It's not that they don't have the guts, it's that they don't want to go up and die.

After the news reached Xiao Pidi's ears, Xiao Pidi decisively ordered Mingjin to withdraw his troops.

The Liao soldiers retreated.

Di Qing immediately ordered people to take the Black Khan people down to rest, and then ordered the local soldiers to go to the top of the city to clean up the battlefield.

After the local soldiers landed at the top of the city, they immediately cleared the battlefield, and at the same time began to replenish the city with rolling logs, stones, arrows and other objects.

In the Liao soldier camp outside the city.

After Xiao Pidi led the Liao soldiers into the camp, he returned to the Chinese army's tent with a few generals.

After sitting down, he ordered his soldiers to peel a sheep, and Xiao Pidi said to the generals while roasting the mutton: "At first, I saw the Black Khan people guarding Yangguan, and I thought that the elite of the Song soldiers had gone elsewhere.

I didn't expect them to be still in Yangguan.

Since they are in Yangguan, they refuse to fight against us personally, but use the hands of the Black Khan people.

They probably wanted to weaken our forces.

If we continue to attack, we will definitely not be pleased. ”

"General, I listened to the soldiers under my command that the number of Song troops in the city was not large. Maybe they're suspicious? ”

One of the generals said with a deep groan.

Xiao Pidi thought about it for a moment and nodded, "It's also possible...... After all, for the current Song State, the soldiers and horses of the Black Khan Dynasty are the great enemies they need to face.

As long as they crush the Black Khan's soldiers and horses, and turn against us, it will be easy. ”

The general asked, "If it is true as the general said, then what should we do now?" ”

Xiao Pidi muttered: "Prepare with both hands, send someone to the Xizhou Uighurs, let the Ayegu, who is staying in the Xizhou Uighurs, levy men from the territory of the Xizhou Uighurs we occupy, and then send 20,000 horses to escort those men over."

If the Song soldiers really plan to fight a war of attrition with us, then we will use the Uighurs of Western Prefecture to consume them.

In addition, rectify the soldiers and horses, and storm Yangguan again tomorrow to explore the reality in Yangguan.

If the Song soldiers really set up doubts with us, then we will break through the Yangguan, lead the Black Khan soldiers into the Yangguan, and wantonly attack the city and plunder the land in the Song State. ”

"What if not?"

There will be questions from the general.

Xiao Pidi laughed in a low voice and said, "If not, then we will consume it with Song Bing." ”

Cong Jiang frowned and said, "But the longer it takes, the more unfavorable it will be to the war here." After all, behind the Song people is the Song State, and their reinforcements can come in a steady stream. ”

Xiao Pidi laughed when he heard this.

From the general looked puzzled.

After Xiao Pidi laughed, he shook his head and said, "Then you are wrong." The war here is good or bad, and it doesn't matter to us. Because our battlefield is not in the west of the Song Kingdom, but in the northeast of the Song Kingdom.

Our main task is to lure the soldiers and horses of the Black Khan Dynasty into the Song Dynasty, so as to attract most of the troops of the Song State here, and lay the foundation for our Great Liao to attack the Song State.

So it doesn't matter at all whether the battle is won or lost here.

It is important that we contain the forces of the Song State before His Majesty leads his troops south.

The Black Khan King Yu Sufu prematurely led his troops into the Song Dynasty, disrupting His Majesty's strategy of attacking the Song State.

The Black Khan King Yu Sufu was destroyed prematurely, and if His Majesty wants to attack the Song State, I am afraid that he will have to face a larger Song State of soldiers and horses.

Therefore, what we really have to do now is to drag the Song army and drag it on, and the longer it lasts, the better.

The more troops the Song State threw into the western frontier, the better.

It's best to drag it to Qingtang to shoot.

Once Qingtang makes a move, we can retire successfully. ”

When the general heard this, his face suddenly changed, "I have been in the tent of King Yusufu of the Black Khan King for a long time, and under his influence, I almost forgot our original intention of coming here. ”

Another general smiled and said: "Since we are not afraid of delaying time with Song Bing, we can simply waste it." ”

Xiao Pidi shook his head and said, "That's not going to work...... If the Yang Pass can be broken, we still have to break the Yang Pass. After breaking the Yangguan, we will be able to drive straight in, break through Xiliang City, and enter the Yongxing Military Road and other places in the Great Song Dynasty.

When the time comes, we will be broken into pieces, wandering around the territory of the Great Song Dynasty, wantonly burning and looting, and we can force the Great Song Dynasty to send more soldiers and horses to the west.

This move was more beneficial for His Majesty to attack the Great Song Dynasty.

Of course, more importantly, we can afford it, and the Black Khan King Yu Sufu can't afford it.

Although he had previously captured some grain and grass from the Song soldiers in Suoyang City, the amount was not large.

Hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses tightened their belts to eat, and they ate clean in three days. ”

"Didn't the Black Khan King Yusufu send people to collect grain from the Uighurs in Western Prefecture? After the grain of the Xizhou Uighurs was transported to Yumen Pass, they could barely support the Black Khan soldiers for a few days. ”

There is a way from the general.

Hearing this, Xiao Pidi sighed and said, "After the Black Khan King Yu Sufu defeated Gaochang, he sent a large number of gold and silver treasures, cattle, sheep and horses back to the Black Khan Dynasty.

Therefore, if he collected grain in the Uighurs in Western Prefecture, he would not be able to collect much grain.

Unless he sends people back to the Black Khan to get food.

And the black sweat king Yu Sufu is not a person who likes to gnaw hard bones.

If he can't bite the Jade Gate Pass, Bacheng will have to think about something else.

So we can consume, we can also fight.

The key depends on our needs. ”

The generals showed puzzled expressions.

Xiao Pidi smiled and said: "We can't spend it, we still have to send soldiers and horses to attack Yangguan." Since you're fighting with your allies, you have to make a show to your allies.

The Black Khan King Yu Sufu couldn't gnaw at the Yumen Pass, and when he saw us fighting here, he was embarrassed to retreat easily.

When the time comes, I will go and tell him that I will give him half of the cattle, sheep and grain that we have captured from the Uighurs in Western China, and he will definitely continue to fight.

It is best to be in a hurry and send some troops and horses from the Black Khan Dynasty to support. ”

After listening to Xiao Pidi's words, the generals praised Xiao Bidi's wisdom.

Xiao Pidi shook his head and smiled: "To be honest, if the Black Khan King Yu Sufu had listened to my admonition from the beginning, divided his troops into three routes, and attacked the Song Kingdom, the war would not have been like this."

I won't plot against him behind my back.

Now that the war has become like this, in order for His Majesty to be able to send troops smoothly, in order to be able to lead out Qingtang, I can only calculate him behind my back. ”

After hearing this, the generals nodded their heads.

People are dead and selfish.

Xiao Pidi and the others were not surprised.

They are more concerned about the interests of Liao.

If they can successfully contain the army of the Song State and strive for favorable conditions for the Liao Emperor Yelu Longxu to attack the Song State.

Then they are the great heroes of the Liao State.

The more cities that Liao Emperor Yelu Longxu captured in the Song State, the greater their credit.

If they can't successfully contain the Song army, so that the Liao Emperor Yelu Longxu will lose in the southern attack on the Song State.

Once the Song State recovers its strength and counterattacks the Liao State, the Liao State is likely to lose a lot.

There is a high probability that they will become sinners in the Liao State.

Therefore, they go against morality, calculate their allies, and have no sense of shame in their hearts.

As long as the Liao State can take advantage of this, even if they personally send all the people of the allies to the guillotine, they will not have the slightest sense of shame.

Affection, righteousness and faith, that is what the iron Hanhan selected by the various ministries care about the most.

Those of them who are already in the court of the Liao Kingdom, and even sit in a high position above the court, don't care about those things at all.

The sinicization of the Liao people can certainly better digest the Song people of the Liao State, and can better absorb and make use of the talents who defected from the Song State.

But in the same way, after the sinicization of the Liao people, under the influence of those Song people who defected, they became more profitable and more famous.

The entire upper echelons of the Liao State are becoming more and more like the former civil and military ministers of the Song State.

If it weren't for the eight Khitan tribes, there would still be some people who would stick to the wildness and survival of the Khitan people.

I'm afraid that the entire upper echelons of the Liao State have long been completely sinicized.

There are always a lot of foreign things that adapt to themselves, and there are many that don't adapt to themselves.

There are not many countries that can take the essence and remove the dross.

If you choose to swallow all the foreign cultures in one go, you will have diarrhea.

Just when Xiao Pidi and his subordinate generals were discussing the calculation of the Black Khan King Yu Sufu, Di Qing was leading people to give the Black Khan people an official.

Nor is it considered an official, because he has no official status, and he is not even out of captivity.

Di Qing picked out some brave fighters from among the black sweat people who fought during the day, and promoted them to be the small leaders among the prisoners.

The largest boss can manage 100 people, and the smallest boss can manage 10 people.

But there were no more than a hundred.

The leaders of more than 250 people were almost all Song people carefully selected by Di Qing.

Di Qing not only knows how to use the black sweat people to cure the black sweat people, but also knows how to mix sand with them.

This trick was learned by those black-hearted magistrates when he was in Dali and the people.

Di Qing arranged the black sweat people, but he was not in a good mood, and after returning to his residence, he went straight to the courtyard where Kou Ji was.

When he saw Kou Ji, he didn't speak, just sat silently on the side.

Seeing that Di Qing's mood was not right, Kou Ji asked, "What happened?" ”

Di Qing hesitated for a long time, and said in a deep voice: "Can status really make people forget their surnames and bloodlines?" ”

When Kou Ji heard this, he was slightly stunned, "You went to make the leader of those Black Khan people?" ”

Di Qing nodded slowly.

Kou Ji asked again, "Do you see how brutally they treat other clansmen in order to show their loyalty to you?" ”

Di Qing nodded again.

Kou Ji asked curiously, "You haven't seen anything like this in Dali?" ”

Di Qing shook his head slowly.

Kou Ji pondered for a moment and muttered, "It's me who asked the wrong thing, you shouldn't be able to see it in Dali." Those tribes and clansmen in Dali are still very united. It is easy not to harm his own people to show loyalty. Sometimes they are far more united than us Song people, so it is easy to lay down Dali, but it is difficult to digest Dali. ”

After muttering a bit, Kou Ji stared at Di Qing and said, "In fact, in order to show loyalty to the superior, it is not uncommon to take the knife on yourself. In my Great Song Dynasty, similar things abound.

You are often in the military, so you shouldn't see it, but you can always hear it, right?

There is nothing new to you about this, why are you so sullen. ”

Di Qing hesitated for a moment and said, "I've heard of it, but the first time I saw it, I was always a little uncomfortable." More importantly, I'm a little worried. ”

"What are you worried about, worried that our people will become like that?"

Kou Ji asked rhetorically.

Di Qing nodded slowly.

Kou Ji was silent for a moment, and said to Di Qing: "Benevolence, righteousness, propriety, wisdom and faith are the virtues that our ancestors have passed down to us. As long as virtue is not lost, our people will not become like that.

Even if there were, it was a minority.

Most people always have a good thought in their hearts. ”