Cao Wei left, and on a bitterly cold morning, he led 100,000 soldiers and left Baozhou City.

He evacuated almost all the elites in the camp, leaving a group of old, weak, sick and disabled people to Kou Ji, Li Zhaoliang, and Di Qing.

Kou Ji nominally led nearly 150,000 soldiers and horses, but after removing the previous battle damage, there were also wounded soldiers who were wounded by swords, guns, swords, and halberds, and frostbitten soldiers, and less than 90,000 soldiers and horses in his hands who could fight.

After careful investigation by Kou Ji, it was found that during the ancient war, the soldiers were seriously reduced, and a large part of the reason had nothing to do with the war, but purely because of the lack of logistics, which led to the reduction of the soldiers.

The shortage of wound medicine, leather clothes and boots, and food and grass have all become the most important reasons for the reduction of soldiers and soldiers.

The lack of medicine for injuries has led to frequent corpses being brought out of the medical facilities in the camp.

The lack of leather clothes and boots led to frequent freezing deaths in the camp.

Kou Ji gave some leather clothes to the soldiers, but it was not enough to meet the needs of all the soldiers.

His leather coat was issued to the soldiers of the Baosai Army, but what Cao Wei left him now is not only the soldiers of the Baosai Army, but also the soldiers of other Xiang Army.

A group of soldiers in thin clothes, shivering in the cold wind, snuggled up to each other to keep warm, and frostbite on their bodies could be seen everywhere.

Kou Ji doesn't understand military affairs.

So at the moment when Cao Wei left, he decisively threw the military affairs to Li Zhaoliang and Di Qing.

And told them righteously that whenever there was a war and the war was won, he would follow Li Zhaoliang and Di Qing to receive the credit, and if he lost, he ran first, and Li Zhaoliang and Di Qing stayed to accompany the soldiers to die together.

This is extremely irresponsible.

But Li Zhaoliang and Di Qing didn't think there was anything wrong.

Li Zhaoliang just told Kou Ji not to escape.

The military affairs were thrown to Li Zhaoliang and Di Qing.

Once again, Koji was in charge of the military quartermaster.

He once again sent Cao Tong and Liu Heng out of the mountain to Bianjing City for help.

Anyway, there are enough cotton clothes eliminated by the forbidden army, which are left in the warehouse in Bianjing City to become moldy, or those corrupt officials get them out and sell them to the people for profit, it is better for him to come over and give them to these poor soldiers.

However.

Just when Kou Ji made up his mind and was about to invite Cao Tong and Liu Heng out of the mountain, a big problem occurred.

Liu Heng is gone.

Kou Ji rummaged through the camp, but he couldn't find Liu Heng.

In the end, he asked Liu Heng about the Liu Mansion that Liu Heng had left behind, and only then did he ask where Liu Heng went.

Liu Heng actually took a few people and followed Cao Wei to attack the Liao army together.

After Kou Ji learned the news, he almost didn't scold Liu Heng to death.

He wanted to send someone to chase Liu Heng, but he didn't know where to chase him.

In order to avoid the news of his sneak attack on the Liao army, Cao Wei never revealed the marching route to others.

Kou Ji only knows that there is only one flying fox mouth.

There are hundreds of avenues leading to the Flying Fox Pass, and no one knows which one Cao Wei takes.

After passing the Flying Fox Pass, no one knows how Cao Wei will march.

Kou Ji scolded Liu Heng in the camp for a day, and finally could only send Cao Tong back to Beijing alone to escort cotton clothes and wound medicine.

In addition to sending Cao Tong back to escort cotton clothes and wound medicine.

Kou Ji also pulled Chen Lin, who was leading the military families of the Xiang Army to make a fortune, and wrote to Lu Yijian, who was investigating and dealing with corruption in Zhending Mansion, and asked him to prepare some cotton clothes and wound medicine.

After Lu Yijian got the letter from the two, he didn't refuse, he immediately gathered people and got a large number of cotton clothes and wound medicine to send to Kou Ji.

With this batch of cotton clothes and wound medicine, the mortality rate of the Xiang army in Baozhou City was greatly alleviated.

The military problems of the Xiang army in Baozhou City have been somewhat alleviated, and Kou Ji can finally relax and climb the city wall of Baozhou City again.

In the city gate building.

Li Zhaoliang and Di Qing were discussing the issue of the deployment of Baozhou City.

But the two men clearly had a problem.

Seeing Kou Ji, Li Zhaoliang decisively raised this question.

"Kou Ji, the city wall of Baozhou City, under the repeated attacks of the Liao army, has become dilapidated. At present, a large number of people are needed to repair the city wall as soon as possible.

But after the two of us agreed, we found that the Liao people probably would not give us the opportunity to repair the city wall.

As long as we let the people climb the city wall, the Liao army will attack at that time.

When the time comes, the army and the people will be mixed together, and there will be chaos in the city.

The Liao army has not launched an offensive for a long time, probably waiting for this moment. ”

Kou Ji's eyes lingered on Li Zhaoliang and Di Qing, and asked, "There is no proper way?" ”

Li Zhaoliang groaned for a moment and shook his head.

Di Qing said in a deep voice: "If we don't send people to repair the city wall, the Liao people and others will be impatient and will also attack." As long as the Liao people can't attack the city with damage, we may not be able to defend Baozhou City. ”

When Kou Ji heard this, his expression was a little solemn.

"There's no way to build a city wall without using the people?"

Li Zhaoliang and Di Qing glanced at each other and shook their heads together.

Kou Ji pondered for a moment and muttered: "Although I can't lead the troops to fight, I can still do it if I make Baozhou City an iron wall." ”

Li Zhaoliang and Di Qing's eyes lit up.

Li Zhaoliang asked, "Do you have a way?" ”

Kou Ji nodded slowly and said, "There is a way...... But if I come up with this method, I'm afraid you two won't be able to make a contribution. ”

Li Zhaoliang hurriedly said: "If there is a way, even if we can take it out, as long as we can protect Baozhou City, we will be regarded as making a contribution." ”

Hearing this, Kou Ji nodded, and walked out.

Seeing this, Li Zhaoliang asked, "Don't you tell us a thing or two?" ”

Kou Ji shook his head and said, "There's nothing to say, you'll all know in a while." ”

After saying this, Kou Ji went out of the city gate building and went down the city wall.

A group of soldiers resting in the camp were gathered, and one of them carried a water bladder on his back and went to the nearest water source to Baozhou City.

Then let one person carry a water bladder of water.

When the soldiers were carrying water, Kou Ji advised: "In the future, you will be responsible for carrying the water to the city wall." ”

The soldiers agreed, chiseled open the thick ice, and began to fetch water and carry it to the city wall.

The water was carried to the wall, and Koji had the soldiers pile it under the battlements of the wall.

When night fell, Koji told his soldiers to pour water down the walls.

Wait until the next day.

The walls were covered with a thin layer of ice.

Li Zhaoliang and Di Qing were shocked when they saw this.

Li Zhaoliang chased after Kou Ji and said, "You want to freeze Baozhou City?" ”

Kou Ji spread his hands, "In addition to this method, do you have any other ways to build the city wall?" ”

Li Zhaoliang shook his head.

After hesitating for a while, he said again: "Your method is easy to destroy the walls of Baozhou City." ”

Kou Ji said seriously: "The city wall is destroyed, and it can be rebuilt." But if the Liao people invade Baozhou, it is difficult to say whether Baozhou can become the territory of my Great Song Dynasty. ”

When Li Zhaoliang heard this, he was silent.

Kou Ji commanded the soldiers to continue to water the walls of Baozhou City.

When the sun rises, it shines on the city of Baozhou, and the city of Baozhou flashes with a layer of light.

The entire Baozhou City seems to be shrouded in a layer of crystal, looking extremely dazzling.

The Liao people naturally inevitably saw the situation in Baozhou City.

After learning the news, Liao Emperor Yelu Longxu crossed his horse to the front of Baozhou City.

Looking at Baozhou City, which was like shrouded in crystal, he had a gloomy face and gave the order to attack.

Originally, he planned to wait until the Song people built the city wall and took the opportunity to sneak attack.

But now that the Song people actually plan to freeze Baozhou City, then he can't continue to wait.

At the moment, the ice surface of Baozhou City is still a thin layer, and in a few days, I am afraid it will not be as simple as a thin layer.

"Woo woo woo~"

With the order of Liao Emperor Yelu Longxu to attack Baozhou City, it was issued.

Horns sounded one after another in the Liao army.

One after another of the Liao army soldiers carried siege equipment, pushed siege chisels, crossbow beds, and catapults, and approached the city of Baozhou.

Baozhou City.

At the moment when he heard the horn blowing in the Liao army.

Li Zhaoliang and Di Qing immediately ordered the soldiers of the Xiang Army to go to the city wall to fight.

Kou Ji's heart beat wildly when he saw the Liao army rushing towards him fiercely.

As a newcomer on the battlefield, when I saw hundreds of thousands of enemies rushing towards me like a black oppressive cloud, I really panicked in my heart.

On weekdays, seeing more than 100,000 people, Kou Ji didn't have any waves in his heart.

But when the word enemy is hung on the heads of these hundreds of thousands of people, everyone will panic in their hearts.

The heavy feeling of oppression is indescribable.

Kou Ji resisted the urge to run away, and let Zhang Yuan quickly leave the city wall and carry all the things he brought to the city wall.

Not long after, Zhang Yuan took the guards and servants of Kou Mansion and carried the boxes brought by Kou Ji to the city wall.

Kou Ji only left a small box by his side, and the rest of the boxes were distributed to the guards and servants of Kou Mansion to the soldiers guarding in front of the battlement.

Kou Ji didn't make a fool of himself at this time.

He had the chest opened, and from it he took out a black, round thing, lit the fuse, and threw it into the open space behind the wall.

After the round thing fell to the ground, it exploded instantly, and then burned up one flame after another.

It was not until all the things that could be burned in a clearing were burned that they slowly extinguished.

"What is this?"

Li Zhaoliang witnessed the scene of the round thing burning and asked in surprise.

Kou Ji whispered: "Phosphorus fire bomb ......"

Li Zhaoliang glared and said, "This is a sharp weapon on the battlefield." ”

Kou Ji glanced at Li Zhaoliang and asked, "And then?" ”

Li Zhaoliang hurriedly said: "This thing should be left for use at a critical time. ”

Kou Ji shook his head, "I think now is the critical time. ”

Li Zhaoliang was stunned for a moment, sighed, and muttered, "How afraid you are of death......

Kou Ji didn't bother to talk to him.

After he demonstrated the use of phosphorus fire bombs, he immediately asked the guards and servants of the Kou Mansion to teach this method to the officers and men of the whole army.

Then he secretly opened a small box by himself, took out something with a round pipe and a handle from it, quietly filled it with gunpowder and iron balls, and held it tightly in his hand.

Then he took out two things with a big head and a thin body from the small box and stuffed them into his waist.

With these two things to save his life, Kou Ji felt a little more relieved.

These two things will not be recognized by the people of the Great Song Dynasty.

Later generations will be able to clearly discern what they are.

Gun!

Hand grenade!

Some may question.

Questioning why Koji would get these things, why not make them in large quantities and equip the whole army.

Koji also had this idea, but he rejected it.

These two things, once promoted by his hands, not only can they not become the help of the Great Song Dynasty, but may accelerate the demise of the Great Song Dynasty.

Why is this so?

Because Kou Ji stayed in Bianjing City for a long time, he found that the Great Song Dynasty did not seem to keep it secret in terms of armaments.

For example, the most sophisticated step armor, bed crossbow and other things in the Great Song Dynasty, their production methods, there is no need to send people to snoop, only need to find detailed production methods in the various bookstores in Bianjing City.

The literati of the Great Song Dynasty had a stubbornness far beyond ordinary people when it came to writing books.

When they write and speak, they don't want to get a word wrong.

When someone writes a travelogue, they will measure the place they want to write step by step, and clearly mark in the book, where to where, and how many steps are needed.

When some people write a military book, they will take the defense of Bianjing City, or the deployment of other cities as an example, and write it in the book.

In order to avoid omissions, they will rely on their own authority to personally go to the army to observe and study the deployment, and even call up the deployment map for research.

Then, after they have finished researching, they will write down the arming situation in a complete book.

Even, Kou Ji once saw two books about the defense of Bianjing City in Bianjing City, one of them wrote the wrong change of guard at a sentry, and the other person immediately stood up to criticize him and corrected his mistake in time.

When someone writes a craft book, they will follow the craftsmen from beginning to end, study the craft thoroughly, and then write it in the book without any mistakes. This includes the production process of the Great Song Dynasty armaments.

Therefore, the armament of the Great Song Dynasty has no secrets in the eyes of the Liao people and the Western Xia people.

If it weren't for the high cost of the Buren Armor, it is estimated that the Western Xia people and the Liao people would have made the Buren Armor long ago and equipped the whole army.

Therefore, Kou Ji did not dare to promote guns, grenades and other things.

Once he popularized it, someone would inevitably try to figure out how to make it from the hands of craftsmen, and then write it into their own books without any scruples, and finally sell it at a very low price.

In just a few months, the production method of guns, grenades and other items will spread all over the world.

At that time, not only the Great Song Dynasty court will be built, but also the Liukou in the mountains and wilderness of the Great Song Dynasty.

The Xixia people will build it, the Liao people will build it, and the Qingtang people will build it......

When people all over the world can make guns and grenades, what is the point of equipping these things in the Great Song Dynasty?

And what are the advantages?