It didn't take long for Kende to come over and report: "Your Majesty, of the 50,000 soldiers defending the city this time, 10,000 were killed and countless were wounded, and 5,000 elite ...... were taken away by the Emperor Taishang."

Li Gu didn't think it was anything when he heard it at first, but when he heard it at the end, he couldn't help but say, "Wait, what did you say?" ”

Ken De said with a wry smile: "Your Majesty, when the Emperor Taishang was leaving, he transferred five thousand elites as protection. ”

After nearly a day of fighting, Li Gu's eyes burst with cold light at this time, and the 50,000 soldiers defending the city were a little stretched, but he didn't expect that his Lao Tzu would take 5,000 people away when he left, isn't this a demolition for himself?

But now is obviously not the time to pursue this, although only 10,000 people have been killed on his side, but the number has been sharply reduced by a quarter, and the next battle may not be easy to fight.

"I think the Mongols won't attack tonight, but tell the soldiers not to take it lightly and be careful of night attacks!" Li Gu said to Kende.

Kende nodded and said, "Your Majesty, don't worry, I'll go down and make arrangements." ”

"The Mongols besieged the city on three sides this time, but they deliberately left a gate to come out, the purpose of which is to completely defeat us, so whether they can withstand the attack of the Mongols is the key to whether the people in this city will flee!" Li Gu said softly.

Kende nodded, and said to Li Gu: "Your Majesty, now that the army is seriously insufficient, I have ordered people to start recruiting troops, and I think that the soldiers should be replenished soon." ”

Li Gu nodded and continued: "Find a few masons to completely seal the north city gate, I don't want to continue to burn the city gate tomorrow." ”

Kende took the order to do it.

Li Gu finished arranging everything, and only then did he have a chance to rest, and he didn't even go back to the palace, so he rested directly in the barracks.

Outside the city gate, inside the Mongolian military camp, at this time, Temujin finally got the news inside, it turned out that the person who looked like a general's nephew who was put back by them was really the eighth prince of the Western Xia Kingdom.

Of course, this is not the most important thing, the most important thing is that these eight princes have now inherited the great unification and become the emperor of the new Western Xia Kingdom.

Temujin couldn't help but shake his head and smile bitterly, secretly sighing that he was really careless, he had known that this was the result, he would never have put Li Gu back.

Zamuhe naturally knew Temujin's thoughts, and he said to Temujin: "Great Khan, I didn't expect this person to have such an opportunity, but let's look away." ”

Temujin nodded and said, "It was a bit unexpected, but it didn't make any impact, and today's casualties have been counted." ”

Zamuhe nodded and said to Temujin: "Great Khan, our army has lost more than 20,000 people and countless wounded. After a pause, he continued: "There are many cases of people who want to come to Xixia and die in battle. ”

Temujin nodded, and said to Zamuhe: "Now the top priority is to capture Xingqing Mansion as soon as possible, after a long time, as soon as the local reinforcements arrive, it will be a little difficult for us to break through Xingqing Mansion again." ”

Zamuhe groaned for a moment and said to Temujin: "Great Khan, why don't we attack the city overnight?" ”

Temujin listened to Zamuhe's suggestion, thought for a while, shook his head, and said: "We are the besieging party, and it is not a wise decision to attack the city at night, the number of casualties will increase greatly, and there is no way to really break through the city." ”

Zamuhe listened to what Temujin said and nodded, he understood this, but the current situation, time is urgent, and there is no other better way.

Temujin continued: "Although we cannot attack the city at night, we can make a feint. ”

Zamuhe listened to what Temujin said, and his eyes lit up, now the Mongolian army still has 180,000 people, if you want to feint, it is still very easy, divided into three teams, each team feints 20,000 people, and then the rest of the people take turns to rest, so that the 180,000 army can take turns to rest.

But the Western Xia army is not good, after all, they only have 40,000 people, as long as the Mongol army makes a feint, they must deal with it all, so toss all night, see how the defenders of Western Xia will defend the city tomorrow.

"Khan, what if the Tangut people see through our strategy and don't resist?" Zamuhe asked.

"If they don't resist, then it's easy, let's just take advantage of the situation and attack the city!" Temujin said lightly.

Once you've made your plans, when night falls. Temujin ordered the army to begin the siege.

The first group of 60,000 men began a full-scale siege of the city from three walls.

The defenders, who had experienced a day of fighting, had just been rested at this time, and to be honest, they didn't bother to stand up at all, but at this time they heard the alarm of the enemy attack, so they could only drag their tired bodies to the city wall again.

It was pitch black outside, and it was impossible to see how many people the Mongolian army had come, and the number of arrows in Xingqing Mansion was not much, and they were reluctant to release arrows indiscriminately, but at this time, the black light was blind, and they could only wait until the people approached to start firing arrows.

But before they could shoot arrows, the Mongol army below had already begun to shoot arrows all over the world.

The Western Xia defenders on the city wall hurriedly found a place to hide, and only after the rain of arrows had passed, they hurriedly began to design towards the Mongols, but none of them were blind in the dark.

"What's the situation?" Li Gu was also tired, although he was not a delicate scholar, but after all, he had not experienced war, and today's battle made him very tired, he said to Kende.

Kende smiled bitterly and said, "Your Majesty, I'm afraid this Mongolian army is going to attack the city overnight. ”

Li Gu didn't expect the Mongols to be so crazy, he took a deep breath and said: "The Mongols are attacking the city at night, it stands to reason that this is beneficial to us, and the order is for the soldiers to deal with it carefully, it is not easy for the Mongols to break through our defense line." ”

Kende nodded and said to Li Gu: "Your Majesty, don't worry, the minister will do it." ”

But having said that, in the face of the menacing Mongolian army, the defenders of Xingqing Mansion at this time were still highly nervous, but soon they discovered the abnormal situation, because of this attack, it was obvious that the thunder was heavy and the rain was small, and the Mongols seemed to be feintting.

The news soon reached Li Gu's ears.

Although it was the first time for Li Gu to fight, at this time he also understood the intentions of the Mongols, and couldn't help but shake his head and smile bitterly.