Under Miki, why don't you worry about recruiting, let alone these useless wastes like Lieberthal? As soon as Miranda made a move, the tortured man summoned everything.

After the original Cizhou was defeated by the Jin soldiers, this Song army, which still had more than 1,000 people left, had looted several cities, villages and towns of the Song Kingdom along the way, and plundered a large amount of gold and silver.

Although it was not possible for Lieberthal to lead his troops into battle, he knew that what he and others were doing was a dead end, so he planned to lead this rout army to flee to Hangzhou, and then take refuge in other countries by sea.

I have to say that Li Kan's plan is still very good, but his luck is a little worse because he met Li Nan.

Li Nan did not order these people to be killed, but ordered his soldiers to make some wooden shelves from them, and then hung them all.

Li Nan only took half of the gold and silver looted by Li Kan and others, but all the grain stored in the treasury was moved, and with this grain and grass, it was enough for the imperial army to continue to move forward.

After Li Nan led the army out of Linyi County, Eligang rode his horse and chased after him, and asked with a puzzled face: "Your Majesty, why didn't you just slaughter these bastards?" ”

"Eligon, you are brave in battle, but you don't understand human feelings."

Li Nan said to Miranda, who was still beautiful next to him: "You tell him why I did this." ”

Miranda explained Elligan's confusion: "The people of Linyi County are not dead, and these survivors must hate Lieberthal and the other defeated troops to the core. Now that Your Majesty has ordered them all to be hanged, in the face of these helpless villains, what do you think will happen to the people whose wives and daughters have been humiliated and their belongings have been taken captive? ”

"Oh." After receiving Miranda's explanation, Eligon, who was not good at scheming, realized that even a tough guy like him was afraid of what those angry people would do.

In the eyes of many people, the 30,000 imperial expeditionary force went deep into the hinterland of the Song Kingdom, which was simply an act of sending them to death. Because the two sides are enemy countries, the Great Song Dynasty will never let the tiger return to the mountain, and Huizong Zhao Ji did this.

Since Li Nan dared to personally lead his soldiers to do so, then he was prepared, and his final destination was Dengzhou on Jingdong Road.

Dengzhou of the Song Kingdom is also known as Penglai in Shandong in later generations, bordering the Yellow Sea and the Bohai Sea in the north, and Bohai Bay, one of the three major bays in China, in the southwest.

In ancient times, the Shandong Peninsula played an important role in the diplomatic history of ancient China due to its geographical advantages near the sea and developed transportation at home and abroad.

The coastal ports of the Shandong Peninsula also developed rapidly due to commercial and cultural exchanges with overseas countries, especially in the Tang and Song dynasties.

The northern port is the most prestigious Dengzhou Port, Dengzhou Port has a long history, the atmosphere of marine civilization is strong, and it has developed into the most important port in the north and even the country during the Tang Dynasty, but it is a pity that from the Tang Dynasty to the Song Dynasty in just a few hundred years, Dengzhou Port has experienced drastic changes from extreme prosperity to extreme decline.

The Song people may forget Dengzhou Port, but Li Nan will not forget, so the retreat he arranged is to guard Dengzhou and wait for the Imperial Royal Navy to come to respond.

After receiving the will of Huizong, Chongshidao and Li Gang led 150,000 Song troops to pursue Li Nan, and at the same time, Liu Yanqing, the commander of the other army, recruited the Xiang troops stationed in various state capitals, totaling 150,000 people, and blocked the southern return route of the imperial army.

Li Nanli ignored the Song army that pursued him on these three routes, but just ordered the whole army to travel day and night and arrived directly at Dengzhou City.

The prefect of Dengzhou, who thought that he was in a remote place, never expected that the imperial army would suddenly come here, and he was immediately frightened.

According to the consistent style of the officials of the Song State, the prefect did not have any intention of guarding the city, but packed up the soft overnight and fled with his family, and I heard that because he was in a hurry to escape, he also broke a leg.

When the imperial army led by Li Nan came to Dengzhou, what they saw was a city with the gates wide open and not a single soldier to defend it.

After scouting, Var found that there were no warships on the beach, and it was not safe to navigate in the endless sea in this era, and there was no weather prediction system, so it was not surprising that Asha's fleet did not arrive as promised.

In this case, Li Nan did not have much choice, first issued a list to appease the people of Dengzhou, and then after the whole army rested for a few days, he began to collect rolling wood and stones, dig trenches outside the city, and prepare to resist the attack of the Song army.

After learning that Li Nan had occupied Dengzhou, which was near the sea, Seed Master Dao, Li Gang and Liu Yanqing were immediately relieved, so they did not rush to the road, but slowly surrounded them steadily.

A few days later, a total of more than 300,000 Song troops came to the vicinity of Dengzhou.

300,000 people are really overwhelming, there is no end in sight, and the people are veterans who have been on the battlefield for a long time, and they are not in a hurry to attack the city, but have set up countless camps outside the city.

In the early morning of the next day, the three-way Song army formation slowly approached the south gate of Dengzhou City, looking at these Song Guo troops who had no morale, uneven formation, and extremely poor equipment, Li Nan shook his head slightly.

After years of defeat by Huizong and Zhao Ji, the elite of the Western Army and the Hebei Army have been exhausted. Now the rest are the forbidden army and the box army that are negligent in training, although there are generals like Shidao and Li Gang who have real learning, but the time is still short, and there has not been much change.

As for the 150,000 troops recruited by Liu Yanqing, they were even more rotten to the bones, and when he saw the rusty spears and wooden plaques in their hands, Li Nan was worried that the weapons would break by themselves.

Seed Master Dao and Li Gang originally wanted to talk to Li Nan, but Liu Yanqing, who thought that his side would win, had already ordered his subordinate army to start attacking the city.

Liu Yanqing was also born in Jiangmen, and he led the troops in the Western Army for many years, but Li Nan never expected that he did not send people to test, nor did he make siege equipment, let alone bow and arrow troops, and directly ordered the 10,000 Xiang troops under his command, carrying long ladders, holding tattered wooden shields and rusty spears and spears to rush to Dengzhou City.

Li Nan did not understand many of the actions of the high-ranking officials and generals of the Song State, such as Liu Yanqing's actions.

To say that Liu Yanqing doesn't understand military strategy, it is obviously impossible, but why did he send these soldiers to death, Li Nan really couldn't figure it out, could it be that he had a grudge against these soldiers?

Li Nan was not the only one who couldn't understand, Eligang also asked with a confused face: "Your Majesty, this is too abnormal, will there be an ambush in the Song army?" ”

Li Nan saw that these van troops had already entered the range of bows and arrows, and now he didn't need to care whether the Song army had a conspiracy or not, so he waved his hand to the herald at the moment.

The Imperial Army collected a lot of bows and arrows from Lieberthal's rout and Dengzhou City, so in order to save ammunition, all the soldiers who could use bows and arrows in the army stood on the city wall.

"Buzz!" A dark cloud of arrows flew out of the city, and then fell into the more than 10,000 troops who were hurrying forward.

The Xiang army, which originally seemed to be demoralized, was finally no longer silent, and bursts of screams rang out, just as Li Nan expected, the badly damaged wooden shields in their hands could not resist the rain of arrows flying at all, and they saw that where the arrows fell, blood splashed everywhere.

The battle on the first day was very boring, and the imperial army, which relied on the city wall of Dengzhou, only used a wave of arrows to crush the remaining morale of the box army sent by Liu Yanqing.

The imperial army released arrows, the Xiang army returned in despair, Liu Yanqing's supervision team waved a knife and slashed the deserters, the Xiang army had no choice but to continue to attack the city, the city released arrows again, and the Xiang army fled......

In the following time, Liu Yanqing continued to use the lives of 150,000 Xiang troops to consume the arrows, ammunition and rolling wood and stones of the imperial army, and when there was no longer a single arrow in the city, the army of Seed Master Dao and Li Gang moved.

Time passed day by day, in the northwest, the Western Route Army led by Wanyan Zonghan was still besieging Taiyuan City, while Zhang Xiaochun, Wang Yu and the soldiers and civilians of the city resisted stubbornly, waiting for reinforcements that could never wait.

In Dengzhou City, all the long-range attack weapons of the imperial army were all extinguished, and the only remaining musket ammunition and grenades and other weapons were all exhausted by the Song army outside the city, and the next thing was the melee attack and defense battle at the time of the tragedy.

Soldiers are dying every day, and Li Nan is becoming more and more worried, because Asha, who is long overdue for arrival, and her Royal Navy's Yellow Sea Fleet are long overdue, and he is about to enter a new world of adventure.

Since Li Nan was promoted to the Intermediate Bronze Squad, he received a preferential treatment that was notified by the system three months in advance.

Originally, according to Li Nan's calculations, he should have returned to the territory of the Chinese Empire on a warship at this moment, but he didn't expect Asha to be there for a long time, so he could only enter a new adventure world in Dengzhou City, which was in the midst of a fierce battle.