The army of 100,000 Heavenly Mandate Army walked on the road to Xuzhou, with a huge momentum and endless marching columns, which made people a little dazzled.

"Your Majesty, are we really going to save Li Keyong?" Xu Wen rode on horseback, looked at Zhao Fan with some curiosity, and asked softly.

"That's natural, why did General Xu suddenly ask this?" Zhao Fan smiled and nodded lightly.

"The last general just felt that His Majesty was fighting fiercely in Shaanzhou City at the beginning, and he didn't see Li Keyong send troops to rescue him, and later in Luoyang, he wanted to take advantage of the chaos to snatch the jade seal of the country, so why did His Majesty bother to help him? Even if we save him this time, it doesn't necessarily mean that he will thank us so much. Xu Wen secretly glanced at Zhao Fan and said a little unhappily.

"General Xu, I know that you are because of your brother's affairs, and I feel a little uncomfortable in my heart, but I hope you can understand one problem, that is, this time and that time. Now those Khitans have taken advantage of the chaos to attack the Tang Dynasty, if we don't send troops, the injured will only be our ordinary people in the Tang Dynasty. ”

"I am also very sad and sad about your brother's death, but this cannot be an obstacle for us, you must believe that if your brother is still here, he will definitely support us to rescue Li Keyong."

Zhao Fan paused and said seriously, "No matter what, Li Keyong is a subject of my Tang Dynasty, and those Khitans are all aliens, devil birds of prey." The fight between the feudal towns is like a fight between brothers over family property, which is not too much, but the Khitan people are different, they are like a group of robbers who suddenly rushed into your house, and they want to divide your family property without saying a word, do you think we can agree? ”

"Your brother's account, when the Khitans are repelled, let's go to Li Maozhen to talk about it, don't think about it too much, just do what you have to do."

"What Your Majesty said makes sense, but the last general's heart is indeed a little uncomfortable, and I hope Your Majesty will not be surprised." Xu Wen nodded when he heard this, and said softly.

Zhao Fan nodded understandingly, smiled at Xu Wen, and did not speak again.

……

On the side of Youzhou, the Khitan army is constantly attacking Youzhou City.

The originally clean and transparent moat has now become a red river of blood, and the entire river is full of corpses of soldiers on both sides.

Youzhou City, which was originally heavily defended, has almost completely lost its defensive ability at this moment, and obstacles such as horse rejection under the city have already been cleaned up by the Khitan army.

The Khitan army, which did not have heavy siege equipment, collectively exerted their brave and unafraid of death, and used their own flesh and blood to constantly attack Youzhou City.

The moat under Youzhou City has become a nightmare for the Khitans, in order to be able to lay down Youzhou City in the morning, the Khitans can only brave the arrows of the city wall, and arrange people to constantly throw some sundries into the moat, it seems that they plan to cut off the moat with a stupid method, and then build a simple pontoon bridge to send some soldiers over first.

It's just that things often don't go as smoothly as imagined, just when the Khitan soldiers were ecstatic and ready to cross the river, the defenders at the head of the city lifted the fire oil and poured down, the fire oil not only flowed the entire moat, but also drenched the Khitan soldiers who were just preparing to cross the river under the city.

A moment later, countless torches flew down from the city, and the torches fell on the oil, and in an instant the entire moat was ignited, and crazy flames gushed out of the moat, swallowing everything under the city in an instant.

Those Khitan soldiers who were still very excited a second ago were completely tragic, and they just wanted to take the improvised pontoon bridge that had been repaired, so they would land quickly.

As soon as he stepped on the pontoon bridge, the fire oil fell from the sky, drenching everyone with blood, and the most terrible thing was that dozens of torches were dropped on the city tower again, and the gushing fire swallowed up those Khitan elite soldiers in an instant.

The scene was full of firelight, and all that was left was the wails and cries of Khitan soldiers, after today, I am afraid that there will be no one in the future who wants to conquer Youzhou City in this way.

After all, if given the choice, no one wants to take themselves out and be burned by the fire, and end up roasted like a roast duck.

The Khitan generals under the city looked at the fire-filled Youzhou City, sighed helplessly, and led the troops to retreat for the time being.

It's just that what worries the generals of Li Keyong's army in Youzhou City is that although the enemy has temporarily retreated, there are not many supplies left in the city.

……

The whole world is in chaos, under the influence of the environment, those small feudal towns in the south also began to frantically attack other small feudal towns around them, every day small feudal towns are defeated and eliminated, but many new feudal towns appear every day.

The two gathered nearly 300,000 troops, and fought in a very small area, Wang Jian also took advantage of some advantages, and took the opportunity to occupy several states.

And Li Keyong is here, and now he is basically fighting a war of attrition, but he Li Keyong can't afford it, so he has such a low profile, not only to the court, but also to send his baby son to Luoyang, in order to show his sincerity.

And Zhao Fan was not ambiguous, especially after knowing that the child was Li Cunqiao, Zhao Fan even left him directly in the harem, and let Joy take good care of him. On the one hand, you can also tell Li Keyong that he attaches importance and respect to him, and on the other hand, you can also brainwash him more and instill in him the great truth of loyalty and patriotism...

This kind of thing, it's hard to say, in case this guy takes over his father's position in the future, then everything he has free now

As for the officers and men of the accompanying Mandate of Heaven Army, they have basically completed their assembly, and all the four brigades and one battalion of the Mandate of Heaven Army have arrived, that is to say, the 300,000 officers and men of the Mandate of Heaven have all arrived at the designated place.

Now is waiting for a suitable opportunity, although Zhao Fan brought 300,000 soldiers to personally recruit, but these soldiers are his treasures, that is to be cherished, Zhao Fan is not other feudal towns, he understands more the importance of men to this society, his soldiers are here to do tasks, not to send them to death.

With the total population of Datang now, it is estimated that it will definitely not be too much, and it is difficult for Zhao Fan to extract the 300,000 people from it, so at this moment Zhao Fan's idea is very simple, we only cooperate, never take the lead, no matter what, safety first.

In this battle of Xuzhou, Zhao Fan's goal is to further compress the living space of Houliang, I don't know why, Zhao Fan has an unusual hatred for Zhu Wen, maybe he died in his hands in his previous life......

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