In the capital city, Li Jianshan can really be regarded as tormenting in busyness these days. Since receiving the news sent by Mingyue in Tangtai, Li Jianshan did not say a word, and immediately ordered people to tear off the head of the city and raise it again, and summoned tens of thousands of people to dig a trap outside the city. Regardless of whether the western battalion can withstand it or not, Li Jianshan is taking precautions and making all defensive preparations.

In the city defense camp, Li Jianshan looked at the neatly arranged equipment of the heavy armored battalion and the rows of chariots, he did not lack weapons and equipment now, but he lacked the manpower to use these equipment.

After Li Jianshan inspected the city defense camp, he came to the Lidu City to build a villa. There are a large number of skilled craftsmen gathered here, originally to make weapons and equipment for the Sky Survey Army, but now they have been taken over by Zhou Guangji, and they are stepping up to build various tools for defending the city.

Since Duan Lang left, Zhou Guangji has completely regarded Lidu City as his base camp. After a few months of contact, he found that this Li Jianshan was not bad, at least on the surface, he was very supportive of Duan Lang.

Next to the forge, Zhou Guangji was sweating like rain and was beating the iron. In the past two days, Zhou Guangji led a group of blacksmiths to hurry up to build a long fork for defending the city. It was originally a farming tool for work, but after Zhou Guangji's transformation, the three-strand fork head became seven-strand. Coupled with the long wooden pole, it suddenly became the nemesis of the enemy soldiers on the ladder to the city.

On the other side, the master carpenters are also chipping and sawing, and installing a vehicle crossbow. These crossbows were placed on top of the city walls, and the thick stake arrows were extremely powerful when fired. However, the crossbow has a small killing area and is mainly built for chariots and the opponent's catapults.

Li Jianshan came to the forging furnace, "Senior Zhou, rest for a while." ”

Hearing this, Zhou Guangji put down the forging hammer, picked up the clay pot next to him and poured a few sips hard, and then put on his clothes and walked out.

"Jianshan, have something to do with me?" Zhou Guangji asked.

"Senior Zhou, I'm so busy these days that I'm in a daze, can you help me think about it again and see what other aspects are not well prepared?" Li Jianshan said and pulled over a bench, and the two sat down.

Since Zhang Ruming left Lidu City, Li Jianshan has not even had a confidant companion. He was originally just a secret household, but now he not only has to manage the city and collect taxes, but also has to take care of the transformation of weapons and equipment. Now it's a good thing, even the heavy responsibility of defending the city has fallen on his shoulders, and Li Jianshan is depressed and really wants to find a place to scold his mother to vent.

"Jianshan, the old man is proficient in forging, but he is a layman for defending the city. We have now improved and strengthened the city walls, and I have also installed iron rivets at the city gates, and the only thing missing is the guards guarding the city. ”

"We now only have more than 5,000 regular soldiers and horses, more than 13,000 temporarily recruited, and the city defense commanders are training. Senior Zhou, you said that if Fang Jiye really can't resist it, can our Lidu City block the other party's 300,000 army? Li Jianshan said sadly.

Zhou Guangji pondered for a while and said, "Although Fang Jiye is not a great achievement, he is also an old man. There may be other reasons for the loss of the Two Realms Mountain, even if Fang Jiye is not good, he still has an army of 200,000 in his hands. Even if Xiyue comes, it will not be 300,000 troops swarming. Didn't you say that Duan Lang's kid is coming back soon, let's hold on as long as we can. As long as the army of Lidu City arrives, the people of Xiyue don't want to cross our cut. ”

Li Jianshan sighed, "Senior Zhou, is there any news from Landu City?" ”

Zhou Guangji shook his head, since he received the news of Mingyue in Taitai, Zhou Guangji ordered Azhu to take the Harrier Eagle left for Fang Yan to Landu City. Once there is an emergency over there, Azhu will release the harrier eagle as soon as possible. Now it seems that the Western Vietnamese army has not yet broken through the blockade line of Landu City. However, Zhou Guangji believes that the time to come will come, but sooner or later.

In Yushanguan, a border city in the north of Great Xia, a group of 500 soldiers and horses, disguised as civilian merchants and merchants, entered in batches. Mingyue, who was in Beiming, decided to do something for Duan Lang. Before releasing Xiaobai, she ordered Han Feng to lead her private army to Lidu City secretly through Harrier Eagle Xiaobai and listen to Hou Duanlang's orders. Mingyue, who has worked hard for many years, has been completely disappointed in her father and brother. If she wasn't still in love with this homeland, she would have thought about leaving forever to accompany Duan Lang.

In Lidu City, on the night after Li Jianshan's inspection, Harrier Eagle sent the news that the Western Vietnamese army had broken through the defense line. Li Jianshan hurriedly summoned some heavy figures in the city and began to make specific arrangements for the defense task. Even some chamber of commerce bigwigs were arranged to appease the people.

In the depths of the desert, Duan Lang led the army to advance against the wild sand. With a crossing experience and desert experience, the soldiers are accustomed to this difficult environment. Helplessly, their horses still can't adapt to the drought of the desert. Most of the water is drunk by war horses. Duan Lang also understood that if they hadn't relied on Dafei to keep looking for water, even if tens of thousands of horses went out, I was afraid that there would be not much left. From this point of view, there is no need to worry that other armies can cross the desert and attack the capital city.

"Lang, how long do we have to go out?" Fang Yan rode a war horse, covering her face very tightly, and asked in a loud voice.

"Don't worry, there are still four or five days to get out of the desert. Don't worry, Uncle Fang won't have an accident. 200,000 troops were stationed in the defense line of Landu, and Xiyue would not break through so easily. Duan Lang said with relief.

Fang Yan raised her head and looked at the sky, although she wanted to know the situation in Lan Capital City, Fang Yan understood that Duan Lang couldn't let Da Fei leave now. Twenty or thirty thousand horses, and they still need to fly to find water. Spare water bladders in the convoy are not allowed to be used by anyone under normal circumstances. Unless Da Fei did not find a water source that day, Liu Xusheng would distribute a small amount. The terrain in the desert is unpredictable, and the last time there was water on the route, this time it may dry up. Therefore, no one can determine which day the water will be cut off.

Duan Lang calculated as he walked, after the army walked out of the desert, it would take at least a day or two to repair the horses to recover. In this way, they will have about ten days left to return to the capital. Duan Lang was also worried that if Han Pingzi led the army to break through the defense line of Landu City and enter Lidu City, he didn't know how many days Li Jianshan would be able to hold on.

On the official road from Landu City to Lidu City, the Xiyue army under the leadership of the forward general Xiao Zhanfeng rushed to Lidu City. Before the war, these generals had all seen the territory of Great Xia, and once the Western Vietnamese army broke through the two defense lines of the two realms of Shanlan Capital, the only place that could still be blocked was Lidu City. As long as you take the capital city, you can go straight to Kyoto in Bactria with a flat river. Even if you encounter a strong counterattack, you can retreat to the capital city to contain the counterattack of Great Xia. As long as this important place is firmly occupied, the vast fertile land west of the capital city will become the territory of Western Vietnam in the future.

The lord of Xiyue has no intention of annexing Great Xia, not that he doesn't want to, but Han Pingzi suggested that Great Xia must not be annexed at present. After all, the Moro Kingdom was eyeing the tiger, and once it fell into the national revolt of the entire Great Xia, Western Yue would no longer have the energy to fight against the Moro army. If you don't get it right, greed is not enough to swallow the elephant, but you put yourself in it. Being able to occupy the vast territory west of the capital city is in the greatest interest of the West Vietnamese. When the time comes, he will free up his hands to pacify the Moro Kingdom, and Daxia will have no danger to defend, and he can send troops to Kyoto at any time.

Xiao Zhanfeng was excited in his heart, and the credit of occupying the capital city was not small, which was enough to make him occupy the first place on the list of generals in Western Vietnam.

"Fast ~ speed up. The marshal said, whoever can be the first to stand on the head of the capital city, reward one hundred taels of gold and two officials to the third level, and the lord of the country will also give a hundred acres of fertile land. Xiao Zhanfeng howled and encouraged the sons to speed up. At the thought of being able to take the lead in looting the wealthy Lidu City, Xiao Zhanfeng's blood boiled.

According to the information obtained by the spies before the war, there were only 5,000 people in the capital city. For Xiao Zhanfeng's army of nearly 80,000, this is simply a mantis arm as a car.

Lidu City, at this time the city wall was already full of people. Li Jianshan was dressed in brand-new armor and stood above the city gate with a cold gaze. Zhou Guangji and Han Feng stood on one side, and Zhou Guangji was very moved by Han Feng's sudden arrival, but he didn't expect that after so many years, the two brothers would still be able to fight side by side.

"Two seniors, according to the estimation of time, the West Vietnamese army should arrive today. It seems that a bloody battle is inevitable. Li Jianshan turned his head to look at Zhou Guangji and Han Feng.

Han Feng's face was flat, and he said in a deep voice, "Young man, don't worry, back then, our brothers were in the Two Realms Mountain, and that was called tragic. Third brother, I didn't expect that after so many years, we would actually fight side by side for Daxia. Speaking of which, it's really a bit ~! Han Feng couldn't help but smile bitterly.

"Old Seven, let's not do this for Daxia, but for the future of ~ the young master. In my eyes, Lidu City is Duan Lang's territory. No matter who wants to encroach on this side of the water and soil, the old man will not agree. Zhou Guangji replied calmly with an iron crutch,

Li Jianshan's heart moved, looked at Han Feng and asked, "Aren't you Princess Mingyue's master?" Could it be that you are also a ~ shadow person? ”

Han Feng had long known that Li Jianshan knew the identities of Duan Lang and Zhou Guangji, and said with a smile, "Yes, the old man was also one of the filmmakers back then. The Duan family followed the first emperor back then, and lost 3,000 loyal bones in the Battle of the Two Realms Mountain, and in the end, they actually became sinners in Great Xia. Hehe, if you want me to say, Emperor Yuning, who killed Zhongliang, should have perished a long time ago. ”

Li Jianshan smiled bitterly, "Senior, let's save a little face for the subordinates, there are all the guards of Great Xia around here." ”

Zhou Guangji also said, "Old Seven, this battle is very important to Duan Lang, we must defend the capital city." I believe that after this great battle, the court of Great Xia will also be cleaned again. At that time, maybe Duan Lang will show the snow for our shadows. ”

Li Jianshan hurriedly nodded, "Senior Zhou is right, with the merits of the Duan Lang brothers and the strength of our Lidu City. No matter how big the grievances are, presumably Emperor Yuning will declare his innocence to the world. ”

"Still innocent? Hmph, those unjustly killed shadow people, their blood is shed in vain? Only one sentence is innocent, which is not enough to make the underground brother Jiuquan blind. ”

Li Jianshan's face was solemn, and he said seriously, "Yes, Brother Duan Lang will make them blind." I know you're referring to Yu Ban, and to be honest, I want that old thing to be brought to justice. ”

"It's not just the old thing that's banned, it's ~."

When Zhou Guangji heard this, he hurriedly stopped, "Old Seven, forget it, you can leave all this to Duan Lang." ”

Zhou Guangji knew that Han Feng was unhappy in his heart, and unlike Zhou Guangji, Han Feng, who had been in the Northern Ming Dynasty for many years, was even more jealous of Emperor Yuning, who ordered the killing of the shadow man. But Zhou Guangji knew in his heart that there were some things that they had to focus on the overall situation. After all, Zhou Guangji has lived at the bottom of society all these years, and he knows how much turmoil Emperor Yuning's assassination will cause. When the time comes, there will be power disputes in Great Xia, and the unlucky ones can only be the people at the bottom. And Han Feng has been living in the upper echelons with Mingyue, and for the sake of hatred, he will not care whether the entire Great Xia will fall into a crisis or even a civil war and split.

While the three of them were talking, they saw a fast horse galloping towards them, and immediately a captain shouted loudly.

"My lord~ The Xiyue army has arrived~ less than five miles away from here."

Li Jianshan's heart tightened, and when he saw the captain crossing the city gate, he immediately shouted loudly, "Come on, close the city gate, pile up stone carts, and close the city gate hole." ”

The people under the city suddenly became busy, and above the city, the guards began to push the winch, and the thick pile arrows were placed on the ballista. These young guards had never experienced a battle at all, and their faces were pale and they couldn't stop swallowing nervously.

Outside the city gates, a puff of dust and smoke rushed from far and near. Looking at the West Vietnamese army with no end in sight, there was silence on the city wall.

Snap~ A guard's trembling hands did not hold the sword. This crisp sound, like a heavy hammer, struck on everyone's heartstrings.