Li Yanqing walked down the city from the Yongdao, the situation in the city was not optimistic, most of the fire oil barrels and fireball boulders thrown by the Jin army fell in the city, the city was once engulfed in raging fire, but now the fire has been extinguished, the land is burned black, and there is a corpse on the ground a little farther away, most of them are auxiliary soldiers who were burned to death or stoned to death, there are probably dozens of people.

"Commander Qiqi, this is only a part of the brothers who were killed or wounded, most of the corpses were carried away, and there were probably more than 500 casualties." A partial general stepped forward to report to Li Yanqingyu.

Li Yanqing nodded, after seeing too many casualties, he was already a little numb, five hundred and fifty people were just two numbers for him, and they couldn't arouse too many feelings from him.

At this time, Li Yanqing saw that there were hundreds of female guards at the base of the city wall cleaning and bandaging the wounds of the wounded soldiers, the wounded soldiers had just come down from the city, there were hundreds of them, they needed to stop the bleeding in time, and clean and bandage, and the seriously injured were carried to the military doctor for treatment.

At this time, Li Yanqing saw Hu Qing'er, she was commanding several auxiliaries to carry away more than a dozen seriously injured people on stretchers, "Can you save your life?" Li Yanqing walked up to her and asked in a low voice.

Hu Qing'er shook her head, "There are three people who are too seriously injured and are already dying, and it is estimated that they will not be able to be saved." ”

She turned around and saw that Li Yanqing was covered in blood, so she hurriedly took out a handkerchief, dipped it in a little salt water to wipe Li Yanqing's face clean, and complained to him in a low voice: "You are the commander, you don't need to kill the enemy in person, if something happens to you, it will seriously affect the morale of the army." ”

Li Yanqing smiled bitterly and shook his head, "Everyone is red-eyed, and sometimes they really can't help themselves." ”

At this time, a soldier rushed to report: "Qi Yu is the capital, the Son of Heaven has arrived!" ”

Li Yanqing hurriedly gave Hu Qing'er a look, Hu Qing'er led people to send more than a dozen seriously wounded soldiers away, Li Yanqing walked quickly to the north city gate, only to see a Huangluo umbrella, Zhao Huan walked over quickly surrounded by dozens of important ministers.

Li Yanqing stepped forward and knelt down on one knee to salute, "Weichen Li Yanqing see His Majesty the Emperor!" ”

"Li Aiqing, hurry up and be exempt!"

Zhao Huan hurriedly helped him up, and when he saw that Li Yanqing was covered in blood, he asked in surprise, "Did Li Dutong also participate in the battle?" ”

Li Yanqing sighed, "The battle is very fierce, as long as you are in the city, fierce battles are inevitable. ”

"How many soldiers were killed or wounded?" Zhao Huan asked with concern again.

"The specific statistics have not yet come out, but it is roughly estimated that more than 1,700 people were killed, more than 1,200 were wounded, about 3,000 were killed or wounded, and nearly 300 auxiliary soldiers were killed."

"What about the enemy?"

"The enemy's casualties should be close to 10,000."

Zhao Huan nodded with satisfaction, "It's not bad, and if you hold the city, Li Dutong really deserves its reputation." ”

"Your Majesty, the bereavement ....... for the fallen in battle"

A hint of discoloration flashed in Zhao Huan's eyes, and he immediately smiled: "Don't worry!" I promised, and this time the fallen soldiers defending the city will be compensated with double compensation. ”

The different color in Zhao Heng's eyes was seen by Li Yanqing, he was stunned in his heart, but he didn't ask more, so he bowed and saluted, "Thank you, Your Majesty!" ”

Zhao Huan smiled again: "I want to go to the city to see, is it okay?" ”

"Your Majesty, please!"

Li Yanqing took Zhao Huan and his ministers along the Yongdao to the city, the city was also very busy, the wounded soldiers and corpses had been carried down, the craftsmen were nervously checking the trebuchets and cannons, and the auxiliary soldiers were busy sorting out various items, the earth-shaking thunder was put into the stone house at the head of the city, and barrels of fire oil were moved down the city.

The weary soldiers wrapped themselves tightly in blankets and curled up under the walls to sleep, not waking them from the coming and going, even when the Son of Heaven came.

"Li Dutong, there is no need to wake them up, I just simply inspect them and let them rest."

"Thank you Your Majesty for your understanding, please go this way!"

Li Yanqing took Zhao Huan to the north city, there are four city gates on the north city wall, namely Chenzhou Gate, Fengqiu Gate, New Sour Date Gate and Weizhou Gate, of which there is only one city tower, that is, New Sour Date Gate.

The new sour jujube gate tower was the command center of the Song army defending the city, but it was hit by several boulders in a row, and the upper part of the city tower appeared a little fragmented, but the room below was relatively complete.

However, Zhao Huan did not enter the room, but stood at the head of the city with his hands in his hands, silently looking into the distance, the tragedy on the battlefield was shocking, but as a monarch, Zhao Huan was more concerned about the situation in Hebei and Hedong, when would he be able to recover the lost land?

Zhao Huan originally came to experience the joy of victory with great interest, but now, his heart became heavy again, Zhao Huan sighed lowly, turned to Li Yanqing and said: "What is the need, although Aiqing discussed with Li Xianggong, the imperial court will do everything in its power to support the army." ”

"Wechen thanks Your Majesty for your support!"

Zhao Huan nodded, turned around and walked towards the city, and returned to the palace after getting on the dragon chariot.

At this time, Li Gang walked up to Li Yanqing and said with a smile: "Li Dutong is free, let's talk!" ”

Li Yanqing nodded and smiled: "I'm about to inspect the city, we might as well walk together." ”

Li Gang followed Li Yanqing to the city, and the two turned over their horses and walked slowly along the city.

"How's the progress of Jin Guo's fine work?" Li Yanqing asked with a smile.

Li Gang smiled bitterly and shook his head, "I may be going to disappoint you, after capturing the scout detail, there is no progress in the intelligence detail, it is completely headless flies, we don't know where to start?" ”

Li Yanqing smiled slightly, "Actually, I can give some advice to Li Xianggong." ”

Li Gang's spirits perked up, and he hurriedly said: "I would like to listen to Li Dutong's high opinion!" ”

"I got a few Jinguo's earth-shaking thunders during the Battle of Taiyuan, they didn't explode after they were thrown into the city, I asked the craftsmen to conduct research, and found that Jinguo had a lot of deficiencies in making earth-shaking thunder, and today Jinguo also used giant trebuchets to attack the city, although their trebuchets are powerful, but they still didn't throw sky-shaking thunder, which shows that their sky-shaking thunder technology has not been able to break through in a few months, I can say that what Jin is most eager to do is to get the manufacturing technology of earth-shaking thunder."

"What does Li Dutong mean is that we use the Heaven-Shaking Thunder Technique as bait to lure out the intelligence of the Jin Kingdom?" Li Gang suddenly understood what Li Yanqing meant.

Li Yanqing smiled and nodded, "As long as the official family commends He Fang, the young superintendent of the Ordnance Prison, and rewards him for his contribution to the creation of the earth-shattering thunder, I believe that the intelligence of the Jin Kingdom will definitely contact him and buy him." ”

"But does He Fang know the technology?"

"There are two kinds of gunpowder for earth-shaking thunder, one is explosive gunpowder, and the other is ignition gunpowder, He Fang knows the formula of explosive gunpowder, and Jin Guo also knows, he doesn't know the formula of ignition gunpowder that Jin Guo wants, and the screw mouth building technology of the spout of the sky-shaking thunder, Jin Guo can't do it, these two technologies are the key to the sky-shaking thunder being able to throw it far away, I believe that Jin Guo will definitely secretly contact He Fang."

Li Gang nodded, "I understand, thank you Li Dutong for your suggestion." ”

The two of them urged the horse away for a while, and Li Gang turned the topic to his intentions today, and the detailed question was just a trivial matter that Li Yanqing mentioned in passing.

Li Gang hesitated for a moment and said, "Li Dutong, do you know the current situation in the imperial court?" ”

"What do you mean?" Li Yanqing asked with a smile.

"It's financial!"

Li Gang showed a trace of embarrassment on his face, although the ugliness of the family should not be publicized, but he asked Li Yanqing for help, but he still couldn't hide this matter, "It's not a secret, the imperial court only has 700,000 yuan left in stock." ”

This made Li Yanqing startled, there was not even a month's military budget, the Song Dynasty implemented a recruitment system, and a large amount of military expenses had to be paid every month, and the military expenses of the Song Dynasty's million-strong army had become one of the heaviest burdens of the imperial court, and during the war, the soldiers' military expenses were doubled, at least 1.5 million yuan per month, and now Li Gang told himself that the imperial court had no money.

At this time, Li Yanqing suddenly remembered the strange color in Zhao Huan's eyes just now, and he suddenly understood that the imperial court could not afford the double pension of the fallen soldiers, Li Yanqing's face suddenly became gloomy, and it was the day of payment in three days, it turned out that this was the real reason why Zhao Huan came to the city to inspect, and let himself solve this problem.

Thinking of this, Li Yanqing was extremely annoyed in his heart, the soldiers fought bloodily with the enemy, and the imperial court not only did not play a role, but actually dragged the army back.

"Then what is the court going to do?"

Li Yanqing also didn't have a good face, and asked directly: "In three days, how will you explain to the soldiers?" ”

Li Gang's face showed embarrassment, "This.... The official family just asked me to discuss this matter with Li Dutong. ”

"That's not right!"

Li Yanqing suddenly realized the loophole in this matter.

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