"Li Wenge must have something to do in the palace tent——"

"Not necessarily. () It's just a risk! ”

Yelu Hugo's judgment, Yelu Dilu did not agree, even if there was an internal response, it was too late in time. The timing of the Eighth Route Army's attack was too awkward, and no one could think about it. The operation of a large army must have an outpost, a forefront, a main force, a flank, a baggage, and a broken rear, which is a systematic project. How to choose the route of the march and how to choose the grain route, these are not things that can be done by pointing and drawing on the map, and there is no three months to half a year to prepare, and the army rushes to send troops, which is simply sending them to death. Da Liao is a large state, and it is fighting in the territory of its allies, and most of the troops used are still nomadic tribal armies, and even so, it took more than a month to prepare from the decision to send troops to the beginning of sending troops. Li Wenge is just a marshal in a remote corner, and he raises a private soldier who eats and drinks Lazar and has to pay for it at his own expense. It is impossible to make a decisive attack on the back road and pick up the cheap in the gap where the Liao army is heading south, without making all preparations in advance. Even if Li Wenge's subordinates are all supermen, the preparation for one month before sending troops is the least, and this month's preparation must also be based on the situation of conducting a detailed reconnaissance of the troop area in advance, and this kind of reconnaissance will take about a month, adding up to two months, Li Wenge has now penetrated deep into the hinterland of southwest Liaoning, which shows that his dispatch of troops is at least at the end of February, and from this time it will be two months back...... Guo Wei is not dead yet, Li Wenge concluded that the Liao army will go south? This conclusion is also too strong!

Therefore, apart from risky gambling, Jerod could not think of any other explanation.

Yelu Hugo said solemnly: "Regardless of whether there is a detailed work or not, since Li Wenge dares to drive straight into the hinterland of Shuozhou, he will not have no arrangements in Yanmen Pass, maybe it is the Yang family of the folded family, or Li Wenge's own partial teacher, although Yanmen Pass is in the hands of the Liu family, after all, the father and son are not able to live, and it is not uncommon for Li Wenge to take Yanmen Pass lightly. When the marshal's soldiers left Yanmen, Li Wenge had already sent people to spy on the left side of Yanmen Pass, and this move was not as simple as coming to see our army's appearance. What the last general is worried about is that at this moment Li Wenge has taken control of Yanmen Pass and is waiting for us to crash into it......"

Yelu Dilu nodded lightly: "You are worried, Yanmen Pass is only afraid that it will not be able to go, I originally didn't expect the Liu family to be able to watch this back road, the army returns to the division, and there is no room for negligence, as far as military affairs are concerned." It's still safe to go out of Yizhou through Wuruan Pass! ”

Yelu Xiuge looked at the enemy and sighed softly: "The marshal is planning the country like this, but I am afraid that this heart will not be known to Shangjing......"

Once it detours to Yizhou, it means that the Yunzhong Deployment Division will take Nanjing to turn back to Shanhou, and although it is militarily responsible to do so, it will take a relatively big risk politically. If you go back to Yanmen, it is equivalent to solving the troubles of Yunzhong's own side, although he is guilty, he will also remedy it himself; However, if it is out of Yizhou, Yelu Tart Lie of Xijin Mansion will inevitably send troops to assist, regardless of whether Yelu Dilu accepts it or not, in the eyes of the emperor in Shangjing, this is equivalent to a southwest shock, and the trouble is so big that the main force of the palace guards in Nanjing must go out to solve it, which is not a good thing for Yelu Dilu, and the sleepy insect emperor has always had a bad impression of him.

Yelu Dilu shook his head: "Military is military, and defeating Li Wenge is the top priority. ”

Brother Yelu Hugh stared at Yelu with blazing eyes: "As far as military affairs are concerned, taking Wuruan Pass out of Yizhou may not be the best strategy!" ”

Jerod was stunned. Then he said: "Since Xun Ning has a plan, but it is!" ”

Brother Yelu Xiu smiled slightly: "Li Wenge poisoned the states behind the mountain, and the marshal got it back from the states in front of the mountain!" ”

Jeru's eyes widened instantly.

Yelu Xiuge said in a low voice: "The soldiers of the Liu family, father and son, all the soldiers of the whole country are here, Taiyuan-"

In fact, there is no need for him to say this, and Jerod has already understood all his thoughts.

What a bold idea......

Looking at the young man in front of him, Yelu Dilu had mixed feelings.

After a while, he said: "It's not difficult to take it, but the battle between Zhou and Han, the outcome is still unknown at the moment, if it is...... Then the Liu family father and son will have no chance to ......"

"Forgive the end of the general for being rude, the Liu family's father and son won, what good is there for Yu Daliao?" Jereux asked.

Yelu was speechless for a long time and shook his head slowly.

"Chai Rong wins, is there any harm in Yu Daliao?"

"Chai Rong's son has lofty ambitions, and in time he will be a great enemy......"

"It is true that if Chai Rong is defeated and Taiyuan is in hand, the marshal can calmly deal with the Liu family's father and son; However, if Chai Rongsheng wins, and there is no marshal in Taiyuan, the land east of the river is no longer owned by the Liu family, so the Liao loses a vassal domain, and the Zhou family controls Hedong, and the sixteen states of Youyun are bound to have no peace. If the marshal sits in Taiyuan, even if Chai Rong wins, he will not dare to drive directly to Taiyuan, and when the time comes, whether to return the Liu family or accept it as Liaotu, Shangjing has its own decision. Although the marshal did not agree, he suffered the loss of Li Wenge. But it also has the great merit of expanding the territory and merging the territory, and the princes of the palace will not fall into the ground for the marshal......"

Speaking of which, Yelu Dilu had a complete insight into Yelu Hugo's thoughts, and he said with a smile: "Is Xun Ning willing to be the forerunner and lead a light army to take Taiyuan for me?" ”

"I don't dare to ask for it!" Yelu Hugo also smiled excitedly as he learned that the Nanren dropped the bookbag.

……

If it was said that under the Tongwan City, it was only the first time that he had seen the power of gunpowder, then this time under the Cloud City, his worship of this new weapon had reached an unparalleled level.

Li Wenge did not know how to count alchemy, although Chen Jun worked hard almost day and night, the production of concentrated sulfuric acid has still not made a breakthrough, without sulfuric acid there is no nitric acid, and explosives in the modern sense still belong to the realm of God. He used black powder under Tongwan City, and this time he still used black powder in the clouds, but this time the amount of black powder was larger, and more manpower and troops were used in its use.

After nearly eight months of in-depth research and hard production, the black powder in Li Wenge's hands has been granulated and standardized, the former makes the black powder more efficient to burn, and the latter allows it to be used as a weapon more quantitatively. The black powder used in Li Wen's revolution has been processed into pieces of medicine cakes, and the weight of each of these medicine cakes is about five catties. This makes the calculations of the blasters much simpler and more efficient, as well as the transportation and counting of them.

Of course, no weapon is omnipotent, and Li Wenge is very self-aware of this. This is evidenced by the plan of attack on Yunzhong that he presided over, and he basically did not engage in any tricks, but clenched his fists and smashed them with absolute power.

The outpost battle of the Battle of Yunzhong lasted for two whole days, and within two days, the cavalry of the fine seal Minda completely drove the defensive cavalry of Yunzhong City back to the city, and then Li Wen Revolution ordered the artillery battalion to attack the southwest corner of the city wall for a whole day, and shot all the stones that could be collected outside the city in the clouds, and on the fourth day, the four crossbowmen all had 400 crossbows at a distance of one hundred and fifty paces to suppress the head of the southwest corner of the city, and the number of crossbow arrows consumed on this day reached as many as 8,000 branches, and the Khitan leather soldiers could not make a head on the southwest corner of the city wall at all. Under the cover of the crossbowmen, the demolition sappers transported the whole 2,000 pieces of medicine cakes to the corner wall in wheelbarrows, and they dug a blasting hole about four feet deep with the sappers' shovels according to the drawings of the blasting room drawn in advance.

The reason why it was so troublesome was because Li Wenge was worried about throwing fireballs down the city, although black powder was still easy to use, but it was also very dangerous, this kind of gunpowder was too easy to ignite. Therefore, he chose the corner of the city that is relatively difficult to blast open for blasting, even if the Khitan soldiers on the city wall at the corner of the city are thrown fireballs, only rarely thrown from the position of Kao near the corner of the city can threaten the blasting sappers, after the bombardment of the day before yesterday, the battlements near the left side of the city wall in the southwest corner have been smashed or flattened by stone bullets, in this position the Khitan soldiers can not get enough cover, under the suppression of four hundred crossbows, almost no one can approach the corner position unharmed, and the safety factor of the blasting sappers is greatly improved. It turns out that Li Wenge's worry is completely unnecessary, the Khitans - at least the Khitan people of this era have not been able to learn how to defend the city, and they rarely have the opportunity to defend the city in normal times, although the city has prepared fire oil and incendiary materials, but they are all ready to go down to the city at night to use lighting, no one thinks of consuming these materials in the daytime.

After all, the sappers pushing the carts did not seem to have much deterrent power, and the commander of the clan tent of the city guards once thought that the purpose of these soldiers carrying shovel-like items on their backs was to dig a hole in the city wall, although he did not think that they would succeed, but he still transferred a few palace guards to concentrate in the southwest corner of the city wall to prepare for a countercharge.

So in the evening of this day, a loud noise shattered all the items made of clay pottery, porcelain enamel, glaze and other materials in the cloud city, and the ears of the noble slaves and warriors in the whole city were so shocked that they could not hear any sound, and the southwest part of the city wall was filled with smoke and dust, and the dozens of Khitan unlucky ghosts on call in the southwest corner all died, they were not hit by the scattered clods, but the violent shock wave shattered their internal organs.

Due to slight deviations in calculations and operations, the blasting did not form a section and slope similar to that of Tongwancheng, but first caused a huge crack with an average width of two meters in the southwest corner of the city wall, which was as wide as five meters at the bottom and almost negligible at the top.

The strength of the city wall in the clouds is actually not as good as that of Tongwancheng, but this time Li Wenge chose the corner of the city, which is the thickest part of the city wall and the strongest geometric structure, and the triangle of the rammed earth structure is of course much better than the flat city wall of the wooden structure.

Even so, the power of five tons of black powder is an extremely terrifying existence in this era, although it cannot be said to be invincible. However, with effective tactical coordination, its power should not be underestimated. Until the new tactics against this weapon came out, its nemesis was largely non-existent.

Five infantrymen in fine scale armor entered the city after the smoke had cleared over the mound and pit created by the explosion, and before the sun set, they occupied the two walls and horse roads southwest of the clouds, clearing the way for the crossbowmen and the following light infantry to follow.

With one infantry after another marching into the city, the battle in the clouds was basically decided, and the less than 1,500 Khitan soldiers in the city were already difficult to form an effective threat to the Eighth Route Army under such circumstances. The remaining commander had been holding the shaman of the clan since the explosion, ignoring the unconcealable stench of the shaman, who had been frightened and incontinent.

"What a sharp weapon—" Thin Seal Minda stood through the gap in the wall and looked down, smacking his tongue.

"Don't stand in front of you like that-" Li Wenge shouted from a distance behind, his brows furrowed tightly, God knows how much damage the internal structure of the city wall caused by this explosion, the city wall that is still standing now, maybe the interior is full of small cracks, if a general like Xifeng Minda unfortunately dies in the collapse of the city wall, it will really be a blind eye, Zhu Rui's tragedy must not be "repeated" a thousand years ago.

Xifeng Minda shook his head and walked back: "With your guts, you can actually kill nine people in a row, there must be something strange in this!" ”

"Does guts have anything to do with whether or not you can kill?" Li Wenge rolled his eyes in protest.

Xifeng Minda ignored him, and said to himself: "With this sharp weapon in hand, there is no so-called strong city in the world, at least there is no more in front of you!" ”

Li Wenge shook his head: "It's not ideal, this thing is not as good as explosives after all!" ”

Thin Seal Minda: "Dynamite? Sharper than this? ”

Li Wenge nodded: "The Military Industry Department has been busy for eight months, and only made less than 30,000 catties of gunpowder in total, and today it took 10,000 catties to blow up such a one, and 1,000 catties is enough to blow up the entire city wall into the sky......"

"Kick Kick?" Xi Feng frowned, "A thousand catties can destroy a city, and there is such a thing in the world?" ”

Li Wenge pursed his lips, and said unsatisfactorily: "It's just a city wall, and there are those who can destroy a city, that thing weighs 8,000 catties, and it can destroy the largest city today in the blink of an eye, killing 80,000 people on the spot......"

……

Two hundred pro-soldiers in front of the palace lined up with horses and armor, and Zhao Kuangyin, the deputy commander of the palace, carefully checked everyone's blades, horses, armor and equipment one by one, and refused to be sloppy and perfunctory. He usually has a very good temper, but at the moment he is quite serious, and during the inspection, he found that the armor of several guards was sloppy, and he ordered these people to take off their armor and return to the camp without saying a word, but he was not angry.

Wang Zhengzhong, who had just been promoted to the commander of the palace a few days ago, was a little nervous: "Brother, today's battle, the soldiers are not even, I am afraid that the lord will blame ......"

"The Lord blames, and I naturally bear it!" Zhao Kuangyin patted Wang Zhengzhong on the shoulder.

He turned around, looked at the frightened guards, and said, "Fighting is not child's play, although you have to work hard, you must know how to spare your life." In the past, the emperor of Daxing governed the army, and the first thing was that the armor was bundled, and the end was uneven, and according to the law, it was to be beheaded, and it was placed on the side of Li Taiwei in the northwest, and the soldiers who served the armor also had to eat twenty military sticks. It's not that the first emperor and Taiwei Li have strict military laws, but it's really the big ones. The sword on the battlefield has no eyes, the armor is half of your own life, you are negligent and slack at the moment, you have lost half your life before you go to the battlefield, seven-foot men, are raised by their parents and mothers, and they are left in the camp because of the hard work of your father and mother for many years. ”

When several guards heard this, their faces immediately turned pale, although Zhao Kuangyin's words were plain, they almost lost the hope of several people. can be selected to enter the palace in front of the army as a personal guard, in the original battalion at least a general Yu Hou, but also a long-standing battle meritorious soldiers, can enter the Son of Heaven pro-army to serve, every day in front of the emperor, originally a promising future, unexpectedly just because the armor ended a little sloppy, was dismissed by Zhao Kuangyin from the military, not to mention going home to farm, that is, being relegated back to the original military compartment, who can afford to lose that face?

Several guards immediately knelt down: "Deputy Du Yuhou, you kill us!" ”

Zhao Kuangyin was still full of relief: "I let you go home, but I can't bear to let you go into battle and give your life, how can you be punished and waited?" Get up quickly, the brethren will still send troops, and if you dare not miss the Lord's order before going into battle, I will not put wine on you to eat. If you can wait, you can wait for the battle to end and go back with the army, and if you can't wait, pack your bags and set off at this moment! ”

One of the guards bowed his head: "We would rather die in front of the battle than go back-"

Zhao Kuangyin stiffened his face: "Even the armor is not finished, and he died in front of the battle?" You're not qualified! ”

Several guards looked at each other, and one of them immediately pulled out a knife and put it across his neck: "Deputy Marquis Yu, we have violated military law and would rather die!" ”

Wang Zhengzhong couldn't bear to look at it, and gently pulled Zhao Kuangyin's nail leaf.

Zhao Kuangyin sighed: "You are deceiving me kindly-"

He turned his face to all the guards and said: "Horses, armor, and blades, these three things are the lifeblood of our soldiers, and if you don't take your life seriously, you cut into the palace to make the yellow gate, there are third-class people in the army, and first-class people don't like to bathe horses; First-class people don't wear armor well; There is also a first-class soldier with rust on his blade - we don't know how other generals are, and they will never take these third-class people to the battlefield! ”

The guards who knelt behind him turned pale when they heard this, but Wang Zhengzhong scolded: "The deputy capital Marquis Yu has spared you this, why don't you end it soon?" ”

Several of the guards stood up in confusion and hurriedly rearranged their armor with each other.

Zhao Kuangyin turned his head to look at them: "Don't think that we are the Son of Heaven's own army, just think that we can stay by the Lord's side every day, and it is the duty of the big head soldiers to kill the enemy in battle, if anyone forgets this duty, then go home and farm for Lao Tzu!" ”v