Bayankala offensive and defensive battles have been carried out for more than a month, and the deep defense line that stretches for miles outside the city has been cut off layer by layer by the Dingzhou army like peeling green onions, and the fortresses and strongholds have been lost one after another, and the Dingzhou army has advanced to a place more than a mile away from Bayankala, and if it moves forward, the long-range attack weapons of the Dingzhou army will directly threaten the Bayankala city wall.

Although the barbarians have been fighting with Li Qing for several years, Bayar has never personally put the Dingzhou army face to face, this time he finally understood the excellent equipment of the Dingzhou army, the sharpness of the weapons, standing on the high city wall, watching the Dingzhou army attack the outer defense line of Bayan Kala in the distance, seeing the crossbow arrows like flying locusts, stone bullets like rainstorms, and the frenzy of black soldiers completely equipped with iron armor, Bayar was overshadowed, although he knew that defeat was a foregone conclusion, but he saw the strength of the opponent with his own eyes, but his heart was still depressed.

Compared with the fierce attack of the enemy outside, the situation in Bayankala City has also deteriorated, mainly because the food has also begun to become tense, although Bayankala as the capital of grass, the reserves are not abundant, but Bayar did not expect that the situation has deteriorated to such a point in a short period of time, so that hundreds of thousands of people are trapped in Bayankala City, although a batch of materials were rushed into the city in the later period, but compared to the huge population base, it is still a drop in the bucket. From the beginning of the siege, Bayankala began to adopt a centralized distribution system, and only provided enough food to the soldiers every day, not the combatants, and the family members could only barely survive, as for the slaves in the city, after they completed the defense of Bayankala, it would be good to have a little food to hang their lives every day.

Many barbarian nobles directly suggested killing these tens of thousands of slaves, so that they could save a lot of rations every day, but as the supreme ruler, Bayar had to consider the consequences of doing so, killing people was very simple, but once these tens of thousands of slaves were killed, after the city was broken, the barbarians would have to bear the revenge and anger of the Dingzhou army, judging from Li Qing's early actions, he still cared about the lives of these slaves. And Li Qing has no intention of exterminating the barbarians, judging from the surrender of Fu Sen and some small tribes, he wants the submission of the grassland rather than destruction, obviously, Li Qing intends to bring the grassland under his rule, but if he raises the butcher's knife, even if Li Qing does not want to retaliate afterwards, he has to consider the reaction of the Dingzhou army, which is obviously a disaster for the entire barbarian.

But this tens of thousands of slaves are indeed a huge burden on Bayankala City, and they have to find a way to solve this problem. Now Bayar's only hope is that the Central Plains will be in chaos as soon as possible, and he can hold on longer, as long as he has to defend until Li Qing has to turn around and face the situation in the Central Plains, he will have more capital to negotiate with him, after all, for these warlords of Da Chu, the grassland is more like a chicken for them, the food is tasteless, it is a pity to abandon it, as long as he stabs Li Qing like a hedgehog, and makes him feel hopeless to capture Bayan Kala, and turn back to participate in the war in the Central Plains, the grassland will win a glimmer of life, With this glimmer of life, Bayar believes that with the perseverance of the steppe people, a powerful steppe will emerge in a few decades.

Bayar guessed Li Qing's mind wrong, now Li Qing has a very clear understanding of himself, the chaos in the Central Plains has just risen, the accumulation of decades or even hundreds of years of accumulation of all kinds of heroes, now is the time when they are the most powerful, the newly rising Dingzhou is much inferior to these heroes in all aspects, at this time, he will never rush into it, the grassland is an important chess piece for Li Qing to dominate the Central Plains, Li Qing will never give up, not to mention, if he does not solve the grassland, let himself have such a nail on his back, Li Qing will not feel comfortable.

Li Qing will only choose the most suitable time for Dingzhou to participate in this game of redefining the Great Chu Jiangshan, and before that, what he has to do is to make himself stronger step by step.

Some time ago, the information from Dingzhou made Li Qing anxious, at the moment enough food is the basic guarantee for the victory of the Dingzhou army in the war, if there is a problem with the grain order, it means that the Dingzhou army must fight quickly, once it can not quickly take Bayan Kala, then he can only withdraw the army, maintaining the consumption of hundreds of thousands of troops is a very terrifying thing, once the food is out, for the army, it will be a disaster.

Li Qing was ready to give orders to launch a general offensive on the whole front several times, and no one knew better than him the background of Dingzhou, and if the grain in the four major warehouses of Dingzhou was not replenished in time, it would bottom out after maintaining the existing army for a month. And the difficulty of defeating Bayan Kala in a month is not ordinarily small, and Li Qing will never despise the ability and wisdom of the enemy sitting in the city opposite now.

Whenever he wants to make up his mind, Li Qing always vetoes himself at the last moment, since Shang Haibo Qingfeng Lu Yiming and the three of them did not issue a final warning to him, it means that there is still a chance for things to turn around, and he believes in the ability of these three people.

In the anxiety and anxiety to spend every day, in the entire Dingzhou army, except for the mountain wind, Lu Dalin, Wang Qinian and Tang Hu four people knew about this, the rest of the people were kept in the dark, the generals of each battalion are still in accordance with the prior arrangement of the orderly pull out of the outlying strongholds one by one, as far as possible to overwhelm the opponent with the superiority of weapons and land, so as to reduce the loss of soldiers, the battle is not hot, but it is effective, but if it goes on like this, the time it needs will be long.

Li Qing inspected the barracks under the escort of Tang Hu, focusing on the baggage battalion, thousands of trebuchets in the army, tens of thousands of crossbow machines, a lot of losses every day, all relying on the maintenance of the baggage battalion, and to Bayan Kala, they also have one more task, the stone on the grassland is difficult to find, the early attack, the stones that can be found have been transported and polished into stone bullets, and now it is basically difficult to find a large number of stones within dozens of miles nearby, in order to ensure the attack of the trebuchet, the baggage battalion has found another way, and several fire cellars have been built in the camp, taking soil and firing pottery bombsAfter the first trial of the skeptical army, the sturdy pottery bombs were greatly praised by the generals of the battalions, and these pottery bombs were quite hard, not only could be used as stone bullets, but also after landing, they often exploded because of the huge impact force, and the scattered pottery shards caused considerable damage to the enemy. Although it does not have the power of stone bullets to destroy cities and collapse fortresses, the threat to enemy soldiers is greater, because after the pottery bombs explode, the shrapnel that flies is irregular.

Ren Ruqing, the commander of the baggage battalion, accompanied Li Qing to inspect the baggage battalion, Li Qing picked up a fired pottery bomb, stretched out his fingers and flicked it, listening to the voice of Qingyue, he couldn't help but be happy, I didn't expect Ren Ruqing to come up with this trick, and he was really careful in everything, and he was knowledgeable. Seeing that Ren Ruqing was still so unkempt, looking sloppy, wearing a five-grade official uniform on his body, he was also crumpled and wrinkled, and couldn't help laughing: "Lord Ren, although you are honest and hard-working, you still need to pay attention to this appearance, you are my Dingzhou five-grade officer, and in the entire Dingzhou, there are only a handful of officials who can do it above the five-grade." If you weren't wearing this official uniform, others would think you were just an ordinary craftsman. ”

Ren Ruqing said with a smile: "Dashuai, Ruqing himself is a craftsman, the official is big, that is also the promotion of the handsome, in fact, in Ruqing's heart, he will always be a craftsman, as a craftsman, if I pay attention to the official authority and etiquette, and do not go to the front line to see, listen, test, and do it myself, then Ruqing will lose his surname, and he will not be able to do things for the marshal." However, since the big marshal said it, Ruqing must pay attention to it in the future. ”

Li Qing laughed, stretched out his hand to pat Ren Ruqing's shoulder, and said: "Okay, that's a good point, but I'm a little lost, you are right, I can easily find a fifth-grade official, but it is extremely difficult to find a master like you, Lord Ren, you don't have to change, just follow your heart, to be honest, a person has been an official for a long time, it is really easy to change his own surname, you can maintain a pure heart, I am very pleased." ”

Ren Ruqing clenched his fists, "Thank you for the compliment." Ruqing must make more powerful weapons for the handsome and do his part for the handsome to level the world. ”

Li Qing smiled silently, now everyone in Dingzhou is very high-spirited, not to mention those generals who command the army, even Ren Ruqing, who has never asked about the world and is dedicated to studying, has also looked at the world.

While walking casually in the camp, he asked Ren Ruqing, "Are there any difficulties that I need to solve?" ”

Ren Ruqing hesitated for a moment, and said: "Dashuai, nothing else, it's just a shortage of manpower, if possible, I need to increase a large number of manpower to make pottery bombs and do some chores, now the baggage battalion is to treat one person as two people, it's still not enough, the craftsmen are tired and ruthless, when it's a long time, I'm worried that they can't carry it, Dashuai doesn't know, every time the generals of each battalion send people to collect weapons, if they are slow to give, or not enough, those generals will point at my nose and scold, My big case has been smashed by the generals. ”

Li Qing laughed, "The generals are sincere for their meritorious service, Lord Ren don't blame them, he will reprimand them when he turns around, how can he be so rude to our Lord Ren, rest assured, they will definitely apologize to you." ”

"It's not necessary to apologize, the generals' minds can be understood, the generals are bleeding and sweating on the front line, if they can't guarantee the supply of their weapons, it is reasonable to be angry with me, but Ruqing is very guilty!"

Li Qing nodded, Ren Ruqing can think like this, of course, because he is broad-minded, but I am afraid that in his heart, there is still an inferiority complex in it, after all, a craftsman can be a high-ranking official of the fifth grade, this is only in his own Dingzhou, Dachu's other status, the status of the craftsman is still very low, many generals have not yet been Ren Ruqing's official character, and they actually slapped the table at him, indicating that the generals did not take Ren Ruqing, a craftsman official, to heart from the bottom of their hearts, and this atmosphere must be stopped. After pacifying the grassland, Li Qing has decided to restore the two states not only to attack by force, but also to govern the country, and in addition to the traditional method of taking scholars, he has decided to open another department of science and technology, in order to collect all kinds of talents, and like Ren Ruqing, the proportion of technical flow officials in Dingzhou will be more and more in the future, if you don't consider this matter early, it will cause confrontation among officials in the future, then it will be too late to regret!

Just thinking about his thoughts, a personal guard rushed over, "Marshal, Dingzhou has sent urgent military information." ”

Li Qinghuo raised his head, it must have been that matter, and he didn't have time to think about it, so he pulled his legs and left.

(To be continued)