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Li Ji with his younger siblings, escorted by Pound, was touring the city. The scenery of this Zhao and Song Dynasty is very different from that of the empire. In particular, this Jiankang City is not only not small in scale, but also brings together many foreign people from all over the world, with special customs, which is really eye-catching.

During this period of time, Li Ji and others have gone out of the palace to walk around and experience the folk customs that are very different from the empire, but they have a different taste.

Li Ji stood on his shoulder with the blue bird, like an idle son.

Suddenly, he received a summons from Pound.

At that moment, without saying a word, he reflexively returned to the Zhao Song Palace.

"The Imperial Army has arrived!"

In the hall, Li Ji retreated left and right, leaving only Zhou Tai and nine brothers and sisters present.

"This time, the empire sent 50,000 troops, half of the war cavalry and half of the infantry army, and General Pang De, the commander of the Southern Army, was the commander!" Li Ji's expression was solemn, and he said: "General Pang De's department has already set a strategy and tactics, and it has just been summoned to me, so let me and others pay attention to safety." In addition, some generals suggested that we wait here to make trouble and take the lead in taking down Zhao and Song and the first ministers. Uncle Zhou, eldest sister, what do you think? ”

"The Military Affairs Yuan is not slow."

Zhou Tai pondered for a moment and said, "The biggest force in this world is this Zhao Song and Zhao Song's sworn enemy Meng Yuan. If you want to conquer this realm, you will destroy Zhao Song and Meng Yuan. Your Royal Highness, the last general thought that it was the best policy to take down the monarchs and ministers of Zhao Song with the power of thunder. But there is still some consideration to be made. ”

Li Jin looked cold and said, "I agree with Uncle Zhou's words. Brother, to take down the monarchs and ministers of Zhao Song, for the time being, he must remain silent and not be quiet, so as not to leak the news and make Zhao Song unstable. The Emperor and ministers of the Zhao and Song dynasties could be coerced to give orders to suit the imperial strategy. so that the Empire can take over the realm. ”

"It is best to summon all the major civil officials and military generals from all over the Zhao and Song dynasties to Jiankang and kill them all." Zhou Tai added on the side.

When Li Ji heard this, he shook his head: "It will take time to quietly summon the civil and military chiefs from all over the Zhao and Song dynasties to Jiankang. But the Imperial army is sharp, and I am afraid that before the news of the summoning of these people is delivered, the army will be almost in Jiankang. Everything is impossible, as long as you take the big one, there are some small fish and shrimp left, and there is no need to worry. ”

"In that case, Your Highness, I will go down and arrange this at the end!" Zhou Taidao.

"Don't worry." Li Ji said: "You still need to come up with a reason first, and all the main officials of Zhao and Song in this Jiankang City will be summoned to the palace. Big sister, what do you think? ”

Li Jin said: "That's exactly how it should be. Brother. Or we can inform Emperor Zhao Song on the grounds that we are ready to leave. We are the princes and princesses of the Origin Empire, isn't Zhao Song a state of etiquette? Presumably, Zhao Song Junchen will set up a big banquet to send off, and it will not be rude. ”

"That's it!"

"What?"

Zhao Yun couldn't help but be stunned when he heard the words of the eunuch, and said, "You mean, then Li Ji and others came to see me and prepared to leave tomorrow." Leaving this realm? ”

The eunuch next to him lowered his eyebrows and replied, "Exactly." Official. ”

Zhao Yun pondered for a moment and said, "Please let them in." ”

A moment later, Li Ji was in front, and Zhou Tai was guarding the side, and walked into the side hall.

Li Ji stepped forward and bowed. Said: "I have seen His Majesty the Emperor of the Great Song Dynasty!" ”

"Excuse me, give me a seat."

After Li Ji sat down, Zhao Yun said, "I heard that His Royal Highness is leaving tomorrow?" Why are you in such a hurry? I have a good view of the Song Dynasty, why not stay for a while, good life tour? ”

Li Ji showed regret on his face. He bowed slightly and said, "So that His Majesty the Emperor knows that ten of my brothers and sisters originally slipped out of the empire to find their father, but they came to this realm by mistake." It's been here for a few months now. When my father learned of this, he was furious and sent a summons to me to return to the empire with my younger siblings and me. The father's life is like a mountain, how dare he be lazy? ”

Zhao Yun heard this, but nodded in understanding.

If this happened to him, his son and daughter would have sneaked out and stayed in another world for several months, and he would not be at ease when he thought about it.

Li Ji looked helpless: "If I go back this time, I'm afraid I won't be able to come out in a short period of time, my father doted on ten of my brothers and sisters, and scolded at most two sentences." But my mother's side didn't get through. Although the scenery of this Great Song is extraordinary, there is no way, tomorrow morning, we must leave. This time I came to say goodbye to His Majesty the Emperor. ”

When Zhao Yun heard this, he said: "In this case, I will not keep it."

After a pause, he pondered for a moment, and said, "I am the state of etiquette in the Great Song Dynasty, and His Royal Highness is leaving, but I can't be rude." Tonight, I will gather the ministers, set up a banquet to see off His Royal Highness, and ask His Royal Highness to be present. ”

Li Ji said in his heart, what he was waiting for was your words, so he said: "Thank you for your kindness, Your Majesty the Emperor, I will wait for ten brothers and sisters to be there!" ”

Jingbei, Fancheng.

The Mengyuan army attacked for more than ten days, and Fancheng was already crumbling.

In the morning, Meng Yuan attacked again with his troops and climbed to the top of the city again. Lu Wende took the lead and was extremely difficult, so he drove the Mengyuan army down the city and kept Fancheng from losing.

After resting for a few hours, having eaten and drunk, and recovering their energy, at the end of the afternoon, they once again drove their troops to launch another round of attack.

The carriage, with its bronze cannon, went out to a thousand paces below the city, and then lit a fire, and the rumbling sound was continuous. One by one, metal projectiles flew out, hitting the walls of Fancheng, or hitting holes in the walls, or falling on the head of the city, jumping up again, passing all the way, breaking the bones and bones of the Song soldiers, and being extremely miserable.

At the head of the city, the ground was covered with a layer of fine soft sand, just to defend against projectile jumping. But there are always accidents that can't be prevented, resulting in the death of many Song soldiers.

Meng Yuan opened fire, and the Song soldiers did not lag behind.

You come and go, shoot at each other, the sound is endless, but it is very lively.

But if you really want to talk about it, the lethality caused by this copper cannon attack is actually not great. Solid projectiles must be hit, or jumped, in order to cause damage, and most of the projectiles actually fall into the air.

But this thing is loud and easy to lose morale.

After several rounds of artillery bombardment, Meng Yuan drove the slave army, carrying ladders, pushing rushing carts and other siege equipment, and making cannon fodder in front to attract the firepower of the Song army. The elite soldiers are behind. Under the cover of the slave army, they quickly approached the city wall.

The composition of the Mengyuan army is very complex.

Mengyuan's own clan, in fact, the number is not too much. Being able to take out 300,000 elite iron horsemen is already remarkable. And Meng Yuan has been conquering the Quartet, his own troops. Not enough at all. Therefore they took the strong men of the conquered lands and formed a slave army, which they thought were the forerunners.

Among these slave armies, there are Jurchens, Khitans, Dangxiang people, Tubo people, and more, Han people from the north!

These people. is Meng Yuan's cannon fodder.

The cannon fodder naturally has the consciousness of cannon fodder, just rush forward, if they take a step back, they will be killed immediately.

At the head of the city, Lu Wende's face was expressionless.

His eyeballs were already bloodshot. In the past ten days, he has not had a good night's sleep. Meng Yuan's offensive is too strong, and it is impossible to be negligent.

"Shoot the arrows! Shoot the arrows! ”

"Heavy armor prepares. As soon as these brutes build a ladder, push them down for me! ”

"Golden water. Rolling stones, rolling wood, get ready! ”

On the city wall, there was a lot of chaos.

When the rain of arrows fell, many Mengyuan slave soldiers fell to the ground and died, but more slave soldiers stepped over these corpses. Shouting and roaring, holding weapons and siege equipment, he quickly approached.

Behind the slave army, Meng Yuan's elite soldiers followed. Within more than 100 steps, immediately, the bow and arrows were fired, and a rain of arrows was thrown, suppressing the firepower of the Song army at the head of the city.

Compared with archery, Meng Yuan's soldiers far surpassed the Song army!

But the Song army also had advantages.

"Divine Arm Crossbow, salvo!"

The divine arm crossbow is a sharp weapon used by the Song army to deal with the grassland peoples.

Under the city, thousands of steps away, in the middle of the large array of the Mengyuan Chinese army.

Meng Ge straddled the back of a horse that was black and shiny, and could not find a trace of variegated color, pressed the golden knife at his waist, and stared directly at the battlefield in front of him with blazing eyes.

He had a rough face, a braided beard, a golden armor, and a fierce cloak behind him, which was really powerful.

"Fancheng is crumbling, and within two days, it will be able to break through!" Meng Ge was confident and said: "After capturing Fancheng, the next thing is Xiangyang." It was also necessary to mobilize ships to intercept the southerners' naval forces and transport the army across the river. ”

"I am invincible in the prosperity of the Yuan army, but this water army is really my heart."

"Great Khan, the southerners are rotten, and sooner or later they will be broken by my Great Mengyuan. As long as you gather more Nanren craftsmen, build ships, and train naval forces, so that the Nanren lose their dependence, it will be the time when the Great Khan will rule the world! ”

When Meng Ge heard this, he couldn't help but smile.

But suddenly, a horseman came.

"Great Khan! Sweat! ”

But it was a scout sent out by Meng Yuan.

"Say!"

"Great Khan, a cavalry has come from the north, the speed is extremely fast, and it is about to arrive!"

The scout smoked in his throat, swallowed, and spoke quickly.

"Cavalry?!"

Meng Ge frowned, and as soon as his thoughts turned, he knew that it was not his own army. He is the Great Khan of Mengyuan, and when Mengyuan's army is mobilized, he is naturally clear.

So he hurriedly waved his hand, held his breath and concentrated, and felt it carefully, and felt that the ground was indeed shaking.

For example, a large number of cavalry galloped, and ten miles away, the movement could be clearly felt.

But now that Fancheng is being attacked, the momentum is huge, but it has attracted everyone's attention and covered up this movement, so that none of these Mengyuan soldiers who have lived on horseback since childhood and have always dealt with cavalry have not found out!

"How many are there?"

After all, it is a Mengyuan man, although he is shocked, he is not flustered, and he is very calm.

"I don't know!" The scout said, "Great Khan, the enemy army is extremely fast, we don't have time to estimate the number of people!" ”

"Extremely fast?"

Meng Ge frowned: "Faster than you scouts?" ”

"Exactly, Great Khan!"

"Impossible!"

Immediately, Zhou Jinzhong will be skeptical.

Scouts, you have to be fast. The Mengyuan scouts are all one-person, two-horse, or even three-horse, and they are all excellent war horses, but in terms of speed, they are the best in the army.

But the scout said that the north side was riding faster than their scouts, and that he had not even had more time to check the number of enemy horsemen, so he had to return at once to report the news.

How fast is that?!

Before Meng Ge could make a decision, the tremors on the ground became stronger and stronger.

Immediately, this Mengyuan Central Army, countless people turned their heads in unison and looked to the north.

In the field of vision, a dark cavalry, like a wild wave, surging in. The momentum was terrifying. A few miles away, there was a sharp edge like a knife cutting and a needle, and a huge pressure like Mount Tai pouring over!

"What kind of cavalry is this?!"

Meng Ge's face was pale, and he shouted: "The army turns, line up!" ”

At first glance, the rapidly approaching cavalry did not number less than 10,000. But the momentum brought is comparable to that of an army of 100,000, and even more terrifying!

"Chuanben Khan ordered the siege team to retreat immediately, stop the siege, and turn around to line up for defense!"

"Come on, pass the order, Wuliang and Xulie 20,000 people, immediately meet the enemy!"

"The rest of the troops, get ready!" (To be continued......)