"What!" Hearing that the Song army outside the city suddenly changed the tactics of besieging on all sides, and changed to encircling three without one, this made Li Rizun and Li Changjie both shocked, because it meant that the Song army had changed its strategy, and it was likely that it was preparing to really capture Shenglong Mansion.

"Taibao, what the hell is going on, why did the Song army suddenly make such a move, do they really plan to capture Shenglong Mansion?" Li Rizun's anxious question at this time, and his face, which had always been moody and invisible, also showed a little panic.

"Your Majesty, the minister doesn't know why the Song army is so mobilized, but now is not the time to think about this, the most important thing for today's plan is to prepare for defense, even if the Song army wants to attack the city, we must teach them a cruel lesson!" Although Li Changjie was also very surprised, his years of military career made him calmer and calmer at such times, and he quickly made the most correct choice.

Li Rizun also knew that now was not the time to entangle the Song army to change its strategy, so when he heard Li Changjie's words, he immediately ordered: "Okay, Taibao, you go to the city to command the army to defend the city, if the Song army really attacks the city, it must be fought hard, and in addition, we must do our best to find out the reason why the Song army has changed so much!" ”

"Your Majesty takes orders!" Li Changjie immediately agreed when he heard this, then turned around and hurriedly left the palace, and when he arrived at the city, he found that the Song army on the opposite side was moving nervously, but although these army movements were frequent, they were orderly in chaos, and if anyone dared to sneak attack at this time, they would definitely suffer a big loss.

Li Changjie looked at the movement of the Song army on the opposite side, and couldn't help but secretly admire the commander of the other party, and sighed that he had lost the first few times, and when he encountered such an opponent, I am afraid that even if he is given several times more troops, he will still lose. It's just that what Li Changjie didn't know was that when he was looking at the movement of the Song army under the city. Someone was looking at him as well.

On a dirt hill not far to the west of Thang Long Mansion, Guo Kui looked at the city head of Thang Long Mansion with a telescope, and when he saw Li Changjie leading the guards to the city head, he couldn't help but laugh at the moment: "The Jiaozhi people reacted very quickly, and as soon as our side moved, Li Changjie had already brought people to the city wall." ”

Yang Huaiyu, who was standing next to Guo Kui, also saw Li Changjie on the opposite city wall. I saw him look at it for a moment, then put down the binoculars and said with a smile: "King Jiaozhi really trusts Li Changjie, and has suffered several defeats in succession, which has caused heavy losses in Jiaozhi's country, but I didn't expect Li Changjie to be able to take on the heavy responsibility of defending Thang Long Mansion." ”

"Hehe, Li Changjie is a eunuch, and the king of Jiaozhi doesn't know what's wrong, so he likes to reuse eunuchs, and he also has great trust in eunuchs. It's a pity that he doesn't know that the eunuch is in charge, which is really an ominous omen! Guo Kui couldn't help laughing when he heard this, he didn't think much of Li Changjie's opponent, although the other party did have some attainments in the art of war, but he had never had a good impression of eunuchs.

"What the chief said is very true, I remember that when I was in the military academy, the king of the county once said that war is a man's game. Li Changjie is no longer a man, and Jiaozhi lets this kind of person lead the troops. It's hard to figure out! Yang Huaiyu also echoed at the moment, he also looked down on the eunuchs, in fact, this is also a kind of atmosphere in the Great Song Dynasty now, but I am afraid that if they are killed, they will not think that in a few decades, the Great Song Dynasty will also have a situation where the eunuchs will lead the troops. Fortunately, with Zhao Yan's crossing, many things have changed, and I think that the Tong Taiwei in history will probably not appear again.

However, although Guo Kui and Yang Huaiyu looked down on Li Changjie, they didn't dare to be careless about the war, and at this time Yang Huaiyu spoke again: "Chief." We've given up the east side, what's next? The walls of Shenglong Mansion are high and the city is deep, and most of the elites of Jiaozhi are gathered in the city, if it is a strong attack, it is nothing for us to pay some casualties, but if the casualties are too large, I am afraid that it will arouse the suspicion of those Western Xia troops in the army? ”

Hearing Li Huaiyu's worry, Guo Kui smiled proudly and said: "In order to consume the strength of his subordinates before, we have not used gunpowder weapons, the reason I gave is that the climate here in Jiaozhi is humid and rainy, and the gunpowder is damp and cannot be used, at that time, I thought that in case the battle is not going well, I can find a reason to use gunpowder weapons, and now I have ordered an army to come from the rear, and it will arrive in three days at the latest, just in the first two days I will order the whole army to attack, it is estimated that it will be difficult to capture Thang Long Mansion, When that army arrives on the third day, I'll declare that it's bringing gunpowder weapons, and we'll be able to use gunpowder to storm the city!" ”

Hearing Guo Kui's arrangement, Yang Huaiyu couldn't help but secretly praise, the so-called not thinking about victory, thinking about defeat first, this is the most basic element of a commander, although the head of Guo in front of him is only ten years older than himself, but his talent and courage are far beyond himself, and even Yang Huaiyu saw a little bit of his father's shadow from Guo Kui's body, it seems that if he wants to become a qualified commander, he also has a long way to go.

In the afternoon, Guo Kui ordered the Song army to carry out a tentative attack, the main attack was on the west city wall, and the Song army on the north and south sides was used as a pinning, as a result, this tentative attack was unexpectedly hit hard by the Jiaozhi people, and before the Song army carrying the ladder attacked the city wall, it was driven back by the bows and arrows shot by the Jiaozhi people at the head of the city, leaving only the corpses and wounded in one place.

For this defeat, Guo Kui did not take it to heart at all, and waited until the next morning, the Song army that had eaten breakfast finally began the official attack, countless Song troops pushed the tall siege vehicles slowly forward, the siege was made of cowhide on the cloth, the bows and arrows of the Jiaozhi people could not be shot through at all, so it was easy to be pushed under the city wall by the Song army, as for the moat outside the city wall, it was filled in an empty road by the Song army with sandbags a few days ago.

After the siege vehicle approached the city wall, the Song soldiers below immediately climbed to the top along the stairs inside the siege vehicle, and then jumped to the top of the city to fight with the Jiaozhi people, these siege Song troops were all the original Xixia army, although they could not beat the Song army, but that was because the Song army had firearms, in fact, these Xixia troops had extremely strong combat effectiveness, especially when fighting in small teams, it was tacit understanding, so once they were allowed to attack the city, it was difficult for the Jiaozhi people to drive them down.

In the face of these fierce attacks of the Song army, Li Changjie couldn't think of any effective tactics, and in the end he could only grit his teeth and fill it up with his life, maybe a Song soldier could top three Jiaozhi soldiers, but if three didn't work, he would send five, and if five didn't work, he would send ten, anyway, the strength in their city was superior, plus they had a geographical advantage, so he firmly believed that the Song army couldn't fight, as long as the casualties reached a certain Cheng dù, the Song army would definitely withdraw.

It's a pity that Li Changjie would never have thought of it anyway, his approach is also in line with Guo Kui's intentions, what he wants is for the Jiaozhi people to exchange their lives for human lives, anyway, he sent them to the Western Xia army, these dead Song Dynasty will be one less trouble, it is best to let these Western Xia troops and Jiaozhi people come to the same end, and in the end only the Song people remain, and then the world will be much quieter.

Of course, Guo Kui also knows that the above is his own delusion, and now there have been some rumors in those Western Xia troops, saying that the Great Song Dynasty sent them to Jiaozhi to send them to death, although Guo Kui has ordered people not to spread these rumors, but this also shows that those Western Xia troops are not all fools, there are still some shrewd guys who see through the plan, of course, this also gives Guo Kui a wake-up call, so that he has to be more hidden when he lets these Western Xia troops die.

Although the attack on the first day was tragic, in fact, the whole process was very boring, nothing more than the Song army desperately attacked the city, and then was desperately squeezed down the city by the Jiaozhi people, and then desperately attacked the city again, and then was beaten down, it can be said that the two warring sides were simply engaged in a tug-of-war, and when the day of the war ended, the battlefield was left with corpses all over the ground, the walls of the city wall had been dyed black and red with blood, and the water of the truncated moat was also dyed red, and there were layers of corpses floating on the river. Among them, there are Song Jun and Jiaozhi people.

As soon as the next day dawned, Guo Kui once again ordered the army to attack the city, this day is simply a copy of yesterday, the only difference is that this day's war is more cruel than yesterday, Guo Kui almost regardless of the loss of the onslaught, which also makes the defense of the Jiaozhi people several times have been torn open a big hole, and even once the Song army has occupied a section of the city wall of hundreds of meters, and finally Li Changjie personally led the guards to kill, which drove the Song army down.

Finally survived until dusk, the Song army finally Mingjin withdrew the troops, which made the Jiaozhi people in the city have a sense of relief, and many people are lying directly in the pile of dead people or blood pools on the city, unwilling to move again, even Li Changjie sat at the head of the city and looked at the Song army camp below, guessing what the hell the Song army was doing? After all, according to Guo Kui's style of play, I am afraid that in a few days, the Song army under the city will suffer heavy losses, let alone attack the city, I am afraid that the Song army below will collapse by itself.

In fact, Guo Kui is indeed thinking about this problem, because after today's siege, there have been individual Western Xia generals who have found him, and euphemistically expressed the willingness of their subordinates to suffer heavy casualties and no longer participate in the siege, in fact, they are putting pressure on Guo Kui, after all, they are not stupid, if they continue to fight like this, they will have to die under Shenglong City sooner or later, so these people are already doubting whether the Great Song Dynasty court really let them all die here, if the court really has such a plan, then they will make a fuss, Even a rebellion is possible.

Guo Kui had already expected this situation, but he deliberately made an angry look, first reprimanded those Western Xia generals, and then told them that he had mobilized a batch of new firearms from the rear, and he would arrive tomorrow at the latest, and then he could use firearms to break the city. (To be continued......)