'Yiduhu' means happy monarch, but Bilgo doesn't feel happiness at all at this time. After rejoining the Western Liao after a conflict with the Great Song last year, they refused to allow the Great Song caravan to pass through Gaochang, and the Great Song not only sent troops to conscript them in retaliation, but also united with the Western Xia to cut off their trade routes to the Central Plains. In desperation, Gaochang had no choice but to take the more difficult road of broken leaves, which not only had to endure the exploitation of the Tatar tribes through which he passed, but also had to pay heavy taxes for the Jurchens. But as the Song army captured Zhenzhou, this road was no longer possible after defeating the Naiban tribe.

Gaochang's prosperity was based on the prosperity of trade between the East and the West, a considerable part of which was carried out in the form of 'tribute', and this year, in order to continue the trade with the Central Plains, Bilge instructed his vassal states to pay tribute to the Great Song Dynasty in order to reduce losses. But the news that can be fed back is extremely frustrating, the Great Song Dynasty refused to give them the identity of tribute envoys, so not to mention a huge amount of rewards, they can't even earn back the travel expenses, and legend has it that some 'tribute envoys' even disposed of the cattle at a low price.

What made Bilge even more uneasy was that the Great Song Dynasty had sent a naval army to Persia, preparing to sweep away the pirates along the way, punish the Seljuks who had robbed the merchant ships of the Great Song Dynasty, and completely open up and control the maritime trade routes. He knew that once the Great Song Dynasty succeeded, maritime trade would gradually replace trade on land, and although the sea route was also risky, it would be dozens or even a hundred times more than the goods carried by land, and it would not take a few years to end Gaochang's irreplaceable position on the Silk Road, without the support of commerce, Gaochang would soon fall and become another abandoned city in the desert.

Far from it, now Gaochang is a little unable to hold on. Since last year, the blockage of caravans from all over the country to Gaochang has caused panic, and Bileco fears that these people will never look back. Thinking that the Great Song would soon succumb, he ordered a large number of goods from the caravan to be purchased. Including horses, dromedary camels, big-tailed white sheep, chamber knives, iron swords, bows and arrows, armor, glassware, yo stones, yoga stone bottles, sand sand, jade, jade Buddha, jade saddle, jade bridle, jade belt, jade axe, amber, ivory, jade, pearls, coptis, incense, frankincense. Stamens, aya, brown, sundries, etc. In addition, Qiuzi monks offer Sanskrit clips, Bodhi seal leaves, prayer beads, relics, Buddha bones and so on.

Originally, it was to give hope to the caravans in various places, so that they could still go back, and then buy them at a low price, and then the Great Song Dynasty Commercial Road would be able to sell at a high price and make a lot of money when it was reopened. I didn't expect the Emperor of the Great Song Dynasty to be so decisive this time, sending a large army to the west to destroy him Gaochang, and these things were naturally smashed in his hands, and maybe they became the trophies of the Song army, and they were really lost. Brother Biler looked at the mountains of goods in the warehouse and wanted to cry without tears, and his heart was dripping blood!

And thinking of his allies, Biler was helpless except for helplessness. When he learned that the Great Song Dynasty was going to unite with the Western Xia to use troops, he sent an envoy to bribe Li Qianshun with heavy gifts, so that he could get rid of Brother Cha, who was closely following the Great Song Dynasty, and gave the Great Song Dynasty a salary draw, so that he gave up the plan to send troops. Then he bought off the Divination Department and the Naiban Department and asked them to block the Song army along the way, promising them that they would have a generous gift to surrender to the Song Dynasty after the matter was completed. Unexpectedly, Li Qianshun accepted the gift and did not do anything, and after a delay for a while, he regretted it. And those two are even more unacceptable. Let Song Jun fight and basically wipe out the clan, the money is saved, but he doesn't want to!

In fact, Bileco still put his greatest hope on Xiliao, which was their traditional ally. is also the strongest partner, he thought that he could be on par with Da Song and keep himself safe. What I didn't expect was that it didn't matter. The Song army traveled thousands of miles to come, just when people were sleepy and horses were lacking. However, the Western Liao army was killed by the Song army, and even the six kings Xiao Hanli were captured. In the end, it was the Song army that let them go, otherwise the whole army would be annihilated. It is said that it was only the Song army's baggage team that defeated the Western Liao army, and the main force did not shoot at all.

At the beginning of the year, Western Liao said that the Seljuk Empire was going to send troops to attack, not only could it not send reinforcements, but even the troops deployed in the Qaidam River to defend Western Xia would have to be withdrawn. Brother Bile was shocked when he heard this, the Song army had enough to bear for himself, and the Western Xia copied his own back road, and he would not destroy the country! Immediately sent someone to envoy Xiliao, so that he could talk about giving gifts and interceding, so he barely left 30,000 Western Liao troops without leaving, and now he has been fighting with the Western Xia army for a month, and the victory or defeat is not divided, and I don't know what the result is.

After Brother Bile learned that the Song army captured Beiting, the other two states sent people to ask for help, but the Western Liao people couldn't beat them, how could they be opponents, they could only order them to hold on and wait for help, in fact, they had already given up the territory north of the Tianshan Mountains in their hearts. After the heavy snow closed the mountain and there was no news, he survived a winter of anxiety and anxiety, as expected, all the north of the Tianshan Mountains fell, and the Song army soon came to the city, surrounding the city and making it impassable......

On the third day of the arrival of the Song army, the Song army camp began to move forward and set up camp in front of the city, and the continuous camp could already be seen from the city, and the drums in the Song camp could be clearly heard at night, but they did not attack. Bilgor was sleepless at night, calling himself 'Aslan Khan', which means lion king, but he was a cowardly monarch who was more than capable of keeping things done, lacking in progress, and somewhat cowardly. If he had the courage to do so, coupled with enough military talent, he would not have been subservient to others and in a humiliating vassal position.

With such a leader, it is conceivable that Gao Changcheng was on the verge of despair in an instant under the pressure of the soldiers, and panic and frustration befell everyone's heart. Some ministers proposed to send troops out of the city to fight the Song army to boost morale, but Bilge thought that he would see first, but the soldiers and civilians in the city were panicked and needed to be appeased, so he led his ministers to the city to inspect the city defenses, so as to stabilize people's hearts and show that the lord of the country was with them.

Biler looked south against the walls, and although he was not proficient in military affairs, he had never eaten pork and had never seen pigs run. I saw that the Song army camp stretched for several miles, the flag covered the sun, and there were rangers outside the camp cruising back and forth to force to the city, if there was no moat to block it, I am afraid that it would go directly to the root of the city. And the Song army doesn't seem to be idle these days, they began to dig trenches in the land of three arrows outside the city, as if they wanted to lock the city with this, but there was no movement in the other three directions, and he couldn't figure out what the Song army was going to do.

"General Right, seeing that the Song military camp is so dense, there should be no less than 50,000 people, right?" Brother Bile twisted his face and asked, Gaochang military attache series, the most senior officers are the left and right guard generals, followed by the five generals Jianwu, Weiyuan, Lingjiang, Dianzhong, and Fubo, and the lord of the country is on the front line, so they naturally have to accompany each other.

"Great Khan, in the opinion of the ministers, there should be no less than 100,000 people, and their baggage team is not an ordinary people, and it should be counted!" The right guard general replied helily.

"Then what is the purpose of the Song army only digging trenches in the southern city, do you want to prevent our army from leaving the city?" Biler asked again, and he felt a little weak after listening to the reply. The population of Gaochang is not more than 100,000, and the standing army is only 10,000 people, after learning that the Song army captured Beiting, he mobilized all the defenders of Qiuci and Yanqi to Gaochang City, and ordered the tribal armies to enter the city to defend, barely enough 30,000 people under the patchwork, and the difference in strength between the two armies was huge, and he couldn't help but be timid.

"Great Khan, the minister thought that the enemy army was cowardly, and digging a trench was to prevent our army from going out of the city to attack, so he dug a trench to block it!" He replied that he was a full fighter faction, and had always advocated that he should resist the enemy with all his might, and that he could not pin his hopes on the assistance of Western Liao.

"Outnumbered, how do you think you should fight?" Bilco nodded and asked.

"Great Khan, the enemy army is from afar and the men are sleepy and tired, we should take advantage of their unstable foothold to go out of the city to meet the battle, they block our way out of the city with trenches, and then we can flank the city from the east and west gates!" Heli should offer advice.

"Reasonable, but this king thinks that all the surrounding departments have withdrawn to the desert, and the Song army can't get grain and grass for a few days, as long as we hold the city, they will inevitably evacuate by themselves when they run out of grain and grass!" Brother Bile said that he was reasonable, but he was still a little vague in his heart, and he still did not advocate going out of the city to fight.

"Great Khan's clever plan, we can send troops out of the city secretly, and set fire to the oasis around the city while the grass has not yet sprouted, and the enemy army will not be able to graze, and will inevitably consume a lot of food......" Heli said half a sentence when he suddenly heard a roar under the city, and a black shadow attacked him.

"Ah......h He raised his sleeve and wiped it back, and the combined force behind him should be gone, and a corpse with a missing head fell behind him, causing him to scream in fright.

"Protect the Great Khan!" Before Bilco could figure out what was going on, a group of soldiers rushed up to protect him and ran down the city. When he arrived at the city and saw the corpse carried down, he realized that it was the Song army who fired a cannon at them just now, and he dodged it, and he should have been unlucky, his head was smashed by an iron ball the size of a fist, and his face was splashed with his brains, and Brother Bile couldn't help but feel nauseous, and vomited "wow!"

Before the battle began, he lost a general, and Brother Biler was also frightened by the tragic situation of the joint force, he clearly saw that the place where the Song army fired its cannons was three arrows away from the city, and it could be hit at such a distance, it seems that the firearms equipped by the Song army are worthy of their reputation, and they may not even be able to get out of the city gate to be killed. Therefore, he never mentioned opening the city to engage in the battle, but only ordered people to strictly guard the city and monitor every move of the Song army, and at the same time took advantage of the fact that the Song army did not complete the siege and then sent people to Xiliao for help, begging Yelu Dashi to send troops to rescue him. And since the death of the DPRK and China, no one has advocated going out of the city to engage in war...... (To be continued......)