"Dingyuan Hou is careful all the way. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 info"Outside the city of Ganzhou, Li You personally sent Ban Chao out of the city ten miles away, and now Lu Sheng has successfully inherited the throne of the Uighur Khan of Ganzhou with his support, and the coalition army is stationed here to continue to repair and expand the troops, and Ban Chao will once again go to Bianliang as an envoy to contact the Great Song Dynasty to jointly flank Li Jiqian.

Of course, it is basically impossible to expect the army of the Great Song Dynasty to fight a tough battle, but the Great Song Dynasty is a strong country after all, with a large number of troops, and as long as they send tens of thousands of troops close to Yinxia, Li Jiqian will have to divide his forces to guard against them, so that Li You will be under less pressure on the Western Front.

And although the military strength of the Great Song Dynasty is scummy, it has rich wealth, Li You and they accept the canonization of the Great Song Dynasty and help the Great Song Dynasty clear the trouble of Li Jiqian, they have to come up with something, right? Grain, silk, porcelain, and tea are either used by the countries of the Western Regions, or they can be sold to those merchants in the Western Regions in exchange for wealth, and maybe they can earn back all the military expenses consumed by this expedition.

"The lord and rest assured, I will definitely live up to the trust of the lord." Ban Chao returned the salute with confidence, and then turned on his horse and headed east surrounded by many soldiers, along with the envoys of the Khotan, Gaochang and Ganzhou Uighurs. This will also give them countless benefits, and the face will be taken by Da Song, and the benefits will be eaten by us.

In the city of Ganzhou, in addition to the 20,000 Guiyi army led by Li You, there are 10,000 troops in Khotan, Bi Lege also obtained the consent of Gaochang Yidu Hu, and continued to lead these troops to follow Li You to Ganzhou, and Lu Sheng became the party with the most troops in this battle, who made Lingzhou the closest to Ganzhou, the victory or defeat of this battle is related to the life and death of the Uighurs in Ganzhou, he looked at Li Jiqian as if the former Yuchi Sinhala Rama looked at Arslan Khan, in order to keep his tribe and status, Lu Sheng took out all the money of the Uighurs in Ganzhou.

Those war horses, armor and weapons brought back from Kashgar are just enough for him to recruit more troops, Li You's Guiyi army has also made a lot of gains, and is also recruiting new soldiers, but they are not needed in this battle, so they still came to the sandbank with these veterans, Li Jiqian's Xia army is not a weak brigade, and inexperienced soldiers will definitely have large casualties when they encounter them, Li You cherishes his people very much.

Suddenly, Li You remembered an interesting thing, speaking of which, the Guiyi Army and the Dingyan Army, which Li Jiqian relied on, also belonged to the feudal towns of the Tang Dynasty, but unfortunately they had to wave their swords at each other in the Great Song Dynasty.

Tuoba Sigong was named the envoy of the Dingyan Army because he helped the Tang Dynasty to suppress the Huangchao Uprising, and was given the surname Li, and the Li family received the Dingyan Army for generations, and it has been a hundred years, but it is a pity that the Great Song Dynasty is not as strong as the Tang Dynasty, so that Li Jiqian broke away from the control of the imperial court and stood on his own.

In addition to the Guiyi Army and the Dingyan Army, there were also one of the ten major Jiedu envoys in the Tang Dynasty and the Jinghai Jiedu envoy who controlled Annan. Hexi Jiedu envoy originally controlled the Liangzhou area, but unfortunately because of the Anshi Rebellion and the Central Plains melee gradually disappeared in the long river of history, and now this land has fallen into the hands of the Tubo Liugu Department. In the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, they defeated the Southern Han Dynasty and gradually broke away from the rule of the Central Plains, and now only the nominal submission is left, and the Jing Navy Jiedu envoy is only an additional official given by the emperor of the Song Dynasty to the monarchs of the Dinh Dynasty, the Former Lê Dynasty, and the Li Dynasty of Vietnam.

The comparison of the two can be seen how much weaker the Great Song Dynasty is than the Tang Dynasty, and there are not a few lands controlled by the subordinates of these four major festivals, and this is not counting the sixteen states of Yanyun that the emperors of the Great Song Dynasty are obsessed with, and now only in terms of controlling the land and military strength, the Great Song Dynasty is weaker than the Tang Dynasty by more than half.

Zhao Kuangyin's policy of emphasizing literature over military force also made the country less enterprising, otherwise there would not be a civilian official like Han Qi who regarded martial arts as a mustard and Sima Guang who gave away his territory, but even so, the Great Song Dynasty still has many brave and unyielding loyal ministers and martyrs, such as Zhizhou Pei Ji, who is now resisting Li Jiqian's attack in Lingzhou.

"The enemy has retreated." Pei Ji replaced the saber stained with the blood of the enemy into the scabbard, and without taking a breath, he immediately commanded his subordinates to carry the wounded, replenish the rolling wood and stones, and waited for everyone to start eating before he sat down and rested for a while.

Pei Ji is a famous family, is the eighth generation of the Tang Dynasty Prime Minister Pei Yaoqing's grandson, once in the later Jin Dynasty after the official surrender to the Great Song Dynasty, Song Taizong Zhao Guangyi attaches great importance to his talent, thinks that he can be of great use, in the cavalry north of the Liao State to let Pei Ji accompany and arrange for him to garrison Yizhou, Pei Ji completed the task very well, repelled the Khitan many attacks and held Yizhou City.

After many times, he encountered 30,000 Khitan troops in Dingzhou, he took the initiative to attack and won a complete victory, killed thousands of Khitan troops in a war, captured countless cattle and horses, and countless weapons, after Li Jiqian rebelled, Pei Ji was named the Shunzhou regiment training envoy, management of Lingzhou and the deployment of the capital, after he took office, he trained the army, reclaimed the wasteland, the people were deeply benefited by it, and they trusted him very much.

It's a pity that after the fall of the Qingyuan army, Li Jiqian led the army to accumulate, cut off the road to food, and surrounded Lingzhou City, Pei Ji was alone, and now the food in the city is almost consumed, and there are many casualties among the soldiers and people, and it seems that he can't hold on. Not long ago, he pricked his finger and wrote a bloody letter to Bianliang for help, but until now there have been no reinforcements.

"Thorn History, how long do you think it will take for reinforcements to come?" Pei Ji was leading people to inspect the city wall, when suddenly a citizen who went to the city to help stood up and asked.

"Lingzhou has been besieged for so long, shouldn't the imperial court forget about us?" Lingzhou has been besieged for more than a few years, the previous time Zhao Guangyi sent troops to rescue unsuccessfully, and then Zhao Guangyi died, Zhao Heng succeeded to the throne, or the court was busy with these things, or was frightened by Li Jiqian, and after such a long time, no one came to rescue them.

"The imperial court has never forgotten us and waited, wait a few more days, and the reinforcements will definitely arrive." Pei Ji said categorically, his confident appearance made these people gradually calm down.

But after doing these things, when he arrived at no one, Pei Ji frowned and looked in the direction of Bianliang, where there was still no movement, and there was no sign of reinforcements arriving.