"Your Majesty, we are in that area, but we have deployed more than 150,000 soldiers and horses, and in terms of the combat effectiveness of our Huaxia Empire's army, their tens of thousands are no different from those local chickens and dogs." Du Ruhui walked over from the next room with a relaxed smile on his face and said.

"If you say it so easily, I'm afraid there is good news coming again, right?" Fang Xuanling stroked his long beard and said with a smile at Du Ruhui.

"That's true, Jieli Khan was blocked by General Li Xiaogong Li in Lishi County, and it was difficult to move an inch." Du Ruhui stepped forward and handed over the information.

Jieli Khan led a large army to Lishi County yesterday night, and Li Xiaogong had already guessed that this goods would inevitably go south when Jieli Khan arrived at Linquan in Loufu County. Yu Chuan abandoned several surrounding cities and completely concentrated his forces in Lishi City, the strongest and tallest city in Lishi County, to defend it.

Jieli Khan ordered the siege of the city, but Li Mi bitterly advised Jieli not to attack the city without heavy siege weapons. But the problem is that several cities in Lishi County have been occupied by the Huaxia Revival Army, but when Jieli waved his army to the south, they had already taken the initiative to evacuate.

This made Jieli Khan and his arrogant generals unanimously believe that this Chinese revival army was afraid of the great Jieli Khan and brave warriors with a mind as vast as the grassland and a vision as high as the sky.

Li Mi had no choice but to accept the order of Jieli Khan and take on the role of the vanguard, after all, compared to the Turkic iron cavalry, most of his men were standard foot soldiers, and it was indeed appropriate to use foot soldiers to attack the city.

Seeing that Li Mi agreed to accept his order, Jieli Khan was greatly relieved, of course, he naturally did not want Li Mi to die, so he sent 10,000 cavalry to use their good archery skills to protect Li Mi's siege troops.

The problem is that the Turks are not good at defending cities, let alone attacking them, and even if Li Mi, a Han general, is good at it, the problem is that he is a fugitive, and he did not come with any heavy siege weapons at all.

The only thing they had was the ladders, ballistae and the like that they got from the cities where the Chinese Empire Revival Army had evacuated on their own initiative.

And their opponent is more than 30,000 elites after the original Tang Army was eliminated and retrained, even if the combat effectiveness is not as good as the current Huaxia Revival Army, but it is definitely far more than Li Mi, the powerful army of the Central Plains.

The result did not surprise everyone, and the three attacks, each of which had just reached the foot of the city wall, and after receiving a grenade, the city wall could not even climb before it could be climbed.

As for the role of the Turkic archers, the steel crossbows and the fallen horses and Turkic warriors around the city walls are enough to prove that conventional siege methods cannot cause great damage to the defenders of the city.

Jieli Khan was furious, and almost slaughtered Li Mi, who was unfavorable in the siege of the city, but fortunately, the Turkic generals came forward to persuade him, and in the end, the Turks themselves went into battle, but the effect was even worse than Li Mi's troops, and they were defeated and retreated after throwing thousands of corpses under the city wall.

Relying on the tall city walls, as well as elite soldiers and thorough preparations, more than 30,000 soldiers and horses set up steel crossbows and grenades to defend the entire Lishi City. Grenades are indeed a weapon for defending cities. In front of this thing, not to mention armor, even a shield doesn't have much effect, and it is a group of people when it explodes, although the ones who died on the spot were the ones closest to the grenade explosion, but the wounded who were missing arms and legs around them hit the morale of these Turks even more.

This was the result of Li Xiaogong's forced soldiers not to use mortars, and if the more than 200 mortars he had received from his cousin Li Sanniang were fired at the same time, then the Turkic casualties would have at least doubled.

As for why the mortars were allowed to hide in and not assist in the defense, Li Xiaogong had his own ideas, that is, he hoped that Jieli Khan could see a little more hope, and use this Lishi City to delay Jieli Khan's southward pace, and the longer it lasts, the more beneficial it will be for my Chinese Empire.

Five days, a full five days of hard work, Jieli Khan from the beginning of the wisdom bead in hand, to the later indignation, and the solid Lishi City is still standing there, still so majestic and tall, the faces of the soldiers of the Chinese Empire Revival Army on the head of the Shicheng City are already full of exhaustion, but the eyes are so sharp, and the weapons in their hands are still so sharp.

There is also that kind of formidable mortar, which is regarded as the most terrible nightmare in the world by the Turks and Li Mi rebels, once, if Li Xiaogong did not hold it, he ordered the artillery bombardment in advance when Jieli Khan personally went into battle to inspect the siege situation, and as a result, Jieli Khan escaped, even so, it still made the Turks fall more than a dozen important ministers and princes.

From that time on, Jieli Khan and the Turkic generals never came close to the city wall two miles away, but only controlled the army's attack from a distance, but the distance was too far to reach the ears of the besieging troops in time, and the siege efficiency was even more inefficient.

As for the siege weapons that were mobilized from all over the country, there was no possibility of approaching the city walls of Lishi City during the day, even at night, taking advantage of the cover of night to advance under the city walls, but those violent grenades also exerted a powerful destructive power on these siege weapons, so that these siege weapons that the Turks and Li Mi had worked so hard to get turned into piles of ruins in just three or two strokes.

Whether it was sending dead soldiers to attack at night or forcibly attacking the city, in short, in front of Li Xiaogong and more than 30,000 soldiers of the Chinese Revival Army, it was difficult for the army of Jieli Khan to take a step beyond Lei Chi.

As early as the third day of the unfavorable siege, Li Mi persuaded Jieli Khan to give up the hard bone of leaving Shicheng and rush to the south, even if there were still 30,000 Chinese revival troops here, as long as 20,000 Turkic iron cavalry were left, even if it could not prevent the Chinese revival army from leaving Shicheng out of the city, but at least it could contain this group of foot soldiers and create favorable conditions for the main force of the Turkic army to come and go calmly.

But there is a problem, Jieli Khan has already let the Chinese Renaissance Army put it on a ruthless table, and the entire interior of the Hetao has been cut off from the outside of the Hetao by the Huaxia Renaissance Army, which has made the great and wise Jieli Khan disgraced, and he has already held back the fire in his belly.

Before, it was across the Yellow River, and the enemy was far away, so Jieli Khan could only knock out his teeth and swallow it in his stomach, holding back the fire in his belly. And now, a small Lishi City, standing here, not only did not have the slightest fear in front of the powerful Turkic Iron Horse, but made the Turkic Iron Horse suffer frustration and humiliation.

In this case, it is difficult for Jieli Khan to retreat, as the so-called one blow, then decline, three and rest, this truth, Jieli Khan also knows a little bit about it, for the sake of a strong and invincible face, but also for the sake of Jieli Khan's own prestige, so Jieli Khan has been hesitating.

As a result, after five days in a row, let alone attacking the city, and not even touching a few bricks on the top of the city wall, Jieli Khan finally began to seriously examine whether it was too foolish for him to continue to pester.

And Li Mi, after trying to persuade him a few times at the beginning, saw that it was fruitless, he gave up persuading the stubborn and temperamental Jieli Khan, and carefully tried to protect his soldiers and horses from losing too much during the siege.

By the way, this guy also sent Wang Bodang and Na Shan Xiongxin and other people to various places in Lishi County to collect the old soldiers who were scattered and fled before, and in five days, the soldiers and horses under his command not only did not decrease, but more than doubled, with nearly 50,000 soldiers.

These days, it is not only Li Mi's troops who are killed and wounded, but also a lot of Turkic warriors, and now, the Turks are almost 10,000 killed and wounded, and Li Mi's troops have also died a lot, but the problem is that this guy's soldiers and horses are fighting more and more, although there is a home situation inside, but it also makes many Turks very dissatisfied.

thinks that Li Mi must be unable to work, otherwise how could his strength rise more and more? Coupled with the frequent blowing of wind in the ears of Jieli Khan, Jieli Khan, who still felt that he did not follow Li Mi's advice and regretted it a little at first, couldn't help but be dissatisfied with him.

Of course, Li Mi was not satisfied with Jieli Khan's hot and cold attitude, but now, he could only follow in the footsteps of Jieli Khan and continue to work for the Turks, because the envoy of Liang Shidu, who had managed to escape from the Hetao, found Jieli Khan and told him a desperate news.

Liang Shidu and Liu Wuzhou were trapped in Zhishang County, Diaoyin County, and hundreds of thousands of troops were trapped in the isolated city.

Because, outside the city, there are more than 100,000 soldiers of the Chinese Empire's Revival Army who surround the city, and if they want to escape, it is simply difficult to climb to the sky.

The words have to start from a few days ago, just after Liu Wuzhou found out that his back road was cut off, he had made several considerations, thought about it, and finally decided to rush to Shangxian and Liang Shidu to join forces, so that the total strength of the two sides can reach 1340,000, this is definitely a force that cannot be underestimated, maybe it is possible to destroy the power of the Huaxia Empire to invade Diaoyin County, no matter how bad it is, it can also rely on the strong city defense of Shangxian County, and there will be no problem in holding it for three or five months

So, Liu Wuzhou cautiously moved closer to Shangxian, he was very lucky, along the way, not to mention the Huaxia Renaissance Army, not even a dog was encountered, Liu Wuzhou, who thought that he was full of good luck, killed in Shangxian County, and was opened by the tearful Liang Shi to open the door and take him into the city, and cheered, surrounded by more than 100,000 Huaxia Renaissance Army, and suffocated hundreds of thousands of Liu and Liang coalition troops in Shangxian.