It was like a brilliant snow lotus blooming on the earth covered by the wind and snow in the north, and Li Bingqian's heart immediately became transparent.

He stood up suddenly, ignoring some stumbling steps, walked outside the main hall, and listened to the cheers of 'invincible' outside, let alone 'invincible', even if he shouted 'long live', he didn't care.

For Li Bingqian, he had suspected countless times that Li Kui had returned to the Great Song Dynasty.

After all, the scholar is loyal to the monarch and patriotic, and he is not loyal to him, the prince of Western Xia. Is Li Kui a native of the Song Dynasty, or a civil official from the Song State who took the road of thousands of armies and thousands of horses, and even Li Bingqian can't help Li Kui appear in Western Xia, is he making his own opinion? It was deliberately sent by the court of the Great Song Dynasty. If it is the latter, I am afraid that the civil service class of the Great Song Dynasty will not accept it.

If it's the former, Li Kui is so unreliable and runs halfway, is it strange?

Pity him for being a dignified prince of Western Xia, who was instigated by Li Kui to rebel, kill the national teacher, and raise a rebel army, and there has been no turning back for a long time. Li Bingqian even thought about death countless times.

And death really could come to him anytime and anywhere.

As for overthrowing the rule of the Liang clan, this is something he can't even think about.

Suddenly, Li Kui won a big victory on the south bank, making Li Bingqian like a dying fish, completely alive. When he found out that he couldn't die, that he didn't have to die, he began to wonder about the possibility that he couldn't think of before?

Kick the Emperor off the dragon chair and take his place!

Once this idea is planted in the bottom of his heart, don't look at him before he just said that he was just talking about the Liang family. But once the Liang family is killed, the little emperor must cut the grass and eradicate the roots, after all, he is the son of the Liang family, and it will definitely be a scourge to raise him. Otherwise, he might have died that day.

Half a month after entering the palace, Li Bingqian finally left the palace.

He hid in the palace before and didn't dare to come out, not because he was greedy for pleasure, but because he didn't dare to look at the frightened eyes of his subordinates.

"Great King, the big marshal broke the Liang family's 100,000 army on the south bank, and we can't watch it on the north bank!"

"What do you say?"

"Go out of the city and have a big battle with the Liang thief army, so that you can show my true colors as a man!"

"The marshal broke the 100,000 army of the Liang clan on the south bank, and the Liang army on the north bank must be frightened, it is a good opportunity for us to go out of the city to defeat its army!"

……

A group of people were arguing, as if they wanted to show their bravery and extraordinary. But in essence, they are all guys who want to pick up bargains. If it is really the three armies of Yongguan, why is there no loyal minister who dares to speak out and fight with the Liang army before?

Li Bingqian has already seen through it, these guys are villains who are powerful in their mouths and timid in their hearts. Of course, now that the courage has come up, this is a gratifying thing, and Li Bingqian should express his support for it. He was a little puzzled, after all, the Liang army outside the royal city also had more than 100,000 people, and the number of troops was not less than him. And the combat effectiveness is stronger, the soldiers are stronger, and the weapons are better.

Such an opponent, can he bully casually?

Li Bingqian was very puzzled and wondered, did he really have no military talent? He glanced at his subordinates around him, and now he was considered a minister of civil and military affairs, and asked: "Ladies and gentlemen, the Liang clan outside the city also has an army of 100,000, and it takes no less than 30,000 horses to go out of the city for field battles." It is impossible to fight back to the city, and if it is far away from the royal city, in the event of a crisis, the friendly forces in the city will not be able to rescue. ”

Li Bingqian has already said politely, it's not that he is powerless to rescue, and he can't reach it. But once the battle out of the city fails, the waiting result is likely to be that no one dares to go out of the city to save people.

Not only that, but the city gate will be closed at the first time, and even the brother who fled from the city will not open the door.

Li Bingqian felt that it was a bit cruel to say this, and then asked: "Everyone, it's just that the battle out of the city needs a general, I don't know which Aiqing is willing to be the main general?" ”

Mi Baoguang was majestic and solemn, and he almost closed his eyes and pretended to be a god.

The Leader of the Hidden Treasures—

This one opened his big mouth, and he shouted the loudest before, but now his eyes were rolling, and he looked left and right to see that no one wanted to be a fool, and closed his mouth in disappointment.

The general stood with his eyes and simply pretended to be asleep......

After waiting for a while, Li Bingqian, who didn't say a word, seemed to understand the thoughts of these men. Li Kui's victory on the south bank was a bit of a fool's dream for the north bank to immediately thwart the Liang army, and it was the right thing to kill one or two colleagues who made the merit. It was precisely because he understood the minds of these people that Li Bingqian was desperate in his heart. Who did he recruit?

Of course, these people either don't deal with Liang, or they are dissatisfied with Liang's dictatorship.

But they have a common feature on their heads, they are all 'talents' that the Liang family doesn't want.

If it is really a talent who can help the Liang family solve the big problem, the Liang family may not be stingy with the official position in his hands.

Now, for Li Bingqian, he has just seen the dawn of victory. And these subordinates of his, but they thought about sharing too much credit, thinking about killing a few first. There are not just one or two, but many. Because of this, Li Bingqian's heart is cold! Don't you know that if the Liang clan breaks through the royal city, we will all have to die?

This is true.

The Liang family's mansion in Wangcheng was ransacked by these gangs.

The people who stay at home, the young and beautiful may be pampered every night, and everyone else should be killed. It can be said that they also have a mortal enmity with the Liang family.

Li Bingqian sighed deeply and said weakly: "Now the Liang family's fate is hanging by a thread, if they can break through the royal city, they should still have a glimmer of hope." Back on the south bank, there is a black handsome, and they have no chance. The key is that the grain and grass in the hands of the Liang family are far from enough to support a protracted war. Therefore, before the black marshal comes back to the rescue, your task is to defend the city wall, and there is no room for error. ”

"Obey the king's order!"

At this moment, everyone understands that they may have been unsatisfactory before, but there are really no fools!

Outside the royal city.

Western Xia Camp.

Empress Dowager Liang stood at the door of the tent, staring in the direction of the royal city. There was a furious anger between his eyebrows. She didn't expect anything that she would go to the Great Song Dynasty to make a contribution, and her palace would be served. If it was a powerful opponent, she might have recognized it, but Li Bingqian, this little uncle of hers is not even a man in her eyes.

In the heart of the Empress Dowager Xiaoliang, there has always been the crux of a heroine. She wanted to be like her aunt and achieve immortality.

But it backfired, the men of the Liang family don't reuse, right? She wasn't at ease.

Reuse it!

It's all a bunch of rubbish.

dragged her back, not to mention, but also embarrassed her and made trouble.

Unlike the Empress Dowager Liang, the Empress Dowager Xiao Liang repeatedly launched attacks on the Great Song Dynasty, losing more and winning less, and losing miserably every time. And the Empress Dowager Liang, in her lifetime, beat the emperor of the Song Dynasty to the table of peace talks. A battle of Yongle City greatly injured the vitality of the Great Song Dynasty. For such a feat, it is worthy of the princes and ministers in the Western Xia to sing praises and virtues.

But Empress Dowager Xiaoliang is different, as she fails more and more, she has found that the situation in the country has gone in the direction she fears.

There are even signs of erosion and splitting. It's just that what caught her off guard was that this day came so quickly.

Behind her, standing was the newly appointed Zuo Xiang, Liang Yishu.

The reason for using him is very simple, it doesn't matter if you don't have the ability, but you are obedient.

For a full hour, Empress Dowager Xiao Liang stared at Wang Cheng like this, and Liang Yishu did not show any impatience. Finally, Empress Dowager Xiaoliang spoke, and she opened her lips and said word by word: "Three days, I will only give you three days." ”

Liang Yishu secretly complained, where is the time enough?

But he understood that after Liang Yongneng died, there was not much time left for the Liang family. If they can't win Wangcheng, the Liang family will never have a chance to turn the tables around. Especially without the steady stream of grain and grass sent to the front line from Pingxi Prefecture, the consumption of 100,000 troops was enough to make him breathless. There is no food and grass, and there is a dead end waiting for them.

"Obey the order!"

Liang Yishu's face was ugly, but he still bowed his head and complied.

However, he still underestimated the determination of the Empress Dowager Xiaoliang, who said firmly: "I allow you to reduce your troops and increase your food." ”

As soon as these words came out, Liang Yishu's heart was cold. In the course of military operations, reducing troops and increasing food does not mean increasing food, but by reducing the number of soldiers under the condition that the food remains unchanged, so as to achieve the goal of supporting the grain and grass for a longer time.

This indicates that soon there will be countless cannon fodder in this army, who will become victims of war and die under the royal city.

He even speculated that if he found that the city was also short of food after the siege, his cousin might even raise a butcher's knife against the rebels who surrendered.

Today's Western Xia is already very difficult, can it still withstand this kind of loss?

The siege finally began under Liang Yishu's order.

Due to the lack of preparation, and the high walls of the royal city, the siege battle has not been smooth. Everyone in this war is under tremendous pressure.

The first investment in the army reached 5,000 people.

Such a scene has never been seen by the rebels in the royal city.

Even if the Liang army outside the city invested more troops, for the rebels in the royal city, they still had a wall to defend. The advantage is still significant. But one incident happened that cast a shadow on the hearts of the generals in the royal city.

"What, the water stinks?"

When he heard this, Li Bingqian was stunned, he was born in Wangcheng, grew up in Wangcheng, and had never heard of the water in Wangcheng smelling. But this strange thing made him catch up, and he was more uneasy than angry.

Li Bingqian said angrily: "Check, go check immediately!" ”

At first, Li Bingqian thought that there was a traitor in the city. It's easy to think so. In the face of difficulties, self-preservation is the nature. But after the investigation was over, it was not the end of the investigation, but a clue discovered by a soldier at the head of the city, there were a large number of Liang troops outside the city, pulling carts of cow dung and dumping it in the canal into the royal city.

As a result, the face of the temporary general was quite gloomy, and the experience of the rebels before was vivid, as if it was yesterday, he sighed: "King, I thought that only we could do this, but I didn't expect ......."

"Shut up!"

Li Bingqian's previous identity was the leader of the rebels, and after the defeat of the royal city, his mind has indeed changed a lot. has already regarded himself as the master of Western Xia.

He has the qualifications to think so, after all, he is a member of the imperial family, and he is not afraid to think of being an emperor.

As for Mi Baoguang's complaints, he will definitely not allow them to appear. After all, with the intention of becoming an emperor, the guise of morality must be taken seriously. Even if it's a deceptive thing, it has to look like it's real.

The water source is polluted, which is a huge crisis for the officers and soldiers in the city.

In fact, compared to war, the lethality of plague is always much more powerful than war.

This is an unknown being that can rob everyone in an area of life in a very short period of time.

Remedies are necessary, Li Bingqian rubbed his stinging temples, and said with a broken head: "Is it too late to block the water source now and prevent the canal outside the city from entering the royal city?" ”

"It's already stinking...... "Mi Tsukumi muttered.

Li Bingqian suddenly became furious, pointed at Mi Baoguang and shouted: "Then go dig a well and order the soldiers and the people not to drink the water in the river." ”

After Mi Baoguang left in a hurry, Fei Tingdoro had a chance to speak: "King, you don't have to worry. Since Dashuai has won a big victory in Pingxi Mansion, he should be able to come soon to relieve the siege. ”

"You don't understand." Li Bingqian had already anticipated the other party's intentions from the strength of the Liang clan's siege, and defeated Li Bingqian as quickly as possible, and even beheaded him. Only by doing so can Liang have hope of turning the tables. But he didn't know if he could wait for the day when Li Kui came to the rescue, and in just one day, the casualties in the city reached tens of thousands.

There were several times when the soldiers of the Liang clan had climbed to the top of the city, and if it weren't for the leaders in the city who knew that as long as the Liang clan took the royal city, none of them would survive.

The Liang clan in the royal city was slaughtered, and almost every leader had Liang's blood on their hands. Just imagine, what will Empress Dowager Xiaoliang, who has a small heart, do with them after breaking the city?

Only the first evil?

Don't be stupid, you can still listen to this kind of talk before you enter the royal city. Now I want to go to the Liang family, it's too late!

In addition, Li Kui broke the main force of the Liang clan in Pingxi Mansion, and this news also encouraged the rebels in the city. The food in the city can feed the rebels for two years, but in fact, if the siege really begins, the food in the city can last the rebels longer. After all, when people die, food becomes abundant. It's really unlikely that you can hold the city for two years. But what if it's just to hold the city for half a month, or a month?

This seemed to be something that could be done for Wang Cheng, which had 100,000 rebels.

Therefore, even though the battle was fierce, Li Bingqian's rebels were extremely tenacious and suppressed Liang's attacks again and again.

There were more than 10,000 casualties in the city, which was not easy for the Liang army outside the city.

After three days of stalemate, Wang Cheng remained unmoved.

Li Bingqian's confidence is growing little by little, but the Empress Dowager Xiaoliang was disappointed again and again, and finally became anxious.

Greater anxiety soon came, and the 30,000 troops recruited by Pingxi Mansion took the lead in successfully crossing the river. Jiao Rong led the army to camp on the edge of Xingqing Mansion.

For Leung, the opportunity was lost.

What's even more terrifying is that the party leaders who are attached to the Liang clan began to flee, and they fled as an organization.

As a last resort, Empress Dowager Xiaoliang took the emperor to retreat to Jingzhou and prepared to cross the river and flee to Xiazhou. But Li Kui had already prepared, and an iron cavalry appeared at the riverbank ferries around Jingzhou. The number of people is not large, less than 5,000 people, but it is enough to block the retreat of Empress Dowager Liang.

At the end of September, the Empress Dowager Xiaoliang was trapped in Jingzhou, and there were less than 30,000 people around the Empress Dowager at this time.

Li Bingqian and Li Kui met outside the city of Jingzhou, and the outcome of Western Xia was a foregone conclusion.

Outside the city, Li Kui said to Ruan Xiaoer: "Where is my copper horn!?" ”

Ruan Xiaoer immediately brought Li Kui a large copper horn, Li Kui took the handle and shouted to the last rout of the Liang clan in the city: "Listen to the people in the city, you are surrounded......"

Liang Yishu, who was standing on the city tower suddenly, heard this voice, as if he had been struck by lightning, and then trembled angrily. Gritted his teeth and said, "Li Kui! ”

It doesn't matter what armor Li Kui wears, whether he wears a mask or not. Liang Yishu's memory of Li Kui has always been distinguished by sound. Because Li Kui's big voice is too unique, he also likes to use the most primitive loudspeaker amplifier. This cargo is on the battlefield and is easy to find.

"Li Kui?"

Empress Dowager Xiaoliang has lost the glory of power, her face is a little gloomy, and the most important thing is that her eyes no longer have a fearless look at her, and there is a trace of panic that only a daughter's family has.

Liang Yishu heard Empress Dowager Xiaoliang's rhetorical question, so he woke up and said: "Empress Dowager, this person is Li Kui, and I can recognize it when he turns into ashes." At the beginning of Jinmingzhai, it was this person who used 4,000 Song army foot soldiers to drag my 50,000 army. ”

"In the end, he defeated you and killed the Li Kui who was full of falsehood?" Empress Dowager Xiao Liang couldn't believe it: "Isn't this person a civil official of the Song Kingdom?" How did he hook up with Li Bingqian? ”

This problem, let alone Empress Dowager Xiaoliang, even Li Bingqian can't say the reason!

He was forced by Li Kui to embark on the road of rebellion, but he didn't expect that success was just around the corner, and even Li Bingqian felt a little incredible.

Liang Yishu suddenly said impatiently: "Queen Mother, the minister wants to kill Li Kui and hurry up!" ”

"We're in the city now." Empress Dowager Xiao Liang hesitated.

Liang Yishu suddenly sneered, and said to the Empress Dowager Xiao Liang: "Empress Dowager, do you remember the secret weapon of the Song Army brought by the minister?" ”

"Bronze artillery?" Empress Dowager Xiaoliang seemed to be a little impressed. The main reason why artillery was not implemented in Western Xia was that the bronze of the Song army's artillery was refined.

The difference is whether it is three refining or five refining.

However, the Western Xia could not reach the level of craftsmanship of the Song army at all, and Liang Yishu found another way to cast cannons with iron. But the iron of Western Xia has too many impurities, which is far worse than ordinary bronze, not to mention refined bronze. There were only two artillery pieces, one that broke down during the test and one that was in the army.

"That's right!" Liang Yishu said bitterly: "I was defeated by Li Kui's artillery at the beginning, and today I let Li Kui die under the muzzle of the artillery, which can be regarded as a complete merit." ”

Empress Dowager Xiaoliang was no longer able to care about this matter, she waved her hand and said weakly: "You go and do it!" ”

Liang Yishu soon came to the back of an inconspicuous-looking battlement, and said to the soldiers behind him: "Quickly invite the invincible Shenwei General!" ”

"Drugging!"

"Pills again!"

"Take more medicine!"

"Zuo Xiang, it's almost impossible to stuff in!"

"Forget it, it's almost. That's okay, that's okay. ”

Liang Yishu held the torch and stared at the guy in the crowd who was talking nonsense with a copper horn. The words in his mouth are as persistent as a madman. With a slam in the wrist, the torch lit the fuse behind the artillery, and Liang Yishu was satisfied: "Li Kui, today next year is your sacrifice day!" Hahaha! ”

In the midst of thousands of troops, Li Kui shouted unwillingly, and suddenly he felt his scalp tingle, as if something was going to happen, and the moment he looked up, his face finally changed suddenly, and he saw a black cannon mouth facing him, and smoke was coming from behind......