"All of them are stretching their necks one by one, don't you want to die?"

"Big marshal, the crossbowmen of the Song army didn't come out."

Standing on the head of Zhuozhou City, Han Zirang was indeed scared out of a cold sweat. Quietly one or two thousand people appeared outside the city, which is simply hell.

Of course, it is impossible to see the hell, but the elite level of the Song army has exceeded his imagination.

How can there be such an elite army in the world?

Han Zirang was also disdainful of Li Kui in the past, and even thought that the unbearable army of Western Xia had created the myth of Li Kui. As for Qingtang's Woo Country, it's even worse. Even the iron pot needs to rely on the input of the Great Song Dynasty, what capital does it have to fight with the Song State?

Not only the Korean capital, but even most of the generals of the Liao State felt that Li Kui was nothing more than that.

That is not to meet the soldiers and horses of the Liao State, if you meet the army of the Liao State, the military god of the Great Song Dynasty, it is just the biggest joke in the world.

And at this moment, Han Zirang gave up the ridiculous idea in his heart. Relying on Li Kui's method of unifying the army, no one dared to say that Li Kui did not understand war. With this alone, Li Kui is fully qualified to become the opponent of the Liao State, at least the army he commands, no general of the Liao State can do it. Silently, 20,000 men appeared at night on the edge of the well-defended city. This is simply the power of ghosts and gods.

Han Zirang stood at the head of the city, and said silently in his heart with a solemn expression: "What a terrible opponent." ”

However, then he was relieved, Li Kui was terrible. It is just a fierce beast caught in the abyss, Zhuozhou is the gateway of Xijin Mansion, and the throat of Nanjing Dao, the richest in the entire Liao Kingdom.

Surrounded by more than 100,000 soldiers and horses, even if Li Kui has three heads and six arms, it is difficult to fly.

"It's a pity, it's a pity!"

Han Zirang knew what he was sorry for, but in the face of the enemy, he would definitely not be merciful. He had 20,000 horses in Zhuozhou. This army is still in the city, and Li Kui wants to compete with him with this little force in his hand, which is simply a fool's dream. However, at this time, it was not him who commanded the overall situation of the Liao State, nor was it Yelu Chen Jianu, the king of the Southern Courtyard, nor was it the Xuanfu envoy who beat Xiao Changge, but the Great Liao Emperor who was in Xijin Mansion.

Li Kui is dead!

Thinking of this, Han Zirang ordered the deputy general: "Immediately send someone to Xijin Mansion to report to Your Majesty that Li Kui has arrived in Zhuozhou with illness." The king's plan has been realized, and the leather room army is ready to pursue. ”

"Honorable Order!"

The lieutenant will take someone to arrange the messenger.

However, Han Zirang stood at the head of the city and looked at Li Kui's camp with great interest.

It is very orderly, and the surrounding precautions are very strict, even if he heard the movement last night and launched a night attack, I am afraid it will be difficult to shake the Song army. He took it for granted that it was the reason for his lack of troops.

However, the South Korean concession is insufficient, and Li Kui's strength seems to be even less than that of the Korean concession.

He estimated that Li Kui's troops were around 20,000, which was on a par with him. However, the Korean-funded Chongyi army was defending the city, while Li Kui's Song army was besieging the city.

Although the Song army has a very good siege system, but without siege equipment, the Song army wants to break Zhuozhou City, which is almost a fool's dream. In this regard, the Korean capital is very confident.

Zhuozhou is no more than eighty miles away from Xijin Mansion, and this distance, the fast horse of Liao State can send the news to Xijin Mansion in an hour.

When Yelu Hongji heard the news, he was so excited that he wanted to jump up. But he was already a seventy-year-old man, and he wanted to jump, but he couldn't get up. But that didn't take away the excitement in his heart at this time.

As the emperor of Liao, Yelu Hongji's biggest regret in his life was that he did not conquer Western Xia or Song. Now, he is old, and he can't rely on this body that is already overwhelmed by high pressure to wage such a heavy war. But if there is a military god of the Song Kingdom who can die under his saber, Yelu Hongji has a kind of freedom without regrets in this life.

But when I think about it, if I subdue Li Kui, wouldn't it be a greater sense of accomplishment, and the happiness of conquering the world would be doubled.

Thinking of this, Yelu Hongji had to urge Yelu Gusi, the commander of the leather room army, to hand-pick his troops and horses and prepare to leave the city.

This will be the best merit for his career as Emperor Daliao, and Yelu Hongji doesn't want to mess up.

However, there are 50,000 leather room troops, and Yelu Hongji is ready to take 30,000.

But even these 30,000 horses took a lot of effort to reorganize the army. During this period, the imperial grandson, Yelu Yanxi, the king of Yan, hurriedly came: "The emperor's grandfather, Li Kui is a minister of the Song Kingdom, and he doesn't work with the emperor's grandfather, so let the child tie this fang to the emperor's grandfather, and let the emperor's grandfather dispose of it." ”

"Ah Guo, I see your filial piety, but I am the Emperor of Da Liao." Ah Guo is Yelu Yanxi's nickname, although the crown prince is dead, but this grandson is very happy with Yelu Hongji, and he is ready to pass on the grandson. Yelu Hongji straightened his chest, so that his back was slightly hunched up, so that it did not look so abrupt. Only then did he slowly speak: "My Great Liao originated in the land of the Liao River, and it was just a small tribe with a population of only tens of thousands. Carrying a hundred years, there is today's weather. The reason why my Great Liao can be rich all over the world is that the emperor of my Great Liao can take the lead in every battle and boost morale. Ah Guo, the world of the Great Liao will be yours in the future, but now I have to fulfill the responsibilities of the Great Liao Emperor, and you stay in the city and wait for good news. ”

"Congratulations to the Imperial Grandfather! A victorious start. ”

"Go ahead!"

A warm scene of Sun Xiaozuci was staged in the Liao State Palace.

Both sides are good players here.

Of course, the cunning Yelu Hongji is a step ahead. I don't know if it's a real performer, or if Yelu Yanxi, who is a grandson, deliberately let Yelu Hongji.

Anyway, in the end, Yelu Hongji still got out of the city smoothly.

It's a pity that the leather room army is relatively slow to reorganize, and it is almost dark when they leave the city.

Let's talk about Li Kui.

He commanded the Song army to fly the Lian army, and all the Praetorian Guards, after arriving outside the city of Zhuozhou in the Liao State. After resting for most of the night, it was finally dawn.

After the Song army buried the pot and cooked, the whole army began to assemble. During this period, the Liao people did not even come to harass.

Seeing this, Cao Fang, the chief general of the Praetorian Guard, thought that Li Kui was going to send troops to fight at the city gate.

He volunteered to be brave: "Dashuai, let me come." ”

"What are you messing with?"

Li Kui angrily reprimanded Cao Fang, who was eager to try, raised his hand and pointed at the other party and asked, "Yours are all musketeers, and you won't need you to attack the city first." ”

Cao Fang was stupid, didn't he fight a war, stimulated the chief general of the Liao army with humiliating words, and tricked him into going out of the city to be beaten?

The war also belongs to the foreplay of the war in this era, but Li Kui is good, he doesn't do the foreplay, and he comes directly to the overlord to take the bow. This routine of fighting a war fundamentally subverted Cao Fang's understanding of war. He asked Li Kui stupidly: "Dashuai, didn't you say that it was better to scold people and fight?" Why attack the city immediately. Besides, the high walls of Zhuozhou City are thick, and this cannon can't be bombarded!

Li Kui scolded: "Who told you to use cannons? ”

Li Kui pointed to the vicinity of the city gate of Zhuozhou and said: "If you look at this Zhuozhou city, there is not even a moat, wouldn't it be easy to knock down such a city?" ”

Cao Fang glanced at the city and said in his heart: "Li Kui, you can't look down on the city wall because Zhuozhou City doesn't have a moat. This will suffer a loss, a big loss. But Cao Fang didn't dare to say this, he knew that Li Kui's heart was as small as a needle, and if he really angered Li Kui, he would not have good fruit to eat.

"Marshal, although Zhuozhou City does not have a moat, you see that Zhuozhou City is so high, our army doesn't even have decent siege equipment, and I am afraid that it will not be able to come down just by relying on the ladder!"

If this is in the eyes of other people, it is normal.

But Li Kui didn't eat this, and pointed to the gate of Zhuozhou City and said, "Have you seen that city gate?" What does it mean that the city gate is square? ”

Cao Fang couldn't answer, so he had to bow his head and admit his mistake: "My subordinates are stupid." But he muttered in his heart, aren't the gates all square?

"You are indeed stupid." Li Kui said angrily: "Our army has so many means, the best way to encounter such a city gate is to attack it with fire." ”

The biggest problem with the square gate is that it is afraid of fire. If the advantage of arched gates is that no matter how much fire the besieging party uses to burn the gates, there is nothing to be done. But this is not the case with the square gates. The square gate was built with a hole in the city wall and a gate was built with wood. In this way, the gate towers above the city gates are all castle towers made of firewood.

As long as you attack with fire, it is easy to burn down the city gate building.

Li Kui explained this, and Cao Fang understood Li Kui's intentions.

However, at this time, Li Kui was already riding on the war horse in high spirits, and said condescendingly to Cao Fang: "Cao Fang, today I will let you see how to break this kind of square city gate." ”

Listening to Li Kui's tone, he had to educate Cao Fang on the spot how to really attack the city.

But Cao Fang was even more panicked in his heart, if the Khitans were so vulnerable, why had they not been able to take the Khitans at all since Taizu.

Cao Fangxin said: Since Li Kui is so confident, then he, as Li Kui's deputy, should be regarded as practice and watch carefully.

Li Kui immediately ordered Ling Zhen: "Ling Zhen, come out with your catapult and send these canisters to me above the city gate tower in Zhuozhou, can you do it?" ”

The jar Li Kui said is the jar where kerosene is stored.

Ling Zhen was about to use a big battle to show his strength, and immediately said excitedly: "Dashuai, look at it!" ”

As he spoke, several catapults mounted on carts were placed. This kind of catapult comes from the design of Western Xia, the design is very ingenious, it is also very easy to carry, and the battlefield maneuver is very fast, the only flaw is that it lacks enough power. The only drawback is that you can't drop heavy stone projectiles.

"Ready!"

"Put"!

Under the launch of the trebuchet, the black oil canisters smashed on the gates and towers of Zhuozhou. The shattered jar was torn apart, and the liquid in the jar was also poured into the city of Zhuozhou with the rupture of the jar.

Li Kui suddenly shouted: "Hua Rong, the rocket is waiting!" ”

A rocket, drawing a beautiful parabola. and fell on the head of the city.

Suddenly, the flames turned into flames, the flames turned into skyrocketing fires, and the Zhuozhou Nancheng Tower was suddenly wrapped in a sea of fire.

Li Kui pointed a little and said to Cao Fang: "Let the soldiers prepare the soil for putting out the fire, and when the city gate tower collapses, you will launch an attack whenever it happens." ”

That's right, Li Kui is ready to break the city. sneered: "Such a Liao person who doesn't know the height of the sky will inevitably taste the taste of breaking the city today." ”