In the end, Li Hongsleeve did not use the rain talisman to slow down the Liao army's plan to lock the city, but used the rain talisman in Tonghua City, because the water source in the city was not abundant.

Accepting Jiang Cheng's proposal, Li Hongsleeve began to frequently go in and out of the wounded barracks, to comfort those wounded soldiers, internal strength and aura have a certain ability to heal, especially for external injuries, the effect is comparable to the best gold sore medicine, every time he goes to the wounded barracks, Li Hongsleeve will use spiritual power to treat some wounded soldiers, and in just one day, Li Hongchou's name has spread throughout Tonghua City.

In addition, Li Hongsleeve also did many other things, such as deposing the money-greedy logistics officers, confiscating their property, distributing it to the soldiers, and even forcibly breaking through the encirclement of the Liao army, going to the wild to hunt some animals and come back to feed the wounded.

In this way, in a few days, Li Hongsleeve was famous in the army for her beauty and kindness, and every time she went out, the sergeants she met would greet her respectfully.

The officers and men in the army, including Shitang, all know that this is inappropriate, this is buying people's hearts, but no one dares to speak out against it, not only is it a matter of Li Hongsleeve's identity, but it can't be stopped, do you want Li Hongsleeve not to be allowed to enter and leave the wounded and sick camp, or don't let her go out hunting, whoever dares to mention this sentence is to offend all the low-level soldiers, after all, the low-level soldiers are the most vulnerable to death and injury, even if they die, if they are injured, who doesn't want to have a high-level heart for them.

And the consequences of offending the low-level soldiers are extremely serious, if it is okay on weekdays, but now is a time of war, it is extremely easy to be released by others, so in the end you can only turn a blind eye.

When the first trench outside Tonghua City was dug, the Liao army and the army of Pingnan Wang began to withdraw one after another, and finally only 5,000 elite soldiers and 10,000 tribal soldiers were left here to monitor Tonghua City, and then the army went all the way south and stationed outside Tongzhou City.

After the southward army converged with the men and horses of the king of Pingnan, there were more than 100,000 people, while Tongzhou City only had 50,000 troops, 30,000 people were stationed in the city, and 20,000 people were stationed at the foot of the mountain outside the city.

After the two sides entered the confrontation, the Liao army was divided into 30,000 people, and plundered in all directions, and it was impossible to loot without looting, and now their position was too far away from the Liao State, and they had to transport grain from the Liao State, not to mention the distance of more than 800 miles, and there was also a large wasteland area, and there were hundreds of miles away from Beizhou.

Therefore, they had to eat the enemy and send soldiers and horses to plunder, and although Tongzhou carried out a strong wall and cleared the wilderness, how could ordinary towns and towns block the Liao army, a large number of towns and towns were broken, the Liao army burned, killed and plundered, and the people of Tongzhou fell into the flames of war.

Plundered tens of thousands of people, the Liao army forced these people to carry earth and stones, and began to fill the moat of Tongzhou City, the result was extremely miserable, tens of thousands of people were consumed in less than three days, the moat of Tongzhou City was full of floating corpses, but there were still a large number of people captured by the Liao army.

"Li Shuai, it won't work like this, if you tug at it for a few more months, Tongzhou will be ten rooms and nine empty, and Tongzhou will be completely finished."

On the wall of Tongzhou City, Tongzhou Taishou looked at the people outside the city and said to Li Yuanxiang, although they moved the people of dozens of miles near Tongzhou City to the city as much as possible, but he couldn't move the entire Tongzhou people in, and there were still a large number of people in the countryside farther away.

"Lord Xu, we only have 50,000 people, and the enemy army has more than 100,000 troops, rashly going to war, we are not opponents at all, once we are destroyed, the entire Great Wei will be in danger of destruction."

"Then what are we going to do, just watch the people die"

"Then tell me, is there a better way?"

"What about the army of the imperial court?"

"The soldiers and horses that can be moved by the imperial court have already moved, there are only 30,000 soldiers and horses in Yongzhou, and the newly recruited soldiers and horses from all over the country have been working for less than half a month, and now they are sent to death."

"Then you can't watch the people being killed by the Liao army."

"All we can do is help them avenge it later"

Li Yuanxiang replied, for the commander, he has to take care of the overall situation, now their troops are in a weak position, if he buries his tens of thousands of people, then the advantage of the Great Wei in the north will be gone, the Liao army can kill Yongzhou, the Yongzhou forbidden army is now only 30,000, and then it will inevitably not be able to hold Yongzhou, only the ability to protect the Yongdu City, and the people of Yongzhou will also suffer.

So what Li Yuanxiang has to do is to wait, the national strength of the Great Wei is stronger than the Liao State, and now the various state capitals of the Great Wei have begun to mobilize, recruiting soldiers, hoarding grain and grass, especially in the south, in another month, the summer grain can be harvested, and when the time comes, the army will go north, so that the Liao State can be completely repulsed.

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Yongzhou, all prefectures and counties have issued conscription orders, Yongzhou, including Yongdu City, is the most densely populated prefecture of the Great Wei Dynasty, is required to conscript 50,000 soldiers and horses, each county has more than 1,000 soldiers, in addition, there are requirements for hard labor.

After the recruitment of soldiers in each county, they were trained on the spot, and a large number of officers were mobilized by the military department to enrich these new recruits and let the generals get familiar with the recruits as soon as possible.

"Two months, there is only two months of training time for recruit recruitment, and after two months, it is necessary to go to the Tongzhou battlefield and launch an attack on the Liao army.

Tongzhou and Jiangzhou, the northern state capitals, with a combined army of 150,000, will definitely be able to defeat the Liao army, while the soldiers and horses of the Jiangnan states are to fight Nanzhou from Gyeongju, first destroy the king of Zhennan, and destroy the king of Xiliang in the north·····"

In the palace, Bing Ma Shangshu was telling his plan, the Liao State made a move, not to loot and leave, but to use the people of Tongtian Academy, which they did not expect at all, and the Liao State made a move, they also knew that the Liao State solved the trouble of Great Xia, and they also expected that Great Xia would also do it.

Therefore, the imperial court urgently ordered that the Great Wei carried out the first wave of recruitment, and each state had quotas, adding up to about 300,000 soldiers and horses, half of which were assembled to the north and half to the south.

"Yao Xiang, what do you think of the plan of the military department?"

"Fortunately, the 300,000 army is the limit of what we can mobilize now, once this number is exceeded, all parts of the country will be affected by the war, and now we have to ensure that the summer grain collection of the southern states, with food, we can fight"

"What if Great Xia also sent troops, the imperial court has spies in Great Xia, and the spies have returned, and Great Xia has begun to gather troops."

"In time, it will take at least half a month for the Great Xia to gather troops, and it will take more than a month for the army to enter my Great Wei, and the soldiers and horses we have raised have already begun to practice, and we will have time to rush to the battlefield when the time comes."

"That's good, the war had better end within this year"

"Shengshang, the minister thinks that the king of Zhennan and the king of Xiliang should be dealt with as soon as possible"

"Yao Xiang might as well say it if he has something to say"

"The masters of the royal family, the military department, and the master of the Xiange, should go all out to attack the king of Zhennan and the king of Xiliang, and at the same time can reward the masters of the Jianghu sect and let them assassinate the two generals who rebelled against the king, if they can solve the two traitors before the summer harvest, our Great Wei should have no worries"

Yao Ce continued, asking the masters of the Immortal Pavilion to go to Tongzhou, but half of them did not go, which made Yao Ce worry that the battlefield in Pingzhou had changed, and wanted to put down the rebellion of the two kings with different surnames as soon as possible.

"I'll talk to the dean about this."

"Yes, Holy"

"Continuing the proceedings"

The emperor nodded, and asked the military department to continue to deliberate, there is going to be a war, there are too many things, soldiers, equipment, money and food, all have to be raised, and the people's livelihood in each state must also be taken into account, the emperor has some regrets, if it weren't for the emperors of the Great Wei Dynasty who wanted to cut the domain, he would have to find a way to negotiate peace.

At the end of a discussion, the minister retreated, and the emperor also went to the harem, not to see the concubine, but to find Li Changqing.

"Grandpa Huang, Yao Xiang suggested that the masters of the royal family are going to fight, and the remaining masters of the Immortal Pavilion will also go to war to exterminate the two traitorous kings of Zhennan and Xiliang."

"The emperor has ever thought about what will happen to the palace and what will happen to Yongdu City once we leave?"

"This, Grandpa Huang, the situation shouldn't be so bad."

"Great Wei Chengping for many years, nobles, ministers, which does not raise a few doormen, and how many of them are martial artists, the wild immortals of Qinglong Mountain have not yet been found out, and now Jiang Cheng of Qingyiwei can cut down immortals again, doesn't the emperor think that martial artists are also very dangerous?"

Li Changqing said that when Jiang Cheng killed the immortals of the Tongtian Courtyard of the Liao Kingdom, and he was still an old Xuan Miao Realm immortal, Li Changqing was shocked for a long time.

He admitted that he had lost his eyes, when he saw Jiang Cheng two years ago, he was not even innate, or the emperor rewarded him with the Dragon and Tiger Pill to become an innate cultivator, but how long has it been, he has been able to cut down immortals, this is something he can't do, he doesn't think that Jiang Cheng has been promoted to this cultivation in the past two years, but pretending to be a pig and eating a tiger, it has long been innate, but it is hidden by some means.

So Li Changqing suddenly felt very frightened, Jiang Cheng can do it, so can the rest of the warriors in Yongdu City do it, according to his news, there are a lot of hidden warriors in Yongdu City, and many ministers and nobles have innate warriors as disciples.

"Grandpa Huang, what do you think of me?"

"Ask your ministers to go, if this matter is not resolved, the masters of the royal family must not go out easily, and at least half of the people must be left in Yongdu City"

Li Changqing said that he was also worried about the anxiety of the war, but he was more worried about the warriors of Yongdu City, and he was afraid that there would be another warrior like Jiang Cheng who could cut down immortals.

"I understand, I'll go to Yao Xiang to discuss"

The emperor nodded, and then asked Yao Ce to come in to discuss the matter and solve the matter.

"Go, that Jiang Cheng, his momentum has been achieved, you can't embarrass him, force him back, and the court will increase the enemy"

"I understand that I will immediately draw up an order, Jiang Cheng will kill the immortals of Tongtian Academy on the battlefield, make great achievements, reward his family, and his father and eldest brother will be promoted."

The emperor replied that Jiang Yong and Jiang Wu would be transferred back to Yongdu City, at least one level higher, but they would also lose their real power and be raised by the imperial court, which did not allow such a master and relatives who held real power.

"The emperor is getting more and more mature, so let's do it"

Li Changqing nodded, he has been an emperor for a few years, and his means are becoming more and more mature, Li Changqing is very pleased, although this emperor is not very wise, he is good at admonishment, and this is enough.