Some people may think this is an exaggeration.
But this is an indisputable fact.
For example, as the Liao army is slowly approaching, many of the ordnance in their hands was passed down from the Great Song Dynasty.
Among them, there is no lack of ordnance that the court has ordered that requires strict confidentiality.
and then
In the case of strict confidentiality ordered by the Song Dynasty, these ordnance still appeared in the Liao Army barracks.
Under such circumstances, how dare Kou Ji promote the production methods of firearms and grenades
If he really promotes it, it is estimated that at that time, it will not be the soldiers of the Song Dynasty who will take these things to open up the territory.
It was the Liao and Xixia people who used these things to attack the Song Dynasty.
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"Ding!"
The war officially started at the moment when a sharp arrow pierced the ice on the Baozhou city wall.
The way the Liao army attacked the city was far less barbaric than Kou Ji imagined.
Their method of siege is not much different from that of the Great Song Dynasty soldiers and horses.
The Liao people not only learned about ordnance manufacturing from the books passed down from the Great Song Dynasty, but also learned the strategy of war.
The boulders carried by the catapult kept blooming on the head of Baozhou City, and there were gaps in the head of Baozhou City.
The crossbow guns fired by the bed crossbow were pierced into a row on the wall of Baozhou City.
Under the protection of a shield, the siege was successfully delivered to the gate of Baozhou City, bombarding the gate of Baozhou City.
The generals of the Liao Army pushed up the stairs, drove the ladder, and climbed the crossbow spears pierced on the walls of Baozhou City, and they kept climbing to the top of the city.
"kill!"
Li Zhaoliang gave an order.
The soldiers of the various armies, armed with knives and guns, began to respond to the enemy.
Di Qing was holding a big gun and wearing a mask, standing on the other side of the city wall, commanding the soldiers of Xiangjun to fight.
Kou Ji watched the Liao army gather more and more under the city, and shouted: "Throw down all the phosphorus fire bombs."
The servants and guards of the Kou Mansion urged the Xiang Jun generals to ignite one after another phosphorous fire bombs and drop the city.
The phosphorous fire bomb exploded in the Liao army's army formation, igniting fire after fire.
What did the phosphorous fire burn? As long as the soldiers of the Liao army caught the phosphorous fire, they would catch fire one after another.
After all the phosphorous bombs brought by Kou Ji were thrown down, a sea of flames formed under Baozhou City.
Seeing this scene, the Liao army stopped the attack.
The Xiangjun soldiers on the front of the city saw this scene and stopped fighting.
They stared at the blazing flames in the trenches under the city wall, not knowing what to do for a while.
The soldiers of the Liao Army who were contaminated with the phosphorous fire screamed one by one, fell into the trench under the city wall, and turned into nourishment in the sea of fire.
The fire has not been extinguished since the moment it started.
The phosphorous fire burned out a long time ago.
Supporting the continued burning of the fire was the corpse oil from the corpses of the soldiers of the Liao Army.
A sea of fire divided the battlefield.
Liao Emperor Yelu Longxu was shocked by the power of the phosphorous fire bomb and had to order to retreat.
He attacked Baozhou City this time, although a little anticlimactic.
But facing the blazing fire, he had to retreat.
It was a sea of flames formed by human oil, and water could not be extinguished.
If you fill it with soil, Song Jun on the front of the city will not give him this opportunity.
He can only retreat.
The Liao army retreated.
Retreated in front of the raging fire.
But the Xiang army on the front of the city did not withdraw.
They stood on the head of the city, staring at the fire burning in the trench.
The fire burned all day and night.
The corpses in the trenches were burned to ashes, and the soil in the trenches was burned into pieces.
The ice covering Baozhou City had long since been melted clean by the fire.
Wait until the hot masonry cools in the cold wind.
Kou Ji led the civilians and soldiers throughout the city and continued to water the walls, allowing them to quickly condense another layer of ice.
Then, after the ice layer had condensed on the city wall, he did not stop, but continued to water the water to make the ice layer thicker.
Liao Emperor Yelu Longxu did not launch an attack during this period.
It's not that he didn't know how to seize this opportunity, but that he didn't want to attack before he figured out how to deal with the phosphorus fire bomb.
Marching to fight is not blindly brutal.
When the lives of very few soldiers can be exchanged for victory, no one wants to use their lives to pile up a war.
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Kou Ji frantically led someone to water the walls of Baozhou City.
He didn't stop until a full half-foot thick ice layer formed on the walls of Baozhou City.
Li Zhaoliang felt that Kou Ji's approach was a little frantic.
Di Qing had no objection to Kou Ji's approach.
Kou Ji didn't care about Li Zhaoliang's opinion.
He only knew that a dog's life was important, and that keeping a dog's life was the key.
As long as he can save the dog's life, he will use any method.
Upstairs at the gate.
Li Zhaoliang looked at the half-foot-thick ice layer and sighed: "The Liao people can only stay away from the current Baozhou city... The problem is, we can't do anything about the Liao people."
Frozen Kou Ji, even the entrance of the city was frozen with huge rocks mixed with ice water.
Baozhou City was completely frozen.
The Liao people wanted to attack Baozhou City, but they had nowhere to talk.
The problem is that the soldiers and horses in Baozhou City wanted to attack, but they couldn't get out.
Kou Ji covered his mouth with a handkerchief and rolled his eyes at Li Zhaoliang, "Cao Shuai meant that we should hold Baozhou City, but did not let us attack. As long as we hold Baozhou City."
Li Zhaoliang shook his head and whispered: "The battle... is not fought like this..."
Li Zhaoliang was still thinking about it, looking for opportunities, leading troops to attack, and giving the Liao army a surprise attack, so as to build some merits.
But Kou Ji's actions completely killed his thoughts in the cradle.
"Oh~"
Kou Ji vomited water, wiped the corners of his mouth with a handkerchief, and said disdainfully: "I don't care about it... I only remember that my duty is to defend Baozhou City."
Li Zhaoliang looked disgusted and said: "Your approach has changed the taste of the battlefield..."
The purpose of war is to win victory.
Between offense and defense, it is not static.
Sometimes, offense is also a kind of defense.
Kou Ji's approach is tantamount to giving up the offense and blindly shrinking into the tortoise shell to defend.
The generals of the past dynasties rarely do this.
While defending, those generals will always look for opportunities, take the initiative to attack, and continue to create opportunities to win the war.
"Oh~"
Kou Ji gave another retching, and said to Li Zhaoliang: "You continue to guard on the wall, I will go down slowly."
The city walls were full of the smell of corpses and oil.
Kou Ji can't stay here.
He hadn't gotten used to the smell on the battlefield. He couldn't help but feel sick when he smelled the smell of corpses and oil.
Kou Ji waved away.
Li Zhaoliang clicked his mouth and went to Di Qing to talk.
Although Di Qing is much younger than him, Li Zhaoliang likes to talk to Di Qing very much.
He likes to share his years of fighting experience with Di Qing.
He felt that Cao Wei's proud disciple was a good seed.
As long as you have a good ****, you will definitely be able to take on the big responsibility in the future.
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Baozhou City was turned into a crystal palace by Kou Ji.
Liao Emperor Yelulongxu looked at Baozhou City and could only sigh.
He has nothing to do with the defensive method used by the Baozhou City defender.
I always think this guy is a little crazy.
If this guy is in his hands, he will definitely get rid of this guy.
The Liao people never count the gains and losses of a city or a place in battle.
Kou Ji sealed the city of Baozhou to death, not only blocking the way for the Liao people to attack, but also blocking his own way of retreat and his own way of attacking.
Although this approach can hold Baozhou City, it is not a desirable way on the battlefield.
The way to use soldiers is to advance and retreat with evidence.
Kou Ji's approach is tantamount to abandoning advancement and retreat, choosing to be a motionless stone.
Is Liao Emperor Yelu Longxu really helpless with this stone
Nor is it.
As long as he is willing to lay down his blood and choose to attack by force, he can also gnaw off this stone.
But he did not do so.
He stayed outside Baozhou City for three days. After carefully calculating the amount of troops needed to take Baozhou City, he decisively gave up attacking Baozhou City.
Because after his calculations, if he smashed with Baozhou City, the force that he would spend would be a little too big.
So big that after he took down Baozhou City, he could no longer invade southward.
This violated his purpose of going south to attack Da Song.
So he decisively chose to lead his troops to retreat, intending to invade Da Song from another place.
At the junction of Song and Liaoning, Baozhou is not the only place.
The Liao Emperor invaded south, and he did not want to march from Baozhou.
The Liao army withdrew.
The Xiangjun soldiers in Baozhou City celebrated with joy.
Li Zhaoliang asked Kou Ji if he wanted to take the opportunity to build the city wall or to unlock the blockade of the city gate.
Kou Ji chose to stay on.
The walls of Baozhou City were destroyed by water and fire.
When the spring flowers bloom, Baozhou City will collapse after the ice on the walls of Baozhou City has melted.
Li Zhaoliang's proposal to build the city wall is also for the future of Baozhou City.
But Kou Ji was worried that the Liao people would kill a carbine, so he decisively rejected Li Zhaoliang's proposal.
The city walls of Baozhou City will be built in the future, so there is no need to do so at this time.
Kou Ji chose to lead 90,000 soldiers and tens of thousands of wounded soldiers to fight in Baozhou City, but the fighting in other places did not stop because of Kou Ji Gou.
The first is the battle on the Xixia battlefield, with a dramatic scene.
The people who were forced to join the Xixia war showed unprecedented combat effectiveness after joining the war.
They couldn't help Gao Duo to defend the Great Wall and resist the Xixia army.
But they also did not accompany the heights on the Great Wall in peace.
Lack of food and clothing, they have long been eyeing Xixia.
They teamed up three to five, sneaked out of the Great Wall together, invaded the territory of Xixia, and launched a devastating and predatory destruction.
The horse thieves formed a gang with Thieer, stealing horses in Xixia, arming themselves, and finally turned into a gang of rogues carrying horses, running around in Xixia, killing, looting and looting.
The tomb robbers formed a gang with the mountain bandits. One side secretly digs the pit, and the other side attracts Xixia to send out soldiers and horses to destroy them and send them to the trap.
Then, a small group of soldiers and horses from Xixia were smashed to death by tomb robbers and bandits.
They pulled off the clothes of Xixia's soldiers and horses, captured Xixia's horses, and sold them to those thieves, rebels, and bandits, so that they were transformed into Xixia soldiers and horses.
Then these people pretended to be Xixia soldiers and horses, and caused misfortune everywhere in Xixia.
The most representative of them is a group of bandits, posing as Xixia soldiers and horses, mixed in Xixia territory, and turned into an army of more than 10,000 people.
After discovering them, Li Di resolutely recruited them, lost a general title to their leader, dispatched eighteen supervisors, and stared at them to continue tossing in Xixia.
All in all, after these scourges entered Xixia, they never stopped.
They commit crimes in Da Song, it is called crime.
They commit crimes in Xixia, it is called winning glory for the country.
Without the restraint of the law, they commit a crime, which is unscrupulous.
All kinds of crimes that Kou Ji has heard of, and have never heard of, are staged in Xixia every day.
Li Deming and his son were not afraid of being beaten by the Liao people, nor were they afraid of being beaten by the soldiers of the Song Dynasty, but they had a headache for these evils.
But they couldn't send out a large army to clean up these people.
Because once they send troops and horses to clean up these people and stick to the high places on the Great Wall, they will immediately lead their troops to attack their lair.
Except on the Xixia battlefield.
There were also gains on the Song-Liao battlefield.
The Liao army sent by Liao Emperor Yelu Longxu to attack Yanmen Pass was ambushed by Yang Wenguang outside Yanmen Pass.
Yang Wenguang led the Tianwu Army, slashed 3,000 people from the Liao Army, and captured tens of thousands.
After the Liao Emperor Yelu Longxu withdrew from Baozhou, he prepared to lead his army down from the Feihukou, bypassing the mountain road, and invading into the territory of the Song Dynasty.
But at the mouth of Feihu, he ran into Cao Wei who was going to attack the Liao army.
The two sides fought fiercely at Feihukou for three days and three nights.
There are winners and losers.
Just when the two sides are preparing to fight to the death.
Xixia was stunned.
Li Deming sent envoys to the Song Dynasty.
He agreed to the title of self-elimination emperor, accepted the canonization of Song Dynasty, and was willing to cede the territory south of the Great Wall to Song Dynasty.
Anyway, it was occupied by Da Song, and it was useless if he agreed.
The title of Disobedience Hou officially fell on him.
Li Yu, the queen lord of the Southern Tang Dynasty, was the last person who had the title of Hou Ming Hou.
This is a humiliating marquis.
But Li Deming had to ask for it.
When facing Liao Emperor Yelu Longxu, he had the courage to fight back.
But when Xixia was really about to be defeated, he didn't have the courage to fight back.
The Liao Emperor Yelu Longxu saw that Xixia had surrendered to the Song Dynasty, and decisively sent an envoy to the Song Dynasty and demanded to stop making peace.
When he attacked Xixia, he suffered a loss, which caused a great loss of Liao's military strength.
Now Da Song is profiting on the Xixia battlefield and his morale is high.
At this time, if he continued to fight with Da Song, it is hard to guarantee that Da Song would not put in more troops and fight him to the end.
By that time, he was really not sure of victory.
When the Song court learned that the Liao Kingdom was about to stop making peace, it did not hesitate and agreed decisively.
If you don't agree, it won't work.
With the battle between the two fronts of the Song Dynasty, the battle has been fierce for so long.
The treasury has long been able to run mice.
In addition, there are prodigal sons like Kou Ji who frequently ask the court for supplies, and the court can't hold it anymore.