Since the death of Emperor Taizong, the imperial court has not opened up a bit of territory until now.
Kou Ji has opened up several prefectures in the Western Regions, enough to stir up the ruling and the opposition.
Regardless of what Kou Ji did before, and how big mistakes he made, the court had to suppress it.
After all, Kou Ji’s credit is greater than his fault.
If the imperial court dealt with Kou Ji when the ruling and opposition parties were excited.
The people's grievance is great.
With public grievances boiling, those civil and military officials in the court, including officials, are expected to be scolded miserably.
Officials will be reduced to faint monarchs, and Manchu civil and military will become treacherous nephews.
Most of the civil servants in the court had to make a fortune by being promoted by fame, and they definitely wouldn't know their fame.
Therefore, no matter how dissatisfied the civil servants in the court are with Kou Ji's actions in the Western Regions, they have to maintain Kou Ji's reputation.
If you want to punish Kou Ji, you have to wait until the limelight passes.
Before the whole Hexi was taken, Li Di was still worried about Kou Ji, and now there is no need to worry about Kou Ji.
Li Di followed Kou Ji and rested in the tent for a while.
Zhu Neng sent people over to spread the word, saying that it was a strategy to attack Xiliang City. It has been agreed and is ready to attack Xiliang City. Kou Ji and Li Di were asked to come forward and say a few words to the soldiers.
Kou Ji and Li Di tidied their clothes and got out of the tent.
The drums of war have been sounded.
The soldiers in the camp have begun to gather in the direction of Dianjiangtai.
After Kou Ji and Li Di arrived, they boarded the stage.
Li Di said a lot of inspiring words.
When it was Kou Ji's turn, Kou Ji stepped on the stage and raised the sword of the emperor in his hand, just a word.
"The first conqueror of this battle, titled! The official said!"
"Roar!"
"Roar!"
The soldiers boiled for a moment.
It seems to be back in the era of immediately enlisting the marquis and winning wealth with military exploits.
The sentiment is enthusiastic.
Even Zhu Neng and Li Zhaoliang, who had already put the duke title in their pockets, were excited to hear this.
Li Di listened to the side and twitched the corner of his mouth.
Kou Ji dared to say this when both the ruling and the opposition went.
Because Zhao Zhen will help him carry it.
Others who want to say this will probably be accused of falsely spreading the holy will and executed on the spot.
"Beat the drum! March on!"
The drums of war sounded again.
The drums of war gathered by the generals are very dense and rapid, seeming to urge all the soldiers.
The drum of marching was very generous, and seemed to encourage the soldiers to move forward courageously.
Kou Ji had already helped Zhu Neng ignite his morale, and Zhu Neng didn't need to talk too much, he only needed to bring soldiers to attack.
After the soldiers formed a battle formation and pushed their weapons out of the camp.
Kou Ji and Li Di, escorted by a group of guards, went to a hillside outside Xiliang City to watch the battle.
The hillside is not high and there are not many trees on it.
Condescending.
The inside and outside of Xiliang City are in a glance.
In Xiliang City.
Ye Li Wangrong sent all the soldiers and horses in the city to the wall.
The walls were crowded with people in darkness.
Ye Li Wangrong seemed to realize that Song Jun would not give him a chance to breathe, so he didn't keep any hands, and put all his troops on the city head to make a desperate fight.
Xiliang City is all around.
Nearly two hundred thousand soldiers and horses formed a battle formation and pressed against Xiliang City, the scene is very spectacular.
The battle formations on the east, west, and north are similar.
The battle formation led by Zhu Neng looked a little wild.
There is an indomitable momentum.
The battle formation led by Li Zhaoliang was very tight.
No extra space can be seen, it's tight and neat, like a huge military parade.
The battle formation led by Zhong Shiheng was quite satisfactory.
It is not particularly prominent, nor is it particularly eye-catching.
But if you look closely, you will still see some differences.
He and Zhu Neng and Li Zhaoliang used the same battle formation, but the deployment of soldiers and horses in the battle formation was slightly different.
Both Zhu Neng and Li Zhaoliang placed heavy ordnance such as trebuchets and siege vehicles in the center of the battlefield.
Zhong Shiheng placed heavy ordnance such as catapults and siege engines on both sides of the inner wall of the battlefield.
Compared with the siege method of the three-party soldiers and horses of the Song Dynasty, the siege method of Qingtang soldiers and horses is a bit hard to see.
There are still battle formations, but they are very rough.
When soldiers and horses charge, the image of the battle formation is difficult to maintain, and it is more like a swarm of swarms up the city.
Of course, this is not to say that Qingtang's soldiers are not strong.
It is that they are not good at battle formations, nor are they good at the Song army's siege.
If the Great Song Soldiers and Horses and Qingtang Soldiers and Horses are thrown into the wilderness, it is not certain who loses and who wins.
Qingtang soldiers and horses are more accustomed to field battles than siege battles.
Under the gaze of Kou Ji and Li Di, nearly 200,000 soldiers and horses fell under the city of Xiliang.
With horsepower, Qingtang soldiers and horses rushed to the city first.
Start siege.
Zhu Neng followed closely behind.
Followed by Li Zhaoliang.
This kind of world balance is the last.
Nearly two hundred thousand soldiers and horses attacked the city.
A piece of blackness, like a shady scene, shrouded outside Xiliang City, gradually eroding the entire Xiliang City.
One after another big fireballs flew into Xiliang City, hit the wall of Xiliang City, and burst open inside the city, igniting countless flames in Xiliang City.
The majestic arrow rain interlaced inside and outside, forming a dense arrow net in the air.
Smoke and fire, shouting to kill, instantly filled the entire battlefield.
Li Di stared at the majestic siege scene under the mountain, and said with a slight excitement: "The old man has never seen a scene of 200,000 soldiers attacking a city. I saw it today and it was really shocked."
Kou Ji nodded in agreement.
He has never seen it either.
The scene of 200,000 soldiers and horses attacking a city is very rare in ancient times.
Often the total amount of troops invested in a battle between countries is only about 200,000.
In the battle between a powerful country and a powerful country, the total amount of troops invested is rarely more than one million or so.
After the number of soldiers and horses exceeds 30,000, they will not gather together to attack a city.
It will divide the troops.
There are three teams from the left, the center and the right.
Then subdivide.
The purpose is to put more troops into where it is most needed.
Expand the results in the shortest time.
During this period, the main force rarely gathers more than one hundred thousand.
It is hard to see the scene of 200,000 soldiers attacking a city.
Unless the army converges and attacks places like the capital.
…
The battle against Xiliang City.
It lasted from noon to the evening.
The two sides fought for a full afternoon.
Zhong Shiheng broke through the defense of Xixia's soldiers and horses on the front of the city with a capable team.
Zhong Shiheng's subsequent attack, but the first to attack the city.
As Zhong Shiheng opened the situation, Jiao Si Luo Fang also attacked the city.
Then Zhu Neng, and finally Li Zhaoliang.
Although Zhu Neng's soldiers and horses were exhausted, they were still very brave after receiving the knightly reward promised by Kou Ji. With the help of more than 2,000 musketeers from the guards, it was one step faster than Li Zhaoliang.
Ye Li Wangrong in the city worked very hard and worked hard.
But he cannot reverse the situation.
The soldiers he led were mostly cavalry, not suitable for defending the city.
In addition, without the aid of large ordnance, it is difficult to defeat four times as many enemies.
Enemies flooded from all directions in the west like a tide.
He can divide his soldiers and horses into four and stick to the four walls, but he can't divide himself into four, put them on the four walls, and command the Xixia soldiers and horses on the four walls to fight.
Li Zhaoliang may be one-liner weaker than the man who is commanding soldiers and horses outside the city, and Zhu Neng is comparable to him.
Jiao Si Luo and Chong Shiheng are much better than him.
Qingjian City under the rule of Zhong Shiheng was like a nail, pierced on the edge of Xixia. After years of piercing, Xixia couldn't help him.
This shows that Chong Shiheng is powerful.
Although Jiao Si Luo rarely saw him in battle, it did not mean that he could not fight.
On the way of killing on the battlefield, he is better than An Ziluo.
People in Liao, Qingtang, and Xixia, who could not command soldiers and horses, were not qualified to be kings, and were not qualified to be superior to others.
A wolf must not only possess extraordinary wisdom, but also extraordinary bravery.
When the subordinate leaders lead the wolves to kill the enemy, the first wolves have to go into battle by themselves.
In the chaotic situation, Jiao Si Luo is undoubtedly a qualified wolf king to dominate Qingtang.
Therefore, he is not only wise, but also very extraordinary.
Therefore, the war was over from the moment it started.
Four powerful enemies led several times the number of soldiers and horses to attack Yeli Wangrong. Unless there is a miracle, it is impossible for Yeli Wangrong to rebel.
However, the miracle did not appear.
Yeli Wangrong had already expected to lose when the war started, so he gambled on everything.
Perhaps earlier, he had expected that he would lose.
Li Yuanhao led the soldiers and horses to the outside of Xiliang City, but did not rush through the encirclement and join him.
At that time, he probably had expected his fate.
Because Xixia is in Hexi, the general situation is over, it is difficult to come back.
Kou Ji didn't know if Ye Li Wangrong cursed Li Yuanhao in his heart when he was breached in Xiliang City.
Kou Ji only knew that the war in Xiliang City was over.
The war in Hexi is also over.
It's time for him to go down, go back to his tent, pack up, and prepare to enter Xiliang City.
It's time to sit in the city lord's mansion in Xiliang City and write a letter to the court.
Kou Ji glanced to the north as he went down the mountain.
The Hongshui River is dozens of miles north of Xiliang City.
Li Yuanhao probably took his remnants, wailing on the banks of the red water.
Kou Ji carried his hands on his back, looked north towards the Red River, and said quietly: "Li Yuanhao, I look at you too much... I thought you would take advantage of the chaos and fight for a while outside Xiliang City to get one for Ye Li Wangrong. Opportunity to break through...
It's a pity that I haven't seen you from beginning to end..."
Li Di sighed behind Kou Ji: "Knowing it is a dead end, of course he will not come..."
Kou Ji smiled and did not speak.
Down the mountain.
Back in the barracks.
Kou Ji and Li Di got together to write official documents.
Kou Ji brushed his pen and wrote the general meaning of what he was going to express to the court on a piece of paper, and then placed it on Li Di's desk.
"Two official documents, one for the inner court and one for the officials..."
Li Di stared at Kou Ji blankly, "Why don't you write it yourself?"
"I?"
Kou Ji pointed to himself and said with a smile: "The literary talent is not as good as the literary talent, and the knowledge is not as good as you are. The things written are always unsatisfactory. Such a great credit can't be caused by my poor literary talent, right?"
When Li Di heard this, he was angry and funny. He pointed to Kou Ji's nose and said with a smile, "Your kid is not learning and skillless. Are you justified?"
"If there is nothing, you will do more if you can..."
"You are bullying the old man..."
"You are not old..."
"You are using the old man as a clerk..."
"What's the matter, you are always the person who has served as a clerk in the same school, even if you are an official, you are not qualified to use you as a clerk..."
"..."
Li Di quarreled with Kou Ji, but he was also diligent in his hands.
After finishing writing the memorial that he should write, he helped Kou Ji write the official document and the victory report that Kou Ji was going to report.
Although Kou Ji thought of him as a clerk, he didn't care about it.
After finishing writing, without waiting for Kou Ji's instructions, Li Di quickly sealed the official documents and the good news, and then put them into three letter boxes and handed them to the messenger.
"Hurry up all the way eight hundred miles, send the good news back, eight people and eight horses, beat the gongs and drums, and make the good news of my Da Song's victory in Hexi public!"
When Li Di handed the letter box to the messenger, he exhorted a few words in particular.
Such a major event should be announced to the world and celebrated throughout the country.
The messenger got the letterbox, which was also very exciting.
As an old messenger leader, the important official documents he has passed on are not one thousand but eight hundred.
But no important good news has ever been conveyed.
He took people and ran on the official road of the Song Dynasty with a horse on his back. When he was hit by the people, the people would always guess where something bad happened.
Was it plagued, or died.
Now that he got the good news, he was able to raise his head up tall and announce it loudly to the Quartet.
Good news!
Great Victory in Hexi!
Hexi to Song!
It's exciting to think about it.
After Li Di sent the messenger out of the tent, he turned back to Kou Ji in the tent and said, "If one day, you can get back to Yanyun Sixteen Prefecture, the old man will help you lead the horse and take off your boots."
Kou Ji was taken aback and raised his brows slightly.
Li Di couldn't laugh or cry: "You kid really want the old man to help you take off your boots?"
Kou Ji said haha, "You laughed... I'm just thinking about how to manage Hexi in the future."
Li Di glanced at Kou Ji, and muttered: "What do you think..."
Kou Ji smiled and said: "In the Han Dynasty, there were four counties in Hexi. I didn't say the county in Da Song, but I said it again. Hexi can be set as one, it's called Hexi Road.
Xiliang can be designated as the city of Hexi. "
Li Di thought about it and said: "It's okay to set up Hexi Road. Go back and write to the court to see what the court says."
Kou Ji nodded.
Just when the two were talking.
A soldier covered in blood gave a report and entered the tent.
"Envoy Kou, Li Gong, Xiliang City has been breached, and Hexi belongs to the Song Dynasty."
The soldier’s voice was loud and bold.
He could see a sense of pride and arrogance in his heart.