The number of horns and the sound of war drums can both determine the number of enemy troops.
However, in order to prevent the opponent from deceiving, the general in charge of the war will send watchmen and scouts to ascertain the strength of the opponent before the war begins.
Kou Ji just passed the horn and inferred that Xiao Pidi led 80,000 Liao soldiers to attack the city together.
However, Di Qing saw with his own eyes the 80,000 Liao soldiers pressed down in front of Yangguan Pass.
Eighty thousand Liao soldiers placed a neat army formation, advancing step by step towards Xiangyang Pass, looking quite powerful.
Almost all the military strategies learned by the generals of the Liao Kingdom were born in the Central Plains, so when the Liao soldiers placed their troops and attacked the city, they were very similar to the Song army.
The soldiers of the Forbidden Army on the front of the city looked indifferent at the Liao soldiers outside the city.
The Black Khan looked at the army formation outside the city, and felt a little frustrated.
They are used to seeing a swarm of siege scenes.
But I have never seen the siege scene of the Liao soldiers advancing forward with a neat army formation like this.
The Liao soldiers who were in the army to siege the city were not so good, the Black Khan people didn't know.
But the neat army formation that the Liao soldiers put out was really good, and it frightened the black sweat on the city.
When Di Qing stood behind the black sweat, seeing the black sweat turning his head frequently, his eyes showed fear, and he guessed that the black sweat might be frightened by the opponent's army.
"Beat the drum!"
Di Qing yelled, and the hundreds of drums were beaten together. The dull and heavy drum sound gave the Hei Khan a sense of security.
Half of a drum.
The soldiers of the Forbidden Army beat their chests with the hilt of their swords, making a uniform clash of gold and iron.
"tiger!"
"tiger!"
"tiger!"
"..."
The high-pitched roar suddenly exploded in the ears of the black sweat.
The roar urged a sturdy breath.
The black sweat was shocked.
The fear that the Liao soldiers brought to them was wiped out in an instant.
Because they knew, their slave owner sent a stronger soldier to stand behind them.
In this battle, they will not lose, and they will not necessarily die.
"Oh!"
The Black Khan didn't know what his thoughts were. After the forbidden army generals shouted, they shouted in a mess.
He seems to be emboldening himself by roaring.
It also seems to be responding to the cries of the Forbidden Army soldiers, expressing their loyalty to the slave owners.
Seeing this, Di Qing couldn't laugh or cry.
The imposing aura that the imperial soldiers had just condensed was instantly destroyed by them.
Unfortunately, Di Qing saw the black sweat people's mind, so there was no way to blame them.
Kou Ji and Li Di didn't know when they walked to the top of the city and witnessed the screams of the Forbidden Army soldiers and the black sweats.
Li Di frowned as he listened to the black sweats shouting, and said in a low voice, "a mob..."
Kou Ji did not comment on those black sweats, but went to Di Qing.
Di Qing met Kou Ji and Li Di and hurried forward.
"Brother... Li Gong..."
Kou Ji didn't wait for Di Qing to finish the ceremony, then waved his hand and said: "You don't care about the two of us, just as if we two had never appeared before."
Speaking of this, Kou Ji questioned: "When did you move the Tiger Army set to Yongxing Army?"
If Kou Ji remembers it correctly, using the tiger as his name and shouting the word tiger is what the tiger army likes to do.
Di Qing smiled and said: "There are some personal soldiers who have followed me after the reorganization of the Tiger Army. They like to use the Tiger Army when reorganizing and training soldiers and horses.
Over time, it became like this. "
Kou Ji nodded and said nothing.
When the Liao soldiers formally launched an attack on Yangguan, Kou Ji and Li Di left the city wall.
The two ran to the top of the city to shake their arms, which was also a temporary surprise.
In order not to affect Di Qing's command of the battle, the two wittily stepped down the city wall when the battle started.
From beginning to end, neither of them gave any pointers to the soldiers on the wall.
It’s hard to imagine this matter before.
In the past, the supervising army, or the important ministers in the army, always showed themselves before the war.
Either pointing fingers at the military affairs, or pulling a few people out to kill the flag, in order to show off their authority to the soldiers.
Kou Ji and Li Di went down the city, and the arrows of the Liao soldiers floated to Yangguan.
The reason for using floating is that after the arrow is shot out, it is affected by the wind, and the head is not so full.
The arrows shot by the Liao soldiers were dense and numerous.
The black sweat man lay on the crenel, holding his shield, against the arrows of the Liao soldiers.
The arrows burst like rain, and it didn't take long before the shield in the hands of the black sweat soldier was stuck with many arrows.
Seeing this, Di Qing frowned slightly, ready to tell the black sweat to fight back.
Without waiting for him to speak, the Black Khan man controlled a hundred tigers, bed crossbows, and heavy crossbows to shoot at the Liao soldiers when the Liao soldiers bent their bows to shoot the second round of the gap.
Di Qing was slightly taken aback when he saw this.
After thinking about it for a while, he understood what the Hei Khan had done.
Although the Black Khan people are now reduced to prisoners and slaves, they are soldiers, and they have some instincts to be soldiers.
There was also a rain of arrows when the west was attacking the city.
Therefore, the Khan people know that when the arrow rain comes, they must avoid its sharp edges.
I also know that after the edge is over, I will find the right opportunity to fight back.
The Black Khan and the Liao soldiers used crossbows, bed crossbows and other equipment to kill them as you came and went.
The sound of shouting and killing instantly filled the entire Yangguan.
The Liao soldiers smashed to the head of the city with their crossbow spears and arrows, cut off the suspension bridge, and began to attack the city.
All kinds of siege equipment were used in Yangguan.
Liao soldiers pushed the siege chisel and beat them hard on the city gate.
The city gate was smashed out of wooden pits one after another.
At the gate of the city, there is a stone wall built with stones, the stone wall is estimated to be four feet thick.
It was impossible for the Liao soldiers to dig through the gate of Yangguan with the help of siege.
Kou Ji had decided to spend a month or two with the soldiers and horses of the Black Khan Dynasty and the Liao soldiers. He waited quietly for the Liao Emperor Yelu Longxu to lead the Liao soldiers to the south, and waited for Qingtang to send troops before they could counterattack.
After Di Qing learned of this, he decisively ordered people to dig stones to block the door.
Anyway, he has to keep guarding in Yangguan, and he won't go out to fight back. If the door is blocked, it won't have any impact on the war.
The Liao soldiers didn't know that the gate of Yangguan they had attacked had already been blocked by the stone wall, and they were still hammering hard.
The other Liao soldiers carried the ladder and pushed the siege truck, and kept climbing up the city.
Under the guidance of Song Bing, the Black Khan pushed the rolling wood, stone, gold juice and other objects all the way down the city.
Because there are enough reserves of rolling logs, stone stones, and gold juice.
So black sweat people don't need to save.
A huge number of rolling logs, stone stones, and golden juice descended from the head of the city, causing a huge obstacle to the Liao soldiers' attack on the city.
The Liao soldiers launched four or five assaults in a row, but did not rush to the head of the city.
Xiao Pidi had been watching the battle from behind, and after not seeing the artillery and muskets, he raised his brows.
Xiao Pidi recruited a soldier and ordered the soldier to investigate the situation.
After probing for a long time, the soldiers returned to report.
"General, the soldiers in front said that they were all black khan people who were fighting against them. So far, no trace of Song Bing has been seen."
After Xiao Pidi listened to the report of the soldiers, he sat on horseback for a long time.
The first thought he came up with was that the Black Khan King Yusufu had formed an alliance with the Song Dynasty a long time ago. This time he agreed to form an alliance with the Liao State purely for the purpose of using the power of the Liao State to destroy the Xizhou Uighurs, and then join the Song Dynasty again. Carve up the Liao country
After all, it took only a few days for the black sweaty people on the city to fall into the hands of Song people.
Within a few days, the Song people domesticated them
Not too possible.
But the black sweat on the city head dealt with their Liao soldiers, but they worked extremely hard.
The screams of the rolling wood, the stone, the golden juice, and the tossing Liao soldiers smashed the city, and he could hear them two miles away.
It can be seen that the Black Khan people are really working for Da Song.
If they release the water, the Liao soldiers can't be so miserable.
This thought hovered in Xiao Pidi's mind for a long time, and was finally thrown out of his mind by Xiao Pidi.
If the Black Khan King Yusufu really formed an alliance with the Song Dynasty early, he would not have lost so much force in Shazhou and Guazhou.
That is nearly two hundred thousand soldiers and horses, not two hundred thousand cattle and sheep.
Unless the Black Khan King Yusufu is mad, it is impossible to dig a hole for him with the lives of 200,000 soldiers and horses.
Then the Black Khan helped the Song people break the city, there must be other reasons.
Xiao Pidi had never been to the Black Khan Dynasty, and didn't know that the servility of the people at the bottom of the Black Khan Dynasty was deeply rooted, so I didn't know that the Black Khan people would automatically be brought into the role of slaves after surrendering.
He thought about it for a moment, and felt that it might be related to the recent rumors that have emerged among the black sweat soldiers.
Rumor has it that Kou Ji is the envoy of the true god believed by the Black Khan.
The envoy of the true God can naturally drive the believer of the true God.
Xiao Bidi knew how fanatical the Heihan people were for their faith in the true god.
Because he has seen many religious things in the Black Khan Barracks.
"Yangguan is very important to Da Song. Da Song has no need to take risks and send black sweat soldiers to guard the pass. In case the black sweat soldiers turn against the water, and Yangguan breaks, there will be a horse behind.
Sitting in Zhenyangguan is the new general of the Song Dynasty, Di Qing. Although he likes to win by odds, he will never make fun of the territory of the Song Dynasty.
Unless he leads Da Song Jingrui to other places, leaving behind some people to drive the black sweat to block our footsteps. "
In a great Song Dynasty gate, there were no soldiers and horses of the Song Dynasty to block the enemy, Xiao Bidi inevitably thought wildly.
While thinking wildly, Xiao Pidi ordered, "Order the whole army to attack me at all costs. If the Song soldiers show their heads, they will retreat immediately. If the Song soldiers don't show their heads, then we will go into Yangguan in one go.
A few black sweat soldiers are not my opponents of Liao soldiers. "
After Xiao Pidi gave the order to attack, the Liao soldiers rushed to the top of the city, even if it suffered heavy losses, they climbed to the top of the city.
The black sweat on the city’s head had blocked the Liao soldiers for a long time, and they would inevitably fall into exhaustion.
Pushing rolling logs, stilts, gold juice, and manipulating heavy crossbows and bed crossbows are all physical tasks.
Taking advantage of the weak offensive of the Black Khan, the Liao soldiers surged toward the city head.
The Black Khan was tired of responding to the enemy, and partly repelled, but the other part did not stop.
When the Liao soldiers climbed the fortress on the top of Yangguan city, joy was shown on his face, but it didn't take long for the joy to hang on his face, and it instantly turned into panic.
Because after they climbed to the top of the city, they saw the huge number of Da Song Forbidden Army, wearing armor and blades, standing quietly behind the Black Khan.
"Mother..."
Liao Bing was really frightened, and couldn't help but utter a Chinese sentence.
Some people were frightened and fell off the ladder, and others rolled down the siege truck.
In short, no one dared to rush to the head of the city and fight close to the Song Dynasty Forbidden Army.
It's not that they didn't have the guts, but that they weren't prepared and didn't want to go up and die.
After the news reached Xiao Pidi, Xiao Pidi decisively ordered Mingjin to retreat.
The Liao soldiers retreated.
Di Qing immediately ordered the people to take the black sweat to rest, and then ordered the local soldiers to go up to the city and clean the battlefield.
After the local soldiers boarded the city head, they immediately cleared the battlefield, and at the same time began to replenish the city head with rolling logs, stone stones, arrows and other objects.
In the Liaobing camp outside the city.
After Xiao Pidi led the Liao soldiers into the camp, he returned to the Chinese army's big account with a few generals.
After sitting down, he ordered the soldiers to peel a lamb. While roasting the lamb, Xiao Pidi said to the generals: "At first I saw the Black Khan at Shouyang Pass. I thought Song Bing had gone elsewhere.
Unexpectedly, they were still in Yangguan.
Since they are in Yangguan, they are not willing to play against us personally, instead relying on the hands of the black sweat.
They are probably trying to weaken our forces.
If we continue to attack, we will certainly not please. "
"General, I heard from the soldiers in the humble position that there are not many Song troops on the front of the city. Maybe they are suspicion formations?"
A slave said in deep thought.
Xiao Pidi thought for a moment and nodded, "It is also possible... After all, for the current Song State, the soldiers and horses of the Black Khan Dynasty are the enemies they need to face.
As long as they defeated the soldiers and horses of the Black Khan Dynasty and came back to deal with us, it would be easy. "
Cong Jiang asked: "If it is as the general said, what should we do now?"
Xiao Pidi groaned: "Prepare with both hands, send someone to the Uighurs in Xizhou, so that Ayegu, who stayed in the Uighurs in Xizhou, will recruit males from the territory of the Uighurs in Xizhou. Ding escorted over.
If Song Bing really intends to fight a war of attrition with us, then we will use Xizhou Uighurs to consume them.
In addition, we will rectify the soldiers and horses, and we will attack Yangguan again tomorrow to explore the reality and fiction in Yangguan.
If Song Bing really told us about the suspicion formation, then we would break the Yang Pass, draw the Black Khan soldiers into Yang Pass, and aggressively conquer the city and land in the Song Kingdom. "
"If not?"
There will be questions.
Xiao Pidi laughed in a low voice, "If not, then we will spend it with Song Bing."
Cong Jiang frowned and said, "But the longer it takes, the more detrimental it will be to the war here. After all, the Song people are behind the Song State, and their reinforcements can continue to flow in."
Xiao Bidi laughed loudly when he heard the words.
Cong Jiang looked puzzled.
After Xiao Pidi laughed, he shook his head and said, "Then you are wrong. The war here is good for us, but it doesn't matter to us. Because our battlefield is not to the west of Song State, but to the northeast of Song State. .
Our main task is to introduce the soldiers and horses of the Black Khan Dynasty into the Song Dynasty, so as to attract most of the troops of the Song State to here, and lay the foundation for our Daliao to attack the Song State.
So the battle here is victory or defeat, it doesn't matter at all.
The important thing is that we must contain Song's forces before your majesty leads the troops south.
The Black Khan King Yusufu led his troops into the Song Dynasty prematurely, disrupting his Majesty's strategy to attack the Song Dynasty.
The Black Khan King Yusufu was destroyed prematurely, and if your Majesty wants to attack the Song State, I am afraid that he will have to face the larger Song State soldiers.
Therefore, what we really need to do now is to hold on Song Jun and continue to hold on. The longer the time, the better.
The more troops Song State put into the west, the better.
It's best to drag it to Qingtang to shoot.
Once Qingtang shots, we will be able to retreat. "
Hearing this, Cong Jiang looked stunned, "I have spent a long time in the tent of the king of the Black Khan Yusufu. Under his influence, the humble job almost forgot our original intention here."
Another follower smiled and said: "Since we are not afraid of dragging time with Song Bing, we will simply consume it."
Xiao Pidi shook his head and said, "That won't work... If Yangguan can be broken, we still have to break Yangguan. After breaking Yangguan, we will be able to break through Xiliang City and enter the Yongxing Army of the Great Song Dynasty. Road and other places.
At that time, we will be broken into pieces, and we will wander around the territory of the Song Dynasty recklessly, burn, kill and looting wantonly, which can force the Song Dynasty to send more soldiers and horses to the west.
This move is more beneficial to your Majesty's attack on Da Song.
Of course, more importantly, we can afford it, but the King of Dark Khan Yusufu can't afford it.
Although he had seized some grain and grass from Song soldiers in Suoyang City before, the amount was not large.
Hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses tightened their belts and ate them cleanly in three days. "
"Didn't the Black Khan King Yusufu send someone to the Xizhou Uighurs to collect grain? After the Xizhou Uighur's grain is delivered to Yumen Pass, it can barely support the black sweat soldiers to eat for a few days."
There is a follower.
Xiao Pidi sighed when he heard the words, and said: "After the Black Khan King Yu Sufu broke through Gaochang, he sent a large number of gold and silver treasures and cattle, sheep and horses back to the Black Khan Dynasty.
Therefore, if he collects grain from the Uighurs in Xizhou, he will not collect much grain.
Unless he sends people back to the Black Khan Dynasty to collect food.
And Yusufu, the king of the black sweat, is not a person who likes to chew hard bones.
If he can't gnaw at Yumen Pass, Bacheng will have to think differently.
So we can consume or fight.
The key depends on our needs. "
The generals showed doubts one after another.
Xiao Pidi smiled and said: "We can't waste it, we still have to send soldiers and horses to attack Yangguan. Since we are fighting with our allies, we have to show them how to look like.
The Black Khan King Yusufu couldn't gnaw at Yumen Pass. Seeing us fighting here, he was too embarrassed to retreat easily.
At that time, I will go and talk to him again. If we divide the cattle, sheep and grain we seized from the Uighurs in Xizhou to half, he will definitely continue to fight.
It's best to be anxious and send some soldiers and horses from the Black Khan Dynasty to support. "
After listening to Xiao Pidi's words, Cong Jiang praised Xiao Pidi for his wisdom.
Xiao Pidi shook his head and smiled: "To be honest, if the Black Khan King Yusufu had listened to my admonition from the beginning and divided his troops into three ways to attack Song Kingdom, the war would not be like this.
I will not calculate him secretly.
Now that the battle has been fought like this, in order for your Majesty to dispatch troops smoothly, in order to be able to draw Qingtang out, I can only calculate him from behind. "
After hearing this, Cong Jiang nodded one after another.
People are selfish.
Xiao Pidi and the other Liao generals were not surprised.
They are more concerned about the interests of Liao.
If they can smoothly contain the Song Kingdom's army, and fight for favorable conditions for the Liao Emperor Yelulongxu to attack the Song Kingdom.
Then they are the great heroes of Liao.
The more cities the Liao Emperor Yelu Longxu captured in the Song Dynasty, the greater their contribution.
If they can't smoothly contain the Song Kingdom's army and make the Liao Emperor Yelu Longxu defeat the Song Kingdom in the south.
Once the Song State recovered its strength and counterattacked the Liao State, the Liao State was likely to lose a lot.
They are likely to become sinners in Liao.
Therefore, they violated morality and calculated their allies without any sense of shame in their hearts.
As long as the Liao Kingdom can take advantage of this, even if they personally send all the people of the allies to the guillotine, they will not feel the slightest sense of shame.
Emphasizing love, emphasizing righteousness and emphasizing faith, that is what the Tiehanhan selected from each department cares the most.
Those of them who were already above the court of the Liao Kingdom, and even those who had taken a high position above the court, didn't care about those things at all.
The sinicization of the Liao people, of course, can better digest the Song people in the Liao country, and can better absorb and use the talents who defected from the Song country.
But in the same way, after the Sinicization of the Liao people, under the influence of the Song people who defected, they became more profitable and more famous.
The entire upper strata of the Liao State became more and more like the gang of civil and military ministers before the Song State.
If it weren't for the eight Khitan tribes, there are still some people who insist on the wild nature and the way of survival that the Khitan people should have.
I'm afraid that the entire upper strata of the Liao Kingdom has long since been completely Sinicized.
There are always a lot of foreign things that adapt to oneself, and many are not suitable for oneself.
There are not many countries that can take the best and get rid of the dross.
Choose a brain to swallow all foreign cultures into your stomach, but you will have diarrhea.
Just when Xiao Pidi and his servants were discussing the calculation of the Black Khan King Yusufu, Di Qing was leading someone to make the Black Khan official.
It is not an official, because there is no official status, or even a prisoner status.
Di Qing selected some brave fighters from the black sweats who fought during the day, and promoted them to be the captives.
The biggest boss can manage a hundred people, and the smallest boss can manage ten people.
But there are no more than a hundred people.
Almost all the leaders of more than 250 people were from the Song Dynasty, who was carefully selected by Di Qing.
Di Qing not only used the black sweat to cure the black sweat, but also knew how to mix it with sand.
This trick was learned by those black-hearted local officials when he was in Dali to settle down the people.
Di Qing arranged for the Black Khan, but he was not in a good mood. After returning to the residence, he went straight to the courtyard where Kou Ji was.
When I saw Kou Ji, he didn't speak, but sat on the side in silence.
Seeing that Di Qing was in a bad mood, Kou Ji asked, "What happened?"
Di Qing hesitated for a long time, and said solemnly: "Does status really make people forget their surname and blood?"
Hearing this, Kou Ji was taken aback for a moment, "Are you going to cap the heads of those black sweats?"
Di Qing nodded slowly.
Kou Ji asked again, "Have you seen them treat other tribesmen brutally in order to show loyalty to you?"
Di Qing nodded again.
Kou Ji asked curiously: "Have you not seen anything like this in Dali?"
Di Qing shook his head slowly.
Kou Ji thought about it, and muttered: "I asked the wrong thing, you shouldn't see it in Dali. The tribes in Dali are still very united. They don't easily harm their tribes to show their loyalty. Sometimes they Far more united than us Song people, so it is easy to win Dali, but difficult to digest Dali."
After muttering for a while, Kou Ji stared at Di Qing and said, "Actually, it is not uncommon for someone to be loyal to the superiors. It's not uncommon for me to do so. In my Song Dynasty, similar things abound.
You are often in the army, you should not see it, but you can always hear it, right
This matter is nothing new to you, so why are you unhappy. "
Di Qing hesitated for a moment, and said: "I have heard of it, but the first time I saw it, there was always some discomfort. More importantly, I was a little worried."
"Worry about what, worry that our people will become like that?"
Kou Ji asked back.
Di Qing nodded slowly.
Kou Ji was silent for a moment, and said to Di Qing: "Benevolence, justice, courtesy, wisdom and faith are the virtues passed down to us by our ancestors. As long as the virtues are not lost, our people will not become like that.
Even if there are, it is still a minority.
Most people will always have a kindness in their hearts. "