"Your Majesty, we have arranged more than 150,000 troops in that area. With the combat effectiveness of our Chinese Empire army, their tens of thousands are no different from that of the native chickens and tiles." Du Ruhui walked over from the room next to him with a relaxed smile and said.

"Ruhui said so easily and freehand, I'm afraid there will be good news again?" Fang Xuanling said with a smile on Du Ruhui while stroking his long beard.

"That's true. Jie Li Khan was blocked by General Li Xiaogong and Li in Li Shi County, and he couldn't move forward." Du Ruhui walked up to hand over the information.

Jie Li Khan led his army to Lishi County last night, and Li Xiaogong had guessed that this guy would definitely go south when Jie Li Khan arrived at Linquan, Loufan County. Yu Qian gave up several surrounding cities and concentrated his troops to the most powerful and tall Lishi City in Lishi County to defend.

When Jie Li Khan ordered the siege, Li Mi advised Jie Li not to attack the city without heavy siege weapons. But the problem is that several cities in Li Shi County were originally occupied by the Chinese Revival Army, but when Jie Li led his troops to the south, they had already voluntarily evacuated.

This made Jie Li Khan and the arrogant soldiers and generals under his command unanimously believe that this Chinese Revival Army was afraid that the great Jie Li Khan and the brave warriors would be as vast as the grassland and as tall as the sky.

In desperation, Li Mi had to accept the orders of Jie Li Khan and acted as a vanguard. After all, compared to the Turkic Iron Cavalry, most of his subordinates were standard infantry, and it was indeed appropriate to use infantry to attack the city.

Seeing that Li Mi agreed to accept his order, Jie Li Khan was very comforted. Of course, he naturally did not want Li Mi to die, so he sent 10,000 cavalry to use their archery skills to protect Li Mi's siege troops.

The problem is that the Turks are not good at defending cities, and even worse at siege. Even if Li Mi is good at Han general, the problem is that he is a fugitive and does not come with any heavy siege weapons.

The only thing I have is the ladders, crossbows and other things that were obtained from the cities where the Revival Army of the Chinese Empire voluntarily evacuated.

Their opponent is more than 30,000 elite troops after the original Tang army was eliminated and re-trained. Even if their combat effectiveness is not as good as the current Chinese Revival Army, it is definitely far superior to the armies of the Central Plains such as Li Mi.

The result was not beyond everyone's expectations. Three attacks, and each time they just arrived at the foot of the city wall. After being beaten with a grenade, they retreated without even climbing up the city wall.

The role played by the Turkish archers was not very big. The steel crossbows, the lodged horses and Turkic warriors around the city walls were enough to prove that conventional siege methods could not cause huge damage to the defenders on the city.

In a furious manner, Khan Jie Li almost killed Li Mi, who was unfavorable to attack the city. Fortunately, the Turkic generals came forward to persuade him. In the end, the Turks took the battle personally. However, the effect was even worse than that of Li Mi's troops. He threw down thousands of corpses under the city wall and retreated.

Relying on the tall city wall, the elite soldiers and comprehensive preparations, more than 30,000 soldiers and horses were equipped with steel crossbows and grenades, guarding the entire Lishi City as solid as a soup. Grenades are indeed a powerful weapon to defend the city. In front of this thing, not to mention armor, even shields do not have much effect, and there will be a group of people when they explode. Although the ones who died on the spot were the closest to the grenade explosion, the wounded people who were missing arms and legs around them even more hit the morale of these Turks.

This is the result of Li Xiaogong's forced orders to prevent the soldiers from using mortars. If the more than 200 mortars taken from his cousin Li San's wife were activated together, the casualties of the Turks would probably have at least doubled.

As for why the mortars were hiding in and not assisting in defense, Li Xiaogong had his own idea, hoping that Jie Li Khan would see a glimmer of hope, borrowing this city of Li Shi to delay Jie Li Khan's going south, and the longer the time, the more beneficial it would be to our Chinese Empire.

Five days, five days in total, Jie Li Khan went from holding the wisdom bead at the beginning to being angry afterwards, while the solid Lishi City still stood there, still so majestic and tall. The faces of the soldiers of the Chinese Empire Revival Army above the city of Lishi City were covered in fatigue, but their eyes looked so sharp, and the weapons in their hands were still so sharp.

There was also the terrifying mortar, which was regarded as the most terrifying nightmare by the Turks and Li Mi rebels. Once, if Li Xiaogong had not been able to control himself, he ordered shelling in advance when Jie Li Khan went to investigate the siege, which resulted in Jie Li Khan escaped. Even so, he still caused the Turks to fall down more than a dozen important officials and princes.

Since then, Jie Li Khan and the Turkic General would never get close to two miles from the city wall, but only controlled the army's attack in the distance. However, due to the distance, the commands of the generals were difficult to convey to the siege troops in time, and the efficiency of siege was speechless.

As for the siege weapons mobilized from all over the country, there was no possibility of approaching the city wall of Lishicheng during the day. Even at night, they advanced under the city wall under the cover of night. However, the violent grenades also exerted a powerful destructive power on these siege weapons, making the siege weapons that the Turks and Li Mi had worked so hard to turn into piles of ruins in just a few strokes.

Whether it was sending dead soldiers to attack the city at night or forcibly attacking the city, in short, in front of Li Xiaogong and more than 30,000 soldiers of the Chinese Fuxing Army, Jie Li Khan's army could not get past the line.

As early as the third day of the unfavorable attack, Li Mi persuaded Jie Li Khan to give up the hard bone of Li Shicheng and rush to the south. Even if there were 30,000 Chinese Fuxing Army here, and as long as 20,000 Turkic cavalry were left, even if the Chinese Fuxing Army in Li Shicheng could not be stopped from leaving the city, at least it could contain these infantry and create favorable conditions for the calm coming and going of the main force of the Turkic army.

But there is a problem. Jie Li Khan had already made a fierce arrangement for the Chinese Revival Army. The entire Hetao territory was cut off by the Chinese Revival Army, which made the great and wise Jie Li Khan feel dirty and had already been full of anger.

Before, at least, the enemy was far away from the Yellow River. Jie Li Khan could only knock down his teeth and swallow it in his stomach, which had already been filled with anger. But now, a small Lishi City is standing here, not only without any fear in front of the powerful Turkic Iron Cavalry, but instead caused the Turkic Iron Cavalry to be frustrated and humiliated.

In this case, it was difficult for Jie Li Khan to retreat. As the saying goes, one-stop, decline and stop three times. Jie Li Khan knew a little about this principle. In order to be strong and invincible, and also for Jie Li Khan's own majesty, Jie Li Khan has been hesitating.

As a result, after five consecutive days, not to mention attacking the city, even the bricks on the top of the city wall were not found. This made Jie Li Khan finally begin to seriously examine whether it was too stupid to continue to entangle here.

After seeing the failure of his efforts, Li Mi gave up persuading Jie Li Khan, who was stubborn and tempered, and carefully tried to protect his troops and horses from losing too much when siegeing the city.

This guy also sent Wang Bodang, Shan Xiongxin and others to various places in Lishi County to collect the old soldiers who had been dispersed and fled. In five days, his troops under his command not only did not decrease, but instead doubled, with nearly 50,000 troops.

This made Jie Li Khan increasingly dissatisfied with him. These days, not only Li Mi's troops were killed and injured, but also many Turkic warriors. Now, nearly 10,000 Turkic people have been killed or injured, and Li Mi's troops have also died. But the problem is that this guy's troops are fighting more and more. Although there is a home court situation inside, it also makes many Turkic people very dissatisfied.

He thought that Li Mi must be working but not working, otherwise how could his strength be getting higher and higher? In addition, these guys frequently blew in Jie Li Khan's ears, which made Jie Li Khan, who felt that he did not listen to Li Mi's advice at first and regretted it, couldn't help but feel dissatisfied with him.

Of course, Li Mi was not satisfied with Jie Li Khan's attitude, but now, he could only follow Jie Li Khan's footsteps and continue to work hard for the Turks, because the Liang Shidu envoy who had finally escaped from Hetao found Jie Li Khan and told him a desperate news.

Liang Shidu and Liu Wuzhou were trapped in Shangxian County, the capital of Diaoyin County, and tens of thousands of troops were trapped in the lonely city. Now, the city is already panicked, afraid that it will last for two months at most.

Because, outside the city, more than 100,000 soldiers of the Revival Army of the Chinese Empire surrounded the city and wanted to escape, it was simply difficult to climb to the sky.

It has to start a few days ago. Just after Liu Wuzhou found out that his retreat was cut off, he had made several considerations. After thinking about it, he finally decided to rush to Shangxian and Liang Shidu to join forces. In this way, the total force of both sides could reach 130,000 to 140,000. This is definitely a force that cannot be ignored. Maybe it may be possible to invade the power of the Chinese Empire into Diaoyin County. No matter how bad it is, it can rely on Shangxian's strong city defense as a support. There will be no problem in defending for three or five months.
Chapter completed!