Chapter 0238 Resurrection of the dead (don't wait tonight, the straw date is gone)
Cao Wei smiled softly, patted Kou Ji on the shoulder and said: "Don't worry, I have left you two capable helpers. With their help, you will be able to defend Baozhou City."
Before Kou Ji could ask a question, Cao Wei gently touched his palm and looked behind a map hanging in the city gate building.
"Come out!"
The words fell to the ground.
Two figures slowly walked out from behind the map.
Kou Ji took a closer look, with a look of astonishment on his face, "Di Qing?"
After a year of training in the military, Di Qing has matured a lot, becoming less immature and more vicissitudes of life.
His handsome face has been baptized by wind and frost, and has a little more sharpness and fortitude, making it look even more attractive.
Judging from his physical appearance alone, it is difficult to regard him as a young man.
Next to Di Qing, stood a middle-aged man in his forties, with a beard and a long scar on his face. His eyes were very sharp. He was wearing coarse linen clothes and a pair of leather boots.
, looks a bit nondescript.
In his hand, he held a broken knife, which was stained with blood but had not been cleaned.
When Di Qing saw Kou Ji, he took the initiative to greet him, cupped his fists and saluted, "Di Qing has met my brother..."
Kou Ji looked Di Qing up and down and nodded with satisfaction, "He has grown a lot taller and stronger..."
After a pause, Kou Ji stared at Di Qing's face and said, "You look a lot more handsome. You will easily suffer losses on the battlefield. Be careful that you will be spotted by a Liao girl and be kidnapped to be the Prime Minister of the village."
Di Qing patted his chest, and there was a sound of gold and iron. He laughed in a low voice: "Qing always remembers his brother's instructions, so he always wears the mask given by his brother every time he fights.
When a Liao girl sees Qing, she will only be scared to death by Qing and will not have the idea of capturing Qing and taking him back."
Seeing that Di Qing had taken his advice to heart, Kou Ji nodded with satisfaction.
His eyes fell on the middle-aged man in nondescript attire, and he asked Cao Wei suspiciously, "Who is this?"
When this person saw him, not only did he not salute him, but he even seemed to be waiting for him to go over and salute him. Kou Ji guessed that his identity was unusual.
Cao Wei glanced at the middle-aged man and sighed.
"You say it yourself, or do I say it for you?"
The middle-aged man shook his head, stared at Kou Ji and said solemnly: "Li Zhaoliang, commander of Yongxing Road Horse and Infantry Army!"
When Kou Ji heard what he said, he looked shocked and almost jumped up in surprise.
"Are you Li Zhaoliang?"
Kou Ji screamed.
Li Zhaoliang pondered for a moment and nodded helplessly.
Kou Ji stared at Li Zhaoliang in disbelief, looked up and down for a long time, and said, "Aren't you already dead?"
When Li Zhaoliang heard this, a gloom flashed in his eyes, and he said in a low voice: "I almost died, but I was lucky enough to escape."
Kou Ji hurriedly said: "Since you are alive, why don't you return to Beijing?"
A ferocious look appeared on Li Zhaoliang's face, and he said: "I also want to go back, and I also want to go back to clear my name, but I can't go back."
Kou Ji heard something behind Li Zhaoliang's words and hurriedly asked: "What on earth is going on with your war in Xixia? And why can't you return to Beijing?"
Li Zhaoliang said angrily: "I was ordered to lead nearly 200,000 soldiers and horses to Xixia. (Please note that the 200,000 soldiers referred to here are not only Datong Army, Yongxing Army, Gande Army, but also soldiers from various places.
After capturing Longzhou, they successively captured Yinzhou and the Great Wall. Just when I was preparing to lead my army to fight against Zhe Weizhong and Zhong Shiheng.
Ding Wei suddenly jumped out, deprived me of my military power, and forced my soldiers to march out of the Great Wall, preparing to launch a surprise attack on Huaizhou, hoping to seize Xixia's territory south of the Great Wall in one fell swoop.
But when he led his army to Huaizhou, he happened to encounter the Liao Emperor Yelu Longxu who was leading the Liao army to attack Huaizhou City."
When Li Zhaoliang said this, he clenched his fists tightly and roared: "That fool, when he saw the Liao army attacking Huaizhou City, he didn't order the troops to retreat. Instead, he ordered the entire army to attack the Liao army.
He actually wanted to lead three weak Xiang armies to break through the guards of the Liao royal family's Pishi army and capture Liao Emperor Yelu Longxu alive."
In the past, Kou Ji wouldn't have felt much when he heard Li Zhaoliang's words.
After all, there were only 100,000 Pishi troops, while Li Zhaoliang led a full 200,000 troops.
If you fight 200,000 against 100,000, you may not lose.
But when he arrived in Baozhou and saw the combat effectiveness of the Baosai Army and the armaments of the Baosai Army, he knew how weak the Xiang Army's combat effectiveness was.
A group of soldiers who lacked food, clothing, and food, and carried broken weapons, went against a group of tigers and wolves who were armed to the teeth and had been fighting in the north and south for many years. They were just looking for death.
The Pishi Army was the most elite military force in the Liao Kingdom.
Otherwise, they would not be able to become the royal family members of the Liao Kingdom.
Their status in the Liao Kingdom was like that of the Upper Fourth Army in the Forbidden Army of the Song Dynasty.
Let 200,000 Xiang troops fight against 100,000 Imperial troops.
The final result was that 100,000 imperial troops crushed 200,000 Xiang troops.
Facing the attack of various weapons from the Forbidden Army, it would be difficult for the 200,000 troops to rush in front of the Forbidden Army. Even if they managed to rush in front of the Forbidden Army with the advantage of their numbers, they would be helpless against the Forbidden Army who were covered in steel.
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If you chop someone with a knife, they may not even react.
But if someone cuts you with a knife, it can kill you.
In the same way, a 200,000 Xiang army would be crushed against a 100,000 Pishi army armed to the teeth.
Although the Pishi Army did not have as luxurious foot armor as the Forbidden Army of the Song Dynasty, they still wore armor with both men and horses.
Although the armor of the Pishi Army is not up to the level of heavy armored cavalry, the level of armor they equip is not far from that of heavy armored cavalry.
That's not to say that the Liao Kingdom couldn't turn the Pishi Army into heavily armored cavalry.
But the Liao emperors in the past dynasties did not have the idea of turning the Pishi army into heavy armored cavalry.
When they were building the Pishi Army, in addition to equipping the Pishi Army with all-round armor, they also retained the mobility that cavalry should have.
If I had to give the Pishi Army a position, it would be somewhere between light cavalry and heavy armored cavalry.
Although they are not as quick as light cavalry, nor as arrogant as heavy armored cavalry, they possess the characteristics of both cavalry types.
What's more important is that the officers and soldiers of the Pishi Army are all elites drawn from various ethnic groups by the emperors of the Liao Dynasty in the past dynasties. Each one of them is a warrior who can equal ten to one.
Far from being comparable to a group of hungry Xiang soldiers with sallow faces and thin muscles, carrying broken swords.
When Kou Ji thought about the scene of a group of sallow-looking people carrying broken blades and attacking the Liao Kingdom's Pishi Army armed to the teeth, the corner of his mouth twitched involuntarily.
"So, you lost?"
Li Zhaoliang gritted his teeth and said angrily: "If I were to command, even if we were defeated, it wouldn't be too disastrous. But Ding said that guy, he was commanding the troops and horses, and he was simply giving meat to the Liao army.
The first attack of 200,000 soldiers did not break through the Pishi Army's guards, but it also caused a lot of trouble for the Pishi Army.
But during the second attack, the soldiers rushed halfway but could not go down."
Kou Ji said in astonishment: "Why?"
Li Zhaoliang almost had his teeth bitten off, and he said in pain: "Ding Wei led the soldiers to the halfway point and saw the Pishi Army rushing towards them. He was afraid of the power of the Pishi Army, so he actually... on the spot...
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When Cao Wei, Di Qing, and Cao Xu heard this, they closed their eyes in pain.
Kou Ji said blankly: "Ding Wei ran away?"
Li Zhaoliang nodded and said with a sad smile: "Ding Wei ran away... He just ran away on horseback so openly in front of an army of 200,000 people."
When Kou Ji heard this, he fell silent.
Although he doesn't understand military affairs, he also knows what kind of impact it will have on the army if the general who directs the battle escapes when the army is fighting.
Kou Ji clenched his fist angrily and shouted: "Ding Wei deserves to die!"
Li Zhaoliang laughed miserably and said: "Yes! Ding said he deserved to die! He escaped and saved his life. But two hundred thousand soldiers were left leaderless on the battlefield. They were like headless flies under the impact of the Pishi Army.
Running around.
Divided, strangled, divided again, and strangled again by the Pishi Army.
Of the 200,000 soldiers, more than 30,000 were killed on the spot.
Seventy or eighty thousand people were so filled with grief and anger that they surrendered to the Liao people on the spot.
The remaining soldiers were either captured and taken as prisoners, or they ran away.
When I led my troops to fight out, there were less than 3,000 people left around me."
Kou Ji said angrily: "Since you are still alive, you should go back to Bianjing City to expose Ding Wei's hypocrisy and avenge those soldiers who were unjustly humiliated on the battlefield."
Li Zhaoliang said miserably: "I also want to go back. I also want to confront Ding Wei in the Chui Gong Hall and expose Ding Wei's hypocrisy, but I can't go back."
Kou Ji asked: "Why can't you go back? Is there anyone stopping you from returning to Beijing?"
After Kou Ji asked this question, Li Zhaoliang fell into silence again.
Cao Wei, an insider, kept sighing.
Kou Ji looked at their reactions and said with a solemn expression: "Is there really someone stopping me?"
Li Zhaoliang nodded helplessly and said: "Yes, and there are more than one wave."
Kou Ji said in a deep voice: "Who is so bold and reckless?"
Li Zhaoliang shook his head, "I don't know who they are, but I know that they are all highly skilled in martial arts."
Li Zhaoliang stared at Kou Ji and said: "After I withdrew from Huaizhou, I planned to return to Yinzhou, and then return to Bianjing from Yinzhou to tell the court about this.
But before I reached the Great Wall, a group of people came out and struck decisively and ruthlessly.
The three thousand soldiers I led died tragically in the hands of thieves in order to protect me.
Under the protection of the soldiers, I rushed all the way to Yaode City and took shelter among Gong's troops at a high place.
I originally planned to follow Gao Gaogong back to the capital when he led his army back to the court.
But I was sheltered by Gong's army at a high place, and some people still assassinated me.
The war in Xixia is tense right now, and Gao Chugong couldn't protect me, so he sent someone to take me here."
When Li Zhaoliang said this, everyone could guess who was the person who assassinated him and who was sent out without saying it clearly.
Those who had the ability to force Li Zhaoliang and his three thousand soldiers to flee for their lives in Xixia. Apart from the various troops in Xixia, there was only one force left.
Imperial City Division.
When Ding Wei left the capital, the personnel of the Imperial City Department left the capital with Ding Wei.
At the same time, Imperial City Secretary Tiju Liu Mei also left the capital.
This signified that a large number of Imperial City Division personnel also left Beijing along with Liu Mei.
Since Ding Wei returned to Bianjing, Liu Mei and his staff from the Imperial City Department have not returned to the capital.
In name, Liu Mei and his men are helping Gao Gaogong fight, but in reality?
The war in Xixia has become clear, and there is no need to spy on much information. The scouts in the army are enough to deal with the war in Xixia. The manpower of the Imperial City Department is of no use in Xixia.
They indeed still stayed in Xixia.
When Kou Ji was in Bianjing City, some people speculated that the personnel of the Imperial City Division stayed in Xixia in order to wait for Master Gao Gaogang Gong to return to the court to show his glory and make some great achievements.
But judging from Li Zhaoliang's experience, it is obvious that the personnel of the Imperial City Division stayed in Xixia for his sake.
Moreover, it was obvious that people from the Imperial City Division were not the only ones who assassinated Li Zhaoliang.
No matter how powerful the Imperial City Division's manpower is, they cannot act recklessly in a military camp with hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses.
The only people who dared to carry out assassinations in the military camp were those in charge of weapons.
Only these brave and talented people would ignore the majesty of the military.
There is only one person who can mobilize the Imperial City Department and the Equipment Supervisor to assassinate Li Zhaoliang at the same time.
Liu E.
Kou Ji could roughly guess what Liu E's intention was.
In order to protect Ding Wei, Liu E silenced her as a matter of principle.
Kou Ji frowned and said to Li Zhaoliang: "You were in the commander-in-chief's army, so you didn't write to Bianjing City to explain this matter to the court?"
Li Zhaoliang gritted his teeth and said: "Who said I didn't send a letter to Bianjing City?
I sent hundreds of letters to Bianjing.
But after they left Xixia, there was no news about them."
Cao Wei said in a deep voice: "Someone robbed and killed the messenger..."
Kou Ji narrowed his eyes slightly and said with hatred: "They are too unscrupulous."
Kou Ji's eyes fell on Li Zhaoliang and said: "Don't worry, I will help you deliver the letter back to Bianjing City. I would like to see who dares to rob and kill my messenger."
When Li Zhaoliang heard this, he bowed deeply to Kou Ji and said, "If I can show your kindness, I will never forget your kindness."
Kou Ji waved his hand and said: "I also have a relationship with Li Weixian, he calls me brother. You are his father, so naturally you are my uncle.
Helping your own family is nothing like kindness."
Li Zhaoliang nodded seriously after hearing this.
Cao Wei's expression softened a bit and he said to Li Zhaoliang: "I said this guy would help you, now you believe me."
Li Zhaoliang nodded again.
Cao Wei said seriously: "It will take some time for you to be redressed. But the war in front of us cannot be delayed.
If I want to resolve the current war as soon as possible, I must win by surprise.
So I plan to attack the Liao army sneakily and catch the Liao people by surprise.
After I leave, the military affairs of Baozhou will be weighed by the two of you.
I don’t ask you to accomplish any great feats, as long as you defend Baozhou City.”
Kou Ji and Li Zhaoliang nodded slowly after hearing this.
With Li Zhaoliang's help, Kou Ji gained more confidence in defending Baozhou City.