For example, the Liao army that was slowly approaching had many weapons in their hands that were passed down from the Song Dynasty.
Among them are many ordnances that the imperial court had ordered to keep strictly confidential.
Then what?
Even though the Song Dynasty court ordered strict confidentiality, these ordnance still appeared in the Liao army camp.
Under such circumstances, how dare Kou Ji promote the making methods of firearms and grenades?
If he really promoted it, it is estimated that by then, the soldiers of the Song Dynasty would not be using these things to expand the territory.
It was the Liao and Xixia people who used these things to attack the Song Dynasty.
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"bite!"
The war officially started at the moment when sharp arrows pierced the ice on the wall of Baozhou City.
The way the Liao army attacked the city was far less barbaric than Kou Ji imagined.
Their method of siege was not much different from that of the Song Dynasty soldiers and horses.
The Liao people not only learned about ordnance manufacturing from the books handed down from the Song Dynasty, but also learned about military strategies.
The huge stones carried by the catapults kept blooming on the top of Baozhou City, smashing one gap after another on the top of Baozhou City.
The crossbow guns fired by the bed crossbow were lined up on the wall of Baozhou City.
Under the protection of shields, the siege attack team successfully reached the gate of Baozhou City and bombarded the gate of Baozhou City one after another.
The officers and soldiers of the Liao Army pushed carts, drove ladders, and climbed up to the top of the city with crossbow guns embedded in the walls of Baozhou City.
"kill!"
Li Zhaoliang gave the order.
The officers and soldiers of each army, armed with swords 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 the Xiang army to fight.
Seeing the Liao troops gathering under the city, Kou Ji shouted loudly: "Throw down all the phosphorus fire bombs."
The servants and guards of the Kou Mansion urged the soldiers of the Xiang Army to light phosphorus bombs one after another and throw them down the city.
Phosphorus fire bombs exploded in the Liao army's formation, igniting balls of flames.
Whatever is touched by phosphorus fire will burn it. As long as the soldiers of the Liao army were touched by phosphorus fire, their bodies would burst into flames.
When all the phosphorus fire bombs brought by Kou Ji were thrown down, a sea of fire formed under Baozhou City.
Seeing this scene, the Liao army stopped attacking.
The soldiers of the Xiang army on the top of the city saw this scene and stopped fighting.
They stared at the blazing flames in the ditch under the city wall, not knowing how to deal with it for a moment.
The officers and soldiers of the Liao army who were contaminated by the phosphorus fire screamed one by one and fell into the ditch under the city wall, becoming a part of the nourishment in the sea of fire.
The fire never went out from the moment it started.
The phosphorus fire has long since burned out.
What kept the fire burning was the corpse oil boiling out of the bodies of the Liao soldiers.
A sea of fire divided the battlefield.
Emperor Yelu Longxu of the Liao Dynasty was shocked by the power of the phosphorus fire bombs and had to order his troops to retreat.
His attack on Baozhou City this time was a bit of an anticlimax.
But facing the raging fire, he had to retreat.
It was a sea of fire formed by human oil, which could not be extinguished by water.
If he fills it with soil, the Song army on top of the city will not give him this chance.
He could only retreat.
The Liao army retreated.
He retreated in front of the raging fire.
But the Xiang troops at the top of the city did not withdraw.
They stood on the top of the city and stared at the fire burning in the ditch.
The fire burned all day and night.
The bodies in the trench were burned to ashes, and the soil in the trench was burned into hard lumps.
The ice covering Baozhou City had long since been completely melted by the fire.
Wait until the hot masonry cools in the cold wind.
Kou Ji led the citizens and soldiers in the city to continue watering the city walls, allowing them to quickly condense another layer of ice.
Then, when the ice layer condensed on the city wall, he did not stop, but continued to water, making the ice layer thicker layer by layer.
Liao Emperor Yelu Longxu did not launch an attack during this period.
It wasn't that he didn't know how to seize this opportunity, but that he didn't want to attack rashly before he figured out how to deal with the phosphorus fire bomb.
Marching and fighting is not just reckless.
No one is willing to sacrifice their lives to start a war when victory can be achieved with the lives of very few soldiers.
…
Kou Ji frantically led people to water the walls of Baozhou City.
He didn't stop until a layer of ice half a foot thick formed on the wall of Baozhou City.
Li Zhaoliang felt that Kou Ji's behavior was a bit crazy.
Di Qing had no objection at all to Kou Ji's approach.
Kou Ji doesn't care what Li Zhaoliang thinks.
He only knows that the dog's life is important, and saving the dog's life is the key.
As long as he can save the dog's life, he will use any method.
On the city gate tower.
Li Zhaoliang looked at the half-foot-thick ice and sighed: "The Liao people can only look back at the current Baozhou City... The problem is that there is nothing we can do against the Liao people."
Kou Ji was so frantic that even the entrance to 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 start.
The problem is that if the soldiers and horses in Baozhou City want to attack, they can't get out.
Kou Ji covered his mouth with a handkerchief and rolled his eyes at Li Zhaoliang, "Shuai Cao means to let us defend Baozhou City, but he doesn't let us attack. As long as we defend Baozhou City."
Li Zhaoliang shook his head and whispered: "This is not how wars are fought..."
Li Zhaoliang was still thinking about looking for opportunities, leading troops to attack, giving the Liao army a surprise attack, and thereby establishing some achievements.
But Kou Ji's actions completely killed his idea in the cradle.
"Ugh~"
Kou Ji vomited a mouthful of water, wiped the corners of his mouth with a handkerchief, and said disdainfully: "I don't care how they fight... I only remember that my duty is to guard Baozhou City."
Li Zhaoliang said with a look of disgust: "What you did has changed the flavor of the battlefield..."
The purpose of fighting is to win.
Between offense and defense, things are not static.
Sometimes, offense is also a kind of defense.
What Kou Ji did was to give up the offense and just hide in a turtle shell to defend.
Very few generals in the past dynasties did this.
While defending, those generals would always look for opportunities, take the initiative, and constantly create opportunities to win the war.
"Ugh~"
Kou Ji retched again and said to Li Zhaoliang: "You continue to guard the city wall, I want to go down and take it easy."
The city walls were filled with the smell of corpses and corpse oil.
Kou Ji really can't stay here any longer.
He wasn't used to the smell of the battlefield yet. He couldn't help but feel nauseous when he smelled the smell of corpse oil and corpse stench.
Kou Ji waved and left.
Li Zhaoliang pouted and went to talk to Di Qing.
Although Di Qing is much younger than him, Li Zhaoliang likes to chat with Di Qing.
He liked to share his many years of combat experience with Di Qing.
He felt that Cao Wei's proud disciple was a good prospect.
As long as you train and train well, you will definitely be able to take on big responsibilities in the future.
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Baozhou City was turned into a crystal palace by Kou Ji.
Emperor Yelu Longxu of the Liao Dynasty looked at Baozhou City and could only look at the ocean and sigh.
He was helpless against the almost shameless defensive method used by the defender of Baozhou City.
I always think this guy is a bit crazy.
If this guy were a general under him, he would definitely cut this guy into pieces.
When the Liao people fought, they never considered the gains and losses of a city or a place.
Kou Ji sealed Baozhou City, which not only blocked the Liao people's attack path, but also blocked his own retreat and his own attack path.
Although this approach can defend Baozhou City, it is not advisable on the battlefield.
The way to use troops is to advance and retreat with a well-founded basis.
What Kou Ji did was to give up advancement and retreat and choose to be a motionless stone.
Is Liao Emperor Yelu Longxu really helpless with this stone?
Neither.
As long as he is willing to spend money and choose to attack forcefully, he can still chew this stone.
But he didn't do that.
He stayed outside Baozhou City for three days. After carefully calculating the forces needed to capture Baozhou City, he decisively gave up attacking Baozhou City.
Because after his calculations, if he wanted to fight Baozhou City, the force he would deploy would be too large.
It was so big that after he captured Baozhou City, he was unable to invade the south again.
This went against his purpose of going south to attack the Song Dynasty.
So he decisively chose to lead his troops to retreat, planning to invade the Song Dynasty from another place.
Baozhou was not the only place at the junction of Song and Liao.
When the Liao emperor invaded south, he did not intend to march from Baozhou.
The Liao army withdrew.
The soldiers of the Xiang Army in Baozhou City celebrated happily.
Li Zhaoliang asked Kou Ji if he should take the opportunity to build the city wall or if he should take the opportunity to unblock the city gate.
Kou Ji chose to remain silent.
The walls of Baozhou City were destroyed by water and fire.
When spring comes, the ice on the walls of Baozhou City melts, and Baozhou City will collapse.
Li Zhaoliang proposed building the city wall for the future of Baozhou City.
But Kou Ji was worried that the Liao people would kill someone with a carbine, so he decisively rejected Li Zhaoliang's proposal.
There will be plenty of time to build the wall of Baozhou City in the future, there is no need to build it at this time.
Kou Ji chose to lead 90,000 soldiers and tens of thousands of wounded soldiers to stay in Baozhou City, but the war in other places did not stop because Kou Ji stayed.
First, there was a dramatic scene in the battle on the Xixia battlefield.
Those people who were forced to join the Xixia war showed unprecedented fighting power after joining the war.
They were unable to help Gao Gonggu defend the Great Wall and resist the Xixia army.
But they did not stay peacefully with Gao Guanggong on the Great Wall.
They were short of food and clothing and had already set their sights on Xixia.
They teamed up in groups, slipped out of the Great Wall, invaded the territory of Xixia, and launched a devastating and predatory destruction.
The horse thieves ganged up with the thieves, stole horses in Xixia territory, armed themselves, and finally turned into a group of bandits carrying horses, running around in Xixia territory, burning, killing and looting everywhere.
The tomb robbers teamed up with the mountain bandits. One side secretly dug a trap, and the other side attracted the troops sent by Xixia to exterminate them and sent them into the trap.
Then, small groups of Xixia troops were killed by tomb robbers and bandits.
They took off the clothes of the Xixia soldiers and horses, captured the Xixia horses, and sold them to the thieves, rebels, and bandits, transforming them into Xixia soldiers and horses.
Then these people disguised themselves as Xixia soldiers and horses and caused trouble everywhere in Xixia.
The most representative one is a group of bandit troops, pretending to be Xixia soldiers and horses, wandering around Xixia territory, and turned into an army of more than 10,000 people.
After Li Di discovered them, he decisively recruited them, lost the title of general to their leader, sent out eighteen supervisors, and watched them continue to torment in Xixia.
All in all, this group of scourges has never stopped since they entered Xixia.
When they committed crimes in the Song Dynasty, they were called crimes.
When they committed crimes in Xixia, it was called bringing glory to the country.
Without the restraint of the law, they committed crimes, which was called unscrupulous.
All kinds of criminal methods that Kou Ji has heard of and never heard of are performed every day in Xixia.
Li Deming and his son were not afraid of the Liao people, nor were they afraid of the soldiers and horses of the Song Dynasty. They only had a headache from these scourges.
Unfortunately, they haven't been able to send out a large army to clean up these people.
Because once they send troops and horses to clear out these people, Gong, who is stationed high on the Great Wall, will immediately lead his troops to attack their home base.
Except on the Xixia battlefield.
There were also gains on the battlefields of Song and Liao.
The Liao army sent by Emperor Yelu Longxu of the Liao Dynasty to attack Yanmen Pass was ambushed by Yang Wenguang outside Yanmen Pass.
Yang Wenguang led the Tianwu Army and killed 3,000 Liao soldiers in formation and captured tens of thousands.
After Emperor Yelu Longxu of the Liao Dynasty withdrew from Baozhou, he prepared to lead his army down from Feihukou, bypass the mountain road, and invade the territory of the Song Dynasty.
But at Feihukou, 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 is victory and defeat for each other.
Just when the two sides were preparing to fight to the death.
Xixia was scared.
Li Deming sent envoys to the Song Dynasty.
He agreed to cancel his imperial title, accept the canonization of the Song Dynasty, and was willing to cede the territory south of the Great Wall to the Song Dynasty.
Anyway, they were all occupied by the Song Dynasty, so it was of no use whether he agreed or not.
The title of Disobedient Marquis officially fell on him.
The last person to hold the title of Disobedient Marquis was Li Yu, the empress of the Southern Tang Dynasty.
This is a humiliating title.
But Li Deming had to.
When he faced Liao Emperor Yelu Longxu, he had the courage to fight to the death.
But when Xixia was really about to be defeated, he lost the courage to fight with all his might.
Emperor Yelu Longxu of the Liao Dynasty saw that Xixia had surrendered to the Song Dynasty, so he decisively sent envoys to the Song Dynasty to ask for peace.
When he attacked Xixia, he suffered a loss and caused great losses to the Liao army.
Nowadays, the Song Dynasty has made profits on the battlefield of Xixia, and its morale is high.
If he continues to fight fiercely with the Song Dynasty at this time, there is no guarantee that the Song Dynasty will not invest more troops and fight him to the death.
By that time, he really had no confidence in winning.
When the Song Dynasty court learned that the Liao Kingdom was going to give up and make peace, they did not hesitate and decisively agreed.
It won't work if you don't agree.
As the two fronts of the Song Dynasty started fighting, the battle lasted for so long.
There are already rats running around in the treasury.
In addition, there were prodigal boys like Kou Ji who frequently asked the court for supplies, and the court could no longer hold on.